Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Who Gets a Mammogram Amongst European Women Aged 50-69 Years and Why are There Such Large Differences Across European Countries?

On the basis of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement (SHARE), we analyse the determinants of who engages in mammography screening focusing on European women aged 50-69 years. A special emphasis is put on the measurement error of subjective life expectancy and on the measurement and impact of physician quality. Our main findings are that physician quality, better education, having a partner, younger age and better health are associated with higher rates of receipt. The impact of subjective life-expectancy on screening decision substantially increases after taking measurement error into account. In light of the enormous differences in mammography screening rates between the European countries that can be detected even if several individual characteristics are taken into account, we explore in a second step the causes of these screening differences using newly available data from the SHARELIFE. The results reveal that in countries with low screening rates (e.g. Denmark, Greece and Poland) many reasons (financial restrictions, time costs, access barriers, lack of information, not usual and low perceived benefits of screening) are significant predictors of not receiving a mammogram. In contrast in countries with high screening rates such as the Netherlands only beliefs regarding the benefits of mammograms (Not considered to be necessary) and the cause Not usual to get this type of care seem to be important screening barriers.
X-ray fluorescence for cultural heritage: scanning biochemical fingerprints in archaeological shipwrecks.

Yvonne Fors, Hakan Grudd, Anders Rindby and Lennart Bornmalm tell us about “X-ray fluorescence for cultural heritage: scanning biochemical fingerprints in archaeological shipwrecks”. Two outstanding examples of the preservation of wood are the warships Vasa, in Stockholm and the Mary Rose in Portsmouth and this article looks at the role XRF has played in the preservation of the wood of both ships.
The Use of English Colour Terms in Big Data

This study explores the use of English colour names in large datasets from informal Twitter messages and the well-structured corpus of Google Books. Because colour names in text have no directly associated chromatic stimuli, the corresponding colour categories of colour words was assessed from responses in an online colour naming experiment. A comparison of the frequency in the three datasets revealed that the mapping of colour names to perceptually uniform colour spaces does not reflect natural language colour distributions.
PROPELA - procédé de perçage laser pour l'aéronautique

Le percage est un procede de fabrication repandu dans le milieu industriel. Le secteur aeronautique a recours a ce procede pour usiner de nombreuses pieces. Les chambres de combustions en sont un exemple. Exposees a des cycles thermiques severes, elles sont percees d’une multitude de trous de refroidissement. Chez Safran Helicopter Engines, motoriste specialise dans la conception de turbines a gaz pour helicopteres, ce percage est realise a l’aide d’un procede d’usinage unique : le percage par percussion laser a la volee. Ce procede phare leur permet de realiser des milliers de trous inclines dans des toles en materiaux refractaires. Safran Helicopter Engines cherche a maintenir son avance dans la production de turbines en s’appuyant sur les innovations constantes du procede de percage. Ce travail de these s’est articule autour du developpement d’un nouveau procede de percage laser. De maniere a definir un procede fiable et efficace, plusieurs strategies de percage sont etudiees via les possibilites offertes par un laser a fibre milliseconde de haute puissance. Les resultats obtenus laissent entrevoir des perspectives interessantes en termes d’augmentation de cadence de production a qualite d’usinage equivalente. L’amelioration des performances a ete demontree experimentalement sur un banc d’essais representatif des machines de production. Des trous de 400 μm de diametre incline a 60o ont pu etre realises avec un cycle de percage raccourci au minimum d’un facteur 2. Cette these presente egalement des elements de comprehension des phenomenes de formation d’un trou. Pour cela, une modelisation des processus thermo hydrodynamiques impliques dans le procede de percage laser a ete developpee. Ce modele base sur une approche par elements finis repose sur l’etude thermique au cours de l’interaction entre le faisceau laser et la matiere. Une partie du modele inclut les phenomenes de propagation du faisceau dans la cavite en cours de formation afin de traduire de maniere plus realiste le depot d’energie.
Development of an Attitude Determination System for Mobile Robots

