Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
From Awareness to Action: Examining Predictors of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Activism for Heterosexual People

In recent history, heterosexual allies have played an integral role in promoting change for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations in the United States; however, questions have been raised as to what drives heterosexual allies to promote change via activism. To delineate factors important in engagement in activism, 207 self-identified heterosexual allies completed an online survey measuring components associated with LGBT activism using Bandura’s (1986) model of triadic reciprocal determinism: personal factors (ally identity, social justice self-efficacy and outcome expectations, empathetic perspective taking, and gender) and environmental factors (social justice related supports and barriers, positive marginality, and education level) to predict behaviors (LGBT activism). A hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed a model accounting for 62% of the variance in LGBT activism, with dimensions of ally identification, social justice self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and education level emerging as significant predictors of engagement in activism behaviors. Empathetic perspective taking and social justice related barriers predicted lack of engagement in LGBT activism, however. Supporting the notion that personal and environmental factors simultaneously impact engagement in LGBT activism.
Translation, reliability, and clinical utility of the Melbourne Assessment 2

Abstract Objective: The aims were to (i) provide a German translation of the Melbourne Assessment 2 (MA2), a quantitative test to measure unilateral upper limb function in children with neurological disabilities and (ii) to evaluate its reliability and aspects of clinical utility. Methods: After its translation into German and approval of the back translation by the original authors, the MA2 was performed and videotaped twice with 30 children with neuromotor disorders. For each participant, two raters scored the video of the first test for inter-rater reliability. To determine test–retest reliability, one rater additionally scored the video of the second test while the other rater repeated the scoring of the first video to evaluate intra-rater reliability. Time needed for rater training, test administration, and scoring was recorded. Results: The four subscale scores showed excellent intra-, inter-rater, and test–retest reliability with intraclass correlation coefficients of 0.90–1.00 (95%-confidence intervals 0.78–1.00). Score items revealed substantial to almost perfect intra-rater reliability (weighted kappa kw = 0.66–1.00) for the more affected side. Score item inter-rater and test–retest reliability of the same extremity were, with one exception, moderate to almost perfect (kw = 0.42–0.97; kw = 0.40–0.89). Furthermore, the MA2 was feasible and acceptable for patients and clinicians. Conclusions: The MA2 showed excellent subscale and moderate to almost perfect score item reliability. Implications for Rehabilitation There is a lack of high-quality studies about psychometric properties of upper limb measurement tools in the neuropediatric population. The Melbourne Assessment 2 is a promising tool for reliable measurement of unilateral upper limb movement quality in the neuropediatric population. The Melbourne Assessment 2 is acceptable and practicable to therapists and patients for routine use in clinical care.
Effect of resistant starch on the cooking quality of yam (Dioscorea spp.) and cassava (Manihot esculenta) based paste products

Total starch (TS) and resistant starch (RS) contents in pasty edible product of mealy and hard cooking tubers of three yam varieties and four cassava varieties were determined to evaluate their contribution in their cooking quality. TS and RS contents appeared as the main components in determining yam cooking quality. Mealy cooking yam varieties were characterized by a significant higher TS content (75.2 ± 7.7 g/100 g d.m.) and lower RS content (13.8 ± 3.4 g/100 g d.m.) than hard cooking yam varieties, which, in contrast, contained less TS (61.7 ± 12.1 g/100 g d.m.) and particularly high RS (21.8 ± 9.9 g/100 g d.m.), possibly as a consequence of the prevalence of large granules (35–40 μm) observed by light microscope. Conversely, TS and RS contents appeared not determinant on the cooking quality of cassava. Moreover, higher amylose contents were associated with substantially elevated percentages of RS in yam and cassava, and high RS content in samples modulates their pasting properties by reducing the peak viscosity and the breakdown and requiring higher temperature and longer time to the peak.
[Black Africans' compliance to antihypertensive treatment].

