Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Self-Paced Learning with Diversity

Self-paced learning (SPL) is a recently proposed learning regime inspired by the learning process of humans and animals that gradually incorporates easy to more complex samples into training. Existing methods are limited in that they ignore an important aspect in learning: diversity. To incorporate this information, we propose an approach called self-paced learning with diversity (SPLD) which formalizes the preference for both easy and diverse samples into a general regularizes This regularization term is independent of the learning objective, and thus can be easily generalized into various learning tasks. Albeit non-convex, the optimization of the variables included in this SPLD regularization term for sample selection can be globally solved in linearithmic time. We demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms the conventional SPL on three real-world datasets. Specifically, SPLD achieves the best MAP so far reported in literature on the Hollywood2 and Olympic Sports datasets.
Epidemiological Study on the Incidence of Herpes Zoster in Nearby Cheonan

Background Herpes Zoster is a disease that occurs after the virus is reactivated due to infection of the varicella virus in childhood. Risk factors are advanced age, malignant neoplasm, organ transplantation, immunosuppressive agents taking are known. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the seasonal effect and other risk factors on the incidence of herpes zoster. Methods The medical records of 1,105 patients admitted to the outpatient diagnosed with herpes zoster were retrospectively examined. The patients' sex, age, dermatome, onset, underlying disease, residential areas were collected. Results The incidence of women outnumbered men and increased for those above the age of 50. The number of occurrences of herpes zoster patients was higher in the spring and summer than in winter. Unlike men, women had the most frequent outbreaks in March. The most common occurrence of dermatome is in the thoracic region. The number of occurrence was similar on the left as the right. Conclusions In this study, herpes zoster occurs more often in women than in men and more frequently occurs in women in the spring and summer.
Anaemia management in patients with chronic kidney disease: a position statement by the Anaemia Working Group of European Renal Best Practice (ERBP).

1Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, ‘A. Manzoni’ Hospital, Lecco, Italy, 2Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, C. I. Parhon University Hospital, University of Medicine Gr. T. Popa, Iasi, Romania, 3Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, 4Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Francuska, Poland and 5Nephrology Section, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
The Family Farm Business? Insights into Family, Business and Ownership Dimensions of Open‐Farms

Abstract Research into tourism and hospitality businesses, because of its breadth of scope, has been unable to provide specific insights into visitor attraction businesses. On the contrary, visitor attraction research, while defining ownership as an important variable, has yet to explore the motivations or characteristics of small business owners. Gersick et al.’s (1997) family business development model, devised around the three axes of family, business and ownership, was used to examine the population of open‐farm businesses in Northern Ireland. Following a general survey of 12 farm attractions, detailed interviews were conducted with owners of seven open‐farm attractions. The findings indicated that there was a wide degree of variation in terms of the scale and success of open‐farms. In terms of the family and business axes they shared many similarities with other small family tourism businesses such as rural location, the provision of a multi‐product experience and a strong emphasis on lifestyle needs. However, the involvement of children from an early age is unique to the family dimension and integral to the finding that lifestyle issues took precedence over business growth. The model also emphasised a generational progression in terms of ownership control that was not as relevant to these businesses where succession is generally not a consideration. Open‐farms operate on a pragmatic basis and in addition to family needs, various factors such as insurance, increasing costs, the need to re‐invest and update the product are currently affecting their competitiveness in the marketplace. A revised model of family business development is proposed reflecting these differences.
Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis using fetal DNA in maternal plasma: a preliminary study for identification of paternally-inherited alleles using single nucleotide polymorphisms

