Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Reliability and Validity Study of the Korean versions of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire version 6.0 (EDE-Q version 6.0) and the Clinical Impairment Assessment Questionnaire (CIA)

Objectives:The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, version 6.0 (EDE-Q version 6.0) and the Clinical Impairment Assessment Questionnaire (CIA) measure attitudes and behavioral features of eating disorders and impairments secondary to eating disorders, respectively. The aims of this study were to examine the reliability and the validity of the Korean versions of the EDE-Q version 6.0 and the CIA. Methods:Four hundred nineteen participants (370 female university students and 49 women with eating disorders) completed the EDE-Q version 6.0, the CIA, the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) and the Weight Concern Scale (WCS). Results:Excellent internal consistencies were obtained for the EDE-Q version 6.0 (Cronbach’s α=0.92) and the CIA (Cronbach’s α=0.91). Exploratory factor analysis of CIA extracted the 3 factors of personal, social, and cognitive impairments, as the original CIA had. The EDE-Q version 6.0 and the CIA were well correlated with the BSQ and the WCS, in respect to their contextually concordant variables. Patients with eating disorders had higher scores both in the EDE-Q 6.0 and the CIA than university women had, supporting good discriminant validity. Conclusions:The EDE-Q version 6.0 and the Korean versions of the CIA had adequate reliability and validity. These data will help clinicians and researchers to use the EDE-Q and the CIA in diagnosis, prevention and intervention of eating disorders in Korea.
Managing disruption risks in supply chain

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for disruption risks in supply chain. The stages of the disruption risks management process consist of four components including disruption risks identification, assessment, implementation and monitoring. We investigate mitigation strategies for dealing with disruption risks. The paper provides directions for future research in supply chain risk management. In addition, the paper will not only be a resource to academicians but also to practitioners who are looking for best practices for managing disruptions in supply chain.
Do Studies of Statistical Power Have an Effect on the Power of Studies?

The long-term impact of studies of statistical power is investigated using J. Cohen's (1962) pioneering work as an example. We argue that the impact is nil; the power of studies in the same journal that Cohen reviewed (now the Journal of Abnormal Psychology) has not increased over the past 24 years. In 1960 the median power (i.e., the probability that a significant result will be obtained if there is a true effect) was . 46 for a medium size effect, whereas in 1984 it was only . 37. The decline of power is a result of alpha-adjusted procedures. Low power seems to go unnoticed: only 2 out of 64 experiments mentioned power, and it was never estimated. Nonsignificance was generally interpreted as confirmation of the null hypothesis (if this was the research hypothesis), although the median power was as low as . 25 in these cases. We discuss reasons for the ongoing neglect of power.
Adequacy of Nutritional Support in Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation

The use of nutrition support has become standard practice in blood and marrow transplantation, but what remains unclear is whether patients receive adequate nutrition supplementation during this time. This study is a retrospective audit of the nutritional supplementation of 34 pediatric patients admitted to a pediatric oncology unit for a blood and marrow transplantation. All patients received parenteral nutrition (PN) as their standard nutritional therapy with an average of 79 ± 10.6% of their estimated requirements given over the transplant period. The glucose/amino acid infusion was inadequate on 40% of PN days mainly because of fluid overload causing a reduction in infusion rates. The lipid infusion was inadequate on 60% of PN days mainly because of stoppages when drugs and/or blood were infused. The mean percentage weight change on discharge was +0.3 ± 4.7%. This had a large range of between −9.9% and +7.9% of body weight and did not seem to be related to adequacy of nutrition during transplant. This study showed that although frequent rate reductions in nutrition infusions did occur, most patients still received the majority of their nutritional requirements.
A digital 80 Mb/s OFDM transceiver IC for wireless LAN in the 5 GHz band

