Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An experimental study of the feasibility of phase‐based video magnification for damage detection and localisation in operational deflection shapes

Optical measurements from high‐speed, high‐definition video recordings can be used to define the full‐field dynamics of a structure. By comparing the dynamic responses resulting from both damaged and undamaged elements, structural health monitoring can be carried out, similarly as with mounted transducers. Unlike the physical sensors, which provide point‐wise measurements and a limited number of output channels, high‐quality video recording allows very spatially dense information. Moreover, video acquisition is a noncontact technique. This guarantees that any anomaly in the dynamic behaviour can be more easily correlated to damage and not to added mass or stiffness due to the installed sensors.
Assessing the Effects of Psychopathy, Sadism, Aggression, and Boredom Proneness on Cyber Aggression Perpetration in Emerging Adults: Is Moral Disengagement to Blame?

ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . iii LIST OF TABLES . vii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . viii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION . 1 Understanding Cyber Aggression . 2 Cyber Aggression Among Emerging Adults . 4 Predictors of Cyber Aggression . 6 Psychopathy . 6 Sadism . 8 Trait Aggression. 9 Boredom Proneness . 10 Moral Disengagement: A Potential Mediator . 11 The Present Study . 13 CHAPTER II METHODS . 15 Participants . 15 Instruments . 19 Participant Demographic and Technology Use Questionnaire . 19 Cyberbullying Experiences Survey Perpetration Scale (CESP) . 19 v Triarchic Psychopathy Scale (TriPM) . 20 Comprehensive Assessment of Sadistic Tendencies (CAST) . 21 Moral Disengagement Measure . 21 Buss Perry Aggression Questionnaire Short Form (BPAQ-SF) . 22 Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS) . 23 Procedure . 26 CHAPTER III RESULTS . 28 Data Screening . 28 Preliminary Analyses . 28 Primary Analyses . 29 CHAPTER IV – DISCUSSION. 34 Assessing Cyber Aggression Perpetration Among Emerging Adults. 35 Dark Personality Traits and Cyber Aggression Perpetration . 36 Anger in Cyber Aggression Perpetration . 38 Moral Disengagement in Cyber Aggression Perpetration . 40 Limitations and Future Directions . 42 Future Directions . 43 APPENDIX A – Long Form Consent . 48 APPENDIX B – Demographic and Technology Use Questionnaire . 51 APPENDIX C – IRB Approval Letter . 55 vi REFERENCES . 56
Postoperative radiological evaluation of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and its complications

Background: Postoperative Radiological Evaluation of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction & Its Complications. Method: In a comparative study in which patients were admitted and operated at Medical college & tertiary care hospital from January 2016 onwards. All patients who presented with symptoms after the surgery and whose data is available with the patients are considered. Plain radiograph which was taken after the surgery immediate postop, 2 weeks, 6 weeks and 3 months as routine follow-up, were documented for radiological evaluation.MR imaging which was done postoperatively during follow-up, was also documented for evaluation. Result: Pain was the most common symptom (52%) followed by swelling (40%) and restricted movements (28%). There was significant widening of femoral and tibial diameter on plain radiograph in both the views anteroposterior and lateral during follow up period which started 2 weeks after surgery. There was increase in signal intensity in MR images for almost all the cases (92%). Femoral tunnel placement was perfect in 88 percent cases while tibial tunnel placement was perfect in 76 percent cases. Conclusion: It can be concluded from the study that tunnel widening was unrelated to the postop complication as it was seen in all cases and Plain radiograph is a reliable measure to compare the tunnel widening on serial films as the results shows comparable data. There was increased graft intensity on MR images in maximum cases and this parameter is also unrelated to the complication. Tibial tunnel position is more important than femoral tunnel to prevent impingement as patient presented with restricted movements were having abnormal placement of tibial tunnel. Sterility is an important factor for surgical outcome as one of the patient developed septic like features after the surgery.
Bivariate statistics of wind farm support vessel motions while docking

