Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Medial Malleolar Fractures: An Anatomic Survey Determining the Ideal Screw Length

Background: Medial malleolar fractures are frequent, and their treatment is familiar to the orthopedic surgeon. Lag screw fixation using partially threaded screws remains the standard treatment method for medial malleolar fractures. However, the literature lacks a defined method for selecting lag screw length, relying more so on the empiric choice of the surgeon. Aim: The aim of this study is to help define the ideal lag screw length for medial melleolar fracture fixation. Materials and Methods: One hundred and sixteen anatomic specimens were included in the study. A transverse cut was performed in the distal third of the tibia, roughly 1 and a half times the distal tibial plafond width from the ankle joint. A coronal cut was then performed using the center of the medial malleolus. Three observers measured the distance between the medial malleolus tip and beginning of the medullary canal in all anatomic specimens. Differences in measurements were statistically compared, level of (P ≤ 0.05). Interclass correlation coefficient (ICC) significance level was set at P < 0.05. Results: Measurement average was 55 mm between the medial malleolus tip and the medullary canal, with a standard deviation of 10 mm. High concordance (ICC: 0.819) was achieved among all pairs of observers (P < 0.01). The systematic difference among measurements was absent, and random distribution around general measurements was observed. Conclusion: The authors recommend a screw length of no more than 45 mm to optimize the location of the screw threads in the best cancellous bone in an effort to obtain the most compression.
A voltage measurement based control of a SSSC

Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) offer the possibility of controlling line transmission parameters in order to optimize and enhance the system characteristics. Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC) is a FACTS that can be used to modify the power flow through a transmission line. Classical SSSC control approach is based on injecting voltage in quadrature with the line current, so that only reactive power is exchanged with the transmission line in order to modify the active power flow. In this paper, a new control approach based on the grid voltage instead of the line current is proposed. Both strategies are compared theoretically. PSCAD/EMTDC simulations have been performed to validate this theory. The results demonstrate that the new control strategy exhibits better results under non-sinusoidal conditions.
High-Temperature SiC Power Module Electrical Evaluation Procedure

To take full advantage of silicon carbide semiconductor devices, high-temperature device packaging needs to be developed. This paper describes potential defects from design and fabrication procedures, and presents a systematic electrical evaluation process to detect such defects. This systematic testing procedure can rapidly detect many defects and reduce the risk in high-temperature packaging testing. A multichip module development procedure that uses this testing procedure is also presented and demonstrated with an example.
Selective Subcarrier Pairing and Power Allocation for DF OFDM Relay Systems with Perfect and Partial CSI

This paper investigates a decode-and-forward two-hop relaying system consisting of one source, one relay and one destination, in which orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is used. The relay forwards the message received from the source on a subset of available subcarriers in the second time slot. Firstly, a subcarrier pairing and selection algorithm is proposed, assuming that perfect channel state information (CSI) is available at all nodes, then, power is allocated to both the source and relay stations under individual power constraints in order to maximize the capacity. Secondly, subcarrier selection and pairing, and power allocation (PA) under partial CSI assumption along with individual power constraints are addressed. The result is a novel distributed algorithm with low complexity maximizing the expected value of capacity at the source and relay nodes. Finally, the simulation results show that selective relaying combined with subcarrier pairing and PA improves the system capacity to a considerable extent in both perfect and partial CSI cases.
Quality of Life Among Adults with Epilepsy

The last 20 years has seen an increased interest in identifying the factors that affect quality of life for individuals with epilepsy. The great majority of this research has focused on the impact of medical interventions on quality of life. At the same time, increased understanding has developed regarding the significant impact that physical, social, and psychological factors make on the quality of life and life satisfaction of people with epilepsy. In an effort to better understand the relationships of the physical and psychosocial factors to each other and to quality of life among people with epilepsy, the authors developed and evaluated an exploratory model. The results have implications for rehabilitation professionals who work with people with epilepsy.
GaN Transistors for Power Switching and High Frequency Applications

We review our state-of-the-art GaN-based device technologies for power switching at low frequencies and high frequency operation aiming at future millimeter-wave communication systems. These two applications are emerging in addition to the widely investigated power amplifiers at microwave frequencies for cellular base stations. As for the power switching GaN devices, we present a novel device structure called Gate Injection Transistors (GIT), which enables normally-off operation with high drain current. Here we also present the world highest breakdown voltage of 10400 V in AlGaN/GaN HFETs. In the last part of this paper, we present GaN-based MIS-HFETs which exhibits as high fmax as 203 GHz. The successful integration of low- loss microstrip lines with via-holes onto sapphire enables compact 3-stage K-band amplifier MMIC of which a small-signal gain is as high as 22d B at 26 GHz with a 3dB bandwidth of 25-29 GHz. The presented devices are promising for the two emerging future applications demonstrating high enough potential of GaN-based transistors.
Delayed Meconium Passage in Small vs. Appropriate for Gestational Age Preterm Infants: Management and Short-Term Outcome

