Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Trigeminal nerve stimulation for clinical trials in neuropsychiatry: the issue of skin integrity.

ruled out autoimmune encephalitis. Prolactin (PRL) serum concentration was increased at 199.2 μg/L (reference range, 4.8–23.3). Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI of the pituitary gland revealed a stage I round pituitary microadenoma, measuring 4 mm. Dynamic pituitary combined function tests (CRH, GnRH, TRH, GHRH + arginine) showed a diminished cortisol response. The MRI finding motivated an alternative interpretation of the present mood disorder as an organic affective disorder (mood disorder due to a general condition, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, 293.83). Treatment with 0.5 mg of cabergoline ODwas initiated against hyperprolactinemia. In addition, 10 mg of hydrocortisone OD was substituted. Under treatment with cabergoline, serum PRL decreased to less than 5 μg/L. Depressive symptoms and nihilistic thinking persisted, despite a 4-month antidepressant and antipsychotic therapy consisting of various medications (sertraline, mirtazapine, bupropion, venlafaxine, trimipramine, tranylcypromine, risperidone, quetiapine, olanzapine, lithium carbonate, pregabalin) as well as psychotherapy and occupational therapy, so that an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was discussed. After informed consent had been obtained, unilateral ECTwas performed 3 times aweek (8 stimulations); subsequently, ECT was performed bilaterally (bitemporally; 4 stimulations). For intravenous anesthesia, weightadapted etomidate augmented with alfentanil was used, and suxamethonium chloride and atracurium were given for muscle relaxation before stimulation. Electroconvulsive therapy was performed with a Thymatron DG ECT unit (Somatics, LLC). Stimulus intensity was between 60% and 100% of maximum (504 millicoulombs), and average seizure duration was 43 seconds. Serum PRL was measured pretreatment (basal concentration), 15 minutes after the first unilateral ECT, and after 1 day; the same procedure was measured for the bitemporal ECT (after the ninth ECT). Pretreatment PRL serum concentration was 0.2 μg/L. Fifteen minutes after the first ECT, serum PRL was 0.7 μg/L or less. The day after the ECT, serum PRL was 0.3 μg/L or less. There was no significant increase in serum PRL 15 minutes after the ECT compared with pretreatment concentration. Follow-up cranial MRI after 6 ECT sessions revealed no changes in tumor size. Depressive and psychotic symptoms significantly ameliorated after 12 sessions (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale score, 9; Beck Depression Inventory score, 8 [remission of depression]). This seems to be the first documented case of ECT in a patient with a depressive syndrome and prolactinoma under treatment
How popular CNNs perform in real applications of face recognition

In this paper we evaluate the performance of CNN in regards to face recognition for real world applications. In recent years, many high performance deep neural networks have been proposed to the face recognition world. These deep networks were trained by images provided by the internet, and they commonly are of good quality when facial expression and posture are not particularly complex. However, this is not the case in real world applications; the provided images vary a lot and do not reflec ideal conditions. We collect and introduce a new dataset in which the images come from two different cameras and scenes. The well-known CNNs are trained on the dataset and then tested on the two collections of the dataset. The results reveal that that though performances of all of the CCNs drop dramatically, VGG-Face can still perform acceptably despite image degradations.
Consumer reactions to deal popularity information: cue congruency, perceived authenticity, service types, and cultural difference

Deal popularity indicates the popularity of a product or service within a specific deal duration and is being used by many e-tailers in their websites/apps. While deal popularity is receiving increasing attention by academics and practitioners alike, its effect as an extrinsic cue remains under-researched. Using an experimental design, this study investigates the effect of deal popularity on expected service quality in an e-tailing environment. It is found that deal popularity influences service quality expectations for credence services but not experience services. High deal popularity positively influences consumers’ intention to purchase and willingness to recommend credence services. E-tailers of services need to pay attention to deal popularity displayed for credence services and leverage on the positive effect it has on consumers.
Creativity of the Entrepreneur, Intrapreneurship, and the Growth of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Evidence from China

Creativity is an element of the personality of entrepreneurs which can be important for the foundation, advance, and business performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Intrapreneurship can be developed in small and medium-sized enterprises where entrepreneurs have a sufficient level of creativity and it can influence the growth of enterprises. Hypotheses are specified and empirically tested based on responses to a structured questionnaire on a sample of small and medium-sized enterprises from China. The research results indicate positive relationships between the creativity of the entrepreneur and intrapreneurship and growth of the enterprise.
Local splines on non-uniform grids generating real-time wavelet transforms

