Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of combination pharmacotherapy and social skills training for schizophrenia: A randomized controlled trial

Pharmaco-psychosocial treatment (PPST) refers to a treatment paradigm combining pharmacotherapy with psychosocial therapy. We conducted an 18-month randomized controlled tracking study to evaluate the efficacy of social skills training (SST) in 11 individuals with schizophrenia on risperidone monotherapy. They were randomized to either SST or non-SST group, and Global Assessment Functioning (GAF) and Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) scores in the 2 groups showed gradual improvement. In the SST group, Digit Span Distraction Test (DSDT) at 12 and 18 months showed significant improvement. The Subjective Deficit Syndrome Scale (SDSS) scores in the SST group showed significant improvement after 6 months and showed a significant difference in comparison between the groups. After the subjective feeling of health was recovered, the items of motivation were recovered as a direct effect of SST. Some items of the Life Assessment Scale for the Mentally Ill (LASMI) score showed significant improvement (or significant trend) in only the SST group after 6 months. Items of daily life, work skills, and self-recognition were continuously improved. We report 2 cases in the SST group that had DSDT improvement in parallel with change of action and communication as a change of social function. This study is only exploratory due to the small number of cases. However, we have demonstrated potential improvement in cognitive function due to learning experiences that required working memory and attention, thus providing improvement in social life.
A 6.25 Gb/s Decision Feedback Equalizer used in SerDes for High-speed Backplane Communications

A 6.25 Gb/s two-tap DFE (decision feedback equalizer) in high-speed backplane receiver has been designed in a 0.18-mum CMOS. The pipelined architecture in the half-rate DFE achieves an increase in the transmitted data rate over conventional DFE with a small increase in area. Near end data is a 6.25 Gb/s PRBS10 with 0.5 Vp-p, and the DFE recovered data has been measured with jitter (pp) of 3 ps and a horizontal eye-opening of 0.97 UI, a vertical eye opening of 0.48 V.
Causal reasoning through intervention

Causal knowledge enables us to predict future events, to choose the right actions to achieve our goals, and to envision what would have happened if things had been different. Thus, it allows us to reason about observations, interventions, and counterfactual possibilities. Philosophers and computer scientists have begun to unravel the relations among these three kinds of reasoning and their common basis in causality (e.g., Pearl, 2000; Spirtes, Glymour, & Scheines, 1993; Woodward, 2003). Observations can provide some information about the statistical relations among events. According to the principle of common cause (Reichenbach, 1956), there are three possible causal explanations for a reliable statistical relation between two events A and B: A causes B, B causes A, or both events are generated by a third event or set of events, their common cause. For example, dieting and obesity are statistically related because obesity causes people to go on a diet, because dieting disturbs regulatory physiological processes that eventually lead to obesity (many obese people went on a diet before they became extremely overweight), or because obesity and dieting may be causal consequences of our modern eating habits. In this last case, we can say that the correlation between obesity and dieting is spurious. Regardless of the underlying causal structure, an observation of one of these events allows us to infer that other events within the underlying causal model will be present or absent as well. Thus, when we have passively observed an event, we can reason backward diagnostically to infer the causes of this event, or we can reason forward and predict future effects. Moreover, we can infer the presence of spuriously related events. Interventions often enable us to differentiate among the different causal structures that are compatible with an observation. If we manipulate an event A and nothing happens, then A cannot be the cause of event B, but if a manipulation of event B leads to a change in A, then we know that B is a cause of A, although there might be other causes of A as well. Forcing some people to go on a diet can tell us
Indigenous Infection with Francisella tularensis holarctica in The Netherlands

We report here the first case of indigenous tularemia detected in The Netherlands, a nonendemic country, since 1953. Whole genome DNA sequence analysis assigned the isolate BD11-00177 to the genomic group B.FTNF002-00, which previously has been exclusively reported from Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. The patient had not been abroad for years, which implies that this is an indigenous infection. The current case might predict an upcoming distribution of Francisella tularensis holarctica genomic group B.FTNF002-00 in Europe.
HH 212: Submillimeter Array Observations of a Remarkable Protostellar Jet