Objective Delayed passage of stool is a result of both gestational immaturity and illness severity. Small for gestational age (SGA) preterm infants are at high risk of gastrointestinal (GI) complications. We aimed to analyse the effects of a strict nutrition and stool protocol on GI problems in SGA compared to appropriate for gestational age (AGA) preterm infants Methods Retrospective cohort analysis including all preterm infants with delayed meconium passage hospitalized at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Medical University of Graz, Austria. Infants were identified by a local data system and by the use of a strict feeding and stool protocol between 2001 and 2009. Main outcome parameters included neonatal morbidity, surgical intervention and mortality. Findings Twenty-six SGA (median GA 28.6 weeks, birth weight 825 grams, 46% males) were compared to 101 AGA (median GA 28.4 weeks, birth weight 1168 grams, 55% males) preterm infants. Clinical signs of delayed meconium passage did not differ significantly between groups. Differences regarding percentage of necrotizing enterocolitis, ileus, spontaneous intestinal perforation, and surgical intervention did not differ between groups. Mortality rate was significantly higher in SGA (11.5%) compared to AGA (2.9%) infants (P=0.03). Conclusion Despite similar morbidity SGA infants exhibited higher lethal complication rates following delayed meconium passage compared to AGA infants.
Local central limit theorems, the high-order correlations of rejective sampling and logistic likelihood asymptotics

Let I 1 ,. , I n be independent but not necessarily identically distributed Bernoulli random variables, and let X n = Σ n j=1 I j . For v in a bounded region, a local central limit theorem expansion of P(X n = EX n + v) is developed to any given degree. By conditioning, this expansion provides information on the high-order correlation structure of dependent, weighted sampling schemes of a population E (a special case of which is simple random sampling), where a set d ⊂ E is sampled with probability proportional to Π A ∈ d x A , where x A are positive weights associated with individuals A ∈ E. These results are used to determine the asymptotic information, and demonstrate the consistency and asymptotic normality of the conditional and unconditional logistic likelihood estimator for unmatched case-control study designs in which sets of controls of the same size are sampled with equal probability.
Raw Arterial Spin Labeling Data Can Help Identify Arterial Occlusion in Acute Ischemic Stroke

Poster: "ECR 2016 / B-0821 / Raw arterial spin labelling data can help identify arterial occlusion in acute ischaemic stroke" by: "M. MAJER, M. Mejdoubi, M. SCHERTZ, S. Colombani, A. Arrigo; Fort De France/FR"
Meals at work: integrating social and architectural aspects

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how eating, the built environment and social relations are related through the concept of a meal, in the hope that workplaces managers will consider more than nutrition and exercise in their future health strategies.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the findings of a sociological empirical study on workplace eating habits and an architectural theoretical study on the impact of built environment on meal experiences in general.Findings – Together, the findings of the two studies imply that management considerations on healthy workplace eating should be supplemented with more conscious architectural and social considerations on how built environment stages certain meal behaviors and facilitate bonding among employees.Research limitations/implications – More research needs to be done in order to better understand the relationship between intentional staging of the meal and health aspects in workplaces. This must include both developments with.
Phonotactic probabilities at the onset of language development: speech production and word position.

PURPOSE To examine the role of phonotactic probabilities at the onset of language development, in a new language (Dutch), while controlling for word position. METHOD Using a nonword imitation task, 64 Dutch-learning children (age 2;2-2;8 [years;months]) were tested on how they imitated segments in low- and high-phonotactic probability environments, in word-initial and word-final position. The relationship between phonological representations and vocabulary development was examined by comparing children's performance with their receptive and expressive vocabularies. RESULTS Segments in high-phonotactic probability environments were at an advantage in production, in both word-initial and word-final position. Significant correlations were found between vocabulary size and children's mean segment repetition accuracy for word-initial position, but not in word-final position. CONCLUSION The results indicate that phonological representations are mediated not only by children's developing vocabularies but also by the structure of children's emerging lexicons.
Recovering the Lost Art of Naturalistic Family Therapy: Retrospective and Prospective

Naturalistic family therapy is what many of the early therapists did—like sports casters—they observed and reflected back to families continuously what they were saying to one another, in words, looks, body gestures, and even in the indescribable yet in deeper truth quite describable “spirit messages” of emotions. The “cost” or danger of naturalistic family therapy is that it destabilizes people and family groups and disarms long-term defensive processes. The goal of many other types of family therapy is to make most people comfortable, relieved, smiling, grateful, and happily paying clients. If one is a therapist who wants to try to help in severe cases of psychopathology, then the naturalistic family therapy described in this article is a powerful and often very helpful way of doing family therapy that one may want to consider.
Twenty years of bogus pipeline research : a critical review and meta-analysis

