Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Whole-Body Vibration for Individuals with Reconstructed Anterior Cruciate Ligament: A Systematic Review

Background ACL ruptures are a prevalent condition, affecting daily living activities, associated with high financial burden. Objective To assess the effect of whole-body vibration (WBV) in the rehabilitation of patients with reconstructed anterior cruciate ligament. Methodology. An electronic search in Pubmed, Scopus, Web of Science, and PEDro databases was conducted and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in humans that analysed the effects of WBV in patients with ACL injury subjected to reconstruction surgery, published in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, or French were included. Records were identified through database search and reference screening by two reviewers, which independently examined titles and abstracts and irrelevant studies were excluded based in eligibility criteria. Relevant full texts were analysed for eligibility, and all relevant studies were included in the systematic review. Results Ten studies were included in the systematic review with a mean methodological quality score of 6. Results demonstrate positive effects of WBV in relevant outcomes such as knee function, electromyographic activity, balance, and muscle strength. Conclusions WBV demonstrated a positive effect in strength, balance, electromyographic activity, and knee function.
An interaction mechanism for the maintenance of fission–fusion dynamics under different individual densities

Animals often show high consistency in their social organisation despite facing changing environmental conditions. Especially in shoaling fish, fission–fusion dynamics that describe for which periods individuals are solitary or social have been found to remain unaltered even when density changed. This compensatory ability is assumed to be an adaptation towards constant predation pressure, but the mechanism through which individuals can actively compensate for density changes is yet unknown. The aim of the current study is to identify behavioural patterns that enable this active compensation. We compared the fission–fusion dynamics of two populations of the live-bearing Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana) that live in adjacent habitats with very different predator regimes: cave mollies that inhabit a low-predation environment inside a sulfidic cave with a low density of predatory water bugs (Belostoma sp.), and mollies that live directly outside the cave (henceforth called “surface” mollies) in a high-predation environment. We analysed their fission–fusion dynamics under two different fish densities of 12 and 6 fish per 0.36 m2. As expected, surface mollies spent more time being social than cave mollies, and this difference in social time was a result of surface mollies being less likely to discontinue social contact (once they had a social partner) and being more likely to resume social contact (once alone) than cave mollies. Interestingly, surface mollies were also less likely to switch among social partners than cave mollies. A random walk simulation predicted each population to show reduced social encounters in the low density treatment. While cave mollies largely followed this prediction, surface mollies maintained their interaction probabilities even at low density. Surface mollies achieved this by a reduction in the size of a convex polygon formed by the group as density decreased. This may allow them to largely maintain their fission–fusion dynamics while still being able to visit large parts of the available area as a group. A slight reduction (21%) in the area visited at low densities was also observed but insufficient to explain how the fish maintained their fission–fusion dynamics. Finally, we discuss potential movement rules that could account for the reduction of polygon size and test their performance.
Abnormal Levels of Liver Enzymes and Hepatotoxicity in HIV-Positive, TB, and HIV/TB-Coinfected Patients on Treatment in Fako Division, Southwest Region of Cameroon