This paper designs an attitude determination system based on a low-cost MEMS inertial measurement unit. By introducing an adaptive Kalman filter algorithm, the outputs of accelerometers, magnetometers, and gyroscopes are combined to solve the robot’s attitude angle in real time. The algorithm effectively eliminates the cumulative error of the gyro output. In addition, the output of the accelerometer is used to determine the motion state of the vehicle body, and the covariance matrix is adaptively adjusted to maintain a high-accuracy attitude output in both static and dynamic environments.
Activities of Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals 2016

Summary figures from 2016 There was an equal proportion of male and female admissions. The 20–24 years age group had the highest rate of admission, at 549.4 per 100,000 of the population. This was followed by the 65–74 years age group at 547.2. The lowest rate of admissions was among 25-34 year olds at 434.9 per 100,000. The 18–19 years age group had the highest rate of first admissions, at 300.2 per 100,000. Almost 6 in 10 of all admissions were single people. Married persons accounted for 25% of all admissions, widowed accounted for 4%, divorced accounted for 4% also. While divorced people accounted for only 4% of all admissions, they had the highest rate of all admissions at 764.5 per 100,000. Almost 41% of all admissions in 2016 were unemployed. Homeless people accounted for 271 admissions of in 2016. Seventy-three per cent were male and 82% were single.
The Post Concussion Symptom Experience and Quality of Life in Indonesian Persons With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Background: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) is the most common type in cases of TBI. Up to 50% of patients experience post concussion symptoms (PCS) after mTBI, which impairs their quality of life (QoL). Despite the high prevalence, existing studies on PCS and QoL of Indonesian persons with mTBI are limited. Objectives: To identify the PCS experience, the QoL level of persons with mTBI, and the correlation between PCS severity and QoL. Methods: One hundred persons with mTBI were recruited from one referral hospital in Aceh province. Questionnaires consisted of three parts: 1) Demographic and Health-related Data Form, 2) the Rivermead Post Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire (RPQ), and 3) the Quality of Life after Brain Injury Overall Scale (QOLIBRI-OS). The contents of these questionnaires were validated by three experts. The intra-class correlation coefficient of RPQ and the internal consistency reliability coefficient of QOLIBRI-OS yielded values of . 90 and . 91 respectively. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation analysis were used. Results: Within 2-60 weeks after mTBI, the average symptoms persons experienced were seven ( M = 6.7, SD = 3.17). The frequency of symptoms were occurred sometimes ( M = 2.37, SD = 0.50) with a low severe level ( M = 1.03, SD = 0.51). The top five symptoms commonly found were dizziness, headache, fatigue, forgetfulness and taking longer to think, respectively. Regarding the severe level of PCS, hearing disturbance ( M = 1.56, SD = 0.53) and blurred vision ( M = 1.49, SD = 0.85) were ranked as the first and the second respectively. Overall, the mean scores of total and each item of QoL were at a moderate level. The PCS severity was significant negatively related to QoL ( r = - .33, p < .01). Conclusion: PCS could occur at the stage initial and become beyond years post mTBI. Health care providers should increase strategies to reduce PCS severity to improve the QoL of Indonesian persons with mTBI over the short and long term periods.
Becoming Qualitative Researchers: An Introduction

Introduction: A Sense of Things to Come. 1. Meeting Qualitative Inquiry. 2. Prestudy Tasks: Doing What Is Good for You. 3. Being There: Developing Understanding Through Participant Observation. 4. Making Words Fly: Developing Understanding Through Interviewing. 5. Personal Dimensions: Field Relations and Reflexivity. 6. But Is It Ethical? Considering What's "Right". 7. Finding Your Story: Data Analysis. 8. Crafting Your Story: Writing Up Qualitative Data. 9. Improvising a Song of the World: Language and Representation. 10. The Continuing Search. Glossary of Key Terms. Appendix: Guide for Developing a Qualitative Research Proposal. References. Name Index. Subject Index.
Automatic and interactive segmentations using deformable and graphical models