The bogus pipeline (BPL), a procedure intended to improve the truthfulness of self-reports, was examined in terms of the validity of its effects, its optimal procedural format, and its appropriate domain of use. Social psychological research that has used the BPL is reviewed and meta-analyzed. Thirty-one studies were coded for effect size and relevant procedural characteristics. A significant mean BPL versus control condition effect was evident across these studies, indicating that the BPL engendered reliable effects consistent with a reduction in socially desirable responding. The BPL produced larger effects when task instructions required Ss to guess the BPLs output. These findings, coupled with previous indirect validation, provide reasonable documentation that the BPL shifts self-reports toward veracity. Past criticisms of the BPL are considered, and recommendations for its future use are made.
Behavioral Limitations TBI patients tend to underestimate: A replication and extension to patients with lateralized cerebral dysfunction

Abstract Patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), as well as patients with lateralized cerebral dysfunction, completed the Patient Competency Rating Scale (PCRS) along with a neuropsychological control group. Relatives or significant others for each patient also rated the patient's abilities on the PCRS. A previous finding that TBI patients overestimate social interaction and emotional control skills was replicated. Patients with right versus left hemisphere lesions also tended to show this same pattern, while the neuropsychological control group did not. Brain dysfunction may increase the tendency to overstate certain behavioral characteristics irrespective of the location of the lesion. Nonneurological factors, however, may also contribute to this phenomenon. In this regard, it may be useful to distinguish between impaired self-awareness versus denial of disability after brain injury.
Very toxic – Handle with care. Some aspects of the maternal function in art therapy

Abstract This paper looks at some of the key components of traditional art therapy practice from an object relations perspective. I suggest that there is no therapeutic relationship without a setting and explore this through the idea of the art therapy studio being like Winnicott's facilitating environment and by looking at aspects of the non-verbal role of the therapist. The concepts of maternal holding and containment are seen as important elements in the therapeutic process. Case material is provided to illustrate how a non-interpretive, but actively relational, model of art therapy can result in significant change.
A Study into the Collision-induced Dissociation (CID) Behavior of Cross-Linked Peptides

Cross-linking/mass spectrometry resolves protein–protein interactions or protein folds by help of distance constraints. Cross-linkers with specific properties such as isotope-labeled or collision-induced dissociation (CID)-cleavable cross-linkers are in frequent use to simplify the identification of cross-linked peptides. Here, we analyzed the mass spectrometric behavior of 910 unique cross-linked peptides in high-resolution MS1 and MS2 from published data and validate the observation by a ninefold larger set from currently unpublished data to explore if detailed understanding of their fragmentation behavior would allow computational delivery of information that otherwise would be obtained via isotope labels or CID cleavage of cross-linkers. Isotope-labeled cross-linkers reveal cross-linked and linear fragments in fragmentation spectra. We show that fragment mass and charge alone provide this information, alleviating the need for isotope-labeling for this purpose. Isotope-labeled cross-linkers also indicate cross-linker-containing, albeit not specifically cross-linked, peptides in MS1. We observed that acquisition can be guided to better than twofold enrich cross-linked peptides with minimal losses based on peptide mass and charge alone. By help of CID-cleavable cross-linkers, individual spectra with only linear fragments can be recorded for each peptide in a cross-link. We show that cross-linked fragments of ordinary cross-linked peptides can be linearized computationally and that a simplified subspectrum can be extracted that is enriched in information on one of the two linked peptides. This allows identifying candidates for this peptide in a simplified database search as we propose in a search strategy here. We conclude that the specific behavior of cross-linked peptides in mass spectrometers can be exploited to relax the requirements on cross-linkers.
The structure of terminal and instrumental values: Dimensions and clusters

Students in two Australian tertiary institutions completed Form E of the Rokeach Value Survey. Multidimensional scaling and clustering were applied to the two sets of data so obtained. For each data set, ranks for the full set of 36 values, the set of 18 terminal values alone, and the set of 18 instrumental values alone, were intercorrelated and the rank-order correlations taken as measures of proximity between values. Dimensions resulting from the multidimensional scaling analyses were found to be fairly readily interpretable and to be comparable in part with the results of an earlier analysis by Rokeach using factor analysis and scaling. Correspondence between solutions obtained from the two data sets was quite high. The clustering analysis revealed no extensive “clumping” of values or tight subgroupings.
A hypothesize-and-verify framework for text recognition using deep recurrent neural networks

