Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Datafication and data fiction: Narrating data and narrating with data

Data do not speak for themselves. Data must be narrated—put to work in particular contexts, sunk into narratives that give them shape and meaning, and mobilized as part of broader processes of interpretation and meaning-making. We examine these processes through the lens of ethnographic practice and, in particular, ethnography’s attention to narrative processes. We draw on a particular case in which digital data must be animated and narrated by different groups in order to examine broader questions of how we might come to understand data ethnographically.
Identifying predictive clinical characteristics of the treatment efficacy of mirtazapine monotherapy for major depressive disorder

Background Mirtazapine, which is classified as a noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressant, is widely prescribed for the treatment of major depressive disorder. The potential predictive factors of the efficacy of mirtazapine and the tolerability based on the incidence of oversedation and jitteriness/anxiety syndrome were evaluated. Patients and methods Patients with major depressive disorder were retrospectively investigated. Study subjects comprised 68 patients with depression who received mirtazapine as an initial antidepressant at the Department of Psychiatry of the Tokyo Women’s Medical University Hospital from September 2009 to March 2013. The efficacy of mirtazapine monotherapy was evaluated based on the Clinical Global Impression Improvement score. Clinical characteristics were compared between remission and nonremission groups to determine the factors predicting the efficacy. Moreover, discontinuation rates due to adverse effects, including oversedation and jitteriness/anxiety syndrome, were examined, and the effects of confounding factors were evaluated. Results The remission rate of mirtazapine monotherapy was 36.8% among the 68 enrolled subjects. The mean final doses in the remission and nonremission groups were 27.6±13.5 mg and 26.0±14.1 mg, respectively, and there was no significant difference between them. Multiple logistic analyses revealed that the absence of guilt (odds ratio [OR] =0.15; 95% CI [1.66–37.24], P=0.006) and the presence of psychomotor retardation (OR =4.30; 95% CI [1.30–16.60], P=0.016) were significantly related to the efficacy of mirtazapine monotherapy. The discontinuation rates due to oversedation and jitteriness/anxiety syndrome were 13.2% and 11.8%, respectively. Age did not differ significantly between patients with or without oversedation or jitteriness/anxiety syndrome (P=0.078 and P=0.579, respectively). Conclusion The absence of guilt and the presence of psychomotor retardation may predict the efficacy of mirtazapine, and mirtazapine may be tolerable for all ages.
Serum and Tissue Zinc in Epithelial Malignancies: A Meta-Analysis

Background and Objectives Current studies give us inconsistent results regarding the association of neoplasms and zinc(II) serum and tissues concentrations. The results of to-date studies using meta-analysis are summarized in this paper. Methods Web of Science (Science citation index expanded), PubMed (Medline), Embase and CENTRAL were searched. Articles were reviewed by two evaluators; quality was assessed by Newcastle-Ottawa scale; meta-analysis was performed including meta-regression and publication bias analysis. Results Analysis was performed on 114 case control, cohort and cross-sectional studies of 22737 participants. Decreased serum zinc level was found in patients with lung (effect size = −1.04), head and neck (effect size = −1.43), breast (effect size = −0.93), liver (effect size = −2.29), stomach (effect size = −1.59), and prostate (effect size = −1.36) cancers; elevation was not proven in any tumor. More specific zinc patterns are evident at tissue level, showing increase in breast cancer tissue (effect size = 1.80) and decrease in prostatic (effect size = −3.90), liver (effect size = −8.26), lung (effect size = −3.12), and thyroid cancer (effect size = −2.84). The rest of the included tumors brought ambiguous results, both in serum and tissue zinc levels across the studies. The association between zinc level and stage or grade of tumor has not been revealed by meta-regression. Conclusion This study provides evidence on cancer-specific tissue zinc level alteration. Although serum zinc decrease was associated with most tumors mentioned herein, further – prospective - studies are needed.
A Macro-Financial Approach to Derivative Volumes

