Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Classification of part movements for deadlock avoidance in manufacturing systems

A method that classifies part movements to avoid deadlock in manufacturing systems which contain single capacity resources is presented. The proposed method determines whether a particular part movement is safe, unsafe, or undetermined. This classification is linear in complexity. Part movements that are classified as undetermined are analyzed using another procedure. This alternative procedure attempts to empty the system to determine whether the move is safe, unsafe, or undetermined. It is polynomial in complexity. By adjusting a simple parameter, the size of the set of possible undetermined classifications returned can be made arbitrarily small by increasing the order of the algorithm. Examples showing the application of the method are provided.
Therapeutic efifect of doxepin in chronic idiopathic urticaria

Among 56 recalcitrant cases of chronic idiopathic urticaria 28 subjects (Group A) selected at random, were, treated with doxepin 10 mg thrice daily and the rest ( Group B ) with pheniramine maleate 22.5mgthrice daily.B 3 weeks of therapy group.A and group B respectively showed complete remission in 28.6% and 10.7% cases, partial remission in 64.3% and 39.3% cases and no improvement in 7.1% and 50% cases. The difference in clinical improvement between the two groups was statistii significant (p0.001). One week after stopping the treatment among totally syrnptom - free patients, 37.5% in group A and 100% in-group B developed recurrence. Drowsiness was more common in-group B (60.7%) than in group A (35.7%) whereas dryness of the mouth was more frequent in group A (64.3%) than in group B (46.4%).
THE OSTEOPOROTIC SYNDROME: detection, prevention, and treatment

Metabolic bone degeneration (osteoporosis) affects millions of people - primarily postmenopausal women - and is directly responsible for debilitating hip, vertebral, and limb fractures in the elderly. Incorporating advances made within just the past five years, "The Osteoporotic Syndrome: Detection, Prevention, and Treatment" serves as an up-to-date, practical guide to the major clinical aspects of osteoporosis. The text is liberally illustrated with detailed figures. As a resource for the clinician dealing with metabolic bone degeneration, this book represents an excellent source of information on the diagnosis and day-to-day management of osteoporosis. The topics covered include: therapy with vitamin D metabolites, sodium fluoride, thiazides, and isoflavones; biochemical markers of bone turnover; calcium, vitamin D, and bone metabolism; estrogens and tissue selective estrogens for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis; the effects of osteoporosis on orthopaedic surgery; the therapy of glucocorticoid bone disease; effects of aging on bone structure and metabolism; management of osteoporotic patients in our health care delivery system; the genetics of osteoporosis; bisphosphonate therapy for osteoporosis; calcitonin; bone mass measurement techniques in clinical practice; and, osteoporosis and the bone biopsy.
Development of computer-based physiotherapy patient education grounded in Health Action Process Approach and multimedia learning theory

Adherence to home-based musculoskeletal physiotherapy is less than optimal, which may lead to poor treatment outcomes. Physiotherapy adjuncts that increase patients’ self-efficacy and understanding of treatment facilitate rehabilitation adherence. The Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) that includes action and coping plans strengthens self-efficacy, while computer based patient education (CBPE) enhances patient understanding of treatment requirements when underpinned by the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. This thesis evaluated the effect of CBPE developed using the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and delivered in conjunction with action and coping plans on patient adherence to physiotherapy for shoulder injuries/disorders; and the value of extending the HAPA to include functional outcomes. The CBPE content was displayed using animations, videos, written text, and graphics, and included interviews with a physiotherapist and patient, exercise demonstrations, adherence hints, activities of daily living, information about the shoulder anatomy and pathologies, frequently asked questions and quizzes. A four week one group prospective pilot study (n = 20) assessed the effect of CBPE combined with action and coping planning on adherence to physiotherapy, the procedures for the main study, and the feasibility of extending the HAPA to include functional outcomes. After their first physiotherapy appointment participants completed questionnaires measuring the HAPA motivational variables (risk perception, outcome expectancies, action self-efficacy and behavioural intentions), shoulder knowledge and functional outcomes, and made action and coping plans. Throughout the study clinicand home-based adherence were measured, and at the end participants completed questionnaires evaluating the HAPA volitional variables (maintenance and recovery self-efficacy, and adherence), knowledge and shoulder function. The HAPA variable scores were high with moderate to strong correlations between the behavioural intentions and self-efficacies, behavioural intentions and adherence behaviours, and adherence behaviours and post-study shoulder function. Participants’ shoulder function improved significantly during the study, and they valued the CBPE. The extended HAPA model incorporating functional outcomes was supported. The findings and feedback from the participants and physiotherapists led to changes to the CBPE programme, which included strategies to boost self-efficacy, less exercises, simpler
Online Graph Planarisation for Synchronous Parsing of Semantic and Syntactic Dependencies

