Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PREVENCIJA PADOVA I PRIJELOMA KOD OSOBA STARIJIH OD 65 GODINA

Demografski podaci grada Rijeke pokazuju nastavak trenda porasta starenja populacije (19,7% starijih pod 65 godina), udio samackih domacinstava je također sve veci (22%). Ozljede kod stanovnika starijih od 65 godina najcesce su vezane uz prijelome (2508), dislokacije, uganoca i nategnuca (397), cime se smanjuje kvaliteta života stanovnistva i povecavaju javnozdravstveni troskovi. Ciljana populacija su sve osobe starije od 65 godina u gradu Rijeci, samostalno pokretni koji žive u privatnim kucanstvima. Kroz program se želi postici da veci broj osoba vježba u svom domu, da se ukljucuje u aktivnosti klubova umirovljenika, da prakticira zastitna ponasanja (reorganizira dom i delegira poslove), povecanje fizicke spremnosti kod ciljane populacije, bolja koncentracija, sigurnije životno okruženje te manji broj padova i lomova, bolja kvaliteta života kao i manji troskovi zdravstvenog sustava. Opravdanost ovog projekta pronalazi se i u podacima dobivenim kroz provedbe fokus grupa koje su pokazale da veci broj umirovljenika ne posjecuje klubove, nemaju informacije o prevenciji padova, manji broj umirovljenika koristi organizirano vježbanje, žele biti informirani o prevenciji padova i da su aktivni clanovi spremni doci do onih neaktivnih kako bi ih informirali. Aktivnosti kroz koje želimo ostvariti nase ciljeve su predavanja za ciljanu populaciju o opasnostima od padova s ozbiljnim zdravstvenim posljedicama te o važnosti vježbanja i mogucnostima vježbanja u kuci, emitirati tematske emisije na televiziji i radiju, distribuirati postere u centre primarne zdravstvene zastite, ljekarne, mjesne odbore i autobusne stanice), letke o sigurnosnim ponasanjima u domu i izvan, plakate s preporukama osoba i obrta za sitne radove u kuci. Evaluacija provedenog dijela aktivnosti pilot predavanja pokazuje da je moguce promijeniti stav i povecati svjesnost o važnosti samozastitnih ponasanja.
XVIII. Contributions to the physiology of vision. —Part the first. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, phenomena of binocular vision

When an object is viewed at so great a distance that the optic axes of both eyes are sensibly parallel when directed towards it, the perspective projections of it, seen by each eye separately, are similar, and the appearance to the two eyes is precisely the same as when the object is seen by one eye only. There is, in such case, no difference between the visual appearance of an object in relief and its perspective projection on a plane surface; and hence pictorial representations of distant objects, when those circumstances which would prevent or disturb the illusion are carefully excluded, may be rendered such perfect resemblances of the objects they are intended to represent as to be mistaken for them; the Diorama is an instance of this. But this similarity no longer exists when the object is placed so near the eyes that to view it the optic axes must converge; under these conditions a different perspective projection of it is seen by each eye, and these perspectives are more dissimilar as the convergence of the optic axes becomes greater. This fact may be easily verified by placing any figure of three dimensions, an outline cube for instance, at a moderate distance before the eyes, and while the head is kept perfectly steady, viewing it with each eye successively while the other is closed. Plate XI. fig. 13. represents the two perspective projections of a cube; b is that seen by the right eye, and a that presented to the left eye; the figure being supposed to be placed about seven inches immediately before the spectator. The appearances, which are by this simple experiment rendered so obvious, may be easily inferred from the established laws of perspective; for the same object in relief is, when viewed by a different eye, seen from two points of sight at a distance from each other equal to the line joining the two eyes. Yet they seem to have escaped the attention of every philosopher and artist who has treated of the subjects of vision and perspective. I can ascribe this inattention to a phenomenon leading to the important and curious consequences, which will form the subject of the present communication, only to this circumstance; that the results being contrary to a principle which was very generally maintained by optical writers, viz. that objects can be seen single only when their images fall on corresponding points of the two retinæ, an hypothesis which will be hereafter discussed, if the consideration ever arose in their minds, it was hastily discarded under the conviction, that if the pictures presented to the two eyes are under certain circumstances dissimilar, their differences must be so small that they need not be taken into account.
New Half-Hemispherical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Broadband Monopole-Type Radiation

