Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predicting functional remission in patients with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional study of symptomatic remission, psychosocial remission, functioning, and clinical outcome

Background: New approaches to assess outcome in schizophrenia include multidimensional measures such as remission, cognition, psychosocial functioning, and quality of life. Clinical and psychosocial measures have been recently introduced to assess functional outcome. Objective: The study presented here was designed to examine the rates of symptomatic remission, psychosocial remission, global functioning, and clinical global impressions in a sample of schizophrenia outpatients in order to assess functional remission and to identify predictive factors for functional remission. Methods: A total of 168 consecutive Mexican outpatients receiving pharmacological treatment at the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico City were enrolled in a cross-sectional study. Symptomatic remission was assessed according to the definition and criteria proposed by the Remission in Schizophrenia Working Group using the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale. Psychosocial remission was assessed according to Barak criteria using the Psychosocial Remission in Schizophrenia scale. Functioning was measured with the Global Assessment of Functioning, and clinical outcome with the Clinical Global Impressions (CGI) Scale. Results: Findings showed that 45.2% of patients fulfilled the symptomatic remission criteria, 32.1% achieved psychosocial remission, and 53% reported adequate functioning. However, the combination of these three outcome criteria – symptomatic, psychosocial remission, and functioning – indicated that 14.9% of the patients achieved our predefined functional remission outcome. The logistic regression model included five predictive variables for functional remission: (1) being employed, (2) use of atypical antipsychotics, (3) lower number of medications, (4) lower negative symptom severity, and (5) lower excitement symptom severity. Conclusion: The study demonstrated that symptomatic remission, psychosocial remission, and functioning could be achievable goals for a considerable number of patients. The outcome of functional remission was achieved by a minority of patients, less than 15%. New approaches should include multidimensional measures to assess functional outcome in schizophrenia research.
Cataloguer, rechercher des cartes. Le référencement géographique en question

Cet article est consacre aux methodes d’enregistrement et d’exploitation des donnees de referencement geographique des cartes et plans dans les catalogues des bibliotheques. Apres un bilan des pratiques qui suivent la norme et l’expose des difficultes relatives a leur mise en œuvre, Jean-Luc Arnaud presente les possibilites offertes par les nouveaux outils de l’information geographique et du georeferencement a travers quelques exemples. Le constat est sans appel, ces outils ont des performances sans commune mesure avec ceux preconises par la norme. Les pratiques evoluent assez rapidement et, de toute evidence, la cartotheconomie est a un tournant de son histoire. Cependant, plusieurs annees sont encore necessaires pour evaluer avec un recul suffisant les resultats proposes par des outils eux-memes en evolution rapide.
E-Learning in the 21st Century: A Framework for Research and Practice

From the Publisher: There is a technological revolution taking place in higher education. The growth of 'e-learning' is being described as explosive, unprecedented and disruptive. E-Learning in the 21st Century provides a framework for understanding the application and characteristics of e-learning in higher education. The authors discuss their extensive research from technological, pedagogical and organizational perspectives in order to create practical models and release the full potential of e-learning. This in-depth understanding will give direction and guidance to educators who wish to facilitate critical discourse and higher-order learning through the use of electronic technologies in a networked learning context.
Conv-VGG Conv-Scratch UpsamplingMax Pooling Fully Connected Sigmoid BCE Cost Adversarial Cost Image Stimuli + Predicted Saliency Map Image Stimuli + Ground Truth Saliency Map Generator Discriminator

We introduce SalGAN, a deep convolutional neural network for visual saliency prediction trained with adversarial examples. The first stage of the network consists of a generator model whose weights are learned by back-propagation computed from a binary cross entropy (BCE) loss over downsampled versions of the saliency maps. The resulting prediction is processed by a discriminator network trained to solve a binary classification task between the saliency maps generated by the generative stage and the ground truth ones. Our experiments show how adversarial training allows reaching state-of-the-art performance across different metrics when combined with a widely-used loss function like BCE. Our results can be reproduced with the source code and trained models available at https://imatge-upc.github. io/saliency-salgan-2017/.
Formation and Eruption of an Active Region Sigmoid. II. Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of a Multistage Eruption