This paper investigates a generative history-based parsing model that synchronises the derivation of non-planar graphs representing semantic dependencies with the derivation of dependency trees representing syntactic structures. To process non-planarity online, the semantic transition-based parser uses a new technique to dynamically reorder nodes during the derivation. While the synchronised derivations allow different structures to be built for the semantic non-planar graphs and syntactic dependency trees, useful statistical dependencies between these structures are modeled using latent variables. The resulting synchronous parser achieves competitive performance on the CoNLL- 2008 shared task, achieving relative error reduction of 12% in semantic F score over previously proposed synchronous models that cannot process non-planarity online.
Breaking Bad News: Effect Of Physician Communication On Analog Patients' Response

OF THE DISSERTATION ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS iv TABLE OF CONTENTS v LIST OF TABLES viii LIST OF FIGURES x LIST OF APPENDICES xi CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW 1 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 3 Overview 3 Bad News Defined: The Importance of Diagnosis and Prognosis 4 Challenges of Bad News Communication 5 Psychological Distress 5 Patient Comprehension 7 Patient Preferences 9 Physician Perspectives and Practices in Breaking Bad News 12 Practice Guidelines 15 General Review 15 Warning of Impending Bad News 19 Framing of Prognostic Information 22
Prevalence of fibroids: a study in a semiurban area in Telangana, India

Fibroids are seen to rarely occur before menarche and reduce after menopause. The may be single or multiple and have a negative impact on the reproductive system, and are capable of causing severe morbidity among the women with deterioration of quality of life. It is known that 20% 50% of women in this age group suffer from this disease. 5.4 to 77% of women have myomas, depending on the study population and races of the population. It is seen that in USA, the prevalence of the uterine fibroids was 60% at the age of 35, which increased to more than 80% by the age of 50 years among the African American women. However, the incidence ws observed to be lesser in Caucasian women, where the incidence was 40% by age 35, and almost 70% by age 50. The data was similar in Italy, while the incidence was lower among the Swedish women.
Combining Overall and Target Oriented Sentiment Analysis over Portuguese Text from Social Media

This document describes an approach to perform sentiment analysis on social media Portuguese content. In a single system, we perform polarity classification for both the overall sentiment, and target oriented sentiment. In both modes we train a Maximum Entropy classifier. The overall model is based on BoW type features, and also features derived from POS tagging and from sentiment lexicons. Target oriented analysis begins with named entity recognition, followed by the classification of sentiment polarity on these entities. This classifier model uses features dedicated to the entity mention textual zone, including negation detection, and the syntactic function of the target occurrence segment. Our experiments have achieved an accuracy of 75% for target oriented polarity classification, and 97% in overall polarity.
Feeding Difficulties among Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Review

The objective of this article is to review the studies conducted among children with cerebral palsy to assess their feeding problems and its impact on child’s growth and nutritional status. Feeding problems are quite prevalent among CP children. Some of the common feeding problems include problem in chewing, sucking and swallowing, inability to self-feed, coughing and choking during feeding, vomiting and drooling. Factors like oral motor dysfunction, severity and type of CP, postural problems and age are responsible for their prevalence. These can have a negative impact on the child’s growth, nutritional status and quality of life. Emphasis should therefore be placed on an early identification, treatment and correction of feeding problems. Significant improvement in child’s health and nutritional status can be achieved through intensive intervention programs. Increasing awareness among caregivers/parents, government and health care providers, regarding the needs of children with disabilities and their feeding difficulties is urgently warranted.
Targeting of captopril to the kidney: towards selective renal ACE inhibition