ABSTRACT Robust prediction of extreme motions during wind farm support vessel (WFSV) operation is an important safety concern. In particular, it is important to study safety of operation in random sea conditions during WFSV docking against the wind tower, while workers are able to get on to the tower. Docking is performed by thrusting the vessel fender against the wind tower (the alternative docking maneuver by hinging is not studied here). In this paper, the finite element software AQWA has been used to analyse the vessel response due to hydrodynamic wave loads, acting on a specific maintenance ship under actual sea conditions. Excessive motions may occur during certain sea conditions, posing a risk to the crew transfer operation. This paper presents a novel method for estimating bivariate statistics, based on Monte Carlo simulations (or measurements if available). The bivariate average conditional exceedance rate (ACER2D) method is briefly outlined.
Atezolizumab (atezo) plus platinum-based chemotherapy (chemo) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Update from a phase Ib study.

9092Background: Platinum-based chemo is a standard first-line (1L) therapy for NSCLC lacking actionable gene alterations. Preclinical evidence suggests that chemo can play an immunomodulatory role and induce tumor antigen release, supporting combining chemo with immunotherapy. Atezo is a humanized and Fc-region-modified monoclonal anti-programmed death-ligand-1 (PD-L1) antibody that blocks interaction with PD1 or B7.1. The GP28328 study (NCT01633970) assessed safety and efficacy of atezo plus 1L chemo regimens in multiple tumor types. Methods: In this multicenter, multi-arm study, patients (pts) with locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC with no prior chemo for advanced disease received 15 mg/kg atezo IV q3w with standard doses of chemo (Arm C: carboplatin [carbo]+paclitaxel q3w; Arm D: carbo+pemetrexed q3w; Arm E: carbo+nab-paclitaxel qw) all for ≤6 cycles followed by atezo maintenance until loss of clinical benefit (+ pemetrexed maintenance until progression, Arm D). The primary endpoint was safety; seco.
How do Online Social Networks Influence People’s Emotional Lives?

In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates launched a virtual directory of college student profiles. Fifteen years later, what began as a modest attempt to help students connect with one another became the largest online social network in the world, a technological innovation that changed the way human beings interact. In this chapter, we discuss what we have learned about how this technology influences people’s emotional lives. We begin by providing a brief overview of research on online social network usage and emotional well-being, highlighting some of the conceptual and methodological challenges that prevented early work from drawing strong inferences about the links between these variables. We then describe a program of research designed to address these concerns by focusing on the mechanisms underlying how two different types of online social network usage—"active” and “passive”— influence how people feel in the lab and in daily life. We conclude by discussing how researchers can draw inferences about emotion from social media “big data” and whether online social networks can be strategically harnessed to promote well-being.
Historical Shifts in Benthic Infaunal Diversity in the Northern Gulf of Mexico since the Appearance of Seasonally Severe Hypoxia

Severe and persistent bottom-water hypoxia (≤2 mg O2 L−1) occurs on the Louisiana/Texas continental shelf from mid-May through mid-September over a large area (up to 23,000 km2 in mid-summer). Benthic infauna are less mobile than demersal organisms and become stressed by the low dissolved oxygen; benthic community composition, abundance, diversity, and biomass become altered. From the 1950s to the early 1970s, when sediment core indicators identified the initiation and subsequent worsening of dissolved oxygen conditions, there were no hydrographic data or benthic infaunal studies within the current area of frequent bottom-water hypoxia. This study highlights the impacts of severe hypoxia on benthic macroinfaunal communities and how they may have changed from less-hypoxic periods. Polychaetes were and are the dominant taxa in the available studies, but polychaete species richness in summer is now curtailed severely beginning with our 1985–1986 data. Species richness of polychaetes in summer hypoxia (1985–1986 and 1990–1991) was about 60% less than comparable taxa in 1972–1973. Abundance of polychaetes was much less in summer than spring, and recent infaunal biomass in summer was only 15% of what was found in spring. The result is less prey for demersal penaeid shrimp and fishes. Over the period of our comparison, infaunal feeding modes shifted from subsurface deposit feeders and surface deposit feeders to primarily surface deposit feeders (i.e., 95.5% of all polychaetes). Most were opportunistic, hypoxia tolerant, and recruited in high numbers following hypoxia abatement, some in fall and winter but most in spring. As benthic communities succumb to the stress of severe and continued seasonal low oxygen, they occupy the few upper centimeters of the sediment profile above the redox discontinuity layer with negative feedbacks to the water column by way of altered biogeochemical processes.
Approaches for preventive psychiatry in the geriatric population

