Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Polish Forum for Prevention Guidelines on Hypertension: update 2017.

11st Department of Cardiology, Interventional Electrocardiology and Hypertension, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland 2Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College at John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland 3Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Population Studies, Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland 4Department of Haemodynamics and Angiocardiography, John Paul II Hospital, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland 5Department of Preventive Medicine and Medical Education, Medical University in Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland 6Department of Epidemiology, CVD Prevention, and Health Promotion, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland 7Department of Metabolic Diseases, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland 8Department of Pharmacogenomics, Division of Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland 9Department of Family Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland 10Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Rheumatology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland 11Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland 122nd Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland 13Department of Allergy and Immunology, 2nd Chair of Internal Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland 14Department of Hypertensiology, Angiology and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland 15Department of Internal Medicine and Gerontology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland 16Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Report Cards for Manholes: Eliciting Expert Feedback for a Learning Task

We present a manhole profiling tool, developed as part of the Columbia/Con Edison machine learning project on manhole event prediction, and discuss its role in evaluating our machine learning model in three important ways: elimination of outliers, elimination of falsely predictive features, and assessment of the quality of the model. The model produces a ranked list of tens of thousands of manholes in Manhattan, where the ranking criterion is vulnerability to serious events such as fires, explosions and smoking manholes. Con Edison set two goals for the model, namely accuracy and intuitiveness, and this tool made it possible for us to address both of these goals. The tool automatically assembles a "report card" or "profile" highlighting data associated with a given manhole. Prior to the processing work that underlies the profiling tool, case studies of a single manhole took several days and resulted in an incomplete study; locating manholes such as those we present in this work would have been extremely difficult. The model is currently assisting Con Edison in determining repair priorities for the secondary electrical grid.
O ct 2 00 1 Entanglement and Non-Separability of CAR Systems

We study quantum entanglement of bipartite CAR systems. We show that triangle inequality of von Neumann entropy does not hold in these systems. Meanwhile, we show non-separability in the sense of Florig-Summers for our CAR systems. Entanglement degrees by Narnhofer are generalized to an arbitrary, that is, not-necessarily commuting pair of general C∗-systems. These new entanglement degrees are investigated with some explicit calculations for certain pairs of our CAR systems. We introduce a notion named half-sided entanglement via our generalized entanglement degree. By using this notion, we describe those certain notable features of quantum entanglement which originate from CAR.
The Grid Block Device

In this paper we propose a distributed, replicated block device for The Grid based on the the replication algorithm of Y. Amir(1). The end goal is to support application-specified semantics, both wrt. replication strategy and the consistency model used for reads and writes. We list the proposed features of the Grid Block Device and discuss various meth- ods of implementation.
Evaluation of Satellite Imagery to Increase Crop Yield in Irrigated Agriculture

The main aim of this study was to work out a satellite-imagery based approach that can be used to improve agricultural crop growing on a bigger-scale and on field level. Instead of working on small experimental fields, various vast farms have been selected, which were ready to cooperate for this study. Especially for the dry south of Ukraine, vegetation and soil indices provide useful information to improve crop development and productivity. However, many index variants produce similar results or unclear structures; therefore, their information content is restricted under practical conditions. The results analysis shows that a few indices are sufficient to regularly monitor irrigated fields. Talks with farmers revealed that advice is mainly needed to secure crop growth, leading to the decision to firstly select the indices NDVI and/or EVI. To detect failures in an early stage, we additionally used DIRT, NDRE, LAI, NMDI and OSAVI. NMDI could also be used to monitor irrigation activities. This article provides examples illuminating the implemented methodology.
Skeleton-Based Shape Classification Using Path Similarity

Most of the traditional methods for shape classification are based on contour. They often encounter difficulties when dealing with classes that have large nonlinear variability, especially when the variability is structural or due to articulation. It is well-known that shape representation based on skeletons is superior to contour based representation in such situations. However, approaches to shape similarity based on skeletons suffer from the instability of skeletons, and matching of skeleton graphs is still an open problem. Using a new skeleton pruning method, we are able to obtain stable pruned skeletons even in the presence of significant contour distortions. We also propose a new method for matching of skeleton graphs. In contrast to most existing methods, it does not require converting of skeleton graphs to trees and it does not require any graph editing. Shape classification is done with Bayesian classifier. We present excellent classification results for complete shapes.
Statistical Methodological Issues in Studies of Air Pollution and Respiratory Disease

