Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Meniscal Repair in Pediatric Populations: A Systematic Review of Outcomes

Background: Loss of meniscal tissue in the pediatric population can have long-term consequences on joint health, highlighting the importance of meniscal preservation in this group. Purpose: To systematically review reported knee outcome measures and complication rates after repair of meniscal tears in children and adolescents. Study Design: Systematic review; Level of evidence, 4. Methods: A review of the literature regarding the existing evidence for pediatric meniscal tear outcomes was performed through use of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed (1980-present), and MEDLINE (1980-present). Included were articles in English that reported the outcomes of meniscal tears in the pediatric population (<18 years old) with a follow-up of more than 12 months. Clinical outcome scores were reviewed. Results: A total of 1003 total studies were initially retrieved, with 8 meeting the inclusion criteria. The review included 287 patients (165 male, 122 female), mean age 15.1 years (range, 4-18 years), with 301 meniscal tears (reported: 134 medial, 127 lateral, and 32 both medial and lateral, 8 location unspecified). Concomitant anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction was performed in 52% (158/301) of meniscal repairs. The average reported postoperative Lysholm scores ranged from 85.4 to 96.3, and the average reported postoperative Tegner activity scores ranged from 6.2 to 8. Conclusion: Arthroscopic repair of a meniscal tear in the pediatric and adolescent population is an effective treatment option that has a low failure rate, enhances postoperative clinical outcomes, and preserves meniscal tissues.
The CSTR entry to the 2018 Blizzard Challenge

Similar to 2016 and 2017 Blizzard Challenge, the task for this year is to train on expressively-read children’s story-books, and to synthesise speech in the same domain. This give us an opportunity to investigate the effectiveness of several techniques we have developed when applied to expressive and prosodically-varied audiobook data. This paper describes the text-to-speech system entered by The Centre for Speech Technology Research into the 2018 Blizzard Challenge. The system is a hybrid synthesis system where a halfphone unit selection synthesiser is driven by the output of a neural network based acoustic and duration model. We adopt the same neural network based models used in our last year entry with a different unit selection component. We discuss the performance of our system by reporting the results from formal listening tests provided by the challenge.
Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapeutic Technique

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have penetrated various contexts, including clinics that provide face-to-face psychotherapy services. From this perspective, the use of these resources impacts on technical concepts of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Therefore, the aim of this study was to understand how psychodynamic psychotherapists perceive the impacts of ICTs on the face-to-face psychoanalytic technique. A qualitative and exploratory study was carried out with 11 psychologists, specialized in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. They responded to a semi-structured interview and completed a sociodemographic data sheet. The data were analyzed through thematic analysis. The results evidenced impacts related to the therapeutic alliance, neutrality, psychotherapeutic setting, and transference, indicating that the use may provide different comprehensions of the therapeutic relationship and the psychic functioning of the patient. The study contributes as an aid for professionals to manage ICTs in psychotherapy and encourages refl ection on how best to combine technology with face-to-face clinical practice. It is important to investigate the experiences of psychotherapists and their academic training to broaden the discussions on the subject.
Monogamy of entanglement without inequalities

We provide a fine-grained definition for monogamous measure of entanglement that does not invoke any particular monogamy relation. Our definition is given in terms an equality, as oppose to inequality, that we call the "disentangling condition". We relate our definition to the more traditional one, by showing that it generates standard monogamy relations. We then show that all quantum Markov states satisfy the disentangling condition for any entanglement monotone. In addition, we demonstrate that entanglement monotones that are given in terms of a convex roof extension are monogamous if they are monogamous on pure states, and show that for any quantum state that satisfies the disentangling condition, its entanglement of formation equals the entanglement of assistance. We characterize all bipartite mixed states with this property, and use it to show that the G-concurrence is monogamous. In the case of two qubits, we show that the equality between entanglement of formation and assistance holds if and only if the state is a rank 2 bipartite state that can be expressed as the marginal of a pure 3-qubit state in the W class.
Systematic Distortions in Musicians’ Reproduction of Cyclic Three-Interval Rhythms

