Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A NEW METHOD OF OPERATIVE REDUCTION FOR CONGENITAL LUXATION OF THE PATELLA

It is desired to emphasize again the statement that the acquired and congenital patellar luxations have not been carefully differentiated and that similar operative procedures are manifestly illogical of application to dissimilar surgical problems. The acquired luxations invite the solution of a problem in faulty functional joint mechanics. In distinction, the congenital lesions demand the reduction of a fixed dislocation and an anatomic restoration before the functional mechanism can be considered. The above procedure accomplished the correction of the genu valgum and the tibial rotation, without a violation of the bony continuity, by the preliminary application of successive corrective plaster casts. The unavoidable defect resulting from the open reduction of the fixed patellar luxation was completely repaired by the free transplantation of redundant capsular and synovial tissue. Finally, the permanency of the reduction was assured by the reefing of the mesial capsule and a reconstruction of the lines of torsion of the extensor mechanism with which the patella is integral.
A general correlation for the stagnation point Nusselt number of an axisymmetric impinging synthetic jet

Whereas the heat transfer mechanisms in steady impinging jets are well understood, the available knowledge of heat transfer to impinging synthetic jets remains inconsistent. This paper provides an objective comparison of the stagnation point heat transfer performance of axisymmetric impinging synthetic jets versus established steady jet correlations. Furthermore, a general correlation for the stagnation point Nusselt number is proposed including the effect of all appropriate scaling parameters: Reynolds number (500 ≤ Re ≤ 1500), jet‐to‐surface spacing (2 ≤ H/D ≤ 16) and stroke length (2 ≤ /D ≤ 40). Based on the ratio of stroke length to jet‐to‐surface spacing L L0 0/H, four heat transfer regimes are identified.
The Impact of Teacher Perception of Cultural Competence on the Instructional Decision Making of English As Second Language (ESL) Students

Recent research suggests that culturally responsive teaching (CRT) practices have the potential to increase student educational outcomes, as well as to reduce unnecessary or inappropriate placement referrals. Examination of the core components in CRT, teacher efficacy and cultural competence, is proposed to be a critical step to reduce unwarranted referrals of culturally and linguistically diverse students. However, there is limited empirical support for the relationship between CRT and instructional referrals, and even among existing studies there is inconsistency regarding the relation of these constructs. The purpose of this study is to examine teacher factors (i.e., teacher role, degree earned, years of teaching, ESL certification held, language proficiency and ethnicity) as a predictor of teacher competence, and the role these factors play in teachers’ referral decision making. To investigate these relationships, a national sample of elementary teachers (N = 258) completed a survey addressing their background, profession endorsements, sense of teaching efficiency, and the instructional decisions they would make in the scenarios presented. The results of this study revealed that teacher role (i.e., general, ESL or special educator) and ESL certification were important predictors of teacher competency. A statistically significant mean difference in teacher competency was found between teachers with and without ESL certification, indicating ESL certification as an important factor in deciding the level of teacher competency. Finally, teacher competency was found to improve teachers’ instructional decision making in scenarios in which the students displayed linguistic difficulties. The findings provide valuable insights to teacher training programs and other professional development entities regarding how to prepare educators to work more efficiently with ESL students.
The Earth Is Not Round ( p 1⁄4 . 00 )

Continued discussion and debate regarding the appropriate use of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) has led to greater reliance on effect size testing (EST) in published literature. This article examines the myth that uncritical replacement of NHST with EST will improve our science. The use of NHST and EST is described along with a summary of the arguments offered in support and against both. After addressing the veracity of these assertions, the article describes the concept of the translation mechanism and compares the success of NHST and EST as mechanisms. Finally, the authors suggest changes that may facilitate translation in future research.
Study of Genetic Factors Involved in Pain Perception and Morphine Analgesia in Cancer-Related Pain

