Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pediatric Patients Brought by Emergency Medical Services to the Emergency Department

Background/Objective To describe the epidemiology of emergency department (ED) visits by pediatric patients transported from the out-of-hospital setting (ie, scene) by emergency medical services (EMS), and identify factors associated with EMS transport. Methods We performed a cross-sectional study of ED visits from 2014 to 2017 utilizing a nationally representative probability sample survey of visits to US EDs. We included pediatric patients (<18 years old) and compared encounters transported from the scene by EMS to those who arrived to the ED by all other means. We performed multivariable logistic regression to identify factors associated with scene EMS transport. Results Of 130.2 million pediatric ED encounters, 4.7 million (3.8%) arrived by EMS. Most patients were White (61.1%), non-Hispanic (77.5%), and publicly insured (52.2%). Multivariable analysis demonstrated associations with EMS transport: Black (vs White) race (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 1.48; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.16–1.89), ages 1 to younger than 5 years (aOR, 0.52; 95% CI, 0.37–0.72) and 5 to younger than 12 years (aOR, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.40–0.80) (vs adolescents), pediatric (aOR, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.42–0.85) and nonmetropolitan hospital status (aOR, 0.52; 95% CI, 0.35–0.78), blood testing (aOR, 2.34; 95% CI, 1.71–3.19), time to evaluation (31–60 minutes [aOR, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.39–0.80] and >60 minutes [aOR, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.33–0.77] compared with 0–30 minutes), admission (aOR, 3.20; 95% CI, 2.33–4.38), and trauma (1.80; 95% CI, 1.43–2.28). Conclusions Four percent of pediatric ED patients are transported to the ED by EMS from the scene. These patients receive a rapid and resource intense diagnostic evaluation, suggesting that higher acuity. Black patients, adolescents, and those with trauma were more likely to be transported by EMS.
SOLID CONTACT BIOSENSOR BASED ON MAN-TAILORED POLYMERS FOR ACETYLCHOLINE DETECTION: APPLICATION TO ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE ASSAY

A solid contact biosensor for Acetylcholine (ACh) based on host-guest interactions and potentiometric transduction has been designed and characterized. The biomimetic man-tailored host was synthesized using methacrylic acid as a functional monomer, ethylene glycol di-methacrylate as a crosslinker in the presence of benzoyl peroxide as an initiator. The imprinted beads were dispersed in 2-nitrophenyloctyl ether and entrapped in a poly(vinyl chloride) matrix. Slopes and detection limits are 55.2-59.6 mV decade -1 and 0.65-1.31 μg mL -1 , respectively. Significantly, improved accuracy, precision, good reproducibility, long-term stability, selectivity and sensitivity were offered by these simple and cost-effective potentiometric biosensors. A tubular version was further developed and coupled to a flow injection system for acetylcholine determination. This simple and inexpensive flow injection analysis manifold, with a good potentiometric detector, enabled the analysis of ∼30 samples h -1 without requiring pretreatment procedures. An average recovery of 98.3 % and a mean standard deviation of 1.1% were obtained. The sensors were used to follow up the decrease of a fixed concentration of ACh + substrate as a function of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity under optimized conditions of pH and temperature. A linear relationship between the hydrolysis initial rate of ACh + substrate and enzyme activity hold 0.01- 5.0 IU L -1 of AChE enzyme.
Beyond bias: response bias and interpersonal (in)sensitivity as a contributors to race disparities

ABSTRACT In the present work, we review a growing programme of research identifying deficits in race-based interpersonal sensitivity, specifically emotion detection, as a route to creating pitfalls in interracial interactions and generating race-based disparities. Most existing research examining race disparities takes a bias perspective – focusing on how stereotypes and prejudice can make judgements more positive or negative as a mechanism underlying race-based inequality. We review this literature, while also providing evidence that differential sensitivity – more accurately reading cues and signals of ingroup and majority group members than outgroup and minority group members – can also serve as a mechanism underlying race-based discrimination. We propose that an integrated perspective encompassing sensitivity and response bias as routes to intergroup inequality may offer researchers a novel approach to existing intergroup questions as well as a generative perspective on intergroup research programmes.
Optimization of in Situ Gasification Chemical Looping Combustion through Experimental Investigations with a Cold Experimental System

In situ gasification chemical looping combustion (iG-CLC) is a promising coal combustion technology for implementing CO2 capture with a low energy penalty. A novel iG-CLC cold experimental system was developed in the authors’ previous work (Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2013, 52, 14208). It mainly consists of a high-flux circulating fluidized bed (HFCFB) riser as the fuel reactor and a cross-flow moving bed as the air reactor. As an extension of that work, in this study, we further optimized the iG-CLC system by redesignung the air reactor to enhance the carrying capacity of the gas flow and developing a two-stage separation system by adding a second-stage cyclone to the original first-stage inertial separator. Stability in operation and flexibility in adjusting operating parameters were achieved with the improved system. In the riser (fuel reactor), higher solids fluxes and solids holdups were achieved, which should enhance the gas–solid contact and promote the complicated heterogeneous reactions. In the moving b.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Mumps-Associated Outer Retinitis with Frosted Branch Angiitis

