Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Surface-layer Turbulence During a Frontal Passage

Some recent investigations have begun to quantify turbulence and dissipation in frontal zones to address the question of what physical mechanism counteracts the intensification of temperature and velocity gradients across a developing front. Frank (1994) examines the turbulence structure of two fronts that passed a 200m instrumented tower near Karlsruhe, Germany. In addition to showing the mean vertical structure of the fronts as they pass the tower, Frank demonstrates that there is an order of magnitude or more increase in turbulent kinetic energy across the frontal zone. Blumen and Piper (1999) reported turbulence statistics, including dissipation rate measurements, from the MICROFRONTS field experiment, where high-frequency turbulence data were collected from tower-mounted hotwire and sonic anemometers in a cold front and in a density current. Chapman and Browning (2001) measured dissipation rate in a precipitating frontal zone with high-resolution Doppler radar. Their measurements were conducted above the surface layer, to heights of 5km. The dissipation rate values they found are comparable to those measured in Kennedy and Shapiro (1975) in an upper-level front. Here, we expand on these recent studies by depicting the behavior of the fine scales of turbulence near the surface in a frontal zone. The primary objective ofmore » this study is to quantify the levels of turbulence and dissipation occurring in a frontal zone through the calculation of kinetic energy spectra and dissipation rates. The high-resolution turbulence data used in this study are taken during the cold front that passed the MICROFRONTS site in the early evening hours of 20 March 1995. These new measurements can be used as a basis for parameterizing the effects of surface-layer turbulence in numerical models of frontogenesis. We present three techniques for calculating the dissipation rate: direct dissipation technique, inertial dissipation technique and Kolmogorov's four-fifths law. Dissipation rate calculations using these techniques are employed using data from both the sonic and hotwire anemometers, when possible. Unfortunately, direct calculations of {var_epsilon} were not possible during a part of the frontal passage because the high wind speeds concurrent with the frontal passage demand very high frequency resolution, beyond that possible with the hotwire anemometer, for direct {var_epsilon} calculations. The calculations resulting from these three techniques are presented for the cold front as a time series. Quantitative comparisons of the direct and indirect calculation techniques are also given. More detail, as well as a discussion of energy spectra, can be found in Piper & Lundquist(2004). « less
Randomized trial of irinotecan and cetuximab with or without vemurafenib in BRAF-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer (SWOG 1406).

520Background: BRAF V600 mutations are associated with rare objective responses to the mutated BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib in patients with mCRC. Blockade of BRAFV600 by vemurafenib causes feedback upregulation of EGFR, whose signaling activities can be impeded by cetuximab. In murine models of BRAFV600 mCRC, the combination of irinotecan, cetuximab, and vemurafenib leads to greater anti-tumor activity, as suggested by a prior Phase 1B study. Methods: Patients (pts) with BRAFV600 mutated and extended RAS wild-type mCRC were randomized to irinotecan (180 mg/m2 IV every 14 days) and cetuximab (500 mg/m2 IV every 14 days) with or without vemurafenib (960 mg PO twice daily). Patients had received 1 or 2 prior regimens, with no prior anti-EGFR agents, although prior irinotecan was allowed. Crossover from the control arm to the experimental arm was allowed after documented progression. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS, investigator assessed), with 90% power to detect a HR of 0.5, with two-.
Co-existent Mixed Connective Tissue Disease and Papillary Thyroid Cancer in a Patient with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Raynaud’s phenomenon, and thick skin. After work-up, she was diagnosed with both mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) and papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), based on the Alarcon-Segovia criteria and pathological examination, respectively. High-dose glucocorticoid and azathioprine were introduced to treat active myositis of MCTD, and total thyroidectomy was performed to treat PTC. This report highlights the possible association between MCTD and thyroid cancer, and suggests that MCTD is associated with PTC, similar to other autoimmune diseases including Sjögren’s syndrome, systemic sclerosis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. (Korean J Med 2017;92:103-107)
La procédure de porte-au-nez : vers une interprétation motivationnelle

