Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Conjunctival Arteriovenous Relationship in Latent Diabetes

this disease, numerous methods have been adopted to explore its various metabolic, vascular and nervous aspects. To discover the alterations concerning its glycidic metabolism, metabolic research has thus been conducted: (1) by using the glycemic curve: patients given glucose orally (GTT); determination ascertained by means of methodical enzyme;1 (2) using the glycemic curve after injection of intravenous Tolbutamid (RT) according to the method of Unger and Nladison ;2 (3) using Joplin’s test;3 (4) by calculating the index of glucose assimilation (Conard’s method) . 4 4
Predicting lawsuits against nursing homes in the United States, 1997-2001.

OBJECTIVES To examine how nursing home characteristics impacted the number of lawsuits filed against the facilities in the United States during 1997-2001. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING A stratified random sample of 2,378 nursing home in 45 states from 1997-2001. Data were obtained from Westlaw's Adverse Filings: Lawsuits database, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting (OSCAR) database, state complaint surveys, and through primary data. STUDY DESIGN Negative binomial regression was used to explain total lawsuit variance by year. Explanatory variables included (a) facility characteristics-including staffing, number of beds, multistate system membership, for-profit ownership, (b) quality indicators-including total number and type of quality survey deficiencies, pressure sore development, and (c) market area-state has resident rights statutes, state complaint information. Resident acuity levels and year effects were controlled for. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION METHODS Nursing homes were identified and linked to Westlaw data that was searched for the number of lawsuits filed against the home, and then linked to OSCAR data and a primary data analysis of multistate chain membership. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Staffing levels for certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and registered nurses (RNs) and multistate chain membership were negatively related with higher numbers of lawsuits. More deficiencies on the licensing survey, larger, for-profit nursing homes, and being located in resident rights states were positively related with higher numbers of lawsuits. CONCLUSION This study suggests that nursing homes that meet long-stay staffing standards and minimum quality indicators, are nonprofit, smaller, and not located in resident rights states will experience fewer lawsuits.
AIDS panic: effects of mass media publicity

Twenty‐four patients with AIDS panic, who presented to the psychiatric services between 1983 and 1986, were assessed on various clinical rating scales. The severity of clinical symptoms was estimated by adding together the total scores on Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety. The level of mass media publicity about AIDS was calculated by counting the number of major reports about the disease in national and local newspapers and on television. The findings suggested that, contrary to expectations, the referral rates of AIDS panic cases were highest in the earlier months when the level of media activity was low and decreased during the months following intense publicity about AIDS. Patients who presented in the later stages also showed fewer anxiety symptoms.
Roadmap of IMT-advanced development

The WRC-07 decisions have paved the way toward the development of IMT-advanced by identifying a 200-MHz contiguous spectrum above 3 GHz for a number of countries. It is also noted that for early implementation of IMT-advanced there are technical subjects to be studied and solved, in particular for compatible operation with other systems sharing the same frequency bands. For the standardization activities, global cooperation between ITU-R and other organizations are required.
ffect of maturity and cold storage on ethylene biosynthesis and ripening in Bartlett ’ pears treated after harvest with 1-MCP ax

To further our understanding of the response of ‘Bartlett’ pear fruit to 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) and their ability to recover the capacity to ripen, ‘Bartlett’ pears were treated with 0.3 L L−1 1-MCP for 12 h at 20 ◦C immediately after harvest in two seasons and to pear fruit of four maturities. 1-MCP decreased
Syntax and semantics of a GPU kernel programming language

This document accompanies the article The Design and Implementation of a Veriﬁcation Technique for GPU Kernels by Adam Betts, Nathan Chong, Alastair F. Donaldson, Jeroen Ketema, Shaz Qadeer, Paul Thomson and John Wickerson [1]. It formalises all of the deﬁni-tions provided in Sections 3 and 4 of the article
Body Measure-aware Fashion Product Recommendations: Evaluating the Predictive Power of Body Scan Data

