Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adoption of Security Measures While Implementing Electronic Health Records

For the past 50 years, security has been an issue for computer specialists. However, the potential security risks changed from less critical breaches such as someone stealing a few CPU cycles or performing computer pranks (Williams 2002) to extremely damaging issues such as identity theft, credit card theft, denial of service, or destruction of computer files and content. Healthcare organizations are struggling as one of the latest and last computer frontiers. Healthcare organizations are facing many issues including security issues while exploring the adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems. This article proposes that while healthcare organizations should address authentication and access issues using biometrics and single signon (SSO) systems, many healthcare organizations are slow to adopt an EHR and slower to adopt biometric technology and single sign-on functionality despite the benefits of each.
A New Method of Correspondence for Multiple Cameras Based on Texture Energy

This paper proposes a new target matching method for multiple cameras based on texture energy. The target region is represented by texture energy instead of traditional color features. In our method, the frame-difference is used in multi-target detecting, and the kalman filter is utilized in multi-target tracking. None camera calibrations are required in the new method, neither the constraint that all objects stand in the same plane. The main features of the method are highlighted as follows: (1) Non geometry constraints are required, i.e. none the posture and the position of the target is required, and neither the position of camera is required. (2)Many types of objects including cars and persons are supported. (3)It is robust to changes of the light intensity. Experimental results show that the method is more efficient than the region-sift descriptor based method of correspondence, because the dimension is far less than the region-sift based method. However, the method in this paper is less accurate than the region-sift descriptor based method.
Implementing a Noise Cancellation System with the TMS 320 C 31

This paper is concerned with the digital implementation of spectral subtraction modified algorithm on a Texas Instruments (TITM) TMS320C31 Digital Signal Processor (DSP). The algorithm was developed to suppress a car noise in speech picked up by one microphone in a running car for application in mobil hand-free telephony. The real-time implementation on floating-point processor is described. The speech activity detector is a limiting part of one channel spectral subtraction algorithm. In implemented version of program the cepstral speech/pause detector was used. This document was part of the first European DSP Education and Research Conference that took place September 26 and 27, 1996 in Paris. For information on how TI encourages students from around the world to find innovative ways to use DSPs, see TI’s World Wide Web site at www.ti. com
Multiple Sclerosis

A compelling body of evidence suggests that hormones derived from the gonads, adrenals, pituitary, and other organs may profoundly affect multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility and severity. These hormones have powerful actions on elements of the immune system and also directly affect CNS recovery and resistance to injury. In addition, secretion of adrenal, gonadal, and pituitary hormones may be perturbed in MS with potentially important systemic consequences. Continuum Lifelong Learning Neurol 2009;15(2):148–178.
[Vestibular function, falls and hip fracture in elderly--a relationship study].

BACKGROUND Falling is the main reason for which people over 70 arrive at emergency rooms. Over 90% of hip fractures occur as a direct result of falling. PURPOSE To examine the relationship between the function of the vestibular system and hip fractures following falls in elderly. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The research group (n = 84) undergone hip surgery as a result of a fall and were then hospitalized in a rehabilitative geriatric care unit at the Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava. The control group (n = 85)--without any history of a hip fracture and living in a retirement home. Four clinical tests were given to each examinee in order to locate any impairment of the vestibular system. Three of the clinical examinations concentrated on testing the VOR while the fourth test was especially used to locate BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo). Sociodemographic status and medical history were taken. RESULTS A significant difference was found between the two groups (those with a hip fracture and those without any hip fracture) with regard to the functioning of the VOR, age, endocrine disease and medications for treating diabetic. However, there was no significant difference found in the appearance of the BPPV. CONCLUSIONS It is important to locate the elderly who are at risk of falling in nursing homes and the community at large by performing the four simple clinical tests. Correct diagnosis and early treatment of the vestibular impairment in elderly patient can prevent the next fall.
IP3 signalling regulates exogenous RNAi in Caenorhabditis elegans

RNA interference (RNAi) is a widespread and widely exploited phenomenon. Here, we show that changing inositol 1,4,5‐trisphosphate (IP3) signalling alters RNAi sensitivity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Reducing IP3 signalling enhances sensitivity to RNAi in a broad range of genes and tissues. Conversely up‐regulating IP3 signalling decreases sensitivity. Tissue‐specific rescue experiments suggest IP3 functions in the intestine. We also exploit IP3 signalling mutants to further enhance the sensitivity of RNAi hypersensitive strains. These results demonstrate that conserved cell signalling pathways can modify RNAi responses, implying that RNAi responses may be influenced by an animal's physiology or environment.
A Logarithmic Method for Reducing Binary Variables and Inequality Constraints in Solving Task Assignment Problems

