Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
UHF band tag antenna design in RFID system

A printed dipole antenna for UHF band RFID tag is proposed. With both meander line loaded and parasitical element loaded technology, this tag antenna and ASIC chip realize impedance match around resonant frequency, which assures maximum power transmitting in RFID system, especially important for passive tags. The impedance bandwidth reaches to 18.9%, and H-plane is omnidirectional with a maximum gain of 1.038dB.
The Life of Milarepa

"The Life of Milarepa" is one of the most beloved stories of the Tibetan people and a great literary example of the contemplative life. This biography, a dramatic tale from a culture now in crisis, can be read on several levels. A personal and moving introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, it is also a detailed guide to the search for liberation. It presents a quest for purification and buddhahood in a single lifetime, tracing the path of a great sinner who became a great saint. It is also a powerfully evocative narrative, full of magic, miracles, suspense, and humor, while reflecting the religious and social life of medieval Tibet.
Clinical Features of Autosomal Dominant and Sex-linked Ichthyosis in an English Population*

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Solving test case based problems with fuzzy dominance

Genetic algorithms and genetic programming lend themselves well to the field of machine learning, which involves solving test case based problems. However, most traditional multi-objective selection methods work with scalar objectives, such as minimizing false negative and false positive rates, that are computed from underlying test cases. In this paper, we propose a new fuzzy selection operator that takes into account the statistical nature of machine learning problems based on test cases. Rather than use a Pareto rank or strength computed from scalar objectives, such as with NSGA2 or SPEA2, we will compute a probability of Pareto optimality. This will be accomplished through covariance estimation and Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation in order to generate probabilistic objective scores for each individual. We then compute a probability that each individual will generate a Pareto optimal solution. This probability is directly used with a roulette wheel selection technique. Our method's performance is evaluated on the evolution of a feature selection vector for a binary classification on each of eight different activities. Fuzzy selection performance varies, outperforming both NSGA2 and SPEA2 in both speed (measured in generations) and solution quality (measured by area under the curve) in some cases, while underperforming in others.
A feasibility study for the integration of a remote patient monitoring solution with electronic health record system

Existing and emerging healthcare information systems are based on the use of electronic health records (EHR). Over the past years, European governments have identified the EHR as the basis for nation-wide exchange and seamless integration of patient medical data. On the other hand, the remote patient monitoring (RPM) emerges as a new way to diagnose and monitor patients in their homes and everyday environment. In general, the integration of RPM solutions with EHR based systems has to date been hindered due to numerous and often conflicting standards. In this paper we present a feasibility study for the integration of a RPM solution into an EHR based system. We concentrate on CEN based EHR specification and propose several extensions to incorporate data acquired from the RPM system. We present our findings in the scope of envisioned Croatian e-health ecosystem composed of Healthcare Networking Information System EHR solution and Ericsson Mobile Health RPM solution.
Physical and Mental Health Correlates of Self-Efficacy in Dementia Family Caregivers

This study examined whether self-efficacy for controlling upsetting caregiving thoughts would longitudinally predict mental and physical health as well as utilization of psychotropic medications in help-seeking dementia family caregivers (N = 53). Positive associations were found between self-efficacy and self-reported mental health and physical health subscales of the Short Form Health Questionnaire-12, and negative correlations were found between self-efficacy for controlling upsetting thoughts about caregiving and the number of psychotropic medications being utilized both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. These results suggest that self-efficacy for controlling upsetting thoughts may be a fruitful target area for further intervention research with dementia family caregivers.
Deamination of serine. II. D-Serine dehydrase, a vitamin B6 enzyme from Escherichia coli.

Non-enzymatic deamination of serine and cysteine is catalyzed by pyridoxal and certain metal salts at 100” (2). This finding suggested that pyridoxal phosphate might be involved in the enzymatic deamination of these amino acids. Vitamin B, has already been implicated in the desulfhydration of cysteine by rat liver (3) and of cysteine and homocysteine by bacteria (4). Several similarities of cysteine desulfhydrase and of serine dehydrase have been reported (5, 6). These findings supported the supposition that vitamin Be might be involved in serine dehydration, in spite of the recent report that adenosine-5-phosphate and glutathione are the only demonstrable cofactors of serine and threonine dehydrases (deaminases) from Escherichiu c& (7). The preparation in cell-free form of a pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) requiring n-serine dehydrase from cells of E. coli is described below. This enzyme is readily separated from the serine dehydrase of Wood and Gunsalus (7), which appears to be an L-serine dehydrase.
Ultrasonography of the human stomach.