In this paper, local cubic and quadratic quasi-interpolating splines on non-uniform grids are described. The splines are designed by fast computational algorithms that utilize the relation between splines and cubic interpolation polynomials. These splines provide an efficient tool for real-time signal processing. As an input, the splines use either clean or noised arbitrarily-spaced samples. Formulas for the spline’s extrapolation beyond the sampling interval are established. Sharp estimations of the approximation errors for cubic splines are presented. The designed splines serve as a source for generating real-time wavelet transforms to apply to signals in scenarios where the signal’s samples subsequently arrive one after the other at random times. On arrival of new samples, only a couple of adjacent transform coefficients are updated in a way that no boundary effects arise.
HiQuadLoc: A RSS Fingerprinting Based Indoor Localization System for Quadrotors

Indoor localization for quadrotors has attracted much attention recently. While efforts have been made to perform location estimation of quadrotors leveraging dedicated indoor infrastructures, the low-cost and commonly used RSS fingerprinting based approach utilizing existing Wi-Fi APs has yet to be applied. The challenge is that the high-speed flight reduces the RSS measuring opportunities for fingerprints comparison; moreover, the 3D space fingerprints collection incurs more overhead than in the traditional 2D case. In this paper, we present HiQuadLoc, a RSS fingerprinting based indoor localization system for quadrotors. We propose a series of mechanisms including path estimation, path fitting, and location prediction to deal with the negative influence incurred by the high-speed flight; moreover, we develop a 4D RSS interpolation algorithm to reduce the site survey overhead, where 3D is for the indoor physical space and 1D is for the RSS sample space. Experimental results demonstrate that HiQuadLoc reduces the average location error by more than 50 percent compared with simply applying the RSS fingerprinting based approach for 2D localization, and the overhead of RSS training data collection is reduced by more than 80 percent.
Understanding Web 2.0

Web 2.0, the second phase in the Web's evolution, is attracting the attention of IT professionals, businesses, and Web users. Web 2.0 is also called the wisdom Web, people-centric Web, participative Web, and read/write Web. Web 2.0 harnesses the Web in a more interactive and collaborative manner, emphasizing peers' social interaction and collective intelligence, and presents new opportunities for leveraging the Web and engaging its users more effectively. Within the last two to three years, Web 2.0, ignited by successful Web 2.0 based social applications such as MySpace, Flickr, and YouTube, has been forging new applications that were previously unimaginable.
Modes of physiologic H2S signaling in the brain and peripheral tissues.

SIGNIFICANCE Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), once associated with rotten eggs and sewers, is now recognized as a gasotransmitter that is synthesized in vivo in a regulated fashion. This ancient gaseous molecule has been retained throughout evolution to perform various roles in different life forms. H2S modulates important signaling functions in diverse cellular processes ranging from regulation of blood pressure to redox homeostasis. RECENT ADVANCES One of the modes by which H2S signals is by post-translational modification of reactive cysteine residues in a process designated as sulfhydration, resulting in conversion of the -SH groups of target cysteine residues to -SSH. Using the modified biotin-switch assay and a fluorescent maleimide-based analysis, sulfhydration of several proteins has been detected in various cell types. Aberrant sulfhydration patterns occur in neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's disease. CRITICAL ISSUES The exact concentration, source of H2S, and conditions under which various stores of H2S are utilized have not been fully elucidated. Currently, available inhibitors of the biosynthetic enzymes of H2S lack sufficient specificity to shed light on detailed mechanisms of H2S action. Probes with a higher sensitivity that can reliably detect cellular and tissue H2S levels are yet to be developed. FUTURE DIRECTIONS Availability of advanced probes and biosynthesis inhibitors would help in the measurement of real-time changes of endogenous H2S levels in an in vivo context. The study of the dynamics of sulfhydration and nitrosylation of critical cysteine residues of regulatory proteins involved in physiology and pathophysiology is an area of interest for the future.
Science, Knowledge, and Mind: A Study in the Philosophy of C.S. Peirce

Delaney (philosophy, U. of Notre Dame) argues that the work of American philosopher Peirce (1839-1914) can best be understood as an investigation of the logic of science, the conditions for the possibility of science, and the speculative extrapolations from science. Annotation copyright Book News, I
Identifying authoritative sources of multimedia content: mining specificity and expertise from large-scale multimedia databases

We present a framework for identifying authoritative sources (such as web sites or individual users) that are likely to produce high-quality or interesting images. We construct a directed graph across sources based on the propensity of one source to "cite" the content from another. A graph-centrality measure scores the authority for each source, which could then be applied for retrieval purposes. We apply this method to web image retrieval, where web sites are the sources, and citations are found via copy detection; and on a photo sharing site, where individuals are the sources and citations are users' favorites. We are able to identify primary or influential sources of media while avoiding the computational cost of other approaches.
After the Flood

In an effort to understand what motivates people to attend to information about flood risks, this study applies the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model to explore how local residents responded to damaging river flooding in the Milwaukee area. The results indicate that anger at managing agencies was associated with the desire for information and active information seeking and processing, as well as with greater risk judgment of harm from future flooding, greater sense of personal efficacy, lower institutional trust, and causal attributions for flood losses as being due to poor government management.
Recherche approchee de motifs - application a des sequences biologiques structurees

