Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predictors of foot care behaviours in patients with diabetes in Turkey

Background The management of diabetic foot complications is challenging, time-consuming and costly. Such complications frequently recur, and the feet of individuals with diabetes can be easily infected. The variables that predict foot care behaviours must be identified to improve foot care attitudes and behaviours. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the predictors of foot care behaviours in individuals with diabetes and the role of these variables. Methods This descriptive and analytic study was carried out between July 2015 and July 2016, and 368 outpatients with diabetes from a public hospital in Turkey were included. The participants had no communication, psychiatric or neurological problems and had been diagnosed with diabetes for at least 1 year. Foot care behaviour was the dependent variable and was evaluated with the foot care behaviour questionnaire. The relationship among foot care behaviours and sociodemographic characteristics, diabetes-related attitudes, disease perception, health beliefs and perceived social support was evaluated. Factors that independently predicted effective foot care behaviours were estimated via a linear regression analysis. Results The foot care behaviour score of the participants was above average (54.8 ± 5.0). Gender (t = −2.38, p = 0.018), history of a foot wound (t = −2.74, p = 0.006), nephropathy (t = 3.13, p = 0.002), duration subscale of the illness perception scores (t = 2.26, p = 0.024) and personal control subscale of the health belief scores (t = −2.07, p = 0.038) were significant predictors of foot care behaviours. These variables, which provided model compatibility, accounted for approximately 22.0% of the total variance of the foot care behaviour score (R = 0.47, R2 = 0.22, F = 5.48, p ≤ 0.001). Discussion Our results show factors that may affect diabetic foot care behaviours. Several of these factors prevent individuals from practising these behaviours. Further studies on the roles of barriers as predictors of foot care behaviours must be conducted.
Human herpesvirus-8 ( Kaposi ’ s sarcoma-associated virus ) ORF 50 increases in vitro cell susceptibility to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection

Received 28 August 2002 Accepted 24 January 2003 ORF50, an immediate-early gene of human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8), encodes a transactivating protein necessary for virus reactivation and lytic replication. ORF50 was reported recently to synergize with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) tat at a post-transcriptional level. To study the effects of these molecular interactions on HIV replication and biology, cellular clones stably transformed with ORF50 were obtained by transfection of cell lines of different origin. These clones were infected subsequently with HIV. Experiments showed that ORF50 enhances HIV replication in T and B cells (Jurkat and BC-3 cells) and induces susceptibility and transient permissiveness in non-susceptible glial (A172) cells. Upregulation of viral receptors and co-receptors did not account for increased sensitivity to HIV infection and therefore the action of ORF50 might be modulated by the intracellular environment. Interestingly, non-susceptible cells transformed with ORF50 showed transient production of HIV particles that could spread to adjacent cells by direct contact. These findings show that HHV-8 ORF50 has an enhancing effect on HIV replication in vitro and suggest that the two viruses might interact in co-infected patients.
Project GeoTV: a three-screen service

GeoTV is a project that explores seamless integration of mobile phones, HDTV sets, and computers in the living room to enrich the user experience of existing services. The three-screen service allows a user to navigate a world map on a smart phone to track geo-located media RSS content that matches her personal interests. The user can show a matching video clip on her phone or direct a nearby HDTV set to play the video. In addition, the user can bring up a world map on a nearby computer screen to navigate areas of interest related to the video clip. GeoTV allows all three screens to be used for what they are best for: HDTV for high resolution video, computer screen for browsing a world map, and a smart phone for personalized control at hand to select media of interest.
Productivity effects of ICT in Finnish business

Taman raportin myota paattyy Tieto- ja viestintateknologian talousvaikutukset -hankkeen esitutkimusvaihe, jonka tavoitteina olivat ICT-tutkimusta tukevien aineistojen ja tutkimusyhteyksien luonti seka alustava tilastollinen ja ekonometrinen analyysi. ICT laajamittainen kaytto suomalaisyrityksissa on suhteellisen uusi ilmio. Toisin kun . uuden talouden. huumassa uskottiin, koko talouden tasolla havaittavaa ICT:n yleistymist a ajaa yritysten sisalla tapahtuva kehitys, ei niinkaan rakennemuutos eli ICTintensiivisten yritysten (synty ja) potentiaalisesti ripeampi kasvu. Nayttaisi kuitenkin silt a, etta sinansa rakennemuutos . kokeilu, valikoituminen ja . luova tuho. nuorten ICTintensiivisten yritysten keskuudessa on voimakasta. Kun toimiala-, suhdannesykli- ja yrityskohtaisten tekijoiden (mm. osaamistaso ja paaomakanta) vaikutus huomioidaan, ICT parantaa tyontekijan tuottavuutta kahdeksasta kahdeksaantoista prosenttia. Tuottavuusvaikutus on moninkertainen uudemmissa yrityksiss a. Tama loydos viittaa taydentavien organisatoristen innovaatioiden merkitykseen tuottavuusvaikutusten aikaansaamiseksi. ICT:ta tuottavat alat nayttavat olevan selvasti parempia myos ICT:n hyodyntamisessa, eika tama loydos liity viestintavalinevalmistukseen eika myoskaan ao. alojen yleisesti ottaen korkeaan tuottavuuteen ja sen ripeaan kasvuun. Vaikutukset palveluissa ovat teollisuutta suurempia. Teollisuusyritykset hyotyvat enemman sisaisia ja palveluyritykset ulkoisia tietovirtoja tehostavista teknologioista. – Tuottavuus ; tieto- ja viestintateknologia ; ICT ; uusi talous
Factors Influencing Female Labor Force Participation in Egypt and Germany: A Comparative Study