La procedure de porte-au-nez (Cialdini, Vincent, Lewis, Catalan, Wheeler et Darby, 1975) permet d’augmenter la probabilite que des sujets acceptent une requete cible en les confrontant prealablement a une requete trop couteuse pour pouvoir etre acceptee. Les interpretations de l’effet de porte-au-nez sont passees en revue, puis deux experimentations sont rapportees. La premiere a pour objectif de montrer que le refus de la premiere requete engendre un etat de tension qui entrave la performance des sujets dans des tâches complexes. La seconde a pour objectif de montrer qu’en rendant acceptable le refus de la premiere requete, on reduit cet etat de tension et on reduit la probabilite d’acceptation de la requete cible. Les resultats sont globalement conformes aux hypotheses.
Incidence of Hypoglycemia and Other Side Effects in Patients of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Treated with Glimepiride versus Glibenclamide.

Background: Sulfonylureas were among the first oral antihyperglycemic agents developed, but patients on a sulfonylureas experience hypoglycemia. Severe hypoglycemia was a potentially life-threatening condition. Objective: The aim of the study was to compare the frequency of hypoglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with glimepiride versus glibenclamide. Material &Methods: Total 50 patients were included in the study. These patients were divided in group I & II. Group I (n=25): Patients were given Tab. Glibenclamide. Group II (n=25): Patients were given Tab. Glimepiride for 24 weeks. Results: Patients with glibenclamide experienced hypoglycemia (12%) and weight gain (4%) as the main adverse effects while patients with glimepiride had no such adverse effects. Conclusion: In people with type 2 diabetes, glimepiride was associated with fewer episodes of hypoglycemia than glibenclamide.
STUDI KOMPARASI SELF-EFFICACY GURU SD SN DAN RSBI DI DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan self-efficacy guru SDSN dan SD eks RSBI di Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan jenis komparasi. Populasi yang dipilih adalah guru SDSN dan SD eks-RSBI di DIY dengan jumlah sampel sebanyak 351 guru, yaitu 248 guru SDSN dan 103 guru SD eks-RSBI. Data dikumpulkan dengan lembar skala psikologi tentang self-efficacy, berdasarkan tiga dimensi Bandura. Data dianalisis secara univariat dan bivariat memakai uji-t dua sampel independen. Hasil penelitian secara umum menunjukkan bahwa self-efficacy guru SD eks RSBI lebih tinggi dibanding guru SDSN dengan selisih sebesar 0,1881.Berdasarkan uji-t dua sampel independen diperoleh signifikansi perbedaan nilai p-value sebesar 0,012, meskipun di masing-masing kabupaten menunjukan hasil berbeda
Everyday Arias: An Operatic Ethnography

Paul Atkinson explores the remarkable world of opera through his fieldwork with the internationally known Welsh National Opera company. In order to show us how cultural phenomena are produced and enacted, he takes us on stage and behind the scenes into the collective social action that goes into the realization of an opera. The author demonstrates how artistic interpretation is translated into the routine work of the rehearsal studio and the theatre, and how producers negotiate a practical reality with her or his performers to ultimately create extraordinary performances through the mundane, everyday work that makes them possible. The author calls for a sustained investigation of cultural phenomena, not based solely on textual analysis but on the importance of collective work and social organization. Atkinson's work will appeal to anthropologists and sociologists who study the performance arts, as well as to those engaged in theatre arts, opera and music.
Genealogía de permutaciones simples de orden una potencia de dos

El objetivo central de este articulo es mostrar algunas propiedades de las permutaciones simples de orden una potencia de dos y una formula combinatoria para construir su genealogia involucrando dos nuevas operaciones: la operacion pegamiento y la operacion voltear. Las permutaciones simples son muy importantes porque corresponden a las orbitas primarias o minimales y, en particular, las permutaciones simples de orden una potencia de dos estan relacionadas con la cola derecha en el orden de Sharkovskii.
Avery's Neonatology: Pathophysiology and Management of the Newborn

Originally authored by Dr. Gordon B. Avery, a founding father of the specialty, this respected neonatology reference is internationally acknowledged as the defining source on the pathophysiology and management of both preterm and full-term neonates. Make the most informed, appropriate clinical decisions with guidance and insights from hundreds of world authorities. Access the latest advances via comprehensive updates from 52 new authors as well as four completely new chapters. Apply evidence-based practices through current links to multi-institutional trials, which will be updated regularly by the authors. Find the answers you need more easily thanks to a new color format.
Computational power and realistic cognitive development

