Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Levels of empathy in undergraduate health science students

BackgroundEmpathy is often considered an important trait for professionals in the health field. Empathy amongst physicians, medical students, and nurses has been investigated previously while studies examining the empathy levels in allied health students are non-existent. The objective of this study was to determine the extent of empathy amongst undergraduate students in six allied health professions – emergency health (paramedic), nursing, midwifery, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and health sciences at one Australian University. MethodsA convenience sample of undergraduate students enrolled in six allied health courses across the first, second, and third year levels at Monash University were surveyed. Students completed the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (HP-version), a valid and reliable self-report scale, and a brief demographic form. Analysis of mean scores, t-test, and one-way ANOVA were used to evaluate the extent of empathy amongst the student groups. ResultsThere were 459 students who participated. Females were found to be significantly more empathic than males (p=0.002) with a significant difference between age groups (p=0.039). No significant difference between year level of study, and professional course of study was found and, as such, the results overall show the extent of empathy to be more similar than different across the six allied health undergraduate students groups. ConclusionThis study suggests a strong presence of empathy amongst allied health science students. Females were found to be more empathic than males with little difference between the course students were enrolled in and year of study.
Azadinium obesum (Dinophyceae), a new nontoxic species in the genus that can produce azaspiracid toxins

Tillmann U. , Elbrächter M. , John U. , Krock B. and Cembella A. 2010. Azadinium obesum (Dinophyceae), a new nontoxic species in the genus that can produce azaspiracid toxins. Phycologia 49: 169–182. DOI: 10.2216/09-35.1 The novel dinoflagellate taxon we describe here as Azadinium obesum sp. nov. was isolated as clone 2E10 from the North Sea along the Scottish east coast, the same locality as for Azadinium spinosum Elbrächter et Tillmann, the type and formerly only species for this genus. In contrast to A. spinosum, a known producer of azaspiracid (AZA) toxins, the isolate of A. obesum produces no known AZA analogues detectable by liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. Azadinium obesum is a small (13–18 µm length; 10–14 µm width) photosynthetic dinoflagellate with a thin theca exhibiting the Kofoidean plate tabulation: Po, cp, X, 4′, 3a, 6″, 6C, 5? S, 6′″, 2″″. This species is morphologically distinguished from A. spinosum by slightly larger mean cell size, consistent absence of an antapical spine, the lack of a stalked pyrenoid and several details of the plate configuration. Among these thecal features, the first precingular (1″) plate of A. obesum does not touch the first epithecal intercalary plate and is four sided rather than five sided as in A. spinosum. Furthermore, in A. obesum the lower half of the first apical (1′) plate is very narrow and tongue-like, and precingular plates 1″ and 6″ are very close together, whereas these diverge in A. spinosum. DNA sequence and phylogenetic analysis elucidates and supports the separation (but close affinity) of A. obesum and A. spinosum, as well as the description of the former as a distinct species. Phylogenetic interpretation of the four genes analysed – internal transcribed spacer, 18S rDNA, 28S rDNA (D1/D2) and cytochrome oxidase I – further validates the recently erected genus Azadinium Elbrächer et Tillmann but does not clarify the position of the genus with respect to higher taxonomic levels within the subclass Peridiniphycidae.
Boundary-enhanced supervoxel segmentation for sparse outdoor LiDAR data

Voxelisation methods are extensively employed for efficiently processing large point clouds. However, it is possible to lose geometric information and extract inaccurate features through these voxelisation methods. A novel, flexibly shaped ‘supervoxel’ algorithm, called boundary-enhanced supervoxel segmentation, for sparse and complex outdoor light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data is proposed. The algorithm consists of two key components: (i) detecting boundaries by analysing consecutive points and (ii) clustering the points by first excluding the boundary points. The generated supervoxels include spatial and geometric properties and maintain the shape of the object's boundary. The proposed algorithm is tested using sparse LiDAR data obtained from outdoor urban environments.
Effects of a Mindfulness Based Intervention on Diurnal Cortisol in Cancer Survivors