xix RESUMO xxi OUTLINE OF THE THESIS xxiii TABLE OF CONTENTS xxv LIST OF FIGURES xxvii LIST OF TABLES xxix LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xxxi CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Pain classification and general concepts 3 1.2 Pain neurophysiology 7 1.2.1 Peripheral pain mechanisms 7 1.2.2 Central perspective – dorsal horn mechanisms 10 1.2.3 Interconnections in pain modulation 12 1.2.3.1 Ascending pathways 13 1.2.3.2 Descending pathways 14 1.3 Cancer-related pain management 15 1.3.1 Pain assessment 19 1.3.2 Pharmacological approaches 21 1.3.2.1 Non-opioid analgesics 21 1.3.2.2 Opioid analgesics 24 1.3.2.2.1 Mild to moderate pain 26 1.3.2.2.2 Moderate to severe pain 27 1.3.2.2.3 Breakthrough pain 29 1.3.2.3 Adjuvant drugs for analgesia 30 1.3.2.2.1 Antidepressant drugs 31 1.3.2.2.2 Anticonvulsant drugs 31 1.3.2.2.3 Oral and local anesthetic agents 32 1.3.2.2.4 Bone pain and bisphosphonates 32 1.3.2.2. 5 Corticosteroids 33 1.3.2.2. 6 Cannabinoids 33 1.3.2.2. 7 Ketamine and dextromethorphan 34 1.3.2.4 Other analgesic / adjuvant agents and future perspectives 34 1.4 Genetic polymorphisms, pain perception and morphine requirements 35 1.4. 1 Pain transmission and perception 36 1.4. 1.1 Catecholaminergic and serotoninergic systems 36 1.4. 1.1.1 Metabolism: catechol-O-methyl transferase and monoamine oxidases 36
Laser Scanning for Checking Earth Moving Works

The experiment took place on a field situated in the Lahovice. The earthmoving work project used in this experiment contained a DTM of the background layer of the traffic way. It was a 80-metre-long plane section, on which two counter sweeps. A space polar method by means of a total station and a terrestrial scanning system were used to check execution of earthmoving works. The scanning system Leica HDS 3000 was placed approximately in the middle of area of interest so that as big part of the adjusted surface as possible were seen. Evaluation of check measurements were carried out in the Cyclone software. Digital models of height differences between the projected DTM and the DTM from measuring by the total station and from measuring by the scanning system were created.
Spatial attention aVects the processing of tactile and visual stimuli presented at the tip of a tool: an event-related potential study

An event-related potential (ERP) experiment was conducted in order to investigate the nature of any cross-modal links in spatial attention during tool use. Tactile stimuli were delivered from the tip of two sticks, held in either a crossed or an uncrossed tools posture, while visual stimuli were presented along the length of each tool. Participants had to detect tactile deviant stimuli at the end of one stick while trying to ignore all other stimuli. Reliable ERP spatial attention eVects to tactile stimuli were observed at early (160–180 ms) and later time epochs (>350 ms) when the tools were uncrossed. Reliable ERP attention eVects to visual stimuli presented close to the tip of the tool and close to the hand were also observed in the uncrossed tools condition (time epoch 140–180 ms). These results are consistent with the claim that tool-use results in a shift of visuospatial attention toward the tip of the tool and also to attention being focused by the hand where the touch is felt.
6-3 Vth-Hopping Scheme for 82% Power Saving in Low-Voltage Processors

