Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Annotated worlds for animate characters

Autonomous intelligent agents designed to appear as convincing “animate” characters are presently quite limited. How useful and how believable they are depends on the extent to which they are integrated into a specific environment for a particular set of tasks. This tight integration of character and context is an inadequate approach in the rapidly-expanding realm of large, diverse, structurally homogeneous but disparate virtual environments, of which the Web is only the most obvious example. By separating a character's core features, which are invariable, from its knowledge of and abilities in any specific environment, and embedding this latter information in the environment itself, we can significantly improve the character's believability, its utility, and its reusability across a variety of domains. This thesis describes the requirements for an agent architecture that can interact with an annotated virtual environment, together with languages for representing information in and about these environments. An example applying this approach to intelligent animate characters is presented and used in two substantially different environments, the Web and a multi-user virtual world.
Teaching Medical Professionalism: Frontmatter

Part I. What Is to Be Taught: 1. The cognitive base of professionalism Sylvia Cruess and Richard Cruess Part II. Theory: 2. Educational theory and teaching methods in the teaching of professionalism Yvonne Steinert 3. Professionalism and the socialization of medical students Frederic Hafferty Part III. Principles: 4. Principles for designing a program for the teaching and learning of professionalism at the undergraduate level Richard Cruess and Sylvia Cruess 5. Resident formation: a journey into authenticity David Leach 6. Supporting professionalism in the educational setting: changing the educational environment and the student's 'navigational skills' T. Inui, A. H. Cottingham, R. M. Frankel, D. K. Litzelman, A. L. Suchman and P. R. Williamson 7. Assessment and remediation in programs of teaching and learning professionalism Louise Arnold and Christine Sullivan 8. Developing professionalism across the generations Sharon Johnston and Mark Peacock 9. Faculty development for teaching and evaluating professionalism Yvonne Steinert 10. The relationship between teaching professionalism and licensing and accrediting bodies Sir Donald Irvine 11. Educating the public about professionalism Jordan Cohen and Linda Blank Part IV. Practice: Case Studies in Teaching Professionalism Across the Continuum: 12. Learning professionalism in a traditional or organ-based curriculum Erika Goldstein 13. Learning professionalism in a problem-based learning curriculum Gillian Maudsley and C. M. Taylor 14. Learning and fostering professionalism during residency Linda Snell 15. Continuing professional development: a focus on professionalism Dave Davis.
Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques for Breast Cancer Prediction

Of all the deaths worldwide, the second most common cause of death is breast cancer. In 2011, the number of deaths was estimated to be 5.8 millions because of breast cancer. So, early diagnosis of cancer is very important. In this paper, machine learning techniques are explored in order to increase the accuracy of diagnosis. Methods such as CART, Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors are compared. The dataset used is obtained from UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository. The obtained accuracy prediction performances are proportionate to existing methods. However it is found that KNN algorithm has much better performance than the other techniques used in comparison.
Wonen, wijken & interventies: krachtwijkenbeleid in perspectief

Het huidige wijkenbeleid richt zich op verbeteren van de positie van de aandachtswijken. Hoe staat het daar mee? Helpt herstructurering en de verkoop van sociale huurwoningen? Dragen meer groen en speelveldjes in de wijk bij aan een leefbare en veilige woonomgeving? En hoe gaat het met de bewoners van de wijk? Biedt een aandachtswijk voldoende mogelijkheden om te stijgen op de maatschappelijke en sociale ladder? En als dat inderdaad lukt: verlaten deze mensen dan de wijk? Deze en andere vragen komen in dit rapport aan de orde.
Lesgeven over Duurzame Ontwikkeling

