Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Quasi-Static Partial Element Equivalent Circuit Models of Linear Magnetic Materials

This paper presents a 3-D partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) model of linear magnetic materials under the quasi-static hypothesis. Rigorous analytical formulas are proposed for integrals accounting for flux density due to both current and magnetization densities for Manhattan-type discretizations. Such closed-form formulas remove the singularities exhibited by existing formulas and completely avoid numerical integration. The resulting model preserves the circuit interpretation of standard PEEC models and, thus, can be easily integrated in a SPICE-like circuit solver. Numerical results are presented showing that the proposed closed formulas outperform the numerical schemes and guarantee an excellent agreement with existing results available in the literature.
Evaluation of cardiac autonomic functions in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Background: Cardiovascular involvement is one of the leading causes of death among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In this study, we aimed to investigate cardiac autonomic functions in SLE patients. Methods: We enrolled 36 patients (25 female; mean age 34.2 ± 10.2 years) with SLE and 32 healthy subjects (23 female; mean age 35.0 ± 10.3 years). All participants underwent 24-h Holter recording. Heart rate recovery (HRR) indices were calculated by subtracting first, second, and third-minute heart rates from maximal heart rate. All patients underwent heart rate variability (HRV), heart rate turbulence (HRT) and QT dispersion analysis. The mean SLE duration was 8.4 ± 4.0 years. Results: According to the baseline demographic characteristics, both groups were similar with regard to age, gender, body mass index and left ventricular ejection fraction. Mean HRR1 (32.6 ± 10.9 vs. 42.5 ± 6.5, p = 0.038), HRR2 (51.0 ± 16.9 vs. 61.0 ± 10.8, p = 0.01) and HRR3 (52.8 ± 17.5 vs. 65.8 ± 9.8, p < 0.001) values were significantly higher in control group. When HRV was considered, SDNN, SDANN, RMSSD, PNN50 and high frequency (HF) component were significantly decreased in patients with SLE compared with healthy controls, but low frequency (LF) component and LF/HF were significantly higher in SLE patients. In addition, HRT onset and HRT slope values were significantly less negative in SLE patients. QT dispersion was significantly greater in SLE patients than healthy subjects (81.3 ± 15.8 vs. 53.2 ± 13.1, p < 0.001). Conclusion: Our study results suggest that cardiac autonomic functions are impaired in SLE patients despite the absence of overt cardiac involvement and symptoms. Further studies are needed to elucidate the prognostic significance and clinical implications of impaired autonomic functions in patients with SLE.
Transport protocols in multicast via satellite

In a wide variety of broadband applications, there is a need to distribute information to a potentially large number of receiver sites that are widely dispersed from each other. Communication satellites are a natural technology option and are extremely well suited for carrying such services because of the inherent broadcast capability of the satellite channel. Despite the potential of satellite multicast, there exists little support for multicast services over satellite networks. Although several multicast protocols have been proposed for use over the Internet, they are not optimized for satellite networks. One of the key multicast components that is affected when satellite networks are involved in the communication is the transport layer. In this paper, we attempt to provide an overview of the design space and the ways in which the network deployment and application requirements affect the solution space for transport layer schemes in a satellite environment. We also highlight some of the issues that are critical in the development of next generation satellite multicast services. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The Effect of Subliminal Messages and Suggestions on Memory: Isolating the Placebo Effect

vii CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE 3 Definition of Subliminal Messages 3 History of Subliminal Messages 3 Subliminal Messages 5 Visual Subliminal Messages 5 Auditory Subliminal Messages 6 Methods of Auditory Subliminal Presentation 7 Subliminal Perception 8 Empirical Studies and Placebo Effect 9
Dynamic Head-Disk Interface Instabilities With Friction for Light Contact (Surfing) Recording

Recent advances in hard-disk drive technology involve the use of a thermal fly-height control (TFC) pole tip protrusion to bring the read/write recording elements of the slider closer to the disk surface and thus achieve terabit per square inch recording densities. A dynamic, contact mechanics-based friction model of the head-disk interface (HDI) that includes roughness and accounts for the TFC geometry and its influence on the HDI dynamics is presented. The model is based on physical parameters and does not include any empirical coefficients. Experimental flyability/touchdown measurements were performed and used to examine in detail the HDI contact criterion in the presence of surface roughness and dynamic microwaviness. Using the model, a procedure is outlined that identifies the optimal clearance and light contact conditions, i.e., the amount of thermal actuation that minimizes, both, the clearance, as well as the flying height modulation. Through calculation of the time varying interfacial forces, mean pressure and shear stress at the HDI can be predicted and used to characterize the contact regime. Based on our results, a light contact regime with reduced bouncing vibrations and low stresses (thus, low wear) that would enable surfing recording is identified.
Intravitreally transplanted dental pulp stem cells promote neuroprotection and axon regeneration of retinal ganglion cells after optic nerve injury.

