Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mental Health Problems in Japanese Brazilians in Japan from the Viewpoint of 'Transnational Migrant Community' in a Post- Modern World

We examined the relationship between the various psychosocial problems in Japanese-Brazilians (JB) in Japan highlighted in our recent community-based researches (Miyasaka et al., 2002; Otsuka et al., 2003) and the structure of their community as one of the largest foreign immigrant groups in the country, through the point of view of 'transnational migrant community (TMC)' by Rouse (1991) and Tsuda (2003). We insisted that some characteristics of their community as a TMC in a post modern world would adversely affect their mental health status by promoting their ouble marginalization in Japan and Brazil and suggested the negative effects of the TMC on the mental health of their children and adolescence.
EFFECT OF SOME MANAGEMENT FACTORS ON THE INCIDENCE OF BREAST BLISTERS IN HEAVY BROILERS.

Abstract PRIMARILY because of improved production practices, there is a trend in the poultry industry toward marketing broiler-type birds at heavier body weights. Several years ago, Wisman et al. (1961) demonstrated that it was more economical, production-wise, to grow broilers of both sexes to 11 weeks of age than to 9 weeks of age before marketing. There is also a growing interest in the production of young roasters or broiler-type birds that are marketed beyond 11 weeks of age. Perhaps the greatest deterrent to the production of a heavier bird is the noticeable increase in the occurrence of breast blisters which results in a downgrading of the carcass. Many genetic, physiological and environmental factors thought to affect the occurrence of breast blisters have been previously investigated. Among the genetic and physiological factors, an increased incidence has been found with increasing age or body weight by Smith (1956), Winget et al. (1958),…
Relative effects of whole-body sublethal doses of 60-MeV protons and 300-kVp X-rays on disease incidences in RF mice.

Over 3100 young-adult female RF/Un mice were given wholebody exposure to 60-MeV protons or 300-kVp x rays (0 to 400 rads) and were observed for life- shortening effects and neoplastic and nonneoplastic diseases. Complete pathological examination was done on all animals, and 81% were examined histologically. Similar dose-response curves were seen for most diseases but, with the exception of ovarian tumor induction, x-rays were slightly more effective in inducing a specific disease than were protons. For life-shortening, x rays were more effective at all doses (0.34 to 0.80 day's life-shortening per rad) with the greatest difference in effect between x rays and protons found at the two lowest doses, 50 and 100 rads. X rays increased the combined incidences of thymic lymphoma and myeioid leukemia, but these leukemias did not account for all life-shortening at higher doses (100 to 400 rads); the remainder may be related to an increase in ovarian tumors. X rays were more effective than protons in inducing myeloid leukemias at 50 to 200 rads and thymic lymphoma at 300 to 400 rads with no differences at other doses. Maximum incidences were reached with x rays at 300 and 400 rads for thymic lymphoma and at 200more » rads for myeloid leukemia while there was no difference in effect between radiations on reticulum cell sarcoma and nonthymic lymphoma frequency. Combined observed incidences of all leukemias were not different from controls and irradiated groups at 50 rads, nor at 100 rads for protons, but increased at higher doses. Lung tumor incidence showed a negative dose-response due to the failure of animals to survive long enough to develop this usually nonfatal disease. Ovarian tumors were increased by all doses of both radiations and this was the only instance where protons were more effectlve than x rays; maximum response was seen at 100 rads for hoth radiations. Pituitary gland and harderian gland tumors may have been increased by radiation (P < 0.10 and <0.05, respectively), but the effect was not dose dependent. Nonneoplastic diseases showed little effect from radiation. Relative biological effectiveness (RBE) for 60-MeV protons was estimated at 0.63 for life-shortening, and at generally slightly less than 1.0 for all parameters, excluding ovarian tumors. Only thymic lymphoma, myeloid leukemia, and ovarian tumors were significantly increased by radiation, with suggested increases in harderian gland and pituitary gland tumors. Other pathological alterations in incidence and severity of disease would appear to be minimal when compared to nonirradiated populations. (auth)« less
Enhanced model for PKI certificate validation in the mobile banking

Mobile banking is a service that allows customers to do banking transactions on their mobile phone. Bank transactions, such as balance inquiry, money transfer, online payments and other mobile services usually require the transmission of critical information. Therefore, it is extremely necessary to provide the security services including the confidentiality, integrity, and authentication. The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) system can be used to provide the four security services, in particular, the authentication service for mobile banking. Because the current PKI systems use the RSA asymmetric algorithm with key lengths of 1024-4096 bits and advanced web browsers to deal with the certificate validation, it is not appropriate for the mobile devices, which have limited resources and software. This paper proposes an efficient PKI system for mobile devices. In the improved model, the NTRU replaces the RSA algorithm and the Micali's NOVOMODO system has been use to provide efficient certificate validation. This new setup for PKI complies with the limited resources of the mobile devices and provides the four security services with cheap computational costs).
Impact of combination evidence based medical treatment in patients with acute coronary syndromes in various TIMI risk groups

