Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Asymmetrical Relationship between Prediction and Control during Visuomotor Adaptation

Visual Abstract Current theories suggest that the ability to control the body and to predict its associated sensory consequences is key for skilled motor behavior. It is also suggested that these abilities need to be updated when the mapping between motor commands and sensory consequences is altered. Here we challenge this view by investigating the transfer of adaptation to rotated visual feedback between one task in which human participants had to control a cursor with their hand in order to track a moving target, and another in which they had to predict with their eyes the visual consequences of their hand movement on the cursor. Hand and eye tracking performances were evaluated respectively through cursor–target and eye–cursor distance. Results reveal a striking dissociation: although prior adaptation of hand tracking greatly facilitates eye tracking, the adaptation of eye tracking does not transfer to hand tracking. We conclude that although the update of control is associated with the update of prediction, prediction can be updated independently of control. To account for this pattern of results, we propose that task demands mediate the update of prediction and control. Although a joint update of prediction and control seemed mandatory for success in our hand tracking task, the update of control was only facultative for success in our eye tracking task. More generally, those results promote the view that prediction and control are mediated by separate neural processes and suggest that people can learn to predict movement consequences without necessarily promoting their ability to control these movements.
Data Comparability in a Mixed Mode Telephone and Face to Face Survey of Persons with Disabilities. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research

The purpose of this analysis is to compare data collected via telephone and face-to-face interviewing on a national survey of disability beneficiaries. Krosnick (2002) and others have suggested that telephone interviewing may pose more of a cognitive burden on respondents than face-to-face interviewing and that this effect may be more pronounced for individuals with reduced cognitive abilities. Since the sample for this survey is comprised entirely of individuals with physical and mental impairments, we were interested in whether survey mode would have an impact on data quality indictors such as acquiescence, social desirability, item non-response, and nondifferentiation in response. To determine whether there were differences in data quality between telephone and face-to-face modes, chisquare analyses were performed to determine whether there was an association between mode and response for select items. Since participants were not randomly assigned to mode, we controlled for the nonexperimental nature of the study by comparing subsets of respondents matched by demographic characteristics on several indicators of data quality. The results indicate that for the key items tested, there was more evidence of acquiescence, more social desirability in response, and more item non-response in CATI than CAPI. We conclude that mode of data collection may have effected data quality in this survey. However, we found that this effect was greatest for items that were vague or cognitively demanding. Factual questions about behavior appear to show the minimal, if any, mode effects.
Experiences of returning patients at a Homoeopathic community clinic

Introduction Abstract South Africa has a dual healthcare system which comprises of a public and private healthcare sector. The public sector is state controlled and provides allopathic medicinal care only, whilst the private healthcare sector is flexible. This means that the population has the choice of the medicinal therapy such as allopathic medicine or complementary medicine. Homeopathy is one of the complementary medicine with major growth and it has been in existence for so long in South Africa. However, a large proportion of the South African public is unclear with regards to homoeopathic understanding. Aim of the study The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of returning patients at Ukuba Nesibindi Homoeopathic Community Clinic and the study was guided by the grand tour question that is: What are the experiences as a returning patient, at UNHCC with regard to the care they had received? Methodology A qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual design was employed. Holloway and Wheeler (2010) suggest that a qualitative research in the field of healthcare is used to establish how people think of the experiences and their suffering and further explore their perspective on the care and treatment they received within the healthcare system. Purposive sampling was used to recruit a minimum of 12 participants who had visited the clinic four times or more. The data was collected and analysed using Tesch’s eight-step procedure. Results The results showed that although majority of the participant had vague understanding of homoeopathy, participants acknowledged that the quality of help received at the homeopathic clinic were highly beneficial. Furthermore, thematic analysis showed that participant ware dissatisfied with other streams of healthcare and contented with homoeopathic treatment. However, participants highlighted that the infrastructure at UNHCC needs improvement in terms of space. Conclusion The salient themes of this study strongly suggest that homeopathic medicine and practices was widely accepted by the participant. It also emerged that participant had trust and expressed confidence in homoeopaths at UNHCC. Based on these findings, the researcher highly recommends the need for the integration of homoeopathic practice and medicine into the South Africa Primary health care. Importantly, the integration of homoeopathic medicine as a primary health care provider will help provide an alternati ve platform to ease the load on conventional allopathic medical clinics.
Acute and chronic magnetic resonance imaging of human herpesvirus-6 associated encephalitis