HH 212 is a nearby (460 pc) protostellar jet discovered in H2 powered by a Class 0 source, IRAS 05413-0104. We have mapped it in 850 μm continuum, SiO(J = 8-7), CO(J = 3-2), SO(NJ = 89-78), HCO+(J = 4-3), and H13CO+(J = 4-3) emission simultaneously at ~1'' resolution with the Submillimeter Array. Thermal dust emission is seen in continuum around the source, mainly arising from an inner envelope and a possible disk. The inner envelope is also seen with rotation in CO and HCO+, and probably in SO. Like H2 emission, CO and SiO emission are seen along the jet axis but extending closer to the source, tracing the bow shocks and the continuous structures in between. SO emission is seen forming a jetlike structure extending from the source, likely tracing the jet near the launching region. The jet is episodic and bending. It may also be slightly precessing. A hint of jet rotation is also seen across the jet axis. Internal outflow shells are seen in CO and HCO+, associated with the bow shocks in the inner part of the jet. The bases of the HCO+ shells are seen with a hint of rotation, probably consisting mainly of the material extending from the inner envelope and even the possible disk. The bases of the outflow shells are also seen in H13CO+ and even the continuum, probably tracing the dense material extending from around the same regions.
Resistance Genes, Phage Types and Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis Pulsotypes in Salmonella enterica Strains from Laying Hen Farms in Southern Italy

Twenty-four Salmonella enterica isolates (13 serovar Enteritidis and 11 Typhimurium) isolated from 5,600 samples from intensive laying hen farms in Italy in 1998–2007 were characterized for antimicrobial resistance genes, pulsotype and phage type. Most of S. Typhimurium strains were pulsotype STYMXB.0147 (81.8%), phage type DT143 and resistant to sulfamethoxazole encoded by sul2. Two multidrug resistant (MDR) strains were identified. One strain, STYMXB.0061, was resistant to ampicillin (A), chloramphenicol (C), streptomycin (S), sulfamethoxazole (Su) and tetracycline (T) encoded by the Salmonella Genomic Island SGI1. The second MDR strain, STYMXB.0110, was resistant to SSuT encoded by sul1 and sul2, aadA1 and tet(C)-flanked by an IS26 element, respectively. The tet(C) gene has been reported to confer low levels of resistance and it has very rarely been detected in S. Typhimurium from poultry. In the current study, the MIC value (32 µg/mL) was consistent with the breakpoint (≥16 µg/mL) reported for Enterobacteriaceae. Most of the S. Enteritidis strains were resistant to Su (encoded by sul2). One MDR strain (ANxSSuT) was identified. With the exception of nalidixic acid (Nx), the resistances were respectively encoded by blaTEM, strAB, sul2 and tet(A) harbored by an IncN conjugative plasmid. All isolates were pulsotype SENTXB.0001 with PT14b being the most prevalent identified phage type (57.1%). In Europe, SENTXB.0001 is the predominant PFGE profile from clinical cases and the identification of PT14b has steadily been on the increase since 2001. The findings presented in this study highlight the potential spread of S. Enteritidis phage types PT14b and S. Typhimurium DT143 in a field of particular relevance for zoonoses. Additional, the presence of resistance genes and genetic elements (conjugative plasmid and IS element) underlines the need to assess routinely studies in field, such as poultry farms, relevant fot the public health and suitable for the storage and diffusion of antimicrobial resistance.
MAUGRY: AUGMENTED REALITY GUIDE FOR MUSEUMS. FROM PROOF OF CONCEPT TO MUSEUM AS A SERVICE

Augmented reality solution development for mobile devices is a rather young domain. There are very few guidelines and practically no patterns or mature frameworks for application developers. In this paper we present an evolution of an augmented reality guide for museums, we demonstrate possible solutions for major problems that were encountered. We discuss possible uses of augmented reality for mobile guide development and propose a possible alternative for augmented reality: a technique we call Smooth Transition. We demonstrate that for mobile guide a blend of Smooth Transition and Augmented Reality is the best solution. We analyze several approaches to exhibit recognition including: barcode recognition, special marker recognition and image of exhibit recognition. We analyze several major augmented reality frameworks based on practical experience of mobile guide development. Also we argue that a mobile guide must have user navigation capabilities, which allow users to find their route in an exhibition. We propose two different approaches to user navigation: spatial and semantical: first allows user to see a general layout of exhibition, while second helps user to navigate between thematically close exhibits. We also outline the basic components of a service-oriented architecture we call museum as a service. Museum as a service is a system which will allow any museum to promptly and with minimal expenses deploy a mobile guide application based on augmented reality and smooth transition.
Diagnostic Method for Delamination Monitoring of CFRP Plate Using Kriging Interpolation Method