A new half-hemispherical dielectric resonator antenna (h-HDRA) is proposed and a two-element h-HDRA configuration is employed to design a broadband monopole-type radiator. Two half sections of a hemispherical DRA are employed to enhance the impedance bandwidth by introducing an additional resonant mode. Since the new geometry of an h-HDRA is studied here for the first time, it is characterized using simulation and experimental studies. Two closely spaced resonant modes, which in a two-element h-HDRA generate monopole-type radiation are investigated. Results for both the single and two-element h-HDRAs are presented. As much as 35% impedance bandwidth (S11<-10dB) with more than 5 dBi peak gain, 99.08% efficiency and monopole-type radiation pattern has been demonstrated using a prototype occupying a compact volume measuring 0.48lambda0 by 0.2lambda0 approximately, lambda0 being the wave length corresponding to the center of the impedance bandwidth
Distribution of Processor-Sharing Customers for a Large Closed System with Multiple Classes

A closed processor-sharing (PS) system with multiple customer classes is considered. The system consists of one infinite server (IS) station and one PS station. For a system with a large number of customers, a saturated PS station, and an arbitrary number of customer classes, asymptotic approximations to the stationary distribution of the total number of customers at the PS station are derived. The asymptotics for the probability mass function is described by a quasi-potential function, which defines the exponential decay for the distribution, and a state-dependent preexponential factor. Both functions have an explicit expression in terms of the solution at each point x of a polynomial equation whose order equals the number of classes and whose coefficients are explicit functions of x. The quasi-potential function at its minimum point provides the logarithmic asymptotics for the normalization constant, and the asymptotic approximation for the variance is inversely proportional to the second derivative of .
Review of Model-Based Testing Approaches in Production Automation and Adjacent Domains—Current Challenges and Research Gaps

As production automation systems have been and are becoming more and more complex, the task of quality assurance is increasingly challenging. Model-based testing is a research field addressing this challenge and many approaches have been suggested for different applications. The goal of this paper is to review these approaches regarding their suitability for the domain of production automation in order to identify current trends and research gaps. The different approaches are classified and clustered according to their main focus which is either testing and test case generation from some form of model automatons, test case generation from models used within the development process of production automation systems, test case generation from fault models or test case selection and regression testing.
The challenge of dual career expatriate management in a specific host national environment: An exploratory study of expatriate and spouse adjustment in Switzerland based MNCs

The number of expatriates from global firms has been continuously increasing over the past decades as multinational companies still view expatriation as an important tool for sharing and transferring knowledge, controlling subsidiaries and developing workforce competencies. Expatriate management is still a costly and complex task for multinational companies. Adjustment, which has been defined as an individual's degree of comfort, familiarity and ease with several aspects of a new cultural environment, is considered to play a central role in expatriation success. In a context characterized by the rise of dual career couples, the increasing number of female expatriates and the growing awareness concerning work life balance, private life issues are increasingly important for multinational companies. On the basis of 126 expatriate couples' questionnaires, this paper compares adjustment of male and female expatriates working in multinational companies in a specific host country environment: the Geneva Lake region in Switzerland where many MNCs have settled their European headquarters. Furthermore, our paper investigates the impact of two variables - gender and employment status - on adjustment of expatriate spouses.
Freeze-drying of ampicillin solid lipid nanoparticles using mannitol as cryoprotectant