In the last couple of decades, researchers have focused on finding strategies for the prevention of cognitive decline in the geriatric age group. Equivocal evidence is available from high-quality randomized controlled studies regarding causative role of modifiable midlife risk factors in cognitive decline and dementia. Among the cardiovascular risk factors, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, high saturated fat intake, and cigarette smoking have been found to be present in more than 50% of the cases of dementia and cognitive decline. Adopting healthy lifestyle changes with diet, regular moderate levels of physical activity, and abstinence from substance use have been found to have consistent evidence in the prevention of cognitive decline among other ambiguous findings across cultures. Studies assessing preventive and beneficial role of pharmacological treatment strategies such as preemptive use of disease modifying drugs, cerebroactive drugs, and nutritional supplements have been inconclusive. Psychological intervention strategies have shown some promising results. This review attempts to understand some of the perplexing issues in the prevention of cognitive decline in old age.
The Impact of Pro-environmental Preference on Consumers’ Perceived Well-being: The Mediating Role of Self-Determination Need Satisfaction

This study uses a conceptual research model to explore the mediating role of need satisfaction for competence, relatedness, and autonomy in the relationship between pro-environmental preference (PEP) and consumers’ perceived well-being (PWB). The data were collected on WJX (a Chinese online recruitment platform) from a sample of 514 respondents and analyzed using Smart PLS 3. The results indicated that two need satisfactions (competence and autonomy) fully mediate the relationship between PEP and consumers’ PWB. However, surprisingly, relatedness need satisfaction has no mediation effect in the relationship between PEP and consumers’ PWB. The results demonstrate the pivotal role of self-determination theory in explaining the primary psychological needs that must be met for consumers to perceive heightened states of well-being. Moreover, the results can signify to policymakers how to translate the impact of PEP into consumers’ PWB.
Oil Royalties and the Provision of Public Education in Brazil

This paper examines how resource-based windfalls to Brazilian municipalities' revenues affects their provision of education. We exploit a feature of Brazilian legislation that mandates that revenues accrued through oil production must be shared with municipalities that are judged to be owed royalties through a series of exogenously determined criteria and formulae. The as-if random distribution of oil revenues to municipalities allow us to investigate the causal relationship between oil royalties and provision of public education in Brazil. Using within-municipality variation in oil revenues per capita, we find that receiving more oil royalties increases municipal education expenditures, which translates into more teachers, classrooms, and schools per capita. Importantly, these effects are present only for municipally funded schools and not for federal, state, or private schools. Exploration of underlying mechanisms suggest that resource-based windfalls can have beneficial impacts on the provision of education by increasing educational resources in a municipality.
EEIRI: Efficient Encrypted Image Retrieval in IoT-Cloud

One of the best means to safeguard the confidentiality, security, and privacy of an image within the IoT-Cloud is through encryption. However, looking through encrypted data is a difficult process. Several techniques for searching encrypted data have been devised, but certain security solutions may not be used in IoT-Cloud because such solutions are not lightweight. We propose a lightweight scheme that can perform a content-based search of encrypted images, namely EEIRI. In this scheme, the images are represented using local features. We develop and validate a secure scheme for measuring the Euclidean distance between two descriptor sets. To improve the search efficiency, we employ the k -means clustering technique to construct a searchable tree-based index. Our index construction process ensures the privacy of the stored data and search requests. When compared with more familiar techniques of searching images over plaintexts, EEIRI is considered to be more efficient, demonstrating a higher search cost of 7% and a decrease in search accuracy of 1.7%. Numerous empirical investigations
Study on SARS-CoV-2 transmission and the effects of control measures in China

