Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Após o câncer: uma nova maneira de viver a vida

O câncer e uma doenca que coloca em risco a vida, levando as pessoas a uma reflexao sobre varios aspectos que antes da doenca nao eram tao valorizados. O objetivo do estudo foi conhecer as mudancas ocorridas na vida da mulher e seus familiares apos a convivencia com o câncer. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo-exploratorio, de natureza qualitativa, realizado em 2005 no municipio de Maringa-PR, com vinte individuos, sendo dez mulheres portadoras de câncer e seus respectivos familiares, as entrevistas foram compostas por questoes abertas. Identificamos que ao vivenciar o câncer, muitas pessoas passam a reorganizar suas vidas utilizando novas estrategias e dando diferentes significados aos eventos e percepcoes anteriores. Os aspectos de destaque estao relacionados as mudancas nos habitos de saude, tarefas diarias, filosofia de vida e na fe. Conclui-se que os profissionais de saude precisam conhecer as varias facetas impostas pelo câncer no seio familiar, para atuarem como fonte de apoio e ajuda psiquica no enfrentamento do câncer.
Biochemical Effects of Petroselinum crispum (Umbellifereae) Fruit Oil on the Pyrethroid Susceptible and Resistant Strains of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

As part of the ongoing screening research for local edible plants in Thailand, Petroselinum crispum fruit oil was considered as a potential bioinsecticide with proven antimosquito activity against both the pyrethroid susceptible and resistant strains of Aedes aegypti. Due to the comparative mosquitocidal efficacy on these mosquitoes, this plant oil is promoted as a natural alternative and attractive candidate for further study in monitoring resistance of mosquito vectors. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of P. crispum oil on the biochemical characteristics of the target mosquito larvae of Ae. aegypti, by determining quantitative changes of key enzymes responsible for xenobiotic detoxification, including glutathione-S-transferases (GSTs), α- and β-esterases (α-/β-ESTs), acetylcholinesterase (AChE), acid and alkaline phosphatases (ACP and ALP) and mixed-function oxidases (MFO). Three populations of Ae. aegypti, comprising the pyrethroid susceptible Muang Chiang Mai-susceptible (MCM-S) strain and the pyrethroid resistant Pang Mai Dang-resistant (PMD-R) and Upakut-resistant (UPK-R) strains, were used as test organisms. Biochemical study of Ae. aegypti larvae prior to treatment with P. crispum oil revealed that apart from AChE, the baseline activity of most defensive enzymes, such as GSTs, α-/β-ESTs, ACP, ALP and MFO, in resistant UPK-R or PMD-R, was higher than that determined in susceptible MCM-S. However, after 24-h exposure to P. crispum oil, the pyrethroid susceptible and resistant Ae. aegypti showed similarity in biochemical features, with alterations of enzyme activity in the treated larvae, as compared to the controls. A significant increase in the activity levels of GSTs, α-/β-ESTs, ACP and ALP was recorded in all strains of P. crispum oil-treated Ae. aegypti larvae, whereas MFO and AChE activity in these mosquitoes was decreased. The recognizable larvicidal capability on pyrethroid resistant Ae. aegypti, and the inhibitory effect on AChE and MFO, emphasized the potential of P. crispum oil as an attractive alternative application for management of mosquito resistance in current and future control programs.
Default, Currency Crises and Sovereign Credit Ratings

Sovereign credit ratings play an important role in determining the terms and the extent to which countries have access to international capital markets. In principle, there is no reason why changes in sovereign credit ratings should be expected to systematically predict a currency crisis. In practice, however, in developing countries there is a strong link between currency crises and default. About 85 percent of all the defaults in the sample are linked with currency crises. The results presented here suggest that sovereign credit ratings systematically fail to anticipate currency crises--but do considerably better predicting defaults. Downgrades usually follow the currency crisis--possibly highlighting how currency instability increases default risk.
Title Angular photogrammetric analysis of the soft tissue profile in 12-year-old Southern Chinese