A threshold voltage hopping (VTH-hopping) scheme is proposed where VTH is dynamically controlled through software depending on a workload. VTH-hopping is shown to reduce the power to 18% of the fixed low-VTH circuits in 0.5V supply voltage regime for multimedia applications. A positive back-gate bias scheme within VTH-hopping is presented for the high-performance and low-voltage processors. The measurement result shows about 90% leakage power reduction is possible by using VTH-hopping. Introduction High-performance VLSI design with low supply voltage (VDD) becomes one of the most important issues in CMOS VLSI's, since main-stream VDD will be scaled down to below 0.5V in the coming years. The power and the delay dependence on the threshold voltage at 0.5V VDD are shown in Fig. 1. As seen from the figure, the threshold voltage (VTH) has to be decreased to achieve high performance. Reducing VTH, however, could cause a significant increase in a static leakage power component. There have been several proposals to reduce stand-by leakage current, for example, MTCMOS [1] and VTCMOS [2]. These schemes, however, cannot suppress the active leakage power. Another approach is a dual-threshold voltage (dual-VTH) technique [3], which is to partition a circuit into critical and non-critical gates, and use low-VTH transistors only in the critical gates. The drawback of this scheme is that the leakage current cannot be sufficiently suppressed since the large leakage current always flows through the low-VTH transistors. This paper presents a dynamic threshold voltage hopping (VTH-hopping) scheme that can solve above-mentioned problems. This scheme utilizes dynamic adjustment of frequency and VTH through back-gate bias control depending on the workload of a processor. When the workload is decreased, less power would be consumed by increasing VTH. This approach is similar to the dynamic VDD scaling (DVS) [4]. In the DVS scheme, VDD and the frequency are controlled dynamically based on the workload variation. The DVS, however, is effective when the dynamic power is dominant. On the other hand, VTH-hopping is effective in the low VDD designs where VTH is low and the active leakage component is dominant in total power consumption. In order to show the effectiveness of the scheme, performance evaluation is conducted using MPEG-4 video coding and a small scale RISC processor with VTH-hopping capability is fabricated. VTH-hopping Scheme Figure 2 shows the total power dissipation depending on the workload. VTHlow signifies VTH applied when the workload is maximum. If the workload is less than the peak workload, VTH is increased to the level where the speed requirement is just satisfied. The broken line represents a fixed VTH case with only a frequency control. The dynamic power dissipation decreases in proportion to the workload, since the dynamic power is proportional to the frequency. -0.1 0 0.1 0.2 0 1 2 4 6 8
High density lipoproteins are significantly reduced in early stages of untreated type 2 diabetes mellitus

Introduction: The patients of type 2 diabetes are prone to develop dyslipidemia which is characterised as triad of hypertriglyceridemia, low HDL-C and dense LDL. Most of the research is concentrated towards the patients with well-established diabetes of long duration. We aimed to evaluate the lipid profile during early stages of the disease in patients of type2 diabetes. Material and Methods: Blood samples from patients (n=40) with a history of <6 months, diagnosed for the first time in our hospital and healthy controls (n=40) were processed for plasma glucose (fasting and post prandial), lipid profile and other routine biochemical parameters before any treatment was started. Statistical analysis was carried out by using students’‘t’ test and Pearson correlation analysis. Results: There was no significant difference in the lipid profile of patients and controls except HDL-C. Patients of type 2 diabetes had significantly low (p<0.03) level of HDL-C. Though triglycerides (TGs) levels were not significantly different in the two groups, a negative correlation was observed between HDL-C and TGs in patient group. Discussion: In early stage of the disease it is the HDL-C level that is altered rather than other lipid profile parameters. Low HDL-C is probably an early indicator of setting in of dyslipidemia. Since there is a negative correlation between HDL-C and TGs in patients, it appears that reducing the TG levels may also raise HDL-C in these patients.
Σταμούλης Adaptation of the Berkeley Short-channel IGFET Model Code Base for Atomistic BTI / RTN Simulation

viii Acknowledgements . ix List of Figures . x
Information Competences as Fetishized Theoretical Categories

Scientific reflections on information literacy have emphasized that young people must develop information competences related to using the Internet. Among various approaches, in the generic approach, catalogues of competences are constructed and treated as lists of desired behaviors and skills. The article aims to criticize this approach and its characteristic fetishization of theoretical categories; because of fetishization, these catalogues of competences fail to reflect social reality. The article presents the practices of female bloggers of the pro-ana movement: young girls who consider anorexia not a disease but a lifestyle. Using the method of content analysis, the author analyzed 561 blog entries on 15 blogs and compared the collected data with a model catalogue of competencies created based on the literature. Perceived from the perspective of the generic approach, female pro-ana bloggers may be considered information-literate. This implies that this approach is deficient as the pro-ana movement negatively impacts both healthy and ill girls.
Geochronology and Geodynamic Setting of the Lupa Terrane , Tanzania : 1 Implications for the Extent of the Archean Tanzanian Craton 2 3

Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Precambrian Research. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in Precambrian Research, 231, July 2013, 10.1016/j.precamres. 2013.02. 012.
Effect of pretilachlor rate on grain yield and weed biomass in two rice cultivars.

