Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
' s report Title : Bayesian adjustment for measurement error in continuous exposures in an individually matched case-control study Version : 1 Date : 10

I found the manuscript interesting in proposing a Bayesian approach to measurement error correction in matched case-control studies. From a theoretical point of view, I found the construction of the approach well described. The Authors review the existing literature on the topic and suggest an approach whose construction is well motivated while taking into account the features of the available data. From a practical viewpoint, the Authors face the difficulties of multiple mismeasured continuous covariates.
Complex regional pain syndrome type I

Complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS) is a chronic pain disorder involving the sensory, motor, and autonomic nervous systems, often leading to severe debilitation. Most commonly, a preceding limb injury catalyzes CRPS, although insidious onset has been known to occur. An estimated 60,000 Americans are affected by CRPS, including individuals between 25 and 55 years of age. CRPS is three times more likely to occur in women, although it can affect anyone [1]. Table 1 contains the CRPS clinical diagnostic criteria suggested by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Because of the poor understanding of the etiology of CRPS, its medical management is nebulous. Along with pain management, optimal treatment outcomes appear to be achieved when emphasizing functional restoration-a realm largely encompassed by physical therapists (PT). However, a review of the literature found that the term physical therapy is often used vaguely with no corresponding definition or description of procedures employed during treatment [2]. This has left PTs with a lack of guidance in treating patients with CRPS. The purpose of this case report is to describe the physical therapy management of a 38-year-old patient with CRPS developed from a chronic anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) injury by using Active Release Techniques® (ART®) in combination with joint mobilization, gait training, therapeutic exercise, and education to document the observed clinical and functional improvements.
SELENE-B: Proposed Lunar Mission with Lander and Rover

SELENE-B, the 2nd of the SELENE (SELenological and ENgineering Explorer) series lunar missions, is now in the study phase being proposed for the launch in 2008. The main purpose of the SELENE-B mission is to establish the advanced technologies for precise and safe landing on the lunar/planetary surface, but it will also conduct scientific observations using instruments both on a lander and onboard a small rover and also will conduct the research on the possibility of the future utilization of the lunar resources. Although there have been up to now quite a few landing missions either on the moon or on Mars, no missions have ever achieved autonomous pin-point landing at the pre-selected small target area avoiding obstacles on the surface. This paper presents an overview of the SELENE-B mission from the standpoint of engineering technologies with an emphasis on space robotics and AI.
4Coexistence of lipid phases stabilizes interstitial water in the outer layer of mammalian skin

The lipid matrix in the outer layer of mammalian skin, the stratum corneum, has been previously investigated by multiple biophysical techniques, aimed at identifying hydrophilic and lipophilic pathways of permeation. While consensus is developing over the microscopic structure of the lipid matrix, no molecular-resolution model describes the permeability of all chemical species simultaneously. Using molecular dynamics simulations of a model mixture of skin lipids, the self-assembly of the lipid matrix lamellae has been studied. At higher humidity, the resulting lamellar phase is maintained by partitioning excess water into isolated droplets of controlled size and spatial distribution. The droplets may fuse together to form intra-lamellar water channels, thereby providing a pathway for the permeation of hydrophilic species. These results reconcile competing data on the outer skin’s structure and broaden the scope of molecular-based methods to improve the safety of topical products and to advance transdermal drug delivery.
Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it

Notebook and spreadsheet systems are currently the de-facto standard for data collection, preparation, and analysis. However, these systems have been criticized for their lack of reproducibility, versioning, and support for sharing. These shortcomings are particularly detrimental for data curation where data scientists iteratively build workﬂows to clean up and integrate data as a prerequisite for analysis. We present Vizier, an open-source tool that helps analysts to build and
Isolation and Identification of Bacillus cereus from Milk and Milk Products in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Bacillus cereus is a Gram positive, facultative anaerobic, spore forming, motile bacterium (Tallent et al., 2012) which is widely distributed in nature and contaminates almost every agricultural commodity (Khudor et al., 2012). The bacterium is isolated from numerous foods, including dairy products, eggs and meat (Kramer and Gilbert, 1989; Ombui et al., 2008). Bacillus cereus can grow in maximum foods at a pH above 4.5 and temperatures above 4°C (Faria-Reyes et al., 2001; Svensson et al., 2007). B. cereus associated food-borne illness occurs as two distinct intoxication syndromes; emetic and diarrhoeal (Oh et al., 2012). The diarrhoeal type of B. cereus food poisoning is caused by enterotoxins such as haemolysin BL (HBL), nonhaemolytic enterotoxin (NHE) and cytotoxin K (CytK) (Ankolekar et al., 2009, Ngamwongsatit et al., 2008).
The Efficacy of Boarding System University in Producing Competent Graduates for the Era of Industry 4.0

