Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The use of hydrodynamic vortex separators and screening systems to improve water quality.

The paper reviews the evolution of Hydrodynamic Vortex Separators (HDVS) in the context of application as high rate rotary flow separators for achieving water quality improvements to meet with regulatory requirements in Europe and North America. The types of HDVS and their application for the control of wet-weather discharges such as combined sewer overflows (CSOs), sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) and stormwater are outlined and a number of myths surrounding their use, dispelled. Reference is made to outputs of peer reviewed comprehensive monitoring, evaluation and demonstration projects on pilot and full-scale installations to demonstrate the efficacy and extensive track record of these systems. Recent developments and innovations in HDVS technologies are discussed, focusing on their combined use as solids liquid separators, contact vessels for wastewater disinfection, the incorporation of self-cleansing screening devices for the control of aesthetic pollutants (e.g. floatables) and the use of computational modelling for optimisation.
The effect of the financial crisis on systemic trust

Policymakers throughout Europe are faced with the challenge of re-establishing trust, and especially systemic or institutional trust, that has been lost in the wake of the financial crisis. This paper looks at recent empirical evidence concerning the reaction to the crisis in terms of citizens’ diminished levels of systemic trust. Special attention is paid to the confidence invested in political institutions at the European and the national level, on the one hand, and in the free market economy, on the other.
9-[2-(Phosphonomethoxy)propyl]adenine therapy of established simian immunodeficiency virus infection in infant rhesus macaques

The long-term therapeutic and toxic effects of 9-[2-(phosphonomethoxy)propyl]adenine (PMPA) were evaluated in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected newborn rhesus macaques. Four untreated SIV-infected newborn macaques developed persistently high levels of viremia, and three of the four animals had rapidly fatal disease within 3 months. In contrast, long-term PMPA treatment of four newborn macaques starting 3 weeks after virus inoculation resulted in a rapid, pronounced, and persistent reduction of viremia in three of the four animals. Emergence of virus with fivefold-decreased susceptibility to PMPA occurred in all four PMPA-treated animals and was associated with the development of a lysine-to-arginine substitution at amino acid 65 (K65R mutation) and additional mutations in the reverse transcriptase; however, the clinical implications of this low-level drug resistance are nuclear. No toxic side effects have been seen, and all PMPA-treated animals have remained disease-free for more than 13 months. Our data suggest that PMPA holds much promise for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus-infected human infants and adults.
Mental disorders among primary health care patients in Nicaragua

The objective of this study was to validate the Self Report Questionnaire (SRQ‐20) as a screening instrument to identify probable psychiatric cases in the general population in Nicaragua and to study the prevalence and identification of mental disorders in primary health care. In the general population 576 people were screened using SRQ‐20. A subsample was further interviewed using the Present State Examination (PSE). In primary health care centers 781 patients were screened according to SRQ‐20 and staff indicated whether a mental disorder was identified or not. In the general population study, 9/10 turned out an adequate cut‐off for SRQ‐20, identifying 23% as probable cases. Using the same cut‐off, 47% of the primary health care patients were identified as probable cases. Among male probable cases only 7% were identified as cases by health care staff, and among female probable cases health care staff identified 13% as cases. When the results are compared with previous studies, it becomes evident that the general level of psycho‐emotional complaints and accordingly the cut‐off for caseness differ in different parts of the world. SRQ must be calibrated for each cultural setting. Among primary health care patients, mental disorders were overrepresented and frequently overlooked by the physicians. Educational programs with training in psychiatry should be implemented for primary health care staff.
Health Psychology, Embodiment and the Question of Vulnerability

The topic of the body is now firmly on the agenda for psychology, as it has been for sociology for some time. What contribution will health psychology make to this debate? This article argues that the biomedical view of the physical body is inappropriate for a psychology addressing the key concerns of suffering and healing. Instead, health psychology needs to theorize what it means to be embodied in the context of illness and of health care. To do this requires investigation of the practical relationships between staff and patients as well as of experiences of sufferers. By reflecting critically upon the relationship between clinical practice and the conceptualization of the body, a health psychology embracing the idea of embodiment becomes possible.
Aspects of Everyday Life in Ancient Cyprus: iconographic representations – By Vassos Karageorghis