Deep LSTM is an ideal candidate for text recognition. However text recognition involves some initial image processing steps like segmentation of lines and words which can induce error to the recognition system. Without segmentation, learning very long range context is difficult and becomes computationally intractable. Therefore, alternative soft decisions are needed at the pre-processing level. This paper proposes a hybrid text recognizer using a deep recurrent neural network with multiple layers of abstraction and long range context along with a language model to verify the performance of the deep neural network. In this paper we construct a multi-hypotheses tree architecture with candidate segments of line sequences from different segmentation algorithms at its different branches. The deep neural network is trained on perfectly segmented data and tests each of the candidate segments, generating unicode sequences. In the verification step, these unicode sequences are validated using a sub-string match with the language model and best first search is used to find the best possible combination of alternative hypothesis from the tree structure. Thus the verification framework using language models eliminates wrong segmentation outputs and filters recognition errors.
Eating Disorders During Compulsory Service in the Israeli Defense Forces

This study examines how compulsory service in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) might influence the trajectory of eating disorders (EDs) among young women soldiers. The narratives of 19 women with past or present EDs who served in the IDF were qualitatively analyzed for factors associated with negative and positive experiences of military service. Perceived incompatibility with assigned military roles was cited as the most important factor in negative experiences of service and was associated with worsening EDs. Perceived meaning and purpose was cited as the most important factor in positive experiences of service. The findings reveal that, for young women soldiers with EDs or susceptibility to EDs, subjective experiences of assigned military roles carry important emotional and behavioral health implications.
Adaptive perturb & observe MPPT algorithm for photovoltaic system

Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques are used in photovoltaic (PV) systems to extract maximum power from the PV module. There are number of techniques available in literature. Perturb and observe (P &O) method is widely used because of its low-cost and ease of implementation. The P&O method oscillates close to maximum power point (MPP), when atmospheric conditions are constant or slowly varying. However, when irradiance and temperature are changing rapidly, this method fails to track MPP with rapid speed. In order to consider rapidly varying atmospheric conditions an adaptive control algorithm is proposed, by measuring the short circuit current at different irradiance levels and temperatures. In this proposed method current perturbation is considered instead of voltage perturbation. The proposed method has faster dynamics and improved stability compared to the conventional P&O method. The effectiveness of proposed MPPT algorithm is verified using digital simulations.
Secondary Connectives in the Prague Dependency Treebank

The paper introduces a new annotation of discourse relations in the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT), i.e. the annotation of the so called secondary connectives (mainly multiword phrases like the condition is , that is the reason why , to conclude , this means etc.). Firstly, the paper concentrates on theoretical introduction of these expressions (mainly with respect to primary connectives like and , but , or , too etc.) and tries to contribute to the description and definition of discourse connectives in general (both primary and secondary). Secondly, the paper demonstrates possibilities of annotations of secondary connectives in large corpora (like PDT). The paper describes general annotation principles for secondary connectives used in PDT for Czech and compares the results of this annotation with annotation of primary connectives in PDT. In this respect, the main aim of the paper is to introduce a new type of discourse annotation that could be adopted also by other languages.
Regulation of Histone Methylation and Reprogramming of Gene Expression in the Rice Inflorescence Meristem

Comparison of the inflorescence and shoot apical meristems reveals differences in gene expression and H3K27me3/H3K4me3 ratio and overexpression of a key methylase increases inflorescence meristem activity and panicle size. Rice inflorescence meristem (IM) activity is essential for panicle development and grain production. How chromatin and epigenetic mechanisms regulate IM activity remains unclear. Genome-wide analysis revealed that in addition to genes involved in the vegetative to reproductive transition, many metabolic and protein synthetic genes were activated in IM compared with shoot apical meristem and that a change in the H3K27me3/H3K4me3 ratio was an important factor for the differential expression of many genes. Thousands of genes gained or lost H3K27me3 in IM, and downregulation of the H3K27 methyltransferase gene SET DOMAIN GROUP 711 (SDG711) or mutation of the H3K4 demethylase gene JMJ703 eliminated the increase of H3K27me3 in many genes. SDG711-mediated H3K27me3 repressed several important genes involved in IM activity and many genes that are silent in the IM but activated during floral organogenesis or other developmental stages. SDG711 overexpression augmented IM activity and increased panicle size; suppression of SDG711 by RNA interference had the opposite effect. Double knockdown/knockout of SDG711 and JMJ703 further reduced panicle size. These results suggest that SDG711 and JMJ703 have agonistic functions in reprogramming the H3K27me3/H3K4me3 ratio and modulating gene expression in the IM.