Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Primary malignant non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the breast: A case report

Primary malignant lymphoma of the breast (PLB) is a rare disease. Treatment options include surgical resection, systemic chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy. At present, the optimum treatment combination remains controversial. The present study reports the case of a 39-year-old female with a six month history of a painless mass in the left breast. The mass was excised following medical examination. A diagnosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma was determined as a result of histological and immunohistochemical profile analysis. Further examinations excluded metastatic disease. Thus, finally, PLB (diffuse large B-cell lymphoma type) was diagnosed. The patient was treated with adjuvant systemic chemotherapy and consolidated radiation and a positive response was observed. During the 10 months of follow-up, no evidence of disease recurrence was identified. At present, the patient is scheduled for regular follow-up appointments. As the prevalence of PLB is increasing, the details of this rare case may aid clinicians treating similar patients, and highlight the importance of this disease.
A memetic algorithm based on Immune multi-objective optimization for flexible job-shop scheduling problems

The flexible job-shop scheduling problem (FJSP) is an extension of the classical job scheduling which is concerned with the determination of a sequence of jobs, consisting of many operations, on different machines, satisfying parallel goals. This paper addresses the FJSP with two objectives: Minimize makespan, Minimize total operation cost. We introduce a memetic algorithm based on the Nondominated Neighbor Immune Algorithm (NNIA), to tackle this problem. The proposed algorithm adds, to NNIA, local search procedures including a rational combination of undirected simulated annealing (UDSA) operator, directed cost simulated annealing (DCSA) operator and directed makespan simulated annealing (DMSA) operator. We have validated its efficiency by evaluating the algorithm on multiple instances of the FJSPs. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is an efficient and effective algorithm for the FJSPs, and the combination of UDSA operator, DCSA operator and DMSA operator with NNIA is rational.
Hierarchical GUI Test Case Generation Using Automated Planning

The widespread use of GUIs for interacting with software is leading to the construction of more and more complex GUIs. With the growing complexity come challenges in testing the correctness of a GUI and its underlying software. We present a new technique to automatically generate test cases for GUIs that exploits planning, a well-developed and used technique in artificial intelligence. Given a set of operators, an initial state, and a goal state, a planner produces a sequence of the operators that will transform the initial state to the goal state. Our test case generation technique enables efficient application of planning by first creating a hierarchical model of a GUI based on its structure. The GUI model consists of hierarchical planning operators representing the possible events in the GUI. The test designer defines the preconditions and effects of the hierarchical operators, which are input into a plan-generation system. The test designer also creates scenarios that represent typical initial and goal states for a GUI user. The planner then generates plans representing sequences of GUI interactions that a user might employ to reach the goal state from the initial state. We implemented our test case generation system, called Planning Assisted Tester for Graphical User Interface Systems (PATHS) and experimentally evaluated its practicality and effectiveness. We describe a prototype implementation of PATHS and report on the results of controlled experiments to generate test cases for Microsoft's WordPad.
Understanding of network operator-friendly P2P traffic control techniques in intra domain

Existing network operator-friendly P2P traffic control techniques like P4P argue that network operators can reduce inter-domain traffic while peer-to-peer (P2P) applications can improve their performance through the traffic localization. However, the existing work has not addressed how the traffic localization affects an intra-domain traffic control in detail. In fact, not considering the impact on intra-domain traffic may lead to a suboptimal performance, since intra and inter-domain traffic control usually have different goals and requirements. This paper elaborates performance investigation of intra-domain traffic control by the existing techniques. Through simulations, we reveal the performance-based technique (utilizing a dynamic networking status) shows attractive features compared to the distance-based technique (utilizing a locality-aware information) while the performance-based technique has potential problem that may block a fine-grained traffic control. Based on the observations, we provide one guideline to solve an identified limitation of the existing technique.
What is needed for coordinated action for health?

