Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
[Therapeutic effect observation of post-stroke shoulder pain treated with the touching-periosteum needling technique of the meridian muscle region theory].

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the pain severity, the motor function of the upper limb and the quality of life in the patients of post-stroke shoulder pain treated with the touching-periosteum needling technique of the meridian muscle region theory. METHODS One hundred and six cases of post-stroke shoulder pain were randomized into an observation group and a control group, 53 cases in each one. In the observation group, the touching-periosteum needle technique and the rehabilitation training were used on the bases of the theory of meridian muscle region. The points were Jianyuci, Binaoci, Jianliaoci, Jianqianci, Quchi (LI 11), Shousanli (LI 10) and Waiguan (TE 5) on the affected side. The needles were inserted obliquely, at 45°degrees at those extra points to the tendon knots till the needle tips touching periosteum. The needles were manipulated to ensure the qi arrival and then retained for 30 min. The rehabilitation was applied, such as the anti-spasmodic posture, bridge-style movement on the bed, weight transition and balance training, joint activity maintenance training, passive and active movement of shoulder joint, the training for activities of daily living (ADL) and Bobath technique. In the control group, the routine acupuncture and the rehabilitation training were used. The acupints were Jianyu (LI 15), Binao (LI 14), Jianliao (TE 14), Jianqian (Extra), Quchi (LI 11), Shousanli (LI 10) and Waiguan (TE 5). The rehabilitation training was the same as the observation group. The treatment was given once every day, 6 treatments a week. After 20 treatments, the visual analogue scale (VAS), Fugl-Meyer (FMA) score and Barthel (MBI) score were adopted to evaluate the pain severity, the motor function of the upper limb and the ADL. The clinical therapeutic effects were evaluated in the two groups. RESULTS The VAS scores were reduced after treatment as compared with those before treatment in the two groups, and FMA and MBI scores were all increased as compared with those before treatment, indicating the significant difference statistically (P<0.05, P<0.01). After treatment, the improvements in the observation group were better than those in the control group (all P<0.05). The curative and remarkably effective rate was 69.8% (37/53) in the observation group, better than 47.2% (25/53) in the control group (P<0.05). CONCLUSION The touching-periosteum needling technique of the meridian muscle region theory obviously improves the pain severity, the motor function of the upper limb and the quality of life in patients of post-stroke shoulder pain. The therapeutic effects are better than the routine acupuncture.
MORPHOLOGICAL, THERMAL AND RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYVINYL ALCOHOL/CHITOSAN BLENDS

The present study deals with the preparation of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/chitosan (CS) blends with different compositions. The physico-chemical characterization and compatibility have been studied by means of polarized light optical microscopy, FT-IR spectroscopy, DSC, DMTA, TG/DTG and rheological measurements. The film-forming ability of the blends was confirmed by rheological tests, as they showed higher viscosity and improved viscoelastic properties in comparison with pure PVA. The obtained films were transparent and homogenous with enhanced mechanical properties and thermal stability.
Triage scoring systems, severity of illness measures, and mortality prediction models in pediatric trauma

Trauma triage scores, severity of illness measures, and mortality prediction models quantitate severity of injury and stratify patients according to a specified outcome. Triage scoring systems are typically used to assist prehospital personnel determine which patients require trauma center care, but they are not recommended as the sole determinant of triage. Severity of illness measures and mortality prediction models are used in clinical and health services research for risk-adjusted outcomes analyses and institutional benchmarking. As clinicians and researchers, it is imperative that we be knowledgeable of the methodologies and applications of these scoring and risk prediction systems to ensure their quality and appropriate utilization.
Design and preliminary analysis of a pattern reconfigurable terminal MIMO antenna for receiving antenna selection

