Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Phenomenological Exploration of Reflections on Lived Space by Child Sexual Abusers

Child sexual abusers may be better understood by phenomenological exploration of reflections on childhood lived space. Child sexual abusers often suffer from child sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect in their childhood lived space. These experiences may be considered a limitation or deformation of the child's lived space, resulting in a distorted self view that contributes to adult behavior. Child sexual abuse is not a new phenomenon; it is a problem that has existed throughout history but has rarely enjoyed the publicity and concern of recent times. Child sexual abusers’ reflections on their lived space during childhood were explored by interviewing eight incarcerated child sexual abusers in a US correctional center. Van Manen's descriptive-interpretive theoretical process was used to guide abusers’ existential reflections on their childhood lived space. van Manen's phenomenological method is dynamic and was used to organize and analyze data into essential categorical themes, one of which is “failure to root. ” While the viewpoint is retrospective, participants in this study provided unique perspectives on childhood reflections on lived space. These experiences, as reported by the participants, could be used to assist child victims to cope and to guide nursing practice, education, and future research related to Healthy People 2010's Goal 15 (Healthy People 2010, n.d.).
A BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHM TO PROVIDING SOLUTION FOR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORK

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are a promising technology that could revolutionize the way wireless network access is provided. We allocate the available bandwidth in wireless mesh network to reducing the energy consumption of a user using the AODV protocol. the AODV protocol to reducing energy consumption using the improving parameters are throughput, end to end delay, network overhead, energy spent, packet delivery ratio. The bandwidth allocation using greedy algorithm and gateway load balancing routing protocol. In this paper Genetic Algorithm used for providing solution in optimization problem.Topology of wireless mesh networks with more no of nodes is routed using genetic algorithm with proposed approaches and parameters such as end to end delay, throughput, energy spent, packet delivery ratio.finally comparison done between greedy algorithm and genetic algorithm.
Molecular Nature of Anomalous L-Type Calcium Channels in Mouse Cerebellar Granule Cells

Single-channel analysis revealed the existence of neuronal L-type Ca2+ channels (LTCCs) with fundamentally different gating properties; in addition to LTCCs resembling cardiac channels, LTCCs with anomalous gating were identified in a variety of neurons, including cerebellar granule cells. Anomalous LTCC gating is mainly characterized by long reopenings after repolarization following strong depolarizations or trains of action potentials. To elucidate the unknown molecular nature of anomalous LTCCs, we performed single-channel patch-clamp recordings from cerebellar granule cells of wild-type, Cav1.3−/− and Cav1.2DHP−/− [containing a mutation in the Cav1.2 α1 subunit that eliminates dihydropyridine (DHP) sensitivity] mice. Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR revealed that Cav1.2 accounts for 89% and Cav1.3 for 11% of the LTCC transcripts in wild-type cerebellar granule cells, whereas Cav1.1 and Cav1.4 are expressed at insignificant levels. Anomalous LTCCs were observed in neurons of Cav1.3−/− mice with a frequency not different from wild type. In the presence of the DHP agonist (+)-(S)-202-791, the typical prepulse-induced reopenings of anomalous LTCCs after repolarization were shorter in Cav1.2DHP−/− neurons than in Cav1.3−/− neurons. Reopenings in Cav1.2DHP−/− neurons in the presence of the DHP agonist were similar to those in wild-type neurons in the absence of the agonist. These data show that Cav1.2α1 subunits are the pore-forming subunits of anomalous LTCCs in mouse cerebellar granule cells. Given the evidence that Cav1.2 channels are specifically involved in sustained Ras-MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase)-dependent cAMP response element-binding protein phosphorylation and LTCC-dependent hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) (Moosmang et al., 2005), we discuss the hypothesis that anomalous rather than cardiac-type Cav1.2 channels are specifically involved in LTCC-dependent and gene transcription-dependent LTP.
Effect of IR-Drop on Path Delay Testing Using Statistical Analysis

IR-drop has become a major source of delay defects in deep sub-micron VLSI designs. In this work, we analyze the effect of IR-drop in path-delay test and how to obtain more accurate delay information of critical paths. For possible regions with IR-drop, we perform timing analysis on these nodes such that a certain amount of voltage drop can be associated with extra delays on victim nodes. Power analysis is conducted to determine the occurrence probability of a certain voltage drop. These probability values are used to weigh the extra delays caused by IR-drop of all victim nodes, which are then accumulated along each path. Experimental results show that such a process can effectively take the small delays caused by IR-drop into consideration and can have a significant impact on the identification and analysis of critical paths.
Percutaneous left ventricular assist device with TandemHeart for high‐risk percutaneous coronary intervention: The Mayo Clinic experience