The era of disruption has brought about a change in the competencies of university graduates. According to the World Economic Forum 2016, there are ten competencies. This study aims to examine the extent to which the University of Darussalam Gontor (UNIDA) with its boarding system inculcates the ten competencies to its students. The object of this research is all students' activities. It is a case study that employs a qualitative approach. The data analyzed by descriptive analysis techniques. The result shows that the Competencies are inculcated through student activities as knowledge management in their curriculums. The student learns cognitive flexibility, problem-solving and critical thinking formally in the classroom but subsequently, they are improved informally and non-formally in dormitory activities. Other competencies are taught through student activities informally and non-formally. The informal curriculum consists, among other things of the student organization. The non-formal curriculum is embedded in Five Spirit of university life.
Gaussian Process Graph-Based Discriminant Analysis for Hyperspectral Images Classification

Dimensionality Reduction (DR) models are highly useful for tackling Hyperspectral Images (HSIs) classification tasks. They mainly address two issues: the curse of dimensionality with respect to spectral features, and the limited number of labeled training samples. Among these DR techniques, the Graph-Embedding Discriminant Analysis (GEDA) framework has demonstrated its effectiveness for HSIs feature extraction. However, most of the existing GEDA-based DR methods largely rely on manually tuning the parameters so as to obtain the optimal model, which proves to be troublesome and inefficient. Motivated by the nonparametric Gaussian Process (GP) model, we propose a novel supervised DR algorithm, namely Gaussian Process Graph-based Discriminate Analysis (GPGDA). Our algorithm takes full advantage of the covariance matrix in GP to constructing the graph similarity matrix in GEDA framework. In this way, more superior performance can be provided with the model parameters tuned automatically. Experiments on three real HSIs datasets demonstrate that the proposed GPGDA outperforms some classic and state-of-the-art DR methods.
Exploring Organizational Learning and Structuring

This paper discusses the creation of a general framework, expressed as a flexible agent-based model, to explore the impact of organizational learning and structure to the performance of firms or governmental intervention and regulation. The agent-based model is made up of firms, employees, products, and customers. The motivation is to characterize implications from different combinations of the framework itself and the results of an initial experiment to establish empirical relevance 0+ are discussed. While many aspects of the system under study have been dealt with in prior literature, we are unaware of any attempt to combine all elements of a functioning market in a tractable, parsimonious manner. The paper concludes with next steps.
Comparative Ecophysiology and Photoprotection in Two Stem Succulent Euphorbia Species in Arid Habitat

Stem succulents Euphorbia fractiflexa and Euphorbia triaculeata (Euphorbiaceae) are common arido-active perennials in arid regions of Arabian Peninsula. Work presented in this paper aimed at investigating Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) in these two species by studying diurnal and seasonal changes in stomatal conductance and cell sap acidity. Chlorophyll fluorescence was measured to elucidate effect of drought and high irradiance on photosynthetic apparatus. Pigment profile analysis was carried out to provide comparative view of photoprotective mechanisms in these two species. Results indicated that these two Euphorbia species are obligate CAM plants that shift to CAM-idling in response to protracted drought. Results also revealed stress induced changes in activity and antenna size of Photosystem II. Changes in Photosystem II associated with increased non-photochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence reflecting operation of photoprotective excess energy dissipation mechanisms. Pigment profile analysis revealed that photoprotection in E. fractiflexa relies on operation of xanthophyll cycle while that in E. triaculeata relies on anthocyanin accumulation.
Acquisition of Russian Nominal Case Inflections by Monolingual Children: A Psycholinguistic Approach