Emerging standards for broadband wireless LANs (WLANs) such as IEEE802.11a, Hiperlan-II and MMAC require orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) modulation for the physical layer (PHY) interface. OFDM modems were previously realized in the context of very high speed digital subscriber lines (VDSL) and digital audio broadcast (DAB). However, the WLAN application puts different constraints on the OFDM transceiver presented here because the terminals are portable. Therefore, an adaptive frequency domain equalizer is integrated to mitigate the variations of the indoor wireless channel. Fast programmable on-chip acquisition hardware supports burst mode communications.
Audio-Visual Multimedia Quality Assessment: A Comprehensive Survey

Measuring perceived quality of audio-visual signals at the end-user has become an important parameter in many multimedia networks and applications. It plays a crucial role in shaping audio-visual processing, compression, transmission and systems, along with their implementation, optimization, and testing. Service providers are enacting different quality of service (QoS) solutions to issue the best quality of experience (QoE) to their customers. Thus, devising precise perception-based quality metrics will greatly help improving multimedia services over wired and wireless networks. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of the works that have been carried out over recent decades in perceptual audio, video, and joint audio-visual quality assessments, describing existing methodologies in terms of requirement of a reference signal, feature extraction, feature mapping, and classification schemes. In this context, an overview of quality formation and perception, QoS, QoE as well as quality of perception is also presented. Finally, open issues and challenges in audio-visual quality assessment are highlighted and potential future research directions are discussed.
Antagonistic Functions of Two Stardust Isoforms in Drosophila Photoreceptor Cells

Two Stardust isoforms are expressed in adult Drosophila photoreceptors, which associate with Crumbs and PATJ, but form distinct complexes. Sdt-H and Sdt-D have antagonistic functions on stalk membrane length and light-dependent retinal degeneration, suggesting a fine-tuned balance of different Crumbs complexes regulating photoreceptor homeostasis.
A Retrospective, Pilot Study of De Novo Antidepressant Medication Initiation in Intensive Care Unit Patients and Post-ICU Depression

Post-ICU Syndromes (PICS) remain a devastating problem for intensive care unit (ICU) survivors. It is currently unknown if de novo initiation of an antidepressant medication during ICU stay decreases the prevalence of post-ICU depression. We performed a retrospective, pilot study evaluating patients who had not previously been on an antidepressant medication and who were started on an antidepressant while in the trauma surgical, cardiothoracic, or medical intensive care unit (ICU). The PHQ-2 depression scale was used to ascertain the presence of depression after ICU discharge and compared this to historical controls. Of 2,988 patients admitted to the ICU, 69 patients had de novo initiation of an antidepressant medication and 27 patients were alive and available for study inclusion. We found the prevalence of depression in these patients to be 26%, which is not statistically different than the prevalence of post-ICU depression in historical controls [95% CI (27.6%, 51.6%)]. De novo initiation of an antidepressant medication did not substantially decrease the prevalence of post-ICU depression in this retrospective, pilot study.
Elimination of artifactual labeling of hippocampal mossy fibers seen follong pre‐embedding immunogold‐silver technique by pretreatment with zinc chelator

INTRODUCTION. Recently, we used the pre-embedding immunogold-silver Iabeling method (Chan et al., 1990) to examine the ultrastructural localization of various antigens within the rat hippocampal formation and observed silver particles in the mossy fiber terminals even in the absence of primary antibodies. Since mossy fibers contain large amounts of endogenous zinc, including a chelatable pool stored withm synaptic vesicles (Frederickson and Danscher, 1988), we hypothesized that the silver intensification of the immunogold product also labeled endogenous zinc. Thus, rats were pretreated with the zinc chelator, sodium diethyl dithiocarbamate (DEDTC), prior to perfusion fixation and the immunogold-silver labeling method in an effort to eliminate the artifactual labeling of mossy fibers.
From Standalone to Collective Intelligent Route Control

