Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Onychoclavus Due to Subungual Exostosis: Reconstruction of the Resulting Defect by Triple Volar Advancement Flap: Surgical Technique

ABS TRACT Ony choc la vus is a hyper ke ra to tic corn tis su e in the na il re gi on. Su bun gu al exos to sis is an os te oc hon dral tu mor ari sing from the dis tal pha lanx of the gre at to e. Dor so la te ral de fects of to es re qu i re spe ci al flap tech ni qu es. A 25-ye ar-old ma le pa ti ent app li ed to out pa ti ent cli nic with the comp la int of a ten der mass un der his left to e na il. Hyper ke ra to tic parts of skin and un derl ying exos to sis we re re mo ved. The re sul ting de fect was re pa i red by using the trip le vo lar ad van ce ment flap tech ni qu e. Pa ti ent sa tis fac ti on was very high and the re was no re cur ren ce af ter 12 months of fol low up. The trip le vo lar ad van ce ment flap tech ni qu e is very su i tab le for dor so la te ral to e tip de fects be ca u se re cons truc ti on is per for med ea sily and a na tu ral ap pe a ran ce is ac hi e ved. Tre at ment of ony choc la vus du e to un derl ying bony exos to sis is an ex cel lent in di ca ti on for this flap tech ni qu e be ca u se both ex ci si on and re cons truc ti on are car ri ed out ea sily with this spe ci al sur gi cal tech ni qu e.
Oops! Its happened again! Evidence of the continuing abuse of older people in care homes

Purpose This paper presents findings from an empirical research project designed to enhance knowledge of the current extent and nature of abuse in contemporary care homes for older people. Design/methodology/approach A self-completion, postal questionnaire was used to elicit both numerical and textual data that was subsequently subjected to both quantitative and qualitative analysis. The questionnaire was distributed to newly appointed care staff in six participating care homes providing care to older people to determine the nature of any abuse they may have witnessed in the homes in which they had previously worked. Findings A significant proportion of respondents described instances of predominantly psychological and physical abuse and neglect. Research limitations/implications Though the research draws upon the experiences of only 194 anonymous questionnaire respondents, of whom 140 had witnessed abuse, data suggests that abuse continues to occur in some care homes for older people. Originality/value T.
Technologies émergentes de mémoire résistive pour les systèmes et application neuromorphique

La recherche dans le domaine de l’informatique neuro-inspiree suscite beaucoup d'interet depuis quelques annees. Avec des applications potentielles dans des domaines tels que le traitement de donnees a grande echelle, la robotique ou encore les systemes autonomes intelligents pour ne citer qu'eux, des paradigmes de calcul bio-inspires sont etudies pour la prochaine generation solutions informatiques (post-Moore, non-Von Neumann) ultra-basse consommation. Dans ce travail, nous discutons les roles que les differentes technologies de memoire resistive non-volatiles emergentes (RRAM), notamment (i) Phase Change Memory (PCM), (ii) Conductive-Bridge Memory (CBRAM) et de la memoire basee sur une structure Metal-Oxide (OXRAM) peuvent jouer dans des dispositifs neuromorphiques dedies. Nous nous concentrons sur l'emulation des effets de plasticite synaptique comme la potentialisation a long terme (Long Term Potentiation, LTP), la depression a long terme (Long Term Depression, LTD) et la theorie STDP (Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity) avec des synapses RRAM. Nous avons developpe a la fois de nouvelles architectures de faiblement energivore, des methodologies de programmation ainsi que des regles d’apprentissages simplifiees inspirees de la theorie STDP specifiquement optimisees pour certaines technologies RRAM. Nous montrons l’implementation de systemes neuromorphiques a grande echelle et efficace energetiquement selon deux approches differentes: (i) des synapses multi-niveaux deterministes et (ii) des synapses stochastiques binaires. Des prototypes d'applications telles que l’extraction de schema visuel et auditif complexe sont egalement montres en utilisant des reseaux de neurones impulsionnels (Feed-forward Spiking Neural Network, SNN). Nous introduisons egalement une nouvelle methodologie pour concevoir des neurones stochastiques tres compacts qui exploitent les caracteristiques physiques intrinseques des appareils CBRAM.
3D Visualisation of Wearable Inertial/Magnetic Sensors