The present thesis deals with the targeting of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibiting drug captopril to the kidney. Drug targeting is a technique that aims at a more specific action of drugs by restricting their distribution to a specific part of the body. In other words, the targeting of drugs can increase the availability of a drug at a site in the body where the action is desired, while, at the same time, the concentrations of the drug is decreased at other sites in the body. As a consequence of the altered body distribution, drug targeting can improve the therapeutic profile of a drug by elevating drug concentrations selectively at specific sites in the body.
DÜNYA ÖLÇEĞİNDE ÖĞRETMENLERİN SAYGINLIK STATÜSÜ VE ÖZLÜK HAKLARI

Ogretmen sayginlik statusunun belirlenmesi, hem hukumetlere hem de egitimcilere, egitimsel ciktilarin gelistirilmesinde degerli icgoruler sunmaktadir. Bir toplumda ogretmenlerin sayginlik statusu, ogretmenlerin kazanclarinin diger meslekler ile karsilastirilmasi, ebeveynlerin cocuklarinin ogretmen olmalarini isteme duzeyleri, ogrencilerin ve ebeveynlerin ogretmenlere duyduklari saygi, toplumun egitim sistemlerine guvenme derecesi gibi degiskenler ile belirlenmektedir. Literatur tarama niteliginde yapilan bu calismanin amaci, birinci olarak, ‘dunya ogretmen sayginlik statusu endeksi’ dikkate alinarak dunya olceginde ogretmen statulerini karsilastirmak, ikinci olarak, OECD ulkeleri ve gelismis bazi ulkeler ile Turkiye’deki ogretmenlerin ozluk haklarini karsilastirarak ogretmenlerin statusune iliskin durum tespiti yapmak ve farkindalik yaratarak bu baglamda yapilan tartismalara katkida bulunmaktir. Turkiye’de algisal duzlemde kutsal gorulen ogretmenlik mesleginin sayginligi ile ozluk durumlari arasindaki negatif iliski uzerinde durulmus, gelismis bazi Avrupa ulkeleri ve OECD ulkelerindeki ogretmenlerin statusu ile birlikte ozluk haklari, meslekte yukselme, maas durumlari, sendika uyelikleri, denetlenmeleri (performanslarinin olculmesi) ve emeklilik durumlari ele alinmis ve statu ve ozluk haklarina iliskin bulgular Turkiye’deki bulgularla karsilastirilmistir
Is removing blood donation barriers a donation facilitator? Australian African migrants view

Purpose – The aim of this study was to assess whether the removal of blood donation “barriers” facilitates blood donation intentions, using a sample of African migrants, and to identify the implications for social marketing. African migrants are currently under-represented as blood donors in Australia. Some members of the African community have unique donation needs that can only be served by this community. Design/methodology/approach – Interviews were conducted with 425 people from the African community in Victoria and South Australia. Factor analysis was performed on the barriers and the removal of barriers. Item groupings for both constructs differed, suggesting that barriers and their removal are not necessarily opposite constructs. Findings – The cultural society factor was negatively associated with blood donation intention (i.e. a barrier), whereas engagement and overcoming fear were positively associated with blood donation intention (i.e. facilitators). Cultural issues and lack of understanding .
Oral Hygiene Status and Periodontal Treatment Needs of Nigerian Male Smokers

