Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Syndecan-1 (CD138) immunohistochemical expression patterns in lupus nephritis; reflections on different clinicopathological parameters

Introduction: Syndecan 1 (SCD1) is a lectin expressed at the surface of renal tubular epithelial cells and plasma cells. In epithelial cells, cell surface syndecan1 is cleaved by inflammation-induced proteases (eg, ADAMTS, MMP), since loss of cell surface syndecan1 is associated with higher susceptibility to cell damage. Objectives: To explore a potential additional value of SCD1 immunohistochemical expression in lupus nephritis specimens of different ISN/RPS classes and NIH activity and chronicity indices. Patients and Methods: This retrospective study included 50 renal biopsy specimens diagnosed as lupus nephritis at the pathology laboratory, and electron microscopy (EM) laboratory of Ain-Shams University specialized hospitals. Data were collected from records as personal data, medical history and laboratory results including serum creatinine and proteinuria. Immunohistochemical expression of syndecan-1 was evaluated in renal tubular epithelial cells (TECs) followed by correlation with different clinicopathological parameters. Results: Fifty renal biopsy specimens with lupus nephritis including 14 cases of class II, 4 cases of class III, 20 cases of class IV and 12 cases of class V were re-evaluated. The mean serum creatinine was 1.57 ± 0.67 mg/dL. Nine cases (18%) were negative for proteinuria, while 41 cases (82%) were presented with proteinuria with a mean of 1.5 ± 0.9 g/24 h. There was no statistically significant difference in the percentage of SCD-1 expression with different lupus classes. Serum creatinine and albumin showed a statistically significantly different correlation with semiquantitative score of SCD-1 expression. The highest value of creatinine detected with score 1 of SCD-1 expression (P=0.038) and the highest value of urinary albumin was recorded with score 1 of SCD-1 expression. Accordingly, the lowest mean of urinary albumin recorded in SCD-1 score 3 (P<0.001). There was a weekly negative association between loss of SCD-1 expression and increased NIH activity and chronicity indices. Conclusion: Loss of syndecan immunohistochemical expression in renal TECs in lupus nephritis is highly associated with proteinuria and elevated serum creatinine and can be used as a predictive marker for disease severity and progression.
Object Tracking With Multi-View Support Vector Machines

How to build an accurate and reliable appearance model to improve the performance is a crucial problem in object tracking. Since the multi-view learning can lead to more accurate and robust representation of the object, in this paper, we propose a novel tracking method via multi-view learning framework by using multiple support vector machines (SVM). The multi-view SVMs tracking method is constructed based on multiple views of features and a novel combination strategy. To realize a comprehensive representation, we select three different types of features, i.e., gray scale value, histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), and local binary pattern (LBP), to train the corresponding SVMs. These features represent the object from the perspectives of description, detection, and recognition, respectively . In order to realize the combination of the SVMs under the multi-view learning framework, we present a novel collaborative strategy with entropy criterion, which is acquired by the confidence distribution of the candidate samples. In addition, to learn the changes of the object and the scenario, we propose a novel update scheme based on subspace evolution strategy. The new scheme can control the model update adaptively and help to address the occlusion problems . We conduct our approach on several public video sequences and the experimental results demonstrate that our method is robust and accurate, and can achieve the state-of-the-art tracking performance.
Depressão e envelhecimento: estudo nos participantes do Programa Universidade Aberta à Terceira Idade

OBJETIVOS: identificar a presenca de depressao em idosos que frequentaram o Programa Universidade Aberta a Terceira Idade, da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, considerando variaveis demograficas e socioeconomicas. METODOS: estudo epidemiologico, descritivo e de corte transversal. Foi realizado um censo com os 358 idosos sendo 312 mulheres e 46 homens (>60 anos), utilizando o questionario "Brasil Old Age Schedule" (BOAS), do qual foi selecionada a secao de saude mental, quanto a depressao, verificando a frequencia das variaveis solidao, tristeza, pouca disposicao, pessimismo em relacao ao futuro, irritacao, auto-acusacao, ideias suicidas, dor de cabeca, insatisfacao, disturbios do sono e do apetite. RESULTADOS: foi encontrado um percentual importante de depressao (24,02%) na populacao estudada, cuja maioria esta classificada em depressao menor, entre a faixa etaria de 70-79 anos, do sexo feminino e separados. Foi observada associacao significante entre baixa escolaridade e depressao. Os casos de depressao apresentam relevante relacao com as variaveis preocupacao, dor de cabeca, pouca disposicao, irritacao, tristeza e insatisfacao. CONCLUSOES: a presenca de depressao na populacao estudada aponta para a importância do planejamento, por parte do Programa, de acoes direcionadas a saude de seus participantes, em particular, os transtornos mentais relativos a depressao.
Homeownership, Unemployment and Commuting Distances