While different researchers agree that the acquisition of Russian nominal cases proceeds somewhat sequentially, there is no consensus about the exact order of case acquisition in the literature on L1 acquisition (see Ceitlin, 2000; Gvozdev, 1981, 2007; Gagarina & Voeikova, 2009). Besides, accumulated longitudinal data are sparse and disparate, coming from children of different ages, socio-economic statuses, and language acquisition backgrounds. We adopt a psycholinguistic approach to examine acquisition of Russian nominal case inflections by Russian monolingual children (2-5 years old). The goal of the study is twofold: it sets out 1) to examine at what age children learn to generalize rules of noun case usage, and 2) to identify the order of acquisition of Russian oblique case inflections. Children perform a picture-based sentence completion task in which they have to finish the sentence by naming real or non-existing objects in the pictures. Five sentence frames are constructed to bias the children’s responses towards the use of a noun form in one of the five oblique Russian cases, across three declensions plus plural forms. Data collection is in progress, but interim results show that monolingual Russian-speaking children learn to generalize morphological rules to novel nouns by the age of 2 and that nouns in the plural form are acquired later in language development compared to singular forms. Within the singular forms, 3rd declension cases, especially the instrumental case, present most difficulty. Additionally, 2-3-year-old children tend to substitute oblique cases with the nominative case forms. The results corroborate some of the previous findings and add additional insights into the acquisition of Russian case.
Adaptive Reactionless Motion Control for Free-Floating Space Manipulators.

This paper investigates the adaptive version of reaction null-space (RNS) based control for free-floating space manipulators with uncertain kinematics and dynamics in the presence of nonzero initial angular and linear momenta. The great challenge in deriving the adaptive RNS-based control scheme is that it is difficult to obtain a linear expression which is the basis of the adaptive control. The main contribution of this paper is that we skillfully obtain such a linear expression, based on which, an adaptive version of the RNS-based controller is developed at velocity level, taking into account both the kinematic and dynamic uncertainties. It is shown that the proposed control achieves both the base attitude regulation and continuous path tracking of the end-effector. The simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed controller.
A discrete time split population survival (cure) model

In the standard survival model, the risk of failure is non-zero for all cases. A split-population (or cure) survival model relaxes this assumption and allows an (estimable) fraction of cases never to experience the event. This presentation reports on an implementation of a discrete time (or grouped survival data) version of this model, using ml method d0, and the problems with implementing a 'robust' option.
BagDrop: Computationally Feasible Approximate Bagging with Neural Networks

Overfitting is a common problem when learning models from noisy observational data. This problem is especially present in very flexible models, such as Neural Networks, which can easily fit to spurious patterns in the data that are not indicative of true underlying patterns. One technique that conquers the problem of overfitting is Bagging, an ensemble method. However, Bagging can be a slow technique, since its computational cost scales linearly with the size of the ensemble. We propose a Dropout-inspired method, BagDrop, as a solution to the problem of computationally high cost of Bagging. We conduct experiments on a regression problem with fully-connected Neural Networks. Our results show that BagDrop does well in terms of generalization performance and computational cost. Our encouraging results provide a proof-of-concept that indicates a promising direction for future research.
Reciprocal dynamic effectiveness for industrialized house builders

To achieve competitive advantage, companies have different capabilities that supports a reciprocal and dynamic effectiveness way of operating. This research aim to extend theory about business models and get deeper understanding on how industrialized house building coordination takes place and the dynamic aspects of the coordination. It was conducted as case study, using two deliberately different industrialized house building companies. The results indicates processes links to reciprocal dynamic effectiveness are complex, because all four dimensions in the model must be considered. The theoretical contribution lies in the definition of reciprocal and dynamic effectiveness needed to maintain a viable business model.
1 Reciprocal Drag-and-Drop

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Reciprocal Drag-and-Drop Caroline Appert, Olivier Chapuis, Emmanuel Pietriga, Maria Lobo
Lesson 254: PreAnesthetic Assessment of the Patient for Robotic Surgery

The authors and reviewer have no relationships with pharmaceutical companies or manufacturers of products to disclose. This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents for the treatment of disease. Some uses of these agents have not been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Minimum cycle bases of graphs on surfaces

In this paper we study the cycle base structures of embedded graphs on surfaces. We first give a sufficient and necessary condition for a set of facial cycles to be contained in a minimum cycle base (or MCB in short) and then set up a 1–1 correspondence between the set of MCBs and the set of collections of nonseparating cycles which are in general positions on surfaces and are of shortest total length. This provides a way to enumerate MCBs in a graph via nonseparating cycles. In particular, some known results such as P.F. Stadler’s work on Halin graphs [Minimum cycle bases of Halin graphs, J. Graph Theory 43 (2003) 150–155] and Leydold and Stadler’s results on outer-planar graphs [Minimum cycle bases of outerplanar graphs, Electronic J. Combin. 5(16) (1998) 14] are concluded. As applications, the number of MCBs in some types of graphs embedded in lower surfaces (with arbitrarily high genera) is found. Finally, we present an interpolation theorem for the number of one-sided cycles contained in MCB of an embedded graph. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC: 05C10; 05C30; 05C45
In fl uence of wastewater treatment on sludge production and processing