AIM: This study was to describe the oral hygiene and periodontal status of Nigerian smokers through a cross sectional survey carried out among factory workers in Lagos state using a purposive sampling method. METHOD: Subjects in this study comprised of two hundred and fifty four adult factory workers aged 19 to 74 years consisting of 184 males and 70 females. Only about 33% of examined males were smokers while all the females examined were non-smokers. Females were therefore excluded from the analyses which focused on smokers. 10 cigarettes was arbitrarily chosen as the bar line between light and heavy smoking for the purpose of comparison. Oral Hygiene Index (OHI) and Community Periodontal Index (CPI) were utilized in this study. RESULTS: Smokers in the study were found to have significantly poorer oral hygiene (p
Description of a proposed simple semi-objective histological scale for the assessment of dermal melanophages in inflammatory skin diseases

Background: Dermal melanophages are a common histopathological finding in several inflammatory skin diseases and may be seen even in clinically normal-looking skin. Clinically hyperpigmented and hypopigmented conditions as well as nonpigmented lesions show melanophages which cannot always be correlated with the clinical appearance of the lesion biopsied. No literature exists to help assess the significance of dermal melanophages in inflammatory diseases and correlate their presence with the pathophysiology of the disease biopsied. Methodology: This is a retrospective study of 100 skin biopsies in patients with brown skin, which had mentioned dermal melanophages in the histopathological report. A simple-to-use semi-objective scale (score of 3–10) was used to assess the score of the dermal melanophages. This was done by a dermatopathologist who was blinded to the clinical and histopathological diagnoses. A correlation of the dermal melanophage score was attempted with the clinical/histological diagnoses and known pathogenesis of the diseases. Results: A variety of skin diseases were included in this study which could be broadly grouped into hypopigmented (10 cases, average scores 4), nonpigmented interface diseases (20 cases, average score 6.66), miscellaneous nonpigmented dermatosis (17 cases, average scores 5.3), and hyperpigmented (53). The hyperpigmented group was subdivided into those that were known to show predominantly epidermal melanin (13 cases, average score 4.58) and those who have predominantly dermal melanin following interface dermatitis (29 cases, average score 8.67) and dermal melanosis without interface dermatitis (11 cases, average score 6.18). Conclusions: This scale can be used to determine the significance of dermal melanophages in inflammatory skin diseases. Scores >6 suggest hyperpigmentary conditions due to the presence of dermal melanophages. Low scores of 3–5 are not significant and are seen in epidermal hypermelanoses, hypopigmented conditions, and other varied nonpigmented dermatoses.
Investigations of the mechanisms of antitumour activity of PKI, the first macromolecular prodrug to reach clinical trials.

Twenty seven years ago the use of water soluble synthetic polymers as targetable carriers to provide better and more effective treatment for cancer was proposed. To date, the most exploited carrier, HPMA [N-(2Hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide], has been successfully used to specifically target tumours by taking advantage of the increased vascular permeability and the lack of effective tumour lymphatic drainage. In 1999, a phase 1 clinical trial result o f the first drug-polymer conjugate, PK l, was published. PKl comprises of doxorubicin covalently bound to HPMA via a tetrapeptide spacer, which is susceptible to cleavage by cathepsin B, a lysosomal protease found to be upregulated in most human cancers. Given the progression of PKl into phase II testing, its mode of action and toxicological profile are poorly understood. This study set out to investigate the mechanism of antitumour activity in vitro and in vivo. PKl was found to be toxic against a panel of tumour cell lines with varying levels of cathepsin B activity. However, cytotoxicity could always be attributed to the 0.02% free doxorubicin present in the polymer preparation. Following confirmation of PKl internalisation by all cell lines with fluorescence microscopy, the ability of PKl to induce DNA damage at the single cell level with the Comet assay was investigated. Induction of DNA damage was observed in the B16F10 murine melanoma model, but not in vitro. Furthermore, DNA damage to bone marrow cells paralleled that of PKl and the parent drug, doxorubicin observed in tumour cells. In light of our results, we propose that the mechanism for the antitumour activity of PKl may be due cleavage of the conjugate by cathepsin B at the tumour periphery and not within lysosomes as initially proposed. However, further experiments are needed to confirm our hypothesis.
Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces Beyond 2001