Abstract Human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) has been associated with central nervous system encephalitis in immunocompetent children. To determine acute and chronic changes on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a series of consecutive pediatric immunocompetent patients diagnosed with HHV-6 associated encephalitis. A retrospective review of acute and chronic MRI findings of immunocompetent children diagnosed with HHV-6 associated encephalitis from 2001–2008 was performed. Diagnosis was established by real time polymerase chain reaction using HHV-6 U77 helicase gene-specific primers on cerebrospinal fluid during the acute phase of illness, excluding other known causes of encephalitis. Seven patients (four girls, ages 9 months–7 years) were diagnosed with HHV-6 associated encephalitis from 2001–2008. MRI abnormalities were present in six of seven patients. Three had bithalamic signal abnormalities on T2 weighted sequences that mimicked metabolic or demyelinating disease. All patients with MRI abnormalities had diffuse signal changes in the brainstem (n = 5) and/or cerebellum (n = 4). One patient with diffuse abnormalities in cortical grey and white matter, hippocampus, and cerebellum showed complete resolution of MRI findings after 1 month. Five patients had extensive necrosis of the acutely affected regions on follow up MRI 3 to 16 months post diagnosis. HHV-6 associated encephalitis can occur in immunocompetent children with a myriad of acute and chronic necrotizing changes on MRI. MRI abnormalities were seen predominantly in the thalami, brainstem, and cerebellum; and may be reflective of anatomical viral tropism. HHV-6 should be considered in the differential diagnosis of unexplained MRI changes in patients with encephalitis.
Therapeutic Pool Activities for Young Children in a Community Facility

With the availability of therapy pools in many communities, therapeutic pool activities and swimming can be utilized as a valuable adjunct to a regular therapy program. Although pediatric therapists have many skills with which to consult to an ongoing recreational oriented program, they need certain aquatic training and experience to initiate and supervise a therapy oriented pool program. Pool activities incorporate therapy goals and techniques for neuromuscular and orthopedic disabilities. The parent involvement and use of community resources are beneficial outcomes of the program. In addition, the psychological and physical well-being of each child develops as the experience becomes a therapeutic recreation. This article describes a four-year program and presents the rationale for a cooperative pool facility/developmental center program for young preschool children.
Influence of Honey on Biochemical and Biophysical Parameters of Wounds in Rats

The influence of honey on biochemical and biophysical parameters of wounds was assessed by making an excision wound by cutting away a 4cm2 (2cm×2cm) full-thickness patch of skin from the shaven back of rats under ether anaesthesia. One milliliter of pure, commercial, unboiled honey was applied topically (Group II), or administered orally (Group III) or intraperitoneally (Group IV). The control rats were left untreated (Group I). The rate of healing was assessed by estimation of some biochemical parameters like DNA, total protein, total collagen, hexosamine and uronic acid contents of the granulation tissues formed different times after wound creation. All the biochemical parameters increased in honey-treated animals when compared with the control values. The increases were very significant with oral and intraperitoneal treatment when compared with those with the topical. Biophysical parameters like tensile strength, stress-strain behavior, rate of contraction, and period of epithelialization were also studied. There was an approximately 21% increase in tensile strength in Group II rats, whereas the increase was more in Group III (34.5%) and Group IV (52%) rats. The stress-strain behavior also followed the same trend. A significant increase in the rate of contraction was observed equally in all three honey-treated groups when their values were compared to the control. Among the three experimental groups, the intraperitoneal treatment decreased the period of epithelialization more significantly (37%) than the oral (22%) and topical (15%) treatments. The decrease in the period of epithelialization showed that the time taken by the wounds to heal was less with systemic treatment than with no treatment (control).
Text Detection in Natural Scenes and Technical Diagrams with Convolutional Feature Learning and Cascaded Classification

An enormous amount of digital images are being generated and stored every day. Understanding text in these images is an important challenge with large impacts for academic, industrial and domestic applications. Recent studies address the difficulty of separating text targets from noise and background, all of which vary greatly in natural scenes. To tackle this problem, we develop a text detection system to analyze and utilize visual information in a data driven, automatic and intelligent way. The proposed method incorporates features learned from data, including patch-based coarse-to-fine detection (Text-Conv), connected component extraction using region growing, and graph-based word segmentation (Word-Graph). Text-Conv is a sliding window-based detector, with convolution masks learned using the Convolutional k-means algorithm (Coates et. al, 2011). Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a single vector/layer of convolution mask responses are used to classify patches. An initial coarse detection considers both local and neighboring patch responses, followed by refinement using varying aspect ratios and rotations for a smaller local detection window. Different levels of visual detail from ground truth are utilized in each step, first using constraints on bounding box intersections, and then a combination of bounding box and pixel intersections. Combining masks from different Convolutional k-means initializations, e.g., seeded using random vectors and then support vectors improves performance. The Word-Graph algorithm uses contextual information to improve word segmentation and prune false character detections based on visual features and spatial context. Our system obtains pixel, character, and word detection f-measures of 93.14%, 90.26%, and 86.77% respectively for the ICDAR 2015 Robust Reading Focused Scene Text
The Effectiveness of Extract Snack Head Fish and Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) on Sputum Conversion and Levels of Interferon-? in Patients with Pulmonary TB Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) in Labuang Baji Hospital Makassar