Duurzame ontwikkeling is een thema dat je bij ieder schoolvak kunt toepassen. Het is een manier van denken, waarbij je streeft naar het voorkomen van een onevenwichtig gebruik van menselijke en natuurlijke hulpbronnen in de samenleving. Hier ligt een belangrijke taak voor leerkrachten en docenten. Dit boek biedt een didactische handreiking, waarbij het accent ligt op de zogenoemde contentanalyse van maatschappelijke en natuurkundige onderwerpen. Via een didactisch analysemodel leer je om onderwerpen uiteen te rafelen, gebaseerd op de principes van duurzame ontwikkeling. De focus van het boek ligt uiteindelijk op de vraag hoe je onderwijs over duurzame ontwikkeling moet toepassen in de lessituatie.
Clinical Validation of PITX2 DNA Methylation to Predict Outcome in High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Anthracycline-Based Chemotherapy

Background: Breast cancer patients at high risk for recurrence are treated with anthracycline-based chemotherapy, but not all patients do equally benefit from such a regimen. To further improve therapy decision-making, biomarkers predicting outcome are of high unmet medical need. Methods: The percent DNA methylation ratio (PMR) of the promoter gene coding for the Paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 2 (PITX2) was determined by a validated methylation-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. The multicenter study was conducted in routinely collected archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue from 205 lymph node-positive breast cancer patients treated with adjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy. Results: The cut-off for the PITX2 methylation status (PMR = 12) was confirmed in a randomly selected cohort (n = 60) and validated (n = 145) prospectively with disease-free survival (DFS) at the 10-year follow-up. DFS was significantly different between the PMR ≤ 12 versus the PMR > 12 group with a hazard ratio (HR) of 2.74 (p < 0.001) in the validation cohort and also for the patient subgroup treated additionally with endocrine therapy (HR 2.47; p = 0.001). Conclusions: Early-stage lymph node-positive breast cancer patients with low PITX2 methylation do benefit from adjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy. Patients with a high PITX2 DNA methylation ratio, approximately 30%, show poor outcome and should thus be considered for alternative chemotherapy regimens.
A prospective study of nosocomial infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Objective To study the nosocomial infection in the patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods A prospective survey of nosocomial infection in 456 cases with SLE was carried out for 84 months.Result Incidence of nosocomial infection in patients with SLE was 36 4%,infection of respiratory tract accounted for 45 2%,infection rates in urinary tract,skin and other regions were 16 0%,12 6% and 26 2% respectively.Gram negative bacilli were the predominant pathogens and the pathogens had higher frequency of multiple antibiotic resistance. Conclusion The factors related to nosocomial infection were the use of broadspectrum antibiotics,prednisone and administration of immunosuppressant,etc.
Palmaris Longus - Upside Down!!!!

Palmaris longus muscle is a very well known muscle for variations. It can be absent, digastric, duplicated, having proximal tendon. These variations are important in grafting surgeries like tendon transfer, ptosis correction, lip augmentations which use the muscle as a graft. Here, we reported a rare variation of palmaris longus in the form of proximal tendon, middle belly and distal tendon which is continuous with palmar aponeurosis. In the same cadaver, plantaris muscle also dissected to note the variation. Keywords: Palmaris longus, Variation, Tendinous origin, Distal belly, Tendon Graft.
A generating formulation for free higher spin massless fields

An action describing the dynamics of an infinite collection of massless integer spin fields with spin s=0,1,2,3, . $\infty$ corresponding to totally symmetric Young tableaux representations of Poincare and anti-de Sitter groups is constructed, in any dimension d, in terms of two functions on a 2d-dimensional manifold. The action is represented by an integral localized on a 2d-1-dimensional hypersurface.
Validity of the Questionnaire for the Revised Version of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED-41)

1. Department of Clinical Psychology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Department of Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardebilie, Ardebil, Iran 3. Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran 4. Department of Clinical Psychology, Shahr-e-Kord University of Medical Sciences, Shahr-e-Kord, Iran 5. Department of Psychology, University of Razi, Kermanshah, Iran
Feature object extraction - a fuzzy logic approach for evidence accrual in the Level 1 Fusion classification problem