Hepatotoxicity is historically the 3rd most common reason for drug withdrawal and toxicity-related discontinuation of treatment. This study was aimed at determining the incidence and the onset of hepatotoxicity and at evaluating the relationship of some risk factors for hepatotoxicity among Human Immunodeficiency Virus- (HIV-) positive, tuberculosis (TB), and HIV/TB patients on treatment. This was a prospective follow-up study involving 125 participants from the HIV/AIDS and TB treatment centres in three hospitals in Fako Division of Cameroon. These TB and HIV patients were initiated on RHEZ (R = Rifampicin, H = Isoniazid, E = Ethambutol, and P = Pyrazinamide) and TELE (efavirenz/tenofovir/lamivudine), respectively, and followed up for 12 weeks between September 2018 and November 2019. The levels of liver enzymes (transaminases, gamma-glutamyltransferase, alkaline phosphatase, and unconjugated/total bilirubin) were measured spectrophotometrically using serum. The Chi-squared (χ2) test was used to assess the association between risk factors and hepatotoxicity, while the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis with the log-rank test was used to determine the occurrence of hepatotoxicity in the different groups. We followed the general study population for a total person time of 6580 person-days, with an incidence rate and cumulative incidence of 8 cases per 1000 person-days (53/6580 person-days) and 42.4% (53/125), respectively (95% confidence interval), recorded after 12 weeks of follow-up of all the participants. The onset of hepatotoxicity in the total study population was statistically significant (χ2 = 9.5334; p = 0.022979; CI = 95%), with the majority observed at week eight of follow-up. Also, the incidence rate and cumulative incidence of hepatotoxicity with respect to HIV/AIDS, TB, and HIV/TB patients, respectively, at 95% confidence interval were: 8 cases per 1000 person-days (32/3843 person-days) and 32/76 (42.1%), 6 cases per 1000 person-days (12/1932 person-days) and 12/32 (37.5%), and 11 cases per 1000 person-days (9/805 person-days) and 9/17 (52.9%). This study shows that the incidence rate and cumulative incidence of hepatotoxicity in HIV/AIDS, TB, and HIV/TB patients on treatment were high in Fako Division, Cameroon. Also, it is very important to check these patients' liver function especially within the first 12 weeks of treatment.
Clonal variation in depth distribution of Daphnia pulex in response to predator kairomones

In this laboratory study, we explored the variability of 47 Daphnia pulex clones in migration behavior to predator (Chaoborus and fish) kairomones in 1.6 m long tubes. The preferred mean vertical distribution in control water (no predator kairomone) is diverse among clones and responses to predator kairomone are highly variable. Some migration patterns were opposite to our expectations in clones exhibiting an upward migration in response to fish kairomone. A literature comparison indicated that this is not an unusual finding. In general, more clones responded to Chaoborus than to fish kairomone, stressing the importance of Chaoborus as a predator for Daphnia in nature. Dilution of Chaoborus kairomone led to a reduced upward migration by most Daphnia pulex clones tested and adult Daphnia exhibited a strongly reduced response to Chaoborus in comparison to juvenile Daphnia. This indicates that Daphnia may be able to respond to the actual predation threat.
A Static Magnetic Field Inhibits the Migration and Telomerase Function of Mouse Breast Cancer Cells

Static magnetic field (SMF) has a potential as a cancer therapeutic modality due to its specific inhibitory effects on the proliferation of multiple cancer cells. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear, and just a few studies have examined the effects of SMF on metastasis, an important concern in cancer treatment. In this study, we evaluated the effects of moderate SMF (~150 mT) on the proliferation and migration of 4T1 breast cancer cells. Our results showed that SMF treatment accelerated cell proliferation but inhibited cell migration. Further, SMF treatment shortened the telomere length, decreased telomerase activity, and inhibited the expression of the cancer-specific marker telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), which may be related to expression upregulation of e2f1, a transcription repressor of TERT and positive regulator of the mitotic cell cycle. Our results revealed that SMF repressed both, cell migration and telomerase function. The telomerase network is responsive to SMF and may be involved in SMF-mediated cancer-specific effects; moreover, it may function as a therapeutic target in magnetic therapy of cancers.
Comparing race, gender, age, and career categories in recognizing and grouping tasks

The purpose of our research was to compare how participants weighed age, gender, race, and career categories in recognizing and grouping tasks. In Study 1, we used a category recognition task to compare participants’ speeds in recognizing information from different categories. The results showed that participants recognized the gender information most quickly, followed by career, race, and age information. In Study 2, a categorization task was used to compare participants’ category preferences. The results showed that the career category had the greatest weight, and the gender category had the lowest weight. Two targets who had different career identities were more possible considered as belonging to different groups than two targets with different gender, race or age identities. Our results have implications in understanding the weight of different categories, with gender and career category are the most important category that affects perception and evaluation.
Association of Helicobacter pylori infection with colorectal polyps and malignancy in China