Inertial and inertial-magnetic sensors are miniaturised and lightweight which allows the technology to be used to assess human movements in sports. These sensors can produce up to nine channels of time series data which can often be difficult to read and interpret. This paper describes the development of a 3D visualisation tool for inertial/magnetic sensors. A sensor fusion technique known as an attitude heading reference system (AHRS) is used to calculate 3D orientation of the sensor. With AHRS data from a gyroscope and magnetometer can be expressed in animation as orientation of the sensor. However acceleration does not appear in the animation. Therefore the function to express the magnitude and direction of the acceleration using a shake of the sensor animation is added to the tool. It was confirmed that the tool produce an animation which clearly portrayed athlete posture and accelerations synchronised with the gait cycle.
Levensvatbaarheid van de dassenpopulatie in Midden-Limburg na aanleg van rijksweg 73-zuid; modelevaluatie van effecten van de toekomstige rijksweg Venlo-Roermond inclusief mitigerende en compenserende maatregelen op de levensvatbaarheid van de dassenpopulatie in Midden-Limburg

In opdracht van Rijkswaterstaat Directie Limburg is onderzoek verricht naar de verwachte effecten van rijksweg 73-zuid op de levensvatbaarheid van de dassenpopulatie in Midden-Limburg. Met behulp van het model DASSIM is voor vijf scenario's het verloop van de dassenpopulatie gesimuleerd. De scenario's verschillen van elkaar in het al dan niet aanleggen van rijksweg 73-zuid, de mate waarin mitigerende en compenserende maatregelen worden getroffen, en de mate waarin genomen maatregelen effectief zijn. Met de modelevaluatie is onderzocht hoe de nieuwe rijksweg van invloed is op het aantal dassen, het aantal sociale groepen en de verdeling van de sociale groepen over de verschillende lokale populaties in het studiegebied. De belangrijkste bevindingen zijn dat als de rijksweg niet wordt aangelegd en geen mitigerende maatregelen aan het bestaande wegennet worden genomen, de toename in verkeer op het lokale wegennet resulteert in een afname van de levensvatbaarheid van de dassenpopulatie. Als de rijksweg met de bijbehorende mitigerende maatregelen wel wordt aangelegd, waarbij de maatregelen naar behoren functioneren, zijn de vooruitzichten voor de dassenpopulatie gunstiger dan in de huidige situatie.
CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the Applications of Chemometric Techniques in ‘Omics’ Research: Common Pitfalls, Misconceptions and ‘Rights and Wrongs’

In this introductory chapter, the two most commonly employed techniques available for the multivariate (MV) analysis of multianalyte, high-dimensional metabolomics or genomic datasets, specifically principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares-discriminatory analysis (PLS-DA), are reviewed in detail (the former represents an unsupervised exploratory data analysis technique, whilst the latter is a supervised pattern recognition one). In particular, the pivotal requirements of each of these methods for the satisfaction of critical assumptions required (normality and homoscedasticity of potential MV predictor X variables, the linearity of relationships between each of these, etc.), the interpretabilities of results derived therefrom, and the assurance and actuation of adequate sample sizes for their performance, for example, are reviewed. For the PLS-DA approach, the critical requirement for a minimum sample size is discussed in much detail, together with considerations of the danger of ‘overfitting’, with a typical example. The highly valued importance of validation, cross-validation and random permutation testing (and also the range of methods available for the satisfactory performance of these processes) is also critically delineated, in addition to means available for model quality evaluation.
Connexion de la région lagunaire d’Alexandrie au Nil depuis 2 000 ans : entre contrôle anthropique et forçage naturel

Cet article presente un etat de la recherche geoarcheologique sur les interactions hommes - milieu dans l’arriere-pays lagunaire d’Alexandrie. Le bassin du Maryut se situe sur la marge littorale ouest du delta du Nil. Des travaux sedimentologiques recents ont permis de reconstruire l’evolution environnementale du bassin depuis 2000 ans. Deux budgets hydrologiques principaux se succedent : le bassin est faiblement saumâtre et euryhalin entre le iiie et le xe siecle A.D et entre le le xiiie et le xvie AD ; le budget hydrologique devient negatif entre le xe et le xiiie siecle AD et entre le xviie et le xviiie siecle AD. Deux forcages principaux sont mis en evidence qui fonctionnent a deux echelles temporelles differentes. Sur toute la periode etudiee, le colmatage graduel de la branche Canopique, artere nilotique de la marge deltaique occidentale, induit la tendance generale a l’assechement du bassin. A l’echelle pluriseculaire, le developpement ou l’abandon du systeme d’irrigation entre le Nil et le Maryut induit l’assechement du bassin ou sa remise en eau. A cette derniere echelle, l’enregistrement sedimentaire du Maryut propose une clef de lecture de la dynamique de l’occupation du sol de l’arriere-pays d’Alexandrie.
Review of Australian Health Related Social Work Research 1990–2009