UNLABELLED Hypertension is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa. It is difficult to follow a correct treatment in this environment. PURPOSE Assessing the compliance of the drug therapy and identifying the characteristics of poor observant patients. METHODS A study was carried out over one month at the outpatient department of the Abidjan Heart Institute among 200 sub-Saharan African hypertensives. Their compliance was estimated with the Compliance Evaluation Test of Girerd. RESULTS The average age of the patients was 59 years and 59.5% of them were women. Most patients (60%) had a monthly pay lower than 100,000 CFA (Euros 152). Sixty two percent had no medical insurance. So 175 patients (87.5%) had difficulties to follow their treatment. Among them 55% had a very bad compliance and 32.5% had minor difficulties. Only 12.5% of them had a right compliance. A bad compliance was frequent between 30 and 70 years, in women (60.5%), in unemployed patients (93.7%), in married women (68.7%) and in executives (50%). Other factors of a poor compliance was a monthly income lower than 100,000 FCFA (64%), a number of daily tablets higher than three (77.3%), a number of daily administration >or= $ 3 (95.7%) and the high cost of drugs. A bad compliance is more frequent when herbal treatment is associated with medical drugs or used separately. CONCLUSION The compliance of the antihypertensive treatment was poor. The causes are numerous, but they are very often related with the growing poverty in the black society.
Once-daily intraperitoneal cefazolin and oral ciprofloxacin as empiric therapy for the treatment of peritonitis.

The Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Peritonitis Management has recommended intraperitoneal (i.p.) cefazolin and an aminoglycoside as empiric therapy for the treatment of peritonitis. Because most of our patients are on continuous cycler therapy, we developed a strategy of once-daily i.p. cefazolin and oral ciprofloxacin as empiric therapy. All patients in our unit that developed peritonitis were given a once-daily 2 g load of i.p. cefazolin, plus 500 mg ciprofloxacin orally, twice daily. Ciprofloxacin was given two hours after any phosphate binder or iron supplement. The i.p. cefazolin was allowed to dwell for at least six hours. The dialysate was then drained and chronic peritoneal dialysis (CPD) resumed. Organisms sensitive to cefazolin were treated for 14 days with once-daily cefazolin alone; resistant organisms were treated with alternative antibiotics. A total of 40 patients were treated with this empiric regimen. Of these, 35 (88%) successfully continued CPD therapy, 1 (2%) transferred to hemodialysis, and 4 (10%) expired two weeks after the onset of peritonitis. A total of 22 patients (55%) were treated successfully with once-daily i.p. cefazolin. Although once-daily i.p. cefazolin and oral ciprofloxacin permitted continuation of CPD therapy in most patients in this study, the therapy was not optimal. While vancomycin may have provided better coverage, recent reports of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and Staphylococcus aureus present a major concern.
Phase II study of stereotactic body radiotherapy to primary tumor and metastatic locations in oligometastatic nonsmall-cell lung cancer patients.

BACKGROUND Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) has emerged as a treatment modality in patients presenting with oligometastatic nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). SBRT is used as a local consolidative treatment to metastatic disease sites. The majority of patients included in SBRT trials for oligometastatic NSCLC have controlled primary tumors and brain metastases. PATIENTS AND METHODS Oligometastatic NSCLC patients with ≤5 metastatic lesions were included in a prospective phase II trial to evaluate efficacy and toxicity of SBRT to all disease sites, primary tumor and metastatic locations. SBRT to a dose of 50 Gy in 10 fractions was delivered. Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) was carried out at baseline and 3 months after SBRT to evaluate the metabolic response rate according to PET Response Criteria in Solid Tumors (PERCIST). The progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were calculated using Kaplan-Meier method from start of chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Side-effects were scored using the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE) version 3.0. RESULTS Twenty-six patients received SBRT after induction chemotherapy (n = 17) or as a primary treatment (n = 9). Median follow-up was 16.4 months. Overall metabolic response rate was 60% with seven patients (30%) achieving a complete metabolic remission and 7 (30%) a partial metabolic response. Any acute grade 2 toxicity was observed in four patients (15%) and grade 3 pulmonary toxicity in two patients (8%). Median PFS and OS were 11.2 and 23 months. The 1-year PFS and 1-year OS rate were 45% and 67%, respectively. CONCLUSION SBRT to all disease sites, primary tumor and metastatic locations, in oligometastatic NSCLC patients produced an acceptable median PFS of 11.2 months.
Integral Particle Swarm Optimization with Dispersed Accelerator Information