The term acute coronary syndrome (ACS) refers to a spectrum of acute severe cardiac disorders which include unstable angina (UA), non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), and ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Patients presenting with ACS represent a major health problem, accounting for 2.5 million hospitalisations and 500 000 deaths annually in the USA alone.1 We have previously demonstrated that use of combination evidence based medical treatments including antiplatelet agents, β blockers, statins, and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors is independently and strongly associated with lower six month mortality in patients with ACS.2 In the present study we assessed the treatment effect of combination therapy in patients stratified according to their risk of future cardiovascular events according to the thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) risk score. There were 1358 patients who were admitted to, or discharged from, inpatient services at the University of Michigan Medical Center from 1 January 1999 to 11 March 2002 with a diagnosis of ACS. Ninety four patients had documented contraindications to β blockers or ACE inhibitors and were excluded from the analysis. The study cohort included the remaining 1264 patients. The study protocol was approved by the institutional review board at the University of Michigan and informed consent was obtained from all patients. Mortality data at six months follow up was obtained for 100% of the patients based on health system record review and/or telephone call interview. An appropriateness algorithm for the use of each of the …
Schemas : A Preliminary Report

Large-scale information integration, and in particular, search on the World Wide Web, is pushing the limits on the combination of structured data and unstructured data. By its very nature, as we combine a large number of information sources, our ability to model the domain in a completely structured way diminishes. We argue that in order to build applications that combine structured and unstructured data, there is a need for a new modeling tool. We consider the question of modeling an application domain whose data may be partially structured and partially unstructured. In particular, we are concerned with applications where the border between the structured and unstructured parts of the data is not well defined, not well known in advance, or may evolve over time. We propose the concept of malleable schemas as a modeling tool that enables incorporating both structured and unstructured data from the very beginning, and evolving one’s model as it becomes more structured. A malleable schema begins the same way as a traditional schema, but at certain points gradually becomes vague, and we use keywords to describe schema elements such as classes and properties. The important aspect of malleable schemas is that a modeler can capture the important aspects of the domain at modeling time without having to commit to a very strict schema. The vague parts of the schema can later evolve to have more structure, or can remain as such. Users can pose queries in which references to schema elements can be imprecise, and the query processor will consider closely related schema elements as well.
Decreased cerebrospinal fluid cytochrome c levels in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Objective. There is evidence showing impaired mitochondrial energy production and increased oxidative damage to mitochondria in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). It is known that a lack of cytochrome c (CyC) in the mitochondrial intermembrane space can increase free radical release from mitochondria through interruption of the electron transport. CyC also plays a role in the apoptotic cell death which is suspected in ALS. The aim of the study was to measure cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum CyC levels in patients with ALS. Material and methods. Forty ALS patients were diagnosed according to the El Escorial criteria of ALS. The clinical state of the patients was measured using the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating Scale [ALSFRS]. Results. It was shown that overall CyC levels were significantly decreased by 46 % in the CSF of patients with ALS compared with controls (p<0.05), and not affected in serum of patients with ALS (p>0.05). There was no significant difference in CyC levels in relation to the clinical parameters of the disease (p>0.05). Conclusions. The study indicates that CyC may play a role in the pathogenesis of ALS. A possible mechanism is that increased neurodegeneration in ALS caused by free radical production decreases the concentrations of CyC.
Ultrastructural observations in the rat ileal mucosa of possible epithelial "taste cells" and submucosal sensory neurons.

Electronmicroscopical studies of the rat ileum have demonstrated the presence of submucosal neuronlike cells located just under the basal lamina of intestinal crypts. These cells had dendrite-like processes and frequently made contacts with adjacent submucosal nerve terminals. Furthermore, within the mucosa epithelial "clear' cells with apical cytoplasmic processes into the gut lumen and basal cytoplasmic processes extending underneath adjacent epithelial cells were demonstrated. The "clear' cells were devoid of secretory granules, as e.g. endocrine cells, and had a morphological resemblance to taste cells. Occasionally the "clear' cells made contacts with submucosal nerve terminals. The possibility that the "clear' cells and submucosal neuronlike cells represent a receptive function within the intestine is discussed.
The Impact of Negative Affect on Attention Patterns to Threat Across the First 2 Years of Life