This study was conducted at Rice Research Station of Tonekabon, Iran, in 2011. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effect of different pretilachlor rates on grain yield of 'Hashemi' and 'Deylamani' rice cultivars, and to determine weed biomass and relative yield loss for both cultivars when pretilachlor was applied at below-label rates. The experimental design was a split plot where the whole plot portion was a randomized complete block with three replicates. Main plots were pretilachlor rates (0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2 liter ha-1) and subplots were two traditional rice cultivars ('Hashemi' and 'Deylamani'). Result indicated that no significant differences were found in grain yield, yield components, relative yield loss, harvest index, rice biomass, weed biomass, and herbicide efficacy between 'Hashemi' and 'Deylamani' as averaged across herbicide rates. At the same time, 'Hashemi' was significantly taller than 'Deylamani'. In contrast, 'Deylamani' produced greater leaf area compared to 'Hashemi'. Regardless of rice cultivar, the highest grain yield, tiller number per m-2, grain number per panicle, rice biomass, leaf area index, and herbicide efficacy were observed in plots received recommended rate (2 L ha-1) of Pretilachlor, while the highest weed biomass and relative yield loss were found in plots received no herbicide. The results suggest that rice grain yield significantly reduces when pretilachlor is used at lower than recommended
STUDY OF MDA AND SGPT LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH PSORIASIS

BACKGROUND Skin is a major target of oxidative stress due to reactive oxygen species (ROS) that originate in the environment and in the skin itself. Psoriasis is a common chronic and recurrent inflammatory skin disorder that has been associated with abnormal plasma lipid metabolism. Psoriasis is considered to be an (auto) immune disorder, probably initiated by the overactive skin innate immune system. Increased production of free radicals may cause oxidative damage on biological bio molecules, cell membranes and tissues. The free radicals induced oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids results in the formation of lipid per-oxidation products such as MDA. Oxidative stress has been implicated as important cause of Methotrexate (MTX) induced liver toxicity. AIMS The objective of our present study is to evaluate if psoriasis is associated with oxidative stress and hepatotoxicity. SETTINGS AND DESIGN 50 patients suffering from psoriasis who have attended the D.V. L O.P. of G.S. L Medical College and general hospitals are taken as cases and compared with 50 healthy controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS Venous samples are collected and MDA levels are estimated using TBARS method and SGPT levels using fully automated analyzer. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS Statistical analysis is performed using software GraphPad QuickCalcs. RESULTS MDA levels in psoriatic patients showed significant increase in their levels compared to control and also there is significant rise in SGPT levels in patients when compared to control group. CONCLUSION Increased MDA levels show that there is oxidative stress in psoriatic patients and there is also hepatotoxicity which can be attribute to either oxidative stress or the effect of medications used to treat psoriasis.
NATURAL CAPITAL AND LIFE SATISFACTION ACROSS COUNTRIES: A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON NATURAL CAPITAL ABUNDANCE AND DEPENDENCE

This paper explores whether there are robust correlations between subjective well-being measures, especially life satisfaction, and natural capital per capita (i.e. natural capital abundance) and the share of natural capital in comprehensive wealth (i.e. natural capital dependence), using aggregate data for a cross-section of fifty-six countries. We estimate bivariate correlations as well as multiple regression models, and carefully analyse the importance of outliers. The results obtained for the natural capital variables mirror those in the literature on the resource curse that focuses on GDP growth rates. They seem to suggest there is a „life satisfaction blessing‟ associated with natural capital abundance, and a „life satisfaction curse‟ with natural capital dependence. However, if one concedes that the natural capital dependence variable might be misleading, the balance of evidence arguably shifts in favour of the „life satisfaction blessing‟ finding. Interestingly, for our sample of countries there is little evidence of a conventional resource curse or blessing. The analysis is also performed separately for the two major natural capital sub-categories, i.e. non-renewable and renewable resources. This produces similar, if somewhat weaker, results.
CONSUMERS OF PRODUCTS WITH HEALTH CLAIMS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS : 1

