Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
INTRAPERITONEAL DEXTROSE ADMINISTRATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE EMERGENCY TREATMENT FOR HYPOGLYCEMIC YEARLING CALIFORNIA SEA LIONS (ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS)

Abstract The Marine Mammal Center (TMMC) cares for malnourished California sea lion (CSL) (Zalophus californianus) pups and yearlings every year. Hypoglycemia is a common consequence of malnutrition in young CSLs. Administering dextrose during a hypoglycemic crisis is vital to recovery. Traditional veterinary approaches to treat hypoglycemia pose therapeutic challenges in otariids, as vascular access and catheter maintenance can be difficult. The current approach to a hypoglycemic episode at TMMC is to administer dextrose intravenously (IV) by medically trained personnel. Intraperitoneal (IP) dextrose administration is an attractive alternative to IV administration because volunteer staff with basic training can administer treatment instead of waiting for trained staff to treat. This study compares the effects of IV, IP, and no dextrose administration on serum glucose and insulin in clinically healthy, euglycemic CSL yearlings. Three groups of animals, consisting of five sea lions each, were treated with 500 mg/kg dextrose using one of the following routes: IV, IP, or no dextrose (control). A jugular catheter was placed, and blood samples were collected at times 0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 120, 180, and 240 min after dextrose administration. IV dextrose administration resulted in an increase of serum glucose concentrations from a baseline level of approximately 150 mg/dl to a peak of approximately 350 mg/dl. The resulting hyperglycemia persisted for approximately 2 hr and was associated with an attenuated plasma insulin response compared with most terrestrial mammals. Intraperitoneal dextrose administration resulted in increases of serum glucose to approximately 200 mg/dl, which gradually declined to baseline by 2 hr after dextrose administration. These data suggest that the initial treatment of a hypoglycemic crisis in young malnourished CSLs can be accomplished with IP dextrose, thus enabling minimally trained volunteer staff to respond immediately to a crisis. Further studies are needed to determine the most appropriate long-term treatment.
CoZo - Content Zoning for Spam Emails

Spam is an increasing problem when using email as communication medium. Spam is detected and removed using spam filters. Furthermore, the spammers use more and more intelligent and complex techniques so that novel approaches are required to enhance existing spam filters. One promising technique is the Argumentative Zoning that classifies a text in different parts where each part has a meaning. In this paper, we want to use this technique in order to divide an email into different zones and evaluate whether the email is spam or not. We introduce the technique Content Zoning, the way we use it, the implementation, and our results.
Rigorous anaesthesia management protocol for patients with intracranial arterial stenosis: a prospective controlled-cohort study

Objectives Reducing variability is integral in quality management. As part of the ongoing Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis Revascularisation for Symptomatic Intracranial Arterial Stenosis (ERSIAS) trial, we developed a strict anaesthesia protocol to minimise fluctuations in patient parameters affecting cerebral perfusion. We hypothesise that this protocol reduces the intraoperative variability of targeted monitored parameters compared to standard management. Design Prospective cohort study of patients undergoing encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis surgery versus standard neurovascular interventions. Patients with ERSIAS had strict perioperative management that included normocapnia and intentional hypertension. Control patients received regular anaesthetic standard of care. Minute-by-minute intraoperative vitals were electronically collected. Heterogeneity of variance tests were used to compare variance across groups. Mixed-model regression analysis was performed to establish the effects of treatment group on the monitored parameters. Setting Tertiary care centre. Participants 24 participants: 12 cases (53.8 years±16.7 years; 10 females) and 12 controls (51.3 years±15.2 years; 10 females). Adults aged 30–80 years, with transient ischaemic attack or non-disabling stroke (modified Rankin Scale <3) attributed to 70–99% intracranial stenosis of the carotid or middle cerebral artery, were considered for enrolment. Controls were matched according to age, gender and history of neurovascular intervention. Main outcome measures Variability of heart rate, mean arterial blood pressure (MAP), systolic blood pressure and end tidal CO2 (ETCO2) throughout surgical duration. Results There were significant reductions in the intraoperative MAP SD (4.26 vs 10.23 mm Hg; p=0.007) and ETCO2 SD (0.94 vs 1.26 mm Hg; p=0.05) between the ERSIAS and control groups. Median MAP and ETCO2 in the ERSIAS group were higher (98 mm Hg, IQR 23 vs 75 mm Hg, IQR 15; p<0.001, and 38 mm Hg, IQR 4 vs 32 mm Hg, IQR 3; p<0.001, respectively). Conclusions The ERSIAS anaesthesia protocol successfully reduced intraoperative fluctuations of MAP and ETCO2. The protocol also achieved normocarbia and the intended hypertension. Trial registration number NCT01819597; Pre-results.
Autism spectrum disorders: sex differences in autistic behaviour domains and coexisting psychopathology