More than a decade ago Oswald has formulated the thesis that homeownership increases unemployment. Empirical research on micro data has confirmed that unemployed homeowners are less inclined to move house in combination with accepting a new job elsewhere. However, in general for European countries, residential mobility associated with unemployment spells appears to be too small to be able to have a substantial impact on labour market outcomes. The present paper aims to make a new contribution to the scientific debate on Oswald’s thesis by addressing two complementary issues: risk attitudes of job seekers and commuting costs. We show that decreasing absolute risk aversion implies that the exit rate from unemployment is increasing in housing cost in the context of a standard job search model. In a spatial setting this is shown to imply that higher housing costs increase average commuting distances as well. We test these predictions on Dutch register data. Our empirical results show that outright homeowners have lower exit rates from unemployment than renters and are more reluctant to accept long commutes, which confirms Oswald’s thesis. However, highly leveraged homeowners have higher exit rates than renters and are more inclined to accept longer commutes, which confirms earlier findings in the literature.
Biologic width dimensions--a systematic review.

BACKGROUND Consideration of the biologic width in restorative dentistry seems to be important for maintaining periodontal health. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the dimensions of the biologic width in humans. MATERIALS AND METHODS A systematic literature search was performed for publications published by 28 September 2012 using five different electronic databases; this search was complemented by a manual search. Two reviewers conducted the study selection, data collection, and validity assessment. The PRISMA criteria were applied. From 615 titles identified by the search strategy, 14 publications were included and six were suitable for meta-analyses. RESULTS Included studies were published from the years 1924 to 2012. They differed with regard to measurements of the biologic width. Mean values of the biologic width obtained from two meta-analyses ranged from 2.15 to 2.30 mm, but large intra- and inter-individual variances (subject sample range: 0.2 - 6.73 mm) were observed. The tooth type and site, the presence of a restoration and periodontal diseases/surgery affected the dimensions of the biologic width. Pronounced heterogeneity among studies regarding methods and outcome measures exists. CONCLUSIONS No universal dimension of the biologic width appears to exist. Establishment of periodontal health is suggested prior to the assessment of the biologic width within reconstructive dentistry.
Pattern identification on a fingertip-scanned electrotactile display

Six subjects participated in a study to determine their ability to identify simple geometric patterns on a 49-point fingertip-scanned electrotactile display and on an array of Braille-like raised dots. While the raised dot performance (97.2%) was better than the electrotactile performance (78.5%), this study represents the first successful demonstration of electrical stimulation of tactile patterns on the fingertips.
A variable control system for wireless body sensor network

There is an increasing need to develop more flexible and intelligent low power wireless body sensor network (WBSN) system for healthcare monitoring applications. Technical advancements in micro-sensors, micro electro- mechanical system (MEMS) devices, low power electronics, and radio frequency (RF) circuits and systems have enabled both design and development of such highly integrated system. In this paper, we present a wireless body sensor network system with the capability of variable resolution function, which enables several resolutions for users selecting. The four levels hierarchical architecture is working well with communication system and control system. The accurate pipeline control will make implement variable resolution design in WBSN system easily and advance the performance efficiently. A variable sample rate generator is designed in each sensor node for producing different sample signals to ADC for variable resolutions. The SNR of ECG can be promoted from 25 dB to 73 dB when extraordinary situation of ECG occurs.
Diversity in East African foraging and food producing communities

East African Holocene foraging and food producing communities are unique in many ways, making them hard to fit into models developed elsewhere for transitions to farming and herding. The arrival of herding preceded the beginnings of farming in East Africa, setting it apart from other major regions, for example Southwest Asia and China, in terms of the development of the ‘Neolithic. ’ Transitions to herding were gradual, patchy, and may have involved fluid switches between subsistence strategies, depending on resource availability, risk reduction and relationships among groups. Furthermore, some ceramic-using foragers in the region differed in terms of settlement patterns, mobility and material and faunal remains from those known from the African ethnographic record, and may represent the only prehistoric delayed-return system known south of the Sahara. This is a region that continues to challenge predominant patterns of thought about worldwide transitions to food production. In September 2008 a group of researchers convened to discuss these issues at the Biannual Meeting of the Society for Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) in Frankfurt. In keeping with the conference theme, ‘Cultural Diversity of Africa’s Past,’ we focused on the highly variable records left by people manufacturing and using diverse material goods and practising subsistence strategies that included hunting, gathering, fishing, herding and in a few instances farming. The main goals of the session were to emphasise and make sense of the variation in archaeological records for late foragers and early food producers and to bring together a younger generation of scholars. Given a new wave of research on these topics over the last decade, such a gathering seemed appropriate and timely. Kennedy Mutundu opens the volume with a paper that underscores the difficulties of interpreting midto late Holocene sites, the variable material and faunal assemblages of which may have been accumulated by people practising hunting, herding, or a combination thereof. Drawing on his previous ethnohistoric research on the Laikipia Plateau and more recent ethnoarchaeological work among Maasai herders, Mutundu offers some indicators that might be used to tease apart the complexities of sites formed by people who do not fit into clear definitions of foragers or herders, or that result from inter-group contact. His work can be broadly applied to other transitional contexts and is particularly relevant to interpreting the sites discussed in this volume. Issues of contact are further addressed by the next three papers, all of which explore aspects of foraging occupations associated with the Kansyore, a ceramic
Gastric emptying of water and isocaloric carbohydrate solutions consumed at rest.