Treatment of pulmonary MDR TB disease is relatively very expensive and takes a long time to heal, This study aims to determine the effect of treatment DOTS-Plus capsules supplemented catfish albumin protein coupled VCO can affect the conversion of sputum smear and levels of interferon- ɣ in pulmonary MDR TB patients who received treatment DOTS-Plus in Labuang Baji Hospital, Makassar. This study is a quantitative study with randomized controlled quasi-experimental approach with a sample size of 30 people (15 experimental, 15 control). Data analysis was done using
Observation of functional dyspepsia with spleen stomach qi deficiency treated by Xiangsha Liujunzi decoction

Objective To investigate the effect of functional dyspepsia (FD) with spleen stomach qi deficiency treated by Xiangsha Liujunzi decoction. Methods 60 cases of FD were randomly divided into two groups. Patients in control group (n=30) were treated by Cisapride,thrice a day. Patients in treatment group (n=30) were treated by combination of Cisapride and Xiangsha Liujunzi decoction,twice a day. The therapeutic course was two weeks in two groups. The clinical effect and recurrence rate were recorded after two courses. Results The total effective rate in treatment group (83.3%) was higher than that in control group (60.0%,P0.05). The recurrence rate in the treatment group (26.7%) was lower than that in control group (40.0%,P0.05). Conclusion Xiangsha Liujunzi decoction can strengthen spleen and invigorate Qi,improve symptoms of FD with spleen stomach qi deficiency,and decrease recurrence rate.
Fundamentals of Object Tracking

Preface 1. Introduction to object tracking 2. Filtering theory and non-maneuvering object tracking 3. Maneuvering object tracking 4. Single-object tracking in clutter 5. Single- and multiple-object tracking in clutter: object-existence-based approach 6. Multiple-object tracking in clutter: random-set-based approach 7. Bayesian smoothing algorithms for object tracking 8. Object tracking with time-delayed, out-of-sequence measurements 9. Practical object tracking A. Mathematical and statistical preliminaries B. Finite set statistics (FISST) C. Pseudo-functions in object tracking References Index.
The digital skills paradox: how do digitally excluded youth develop skills to use the internet?

Digital skills are an important aspect of ensuring that all young people are digitally included. Yet, there tends to be an assumption in popular discourse that young people can simply learn these skills by themselves. While experience of technologies forms an important part of the learning process, other resources (i.e., access to technology and support networks) plus clear motivations are required. Through in-depth interviews with 20 young people who are digitally excluded, this paper highlights the kinds of digital skills these young people find problematic, and the reasons why they find developing these skills so challenging. We demonstrate how poor access to technology, limited support networks and their current situation prevent these young people from gaining the experiences they need to support the development of their digital skills; and how lack of experience and inadequate skills limit the extent to which they perceive the internet to be valuable in their lives. These individual experiences, shaped very much by the wider social structure of which they are part, show how young people cannot simply be left to learn digital skills by themselves and that intervention is required to try to address some of the digital inequalities apparent in younger generations.
Contributions to the mathematical study of some problems in magnetohydrodynamics and induction heating

La tesis trata del estudio de un problema termo-magneto-hidrodinamico que aparece en la simulacion de un horno de induccion disenado para fundir silicio, Con vista a la simulacion numerica, se realiza un estudio de un modelo electromagnetico relacionado con el horno, y se introducen metodos numericos adecuados para la discretizacion en tiempo y en espacio. Se incluyen ademas resultados de varias simulaciones para un problema con simetria cilindrica. La tesis incluye tambien un analisis de un modelo matematico para un problema de magnetohidrodinamica, considerando efecto Joule y disipacion viscosa en la ecuacion del calor. Se prueba la existencia y unicidad de solucion para este modelo, bajo varias hipotesis de datos pequenos. Finalmente, se introduce una nueva formulacion del problema electromagnetico que permite mantener la simetria original del horno, sin considerar simetria cilindrica. Para esta formulacion se realiza el analisis matematico y numerico.
Rupture of pregnant uterus: incidence, risk factors, maternal and fetal outcome