The current study examined the relations between individual differences in attention to emotion faces and temperamental negative affect across the first 2 years of life. Infant studies have noted a normative pattern of preferential attention to salient cues, particularly angry faces. A parallel literature suggests that elevated attention bias to threat is associated with anxiety, particularly if coupled with temperamental risk. Examining the emerging relations between attention to threat and temperamental negative affect may help distinguish normative from at-risk patterns of attention. Infants (N = 145) ages 4 to 24 months (M = 12.93 months, SD = 5.57) completed an eye-tracking task modeled on the attention bias “dot-probe” task used with older children and adults. With age, infants spent greater time attending to emotion faces, particularly threat faces. All infants displayed slower latencies to fixate to incongruent versus congruent probes. Neither relation was moderated by temperament. Trial-by-trial analyses found that dwell time to the face was associated with latency to orient to subsequent probes, moderated by the infant’s age and temperament. In young infants low in negative affect longer processing of angry faces was associated with faster subsequent fixation to probes; young infants high in negative affect displayed the opposite pattern at trend. Findings suggest that although age was directly associated with an emerging bias to threat, the impact of processing threat on subsequent orienting was associated with age and temperament. Early patterns of attention may shape how children respond to their environments, potentially via attention’s gate-keeping role in framing a child’s social world for processing.
Distinct superinfection interference properties yet similar receptor utilization by cytopathic and noncytopathic feline leukemia viruses

Cell killing by cytopathic retroviruses is often associated with a delay or failure in the establishment of superinfection interference. Superinfection has been observed during T-cell killing and fatal immunodeficiency disease induction by the feline leukemia virus (FeLV) chimera FeLV-FAIDS-EECC, containing the surface envelope glycoprotein (SU) of FeLV-FAIDS clone 61C. We demonstrate here that 61C SU has a defect that results in a nearly complete failure to establish superinfection interference against homologous virus challenge. This failure was evident only in feline T (FeT) cell clones expressing envelope protein, not in the rare cells that have survived cytopathic infection to become chronically infected. The regions of SU responsible for this defect were the same as those previously identified as responsible for T-cell killing. The superinfection interference properties of a noncytophatic molecular clone, FeLV-FAIDS-61E, were different in that 61E established interference to homologous virus challenge, both in SU-expressing cell clones and in chronically infected cells. Neither 61E nor EECC established interference against heterologous virus challenge. Viruses expressing chimeric SU proteins displayed varied and intermediate interference properties. Purified 61E and 61C SU competed for binding sites on FeT cell surfaces, and purified 61E SU blocked infection of virus bearing 61E or 61C SU. In addition, purified 61E and 61C SU each coprecipitated 70-kDa FeT cell surface proteins. Our data are consistent with the hypothesis that there are multiple cellular components necessary for 61E and 61C attachment to and penetration of FeT cells, a primary receptor that is utilized by both 61E and 61C, and secondary receptors that are likely to be virus specific.
Classification Model of Prediction for Placement of Students

Data mining methodology can analyze relevant information results and produce different perspectives to understand more about the students' activities. When designing an educational environment, applying data mining techniques discovers useful information that can be used in formative evaluation to assist educators establish a pedagogical basis for taking important decisions. Mining in education environment is called Educational Data Mining. Educational Data Mining is concerned with developing new methods to discover knowledge from educational database and can used for decision making in educational system. In this study, we collected the student's data that have different information about their previous and current academics records and then apply different classification algorithm using Data Mining tools (WEKA) for analysis the student's academics performance for Training and placement. This study presents a proposed model based on classification approach to find an enhanced evaluation method for predicting the placement for students. This model can determine the relations between academic achievement of students and their placement in campus selection.
FPGA based cascaded multilevel pulse width modulation for single phase inverter

This article explores the development of FPGA based controller for conventional and cascaded multilevel PWM single phase inverter. The conventional multilevel inverter is constructed by the H-bridge and cascaded multilevel inverter constructed by two full H-bridges. FPGA logic device is chosen for the hardware implementation of control circuit. VHDL language is used to model the inverter switching strategies. The proposed controller generates 4 and 8 control signals for conventional multilevel inverter and cascaded multilevel inverter respectively. These inverters provide 3-level and 7- level output voltages. Matlab/System generator and XILINX are used as a simulation and compiler architecture of control circuit embedded in FPGA. These inverter topologies with filters would have reduced harmonics and can operate at high efficiency.
EPOS 2012: European position paper on rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps 2012. A summary for otorhinolaryngologists.