Epidemiological studies have consistently shown short term associations between levels of air pollution and respiratory disease in countries of diverse populations, geographical locations and varying levels of air pollution and climate. The aims of this paper are: (1) to assess the sensitivity of the observed pollution effects to model specification, with particular emphasis on the inclusion of seasonally adjusted covariates; and (2) to study the effect of air pollution on respiratory disease in Melbourne, Australia.
Microsurgical and Endoscopic Anatomy of the Retrosigmoid Intradural Suprameatal Approach to Lesions Extending from the Posterior Fossa to the Central Skull Base

This article evaluates the accessibility of the posterior part of the central skull base via the extended retrosigmoid intradural suprameatal approach. In formaldehyde-fixed specimens, the retrosigmoid intradural suprameatal approach was performed, and the feasibility of reaching central skull base structures was analyzed. Microscopic and endoscopic techniques were used. The main outcome measures were digital films and screenshots, which were analyzed regarding quantitative and qualitative aspects of visual structures. By drilling off the suprameatal tubercle and part of the petrous apex, Meckel's cave may be opened, the trigeminal nerve mobilized, and the tentorium divided. Thus the parasellar area may be exposed and the posterosuperior space of the cavernous sinus approached. Using an endoscope-assisted technique and following cisternal anatomy, the sellar and parasellar region may be explored even if the working space is narrow. The retrosigmoid intradural suprameatal approach provides optimal accessibility to medially located central skull base structures, in particular to the posterior part of the cavernous sinus. Use of the endoscope may remarkably optimize the accessibility.
Intelligence by mechanics

Research on the biomechanics of animal and human locomotion provides insight into basic principles of locomotion and respective implications for construction and control. Nearly elastic operation of the leg is necessary to reproduce the basic dynamics in walking and running. Elastic leg operation can be modelled with a spring-mass model. This model can be used as a template with respect to both gaits in the construction and control of legged machines. With respect to the segmented leg, the humanoid arrangement saves energy and ensures structural stability. With the quasi-elastic operation the leg inherits the property of self-stability, i.e. the ability to stabilize a system in the presence of disturbances without sensing the disturbance or its direct effects. Self-stability can be conserved in the presence of musculature with its crucial damping property. To ensure secure foothold visco-elastic suspended muscles serve as shock absorbers. Experiments with technically implemented leg models, which explore some of these principles, are promising.
Ocean signature of intense wind events in the Western Mediterranean Sea

Abstract. The Western Mediterranean Sea is often subject to intense winds, especially during the winter season. The effects of the enhanced enthalpy and momentum fluxes on the upper ocean is investigated using sea surface temperature and sea surface height observational data products in the period 1993–2014. The maximum surface cooling associated with the anomalous ocean heat loss, with upwelling, and with diapycnal mixing is shown to occur a couple of days after the intense wind event, to be dependent on the wind intensity and to persist for over a month during winter, when deep water is formed, and for about 10 days during summer, when the thermocline is very shallow. The sea surface height signal reaches a minimum in correspondence of the intense wind, and normal conditions recover in about six weeks. Unlike for intense winds in the tropics, associated to tropical cyclones, no long term sea surface height anomaly is observed, indicating that the water column heat content is not significantly modified.
Null Hypotheses, Interval Estimation, and Bayesian Analysis

Hypothesis testing using a frequentist approach is the mainstay of biostatistics and forms the foundation for assessing the significance of study results. This classical method has well-understood advantages as it determines whether data are statistically improbable and provides a threshold (ie, the P value) for delineating significance. Alternative statistical approaches have been proposed, including Bayesian analysis. This technique incorporates a prior probability as to what is already known clinically with the observed data. It is important for otolaryngologists to understand the advantages and disadvantages of these 2 approaches to conduct the most appropriate analyses.
Autocrine Action of IGF2 Regulates Adult β-Cell Mass and Function

Insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2), produced and secreted by adult β-cells, functions as an autocrine activator of the β-cell insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor signaling pathway. Whether this autocrine activity of IGF2 plays a physiological role in β-cell and whole-body physiology is not known. Here, we studied mice with β-cell–specific inactivation of Igf2 (βIGF2KO mice) and assessed β-cell mass and function in aging, pregnancy, and acute induction of insulin resistance. We showed that glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) was markedly reduced in old female βIGF2KO mice; glucose tolerance was, however, normal because of increased insulin sensitivity. While on a high-fat diet, both male and female βIGF2KO mice displayed lower GSIS compared with control mice, but reduced β-cell mass was observed only in female βIGF2KO mice. During pregnancy, there was no increase in β-cell proliferation and mass in βIGF2KO mice. Finally, β-cell mass expansion in response to acute induction of insulin resistance was lower in βIGF2KO mice than in control mice. Thus, the autocrine action of IGF2 regulates adult β-cell mass and function to preserve in vivo GSIS in aging and to adapt β-cell mass in response to metabolic stress, pregnancy hormones, and acute induction of insulin resistance.
A Hybrid E-Mail Spam Filtering Technique using Data Mining Approach

Communication is a primary need of human beings therefore new techniques are invented to support low cost, efficient and adoptable techniques for new generation communication technology. SMS and email messages are such techniques which are adoptable, efficient and cost effective. Now-a-days most of the communications, official and personal are performed using email messaging. But these mails are not much secure due to untrusted networks and intermediate network attackers. Therefore a number of techniques are developed for securing the email messaging from the attackers among them the spam filters are an essential contribution. In the proposed work the traditionally available techniques of spam filtering are investigated. In addition to that a new technique using hybrid methodology is presented. The proposed technique incorporates the Bayesian classifier and the neural network. In the result section the performance of the proposed technique is compared to the traditional Bayesian classifier.
A Postanesthetic Recovery Score

IGHTEXN years ago, at the 27th Congress E of this International Anesthesia Research Society, Dr. Virginia Apgarl first proposed her new method of evaluation of neonates. Since then, this method has been universally adopted, and although revisions of the original scheme have been thought necessary, it remains the simplest and perhaps most reliable manner to objectively describe the physical condition of the infant at birth. ' Recently, Downes3 also described a similar evaluative method for newborn infants in respiratory distress.
Increased Chances of Drought in Southeastern Periphery of the Tibetan Plateau Induced by Anthropogenic Warming

AbstractThe southeastern periphery of the Tibetan Plateau (SEPTP) was hit by an extraordinarily severe drought in the autumn of 2009. Overall, the SEPTP has been gripped by a sustained drought for six consecutive years. To better understand the physical causes of these types of severe and frequent droughts and thus to improve their prediction and enhance the ability to adapt, many research efforts have been devoted to the disastrous droughts in the SEPTP. Nonetheless, whether the likelihood and strength of the severe droughts in the SEPTP, such as that in the autumn of 2009, have been affected by anthropogenic climate change remains unknown. This study first identifies the atmospheric circulation regime responsible for the SEPTP droughts and then explores how human-induced climate change has affected the severe droughts in the SEPTP. It is found that the drought conditions in the SEPTP have been driven by the Indian–Pacific warm pool (IPWP) sea surface temperature (SST) through strengthening of the local .
Managing prefetch memory for data-intensive online servers

Data-intensive online servers may contain a significant amount of prefetched data in memory due to large-granularity I/O prefetching and high execution concurrency. Using a traditional access recency or frequency-based page reclamation policy, memory contention can cause a substantial number of prefetched pages to be prematurely evicted before being accessed. This paper presents a new memory management framework that handles prefetched (but not-yet-accessed) pages separately from the rest of the memory buffer cache. We examine three new heuristic policies when a victim page (among the prefetched pages) needs to be identified for eviction: 1) evict the last page of the longest prefetch stream; 2) evict the last page of the least recently accessed prefetch stream; and 3) evict the last page of the prefetch stream whose owner process has consumed the most amount of CPU since it last accessed the prefetch stream. These policies require no application changes or hints on their data access patterns. We have implemented the proposed techniques in the Linux 2.6. 10 kernel and conducted experiments based on microbenchmarks and two real application workloads (a trace-driven index searching server and the Apache Web server hosting media clips). Compared with access history-based policies, our memory management scheme can improve the server throughput of real workloads by 11-64% at high concurrency levels. Further, the proposed approach is 10-32% below an approximated optimal page reclamation policy that uses application-provided I/O access hints. The space overhead of our implementation is about 0.4% of the physical memory size.
Sophisticated Experience-Weighted Attraction Learning and Strategic Teaching in Repeated Games