Fashion product consumer are faced with large and fast changing product oerings. e fashion purchase decision process is complex, as the consumer has to consider various inuencing factors like current fashion trends, what fashion products t to their personality, and what products t to their physical appearance like hair colors or body measures. Based on novel technologies, 3D body avatars can be reconstructed from 3D or 2D data. From these avatars, body measures can be determined. e objective of this research is to investigate the predictive performance of body measures extracted from a 3D body scanner for predicting fashion item preferences. erefore, item preferences and body scans from 200 users were collected. From the body scans, 11 body measures are extracted and integrated into a prediction model using Factorization Machines. e results from a cross-validation show, that including body measurements signicantly improves the prediction performance of the recommendation model, especially in new user scenarios, when no information about the fashion product preferences of the active user is known.
Functional Genomic Analysis of Two Staphylococcus aureus Phages Isolated from the Dairy Environment

ABSTRACT The genomes of the two lytic mutant Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophages, vB_SauS-phiIPLA35 (phiIPLA35) and vB_SauS-phiIPLA88 (phiIPLA88), isolated from milk have been analyzed. Their genomes are 45,344 bp and 42,526 bp long, respectively, and contain 62 and 61 open reading frames (ORFS). Enzymatic analyses and sequencing revealed that the phiIPLA35 DNA molecule has 3′-protruding cohesive ends (cos) 10 bp long, whereas phiIPLA88 DNA is 4.5% terminally redundant and most likely is packaged by a headful mechanism. N-terminal amino acid sequencing, mass spectrometry, bioinformatic analyses, and functional analyses enabled the assignment of putative functions to 58 gene products, including DNA packaging proteins, morphogenetic proteins, lysis components, and proteins necessary for DNA recombination, modification, and replication. Point mutations in their lysogeny control-associated genes explain their strictly lytic behavior. Muralytic activity associated with other structural components has been detected in virions of both phages. Comparative analysis of phiIPLA35 and phiIPLA88 genome structures shows that they resemble those of φ12 and φ11, respectively, both representatives of large genomic groupings within the S. aureus-infecting phages.
Correction: Uncovering the Nutritional Landscape of Food

Recent progresses in data-driven analysis methods, including network-based approaches, are revolutionizing many classical disciplines. These techniques can also be applied to food and nutrition, which must be studied to design healthy diets. Using nutritional information from over 1,000 raw foods, we systematically evaluated the nutrient composition of each food in regards to satisfying daily nutritional requirements. The nutrient balance of a food was quantified and termed nutritional fitness; this measure was based on the food’s frequency of occurrence in nutritionally adequate food combinations. Nutritional fitness offers a way to prioritize recommendable foods within a global network of foods, in which foods are connected based on the similarities of their nutrient compositions. We identified a number of key nutrients, such as choline and α-linolenic acid, whose levels in foods can critically affect the nutritional fitness of the foods. Analogously, pairs of nutrients can have the same effect. In fact, two nutrients can synergistically affect the nutritional fitness, although the individual nutrients alone may not have an impact. This result, involving the tendency among nutrients to exhibit correlations in their abundances across foods, implies a hidden layer of complexity when exploring for foods whose balance of nutrients within pairs holistically helps meet nutritional requirements. Interestingly, foods with high nutritional fitness successfully maintain this nutrient balance. This effect expands our scope to a diverse repertoire of nutrient-nutrient correlations, which are integrated under a common network framework that yields unexpected yet coherent associations between nutrients. Our nutrient-profiling approach combined with a network-based analysis provides a more unbiased, global view of the relationships between foods and nutrients, and can be extended towards nutritional policies, food marketing, and personalized nutrition.
UniWalk: Explainable and Accurate Recommendation for Rating and Network Data

