Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Characteristics of Emotionally Disturbed Children Referred to Day-Treatment, Special-Class, Outpatient, and Assessment Services

We examined characteristics differentiating 68 emotionally disturbed 6- to 12-year-old children referred to one of four treatment programs: day treatment, segregated class, outpatient treatment, or assessment only. We expected that children in the more intrusive programs (i.e., day treatment and special class) would be characterized by more severe emotional problems than would be children in the less intrusive treatment programs. Measures of children's emotional adjustment, family functioning, academic achievement, self-concept, and attending behavior in the classroom were administered prior to admission of children into their respective program. A multivariate analysis of variance was calculated on the 28 dependent measures administered in the study and failed to show significant group differences. Moreover, on most measures the results for all four groups did not deviate significantly from normal limits as indicated in the test administration manuals. We discuss possible reasons for these unexpected res.
Cervical CT Angiography Comparing Routine Noncontrast and a Late Venous Scan as Masks for Automated Bone Subtraction: Feasibility Study and Examination of the Influence of Patient Motion on Image Quality

Objectives:Bone subtraction techniques have been shown to enhance cranial computed tomography angiography (CTA). The aims of this study were to assess the feasibility of bone subtraction CTA (BSCTA) in cervical CTA, test whether a late venous CT (LVCT) scan can be used as bone mask instead of a low-dose nonenhanced CT (NECT), and to evaluate the impact of patient motion on image quality. Materials and Methods:Thirty-six patients underwent BSCTA for the evaluation of the neck vessels with a 64-slice CT system using commercially available software. Eighteen patients had a low-dose NECT scan before CTA, and 18 patients had an LVCT scan after CTA. Subtraction quality for vascular segments was evaluated independently by 2 examiners. Cohen's Kappa was applied to evaluate interobserver reliability, and Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to test for differences between the 2 groups. Motion between the 2 scans was measured and correlated to image quality. Results:BSCTA using both NECT and LVCT scans as masks was successfully applied in all patients. Image quality did not differ significantly between the 2 groups, and interobserver agreement was high (k 0.5–1). Motion between the scans was highest for the jaw and hyoid, and lowest for the upper and lower spine. Decreased image quality on the subtracted images was associated with increased motion for the external carotid and vertebral artery, independent of mask type (P = 0.002–0.04). Conclusions:BSCTA techniques can be successfully applied in the neck. If parenchymal phase imaging is indicated, the LVCT can be used as a bone subtraction mask and diagnostic scan, eg, for tumor imaging.
Facial Nerve Injury Following Superficial Temporal Artery Biopsy

BACKGROUND With proper training, superficial temporal artery biopsy is a safe office procedure with few complications. Surgeons from different disciplines, including ophthalmologists, dermatologists, general surgeons, and plastic surgeons may be called upon to perform this common procedure to confirm giant cell arteritis. OBJECTIVE To emphasize the surgical anatomy of the scalp as it pertains to superficial temporal artery biopsy and to raise awareness that significant complications can occur after superficial temporal artery biopsy. METHOD Case report. RESULTS A 75-year-old woman with presumed giant cell arteritis developed frontalis muscle paralysis following a superficial temporal artery biopsy. Biopsy selection site within the danger zone combined with deep dissection carries the greatest risk of injury to the temporal branches of the facial nerve. CONCLUSION Any surgeon involved in the practice of performing superficial temporal artery biopsies should have a thorough understanding of proper surgical techniques and regional anatomy to avoid potential devastating complications.
Identification of specific nuclear structural protein alterations in human breast cancer

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer and a major cause of death in women. Reliable biomarkers are urgently needed to improve early detection or to provide evidence of the prognosis for each individual patient through expression levels in tumor tissue or body fluids. This proteomic analysis focused on the nuclear structure of human breast cancer tissue, which has been shown to be a promising tool for cancer biomarker development. The nuclear matrix composition of human breast cancer (n = 14), benign controls (n = 2), and healthy controls (n = 2) was analyzed by high‐resolution two‐dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. Validation studies were performed in an individual sample set consisting of additional breast cancer tissues (n = 3) and additional healthy control tissues (n = 2) by one‐dimensional immunoblot. In this setting, we identified five proteins that were upregulated in human breast cancer tissue, but absent in the healthy and benign controls (P < 0.001). These spots were also present in the investigated human breast cancer cell lines, but absent in the MCF10a cell line, which represents normal human epithelial breast cells. Two of the breast cancer‐specific proteins have been confirmed to be calponin h2 and calmodulin‐like protein 5 by one‐dimensional immunoblot. This is the first study demonstrating the expression of both proteins in human breast cancer tissue. Further studies are required to investigate the potential role of these proteins as biomarkers for early diagnosis or prognosis in human breast cancer. J. Cell. Biochem. 112: 3176–3184, 2011. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
A recurrent neural network language modeling framework for extractive speech summarization