iii List of Tables . vii Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 1.1 Statement of Problem . 1 1.2 Purpose and Objectives . 2 1.3 Significance of Research . 4 1.4 Study Outline . 5 Chapter 2: Background . 7 2.1 Cancer Survivorship . 7 2.2 Mindfulness Practice . 9 2.3 Diurnal Cortisol and HPA axis regulation . 12 2.4 Current Literature . 17 Chapter 3: Method . 29 3.1 Study Design . 29 3.2 Measurements . 30 3.3 Model Variables . 34 3.4 Statistical Analysis . 36 Chapter 4: Results . 40 4.1 Sample characteristics . 40 4.2 Baseline Associations with Diurnal Cortisol Decline . 43 4.3 Effect of treatment on change in Diurnal Cortisol Decline . 45 4.4 Treatment effect by baseline categorization . 46
Weighty data: importance information influences estimated weight of digital information storage devices

Previous work suggests that perceived importance of an object influences estimates of its weight. Specifically, important books were estimated to be heavier than non-important books. However, the experimental set-up of these studies may have suffered from a potential confound and findings may be confined to books only. Addressing this, we investigate the effect of importance on weight estimates by examining whether the importance of information stored on a data storage device (USB-stick or portable hard drive) can alter weight estimates. Results show that people thinking a USB-stick holds important tax information (vs. expired tax information vs. no information) estimate it to be heavier (Experiment 1) compared to people who do not. Similarly, people who are told a portable hard drive holds personally relevant information (vs. irrelevant), also estimate the drive to be heavier (Experiments 2A,B).
EB1 protein alteration characterizes sporadic but not ulcerative colitis associated colorectal cancer

Background While carcinogenesis in Sporadic Colorectal Cancer (SCC) has been thoroughly studied, less is known about Ulcerative Colitis associated Colorectal Cancer (UCC). This study aimed to identify and validate differentially expressed proteins between clinical samples of SCC and UCC to elucidate new insights of UCC/SCC carcinogenesis and progression. Results Multiplex-fluorescence two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-D DIGE) and mass spectrometry identified 67 proteoforms representing 43 distinct proteins. After analysis by Ingenuity Pathway Analysis® (IPA), subsequent Western blot validation proofed the differential expression of Heat shock 27 kDA protein 1 (HSPB1) and Microtubule-associated protein R/EB family, member 1 (EB1) while the latter one showed also expression differences by immunohistochemistry. Materials and Methods Fresh frozen tissue of UCC (n = 10) matched with SCC (n = 10) was investigated. Proteins of cancerous intestinal mucosal cells were obtained by Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) and compared by 2-D DIGE. Significant spots were identified by mass spectrometry. After IPA, three proteins [EB1, HSPB1, and Annexin 5 (ANXA5)] were chosen for further validation by Western blotting and tissue microarray-based immunohistochemistry. Conclusions This study identified significant differences in protein expression of colorectal carcinoma cells from UCC patients compared to patients with SCC. Particularly, EB1 was validated in an independent clinical cohort.
Additive manufacturing of polymer melts for implantable medical devices and scaffolds

Melt processing is routinely used to fabricate medical polymeric devices/implants for clinical reconstruction and can be incorporated into quality systems procedures for medical device manufacture. As additive manufacturing (AM) becomes increasingly used for biomaterials and biofabrication, the translation of new, customizable, medical devices to the clinic becomes paramount. Melt processing is therefore a distinguishable group within AM that provides an avenue to manufacture scaffolds/implants with a clinical end-point. Three key melt processing AM technologies are highlighted in this review: melt micro-extrusion, selective laser sintering and melt electrospinning writing. The in vivo (including clinical) outcomes of medical devices and scaffolds made with these processes are reviewed. Together, they encompass the melt AM of scaffold architectures with feature sizes and resolutions ranging from 800 nm up to 700 μm.
Two-stage blind source separation combining SIMO-model-based ICA and adaptive beamforming