OF THE DISSERTATION Automatic and Interactive Segmentations Using Deformable and Graphical Models by Mustafa Gokhan Uzunbas Dissertation Director: Dimitris Metaxas Image segmentation i.e. dividing an image into regions and categories is a classic yet still challenging problem. The key to success is to use/develop the right method for the right application. In this dissertation, we aim to develop automatic and interactive segmentation methods for different types of tissues that are acquired at different scales and resolutions from different medical imaging modalities such as Magnetic Resonance (MR), Computed Tomography (CT) and Electron Microscopy (EM) imaging. First, we developed an automated segmentation method for segmenting multiple organs simultaneously from MR and CT images. We propose a hybrid method that takes advantage of two well known energy-minimization-based approaches combined in a unified framework. We validate this proposed method on cardiac four-chamber segmentation from CT and knee joint bones segmentation from MR images. We compare our method with other existing techniques and show certain improvements and advantages. Second, we developed a graph partitioning algorithm for characterizing neuronal tissue structurally and contextually from EM images. We propose a multistage decision mechanism that utilizes differential geometric properties of objects in a cellular processing context. Our results indicate that this proposed approach can successfully partition images into structured segments with minimal expert supervision and can potentially form a basis for a larger scale
Declarative vs. Procedural Memory: Roles in Second Language Acquisition

Memory is not a single faculty but is a combination of multiple distinct abilities (Schacter, 1987). The declarative-procedural distinction is used both with regard to knowledge and memory that stores this knowledge. Ellis (2008) used the terms explicit/implicit, and declarative/procedural interchangeably. In this article the researcher aims at identifying the different aspects of declarative/procedural memory, interaction between these two types of memory, and the role they may play in second language acquisition.
Protracted Adjuvant Temozolomide in Glioblastoma Multiforme

Purpose: Radiotherapy with concurrent temozolomide (TMZ), followed by 6 cycles of adjuvant TMZ, is the standard of care for newly diagnosed Glioblastoma Mulltiforme (GBM). However tumor progression is the role with median survival of almost 14 months. With lack of effective second line chemotherapy, many physicians and some guidelines advocate prolonged use of adjuvant TMZ more than 6 months. We conduct this study to test the efficacy of protracted adjuvant conventional dose TMZ over the standard 6 doses of adjuvant TMZ. Material and Methods: This phase II trial enrolled patients newly diagnosed as GBM, older than age 18 years, with a Karnofsky performance score (KPS) of ≥60, Neurological Performance Scale (NPS) of ≤3. Patients were randomly assigned to the standard concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) followed by 6 cycles of adjuvant TMZ or the same treatment with more than 6 cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy extended as long as the patient in good performance, with no unacceptable toxicity, no signs of disease progression. The primary end point was OS. Results: A total of 59 patients were recruited in the study and were randomized in two arms. 29 patients joined arm 1 aiming at receiving CCRT followed by adjuvant 6 cycles TMZ (6 cycles arm) and 30 joined arm 2 aiming at receiving the same treatment with more than 6 cycles of TMZ (>6 cycles). 16 patients managed to complete the adjuvant 6 cycles in arm 1. 19 patients in arm 2, completed the 6 cycles with additive more doses with a median of 11 cycles (range: 8 - 23 cycles). Median PFS was 12.1 months for (6 cycles) arm, and 18.8 months for (>6 cycles) arm, HR 0.88 (95% CI: 1.185 - 4.901) (P 0.015); the overall survival for (6 cycles) arm was 18.1 months, versus 24.1 months, HR 0.70 (95% CI: 1.007 - 4.037) (P 0.048). No significant added toxicity was notice and the 4 weekly TMZ was well tolerated. Conclusion: This study concluded that protracted adjuvant TMZ after concurrent chemoradiotherapy could be a feasible strategy for GBM. This strategy warrants a large phase III randomized trial.
The Art of Questioning Lethal Vision: Mosse’s Infra and Militarized Machine Vision