Introduction: To quantify average angular measurements that define the soft tissue profiles of 12-year-old southern Chinese and to determine gender differences. Materials and methods: A random population sample of 514 12-year-old children was recruited (about 10% of a Hong Kong Chinese birth cohort). Photographs were taken in natural head posture and 12 soft tissue landmarks were located on the photos to measure 12 angular measurements using ImageJ (V1.45s) for Windows. Approximately 10% of photographs were reanalyzed and method error was calculated. Angular norm values for the 12 parameters were determined and gender differences were assessed using 2 sample T-test with 95% confidence interval. Results: The response rate was 54.1% (278/514). Norm values for the 12 angular measurements were generated. The greatest variability was found for the nasolabial (Cm-Sn-Ls) and labiomental (Li-Sm-Pg) angles. Gender differences were found in 4 angular parameters: vertical nasal angle (N-Prn/TV) (p < 0.05), cervicomental angle (G-Pg/C-Me) (p < 0.001), facial convexity angle (G-Sn-Pg) (p < 0.01) and total facial convexity angle (G-Prn-Pg)(p < 0.01). Conclusion: Norm values for 12 angular measurements among 12-year-old southern Chinese children were provided and some variability noted. Gender differences were apparent in several angular measurements. This study has implications in developing norm values for southern Chinese and for comparison with other ethnic groups.
The behaviour of the stiff monopile foundation subjected to the lateral loads

The article focuses on the analysis of a large-diameter monopile foundation for offshore wind turbine based on the numerical model results. The case describes the behaviour of a monopile in sand subjected to a lateral loading conditions. The effects of the pile diameter, the length and the load eccentricity on the results are investigated. Additionally, the cyclic nature of load is also taken into consideration. The cyclic loading leads to an accumulated rotation, thus the SLS design must ensure that the maximum permanent rotation does not exceed the limit value for a given wind turbine. The approach analyzed by LeBlanc et al. [2010] and Lada et al. [2014] is discussed in the way of its use as a preliminary design.
Edinburgh Research Explorer The relational processing limits of classic and contemporary neural network models of language processing

Whether neural networks can capture relational knowledge is a matter of long-standing controversy. Recently, some researchers have argued that (1) classic connectionist models can handle relational structure and (2) the success of deep learning approaches to natural language processing suggests that structured representations are unnecessary to model human language. We tested the Story Gestalt model, a classic connectionist model of text comprehension
RESPONSE OF ORNAMENTAL GRASSES CULTIVATED UNDER SALINITY STRESS

Particularly adverse growing conditions are found in urban green areas, where apart from salinity stress plants are exposed to drought stress. For this reason the aim of this study was to determine the effects of negative action and enhanced resistance to substrate salinity caused by increasing doses of NaCl in cultivation of ornamental grasses Koeleria glauca (Spreng.) DC. , Sesleria caerulea (L.) Ard. and Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash. Recorded results will provide a contribution to a preliminary classification of analysed grass species in terms of their tolerance to substrate salinity. Sesleria caerulea and S. nutans may be considered to be halophytes, since they tolerate substrate salinity caused by a dose of 30 g NaCl·dm, losing max. 50% fresh matter of the aboveground parts. At this salinity level neither RWC nor total N content changed in leaves of these grasses in comparison to those of plants not watered with saline solution. It was shown that contents of K and Ca in leaves of S. nutans increased under the influence of salinity. Koeleria glauca may be considered a salt-tolerant glycophyte, since a 50% loss of fresh matter of the aboveground parts in this grass was observed at salinity caused by the dose of 10 g NaCl·dm, while it also accumulated much more Na and Cl in leaves than the above-mentioned species.
Dynamics, the Cross-section of Stock Returns and the MAX Effect