Of the 226 catalogue entries on iconographic representations in this book only eight are concerned with ships, navigation and fishing, which is an astonishingly small number for an island. These objects, which are arranged chronologically, consist of five models of boats and three representations of objects—of which no. 178, an image on an 8th-century-BC jug, became (in a somewhat modified version) the logo of this Journal (see discussion in 29:1, 1). No. 46 is a fishing scene ‘painted on a proto-white-painted amphora’ and dated to the 11th century BC. In an image of two fishermen in a boat, the boat is reduced to a mere half-moon line. No. 45, from 1600–1050 BC, is a serpentine cylinder-seal showing two identical cargo-boats. Each numbered item carries a scholarly commentary or caption, an excellent illustration and a few references. The eight pages of bibliography not only provide material for further study of the book’s ‘pictorial gallery’ but also covers more general aspects of Cypriot archaeology. The book’s main use is as a reference source and as a document of ancient Cypriot material culture. A rarity of high quality.
Tropical geometry and amoebas

Ce cours de M2 (dispense a Bordeaux 1 de Janvier a Avril 2012, 30 heures) avait pour objectif de presenter des aspects varies (mais bien sur choisis a priori) de la geometrie ou analyse tropicale, confrontes a leurs pendants en geometrie ou analyse complexe. Un fil directeur en etait le principe de la deformation des etres complexes (donc vivant dans le cadre archimedien) en des etres tropicaux (cette fois dans le cadre ultrametrique). Ce cours se voulait une invitation a l'approche de diverses contributions recentes a cette jeune theorie, dont on peut dire qu'elle se situe cependant dans la droite ligne des travaux de Puiseux, voire de Newton. Le cours se voulait le plus autocontenu que possible et n'exigeait essentiellement que des prerequis de M1. Les notes sont redigees en anglais car ce cours s'adressait aussi a un public d'etudiants du master Erasmus ALGANT.
Capsular Switching and Other Large-Scale Recombination Events in Invasive Sequence Type 1 Group B Streptococcus

We report several cases of recombination events leading to capsular switching among sequence type (ST) 1 group B Streptococcus strains. These strains otherwise shared a common genome backbone with serotype V ST1 strains. However, the genomes of ST1 serotype V strains and those of serotypes VI, VII, and VIII strains differed substantially.
Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction for BCRP, MDR1, and MRP1 mRNA Levels in Lymphocytes and Monocytes

The expression levels of mRNAs for MDR1 (P-glycoprotein), multidrug resistance-associated proteins (MRP1), and BCRP (breast cancer resistance protein; mitoxantrone resistance protein) were quantitatively determined in lymphocytes and monocytes. Monocytes and lymphocytes were obtained from 3 healthy male and 2 healthy female volunteers. BCRP, MDR1, and MRP1 mRNA levels were determined by real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. In lymphocytes, relative concentrations of mRNAs for target proteins (BCRP, MDR1, and MRP1) were 1.00 ± 0.478, 9.67 ± 5.53, and 0.116 ± 0.0613 respectively, and in monocytes 1.00 ± 0.854, 0.821 ± 0.263, and 0.090 ± 0.052, respectively. The MDR1 mRNA level was cell type dependent, whereas there was no difference in BCRP and MRP1 expression levels between lymphocytes and monocytes. Comparison of mRNA levels for the three major multidrug-resistant efflux pumps reveals that MDR1 is the predominant form in lymphocytes and BCRP is the predominant form in monocytes.
The emergence of Bronze Age chariots in eastern Europe