This study assessed the gastric emptying rates of water and four isocaloric carbohydrate solutions in resting subjects. On five occasions, subjects ingested 400 ml of water or 6% solutions of glucose, sucrose, maltodextrin, and sucrose+glucose. The double-sampling technique was used to sample stomach contents immediately after ingestion and at 10-min intervals until emptying was complete. Comparisons of various criteria of gastric emptying (percentage of initial beverage volume remaining in the stomach, mean gastric emptying rates, and gross gastric volumes) provided somewhat different results. For example, when gastric emptying was portrayed as the percentage of initial beverage volume remaining in the stomach, the glucose and maltodextrin beverages exhibited significantly slower emptying characteristics; there were no differences in this measure among water, sucrose, and sucrose+glucose. Similar results were noted when changes in gross gastric volumes were compared. However, when the results are expressed as mean gastric emptying rates (in ml.min-1), few differences are noted among beverage treatments. Gastric emptying rate was not influenced by the osmolality of the ingested solutions. The results of this study demonstrate the importance of using more than one measurement criteria to assess and compare gastric emptying characteristics.
Prevalence and Sociodemographic Profile of Lithium-induced Cutaneous Side Effects in Bipolar Affective Disorder Patients: A 1-year Prospective Observational Study in South India

Objectives: Objective in our study is i) To assess the prevalence and sociodemographic profile of cutaneous side effects in bipolar affective disorder patients (BPAD) on lithium. ii) To assess the course of pre-existing skin reactions, when patient is initiated on lithium therapy. Methods: Lithium induced cutaneous side effects were assessed at baseline and monthly for 6 months followed by every 2 months over a year. Dermatologist opinion obtained to diagnose and treat for each patient who developed cutaneous side effects. Data were analyzed in percentage. Results: The prevalence of lithium induced cutaneous side effects in our study is 38.46%. On analyzing the individual subtype of cutaneous lesions, acneiform eruption and hairfall were most common. The cutaneous adverse reactions on lithium are more common in early adulthood than in the late adulthood and geriatric age group and among the subtypes of skin lesion acneiform eruptions are more common among males than in females. On analyzing the course of pre-existing lesions, severe alopecia developed with pre-existing systemic lupus erythematosis. Conclusion: These novel finding indicate that prevalence of lithium induced cutaneous side effects continues to be high. Hence, clinician should educate the patients before initiating lithium to improve attrition rate.
Acute toxicity in rats and mice exposed to hydrogen chloride gas and aerosols.

Hydrogen chloride (HC1) is one of the combustion products formed during the test firing of certain rocket and missile engines. A study was undertaken to determine the LC50 values for rats and mice exposed to various measured concentrations of either HC1 gas or HC1 aerosol for 5 and 30 minutes. This accomplished two objectives; first, to define short-exposure toxicity levels for HC1 in either form and second, to determine whether the aerosol form represented a greater hazard than the gas itself. The respiratory tract was the primary target for HC1 in either form, and lesions were similar to those produced by other severe pulmonary irritants. The results indicate that HC1 gas and HCI aerosol have comparable toxicity in rats and mice. Comparison of these results with another study of HCI gas toxicity in rabbits and guinea pigs showed that HCI gas had the same degree of toxicity in mice, rabbits and guinea pigs while rats were considerably more tolerant.
Improving outcomes by changing hemodialysis practice patterns

Purpose of reviewThis review examines recent advances in understanding of how clinical outcomes for hemodialysis patients may be improved by achieving longer or more frequent treatment times, lower ultrafiltration rates (UFRs), improving nutritional status, and individualizing dialysate composition. This review also discusses the controversy related to timing of dialysis initiation. Recent findingsMany observational studies and several randomized controlled trials indicate longer dialysis treatment times, particularly nocturnal dialysis, and/or more frequent dialysis improve morbidity and mortality. Recent evidence also suggests that lower UFR and more consistent achievement of ‘dry weight’ may help minimize the damage from myocardial stunning and chronic volume overload that occurs in the majority of patients who receive conventional hemodialysis during the day with a standard schedule of 3–5 h, 3 times a week. Other aspects of the dialysis procedure such as appropriate estimated glomerular filtration rate for dialysis initiation and individualizing dialysate composition may also minimize cardiovascular risk. Finally, several studies have highlighted the benefits of oral nutritional supplementation (ONS) during dialysis. SummaryGreater treatment times per week with slower UFR, consistent attainment of ‘dry weight’, individualized dialysate prescriptions, and administration of ONS to malnourished patients are likely to reduce hospitalizations and improve survival in this high-risk population of end-stage renal disease patients.
CHARACTERIZATION OF ODOURS EMITTED BY LIQUID WASTE TREATMENT