This paper aims to identify the major factors influencing female labor force participation (FLFP) in Egypt and Germany. On a narrow scope and given the unclear relationship between educational attainment and Egyptian FLFP, this paper seeksto examine the effect of educational attainment on the Egyptian FLFP while considering other personal and household factors. On a broader scope, the literature on FLFP illustrates that certain personal and household characteristics determineFLFP. However, the question remains, to what extent these determinants differ between Egypt and Germany. This paper attempts to shed light on understanding if and how specific demographic factors affect the Egyptian FLFP in comparison with the German FLFP. Limited dependent variable technique; Probit model is utilized to determine which factors influence FLFP in both countries. The cross sectional analysis is conducted through the use of the 2012 Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) in collaboration with Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) and the 2012 German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Findings indicate that indeed higher educational attainmentincreases the Egyptian female’s predicted probability of participating in the labor market. Additionally, the comparative study showed that number of factors affect FLFP in both countries, some of which has a positive influence as years of schooling and age while others with a negative impact as being a married women, living in urban areas and number of children. On the other hand some other variables impact each country differently as wealth. Additionally, it was evident that years of schooling has a higher marginal impact on Egyptian FLFP yet, age, being married and number of children have a higher marginal effect on German FLFP.
Detection of MCPG metabolites in horses with atypical myopathy

Atypical myopathy (AM) in horses is caused by ingestion of seeds of the Acer species (Sapindaceae family). Methylenecyclopropylacetyl-CoA (MCPA-CoA), derived from hypoglycin A (HGA), is currently the only active toxin in Acer pseudoplatanus or Acer negundo seeds related to AM outbreaks. However, seeds or arils of various Sapindaceae (e.g., ackee, lychee, mamoncillo, longan fruit) also contain methylenecyclopropylglycine (MCPG), which is a structural analogue of HGA that can cause hypoglycaemic encephalopathy in humans. The active poison formed from MCPG is methylenecyclopropylformyl-CoA (MCPF-CoA). MCPF-CoA and MCPA-CoA strongly inhibit enzymes that participate in β-oxidation and energy production from fat. The aim of our study was to investigate if MCPG is involved in Acer seed poisoning in horses. MCPG, as well as glycine and carnitine conjugates (MCPF-glycine, MCPF-carnitine), were quantified using high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry of serum and urine from horses that had ingested Acer pseudoplatanus seeds and developed typical AM symptoms. The results were compared to those of healthy control horses. For comparison, HGA and its glycine and carnitine derivatives were also measured. Additionally, to assess the degree of enzyme inhibition of β-oxidation, several acyl glycines and acyl carnitines were included in the analysis. In addition to HGA and the specific toxic metabolites (MCPA-carnitine and MCPA-glycine), MCPG, MCPF-glycine and MCPF-carnitine were detected in the serum and urine of affected horses. Strong inhibition of β-oxidation was demonstrated by elevated concentrations of all acyl glycines and carnitines, but the highest correlations were observed between MCPF-carnitine and isobutyryl-carnitine (r = 0.93) as well as between MCPA- (and MCPF-) glycine and valeryl-glycine with r = 0.96 (and r = 0.87). As shown here, for biochemical analysis of atypical myopathy of horses, it is necessary to take MCPG and the corresponding metabolites into consideration.
Cetáceos fósiles del Museo de La Plata

La coleccion de restos fosiles de cetaceos del Museo de La Plata, sin ser de las mas ricas que en este centro se conservan, es de excepcional valor por mas de un concepto, pues ademas de figurar en ella los tipos de las especies patagonicas descritas hace mas de treinta anos por Moreno y por Lydekker, contiene cierto numero de ejemplares que evidentemente representan especies y aun generos enteramente ineditos. Entre los que en este caso se hallan, merecen especial mencion dos esqueletos fragmentarios, pero uno de ellos casi completo, de un escualodontido muy parecido a los verdaderos Squalodon miocenos de Europa, esqueletos cuya importancia sabra apreciar todo el que recuerde que de la familia en cuestion solo se conocian hasta ahora craneos y huesos sueltos. Pareceme, pues, conveniente publicar los resultados de mis estudios sobre dicha coleccion, tanto mas cuanto que se trata de un orden de mamiferos cuya paleontologia tiene gran interes tanto para el zoologo, por los problemas que a la filogenia del mismo se refieren, como para el geologo, que en su conocimiento puede encontrar valiosos datos para el mejor estudio de las transgresiones marinas.
Sparse coding-based correlaton model for land-use scene classification in high-resolution remote-sensing images