A package for ice cream cones including a pair of generally rectangular complementary panels made of an expanded foam plastic material with each panel having a pocket which corresponds in shape to the shape of a number of nested ice cream cones. The panels completely enclose the cones in the pockets when oriented in face to face relation, and the assembled cones and panels fit in a box which is smaller in thickness than the assembly so as to preload the cone package to prevent movement of the cones in the box.
Men in Groups

Abstract The preponderance of the patients in United States substance abuse treatment are men while the majority of the caregivers are women. The current system of treating men is flawed by the approach typically taken. This paper presents an approach to treating male substance abusers in group. Its hypothesis is that men do better in treatment in gender-specific groups, where a variety of methodologies are employed. It also proposes that, given the majority of female counselors in the field, gender-sensitive training is appropriate for all counselors, especially female therapists.
Incidência e fatores de risco de lesões osteomioarticulares em corredores: um estudo de coorte prospectivo

The practice of middle- and long-distance running has become worldwide popular. Despite the number of benefits associated with this sport, increased incidence of lower limb injury has been observed. The injury mechanisms related to running are similar to those seen in different sports and can be a result of two or more factors. The aims of this study were: 1) to report prospectively the incidence of injuries in non professional runners after a 12-month follow-up; and 2) to determine the main intrinsic and extrinsic factors related to the observed injuries. Eighteen runners (13 males and five females) took part in this study. They were submitted to clinical examination, nutritional and biochemical assessments, VO2max test, bone mineral density and body composition evaluation, and foot radiography at baseline and after one year. The subjects who had injury were compared to those non-injured taken into account the several variables assessed. Fifth percent of the sample presented at least one lower limb injury. The factors significantly associated with the injuries were reduced knee extension and plantar flexion range of motion, lower resting heart rate, and high training speed. The high incidence of injuries observed in this study was associated with intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The clinical assessment should focus on these parameters in order to prevent injuries.
Na era das máquinas, o emprego é de quem? : Estimação da probabilidade de automação de ocupações no Brasil

1 INTRODUÇÃO . 7 2 FUNDAMENTAÇÃO TEÓRICA . 9 3 METODOLOGIA . 14 4 RESULTADOS . 22 5 CONCLUSÃO E RECOMENDAÇÕES . 27 REFERÊNCIAS . 29 BIBLIOGRAFIA COMPLEMENTAR . 32
AMOUNT OF SPAM IN GLOBAL FREE E-MAIL SERVICES - SIMULATION

Usage of global free e-mail services instead of institutional or company’s e-mail addresses can more often cause security drawbacks. Regarding their weaknesses it can be assumed that there will be more unwanted e-mails when using those addresses. In order to receive unwanted e-mail and compare the amount that user receives at different e-mail addresses the authors simulated part of e-mail usage, the one when user registers on different Internet services. Results have shown that the users of the global free e-mail services on average receive significantly more unwanted e-mail compared to the users that use institutional or company’s e-mail address. There was also significant difference found among free global e-mail services. Simulation has also shown increasing trend in amount of unwanted e-mail received per month. Regarding these results and previous studies the authors’ advice is to prefer institutional or company’s e-mail address over free global e-mail services for Internet communication, especially when it is used for professional e-mail communication.
Relaxed Control Design of Discrete-Time Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Systems: An Event-Triggered Real-Time Scheduling Approach

This paper is focused on the issue of scheduling stabilization of Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy control systems by the aid of digging down much deeper of implicit information in the underlying systems. An event-triggered real-time scheduler that decides which control mode should be executed at any given instant is constructed by periodically evaluating the joint-distribution-type of multi-instant normalized fuzzy weighting functions at every sampled instant. Profiting from the proposed event-triggered scheduling policy, the proper control mode for the current instant is updated in order to adapt time-varying situations once if the underlying joint-distribution-type changes, and thus previous implementations of control tasks with an unchanged control mode can be further relaxed in this paper. The effectiveness of our approach is verified by several simulation examples in the end.