The challenge of stricter wastewater standards is resulting in configuration changes to wastewater treatment. As facilities upgrade, the type of sludge produced is changing, with growing quantities of secondary and chemical sludge at the expense of primary sludge. It is already understood that secondary sludge is harder to treat than its primary equivalent; therefore, increasing the quantity of this type of sludge will have detrimental impacts downstream. As legislation tightens further, extended aeration times may be required during processing to remove more nutrients. Work has shown that extended aeration further exacerbates the difficulty of treating secondary sludge. This paper explains how tightening wastewater legislation fundamentally alters the nature of the sludge produced and how this affects further processing, especially with respect to sludge production and type; sludge energy content; performance of anaerobic digestion and dewatering, and potential for thermal energy recovery.
A Complex Networks Approach to Analysing the Erdős-Straus Conjecture and Related Problems

For any positive integer n ≥ 2, the Erdős-Straus Conjecture claims that the Diophantine equation 4/n = 1/x + 1/y + 1/z has a solution where x, y, z are also positive integers. In this paper, a directed network based on this equation is generated, with properties such as its average clustering coefficient, average path length, degree distributions, and largest strongly connected component analysed to reveal some underlying trends about the nature of the conjecture. Potential connections between different numbers, that result from satisfying a source-solution relationship for this equation, are described using the appropriate number-theoretic interpretations wherever possible, while conjectures backed by these trends are made in other instances. Additionally, a directed configuration model is used to show that the origin of several results is the degree sequence of the network. Metrics relating to the prime number nodes, specifically their in and out degrees, are also explored to yield some intriguing observations. On the whole, the aim is to highlight the viability of complex networks as a computational tool to study this general class of problems pertaining to fixed-length unit fraction splits.
Disruptive firms

This study proposes the concept of disruptive firms : they are firms with market leadership that deliberate introduce new and improved generations of durable goods that destroy, directly or indirectly, similar products present in markets in order to support their competitive advantage and/or market leadership. These disruptive firms support technological and industrial change and induce consumers to buy new products to adapt to new socioeconomic environment. In particular, disruptive firms generate and spread path-breaking innovations in order to achieve and sustain the goal of a (temporary) profit monopoly. This organizational behaviour and strategy of disruptive firms support technological change. This study can be useful for bringing a new perspective to explain and generalize one of the determinants that generates technological and industrial change. Overall, then this study suggests that one of the general sources of technological change is due to disruptive firms (subjects), rather than disruptive technologies (objects), that generate market shifts in a Schumpeterian world of innovation-based competition.
The quality and safety of healthcare provided to hospital inpatients who are placed on clinically inappropriate wards

Background: Almost all NHS hospitals regularly place patients on wards that are not clinically appropriate if there are no beds available on the correct specialty ward. Such patients are commonly called outliers. Approximately one in ten NHS inpatients experience an adverse event that causes them harm as a direct result of the care they receive while in hospital. It was hypothesised that placement on a ward that is not clinically appropriate for patients’ needs could act as an underlying (latent) condition which may increase patients’ susceptibility to adverse events. Methods: A descriptive quantitative study of the outliers and other inpatients in a single large NHS Foundation Trust was conducted using routinely available data. The aims were to investigate: the trend of outliers over the course of one year, age, gender, specialty, internal transfers between wards, length of stay in hospital and mortality. Two separate qualitative interview studies were conducted at the Trust to ascertain NHS staff members’ and patients’ perceptions and experiences of the quality and safety of care received by outlying patients. Results: Medical and elderly outliers increased over the winter months. Outliers were transferred between wards a significantly greater number of times than other inpatients. Multivariate analyses demonstrated no differences in age, gender, or mortality; however, outliers stayed in hospital significantly longer than other inpatients and outliers were significantly more likely to come from medicine than from any other specialty. Both staff and patients identified a number of factors which may contribute to healthcare errors experienced by outlying patients. Placement of patients on clinically inappropriate wards creates competing demands on staff members’ time and consequently results in delays, poses a number of communication barriers, compromises input from knowledgeable staff, may provide an unsuitable ward environment, and can be inappropriate for individual patients’ needs. Conclusions: The placement of patients on clinically inappropriate wards is a specific patient safety concern and constitutes a latent condition which may expose patients to a number of contributory factors that underlie adverse events. The quality of care may be compromised as outliers are often prioritised beneath other inpatients.