How can we leverage social network data and observed ratings to correctly recommend proper items and provide a persuasive explanation for the recommendations? Many online services provide social networks among users, and it is crucial to utilize social information since recommendation by a friend is more likely to grab attention than the one from a random user. Also, explaining why items are recommended is very important in encouraging the users' actions such as actual purchases. Exploiting both ratings and social graph for recommendation, however, is not trivial because of the heterogeneity of the data. In this paper, we propose UniWalk, an explainable and accurate recommender system that exploits both social network and rating data. UniWalk combines both data into a unified graph, learns latent features of users and items, and recommends items to each user through the features. Importantly, it explains why items are recommended together with the recommendation results. Extensive experiments show that UniWalk provides the best explainability and achieves the state-of-the-art-accuracy.
Tobacco Use and Health in Young Adulthood

In this prospective longitudinal study, the authors investigated the association between lifetime tobacco use and subsequent health problems by age 30. The authors interviewed a community group of 749 participants from upstate New York at mean ages of 14, 16, 22, and 27 years. Daily tobacco use during any of the time periods, as well as the number of periods of daily tobacco use, were significantly associated with increased risk for respiratory ailments, neurobehavioral and cognitive problems, and general malaise. The results suggested that daily tobacco use, either during childhood, adolescence, the early 20s, or a combination of those times, predicted health problems by age 30. Effective smoking prevention programs that begin in childhood are imperative to prevent the occurrence of later health problems.
Chapter 2 Resident Cardiac Progenitor Cells

Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel Abstract Resident cardiac stem/progenitor cells are implicated in cell replacement, repair and maintenance of the myocardium. These cells are already committed to a specific cardiomyogenic pathway. Stimulation of these cells in injured hearts can open new options in cardiovascular regenerative medicine, and advance our approach to patients with end-stage heart failure. This chapter reviews some of the recent discoveries in the field of resident cardiac stem/progenitor cells, focusing first on human cardiac stem cell characteristics and reparative potential, including the concept of myocardial regeneration. In addition, we will briefly review recent clinical trials, controversies and unresolved issues.
Doping of TiO2–GO and TiO2–rGO with Noble Metals: Synthesis, Characterization and Photocatalytic Performance for Azo Dye Discoloration

The nanocomposites of titania coupled with graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO), respectively, were prepared by homogeneous hydrolysis with urea. Graphene was obtained by effect of high‐intensity cavitation field on natural graphite in the presence of strong aprotic solvents in pressurized ultrasonic reactor. The morphology of TiO2–GO and TiO2–rGO composites was assessed by scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. The nitrogen adsorption–desorption was used for determination of surface area (BET) and porosity. Raman and IR spectroscopy were used for qualitative analysis and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy was employed to estimate band‐gap energies. Further enhancement of the photocatalytic activity was attained by codoping of composites with noble metals—Au, Pd and Pt. The photocatalytic activity of TiO2–GO and TiO2–rGO were assessed by photocatalytic decomposition of Orange II dye in an aqueous slurry under UV and visible light irradiation. The photocatalytic activity of noble metals codoped samples was determined with decomposition of Reactive Black 5 azo dye.
Fermi at SemEval-2017 Task 7: Detection and Interpretation of Homographic puns in English Language

This paper describes our system for detection and interpretation of English puns. We participated in 2 subtasks related to homographic puns achieve comparable results for these tasks. Through the paper we provide detailed description of the approach, as well as the results obtained in the task. Our models achieved a F1-score of 77.65% for Subtask 1 and 52.15% for Subtask 2.
Offline Improvement during Motor Sequence Learning Is Not Restricted to Developing Motor Chunks

ABSTRACT Robust offline performance gains, beyond those that would be anticipated by being exposed to additional physical practice, have been reported during procedural learning and have been attributed to enhancement consolidation, a process by which memory is transformed in such a way that it is not only more resistant to forgetting but may also involve a reorganization of information that supports superior task execution. The authors assessed the impact of increasing within-session practice extent on the emergence of offline performance gains. Practice-dependent improvements occurred across 12 and 24 30-s practice trials of a 5-element motor sequencing task. Offline improvements were observed following both 12 and 24 trials. The improvement following 12 trials was associated with the formation of motor chunks important for establishing movement sequence structure. In contrast, the offline improvement after 24 trials was not related to further changes in movement structure beyond those that had emerged during practice. These data suggest that additional memory operations, beyond those needed to amalgamate subsequences of the SRT task, are susceptible to enhancement consolidation.
Improving resource allocation for disaster operations management in a multi-hazard context