This paper studies the classical task assignment problem TAP in which M unbreakable tasks are assigned to N agents with the objective to minimize the communication and process costs subject to each agent's capacity constraint. Because a large-size TAP involves many binary variables, most, if not all, traditional methods experience the difficulty in solving the problem within a reasonable time period. Recent works present a logarithmic approach to reduce the number of binary variables in problems with mixed-integer variables. This study proposes a new logarithmic method that significantly reduces the numbers of binary variables and inequality constraints in solving task assignment problems. Our numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to other known methods of this kind for solving large-size TAPs.
Hundert Jahre nach Zauner: Die romanischen Namen der Körperteile im DECOLAR

La celebre etude onomasiologique "Die romanischen Namen der Korperteile", publiee par Adolf Zauner en 1903 dans les "Romanische Forschungen", decrit l'origine des denominations des parties du corps dans les langues romanes en tenant compte de tout le materiel linguistique connu a son epoque. Sa conception diachronique et onomasiologique demeure actuelle jusqu'a nos jours. Neanmoins, on ressent aujourd'hui le besoin d'une synthese de la recherche etymologique traditionnelle et de la linguistique cognitive: C'est ce que se propose de realiser le projet de recherche lexicographique DECOLAR (Dictionnaire Etymologique et Cognitif des Langues Romanes) presente dans cet article. Le DECOLAR ressemble a l'etude de Zauner dans la mesure ou il s'agit d'un dictionnaire onomasiologique historique qui analyse la genese des denominations des parties du corps dans 14 langues romanes. En revanche, il s'en demarque par le type d'analyse lexicale qui met en œuvre une methode multifactorielle, developpee au sein du projet. Au-dela de ses fondements cognitifs, celle-ci comporte une classification unitaire du changement semantique, de la formation de mots et de l'emprunt.
Neighborhood Social Capital, Parenting Strain, and Personal Mastery among Female Primary Caregivers of Children

Neighborhood social capital—resources inherent within community networks—has been identified as a potential facilitator of personal well-being. We test hypotheses concerning how neighborhood social capital moderates the influence of parenting strain on mastery (individuals’ understanding of their ability to control personal life circumstances) for female primary caregivers of children. First, we test how different forms of neighborhood social capital—social support, social leverage (information exchange), informal social control, and neighborhood organization participation—modify the association between parenting strain and mastery. Second, we test whether such moderation depends on one’s access to these forms via neighbor ties. Analyses of Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey data (N = 765) indicate that the negative relationship between parenting strain and mastery worsens as informal social control increases. Social support and informal social control, however, buffer this parenting strain-mastery relationship when caregivers have stronger ties to neighbors. Our findings implicate mechanisms of “negative social capital” and warrant more nuanced considerations of neighborhood social capital’s health-promoting potential.
Economic growth in Papua New Guinea: some empirical evidence

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 12 Number 1 1997 © Asia Pacific Press This article presents econometric results of economic growth in Papua New Guinea on the basis of annual time-series data covering the period 1970–92. The results do not show any statistically significant evidence of investments in physical and human capital contributing to economic growth. Exports and stable exchange rates have positively contributed to economic growth, while high inflation and high government consumption have, statistically, significantly depressed economic growth. There is weak evidence of the external economic environment and social and political instability having adverse effects on economic growth. Azmat Gani is a PostDoctoral Fellow at the National Centre for Development Studies, The Australian National University. Economic growth in Papua New Guinea: some empirical evidence
Abcg5/8 independent biliary cholesterol excretion in Atp8b1-deficient mice.

