Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CMAR_A_188926 7587..7596

1Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 2Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 3Department of Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 4Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, and Chang Gung University School of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Objective: The aim of this study was to assess morbidity and associated factors in patients with lung cancer (LC). Methods: This study used a cross-sectional design with consecutive sampling. Study subjects were recruited from the LC outpatient clinic and inpatient ward in a medical center from March 2016 to February 2018. Patients with LC were enrolled and assessed using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, Brief Fatigue Inventory, Numeric Pain Rating Scale, and the List of Threatening Experiences Questionnaire. Results: One hundred and four patients were included in the study. The most prevalent psychiatric disorder was depressive disorder (25.0%), followed by adjustment disorder (17.3%), alcohol use disorder (3.8%), and insomnia disorder (3.8%). Fifty percent of patients had a psychiatric diagnosis. Using logistic regression analysis, it was found that severity of fatigue (OR=1.77; 95% CI, 1.03–3.03; p<0.05), severity of stressor (OR=14.14; 95% CI, 2.49– 80.20; p<0.05), and severity of anxiety (OR=3.75; 95% CI, 1.87–7.54; p<0.001) were three significant associated factors. Patient health problems, death of a close family member or friend, and major financial crisis were the three most common stressors among our cancer patients. Conclusion: Use of a standardized structured interview for early diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients with depressive disorder is crucial and might increase their quality of life.
GERMINATION OF Stigmaphyllon blanchetii SEEDS IN DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES AND LUMINOSITY

The objective of the present work was to study the influence of temperature and light on germination of seeds of Stigmaphyllon blanchetii, popularly known as rat tail. The first stage of the research evaluated the effect of three constant temperatures (20 oC, 25 oC and 30 oC) and an alternating temperature (20-30 oC). In the second stage, for simulation of different types of light, four conditions of luminosity (white, red, far red and absence of light) were used. The temperatures that provided the best germination and development for S. blanchetii are the constant (30 oC) and the alternating (20-30 oC) ones. The seeds germinated both in the presence and absence of light, but there was greater germination and seedling development in the absence of light; thus they were classified as preferential negative photoblastic seeds.
Role of wetlands in mitigating the trade‐off between crop production and water quality in agricultural landscapes

Agriculture faces the great challenge of developing strategies to maintain production while simultaneously reducing environmental impacts. The trade-off between crop production and water quality services is one of the most serious issues facing agriculture, and interest in achieving win–win outcomes through management of ecosystem services is growing. Although wetlands can reduce nitrogen loads, it is unclear whether maintaining and restoring wetlands can ameliorate the trade-off between crop production and water quality and thereby increase the likelihood of win–win outcomes. We defined the orthogonal residuals from the regression line relating the trade-offs between two conflicting services as the degree to which the trade-off was mitigated (mitigation effectiveness score). The more positive the residual, the higher mitigation effectiveness score, and the greater the potential to mitigate the trade-off. We measured nitrate concentrations, as an indicator of water quality, five times during summer and winter across 49 sub-watersheds of the watershed of Lake Kasumigaura, which is highly nitrogen-loaded by agriculture. We quantified the mitigation effectiveness score from the trade-off relationships between cropland area and nitrate concentrations, and we also identified landscape and environmental factors that affected these scores. Some sub-watersheds in our study had high cropland cover but low nitrate concentrations. Overall, we found that mitigation effectiveness scores were positively associated with wetland cover at all sampling times. Other factors, including covers of paddy rice fields, abandoned rice fields, and impervious surfaces, and dissolved organic carbon concentrations, had no significant effects on mitigation effectiveness scores, although these factors were considered to increase nitrogen removal. Our findings suggest that maintaining and restoring wetlands might mitigate the trade-off between crop production and water quality and thereby enhance the likelihood of win–win outcomes in agricultural landscapes. Because wetland area has decreased, flooding or ponding abandoned rice fields may be an important alternative management option. The nitrate concentrations we observed met the water quality standard for drinking water, but the ❖ www.esajournals. org 1 November 2019 ❖ Volume 10(11) ❖ Article e02918 fact that they sometimes exceeded the nitrogen environmental target adopted within Lake Kasumigaura in terms of eutrophication suggests that simultaneous reduction of croplands and fertilizer inputs should still
Effects of an Intervention Programme for Improved Discharge-Planning

