Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Antenatal Azithromycin and Monthly Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine on Child Mortality, Morbidity, Growth, and Development-Executive Summary

Background Public health interventions targeting childhood growth failure and undernutrition have been largely based on the promotion of a healthy diet and effective infection control in early childhood. Recently there has been increased attention to the fetal period and its critical importance for subsequent health. However, there is a relative paucity of empirical data on the impact of pregnancy interventions on child health beyond immediate birth outcomes.
Epidemiologic Survey of Onychomycosis in Koreans: Multicenter Study

Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Dongguk University, Busan National University of Medicine, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Kwandong University College of Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Konkuk University College of Medicine, Chonnam National University College of Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Korea
The Effect Of Physician Ownership On Quality Of Care For Outpatient Procedures

THE EFFECT OF PHYSICIAN OWNERSHIP ON QUALITY OF CARE FOR OUTPATIENT PROCEDURES By Xinliang Liu, Ph.D., M.B. B.S., M.S. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctoral of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University, 2012 Director: Gloria J. Bazzoli, Ph.D. Bon Secours Professor, Department of Health Administration Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) play an important role in providing surgical and diagnostic services in an outpatient setting. They can be owned by physicians who staff them. Previous studies focused on patient “cherry picking” and over-utilization of services due to physician ownership. Few studies examined the relationship between physician ownership and quality of care. Using a retrospective cohort of patients who underwent colonoscopy, this study examined the effect of physician ownership of ASCs on the occurrence of adverse events after outpatient colonoscopy. Agency theory is used to as a conceptual framework. Depending on the extent to which consumers are able to assess quality of care differences across health care settings, physician ownership can function as a mechanism to improve quality or as a deterrent to quality. Four adverse event measures are used in this study: same day ED visit or hospitalization, 30-day serious gastrointestinal events resulting in ED visit or hospitalization, 30-day other gastrointestinal events resulting in ED visit or hospitalization, and 30-day non-gastrointestinal events resulting in ED visit or hospitalization. Physician ownership status is determined based on a court decision in California in 2007. Data sources include the State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD), State Inpatient Databases (SID), Emergency Department Databases (SEDD), State Utilization Data Files, the Area Resource File (ARF), and HMO/PPO data from Health Leaders. After controlling for confounding factors, the study found that colonoscopy patients treated at a physician-owned ASC had similar odds of experiencing same day ED visit or hospitalization and 30-day non-gastrointestinal events resulting in ED visit or hospitalization as those treated in a hospital-based outpatient facility. But the former had significantly higher odds of experiencing 30-day serious gastrointestinal events and 30-day other gastrointestinal events resulting in ED visit or hospitalization. The results are robust to changes in propensity score adjustment approach and to the inclusion of a lagged quality indicator. They suggest that physician ownership of ASCs was not associated with better quality of care for colonoscopy patients. As more complex procedures are shifted from hospital-based outpatient facilities to ASCs, expanded efforts to monitor and report quality of care will be worthwhile.
Pair Programming : Collocated Vs . Distributed

Collocation is almost always a preferred alternative compared to Distributed. It makes sense that collocated team members are more likely to perform better than distributed team members. However, in today’s real world the distributed nature is either the norm or quickly becoming the norm. That is not to say that collocation no longer exists, but rather it is becoming less and less pronounced. Pair programming is a technique that can be performed in a collocated or distributed fashion. Not all software development projects use this practice. The projects that do undertake this programming method typically perform collocated or distributed pair programming, but very rarely use both. This paper examines a project where both types of pair programming were used. At the completion of the project, all developers were asked to complete a survey. The results of the survey allowed us to compare various attributes of collocated and distributed pair programming. What may be surprising is that in some cases the differences between the two are minimal. Keywords—Agile; scrum; pair programming; extreme programming
ImmuneResponses toHCVandOtherHepatitisViruses

Five human hepatitis viruses cause most of the acute and chronic liver disease worldwide. Over the past 25 years, hepatitis C virus (HCV) in particular has received much interest because of its ability to persist in most immunocompetent adults and because of the lack of a protective vaccine. Herewe examine innate and adaptive immune responses to HCV infection. Although HCV activates an innate immune response, it employs an elaborate set of mechanisms to evade interferon (IFN)-based antiviral immunity. By comparing innate and adaptive immune responses to HCVwith those to hepatitis A and B viruses, we suggest that prolonged innate immune activation by HCV impairs the development of successful adaptive immune responses. Comparative immunology provides insights into the maintenance of immune protection. We conclude by discussing prospects for an HCV vaccine and future research needs for the hepatitis viruses.
MICROSTRUCTURE AND DURABILITY OF FLY ASH CEMENT 10 GROUTS FOR MICROPILES 11