BACKGROUND Due to the multidimensionality of emerging health and societal issues, there is an increased necessity for coordinated action, that is, action in which organizations and clients in two or more sectors work together to jointly achieve an outcome. Coordinated action creates opportunities for exchanging activities, expertise, skills and resources. However, the different disciplines are not used to working together. OBJECTIVES Coordinated action includes getting involved with working in a new area or setting, with new people and with different backgrounds, knowledge domains, interests and perspectives. In this paper, the challenges of coordinated action are discussed. The objective is to identify factors that are important in achieving and sustaining coordinated action for health. METHOD Identification of these factors is based on the authors' experiences with coordinated action in community health promotion and on a review of literature. RESULTS Six factors are identified which are important in achieving and sustaining coordinated action: representation of relevant societal sectors including clients, discussing aims and objectives, discussing roles and responsibilities, communication infrastructure, visibility and management. CONCLUSIONS The success of coordinated action depends on a well-structured process to support involvement, to nurture the collaboration process and to stimulate communication and the growth of positive relationships. Coordinated action can improve both health and social outcomes, and it has the potential for synergy. It is a challenge into which it is worthwhile investing time and energy.
An Efficient Spectral-Projection Method for the Navier-Stokes Equations in Cylindrical Geometries

An efficient and accurate numerical scheme is presented for the three-dimensional Navier? Stokes equations in primitive variables in a cylinder. The scheme is based on a spectral-Galerkin approximation for the space variables and a second-order projection scheme for time. The new spectral-projection scheme is implemented to simulate unsteady incompressible flows in a cylinder.
The effects of Reflex math as a response to intervention strategy to improve math automaticity among male and female at-risk middle school students

The search for evidence-based math interventions that are easy to use and impact academic achievement are in demand, and the impact that these interventions can have on students who struggle with math achievement is of concern. In this study, the effects of Reflex math computerized intervention to improve the automaticity of basic math facts among male and female middle school students identified as at-risk for academic failure in mathematics was examined according to differences in mean scores and based on gender. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design was used for the purposes of the study. Convenience sampling among students receiving or qualifying for response to intervention services for math was used to determine the study participants. The Basic Math Operations Task (BMOT) served as the pretest and posttest against which differences in mean scores were determined with analysis of covariance used to examine the differences. Results as well as assumptions, limitations, and recommendations for the future are included.
Prevalence and Sociodemographic Predictors of Sexual Problems in Portugal: A Population-Based Study With Women Aged 18 to 79 Years

Studies on epidemiology of female sexual problems consistently indicate high prevalence rates worldwide, suggesting that this clinical presentation should be considered as a public health concern. However, there are no published studies on prevalence of sexual problems in Portugal. The present study investigated the prevalence, severity, and comorbidity of female sexual problems in a Portuguese community sample. In addition, the authors assessed the role of sociodemographic predictors of women's sexual difficulties. The authors recruited 500 women using quota methods to resemble the Portuguese population according to its demographic characteristics. Participants answered to the Female Sexual Function Index and to a sociodemographic questionnaire. Findings indicated that 37.9% of the Portuguese women reported symptoms of sexual problems. Symptoms of lack of sexual desire was the most frequent sexual difficulty with 25.4% of the women reporting low desire most times or always, followed by symptoms of orgasmic (16.8%), sexual arousal (15.1%), and lubrication difficulties (12.9%), dyspareunia (9.8%), and vaginismus (6.6%). Results indicated that age was a significant predictor of female sexual problems. Results also indicated that symptoms of female sexual problems are a significant health concern in Portugal, suggesting that public policies should be developed to promote sexual health.
Concurrence of Word Concepts in Cooking Recipe Search

Recipe search systems rely on keyword matching, and in this work we analyze the consistency of vocabulary, investigating how agreement differs when searching: for ingredients versus dishes; for common versus uncommon items; and, between recipe authors and searchers. The experiments for this study use a crowd-sourcing framework and a large corpus of cooking recipes. User data is compared with author data from a large collection of written cooking recipes. Our results show that (i) names for ingredients are more concurrent than for dishes; (ii) concurrency is higher for common items than uncommon items; and (iii) inadequate word representation in the recipe corpus leads to poor concurrence of vocabulary between searchers and authors. These results suggest fundamental knowledge to improve the effectiveness of cooking recipe search.
Dutch Parallel Corpus: a multifunctional and multilingual corpus

Nowadays, text corpora play an important role in language research and all fields involving language study, including theoretical and applied linguistics, language technology, translation studies and CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). Multilingual corpora, especially translated corpora, are not always readily available for Dutch. Much depends on the private initiative of individuals, and the data are often restrictedly available. The DPC-project (Dutch Parallel Corpus), which is carried out within the STEVIN program (Odijk et al. 2004), intends to fill the gap for this type of corpora for Dutch. This paper gives an overview of the DPC project. First, an overview and a discussion is given of the main parallel corpora containing Dutch. Then the DPC project is described, focusing on those aspects that make the DPC different from existing parallel corpora. Finally, the choice of an XML based format is explained.
Enterprise education and its relationship to enterprising behaviours: a conceptual and methodological investigation