BACKGROUNDS & AIMS ATP8B1 is a phosphatidylserine flippase in the canalicular membrane; patients with mutations in ATP8B1 develop severe chronic (PFIC1) or periodic (BRIC1) cholestatic liver disease. We have observed that Atp8b1 deficiency leads to enhanced biliary cholesterol excretion. It has been established that biliary cholesterol excretion depends on transport by the heterodimer Abcg5/Abcg8. We hypothesized that the increased cholesterol output was due to enhanced extraction from the altered canalicular membrane rather than to higher Abcg5/Abcg8 activity. We therefore studied the relation between Abcg5/Abcg8 expression and biliary cholesterol excretion in mice lacking Atp8b1, Abcg8, or both (GF mice). METHODS Bile formation was studied in LXR agonist-fed wild-type mice as well as mice lacking Atp8b1 or Abcg8, or in GF mice upon infusion of taurocholate. Bile samples were analyzed for cholesterol, bile salt, phospholipids, and ectoenzyme content. RESULTS LXR agonist increased Abcg5/8 expression, and this was accompanied by increased biliary cholesterol output in both wild-type and Atp8b1(G308V/G308V) mice. However, Atp8b1(G308V/G308V) mice maintained higher cholesterol output. Although in Abcg8(-/-) mice biliary cholesterol output was severely reduced, GF mice displayed high biliary cholesterol output, which was comparable with wild-type mice. Bile of both Atp8b1(G308V/G308V) and GF mice displayed elevated levels of phosphatidylserine and sphingomyelin, indicating membrane stress. CONCLUSIONS Our data demonstrate that the increased biliary cholesterol excretion in Atp8b1-deficient mice is independent of Abcg5/8 activity. This implicates that Atp8b1 deficiency leads to a decrease in the detergent resistance and subsequent nonspecific extraction of cholesterol from the canalicular membrane by bile salts.
Approximate inference via variational sampling

A new method called \variational sampling" is proposed to estimate integrals under probability distributions that can be evaluated up to a normalizing constant. The key idea is to flt the target distribution with an exponential family model by minimizing a strongly consistent empirical approximation to the Kullback-Leibler divergence computed using either deterministic or random sampling. It is shown how variational sampling difiers conceptually from both quadrature and importance sampling and established that, in the case of random independence sampling, it may have much faster stochastic convergence than importance sampling under mild conditions. The variational sampling implementation presented in this paper requires a rough initial approximation to the target distribution, which may be found, e.g. using the Laplace method, and is shown to then have the potential to substantially improve over several existing approximate inference techniques to estimate moments of order up to two of nearlyGaussian distributions, which occur frequently in Bayesian analysis. In particular, an application of variational sampling to Bayesian logistic regression in moderate dimension is presented.
Perspectives on prevention, assessment, and rehabilitation of low back pain in WORK.

INTRODUCTION The aim of this review was to describe the low back pain (LBP) knowledge base developed in WORK and to discuss its relevance to current perspectives in the broader literature on LBP and employment. METHOD A scoping review of the literature in WORK on LBP and employment was conducted using published articles from 1990-2009. Articles were organized into geographical regions and summarized for contributions to the domains of WORK: prevention, assessment, and rehabilitation. Methodological accordance of the articles was also assessed. RESULTS Fifty articles were extracted and organized into contributions from authors within North America (n=34) and outside North America (n=16). In total there were 26 prevention, 7 assessment, and 12 rehabilitation articles in this review. Five articles were also classified as 'understanding' articles. More than half of the articles retrieved employed quantitative methodology. CONCLUSIONS WORK has contributed a broad realm of publications to the knowledge base on LBP and employment. Two thirds of the articles were contributed from authors within North America, with a greater emphasis on prevention. This article highlights the similarities and differences in the international knowledge base in the management of LBP in WORK. Future directions for research are elaborated drawing on current perspectives of two experts on the management of LBP.
Involvement of testicular DAAM1 expression in zinc protection against cadmium‐induced male rat reproductive toxicity

In order to verify the effects of exposure to Cd and Zn on testicular DAAM1 gene and protein expression and also to ascertain their involvement in the protective role of Zn in prevent the testicular toxicity Cd‐induced in male offspring rats at adult age after gestational and lactational exposure, male offspring rats, from mothers receiving either tap water, Cd, Zn, or Cd + Zn during gestation and lactation periods, were scarified on postnatal days (PND) 70. The reproductive organ (testis, epididymis, and vesicle seminal) were collected, weighed, and analyzed. The results showed that exposure to Cd in utero and through lactation decreased the relative reproductive organ weight, altered the testicular histology at the interstitial and tubular levels, and causing a significant reduction in the daily sperm production (DSP) per testis and per gram of testis, and other then altering the epididymal sperm quality. Furthermore, both mRNA and protein expression of rat testicular DAAM1 were also inhibited in Cd‐treated group. Zn supply has completely corrected the most of these toxic effects. Our results imply that Zn could prevent Cd‐induced testicular toxicity and sperm quality alteration in adult male rat after gestational and lactational exposure, probably via the restoration of the testicular DAAM1 expression inhibited by Cd.
A Selectively Inhibits DNMT 3 B and Reactivates Ther nced Tumor Suppressor Genes in Human Cancer Cells uck