Cilj rada je da istra i a o proizvo a i un cionalne rane percipiraju svoje tipi ne potro a e na Zapadnom Bal anu, ao i u ojoj meri se ta percepcija razli uje od stvarni ara teristi a potro a a nji ovi proizvoda. Istra ivanje je sprovedeno na uzor u od 3085 potro a a, sa teritorije est dr ava posmatranog regiona. Kori ena je te ni a li nog intervjua, do je primenjen troetapni strati ovani slu ajni uzora a o i se o ez edila nacionalna reprezentativnost uzora a. U ispitivanju je u estvovalo i 29 ompanija, u lju uju i i sve lidere u se toru un cionalne rane na Zapadnom Bal anu. U ovom slu aju je primenjena te ni a du ins og intervjua. Rezultati su po azali da proizvo a i sagledavaju svoje potro a e ispravno u pogledu nji ove starosti, do ot a i nivoa o razovanja do nji ova mi ljenja o porodi nom statusu, polu i zdravstvenom stanju nji ovi potro a a nisu ila potvr ena rezultatima istra ivanja na uzor u potro a a. Pored toga, ini se da se potro a i un cionalne rane na Zapadnom Bal anu razli uju od glo alni potro a a po polu i va nosti prisustva dece u doma instvu. Ova vi rezultati navode na za lju a da i mo da proizvo a i tre alo da prilagode svoje mar etin e omuni acije a o i na olji na in targetirali svoj ciljni segment. Tre alo i i da ulo e vi e napora u edu aciju potro a a o oristima oje se do ijaju onzumiranjem un cionalne rane, ao i u omuni aciju sa ens om populacijom. S o zirom na to da ovaj rad predstavlja jedan od prvi po u aja sagledavanja ispravnosti percepcije proizvo a a un cionalne rane o nji ovim potro a ima u ovom regionu, pretpostav a je da e iti do ra polazna osnova za udu e studije iz ove o lasti na ovim prostorima.
Area and power efficient VLSI architecture of mode decision in integer motion estimation for HEVC video coding standard

Received Apr 22, 2018 Revised Mar 8, 2019 Accepted Mar 12, 2019 In this paper, we propose a new parallel hardware architecture for the mode decision algorithm, that it is based on the Sum Absolute of the Difference (SAD) for compute the motion estimation, which is the most critical algorithm in the recent video encoding standard HEVC. In fact, this standard introduced new large variable block size of the motion estimation algorithm and therefore the SAD require a more reduced execution time in order to achieve the real time processing even for the ultra-high resolution sequences. The proposed accelerator executes the SAD algorithm in a parallel way for all sub-block prediction units (PUs) and coding unit (CU) whatever their sizes, which turns in a huge improvements in the performances, given that all the block sizes, PUs in each CU, are supported and processed in the same time. The Xilinx Artix-7 (Zynq-7000) FPGA is used for the prototyping and the synthesis of the proposed accelerator. The mode decision for the motion estimation scheme is implemented with 32K LUTs, 50K registers and 108Kb BRAMs. The implementation results show that our hardware architecture can achieve 30 frames per second of the 4K (3840×2160) resolutions in real time processing at 115.15MHz.
Insects from light trap: Do they represent total diversity?

Insects collected in the light traps over a period of two years in the agroecosystems of GKVK campus represented 13 of the 21 orders of India. Among these orders collected, five orders viz., Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Diptera were the most predominant. We compared the relative proportions of these five speciose orders with those expected at national and at global levels to test if the light traps collections can be used as a surrogates of national and global diversity of these groups. We found that while orders Coleopteran and Hemipteran insects are over represented, those of Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera are under-represented. We discuss the possible reasons for these differentia representation.