In patients with poor left ventricular function and severe left main or multivessel coronary disease, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery has been the preferred therapy. However, a number of these patients are either inoperable or poor surgical candidates due to comorbid conditions and previous cardiac surgical procedures. These patients are generally poor candidates for standard percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) techniques. A hybrid PCI approach with hemodynamic support may be a viable strategy for these patients. We report our experience using the TandemHeart percutaneous left ventricular assist device during high‐risk PCI.
Edge-preserving nonlocal weighting scheme for total variation based compressive sensing recovery

Although total variation minimization technique is being widely used in compressive sensing recovery, it still suffers from the so called staircase artifact which is caused by losing fine details of image. As a solution for the problem, in this paper, we propose an edge-preserving weighting scheme utilizing nonlocal structure and histogram of natural image in the gradient domain. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme surpasses the traditional total variation and the edge-guided CS in both objective and subjective qualities.
Antimicrobial peptides in crustaceans

Crustaceans are a large and diverse invertebrate animal group that mounts a complex and efficient innate immune response against a variety of microorganisms. The crustacean immune system is primarily related to cellular responses and the production and release of important immune effectors into the hemolymph. Antimicrobial proteins and/or peptides (AMPs) are key components of innate immunity and are widespread in nature, from bacteria to vertebrate animals. In crustaceans, 15 distinct AMP families are currently recognized, although the great majority (14 families) comes from members of the order Decapoda. Crustacean AMPs are generally cationic, gene-encoded molecules that are mainly produced by circulating immune-competent cells (hemocytes) or are derived from unrelated proteins primarily involved in other biological functions. In this review, we tentatively classified the crustacean AMPs into four main groups based on their amino acid composition, structural features and multi-functionality. We also attempted to summarize the current knowledge on their implication both in an efficient response to microbial infections and in crustacean survival.
Surgical treatment for small bowel Crohn's disease: an experience of 28 cases.

BACKGROUND Crohn's disease is increasingly encountered in India. This paper reviews our experience with surgery for small bowel involvement in Crohn's disease. METHODS Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data of patients who underwent surgical resection for Crohn's disease during a period of 8.8 years from 1997-2006 at a tertiary care center. RESULTS Twenty-eight patients (mean age 31.2 years; 18 men) underwent surgical treatment for Crohn's disease. The diagnosis was made only after surgery in 17 patients; 5 of them were receiving anti-tuberculosis treatment. The most common indication for elective surgery was subacute intestinal obstruction (n=15) followed by enterocutaneous fistula (3) and protein-losing enteropathy (2). Emergency surgery was performed in 4 patients who presented with perforation and peritonitis. Resection of the maximally involved segment and primary anastomosis was done in all elective cases. Resection and exteriorization of resected ends was done in patients who presented with peritonitis. Multiple strictureplasties combined with resection were done in 9 patients. Predominant colonic involvement was observed in 2 patients. The type of small bowel involvement included strictures (n=25), fistulizing disease (8) and perforation (6); 11 patients had more than one pathology. Postoperative morbidity was observed in nine patients; 6 patients underwent re-operation for anastomotic leak. Stoma had to be created in 11 patients either primarily or at re-operation, which could be closed after a median interval of 3.2 months. During a median follow up of 29 months, 3 patients required more than one hospital admission for abdominal symptoms. Pre-operative anemia, malabsorption and/or growth retardation, steroid and/or immunosuppressant therapy and mid small bowel resection had a negative impact on anastomotic integrity leading to anastomotic dehiscence. Indication for surgery, the type or extent of disease did not have any impact on postoperative morbidity. CONCLUSION This retrospective analysis from a tertiary referral center indicates that sub-acute intestinal obstruction and perforation-peritonitis were the most common indications for surgery in Crohn's disease. Pre-operative anemia, malabsorption state, steroid/immunosuppressant and mid small bowel resection were associated with higher postoperative morbidity.
Clock Glitch Fault Injection Attacks on an FPGA AES Implementation

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm has been widely used to secure communication systems. However, the encryption algorithm is vulnerable to fault injection attacks and various attack methods have been studied. Some methods are just proposed in theory and have not been validated in practice. In this paper, we actualize a fault injection attack on an FPGA AES implementation. We propose a method to generate the highly accurate clock glitch to inject faults in the encryption process. We show that if the frequency of the clock glitch is carefully selected, only 6 faulty ciphertexts are necessary to discover the secret key.
Object identification in dynamic environment using sensor fusion

Multisensor data fusion is highly applicable in robotics applications because the relationships among objects and events changes due to the change in orientation of robot, snag in sensory information, sensor range and environmental conditions etc. High level and low level image processing in machine vision are widely involved to investigate object identification in complex application. Due to the limitations of vision technology still it is difficult to identify the objects in certain environments. A new technique of object identification using sonar sensor fusion has been proposed. This paper explains the computational account of the data fusion using Bayesian and neural network to recognize the shape of object in the dynamic environment.
A GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR THE GENERALISED ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM

-ln this paper we present a genetic algorithm (GA)-based heuristic for solving the generalised assignment problem. The generalised assignment problem is the problem of finding the minimum cost assignment of n jobs to m agents such that each job is assigned to exactly one agent, subject to an agent's capacity. In addition to the standard GA procedures, our GA heuristic incorporates a problem-specific coding of a solution structure, a fitness-unfitness pair evaluation function and a local improvement procedure. The performance of our algorithm is evaluated on 84 standard test problems of various sizes ranging from 75 to 4000 decision variables. Computational results show that the genetic algorithm heuristic is able to find optimal and near optimal solutions that are on average less than 0.01% from optimality. The performance of our heuristic also compares favourably to all other existing heuristic algorithms in terms of solution quality. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd
Unified Distance Formulas for Halfspace Fog

In many real-time rendering applications, it is necessary to model a fog volume that is bounded by a single plane but is otherwise infinite in extent. This paper presents unified formulas that provide the correct distance traveled through a fog halfspace for all possible camera and surface point locations. Such formulas effectively remove the need to code for multiple cases separately, thereby achieving optimal fragment shading performance on modern rendering hardware.
Korean Null Pronouns: Classification and Annotation

This paper discusses an annotation scheme for Korean null pronouns, which were used in annotating three kinds of Korean text corpora including Penn Korean Treebank. In annotating the corpora, null pronouns and their antecedents were marked up for their type and reference, with coreference relation tracked by numeric identifiers. Based on the annotation scheme, an outline of a potential pronoun resolution strategy is also proposed. The resulting dataset of annotated text is rather small at 11,834 words; we hope the null pronoun classification and annotation scheme proposed in this study will serve as a basis in developing a large-scale annotated corpus in the future.
Method for Large-Area Satellite Image Quality Enhancement With Local Aerial Images Based on Non-Target Multi-Point Calibration

This paper designed a non-target multi-point calibration method for the quality enhancement of large-area satellite images by using local aerial images. Satellite images are more sensitive to atmospheric effects compared with aerial images. Atmospheric effects on aerial images are even negligible in fine weather. Given that aerial remote sensing has high spatial resolution and geometric fidelity, more spatial details can be recorded in aerial images. However, the scan bandwidth of aerial images is limited compared with that of satellite images. Thus, taking high-quality aerial images of a neighborhood as reference can provide prior knowledge for point spread function (PSF) estimation and for the quality enhancement of large-area satellite images. The least square method and interpolation are used for the PSF estimation of spatial variation, and then total variation minimization is used for recovery. The results show that the designed method can effectively enhance the quality of large-area satellite images.
Integrated System for Simultaneous Removal of Nitrogen and Phosphorus by Ulva lactuca and Its Subsequent Utilization for Biogas Production

-Biogas is a combustible mixture of gases produced by microorganisms when livestock manure and other biological wastes are allowed to ferment in the absence of air in closed containers or reactor. This process design proposes an integrated biogas production system that aims to remove nitrogen and phosphorus from polluted seawater using U. lactuca and consequently utilize this as a feedstock for biogas production. Anaerobic digestion is done in the process which accomplished in three stages: (1) hydrolysis of insoluble polymers, (2) fermentation of monomeric breakdown products and (3) fermentation of acetate and hydrogen from volatile fatty acids and (4) generation of methane. The basis of the design is 1,000 metric tons of purified biogas per year which is intended for kitchen stove application. It can promote utilization of endemic U. lactuca for seawater treatment and at the same time provide livelihood to communities and save the aquatic environment from pollution. In addition, utilizing purified biogas as an additional source of fuel can save the dwindling natural gas and oil reserves in the world. This purified biogas can be an alternative to the conventional LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) used for kitchen stoves since their energy value and price are comparable. Keywordsanaerobic digestion, biogas, microalgae, U. Lactuca,
The Shrinking Rates of Different Meshes Placed Intraperitoneally: A Long-term Comparison of the TiMesh, VYPRO II, Sepramesh, and DynaMesh