Abstract. High-resolution remote-sensing images are increasingly applied in land-use classification problems. Land-use scenes are often very complex and difficult to represent. Subsequently, the recognition of multiple land-cover classes is a continuing research question. We propose a classification framework based on a sparse coding-based correlaton (termed sparse correlaton) model to solve this challenge. Specifically, a general mapping strategy is presented to label visual words and generate sparse coding-based correlograms, which can exploit the spatial co-occurrences of visual words. A compact spatial representation without loss discrimination is achieved through adaptive vector quantization of correlogram in land-use scene classification. Moreover, instead of using K-means for visual word encoding in the original correlaton model, our proposed sparse correlaton model uses sparse coding to achieve lower reconstruction error. Experiments on a public ground truth image dataset of 21 land-use classes demonstrate that our sparse coding-based correlaton method can improve the performance of land-use scene classification and outperform many existing bag-of-visual-words-based methods.
A Novel Stacking Method for Multi-label Classification

of a dissertation at the University of Miami. Dissertation supervised by Professor Miroslav Kubat. No. of pages in text. (128) Classical machine learning algorithms were tailored to automatically classify examples that belong to mutually exclusive classes; each example may belong to one class out of a finite set of classes. In realistic applications, however, examples often belong to more than one class at the same time. For example, a text document that belongs to Geography may also be labeled as Geology. Perhaps due to the popularity of its applications, targeting this category of problems has garnered great research interest over the past decade. A widely popular approach, called Binary Relevance (BR), is to induce a separate classifier for each class; to determine whether the class is relevant for an example, or not. Despite showing some success, researchers have pointed out a critical drawback in this method. By targeting each class independently, the learner does not model class correlations: knowing if an example belongs to class X may indicate that it is likely to belong also to class Y. Conversely, this information can make the example less likely to belong to class Z. Research groups sought to incorporate class correlation information into BR by using the class labels as additional example features. Since the information about which class an example belongs to is unknown in unseen instances, the missing values are typically filled-in using the outputs of other classifiers, which makes them prone to errors. This dissertation identifies two weaknesses in existing methods: unnecessary label correlations, and error-propagation. To overcome these problems, this dissertation introduces a new multi-label classification method, called PruDent. Experiments over a broad range of benchmark datasets indicate that PruDent compares rather favorably with existing state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, PruDent improves classification accuracy while maintaining a linear complexity in the number of classes.
Cytochrome P450 2C19 Poor Metabolizer Phenotype in Treatment Resistant Depression: Treatment and Diagnostic Implications

Background: Pharmacogenomic testing, specifically for pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) genetic variation, may contribute to a better understanding of baseline genetic differences in patients seeking treatment for depression, which may further impact clinical antidepressant treatment recommendations. This study evaluated PK and PD genetic variation and the clinical use of such testing in treatment seeking patients with bipolar disorder (BP) and major depressive disorder (MDD) and history of multiple drug failures/treatment resistance. Methods: Consecutive depressed patients evaluated at the Mayo Clinic Depression Center over a 10-year study time frame (2003–2013) were included in this retrospective analysis. Diagnoses of BP or MDD were confirmed using a semi-structured diagnostic interview. Clinical rating scales included the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD24), Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Questionnaire. Clinically selected patients underwent genotyping of cytochrome P450 CYP2D6/CYP2C19 and the serotonin transporter SLC6A4. PK and PD differences and whether clinicians incorporated test results in providing recommendations were compared between the two patient groups. Results: Of the 1795 patients, 167/523 (31.9%) with BP and 446/1272 (35.1%) with MDD were genotyped. Genotyped patients had significantly higher self-report measures of depression and anxiety compared to non-genotyped patients. There were significantly more CYP2C19 poor metabolizer (PM) phenotypes in BP (9.3%) vs. MDD patients (1.7%, p = 0.003); among participants with an S-allele, the rate of CYP2C19 PM phenotype was even higher in the BP (9.8%) vs. MDD (0.6%, p = 0.003). There was a significant difference in the distribution of SLC6A4 genotypes between BP (l/l = 28.1%, s/l = 59.3%, s/s = 12.6%) and MDD (l/l = 31.4%, s/l = 46.1%, s/s = 22.7%) patients (p < 0.01). Conclusion: There may be underlying pharmacogenomic differences in treatment seeking depressed patients that potentially have impact on serum levels of CYP2C19 metabolized antidepressants (i.e., citalopram / escitalopram) contributing to rates of efficacy vs. side effect burden with additional potential risk of antidepressant response vs. induced mania. The evidence for utilizing pharmacogenomics-guided therapy in MDD and BP is still developing with a much needed focus on drug safety, side effect burden, and treatment adherence.
Effects of moderate thermal anomalies on Acropora corals around Sesoko Island, Okinawa