In a classic study, Fraisse (1956) demonstrated that sequences of four sounds defining three different interval durations exhibit characteristic distortions in reproduction: The two more similar intervals tend to be assimilated to each other, resulting in a rhythm containing just two interval durations. The present study examined whether highly trained musicians (including percussionists) are able to perform such rhythms accurately in a synchronization-continuation tapping paradigm. Eleven rhythms, a subset of those used by Fraisse, were presented cyclically at his original tempo and also at a slower tempo. The musicians produced significant rhythm distortions, though they were smaller than those observed by Fraisse and not always assimilative. They were relatively larger at the fast than at the slow tempo and occurred in both synchronization and continuation. In contrast to Fraisse’s data, the most variably reproduced target rhythm was the one in which the two longer intervals were identical. The pattern of distortions suggested attraction towards ideal rhythms in which all three interval durations are different, representing metrical categories with nominally simple interval ratios (some permutation of 1:2:3) that were probably activated by the cyclic presentation of the rhythms. However, these attractors themselves seemed to be somewhat distorted, perhaps reflecting the simultaneous presence of a nonmetrical attractor that differentiated two interval categories regardless of ratio, as observed by Fraisse.
MTT Assay of Psidium cattleianum

The point of this review was to assess the ethanolic concentrate of Psidium cattleianum biocompatibility by basic and utilitarian cell reasonability support. Cell practicality was broke down after 1, 3, 6, 10 and 24 hours of hatching by Exclusion Method with trypan blue and MTT measure, utilizing human mononuclear cells [PBMC] and human periodontal tendon [PDL] cells in culture. Positive control utilized was RPMI cell culture medium and negative control was ethanol 80%. The got information were subjected to measurable examination at a criticalness level of 5%. By trypan blue examine, ethanolic remove displayed a homogeneous execution of PBMC from the 1 h, with normal reasonability in the vicinity of 30 and half (p>0.05). By MTT examine, the outcomes demonstrated the adequacy of the ethanolic concentrate of Psidium cattleianum in keeping up the utilitarian reasonability of the periodontal tendon cells to 10 h (p>0.05), displaying values more noteworthy than the RPMI control. In both techniques, it can be watched that the concentrate properties can kill the cytotoxic impact of its diluent ethanol 80%, which indicated normal practicality almost zero (p<0.05). The biocompatibility by auxiliary and useful cell feasibility support was viewed as satisfactory to ethanolic concentrate of Psidium cattleianum and further reviews ought to be performed to demonstrate its utilization as another option to water system arrangement generally utilized as a part of regular practice.
Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research: The Year (2016) in Review

Practitioners need access to and the ability to openly discuss advanced in practice and concepts as they apply to the practice of cardiovascular and pulmonary physical therapy (PT). Lack of accessibility to research literature, limited personal time, or insufficient knowledge to adequately review the breadth of literature published each year can hinder this process. This article provides an overview of cardiovascular and pulmonary research published in 2016 that the authors believe most important and relevant or speak to the volume or trend of current topics in the clinical practice of cardiovascular and pulmonary PT. Several key sections are used to describe selected articles and are followed by brief overview of clinical relevance of this material presented at the 2017 Combined Sections Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
ANALISIS SERIAL ANIMASI UPIN DAN IPIN PADA PERKEMBANGAN AFEKTIF SISWA KELAS III

Abstrak : Analisis Serial Animasi Upin Dan Ipin Pada Perkembangan Afektif Siswa Kelas III. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif dan jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian analisis isi. Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik triangulasi dan angket. Hasil dari penelitian ini untuk kelas III B pada ranah nilai mendapatkan kriteria “Cukup Baik”, ranah sikap dan moral mendapatkan kriteria “Baik”. Hasil angket kelas III A pada ranah nilai dan sikap mendapatkan kriteria “Sangat Baik”, dan ranah moral mendapatkan kriteria “Baik”. Kelas III B untuk ranah nilai dan sikap mendapatkan kriteria “Sangat Baik” dan ranah moral mendapatkan kriteria “Baik”. Pada hasil observasi dan wawancara didapatkan hasil siswa sering menirukan kata-kata, dialeg, dan gaya bahasa Upin dan Ipin.Kata Kunci : Analisis Isi, Animasi Upin dan Ipin, Perkembangan Afektif
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Electrode and Electrolyte Materials for Li-Ion Batteries