Objectives Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) with a mutation can be used to identify the presence of the paternally-inherited wild-type or mutant allele as result of the inheritance of either allele in the fetus and allows the prediction of the fetal genotype. This study aims to identify paternal SNPs located at the flanking regions upstream or downstream from the β-globin gene mutations at CD41/42 (HBB:c.127_130delCTTT), IVS1-5 (HBB:c.92+5G>C) and IVS2-654 (HBB:c.316-197C>T) using free-circulating fetal DNA. Setting Haematology Lab, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Malaya. Participants Eight couples characterised as β-thalassaemia carriers where both partners posed the same β-globin gene mutations at CD41/42, IVS1-5 and IVS2-654, were recruited in this study. Outcome measures Genotyping was performed by allele specific-PCR and the locations of SNPs were identified after sequencing alignment. Results Genotype analysis revealed that at least one paternal SNP was present for each of the couples. Amplification on free-circulating DNA revealed that the paternal mutant allele of SNP was present in three fcDNA. Thus, the fetuses may be β-thalassaemia carriers or β-thalassaemia major. Paternal wild-type alleles of SNP were present in the remaining five fcDNA samples, thus indicating that the fetal genotypes would not be homozygous mutants. Conclusions This preliminary research demonstrates that paternal allele of SNP can be used as a non-invasive prenatal diagnosis approach for at-risk couples to determine the β-thalassaemia status of the fetus.
Exercise effects on depressive symptoms and self-worth in overweight children: a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To test the dose-response effects of an exercise program on depressive symptoms and self-worth in children. METHOD Overweight, sedentary children (N = 207, 7-11 years, 58% male, 59% Black) were randomly assigned to low or high dose (20 or 40 min/day) aerobic exercise programs (13 +/- 1.6 weeks), or control group. Children completed the Reynolds Child Depression Scale and Self-Perception Profile for Children at baseline and posttest. RESULTS A dose-response benefit of exercise was detected for depressive symptoms. A race x group interaction showed only White children's global self-worth (GSW) improved. There was some evidence that increased self-worth mediated the effect on depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS This study shows dose-response benefits of exercise on depressive symptoms and self-worth in children. However, Blacks did not show increased GSW in response to the intervention. Results provide some support for mediation of the effect of exercise on depressive symptoms via self-worth.
Faith in reflective practice

Qualifying in 1987 I have worked as a youth and community worker for 12 years and since then as a lecturer training new workers within higher education. Throughout I have been interested in the process by which we become professional practitioners, specifically reflective practice. Whilst elsewhere practitioners/researchers describe and explore stages of development in, and levels of, reflective practice, in this paper I explore students reactions and responses to the process, best characterised as a ‘backlash’ both to the notion and their experience of it. The paper follows my own process of reflective practice, an exploration of ‘calling’ and ‘faith’, ideas stimulated from listening to students. The process shows my inquiry into the roots of the backlash through an analysis of what students are asked to do within the process of reflective practice and stages of development of faith in it as a guiding principle to their work. This enabled me to develop a broader sense of the student reactions to the process of reflective practice and successfully change my own practice.
Resting-state networks in the infant brain

In the absence of any overt task performance, it has been shown that spontaneous, intrinsic brain activity is expressed as systemwide, resting-state networks in the adult brain. However, the route to adult patterns of resting-state activity through neuronal development in the human brain is currently unknown. Therefore, we used functional MRI to map patterns of resting-state activity in infants during sleep. We found five unique resting-states networks in the infant brain that encompassed the primary visual cortex, bilateral sensorimotor areas, bilateral auditory cortex, a network including the precuneus area, lateral parietal cortex, and the cerebellum as well as an anterior network that incorporated the medial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. These results suggest that resting-state networks driven by spontaneous signal fluctuations are present already in the infant brain. The potential link between the emergence of behavior and patterns of resting-state activity in the infant brain is discussed.
The effect of metacognitive strategy training on reading comprehension and metacognitive knowledge

This article discusses the results of research investigating the effect of metacognitive strategy training on the reading comprehension and metacognitive knowledge of Polish intermediate learners of English as a foreign language. Results of a pretest and posttest questionnaire and a reading comprehension test administered to both an experimental and a control group of students suggest that students who were taught to apply self-regulatory strategies while performing a task related to reading could enhance their metacognitive knowledge of themselves as readers, their perceptions of the reading process and reading strategies, and their motivation as well as self-evaluation of reading skills. With respect to the students’ reading comprehension, a comparison of the effect of the training on students at two levels of language competence indicates that the training was more effective for the less proficient students. The study points to the effectiveness of metacognitive strategy training for students at an intermediate level of language proficiency. It also stresses the significance of learners’ beliefs concerning reading and underscores the role of metacognition in developing reading skills.
An Experimental Study of Team Size and Performance on a Complex Task