Ce travail presente differentes methodes pour la recherche approchee, a erreurs pres, d'un motif p dans un texte t. Les erreurs considerees sont les substitutions de caracteres et les motifs sont, soit un mot, soit une classe de mots sur un alphabet. Deux des approches les plus efficaces, en theorie et en pratique, pour la recherche approchee sont les approches de type numerique qui se basent sur la manipulation de mots machine, et les approches de type boyer-moore. Nous avons concu une nouvelle methode de recherche qui tire profit, a la fois de l'efficacite de la demarche boyer-moore, et de la rapidite de programmation des algorithmes numeriques et en particulier de l'algorithme shift-add de baeza-yates et gonnet. Lorsque le mot n'est pas trop long, l'algorithme obtenu est lineaire dans le pire des cas. Si, de plus, l'alphabet est suffisamment grand, l'algorithme est sous-lineaire en moyenne. Une facon naturelle d'aborder le probleme de la recherche approchee consiste a construire un automate fini deterministe reconnaissant le langage l#p#,#k forme de tous les mots qui sont a une distance de p. Le probleme de cette approche par automate est que le temps de construction et la taille d'un tel automate sont importants. Nous montrons que, meme en considerant l'automate minimal reconnaissant l#p#,#k, l'espace memoire utilise reste grand. Nous nous interessons plus particulierement a appliquer les techniques de recherche approchee dans le cas de la prediction de motifs biologiques structures, et plus specialement des genes d'arnt. Notre nouvel algorithme fastrna est une amelioration de l'algorithme trnascan de fichant-burks du point de vue des resultats biologiques et de la rapidite d'execution. Le taux de reconnaissance obtenu pour differentes sequences biologiques est proche de 99%.
Acupuncture for cervical ripening and induction of labor at term--a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate whether acupuncture at term can influence cervical ripening, induce labor and thus reduce the need for postdates induction. METHODS On the estimated date of confinement (EDC) women were prospectively randomized to an acupuncture group (AG) or a control group (CG). Data of 45 women were evaluated (AG, n = 25; CG, n = 20). Inclusion criteria were as follows: confirmed EDC, uncomplicated course of pregnancy, singleton pregnancy in cephalic presentation. Exclusion criteria were as follows: cervical dilation > 3 cm, active labor, premature rupture of membranes, previous cesarean section, pathologies in mother or fetus. Women were examined at 2-day intervals. The cervical length was measured with vaginal ultrasonography, cervical mucus was obtained for a fetal Fibronectin test and the cervical status was assessed according to the Bishop score. In the AG, the points Hegu (Large Intestine 4) and Sanyinjiao (Spleen 6) were pierced on both sides every second day. If women were not delivered 10 days after EDC, labor was induced by administering vaginal prostaglandin tablets. RESULTS The cervical length in the AG was shorter than that in the CG on day 6 and day 8 after EDC (P = 0.04 for both). In the AG the time period from the first positive Fibronectin test to delivery was 2.3 days, while that in the CG was 4.2 days (P = 0.08). The time period from EDC to delivery was on average 5.0 days in the AG and 7.9 days in the CG (P = 0.03). Labor was induced in 20% of women in the AG (n = 5) and in 35% in the CG (n = 7) (P = 0.3). Overall duration of labor, and first and second stage of labor were not different in the two groups. In 56% of women who underwent acupuncture (n = 14) and in 65% of controls (n = 13), Oxytocin was used to augment labor. (P = 0.54). CONCLUSION Acupuncture at points LI4 and SP 6 supports cervical ripening at term and can shorten the time interval between the EDC and the actual time of delivery.
Hedging Local Products : Optimizing The Processed Products of Sago Commodity to Become More Competitive Globally Study Case Riau Province

This study aimed to analyze the strategy of increasing food security and self-reliance through the Riau province of processed products sago as a substitute for food diversification . By leveraging the leading sectors in the region , it is expected to be a major driving force in improving both regional and national economy, as well export competitiveness in the global market. This paper getting its samples by gathering data from questionnaires conducted on SMEs and sago industry in the islands of Meranti. It also apply the SWOT analysis and measurement of product competitiveness through diamond porter to determine the potential of the processed products of sago. Moreover , to strengthen the sharpness of analysis, such direct observation in the form of unstructured interviews and gather relevant literature will be performed. The authors find new strategies in providing solutions to improve food security and self-reliance through the optimization of processed products of sago . Meeting the needs of the region in the consumption of basic materials requires another alternative to avoid product shortages and increase the potential of the region in developing the seed sector. The result is the increase of processed products of sago and to make it a superior product that can compete in national and global markets.
Student Character Development Model of Environmental Care Halal Tourism in East Lombok