BACKGROUND Gastric Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is related to chronic gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcer, and gastric malignancies; whether this infection is related to colorectal polyps and colorectal cancer (CRC), remains debatable. AIM To investigate the relationship between gastric H. pylori infection and the risk of colorectal polyps and CRC. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 3872 patients with colorectal polyps who underwent colonoscopy and pathological diagnosis. We also analyzed 304 patients with primary CRC. The characteristics of these patients were compared with those of the control group, which included 2362 patients with the normal intestinal mucosa. All subjects completed a 14C-urea breath test, bidirectional gastrointestinal endoscopy, and a biopsy on the same day. Data on the number, size, location, and pathology of the polyps, the location, and pathology of the CRC, the detection of H. pylori, and the incidence of H. pylori-associated atrophic gastritis or intestinal metaplasia were obtained. A logistic regression model was used to analyze the relationship between gastric infection due to H. pylori, and the incidence of colorectal polyps and CRC. RESULTS The prevalence of H. pylori infection was higher in the multiple polyps group than in the solitary polyp group and the control group [95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.02-1.31, P = 0.03; 95%CI: 2.12-2.74, P < 0.001]. The patients with adenomatous polyps had a higher incidence of H. pylori infection than patients with non-adenomatous polyps [59.95% vs 51.75%, adjusted odds ratio (OR) = 1.41, 95%CI: 1.24-1.60, P < 0.01]. Patients with H. pylori-associated atrophic gastritis or intestinal metaplasia were at high risk of CRC (adjusted OR = 3.46, 95%CI: 2.63-4.55, P < 0.01; adjusted OR = 4.86, 95%CI: 3.22-7.34, P < 0.01, respectively). The size and location of the polyps, the histopathological characteristics and the location of CRC were not related to H. pylori infection. CONCLUSION Our study demonstrates that the incidence of gastric H. pylori infection and H. pylori-associated atrophic gastritis or intestinal metaplasia elevates the risk of colorectal polyps and CRC.
On concept formation in systematics

In his “Grundzüge einer Theorie der phylogenetischen Systematik”, Hennig (1950 ) cited three philosophers: the leading empiricist Rudolf Carnap, the conventionalist Hugo Dingler, and the somewhat more obscure empiricist Theodor Ziehen. David Hull characterized Hennig's “Grundzüge” as one long argument against idealistic morphology. It will here be argued that Hennig attacked idealistic morphology (synonymous with “systematic” morphology) for its mode of concept formation. Building on Carnap and Ziehen, who both looked back on Ernst Cassirer, Hennig argued that the “generic”, “thing” or “class” concept of traditional nomothetic science must be replaced with Cassirer's “relation concept. ” According to Hennig, such “emancipation” of systematics from the Aristotelian “species” concept would also allow transcendence from the distinction of idiographic from nomothetic sciences, thus preserving the unity of science. However, the establishment of relations in the construction of a system of order presupposes entities that can be, or are, related. Relations presuppose relata, which in modern systematics are best conceptualized (at least at the supraspecific level) not as Aristotelian classes, nor as individuals as was argued by Hennig and Ziehen, but as tokens of natural kinds.
Maize silage for the pasture-fed dairy cow 4. A comparison between grazed annual pastures and feedlotting in the winter

