Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Reframing translational research as transactional research An analysis of clinician-scientists’ work practices in a Danish hospital setting

Translational research (TR) is subject to increasing attention and demand in research and health policy in the Nordic countries as well as internationally. While clinician-scientists are often positioned as key actors in both policy and academic debates on TR, less is known about the clinician-scientists’ everyday work—their practices and commitments at the interface of academia and clinical health care. Drawing on the framework of arena analysis, developed in situational analysis, this article presents an empirical exploration of the everyday practices of clinician-scientists by extending research into a Danish hospital setting. The findings shed light on hospital-based translational research as constituted by clinician-scientists’ practical integration of and transactions across many different work practice arenas. This paper depicts these arenas and the complex of commitments and capabilities involved. The analysis converges with existing Science and Technology Studies approaches to translational research as mutually reconfiguring clinical and scientific practices. In addition, it adds to this debate by providing an empirical work practice account of hospital-based TR and by suggesting a conceptual reframing of translational research as transactional research.
Prognostic Factors for Patients With a Large Number of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Nodules

Background The prognostic factors and treatment strategies for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with a large number of tumor nodules have not been fully elucidated. Clinical factors influencing prognosis were investigated in HCC patients with 30 or more tumor nodules. Methods Forty-six HCC patients with 30 or more tumor nodules participated in this study. None of them had vascular invasion and extrahepatic metastasis. Kaplan-Meier curve and Cox proportional hazard model were used for analysis. Results The median survival time of our patients was no more than 15 months, suggesting that patients with 30 or more tumor nodules may be regarded as a progressive subgroup showing poorer prognosis. In multivariate analysis, presence of between 30 and 59 tumor nodules (P = 0.002), male gender (P = 0.002), lower total bilirubin (total bilirubin < 1.0 mg/dL) (P = 0.011), transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) as an initial therapy (P = 0.027) and higher prothrombin time (P = 0.049) were significant independent factors for better overall survival. Among 39 patients who underwent TACE as an initial therapy, patients who received sorafenib therapy during follow-up showed better overall survival than those who did not (P = 0.026). Efficacy of sorafenib appeared to be more evident in patients who needed repeated transarterial treatment. Conclusions In HCC patients with 30 or more tumor nodules, TACE as an initial therapy may be correlated with better prognosis. Sorafenib administration after the prior transarterial treatment may improve antitumor efficacy.
MT-BCS-Based DoA and Bandwidth Estimation of Unknown Signals through Multiple Snapshots Data

The Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) and bandwidth (BW) estimation strategy impinging on a linear array using multiple snapshots data is addressed within the multitask Bayesian Compressive Sensing (MT-BCS). The DoA estimation is used as the reconstruction of sparse signal constrained by the Laplace prior through multitask Bayesian Compressive Sensing. Receiving wideband signal data through linear array, the space is divided into I parts according to the equal interval. The data of interest are assumed to be represented as I-dimensional vector, and the wideband signal can be reconstructed accurately using only a small number M. The receiving antenna operates in the frequency range fmin,fmax. Starting from the voltages measured at the output of the array elements at a multiple time instants at fp=fmin+Δf,p=1,…,P, the retrieval of the DoAs is addressed by means of a customized strategy based on MT-BCS in order to correlate the solutions obtained over different frequency samples. The bandwidth of the signals is obtained as a byproduct by identifying at which frequencies the MT-BCS estimations include a signal along the ith (i = 1,…, I) sampling direction. From the outputs of different frequencies, we can know the DoA and BW of signals. A preliminary numerical result is reported to show the behavior of the proposed approach in multiple snapshots data.
Hybrid external fixator with or without minimal internal fixation: effective alternative for proximal tibia fractures, review of 25 cases

Background: Open or minimally invasive plating is the most commonly used surgical method to treat proximal tibia fractures. However unhealthy soft tissue or unusual fracture anatomy at times force a surgeon to look for alternative surgical methods. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted between January 2014 to December 2017. 25 patients were operated for proximal tibia fractures using a hybrid external fixator in a single institute and results evaluated. Results: By the end of 1 year after surgery Rasmussen score as excellent in 16, good in 6, fair in 3 and poor in 0 patients. The mean range of knee motion at the final follow up was 4 to 120. 2 cases of varus malunion and case of nonunion were observed in our study. Conclusion: Hybrid external fixator is a viable and effective alternative to conventional locked plates in selected patients.
Contemporary Finnish drama in Estonian Theatre in the 21st century