Enterprise education is defined by some educators as a distinctive approach to teaching with the aims of improving motivation to learning and enhancing the development of enterprising behaviours in young people (e.g. Bridges, 1992; Gibb, 1993; Harris, 1993a). However, after two decades of development, there remains a lack of empirical support to demonstrate its effectiveness, or otherwise, in achieving its aims. This is due to the problem of conceptual confusion with the political rhetoric of business imperatives and a lack of a unitary definition. Furthermore, there is a problem of finding an appropriate methodology to investigate the holistic nature of the phenomenon. In order to investigate the effectiveness of enterprise education, therefore, the problem of conceptual confusion needs to be addressed before the key concepts can be operationlised and a potential methodology explored. The Durham University Business School's model of enterprising teaching is chosen for this purpose since the relationship between 'enterprising teaching' and the development of 'enterprising behaviours' was clearly laid out in Gibb's paper (1993) and has been shared by many other models of enterprise education. Hence, the objective of this thesis is to explore the meaning of 'enterprising teaching modes' and 'enterprising behaviours' among teachers with the main focus on seeking firstly, operational definitions of the two key concepts; and secondly, an appropriate methodology to measure these concepts. An exploratory study based upon the discourse interview research method was chosen for its strength of investigating the key concepts in depth. Findings from the ten intensive case studies suggest that the DUBS' concepts were not naturally associated with political rhetoric. 'Enterprising teaching modes' were perceived to be effective in promoting a deeper level of learning, although some modes were found to be value- laden and ambiguous. When these problematic modes were removed, the concept potentially constituted an adequate construct for distinguishing an enterprising teaching tendency from a didactic one. 'Enterprising behaviours' were also perceived to constitute a unique behavioural construct. A behavioural rating methodology was demonstrated to be an appropriate measurement instrument for both concepts. Inferences were also made which suggest that enterprising teaching modes might cause the development of enterprising behaviours in students. The current research results have arguably provided a solid conceptual and methodological foundation for further empirical investigation to follow.
En La Lucha: The Struggles and Triumphs of Latino/a Preservice Teachers

Background/Context Several studies have argued that the academic struggles of Latino/a students are connected, at least in part, to the dearth of Latino/a teachers and other school personnel who may be better equipped to meet the needs of this group. Others have suggested that there are significant academic benefits to having a more diverse teaching force. Despite significant population growth among Latinos/as in the United States, the teaching force remains overwhelmingly White, as Latino/a students continue to be underrepresented in institutions of higher education and, more specifically, within teacher education programs. Purpose/Objective/Focus of the Study Given the failure of teacher preparation programs to attract and retain more Latino/a students, and the implications that the shortage of qualified teachers has on Latino/a and other K–12 students, it is vital to learn from the challenges and successes of Latino/a preservice teachers to improve the ways in which teachers of diverse backgrounds are attracted into the field and prepared for this work. This article reports the findings of an ethnographic study in which a cohort of Latino/a preservice teachers was followed from the teachers’ recruitment into college, through their undergraduate years and, for most, their eventual transition into the teaching profession. Setting All the participants were undergraduate students enrolled in the teacher education program at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) of higher education in the northeastern United States. Participants A cohort of 5 Latino/a preservice teachers recruited to the institution as part of a minority teacher recruitment program participated in the study. Research Design This article draws from data collected ethnographically, using phenome-nological interviews, observations, field notes, and student work products to document barriers that students encountered while navigating their preservice teacher education program. The author critically examines how this cohort of Latino/a undergraduates experienced systematic silencing, the result of the acts of individual agents and institutional practices and policies that manifested in overt and subtle forms of subordination. Findings The study reveals how subordination serves to marginalize students of color by hindering their full, active participation in teacher preparation programs through the silencing of their voices. Using critical race theory (CRT) and Latino/a critical race theory (LatCrit) as analytic lenses, the author describes multiple sites within the institution of higher education where students experienced silencing. Conclusions/Recommendations The article concludes with a discussion of implications, framed around the central tenets of CRT and LatCrit, for improving the recruitment and retention of Latino/a college students in teacher education, particularly as an important means for enhancing the educational experiences and outcomes for Latinos/as in K–12 schools.
Epigenetic Cross-Talk between DNA Methylation and Histone Modifications in Human Cancers