PURPOSE To investigate the potential therapeutic benefit of intravitreally implanted dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) on axotomized adult rat retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) using in vitro and in vivo neural injury models. METHODS Conditioned media collected from cultured rat DPSCs and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) were assayed for nerve growth factor (NGF), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) secretion using ELISA. DPSCs or BMSCs were cocultured with retinal cells, with or without Fc-TrK inhibitors, in a Transwell system, and the number of surviving βIII-tubulin⁺ retinal cells and length/number of βIII-tubulin⁺ neurites were quantified. For the in vivo study, DPSCs or BMSCs were transplanted into the vitreous body of the eye after a surgically induced optic nerve crush injury. At 7, 14, and 21 days postlesion (dpl), optical coherence tomography (OCT) was used to measure the retinal nerve fiber layer thickness as a measure of axonal atrophy. At 21 dpl, numbers of Brn-3a⁺ RGCs in parasagittal retinal sections and growth-associated protein-43⁺ axons in longitudinal optic nerve sections were quantified as measures of RGC survival and axon regeneration, respectively. RESULTS Both DPSCs and BMSCs secreted NGF, BDNF, and NT-3, with DPSCs secreting significantly higher titers of NGF and BDNF than BMSCs. DPSCs, and to a lesser extent BMSCs, promoted statistically significant survival and neuritogenesis/axogenesis of βIII-tubulin⁺ retinal cells in vitro and in vivo where the effects were abolished after TrK receptor blockade. CONCLUSIONS Intravitreal transplants of DPSCs promoted significant neurotrophin-mediated RGC survival and axon regeneration after optic nerve injury.
Risk factors for perinatal mortality in patients admitted to the hospital with the diagnosis of placental abruption

Abstract Objective: Placental abruption is a clinical term used when premature separation of the placenta from the uterine wall occurs prior to delivery of the fetus. Hypertension, substance abuse, smoking, intrauterine infection and recent trauma are risk factors for placental abruption. In this study, we sought for clinical factors that increase the risk for perinatal mortality in patients admitted to the hospital with the clinical diagnosis of placental abruption. Materials and methods: We identified all placental abruption cases managed over the past 6 years at our Center. Those with singleton pregnancies and a diagnosis of abruption based on strict clinical criteria were selected. Eleven clinical variables that had potential for increasing the risk for perinatal mortality were selected, logistic regression analysis was used to identify variables associated with perinatal death. Results: Sixty-one patients were included in the study with 16 ending in perinatal death (26.2%). Ethnicity, maternal age, gravidity, parity, use of tobacco, use of cocaine, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, hepatitis C, sickle cell disease and abnormalities of amniotic fluid volume were not the main factors for perinatal mortality. Gestational age at delivery, birthweight and history of recent trauma were significantly associated with perinatal mortality. The perinatal mortality rate was 42% in patients who delivered prior to 30 weeks of gestation compared to 15% in patients who delivered after 30 weeks of gestation (p < 0.05). A three-fold increase in severe trauma was reported in the group of patients with perinatal mortality than in the group with perinatal survivors (25% versus 7%, respectively, p < 0.05). Conclusions: In patients admitted to hospital for placental abruption delivery prior to 30 weeks of gestation and a history of abdominal trauma are independent risk factors for perinatal death.
A potent anti-coagulant RNA aptamer inhibits blood coagulation by specifically blocking the extrinsic clotting pathway

Summary A potent antidote-controlled aptamer, as an anticoagulant, has reportedly overcome the complications of acute bleeding by the administration of available anticoagulants. In the present study, we provide evidence that the aptamer binds specifically to factors IX and IXa and inhibits their functions. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the aptamer inhibits blood coagulation by interfering with the extrinsic pathway, blocking the complex of factor VIIa and tissue factor interactions with factor IX. The results from the previous and present studies suggest that the aptamer probably binds in the vicinity of the EGF1 and EGF2 domains of factor IX.
Development and Evaluation of a Novel Mucoadhesive Film Containing Acmella oleracea Extract for Oral Mucosa Topical Anesthesia