Since the reduction of hospital costs has led to fewer hospital beds and shorter hospital stay. It is today, as never before important for the nurse to take responsibility for discharge-planning, in order to plan for appropriate resources to meet the patient's and the relatives' needs at home. The questions studied was (1) Will an intervention programme for improved discharge-planning for district nurses and GPs reduce the frequency of (a) re-admissions to the hospital when the patients are at home in the break before the next treatment at the hospital, (b) problems causing re-admissions, and (c) treatments prescribed to solve the problems at re-admissions ? Material. Twenty-eight patients participated in a experimental group and 24 in a control group. Methods. Data were collected from the medical record Results. There was a trend toward fewer re-admissions to the hospital in the experimental group compared with the control group (p< 0.08). Nor was there any significant difference between the groups with regard to the frequency of problems causing re-admissions. Compared with the control group, significantly fewer intravenous nutritions were prescribed in the experimental group (p < 0.05).
Goalset: A Contingency Model of Organizational Goal Setting

Although organizational goals have been the subject of many articles, books, and research efforts over the years, the management field still does not have a comprehensive conceptual model of the organizational goal setting process. This paper presents such a model (GOALSET) and discusses its application to organizational analysis. Three propositions are stated and areas for future research are indicated.
Extensors of the hand

The complex yet delicate anatomy of the hand allows for the array of functions it can accomplish. The coupled forces of flexion and extension with respect to each joint keep the digits in balance. To comprehend the sophisticated functions of the extensor tendons, one must have a clear appreciation for both the myriad of anatomical variations described in the literature and the dynamic forces occurring within this physical system. With an awareness of the possible aberrations and an understanding of these principles, the surgeon can make better preoperative and intraoperative decisions when dealing with a diseased or traumatized hand. To this extent, anatomical and functional variations documented in the literature are described here to better appreciate the extensor system of the hand with surgical applications in mind.
CLEP_A_213898 605..614

Pia Kjær Kristensen Juan Merlo Nermin Ghith George Leckie Søren Paaske Johnsen 1Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N DK-8200, Denmark; 2Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Regional Hospital Horsens, Horsens DK-8700, Denmark; 3Research Unit of Social Epidemiology, CRC, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö SE-20502, Sweden; 4Research Unit for Chronic Diseases and E-Health, Section for Health Promotion and Prevention, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg 2000, Denmark; 5Centre for Multilevel Modelling, School of Education, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1JA, UK; 6Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg DK-9000, Denmark Background: Thirty-day mortality after hip fracture is widely used when ranking hospital performance, but the reliability of such hospital ranking is seldom calculated. We aimed to quantify the variation in 30-day mortality across hospitals and to determine the hospital general contextual effect for understanding patient differences in 30-day mortality risk. Methods: Patients aged ≥65 years with an incident hip fracture registered in the Danish MultidisciplinaryFractureRegistry between 2007 and2016were identified (n=60,004). We estimated unadjusted and patient-mix adjusted risk of 30-day mortality in 32 hospitals. We performed a multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy with patients nested within hospitals. We expressed the hospital general contextual effect by the median odds ratio (MOR), the area under the receiver operating characteristics curve and the variance partition coefficient (VPC). Results: The overall 30-day mortality rate was 10%. Patient characteristics including high sociodemographic risk score, underweight, comorbidity, a subtrochanteric fracture, and living at a nursing home were strong predictors of 30-day mortality (area under the curve=0.728). The adjusted differences between hospital averages in 30-day mortality varied from 5% to 9% across the 32 hospitals, which correspond to aMOR of 1.18 (95%CI: 1.12–1.25). However, the hospital general context effect was low, as the VPC was below 1% and adding the hospital level to a single-level model with adjustment for patient-mix increased the area under the receiver operating characteristics curve by only 0.004 units. Conclusions: Only minor hospital differences were found in 30-day mortality after hip fracture. Mortality after hip fracture needs to be lowered in Denmark but possible interventions should be patient oriented and universal rather than focused on specific hospitals.
Progress and Trend on the Regulation Methods for Nanozyme Activity and Its Application

Natural enzymes, such as biocatalysts, are widely used in biosensors, medicine and health, the environmental field, and other fields. However, it is easy for natural enzymes to lose catalytic activity due to their intrinsic shortcomings including a high purification cost, insufficient stability, and difficulties of recycling, which limit their practical applications. The unexpected discovery of the Fe3O4 nanozyme in 2007 has given rise to tremendous efforts for developing natural enzyme substitutes. Nanozymes, which are nanomaterials with enzyme-mimetic catalytic activity, can serve as ideal candidates for artificial mimic enzymes. Nanozymes possess superiorities due to their low cost, high stability, and easy preparation. Although great progress has been made in the development of nanozymes, the catalytic efficiency of existing nanozymes is relatively low compared with natural enzymes. It is still a challenging task to develop nanozymes with a precise regulation of catalytic activity. This review summarizes the classification and various strategies for modulating the activity as well as research progress in the different application fields of nanozymes. Typical examples of the recent research process of nanozymes will be presented and critically discussed.
Fine-Grained Distribution Grid Mapping Using Street View Imagery