A new two-stage blind source separation (BSS) for convolutive mixtures of speech is proposed, in which a Single-Input Multiple-Output (SIMO)-model-based ICA (SIMO-ICA) and an adaptive beamforming (ABF) are combined. SIMO-ICA can separate the mixed signals, not into monaural source signals but into SIMO-model-based signals from independent sources as they are at the microphones. Thus, the separated signals of SIMO-ICA can maintain the spatial qualities of each sound source, and directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of the sources can be estimated after the separation by SIMO-ICA. Owing to the attractive property, the supervised ABF can be applied to efficiently remove the residual interference components after SIMO-ICA and the DOA estimation procedures. The experimental results reveal that the separation performance can be considerably improved by using the proposed method. In addition, the proposed method outperforms the combination of the conventional SIMO-output-type ICA and ABF, as well as both of the simple ICA and ABF.
Three different mechanisms of energy dissipation of a desiccation-tolerant moss serve one common purpose: to protect reaction centres against photo-oxidation*

Three different types of non-photochemical de-excitation of absorbed light energy protect photosystem II of the sun- and desiccation-tolerant moss Rhytidium rugosum against photo-oxidation. The first mechanism, which is light-induced in hydrated thalli, is sensitive to inhibition by dithiothreitol. It is controlled by the protonation of a thylakoid protein. Other mechanisms are activated by desiccation. One of them permits exciton migration towards a far-red band in the antenna pigments where fast thermal deactivation takes place. This mechanism appears to be similar to a mechanism detected before in desiccated lichens. A third mechanism is based on the reversible photo-accumulation of a radical that acts as a quencher of excitation energy in reaction centres of photosystem II. On the basis of absorption changes around 800 nm, the quencher is suggested to be an oxidized chlorophyll. The data show that desiccated moss is better protected against photo-oxidative damage than hydrated moss. Slow drying of moss thalli in the light increases photo-protection more than slow drying in darkness.
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: New Mathematical Models for Strategic Demand Creation Prioritizing Subpopulations by Age and Geography

Over 11 million voluntary medical male circumcisions (VMMC) have been performed of the projected 20.3 million needed to reach 80% adult male circumcision prevalence in priority sub-Saharan African countries. Striking numbers of adolescent males, outside the 15-49-year-old age target, have been accessing VMMC services. What are the implications of overall progress in scale-up to date? Can mathematical modeling provide further insights on how to efficiently reach the male circumcision coverage levels needed to create and sustain further reductions in HIV incidence to make AIDS no longer a public health threat by 2030? Considering ease of implementation and cultural acceptability, decision makers may also value the estimates that mathematical models can generate of immediacy of impact, cost-effectiveness, and magnitude of impact resulting from different policy choices. This supplement presents the results of mathematical modeling using the Decision Makers’ Program Planning Tool Version 2.0 (DMPPT 2.0), the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA2008) model, and the age structured mathematical (ASM) model. These models are helping countries examine the potential effects on program impact and cost-effectiveness of prioritizing specific subpopulations for VMMC services, for example, by client age, HIV-positive status, risk group, and geographical location. The modeling also examines long-term sustainability strategies, such as adolescent and/or early infant male circumcision, to preserve VMMC coverage gains achieved during rapid scale-up. The 2016–2021 UNAIDS strategy target for VMMC is an additional 27 million VMMC in high HIV-prevalence settings by 2020, as part of access to integrated sexual and reproductive health services for men. To achieve further scale-up, a combination of evidence, analysis, and impact estimates can usefully guide strategic planning and funding of VMMC services and related demand-creation strategies in priority countries. Mid-course corrections now can improve cost-effectiveness and scale to achieve the impact needed to help turn the HIV pandemic on its head within 15 years.
Website Cleaner Using Site Style Tree (SST)

A webpage generally contains data along with navigation panels, advertisements, copyright and privacy notices. Except data these other things does not contain any important information. These blocks can be called as non-informative blocks. As these blocks are non-informative, they can affect the result of web data mining. To avoid this it is important to separate the main data i.e. informative blocks and noninformative blocks from the web page. In a website these noninformative blocks are generally present in different web pages and have same format. Also the data contained in these blocks is also same. In case of informative blocks, data contained by the block and their format are different. We need a structure at site level to capture the same format of the blocks and the data present in the blocks. DOM Tree structure is available at page level. Many tools are available to construct a DOM Tree of a webpage. But DOM Tree structure is not useful at site level. So we need to construct a Site Style Tree(SST) for a website. After analyzing this SST we can identify which part of SST is informative and which is non-informative. There is no tool available to construct a style tree for a given website. This work aims at constructing a style tree for given website and separating informative and non-informative blocks from the website. Keywords— Informative blocks, Non-informative blocks, Web mining.
An Analytical High-Level Battery Model for Use in Energy Management of Portable Electronic Systems