The relationship between team size and productivity is a question of broad relevance across economics, psychology, and management science. For complex tasks, however, where both the potential benefits and costs of coordinated work increase with the number of workers, neither theoretical arguments nor empirical evidence consistently favor larger vs. smaller teams. Experimental findings, meanwhile, have relied on small groups and highly stylized tasks, hence are hard to generalize to realistic settings. Here we narrow the gap between real-world task complexity and experimental control, reporting results from an online experiment in which 47 teams of size ranging from n = 1 to 32 collaborated on a realistic crisis mapping task. We find that individuals in teams exerted lower overall effort than independent workers, in part by allocating their effort to less demanding (and less productive) sub-tasks; however, we also find that individuals in teams collaborated more with increasing team size. Directly comparing these competing effects, we find that the largest teams outperformed an equivalent number of independent workers, suggesting that gains to collaboration dominated losses to effort. Importantly, these teams also performed comparably to a field deployment of crisis mappers, suggesting that experiments of the type described here can help solve practical problems as well as advancing the science of collective intelligence.
Advanced communication system for rich and green smart Grid networking

Future Green Smart Grids are expected to support sustainable, safe, robust, efficient and intelligent production, distribution and consumption of electric energy. However, evolving immaturity and issues restrict their development, confronting interoperability and reducing the reliability of the power grid. Innovating networking capabilities are of paramount to provide rich Smart Grid networking, while keeping the system performance in large scale scenarios. In view of this, we designed the Session-Oriented Communication System (SOCSys) solution for dependable IP-based Smart Grid networking over a wireless mesh QoS-aware information network. In this paper, we propose the Advanced SOCSys (ASOCSys), extending our previous work with network-centric functionalities. ASOCSys aims at improving IP-based Smart Grid networking through groupbased session admission control and rich networking IEEE 802.16 compliant information network. Simulation results show that ASOCSys outperforms standards currently considered for Smart Grids, in terms of throughput, latency and propagation delay, while consuming low network resources.
Learning to diagnose from scratch by exploiting dependencies among labels

The field of medical diagnostics contains a wealth of challenges which closely resemble classical machine learning problems; practical constraints, however, complicate the translation of these endpoints naively into classical architectures. Many tasks in radiology, for example, are largely problems of multi-label classification wherein medical images are interpreted to indicate multiple present or suspected pathologies. Clinical settings drive the necessity for high accuracy simultaneously across a multitude of pathological outcomes and greatly limit the utility of tools which consider only a subset. This issue is exacerbated by a general scarcity of training data and maximizes the need to extract clinically relevant features from available samples -- ideally without the use of pre-trained models which may carry forward undesirable biases from tangentially related tasks. We present and evaluate a partial solution to these constraints in using LSTMs to leverage interdependencies among target labels in predicting 14 pathologic patterns from chest x-rays and establish state of the art results on the largest publicly available chest x-ray dataset from the NIH without pre-training. Furthermore, we propose and discuss alternative evaluation metrics and their relevance in clinical practice.
On-chip Spiral Inductors With Patterned Ground Shields For Si-based RF IC's

This paper presents a patterned ground shield in- serted between an on-chip spiral inductor and silicon substrate. The patterned ground shield can be realized in standard silicon technologies without additional processing steps. The impacts of shield resistance and pattern on inductance, parasitic resistances and capacitances, and quality factor are studied extensively. Experimental results show that a polysilicon patterned ground shield achieves the most improvement. At 1-2 GHz, the addition of the shield increases the inductor quality factor up to 33% and reduces the substrate coupling between two adjacent inductors by as much as 25 dB. We also demonstrate that the quality factor of a 2-GHz tank can be nearly doubled with a shielded inductor. In this paper, we present a patterned ground shield, which is compatible with standard silicon technologies, to reduce the unwanted substrate effects. To provide some background, Section II presents a discussion on the fundamental definitions of an inductor and an tank . Next, a physical model for spiral inductors on silicon is described. The magnetic energy storage and loss mechanisms in an on-chip inductor are discussed. Based on this insight, it is shown that energy loss can be reduced by shielding the electric field of the inductor from the silicon substrate. Then, the drawbacks of a solid ground shield are analyzed. This leads to the design of a patterned ground shield. Design guidelines for parameters such as shield pattern and resistance are given. In Section III, experiment design, on-wafer testing technique, and parasitic extraction procedure are presented. Experimental results are then reported to study the effects of shield resistance and pattern on inductance, parasitic resistances and capacitances, and inductor . Next, the improvement in of a 2-GHz tank using a shielded inductor is illustrated. A study of the noise coupling between two adjacent inductors and the efficiency of the ground shield for isolation are also presented. Lastly, Section IV gives some conclusions.
The Experience of Distress in Parents of Chronically Ill Children: Potential or Likely Outcome?