Aim The aim of our study was to determine and compare the shrinking rates of different prosthetic materials used in ventral hernia repair and to establish a possible correlation with macroscopic adhesions, histopathologic inflammation, and fibrosis. Methods Thirty-six Wistar albino rats were divided into 4 groups (T, V, S, and D). A midline laparotomy was performed under general anesthesia. A 30×40 mm-sized mesh was placed intraperitoneally and fixed with an interrupted 4/0 polypropylene suture to the anterior abdominal wall. In group T, TiMesh; group V, Vypro II; group S, Sepramesh; and group D, DynaMesh-IPOM were used. All rats were killed at the 90th day postoperatively and the mesh area and the shrinking rate were calculated. Each group was evaluated in correlation with shrinking, adhesion, histopathologic inflammation, and fibrosis, and compared with each other. Results The mean area was 1013.33 mm2 in the T group, 930.44 mm2 in the V group, 1024.44 mm2 in the S group, and 1073.8 mm2 in the D group. The shrinking areas were found as 186.67 mm2, 269.55 mm2, 177.55 mm2, and 126.2 mm2, respectively. The shrinking rates were statistically significant in each group. The lowest shrinking rate was found in group D and highest in group V, but the results were statistically insignificant. In terms of macroscopic adhesion, histopathologic inflammation, and fibrosis no statistically significant differences were found among all the groups in comparison with each other. Conclusions Although the shrinking rate of DynaMesh is lowest among all the groups, the results are statistically insignificant. The results of our experimental study revealed no superiority in the means of mesh shrinkage among TiMesh, Vypro II, Sepramesh, and DynaMesh in the rats.
Cutaneous Metaplastic Synovial Cyst in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Report of a Second Case

A cutaneous metaplastic synovial cyst is a rare entity that is probably caused by trauma or surgery. We report the second case of cutaneous metaplastic synovial cyst in a child with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. His father is also affected with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and his diagnosis is substantiated by the demonstration of reduced synthesis of collagen type V.
Three Month Follow-Up of Rat Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Combined [18F]FDG and [11C]PK11195 Positron Emission Study.

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is the most common cause of head trauma. The time course of functional pathology is not well defined, however. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the consequences of mTBI in rats over a period of 3 months by determining the presence of neuroinflammation ([11C]PK11195) and changes in brain metabolism ([18F]FDG) with positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided in mTBI (n = 8) and sham (n = 8) groups. In vivo PET imaging and behavioral tests (open field, object recognition, and Y-maze) were performed at different time points after induction of the trauma. Differences between groups in PET images were explored using volume-of-interest and voxel-based analysis. mTBI did not result in death, skull fracture, or suppression of reflexes. Weight gain was reduced (p = 0.003) in the mTBI group compared with the sham-treated group. No statistical differences were found in the behavioral tests at any time point. Volume-of-interest analysis showed neuroinflammation limited to the subacute phase (day 12) involving amygdala, globus pallidus, hypothalamus, pons, septum, striatum, and thalamus (p < 0.03, d > 1.2). Alterations in glucose metabolism were detected over the 3 month period, with increased uptake in the medulla (p < 0.04, d ≥ 1.2), and decreased uptake in the globus pallidus, striatum, and thalamus (p < 0.04, d ≤ 1.2). Similar findings were observed in the voxel-based analysis (p < 0.05 at corrected cluster level). As a consequence of the mTBI, and in the absence of apparent behavioral alterations, relative brain glucose metabolism was found altered in several brain regions, which mostly correspond with those presenting neuroinflammation in the subacute stage.
People Management and Emerging Market Multinationals

There is a very extensive body of literature on how multinationals manage their people in different national contexts. However, the bulk of this literature focuses on the case of multinationals from the advanced industrial economies, and to a considerable extent, the United States. Very much less has been written on multinationals with their country of origin being an emerging market, and what there has focuses on a very limited number of preferred cases. The growing importance of emerging economies has lead to an upsurge of strategy research on the topic (Wright, Filatotchev, Hoskisson and Peng, 2005); however, research on HRM has not paid enough attention to Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises (EMNEs). through seeking to encourage fresh insights particularly varieties of people management encountered different national contexts.
Side by Side: Modeling Dyadic Physiological Linkage in Strangers

Physiological linkage (PL) refers to coordinated physiological responses among interacting partners (Feldman, 2012a), thought to offer mammals evolutionary advantages by promoting survival through social groups. Although PL has been observed in dyads who are familiar or have close relationships (e.g., parent-infant interactions, romantic couples), less is known with regard to PL in stranger dyads. The current study used dynamic linear time series modeling to assess cardiac interbeat interval linkage in 26 same-gender stranger dyads (17 female and 9 male dyads; 18–22 years old) while they spoke or wrote about emotional or neutral life events. The estimated coefficients in bivariate regression models indicated small but statistically significant PL effects for both male and female dyads. The PL effect was stronger for female dyads, extending to a lag of 4 seconds. For male dyads, the effect was statistically significant but weaker than for female dyads, extending only to a lag of 1 second. No statistically significant differences in PL were noted for type of task (i.e., baseline, writing, speaking, listening) or with differing task emotional content. Frequency domain analysis based on the estimated dynamic models yielded similar results. Our results suggest that PL can be detected among strangers in this setting and appears to be stronger and longer-lasting in women. Our findings are discussed in terms of the importance of biological synchrony in humans, gender differences, and possible implications for objective measurement of social reciprocity at a physiological level.