Download ymes involved in the epigenetic regulation of the genome represent promising starting points for therc intervention by small molecules, and DNA methyltransferases (DNMT) are emerging targets for the pment of a new class of cancer therapeutics. In this work, we present nanaomycin A, initially identified irtual screening for inhibitors against DNMT1, as a compound inducing antiproliferative effects in three nt tumor cell lines originating from different tissues. Nanaomycin A treatment reduced the global lation levels in all three cell lines and reactivated transcription of the RASSF1A tumor suppressor gene. chemical assays, nanaomycin A revealed selectivity toward DNMT3B. To the best of our knowledge, the first DNMT3B-selective inhibitor identified to induce genomic demethylation. Our study thus esthis is tablishes the possibility of selectively inhibiting individual DNMT enzymes. Mol Cancer Ther; 9(11); 3015–23. ©2010 AACR.
Personality stability and change over a 30-year period--middle age to old age.

A group of physically healthy and emotionally stable men were periodically evaluated over a 30-year period from middle age (M age = 49) to old age (M age of surviving group = 77), Complete Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test results were obtained for 71 men in this group over four testing periods spanning the 30-year interval. The results indicated considerable stability in the group profile configurations and individual scale correlations over the four evaluation periods. The relative increase in score with age on Scale 1, Scale 2, and Scale 3 is consistent with previous findings with aged populations. The results of the present investigation suggest that the increase in mean score on the Depression scale may reflect realistic bodily concerns and the presence of actual physical illness. Overall, this group manifested personality strengths in middle age and continued to function reasonably well in old age.
Energy Modeling and Optimization of Cooperative Dual-Relay Systems

Cooperative relays have been used in many wireless applications to reduce transmit power as well as adding receiver diversity. However, the energy efficiency trade-offs of relay networks have not been thoroughly investigated using a more complete energy model of the system. In this paper we present an energy model for a cooperative dual-relay system using decode-and-forward (DF) protocol with receiver diversity. Energy consumption is based on models of both analog and digital components for transmission and reception. A quartic transmit power amplifier (PA) energy equation is derived that is a function of the following parameters: relay location, relative transmit power allocation amongst the relays, spectral efficiency, transmission distance, pathloss, and target bit-error rate (BER). The energies of the remaining circuit components are added to form a multi-relay DF system energy equation, which is then numerically evaluated to minimize total energy by finding the optimal relay locations, relay transmit PA power allocations, and spectral efficiency. Results are compared to our previous work that considered the energy of direct transmission and a single-relay system, and the minimum-energy system as a function of source-destination distance is considered.
Stability analysis of recurrent neural networks - a Volterra integro-differential equation approach

The stability of a special class of nonlinear Volterra integro-differential systems are analyzed by comparing them to linear Volterra integro-differential systems. The results are used to determine the stability properties of recurrent neural networks with distributed delays, including constant discrete delays as a special case. The obtained stability criteria have unified and extended many existing results on recurrent neural networks.
Genome Assembly of Schlumbergera Virus X Infecting Prickly Pear (Opuntia cochenillifera) in Brazil

ABSTRACT Potexviruses frequently infect plants from the family Cactaceae. We report the complete genome sequence of a new Schlumbergera virus X (SchVX) isolate. The genome has 6,615 nucleotides and shares 94% nucleotide identity with SchVX-K11 from Schlumbergera. This is the first sequence of an isolate of SchVX from the genus Opuntia.
Total Body Capacitance for Estimating Human Basal Metabolic Rate in an Egyptian Population

Determining basal metabolic rate (BMR) is important for estimating total energy needs in the human being yet, concerns have been raised regarding the suitability of sex-specific equations based on age and weight for its calculation on an individual or population basis. It has been shown that body cell mass (BCM) is the body compartment responsible for BMR. The objectives of this study were to investigate the relationship between total body capacitance (TBC), which is considered as an expression for BCM, and BMR and to develop a formula for calculating BMR in comparison with widely used equations. Fifty healthy nonsmoking male volunteers [mean age (± SD): 24.93 ± 4.15 year and body mass index (BMI): 25.63 ± 3.59 kg/m2] and an equal number of healthy nonsmoking females matched for age and BMI were recruited for the study. TBC and BMR were measured for all participants using octopolar bioelectric impedance analysis and indirect calorimetry techniques, respectively. A significant regressing equation based on the covariates: sex, weight, and TBC for estimating BMR was derived (R=0.96, SEE=48.59 kcal, and P<0.0001), which will be useful for nutritional and health status assessment for both individuals and populations.