Military techno-vision is decidedly opaque. We – the public in whose name they are developed and deployed – are never quite allowed to scrutinize how exactly it operates, or what kind of work it performs. For a long time, military techno-vision was related to the optical qualities of the human eye. It was either about enhancing the natural human eye, seeing further, seeing in less light, seeing from different locations, or about mimicking the human eye, creating spatial awareness and navigation capabilities from the singular point of the eye/camera. Today, increasingly, militarized techno-vision is not merely about the production but also the interpretation of images, about the mind rather than the eye, to use the anthropomorphic language that dominates high-tech discourse. This shift from optics to procession, vision or understanding is related to the development of precision optics and the resulting flood of images that threatens to overwhelm the security bureaucracies seeking to optimize lethal vision. The contemporary problem, thus, is not overcoming invisibility but rather how to efficiently manage a flood of opaque images. The solution, proposed by militaries as simultaneously benign and efficient, is to delegate image interpretation to machines. In this paper, I ask how we can scrutinize and interrogate the agency of such machine vision systems when we as a public are rarely granted access to the operations they perform. First, I briefly explore current machine vision technologies, and the technological projects that have identified their blind spots. Second, I look to artistic image production as a means to help think about militarized vision and pictorial agency.
Reading Pop Approaches To Textual Analysis In Popular Music

Thank you very much for reading reading pop approaches to textual analysis in popular music. As you may know, people have search numerous times for their chosen novels like this reading pop approaches to textual analysis in popular music, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some malicious bugs inside their desktop computer.
Handbook of latent semantic analysis

Contents: Part I: Introduction to LSA: Theory and Methods. T.K. Landauer, LSA as a Theory of Meaning. D. Martin, M. Berry, Mathematical Foundations Behind Latent Semantic Analysis. S. Dennis, How to Use the LSA Website. J. Quesada, Creating Your Own LSA Spaces. Part II: LSA in Cognitive Theory. W. Kintsch, Meaning in Context. M. Louwerse, Symbolic or Embodied Representations: A Case for Symbol Interdependency. M.W. Howard, K. Addis, B. Jing, M.K. Kahana, Semantic Structure and Episodic Memory. G. DenhiSre, B. Lemaire, C. Bellissens, S. Jhean-Larose, A Semantic Space for Modeling Children's Semantic Memory. P. Foltz, Discourse Coherence and LSA. J. Quesada, Spaces for Problem Solving. Part III: LSA in Educational Applications. K. Millis, J. Magliano, K. Wiemer-Hastings, S. Todaro, D.S. McNamara, Assessing and Improving Comprehension With Latent Semantic Analysis. D.S. McNamara, C. Boonthum, I. Levinstein, K. Millis, Evaluating Self-Explanations in iSTART: Comparing Word-Based and LSA Algorithms. A. Graesser, P. Penumatsa, M. Ventura, Z. Cai, X. Hu, Using LSA in AutoTutor: Learning Through Mixed-Initiative Dialog in Natural Language. E. Kintsch, D. Caccamise, M. Franzke, N. Johnson, S. Dooley, Summary Streetr: Computer-Guided Summary Writing. L. Streeter, K. Lochbaum, N. LaVoie, J.E. Psotka, Automated Tools for Collaborative Learning Environments. Part IV: Information Retrieval and HCI Applications of LSA. S.T. Dumais, LSA and Information Retrieval: Getting Back to Basics. P.K. Foltz, T.K. Landauer, Helping People Find and Learn From Documents: Exploiting Synergies Between Human and Computer Retrieval With SuperManual. M.H. Blackmon, M. Kitajima, D.R. Mandalia, P.G. Polson, Automating Usability Evaluation Cognitive Walkthrough for the Web Puts LSA to Work on Real-World HCI Design Problems. Part V: Extensions to LSA. D.S. McNamara, Z. Cai, M.M. Louwerse, Optimizing LSA Measures of Cohesion. X. Hu, Z. Cai, P. Wiemer-Hastings, A.C. Graesser, D.S. McNamara, Strength, Weakness, and Extensions of LSA. M. Steyvers, T. Griffiths, Probabilistic Topic Models. S. Dennis, Introducing Word Order: Within the LSA Framework. Part VI: Conclusion. W. Kintsch, D.S. McNamara, S. Dennis, T.K. Landauer, LSA and Meaning: In Theory and Application.
SECONDARY EDUCATION DEGREE: AN INCONCLUSIVE DETERMINANT OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Although generic language skills are a key factor to success in education, there is a growing conviction in Flanders that the native language proficiency of incoming students in higher education is deteriorating. After an analysis of a set of argumentative texts written by first year bachelor students, it is argued that (i) the overall quality of the texts does not meet the expected level of proficiency, and (ii) the secondary education degree of students, which is often used to target them, is an inconclusive determinant of (written) language proficiency. Given the gap between secondary education and higher education and taking into account the qualitative heterogeneity amongst students with a general secondary education degree, a claim is made for a double approach in language training combining intensive language training in the first year of higher education with a sustainable inclusive language policy throughout the entire curriculum.
A comparative typology of English and German: Unifying the contrasts