We explore the ability of a static connectionist algorithm to model children's acquisition of velocity, time, and distance concepts under architectures of different levels of computational power. Diagnosis of rules learned by networks indicated that static networks were either too powerful or too weak to capture the developmental course of children’s concepts. Networks with too much power missed intermediate stages; those with too little power failed to reach terminal stages. These results were robust under a variety of learning parameter values. We argue that a generative connectionist algorithm provides a better model of development of these concepts by gradually increasing representational power.
Concurrency, Multi-Threading, And Message Passing

Message passing is a general conceptual paradigm for creating parallel software. Thus, it is important to consider use and support for multi-threaded computational models among other opportunities for performance enhancement of message-passing software. Multi-threaded computational models allow one to take advantage of ne-grain concurrency both in communication and computation. Such models also introduce new issues that increase software complexity and impose new requirements (e.g. thread safety) on the libraries used in the development of multi-threaded software. In this work, the design of portable thread-safe message-passing software (based on MPI) is presented, and advantages of the multi-threaded design of MPI are shown. Then, the performances of three diierent MPICH implementations of MPI for Windows NT are compared. Finally, the design of MPI software that maps user parallel tasks to threads instead of processes is discussed. constructive critique of the design of the multi-device thread-safe MPICH implementation of MPI, which allowed the author to improve the design.
Probability Method for Analyzing the Prevalence of Calcium, Iron, Zinc and Vitamin D Deficiencies among Indonesian Adolescents

The objective of this study was to analyse the prevalence of Ca, Fe, Zn, and vitamin D deficiency (micronutrient deficiency-MD) in adolescents using probability method (PBM) and cut-off point method (CPM). This study utilized secondary data from nation-wide Basic Health survey (Riskesdas) 2010 from the Ministry of Health, in which data on nutrient intakes were collected using 24-hour recall. The total subjects were 24,833 Indonesian males and females aged 13-18 years. The nutrient requirement of each micronutrient was derived from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The prevalence of MD using PBM was analysed by calculating the proportion of subjects with intake of below their requirement in the population. The prevalence of MD using CPM analysed by applying three cut-off point i.e. less than 100% (CP-100), less than 85% (CP-85), and less than 70% (CP-70) of the micronutrient requirement. Results showed that the prevalence of MD was high both calculated by PBM and CPM. In both methods, the prevalence of MD deficiencies were slightly higher in females than in males, and in older age group than younger age group. The prevalence of MD calculated using PBM was higher compared to the CPM-85 and CPM-70, but not always higher compared to CPM-100. Overall, the nutrient density of Ca, Fe, Zn and vitamin D for both male and female adolescents were below recommendations, however the nutrient density of Ca, Zn, and vitamin D in females were higher than in males (p<0,05). This study concludes that the intakes of micronutrient (Ca, Fe, Zn, and , D) among Indonesian adolescent were far below the requirement based on PBM and CPM calculations. In addition, the nutrient density of each micronutrient was classified as inadequate. This implies the importance of improvement in the quantity and quality of micronutrient intakes among Indonesian adolescents through increasing the consumption of fish, meat, eggs, legumes, milk, and green vegetables.
Overlapping of /o/ and /u/ in modern Seoul Korean: focusing on speech rate in read speech

Previous studies have reported on the overlapping of F₁ and F₂ distribution for the vowels /o/ and /u/ produced by young Korean speakers of the Seoul dialect. It has been suggested that the overlapping of /o/ and /u/ occurs due to sound change. However, few studies have examined whether speech rate influences the overlapping of /o/ and /u/. On the other hand, previous studies have reported that the overlapping of /o/ and /u/ in syllable produced by male speakers is smaller than by female speakers. Few reports have investigated on the overlapping of the two vowels in read speech produced by male speakers. In the current study, we examined whether speech rates affect overlapping of /o/ and /u/ in read speech by male and female speakers. Read speech produced by twelve young adult native speakers of Seoul dialect were recorded in three speech rates. For female speakers, discriminant analysis showed that the discriminant rate became lower as the speech rate increases from slow to fast. Thus, this indicates that speech rate is one of the factors affecting the overlapping of /o/ and /u/. For male speakers, on the other hand, the discriminant rate was not correlated with speech rate, but the overlapping was larger than that of female speakers in read speech. Moreover, read speech by male speakers was less clear than by female speakers. This indicates that the overlapping may be related to unclear speech by sociolinguistic reasons for male speakers.
Keberlanjutan Pengelolaan Sampah Domestik di Kampung Menoreh, Kelurahan Sampangan, Semarang