The present paper proposes a new diagnostic tool for the structural health monitoring that employs a Kriging Interpolation. Structural health monitoring is a noticeable technology for aged civil structures. Most of the structural health monitoring systems adopts parametric method based on modeling or non-parametric method such as artificial neural networks or response surfaces. The conventional methods require FEM modeling of structure or a regression model. This modeling needs judgment of human, and it requires much costs. The present method does not require the process of modeling, in order to identify the damage level using the discriminant analysis. This suggest us, this technique is applicable to the health monitoring system, which identifies the damage of the structure, easily. In the present paper, we developed the damage diagnostic methods using Kriging method for identifying delamination from data. Kriging method is a interpolation technique which shown in geostatistic. We applied this method to identifications of delamination crack of CFRP structure. Delamination cracks are invisible and cause decrease of compression strength of laminated composites. Therefore, health-monitoring system is required for CFRP laminates. The present study adopts an electric potential method for health monitoring of graphite/epoxy laminated composites. The electric potential method does not cause strength reduction and can be applied existing structures by low cost. As a result, it was shown that this method is effective for identification of damages.
Panconnectivity and edge‐pancyclicity of k‐ary n‐cubes

In this article, we study some topological properties of k‐ary n‐cubes Q nk . We show that each edge in Q nk lies on a cycle of every length from k to kn. We also show that Q nk is both bipanconnected and edge‐bipancyclic, where n ≥ 2 is an integer and k ≥ 2 is an even integer. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. NETWORKS 2009
Exploring mobile commerce intention: Evidence from Australia

Mobile commerce is a new technology that offers significant adoption benefits, allowing consumers to make Internet transactions over wireless networks anytime anywhere. This paper presents some initial findings from a study into the uptake of mobile commerce services. Attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control were positively correlated with the intention to adopt mobile commerce. In contrast to prior research, perceived image was not significantly related to adoption intention.
Exploring the use of wireless sensor networks in building management

Due to the raising awareness of sustainability, energy efficient buildings have received significant attention by the academia and industry. Current practice of energy monitoring and control mainly relies on wired sensors, which are expensive and difficult to maintain. Moreover, systems servicing buildings do not “talk to each other”, which creates silos of information resulting in inefficient Building Management (BM) practices. The paper proposes a system framework for implementing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in building energy control and BM. WSN is an emerging technology that uses scattered sensor nodes that can sense, compute and communicate. The proposed WSNs system framework aims to integrate the required BM data into WSN for automating real-time on-site data access and processing, in which the WSN becomes an information service provider to BM applications and personnel. A web enabled central platform is proposed to process and distribute the data, and to integrate other Building Management Systems (BMS). With its application, we expect not only to continuously monitor the energy use in buildings, but also to facilitate BM functions via the distributed databases and integrated BMS.
The effect of conglutinin on production of reactive oxygen species in bovine granulocytes

Conglutinin is a high molecular-weight lectin originally detected in bovine serum. It belongs to the family of collectins that bind sugar residues in a Ca2+-dependent manner and are effector molecules in innate immunity. Conglutinin appears to play an important role in immune defense mechanisms, showing antiviral and antibacterial activities when tested in vivo and in vitro. The present study evaluated the effect of conglutinin on the respiratory bursts in bovine peripheral phagocytes. Using nitroblue tetrazolium and hydrogen peroxide assays, we showed that sugar ligand-bound conglutinin stimulated the production of superoxide and H2O2 in granulocytes whereas the non-sugar-bound form of conglutinin inhibited these processes. These results indicate that both forms of conglutinin are able to interact with surface leukocyte receptors but have opposite effects on phagocytic activity. Our findings suggest that conglutinin bound to sugar residues on microbial surfaces can induce oxygen burst in phagocytes, and thereby mediates the elimination of pathogens and prevents the spread of infection.
Flexible Ecologies And Incongruent Locations

In this paper we report on some experiments with a high fidelity media space, t-Room, an immersive system that presents full scale, real-time images of co-participants. The system has been enhanced to provide more flexibility in the ways participants could organise themselves and the materials they are working on. Drawing on some quasi-naturalistic experiments, where the participants were required to undertake a range of complex tasks, we consider the formations they adopt and the issues and problems that arise when they attempt to establish and preserve a common focus and alignment. We conclude by briefly discussing the consequences for developing advanced spaces to support collaborative work and understanding complex video-mediated interaction.
Trend-extracted MSE based on adaptive aligned EEMD with early termination scheme: Analysis of the acute stroke patients' physiological signals

Multiscale entropy (MSE) analysis method has been widely used to evaluate the physiologic control mechanisms. However, MSE is vulnerable to trends. Ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) is a powerful tool to remove the trend from non-stationary physiological signals before MSE analysis. In this paper, trend-extracted MSE (T-MSE) based on adaptive aligned EEMD (AA-EEMD) with early termination scheme is proposed. AA-EEMD not only reduces the computing time, but also considers the frequency meaning of different physiological signals and different subjects. We have applied T-MSE based on AA-EEMD to analyze the acute stroke patients' physiological signals in intensive care unit (ICU). We find that the complexity of electrocardiogram (EKG) is higher in the acute stroke patients with good functional outcome than those with bad functional outcome. For EKG parameter, the p-value is approximately 10-8, which shows significant statistical difference. Moreover, the average number of IMFs in a single member of ensemble is reduced to 74% of the original. The average computing time in a single member of ensemble is reduced to 76%. Also, the average computing time of combining EEMD and MSE is reduced to 72%.
Discovering phishing dropboxes using email metadata