Integral-controlled particle swarm optimization (ICPSO) is an effective variant of particle swarm optimization (PSO) aiming to increase the population diversity. Due to the additional accelerator items, the behavior of ICPSO is more complex, and provides more chances to escaping from a local optimum than the standard version of PSO. However, many experimental results show the performance of ICPSO is not always well because of the particles' un-controlled movements. Therefore, a new variant, integral particle swarm optimization with dispersed accelerator information (IPSO-DAI) is designed to improve the computational efficiency. In IPSO-DAI, a predefined predicted velocity index is introduced to guide the moving direction. If the average velocity of one particle is superior to the index value, it will choice a convergent manner, otherwise, a divergent manner is employed. Furthermore, the choice of convergent manner or divergent manner for each particle is associated with its performance to fit different living experiences. Simulation results show the proposed variant is more effective than other three variants of particle swarm optimization especially for multi-modal numerical problems. The IPSO-DAI algorithm is also applied to directing the orbits of discrete chaotic dynamical systems by adding small bounded perturbations, and achieves the best performance among four different variants of PSO.
Displacement vector measurement using instantaneous ultrasound signal phase-multidimensional autocorrelation and Doppler methods

Two new methods of measuring a multidimensional displacement vector using an instantaneous ultrasound signal phase are described, i.e., the multidimensional autocorrelation method (MAM) and multidimensional Doppler method (MDM). A high measurement accuracy is achieved by combining either method with the lateral Gaussian envelope cosine modulation method (LGECMM) or multidirectional synthetic aperture method (MDSAM). Measurement accuracy is evaluated using simulated noisy echo data. Both methods yield accurate measurements comparable to that of our previously developed cross-spectrum phase gradient method (MCSPGM); however, they require less computational time (the order, MDM ≪ MAM ≈ MCSPGM) and would provide realtime measurements. Moreover, comparisons of LGECMM and MDSAM performed by geometrical evaluations clarifies that LGECMM has potentials to yield more accurate measurements with less computational time. Both MAM and MDM can be applied to the measurement of tissue strain, blood flow, sonar data, and other target motions.
etection of members of the Secoviridae in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve , Osage ounty , Oklahoma , USA

Viruses are most frequently discovered because they cause disease. To expand knowledge of plantassociated viruses beyond these narrow constraints, non-cultivated plants of the Tallgrass Prairie of the United States were systematically surveyed for evidence of viruses. This report discusses putative viruses of the family Secoviridae identified by the survey. Sequence analysis suggests the presence of at least six viruses in the study site, including Bean pod mottle virus, Maize chlorotic dwarf virus, three previously
Tissue Inflammatory Response in Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE)

The pattern of inflammatory infiltration was studied in the frontal brain biopsies of 28 cases with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) by immunohistochemistry. Lymphocytic infiltration and gliosis were common pathologic findings. CD4+ T lymphocytes were often observed in perivascular areas and CD8+ lymphocytes in the parenchyma. B lymphocytes were located in large perivascular cuffs associated with longer and slower disease. Major histocompatibility complex antigens, interferon-γ, and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) were expressed in endothelial and glial cells. The inflammatory lesions in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis consist of various cell subtypes and cytokines localized in particular areas of the brain tissue and show certain associations with clinical course. (J Child Neurol 2001;16:895-900).
[Change of retinal oxygen saturation in healthy subjects and in early stages of diabetic retinopathy during breathing of 100% oxygen].