Once the battery becomes fully discharged, a battery-powered portable electronic system goes off-line. Therefore, it is important to take the battery behavior into account. A system designer needs an adequate high-level model in order to make battery-aware decisions that target maximization of the system's lifetime on-line. We propose such a model: it allows a designer to predict the battery time-to-failure for a given load and provides a cost metric for lifetime optimization algorithms. Our model also allows for a tradeoff between the accuracy and the amount of computation performed. The quality of the proposed model is evaluated using a detailed low-level simulation of a lithium-ion electrochemical cell.
GenomeRNAi: a database for cell-based RNAi phenotypes. 2009 update

The GenomeRNAi database (http://www.genomernai.org/) contains phenotypes from published cell-based RNA interference (RNAi) screens in Drosophila and Homo sapiens. The database connects observed phenotypes with annotations of targeted genes and information about the RNAi reagent used for the perturbation experiment. The availability of phenotypes from Drosophila and human screens also allows for phenotype searches across species. Besides reporting quantitative data from genome-scale screens, the new release of GenomeRNAi also enables reporting of data from microscopy experiments and curated phenotypes from published screens. In addition, the database provides an updated resource of RNAi reagents and their predicted quality that are available for the Drosophila and the human genome. The new version also facilitates the integration with other genomic data sets and contains expression profiling (RNA-Seq) data for several cell lines commonly used in RNAi experiments.
On the analysis of field-to-line coupling through apertures based on electromagnetic topology

In the proposed method, the key point is the aperture and field coupling node. The former is based on small aperture coupling theory, the latter is based on transmission line theory, and electromagnetic topology theory (EMT) is the leader to combine them together. EMT has the ability to simulate the response of inner circuits of electrically large complex system. The application of this theory could be on the subject of EMC, high power microwave (HPM), electromagnetic protection and the field of aircraft, automobile, etc. For the electrically large and arbitrary shaped aperture, there is no analytical expression. The only way is the use of numerical means. The following work will concentrate on it.
Thyroid Hormone Therapy for Older Adults with Subclinical Hypothyroidism.

Mooijaart, SP; Sattar, N; Aubert, CE; Aujesky, D; Bauer, DC; Baumgartner, C; Blum, MR; Browne, JP; Byrne, S; Collet, TH; Dekkers, OM; den Elzen, WPJ; Du Puy, RS; Ellis, G; Feller, M; Floriani, C; Hendry, K; Hurley, C; Jukema, JW; Kean, S; Kelly, M; Krebs, D; Langhorne, P; McCarthy, G; McCarthy, V; McConnachie, A; McDade, M; Messow, M; O’Flynn, A; O’Riordan, D; Poortvliet, RKE; Quinn, TJ; Russell, A; Sinnott, C; Smit, JWA; Van Dorland, HA; Walsh, KA; Walsh, EK; Watt, T; Wilson, R; Gussekloo, J; TRUST Study Group, ; , COLLABORATORS; Lakwijk, YA; Ford, G; Robinson, TG; Dayan, C; Bennett, K; Dinnett, E; Syme, C; de Craen, AJM; McSkimming, P; Stevenson, A; Gillespie, L; Douglas, E (2017) Thyroid Hormone Therapy for Older Adults with Subclinical Hypothyroidism. The New England journal of medicine, 376 (26). pp. 25342544. ISSN 0028-4793 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1603825
RaWMS - Random Walk Based Lightweight Membership Service for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

This article presents RaWMS, a novel lightweight random membership service for ad hoc networks. The service provides each node with a partial uniformly chosen view of network nodes. Such a membership service is useful, for example, in data dissemination algorithms, lookup and discovery services, peer sampling services, and complete membership construction. The design of RaWMS is based on a novel reverse random walk (RW) sampling technique. The article includes a formal analysis of both the reverse RW sampling technique and RaWMS and verifies it through a detailed simulation study. In addition, RaWMS is compared both analytically and by simulations with a number of other known methods such as flooding and gossip-based techniques.
Temporal Information Retrieval