Classification is an important part of the Level 1 Fusion problem. It provides necessary information to the user to make decisions about the object in question. In the military problem, this decision can be the difference between prosecution of a target and declaration as a noncombatant. A number of approaches use different sources of information address classification. Many of these techniques are probabilistic. Some are linguistic interpretations by expert analysis. These classifiers can provide different views of the same object. The key is to combine these disparate pieces of information, each with different levels of quality and/or confidence. We propose a technique to combine these various classifiers using the concept of evidence accrual. Information can affirm a class' hypothesis, refute it, or have no bearing upon it. Also, each source of evidence has a degree of quality or uncertainty about it. Finally, the sources may be represented as numeric or nonnumeric information. To address these issues, we utilized a set of decoupled fuzzy Kalman filters. This bank of filters, similar in nature to first-order observers, estimates the degree of evidence that each known class achieves. The paper outlines the development of our approach, its implementation to emulate a Bayesian classifier, and a set of examples.
The epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in women.

More than 15 million people have been infected by HIV worldwide with an estimated more than 5 million women among the infected by 1993. The rate of new HIV infections is rising faster in women than in men and in some countries women are at greater risk than any other population subgroup of acquiring HIV. In the first half of 1992 women comprised 50% of all new cases of HIV infection worldwide and in parts of Africa women already outnumber men in new HIV infections. The increasing infection rates in women suggest that there will be more than 13 million HIV-infected women worldwide in the year 2000. Indeed by 2000 the majority of individuals infected worldwide will be women. The average age of HIV-infected women in most regions of the world is 15-25 years 10 years younger than the average age of HIV-infected men. The distribution of HIV infection according to world region is described followed by discussion of the risk factors for HIV transmission in women clinical features the disease course and rate of progression the effect of pregnancy upon disease progression survival treatment and womens vulnerability.
Determinants of Glasgow outcome scale in patients with severe traumatic brain injury for better quality of life

Primary and secondary brain injury may occur with severe traumatic brain injury. Secondary traumatic brain injury results in a more severe effect compared to primary traumatic brain injury. Therefore, prevention of secondary traumatic brain injury is necessary to obtain maximum therapeutic results and accurate determination of prognosis and better quality of life. This study aimed to determine accurate and noninvasive prognostic factors in patients with severe traumatic brain injury. It was a cohort study on 16 subjects. Intracranial pressure was monitored within the first 24 hours after traumatic brain injury. Examination of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and S100B protein were conducted four times. The severity of outcome was evaluated using Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) three months after traumatic brain injury. Intracranial pressure measurement performed 24 hours after traumatic brain injury, low S100B protein (<2μg/L) 120 hours after injury and increased BDNF (>6.16pg/ml) 48 hours after injury indicate good prognosis and were shown to be significant predictors (p<0.05) for determining the quality of GOS. The conclusion is patient with a moderate increase in intracranial pressure Intracranial pressure S100B protein, being inexpensive and non-invasive, can substitute BDNF and intracranial pressure measurements as a tool for determining prognosis 120 hours following traumatic brain injury.
Acral lentiginous melanoma: report of three cases

Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is a clinicopathologic variant of malignant melanoma of the skin. It occurs in the acral or peripheral parts of the limb, on the plantar or palmar surfaces of the hands and feet, or the subungual areas of the fingers or toes. ALM is histologically and clinically distinct from other types of melanoma like nodular melanoma (NM), superficial spreading melanoma (SSM), and Lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM). We report 3 cases of acral lentiginous melanoma 2 of which showed good prognosis after surgical excision.
The effect of cost, benefit, and level of technology on patient preference and satisfaction with hearing aids

