Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Development of a teaching file by using a DICOM database.

A teaching file of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) images was developed. Selected computed tomographic, magnetic resonance, angiographic, nuclear medicine, and ultrasonographic images were transferred to a personal computer (PC) with a 75-GB hard drive. The database created from the DICOM header information was modified to include American College of Radiology (ACR) Learning File categories. Database modification allowed cases to be searched by diagnosis, by findings, and by patient age, sex, and demographics. Technologists inputted ACR codes into the DICOM headers before the images were acquired, thereby reducing database maintenance time. Images were manipulated and reviewed and were used for case presentations, board review, and conferences. Selected images were transferred via a hospital network to workstations for consultation, saving time for referring clinicians. The teaching file is reliable, cost-effective, and easy to install and takes advantage of recent technologic advances in computer hardware and software. Rapid cost reductions and increases in PC storage capacity allow maintenance of the teaching file in DICOM format without intermediate steps involving automation or manual conversion. This setup rivals any of the proprietary software currently available from other vendors.
Organization of International Business: Studies in the Economics of Trust

From the Publisher: Mark Casson pioneered the use of transaction cost theory to explain the boundaries of the multinational firm. In The Organization of International Business, he extends the internalization theory of the firm to encompass, on the one hand, inter-firm networking and, on the other, the internal organization and managerial structure of the firm. The key innovation is the distinction between information cost - the cost of gathering information on the assumption that it is true - and transaction cost - the cost of ensuring that the information actually is true. This innovation facilitates a synthesis of transaction cost analysis and organizational behaviour. It also provides new insights into the dynamics of internationalization, and the role of learning in the growth of the firm.
Destruction of the outer membrane permeability barrier of Escherichia coli by heat treatment

Heat treatment of a wild-type Escherichia coli strain at 55 degrees C in 50 mM Tris-hydrochloride buffer with or without 10 mM magnesium sulfate or HEPES (N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic acid) buffer at pH 8.0 caused an increase in cell surface hydrophobicity. By determining the location of n-hexadecane droplets attached to cells by phase-contrast microscopy, the septal and polar regions of heated cells appeared to become the most frequently hydrophobic. Some of the lipopolysaccharide molecules in the outer membrane were released from heated cells, and the cells became susceptible to the hydrolytic action of added phospholipase C. Heat-treated cells also became permeable to the hydrophobic dye crystal violet, which was added externally. The release of part of the outer membrane by heat treatment appeared to bring about the disorganization of the outer membrane structure and, as a consequence, to result in the partial disruption of the permeability barrier function of the outer membrane. Tris was found to enhance damage to the outer membrane by heat.
Marketing Education in the Year 2000: Changes Observed and Challenges Anticipated

This article reports results of a study undertaken with 107 of the marketing discipline™s most well-regarded educators. Asked to both reflect on the changes they had made over the past 10 years in their teaching and to identify the challenges that await in the new millennium, these faculty provide an insightful picture of the evolving marketing education landscape. Study results indicate that faculty are working harder to develop discussion-oriented class cultures, making increased use of emerging technologies, and placing a greater emphasis on helping students strengthen their communication and decision-making skills than 10 years ago. Asked to identify challenges they see as the year 2000 approaches, respondents noted that the marketing discipline must increase its relevancy and value to students and their prospective employers. Also, marketing educators need to stay in front of technological change and take a true leadership role in helping students develop business skills necessary for success.
Paradigm Innovation through the Strategic Collaboration between TORAY & UNIQLO: Evolution of A New Fast Fashion Business Model

The key purpose of this study is to examine the remarkable context within the evolution of the paradigm innovation in fashion product development, in the case of Japanese fashion apparel, UNIQLO, created by Fast Retailing Corp in 1998. The key theme hereby concerns innovation, and this perspective surely necessitates Fast Retailing's strategic collaboration with a Japanese new material and artificial textile powerhouse, TORAY: as TORAY's technological provision was an essential source for the dynamic product and process innovation behind the extraordinary growth of UNIQLO. Furthermore, the technological superiority also entailed its innovative positioning in market competition. It is crucial to examine how and why the two brought about their core competences together through new combinations of concepts. This should impart a few promising research perspectives regarding their innovative model of unchallenged value creation, strong market competitiveness, and sustainable corporate growth.
Case Report: Combined Use of Donepezil and Galantamine in Mixed Dementia