Solar eruptions, mainly eruptive flares with coronal mass ejections, represent the most powerful drivers of space weather. Due to the low plasma-β nature of the solar corona, solar eruption has its roots in the evolution of the coronal magnetic field. Although various theoretical models of the eruptive magnetic evolution have been proposed, they still oversimplify the realistic process in observation, which shows a much more complex process due to the invisible complex magnetic environment. In this paper, we continue our study of a complex sigmoid eruption in solar active region 11283, which is characterized by a multipolar configuration embedding a null-point topology and a sigmoidal magnetic flux rope. Based on extreme ultraviolet observations, it has been suggested that a three-stage magnetic reconnection scenario might explain the complex flare process. Here we reproduce the complex magnetic evolution during the eruption using a data-constrained high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation. The simulation clearly demonstrates three reconnection episodes, which occurred in sequence in different locations in the corona. Through these reconnections, the initial sigmoidal flux rope breaks one of its legs, and quickly gives birth to a new tornado-like magnetic structure that is highly twisted and has multiple connections to the Sun due to the complex magnetic topology. The simulated magnetic field configuration and evolution are found to be consistent with observations of the corona loops, filaments, and flare ribbons. Our study demonstrates that significant insight into a realistic, complex eruption event can be gained by a numerical MHD simulation that is constrained or driven by observed data.
TiP-Leaf: a dataset of leaf traits across vegetation types on the Tibetan Plateau

Abstract. Functional trait databases are emerging as a crucial tool for a wide range of ecological studies, including next-generation vegetation modelling across the world. However, few large-scale studies have been reported on plant traits in the Tibetan Plateau (TP), the cradle of East Asian flora and fauna with specific alpine ecosystems, and no report on plant trait databases could be found. In this work, an extensive dataset of 11 leaf functional traits (TiP-Leaf), mainly for herbs and shrubs and a few trees on the TP, was compiled through field surveys. The TiP-Leaf dataset, which was compiled from 336 sites distributed mainly on the plateau surface and the northern margin of the TP across alpine and temperate vegetation regions and sampled from 2018 to 2021, contained 1692 morphological trait measurements of leaf thickness, leaf fresh weight, leaf dry weight, leaf dry-matter content, leaf water content, leaf area, specific leaf area and leaf mass per area and 1645 chemical element trait measurements of leaf carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus contents. Thus, 468 species that belong to 184 genera and 51 families were obtained and measured. In addition to leaf trait measurements, the geographic coordinates, bioclimate variables, disturbance intensities and vegetation types of each site were also recorded. The dataset could provide solid data support to effectively quantify the modern ecological features of alpine ecosystems, thereby further evaluating the response of alpine ecosystems to climate change and human disturbances and improving the next-generation vegetation model. The dataset, which is available from the National Tibetan Plateau Data Center (TPDC; Jin et al., 2022a; https://doi.org/10.11888/Terre.tpdc.272516), can make a great contribution to the regional and global plant trait databases.
Wave propagation in metamaterials mimicking spacetime geometry: black holes and cosmic strings

La investigacion en gravitacion analoga consiste en el estudio de sistemas fisicos donde se pueden reproducir algunos de los fenomenos propios de relatividad general. Esta tesis se centra en la conocida propagacion analoga de las ondas electromagneticas en un espacio-tiempo curvado y en un medio con una permitividad y permeabilidad generalmente anisotropas. Para la realizacion de este tipo de medios, fue necesaria la aparicion de los metamateriales, materiales artificiales disenados para tener propiedades electromagneticas fuera de lo comun. En este contexto, se estudian modelos analogos a dos objetos estaticos con distinta simetria: uno con simetria esferica y otro con topologia conica. Ambos casos estan motivados por soluciones a las ecuaciones de Einstein: el agujero negro de Schwarzschild y la cuerda cosmica, respectivamente. A traves de las ecuaciones de optica de transformacion, determinamos los parametros de los medios analogos a estos espacio-tiempos. Estudiamos la propagacion de ondas electromagneticas en los materiales obtenidos mediante simulaciones numericas y comparamos los resultados con teorias analiticas, encontrando muy buen acuerdo. Por un lado, los contrastamos con las geodesicas en los espacio-tiempos considerados a traves del formalismo Hamiltoniano. Por otro lado, desarrollamos modelos analiticos para describir la difraccion de una onda (en principio tanto electromagnetica como gravitatoria) debido a la cuerda cosmica. Para ello, usamos teorias asintoticas de difraccion en un espacio virtual plano con un deficit de angulo, ya que es una representacion equivalente a la geometria conica de la cuerda. De este modo, se obtienen expresiones que nos permiten explicar detalladamente los fenomenos ondulatorios de interferencia y difraccion que se producen en este espacio-tiempo. Observamos que estos efectos pueden ser comparables a los terminos de optica geometrica: anaden una modulacion en la amplificacion del campo relacionada con la formacion de imagenes dobles propia de la topologia de la cuerda. Cabe destacar que estos fenomenos son conceptualmente distintos a los que se podrian esperar en la difraccion sobre un objeto solido como una barra. Utilizando nuestros modelos analiticos, obtenemos el patron de difraccion caracteristico de la cuerda cosmica, que podria ser de interes para su deteccion.
Justification for estimating observation‐error covariances with the Desroziers diagnostic