This paper presents a model, where infinitely lived agents face incomplete markets for both aggregate and idiosyncratic risks. In this economy, agents trade derivative assets to diversify the aggregate risk they face. We are able to characterize analytically the general equilibrium, which allows us to explain the informational content of the derivative volumes in the business cycle, from a macro-finance perspective. In addition to the reproduction of stylized facts, we show that the introduction of derivative assets is not Pareto improving: some agents gain whereas others lose.
Emerging options for the management of scorpion stings

Scorpion stings are common in many tropical countries. Although most scorpion stings cause only localized pain without life-threatening envenoming, about one third of stings cause systemic envenoming which can result in death. Children are particularly sensitive to scorpion envenoming. The severity of scorpion stings is related to the presence of neurotoxins in the venom that cause a sudden release of neurotransmitters from the autonomic nervous system, predominantly sympathetic. There is also a strong inflammatory response that worsens symptoms, including those of a respiratory nature. Several vital functions may be directly affected, including the cardiovascular, respiratory, and neuromuscular systems. Hypertension is constant at the beginning of systemic envenoming and sometimes has a severe cardiac and respiratory impact. Although controversial, immunotherapy is the only etiological treatment. Administered early, it prevents many complications and improves the outcome. New antivenoms are highly purified immunoglobulin fragments, the efficacy and safety of which are excellent. As a consequence, adverse reactions to antivenoms are now very rare and usually mild, which should limit any reluctance regarding their routine use. Symptomatic treatment is still necessary to support immunotherapy, especially in cases of delayed arrival at hospital. A combination of both approaches should be considered, based on local resources and constraints.
On the Determination of N and O Abundances in Low-Metallicity Systems

We show that in order to minimize the uncertainties in the N and O abundances of low-mass, low-metallicity (O/H ≤ 1/5 solar) emission-line galaxies, it is necessary to employ separate parameterizations for inferring Te(N+) and Te(O+) from Te(O+2). In addition, we show that for the above systems, the ionization correction factor (ICF) for obtaining N/O from N+/O+, where the latter is derived from optical emission-line flux ratios, is = 1.08 ± 0.09. These findings are based on state-of-the-art single-star H II region simulations, employing our own modeled stellar spectra as input. Our models offer the advantage of having matching stellar and nebular abundances. In addition, they have O/H as low as 1/50 solar (lower than any past work), as well as log(N/O) and log(C/O) fixed at characteristic values of -1.46 and -0.7, respectively. The above results were used to rederive N and O abundances for a sample of 68 systems with 12 + log(O/H) ≤ 8.1, whose dereddened emission-line strengths were collected from the literature. The analysis of the log(N/O) versus 12 + log(O/H) diagram of the above systems shows that (1) the largest group of objects forms the well-known N/O plateau with a value for the mean (and its statistical error) of -1.43, (2) the objects are distributed within a range in log(N/O) of -1.54 to -1.27 in Gaussian fashion around the mean with a standard deviation of σ = , and (3) a χ2 analysis suggests that only a small amount of the observed scatter in log(N/O) is intrinsic.
A new life for a dead parrot: Incentive structures in the Phrase Detectives game

He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's kicked the bucket, he's shued o his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT! 1 ABSTRACT In order for there to be signicant improvements in certain areas of natural language processing (such as anaphora res- olution) large linguistically annotated resources need to be created which can be used to train, for example, machine learning systems. Annotated corpora of the size needed for modern computational linguistics research cannot however be created by small groups of hand-annotators. Simple Web- based games have demonstrated how it might be possible to do this through Web collaboration. This paper reports on the ongoing work of Phrase Detectives, a game developed in the ANAWIKI project designed for collaborative linguistic annotation on the Web. In this paper we focus on how we recruit and motivate players, incentivise high quality anno- tations and assess the quality of the data.
BACTERIAL COLONIZATION IN TRACHEAL TUBES OF ICU PATIENTS