Nanoparticulas lipidicas solidas (NLSs) sao sistemas coloidais de liberacao interessantes, uma vez que reunem todas as vantagens de nanoparticulas lipidicas e polimericas. A liofilizacao e um processo amplamente utilizado para melhorar a estabilidade das NLSs e os crioprotetores tem sido usados para diminuir a agregacao destas durante esse processo. Neste estudo, a ampicilina foi escolhida para ser encapsulada em um carreador de colesterol de escala nanometrica. Para manter a estabilidade das NLSs, a liofilizacao foi realizada utilizando-se manitol. O tamanho de particula, o perfil de liberacao do farmaco e os efeitos antibacterianos foram estudados apos a liofilizacao em comparacao com a NLSs primaria. De acordo com os resultados, as preparacoes que contem 5% de manitol mostraram o menor aumento do tamanho de particula. Os resultados de tamanhos medio foram de 150 e 187 nm antes e depois da liofilizacao, respectivamente. O perfil de liberacao prolongada, bem como o efeito antimicrobiano da ampicilina NLSs nao foram alterados apos a liofilizacao. A analise por DSC evidenciou provavel interacao entre a ampicilina e o colesterol.
Research Report : Hybrid Clarinet Project

In the past thirty years we have seen a wide range of studies on the physical modeling of musical instruments using the waveguide technique. We now have at our disposal sophisticated models encompassing a large array of musical instruments. While the waveguide technique is both efficient and allows for the creation of effective models, it remains dependent on the precise control of the parameters of the model as well as on the quality of the excitation that is used to drive them. Many works on the control of waveguide physical models and on the modeling of nonlinear excitations have been carried out. However, the link between these two parameters is generally understudied. Indeed, for most musical instruments, the excitation is the element that has the greatest number of parameters to control and is thus the hardest element to model. The properties of the bore of a clarinet for example (but this also applies to most of the woodwind and brass instruments) can only be modified by tone holes, that are very discrete controllers (they can be opened or closed or half closed in some cases). On the other hand, the interactions between the mouthpiece and the player are extremely complex and difficult to simulate on a computer. This problem has been addressed in many ways in the past with different solutions for almost every case. Yamaha, for example, created a breath controller that worked with the VL1 synthesizer series1. For violins, Esteban Maestre developed a technique where the parameters of the physical model are controlled by gesture data acquired from real world performers[3]. The technique we present in this report uses a 3D printed mouthpiece combined with a system based on a piezo sensor and a loudspeaker to drive a simple physical model of a clarinet bore. The idea was to create a hybrid instrument based on a real mouthpiece and a virtual bore. We
Multiple Sensors Based Hand Motion Recognition Using Adaptive Directed Acyclic Graph

The use of human hand motions as an effective way to interact with computers/robots, robot manipulation learning and prosthetic hand control is being researched in-depth. This paper proposes a novel and effective multiple sensor based hand motion capture and recognition system. Ten common predefined object grasp and manipulation tasks demonstrated by different subjects are recorded from both the human hand and object points of view. Three types of sensors, including electromyography, data glove and FingerTPS are applied to simultaneously capture the EMG signals, the finger angle trajectories, and the contact force. Recognising different grasp and manipulation tasks based on the combined signals is investigated by using an adaptive directed acyclic graph algorithm, and results of comparative experiments show the proposed system with a higher recognition rate compared with individual sensing technology, as well as other algorithms. The proposed framework contains abundant information from multimodal human hand motions with the multiple sensor techniques, and it is potentially applicable to applications in prosthetic hand control and artificial systems performing autonomous dexterous manipulation.
Molecular composition and development of the plant glycocalyx associated with the peribacteroid membrane of pea root nodules