The purpose of the present study was to examine possible differences between high‐functioning males and females with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) regarding the core symptoms of autism and coexisting psychopathology. A total of 23 females and 23 males matched for age, IQ, and ASD diagnoses were recruited(mean age 11y 9mo [SD 4y 5mo], range 5y‐20y 2mo) with an IQ above the range of learning disability (mean IQ 88.8 [SD 18.5], range 70–128). They were compared using the Autism Diagnostic Interview‐Revised, the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, and the Child Behavior Checklist/4–18. We did not identify striking differences between males and females for the triad of autism core dysfunctions (deficits in reciprocal social interaction, communication, and repetitive, stereotyped behaviours) as assessed by expert ratings. However, with regard to several domains of coexisting psychopathology, parent reports revealed significantly more symptoms in females than males, particularly social problems (t=4.47, p<0.01, d=1.20), attention problems (t=3.39, p<0.01, d=0.80), and thought problems (t=3.24, p<0.01, d=0.84). These results are discussed with possible interpreting bias by parents who may expect more socially desired behaviour from daughters than from sons. The severity of social and attention problems in high‐functioning females with autism emphasizes the need for thorough assessments and interventions in these domains. Future research should compare the cognitive phenotype of autism between sexes.
An examination of factors affecting repatriates' turnover intentions

– This study seeks to address the challenge of repatriate turnover by focusing on how effective repatriation adjustment, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment are at predicting the Taiwanese repatriates' intentions to leave their organization. By building on the cross‐cultural adjustment and turnover theories and researches, this study expands these recent findings to Taiwanese repatriates. , – Multiple regression was used to predict intent to leave and explain the impact of the three predictors on intent to leave. Correlation was used to compare the relationship of study variables. , – The results of multiple regression indicated that repatriation adjustment was the strongest predictor of intent to leave followed by organizational commitment. The combination of the three variables can predict approximately 58 percent of the variance of intent to leave. Overall interrelations among the independent variables showed a positive strong relationship and negatively related to intent to leave the organization. , – The results provide empirical evidence that repatriation adjustment, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment are negatively related to intent to leave the organization. Furthermore, the conceptual framework of this study can be a guide to future research in repatriates' turnover intention. , – The results of this study may help multinational organizations in Taiwan to enhance the international assignment process of their employees and keep valuable human capital within the organization.
TEACHING PHONICS: LETTER-TO-PHONEME, PHONEME-TO-LETTER, OR BOTH?

This article discusses whether or not beginning readers learn phonics best through instructional approaches that teach students to sound out letters, spell words, or combine the two. It concludes that caution is in order as experimental research assessing the effectiveness of each approach has yet to be conducted. In the interim, it is suggested that instruction be influenced by experimental evidence on (a) the positive relationships between beginning readers' spelling and reading skills, and (b) the favorable effects of phonemic awareness proficiency on learning to read.
Complex behaviors from local rules in modular self-reconfigurable robots

We demonstrate how simple local rules, inspired by social insects, produce complex dynamic behaviors required for locomotion and navigation in modular self-reconfigurable robots. We show how systems made up of many modules respond dynamically to their environment, such as obstacles during navigation. We present control algorithms tested on simulation experiments of TeleCube, a new modular robot developed at Xerox PARC.
Bribery in Voting With Soft Constraints

We consider a multi-agent scenario where a collection of agents needs to select a common decision from a large set of decisions over which they express their preferences. This decision set has a combinatorial structure, that is, each decision is an element of the Cartesian product of the domains of some variables. Agents express their preferences over the decisions via soft constraints. We consider both sequential preference aggregation methods (they aggregate the preferences over one variable at a time) and one-step methods and we study the computational complexity of influencing them through bribery. We prove that bribery is NPcomplete for the sequential aggregation methods (based on Plurality, Approval, and Borda) for most of the cost schemes we defined, while it is polynomial for one-step Plurality.
Physiological features of dysarthria in Friedreich's ataxia

Abstract Due to the paucity of literature concerning the motor speech impairment in persons with Friedreich's ataxia (FA), the aim of this study was to investigate the perceptual and physiological features of dysarthria in a 30-year-old male with FA, 22 years post diagnosis. The four speech subsystems were comprehensively evaluated using physiological measures of respiratory (Respitrace), laryngeal (Laryngograph, Aerophone II), velopharyngeal (Nasometer) and articulatory (lip and tongue pressure transduction systems) function. Perceptual speech evaluations included the Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment, the Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech and a perceptual analysis of a speech sample. The findings were compared with those of non-neurologically impaired controls, matched for age and sex. Results revealed marked impairment in respiratory, velopharyngeal and articulatory function, and mild laryngeal dysfunction. Based on these results the subject was rated as displaying a moderate mixed dysarthria (flaccid/ataxic), with a mild to moderate decrease in overall intelligibility. The results of the assessments will be discussed in relation to the possible effects of FA on motor speech function.
Link-based Ranking of Skyline Result Sets