To the Editor: Mixed dementia, involving Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia, is increasingly being identified during autopsy, with vascular pathology identified in 34% to 50% of those with pathological Alzheimer’s disease. A variety of clinical and functional evaluations are used to assess the progression of the disease and treatment response. Currently, limited drug treatment options for dementia consist of two differing mechanisms of action: cholinesterase inhibition and N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonism. The modest improvements shown must be weighed against the possible adverse affects associated with their use. Many other therapies have been purported to be beneficial, but conclusive evidence is still lacking for widespread use. Alternate approaches to using currently available agents should be explored, such as the combination use of cholinesterase inhibitors (CIs), given the varying levels of sensitivity to butyrylcholinesterase and acetylcholinesterase inhibition and modulation of the nicotinic receptor of the CI. This case report will discuss a possible future option of using donepezil and galantamine concomitantly for the treatment of mixed dementia.
A literature review of the current use of electrical stimulation for lower limb treatment of children with cerebral palsy

There are two distinct ways of applying electrical stimulation (ES) as a treatment option for the lower limb of children with cerebral palsy (CP) – orthotic and therapeutic. Therapeutic ES is ES applied as part of an exercise regime whereas orthotic ES is ES applied to enable useful functional movement, e.g. ankle dorsiflexion activated by peroneal nerve stimulation during the swing phase of gait. Therapeutic stimulation has been shown to be an effective intervention in several case studies and in at least one group study. It can improve muscle bulk, joint range of motion (ROM), and has been shown to have beneficial carry over in gait patterns in some studies. It does not appear to be necessary, from these studies, to design a therapeutic electrical stimulator specifically for use by this population. Existing electrical stimulators used for therapeutic stimulation in adults are likely to also be suitable for children.
Analysis of the Performance of Optical Code-Division Multiple-Access System (OCDMA), Operating with Gold Codes under Nonlinear Effects

A numerical simulation study of the performance of encoding and decoding of short optical pulse in OCDMA (Optical Code Division Multiple Access) systems under non-linear optical effects is presented. The performance of encoding and decoding short pulses is obtained through use of device FBG (fiber Bragg grating) where the codes are inserted through discrete jumps in the optical phase (±π). The multiuser interference is also the object of the present study, where a figure of merit (interference figure) is used to quantify the interference in multiuser auto and cross correlation. We evaluate the dependence of the multiuser interference for the coupling constant of FBG. Finally, the interference inserted in the autocorrelation due to nonlinear effects generated in the nonlinear switching of the coded pulse in a dual core nonlinear directional coupler is examined, where temporal broadening of pulses decoded is observed.
An exploratory study of the role of pervasive environments for promotion of tourism destinations

Purpose – The aim of this research is to investigate how virtual reality, with emphasis on pervasive environments, might affect tourism choice of a destination, in order to exploit it as a marketing tool to promote tourism destination in a global perspective. In particular, the paper analyzes the case of Calabrian territory (Southern Italy), due to the high archaeological value, heritage of the ancient Magna Graecia culture (VIII cent. B.D.‐I cent. A.D.). Despite this heritage, Calabria has been not fully exploited its resources in a tourism perspective.Design/methodology/approach – The research methodology is based on a qualitative approach, focused on a questionnaire promoted along with tourists. In particular, the authors asked them to explore the pervasive environments which reproduce some Calabrian scenarios, and answer some specific questions related to the experience. The interviews have been processed with the MaxQDA software for the content analysis.Findings – Two aspects of the results emerge fr.
In Vitro Bioassay-guided Isolation of Radioprotective Fractions from Extracts of Pinus koraiensis Bark

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate radioprotective effect of extracts of Pinus koraiensis bark and its fractions on rat splenocytes by using bioassay-guided isolation in order to obtain the best active fraction. Materials and Methods: P. koraiensis bark was ground and extracted with water, 40% acetone, 95% ethanol. Bio-guided assay was selected as an evaluation method to further fractionate radioprotective component from P. koraiensis bark extract. Total phenolic and flavonoid contents in fractions were also measured. Rat splenocytes were prepared by using mechanical trituration method. DNA damage was assessed as comet parameters (tail DNA%, tail length, tail moment, olive tail moment). The levels of malondialdehyde (MDA), and activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) in cultured rat splenocytes were also measured. Results: The radioprotective effects decreased from rutin >95% ethanol extracts of Pinus koraiensis bark (95EEP) >40AEP > WEP. The stimulating effects decreased from rutin > n-butanol extract (NBE) > EAE. The results demonstrate that there exists toxic ingredients (PEE and dichloromethane extract), proliferative-promoting, radioprotective component (EAE and NBE) in 95EEP. fraction eluted from n-butanol fractions of 95EEP with 50% methanol solution (NBEPKB-50ME), a fraction of NBE result from bio-guided isolation, demonstrates good radioprotective efficacy on rat splenocytes. NBEPKB-50ME pretreated rat splenocytes demonstrated progressively reduced levels of MDA when compared with γ-ray exposed cells. Different dose of NBEPKB-50ME pretreatment with 8 Gy-irration showed an increase in enzymatic antioxidant. Conclusions: Proliferative-promoting efficacy, radioprotective effect of different solvents extracts of the bark of P. koraiensis were investigated in this work. NBEPKB-50ME was the best elution in NBE, especially in restoring SOD, CAT activities, content of GSH, decreasing DNA damage. Abbreviations used: MDA: Malondialdehyde; SOD: Superoxide dismutase; CAT: Catalase; PEE: Petroleum ether Extract; DME: Dichloromethane extract; EAE: Ethyl acetate extract; NBE: n-butanol extract; WAP: Water extracts of Pinus koraiensis bark; 40AEP: 40% acetone extracts of Pinus koraiensis bark; 95EEP: 95% ethanol extracts of Pinus koraiensis bark; TPC: Total phenolic content; TFC: Total flavonoid content; NBEPKB-50ME: Fraction eluted from n-Butanol fractions of 95EEP with 50% methanol solution.
Analyzing the Influence of Computer Capabilities and Knowledge Sharing in the fulfillment of Information System