18 This paper presents a study on the possibility of using fly ash cement as grouts for micropiles. 19 This type of special geotechnical work is commonly used for many applications. Generally, 20 micropiles grouts are prepared using Portland cement, although the standards do not restrict 21 the cement type to use, as long as they achieve a strength requirement. In this research, fly 22 ash cement grouts made with w:c ratios 0.40, 0.45, 0.50 and 0.55 were studied from 2 up to 23 90 days of age. Their microstructure was characterized using the non-destructive impedance 24 spectroscopy technique, electrical resistivity, and mercury intrusion porosimetry. Their 25
Acupuncture Post-Stroke Swallowing Recovery

Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine researchers combined acupuncture with general health care and rehabilitation exercises into an integrated treatment protocol. [1] They conclude that acupuncture is effective for the treatment of post-stroke dysphagia and that patients receiving low frequency electroacupuncture had superior patient outcomes compared with patients receiving high frequency electroacupuncture. The total effective rate in the low frequency group was 93.3%. The total effective rate in the high frequency group was 66.7%. The low frequency group outperformed the high frequency group by 26.6% (P<0.05).
Connectionist Temporal Classification for Group Activity Recognition in Videos

Sequence of group activities recognition in videos is a currently less stressed research area in computer vision. In this work, we address this issue by employing the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) model [1]. The task is given a sequence of video frames containing a group of people, predicting the sequence of activities that the group performs. We build a model consisting of VGG-19 Net [5], one layer of bi-directional Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network, and the CTC model to solve this task. To do the task, we construct a new volleyball dataset using the volleyball game videos available on YouTube1. The dataset contains 100 sequences of video frames, with one label for each sequence without time alignment. Our proposed model presents a reasonable result on the new volleyball dataset.
The Syntax of Semantic Relations in Italian Fabio Celli CLIC

The experiment reported in this paper is a feature engeneering operation that explores the syntactic structures of three different semantic relation types with tree kernels. This is done in order to find whether syntax can be a good feature to improve semantic relation separability in classification tasks. The average accuracy obtained is 63.09% .
Improving Performance and Quality-of-Service through the Task-Parallel Model

With the failure of Dennard’s law, which stated that shrinking transistors will be more power-efficient, computer hardware has today become very divergent. Initially the change only concerned the number of processor on a chip (multicores), but has today further escalated into complex heterogeneous system with non-intuitive properties – properties that can improve performance and power consumption but also strain the programmer expected to develop on them. Answering these challenges is the OpenMP task-parallel model – a programming model that simplifies writing parallel software. Our focus in the thesis has been to explore performance and quality-of-service directions of the OpenMP task-parallel model, particularly by taking architectural features into account. The first question tackled is: what capabilities does existing state of the art runtime-systems have and how do they perform? We empirically evaluated the performance of several modern task-parallel runtime-systems. Performance and power-consumption was measured through the use of benchmarks and we show that the two primary causes for bottlenecks in modern runtime-systems lies in either the task management overheads or how tasks are being distributed across processors. Next, we consider quality-of-service improvements in task-parallel runtime-systems. Striving to improve execution performance, current state of the art runtime-systems seldom take dynamic architectural features such as temperature into account when deciding how work should be distributed across the processors, which can lead to overheating. We developed and evaluated two strategies for thermal-awareness in task-parallel runtime-systems. The first improves performance when the computer system is constrained by temperature while the second strategy strives to reduce temperature while meeting soft real-time objectives. We end the thesis by focusing on performance. Here we introduce our original contribution called B LYSK – a prototype OpenMP framework created exclusively for performance research. We found that overheads in current runtime-systems can be expensive, which often lead to performance degradation. We introduce a novel way of preserving task-graphs throughout application runs: task-graphs are recorded, identified and optimized the first time an OpenMP application is executed and are later re-used in following executions, removing unnecessary overheads. Our proposed solution can nearly double the performance compared with other state of the art runtimesystems. Performance can also be improved through heterogeneity. Today, manufacturers are placing processors with different capabilities on the same chip. Because they are different, their power-consuming characteristics and performance differ. Heterogeneity adds another dimension to the multiprocessing problem: how should work be distributed across the heterogeneous processors? We evaluated the performance of existing, homogeneous scheduling algorithms and found them to be an ill-match for heterogeneous systems. We proposed a novel scheduling algorithm
coroide em pacientes com cirrose