Objective To reconstruct the transmission trajectory of SARS-COV-2 and analyze the effects of control measures in China. Methods Python 3.7. 1 was used to write a SEIR class to model the epidemic procedure and a back propagation class to estimate the initial true infected number. The epidemic area in China was divided into three parts, Wuhan city, Hubei province (except Wuhan) and China (except Hubei) based on the different transmission pattern. A limitation factor for the medical resource was imposed to model the infected but not quarantined. Credible data source from Baidu Qianxi were used to assess the number of infected cases migrated from Wuhan to other areas. Results Basic reproduction number, R0, was 3.6 in the very early stage. The true infected number was 4508 in our model in Wuhan before January 22, 2020. By January 22 2020, it was estimated that 1764 infected cases migrated from Wuhan to other cities in Hubei province. Effective reproductive number, R, gradually decreased from 3.6 (Wuhan, stage 1), 3.4 (Hubei except Wuhan, stage 1) and 3.3 (China except Hubei, stage 1) to 0.67 (Wuhan, stage 4), 0.83 (Hubei except Wuhan, stage 2) and 0.63 (China except Hubei, stage 2), respectively. Especially after January 23, 2020 when Wuhan City was closed, the infected number showed a turning point in Wuhan. By early April, there would be 42073, 21342 and 13384 infected cases in Wuhan, Hubei (except Wuhan) and China (except Hubei) respectively, and there would be 2179, 633 and 107 death in Wuhan, Hubei (except Wuhan) and China (except Hubei) respectively. Conclusion A series of control measures in China have effectively prevented the spread of COVID-19, and the epidemic will end in early April.
The Prevalence of Parkinson Disease Among Patients With Hepatitis C Infection.

INTRODUCTION HCV has been suspected to potentially cause degenerations in the central nervous system. Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. Our aim was to assess the prevalence of Parkinson's disease among patients with HCV infection. MATERIAL AND METHODS For this study, we used Medicare database from 2005-2010. Medicare database contains information on enrollment, coverage, diagnosis recorded with International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision (ICD-9). From combined inpatient and outpatient files, Parkinson's disease was identified as the first diagnosis by ICD-9 code 332.0. Other study variables were; age, gender, race (White and No White), and Medicare eligibility status. Simple distribution comparison by HCV status examined with t-test for numerical variables and χ2 test for categorical variables in the main analytical cohort as well as in the propensity score matched cohort. RESULTS A total of 1,236,734 patients (median age 76 years, 41% male, and 85% White) was identified among over 47 million claims. Of these, 6040 patients (0.5%) were infected with HCV. Overall, 0.8% (N = 49) of the HCV group and 1.3% (N = 16,004) of the Non-HCV group had Parkinson's disease (P < 0.001). When the study groups matched for age, gender and race, the prevalence of Parkinson's disease was similar between HCV and Non-HCV groups (P > 0.05). DISCUSSION This study revealed that, among Medicare population, HCV was not associated with Parkinson disease.
Original paper Assessment of serum essential elements, serum glucose and thyroid function tests in Iraqi hypothyroid patients have good and poor responses to levothyroxine therapy