The initial impact of a disaster can lead to a variety of associated hazards. By taking a multi-hazard viewpoint with respect to disaster response and recovery, there is an opportunity to allocate limited resources more effectively, particularly in the context of long-term planning for community sustainability. This working paper introduces an approach for extending quantitative resource allocation models to consider multiple interrelated hazards. The discussion is motivated by a literature review of existing models and then focuses on changes necessary to take the multiplicity of hazards into consideration in the context of decision support systems for disaster operations management.
Pharmacodynamics of antimicrobials for the empirical treatment of nosocomial pneumonia: A report from the OPTAMA Program

Objective:To compare the probability of achieving specific pharmacodynamic exposures of commonly used intravenous antibiotics for the empirical treatment of nosocomial pneumonia against those pathogens most commonly implicated in the disease. Design:Ten thousand-subject Monte Carlo simulation. Setting:Research center. Subjects:None. Interventions:Pharmacodynamic analysis was conducted for the following antimicrobials at standard doses: meropenem, imipenem-cilastatin, ceftazidime, cefepime, piperacillin/tazobactam, and ciprofloxacin. Prevalence of causative pathogens was based on the 2000 SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Study, and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values were obtained using the 2003 US MYSTIC database. The probabilities of each drug and dosing regimen in achieving pharmacodynamic targets were calculated. Bactericidal targets were defined as 40% T>MIC for the carbapenems, 50% T>MIC for other &bgr;-lactams, and an area under the curve (AUC)/MIC ratio of 125 for ciprofloxacin. A sensitivity analysis was performed using two alternate models to determine the impact of varying pathogen prevalence on target attainment. Measurements and Main Results:Meropenem and imipenem provided high probabilities of achieving their bactericidal target of 40% T>MIC, with target attainments of 98% for all regimens. At the bactericidal end point of 50% T>MIC, cefepime 2 g every 8 hrs displayed the highest target attainment at 99.9%, followed by cefepime 2 g every 12 hrs, ceftazidime 2 g every 8 hrs, piperacillin/tazobactam 4.5 g every 6 hrs and 3.375 g every 6 hrs, cefepime 1 g every 12 hrs, and ceftazidime 1 g every 8 hrs with target attainments of 95.0%, 92.5%, 92.3%, 91.3%, 90.3%, and 67.9%, respectively. Ciprofloxacin presented the lowest probability of achieving its bactericidal target of an AUC/MIC ratio of 125, with target attainments of 54.7% and 12.0% when given as 400 mg every 8 hrs and 400 mg every 12 hrs, respectively. Conclusions:Meropenem, imipenem, cefepime, ceftazidime (2 g every 8 hrs), and piperacillin/tazobactam have high probabilities of achieving adequate pharmacodynamic exposures when given for the empirical treatment of nosocomial pneumonia in the absence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus. Ceftazidime 1g every 8 hrs and ciprofloxacin produce low target attainment rates and will not likely result in high clinical success rates when given as monotherapy.
Positive effect of protein-supplemented hospital food on protein intake in patients at nutritional risk: a randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND New evidence indicates that increased dietary protein ingestion promotes health and recovery from illness, and also maintains functionality in older adults. The present study aimed to investigate whether a novel food service concept with protein-supplementation would increase protein and energy intake in hospitalised patients at nutritional risk. METHODS A single-blinded randomised controlled trial was conducted. Eighty-four participants at nutritional risk, recruited from the departments of Oncology, Orthopaedics and Urology, were included. The intervention group (IG) received the protein-supplemented food service concept. The control group (CG) received the standard hospital menu. Primary outcome comprised the number of patients achieving ≥75% of energy and protein requirements. Secondary outcomes comprised mean energy and protein intake, body weight, handgrip strength and length of hospital stay. RESULTS In IG, 76% versus 70% CG patients reached ≥75% of their energy requirements (P = 0.57); 66% IG versus 30% CG patients reached ≥75% of their protein requirements (P = 0.001). The risk ratio for achieving ≥75% of protein requirements: 2.2 (95% confidence interval = 1.3-3.7); number needed to treat = 3 (95% confidence interval = 2-6). IG had a higher mean intake of energy and protein when adjusted for body weight (CG: 82 kJ kg(-1) versus IG: 103 kJ kg(-1) , P = 0.013; CG: 0.7 g protein kg(-1) versus 0.9 g protein kg(-1) , P = 0.003). Body weight, handgrip strength and length of hospital stay did not differ between groups. CONCLUSIONS The novel food service concept had a significant positive impact on overall protein intake and on weight-adjusted energy intake in hospitalised patients at nutritional risk.
Can (and should) the venous tone be monitored at the bedside?