The author presents new radiocarbon dates for chariot burials found in the region between Europe and the Urals, showing them to belong to the twentieth-eighteenth centuries BCE. These early dates, which pre-empt the appearance of the war chariot in the Near East, are transforming the ancient history of Eurasia and the early Mediterranean civilisations, pointing to the Volga-Ural area as an important centre of innovation for early Europe.
Affectively Aligned Assistive Technology for Persons with Dementia 1

There are nearly 900 million people aged 60 years and over living worldwide, and this rise in life expectancy is associated with increased prevalence of age-associated diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD); today 46 million people live with dementia worldwide [1]. Dementia is characterized by the progressive deterioration of both cognitive and functional abilities, leading to a loss of the ability to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) such as domestic activities and medication taking [2]. Assistive technologies have been proposed as a way to help people with dementia perform ADLs independently [3]. An assistive hand washing system, COACH, has previously been developed based on tracking hand locations and using pre-recorded “canned” verbal (audio) and visual (video) cues when the person stops making progress in the task [4]. When tested in a long-term care facility, it was found that in some cases it reduces the need for human assistance by 100% [3]. However, in some cases, the COACH failed to provide appropriate assistance, leading to confusion or agitation in the older adult end-user. This may be due to an affective (emotional) misalignment of the COACH with the specific needs or personality of the individual. While significant effort has been made to design prompts based on the methods and styles of human caregivers [5], a simple onesize-fits-all style of prompting may be limiting. For example, one person may find certain prompts to be too imperious, and would respond better to a more servile approach, while others may prefer a more imperative prompting style. Many studies have found that identity changes dramatically over the course of dementia [6] and that persons with ADRD often have more vague or abstract notions of their self-identity [7] than do non-afflicted persons. Thus, explicit models of affective identity offer an attractive mechanism for developing more appropriate and effective assistive technologies. Our aim is therefore to develop an emotionally Intelligent Cognitive Assistant (ICA) that takes into account the affective identity of the individual. The proposed ICA is based on the social-psychological principles of Affect Control Theory (ACT) [8]. ACT posits that interactions are guided by a psychological need to maximize the consistency between culturally shared fundamental sentiments about identities and behaviours, and the situationally created transient impressions about identities and behaviours in real-time interactions. Fundamental sentiments and transient impressions are interpretations of social objects, such as interactants’ identities and behaviours, represented as vectors in a 3D affective space hypothesised to be a universal organising principle of human socio-emotional experience [9]. The basis vectors of the affective space correspond to feelings of Evaluation/valence, Potency/control, and
Local hemostatic measures in anticoagulated patients undergoing oral surgery: a systematized literature review.

PURPOSE To conduct a systematized review of the literature about the main local hemostatic measures to control postoperative bleeding in anticoagulated patients. METHODS A systematized review of literature was performed in the electronic database Medline (PubMed) without restriction of the publication date. The eligibility criteria were studies involving maintenance of the anticoagulant therapy, prospective studies, retrospective studies, randomized clinical trials, controlled clinical studies, comparative studies, multicentric studies or case-control studies. Studies discontinuing anticoagulant therapy, case reports, literature reviews, in vitro studies, animal experiments and articles written in language not compatible with the search strategy adopted in this work were excluded. RESULTS Twenty-four articles that met the adopted eligibility criteria were selected, enrolling 3891 subjects under anticoagulant therapy. A total of 171 cases of hemorrhage was observed. Tranexamic acid was the main local hemostatic measure used to controlling of postoperative bleeding. CONCLUSION The local hemostatic measures proved to be effective according to previously published studies. Nevertheless, further clinical studies should be conducted to confirm this effectiveness.
Maintenance Treatment of Severe Tardive Dyskinesia With Clozapine: 5 Years' Follow-up