After regaining independence in 1991 Estonia, like other Baltic states, went through a transition period which can be described as a return to the West, i.e. Europe. By now, Estonia has joined European community and is successfully integrated with Europe. However, in regard to the country’s cultural and political identity, the process of self-determination continues, particularly on the level of regional identity: whether the newly independent Baltic countries belong to Eastern or Northern Europe? Estonia tends to position itself among Nordic countries, primarily by reason of close historical ties and linguistic kinship with Finland. In the light of current identity processes the cultural interaction between Estonia and Finland deserves attention. This paper examines only one aspect: the reception of contemporary Finnish dramaturgy in the 21st century Estonian theatre. Finnish dramas had been staged in Estonian theatres since the end of the 19th century. However, it is noticeable that their number has significantly increased since the 2000s, and the repertoire of the major Estonian theatres contains far more new, contemporary Finnish plays than well-known classics. Plays by Leea Klemola, Sirkku Peltola, Juha Jokela, Mika Myllyaho, Pipsa Lonka and others enjoy great popularity among Estonian audiences. How do these plays represent Finnish society? How were they interpreted and received in Estonian theatre? How do stage productions of Finnish plays contribute to the construction of shared Nordic identity? The paper looks for answers to these questions.
Academic Outcomes of High School Students in Northern Ghana: The Mediator Role of Locus of Control

The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the relationship between academic outcomes and locus control beliefs among high school students in the Northern Region of Ghana. Using survey methods and multivariate analyses, the results found relatively higher scores in external locus of control beliefs than internal locus of control beliefs among the study participants. External locus of control was inversely related to test scores, and no relationship was found between internal locus of control beliefs and test scores. The results also found significant differences in locus of control beliefs between rural and urban high school students, with urban students reporting higher internal locus of control beliefs than their rural counterparts. Implications for educational policy and practice are discussed.
Blockchain at the Edge: The Nexus of Capturing New Value in 5G

5G propels mobile technology into the exclusive group of general purpose technologies that have marked the evolution of our history and triggered transformative changes in society. Edge computing is instrumental in helping 5G fulfil its promise and meet its expectations and requirements. This article discusses the value shifts occurred in the telecom value chain and shows how blockchain can aid value extraction in 5G, highlighting a number of services and applications of 5G networks that benefit from distributed ledger technology. Furthermore, the paper details a couple of applications enabled by the marriage of 5G with distributed ledger technology: autonomous unmanned (vehicular or aerial) systems and connected supply chains. The combination of 5G and edge computing permits to unlock new business value in telecom networks; in the same way that edge computing is the nexus of creating new value in 5G, blockchain is the fulcrum of capturing that new value.
Utilization of Synthetic Antibody for Fumonisin Determination in Feed and Food

Fumonisin contamination in food is limited around 2 – 4 ppm and in feed for different animals varies from 5 to 100 ppm. This regulation is to prevent animal and human from carcinogenic effect from fumonisins. Measurement of fumonisins frequently uses chromatography methods such as High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Liquid chromatography tandem-mass spectrometry (LCMS/MS); however, the sample preparation and analysis process for these methods are costly and time consuming. Immunoassays have also been employed for detecting fumonisins in food or feed. Unfortunately, the instability of antibody to harsh condition such as high temperature and pH becomes the drawback for immunoassay method. Currently, the technology based on molecularly imprinting, which is called synthetic antibody, has been established for replacing antibody functions. Therefore, the aim of this review is to describe development of molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) in fumonisin analysis in feed and food. Herein, the composition and production of MIP were described comprehensively. Bulk polymerization and solid phase synthesis were methods for production of MIP in micro and nano sizes. The application of MIP was reported for sample preparation as solid phase extraction measured continuously by HPLC showing the high recovery (> 60%). Then, MIP replaced antibody in direct competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for quantifying fumonisins in maize with high recovery (>90%) and limit detection (2 – 6 pM). Lastly, MIP was also employed in electrochemical sensor application as receptor for recognizing fumonisin in milk and maize. In conclusion, the performance of MIP has been applied successfully for fumonisin analysis comprehensively from sample preparation and quantification. The MIP would be developed for wider application for other toxins in feed or food such as veterinary drug, heavy metals, or pesticides.
User-Loyalty to Online Social Network Sites: A Self-Regulation Perspective

Social networks sites (SNS) have increased in number and popularity this last decade. A recent report of china internet network and information center shown that an average of thirty on percent of users of SNS drop usage after adoption indication a timely concern of SNS providers in sustaining their platform. The current study proposed a research model based on self-regulation theory of Bagozzi to investigate the impact of SNS platform quality and pleasure on user-satisfaction and how the latter influence user-loyalty. The model was tested with survey data from Weibo users. The result shown that are significantly related to user-satisfaction and satisfaction strongly associated with user-loyalty.
Do Startup Employees Earn More in the Long Run?