Purpose of reviewMost of our blood volume is contained in the venous compartment. The so-called ‘compliant veins’ are an adjustable blood reservoir, which is playing a paramount role in maintaining haemodynamic stability. The purpose of this study is to review what is known about this blood reservoir and how we can use this information to assess the cardiovascular state of critically ill patients. Recent findingsThe mean systemic filling pressure (Pmsf) is the pivot pressure of the circulation, and a quantitative index of intravascular volume. The Pmsf can be measured at the bedside by three methods described in critically ill patients. The Pmsf can be modified by the fluid therapy and vasoactive medications. SummaryThe Pmsf along with other haemodynamic variables can provide valuable information to correctly understand the cardiovascular status of critically ill patients and better manage the fluid therapy and cardiovascular support. Future studies using the Pmsf will show its usefulness for fluid administration.
Smoking and Cellular Telephone Use Among Pregnant Women Seeking Prenatal Care: Opportunities for Intervention

Objectives:Although smoking during pregnancy is associated with poor pregnancy outcomes, many women continue to smoke throughout pregnancy. Behavioral interventions for smoking cessation yield modest benefits, particularly in lower socioeconomic groups. Pharmacotherapy, a first-line option for smoking cessation, has not shown clear benefits for pregnant smokers, partly due to limited adherence. We evaluated the feasibility of conducting a pharmacotherapy trial for smoking cessation in pregnant women, using text messaging to enhance medication adherence. Materials and Methods:We surveyed 724 predominantly minority pregnant women to examine the prevalence and correlates of smoking and the use of cellular telephones and text messaging. Results:Nearly 18% of the respondents were current smokers, with a majority (67.7%) expressing interest in participating in a smoking cessation trial. Only about 6% of women with a smoking history ever received nicotine dependence treatment. Smokers were significantly more likely to be depressed than nonsmokers. The vast majority of respondents (92.1%) owned cell phones, with 93.2% having an unlimited text messaging plan. Conclusions:These data support the feasibility of conducting a pharmacotherapy smoking cessation trial and using text messaging to enhance medication adherence in a predominantly minority population of pregnant smokers.
Organic Field Effect Transistors Based on Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heterostructures

Enhancing the device performance of single crystal organic field effect transistors (OFETs) requires both optimized engineering of efficient injection of the carriers through the contact and improvement of the dielectric interface for reduction of traps and scattering centers. Since the accumulation and flow of charge carriers in operating organic FETs takes place in the first few layers of the semiconductor next to the dielectric, the mobility can be easily degraded by surface roughness, charge traps, and foreign molecules at the interface. Here, a novel structure for high‐performance rubrene OFETs is demonstrated that uses graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) as the contacting electrodes and gate dielectric layer, respectively. These hetero‐stacked OFETs are fabricated by lithography‐free dry‐transfer method that allows the transfer of graphene and hBN on top of an organic single crystal, forming atomically sharp interfaces and efficient charge carrier‐injection electrodes without damage or contamination. The resulting heterostructured OFETs exhibit both high mobility and low operating gate voltage, opening up new strategy to make high‐performance OFETs and great potential for flexible electronics.