Extractive speech summarization, with the purpose of automatically selecting a set of representative sentences from a spoken document so as to concisely express the most important theme of the document, has been an active area of research and development. A recent school of thought is to employ the language modeling (LM) approach for important sentence selection, which has proven to be effective for performing speech summarization in an unsupervised fashion. However, one of the major challenges facing the LM approach is how to formulate the sentence models and accurately estimate their parameters for each spoken document to be summarized. This paper presents a continuation of this general line of research and its contribution is two-fold. First, we propose a novel and effective recurrent neural network language modeling (RNNLM) framework for speech summarization, on top of which the deduced sentence models are able to render not only word usage cues but also long-span structural information of word co-occurrence relationships within spoken documents, getting around the need for the strict bag-of-words assumption. Second, the utilities of the method originated from our proposed framework and several widely-used unsupervised methods are analyzed and compared extensively. A series of experiments conducted on a broadcast news summarization task seem to demonstrate the performance merits of our summarization method when compared to several state-of-the-art existing unsupervised methods.
A Taxonomy of Clutter Reduction for Information Visualisation

Information visualisation is about gaining insight into data through a visual representation. This data is often multivariate and increasingly, the datasets are very large. To help us explore all this data, numerous visualisation applications, both commercial and research prototypes, have been designed using a variety of techniques and algorithms. Whether they are dedicated to geo-spatial data or skewed hierarchical data, most of the visualisations need to adopt strategies for dealing with overcrowded displays, brought about by too much data to fit in too small a display space. This paper analyses a large number of these clutter reduction methods, classifying them both in terms of how they deal with clutter reduction and more importantly, in terms of the benefits and losses. The aim of the resulting taxonomy is to act as a guide to match techniques to problems where different criteria may have different importance, and more importantly as a means to critique and hence develop existing and new techniques.
Synthesizing 3D videos by a motion-conditioned background mosaic

In this work we present an approach to generating depth image sequences for standard videos, which satisfy a proposed motion model. We take advantage that the background in a video scene is relatively fix in contrast to moving objects in the foreground. By robust methods the camera motion is eliminated automatically to extract a background mosaic. By means of this mosaic the moving objects are extracted and the depth is assigned by the user. We apply the DIBR approach on the depth information to render 3D videos. The results demonstrate the practicability of our approach and highlight the advantages of the proposed motion model against previous depth tracking methods.
A New Monolithic Fast-Response Buck Converter Using Spike-Reduction Current-Sensing Circuits

A new monolithic fast-response buck converter using spike-reduction current-sensing circuits is proposed in this paper. The proposed converters are designed and implemented with TSMC 0.35-mum DPQM CMOS processes. The operation frequency can be up to 1.887 MHz. The response time is only 2 mus and compared with other references. The maximum output current is 750 mA, and the maximum power efficiency can be up to 89.1% at 2.442-W output power. The chip area is only 2.157 mm2.
Analysis of prostate cancer by proteomics using tissue specimens.

PURPOSE Prostate cancer cells differ from their normal counterpart in gene expression. Therefore, cancer and normal tissue/cells would show differences in their proteomes. From a diagnostic standpoint differences in the composition of secreted protein species are especially relevant. We used ProteinChip Array (Ciphergen Biosystems, Fremont, California) surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization (SELDI) time of flight mass spectrometry to profile prostate tissue samples to generate phenomic fingerprints. We used quantitative proteomics based on glycopeptide capture followed by tandem mass spectrometry to identify differentially expressed proteins. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient matched cancer and noncancer specimens were digested by collagenase to single cells. After digestion the cells were pelleted and the cell-free supernatant was used for analysis. A reversed phase hydrophobic ProteinChip Array was used to generate SELDI patterns from 43 primary prostate tumors, including 26 with matched noncancer specimens. Quantitative proteomics was applied to 1 specimen and the expression pattern was verified by Western blotting and immunohistochemistry. RESULTS SELDI profiles showed that cancers of similar TNM stages were more likely to have similar profiles. On quantitative proteomics tissue metalloproteinase inhibitor-1 was identified to be down-regulated in cancer. Tissue metalloproteinase inhibitor-1 expression was localized to secretory cells. CONCLUSIONS Protein profiling by SELDI is relatively easy to perform and it has great potential in prostate cancer diagnosis through pattern recognition. Quantitative proteomics can potentially determine the identity of many biomarkers specific for prostate cancer.
Lifting the Veil