The present double blind study sought to determine if experienced hearing aid users can differentiate between different levels o f hearing aid technology. Specifically, the following research questions were addressed: (1) Are HINT scores affected by level o f hearing aid technology for experienced hearing aid users? ; 2) Is benefit/satisfaction o f hearing aids affected by level o f technology for experienced hearing aid users? ; and (3) How do hearing aid users rank different levels o f technology? If a perceptual difference in hearing aid technology is identified by hearing aid users, participants were asked to identify how money much they would be willing to pay for the difference in perceived benefit. Therefore, ten experienced, adult hearing aid users with bilateral symmetrical sensorineural hearing loss were fit binaurally with three levels o f hearing aid technology (i.e., entry-level, mid-level, and premium-level) and underwent one-week trial periods with each set o f hearing aids. Participants were asked to answer three questionnaires (i.e., International Outcomes Inventory for Hearing Aids [IOI-HA], Post-Fitting Questionnaire adapted from the Marketrak Survey [Kochkin, 2010], and the Cost and Preference Questionnaire) after each hearing aid trial period to rate level o f satisfaction and benefit with hearing aids. Participants completed the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) to determine speech understanding ability in noise conditions. HINT results revealed no difference between hearing aid technology level and the ability to improve speech discrimination in noise abilities in participants. Results from the Post-Fitting Questionnaire, displayed greater satisfaction with entry-level hearing aid
What predicts alumni satisfaction? The impact of investment, involvement, and post -college outcomes

The purpose o f this study was to explore the effects o f financial investment, involvement, and post-college outcomes on perceived alumni satisfaction. Based on a conceptual framework guided by Alexander A stin’s I-E -0 model, the researcher developed the “displacement model,” which illustrated the possibility that one variable could displace the effect o f another. This framework also aided in understanding the jo in t and separate effects o f the independent variables o f financial investment, involvement, and post-college outcomes on the dependent variable, alumni satisfaction. The analyses also explored the effect o f gender and class year on the variables. The researcher surveyed alumni from the graduating classes o f 1994, 1999, and 2002 from a selective, public institution on the east coast. The results o f this exploratory research indicated a significant relationship between post-college outcomes (combined measure o f satisfaction with career and with salary following graduation) and alumni satisfaction as it both correlated with the dependent variable (p<.001) and was the only predictor in the stepwise regression analysis (p<.001). The variables o f investment and involvement did not correlate significantly with alumni satisfaction and were not predictors in the regression analysis. However, involvement was significantly correlated with post-college outcomes (p<.05) indicating a possible indirect link between involvement and alumni satisfaction through post­ college outcomes. Given prior research indicating a strong relationship between involvement and student satisfaction (Astin, 1993) and considering the skills gained through involvement for career success (Zekeri, 2004), further research should explore this connection. AMY CATHERINE BARNES EDUCATIONAL POLICY, PLANNING, AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND M ARY IN VIRGINIA
Anti-Müllerian Hormone Serum Measurements Reflect Cycle Length and Ovarian Follicle Number in Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome [350]

INTRODUCTION: During folliculogenesis, anti-Müllerian hormone plays a key role in the selection of the dominant follicle. Levels of anti-Müllerian hormone are elevated in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and are correlated with the number of follicles. We explored the relationship of anti-Müllerian hormone with the PCOS-defining characteristics: clinical and biochemical hyperandrogenism, cycle length, ovarian volume, and antral follicular count. METHODS: Women diagnosed with PCOS by the Rotterdam criteria were included in the study. All underwent endocrine and ultrasound assessment in the early follicular phase. Anti-Müllerian hormone was included in a regression analysis model with the PCOS-defining characteristics (SPSS 21). RESULTS: A total of 153 women were included. Clinical hyperandrogenism (hirsutism, acne, or both) was present in 142 patients (92.8%). Anti-Müllerian hormone (5.4±5.2 ng/mL), cycle length (51.9±52.8 days), average follicle count (21.2±9.1), ovarian volume (11.2±6.0 mm3), testosterone (30.5±15.0 ng/dL), and FAI (3.0±2.6) were the evaluated variables (average±standard deviation). Of the PCOS-defining characteristics, anti-Müllerian hormone was predicted by cycle length (t=3.492, P=.001) and average follicle count (t=2.231, P=.03). Ovarian volume and clinical and biochemical hyperandrogenism were not found to be significant predictors. The results remained significant controlling for age and body mass index. CONCLUSION: Higher serum anti-Müllerian hormone levels were correlated with excessive follicular count and prolonged cycle length. These results underscore the inhibitory function of anti-Müllerian hormone on ovarian follicular development and could help explain the effect of an increased number of follicles on ovulation and fertility potential in women with PCOS.
The literacy-related knowledge of the children in two Western Australian preprimary centres and the literacy-related practices in their homes