Background and Objectives: Nosocomial infections are one of the most important worldwide health and increased patients hospital stay, therapeutic problem and mortality rate. This study was designed to determine the frequency of microorganisms isolated from tracheal tube in patients admitted to ICU Shaheed Mostafa Khomeini Hospital Tehran, Iran, from 2001-2005. Patients and Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 352 patients admitted to ICU of the hospital were evaluated from 2001-2005. Information was derived from 18 questions in 2 parts, demographic and clinic/paraclinic. Data were analyzed by SPSS statistical software, and Mean Whitney, chi-square tests. Results: Most patients were in 70-98 years age group, with the mean age of 62.73±10.03, 64.2% & 35.8% were male and female, respectively. The highest hospitalization times were 2-30 days with the mean times of 24.06±16.68 days. In addition, the median time of intubation was 9 days. The most common microorganisms were Staphylococcus aurous (23.6%), Klebsiella spp. (23.3%) Acintobacter spp. (20.7%), Pseudomonas aeroginosa (18.2%) Escherichia coli (7.7%), and Enterobacter spp. (5.7%). There was significant association between the time of endotracheal intubation and S. aurous, P. aeroginosa, Klebsiella spp. , Enterobacter spp. (P<0.05), and between E-coli and hospitalization time (P<0.05). No significant association was found between Acintobacter spp. and other microorganism with other variants. Discussion: It seems that there is no difference between our research and other studies about microorganism isolated from patients with endotracheal tube. We recommend a similar study designed in another hospital to determine the epidemiologic pattern of microorganism frequency.
Ranking Model Adaptation for Domain-Specific Search

With the explosive emergence of vertical search domains, applying the broad-based ranking model directly to different domains is no longer desirable due to domain differences, while building a unique ranking model for each domain is both laborious for labeling data and time consuming for training models. In this paper, we address these difficulties by proposing a regularization-based algorithm called ranking adaptation SVM (RA-SVM), through which we can adapt an existing ranking model to a new domain, so that the amount of labeled data and the training cost is reduced while the performance is still guaranteed. Our algorithm only requires the prediction from the existing ranking models, rather than their internal representations or the data from auxiliary domains. In addition, we assume that documents similar in the domain-specific feature space should have consistent rankings, and add some constraints to control the margin and slack variables of RA-SVM adaptively. Finally, ranking adaptability measurement is proposed to quantitatively estimate if an existing ranking model can be adapted to a new domain. Experiments performed over Letor and two large scale data sets crawled from a commercial search engine demonstrate the applicabilities of the proposed ranking adaptation algorithms and the ranking adaptability measurement.
The Effect of Morphology Instruction on Performance Growth of Seventh-Grade Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study

The purpose of this quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest, nonequivalent control group study was to evaluate the effectiveness of morphological instruction that includes word matrices and word sums with middle school students. This study compared the overall reading performance growth as measured by the Northwest Evaluation Association: Measure of Academic Performance (NWEA MAP) scores of students who received morphological instruction with word matrices and word sums with the growth of students who did not receive morphological instruction that included word matrices and word sums. A convenience sample of 100 students Englishspeaking students from a rural, public middle school in northwest Pennsylvania was used for the study. Data were collected using the NWEA MAP assessments that the students took during their English Language Arts classes. The treatment group consisted of seventh-grade students who were instructed using word matrices and word sums in the vocabulary lessons they received. The control group consisted of seventh-grade students who received vocabulary instruction that did not include word matrices or word sums. Reading performance results were analyzed using ANCOVAs to compare the treatment groups’ pretest and posttest results with the control groups’ pretest and posttest results. The researcher hypothesized that statistically significant differences would exist in overall reading RIT scores, information text RIT scores, and/or vocabulary RIT scores. Results indicated that a statistically significant difference for all three components as described above did not occur during this study.
Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck Region: A Retrospective Analysis of Completely Excised 331 Cases