Keterbatasan daya tampung Tempat Pembuangan Akhir Kota Semarang dan permasalahanpermasalahan dalam pengelolaan sampah kota telah mendorong warga di Kampung Menoreh, Kelurahan Sampangan, Kota Semarang untuk melakukan pengelolaan sampah secara mandiri. Studi ini mengkaji inisiatif tersebut yang sempat terhenti selama 3 tahun dan beroperasi kembali pada tahun 2008. Studi ini berusaha mengkaji keberlanjutan pengelolaan sampah domestik di lokasi tersebut. Kajian dilaksanakan pada 7 aspek penilaian keberlanjutan, yaitu kondisi lingkungan, sosial budaya masyarakat, ekonomi, dukungan kebijakan, teknis pelaksanaan, kelembagaan, dan reduksi sampah. Analisis menunjukkan terpenuhinya kriteria keberlanjutan pada aspek lingkungan, ekonomi, kebijakan, dan teknis pelaksanaan, namun demikian hal yang sebaliknya dapat diamati pada aspek sosial, kelembagaan, dan reduksi sampah. Secara keseluruhan, keberlanjutan pengelolaan sampah secara terpadu di Kampung Menoreh cenderung “Tidak Berkelanjutan”. Studi ini merekomendasikan perbaikan dan peningkatan kondisi fasilitas pengelolaan sampah, sosialisasi dan penyediaan sarana prasarana persampahan bagi masyarakat, serta pembagian tugas penanganan pengelolaan sampah. Kata kunci: keberlanjutan, pengelolaan, sampah domestik
THE IMPACT OF PRURITUS ON QUALITY OF LIFE OF PATIENTS WITH LICHEN SIMPLEX CHRONICUS

Abstract Pruritus is a major symptom of a huge variety of dermatoses. It causes a scratch response, starting the itch-scratch cycle, which in turn aggravate the inflammatory response and exacerbate disease severity Lichen Simplex Chronicus (LSC) is a skin disorder affecting patient's psychosocial and functional status. Pruritus is a diagnostic hallmark for LSH. It is the reason for sleep disturbances, anxiety and depression. Therefore, a clinical investigation of pruritus alongside with a study of their self-reported health status is a necessary precondition for successful therapeutic results. The aim of the study is to assess the impact of pruritus on quality of life (QoL) of LSC patients’ by evaluating the severity of pruritus and sleep disturbance with visual analogue scale (VAS), and verbal rating scale (VRS) and compared it with results from answers to a standardized dermatology-specific quality of life instrument- Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI). (Specially answer to question1- symptoms).
Brain dynamics associated with graceful and pathological aging: new morphometric and fMRI evidence

La raccolta dei dati fMRI e VBM e avvenuta presso il reparto di Neuroradiologia dell'A.O. Niguarda Ca Granda di Milano.La raccolta dei dati neuropsicologici e avvenuta presso il Laboratorio di Neuropsicologia Cognitiva dell'A.O. Niguarda Ca Granda. Lo script utilizzato per eseguire la metanalisi quantitativa attraverso algoritmo di clusterizzazione gerarchica e stato sviluppato dalla Dot.ssa Cattineli sotto la supervisione del Prof. Borghese del Dipartimento di Informatica dell'Universita degli Studi di Milano.
Reliability of Goniometric Measurements of Flexion in Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients: with Special Reference to the Body Position

