Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Psychosocial Work Environment of Physicians: The Impact of Demands and Resources on Job Dissatisfaction and Psychiatric Distress in a Longitudinal Study of Johns Hopkins Medical School Graduates

This study examines the relationship between the psychosocial work environment and cross-sectional job dissatisfaction and prospective psychiatric distress in a cohort of Hopkins Medical School graduates in midcareer. An instrument was constructed consisting of five scales: psychological job demands, patient demands, work control, physician resources, and coworker support. The results of scale reliability and factor analysis are presented. Higher job demands were found to be associated with increases in job dissatisfaction and psychiatric distress and greater resources were associated with decreased levels of dissatisfaction and distress. In multiple-regression analysis, only work control and social support were found to be independently associated with dissatisfaction and distress. These results suggest that the presence of control and social support at work protects physicians from developing job dissatisfaction and psychiatric distress.
CARMA1 Is Critical for the Development of Allergic Airway Inflammation in a Murine Model of Asthma1

CARMA1 has been shown to be important for Ag-stimulated activation of NF-κB in lymphocytes in vitro and thus could be a novel therapeutic target in inflammatory diseases such as asthma. In the present study, we demonstrate that mice with deletion in the CARMA1 gene (CARMA1−/−) do not develop inflammation in a murine model of asthma. Compared with wild-type controls, CARMA1−/− mice did not develop airway eosinophilia, had no significant T cell recruitment into the airways, and had no evidence for T cell activation in the lung or draining lymph nodes. In addition, the CARMA1−/− mice had significantly decreased levels of IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13, did not produce IgE, and did not develop airway hyperresponsiveness or mucus cell hypertrophy. However, adoptive transfer of wild-type Th2 cells into CARMA1−/− mice restored eosinophilic airway inflammation, cytokine production, airway hyperresponsiveness, and mucus production. This is the first demonstration of an in vivo role for CARMA1 in a disease process. Furthermore, the data clearly show that CARMA1 is essential for the development of allergic airway inflammation through its role in T lymphocytes, and may provide a novel means to inhibit NF-κB for therapy in asthma.
catena-Poly[[[diaquanickel(II)]-μ-pyrazine-2-carboxylato-silver(I)-μ-pyrazine-2-carboxylato] nitrate dihydrate]

In the polymeric complex of the title compound, {[AgNi(C5H3N2O2)2(H2O)2]NO3·2H2O}n, the AgI ion displays an angular coordination geometry with two N atoms from pyrazine-2-carboxylate ligands, and the NiII ion is hexacoordinated by two O atoms from two water molecules, two O and two N atoms from pyrazine-2-carboxylate ligands in a distorted octahedral geometry. In the crystal, the AgI and NiII ions lie on a mirror plane and an inversion centre, respectively. The complex chains, the nitrate ions and the uncoordinated water molecules are linked together through O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and weak Ag⋯O interactions [2.619 (17)–2.749 (17) Å] into a three-dimensional network.
INCIDENCE OF HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS IN A POPULATION OF JAUNDICED NEONATES

As most of hereditary spherocytosis-affected individuals experience jaundice at birth, it seemed of interest to evaluate the proportion of hereditary spherocytosis in 402 severely jaundiced neonates with a bilirubinemia level prompting phototherapy. Red cell dehydration, a hallmark of spherocytosis whether constitutional or acquired, was demonstrated in 74 of them, among whom 23 disclosed a typical pattern of spherocytosis upon red cell deformability studies. Acquired spherocytosis of immune origin was diagnosed in 19/23 and hereditary spherocytosis in 4, making the proportion of hereditary spherocytosis-affected individuals among a severely jaundiced population of neonates amount to 1%, an incidence at least 30-fold that of the overall population.
A Bayesian Network Model for Risk Management in Cyber Situation

The transformation in e-commerce with the advent of other internet based activities has increased the impact of Cyber-attacks on organizations and nations at large. However, tracking these attacks and determining risks posed ensure the overall security in cyber situation and invariably enhances communication and economic growth. Consequently, this paper presents a robust predictive model based on Bayes Theorem, capable of distinguishing between bad connections called threats or attacks, and good which is known as normal connections. The model analyses the state of network traffic and determine its risk using the KDD Cup 1999 dataset. In conclusion, comparison of the Bayes model with Association Rule Mining model shows efficient performance, and an improved performance with a Genetic Algorithm technique Index-Terms: Cyber-attacks/threats, Cybercrime, Bayesian Network, Cyber Situation, Risk
Prediction of infarct growth based on apparent diffusion coefficients: penumbral assessment without intravenous contrast material.