Acknowledgements Preface Part One: An Overview of Some English/German Contrasts 1. Introduction: the Theoretical Interest of English/German Contrasts 2. Grammatical Morphology 3. Word Order Freedom 4. Basic Grammatical relations and their Semantic Diversity 5. Raising Structures 6. Extractions 7. Deletions 8. The Unity of English/German Contrasts: a Realignment in the Mapping between Form and Meaning Part Two: The Position of the Verb in English and German 9. Verb-final Order in German 10. Leaking Behing the Verb in German 11. Verb-first Structures in English and German Overview and Further Prospects Notes References Index
Cognitive Radio Decision Engine Based on Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm

The performance optimization of cognitive radio is a multi-objective optimization problem. Existing genetic algorithms are difficult to assign the weight of each objective when the linear weighting method is used to simplify the multi-objective optimization problem into a single objective optimization problem. In this paper, we propose a new cognitive decision engine algorithm using multi-objective genetic algorithm with population adaptation. A multicarrier system is used for simulation analysis, and experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is effective and meets the real-time requirement.
Primary Cerebral Arterial Occlusive Disease in Children

Of 87 children with acute acquired hemiplegia, 17 had primary arterial occlusions. These cases are analyzed in detail, and an angiographic classification presented. Each group showed a similarity between morphology and prognosis. Of interest are (1) correlation between the pattern of lenticulostriate artery occlusion and that of muscular weakness in basal occlusion without telangiectasia, (2) transcerebral anastomoses between lenticulostriate vessels and leptomeningeal branches of the middle cerebral artery in basal occlusion with telangiectasia, (3) angiographic findings of periarteritis nodosa. Angiography is particularly indicated if hemiplegia is associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage or with headache.
Factors Affecting Students＇ Academic Performance in Mathematical Sciences Department in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria

The purpose of this study is to examine the factors affecting performance of students in tertiary institutions, two tertiary institutions were used: KSU (Kogi State University) (Anyigba) and COE (College of Education) (Ankpa). A simple random sampling was employed to select 100 students from each institution. A structured questionnaire comprising 50 items was used to collect data from the students and subjected to population t-test statistics. The second semester results of 2011/2012 of the present 300 level students in three courses (mathematics, statistics, and computers) from both institutions were collected and analyzed using mean and standard deviation, and independent t-test, the results show a low level of mathematics performance in both institutions. The performance at KSU is fairly better than the performance at COE, going by their means and standard deviations. Among the factors identified as militating against students’ performance in the department of mathematics are: inadequacy of mathematics lecturers, teaching methods, students’ attitudes and interests, lecturers’ qualifications, inadequacy of textbooks, especially indigenous authors, inadequacy of evaluation, and rated high was inadequacy of human resources, followed by lecturers-students interaction, lack of textbooks, and lecturers’ qualifications. On attitudes and interests, the heads of departments and lecturers rated students’ interest very low, while students strongly agreed that their lost of interests is due to their high rate of poor performances in their previous years. On the interaction between lecturers and students, the responses of students from COE were better than those from KSU.