The study of temporal dynamics and its impact can be framed within the so-called temporal IR approaches, which explain how user behavior, document content and scale vary with time, and how we can use them in our favor in order to improve retrieval effectiveness. This half-day tutorial will outline research issues with respect to temporal dynamics, and provide a comprehensive overview of temporal IR approaches, essentially regarding processing dynamic content, temporal information extraction, temporal query analysis, and time-aware retrieval and ranking. The tutorial is structured into two sessions. During the first session, we will explain the general and wide aspects associated to temporal dynamics by focusing on the web domain, from content and structural changes to variations of user behavior and interactions. We will begin with temporal indexing and query processing. Next step, we will explain current approaches to time-aware retrieval and ranking, which can be classified into different types based on two main notions of relevance with respect to time, namely, recency-based ranking, and time-dependent ranking. In the latter session, we will describe research issues centered on determining the temporal intent of queries, and time-aware query enhancement, e.g., temporal relevance feedback, and time-aware query reformulation. In addition, we present applications in related research areas, e.g., exploration, summarization, and clustering of search results, as well as future event retrieval and prediction. To this end, we conclude our tutorial and outline future directions. This tutorial targets graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the field of information retrieval. The goal is to provide an overview as well as an important context that enables further research on and practical applications within this area.
A GH 3 family m mber , OsGH 3-2 , modulates auxin and abscisic acid levels and differentially affects drought and cold tolerance in rice

In mammals, cadmium is widely considered as a non-genotoxic carcinogen acting through a methylation-dependent epigenetic mechanism. Here, the effects of Cd treatment on the DNA methylation patten are examined together with its effect on chromatin reconfiguration in Posidonia oceanica. DNA methylation level and pattern were analysed in actively growing organs, under short(6 h) and long(2 d or 4 d) term and low (10 mM) and high (50 mM) doses of Cd, through a Methylation-Sensitive Amplification Polymorphism technique and an immunocytological approach, respectively. The expression of one member of the CHROMOMETHYLASE (CMT) family, a DNA methyltransferase, was also assessed by qRT-PCR. Nuclear chromatin ultrastructure was investigated by transmission electron microscopy. Cd treatment induced a DNA hypermethylation, as well as an up-regulation of CMT, indicating that de novo methylation did indeed occur. Moreover, a high dose of Cd led to a progressive heterochromatinization of interphase nuclei and apoptotic figures were also observed after long-term treatment. The data demonstrate that Cd perturbs the DNA methylation status through the involvement of a specific methyltransferase. Such changes are linked to nuclear chromatin reconfiguration likely to establish a new balance of expressed/repressed chromatin. Overall, the data show an epigenetic basis to the mechanism underlying Cd toxicity in plants.
A Single-Chip CMOS UHF RFID Reader Transceiver for Chinese Mobile Applications

UHF RFID reader transceiver for Chinese local standard (840-845 MHz and 920-925 MHz), in concord with the protocols of EPC Class-1 Gen-2 and ISO/IEC 18000-6C, is presented. A highly linear RF front-end with low flicker noise, an on-chip self-jammer cancellation (SC) circuit with fast time-varying cut-off frequency and a DC-offset cancellation (DCOC) circuit are proposed to deal with the large self-jammer in the receiver. In the presence of 22 dBm PA output power, the receiver achieves a sensitivity of -79 dBm including the 15 dB loss of the directional coupler. A CMOS class-AB PA is integrated in the transmitter, with 22 dBm output power and 35% PAE. The spectrum mask achieves ACPR1 of -45 dBc and ACPR2 of -60 dBc . A sigma-delta fractional-N PLL with a single LC VCO is also implemented for good phase noise (-126 dBc/Hz @ 1 MHz offset) and high frequency resolution within 1 kHz. This single-chip is fabricated in a 0.18 standard CMOS process. It occupies a silicon area of 13.5 mm2 and dissipates 203 mW from a 1.8 V supply voltage when transmitting 7.5 dBm output power.