ABSTRACT Purpose To describe a case of outer retinitis with frosted branch angiitis associated with mumps infection treated with hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy. Methods Observational case report Case report A four-year-old boy with bilateral blindness was diagnosed with necrotizing outer retinitis with frosted branch angiitis associated with serologically confirmed mumps virus infection. He was treated with HBO therapy. Visual acuity subsequently improved to 20/40 in the right eye and to 20/320 in the left eye. Sequential follow-up optical coherence tomography examinations showed progressive recovery of the outer retinal layers in the right eye. Conclusion HBO therapy appears to be a feasible and safe treatment that might improve the anatomical and functional outcome in patients with mumps retinitis.
Long‐term and long‐distance deformation in submarine volcanoclastic sediments: Coupling of hydrogeology and debris avalanche emplacement off W Martinique Island

West off Martinique (Lesser Antilles), the Grenada Basin submarine sediments were affected by the emplacement of Debris Avalanche Deposits (DAD). Montagne Pelée Volcano has experienced three major flank collapses during the last ca. 127 kyrs, resulting in a cumulated volume of up to 300 km3 offshore. Using a combination of geophysical and geotechnical data, we investigate the effect of these debris avalanches emplacements on the basin hydrogeology and their relationship with the observed sediment deformation in the seismic and coring data. The geotechnical test carried on IODP‐340 cores samples reveal four sediment types within the basin with distinctive mechanical and hydraulic properties: proximal volcanoclastics, distal volcanoclastics, hemipelagic and ash‐rich sediments. These results, together with margin stratigraphic models obtained from seismic reflection data, were used as inputs for the numerical finite‐element model. This model shows that the coupling of the sediment properties with the mid‐ to low‐sedimentation rates results in the development of low overpressures prior to the first flank collapse at 127 ka. However, the emplacement of the first two DADs, between 127 and 36 ka, developed high overpressures ratios (λ* > 0.9) in the easternmost part of the Grenada Basin. According to the model, the sudden compaction of the pre‐existing sediments due to the DADs load created fluid flow velocities up to 7 times higher than the hydraulic conductivities, which would have thus reduced the sediment bearing capacities and shear strength, favouring their mobilization and deformation. From 127 to 36 ka, the sea‐floor sediments suffered a long‐term deformation driven by the combination of the weight of the emplaced material and the persistence of high overpressure ratios through time. This deformation propagated tens of kilometres away from the DAD’s emplacement and it is possible that still continues today due to the persistence of low overpressure ratios. This long‐term and long‐distance deformation and persisted overpressures are a key factor to take into account in the framework of a geohazards evaluation in areas recurrently affected by earthquakes and volcanic flank collapses.
Perinatal outcomes of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are multisystem diseases, which include chronic (preexisting) hypertension, gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, and pre-eclampsia superimposed on chronic hypertension. These disorders may complicate 5%–10% of all pregnancies and are leading causes of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity worldwide. This study was done to assess the incidence of HDP and perinatal outcomes in comparison to normal pregnancy. The objectives of this study were to assess the incidence of HDP and its correlation with perinatal outcome. Eighty patients were enrolled for the study, Group A (cases) – 40 patients of HDP and Group B (controls) – 40 normotensive controls, these 40 normotensive controls were properly matched with Group A with respect to age and gestational age. The collected data were analyzed with IBM SPSS statistics software 23.0 Version XVII. In Group A, 45% were gestational hypertensive patients, 35% were pre-eclamptic patients, 12.5% eclampsia, and 7.5% chronic hypertension. Perinatal morbidity and mortality were increased in HDP when compared with age and gestational age-matched controls. Perinatal mortality was seen in 10% in Group A. In Group B(controls) there were no perinatal mortalities. The study demonstrated that high parity, low gestational age, lack of antenatal care, having eclampsia, pre-delivery onset of HDP, vaginal delivery, low fetal birth weight, and maternal death were independent predictors of perinatal mortality. The majority of perinatal mortality predictors were also predictors of stillbirths. The strong association of perinatal mortality with eclampsia (a late complication of HDP in the majority) and lack of antenatal care is an indirect evidence for the delay in the utilization of obstetric services.
The Acute Regulation of Intestinal Chylomicron Secretion by Glucagon-like Peptides