UNLABELLED Improved technology and new systems have expanded the possibilities of using ultrasound in clinical gastroenterology. METHODS Conventional real-time ultrasound was applied to the stomach in order to study motor activity and accommodation to meals. The antrum was imaged by various modalities of two- and three-dimensional ultrasonography, while duplex sonography was used for studying transpyloric flow. Miniature ultrasound probes and echo-endoscopes were employed for endoscopic ultrasound RESULTS The examinations provided new information about contractions, distension, co-ordination of movements, and flow. Patients with functional dyspepsia were characterized by rapid emptying of the proximal stomach, wide gastric antrum, early commencement of transpyloric flow, and epigastric discomfort following ingestion of a meat soup. Endoscopic ultrasonography exposed detailed images of the gastric wall and adjacent structures of great importance in clinical decision-making. CONCLUSIONS The new ultrasound methods have improved our diagnostic capabilities and opened new promising possibilities for further research in the field of motility.
The Genus Aeromonas: Taxonomy, Pathogenicity, and Infection

SUMMARY Over the past decade, the genus Aeromonas has undergone a number of significant changes of practical importance to clinical microbiologists and scientists alike. In parallel with the molecular revolution in microbiology, several new species have been identified on a phylogenetic basis, and the genome of the type species, A. hydrophila ATCC 7966, has been sequenced. In addition to established disease associations, Aeromonas has been shown to be a significant cause of infections associated with natural disasters (hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes) and has been linked to emerging or new illnesses, including near-drowning events, prostatitis, and hemolytic-uremic syndrome. Despite these achievements, issues still remain regarding the role that Aeromonas plays in bacterial gastroenteritis, the extent to which species identification should be attempted in the clinical laboratory, and laboratory reporting of test results from contaminated body sites containing aeromonads. This article provides an extensive review of these topics, in addition to others, such as taxonomic issues, microbial pathogenicity, and antimicrobial resistance markers.
Tick Passage Results in Enhanced Attenuation of Babesia bovis

ABSTRACT Serial blood passage of virulent Babesia bovis in splenectomized cattle results in attenuated derivatives that do not cause neurologic disease. Tick transmissibility can be lost with attenuation, but when retained, attenuated B. bovis can revert to virulence following tick passage. This study provides data showing that tick passage of the partially attenuated B. bovis T2Bo derivative strain further decreased virulence compared with intravenous inoculation of the same strain in infected animals. Ticks that acquired virulent or attenuated parasites by feeding on infected cattle were transmission fed on naive, splenectomized animals. While there was no significant difference between groups in the number of parasites in the midgut, hemolymph, or eggs of replete female ticks after acquisition feeding, animals infected with the attenuated parasites after tick transmission showed no clinical signs of babesiosis, unlike those receiving intravenous challenge with the same attenuated strain prior to tick passage. Additionally, there were significantly fewer parasites in blood and tissues of animals infected with tick-passaged attenuated parasites. Sequencing analysis of select B. bovis genes before and after tick passage showed significant differences in parasite genotypes in both peripheral blood and cerebral samples. These results provide evidence that not only is tick transmissibility retained by the attenuated T2Bo strain, but also it results in enhanced attenuation and is accompanied by expansion of parasite subpopulations during tick passage that may be associated with the change in disease phenotype.
Stochastic Alternating Projections

The Gibbs sampler, a standard Monte Carlo algorithm, can be seen as alternating projections into closed subspaces of a Hilbert space. This allows classical convergence theorems of von Neumann and others to be harnessed for proving convergence. In the other direction, it shows that classical convergence rates involving the angle between subspaces can be substantially refined in several cases. We present a rigorous proof of this correspondence and use it to obtain bounds on rates of convergence for a general class of two-component Gibbs samplers.
Automatic detection of pain from spontaneous facial expressions

This paper presents a new approach for detecting pain in sequences of spontaneous facial expressions. The motivation for this work is to accompany mobile-based self-management of chronic pain as a virtual sensor for tracking patients' expressions in real-world settings. Operating under such constraints requires a resource efficient approach for processing non-posed facial expressions from unprocessed temporal data. In this work, the facial action units of pain are modeled as sets of distances among related facial landmarks. Using standardized measurements of pain versus no-pain that are specific to each user, changes in the extracted features in relation to pain are detected. The activated features in each frame are combined using an adapted form of the Prkachin and Solomon Pain Intensity scale (PSPI) to detect the presence of pain per frame. Painful features must be activated in N consequent frames (time window) to indicate the presence of pain in a session. The discussed method was tested on 171 video sessions for 19 subjects from the McMaster painful dataset for spontaneous facial expressions. The results show higher precision than coverage in detecting sequences of pain. Our algorithm achieves 94% precision (F-score=0.82) against human observed labels, 74% precision (F-score=0.62) against automatically generated pain intensities and 100% precision (F-score=0.67) against self-reported pain intensities.
Barriers to diagnosis of a rare neurological disorder in China—Lived experiences of Rett syndrome families