Objetivo: Avaliar o efeito da cirrose na camada de fibras nervosas da retina e na espessura da coroide através da tomografia de coerência óptica com imagem de profundidade aprimorada. Métodos: Este estudo transversal, de único centro, foi realizado no departamento de Oftalmologia da Universidade Bulent Ecevit com a participação do departamento de medicina interna em gtastroenterologia. Os pacientes que foram tratados com o diagnóstico de cirrose (n = 75) foram examinados na clínica da oftalmologia. Foram incluídos pacientes correspondentes em idade e sexo (n = 50) que fossem saudáveis e possuíssem o critério de inclusão exigido pelo estudo. Realização de exame oftalmológico completo: acuidade visual com tabela de Snellen, a medida da pressão intraocular com tonometria de aplanação, biomicroscopia do segmento anterior e posterior, gonioscopia, medida do comprimento axial, exame de campo visual, camada de fibras nervosas da retina, macular central e medidas de espessura de coroide. Resultados: A diferença entre os valores de pressão intraocular não foram estatisticamente significativos entre os grupos cirrótico e controle (p=0,843). Entretanto, a espessura da camada de fibras nervosas da retina foi significativamente mais fina no grupo cirrótico em todas as regiões (p=0,001) e a espessura subfoveal da coroide também foi significativamente mais fina no grupo cirrótico (p=0,001). Além disso, a espessura macular central do grupo cirrótico foi significativamente mais grossa do que no grupo de controle (p=0,001). Conclusão: Por fim, as espessuras das camadas de fibras nervosas da retina e subfoveal da coroide foram significativamente mais finas nos pacientes com cirrose. Descritores: Cirrose; Camada de fibras nervosas da retina; OCT; Espessura de coroide ABSTRACT
Contribution of SLC 30 A 8 variants to the risk of type 2 diabetes in a multi-ethnic population : a case control study

Background: Several studies have shown the association of solute carrier family 30 (zinc transporter) member 8 (SLC30A8) rs13266634 with type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, the association of alternative variants and haplotypes of SLC30A8 with T2D have not been studied in different populations. The aim of this study is to assess the association of the alternative SLC30A8 variants, rs7002176 and rs1995222 as well as the most common variant, rs13266634 and haplotypes with glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies (GADA) negative diabetes in Malaysian subjects. Methods: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of SLC30A8; rs7002176, rs1995222 and rs13266634 were genotyped in 1140 T2D and 973 non-diabetic control subjects. Of these, 33 GADA positive diabetic subjects and 353 metabolic syndrome (MetS) subjects were excluded from subsequent analysis. Results: The recessive genetic model controlled for age, race, gender and BMI shows that the alternative SLC30A8 variant, rs1995222 is associated with GADA negative diabetes (OR = 1.29, P = 0.02) in Malaysian subjects. The most common variant, rs13266634 is also associated with GADA negative diabetes (OR = 1.45, P = 0.001). This association is more pronounced among Malaysian Indians (OR = 1.93, P = 0.001). Moreover, the CG haplotype and CG-CG diplotype have been equally associated with increased diabetic risk (OR = 1.67, P = 8.6 × 10). Conclusions: SLC30A8 SNPs and haplotypes are associated with GADA negative diabetes in Malaysian subjects, and this association is markedly higher among Malaysian Indian subjects.
Kinetics of Solid-State Reactive Diffusion between Co and Sn

To examine growth behavior of ¡-CoSn3 at solid-state temperatures, kinetics of reactive diffusion between Co and Sn was experimentally observed using sandwich Sn/Co/Sn diffusion couples prepared by a diffusion bonding technique. The diffusion couples were isothermally annealed in the temperature range of 433­473K for various times up to 744 h. Owing to annealing, an intermetallic layer consisting of CoSn3 was formed at the original interface in the diffusion couple. The mean thickness of the intermetallic layer increases in proportion to a power function of the annealing time. The exponent of the power function takes values of 0.67 and 0.62 at 433­453 and 473K, respectively. These values of the exponent indicate that volume diffusion predominantly controls the layer growth and interface reaction partially contributes to the rate-controlling process. [doi:10.2320/matertrans.M2014023]
Cellular CD 4 T Cell Responses to the Diphtheria-Derived Carrier Protein of Conjugated Pneumococcal Vaccine and Antibody Response to Pneumococcal Vaccination in HIV-Infected Adults

Claire Rabian, Inga Tschöpe, Philippe Lesprit, Christine Katlama, Jean-Michel Molina, Jean-Luc Meynard, Jean-François Delfraissy, Geneviève Chêne, Yves Lévy, and the ANRS 114 Pneumovac Study Group Laboratoire d’Immunologie et d’Histocompatibilité and Service des Maladies Infectieuses, St. Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, University Paris-Diderot, La Pitié Hospital, St-Antoine Hospital, and French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, Paris, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U897, Bordeaux, Service d’Immunologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Henri Mondor, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, and INSERM U955, Université Paris, Faculté de Médecine, Créteil, and Kremlin-Bicetre Hospital, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, France
Towards the realization of a transmon longitudinally coupled to a lumped element resonator