In this paper we investigate the main limitations of the existing Intelligent Route Control (IRC) model at the AS- level. Among such limitations we found that all solutions avail- able at present are standalone. As a side-effect, they can only provide one-way route control, i.e., they can intelligently control how traffic flows from an AS but not how it flows into the AS. Furthermore, all available solutions behave in a fully selfish way, that is, they operate without considering the effects of their decisions in the performance of the network. Based on these limitations, we propose to extend the existing IRC model from standalone and selfish to a collective and friendlier IRC model. Our evaluations confirm that when several route controllers compete for the same network resources, the standalone and selfish ones are outperformed by those using a collective and friendlier approach, and this becomes especially noticeable as the network utilization increases. A key advantage is that our extensions can be installed and used today, by simply perform- ing software upgrades to any of the existing IRC solutions. Keywords-component; Intelligent Route Control, end-to-end per- formance.
Terahertz Reflecting and Transmitting Metasurfaces

Bridging the terahertz gap requires synergism between the microwave and photonic communities. Advances in each of these two communities are often complementary but sometimes overlooked. One example is the manipulation of waves, known as anomalous diffraction via the use of metamaterials. This is achieved by controlling the surface impedance of each pixel at the interface of two different materials or alternately the phase and magnitude of the wave diffracted off the pixel. In this paper, a review of developments in wave manipulation from microwave to optical frequencies is presented, together with our new results in the terahertz regime. Generation of phase curves for pixel design requires a priori information on material properties at terahertz frequencies. Fabrication of terahertz devices entails micromachining in the clean room while their experimental validation demands both amplitude and phase information. Through judicial selection of practices in microwave and photonic communities, we can further the exploration of wave phenomena at terahertz frequencies.
Low Power AMR System Based on FPGA

This article presents a remote automatic meter reading (AMR) system as a result of the Mirakonta project, in which are involved several university investigation groups and a private company. The AMR system is composed by reader devices and a group of elements that allow a wireless connection to a central server. The system is based on taking a picture of the fluid meter digit display, preprocessing and transmitting it to a remote element using a radio frequency ad-hoc protocol. The reader device is implemented on a FPGA based system and the firmware can be updated remotely (remote reconfiguration). In addition, the different parameters of the reader can be configured remotely. To meet the low power requirements a sleep and wake-up technique is applied. All the requirements of the system have been covered, offering a hardware-software product that covers most needs of the end users.
Estimating the remaining useful life of Li-ion batteries with a Bayesian updating model

In this paper, we studied a prediction method for the remaining useful life of Lithium-ion batteries. First, a battery degradation model is obtained based on exponential degradation signal modeling with data collected from second generation 18650-size lithiumion cells from NASA. Using a Bayesian updating procedure, we then obtain the conditional cumulative distribution function (cdf) of the residual life of the battery at various time intervals. Finally, we discuss this method and draw the conclusion that the model is accurate in terms of prediction.
13 kA current lead with textured YBCO plates

At Haldor Topsoe A/S, the authors have developed a texturing process by which they produce YBCO high temperature superconductor plates with high current densities and low thermal conductivity suitable for current leads between 77 K and 4 K. In their design of such a lead, the superconductor is quench protected by a shunt with low heat leak and the brittleness of the YBCO material has been overcome by reinforcement. The lead has been tested by CERN and has fulfilled CERN's specifications concerning current capacity, total heat leak, contact resistances and quench protection of the superconductor.
Perception maps for the local navigation of a mobile robot: a neural network approach

Sensorial perception is a key issue for the problem of robot local navigation, that is, the immediate or short-range motion planning, reacting only to the free space around the robot, without requiring a pre-defined trajectory plan. Therefore, local navigation requires no environment model and relies entirely on sensorial data. Commonly used sensors such as ultrasonic ranging devices, are known for their associated problems: specular reflections and crosstalk, essentially. However if sensors are used in an appropriate number and geometric lay-outs, the resulting spatial redundancy offers the possibility of overcoming some of those problems. This paper deals with these problems by means of special perception maps using ultrasound data. A generalised grid serves as the base of maps, and its cells have simply binary values: free or occupied. The relation between the topology of the perception map and the environment is a determinant factor for accurate reasoning. A 3-layer feed-forward neural network is used to perform the mapping between sensorial scans and grid occupancy. It was verified that the neural network handles most of the situations of specular reflections, and gives good perception maps for mid-range distances. Changes in environment, such as obstacles in vehicle's trajectory, have also been detected, which stresses the network's ability to generalise. <<ETX>>
Tool Writing: A Forgotten Art?