A newly-built broadband MIMO measurement platform in indoor environment is constructed. The platform is designed for measuring the S21 parameter between M transmitters and N receivers (M<;=8, N<;=8), which enables us to analyze the capacity of the radio propagation channel. A pattern reconfigurable antenna for receiving antenna selection at 2.48GHz has been designed and evaluated. Comparisons of MIMO systems employing antennas with different selection schemes are presented. The system performances are discussed in terms of channel capacity.
Optimal user and mode proportion allocation for cellular and device-to-device (D2D) heterogeneous networks on multi-bands with outage constraints

This paper analyses the optimal user and mode proportion allocation for cellular and device-to-device (D2D) heterogeneous networks (HetNets) on multi-bands. The D2D user can reuse the uplink resource of the cellular system. With the help of the stochastic geometry, we model the HetNets by homogeneous Poisson point process (HPPP) and get a system capacity optimisation issue with cellular and D2D outage constraints. By utilising convex optimisation we first derive the optimal value of the user density on each band in closed-form. Then, we proposed an algorithm to search the optimal HetNets transmission capacity on the feasible region of the user mode proportion. Combine the results before, the maximum transmission capacity of the HetNets is obtained. Finally from the simulation, we not only verify the convergence of the algorithm but also show the maximum transmission capacity of the HetNets on multiple bands as well.
Comparison of UWB modulations over Nakagami-m fading channels with path-loss for an energy efficient railway balise application

For the sake of developing an energy efficient railway balise, choosing an efficient energy modulation is very important. The main objective of this paper is to propose a complete analytical model to compare the energy efficiency of two well-known UWB modulations in Nakagami-m fading channel with path-loss. The results show that M-ary PPM is more efficient than M-ary PAM for high constellations, high communication ranges and high path-loss values. It also shows that, as we increase the number of receiver branches, the communication system becomes less energy consuming.
A Heideggerian hermeneutical analysis of survivors of incest.

The phenomenological study described in this paper examined the lived experience of adult women survivors of childhood incest. Self-identified incest survivors (N = 5) participated in non-structured, audiotaped interviews. Subsequent transcripts were analyzed by a team of researchers using Heideggerian phenomenology to identify common meanings and themes in the texts. The major findings of the study suggested two constitutive patterns of lived experience among incest survivors: "Remembering As a Coming of What Has Been" and "Care: Reconstituting a Sense of Me. "
Selective silver impregnation of degenerating axons in the central nervous system.

Rat and rabbit brains containing surgical lesions of 5–10 days' duration were fixed in 10% formalin (neutralized with calcium carbonate) for 1 week to 6 months. Frozen sections (15–20 n) were rinsed and then soaked 7 minutes in a 1.7% solution of strong ammonia in distilled water. Subsequent treatment was as follows: rinse; 0.05% aqueous potassium permanganate 5–15 minutes; 0.5% aqueous potassium metabisulfite, 2 changes of 2.5 minutes each; wash thoroughly in 3 changes distilled water; 1.5% aqueous silver nitrate, 0.5–1.0 hr. ; 1% citric acid, 5–10 sec. ; 2 changes distilled water; 1% sodium thiosulfate, 30 see. ; 3 changes distilled water. Each section is then processed separately. Ammoniacal silver solution (450 mg. silver nitrate in 10 ml. distilled water; add 5 ml. ethanol; let cool to room temperature; add 1 ml. strong ammonia water and 0.9 ml. of 2.5% aqueous sodium hydroxide), 0.5–1.0 min. with gentle agitation. Reduction of about 1 minute is accomplished in: distilled water, 45 ml. ; ethanol, 5 ml. ; .
Deposited in DRO : 04 May 2016 Version of attached le : Accepted Version Peer-review status of attached

Outer joins are ubiquitous in many workloads but are sensitive to loadbalancing problems. Current approaches mitigate such problems caused by data skew by using (partial) replication. However, contemporary replication-based approaches (1) introduce overhead, since they usually result in redundant data movement, (2) are sensitive to parameter tuning and value of data skew and (3) typically require that one side is small. In this paper, we propose a novel parallel algorithm, Redistribution and Efficient Query with Counters (REQC), aimed at robustness in terms of size of join sides, variation in skew and parameter tuning. Experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm is faster, more robust and less demanding in terms of network bandwidth, compared to the state-of-the-art.
False Alert Reduction on Network-Based Intrusion Detection Systems by Means of Feature Frequencies

