Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A randomized controlled trial of brief Somatic Experiencing for chronic low back pain and comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms

ABSTRACT Background: It is well documented that comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in chronic pain is associated with a more severe symptom profile with respect to pain, disability and psychological distress. However, very few intervention studies exist targeting both PTSD and pain. The current study is the first randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of the body-oriented trauma approach of Somatic Experiencing (SE) for comorbid PTSD and low back pain. Although the method is well recognized by clinicians and widely used, SE still needs to be tested in a randomized clinical trial in comparison with an active control group. Objective: The aim of the current study was to compare the effect of an SE intervention in addition to treatment-as-usual (TAU) for patients with chronic low back pain and comorbid PTSD compared to TAU alone. Method: The study was a two-group randomized controlled clinical trial. A cohort of patients (n = 1045) referred to a large Danish spine centre between February 2013 and October 2014 were screened for PTSD and randomized to either TAU (4–12 sessions of supervised exercises for low back pain) or TAU plus SE (6–12 sessions). In total, 91 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria and volunteered to participate in the study. Treatment effects were evaluated by self-report questionnaires comparing baseline measures with 12-month follow-up measures. Results: The additional SE intervention significantly reduced the number of PTSD symptoms compared with TAU alone, corresponding to a large effect size. Also, fear of movement was significantly reduced (moderate effect size). Both groups achieved a large reduction in pain-catastrophizing, disability and pain. Conclusions: A brief additional SE intervention was found to have a significant effect on PTSD and fear of movement compared to TAU alone. However, the overall effect of SE was less than expected and the clinical importance of the effects can be questioned.
Accessing pre-appraised evidence: fine-tuning the 5S model into a 6S model

The application of high-quality evidence to clinical decision making requires that we know how to access that evidence. In years past, this meant literature searching know-how and application of critical appraisal skills to separate lower from higher quality clinical studies. However, over the past decade, many practical resources have been created to facilitate ready access to high-quality research. We call these resources “pre-appraised” because they have undergone a filtering process to include only those studies that are of higher quality and they are regularly updated so that the evidence we access through these resources is current. To facilitate use of the many pre-appraised resources, Haynes proposed a “4S” model,1 which he then refined into a “5S” model.2 The 5S model begins with original single studies at the foundation, and building up from these are syntheses (systematic reviews such as Cochrane reviews), synopses (succinct descriptions of selected individual studies or systematic reviews, such as those found in the evidence-based journals), summaries , which integrate best available evidence from the lower layers to develop practice guidelines based on a full range of evidence (eg, Clinical Evidence, National Guidelines Clearinghouse), and at the peak of the model, systems, in which the individual patient’s characteristics are automatically linked to the current best evidence that matches the patient’s specific circumstances and the clinician is provided with key aspects of management (e.g., computerised decision support systems). 2 When we described the 5S model to colleagues at home and abroad, some queried whether a synopsis of a single study and a synopsis of a systematic review are equivalent as indicated by their single appearance in the model. In the hierarchy of evidence, a systematic review bests a single study, so we are adding a layer to the model to distinguish the 2 types of synopses. …
An intelligent load shedding mechanism for maintaining frequency stability

This paper describes an intelligent Load Shedding (LS) mechanism that aspires to maintain the power system frequency within the regulated limits. First, the system's parameters and time constants are identified through an online learning scheme using the actual measurement of the frequency. Then, the system is adaptively controlled based on these identified parameters, providing the amount of load that should be shed in a distributed and selective manner, in order to maintain the frequency stability of the system.
Effets de la mosaïque paysagère proche, de l’histoire et des pratiques de gestion locales sur les communautés taxonomiques et fonctionnelles des Collemboles du sol des parcs urbains méditerranéens : les cas de Naples (Italie) et Montpellier (France)