Skyline query processing has received considerable attention in the recent past. Mainly, the skyline query is used to find a set of non dominated data points in a multi-dimensional dataset. One of the major drawbacks of the skyline operator is the high cardinality of the result set. Providing the most interesting points of the skyline set (topk) inherently involves the ranking of the skyline points. In this paper, we propose a method for ranking the skyline points and therefore for answering topk skyline queries. First, we introduce the notion of theskyline graph which relies on the dominance relationship of the skyline points in all possible subspaces of the original data space. Using the aforementioned mapping, we can apply well-known link-based ranking algorithms on the skyline graph. Unlike most previously proposed ranking approaches we do not rely on user defined functions and do not impose arbitrary preferences on some dimensions. An experimental evaluation of the proposed method is presented illustrating the ranking ability of our framework.
Dynamic presentation of document content for rapid on-line skimming

A wide range of current approaches to document summarisation utilise a strategy of data reduction over the original document source, whereby fragments of source text that are somehow identified as ’most representative’ of the document’s content are extracted and presented to the user. In order for these fragments to be useful as summaries, it is necessary to know how they relate to the document; in order for these fragments to be usable as summaries, they must serve as windows into the document as a whole, with suitably designed interfaces for navigation into areas of particular interest. This paper discusses the notion of strong contextualisation of document highlights, how this translates into necessary features for document analysis, and how the document abstractions derived from such principles facilitate dynamic delivery of document content. We argue that dynamic document abstractions effectively mediate different levels of granularity of analysis, from terse document highlights to fully contextualised foci of particular interest. We describe a range of dynamic document viewers which embody novel presentation metaphors for document content delivery.
Identification of Malignancy Factors by Analyzing Cystic Tumors of the Pancreas

Aim: The diversity in the aggressiveness of cystic tumors of the pancreas – ranging from the usually benign serous cystadenoma to lesions of variable degrees of malignancy – was utilized for the identification of molecular factors that are involved in the occurrence of malignancy. Methods: We analyzed the transcript profiles of different cystic tumor types. The results were confirmed at the protein level by immunohistochemistry. Also, functional studies with siRNA silencing were performed. Results: Expression variations at the RNA and protein level were identified that are closely correlated with the degree of malignancy. Besides, all tumors could be classified effectively by this means. Many of the identified factors had not previously been known to be associated with malignant cystic lesions. siRNA silencing of the gene with the most prominent variation – the anti-apoptotic factor FASTK (Fas-activated serine/threonine kinase) – revealed a regulative effect on several genes known to be relevant to the development of tumors. Conclusion: By a molecular analysis of rare types of pancreatic cancer, which are less frequent in terms of disease, variations could be identified that could be critical for the regulation of malignancy and thus relevant to the treatment of also the majority of pancreatic tumors.
Babak Baru Ketegangan Islam dan Kristen di Indonesia

Melissa Crouch, Law and Religion in Indonesia: Conflict and the Courts in West Java , (New York: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series. 2014), xxvi + 214 pages. The effects of Islamization and Christianization have influenced the dynamics of the relationship between Islam and Christianity in Indonesia. For many Muslims, Christianization is perceived as a threat to the future of Indonesian Islam. Christians sense that, especially, the Islamization of public policy, is, likewise, a threat. Law and Religion in Indonesia, written by Melissa Crouch, analyses current data of the relationship between the two largest religions in Indonesia. The book focuses on why tensions between Islam and Christianity—and particularly concerning the issue of Christianization—have emerged as severely as they have since the onset of the democracy period. It analyses how Islamic groups have responded around Christianization. The tensions between the religions have changed with the trend toward the politization of religion. At the same time, the new policy of decentralization has shifted religious-based political competition from the national level to the regions. DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v21i3. 1221
LPCQP: Lightweight private circular query protocol for privacy-preserving k-NN search

With the recent growth of mobile communication, location-based services (LBSs) are getting much attention. While LBSs provide beneficial information about points of interest (POIs) such as restaurants or cafes near users, their current location could be revealed to the server. Lien et al. have recently proposed a privacy-preserving k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) search with additive homomorphic encryption. However, it requires heavy computation due to unnecessary multiplication in the encryption domain and this causes intolerant burden on the server. In this paper, we propose a lightweight private circular query protocol (LPCQP) for privacy-preserving k-NN search with additive and multiplicative homomorphism. Our proposed scheme divides a POI-table into some sub-tables and aggregates them with homomorphic cryptography in order to remove unnecessary POI information for the request user, and thus the computational cost required on the server is reduced. We evaluate the performance of our proposed scheme and show that our scheme reduces the computational cost on the LBS server while keeping high security and high accuracy.
Trellis-coded modulation with redundant signal sets Part I: Introduction