Postprandial overproduction of apolipoprotein B48 (apoB48)-containing lipoproteins has been observed in states of insulin resistance and is important to the sequelae of cardiovascular disease, but little is understood about factors that regulate their secretion. The glucagon-like peptides (GLPs) are released from ileal enteroendocrine L-cells following lipid ingestion. I hypothesized that the GLPs could acutely affect the production of apoB48-containing triglyceride (TG)-rich lipoproteins (TRL) in the small intestine. Using the Syrian golden hamster, I first characterized the gross effects of the GLPs on TRL secretion in response to an oral fat load and then continued to dissect the mechanisms of these changes using primary intestinal cell cultures and a variety of knockout mouse models. An exogenous GLP-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonist was found to acutely inhibit chylomicron secretion in both hamsters and mouse models, and extending the bioactivity of endogenously-secreted GLP-1 with a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor had suppressive effects in insulin-resistant fructose-fed hamsters. The insulinotropic and delayed gastric emptying functions do not completely account for the hypolipidemic effect of GLP-1R agonism, and the effect of the GLP-1R agonist exendin-4 could
Protective Buffering and Deception as Moderators of Relational Turbulence among Military Couples

ABSTRACT Research suggests that relational uncertainty corresponds with circumscribed communication, yet prior studies have not investigated the related constructs of falsifying information (deception) and concealing concerns to protect a partner (protective buffering). We grounded our investigation in the logic of relational uncertainty theorizing, which explains how uncertainty about a relationship complicates communication and corresponds with appraisals that the relationship is unsteady or chaotic. Our research questions centered on the (a) actor and partner effects of relational uncertainty on relational turbulence, (b) mutual influence of protective buffering and deception on perceptions of turmoil, and (c) protective buffering and deception as moderators in the association between actors’ and partners’ relational uncertainty and relational turbulence. Pairs of at-home partners and service members completed an online survey within a week of the service member’s homecoming to report relationship dynamics and communication during deployment. We found a positive association between actor and partner relational uncertainty and relational turbulence. Furthermore, actors’ (but not partners’) protective buffering and deception were positively associated with relational turbulence. Finally, we found partial evidence for the moderation effects of actors’ protective buffering and deception. We discuss broader implications for relational uncertainty, protective buffering, and deception among military couples.
To Fit In or to Stand out? An Eye-Tracking Study Investigating Online Banner Effectiveness in a Media Multitasking Context

Abstract Online advertising banners are often subject to banner blindness, meaning that people avoid looking at them. The current study examines whether web surfing while watching television, a form of media multitasking, influences how people respond to online ad banners. The experimental study examines whether people respond differently to an online ad banner which thematically fits with the website content (i.e., banner congruity) and which is animated (i.e., banner animation), taking into account the relevance between media tasks (whether the content of the television program and the website are related). Individuals’ cognitive (visual attention paid to the banner, measured by eye-tracking technology) and attitudinal (online banner irritation) advertising responses are measured as dependent variables. The results indicate that during media multitasking with high task relevance, higher visual attention was obtained for an incongruent (versus congruent) ad banner. When task relevance was low, no such differences were found. This two-way interaction effect was not significant for banner irritation. Further, a significant three-way interaction with task relevance, banner congruity, and banner animation was found on banner irritation but not on visual attention. Concretely, the lowest levels of banner irritation were obtained for a congruent, animated banner in a media multitasking context with high task relevance.
Identification of Surface Deformation in InSAR Using Machine Learning

The availability and frequency of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery are rapidly increasing. This surge of data presents new opportunities to constrain surface deformation that spans various spatial and temporal scales. This expansion also introduces common challenges associated with large volumes of data, including best practices for analyzing these data. In recent years, machine learning techniques have been at the forefront of big data challenges, as an efficient methodology for automatically classifying large volumes of data. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), in particular, have achieved strong levels of performance on image classification problems. Here we present SarNet, a CNN developed to detect, locate, and classify the presence of co‐seismic‐like surface deformation within an interferogram. We trained SarNet using 4 × 106 synthetic interferograms, including both wrapped and unwrapped forward modeled co‐seismic‐like surface deformation with synthetic noise representative of the atmospheric and topographic noise found in interferograms. The results show that SarNet obtains an overall accuracy of 99.74% on a validation data set. We use class activation maps (CAMs) to show that SarNet returns the location of surface deformation within the interferogram. We employ a transfer learning method to translate the accuracy of SarNet trained on synthetic data to real interferograms with manually classified co‐seismic surface displacement. We train SarNet on 32 interferograms containing labeled co‐seismic surface deformation as well as noise. The results show that, through transfer learning, SarNet obtains an overall accuracy of 85.22% on a real InSAR data set, and that SarNet returns the location of the surface deformation within the interferogram.
Robust transmission of medical records using dual watermarking and optimization algorithm