BACKGROUND Disturbances in the microcirculation are a source of retinal diabetic alterations. Comprehensive studies of blood flow parameters have been performed, but it is not known how ageing, duration of diabetes, blood sugar, glycolysed haemoglobin and elevated systemic blood pressure act in the early stages of diabetic retinopathy. MATERIAL AND METHODS The arterial and venous oxygen saturation (aOS, vOS) were measured with a Jena Ophthalmo Spectrometer in 28 healthy subjects (NP) (30.3 +/- 13.1 years), 31 Type I diabetics (T I) (42.2 +/- 12.9 years), and in 25 Type II diabetics (T II) (58.9 +/- 6.9 years), suffering form mild or moderate non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy, before, during breathing of 100 % oxygen for 6 minutes, and after respiration of air during 10 minutes. RESULTS Before oxygen breathing, the venous oxygen saturation in diabetics increased with age. During breathing of 100 % oxygen, the vOS increased considerably by 20 % in all groups. The arterio-venous difference of oxygen saturation was decreased with age in diabetics, but there was no dependence on age in normals. In Type II diabetics, the vOS before oxygen breathing was increased with HbA1c. There was also a positive correlation between vOS and blood pressure before oxygen breathing. CONCLUSION Healthy subjects and diabetics in the early stages of diabetic retinopathy exhibit comparable changes of oxygen saturation during breathing of 100 % oxygen. Measurements of venous OS are most evident. First differences were detectable between diabetics and normals in the normalisation after oxygen respiration.
Mobile Slotted Aloha for Vanets

Vanet literature is mainly focused on CSMA and CSMA-like access protocols. Actually a deep study on how a slotted approach could be adopted in Vanet is missing. This is mainly due to the lack of a distributed MAC able to guarantee a scalable resource reservation without involving a central poller. In this paper we propose a novel protocol, MS-Aloha, which is based on recent RR-Aloha extensions, in order to overcome its most critical limitations. The protocol is studied theoretically and validated by simulations. Even if an extensive analysis is far from being achieved, some relevant results are discussed as important enabling steps. Index Terms—Vanet, Slotted-ALOHA, Distributed Protocol, Resource Optimisation, Collision Avoidance I. INTRODUCTION
Age‐related changes in blood lymphocyte subsets of Chinese children

BACKGROUND Flow cytometric analysis of major lymphocyte populations and their subsets reveals age-related changes in the human cellular immune system. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Immunophenotypic markers were evaluated in 136 healthy pediatric subjects divided into groups of newborn infants (cord blood), children aged 1 to 2 years, 2 to 5 years, and 6 to 15 years. RESULTS The percentage of T cells increased gradually with age and the evolution of the percentage of B and NK cells was found to be variable. The percentage of CD4+ cells remains relatively unchanged from infancy to adolescence, but the percentage of CD8+ T cells was lowest at birth and reached maximal levels in the one to two year-old period. The percentage of naive T cells declined with time, but the percentage of memory T cells increased with age. Similar trends were seen in T-cell receptor alphabeta- and gammadelta-bearing T cells. The percentage of CD 11b+CD8+ T cells increased gradually from birth and reached maximal levels from 6 to 15 years old. The expression of the activation markers CD25 and HLA-DR on CD4+ T cells increased with age. The percentage of CD16+CD56- NK cells declined with age, but the evolution of the percentage of CD 16-CD56+ NK cells was variable. The fraction of B cells that expressed CD5 was high at birth (72.9%) and was highest in one to two year olds (73.1%), then declined steadily over time. The CD23 antigen was expressed on 41.9% of B cells at birth and 68.6% during the first to second year, then declined steadily with age. CONCLUSION These data may serve as a reference range for studies of Chinese pediatric subjects.
The environmental factor in migration dynamics: A review of African case studies