rellis-Coded Modulation (TCM) has evolved over the past decade as a combined coding and modulation technique for digital transmission over band-limited channels. Its main attraction comes from the fact that it allows the achievement of significant coding gains over conventional uncoded multilevel modulation without compromising bandwidth efficiency. T h e first TCM schemes were proposed in 1976 [I]. Following a more detailed publication [2] in 1982, an explosion of research and actual implementations of TCM took place, to the point where today there is a good understanding of the theory and capabilities of TCM methods. In Part 1 of this two-part article, an introduction into TCM is given. T h e reasons for the development of TCM are reviewed, and examples of simple TCM schemes are discussed. Part I1 [I51 provides further insight into code design and performance, and addresses. recent advances in TCM. TCM schemes employ redundant nonbinary modulation in combination with a finite-state encoder which governs the selection of modulation signals to generate coded signal sequences. In the receiver, the noisy signals are decoded by a soft-decision maximum-likelihood sequence decoder. Simple four-state TCM schemes can improve. the robustness of digital transmission against additive noise by 3 dB, compared to conventional , uncoded modulation. With more complex TCM schemes, the coding gain can reach 6 dB or more. These gains are obtained without bandwidth expansion or reduction of the effective information rate as required by traditional error-correction schemes. Shannon's information theory predicted the existence of coded modulation schemes with these characteristics more than three decades ago. T h e development of effective TCM techniques and today's signal-processing technology now allow these ,gains to be obtained in practice. Signal waveforms representing information sequences ~ are most impervious to noise-induced detection errors if they are very different from each other. Mathematically, this translates into therequirement that signal sequences should have large distance in Euclidean signal space. ~ T h e essential new concept of TCM that led to the afore-1 mentioned gains was to use signal-set expansion to I provide redundancy for coding, and to design coding and ' signal-mapping functions jointly so as to maximize ~ directly the " free distance " (minimum Euclidean distance) between coded signal sequences. This allowed the construction of modulation codes whose free distance significantly exceeded the minimum distance between uncoded modulation signals, at the same information rate, bandwidth, and signal power. The term " …
A Low-Power Digit-Based Reconfigurable FIR Filter

In this brief, we present a digit-reconfigurable finite-impulse response (FIR) filter architecture with a very fine granularity. It provides a flexible yet compact and low-power solution to FIR filters with a wide range of precision and tap length. Based on the proposed architecture, an 8-digit reconfigurable FIR filter chip is implemented in a single-poly quadruple-metal 0.35-mum CMOS technology. Measurement results show that the fabricated chip operates up to 86 MHz when the filter draws 16.5 mW of power from a 2.5-V power supply
Probabilistic Matrix Factorization With Semantic And Visual Neighborhoods For Image Tag Completion

We present an image tag completion method, namely PMF-SVN, where the key idea is to exploit images' Semantically and Visually similar Neighborhoods (SVNs) in the learning process of a Probabilistic Matrix Factorization (PMF) framework. We propose a two-step SVN formation algorithm that can generate an image set with the images being both visually and semantically similar. Furthermore, we introduce an efficient way to incorporate the formed SVNs into the learning process of PMF, under the constraint that the latent features of each image are averaged by the features of the images that belong to its SVN. In our experiments with benchmark datasets, we show that the proposed PMF-SVN method outperforms competitive baselines, in terms of completion accuracy, by efficiently capturing the semantical and visual associations between images and tags in SVNs.
BIOTECHNOLOGICALLY RELEVANT ENZYMES AND PROTEINS A robust and extracellular heme-containing peroxidase from Thermobifida fusca as prototype of a bacterial peroxidase superfamily

DyP-type peroxidases comprise a novel superfamily of heme-containing peroxidases which is unrelated to the superfamilies of known peroxidases and of which only a few members have been characterized in some detail. Here, we report the identification and characterization of a DyP-type peroxidase (TfuDyP) from the thermophilic actinomycete Thermobifida fusca. Biochemical characterization of the recombinant enzyme showed that it is a monomeric, heme-containing, thermostable, and Tatdependently exported peroxidase. TfuDyP is not only active as dye-decolorizing peroxidase as it also accepts phenolic compounds and aromatic sulfides. In fact, it is able to catalyze enantioselective sulfoxidations, a type of reaction that has not been reported before for DyP-type peroxidases. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to determine the role of two conserved residues. D242 is crucial for catalysis while H338 represents the proximal heme ligand and is essential for heme incorporation. A genome database analysis revealed that DyP-type peroxidases are frequently found in bacterial genomes while they are extremely rare in other organisms. Most of the bacterial homologs are potential cytosolic enzymes, suggesting metabolic roles different from dye degradation. In conclusion, the detailed biochemical characterization reported here contributes significantly to our understanding of these enzymes and further emphasizes their biotechnological potential.