PURPOSE To compare predicted and final infarct lesion volumes determined by processing apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps derived at admission diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in patients with acute stroke and to verify that predicted areas of infarct growth reflect at-risk penumbral regions based on recanalization status. MATERIALS AND METHODS The French legislation waived the requirement for informed patient consent for the described research, which was based on patient medical files. However, patients and/or their relatives were informed that they could decline to participate in the research. Authors tested a semiautomated proprietary image analysis procedure in 98 patients with middle cerebral artery (MCA) stroke by modeling infarct growth on DW imaging-derived ADC maps. Predicted infarct growth (PIG) areas and predicted infarct volumes were correlated with final observed data. In addition, the effect of MCA recanalization on the correlation between predicted and observed infarct growth volumes was qualitatively assessed. RESULTS Predicted and final infarct volumes (rho = 0.828; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.753, 0.882; P < .0001) and infarct growth volumes (rho = 0.506; 95% CI: 0.342, 0.640; P < .0001) were significantly correlated. Visual comparative examination revealed satisfactory qualitative consistency between predicted and follow-up lesion masks. In patients without MCA recanalization, PIG did not differ significantly from final observed infarct growth (median PIG obtained with 0.93 ADC ratio cutoff [PIG(ratio)] of 27.1 cm(3) vs median infarct growth of 19.8 cm(3), P = . 17). MCA recanalization revealed an overestimation of PIG (median PIG(ratio) of 24.8 cm(3) vs median infarct growth of 12 cm(3), P = . 005), suggesting that the PIG area was part of ischemic penumbra. CONCLUSION Data show the feasibility of identifying at-risk ischemic tissue in patients with acute MCA stroke by using semiautomated analysis of ADC maps derived at DW imaging, without intravenous contrast material-enhanced perfusion-weighted imaging.
Surveillance, crime and social control

Contents: Series preface Introduction. Part I Theory: I'll be watching you: reflections on the new surveillance, Gary T. Marx Bentham's Panopticon: from moral architecture to electronic surveillance, David Lyon Postscript on the societies of control. Gilles Deleuze The viewer society: Michel Foucault's Panopticon revisited, Thomas Mathiesen The surveillant assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson. Part II CCTV: CCTV and the social structuring of surveillance, Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong 'You'll never walk alone': CCTV surveillance, order and neo-liberal rule in Liverpool city centre, Roy Coleman and Joe Sim Seen and now heard: talking to the targets of open-street CCTV, Emma Short and Jason Ditton The eyes have it: CCTV as the '5th utility' , S. Graham) Yes it works - no it doesn't: comparing the effects of open-street CCTV in 2 adjacent Scottish town centres, Jason Ditton and Emma Short State surveillance and the right to privacy, Nick Taylor Video surveillance, gender and the safety of public urban space: 'Peeping Tom' goes high tech, Hille Koskela. Part III Undercover Police Surveillance: Undercover policing in Canada: wanting what is wrong, Jean-Paul Brodeur Towards a sociological model of the police informant, Steven Greer Subterranean blues: conflict as an unintended consequence of the police use of informers, Clive Norris and Colin Dunnighan Snitching and the code of the street, Richard Rosenfeld, Bruce A. Jacobs and Richard Wright. Part IV Bodies, Databases and Technologies: The body and the archive, Allan Sekula The electronic panopticon: a case study of the development of the National Criminal Records System, Diana R. Gordon Critique: no soul in the machine: technofallacies in the electronic monitoring movement, Ronald Corbett and Gary T. Marx News media, popular culture and the electronic monitoring of offenders in England and Wales, Mike Nellis Written on the body: biometrics and identity, Irma van der Pleog Governanc
Effect of Systemic Therapies on Outcomes following Vertebroplasty among Patients with Multiple Myeloma