L’urbanisation aboutit a une grande diversite environnementale, paysagere, historique des espaces verts en ville, avec egalement des pratiques de gestion tres variees, qui, peuvent affecter la biodiversite qu’ils abritent. Or, la composante du sol reste tres peu etudiee et les communautes de Collemboles presentes dans les parcs urbains constitue une thematique de recherche jusqu’a present relativement ignoree. Si ces Arthropodes sont de petite taille (de l’ordre du millimetre), ils sont en effet tres nombreux dans les sols et aujourd’hui reconnus comme de bons indicateurs pour le monitoring des sols.Les effets de differents filtres abiotiques ont ete testes en appliquant a la fois une approche taxonomique et fonctionnelle des communautes de Collemboles dans les parcs urbains de Naples et de Montpellier. La these se developpe alors en trois axes correspondant a l’etude des effets:- de la composition et fragmentation de la mosaique urbaine proche- des dynamiques temporelles propres aux parcs- des pratiques de gestion courantesL’analyse conduite a Montpellier a permis de mettre en evidence l’existence de plusieurs groupes homogenes de paysages auxquels etaient associees des structures de communautes differentes. En effet, les paysages urbains les plus heterogenes favorisent le developpement et le maintien de communautes mieux structurees et plus riches en especes.Par ailleurs, l’etude menee a Naples a montre que le maintien d’un couvert vegetal specifique et principalement boise, conjointement a la presence de litiere au sol, apparaissent comme les facteurs les plus importants pour permettre l’etablissement de communautes mieux structurees et plus riches en especes. Dans une moindre mesure, l’âge des parcs et le precedant usage du sol etaient egalement determinants.Enfin, une analyse fonctionnelle (etude de traits morphologiques et preferences de microhabitats) a ete envisagee pour evaluer l’intensification de la gestion du sous-bois au sein des habitats boises des parcs des deux villes. Un gradient abiotique clair a ete observe. En revanche, contrairement aux hypotheses enoncees et a la litterature recente sur le sujet, les communautes de Collemboles etaient mieux discriminees du point de vue taxonomique que du point de vue fonctionnel. Il semblerait donc que l’intensification de la gestion du sous-bois ne soit pas un filtre environnemental imposant des changements dans les patterns de traits des especes presentes.Si d’un cote les etudes developpees dans cette these apportent des connaissances fondamentales sur l’ecologie des Collemboles presents dans les parcs urbains, de l’autre elle vise a integrer ces resultats pour un developpement plus durable en termes d’amenagement et de gestion des espaces verts urbains.
The interconversion of audible and visible patterns as a basis for research in the perception of speech.

of contexts, an investigator can arrive at a description of the acoustic features common to all of the samples, and in this way make progress toward defining the so-called invariants of speech, that is, the essential information-bearing sound elements on which the listener's identifications critically depend. The investigator can also take account of the variations among spectrograms, and by correlating these with the observed variations in pronunciation, he can begin to sort out the several acoustic features in relation to the several aspects of the perception. There are, however, many questions about the relation between acoustic stimulus and auditory perception which cannot be answered merely by an inspection of spectrograms, no matter how numerous and varied these may be. For any given unit characteristic of the auditory perception, such as the simple identification of a phoneme, the spectrogram will very often exhibit several features which are distinctive to the eye, and the information which can be obtained from the spectrogram is, accordingly, ambiguous. Even when only one feature or pattern is strikingly evident, one cannot be certain about its auditory significance, unless he assumes that those aspects of the spectrogram which appear most prominently on visual examination are, in fact, of greatest importance to the ear. That assumption, as we shall try to point out later in this paper, is itself extremely interesting, but it has not been directly tested, nor, indeed, has it always been made fully explicit. To validate conclusions drawn from visual examination of spectrograms, or, more generally, to determine the stimulus correlates of perceived speech, it will often be necessary to make controlled modifications in the spectrogram, and then to evaluate the effects of those modifications on the sound as heard. For these purposes, we have constructed an instrument, called
Plant Location Selection by Using a Three-Step Methodology: Delphi-AHP-VIKOR

Nowadays, the plant location selection has a critical impact on the performance of numerous companies. In this paper, a methodology is presented to solve this problem. The three decision making methods, namely Delphi, AHP and improved VIKOR, are hybridized in order to make the best use of information available based on the decision makers or experts. In this respect, the aim of using Delphi is to select the most influential criteria by a few decision makers. The AHP is utilized to give weights of the selected criteria. Finally, the improved VIKOR method is applied to rank alternatives. At the end of paper, an application example demonstrates the applicability of the proposed methodology. Keywords—Decision making, Plant location selection, Delphi, AHP, Improved VIKOR.
Gamma: A C++ Sound Synthesis Library Further Abstracting the Unit Generator

Gamma is a C++ library for sound synthesis that was created to address some of the limitations of existing sound synthesis libraries. The first limitation is that unit generators cannot easily be organized into separate sampling domains. This makes it difficult to use unit generators with different sample rates and in other domains, namely the frequency domain. The second limitation is that certain internal unit generator algorithms, such as interpolation, cannot be customized. This tends to lead to closed architectures consisting of multiple unit generators with only slight algorithmic differences. Gamma makes explicit two novel abstractions—assignable sampling domains and algorithm Strategies—to help overcome these limitations and extend the application range of its unit generators.
TCP Fairness Improvement of DCCP Flow Control for Bursty Real-Time Applications