The author decided to create a tool to fit the needs. In the process, the author discovered something important: writing stand-alone tools that you can combine efficiently with others to handle more demanding tasks appears to be becoming a forgotten art. The author created a metric tool, named ckjm, using the design principles the author outlined earlier. The tool operates on a list of compiled Java classes specified as arguments or read from its standard input. It then prints to its standard output a single line for each class, containing the class name and the six metrics values. Ant Java-based build tool and adding an XML output option.
Differential effects of vitamins E and C and carotenoids on growth, resistance to oxidative stress, fledging success and plumage colouration in wild great tits

Oxidative stress is the imbalance between the production of reactive species and antioxidants, which causes damage to lipids, proteins and DNA. Antioxidants, like vitamins and carotenoids, can limit oxidative damage and can therefore regulate the trade-off between growth, which is a period of high reactive species production, and self-maintenance. However, the role of carotenoids as antioxidants in vivo has been debated, and it has been suggested that carotenoid-based signals indicate the availability of non-pigmentary antioxidants (e.g. vitamins) that protect carotenoids from oxidation, known as the ‘protection hypothesis’. To evaluate the importance of vitamins versus carotenoids as antioxidants during growth and to test the protection hypothesis, we supplemented nestling great tits, Parus major, 3, 5 and 7 days after hatching with a single dose of carotenoids and/or vitamins in a 2×2 full-factorial design. We subsequently measured body condition, antioxidant capacity, oxidative damage, fledging success and plumage reflectance. Vitamins enhanced antioxidant capacity, but did not affect oxidative damage. Vitamin-treated nestlings had higher growth rates and higher probability of fledging. In contrast, carotenoids did not affect any of these traits. Furthermore, carotenoid-based colouration increased over the breeding season in nestlings that received vitamins only. This study shows that vitamins are limiting for growth rate and fledging success, and suggests that vitamins could regulate the trade-off between growth and self-maintenance in favour of the former. Moreover, our results are consistent with the idea that carotenoids are minor antioxidants in birds, but they do not support the protection hypothesis.
A 3D recognition and projection system for meridians and acupoints

OBJECTIVES: As a significant part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), acupoint positioning heavily depends on the acupuncturist's skills. Due to shortage of accurate acupoint detection system with favorable human-computer interactivity, a recognition and projection system for meridians and acupoints is proposed that is based on three-dimensional (3D) scanning. METHODS: First, a 3D human model is reconstructed from the color and depth information of human body acquired by the photographic device. Then, 3D coordinates of acupuncture points can be calculated according to the positioning method in Acupoint Science, on the basis of which, a virtual 3D model of meridians and collaterals is also built and stored on the computer. Finally, with the camera-projector system calibrated, a two-dimensional (2D) image of acupuncture points and meridians corresponding to current posture is extracted, and projected to the surface of the body by the projector, displaying annotated meridians and acupoints visually. CONCLUSIONS: The system is simple and easy-to-handle, and it achieves the visualization of acupoints and meridians, which makes it suitable for the teaching and practice of meridian theory.
Wideband Pattern-Reconfigurable Antenna Using Pair of Radial Radiators on Truncated Ground With Switchable Director and Reflector