The convergence properties of the iterative Desroziers method, which is commonly used to estimate observation error statistics and correlations based on analysis and background departures, is examined. In the derivation of the Desroziers diagnostic, it is assumed that the error statistics are correctly specified in the analysis. While this is not true in practice, it is possible to apply the diagnostic iteratively to obtain increasingly better estimates of the error statistics and correlations. It is proved here that these iterations converge to the truth only when the background error statistics are correct in the analysis. Bounds on the eigenvalues of the assumed background error covariance matrix determine when this matrix is over‐estimated. If the background covariance is not exact, but is not over‐estimated, it is shown that the iterations converge to a symmetric positive definite matrix that depends on the true and assumed error covariances, and diverge to a singular matrix otherwise. The use of the Desroziers method when background and observation errors are correlated with each other is also addressed, as well as the application of this method to unassimilated observations, with examples.
Morning cortisol is lower in obese individuals with normal glucose tolerance

Background: There is no consensus on the role of cortisol in the pathogenesis of obesity and metabolic syndrome (MS). This cross-sectional study aimed to analyze the relationship of morning plasma cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels with body mass index (BMI) and glucose tolerance. Subjects and methods: The sample frame was the “Offspring of individuals with diabetes study” database. A total of 358 offspring of individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and 287 individuals without a known family history of T2DM were recruited for the study. Subjects who were $ 10 years of age were selected from the database for analysis. Subjects with T2DM were excluded. All participants underwent a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), and blood samples were collected at 0, 30, 60, and 120 minutes for glucose, insulin and C-peptide. Plasma cortisol, ACTH, and lipid profile were estimated from the fasting sample. Results: Four hundred and ninety-five participants (305 males [62%] and 190 females [38%]) were included in the analysis. ACTH and cortisol levels were higher in normal-weight subjects than in overweight/obese subjects. Both ACTH and cortisol increased as fasting plasma glucose increased. Cortisol levels were significantly lower in offspring of T2DM subjects with MS than in offspring of T2DM subjects without MS. When adjusted for BMI, the significance was marginal. In males, cortisol levels were negatively correlated with early insulin secretion during OGTT (insulinogenic index [0–30]) and positively with waist circumference and serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. In females, fasting glucose and systolic blood pressure were significantly and positively correlated. Conclusion: Body weight was correlated negatively with morning plasma cortisol and ACTH, whereas fasting glucose was correlated positively.
Digital Commons@DePaul Digital Commons@DePaul

Children who endorse cross-gendered behaviors, or behaviors that deviate from the sociocultural expectancies of a member of a specific gender (e.g., opposite-sex toy preferences), are described as being gender nonconforming. Gender nonconforming children are often subjected to victimization and childhood maltreatment, and because gender roles are much more rigid in boys than in girls, boys may be at a heightened risk for victimization. Past research suggests that gender nonconforming children are at risk for maladaptive development, such that gender nonconforming children are placed at a heightened risk for poor mental health outcomes due to the victimization and adversity they experience. The current review aims to build upon previous work and examine the effects of cross-gendered behaviors during childhood and poor mental health in adulthood and to explore the roles of victimization, biological sex, and sexual orientation on the association.
Behavioral interactions of simvastatin and fluoxetine in tests of anxiety and depression

: Simvastatin inhibits 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA reductase, the rate-limiting enzyme in the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway, and is widely used to control plasma cholesterol levels and prevent cardiovascular disease. However, emerging evidence indicates that the beneficial effects of simvastatin extend to the central nervous system. The effects of simvastatin combined with fluoxetine provide an exciting and potential paradigm to decreased anxiety and depression. Thus, the present paper investigates the possibility of synergistic interactions between simvastatin and fluoxetine in models of anxiety and depression. We investigated the effects of subchronically administered simvastatin (1 or 10 mg/kg/day) combined with fluoxetine (2 or 10 mg/kg) at 24, 5, and 1 hour on adult rats before conducting behavioral tests. The results indicate that simvastatin and/or fluoxetine treatment reduces anxiety-like behaviors in the elevated plus-maze and open-field tests. Our results showed that simvastatin and/or fluoxetine induced a significant increase in the swimming activity during the forced swimming test (antidepressant effect), with a concomitant increase in climbing time in simvastatin-treated animals only (noradrenergic activation). We hypothesize that anxiolytic and antidepressant effects of simvastatin and/or fluoxetine produce their behavioral effects through similar mechanisms and provide an important foundation for future preclinical research.
High-sensitivity β-Ga 2 O 3 solar-blind photodetector on high-temperature pretreated c-plane sapphire substrate