Rett syndrome is a rare neurological disorder affecting girls and usually caused by a mutation on the MECP2 gene. It is estimated that approximately 1,000 girls are born every year in China with Rett syndrome but far fewer have received a diagnosis. Fourteen of 74 Chinese families known to the International Rett Syndrome Phenotype Database participated in this qualitative study. Telephone interviews were conducted in Mandarin to explore pathways to a diagnosis of Rett syndrome in China and associated barriers. Families consulted multiple clinical centers and eventually received a diagnosis at a centrally located hospital. Over the course of this pathway, families encountered lack of knowledge and diagnostic expertise for Rett syndrome at local levels and a heavily over‐burdened hospital system. There was a paucity of information available to guide management of this rare disorder after the diagnosis had been received. Our study suggests that the frustrations experienced by families could in part be addressed by the provision of information, education, and training related to Rett syndrome for clinicians, additional resources to allow clinicians to request genetic testing for confirmation of the clinical diagnosis and for information and support services for families. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Liver stiffness identifies two different patterns of fibrosis progression in patients with hepatitis C virus recurrence after liver transplantation

Significant liver fibrosis (F ≥ 2) and portal hypertension (hepatic venous pressure gradient [HVPG] ≥ 6 mmHg) at 1 year after liver transplantation (LT) identify patients with severe hepatitis C recurrence. We evaluated whether repeated liver stiffness measurements (LSM) following LT can discriminate between slow and rapid “fibrosers” (fibrosis stage F2‐F4 at 1 year after LT). Eighty‐four patients who had undergone LT and who were infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and 19 LT controls who were not infected with HCV underwent LSM at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after LT. All HCV‐infected patients underwent liver biopsy 12 months after LT (paired HVPG measurements in 74); 31 (37%) were rapid fibrosers. Median LSM (in kilopascal) at months 6, 9, and 12 were significantly higher in rapid fibrosers (9.9, 9.5, 12.1) than in slow fibrosers (6.9, 7.5, 6.6) (P < 0.01 all time points). The slope of liver stiffness progression (kPa × month) in rapid fibrosers (0.42) was significantly greater than in slow fibrosers (0.05) (P < 0.001), suggesting two different speeds of liver fibrosis progression. Figures were almost identical for patients with HVPG ≥ 6 mmHg or HVPG < 6 mmHg at 1 year after LT. Multivariate analysis identified donor age, bilirubin level, and LSM as independent predictors of fibrosis progression and portal hypertension in the estimation group (n = 50) and were validated in a second group of 34 patients. The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve that could identify rapid fibrosers and patients with portal hypertension as early as 6 months after LT were 0.83 and 0.87, respectively, in the estimation group and 0.75 and 0.80, respectively, in the validation group. Conclusion: Early and repeated LSM following hepatitis C recurrence in combination with clinical variables discriminates between rapid and slow fibrosers after LT. (HEPATOLOGY 2009.)
Specific proteins synthesized during the viral lytic cycle in vaccinia virus-infected HeLa cells: analysis by high-resolution, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis

The proteins synthesized in vaccinia-infected HeLa cells have been analyzed at different times after infection by using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Vaccinia-infected cells present up to 198 polypeptides (138 acidic, isoelectric focusing; 60 basic, nonequilibrium pH gradient electrophoresis) not detected in control cells. Cells infected in the presence of cycloheximide show 81 additional polypeptides after cycloheximide removal, resulting in a total estimate of 279 proteins induced after vaccinia infection. The glycoproteins made at various times postinfection were also analyzed. At least 13 proteins labeled with [3H]glucosamine were detected in vaccinia-infected HeLa cells.
Inspiratory crackles and mechanical events of breathing

Nath, A. R. and Capel, L. H. (1974). Thorax, 29, 695-698. Inspiratory crackles and mechanical events of breathing. Forgacs (1967) has suggested that the timing of individual inspiratory crackles is determined by the elastic tension of the lung. This hypothesis was tested by recording the inspiratory crackles simultaneously with a recording of transpulmonary pressure, inspired volume, and inspiratory flow rate. The timing of an individual crackle was found to be closely associated with a particular transpulmonary pressure.
Aliquoting structure for centrifugal microfluidics based on a new pneumatic valve