The criminals who operate phishing scams often deliver harvested credentials to email accounts under their control - but it is difficult, in the general case, to identify these so-called `dropboxes'. We devise three techniques to identify dropboxes and associated phishing websites by leveraging lists of known phishing websites and metadata maintained by email providers. We demonstrate the techniques' effectiveness using data held by anti-phishing organizations and an email provider. To directly identify dropboxes, we posted fake but distinctive credentials into 170 PayPal phishing pages and inspected an email provider's anti-spam metadata. This metadata recorded the presence of our credentials matching 28 of the phishing pages sending credentials to 17 distinct dropboxes at this particular email provider. We indirectly identified 24 additional dropboxes by searching for email subjects similar to previously-uncovered dropboxes. Based on these findings, we estimate an upper bound of 120 - 160 criminals ran phishing attacks against PayPal in July 2012, a smaller figure than might be expected from the 26 900 PayPal distinct phishing URLs they are known to have employed, spread across 13 018 different hostnames. Finally, in some cases we could extend our metadata processing by running an `intersection attack'. Whenever victims receive the same URLs as other victims, it is likely that the common URL is for a phishing page. Preliminary evidence suggests that the false positive rate for intersection attacks is low. Furthermore, it can be used to notify impersonated brands immediately after victims disclose their credentials and identify more phishing sites faster than traditional methods currently achieve.
Funding Alternatives for More Effective European Economies

The consolidation and increase in the efficiency of economies is today a priority objective, both at the world level and especially at a European level. But meeting it depends, however, on the nature, size and direction of the influences generated by a whole set of factors. Nevertheless, significant restrictions and advantages come from the way in which financial resources are attracted and used in national economies. This paper aims to study the relationships established between the way in which the need for financial resources of the national economies is covered and their performance, reflected through the evolution of the GDP. In this sense, using the financial information available for European countries, provided by EUROSTAT, OECD and the WB, the connections established between the characteristics of the European financial system (bank loans, market capitalization, loans from private and public bonds) and economic growth are identified and analyzed. This article introduces into the analysis the impact of the investments made in economy, as a source that generates added value, on economic growth. Making a profile of economic effectiveness at a European level (according to the level of financial resources attracted through bank loans, of those drawn through the capital market, and to the size of investments made in economy) allows a punctual evaluation of it, providing clues for any possible strategic corrections. In order to obtain the results of the research, the following tools have been used: the ratio technique, the multiple linear regression analysis and the multiple correspondences factor analysis. The data was processed using the SPSS 19 software.
An Update on Accumulating Exercise and Postprandial Lipaemia: Translating Theory Into Practice

Over the last two decades, significant research attention has been given to the acute effect of a single bout of exercise on postprandial lipaemia. A large body of evidence supports the notion that an acute bout of aerobic exercise can reduce postprandial triacylglycerol (TAG) concentrations. However, this effect is short-lived emphasising the important role of regular physical activity for lowering TAG concentrations through an active lifestyle. In 1995, the concept of accumulating physical activity was introduced in expert recommendations with the advice that activity can be performed in several short bouts throughout the day with a minimum duration of 10 minutes per activity bout. Although the concept of accumulation has been widely publicised, there is still limited scientific evidence to support it but several studies have investigated the effects of accumulated activity on health-related outcomes to support the recommendations in physical activity guidelines. One area, which is the focus of this review, is the effect of accumulating exercise on postprandial lipaemia. We propose that accumulating exercise will provide additional physical activity options for lowering postprandial TAG concentrations relevant to individuals with limited time or exercise capacity to engage in more structured forms of exercise, or longer bouts of physical activity. The benefits of accumulated physical activity might translate to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease in the long-term.
Creating reusable architectures: initial experience report

Achieving systematic reuse of software designs requires the creation of a reusable software architecture. This paper describes initial experience of creating reusable architectures in the avionics domain. A case-study is presented which illustrates the RACE (Reusable Architecture Creation and Employment) process. In RACE, a variability analysis is used to identify possible variations in a family of systems, which then guides the creation of a generic architecture and a set of architectural "plug-ins. " The paper concludes with a set of RACE guidelines which summarises our initial experience.