Abstract: Drug-induced tardive dyskinesia (TD) affects approximately 20% to 30% of schizophrenic patients. Although it is usually mild, from 1% to 8% of patients may develop severe TD. Second-generation antipsychotics have demonstrated a lower risk of inducing TD. However, despite the advances brought by second-generation antipsychotics, the treatment strategies for TD remain problematic, given both the lack of an established therapeutic choice and the need for long-term use of antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia. Clozapine is an atypical antipsychotic with minimal risk of inducing TD. Furthermore, it has been suggested that clozapine might actually improve the symptoms of TD. Accordingly, we evaluated the effects of clozapine on severe TD over 5 years. Seven patients meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Revised Third Edition criteria for chronic exacerbated schizophrenia (mean age 28.5 ± 10.2 years) and presenting severe TD, defined as Abnormal Involuntary Movements Scale score above 13, were treated with clozapine and followed up for 5 years. Extrapyramidal Symptoms Rating Scale assessment was performed in all patients at baseline, after 6 months and 3 and 5 years. Mean Extrapyramidal Symptoms Rating Scale scores decreased 83% after 3 years and 87.5% after 5 years. Mean dose for all patients was 428 ± 269 mg/d after 5 years. Results from this open-label study suggest that clozapine may be a further option for the treatment of TD over long term.
Pulsatile non-Newtonian haemodynamics in a 3D bifurcating abdominal aortic aneurysm model

Numerical prediction of non-Newtonian blood flow in a 3D abdominal aortic aneurysm bifurcating model is carried out. The non-Newtonian Carreau model is used to characterise the shear thinning behaviour of the human blood. A physical inlet velocity waveform incorporating a radial velocity distribution reasonably representative of a practical case configuration is employed. Case studies subject to both equal and unequal outlet pressures at iliac bifurcations are presented to display convincingly the downstream pressure influences on the flow behaviour within the aneurysm. Simulations indicate that the non-Newtonian aspects of the blood cannot at all be neglected or given a cursory treatment. The wall shear stress (WSS) is found to change significantly at both the proximal and distal ends of the aneurysm. At the peak systole, the WSS is peak around the bifurcation point, whereas the WSS becomes zero in the bifurcation point. Differential downstream pressure fields display significant effects regarding the flow evolution in the iliac arteries, whereas little or no effects are observed directly on the flow details in the aneurysm.
Automatic Software and Computing Hardware Codesign for Predictive Control

Model predictive control (MPC) is a computationally demanding control technique that allows dealing with multiple-input and multiple-output systems while handling constraints in a systematic way. The necessity of solving an optimization problem at every sampling instant often 1) limits the application scope to slow dynamical systems and/or 2) results in expensive computational hardware implementations. Traditional MPC design is based on the manual tuning of software and computational hardware design parameters, which leads to suboptimal implementations. This brief proposes a framework for automating the MPC software and computational hardware codesign while achieving an optimal tradeoff between computational resource usage and controller performance. The proposed approach is based on using a biobjective optimization algorithm, namely BiMADS. Two test studies are considered: a central processing unit and field-programmable gate array implementations of fast gradient-based MPC. Numerical experiments show that the optimization-based design outperforms Latin hypercube sampling, a statistical sampling-based design exploration technique.
Training for Power and Speed: Effects of Increasing or Decreasing Jump Squat Velocity in Elite Young Soccer Players

Abstract Loturco, I, Nakamura, FY, Kobal, R, Gil, S, Cal Abad, CC, Cuniyochi, R, Pereira, LA, and Roschel, H. Training for power and speed: Effects of increasing or decreasing jump squat velocity in elite young soccer players. J Strength Cond Res 29(10): 2771–2779, 2015—The aim of this study was to test the effects of 2 different velocity-oriented power training regimens by either increasing or decreasing the jump squat velocity during jump training sessions applied 3 times a week for 6 weeks in soccer players. Twenty-four elite under-20 soccer players were randomly assigned to an increased bar velocity group (IVG) or a reduced bar velocity group (RVG). Athletes had their countermovement jump heights, mean propulsive velocities (MPVs) in jump squat, leg press maximum dynamic strength (1 repetition maximum [RM]), 20-m sprint times, and zig-zag change of direction (COD) abilities assessed before and after the intervention. Performance in all tests improved after training in both groups. However, greater gains in 1RM and MPV using 50–90% of body mass (BM) were noted for the RVG. The IVG demonstrated greater improvements in speed at 5, 10, and 20 m and MPV with no additional external load and with 40% BM. Both groups improved similarly in countermovement jumps and COD. To conclude, both velocity-oriented power training regimens were effective in eliciting neuromechanical adaptations, leading to better strength/power/speed performances, and the choice as to the most suitable method should be tailored according to players' needs/deficiencies.
Measuring Quality of Electronic Service (E- Service) In Banking

