Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of community occupational therapy on quality of life, mood, and health status in dementia patients and their caregivers: a randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND Cure of dementia is not possible, but quality of life of patients and caregivers can be improved. Our aim is to investigate effects of community occupational therapy on dementia patients' and caregivers' quality of life, mood, and health status and caregivers' sense of control over life. METHODS Community-dwelling patients aged 65 years or older, with mild-to-moderate dementia, and their informal caregivers (n = 135 couples of patients with their caregivers) were randomly assigned to 10 sessions of occupational therapy over 5 weeks or no intervention. Cognitive and behavioral interventions were used to train patients in the use of aids to compensate for cognitive decline and caregivers in coping behaviors and supervision. Outcomes, measured at baseline, 6 weeks, and 12 weeks, were patients' and caregivers' quality of life (Dementia Quality of Life Instrument, Dqol), patients' mood (Cornell Scale for Depression, CSD), caregivers' mood (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, CES-D), patients' and caregivers' health status (General Health Questionnaire, GHQ-12), and caregivers' sense of control over life (Mastery Scale). RESULTS Improvement on patients' Dqol overall (0.8; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.6-.1, effect size 1.3) and caregivers' Dqol overall (0.7; 95% CI, 0.5-.9, effect size 1.2) was significantly better in the intervention group as compared to controls. Scores on other outcome measures also improved significantly. This improvement was still significant at 12 weeks. CONCLUSION Community occupational therapy should be advocated both for dementia patients and their caregivers, because it improves their mood, quality of life, and health status and caregivers' sense of control over life. Effects were still present at follow-up.
Distributed Rate Allocation in P2P Streaming

In peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming, each peer contributes its upload bandwidth to redistributing the data stream to its downstream peers. How to optimally utilize the upload bandwidth of each peer is an important issue. In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm to optimize the link rate allocation in P2P streaming. We use dual decomposition to separate the optimization problem into multiple sub-problems, which are solved at each individual peer respectively. Through simulations, we demonstrate that the proposed rate allocation scheme can quickly converge, and achieve a higher throughput compared to proportional or equal allocation scheme.
Ridge-Based DPA: Improvement of Differential Power Analysis For Nanoscale Chips

Differential power analysis (DPA), as a very practical type of side-channel attacks, has been widely studied and used for the security analysis of cryptographic implementations. However, as the development of the chip industry leads to smaller technologies, the leakage of cryptographic implementations in nanoscale devices tends to be nonlinear (i.e., leakages of intermediate bits are no longer independent) and unpredictable. These phenomena make some existing side-channel attacks not perfectly suitable, i.e., decreasing their performance and making some common used prior power models (e.g., Hamming weight) to be much less respected in practice. To solve the above issues, we introduce the regularization process from statistical learning to the area of side-channel attack and propose the ridge-based DPA. We also apply the cross-validation technique to search for the most suitable value of the parameter for our new attack methods. In addition, we present theoretical analyses to deeply investigate the properties of ridge-based DPA for nonlinear leakages. We evaluate the performance of ridge-based DPA in both simulation-based and practical experiments, comparing to the state-to-the-art DPAs. The results confirm the theoretical analysis. Further, our experiments show the robustness of ridge-based DPA to cope with the difference between the leakages of profiling and exploitation power traces. Therefore, by showing a good adaptability to the leakage of the nanoscale chips, the ridge-based DPA is a good alternative to the state-to-the-art ones.
Crime and regional economic growth in Mexico: A spatial perspective

The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of crime on regional economic growth in Mexico. We estimate a growth model using a spatial panel data model and test for the presence and type of spatial interaction, as proposed by Elhorst. Our results suggest that a two-way spatial Durbin model best fits the data, crime exerts a negative total effect on economic growth across Mexican states, particularly homicides and robbery, and significant spillover effects seem to reinforce the negative impact on regional growth.
Effects of adenosine on autonomic control of heart rate in man.