Fine-grained distribution grid mapping is essential for power system operation and planning in the aspects of renewable energy integration, vegetation management, and risk assessment. However, currently such information can be inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete. Existing grid topology reconstruction methods heavily rely on various assumptions and measurement data that is not widely available. To bridge this gap, we propose a machine-learning-based method that automatically detects, localizes, and estimates the interconnection of distribution power lines and utility poles using readily-available street views in the upward perspective. We demonstrate the superior image-level and region-level accuracy of our method on a real-world distribution grid test case.
Improved optimization models for potential-driven network flow problems via ASTS orientations

The class of potential-driven network flow problems provides important models for a range of infrastructure networks that lead to hard-to-solve MINLPs in real-world applications. On large-scale meshed networks the relaxations usually employed are rather weak due to cycles in the network. To address this situation, we introduce the concept of ASTS orientations, a generalization of bipolar orientations, as a combinatorial relaxation of feasible solutions of potential-driven flow problems, study their structure, and show how they can be used to strengthen existing relaxations and thus provide improved optimization models. Our computational results indicate that ASTS orientations can be used to derive much stronger bounds on the flow variables than existing bound tightening methods and to yield significant performance improvements for an existing state-of-the-art MILP model for large-scale gas networks.
Preliminary evaluation of air flow in atrium of building in hot and humid climate

Atrium is one of the passive design strategies that is known to have certain effects to the indoor environment of a building. These effects can be beneficial or detrimental, depending on the atrium design in response to the climate where it is located. One of the important criteria for designing a building in hot and humid climate is the ventilation aspect. Hence, this study was executed to investigate the air flow in an atrium of a building in hot and humid climate. The investigations were executed using numerical simulation method, which was validated by field measurement. The software used for the numerical simulation was Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) which was ANSYS CFX v14.5. The findings indicated that the existence of more air flow paths such as the access corridors that connect the atrium with the outdoor will able to enhance the air velocity inside the atrium. However, further investigations need to be executed in order to improve the air flow inside the atrium. The results and findings from this study will benefit the people in building industry as they provide initial idea on the design strategy of atrium that is appropriate for hot and humid climate. Keywords— Atrium; air flow; hot and humid climate
Fine Motor Precision Tasks: Sex Differences in Performance with and without Visual Guidance across Different Age Groups

Previous studies have reported certain sex differences in motor performance precision. The aim of the present study was to analyze sex differences in fine motor precision performance for both hands under different test conditions. Fine motor tasks were performed by 220 Spanish participants (ages: 12–95), tracing over the provided models – lines of 40 mm for both hands, two sensory conditions (PV—proprioceptive-visual; P—proprioceptive only) and three movement types (F—frontal, T—transversal, and S—sagittal). Differences in line length (the task focused on precision) were observed through MANOVA analysis for all test conditions, both sexes and different age groups. Sex differences in precision were observed in F and T movement types (statistically significance level and higher Cohens’ d were observed in condition with vision). No statistically significant differences were observed for both hands and sensory conditions in sagittal movement. Sex differences in fine motor precision were more frequently observed in the PV sensory condition in frontal movement and less in sagittal movement.
Is Pentraxin-3 a Stronger Marker of Inflammation than C-Reactive Protein in Chronic Kidney Disease?

ObJeCtIve: Pentraxin-3 (PTX-3) is elevated in uremic patients and related with albuminuria and endothelial dysfunction. We aimed to clarify the relationship of PTX-3 with inflammatory markers (hsCRP and IL-6) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). MAterIAl and MetHOdS: The study was performed with four groups: hemodialysis (HD) group (23 patients), peritoneal dialysis (PD) group (25 patients), predialysis group (stage-4 CKD, 25 patients) and the healthy control group (18 individuals). GFR was estimated by the MDRD formula. PTX-3, IL6, fibrinogen, hsCRP levels, glucose, urea, creatinine, uric acid, parathyroid hormone, albumin, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglyceride, ferritin, and hemoglobin were studied from the serum and whole blood samples. reSUltS: PTX-3 levels were highest in the HD group followed by the PD group, pre-dialysis group and control group (3.58±4.29, 2.15±2.75, 1.29±2.36, 0.73±0.96 ng/ml, respectively). IL-6 levels were highest in the PD group followed by the HD, predialysis and control groups. There was no difference between groups regarding hsCRP levels. There was no correlation of PTX-3 with hsCRP, while it was correlated with IL-6. IL-6 was the only determinant of PTX-3 level independent of the study groups and vice versa. COnClUSIOn: Uremic patients have elevated PTX-3 levels and it is strongly correlated with IL-6. PTX-3 may be superior to CRP as an inflammation marker in the uremic population.
Experimental Results on the Effect of Wall–Parallel Lorentz Forces on Lift and Drag of Hydrofoils