: Recent evidence shows that investor sentiment is a contrarian predictor of stock returns with speculative stocks earning lower (higher) future returns than safe stocks following high (low) sentiment states. We extend this argument by conditioning expected stock returns on sentiment dynamics and show that the mispricing of speculative and safe stocks worsens with sentiment continuations but is corrected with sentiment transitions, consistent with the view that the mispricing of these stocks is sentiment-driven. We show that the unconditional contrarian return predictability of sentiment, at least in the short-run, is due to the returns of stocks in sentiment transitions. Results show that ex post, sentiment is a momentum predictor if subsequent sentiment continues; and a contrarian predictor if subsequent sentiment transitions. We also show that the MAX effect can either be positive or negative contingent on sentiment dynamics. The absence of a negative MAX effect following Low sentiment states suggested by prior studies is due to the completely offsetting negative MAX effect when sentiment continues in a Low state and the positive MAX effect when sentiment transitions from a High to a Low state.
Exekutive Funktionen: Zugrundeliegende kognitive Prozesse und deren Korrelate bei Kindern im späten Vorschulalter

In the developmental literature, there is a growing interest in executive functioning, especially of preschool children. Executive control processes are now widely recognized to play an essential role not only for children's cognitive, social, and motor development, but have also been shown to constitute significant predictors for later school success. The present study addresses developmental progression in executive functions, its internal structure, and well as associations with other central developmental constructs. A total of N = 410 children (61-88 months) participated in this study. Results speak for pronounced developmental progression in the late preschool years and for significant interrelations between executive function and the individual characteristics such as language, intelligence, motor coordination skills, self-regulation, as well as parents' socioeconomic background. However, no significant relationship between children's executive functioning and parental fostering was found. Results are discussed with regard to the theoretical framework of executive function and in the context of the discussion about preschoolers' school readiness.
Land Cover Classification System (LCCS): Classification Concepts and User Manual

This publication presents a new concept of land cover classification, which uses a set of independent diagnostic criteria, the so-called classifiers, rather than being nomenclature based. This approach allows correlation with existing classifications and legends so the system could serve as an internationally agreed reference base for land cover. The methodology is applicable at any scale and is comprehensive in the sense that any land cover identified anywhere in the world can be readily accommodated. A software program has been developed to assist in land cover interpretation, thus standardizing this process and contributing to its consistency. Despite the huge number of classes that can be generated, the user deals with only one classifier at a time and a land cover class is built up by a stepwise selection in which a number of classifiers are aggregated to derive the class. The software contains four modules comprising classification, legend, storage of field data and translation/correlation of classes at the class level or at the level of the classifiers. It also contains a glossary with definitions of all terms used.
Journal Pre-proof The Examination and Treatment of Soft Tissue Contracture of the Elbow

The elbow is a complex constrained synovial hinge joint linking the distal humerus with the radius and ulna bones of the forearm. There are three bony articulations in the elbow. The ulnar trochlear groove articulates with the humeral trochlea, and the humeral capitellum articulates with the radial head, which together facilitate elbow flexion and extension. Additionally, the radial head and sigmoid notch of the proximal ulna articulate to create the proximal radioulnar joint (PRUJ), which, along with rotation of the radial head against the capitellum, allow forearm pronation and supination. The bony elbow is immediately surrounded and stabilized by the articular capsule, which creates synovial fluid for chondral nutrition and joint lubrication and provides primary static stabilization medially and laterally through thickened portions of capsule termed the medial ulnar (MUCL) and lateral collateral ligaments (LCL). Surrounding the capsule are the muscular, or dynamic stabilizers of the elbow. This includes the anterior brachialis, the posterior triceps tendon, the medial flexor/pronator origin, and the lateral common extensor origin. The primary static stabilizers provide a fixed restraint to excess rotational and angular stress across the elbow, and the dynamic stabilizers work to keep the forces experienced by the static stabilizers below their respective thresholds of injury.
Tracking Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Fiber Human Subinsular Asymmetry Studied by