Lithium transition-metal (TM) phosphates LiFexMn1-xPO4 with olivine-type structure are considered one of the most promising next generation lithium ion battery cathodes. While these crystals possess very attractive properties for battery applications, it is of interest to further understand the characteristic properties with respect to the compositional parameter x. Along these lines, NMR spectroscopy was used to gain insight into the magnetic structure of LiFexMn1xPO4 (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.6, 0.75, 1) single crystals. By measurement of the Li and P NMR frequencies with crystal orientation, i.e. ν = Ι·σ·B0, where B0 is the applied field and Ι is the nuclear spin, the magnitudes of the components of the interaction tensors giving rise to the lithium and phosphorus shifts can be determined (σ = hyperfine, susceptibility, etc.). Generally, the anisotropic frequency shift range for Li is roughly ±1000ppm (centered at 0ppm) depending on crystal orientation relative to the external magnetic field. P shifts (measured only for x = 0 and 1) show an anisotropy of about ±2000ppm; however, in contrast with Li shifts, the P shift range is centered at about +8000ppm and +3500ppm from the H3PO4 reference for x = 0 and 1 respectively. The shielding tensors vary greatly for Li sites and P sites in both magnitude and direction. Furthermore, there are large differences in the paramagnetic shifts depending on the TM [2, 57]. The results are interpreted along the lines of a through-space paramagnetic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Electrode and Electrolyte Materials for Li-Ion Batteries 78 susceptibilty shift for Li (more-or-less diagonal along the lattice vectors) and highly directional contact interactions for P (not diagonal along the lattice vectors). 5.
The Samsung and University of Edinburgh’s submission to IWSLT17

This paper describes the joint submission of Samsung Research and Development, Warsaw, Poland and the University of Edinburgh team to the IWSLT MT task for TED talks. We took part in two translation directions, en-de and de-en. We also participated in the en-de and de-en lectures SLT task. The models have been trained with an attentional encoder-decoder model using the BiDeep model in Nematus. We filtered the training data to reduce the problem of noisy data, and we use back-translated monolingual data for domain-adaptation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the different techniques that we applied via ablation studies. Our submission system outperforms our baseline, and last year’s University of Edinburgh submission to IWSLT, by more than 5 BLEU.
Tree ring effects and ice core acidities clarify the volcanic record of the first millennium

Abstract. In 2012 Plummer et al., in presenting the volcanic chronology of the Antarctic Law Dome ice core, chose to list connections to acid layers in other ice cores and also possible chronological coincidences between ice acid dates and the precise dates of frost damage, and/or reduced growth in North American bristlecone pines. We disagree with the chronological links indicated by Plummer et al. for the period before AD 700, and in this paper we show that a case can be made that better linkages between ice acid and tree ring effects occur for this period if the ice chronologies are systematically moved forward by around 7 years, consistent with a hypothesis published by Baillie in 2008. In the paper we seek to explore the proposition that frost damage rings in North American bristlecone pines are a very useful indicator of the dates of certain large explosive volcanic eruptions; the dating of major eruptions being critical for any clear understanding of volcanic forcing. This paper cannot prove that there is an error in the Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 (GICC05), and in equivalent ice chronologies from the Antarctic, however, it does provide a coherent argument for an apparent ice dating offset. If the suggested offset were to prove correct it would be necessary to locate where the error occurs in the ice chronologies and in this regard the dating of the increasingly controversial Icelandic Eldgja eruption in the AD 930s, and the China/Korean Millennium eruption which occurs some 7 years after Eldgja, may well be critical. In addition, if the offset were to be substantiated it would have implications for the alleged identification of tephra at 429.3 m in the Greenland GRIP core, currently attributed to the Italian volcano Vesuvius and used as a critical zero error point in the GICC05 chronology.
Does the size distribution of mineral dust aerosols depend on the wind speed at emission ?

The size distribution of mineral dust aerosols partially determines their interactions with clouds, radiation, ecosystems, and other components of the Earth system. Several theoretical models predict that the dust size distribution depends on the wind speed at emission, with larger wind speeds predicted to produce smaller aerosols. The present study investigates this prediction using a compilation of published measurements of the size-resolved vertical dust flux emitted by eroding soils. Surprisingly, these measurements indicate that the size distribution of naturally emitted dust aerosols is independent of the wind speed. The recently formulated brittle fragmentation theory of dust emission is consistent with this finding, whereas other theoretical models are not. The independence of the emitted dust size distribution with wind speed simplifies both the interpretation of geological records of dust deposition and the parameterization of dust emission in atmospheric circulation models.
Investigation of the potential effects of transportation and lairage on the contamination of pig carcasses with Yersinia enterocolitica

Pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica is frequently isolated from pig tonsils, but can also be found in the feces and lymph nodes of infected animals; which represent potential sources for the surface carcass contamination during slaughter. The aim of the study was to investigate the respective effects of the transportation and lairage steps on the overall contamination of the carcass, taking also into account the contamination of their environment. Each Trial was conducted in two abattoirs, whose environmental contamination was assessed. In each abattoir, 6 trucks and 6 lairage pens were sampled in duplicate at the end of the day, for 5 consecutive days, in spring and autumn. Four groups of 8 pigs from the Anses Specific Pathogen-Free herd (SPF) were mixed with conventional pigs for different contact times during transportation (1h) or lairage (2, 4 or 8h) prior to slaughter, and one group had no contact with other pigs. Each group of SPF pigs was sampled at the end of the slaughter line for the presence of pathogenic Y. enterocolitica for internal (tonsils, caecal content, mesenteric lymph nodes) and external (carcass surface) contamination. Samples were placed in ITC broth for enrichment at 25°C for 48h. Broth was streaked on CIN plates. After 24H at 30°C, typical colonies were streaked on YeCM plates. Biochemical tests were done to confirm Y. enterocolitica and to identify the biotype. The environmental contamination of trucks and lairage was very low. Y. enterocolitica was only detected in 11/240 lairage swabs. All internal and external samples from SPF pigs mixed with conventional pigs during transportation or lairage were negative after slaughter. Four tonsils of the SPF pigs slaughtered directly on the slaughter line after 4 hours of activity, with no prior contact with conventional pigs, and one of the corresponding surface carcasses, were found positive in one abattoir. In our experimental conditions with SPF pigs, we were not able to demonstrate contamination by contact with conventional pigs during transportation and lairage steps, whose environmental contamination appeared to be scarce. Limited cross contaminations were observed during the slaughter process, which emphasizes the importance of good hygiene procedures to limit carcass contamination by pathogenic Y. enterocolitica.
Bandit learning in concave $N$-person games

This paper examines the long-run behavior of learning with bandit feedback in non-cooperative concave games. The bandit framework accounts for extremely low-information environments where the agents may not even know they are playing a game; as such, the agents' most sensible choice in this setting would be to employ a no-regret learning algorithm. In general, this does not mean that the players' behavior stabilizes in the long run: no-regret learning may lead to cycles, even with perfect gradient information. However, if a standard monotonicity condition is satisfied, our analysis shows that no-regret learning based on mirror descent with bandit feedback converges to Nash equilibrium with probability $1$. We also derive an upper bound for the convergence rate of the process that nearly matches the best attainable rate for single-agent bandit stochastic optimization.
Nonenzymatic Glycation Alters Protein Structure and Stability

We have investigated the effect of nonenzymatic glycation (fructation) in vitro on the structure and stability of two proteins that are glycated in vivo as a consequence of high endogenous levels of sugar. We find that whereas fructation leads to the structural destabilization of the monomeric y-crystallin from the core of the eye lens, it leads to an increase in stability in the multimeric cy-crystallin of the lens cortex. Thus, while glycated y-crystallin shows (a) a longer wavelength of fluorescent emission, indicating a greater exposure of its aromatic side chains to the medium; ( b ) a reduced secondary structural content; and ( c ) a more facile denaturation by thermodynamic and chemical means, a-crystallin displays the opposite behavior. Furthermore, a-crystallin shows an increased tendency toward multimeric aggregation upon fructation. We interpret these differences in the broad context of the effects of neutralization of positive charges on protein structure and stability. Fructation tends to destabilize y-crystallin, by effecting a significant reversal in the balance of charges in the protein, at physiological pH. a-Crystallin is a multimeric protein whose PI is lower than its pH of optimum stability. Fructation in this case effectively neutralizes the cationic charges and promotes conformational order. This study indicates that although glycation brings about similar changes in the covalent chemical structures of proteins, its influence on the three-dimensional structures of different proteins can be different.
Employment, Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Effects: The Case of Sweden

In science and in society at large, there is a big debate going on about the existence and potential impact of 'neighbourhood effects'. The dominant question is: does the social composition of the neighbourhood have specific positive or negative effects on the career prospects of those who are living there? We seek to contribute to this debate by investigating the relationship between individual social mobility and the social composition of the residential environment. For that purpose we analysed new longitudinal Swedish data, which is available at the individual level. We particularly focused our attention on the employment careers of individuals in relation to the levels of employment or unemployment in their individual environments. Environment effects on social mobility were isolated, controlling for relevant variables that were available at the individual level. We were also able to control for changes in the environments over time. Individual longitudinal data could be used over the period 1991-9. The analyses revealed that their environment appears to have a moderate yet clear impact on the employment prospects of unemployed individuals. The academic relevance of the article is in its contribution to the theoretical underpinnings of the human-environment relationship; the societal relevance is to the area-based policies and the housing policies aimed at social mixing, which are currently being developed in many places in the Western world. Copyright (c) 2006 The Authors. Journal Compilation (c) 2006 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.