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of post-racial narratives and colorblind racism in a case of Black intercollegiate student athlete experiences. This case study engaged a critical race theory (CRT) perspective and colorblind ideologies to advance an understanding of participant experiences and extend the CRT literature. Findings indicate that participants recognize racial beliefs and racial inequities abound and that colorblind racism has indirectly affected their experiences and perceptions. The findings are illuminated using the four colorblind racism frames: abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism, and minimization of racism. Implications for enhancing student athlete programming, preparing others to work with student athlete populations, and continuing CRT sport scholarship are further discussed.
Rematerializing social and cultural geography

The recent history of social and cultural geography has been characterized by a series of sometimes heated exchanges between different schools of thought, often couched in terms of a contrast between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ (Kong 1997; Price and Lewis 1993). While such debate might be taken as evidence of the vitality of the eld, it can lead to an over-simplied view of intellectual history, denying the signicance of historical continuities, exaggerating the coherence of different ‘schools’ of thought and encouraging hostile caricature rather than accurate characterization and constructive critique. This proposal for ‘rematerializing’ social and cultural geography is intended to build bridges and to move discussion forward rather than remaining mired in the claim and counterclaim of recent debate. As most readers of this journal would probably agree, human geography has been revitalized by successive encounters with social and cultural theory during the 1980s and 1990s, by the development of a variety of critical perspectives (inspired by feminism and postcolonialism among other intellectual and political movements) and by the emergence of a reexive concern with issues of representation and the positionality of the researcher. Though these trends were widely welcomed, attracting renewed interest in questions of spatiality across the social sciences, they have not been without their critics. Earlier warnings of a ‘descent into discourse’ (Palmer 1990) were supplemented by more sympathetic critiques, including Andrew Sayer’s (1994) reminder of the continuing salience of ‘the economic’, even as the economic and the cultural have been brought into closer dialogue (Sayer 1997). Don Mitchell (1995) wrote of the dangers of reifying culture, while Nicky Gregson warned that social geography’s recent obsession with meaning, identity, representation and ideology was in danger of replacing studies that were more rmly grounded in material culture or concerned with socially signicant differences of gender, class, race, sexuality or (dis)ability (1995: 139). While the potential evacuation of ‘the social’ in social and cultural geography remains a serious concern, it is the other, less remarked, part of Gregson’s commentary that most concerns me here, heralding the revival of a ‘material culture’ perspective in social and cultural geography. Studies of material culture have long been part of ‘traditional’ readings of cultural geography, whether in terms of Sauerian studies of landscape evolution and cultural diffusion or Kniffen’s careful charting of the transformation of natural objects into regionally distinctive groupings of cultural artefacts and vernacular
The ‘Institutionally Constructed’ European Identity: Citizenship and Public Sphere Narrated by the Commission

Abstract This paper develops from a series of studies conducted in the last years which have considered the construction of the European identity and of the European public space. The assumptions of the social constructivist approach to the study of the European integration process, which has recently led the research in this field, will constitute the theoretical background to be discussed in the first part of this paper. The main argument is that the EU is self-representing itself and its own identity referring explicitly to concepts such as the public sphere and the European citizenship, and to a broad set of policies in areas such as information and communication, culture, education etc. Particularly, the aim is to show how the definition of the EU's identity given by the European Commission has changed depending this on the different contexts faced by the integration process and by the functionality of the concept of identity in order to integrate more and better the European citizens. In the paper it will be argued that from a concept of identity based on imagined elements, as it emerged in the 1980s, the EU's has recently proposed a definition of EU's identity based on civic features and strictly linked to a wider concept of democracy.
Burst firing induces postsynaptic LTD at developing mossy fibre–CA3 pyramid synapses