Internet grows day to day and so on the complexity of its security. Different types of people all around the world use Internet in their daily routine tasks. Internet and network security challenges make use of more efficient and complicated defense tools such as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) vital. Nowadays attempts to solve IDS problems are under consideration. One of the deficiencies of current commercial IDSs is huge number of alerts. Most of generated IDS alerts are related to benign events which overwhelm the analyst. In this paper we try to reduce number of IDS false alerts and filter out those with high scores to decrease analyst workload. Our approach is evaluated on DARPA 2000 dataset and its efficiency has been shown.
Validity of wrist worn accelerometers and comparability between hip and wrist placement sites in estimating physical activity behaviour in preschool children

Wrist-worn accelerometers can increase compliance with wearing accelerometers, however, several large scale studies continue to use hip-worn accelerometers and it is unclear how comparable data is from the two sites. The study aims were: to investigate agreement between wrist- and hip- worn accelerometers and to determine the validity of Johansson et al cut-points for wrist worn accelerometers in preschool children. A sample of 32 preschool children (21 boys, 4.2 (0.5) years, BMI 16.6 (1.1)) were videoed wearing GT3X+ accelerometers on their wrist and hip while they engaged in 1 h of free-play in their nursery. Children’s activity were coded using, the children’s activity rating scale (CARS): with CARS, level 1 ‘sedentary’ and levels 2–5 were classified as time spent in total physical activity (TPA). Accelerometry data were processed using Johansson et al cut-points for the wrist data and Evenson et al cut-points for the hip data, into time spent in different intensities of physical activity (PA). The mean counts per minute (cpm) from the hip and wrist were compared. There was a strong correlation between the hip and wrist cpm (r = 0.81, p < 0.01) and total count data (r = 0.83 p < 0.01), however there was a large systematic bias with wide limits of agreement. Good agreement (mean difference (LOA) 1.1 (−9.9, 12.1) was found between the CARS estimate of TPA (29.5 (10.4) mins) and the wrist estimate, using the Johansson et al cut points (28.4 (9.8) mins). There was also a reasonable agreement between the hip estimates with the Evenson et al cut-points and Johansson et al estimate (mean difference (LOA):6.3 (−8.8, 21.4) mins. In conclusion, the findings suggest that the Johansson et al ( Pediatr. Obes. 10 1–6) cut-points applied to wrist worn accelerometers provides a valid estimate of TPA in preschool children and have reasonable agreement with Evenson et al cut-points applied to hip accelerometers.
Retinoic acid effects on an SV‐40 large T antigen immortalized adult rat bone cell line

Clonal cell lines were established from adult rat tibia cells immortalized with SV‐40 large T antigen. One clone (TRAB‐11), in which retinoic acid (RA) induced alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity, was selected for further study. The TRAB‐11 cells express high levels of type I collagen mRNA, type IV collagen, fibronectin, practically no type III collagen, little osteopontin, and no osteocalcin. RA stimulates proliferation of TRAB‐11 cells (starting at 10 pM) and survival (starting at 100 pM). TRAB‐11 cells synthesize fibroblast growth factor‐2 (FGF‐2), which has potent autocrine mitogenic effects on these cells and acts synergistically with RA. TRAB‐11 cells attach better to type IV collagen than to fibronectin or laminin. Cell attachment to type IV collagen is increased by RA and decreased (65%) by an antibody directed against α1β1 integrin. RA up‐regulates steady‐state levels of α1 mRNA without affecting β1 mRNA expression. In conclusion, we report the establishment of a clonal cell line from the outgrowth of adult rat tibiae which is highly sensitive to RA in its growth and survival in culture, apparently as a result of integrin‐mediated cell interaction with extracellular matrix proteins. J. Cell. Physiol. 179:267–275, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Simulating Spiking Neurons Using a Simple Mathematical Model