Purpose –the Purpose of this research is to empirically validate a conceptual model to understand the effect Computer Self-Efficacy (CSE) on collegial knowledge sharing (CKS), Technical knowledge sharing (TKS), and use of information system (UIS) in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach - Based on a survey of 102 employees from 138 organizations in the Fourth International Exhibition of Building Materials and Technology and elevators, lifts, industrial equipment. This International Exhibition was held in Isfahan (Iran), October 2011. Findings -CSE has effective on CKS, TKS and UIS; TKS has effective on UIS and CKS has not effective in UIS in the Workplace. Practical implications -The results point to the importance of the roles of CSE and Knowledge sharing as factors of effective in use of IS. Originality/value : four phases of management information system (MIS) are studied; CSE, CKS, TKS, and UIS in IT-related SMEs and this study demonstrate how these processes are relevant. Keywords - Computer Self-Efficacy (CSE), collegial knowledge sharing (CKS), Technical knowledge sharing (TKS) and, Use of information technology (UIS).
Joint estimation of transmitter and receiver I/Q imbalances, CFO, and channel response for OFDM systems

In this paper, we study the problem of channel estimation in the presence of the transmitter and receiver in-phase and quadrature-phase (I/Q) imbalances and carrier frequency offset (CFO) for orthogonality frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. A recently proposed concept called channel residual energy (CRE) is applied to solve the joint estimation problem. By minimizing CRE, we propose a new method to jointly estimate I/Q parameters, CFO and channel response using training sequences. The proposed method needs only one arbitrary OFDM block for training and can achieve a very good performance. When two repeated blocks are available for training, we propose a low complexity method to solve the joint estimation problem. Simulation results show that both the proposed methods provide a good performance.
Ocular Oscillations

A variety of abnormal ocular oscillations consequent to brain stem and cerebellar dysfunction are described. The brain stem eye signs include: See-saw nystagmus, convergence-retraction nystagmus, down-beat nystagmus, ocular myoclonus, ocular bobbing, and superior oblique myokymia. The “cerebellar system” eye signs discussed are five varieties of nystagmus, square wave and macro square wave jerks, macro saccadic oscillations, ocular dysmetria and flutter, and opsoclonus.
Global strategies for destination management organisations : focus on country brand experience management

Destination management organizations (DMOs) compete for international tourists globally. This study applies Yip’s (2003) Total Global Strategy (TGS) framework to global competition among DMOs in the tourism industry. TGS aims to answer two important questions: 1) how global is the industry; and 2) how global should the business strategy be? Based on the TGS framework this study fi rst addresses the impact of market-, cost-, governmentand competitive globalization drivers on the tourism industry globalization potential. The focus is on the special characteristics of tourism services including environmental and social sustainability, safety and security issues. Second, the study investigates how DMOs can apply global strategies based on the fi ve strategy levers of global market participation, global products and services, global marketing, global location of value-adding activities, and global competitive moves. Third, this study illustrates how DMOs can customize and/or standardize these fi ve global strategy levers in the context of brand experience management (BEM) proposed by Laitamaki (2007a). The study uses Australia, Tourism Australia and Brand Australia as examples of how the TGS Framework and BEM principles can be applied to a country, a DMO, and a country destination brand respectively. The focus of this study is on DMOs’ global country brand strategies and the extent to which they should be customized versus standardized in the context of country brand experience management. The study contributes to the existing tourism literature by intro-
Automated methods for audio-based music analysis with applications to musicology