Nowadays, security of medical records is an important issue for tele-health system. Motivated by importance of such critical issue, we propose a robust watermarking method in the DWT-SVD-optimization domain. To solve the security issue, traditional watermarking schemes uses manual scaling factor to manage balance between imperceptibility, robustness and capacity. However, selection of manual scaling factor loses their optimize trade-off between these important parameters of watermarking. The suggested scheme encourages protection of medical data via techniques of dual watermarking and optimization scheme. In our scheme, the data owner imperceptibly embeds the dual watermarks in the medical cover image for extra level of security. Here, appropriate optimization schemes are used to find the scaling factor for embedding purpose. Further, the performance of this scheme is examined and compared. Moreover, the patient text data is coded via hamming code before inserting in to the cover so that bit error rate can be avoided or eliminated, if any. We show that the suggested scheme not only offers the high imperceptible but also robust for various attacks. Compared with existing schemes, our work offers more robustness while imperceptible and good capacity at the same time.
Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Rolling Bearings Based on Multiscale Convolutional Neural Network with Integrated Dilated Convolution Blocks

Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is necessary for guaranteeing machinery’s safe operation. Among deep learning architectures, convolutional neural network (CNN) has shown achievements in RUL prediction because of its strong ability in representation learning. Features from different receptive fields extracted by different sizes of convolution kernels can provide complete information for prognosis. The single size convolution kernel in traditional CNN is difficult to learn comprehensive information from complex signals. Besides, the ability to learn local and global features synchronously is limited to conventional CNN. Thus, a multiscale convolutional neural network (MS-CNN) is introduced to overcome these aforementioned problems. Convolution filters with different dilation rates are integrated to form a dilated convolution block, which can learn features in different receptive fields. Then, several stacked integrated dilated convolution blocks in different depths are concatenated to extract local and global features. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by a bearing dataset prepared from the PRONOSTIA platform. The results turn out that the proposed MS-CNN has higher prediction accuracy than many other deep learning-based RUL methods.
Thermal and Transport Properties of Molten Chloride Salts with Polarization Effect on Microstructure

Molten chloride salt is recognized as a promising heat transfer and storage medium in concentrating solar power in recent years, but there is a serious lack for thermal property data of molten chloride salts. In this work, local structures and thermal properties for molten chloride salt—including NaCl, MgCl2, and ZnCl2—were precisely simulated by Born–Mayer–Huggins (BMH) potential in a rigid ion model (RIM) and a polarizable ion model (PIM). Compared with experimental data, distances between cations, densities, and heat capacities of molten chloride slats calculated from PIM agree remarkably better than those from RIM. The polarization effect brings an extra contribution to screen large repulsive Coulombic interaction of cation–cation, and then it makes shorter distance between cations, larger density and lower heat capacity. For NaCl, MgCl2, and ZnCl2, PIM simulation deviations of distances between cations are respectively 3.8%, 3.7%, and 0.3%. The deviations of density and heat capacity for NaCl between PIM simulation and experiments are only 0.6% and 2.2%, and those for MgCl2 and ZnCl2 are 0.7–10.7%. As the temperature rises, the distance between cations increases and the structure turns into loose state, so the density and thermal conductivity decrease, while the ionic self-diffusion coefficient increases, which also agree well with the experimental results.
Understanding the Impact of a Major Hydro-Agricultural Project in Low Mondego Area (Portugal)

The Low Mondego (Baixo Mondego, in Portuguese) river basin has been considerably modified by human interventions to prevent floods and to improve agricultural conditions over recent decades. This work analyzes the main impacts arising from those interventions and the socio-economic context in which they occurred. The development and application of a framework to compute the variation of the nitrogen surplus between 1986 and 2018 in the Low Mondego watershed in the central part Portugal is presented. The nitrogen mass balances take into consideration different land use types, inputs and outputs, thereby making it possible to understand how human interventions have impacted the variation of the surplus. It is noticeable that the major nitrogen sources are related to the agricultural sector. However, factors such as the implementation of the Code of Good Agricultural Practices, as well as social conditions, and regulations to reduce nitrogen emissions to the atmosphere helped to cut the nitrogen surplus. This work shows how improving the agricultural conditions has served to increase the crop productivity in improved areas. Very particular social circumstances led to the reduction in anthropogenic nitrogen sources, which has been accompanied by a decline in the nitrogen that is exported at the river outlet.
The Plants associated with aquatic and marshy environments in the state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil

We present a list of aquatic and wetland plant species from the state of Paraiba, Brazil, based on the collections deposited in national and international herbaria. We identified 290 species belonging to 61 families. The checklist includes habit, localities of the collections in the state of Paraiba, and geographic distribution of each species. The amphibious habit was the most prevalent and the Sertao (semiarid inland region) was the region with the greatest collection effort. New occurrences have been registered for the state (14 species). Although our data reveal a high plant richness, we relate this richness to increased field expeditions.