The aim of the study is to analyze all completely excised BCCs in the head and neck region with regard to age, sex, personal and familial history, skin type, tumor localization and size, histopathological subtype of tumor, reconstruction method, and recurrence rates. Incompletely excised BCCs were not included in this study since incomplete excision is the most important preventable risk factor for recurrence. In 320 patients, 331 lesions were retrospectively evaluated by dividing into the following 8 subunits: scalp, frontotemporal, orbital, nose, cheek, auricula, perioral, and chin-neck area. Most of the patients were in 60–70 age group (34.7%). The nose (32.3%) was the most common site of presentation. Clinically, all lesions and, histopathologically, most of the lesions (42.2%) presented were of the nodular type. All cases of recurrence after complete excision (n = 9, 2.7%) were located in the median parts of the head and neck region and were mainly diagnosed histopathologically as sclerotic and micronodular. Even though completely excised, head and neck region BCCs, especially which are more prone to recurrence due to anatomical and histopathological properties, should be more closely monitored in order to decrease morbidity and health care costs.
PQL: a declarative query language over dynamic biological schemata

We introduce the PQL query language (PQL) used in the GeneSeek genetic data integration project. PQL incorporates many features of query languages for semi-structured data. To this we add the ability to express metadata constraints like intended semantics and database curation approach. These constraints guide the dynamic generation of potential query plans. This allows a single query to remain relevant even in the presence of source and mediated schemas that are continually evolving, as is often the case in data integration.
Resting State Networks in Individuals with and without Reading Disorders

Objective: Reading is a complex behaviour requiring the connectivity of numerous brain regions. Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) has recently been used to examine the differences in reading networks in skilled adult readers and skilled and impaired child readers. Such work has shown that the inferior frontal gyrus is a critical region for reading whereby this region shows differences in connectivity to other brain regions between impaired and skilled child readers, and acts as a hub in skilled adult readers. In the current study, rsfMRI was used to examine the neural connectivity of the print-to-speech network and to assess the brain-behaviour relationships that exist within this network in both skilled and impaired adult readers. Method: Brain imaging data (i.e., rsfMRI) and behavioural data (i.e., Tests of Word Reading Efficiency) was collected for individuals with (N = 11) and without (N = 7) reading impairments. Hypothesis: The print-to-speech network in impaired adult readers will show reduced connections to the supramarginal gyrus and to the inferior temporal gyrus, when compared to skilled readers. Additionally, brain-behaviour relationships are anticipated between activity in the inferior frontal gyrus and real word reading scores and between supramarginal gyrus activity and nonword reading scores for both groups. Results: Impaired adult readers showed reduced connectivity between the supramarginal gyrus and the precentral gyrus, and between the inferior temporal gyrus and inferior frontal gyrus, when the supramarginal gyrus and inferior temporal gyrus were selected as seed regions, respectively. Additionally, there were no significant relationships between neural activity and behavioural reading scores. Conclusion: These results support the print-to-speech model, as they demonstrated the connectivity between all regions of interest as defined by the model. Additionally, these results help to strengthen the model by showing that the connectivity within the reading network differs between impaired and
An explicit-pulsed double-edge triggered JK flip-flop

Pulse-triggered flip-flops are widely used in microprocessors in recent years due to their high performance. JK flip-flops are more powerful than D flip-flops. However, designs of pulse-triggered JK flip-flops are seldom mentioned. Generally, JK flip-flops are designed on the basis of D flip-flops, and have more power consumption and larger delay than D flipflops. An explicit-pulsed double-edge triggered JK flip-flop (ep-DET-JKFF) is proposed, which is designed directly based on the characteristics of JK flip-flops and pulse-triggered flip-flops directly. Simulation using HSPICE and a 0. 18µm technology shows that the proposed pulsed JK flip-flop has low power dissipation and small delay comparable to those of published pulsed D flip-flop, and has improvement of 11.4%~32.9% in transistor count, 44.1% in delay and 42.3%~55.9% in PDP (Product of Power and Delay), as compared to the pulsed JK flipflop based on pulsed D flip-flops.
Using Dynamic Geometry Software to Improve Eight Grade Students' Understanding of Transformation Geometry.