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The role of vertebroplasty in patients with myeloma remains relatively undefined. Accordingly, we sought to better define the efficacy of vertebroplasty for myeloma-associated fractures and determine the effect of procedure timing relative to the initiation of systemic therapy on outcomes and complication rates. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Clinical, laboratory, and medication data were retrieved for 172 patients with multiple myeloma treated with vertebroplasty since October 2000. Quantitative outcome data (Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire [scale, 0–24] and the Numeric Rating Scale [0–10] for pain at rest and with activity) were collected immediately pre- and postoperatively and at 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, and 1 year following vertebroplasty. Patients with ≥50% improvement on the Numeric Rating Scale and ≥40% improvement on the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire were classified as “responders. ” Peri- and postoperative complications were also collected. RESULTS: Significant median improvement in the Roland-Morris Disability and rest and activity Numeric Rating Scale scores (15, 2, and 6 points, respectively; P < .0001) persisted at 1 year without significant change from the immediate postoperative scores (P > .36). Patients on systemic therapy at the time of vertebroplasty were more likely to achieve “responder status,” compared with patients not on systemic therapy, for the Numeric Rating Scale pain at rest score (P < .01) and the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire score (P < .003), with no difference in complication rates (χ2 = 0.17, P = .68). CONCLUSIONS: Vertebroplasty is an effective therapy for patients with myeloma with symptomatic compression fractures. Favorable outcomes are more likely to be achieved when spinal augmentation is performed after systemic therapy is initiated. Complication rates were not affected by the timing of systemic therapy.
NVM neuromorphic core with 64k-cell (256-by-256) phase change memory synaptic array with on-chip neuron circuits for continuous in-situ learning

We demonstrate a neuromorphic core with 64k-cell phase change memory (PCM) synaptic array (256 axons by 256 dendrites) with in-situ learning capability. 256 configurable on-chip neuron circuits perform leaky integrate and fire (LIF) and synaptic weight update based on spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP). 2T-1R PCM unit cell design separates LIF and STDP learning paths, minimizing neuron circuit size. The circuit implementation of STDP learning algorithm along with 2T-1R structure enables both LIF and STDP learning to operate asynchronously and simultaneously within the array, avoiding additional complication and power consumption associated with timing schemes. We show hardware demonstration of in-situ learning with large representational capacity, enabled by large array size and analog synaptic weights of PCM cells.
Efficacy of Nutrition Education-Based Cooking Workshops in Community-Dwelling Adults Aged 50 Years and Older

Nutrition interventions offer an opportunity to meet the nutritional needs of community-dwelling older adults. This retrospective qualitative observational study aimed to determine if nutrition education-based cooking workshops offered in Southern Quebec helped improve dietary habits and nutrition-related knowledge, autonomy, and confidence among older adults. Participants (n = 144) in an 8-session cooking workshop program completed pre- and post-workshop session questionnaires. Baseline nutritional risk (n = 116) and body mass index (n = 112) were assessed using the Elderly Nutrition Screening Questionnaire. Paired sample t-tests and McNemar analyses were performed to determine changes over time for knowledge, autonomy, confidence and dietary habits, and specific dietary behaviors, respectively. Pearson correlation tests were performed to assess associations between variables. Significant improvements were observed over time in knowledge, confidence, and desired dietary habits but not in autonomy. At the end of the intervention a greater proportion of participants reported always consuming recommended amounts of whole grains, fruits and vegetables, water, and milk or milk alternatives. A significant association was observed between confidence and dietary habits and between knowledge and confidence. Food skills interventions that link nutrition knowledge with cooking competence offer the opportunity to improve dietary habits among community-dwelling older adults.
Evaluation of alternative backoff schemes for 802.11