Six healthy subjects (two female) aged 23-40 years participated in a double-blind randomized cross-over study to investigate autonomic mechanisms involved in the chronotropic effect of adenosine in conscious man. Adenosine was infused in increasing doses following saline, propranolol (0.2 mg kg-1 body weight) or propranolol (0.2 mg kg-1 plus atropine (0.04 mg kg-1). Heart rate and blood pressure were measured supine, on standing and during a Valsalva manoeuvre. Plasma catecholamines were measured in the supine and standing positions. Following saline, adenosine (up to 120 micrograms kg-1 min-1) caused a dose-related increase in heart rate (mean +/- SD maximum increase 18 +/- 8 bpm; P less than 0.01). The change in heart rate with adenosine after propranolol (12 +/- 9 bpm; P less than 0.05) did not differ significantly from the corresponding change following saline but was abolished by propranolol plus atropine, which, in turn, was associated with a mean maximum decrease in heart rate of 5 +/- 3 bpm (P less than 0.01). The increase in heart rate during the initial 30 s on standing was augmented with adenosine compared with saline (16 +/- 5 bpm; P less than 0.01). A significant increase in plasma noradrenaline on standing was also found with adenosine compared with saline (6.37 +/- 2.86 vs. 4.77 +/- 1.79 nmol 1(-1); P less than 0.05). The heart rate response to the Valsalva manoeuvre was not affected by adenosine. These results suggest that the positive chronotropic effect of infused adenosine in conscious man may in part be caused by an inhibition of cardiac vagal tone. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Performance comparison of several published tissue near-infrared spectroscopy algorithms.

We have collected multiwavelength near-infrared (NIR) attenuation spectra on human forearm muscle, the adult rat head, and newborn piglet head to compare the changes in chromophore concentration derived from these data using published algorithms from four groups. We find differences between the results from the algorithms on each data set, particularly in their estimation of cytochrome oxidase (cyt-aa3) redox changes. We also find some differences when applying the same algorithm to the three data sets, suggesting possible difficulties in transferring algorithms between different physiological systems (e.g., Kurth, C. D., Steven, J. M., Benaron, D., and Chance, B. (1993) J. Clin. Monit. 9, 163-170). We have also compared the algorithms using simulated data generated using measured hemoglobin absorption spectra and a diffusion model for light transport in tissue. We find that while the algorithms from three groups are in broad agreement, that published by Piantadosi (Piantadosi, C. A. (1993) Methods Toxicol. 2, 107-126) produces significantly different results for cyt-aa3 and HbO2. Either the hemoglobin spectra used to produce the simulated data are inaccurate or the modeling is incorrect, or this algorithm is erroneous.
Moving Down: Women's Part-Time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991-2001

The UK`s Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the `hidden brain drain` when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self-reporting. We give an objective and quantitative analysis of the nature of occupational change as women make the transition between full-time and part-time work. We construct an occupational classification which supports a ranking of occupations based on the average level of qualification of those employed there on a full-time basis. Using the NESPD and the BHPS for the period 1991-2001 we show that perhaps one-quarter of women moving from full- to part-time work move to an occupation at a lower level of qualification. Over 20 percent of professional women downgrade, half of them moving to low-skill jobs; two-thirds of nurses leaving nursing become care assistants; women from managerial positions are particularly badly affected. Women remaining with their current employer are much less vulnerable to downgrading, and the availability of part-time opportunities within the occupation is far more important than the presence of a pre-school child in determining whether a woman moves to a lower-level occupation. These findings indicate a loss of economic efficiency through the underutilisation of the skills of many of the women who work part-time.
Association of ankylosing spondylitis with HLA-B*1403 in a West African population.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the contribution of HLA class I alleles in the susceptibility to primary ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in West African patients living in Togo. METHODS A large epidemiologic analysis of 9,065 West African rheumatology patients living in Togo was performed in order to identify those who had AS. Eight Togolese patients with AS were identified. HLA was typed by polymerase chain reaction using sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes. DNA typing was also performed on a control population of 85 healthy subjects matched for ethnic background. RESULTS A significant association between AS and B*14 was identified. This allele was found in 62.5% of the AS patients (odds ratio 69), but was carried by only 2% of the healthy controls. Analysis for B14 subtypes showed that B*1403 was the predominant allele in AS patients (odds ratio 171), and that this allele was absent in healthy controls. B27 was virtually absent, being observed in only 1 AS patient (B*2705). CONCLUSION HLA-B*1403 shows the B27 "supertype" motif and may exert an effect on AS susceptibility according to the arthritogenic peptide model. The association of B*1403 with AS has not previously been reported in either population.
The Effect of Fiber Orientation on Volume Measurement using Conductance Catheter Techniques

Estimation of parallel conductance using the impedance electrode technique is usually done assuming isotropic conditions. This may not be the best solution since the myocardium is an anisotropic material. This paper exposes the effect of fiber orientation for volume measurement using a conductor model with asymmetrical source electrodes. Simulation results show calculated volumes between surrounding materials with and without myocardial fiber orientation included in the model. We plan to extend these study results to the real heart for developing conductance catheter techniques for use in blood volume measurements in the right ventricle
Analysis and Design of High-Efficiency Parallel-Circuit Class-E/F Power Amplifier