Over the past several decades, coral reef ecosystems have experienced recurring bleaching events. These events were predominantly caused by thermal anomalies, which vary widely in terms of severity and spatio-temporal distribution. Acropora corals, highly prominent contributors to the structural complexity of Pacific coral reefs, are sensitive to thermal stress. Response of Acropora corals to extremely high temperature has been well documented. However, studies on the effects of moderately high temperature on Acropora corals are limited. In the summer of 2016, a moderate coral bleaching event due to moderately high temperature was observed around Sesoko Island, Okinawa, Japan. The objective of this study was to examine thermal tolerance patterns of Acropora corals, across reefs with low to moderate thermal exposure (degree heating weeks ~2–5°C week). Field surveys on permanent plots were conducted from October 2015 to April 2017 to compare the population dynamics of adult Acropora corals 6 months before and after the bleaching events around Sesoko Island. Variability in thermal stress response was driven primarily by the degree of thermal stress. Wave action and turbidity may have mediated the thermal stress. Tabular and digitate coral morphologies were the most tolerant and susceptible to thermal stress, respectively. Growth inhibition after bleaching was more pronounced in the larger digitate and corymbose coral morphologies. This study indicates that Acropora populations around Sesoko Island can tolerate short-term, moderate thermal challenges.
Negotiation-Based Dynamic Role Transition in Data Access across Multi-VOs

This paper proposes an approach to data access across multi-Vos(virtual organizations),using dynamic role transition under role-based access control model in data grid.A negotiation mechanism is introduced to establish the data access based on the trust of both VOs,which also sets up the role transition relationship between them.Once the negotiation succeeds,the dynamic role transition is controlled by several local policies according to the role owned by the user.
Quasi-optimal Satellite Selection Algorithm for Real-time Applications1

This paper presents a quasi-optimal satellite geometry selection algorithm for navigation systems where a large number of ranging signals are available (e.g. LEO spacecraft navigation system using GPS, on-board ranging transmitter augmented CDGPS systems [14], combined (NAVSTAR and GLONASS) systems, and ground based pseudolite augmented systems). This algorithm is especially important for LEO spacecraft DGPS systems since there are limited numbers of channels on the receiver and the on-board computer has limited real-time processing capability. However, typically, 12—15 NAVSTAR satellites and possibly a number of local ranging signals from other vehicles in the formation are visible to a LEO spacecraft. Thus, it is very important to select the subset of measurements that provides the best possible geometry. The algorithm presented in this paper provides near optimal geometries from the combined NAVSTAR, GLONASS, and local constellations, but dramatically reduces the computational load when compared to the true optimal method. In contrast to the other algorithms considered, this quasioptimal approach also allows other weighting factors to be included in the selection to account for differ1Presented at the Institute of Navigation GPS 2001 Sept. 14, 2001 ences in the signal quality and the covariance of the bias estimates. By including these weighting factors, the algorithm can select the measurement subset that ensures the best position and velocity estimates.
Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the Analytical Chemical Laboratory: A Practical Approach, Second Edition

Nowe opracowanie ksiązkowe z zakresu QA/QC to praktyczny podrecznik zarowno dla studentow jak i pracownikow laboratoriow. Opisano systemu jakości wynikow pomiarow analitycznych i poszczegolnych jego skladnikow: spojności pomiarowej, niepewności pomiaru, walidacji procedury analitycznej, materialow odniesienia i badan miedzylaboratoryjnych. Opisano i przedstawiono narzedzia statystyczne sluzące do obliczania parametrow walidacyjnych, szacowania niepewności, opracowywania wynikow badan miedzylaboratoryjnych, stosowania materialow odniesienia. Zamieszczono przyklady dotyczące: tworzenia budzetu niepewności i szacowania niepewności; odrzucania wynikow obarczonych bledami grubymi; obliczania wartości bledow systematycznych; obliczania precyzji (powtarzalnośc, precyzja pośrednia); porownywania precyzji serii wynikow; porownywania wartości wyniku z wartością odniesienia; porownywania wartości wynikow uzyskanych roznymi metodami; liczenia i dokumentowania liniowości; obliczanie wartości LOD i LOQ; określania zakresu pomiarowego; wyznaczania parametrow walidacyjnych. Wszystkie z przykladow zaopatrzone zostaly w skonstruowane arkusze kalkulacyjne ulatwiające obliczenia.