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Our aim was to improve our understanding of the subinsular white matter microstructural asymmetries in healthy right-handed subjects. Structural brain asymmetries could be related to functional asymmetries such as hemisphere language dominance or handedness. Besides the known gray matter asymmetries, white matter asymmetries could also play a key role in the understanding of hemispheric specialization, notably that of language. MATERIALS AND METHODS: White matter asymmetries were studied by diffusion tensor imaging at 1.5T (41 diffusion-gradient directions; b-value set to 700 s/mm 2 ; matrix, 128 2 ; in-plane resolution, 1.875 (cid:1) 1.875 mm; section thickness, 2.0 mm) and fiber tracking (BrainVISA software). The main white matter bundles passing through the subinsular area were segmented, and fractional anisotropy (FA) was measured along each of the segmented bundles. RESULTS: In line with published results, we found an asymmetry of the arcuate fasciculus and the subinsular white matter, namely left-greater-than-right FA in right-handed controls. Furthermore, by segmenting major tracts coursing through this region, we showed that the subinsular portions of the uncinate fasciculus (UF) and the inferior occipitofrontal fasciculus (IOF) contribute to this FA asymmetry. Those tracts have been reported to be likely implicated in the language network. CONCLUSION: Because the left hemisphere hosts language functions in most right-handers, the significant leftward asymmetry observed within the arcuate fasciculus, the subinsular part of the UF and IOF may be related to the hemispheric specialization for language.
Systolic Blood Pressure and LVM / RVM Ratio During the Experimental Period Rat Groups N Ascending Aorta ( mm Hg ) Abdominal Aorta ( mm Hg ) LVM

Hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitors prevent load-induced left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). Whether this effect is related to antioxidant properties of this class of drugs is poorly understood. The aim of the present report was to evaluate the regulation of nitrotyrosine production during the development of load-induced LVH and the effect of simvastatin treatment in this process. Rats were subjected to aortic constriction up to 15 days. LVH was evaluated by left/right ventricle mass ratio. Myocardial content of nitrotyrosine, nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms, and phagocyte-type NAD(P)H-oxidase subunits (p67-phox and p22-phox) were analyzed by immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry assays. Another group of rats received treatment with either simvastatin or placebo for 15 days after the onset of pressure overload, and their hearts were also studied. Myocardial nitrotyrosine content was increased from 3 to 15 days of pressure overload in regions of cardiac myocytes in close apposition to myocardial stroma during LVH. Neuronal NOS (nNOS), inducible NOS (iNOS), and endothelial NOS (eNOS) isoforms had their expression increased in coronary vessels (nNOS and iNOS) and in myocardial stroma (eNOS) from day 3 to day 7 of aortic constriction. However, p67-phox and p22-phox expression was increased in cells of myocardial stroma in parallel to augmented myocardial nitrotyrosine content. Simvastatin treatment inhibited the increases in myocardial nitrotyrosine content and in p67-phox and p22-phox expression, and significantly reduced LVH. In conclusion, antioxidant properties of simvastatin might play a role in myocardial remodeling induced by pressure overload. (Hypertension. 2004; 43:1060-1066.)
CloudSim: A Novel Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Cloud Computing Infrastructures and Services

Cloud computing focuses on delivery of reliable, secure, fault-tolerant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructures for hosting Internet-based application services. These applications have different composition, configuration, and deployment requirements. Quantifying the performance of scheduling and allocation policy on a Cloud infrastructure (hardware, software, services) for different application and service models under varying load, energy performance (power consumption, heat dissipation), and system size is an extremely challenging problem to tackle. To simplify this process, in this paper we propose CloudSim: a new generalized and extensible simulation framework that enables seamless modelling, simulation, and experimentation of emerging Cloud computing infrastructures and management services. The simulation framework has the following novel features: (i) support for modelling and instantiation of large scale Cloud computing infrastructure, including data centers on a single physical computing node and java virtual machine; (ii) a self-contained platform for modelling data centers, service brokers, scheduling, and allocations policies; (iii) availability of virtualization engine, which aids in creation and management of multiple, independent, and co-hosted virtualized services on a data center node; and (iv) flexibility to switch between space-shared and time-shared allocation of processing cores to virtualized services.
An Examination of Own Account Trading by Dual Traders in Futures Markets