In this paper, a single-ended parallel-circuit (PC) class-E/F power amplifier (PA) is proposed. For a particular case of the PC class-E/F<sub>3</sub> mode with 50% duty cycle, its analytical derivation of the idealized waveforms, optimum values of the load network components, and significant figure-of-merit of PA is elaborated and verified. The ideal optimum voltage and current waveforms do not overlap simultaneously, which presents a theoretical drain efficiency of 100%. In addition, compared with other switch-mode PAs, the proposed structure successfully improves the performance in the peak drain voltage (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_{\mathrm {max}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>), maximum operating frequency (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{\mathrm {max}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>), and power output capability (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$c_{p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>). Hence, it provides a good choice for high-efficiency mobile/wireless communication systems in the future. The analysis is validated by simulation and design of a test board. The measurement result shows the output power of 40.4 dBm, drain efficiency of 83.9%, power-added efficiency of 77.2%, and power gain of 10.4 dB at an operating frequency of 2.6 GHz.
Delaying sexual debut amongst out-of-school youth in rural southwest Uganda

This paper focuses on ‘sexual debut’ among out-of-school youth in Masaka District, Uganda, factors influencing its timing and assistance young people feel they need to delay sexual initiation. Data were drawn from a sexual health needs assessment using applied anthropological techniques with young people aged 13–19 years. Parents, guardians and community leaders were also consulted. All participants felt that young people begin their sexual lives too early. Young men feel under pressure from friends and older men to prove their masculinity. Most delay further activity after debut and want assistance to resist the pressure. Young women's debut after physical maturation prompts ‘pestering’ for sex from boys and men who offer gifts. After debut, young women remain sexually active but believe younger women need assistance to resist pressure. Programmes are needed to help young people achieve these goals. Structurally, the community needs to develop means of preventing men from pestering young women for sex and of redeveloping both the social role and pathway to marriage for young women who are marrying later than is traditional.
Structure of Elementary and Junior High School Teachers' Consciousness Regarding Special Needs Education in Regular Classrooms

― ― The present study examined elementary and junior high school homeroom teachers’ consciousness of special needs education in regular classrooms, as well as factors that may in uence the structure of their consciousness. Elementary and junior high school teachers ( N ＝ 615) completed a questionnaire. Factor analysis of the questionnaire data was used to clarify the structure of the teachers’ consciousness regarding special needs education and to identify in uential variables. The following 3 factors were extracted: “understanding and ability to provide special needs education”, “evaluation of interest in special needs education and teaching sta ’s need to learn”, and “concerns about handling guardians and interven-tions in regular classrooms”. The extent of special needs education experience, acquisition of a license or course credits at a university, and experience as a regular class homeroom teacher for young students requiring special educational support were found to be have a positive in uence on “understanding and ability to provide special needs education” and “evaluation of interest in special needs education and teaching sta ’s need to learn”. These ndings suggest that the extent of the teachers’ training may have produced the observed di erences in “concerns about handling guardians and interven-tions in regular classrooms”.
Allograft Maturation After Reconstruction of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Is Dependent on Graft Parameters in the Sagittal Plane

Background: Allograft healing (ligamentization) after reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is dependent on multiple factors, including tissue processing, host biologic environment, and biomechanical stressors. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to assess graft maturation after ACL reconstruction. Hypothesis: A significant difference will exist in the MRI analysis between 2 distinct allograft constructs. Specifically, the MRI signal-to-noise quotient (SNQ) value will be smaller in quadrupled hamstring tendon (HT) allografts compared with doubled tibialis anterior (TA) allografts due to the difference in graft geometry (surface area–to-volume ratio). Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2. Methods: Prospectively collected data from a subset of patients who participated in a randomized controlled trial at a single center from July 2010 to April 2012 were reviewed. Patients underwent ACL reconstruction using either HT or TA allografts. Six months postoperatively, 32 patients underwent noncontrast MRI to assess ligamentization. The SNQ was calculated for the allograft using sagittal noncontrast T2-weighted MRI as follows: SNQ = (S graft − S qaudriceps )/S backgroud . Graft properties including sagittal and coronal angle as well as tibial and femoral tunnel location were measured. All participants completed validated patient-reported outcome measures preoperatively and at 2 years postoperatively. Results: The mean MRI SNQ for the HT and TA allografts was 2.56 ± 2.41 and 3.15 ± 3.38, respectively (P = .57). For the entire group, there was a significant correlation between MRI SNQ and both sagittal graft angle (P = .02) and sagittal tibial tunnel position (P < .001). We did not find a significant correlation between the tibial tunnel location in the coronal plane, coronal graft angle, or location of the femoral tunnel and the MRI SNQ. Conclusion: Allograft ligamentization 6 months postoperatively, as assessed by MRI, is dependent on position of the tibial tunnel in the sagittal plane as well as sagittal graft orientation. We did not detect a difference in graft maturation at 6 months between the tibialis anterior and hamstring tendon allografts. This is the only study to our knowledge that directly compares quadrupled HT allografts and doubled TA allografts using postoperative MRI.
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School: A Community of Leaders.