Claims that climate change will shape the future of global migration are continuously being made in academia as well as popular and policy circles. This paper questions the empirical basis for such claims, drawing on a critical review of 13 case studies of environmentally induced migration in the Sahel and the wider migration and development literature. It highlights some of the conceptual and methodological flaws that recur in many of these studies. First, their terminology is often confused, with concepts such as environment and climate, change and variability being conflated. Second, some do not acknowledge the extreme climate variability and unstable environments that are the norm for many Sahelian people; in this context, mobility can be a successful coping mechanism, potentially reducing environmental stress. Third, the paper criticises the use of static push-pull frameworks which suggest that migrants are being ‘pushed out’ of marginal and degraded environments, neglecting the intertwined environmental, political, economic and cultural factors. Fourth, the paper highlights flaws in the sampling and questionnaires used, particularly in some of the more recent studies. In conclusion, the paper calls for more open research that explores the complex inter-relationship between environmental factors and mobility rather than starting from the assumption of a simplistic causal relationship.
Dataset Curation through Renders and Ontology Matching

Abstract : In this thesis we demonstrate the benefits of automated labeled dataset creation for fine-grained visual learning tasks. Specifically, we show that utilizing real-world, non-image information can significantly reduce the human effort needed for building large scale datasets. Computer vision has seen great advances in recent years in a number of complex tasks, such as scene classification, object detection, and image segmentation. A key ingredient in such success stories is the use of large amounts of labeled data. In many cases, the limiting factor is the ability to create these training sets. Issues arise in three forms:1) The act of labeling the data can be hard for human annotators, 2) n some cases it is hard to get a representative sample of the feature space, and 3) data for infrequent (yet potentially important\) instances can be completely absent from the training set. Business storefront classification is an example of 1). The number of possible labels is large, and assigning all relevant labels to an image is a time consuming task for annotators. Moreover, when the image contains a business from a country other than their own, annotators can get confused by the foreign language and produce erroneous labels. Annotators are also not consistent in their categorization of businesses into categories. In vehicle viewpoint estimation, the images themselves are hard to come by. Getting sample images of all viewpoints is hard due to bias in the way people photograph cars. Current datasets for this task lack data for many viewpoints. In addition, the labeling task is hard for the annotators. We address these issues by adding automation to the dataset creation process. Our approach is to utilize external information by matching the images to real world concepts. In the case of businesses, when images are mapped to an ontology of geographical entities, we are able to extract multiple relevant labels per image.
Up‐regulation of cathepsin X in Helicobacter pylori gastritis and gastric cancer

Recently, we identified increased cathepsin X expression in H. pylori‐infected gastric mucosa. Here, we describe further up‐regulation in gastric cancer and report on the role of inflammatory cytokines required for cathepsin X up‐regulation in H. pylori‐infected gastric mucosa, as well as on consequences for cellular invasion. Biopsy specimens were taken from the antrum, corpus and cardia of H. pylori‐infected and non‐infected patients. Gastric cancer samples were obtained from patients undergoing gastric surgery. Cathepsin X was detected in gastric mucosa by quantitative real‐time RT‐PCR, western blotting and immunohistochemistry. Induction of cathepsin X expression in epithelial and inflammatory cells caused by H. pylori infection was tested in in vitro contact and non‐contact co‐cultures of AGS cells and monocytic cells. Patients with H. pylori gastritis showed significantly higher cathepsin X mRNA (2.5‐fold) and protein (1.6‐fold) expression than H. pylori‐negative patients. Cathepsin X was also up‐regulated in gastric cancer (3–12‐fold) compared to non‐neoplastic mucosa. Cathepsin X was predominantly expressed by macrophages in the mucosal stroma and in glands of the antral mucosa. In addition, tumour cells stained for cathepsin X in 26 (68%) patients with gastric carcinoma. In general, staining was significantly more common (20 vs. 6 patients) and more intense (3.55 vs. 0.83) in intestinal type gastric cancer than in the diffuse type. In vitro cell culture experiments revealed that intercellular signalling between pathogenicity island (PAI)‐positive H. pylori‐infected epithelial cells and macrophages via soluble factors in the culture medium seems to be responsible for increased expression of cathepsin X in monocytes. Using antisense oligonucleotides, cathepsin X up‐regulation was directly associated with higher invasiveness in vitro. Although no correlation of cathepsin X expression and TNM stage was found, our study demonstrates that cathepsin X plays a role not only in the chronic inflammation of gastric mucosa but also in the tumourigenesis of gastric cancer. Copyright © 2005 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.