Purpose To develop an anesthetic mucoadhesive film containing Acmella oleracea (jambu) extract for topical use on oral mucosa. Methods Ethanolic extracts from aerial parts of jambu were prepared by maceration. Pigment removal was obtained by adsorption with activated carbon. Three mucoadhesive films were developed using a film casting method: 10 or 20% of crude jambu extract (10% JB and 20% JB), and 10% of crude jambu extract treated with activated carbon (10% JBC). The mucoadhesive films were characterized regarding their uniformity, thickness, pH, and spilanthol content, and their stability was evaluated during 120 days. Gas chromatography was used to quantify the amount of spilanthol. In vitro tests determined the permeation of spilanthol across pig esophageal epithelium mucosa in Franz diffusion cells. Topical anesthetic efficacy was assessed in vivo using a tail flick test in mice. Results The three mucoadhesive films showed physical stability and visual appearances suitable for use on oral mucosa. The permeation study revealed that the spilanthol from 10% JBC presented higher flux and permeability coefficient values, compared to 10% or 20% JB (p < 0.001). Moreover, 10% JBC showed better topical anesthetic efficacy than the other films (p < 0.01). Conclusion Mucoadhesive film containing crude extract of jambu treated with activated carbon is a potential alternative for oral, topical use, encouraging future clinical studies.
Study of gait symmetry quantification and its application to intelligent prosthetic leg development

Human bipedal walking is symmetrical, stable and efficiency optimal. To clarify the essential relationship in human gait, accelerometers and rate gyroscopes are mounted on waist and lower extremities of subject to acquire kinematics information during walking. By employing Principal Component Analysis (PCA), kinematics signals of one side are reconstructed using that of opposite side. The reconstructed signals match the acquired ones very well, which verifies the existence of strong linear correlations in healthy human gait. To evaluate the symmetry of gait quantitatively, several classical temporal-spatial features for gait calculated by algorithms involving autocorrelation function are selected for construction of quantitative criterions by combining with symmetry indices. For the validation of gait symmetry quantification scheme, level walking experiments including healthy human subjects and human-intelligent prosthetic leg coupling system are conducted. Results indicate the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed scheme and gait symmetry analysis shows great potential in the field of bio-medical rehabilitation.
Inferring Labor Income Risk from Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference Approach

This paper uses the information contained in the joint dynamics of households' labor earnings and consumption-choice decisions to quantify the nature and amount of income risk that households face. We accomplish this task by estimating a structural consumption-savings model using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Consumer Expenditure Survey. Specifically, we estimate the persistence of labor income shocks, the extent of systematic differences in income growth rates, the fraction of these systematic differences that households know when they begin their working lives, and the amount of measurement error in the data. Although data on labor earnings alone can shed light on some of these dimensions, to assess what households know about their income processes requires using the information contained in their economic choices (here, consumption-savings decisions). To estimate the consumption-savings model, we use indirect inference, a simulation method that puts virtually no restrictions on the structural model and allows the estimation of income processes from economic decisions with general specifications of utility, frequently binding borrowing constraints, and missing observations. The main substantive findings are that income shocks are not very persistent, systematic differences in income growth rates are large, and individuals have substantial amounts of information about their future income prospects. Consequently, the amount of uninsurable lifetime income risk that households perceive is substantially smaller than what is typically assumed in calibrated macroeconomic models with incomplete markets.
Trehalose, an mTOR Independent Autophagy Inducer, Alleviates Human Podocyte Injury after Puromycin Aminonucleoside Treatment

Glomerular diseases are commonly characterized by podocyte injury including apoptosis, actin cytoskeleton rearrangement and detachment. However, the strategies for preventing podocyte damage remain insufficient. Recently autophagy has been regarded as a vital cytoprotective mechanism for keeping podocyte homeostasis. Thus, it is reasonable to utilize this mechanism to attenuate podocyte injury. Trehalose, a natural disaccharide, is an mTOR independent autophagy inducer. It is unclear whether trehalose alleviates podocyte injury. Therefore, we investigated the efficacy of trehalose in puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN)-treated podocytes which mimic cell damage in minimal change nephrotic syndrome in vitro. Human conditional immortalized podocytes were treated with trehalose with or without PAN. Autophagy was investigated by immunofluorescence staining for LC3 puncta and Western blotting for LC3, Atg5, p-AMPK, p-mTOR and its substrates. Podocyte apoptosis and necrosis were evaluated by flow cytometry and by measuring lactate dehydrogenase activity respectively. We also performed migration assay to examine podocyte recovery. It was shown that trehalose induced podocyte autophagy in an mTOR independent manner and without reactive oxygen species involvement. Podocyte apoptosis significantly decreased after trehalose treatment, while the inhibition of trehalose-induced autophagy abolished its protective effect. Additionally, the disrupted actin cytoskeleton of podocytes was partially reversed by trehalose, accompanying with less lamellipodias and diminished motility. These results suggested that trehalose induced autophagy in human podocytes and showed cytoprotective effects in PAN-treated podocytes.
Query Formulation for Prior Art Search - Georgetown University at CLEF-IP 2013