Most learning models assume players are adaptive (i.e., they respond only to their own previous experience and ignore others' payoff information) and behavior is not sensitive to the way in which players are matched. Empirical evidence suggests otherwise. In this paper, we extend our adaptive experience-weighted attraction (EWA) learning model to capture sophisticated learning and strategic teaching in repeated games. The generalized model assumes there is a mixture of adaptive learners and sophisticated players. An adaptive learner adjusts his behavior the EWA way. A sophisticated player rationally best-responds to her forecasts of all other behaviors. A sophisticated player can be either myopic or farsighted. A farsighted player develops multiple-period rather than single-period forecasts of others' behaviors and chooses to “teach” the other players by choosing a strategy scenario that gives her the highest discounted net present value. We estimate the model using data from p-beauty contests and repeated trust games with incomplete information. The generalized model is better than the adaptive EWA model in describing and predicting behavior. Including teaching also allows an empirical learning-based approach to reputation formation which predicts better than a quantal-response extension of the standard type-based approach.
AC PV solar system distributed architecture with maximum power point tracking

Mismatching effects are major drawbacks existing in today's photovoltaic (PV) solar systems. To improve power system stability and energy conversion efficiency, distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) techniques are developed. In this paper, single-stage DMPPT power management DC-AC inverter architecture (SS-AC-DMPPT) is presented and verified by Matlab®/Simulink® simulation model results. In the SS-AC-DMPPT PV solar system architecture, multiple inverters are connected in series in order to yield higher AC output voltage to the load such as the grid, each inverter is directly connected to a PV solar panel or cell, and MPPT control is performed by each inverter.
Enhancing hardware security with emerging transistor technologies

We consider how the I-V characteristics of emerging transistors (particularly those sponsored by STARnet) might be employed to enhance hardware security. An emphasis of this work is to move beyond hardware implementations of physically unclonable functions (PUFs) and random number generators (RNGs). We highlight how new devices (i) may enable more sophisticated logic obfuscation for IP protection, (ii) could help to prevent fault injection attacks, (iii) prevent differential power analysis in lightweight cryptographic systems, etc.
Exact and approximate distributions for the product of Dirichlet components

It is well known that $X/(X + Y)$ has the beta distribution when $X$ and $Y$ follow the Dirichlet distribution. Linear combinations of the form $\alpha X + \beta Y$ have also been studied in Provost and Cheong [S. B. Provost and Y. -H. Cheong: On the distribution of linear combinations of the components of a Dirichlet random vector. Canad. J. Statist. 28 (2000)]. In this paper, we derive the exact distribution of the product $P = X Y$ (involving the Gauss hypergeometric function) and the corresponding moment properties. We also propose an approximation and show evidence to prove its robustness. This approximation will be useful especially to the practitioners of the Dirichlet distribution.
Clinical efficacy of immediate implant loading protocols compared to conventional loading depending on the type of the restoration: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Immediate loading has become a predictable option to restore all clinical situations. The aim of this systematic review was to assess whether immediate loading protocols achieve comparable clinical outcomes when compared to conventional loading protocols depending on the type of prosthetic restoration. METHODS A protocol was developed aimed to answer the following focused question: "What are the effects of immediate implant loading protocols compared to conventional implant loading, in terms of implant failure, marginal bone levels, and biological and mechanical complications based on the type of restoration? " The next subanalysis were performed as follows: the extent, type, and material of the restoration and the type of occlusal contact in function. This systematic review only included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with a follow-up of at least 6 months after implant loading. RESULTS Thirty-seven final papers were included. The results from the meta-analyses have shown that the immediately loading implants demonstrated a statistically significant higher risk of implant failure [RR = 1.92; 95% CI (1.04; 3.54); P = 0.036], a statistically significant lower bone loss [WMD = 0.046; 95% CI (0.043; 0.049); P = 0.000] and a smaller increase in ISQ values [WMD = -1.096; 95% CI (-1.615; -0.577); P < 0.001, although both groups attained high survival rates (98.2% in the test and 99.6% in the control). Single teeth implants were greater risk of failure, when compared to immediately loaded full arch restorations (RR = 2 vs. 0.9), so as the occlusal pattern when compared to non-occlusal (RR = 1.9 vs. 1.4). CONCLUSIONS Immediate loading may impose a greater risk for implant failure when compared to conventional loading, although the survival rates were high for both groups.