Synaptic development is an activity‐dependent process utilizing coordinated network activity to drive synaptogenesis and subsequent refinement of immature connections. Hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons (PYRs) exhibit intense burst firing (BF) early in development, concomitant with the period of mossy fibre (MF) development. However, whether developing MF–PYR synapses utilize PYR BF to promote MF synapse maturation remains unknown. Recently, we demonstrated that transient tonic depolarization of postsynaptic PYRs induces a persistent postsynaptic form of long‐term depression (depolarization‐induced long‐term depression, DiLTD) at immature MF–PYR synapses. DiLTD induction is NMDAR independent but does require postsynaptic Ca2+ influx through L‐type voltage gated Ca2+ channels (L‐VGCCs), and is expressed as a reduction in AMPAR function through the loss of GluR2‐lacking AMPARs present at immature MF–PYR synapses. Here we examined whether more physiologically relevant phasic L‐VGCC activation by PYR action potential (AP) BF activity patterns can trigger DiLTD. Using combined electrophysiological and Ca2+ imaging approaches we demonstrate that PYR BF effectively drives L‐VGCC activation and that brief periods of repetitive PYR BF, produced by direct current injection or intrinsic network activity induces NMDAR‐independent LTD by promoting Ca2+ influx through the activated L‐VGCCs. This BF induced LTD, just like DiLTD, is specific for developing MF–PYR synapses, is PICK1 dependent, and is expressed postsynaptically. Our results demonstrate that DiLTD can be induced by phasic L‐VGCC activation driven by PYR BF, suggesting the engagement of natural PYR network activity patterns for MF synapse maturation.
A measurement of ELF field distributions by using freehand scanning method by Wiimote

Recently, there has been concerned the adverse effect on human health of magnetic field in low frequency. A safety threshold of magnetic distributions for human health are defined in some guidelines, so we can know that there are some effects by comparing measured value with guidelines. For measuring magnetic distributions, it's important to identify the location of measuring points. Recently, we have proposed the freehand scanning method for measuring field distribution using a infrared tracker to determine the position of EMF sensor. In this paper, this method is applied to a low frequency sensor, and EMF distribution of the IH cooker and AC-drive shaver are measured. As a result, it is found that low frequency EMF distribution is visualized by this simple method.
m1A Post-Transcriptional Modification in tRNAs

To date, about 90 post-transcriptional modifications have been reported in tRNA expanding their chemical and functional diversity. Methylation is the most frequent post-transcriptional tRNA modification that can occur on almost all nitrogen sites of the nucleobases, on the C5 atom of pyrimidines, on the C2 and C8 atoms of adenosine and, additionally, on the oxygen of the ribose 2′-OH. The methylation on the N1 atom of adenosine to form 1-methyladenosine (m1A) has been identified at nucleotide position 9, 14, 22, 57, and 58 in different tRNAs. In some cases, these modifications have been shown to increase tRNA structural stability and induce correct tRNA folding. This review provides an overview of the currently known m1A modifications, the different m1A modification sites, the biological role of each modification, and the enzyme responsible for each methylation in different species. The review further describes, in detail, two enzyme families responsible for formation of m1A at nucleotide position 9 and 58 in tRNA with a focus on the tRNA binding, m1A mechanism, protein domain organisation and overall structures.
Fluency in two reading systems and the processing of two-digit numbers

Research question: We evaluated whether the processing of two-digit numbers was determined by the direction of reading in the two languages of bilingual individuals. Methodology: A group of Arabic (L1)/Spanish (L2) proficient bilinguals performed a comparison task with Arabic digits, Arabic number words and Spanish number words while the unit–decade compatibility effect was evaluated. Data: Participants showed a regular compatibility effect with Arabic digits. However, no compatibility effect was observed when they performed the task with verbal numbers, regardless of whether numbers were presented in Arabic or in Spanish. Conclusion: The similar pattern of results across the bilinguals’ two languages suggests that the direction of the reading (right-to-left in Arabic and left-to-right in Spanish) did not influence the processing of verbal numbers. Originality: This is the first study in which the unit–decade compatibility effect has been explored with Arabic/Spanish bilinguals. Significance: The main point to highlight from this study is that bilinguals are not influenced by the reading direction of their languages when they process two-digit verbal numbers.
Business Process Reengineering on Customer Service and Procurement Units in Clinical Laboratory

Existing business processes on a Clinical laboratory located in Bekasi is still run manually. It takes a lot of time to do more process, especially in customer service and procurement units. These inefficient processes are analyzed here. Utilization of information technology (IT) supports operations of company and even improves efficiency and effectiveness of a company. However, the use of information technology must be balanced with readiness of existing resources to operate. Without supporting resources, especially human resources available, information technology is nothing . Business Reengineering Process method used to comprehend the existing business process, determine processes to be reengineered, investigate alternative redesign, simulate the existing business processes and the proposed business processes, performed an analysis of simulation results, and seeking opportunities in corporate using information technology.This Business Process Reengineering (BPR) research helped Clinical laboratory especially in customer service and procurement in improving efficiency and effectiveness of existing processes that will ultimately reduce cost and time. Results showed that business processes increase with information technology utilization and minimize the use of employee.