Opposed to wired communication, devices forming a wireless network are all using the propagation medium as a shared and limited resource. Therefore access to the medium needs to be organized. The IEEE 802.11 wireless communication standard therefore defines a Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) and its behavior can be summarized as listen before talk. Before a node transmits, he senses the shared medium to assure he is not interfering with an already ongoing transmission. If he senses the medium to be idle, he transmits. If however two nodes transmit at the same time, there is a chance of their packets interfering at the receiver. This is called a packet collision because in most cases the receiver is not able to decode any information from either packet. Collisions can occur because the involved transmitters cannot detect each other, which is known as the hidden node problem and 802.11 defines a special RTS/CTS mechanism to handle such scenarios. If however the transmitters are all in receiving range of each other the likely occuring collision is called in-range collision. To avoid such scenarios a backoff scheme is deployed which is a vital part of the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. Using the backoff scheme deployed by 802.11 each transmitter picks a random countdown. The one who first reaches zero gets access to the medium. If the competing transmitters pick large backoff countdowns to reduce their chance of collision they risk wasting precious medium idle time. If they all pick small countdowns the chance of collision increases and medium is wasted since it is polluted with corrupted transmissions and retransmissions. Additionally, since 802.11 defines an upper and lower bound for the possible backoff values but the node density in wireless networks is steadily increasing, alternative backoff schemes need to be deployed that can handle an increased number of nodes competing for the medium. In this work three existing alternative backoff schemes are evaluated by means of network simulation. Furthermore two variations of a new backoff scheme approach are introduced and evaluated which, in contrast to the other backoff schemes, only use live and ad hoc information for determining the optimal per packet backoff.
Validation of the WMS-III Facial Memory Subtest With the Graduate Hospital Facial Memory Test in a Sample of Right and Left Anterior Temporal Lobectomy Patients

A number of studies have shown visuospatial memory deficits following anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) in the right, nondominant temporal lobe (RATL). The current study examines 26 patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy who underwent ATL in either the right (RATL, n = 16) or left temporal lobe (LATL, n = 10) on two tests of facial memory abilities, the Wechsler Memory Scale-III (WMS-III) Faces subtest and the Graduate Hospital Facial Memory Test (FMT). Repeated measures ANOVA on the FMT indicated a significant main effect of side of surgery. The RATL group performed significantly below the LATL group overall. Both groups showed a slight, but non-significant, improvement in performance from pre- to postsurgery on the FMT immediate memory, likely due to practice effects. Repeated measures ANOVA on the WMS-III Faces subtest revealed a significant interaction of group (RATL vs. LATL) by delay (immediate vs. delayed). Overall, the LATL group showed an improvement in recognition scores from immediate to delayed memory, whereas the RATL group performed similarly at both immediate and delayed testing. No effects of surgery were noted on the WMS-III. Following initial data analysis the WMS-III Faces I and II data were re-scored using the scoring suggested by Holdnack and Delis (2003), earlier in this issue. Repeated measures ANOVA revealed a trend toward significance in the three-way interaction of group (RATL vs. LATL) × time of testing (pre- versus postop) × delay (immediate vs. delayed memory). On the Faces I subtest, both the RATL and LATL groups showed a decline from preoperative to postoperative testing. However, on Faces II the LATL group showed an increase in performance from preoperative to postoperative testing, while the RALT group showed a decline in performance from preoperative to postoperative testing. While the FMT appears to be superior to the WMS-III Faces subtest in identifying deficits in facial memory prior to and following RATL, the application of the scoring methodology presented by Holdnack and Delis earlier in this issue does serve to increase the clinical utility of the WMS-III Faces subtest in this population.
Interference-Aware Resource Allocation for Device-to-Device Radio Underlaying Cellular Networks

Future cellular networks such as IMT-Advanced are expected to allow underlaying direct Device-to-Device (D2D) communication for spectrally efficient support of e.g. rich multimedia local services. Enabling D2D links in a cellular network presents a challenge in radio resource management due to the potentially severe interference it may cause to the cellular network. We propose a practical and efficient scheme for generating local awareness of the interference between the cellular and D2D terminals at the base station, which then exploits the multiuser diversity inherent in the cellular network to minimize the interference. System simulations demonstrate that substantial gains in cellular and D2D performance can be obtained using the proposed scheme.
E-business strategy in Western Europe: offshore BPO model perspective