Using proprietary audit trail transactions compiled by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, we investigate, at the individual trader level, (1) the timing and (2) the determinants of dual traders’ personal trades. Our analysis reveals a surprising absence of any trade timing by dual traders in relation to the execution of their customers’ orders. Further examination employing correlation statistics and the time series regressions provides strong support for dual traders as liquidity suppliers and for their inventory control behavior. Finally, after simultaneously controlling for factors representing information, liquidity supply and inventory control, within a multivariate regression framework, the determinants of a dual trader’s personal trading decision appear to be liquidity supply and inventory control. Overall, the emergent profile of a dual trader is that of an uninformed trader performing complimentary tasks of liquidity provision and personal inventory control. These results survive extensive robustness checks, question the assumptions underpinning the extant theoretical research and have important policy implications.
Simulated Sea Surface Salinity Variability in the Tropical Indian Ocean

Abstract A long-period (15 yr) simulation of sea surface salinity (SSS) obtained from a hindcast run of an ocean general circulation model (OGCM) forced by the NCEP–NCAR daily reanalysis product is analyzed in the tropical Indian Ocean (TIO). The objective of the study is twofold: assess the capability of the model to provide realistic simulations of SSS and characterize the SSS variability in view of upcoming satellite salinity missions. Model fields are evaluated in terms of mean, standard deviation, and characteristic temporal scales of SSS variability. Results show that the standard deviations range from 0.2 to 1.5 psu, with larger values in regions with strong seasonal transitions of surface currents (south of India) and along the coast in the Bay of Bengal (strong Kelvin-wave-induced currents). Comparison of simulated SSS with collocated SSS measurements from the National Oceanographic Data Center and Argo floats resulted in a high correlation of 0.85 and a root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 0.4 psu.
CD109 deficiency induces osteopenia with an osteoporosis‐like phenotype in vivo

Osteoporosis is a global public health problem that is increasing along with an aging population. A major determinant of osteoporosis is high bone turnover, which results from osteoclast activation. CD109 is a glycosylphosphatidylinositol‐anchored glycoprotein, a deficiency that leads to a psoriasis‐like skin inflammation in mice. Although the expression of CD109 has been reported in mouse pre‐osteoclast cells, its function in osteoclasts in vivo remains largely unknown. To investigate the physiological role of CD109 in bone metabolism, we analyzed bones from wild‐type and CD109‐deficient adult mice. Micro‐computed tomography analysis of the femur (thigh bone) showed that bone volume was lower in CD109‐deficient mice than in wild‐type mice. Bone histomorphometric analysis showed not only a reduction in bone volume but also an increase in bone turnover in CD109‐deficient mice as compared with wild‐type mice. Additionally, we measured serum levels of several markers of bone turnover and found a significant increase in the N‐terminal telopeptide of type I collagen, a bone resorption marker, as well as alkaline phosphatase, a bone formation marker, in CD109‐deficient mice. These results indicate that CD109 deficiency induces a high‐turnover, osteoporosis‐like phenotype, which suggests that CD109 plays a role in bone metabolism in vivo.
Earth fissure formation from groundwater pumping and the influence of a stiff upper cemented layer

Typical soil profiles in arid and semi-arid regions where groundwater is pumped consist of geological materials that vary from uncemented soils to rock. A finite-element analysis using a 20 m thick stiff cemented top layer over a 400 m thick aquifer is used to study how the cemented layer affects earth fissure initiation. This paper presents the results of this study on the key parameters influencing earth fissure formation in a soil profile with a top cemented layer. Three scenarios, each representing three cementation strength parameters, are investigated. A method based on the gradient of the slope of the subsidence bowl is proposed to determine earth fissure initiation. It is shown that earth fissures will not form for gradients below 8 × 10−5. The gradient at which an earth fissure would form depends on the cementation strength and tensile strength of the upper cemented alluvium layer. A highly cemented upper alluvium layer is more prone to earth fissure formation than an uncemented one. However, if the top layer is stiff enough to be classified as a ‘rock’, it will be less prone to earth fissure initiation when the cementation increases.