This thesis contributes to bridging the gap between music information retrieval (MIR) and musicology. We present several automated methods for music analysis, which are motivated by concrete application scenarios being of central importance in musicology. In this context, the automated music analysis is performed on the basis of audio material. Here, one reason is that for a given piece of music usually many different recorded performances exist. The availability of multiple versions of a piece of music is exploited in this thesis to stabilize analysis results. We show how the presented automated methods open up new possibilities for supporting musicologists in their work. Furthermore, we introduce novel interdisciplinary concepts which facilitate the collaboration between computer scientists and musicologists. Based on these concepts, we demonstrate how MIR researchers and musicologists may greatly benefit from each other in an interdisciplinary collaboration. Firstly, we present a fully automatic approach for the extraction of tempo parameters from audio recordings and show to which extent this approach may support musicologists in analyzing recorded performances. Secondly, we introduce novel user interfaces which are aimed at encouraging the exchange between computer science and musicology. In this context, we indicate the potential of computer-based methods in music education by testing and evaluating a novel MIR user interface at the University of Music Saarbrücken. Furthermore, we show how a novel multi-perspective user interface allows for interactively viewing and evaluating version-dependent analysis results and opens up new possibilities for interdisciplinary collaborations. Thirdly, we present a cross-version approach for harmonic analysis of audio recordings and demonstrate how this approach enables musicologists to explore harmonic structures even across large music corpora. Here, one simple yet important conceptual contribution is to convert the physical time axis of an audio recording into a performance-independent musical time axis given in bars.
Direct Acting Antiviral Agents in Korean Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C and Hemophilia Who Are Treatment-Naïve or Treatment-Experienced

Background/Aims Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is a major comorbidity in patients with hemophilia. Methods Patients (n=30) were enrolled between September 2015 and April 2016. Twenty-six patients were genotype 1 (1b, n=21; 1a, n=5) and four patients were genotype 2a/2b. Among 21 patients with genotype 1b, Y93H resistance-associated variants (RAVs) were detected in three patients (14.3%). We evaluated sustained virologic response (SVRs) at 12 weeks, as well as relapse and safety. Results Five patients with genotype 1a and three patients with genotype 1b (RAV positive) received ledipasvir/sofosbuvir for 12 weeks. SVR12 rate was 100% (8/8). Eleven patients with genotype 1b were treatment-naïve and received daclatasvir plus asunaprevir for 24 weeks. SVR12 rate was 91% (10/11). One patient experienced viral breakthrough without RAV at 12 weeks. Seven treatment-experienced patients with genotype 1b received daclatasvir plus asunaprevir for 24 weeks. SVR12 rate was 85.7% (6/7). One patient experienced viral breakthrough with RAV (L31M, Y93H) at 12 weeks. Four patients with genotype 2a/2b received sofosbuvir plus ribavirin for 12 weeks. SVR12 rate was 100% (4/4). No serious adverse event-related discontinuations were noted. Conclusions New direct acting antiviral treatment achieved high SVRs rates at 12 weeks in CHC patients with hemophilia without serious adverse events.
Everything is Connected: Using Linked Data for Multimedia Narration of Connections between Concepts

This paper introduces a Linked Data application for automatically generating a story between two concepts in the Web of Data, based on formally described links. A path between two concepts is obtained by querying multiple linked open datasets; the path is then enriched with multimedia presentation material for each node in order to obtain a full multimedia presentation of the found path.
Perception of Television Advertising from China's Young Generation

This paper aims to examine the elements employed in television advertising, which affect consumer attitudes toward advertised products and brands. 384 young Chinese responded to a survey questionnaire. This paper finds that celebrity endorsement positively affects creativity in television advertising. The credibility of television advertisement positively affects the recall of products and brands. Celebrities in television advertising or people who have professional knowledge as endorsers decrease the credibility of television advertisements contrary to the results of previous research. Creativity in television advertising has a negative effect on the recalls of products and brands. This paper offers insight about the young generations perception of television advertising in China. It provides a debated perspective that creativity in television advertising negatively affects product and brand recalls.
Parallel construction of classification trees on a GPU

Algorithms for constructing tree‐based classifiers are aimed at building an optimal set of rules implicitly described by some dataset of training samples. As the number of samples and/or attributes in the dataset increases, the required construction time becomes the limiting factor for interactive or even functional use. The problem is emphasized if tree derivation is part of an iterative optimization method, such as boosting. Attempts to parallelize the construction of classification trees have therefore been presented in the past. This paper describes a parallel method for binary classification tree construction implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU) using compute unified device architecture (CUDA). By employing node‐level, attribute‐level, and split‐level parallelism, the task parallel and data parallel sections of tree induction are mapped to the architecture of a modern GPU. The GPU‐based solution is compared with the sequential and multi‐threaded CPU versions on public access datasets, and it is shown that an order of magnitude acceleration can be achieved on this data‐intensive task using inexpensive commodity hardware. The influence of dataset characteristics on the efficiency of parallel implementation is also analyzed. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.