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is first, to investigate the effective governance structure in early stage of offshore business process outsourcing (BPO), especially in the case where service provider's language is different from client's language, and second, to explore some of the conditions at the adoption of BPO that are likely to influence the shape of the governance structure.Design/methodology/approach – Ground theory building methodology that builds theory in a grounded and inductive fashion is used for this study. First, a genetic framework to analyze offshore BPO governance structure is derived from extant literature. Then, the framework is applied to an exploratory case analysis to explore an effective form of the governance mechanism.Findings – The hybrid governance structure consists of inter‐organizational coordination mechanisms, inter‐organizational systems and social control. Companies that wish to offshore their business process should select the service providers that can facilitate.
Combination of Rule-based and Machine Learning for Biomedical Event Extraction

paper describes the method for biomedical event extraction. The biomedical events occurs in relative to biomedical concepts (objects) as proteins, genes. In this work, we try a hybrid method to identify given event types relative to a given set of proteins in biomedical text. The approach combines rule-based and machine learning. A Set of rules is built based on event triggers, and a set of features is selected to use for machine learning algorithm. Our system consists of four main phases: preprocessing, trigger detection, event detection and post-processing. These phases are developed based on UIMA 1 framework. This work is continuous of our work for BioNLP2013 Shared Task 2 . The final result obtains 36.60 f-score.
Design: Cultural probes

A As the local site coordinator finished his introduction to the meeting, our worries were increasing. The group had taken on a glazed look, showing polite interest, but no real enthusiasm. How would they react when we presented them with our packages? Would disinterest deepen to boredom, or even hostility? Cultural Probes Homo ludens impinges on his environment: He interrupts, changes, intensifies; he follows paths and in passing, leaves traces of his presence everywhere.
Psychiatric morbidity and acute hospitalization in elderly people

Background: Few studies have investigated the association of psychiatric morbidity with acute hospitalization risk in elderly people. Method: We examined this association using population-based data for 1092 older adults aged ≥60 years in Singapore, including subjects who reported at least one acute hospitalization from any medical condition(s) in the 12 months prior to interview (N = 136). Psychiatric morbid/comorbid disorders were diagnosed using the Geriatric Mental State examination. Results: In a multivariate analysis, comorbid psychiatric disorders were inde-pendently associated with hospitalization [adjusted odds ratio 2.76, 95% confidence interval 1.20–6.33], after controlling for age, ethnicity, employment status, number of medical comorbidities, number of activities of daily living limitations, hearing and visual impairment, SF-12 Physical and Mental Component Summary scores, social, productive, fitness and health activities, and regular visits to health-care providers. Neither dementia diagnosis nor cognitive impairment measured by the Mini-mental State Examination was associated with increased hospitalization risk. Conclusion: Psychiatric morbidity in old age was significantly associated with increased hospitalization risk. This finding underlines the importance of treating psychiatric illness to reduce the risk of acute hospitalization in elderly patients.
A phonetic vocoder with scalable adaptation to speaker codebooks

The paper presents a very low bit rate phonetic vocoder based on speech recognition and synthesis with scalable speaker adaptation using a set of speaker phoneme codebooks (SPCBs). These SPCBs are designed by an LBG-like algorithm and are available to both encoder and decoder. The encoder compares periodically the input speech to adapted synthesized speech produced by the SPCBs. For each SPCB, the sequence of recognized phonemes and the pitch contour is used to synthesize speech that is adapted by a scalable multi-segmented spectral warping. The information about the SPCB and its adaptation parameters that achieve the least spectral distortion is transmitted to the decoder. This revises a vocoder presented earlier this year by considering for it a more flexible adaptation scheme with just a slight increase of the bit rate. Experiments held at a typical low bit rate of phonetic vocoders (around 300 bps) demonstrate that the scalable adaptation reduces the average spectral distortion and improves speaker recognizability as judged by listeners.