We present a new microvalve that can be monolithically integrated in centrifugally driven lab-on-a-chip systems. In contrast to existing operation principles that use hydrophobic patches, geometrically defined capillary stops or siphons, here we present a pneumatic principle. It needs neither additional local coatings nor expensive micro sized geometries. The valve is controlled by the spinning frequency and can be switched to be open when the centrifugal pressure overcomes the pneumatic pressure inside an unvented reaction cavity. We designed and characterized valves ranging in centrifugal burst pressure from 6700 Pa to 2100 Pa. Based on this valving principle we present a new structure for aliquoting of liquids. We experimentally demonstrated this by splitting 105 muL volumes into 16 aliquots with a volume CV of 3 %.
Sphingobacterium cibi sp. nov., isolated from the food-waste compost and emended descriptions of Sphingobacterium spiritivorum (Holmes et al. 1982) Yabuuchi et al. 1983 and Sphingobacteriumthermophilum Yabe et al. 2013.

A novel, pale yellow-coloured, Gram-staining-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium, designated as strain CC-YY411T, was isolated from the food-waste compost and subjected to polyphasic taxonomy. Strain CC-YY411T exhibited the highest pairwise 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Sphingobacterium thermophilum JCM 17858T (94.6 %) while sharing 94.1 to 89.7 % similarities with other Sphingobacterium species. Novel strain established a discrete phylogenetic lineage within the clade that accommodated validly established members of the genus Sphingobacterium. The polar lipid profile of strain CC-YY411T contained major amounts of phosphatidylethanolamine, one unidentified lipid and two unidentified aminolipids besides accommodating trace amounts of a sphingolipid, two phospholipids, an unidentified aminophospholipid and an unidentified glycolipid. The DNA G+C content of strain CC-YY411T was 34.5 mol%. The major and minor respiratory quinones were MK-7 (89.1 %) and MK-6 (10.9 %), respectively. The predominant fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0 (24.0 %), iso-C17 : 0 3-OH (11.9 %), iso-C15 : 0 3-OH (6.9 %), C15 : 1ω5c (5.5 %) and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c) (32.0 %). Based on the phylogenetic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic distinctiveness, strain CC-YY411T represents a novel species of Sphingobacterium, for which the name Sphingobacteriumcibi sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is CC-YY411T (=BCRC 80430T=JCM 18407T). Amended species descriptions of Sphingobacterium spiritivorum(Holmes et al. 1982) Yabuuchi et al. 1983 and Sphingobacterium thermophilum Yabe et al. 2013 are also proposed based on new data obtained in this study.
Inversion of aerosol size distribution by using genetic algorithms and multi-sensor data

In this article, we introduce the genetic algorithm into the inversion of aerosol size distribution. We are often faced with limited or insufficient observations in remote sensing and the observations are contaminated. The particle spectrum extinction equation is an ill-posed integral equation of the extinction inversion method[1]. To overcome the ill-posed nature, we use a double logarithmic normal distribution function to express the aerosol size distribution. To obtain the optimal solution, we introduce the genetic algorithm to gain the minimum sum of squared errors. Our method can improve accuracy and reduce the computational difficulty. The assumption of parameters in the bimodal distribution function is important to the inversion results. The aerosol size distribution obtained from the GRIMM 180 PM monitor and the TSI Scanning mobility particle sizers is compared with that computed via the method proposed by Dubovik and King(2000)[2]. Obvious difference has been discovered between aerosol size distribution on the ground and in the total atmospheric column. As a result, it is necessary to develop multi-wavelength and multi-function lidar to get observe the three-dimensional distribution characteristics of aerosol.
Double constrained genetic algorithm for ECG signal classification

Analyzing cardiovascular activity under abnormal heart beat is an intricate and vital job to the medical experts and complicated to novice persons. Electrocardiogram is a way to measure or diagnose abnormal heart rhythms to spot heart disease in human beings. These streaming medical signals can be well analyzed or diagnosed only with the prior knowledge. This paper deals with ECG signal analysis based on Time Series Motif as feature using Genetic Algorithm with double constraints. Genetic Algorithm has been employed to extract the features of various lengths from ECG signals. The proposed technique classifies the ECG signals into two classes (normal and abnormal) the classifier performance is measured in terms of Sensitivity, Specificity and Accuracy. Experimental results on standard MIT-BIH arrhythmia database shows that the proposed approach achieves 97.78% of accuracy.