Evaluating the attractiveness of startup employment requires an understanding of both what startups pay and the implications of these jobs for earnings trajectories. Analyzing Danish registry data, we find that employees hired by startups earn roughly 17% less over the next 10 years than those hired by large, established firms. About half of this earnings differential stems from sorting—from the fact that startup employees have less human capital. Long-term earnings also vary depending on when individuals are hired. Although the earliest employees of startups suffer an earnings penalty, those hired by already-successful startups earn a small premium. Two factors appear to account for the earnings penalties for the early employees: Startups fail at high rates, creating costly spells of unemployment for their (former) employees. Job-mobility patterns also diverge: After being employed by a small startup, individuals rarely return to the large employers that pay more.
Biological aspects and exploitation of Plectorhinchus gaterinus (Forsskal, 1839) (F: Haemulidae) from the northern Red Sea, El-Tor, Egypt

Family Haemulidae has a broad geographic distribution living in tropical fresh, brackish, and salt waters around the world. Haemulids are bottom-feeding, carnivorous, and use the reefs for shelter, usually congregate during the day and then spread out to forage at night (Randall, 1992). It is representing one of the valuable and economical fish families in the Red Sea. It's divided into two subfamilies, Haemulinae and Plectorhynchinae including about (132) valid species in (19) genera (Eschmeyer, 2014). Plectorhinchus gaterinus known as Grunts. It is a reef-associated and may also occur in the sand near estuaries and in coral and rocky areas, inhabiting depths between 3 and 55m. It found in the western Indian Ocean, from the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea to Natal, South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar and Comoro Islands. It found singly or in large groups in coastal waters and reef flats often sheltering during the day under ledges. P. gaterinus commonly reaches a length of 30 cm, with a maximum size of 50 cm. No studies would be found about this species around the world except Amer et al., (2006) recorded that Family Haemulidae including three species, throw light on the length at first sexual maturity and length-weight ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: Received: Sept.10, 2019 Accepted: Nov. 29, 2019 Online: Dec. 2019 _______________
Interactive comment on “Isotopic constraints on the role of hypohalous acids in sulfate aerosol formation in the remote marine boundary layer” by Qianjie Chen et al

Response: This is not the case. Sulfate aerosol in the environment is produced via gas-phase and aqueous-phase chemistry, the latter occurring primarily in clouds. The model is used to distinguish between the different sulfate aerosol production mechanisms (gas, aqueous, heterogeneous) in order to interpret the observations of sulfate isotopes. We have incorporated the following changes to the manuscript to help make this more clear.
Design of Seamless Handoff Control Based on Vehicular Streaming Communications

Because vehicles run in high speed environments, it is difficult to establish the topology of the network. Moreover, data transmission may be interrupted by the handoff of various APs. This study established the network of roadside-to-vehicle (R2V) environment, and used the DSRC (dedicated short range communication) to achieve seamless handoff control on a streaming service. To achieve this goal, this study first used the GPS (global positioning system) to collect vehicular information (e.g., speed, direction, and location), and subsequently exchanged the parameter of vehicular information at both ends by DSRC. Therefore, the computer in the vehicle can predict the link expiration time (LET) between two mobile nodes. Furthermore, this study used two cases of handoff in vehicular networks. One case was non-overlapping handoff, and the other case was overlapping handoff. A simple formula was designed to calculate vehicular total buffer size in these two cases, and to adjust the data flow to the receiver. Finally, this study used the network simulator to simulate the actual situation of vehicular motion and network transmission. This study proved the accuracy and feasibility of mechanism through the simulation result. This study achieved the streaming of seamless handoff control in the network of R2V.
Machine Learning Based Air Gesture to Control Wheel Chair