Abstract Social workers form a critical component of the Australian health workforce. While their roles as practitioners are very strategic within the health system, less clear is their contribution to health research. This paper reviews the published record of social work research in Australian health from 1990–2009 in order to discern the patterns of the social work contribution to new knowledge in health. The results of this review indicate a tendency to focus on discursive commentary rather than empirical research as well as a less-than-expected focus on client studies. Given the rise of evidence-based practice, there are potentially serious implications for social work in terms of how it positions itself as a contributor to new knowledge within the health field.
Growth Factors and Cytokines

Neurotrophic factors, such as nerve growth factor (NGF) and cytokines, are involved in nociceptive and neuropathic pain conditions, such as diabetic peripheral neuropathies. It is also observed that intramuscular injection of human NGF at a concentration equivalent to that which resulted in mechanical sensitization in humans caused a significant decrease in the mechanical threshold of rat masseter muscle afferent fibers. This article focuses on NGF and tumor necrosis factor alpha and their role in the mechanisms of neuropathic and nociceptive pain. Keywords: nerve growth factor; tumor necrosis factor alpha; neuropathic pain; nociceptive pain
Subscapularis-On Approach in Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty

Using a subscapularis- and deltoid-preserving anterior approach is an option for patients undergoing reverse shoulder arthroplasty. Outcomes are better at short term than compared with the standard deltopectoral approach. Maintaining the integrity of the subscapularis tendon and preserving the deltoid muscle minimizes the need for postoperative immobilization and rehabilitation, allowing the patient to achieve active shoulder range of motion more rapidly, without increasing the incidence of shoulder dislocation. Overall length of hospital stay and duration of postoperative physical therapy are minimized, leading to significant economic gain. Future studies with longer follow-up are required to document the potential long-term benefits of this surgical technique. Level of Evidence of the study: Review, Level IV
Représentation de champs acoustiques, application à la transmission et à la reproduction de scènes sonores complexes dans un contexte multimédia

Cette these concerne la representation de champ acoustique pour la restitution spatialisee sur haut-parleurs ou au casque, appliquee au domaine multimedia, dont la navigation 3d dans des scenes virtuelles sur internet. Ce domaine allie la reproduction de champs sonores complexes preexistants (e. G. Sous forme multi-canal) et les techniques de pan-pot 3d et d'effet de salle. La question de la representation doit repondre a la variabilite de nombreux parametres : debit de transmission, ressources de l'utilisateur, conditions d'ecoute, materiels sonores et audio-visuels brasses, rendu interactif. Nous approfondissons l'approche ambisonique, basee sur une decomposition du champ acoustique en harmoniques spheriques. Plus connue, sa forme restreinte au premier ordre realise un encodage directionnel minimal du champ sonore (canaux wxyz du b-format). Un decodage optimise pour une ecoute centree ou bien etendue permet une restitution a geometrie variable (dispositifs 2d ou 3d de haut-parleurs, ou casque via les techniques binaurales). Avec les composantes d'ordres superieurs s'ajoute la notion de representation a resolution variable. Apres un expose approfondi de notions d'acoustique et de psychoacoustique, des strategies de spatialisation (stereo, surround, binaural, etc. ) et des theories de localisation impliquees dans le decodage ambisonique, nous generalisons a tous les ordres tous les aspects d'ambisonic, de l'encodage au decodage. Les formes de decodage originelles (gerzon, malham) sont generalisees en trois familles de solutions. Des evaluations objectives etayees par des ecoutes informelles confirment l'apport des ordres superieurs et des solutions optimisees, en termes de precision et de robustesse des images sonores. Implemente parmi d'autres techniques de spatialisation (dont reverberation artificielle) au sein d'une interface temps-reel sur pc, ambisonic a pu etre applique avec succes a la manipulation et au melange des sources (mono, multi-canal, b-format). L'extension d'ambisonic aux ordres superieurs interesse de nombreux domaines et devrait connaitre un essor grace aux recherches et projets en cours.
Proceedings of the second international ACM workshop on Music information retrieval with user-centered and multimodal strategies