Recent years have seen dramatic growth in the realtime traffic generated by the emergence of various real-time applications on the Internet, which typically use the non-congestion-controlled UDP protocol as their transport protocol. This increasing growth of the non-congestion-controlled real-time traffic can easily cause critical issue, congestion collapse, or even prevent the traffic of well mannered congestion-controlled TCP flows. To solve these problems, the datagram congestion control protocol (DCCP) has been proposed. In order to successfully deploy DCCP on the Internet, it is vital to ensure that DCCP is fully compatible with the existing dominant TCP flows. In this paper, we evaluate and propose an algorithm to improve the TCP fairness of DCCP flow control for bursty real-time applications. Through numerous simulation results, we show that our proposed algorithm improves the fairness between TCP and DCCP flows without negative effect on real-time characteristics.
Fault-tolerant current predictive control of five-phase induction motor drives with an open phase

Multiphase induction motor drives have recently gained attention in traction applications where high overall system reliability and a reduction in the total power per phase are required. The additional phases compared to standard three-phase drives allow the creation of a rotating flux even in fault conditions, guaranteeing that the system continues operating without torque ripple, vibrations and noise. The control technique in post-fault situation must ensure ripple-free operation of the machine reducing the achievable torque to maintain the stator currents within rated values. This paper details the modifications in a predictive control scheme to allow post-fault operation of the five-phase drive when one phase is open. Simulation results are provided to confirm the ability of the modified control scheme to operate in fault-tolerant mode with limited currents, maximum torque and low torque ripples.
Using Collaborative Web Technology to Construct the Health Information National Trends Survey

Scientists are taking advantage of web-based technology to work in new collaborative environments, a phenomenon known as Science 2.0. The National Cancer Institute created a web-based tool called HINTS-GEM, which allows a diverse group of stakeholders to collaborate in a virtual environment by providing input on content for the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). This involved stakeholders providing new suggested content and commenting and rating on existing content. HINTS is a nationally representative survey of the US noninstitutionalized adult population. This article describes the conceptual development of HINTS-GEM and provides results of its use by stakeholders in creating an improved survey instrument.
The Effects of a New Alpha-2 Adrenoceptor Antagonist on Sleep and Nocturnal Penile Tumescence in Normal Male Volunteers and Men With Erectile Dysfunction

The effects of a new alpha-2 adrenoceptor antagonist, RS 15385, on sleep and nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) was assessed by intravenous infusion of the drug, in two doses (high and low), and of placebo through the night in 12 young normal volunteers and 24 men with erectile dysfunction. The drug reduced total sleep time in the younger normal volunteers only with the high dose and in the dysfunctional men with both doses. There was no selective effect on different sleep stages in the normal volunteers, except for an increase in the per cent of total sleep time in Stage 1 with the high dose. The dysfunctional men were divided into two age groups (< 47 years and > 47 years). There was an age-related increase in the proportion of total sleep in rapid eye movement (REM), which was only apparent in the older age group. In the volunteers, there was a curvilinear dose-response effect on NPT. The lower dose modestly increased erectile response, particularly during non-REM sleep, whereas the higher dose reduced erectile response, most noticeably during REM. The only positive effect of the higher dose was an increase in spontaneous erections after lights out before sleep onset. The older dysfunctional group showed no drug effects on NPT. The younger dysfunctional men showed increased erectile response during non-REM with the higher dose, an effect that was also significant in the interval between sleep onset (Stage 2) and first REM.
Damping of Sub-Synchronous Whirl in Rotors With High-Temperature Superconducting Bearings

For large flywheel rotors supported by high-temperature superconducting (HTS) bearings, the amplitude of sub-synchronous whirl can become so large that it limits the maximum speed to a value less than that dictated by its mechanical strength. Internal damping, in the form of hysteretic loss in the rotor material, creates a force that adds energy to the forward whirl. We examine the effect of internal damping as the cause of the sub-synchronous whirl and show that theoretical predictions of the onset criteria agree with experimental data. We next show how it is possible to damp the whirl from a theoretical context and discuss a practical approach to accomplish this that has had success in our laboratory experiments.
Splay-bend elasticity and rotational viscosity of liquid crystal mixtures of rod-like and bent-core molecules

We report temperature dependent measurements of birefringence (Δn), splay (K11), bend (K33) elastic constants and rotational viscosity (γ1) of mixtures of rod-like and bent-core molecules. K11 and Δn remain almost constant for all the mixtures whereas K33 is always lower than K11 and further decreases with increasing concentration of bent-core molecules in the mixtures. Apart from the large jump in Δn at the nematic-isotropic transition (NI) a significant jump in Δn at the nematic-smectic transition (NS) is also observed that increases with increasing mol% of the bent-core compound in the mixtures. Rotational viscosity increases by a factor of four when the concentration of the bent-core compound increased from 0 to 10 mol%. The results are discussed on the basis of their structural similarity and mutual alignment in the nematic phase.
High Mobility Amorphous Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide Thin-Film Transistor by Aluminum Oxide Passivation Layer