In root nodules of pea (Pisum sativum), endosymbiotic Rhizobium bacteroids are individually enclosed by a plant-derived membrane, the peribacteroid membrane, creating an organelle-like structure termed the symbiosome. In order to investigate the structure and function of the peribacteroid membrane in plant-microbe surface interactions, monoclonal antibodies were used to identify the major antigenic components of this membrane and to investigate their cellular and tissue distribution. Immunofluorescence studies with isolated intact and ruptured symbiosomes indicated that the relevant antigens were confined to the luminal (inner) face of the peribacteroid membrane. Biochemical analysis indicated that the antibodies recognised carbohydrate epitopes associated with Golgi-derived glycoproteins and glycolipids. These glycoconjugate molecules are collectively termed the glycocalyx. Three different classes of glycocalyx antigens, reacting with different groups of monoclonal antibodies, could be distinguished. Immunolocalisation studies of longitudinal sections of pea nodules revealed enhanced expression of glycocalyx antigens in infected nodule tissue, with the three classes of antigen showing different degrees of expression in different developmental zones of the tissue. One of the classes of antigen was absent from the apical meristematic region of pea nodules but was re-expressed during cell invasion by Rhizobium and the development of peribacteroid membranes. In Phaseolus nodules, as opposed to those of Pisum, this group of antigens was entirely lacking from the central infected tissue.
International Subsidiary Management and Environmental Constraints: The Case for Indigenization

We use insights from resource dependence, institutional theories and social movement theories to examine the indigenization of subsidiary management in the multinational company (MNC). We discuss the effects of interdependence with local organizations, access to critical resources, and MNC legitimacy in the host country on the indigenization of subsidiary management. We consider the impact of local and extra-local social movement activity as well as the local political opportunity structure in the host country. The organizational variables in the framework include international strategy and experience. We suggest implications for further international management research and practice involving the operation of foreign subsidiaries.
A comparative analysis of similarity measurement techniques through SimReq framework

The study of semantic similarity has long been an essential part of natural language processing. In informational retrieval, usage of similarity measurement is getting popularity day by day, but usage of similarity measurements in requirements engineering is not very common. Previously, we have presented SimReq, a Similarity Measurement Framework for requirements engineering. In this paper, we have used different similarity measurement techniques with SimReq framework, and perform a comparative analysis among those similarity measurement techniques. Results have shown that efficiency of Cosine similarity measurement is always better than rest of other similarity measurement techniques.
Tilletiopsis minor: a new etiologic agent of human subcutaneous mycosis in an immunocompromised host

We describe herein the isolation of Tilletiopsis minor from a subcutaneous cyst of a 70-year-old immunocompromised male. The diagnosis was based on repeated isolation of the fungus, observation of hyphal elements in tissue sections, the ability of the mold to grow at or near body temperature, and the achievement of a complete cure following surgery and antifungal therapy.
Efficient Verified Programs in a Typed Theory with Mixed Constructivity

We define a programming logic Sp1, a mixed-constructive type theory. Sp1 combines computational/constructive and non-computational/classical logic so that proofs in the logic can be understood as efficient verified applicative programs. The theory is obtained by adding an explicit notion of 'virtual' value and computation to a simple typed A-calculus version of constructive type theory. Virtual values are used as part of a Heyting-like denotational semantics for proof terms. In particular, they are used to provide semantics for computations suppressed for efficiency (for example, bounds of termination for recursive functions). In addition, virtual values are used to provide semantics for proof terms that use classical reasoning: they are understood as standing for virtual values that can appeal to an oracle for Piercc's law and hence cannot be evaluated at runtime. The advantages of this approach over approaches that use lazy evaluation or compile-tinie code optimization are that suppression of evidence is explicit and under user control; suppressed programs have a natural syntax; the logic is more expressive because one can quantity over suppressed values; and classical, constructive, and mixed-constructive types can be built from one unified syntax and semantics, as can classical, constructive, and mixed expressions.
How could robotic training and botolinum toxin be combined in chronic post stroke upper limb spasticity? A pilot study.