Our group participated in the CLEF-IP 2013 Passage Re- trieval starting from Claims task. We focus on formulating representative queries from various metadata that is embedded in a patent document. We then submit the queries to a state-of-the-art search engine to per- form document level retrieval. For passage level retrieval, we implement a TF-IDF algorithm that calculates the sum of query keywords' TF- IDF scores. We submitted six runs, which tested dierent uses of the metadata and dierent retrieval algorithms. We nd that carefully con- structed structured queries from titles and terms with mid-range IDF values are eective for patent prior art retrieval.
A Comparative Study of Collaborative vs. Traditional Musical Mood Annotation

Organizing music by emotional association is a natural process for humans, but the ambiguous nature of emotion makes it a difficult task for machines. Automatic systems for music emotion recognition rely on ground truth data collected from humans, and more effective methods for collecting such data are being continuously developed. In previous work, we developed MoodSwings, an online collaborative game for crowdsourcing dynamic (persecond) mood ratings from multiple players within the twodimensional arousal-valence (A-V) representation of emotion. MoodSwings has proven effective for data collection, but potential data effects caused by collaborative labeling have not yet been analyzed. In this work, we compare the effectiveness of MoodSwings to that of a more traditional data collection method, where annotation is performed by single, paid annotators. We implement a simplified labeling task to run on Amazon’s crowdsourcing engine, Mechanical Turk (MTurk), and analyze the labels collected with each method. A statistical comparison shows consistencies between MoodSwings and MTurk data, and we produce similar results using each as training data for automatic emotion production via supervised machine learning. Furthermore the new dataset collected via MTurk has been made available to the Music Information Retrieval community.
Experience-Based Probabilities Modulate Expectations in a Gender-Coded Artificial Language

The current study combines artificial language learning with visual world eyetracking to investigate acquisition of representations associating spoken words and visual referents using morphologically complex pseudowords. Pseudowords were constructed to consistently encode referential gender by means of suffixation for a set of imaginary figures that could be either male or female. During training, the frequency of exposure to pseudowords and their imaginary figure referents were manipulated such that a given word and its referent would be more likely to occur in either the masculine form or the feminine form, or both forms would be equally likely. Results show that these experience-based probabilities affect the formation of new representations to the extent that participants were faster at recognizing a referent whose gender was consistent with the induced expectation than a referent whose gender was inconsistent with this expectation. Disambiguating gender information available from the suffix did not mask the induced expectations. Eyetracking data provide additional evidence that such expectations surface during online lexical processing. Taken together, these findings indicate that experience-based information is accessible during the earliest stages of processing, and are consistent with the view that language comprehension depends on the activation of perceptual memory traces.
Fear‐then‐relief, mindlessness, and cognitive deficits

The assumption that mindlessness underlies the effectiveness of the ‘fear-then-relief’ social influence technique has been verified in four studies. The first two experiments indicated that compliance of those experiment participants who were made to function on the thoughtful level under a ‘fear-thenrelief’ condition decreases to the level observed in the control group. The other two experiments were to analyze the cognitive functioning of people who at first experience fear and then a sudden and unexpected relief. The first of these experiments indicated that the amount of time needed to detect the expression of emotion on other persons’ faces is prolonged, and the second of these latter two experiments that the participants’ arithmetical abilities are impaired (mental addition and subtraction of three two-digit numbers). Copyright # 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The fear-then-relief scene already belongs to the canon of action cinema and literature: two policemen run an interrogation; the first is very severe—usually older, he yells at the suspect and sometimes even beats him or her. Then suddenly the other policeman—a friendly man, who proposes coffee and a cigarette, and thinking aloud how to help the suspect, takes his place. Very often under these new unexpected circumstances, the suspect—so far obstinately refusing any form of cooperation—starts to confess everything, implicating not only himself or herself but even his or her companions. Dolinski and Nawrat (1998) assumed that the above ‘good cop–bad cop’ scenario is only an exemplification of a general rule, and is not just a specific phenomenon connected uniquely with police interrogation. They set forth the hypothesis that a sudden retraction of the external sources of fear leads to people’s increased compliance with various requests, suggestions, and commands. They demonstrated, for instance, that requests to fill in a questionnaire or to make a charity donation were fulfilled much more willingly by people who had just heard the sound of a police whistle while crossing the road in a place not intended for that purpose, and after having turned their eyes in the direction of the sound suddenly realized that somebody (not a policeman) was just playing a joke.