This study investigates both the literacy-related knO\yledge of two groups of children beginning their preprimary education and the literacy-related practices identified by their parents as taking place in their homes. The two groups of children were attending preprimary centres located in different suburbs of Perth; one was in a low socio-economic status northern suburb and the other was in a high socio-economic status inner metropolitan suburb. The results of a que! ;tionnaire about family literacy practices showed that there was a wide range of literacy-related practices and materials available in the majority of the households involved in the study. The results of assessment of the literacy-related knowledge of the children showed that the children had begun to develop knowledge in some areas of emergent literacy which have been shown by previous research to predict success in learning to read. These areas of knowledge were: recognition of letters of the alphabet, vocabulary, environmental print, concepts of print and grammatical and phonological awareness. Statistically significant Jifferences were found between the mean scores for both groups of children for each of the assessment tasks measuring literacy-related knowledge. Observation of the parent responses to the questionnaire, indicated that there were also differences between the home literacy practices of the two groups in the frequenoy of joint book reading, the number of classes (other thao preprimary) attended by the children, computer use and the parents' expectations of their child's eventual level of education. Several aspects of the children's literacy-related knowledge (identification ofletters ofthe alphabet, vocabulary, phonological awareness and grammatical awareness), were found to have statisticaily significant relationships with the home factors of frequency of joint book reading, teaching the
Risk Factors and Treatment for obesity Review Article

Obesity is one of the most common metabolic problems causing many diseases. Nowadays, the prevalence of obesity has increased not only in developed countries but also in developing countries. The aim of this review article is to evaluate the affecting factors of obesity and its treatment. The present study is a review study that has used information banks and scientific search engines such as Pubmed and Elsevier using keyword like: obesity, exercise, and appetite and weight control. The articles were chosen by clinical trial plans. The articles used were ranged from 1997 to 2014. The evidence showed that obesity can be caused by genetic and hormone disorders, incorrect eating habits, inactivity, inefficient lifestyle and the malfunctioning of socio-cultural environment are of the effective factors of the prevalence of obesity and overweight. Keywords: Obesity, BMI, Risk Factor, weight control
Error sentinel: A Rule-based spreadsheet program for intelligent data entry, error correction, and curation

Within the biological sciences, spreadsheets are commonly used as a data entry and storage medium. While this practice is simple and generally well understood, the unrestrained flexibility of the spreadsheet medium allows errors to accumulate and potentially propagate. Such errors impede accurate analysis, hindering research. The underlying problem is that the error correction facilities of typical spreadsheet programs are lackluster at best, if they exist at all. For this reason, Error Sentinel was developed. Error Sentinel is a spreadsheet program with programmable error correction facilities. These facilities allow users to define exactly what clean data is, along with corrections for erroneous data. Such rules are specified via a custom visual programming language. Once error correction rules are written, users inputting data need not be familiar with the rules or even have programming skills in order to utilize them. Error Sentinel can be used interactively like a typical spreadsheet program, or non-interactively as with more traditional error correction techniques. To test Error Sentinel’s real-world capabilities, it was successfully applied to the correction of the mtHaplogroups data set. This application has shown that Error Sentinel requires far less time and code to perform error correction than with previous methods. Benchmarking has shown that such gains are at only a modest cost in performance. While Error Sentinel appears quite simplistic compared to typical spreadsheet programs, its error correction facilities are robust, and it is fully capable of being applied to arbitrary data sets represented in the spreadsheet medium. i