[Purpose] To compare the reliability of goniometric measurements of knee flexion obtained in three different body positions of patients with total knee arthroplasty (TKA). [Subjects] The knees (151) of 92 TKA patients were the subjects of this study. [Methods] The range of flexion was measured at three instances: preoperatively, postoperative fifth day and at the time of discharge by universal goniometer measurement with the patient positioned in the supine, prone and sitting positions. [Results] There were no significant differences between the range of motion measurements in the three testing positions at the three instances. Also, the results from the three different testing positions were highly correlated (r>0.80). [Conclusion] The results of this study indicate that the position of the patient during the evaluation of range of knee flexion does not affect the results and that the three different body positions can be used interchangeably.
Post-cancer treatment of Condurango 30C, traditionally used in homeopathy, ameliorates tissue damage and stimulates reactive oxygen species in benzo[a]pyrene-induced lung cancer of rat

Homoeopathically prepared Condurango 30C is traditionally used in amelioration of certain types of cancer by homeopathic practitioners. In this study, ability of Condurango 30C in amelioration of the conventional benzo[a]pyrene (BaP)-induced lung cancer in rat has been tested. After one month of scheduled oral feeding of BaP, lung cancer is routinely developed after four months in rats. Tumorbearing rats were then treated with Condurango 30C for the next one (5th), two (6th) and three (7th) months, respectively, and sacrificed. Efficacy of post-cancer treatment by Condurango 30C was evaluated against controls (placebo) by different study parameters like: body and lung weights, number and diameter of lung tumour nodules, lung architecture, DNA damage, anti-oxidant activity and reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation. Administration of this homeopathic remedy caused increase of body weight and decrease of lung weight, decrease in number and diameter of lung tumour nodules, particularly after one and two months of drug treatment. BaP intoxication significantly increased lipid peroxidase (LPO) with concomitant decrease in activities of different antioxidants, while Condurango 30C administration certainly reduce their levels than normal and cancerous groups, notably after one and two months’ of drug treatment. Condurango 30C showed capability to induce ROS-mediated cell death evidenced from the study of ROS activities at different time-points. Further, the remedy possibly achieved its anticancer goal through mediation of DNA-nicks that possibly led cancer cells to the apoptotic pathway. Thus, Condurango 30C has anticancer potential in BaP-induced lung cancer of rats via tissue damage recovery and ROS-mediated programmed cell death.
Toward the Remodeling of Ethnomusicology

thnomusicology, like any academic field, is constantly being created and recreated through the research, writing and teaching of its practitioners. Direct action in the form of new data, interpretations, theories, and methods effectively defines the field. Modeling a discipline, on the other hand, requires a step back from direct engagement in research to ask the descriptive question, what are we doing? , and the prescriptive question, what ought we to be doing? The answer will surely depend on the intellectual and social matrix of the modeler (Blum 1975 and C. Seeger 1977) and the effectiveness of the model will depend either on the extent to which it captures simply and elegantly the current work being done in the field or provides a kind of "moral imperative" for future action. Probably the best example of an effective model in the recent history of ethnomusicology is "Merriam's model" proposed in 1964 in the Anthropology of Music. His "simple model" . "involves study on three analytic levels-conceptualization about music, behavior in relation to music, and music sound itself (p. 32). " The model is essentially circular in form (see fig. 1) with concept affecting behavior which produces the sound product. And he continues, ". There is a constant feedback from the product to the concepts about music, and this is what accounts both for change and stability in a music system" (p. 33). This model was seminal in the history of ethnomusicology and to that date was the most forceful and cogent statement of anthropological concerns with respect to music. The model defined ethnomusicology as "the study of music in culture" and that view-even as modified to "music as culture" and "the relationship between music and culture"--has remained one of the core concepts in the discipline ever since. We can of course argue about the extent of its influence during the last twenty years, but there can be no doubt that it continues to be influential. It is still frequently cited to contextualize particular research problems (for example, Yung 1984 and Sawa 1983), Bruno Nettl (1983) called it "definitive," not just of the study of music but apparently of music itself, and it provided the basic model for the recent collaborative textbook, Worlds of Music (Titon 1984). If that book's authors, coming from a very wide range of backgrounds, could agree on this model, then the continuing extent of its influence is clear-at least as an overall image or model of the field.