This research to evaluate e- service quality from the customers, perspective, and to examine the effect of eservice quality dimensions on customer’s perception of banking e- service quality. Data was collected via selfadministered questionnaire from random samples drawn from the population of customers using e-banking service. The constructs in this search were developed by using measurement scales adopted from prior studies. The instrument was evaluated for reliability and validity. The results in this search indicate that Reliability; Responsiveness; Ease of use; Personalization; Security; and Website design have influence on customer’s perception of e- service quality.
Persistent, Asymptomatic, Microscopic Hematuria in Prospective Kidney Donors

Background. Asymptomatic, microscopic hematuria is seen in 8-21% of the general population, has a good prognosis, and is generally not an indication for kidney biopsy. But whether it should preclude kidney donation is unclear. Methods. Of 512 consecutive prospective donors, 14 (2.7%) continued to have asymptomatic, microscopic hematuria over 1 month. If the medical history, physical examination, and computerized tomographic angiography were unremarkable, and if they still wished to donate, a kidney biopsy was performed. Results. In two prospective donors, hematuria resolved after treatment for urinary tract infection; two others declined donation and were referred to their primary care provider. Kidney biopsy in the remaining 10 showed: two normal; four thin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN); one nonhomogeneous basement membrane abnormalities; one IgA nephropathy, 5 of 16 glomeruli globally sclerotic; one in a patient with a family history of Schimke's Syndrome, 7 of 30 glomeruli globally sclerotic; and one TBMN and early hypertensive changes without systemic hypertension. Only 4 of the 10 who underwent kidney biopsy donated (two normal, two TBMN). Conclusions. Kidney abnormalities are common in young, otherwise healthy, prospective kidney donor candidates with persistent, asymptomatic, microscopic hematuria. A kidney biopsy is often abnormal and aids in the decision-making process.
Pattern of traffic injuries in Shanghai: implications for control

In China, traffic-related injuries are often treated as transportation issues, called ‘accidents’. The objectives of the research are to analyse traffic injury patterns, estimate costs of traffic injuries and provide evidence to develop effective prevention strategies. There were over 1 500 deaths due to traffic-related injuries annually in Shanghai from 1987 to 2003, and it is rising year by year with the rate of growth in motorization. The rates of annual increase are 3.59% in fatalities (from 7.78 to 14.18 per 100 000 population) and 10.46% in non-fatalities (from 53.93 to 264.98 per 100 000 population) respectively during the period. The analysis of the geographic information system showed that the geographic distribution of traffic injuries in the countryside regions of Shanghai had the highest rates. Labour force groups represented the majority of fatalities (70.97%) and serious traffic injuries (90.51%). The mortality rates were 18.40 per 100 000 population and 10.02 per 100 000 population in 45 – 65 year age group and 15 – 44 year age group respectively; the morbidity rates of serious traffic injuries were 121.60 per 100 000 population and 70.46 per 100 000 population in the same groups respectively. And females generally showed a lower incidence than males. In general, fatalities and injuries were higher for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians. Among road traffic injury-related fatalities, 66.8% were attributed to head injuries. Of those with fatal head injuries, bicyclists accounted for 29.8% of the total; pedestrians accounted for 28.3%; motorcyclists accounted for 25.5%. Total traffic injury cost was estimated at least US$645 989 580 in Shanghai in 2003. Good injury intervention programmes need to be done as soon as possible to effectively reduce traffic injury burden in Shanghai, China.