This study examines the effect of dynamic geometry software (DGS) on students' learning of transformation geometry. A pre- and post-test quasi-experimental design was used. Participants in the study were 68 eighth grade students (36 in the experimental group and 32 in the control group). While the experimental group students were studying the transformation geometry in a (DGE), the same instruction was carried out with dotted and isometric worksheets with the control group students. A 15 multiple choice Transformation Geometry Achievement Test and a 15 open ended item Learning Levels of Transformation Geometry Test were used as pre and post-test. The result of covariance analysis showed that the experimental group outperformed the control group not only in academic achievement but also in levels of learning of transformation geometry.
Globular cluster systems in nearby dwarf galaxies - II. Nuclear star clusters and their relation to massive Galactic globular clusters

We compare nuclear globular clusters (nGCs) in dwarf galaxies and Galactic GCs with extended (hot) horizontal branches (EHB-GCs) in order to test the suggested external origin of the latter and the conditions at which GC self-enrichment can operate. Using luminosities and structural parameters of nGCs in low-mass (mainly late-type) dwarf galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) imaging, we derive the presentday escape velocities (nu(esc)) of stellar ejecta to reach the cluster tidal radius and compare them with those of EHB-GCs. We show that nGCs in dwarf galaxies are very similar in their photometric and structural properties (colour = 0.9 mag, magnitudes = 0.11) to EHB-GCs. The nGCs populate the same M(V) versus r(h) region as EHB-GCs, although they do not reach the sizes of the largest EHB-GCs like omega Cen and NGC2419. We suggest that during accretion the r(h) of an nGC could increase due to significant mass loss in the cluster vicinity and the resulting drop in the external potential in the core once the dwarf galaxy dissolves. For EHB-GCs, we find a correlation between the present-day nu(esc) and their metallicity as well as (V - I)(0) colour. The similar nu(esc), (V - I)(0) distribution of nGCs and EHB-GCs imply that nGCs could also have complex stellar populations. The nu(esc)-[Fe/H] relation could reflect the known relation of increasing stellar wind velocity with metallicity, which in turn could explain why more metal-poor clusters typically show more peculiarities in their stellar population than more metal-rich clusters of the same mass do. Thus, the cluster nu(esc) can be used as a parameter to describe the degree of self-enrichment. All our findings support the scenario in which Galactic EHB-GCs have originated in the centres of pre-Galactic building blocks or dwarf galaxies that were later accreted by the Milky Way.
Late Prematurity in Twins: A Polish Multicenter Study

The study aimed at investigating the impact of late prematurity (LPT) on neonatal outcome in twins and neonatal morbidity and mortality within LPT with regard to the completed weeks of gestation. The study was conducted in six tertiary obstetric departments from different provinces of Poland (Warsaw, Lublin, Poznan, Wroclaw, Bytom). It included 465 twin deliveries in the above centers in 2012. A comparative analysis of maternal factors, the course of pregnancy and delivery and neonatal outcome between LPT (34 + 0–36 + 6 weeks of gestation) and term groups (completed 37 weeks) was performed. The neonatal outcome included short-term morbidities. The analysis of neonatal complication rates according to completed gestational weeks was carried out. Out of 465 twin deliveries 213 (44.8%) were LPT and 156 (33.55%) were term. There were no neonatal deaths among LPT and term twins. One-third of LPT newborns suffered from respiratory disorders or required antibiotics, 40% had jaundice requiring phototherapy, and 30% were admitted to NICU. The analysis of neonatal morbidity with regard to each gestational week at delivery showed that most analyzed complications occurred less frequently with the advancing gestational age, especially respiratory disorders and NICU admissions. The only two factors with significant influence on neonatal morbidity rate were neonatal birth weight (OR = 0.43, 95% CI = 0.2–0.9, p = .02) and gestational age at delivery (OR = 0.62, 95% CI = 0.5–0.8, p < .01). LPT have a higher risk of neonatal morbidity than term twins. Gestational age and neonatal birth weight seem to play a crucial role in neonatal outcome in twins.