The influence of wall–parallel Lorentz forces on the suction side flow of NACA 0015 and PTL IV hydrofoils is investigated experimentally. Emphasis is placed on separation control. Steady as well as time periodic Lorentz forces will be discussed. Their effect is compared mainly in respect of the attainable increase of the maximum lift and in terms of power consumption.
Efficient Facial Feature Learning with Wide Ensemble-based Convolutional Neural Networks

Ensemble methods, traditionally built with independently trained de-correlated models, have proven to be efficient methods for reducing the remaining residual generalization error, which results in robust and accurate methods for real-world applications. In the context of deep learning, however, training an ensemble of deep networks is costly and generates high redundancy which is inefficient. In this paper, we present experiments on Ensembles with Shared Representations (ESRs) based on convolutional networks to demonstrate, quantitatively and qualitatively, their data processing efficiency and scalability to large-scale datasets of facial expressions. We show that redundancy and computational load can be dramatically reduced by varying the branching level of the ESR without loss of diversity and generalization power, which are both important for ensemble performance. Experiments on large-scale datasets suggest that ESRs reduce the remaining residual generalization error on the AffectNet and FER+ datasets, reach human-level performance, and outperform state-of-the-art methods on facial expression recognition in the wild using emotion and affect concepts.
Trade Liberalization and Firm Profitability: Insights from Ghana's Manufacturing Sector.

The private sector is recognized as an engine of growth; hence a well-developed private sector is deemed as the means to accelerate the rapid industrialization needed in developing countries. In this light, The Government of Ghana over the years has put in place policies to make the private sector flourish. A key strategy was the liberalization of trade through the economic recovery and structural adjustment programmes in the 1980s. However, much is not known about the impact of such policies on the profitability of the private sector especially with respect to trade. Indeed, there is a paucity of research addressing the profitability of firms due to trade liberalization especially the private sector in the African context. This paper fills this gap by investigating how tariffs as a measure of trade liberalization affect the profitability of Ghanaian private firms in the manufacturing sector using firm-level data spanning 1991 to 2001. Profitability is measured as the net profit margin of a firm. A two-step approach was employed in the empirical analysis of the tariff-profitability nexus. The net profit margin of firms was estimated in the first step. After which the effect of tariffs on the estimated net profit margin of firms was examined. The findings reveal that tariff reductions result in increased profitability of local firms. In addition, productivity was found to positively impact firm profitability.
Evaluation of the Distribution of Forces on the Foot Under Axial Impact Loading to Assess Variations Among Altered Ankle Postures Between Two ATD Models

Anthropomorphic Test Devices (ATDs) are used to assess injury risk during impact scenarios, such as motor vehicle collisions. Risk of foot/ankle injuries in these scenarios is traditionally evaluated by analyzing the peak axial force and the Tibia Index, collected from tibia load cells. This neglects assessment of foot injury risk and does not account for potential changes in injury assessment at altered postures. Two commonly used ATDs, the Hybrid III and Military Lower Extremity, were exposed to impacts at five different ankle postures, at varying degrees of flexion. An array of piezoresistive sensors located on the insole of a boot was employed to assess the load distribution variations between postures and ATD models. Both posture and ATD model affected the load distribution on the foot, highlighting the need to establish injury limits for non-neutral postures. The increase in forefoot loading during plantarflexion was not reflected in the standard industry metrics, suggesting that increased fracture risk to the forefoot would not be detected. The differences in load distribution between the models also emphasizes the importance of selecting the correct surrogate. These data will be useful for establishing ATD measures that correspond to future PMHS injury tests at altered postures.
CMAR_A_232187 9725..9732

Dandan Cao 1,2 Jun Sha Rui Cui Shuhua Han 1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, School of Medicine, South-East University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China; 2Medicine Department of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China Abstract: The concept of spread through air spaces (STAS) has been described as a new form of invasion in the lung in the 2015 WHO classification of Lung Tumors, namely invasion through alveolar spaces. STAS is a prognostic factor independent of growth pattern and tumor stage, and it is also an independent risk factor for unfavorable prognosis of stage I lung adenocarcinoma (ADC) and stage I lung squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The pathological characteristics are different between ADC and SCC. STAS is not reported as routine, so setting a unified pathological reading standard, and hunting for STAS as a regular reading process is urgently advocated. We write this review to investigate the research progress of STAS and its effects on the prognosis of lung cancer.