This thesis presents experimental work towards the design and measurement of a transmon longitudinally coupled to a lumped element resonator. First, the performance and characteristics of lumped element resonators with a Josephson junction array inductor were tested. Second, a circuit realization recently proposed by N.Didier et al. was experimentally examined. This realization was found not to provide the desired longitudinal coupling, but showed strong transversal coupling instead. The failure of the circuit realization could be attributed to the asymmetric shunting of the qubit Josephson junctions. Furthermore, the experiments revealed the problem of the resonator tunability which is closely related to the inductance ratio of the resonator to the qubit and raised the question of how and where the ground has to be placed in order to enable a longitudinal qubit-resonator coupling. These results have lead to a new insights for a design which is expected to exhibit the desired strong longitudinal properties.
Elliptic Yang-Mills flow theory by Rémi Janner

We lay the foundations of a Morse homology on the space of connections on a principal G-bundle over a compact manifold Y , based on a newly defined gauge-invariant functional J . While the critical points of J correspond to Yang–Mills connections on P , its L-gradient gives rise to a novel system of elliptic equations. This contrasts previous approaches to a study of the Yang–Mills functional via a parabolic gradient flow. We carry out the complete analytical details of our programe in the case of a compact two-dimensional base manifold Y . We furthermore discuss its relation to the well-developped parabolic Morse homology of Riemannian surfaces. Finally, an application of our elliptic theory is given to three-dimensional product manifolds Y = Σ× S.
Personality Based Job Analysis of Air Traffic Controller

The selection procedure of air traffic controller is very critical because specific to this job, the consequences of human errors may be very devastating. The present study identifies the personal characteristics and work styles needed to execute successfully the air traffic controller job. Personality Based Job Analysis was conducted on eighty seven controllers (N = 87), consisting of Flight Lieutenants (23%), Squadron Leaders (42.5%) and Wing Commanders (34.5%) representing different seniority and ranks. The participants were interviewed and assessed on Performance Improvement Characteristics and Work Style Rating Scale. The results revealed high ratings for the personality characteristics like Adjustment, Prudence and Ambition. In Work Style Attributes Cooperation, Self-Control, Stress Tolerance, Adaptability, Dependability, Attention to Detail and Integrity were rated high. The results of the study also showed no significant effect of seniority on perception of personality and work style attributes rating. Understanding the personality characteristics and work attributes of workers in the organization have applications at selection as well in designing training of air traffic controllers. IJASM 2012; 56(2): 21-31
Optimization of photonic nanojets generated by multilayer microcylinders with a genetic algorithm

We employ a genetic algorithm coupled with Mie theory to optimize the magnetic field intensity profile of photonic nanojets (PNJs) generated by multilayer microcylinders at visible wavelengths in free space. We first optimize five-layer microcylinders to elongate the PNJs. We show that a properly designed five-layer microcylinder structure can generate an ultra-long PNJ with a beam length ∼ 107.5 times the illumination wavelength λ0. We then optimize five-layer microcylinders to narrow the waist of PNJs. We show that a PNJ with a full-width at half maximumwaist of ∼ 0. 22λ0 can be obtained outside the surface of the optimized microcylinder. In addition, curved PNJs with subwavelength waist are also obtained. We finally optimize the five-layer structures for refractive index sensing based on the beam length of PNJs. The estimated minimum detectable refractive index variation when using this sensing method is ultra-small. Our results could potentially contribute to the development of a new generation of devices for optical nanoscopy and biophotonics, and greatly promote the practical applications of PNJs. © 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Cellular Mechanisms of Suppressive Interactions Between Somatosensory Responses In Vivo

[PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , May 1, 2007; 97 (5): 3819-3824. J Neurophysiol M. J. Higley and D. Contreras Whisker System Frequency Adaptation Modulates Spatial Integration of Sensory Responses in the Rat [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , June 1, 2007; 97 (6): 4380-4385. J Neurophysiol S. -H. Lee, P. W. Land and D. J. Simons Barrel Cortex Layerand Cell-Type-Specific Effects of Neonatal Whisker-Trimming in Adult Rat [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , April 1, 2008; 99 (4): 1616-1627. J Neurophysiol B. Scholl, X. Gao and M. Wehr Level Dependence of Contextual Modulation in Auditory Cortex
Econ om ics Delegation and Value Creation

Many scholars argue that the delegation of decision rights to independent institutions promotes trust and specific investments. We test this conjecture with variations of the trust game in which the back transfer decision is delegated to a third party. A randomly chosen third party with a fixed payment induces larger investments over time although the experimental design rules out reputation building. Changes in the third party’s selection procedure eliminate this benefit. If the third party gets a reward for the appointment, delegation actually destroys trust. Investors (unwarrantedly) fear a diffusion of responsibility and lower back transfers in this case.