The purpose of this research analyzes the factors forming of environmental care students the character in the halal tourism at East Lombok Regency. This research includes qualitative descriptive using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach (Saaty, 2008). The data collection technique used purposive sampling and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) through observation, interview, questionnaire (questionnaire) and literature study. The research informants were teachers, students, and principals of East Lombok. Data analysis technique was done by data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. The result of research of factor forming the character of the students of environmental care in the halal tourism area in East Lombok 1) “Ulama / Tuan Guru” has a very high position for the order of life in East Lombok Regency. They were become the role model of life example given in accordance with syariat Islam and pay attention to the environment. 2) Parents are the environment that shapes the character of the child so that it can be applied in the life of society. 3) Teachers can develop positive characters in students through extracurricular activities as well as foster a sense of environmental care. 4) The government has an important role in disseminating to the public about halal tourism but the community retains the existing character in people's lives without changing the existing order. 5) The community is the person who is involved in the activities that exist in the life that consider the environmental conditions to remain beautiful and far from the word dirty to be an example of the community of a region with one community in other areas, especially in East Lombok Regency.
Nursing diagnoses , patient outcomes , and nursing interventions for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis

DOI http://dx.doi. org/10.1590/19820194201600069 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil. Universidade Federal Campina Grande, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil. Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Conflicts of interest: there are no conflicts of interest to declare. Abstract Objective: To identify the main nursing diagnoses, patient outcomes and nursing interventions, and to validate a proposed care plan for patients on peritoneal dialysis. Methods: Cross-sectional study with 68 patients from a referral center for kidney disease, according to the steps: identification of nursing diagnoses, according to NANDA International; proposal of patient outcomes and nursing interventions according to Nursing Outcomes Classification and Nursing Interventions Classification; and, development of a care plan using expert validation. Results: Six diagnoses with frequency higher than 50% were identified; 16 patient outcomes and 35 nursing interventions were proposed. Eight patient outcomes and 21 nursing interventions were selected using the validation process conducted with specialist nurses, with very good concordance index (≥0.8). Conclusion: The study identified diagnoses, select patient outcomes, and nursing interventions for clinical practice, in order to support the process of care and the knowledge of nursing taxonomies.
Topology and application of bidirectional isolated dc-dc converters

A bidirectional isolated dc-dc converter manages the power flow between an energy storage device and a dc bus with functions of galvanic isolation and voltage matching. Research and development of these converters focus on improving efficiency and power density. This paper presents and compares various configurations of bidirectional isolated dc-dc converters. It also illustrates the performance of a 6-kW, full-bridge, bidirectional isolated dc-dc converter operating at 4 kHz, which is suitable for output power leveling of photovoltaic generation systems connected to homes and office buildings. The maximum efficiency of the dc-dc converter is measured at 98.1% during battery charging and at 98.2% during battery discharging. The converter maintains a high efficiency of more than 97% for a wide range of power transfer.
Paucibacillary Tuberculosis in Mice after Prior Aerosol Immunization with Mycobacterium bovis BCG

ABSTRACT To develop a murine model of paucibacillary tuberculosis for experimental chemotherapy of latent tuberculosis infection, mice were immunized with viable Mycobacterium bovis BCG by the aerosol or intravenous route and then challenged six weeks later with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The day after immunization, the counts were 3.71 ± 0.10 log10 CFU in the lungs of aerosol-immunized mice and 3.65 ± 0.11 and 4.93 ± 0.07 log10 CFU in the lungs and spleens of intravenously immunized mice, respectively. Six weeks later, the lungs of all BCG-immunized mice had many gross lung lesions and splenomegaly; the counts were 5.97 ± 0.14 and 3.54 ± 0.07 log10 CFU in the lungs and spleens of aerosol-immunized mice, respectively, and 4.36 ± 0.28 and 5.12 ± 0.23 log10 CFU in the lungs and spleens of intravenously immunized mice, respectively. Mice were then aerosol challenged with M. tuberculosis by implanting 2.37 ± 0.13 log10 CFU in the lungs. Six weeks after challenge, M. tuberculosis had multiplied so that the counts were 6.41 ± 0.27 and 4.44 ± 0.14 log10 CFU in the lungs and spleens of control mice, respectively. Multiplication of M. tuberculosis was greatly limited in BCG-immunized mice. Six weeks after challenge, the counts were 4.76 ± 0.24 and 3.73 ± 0.34 log10 CFU in the lungs of intravenously immunized and aerosol-immunized mice, respectively. In contrast to intravenously immunized mice, there was no detectable dissemination to the spleen in aerosol-immunized mice. Therefore, immunization of mice with BCG by the aerosol route prior to challenge with a low dose of M. tuberculosis resulted in improved containment of infection and a stable paucibacillary infection. This model may prove to be useful for evaluation of new treatments for latent tuberculosis infection in humans.