Evolving studies related to external electrical stimulation of the spinal cord are showing voluntary motor function in paralyzed patients. However, the relationship between stimulus and response is not completely understood, and thus, optimal stimulus parameters are learned through exhaustive trial and error experiments during clinical testing. In this work, finite element analysis is used to provide insight between the electrical stimulation parameters and the resulting neurological responses. COMSOL Multiphysics 5.1 is used to determine the electric field distribution generated by two electrodes placed on the epidural layer of the spinal cord. The electric field results are then used as an input to the mathematically based Izhikevich neural model to simulate the resulting transient action potentials generated in the axons and these results are comparable to data published in the original paper.
PHARMACOLOGICAL PROFILE OF ORALLY ADMINISTERED YM087, A VASOPRESSIN ANTAGONIST, IN CONSCIOUS RATS

1. YM087 is a newly synthesized non‐peptide arginine vasopressin (AVP) antagonist that shows high affinity for both V1A and V2 receptors. In the present study, the V1A and V2 receptor antagonist effects of orally administered YM087 were assessed in conscious rats.
A new proposal of data mule network focused on Amazon riverine population

This paper presents a new proposal to provide electronic health care for riverine communities through Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), using boats as data mules. The focus of this project is based in specific scenarios without telecommunications infrastructure, like Marajó Archipelago, located in north of Brazil, at Amazon Forest.
Fuzzy wavelet networks for function learning

Inspired by the theory of multiresolution analysis (MRA) of wavelet transforms and fuzzy concepts, a fuzzy wavelet network (FWN) is proposed for approximating arbitrary nonlinear functions. The FWN consists of a set of fuzzy rules. Each rule corresponding to a sub-wavelet neural network (WNN) consists of single-scaling wavelets. Through efficient bases selection, the dimension of the approximated function does not cause the bottleneck for constructing FWN. Especially, by learning the translation parameters of the wavelets and adjusting the shape of membership functions, the model accuracy and the generalization capability of the FWN can be remarkably improved. Furthermore, an algorithm for constructing and training the fuzzy wavelet networks is proposed. Simulation examples are also given to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.
Prevalence and correlates of restless legs syndrome: results from the 2005 National Sleep Foundation Poll.

PURPOSES The purpose of this analysis was to investigate the prevalence and correlates of restless legs syndrome (RLS) symptoms in the 2005 National Sleep Foundation (NSF) Sleep in America 2005 Poll. The NSF poll is an annual telephone interview of a random, representative sample of US adults. METHODS The NSF 2005 poll included 1,506 adults. Their mean age was 49 years, and 775 were women. RESULTS Symptoms of RLS that included unpleasant feelings in the legs for at least a few nights a week, which were worse at night, were reported by 9.7% of individuals in this poll, including 8% of men and 11% of women. Those from the northeast United States were much less likely to be at risk than those from other regions of the country (p < 0.05). Those who were unemployed (p < 0.05) or smoked daily (p < 0.5) were more likely to be at risk for RLS, as were those with hypertension, arthritis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, depression, anxiety, and diabetes (p < 0.05 for all). Adults who were at risk for RLS appeared to also be at increased risk for sleep apnea and insomnia (p < 0.05), and were more likely to stay up longer than they planned, to take longer than 30 min to fall asleep, to drive when drowsy, and to report daytime fatigue than those who were not at risk (p < 0.05 for all). They were also more likely to report being late to work, missing work, making errors at work, and missing social events because of sleepiness than other respondents in the poll (p < 0.05 for all). CONCLUSIONS RLS is significantly associated with medical and psychiatric conditions, other sleep disorders, unfavorable lifestyle behaviors, and adverse effects on daytime function. Chest physicians who practice sleep medicine need to be able to identify and manage RLS, which is prevalent and is associated with considerable morbidity.
Molecular imaging for pediatric lung diseases