Odour emissions from liquid waste treatment plants (LWTPs) generally cause significant effects on the environment in terms of nuisance to exposed population. The particular and complex nature of the mixture of the volatile substances, its variability in time and the strong influence of the atmospheric conditions, are the elements that delayed their regulation and relative management. Limited data are available in the technical and scientific literature, regarding the odour emissions characterization from liquid waste treatment plants. Moreover there isn’t a common strategy from the different European Countries in the regulation of their emissions. Different methods can be used to measure odour emissions from environmental engineering plants, and currently, in Europe, the most used techniques for odour emissions characterization and quantification is the dynamic olfactometry, according to EN 13725:2003. The aim of this study is the characterization of the odour emissions from different liquid waste treatment plants (LWTPs), through a case study of two large real LWTPs, in order to identify the principal odour sources and to define their related odour emissions. Odour Concentration Index (OCI) is proposed as a useful and simply odour management tool for the identification of the priority actions necessary to identify and control the main odorous sources. Relationship between the measured odour emissions and the types of treated liquid waste (identified in terms of EWC code, COD and NH4) is also discussed. Results show that the influent collection tank is the source with the highest detected odour emissions. OCI results are useful for the definition of a clear priority action for odour control, similar for both investigated plants. Between the characterized types of liquid waste treated by LWTPs the leachate (EWC 190703) show the maximum odour emissions.
Population Data at Two Short Tandem Repeat Loci D2S1338 and D19S433 in the Sample of Multinational Bosnia and Herzegovina Residents

POPULATION: We have analyzed the distribution of allele frequencies at two short tandem repeats loci (D2S1338 and D19S433) in a multinational sample of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) residents. A total of 110 unrelated male and female individuals (Caucasians) from different regions of B&H were sampled for the analysis. We ensured that the sample reflected approximate proportional participation of the three main ethnic groups in the population of B&H (Bosniacs‐Muslim [45%], Serbs [34%], Croats [21%]).
Robust pole assignment for the control of uncertain nonlinear discrete-time systems

This paper concerns a robust pole assignment for the control of uncertain discrete-time nonlinear systems. A composed model of two parts is used to describe the dynamic of the considered system. The first part is linear affected by bounded uncertainties. It is obtained by the nominal system linearization around some operating points. The second part is nonlinear. A robust pole assignment called `pole colouring' is employed for the system control. It is synthesized basing only on the linear uncertain part of the model. Finally, two simulation examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method.
CLCMiner: Detecting Cross-Language Clones without Intermediates

SUMMARY The proliferation of diverse kinds of programming lan- guages and platforms makes it a common need to have the same functionality implemented in di ﬀ erent languages for di ﬀ erent platforms, such as Java for Android applications and C# for Windows phone applications. Although versions of code written in di ﬀ erent languages appear syntactically quite di ﬀ erent from each other, they are intended to implement the same software and typically contain many code snippets that implement similar functionalities, which we call cross-language clones . When the version of code in one language evolves according to changing functionality require- ments and / or bug ﬁxes, its cross-language clones may also need be changed to maintain consistent implementations for the same functionality. Thus, it is needed to have automated ways to locate and track cross-language clones within the evolving software. In the literature, approaches for de- tecting cross-language clones are only for languages that share a common intermediate language (such as the .NET language family) because they are built on techniques for detecting single-language clones. To extend the capability of cross-language clone detection to more diverse kinds of lan- guages, we propose a novel automated approach, CLCMiner , without the need of an intermediate language. It mines such clones from revision his- tories, based on our assumption that revisions to di ﬀ erent versions of code implemented in di ﬀ erent languages may naturally reﬂect how programmers change cross-language clones in practice, and that similarities among the revisions (referred to as clones in di ﬀ s or di ﬀ clones ) may indicate actual similar code. We have implemented a prototype and applied it to ten open source projects implementations in both Java and C#. The reported clones that occur in revision histories are of high precisions (89% on average) and recalls (95% on average). Compared with token-based code clone detec- tion tools that can treat code as plain texts, our tool can detect signiﬁcantly more cross-language clones. All the evaluation results demonstrate the fea- sibility of revision-history based techniques for detecting cross-language clones without intermediates and point to promising future work.