Recently, monoclinic Ga2O3 (β-Ga2O3) photodetectors (PDs) have been extensively studied for various commercial and military applications due to the merits of intrinsic solar rejection, high gain, and great compactness. In this work, c-plane sapphire substrates were annealed under different temperatures in a vacuum furnace prior to the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) of β-Ga2O3 thin film, which yielded a smoother surface and even a terrace-and-step-like morphology on the substrate, resulting in improved crystallinity of the epitaxial film. Accordingly, both the dark and photo currents of β-Ga2O3 metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) PDs were increased by the enhanced carrier mobility (μ) of the more crystalline film. However, the substrate-annealing temperature must be sufficiently high to offset the rise of the dark current and thus achieve a remarkable improvement in the photodetection properties. As a result, the PD fabricated on the 1050 °C-annealed substrate exhibited extremely high sensitivity, for example, high responsivity (R) of 54.9 A/W and large specific detectivity (D*) of 3.71 × 1014 Jones. Both parameters were increased by one order of magnitude because of the combined effects of the dramatic increase in μ and the effective reduction in defect-related recombination centers. Nevertheless, the latter also prolonged the recovery time of the PD. These findings suggest another way to develop β-Ga2O3 PD with extremely high sensitivity.
Loyalitas konsumen

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship betweenmarketing and consumer satisfaction Herbalife in Semarang. Theresearch design used quantitative descriptive using primary data. Theresearch sample is consumers who use products from Herbalife inSemarang who may be 157 respondents. Analysis using multiplepartial regression. The results explain that consumers who useHerbalife products in Semarang are loyal because of the emotionalcloseness factor with fellow users or members. In addition, consumerloyalty increases because of the role of relationships that arestrengthened by the benefits of Herbalife products which are indeedbeneficial for health.
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

Rhetoric is one of the Western world's most ancient disciplines. From ancient Greece and Rome to the modern era, the art of persuasion has been used, discussed, and debated for over twenty-four hundred years. Scholars in such areas as philosophy, literary theory, and communications have renewed their attention to rhetoric as a way of understanding many areas of culture and social life. The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is a comprehensive survey of the latest research-as well as the foundational teachings-in this broad field. Featuring 150 original, signed articles by leading scholars from many different fields of study, it brings together knowledge from classics, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications. The Encyclopedia surveys basic concepts (speaker, style, and audience); elements; genres; terms (fallacies, figures of speech); and the rhetoric of non-Western cultures and cultural movements. It covers rhetoric as the art of proof and persuasion; as the language of public speech and communication; and as a theoretical approach and critical tool used in the study of literature, art, and culture at large, including new forms of communication such as the internet. The Encyclopedia is the most wide ranging reference work of its kind, combining theory, history, and practice, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance, and communication. Cross-references, bibliographies after each article, and synoptic and topical indexes further enhance the work. Written for students, teachers, scholars and writers, the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is the definitive reference work on this powerful discipline.
Modeling and Analysis of Uplink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Large-Scale Cellular Networks Using Poisson Cluster Processes

Using the theory of Poisson cluster process (PCP), this paper provides a framework to analyze multi-cell uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. Specifically, we characterize the rate coverage probability of an NOMA user who is at rank <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m$ </tex-math></inline-formula> (in terms of the distance from its serving base station) among all users in a cell and the mean rate coverage probability of all users in a cell. Since the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio of the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m$ </tex-math></inline-formula>th user relies on efficient successive interference cancellation (SIC), we consider three scenarios, i.e., perfect SIC (in which the signals of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m-1$ </tex-math></inline-formula> interferers who are stronger than the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m$ </tex-math></inline-formula>th user are decoded successfully), imperfect SIC (in which the signals of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m-1$ </tex-math></inline-formula> interferers who are stronger than the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m$ </tex-math></inline-formula>th user may or may not be decoded successfully), and imperfect worst case SIC (in which the decoding of the signal of the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m$ </tex-math></inline-formula>th user is always unsuccessful whenever the decoding of its relative <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m-1$ </tex-math></inline-formula> stronger users is unsuccessful). To derive the rate coverage expressions, we first characterize the Laplace transforms of the intra-cluster interferences in closed-form considering various SIC scenarios. The Laplace transform of the inter-cluster interference is then characterized by exploiting distance distributions from geometric probability. The derived expressions are customized for an equivalent OMA system. Finally, numerical results are presented to validate the derived expressions. The worst case SIC assumption provides remarkable simplifications in the mathematical analysis and is found to be highly accurate for higher user target rate requirements. A comparison of Poisson point process-based and PCP-based modeling is also conducted.