Molecular imaging is a rapidly developing multidisciplinary field that combines advances in contrast agent development, instrumentation, and molecular/cell biology to follow cellular and sub‐cellular events in intact organisms. Platforms for molecular imaging include radionuclide‐based methods, optical methods, and magnetic resonance. To date, molecular imaging studies of the lungs have been used to monitor the effectiveness of gene transfer, neutrophilic inflammation, and cell trafficking. Eventually, the goal will be to translate these new techniques to clinical settings such as cystic fibrosis. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2004; 37:286–296. © 2004 Wiely‐Liss, Inc.
Exercise in the treatment of obesity: effects of four interventions on body composition, resting energy expenditure, appetite, and mood.

This study investigated changes in body composition, resting energy expenditure (REE), appetite, and mood in 128 obese women who were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 treatment conditions: diet alone, diet plus aerobic training, diet plus strength training, or diet combined with aerobic and strength training (i.e., combined training). All women received the same 48-week group behavioral program and were prescribed the same diet. Exercising participants were provided 3 supervised exercise sessions per week for the first 28 weeks and 2 sessions weekly thereafter. Participants across the 4 conditions achieved a mean weight loss of 16.5 +/- 6.8 kg at Week 24, which decreased to 15.1 +/- 8.4 kg at Week 48. There were no significant differences among conditions at any time in changes in weight or body composition. Women who received aerobic training displayed significantly smaller reductions in REE at Week 24 than did those who received strength training. There were no other significant differences among conditions at any time on this variable or in changes in appetite and mood.
Identifying reusable functions using specification driven program slicing: a case study

We present the results of a case study in identifying and isolating reusable functions from C programs. The work exploits and specializes to programs written in C the theoretical framework of specification driven program slicing, a new program slicing process for isolating code fragments implementing functional abstractions. The specification of the function to be isolated, given in terms of a precondition and a postcondition, is used to identify a suitable slicing criterion. The preconditions for the execution of program statements and predicates are abstracted by using symbolic execution and compared with the conditions of the specification. The statements whose preconditions are equivalent to the pre and postconditions of the functional abstraction are candidates for entry and exit points of the slice implementing the abstraction. Once the slicing criterion has been identified, the slice can be isolated using algorithms based on control flow graphs and dependence graphs.
Relative Contribution of Additive, Dominance, and Imprinting Effects to Phenotypic Variation in Body Size and Growth between Divergent Selection Lines of Mice

Epigenetic effects attributed to genomic imprinting are increasingly recognized as an important source of variation in quantitative traits. However, little is known about their relative contribution to phenotypic variation compared to those of additive and dominance effects, and almost nothing about their role in phenotypic evolution. Here we address these questions by investigating the relative contribution of additive, dominance, and imprinting effects of quantitative trait loci (QTL) to variation in “early” and “late” body weight in an intercross of mice selected for divergent adult body weight. We identified 18 loci on 13 chromosomes; additive effects accounted for most of the phenotypic variation throughout development, and imprinting effects were always small. Genetic effects on early weight showed more dominance, less additive, and, surprisingly, less imprinting variation than that of late weight. The predominance of additivity of QTL effects on body weight follows the expectation that additive effects account for the evolutionary divergence between selection lines. We hypothesize that the appearance of more imprinting effects on late body weight may be a consequence of divergent selection on adult body weight, which may have indirectly selected for alleles showing partial imprinting effects due to their associated additive effects, highlighting a potential role of genomic imprinting in the response to selection.
Depth estimation from a monocular outdoor image

We present an algorithm to estimate 3D depth from a single monocular outdoor image based on the multiresolution analysis of the various cues including edge, hue, saturation, vertical depth prior, and dark channel prior. Our experimental results show a huge amount of computational savings over literature work while keeping our depth map close to the ground truth.