BACKGROUND Spasticity has a role of primary importance in functional motor recovery of upper limb after a stroke. The widespread intervention is the botulinum toxin neurolysis, however robotic training could have a role as useful addition to this conventional therapy. AIM The aim of this study was to verify how the combination of a short robotic training and chemical neurolysis reduces spasticity and improves function in chronic post-stroke patients. DESIGN Prospective single blind randomized controlled clinical trial. SETTING Post-stroke outpatients. POPULATION Fifteen chronic post-stroke outpatients with severe upper limb spastic paresis. METHODS Two experimental groups underwent ten sessions of robotic training, alone (Group A) or with Botulinum toxin neurolysis (Group B). Evaluation of motor function with Fugl Meyer Upper Limb Assessment Scale (FMA) and Box & Block Test (B&B), disability with Functional Indipendence Measure (FIM), spasticity with Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), and the Quality of Life (Euro-Qol) and muscular recruitment pattern with dynamic surface electromyography were carried out before and after the interventions. RESULTS Both groups showed improvement in FMA (Group A 8.25 and Group B 5.29). Higher improvement in B&B was detected in the group A (2.62 versus 0,14 in Group B). MAS was improved more in the Group B (-0,86 versus -0,14 in Group A). In both groups, sEMG showed a reduction of co-contractions and an increase of agonist muscles recruitment during the reaching movement and the robotic exercises. CONCLUSION The demonstrated improvement in motor function and in muscular activation pattern suggests how a short robotic training could be effective in chronic post-stroke spasticity of upper limb and in less severe spasticity the only robotic treatment could be effective. CLINICAL REHABILITATION IMPACT With the limits of small sample, the results showed some equivalence between these two approaches with respect to motor recovery and spasticity reduction suggesting that the cost effectiveness of each treatment may have an important role in this choice.
Tailorable Elastomeric Grating With Tunable Groove Density Gradient

This paper describes a new method for fabrication of tailorable elastomeric gratings with tunable groove density gradients based on stretching of the grating sample in a direction perpendicular to the grating line within the grating surface. The advantage of this method is that the tunable groove density gradient can be achieved by tailoring of the shape of a grating sample with uniform thickness. The groove density gradient changes as a specific function of its spatial position on the tailored surface of the elastomeric grating. The resulting tailorable elastomeric gratings can be used in the fabrication of devices such as optical position sensors and tunable optical filters.
Using Technology to Enhance Mathematical Reasoning: Effects of Feedback and Self-Regulation Learning

Effects of two types of feedback on mathematical reasoning in a computerized environment are compared. Metacognitive feedback (MF) is based on self-regulation learning using metacognitive questions that serve as cues for understanding the problem. Result feedback (RF) means giving cues that pertain only to the final outcome. A total of 108 sixth-grade Israeli students participated in the study. Results indicated that the MF students significantly outperformed the RF students on various measures of mathematical reasoning and mathematical explanations. Theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed. L’utilisation de la technologie pour développer le raisonnement mathématique : les effets du feed back et de l’apprentissage autorégulé. Ce texte compare les effets de deux types de feed back sur le développement du raisonnement mathématique dans un environnement informatique: a) le feed back métacognitif (MF) qui se base sur un apprentissage autorégulé et utilise des questions de type métacognitif (Mevarech et Kramarski, 1997) qui servent d'indices pour identifier la compréhension du problème ; b) le feed back sur les résultats (RF) qui ne donne des indications que sur les résultats finaux. Cent quatre-vingt étudiants israéliens de sixième année ont participé À cette étude. Les résultats indiquent que les étudiants soumis au MF obtiennent de meilleurs résultats que ceux soumis au RF sur la base de mesures du raisonnement et de l'explicitation mathématiques. Der Einsatz von Technologie zur Steigerung mathematischer Logik: Die Wirkung von Feeback und selbstreguliertem Lernen. Im Vergleich stehen zwei Feeback-Arten mathematischer Logik in einem Computer-unterstützten Umfeld : (a) Metakognitives Feedback (MF = metacognitive feedback) basiert auf selbstreguliertem Lernen unter Verwendung von metakognitiven Fragen (Mevarech & Kramarski, 1997) die als Hinweise zum besseren Verständnis des Problems dienen ; (b) Ergebnis-orientiertes Feedback (RF = result feedback), das lediglich Hinweise auf das Endergebnis gibt. 180 israelische Schüler im Alter von ca. 12 Jahren nahmen an dieser Studie teil. Bei der Analyse des Resultats wurde offenbar, dass die MF-unterstützten Schüler wesentlich besser abschnitten, als die RF-Schüler. Theoretische und praktische Auswirkungen dieser Studie werden noch diskutiert.