DNA methylation, histone modifications, and the chromatin structure are profoundly altered in human cancers. The silencing of cancer-related genes by these epigenetic regulators is recognized as a key mechanism in tumor formation. Recent findings revealed that DNA methylation and histone modifications appear to be linked to each other. However, it is not clearly understood how the formation of histone modifications may affect DNA methylation and which genes are relevantly involved with tumor formation. The presence of histone modifications does not always link to DNA methylation in human cancers, which suggests that another factor is required to connect these two epigenetic mechanisms. In this review, examples of studies that demonstrated the relationship between histone modifications and DNA methylation in human cancers are presented and the potential implications of these epigenetic mechanisms in human neoplasia are discussed.
Event detection with common user interests

In this paper, we aim at detecting events of common user interests from huge volume of user-generated content. The degree of interest from common users in an event is evidenced by a significant surge of event-related queries issued to search for documents (e.g., news articles, blog posts) relevant to the event. Taking the stream of queries from users and the stream of documents as input, our proposed framework seamlessly integrates the two streams into a single stream of query profiles. A query profile is a set of documents matching a query at a given time. With the single stream of query profiles, the well-studied techniques in event detection (e.g., incremental clustering) could be easily applied. In our experiments using real data collected from Blog and News search engines respectively, the proposed technique achieved very high event detection accuracy.
An evolutionary algorithm for reducing integrated-circuit test application time

The cost for testing integrated circuits represents a growing percentage of the total cost for their production. The former strictly depends on the length of the test session, and its reduction has been the target of many efforts in the past. This paper proposes a new method for reducing the test length by adopting a new architecture and exploiting an evolutionary optimization algorithm. A prototype of the proposed approach was tested on ISCAS standard benchmarks and the experimental results show its effectiveness.
Low-Cost Surrogate Models for Microwave Filters

A novel low-cost kriging-based multivariable parametric macromodeling technique for microwave filters is presented. Kriging is used to model both the residues and poles of a microwave filter's reflection coefficient, and the zeros of the transmission coefficient. The proposed residue-pole-zero (RPZ) technique is demonstrated to efficiently model a high dimensional (8D) microwave filter with pseudoelliptic characteristics.
Essays on the Economics of Women, Work and Family

Title of dissertation: ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF WOMEN, WORK AND FAMILY Lisa Jeanne Dettling Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Melissa S. Kearney Department of Economics This dissertation explores recent trends in female labor supply and fertility, focusing on the impact of two modern phenomena that affected women’s work and family formation decisions: the introduction of residential high speed Internet and the recent housing boom and bust cycle. The first chapter provides an introduction and discussion. The second chapter investigates the impact of home Internet usage on women’s labor supply. From shopping to telecommuting, home high speed Internet has affected where, when and how individuals conduct numerous activities, and many of these changes could plausibly alter labor supply decisions. Utilizing exogenous variation in Internet usage induced by supplyside constraints to residential broadband Internet access, I find that married women who use the Internet at home are more likely to participate in the labor force. In the third chapter, I explore the potential mechanisms explaining this increase in labor supply by examining data on Internet usage, telework and time use. I find that telework, job search and time saved in home production are all plausible mechanisms through which Internet usage affects female labor supply, and the ability to engage in part-time telework through an employer is the greatest contributor to the estimated effects. In the fourth chapter, coauthored with Melissa Kearney, we examine the effect of the recent housing boom and bust cycle on fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with child rearing, and assuming that children are normal goods, we hypothesize that an increase in house prices will have a negative price effect on current period fertility. This applies to both potential first-time homeowners and current homeowners who might upgrade to a bigger house with the addition of a child. On the other hand, for current homeowners, an increase in house prices will increase home equity, leading to a positive effect on birth rates. Employing data on Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)-level house prices, MSA-group level fertility rates, and MSA-group level home ownership rates, we find that indeed, short-term increases in house prices lead to a decline in births among non-owners and a net increase among owners. ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF WOMEN, WORK AND FAMILY
Will users embrace advertising in online communities? A sociological perspective

Drawing on sociology and advertising literature, we investigate the impact of group bonding and group norms on community users' group intentions to embrace advertising in online social communities. By outlining how group intention influence community members' perceptions, this study delineates possible mechanisms by which community members may respond positively to community advertising. An empirical study was conducted with Chinese internet users to test the model. The marketing implication for advertising in online social community follows that community sites in pursuit of advertising revenue should strive to create cohesive bonds and efficient group norms among members.