ackground: Hypothyroidism is a syndrome resulting from deficiency of thyroid hormones leading to generalized slowing of all metabolic processes. Many diseases like hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, adverse lipid profile, and Metabolic abnormalities developed in hypothyroid patients. Trace elements play essential roles in the human body as cofactors of some enzymes and take part in the synthesis of many hormones where normal thyroid status is dependent on the presence of many trace elements for both the synthesis and metabolism of thyroid hormones. Aim: The present study was designed to evaluate fasting serum Fe, Cu, and Zn concentrations, fasting serum glucose concentration and thyroid function tests in hypothyroid patients having good and poor response to LT therapy and to study correlations between these parameters. Materials and methods: The present study was a single center, cross sectional study conducted in alshefa General hospital, basra, Iraq. During the period from June,2013 to Mar, 2014. 62 subjects aged 20 to 55 years were included. The patient groups consisted of 41 hypothyroid patients (38 females and 3 males) on LT therapy for at least 6 months duration. 21 Healthy age and gender matched group with thyroid function within normal limit were selected as control group. Patients were screened for FT3, FT4 and TSH, those with high TSH level above normal limit despite high dose of thyroxine considered as poor response to treatment (PRLT) while those patient with TSH level within normal range considered as good response to treatment (GRLT). After 12 hrs fasting, blood samples (5 ml) were obtained to evaluate serum TSH, T3, T4, glucose and trace elements in all studies groups. Results and discussion: In (GRLT)group 21 patients had thyroid function tests (TSH, FT4 and FT3) within normal range and there were no significant differences when compared with control while in (PRLT) group, FT4 and FT3 significantly decreased when compared with control and GRLT groups while serum TSH levels in all 20 hypothyroid patients were significantly high. Serum Zn, Cu and Fe level of PRLT patients are significantly lower than its level in control and (GRLP) groups, In (GRLP) there were no significant differences when we compared trace element concentrations with control. Regarding FSG no significant differences were reported in all studied groups. There are significant correlation between thyroid function tests and trace element concentrations. Trace elements influence thyroid hormones at levels of action, including hormone secretion and activity and binding to target tissue. On the other hand, thyroid hormones itself influence trace metals metabolism at several levels of action, including excretion and transport of trace metals. All these factors collectively lead to significant reduction in trace elements concentrations in hypothyroid patients c B
Novel Outer Bounds and Capacity Results for the Interference Channel With Conferencing Receivers

In this paper, capacity bounds for the two-user interference channels with cooperative receivers via conferencing links of finite capacities are investigated. Capacity results known for these communication scenarios are limited to a very few special cases of the one-sided channels. One of the challenges in obtaining capacity limits of such cooperative networks is how to establish efficient capacity outer bounds for them. In this paper, by applying new techniques, novel capacity outer bounds are established for the interference channels with conferencing receivers. Using the outer bounds, several new capacity results are proved for interesting channels with unidirectional cooperation in strong and mixed interference regimes. A conferencing link (between receivers) may be utilized to provide a receiver with “information about its desired signal” or “information about its interfering signal”. It is demonstrated that both strategies can be helpful to achieve capacity. Finally, for the case of Gaussian interference channel with conferencing receivers, it is argued that our outer bound is strictly tighter than the previous one derived by Wang and Tse.
Moderate dyslipoproteinemia induced inflammation and remodeling HDL and VLDL particles in post-renal transplant patients

Abstract The aim of this paper was to examine whether moderate dyslipoproteinemia can cause an increase of hsCRP and LPO levels in Tx patients who had received immunosuppressive therapy and were without acute inflammatory diseases. Herein, the lipid levels, hsCRP, LPO, apolipoprotein (apo)B, AI, AII, AIInonB, apoB-containing AII (apoB:AII), apoCIII, apoCIIInonB, apoB:CIII, LCAT level, as well as CETP and PON1 activity were determined. All examined Tx patients had moderate dyslipidemia and slightly increased hsCRP, LPO, apoB:AII and apoCIII levels, but decreased LCAT mass, PON1 activity and lipoprotein ratios. Tx patients with apoAI<150 mg/dl (n=28) had worse lipoprotein profiles than did Tx patients with apoAI>150mg/dl (n=39), but no difference in CETP activity was indicated. Multiple ridge forward regression and Spearman’s correlation test were used. The results of the presented study, show for the first time that higher apoAI/apoB and apoAI/apoCIII ratios induced a decrease of the hsCRP concentration. Moreover, the composition of apoCIIInonB, LDL-C and apoAI brought about an increase of LCAT mass and PON1 activity. In Tx patients with lower concentration of apoAI, an increase of concentration of apoB:AII in VLDL generated a mild oxidation of lipoprotein and an elevated concentration of LPO. However, lower ApoAI/apoB ratio resulted in an increase of PON1 activity and apoB, as well as nonHDL-C levels, and in turn, PON1 activity increased LCAT mass. These disorders rearranged the HDL particle, and, simultaneously, remodeled the VLDL particle. This may prevent antioxidant activity, reverse cholesterol transport and accelerate the rejection of the transplant, as well as bringing about cardiovascular diseases in Tx patients with lower apoAI. Such metabolic pathways can be used as potentially novel targets for pharmacological intervention.