Objective: To determine the incidence, risk factors, complications, management modalities and maternal and perinatal outcome of rupture uterus in pregnancy. Methods: This retrospective study was carried out at a teaching institute, for a period of 10 years from January 2006 to December 2015. Clinical records of cases of uterine rupture were reviewed and information on demographic characteristics, clinical presentation, intraoperative findings, surgical intervention and maternal and perinatal outcome was collected. Result: Out of 63237 deliveries, 116 cases of rupture uterus were reported with an incidence of rupture uterus 1 in 545. Majority 52 (44.83%) of cases were in age group 26-30 years. Only 1 was primigravida, 16 (13.79%) were of parity > 5 and remaining of parity 1- 4. Majority were unbooked cases. 93 (80.17%) were referred from other health centers and only 23 (19.83%) cases were admitted directly. Uterine scar (58.62%) and obstructed labor (24.13%) were the common risk factors. Anterior uterine wall of lower uterine segment was the most common site of rupture. Repair of rupture site with or without bilateral tubal ligation was done in 60 (51.72%) cases, while subtotal hysterectomy was performed in 46 (39.65%) cases. Hypovolumic shock was the major cause of maternal death. Conclusion: Promotion of skilled attendance at birth, identification of high risk women and timely referral, use of oxytocic drugs cautiously , correct use of partograph, preventing unnecessary caesarean sections and education of people about supervised pregnancy and delivery are essential in reducing the occurrences of uterine rupture.
Psychometrische kwaliteit van en de verbanden tussen de gedetineerdensurvey en de BASAM-DJI

De Dienst Justitiele Inrichtingen (DJI) neemt tweejaarlijks een personeelsenquete (BASAM) af bij haar medewerkers ter verbetering van de bedrijfsvoering. Door voortschrijdend inzicht en ervaring met het welbevindingsinstrument, is er behoefte ontstaan om na te denken over de noodzaak eventuele aanpassing van BASAM en gedetineerdensurveys door te voeren. De volgende onderzoeksvragen komen aan de orde: Hoe is de psychometrische kwaliteit van de BASAM-DJI en de gedetineerdensurvey te duiden? Zijn de data van de BASAM-DJI en gedetineerdensurvey te koppelen? Welke verbanden bestaan er tussen het welbevinden van gedetineerden en personeel? Welke aanbevelingen kunnen worden gedaan over de meetinstrumenten? Vormen de bevindingen aanleiding om op basis van deze datasets uitgebreider onderzoek te verrichten in het kader van het benchmarken tussen penitentiaire inrichtingen?
Öğretmen Adaylarının Topluma Hizmet Uygulamaları Dersine İlişkin Algıları

Bu arastirmanin amaci, 2008–2009 ogretim yilinda uygulanmasina baslanan Topluma Hizmet Uygulamalari (THU) dersinin ogretmen adaylarinca nasil algilandigini belirlemek ve bu algilarinin cesitli degiskenler acisindan farkliliklar gosterip gostermedigini ortaya koymaktir. Arastirmanin evreni, 2008-2009 ogretim yilinda Ondokuz Mayis Universitesi Egitim Fakultesi Ilkogretim Bolumu 3. sinifta okuyan ve THU dersini alan 415 ogretmen adayindan olusmaktadir. THU dersini alan ogretmen adaylarinin tamamina ulasilmasi hedeflendiginden orneklem secme yoluna gidilmemistir. Ogretmen adaylarinin derse iliskin algilarinin cinsiyet, sivil toplum kurulusuna uyelik ve ogrenim gordukleri anabilim dali degiskenlerine gore farklilasip farklilasmadigi t-testi ve tek boyutlu varyans analizi ile incelenmistir. Genel olarak arastirma sonuclari degerlendirildiginde ogretmen adaylarinin derse iliskin algilarinin olumlu oldugu belirlenmistir. Arastirmanin bagimsiz degiskenlerine gore yapilan analizde; cinsiyet degiskenine gore sosyallesme boyutuna iliskin ogretmen adaylarinin algilari arasinda anlamli bir fark bulunmustur. Ayrica anabilim dali degiskeni acisindan ogretmen adaylarinin kurum boyutu ile ilgili algilari arasinda da anlamli bir fark oldugu belirlenmistir.
Realising the potential of user surveys for improving academic libraries: The case of St John’s College, Cambridge

How can user surveys lead to better decision making to improve libraries? While there are more surveys published on specialised aspects of academic libraries, there are relatively few user surveys published of academic libraries in general. First and foremost this paper argues the user survey is a useful tool for library managers interested in developing their libraries in response to changing user needs, and secondly, for more published accounts of surveys and their usefulness. However, the user survey as a tool for generating evidence-based decision making in libraries fails to achieve its potential if two further important practices are not implemented. First and most importantly, the findings obtained from the survey must be used to inform decision making on managing and leading improvements to the library. This aspect of follow-through from survey findings to management decision making, may well lead to changing resource allocation and priorities, new practices, and improvements to collections and the physical environment. Second, the findings of the survey should be fed back to users as a means of raising their interest and engagement in the academic library as a hub of learning.