The European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps 2012 is the update of similar evidence based position papers published in 2005 and 2007. The document contains chapters on definitions and classification, we now also proposed definitions for difficult to treat rhinosinusitis, control of disease and better definitions for rhinosinusitis in children. More emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and treatment of acute rhinosinusitis. Throughout the document the terms chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) are used to further point out differences in pathophysiology and treatment of these two entities. There are extensive chapters on epidemiology and predisposing factors, inflammatory mechanisms, (differential) diagnosis of facial pain, genetics, cystic fibrosis, aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease, immunodeficiencies, allergic fungal rhinosinusitis and the relationship between upper and lower airways. The chapters on paediatric acute and chronic rhinosinusitis are totally rewritten. Last but not least all available evidence for management of acute rhinosinusitis and chronic rhinosinusitis with or without nasal polyps in adults and children is analyzed and presented and management schemes based on the evidence are proposed. This executive summary for otorhinolaryngologists focuses on the most important changes and issues for otorhinolaryngologists. The full document can be downloaded for free on the website of this journal: http://www.rhinologyjournal. com.
Applications GeoGebra into teaching some topics of mathematics at the college level

This paper presents new trends in technology and learning through GeoGebra, which could be especially important for the future development of e-learning for College mathematics. Also, contribution of this paper is presentation of methodological frames on several specifics examples for teaching mathematics at the college level on interactive and creative way. Discussed in this paper are the findings of a didactic experiment where some number of undergraduate students were exposed to an innovative (to the departments) method of teaching and learning a part of calculus supported by GeoGebra. Statistical analysis confirmed the fact that the use of the applets created with the help of GeoGebra and used in differential calculus teaching had a positive effect on the understanding and knowledge of the students.
A broadband high-voltage SLIC for a splitter- and transformerless combined ADSL-Lite/POTS linecard

A monolithic broadband subscriber line interface circuit (B-SLIC) has been integrated in the smart power technology SPT170B, combining the functionality of an analog 150-V ringing SLIC with that of a line driver for ADSL-Lite data signals. Thus the B-SLIC is the key circuit for the realization of a very compact integrated voice data (IVD) central office linecard that neither needs analog filters ("POTS-splitter") nor transformers or relays. In spite of the fundamental voltage/frequency tradeoff, the B-SLIC is able to feed high dc or ring voltages to the line, while simultaneously acting as voice and data transceiver. Total harmonic distortion values are below -60 dB even for a high 25-V/sub pp//550-kHz sine wave signal into a 200 /spl Omega/ load; ADSL-signal-based multitone power ratio (MTPR) measurements also yield results better than 60 dB. Power dissipation in simultaneous voice and data operation is about 2.2 W.
Distributional results for thresholding estimators in high-dimensional Gaussian regression models

We study the distribution of hard-, soft-, and adaptive soft-thresholding estimators within a linear regression model where the number of parameters k can depend on sample size n and may diverge with n. In addition to the case of known error-variance, we define and study versions of the estimators when the error-variance is unknown. We derive the finite-sample distribution of each estimator and study its behavior in the large-sample limit, also investigating the effects of having to estimate the variance when the degrees of freedom n-k does not tend to infinity or tends to infinity very slowly. Our analysis encompasses both the case where the estimators are tuned to perform consistent model selection and the case where the estimators are tuned to perform conservative model selection. Furthermore, we discuss consistency, uniform consistency and derive the minimax rate under either type of tuning.
The Importance of an Updating Internal Representation of the Environment in the Control of Visual Sampling

Theories of visual sampling have been founded on the assumption that human monitors use an internal representation of the environment, which changes over time in accordance with the person's expectations. Experimental evidence supporting this view is equivocal since it is based on sampling performance averaged over long periods of a test session. Two experiments are reported that use the instrumental observing response as an index of sampling. Subjects were set to discover critical events presented to three information sources, and these events were preceded by varying amounts of extra information, which affected event predictability. A procedure for data analysis was developed to evaluate the relation between sampling behaviour and the moment-to-moment changes in the states of the sources. Results supported the view that sampling was dependent on a constantly updating internal representation of the environment.
A network of proteins around Rvs167p and Rvs161p, two proteins related to the yeast actin cytoskeleton

The Rvs161p and Rvs167p proteins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, homologues of higher eukaryotes' amphiphysins, associate with actin and appear to be involved in several functions related to the actin cytoskeleton. In order to identify partners of the Rvsp proteins, yeast libraries constructed in two‐hybrid vectors were screened using either Rvs167p or Rvs161p as a bait. The selected candidates, representing 34 ORFs, were then tested against both Rvsp proteins, as well as domains of Rvs167p or Rvs161p. Among the most significant ones, 24 ORFs were specific preys of Rvs167p only and two gave interactions with Rvs161p only. Interestingly, five ORFs were preys of both Rvs161p and Rvs167p (RVS167, LAS17, YNL094w, YMR192w and YPL249c). Analysis of putative functions of the candidates confirm involvement of the Rvsp in endocytosis/vesicle traffic, but also opens possible new fields, such as nuclear functions. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.