Examines the effects of chronic illness on the parent dyad and the extent to which illness may contribute to parental distress. Specific emphasis is placed on factors that may contribute to variability in parents' experiences of distress or heighten their vulnerability to events associated with chronic childhood illness. Managing a chronically ill child may lead to multiple difficulties for parents which typically are not encountered by parents of healthy children. Despite intensive investigation of parental response to illness, there are significant gaps in understanding their adaptation to chronic childhood illness.
Why Innovation In Air Navigation Services Is So Difficult In Europe? - A Study Identifying Current Obstacles And Potential Ict Enablers

The Air Navigation Service (ANS) industry has not experienced many major technological innovations in the last decades. Despite its indisputable contribution to economic welfare, it relies on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that lag way behind their current technological potential. Yet, it is not well understood what exactly restrains ANS providers from introducing novel ICT systems despite the legacy ICT in use which reaches the end of its life-cycle. On the basis of an interview series with managers in the ANS industry, this study sheds light on the various barriers that hinder the diffusion of technological innovation. Our findings suggest that the stagnation in technological innovation cannot be ascribed to one single obstacle, but rather to intertwining political, economic, social and technological aspects. This study concludes by proposing ICT approaches to tackle the identified barriers. The analysis of obstacles and potential ICT enablers can support decision makers of ANS providers and can enable business transformations in the ANS industry. ICT researchers can use this study as a help for developing ANS technologies, and business researchers can focus on specific incentives to foster innovation.
Living in a Changed Female Body After Gynecological Cancer

In this article we elaborate on how living in a changed female body after gynecological cancer is experienced 5 to 6 years after treatment. Based on a phenomenological life-world perspective, 32 interviews with 16 women showed that changes involved dealing with unfamiliarity related to experiences of bodily emptiness, temperature fluctuations, sex-life consequences, vulnerability, and uncertainty. Findings are discussed in relation to Svenaeus's perspective on illness as an unhomelike being-in-the-body and being-in-the-world. This perspective could spur health personnel to improve patient information and dialogue and thus facilitate a process leading to more familiarity and homelikeness for patients during treatment and follow-up.
Sustainability as global attractor: the greening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics

If one interprets sustainability as an attractor, it means that across time and place notions and ideas of sustainability structure, order and pattern institutions and practices. One can effectively explore the idea that sustainability is turning into a global attractor through mega events. As high profile and very visible happenings that attract worldwide attention, it is difficult to ignore common and widely shared norms on sustainability in the route towards such events. In investigating the 2008 Beijing Olympics I conclude that sustainability norms indeed restructured and patterned this global mega event. Moreover, these sustainability norms are crystallized, institutionalized and fixed in material and social structures, and thus will likely have some permanency.
A simplified method of evaluating dose-effect experiments.

1. A rapid graphic method for approximating the Median Effective Dose and the Slope of dose-per cent effect curves is presented. Confidence limits of both of these parameters for 19/20 probability are given by the method. In addition, confidence limits for any other probability or for a dose other than the Median Effective Dose are readily estimated. 2. The data are used throughout the method in their original form without transformation to logarithms and probits. 3. An effective means for plotting and using 0 and 100 per cent effects is provided. 4. The calculations have been simplified by means of nomographs to the extent that a slide rule is a convenience but not a necessity. 5. A simple means is provided for detecting a poorly fitted line or significantly heterogeneous data, In the former case, the line may be refitted; in the latter, the confidence limits are corrected for the degree of heterogeneity. 6. The method provides means for the rapid test of parallelism of two curves and easy computation of relative potency with its confidence limits. 7. Although the method is rapid (10-15 minutes), its accuracy is commensurate with the nature of dose-per cent effect data.
Regiões metropolitanas: condicionantes do regime político

The author of this article takes the metropolitan administration issue, focusing the impact of the political regime, the federal system and the intergovernmental relations. Her point is that the institutional choices regarding the first metropolitan administration experience in Brazil, enforced by an authoritarian and centralizing regime, has marked its path, conditioning the later choices.
Life events in the elderly

The psychological mechanisms for the actions of life events are discussed with respect to how stressful life events may have different impacts depending on the age of the individual. The methodology of life event research in the elderly is reviewed, highlighting the problems of using checklists to elicit events. Lastly, the potential for life events to precipitate or exacerbate psychiatric and physical disorders in the elderly is emphasized.