This letter demonstrates a high-mobility amorphous indium–gallium–zinc oxide (a-IGZO) thin-film transistor (TFT) with aluminum oxide (Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>) passivation layer by radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering and copper (Cu) source/drain electrodes. The fabricated a-IGZO TFT exhibited 20 times higher saturation mobility (142.0 cm<sup>2</sup>/Vs) than the reference device without Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> passivation layer. The generation of metallic indium at the back-channel interface caused by the bombardment of the sputtered Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> is the main principle for the remarkable enhancement of saturation mobility. Furthermore, the a-IGZO TFT maintains high mobility and air-ambient-stable characteristics up to four months in ambient conditions.
Cytotoxicity and antiangiogenesis by fibroblast growth factor 2–targeted Ad‐TK cancer gene therapy

Human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) in addition to lung, skin, ovarian, and other cancers overexpress fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptors on both individual tumor cells and endothelial cells within the tumor microenvironment. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether FGF2‐targeted gene therapy could redirect adenoviral vectors encoding the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene (Ad‐TK) to FGF receptors on tumor and endothelial cells with the intent of improving both the efficiency of transgene expression and the antitumor response.
Local oscillations of spiking activity in organotypic spinal cord slice cultures

The origin of rhythm generation in mammalian spinal cord networks is still poorly understood. We have previously proposed that disinhibition‐induced rhythms are based on intrinsic firing, recurrent excitation and several mechanisms to de‐activate the network. In order to clarify these mechanisms we here investigated spontaneous spike discharge oscillations in rat spinal cord slice cultures using multi‐electrode arrays and patch clamp. Episodes of such oscillations at 8.5 Hz spontaneously appeared in the ventral parts of the cultured slices. The rising phase of their initial cycles was entirely based on AMPA/kainate receptor‐dependent recurrent excitation. Initial oscillations were changed into persistent activity by bicuculline and other blockers of GABA A, but not by blockers of glycine receptors, suggesting a role for GABAergic synaptic inhibition in network de‐activation during oscillation cycles. Blockade of glycine receptors by strychnine caused a prolongation of oscillations and their spreading in the slice, suggesting that these receptors are mainly involved in the spatial and temporal restriction of oscillations. In most cultures, oscillations reappeared under disinhibition after an initial phase of persistent activity. Both spontaneous and disinhibition‐induced oscillations were facilitated by riluzole, which enhances fast sodium current inactivation and thus leads to early cessation of firing during strong depolarization (depolarization block). In single cell recordings, episodes of strong depolarization were mostly seen during oscillations induced by disinhibition, but occasionally also during spontaneous oscillations. We conclude that both GABA A‐mediated synaptic inhibition and depolarization block contribute to the de‐activation of spinal cord networks during oscillation cycles.
Provably Leakage-Resilient Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange in the Standard Model

The password-based authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol is one of most practical cryptographic primitives for trusted computing, which is used to securely authenticate devices’ identities and generate shared session keys among devices in insecure environments by using a short, human-memorable password. With the fast development of the Internet of Things (IoT), new challenges regarding PAKE have emerged. The traditional PAKE protocols are completely insecure in IoT environments, since there are many kinds of side-channel attacks. Therefore, it is very important to model and design leakage-resilient (LR) PAKE protocols. However, there has been no prior work on modeling and constructing LR PAKE protocols. In this paper, we first formalize an LR eCK security model for PAKE based on the eCK-secure PAKE model and the only computation leakage model. Then, we propose the first LR PAKE protocol by using Diffie-Hellman key exchange, LR storage (LRS) and LR refreshing of LRS appropriately and formally present a security proof in the standard model.
LEGO-MM : LE arning structured model by probabilistic lo G ic O ntology tree for M ulti M edia

Recent advances in Multimedia ontology have resulted in a number of concept models, e.g., LSCOM and Mediamill 101, which are accessible and public to other researchers. However, most current research effort still focuses on building new concepts from scratch, very few work explores the appropriate method to construct new concepts upon the existing models already in the warehouse. To address this issue, we propose a new framework in this paper, termed LEGO-MM, which can seamlessly integrate both the new target training examples and the existing primitive concept models to infer the more complex concept models. LEGOMM treats the primitive concept models as the lego toy to potentially construct an unlimited vocabulary of new concepts. Specifically, we first formulate the logic operations to be the lego connectors to combine existing concept models hierarchically in probabilistic logic ontology trees. Then, we incorporate new target training information simultaneously to efficiently disambiguate the underlying logic tree and correct the error propagation. Extensive experiments are conducted on a large vehicle domain data set from ImageNet. The results demonstrate that LEGO-MM has significantly superior performance over existing state-of-the-art methods, which build new concept models from scratch.