Dairy cows in early lactation grazed irrigated annual pastures during 14 weeks in autumn and winter. They were grazed for either 2 or 6 h each day and then restricted to a feedpad and offered ad libitum maize silage. Other cows were fed 1 of 2 diets while in yards: a feedlot diet based on cereal grain, maize silage, and protein supplement; a mixture of conserved legume and maize silage. Feed intakes and cow performance were monitored. Cows in metabolism cages were fed the feedlot diet with various combinations of red clover and maize silage. Digestibility and rate of disappearance of test feeds from nylon bags were measured in the metabolism trials. Rumen samples were analysed for pH, ammonia, and volatile fatty acids. Dietary constituents were evaluated in vitro and in vivo using sheep. The cows on the feedlot diet recorded the highest DM intakes and the highest liveweight gain, and initially produced the most milk and milk protein. Their milk yields eventually fell to levels similar to those of the grazing cows. Cow performance was poorest on the pasture silage-maize silage mixture, and this treatment was discontinued after only 8 weeks. The poor performance was partly attributed to reduced silage quality from heat damage during ensiling the pasture. Supplementing red clover with increasing levels of maize silage did not influence digestibility but reduced DM intakes and cow performance. Cows grazing for 2 h/day produced 1-2 L/day less milk, and lost more weight, than cows grazing for 6 h/day; their rumen ammonia fell below critical levels. The grazing of high-clover pastures between morning and afternoon milking, combined with maize silage supplementation, is convenient and sustains high milk yields during early lactation.
Innervation of luminous glands in the calanoid copepod Euaugaptilus magnus

Evidence is presented of direct innervation of the secretory cells of luminous glands in the calanoid copepod Euaugaptilus magnus (Wolfenden, 1904). Synaptic structures are present, characterized by specialized pre- and post-synaptic membranes, clusters of synaptic vesicles and pre-synaptic dense bodies. Only one type of synaptic vesicle is present; this is spherical, clear cored and 30–50 nm in diameter. Similar vesicles at synapses in other Crustacea are thought to contain the neurotransmitter glutamate. Each gland appears to be innervated separately and all four secretory cells of each gland are innervated by the same nerve, giving rise to the possibility that control can be exerted over the firing of individual luminous glands.
Research on Hybrid Recommendation Algorithm for Integrating Consumption Habits in LSBN

With the rapid development of the web2.0 era and the popularity of location-based services (LBS), the development of technology and the increase in the number of users have led to location-based socialization such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Flickr, public comment, StreetSide, etc. Location-based Social Network (LBSN), LBSN-based services provide researchers with a number of meaningful research topics, such as travel route recommendations, location-based friend recommendations, trusted location recommendations, and location-based mobile advertising recommendations. In this paper, our idea is to explore the impact of user spending habits on interest point recommendations. Based on the LBSN's sign-in behavior, there is a relatively obvious distribution of consumer behavior. Therefore, the user's spending habits are obtained through the user's sign-in behavior, and the consumption habits are included in the recommendation model to improve the recommendation effect. Finally, on the real data set of Foursquare. The verification results show that our hybrid recommendation model can improve the recommendation effect.
Collective communication and behaviour in response to uncertain ‘Danger’ in network experiments

In emergencies, social coordination is especially challenging. People connected with each other may respond better or worse to an uncertain danger than isolated individuals. We performed experiments involving a novel scenario simulating an unpredictable situation faced by a group in which 2480 subjects in 108 groups had to both communicate information and decide whether to ‘evacuate’. We manipulated the permissible sorts of interpersonal communication and varied group topology and size. Compared to groups of isolated individuals, we find that communication networks suppress necessary evacuations because of the spontaneous and diffuse emergence of false reassurance; yet, communication networks also restrain unnecessary evacuations in situations without disasters. At the individual level, subjects have thresholds for responding to social information that are sensitive to the negativity, but not the actual accuracy, of the signals being transmitted. Social networks can function poorly as pathways for inconvenient truths that people would rather ignore.
A Feature Interaction Network for Customer Churn Prediction

Customer churn prediction is an active research topic for the data mining community and business managers in this rapidly growing society. The ability to detect churn customers precisely is something that every company would wish to achieve. With the great success of DNNs, several churn prediction models based on DNNs are proposed in recent years. However, traditional DNNs cannot learn high-order feature interactions and deal with one-hot vectors well. In this paper, we proposed a feature interaction network (FIN), which aims to enhance the inherent relations of discrete features and learn high-order feature interactions. This network contains two modules: an entity embedding network and a factorization machine network with several sliding windows. From the experiments, it is observed that our proposed model has a better predictive performance than several state-of-the-art models on 4 public datasets.
Next Generation Information Storage Technology: DNA Data Storage