Teachers can take effective schoolwide leadership roles if the principal encourages each teacher to take responsibility for an aspect of school life that the individual teacher cares strongly aboat. Such opportunities to engage in school leadership are attractive for teachers because (1) they offer possibilities for improving teaching conditions: (2) they replace the solitary authority of the principal with a collective authority; (3) they provide a constructive format in which the school's adults can interact and overcome their daily classroom isolation; (4) they help transform schools into learning contexts for adults as well aS for children; and (5) they make teachers feel and become more important and professional in the eyes of students, other teachers, parents, administrators, and themselves. To encourage teachers to take leadership roles, principals should (1) make it clear that they want to see a community of leaders develop;. (2) relinquish some power; (3) support the teachers to whom responsibility has been delegated; (4) involve teachers in decision making; (5) give responsibility not to teachers already proven responsible, but to teachers interested in the issues concerned; (6) accept a share of the responsibility for failures while allowing the teacher credit for successes; (7) admit their needs for help; and (8) seek ways to enhance their own self-confidence. Reviewing the experiences of small, democratically-organized schools around the country can provide insight into how communities of leadership can be developed. (PGD) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** rift CV U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational FltsearCh and Improvement EDUCATIONAL-RESOURCE-3 INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) roci XThis_ document _has -been reproduced _as received from the person or organization originating it. CD Minot changes have been made to improve reproduction quahty. Points of view or opinions stated in this docu . ment do not necessarily represent official OE RI position or policy "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERjL HAS BEEN GRA ED BY
Localization and Subsurface Position Error Estimation of Gliders Using Broadband Acoustic Signals at Long Range

Broadband acoustic source transmissions recorded on Seagliders at ranges up to 700 km are used to estimate subsurface glider position. Because the sources transmitted at 9-min intervals the glider moved appreciably between source receptions. Source-glider ranges estimated from acoustic arrivals were combined using least squares analysis to estimate glider position and velocity during each reception period. The analysis was applied to 387 sets of source transmissions using three different flight models of glider subsurface motion for initial position input values. The offsets between the position estimated from the flight models and the acoustically derived position resulting from the inversions were 600-900-m root mean square (rms) depending upon the model and input parameters. The offsets were tripled if the positions from the flight models were not corrected for a dive-averaged current (DAC). Estimates of a posteriori errors ranged from 78-105-m rms and from 9.1-11.6-cm/s rms for glider position and velocity, respectively. Data residuals were on the order of 50-m rms, a dramatic reduction from 178-m rms, which was documented for the case neglecting the motion of the glider between subsequent source transmissions (Van Uffelen , J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 134, pp. 3260-3271, 2013). Overall horizontal glider speed was estimated to be approximately 21-cm/s rms.
Allelic loss of the active X chromosome during bladder carcinogenesis.

CONTEXT Previous studies have shown that loss of the X chromosome is involved in the carcinogenesis of certain human malignancies. OBJECTIVE To determine whether X-linked allelic losses occur during bladder tumorigenesis and whether such losses involve the active or the inactive X chromosome. DESIGN We analyzed the deletion status of the X-linked human androgen receptor gene locus in 6 female patients who underwent radical cystectomies for muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Four patients had coexisting urothelial carcinoma in situ. Analysis for inactivation of the X chromosome was carried out in parallel. RESULTS Three cases were informative. Invasive tumor samples showed loss of heterozygosity involving the active allele at the androgen receptor locus in all 3 positive cases, whereas carcinoma in situ showed nonrandom X chromosome inactivation but not allelic deletion. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that allelic loss of the activated X chromosome is involved in bladder carcinogenesis and cancer progression.