A compact wideband pattern-reconfigurable antenna that is based on multiple radiators and switchable director/reflector is presented. The antenna consists of two quarter-wavelength radial radiators placed on two sides of a central feeder at the top layer. The bottom layer of the antenna includes a truncated quarter-wavelength ground plane and two quarter-wavelength parallel strips surrounding the radiators. Four p-i-n diodes, which are interlocked in pair, are used to control the radiation direction by selecting the radiator at the top layer and switching the strips at the bottom layer between being a director or reflector. Thus, the antenna achieves four-state pattern reconfigurability in the azimuthal plane. The antenna has a bandwidth of 1.88–2.64 GHz (34% fractional bandwidth) and is capable of steering the beam in the four directions 0°, 45°, 135°, and 180° in the azimuth plane. The antenna achieves a stable measured gain of more than 2.8 dBi across the band with a peak gain of 3.7 dBi. It has a low profile of 0. 48λ<italic>e</italic> × 0. 64λ<italic>e</italic> × 0. 02λ<italic>e</italic> (λ<italic>e</italic> guided wavelength at 1.88 GHz) on a low-cost FR4 substrate. With the covered band, the antenna can be used in compact handheld and portable devices, indoor or short-range communications, WiMAX and WLAN.
Weather-to-garment: Weather-oriented clothing recommendation

In this paper, we demonstrate a practical system for automatic weather-oriented clothing suggestion, given the weather information, the system can automatically recommend the most suitable clothing from the user s personal clothing album, or intelligently suggest the most pairing one with the user-specified reference clothing. This is an extremely challenging problem due to the large discrepancy factors that should be considered under different weather conditions. To approach this task, we use clothing attributes as a mid-level bridge to narrow the gap between low-level features and the high-level weather categories. We adopt a scoring function, which includes three terms, to model the relationship. To acquire an optimized model and verify our proposed method, we collect a large clothing Weather-to-Garment (WoG) dataset. Experiments on the WoG dataset demonstrate that our learned model are effective for both weather-oriented clothing recommendation and pairing.
Cloning and characterization of canine prostate‐specific membrane antigen

Prostate‐specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a promising biomarker in the diagnosis of prostate cancer and a potential target for antibody‐based therapeutic strategies. We isolated the canine PSMA cDNA and investigated the cellular and biochemical characteristics of the recombinant protein as a potential target for animal preclinical studies of antibody based‐therapies.
Association between Reproductive Factors and Urinary Estrogens and Estrogen Metabolites in Premenopausal Women

Background: Little is known about relationships among reproductive factors, estrogens and estrogen metabolites (jointly referred to as EM), and estrogen metabolism patterns. Methods: In a cross-sectional analysis, we examined the associations of age at menarche, menstrual cycle length and regularity, parity, age at first and last birth, breastfeeding, and duration of and time since use of oral contraceptives with mid-luteal phase urinary EM in a sample of 603 premenopausal women, ages 33 to 51 years, within the Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII). Fifteen individual urinary EMs were measured with liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS-MS) and analyzed both individually and in metabolic pathways. Results: Compared with women with extremely regular cycles, those with irregular cycles had lower levels of total EM (percent difference = 24%; Ptrend = 0.01), estradiol (23%; Ptrend = 0.02), and 16-hydroxylation pathway EM (32%; Ptrend < 0.01). Longer menstrual cycles were associated with higher levels of estrone (percent difference ≥32 vs. <26 days: 25%; Ptrend = 0.03), estradiol (24%; Ptrend = 0.01), and 16-hydroxylation pathway EM (22%; Ptrend = 0.02). Among parous women, older age at first birth was associated with lower 16-hydroxylation pathway EM (percent difference age at first birth >35 vs. ≤25 years: 20%; Ptrend = 0.02). The other reproductive factors were not statistically significantly associated with individual urinary EM or EM pathways. Conclusions and Impact: These data, based on a LC/MS-MS assay with high specificity and precision, provide an initial, comprehensive evaluation of the associations between reproductive factors and estrogen metabolism patterns. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 21(6); 959–68. ©2012 AACR.