With the rapid development of computer technology and network technology, the huge amount of data generated has brought great challenges to the traditional data storage methods, so researchers began to devote themselves to finding a new generation of storage solutions. DNA storage technology is a new type of information storage technology. It refers to the technology of storing documents, pictures, video and other information with synthetic deoxynucleotide chains and reading them completely. By encoding the data into binary digital strings, and then encoding the corresponding binary digits with four bases A, T, C and G, the data can be constructed in the form of deoxynucleotide chains. Then the corresponding DNA molecules can be synthesized artificially, and the data can be stored in DNA molecules. Due to the advantages of high storage density and long storage time, DNA storage can meet the needs of big data storage, and it is possible to replace silicon-based materials as the next generation of information storage technology.
Persistence, Spatial Variability and Transport of Anthropogenic Coal Particles from Old Power Plants in the Nearshore Sediment

ABSTRACT del Valle, L. ; Fornós, J.J.; Pomar, F. , and Gómez-Pujol, L. , 2020. Persistence, spatial variability and transport of anthropogenic coal particles from old power plants in the nearshore sediment. In: Malvárez, G. and Navas, F. (eds.), Global Coastal Issues of 2020. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 95, pp. 1406-1410. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This study addresses the persistence and dynamics of unburned coal fragments, within coastal sediments at the Bay of Palma (Mallorca, Western Mediterranean) for the period 1990 – 2010. This coal fragments relate to two coastal power plants in operation from 1859 to 1968. Two sediment-sampling campaigns have been developed; one in 1990 and another in 2010. Sedimentological and composition analyses show that local nearshore sediments consist of well-sorted medium to fine bioclastic sands, reaching 70% of the sediment budget. Nevertheless, almost 3.7% of the coastal sediments are coal fragments. The comparison of sediment properties for 1990 and 2010 survey samplings, show that the presence of coal fragments in nearshore sediment has increased from 2.9% to 3.7% due to re-working and fragmentation of original coal grains by alongshore currents and waves action. Spatial distribution of coal reports a south-eastwards transport that coincides with the main coastal current direction along the bay.
Habitat Assessment of the Broad-Headed Skink (Plestiodon laticeps) and the Associated Squamate Community in Eastern Kansas

During the summers of 2015-2017, we performed standardized surveys across the known range of the Broad-headed Skink in eastern Kansas. We used a combination of drift fence arrays with funnel traps and visual encounter surveys (VES) to collect occurrence data on the Broad-headed Skink. A Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) was used to determine which habitat variables explained the variation observed in the squamate assemblage. The position of the Broad-headed Skink was explained by average log length and overstory tree size. A secondary analysis implies the Broad-headed Skink is also associated with presence of Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). A logistic regression was used to determine which habitat variables were significant in predicting presence of the Broad-headed Skink. The variables from the most successful model included average log length, overstory tree size, understory tree dispersion, and overstory tree dispersion. These habitat attributes suggest the Broad-headed Skink prefers mature patches of forest, and habitat structure rather than tree species composition is more useful in predicting Broad-headed Skink presence.
AMERICAN SPECIES OF DIORYCTRIA (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE): I. WESTERN CANADIAN SPECIES OF THE ZIMMERMANI GROUP

Abstract Dioryctria tumicolella, from pine blister rust, Peridermium spp. , swellings on Pinus ponderosa Lawson and Son in British Columbia, Washington, Montana, and Colorado; D. contortella, from Peridermium swellings on P. contorta Douglas in British Columbia, Alberta, and Washington; D. monticolella, from trunks of P. monticola Douglas in British Columbia; and D. banksiella, from trunks of P. banksiana Lambert in Alberta, Northwest Territories and eastward, are described as new species and distinguished from the western D. cambiicola (Dyar) and the eastern D. zimmermani (Grote).