In the present current world there are numerous individuals who are paralyzed because of numerous reasons. A few people are conceived deadened. Others create loss of motion because of an accident or a therapeutic condition. To assist such individuals we make utilization of wheelchairs. Conventional wheel chairs are taken care of physically and few wheel chairs can be worked with the assistance of a joystick. Anyway these kind of wheel chairs have their own downsides. The principal disadvantage is about the expense. It is costly and not all can manage the cost of for it. Hardly any individuals are not happy with utilizing the wheel chair which is worked with the assistance of joystick. So there is a need to build up a practical and easy to understand wheel chair. This paper goes for planning such a wheel chair which is produced in view of air gesture technique. Alongside this it makes utilization of machine learning and image processing. Regression technique will be utilized to execute the calculation. Finally by determining the position of finger one can access the wheel chair. Keywords— Paralyze, Machine learning, Air gesture, Image processing, Regression.
Vagueness in implicature:

We show that the interpretation of sentences like John is not very ADJ depends on whether ADJ is vague. We argue that this follows from a constraint on the interaction between vagueness and conversational implicature, a domain that has not been studied extensively. The constraint states that implicatures are not drawn if they lead to “borderline contradictions” (see Ripley 2011; Alxatib & Pelletier 2011; a.o.), a natural extension of the idea that implicatures should not contradict assertions (Fox 2007; Fox & Hackl 2006; a.o.). Experiment 1 establishes that not very ADJ gives rise to the implicature ADJ for the non-vague absolute adjective late, but not for the vague relative adjective tall (in the terminology of Kennedy & McNally 2005a). Experiment 2 generalizes this result to three relative adjectives in the positive form (tall, hot, fast), against those same adjectives in their (non-vague) comparative forms (taller/hotter/faster than the average X). We also constructed quantitative meaning representations for complex predicates of the form ADJ∧¬ very ADJ, using fuzzy logic to model the contribution of boolean connectives and our experimental data to represent the meanings of adjectives. The results of these analyses suggest that strengthening not very ADJ with ADJ leads to a more contradictory interpretation when ADJ is vague than when it is not, as expected on our theory. While our results apply directly to only a specific set of lexical items, we hypothesize that they reflect a more general pattern among gradable predicates. This motivates more systematic investigation into the role that vagueness can play in the derivation of conversational implicatures. *Acknowledgments: We would like to thank David Barner, Emmanuel Chemla, Julian Grove, Emily Hanink, Chris Kennedy, Yaron McNabb, Stephanie Solt, Ming Xiang, and four anonymous reviewers, as well as audiences at the LSA Annual Meeting in 2016, UCL, University of Chicago, and SIASSI for helpful comments on various stages of the project. This work was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the SIAS Summer Institute “The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning,” by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n.31361, by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of the Xprag.de Initiative (Grant Nr. BE 4348/4-1), and by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). †Supplemental Materials: Experimental data and associated analysis and visualization code can be found at this repository: https://github.com/lefft/not very adj
Theoretical calculation of the optical absorption property of nanoparticles composed of an Au Core and Si shell embedded in silica

Combining multiple materials in a single nanoparticle has gained much attention in recent years. In this work, the optical absorption property of gold-silicon (Au@Si) core–shell nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in a silica matrix were are theoretically demonstrated in the wavelength range from 400 to 800 nm, based on a discrete-dipole approximation method. For a single core–shell nanoparticle, the study revealed the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) showed a regular redshift with an increase in its Si shell thickness. The observed redshifts in the LSPR peaks were in agreement with the experimental results. The optical absorption property was also observed for two Au@Si core–shell NPs separated, on average, by a distance as small as a few nanometers. The results suggest that the shifts in spectral peak position depend on both the interparticle distance and geometric configuration of the nanoparticles. The obtained results also suggest that this nanomaterial, with a strong wavelength-tuneable absorption property, could be an attractive candidate for applications in biomedicine, nanocatalysis, optical devices, and future functional devices.
Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in historical simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project

1 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate research, Atmospheric Environmental 10 Research, Garmisch‐Partenkirchen, Germany. 2 Geospatial Data Solutions Center, University of California Irvine, CA 92697 Irvine, USA. 3 Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford OX10 8BB, UK. 4 School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK. 5 Centre for African Ecology, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the 15 Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3, WITS, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa. 6 Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. 7 Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute (BiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 8 Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe-University, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 20 9 International Center for Climate and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 10 Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK. 11 Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada 12 Institute for Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden. 25 13 AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystem and the Environment, Department of Life Sciences and Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK. 14 College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK. 15 ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 30 16 Climate Change Research Center, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. 17 Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université ParisSaclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. a now at: Data 61, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia 35