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 1st International ACM Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM). MIRUM was proposed in order to gather experts from the Music and Multimedia Information Retrieval communities, as well as other neighboring fields, and aims to provide a high-profile platform for presenting current work on Music Information Retrieval, with strong focus on user-centered and multimodal approaches. Music content is multifaceted and exists in many different representations, including audio recordings, symbolic scores, folksonomy descriptions and accompanying video material. No single representation is capable of accounting for all of the music experience, which is strongly guided by affective and subjective context- and user-dependent factors. The existence of complementary representations and information sources in multiple modalities makes music multimedia content by definition. Furthermore, the subjective and affective aspects of music pose challenges that are faced and experienced in the broad Multimedia community. Thus, we believe it is appropriate to discuss these topics in a Multimedia context. The MIRUM 2011 Call for Papers attracted 22 international technical submissions. The program committee accepted 9 papers that cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from beat tracking techniques to affective analysis of music videos. In addition, the full-day program includes a keynote speech by Dr. Roeland Ordelman (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision & University of Twente, The Netherlands) on exploitation possibilities of audiovisual data in the networked information society, as well as a panel on bridging opportunities for the music and multimedia domains, featuring multiple experts from the music and multimedia communities. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for researchers in the fields of Music and Multimedia Information Retrieval, as well as neighboring fields.
A critical evaluation of literature on robot path planning in Dynamic environment

Robot Path Planning (RPP) in dynamic environments is a search problem based on the examination of collision-free paths in the presence of dynamic and static obstacles. Many techniques have been developed to solve this problem. Trapping in a local minima and maintaining a Real-Time performance are known as the two most important challenges that these techniques face to solve such problem. This study presents a comprehensive survey of the various techniques that have been proposed in this domain. As part of this survey, we include a classification of the approaches and identify their methods.
Enseignement à distance et autoformation à l'université : au-delà des clivages institutionnels et pédagogiques ?

Cette contribution tente de montrer comment le traitement institutionnel de l'enseignement a distance et de l'autoformation, non seulement ne facilite pas l'emergence de nouveaux modes de formation, mais renforce des clivages qui sont peu propices a l'integration des diverses dimensions de la formation. A partir de l'analyse d'un ensemble de travaux scientifiques, les principales caracteristiques de ces dimensions sont abordees dans leur interrelation. Le but est d'ouvrir des pistes de reflexion qui orientent la conception de dispositifs susceptibles de s'adapter a la diversite des publics et des objectifs, selon le projet social attribue a l'universite.
Gyroscope angular rate processing across asynchronous clock domains

The Draper Laboratory requires a robust means of digital signal resampling for use in a microelectromechanical inertial measurement system. Complications arise because the complete inertial measurement unit requires a stable global time reference for the purposes of axis rate decoupling and integration, yet each gyroscope must adhere to an independent local time reference that is neither controllable nor known in advance. The digital interface between the host system and its component gyroscopes is therefore completely asynchronous. Asynchrony implies that sampling rate conversion is necessary, but also that the conversion ratio may be irrational or otherwise highly inconvenient. Traditional sampling rate conversion by rational fractions is thus impractical. This research examines several simple approaches to asynchronous resampling, then builds upon recent work to develop a flexible, efficient embedded resampling system. The new system utilizes a piecewise polynomial impulse response that may be designed to meet arbitrary frequency domain specifications using minimax linear programming methods. A detailed explanation of the design process is provided, along with a reference design implemented in VHDL. VI-A Company Thesis Supervisor: David J. McGorty Title: C.S. Draper Laboratory Principal Engineer M.I. T. Thesis Supervisor: Steven B. Leeb Title: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Paranal science operations: running the four 8m unit telescopes of ESO's VLT

On August 8, 2001, Melipal became the fourth Unit Telescope of ESO's VLT to start regular scientific operations. Accordingly, the Paranal Science Operations team is now providing support for execution of observation programmes of the astronomical community on all four individual 8 m telescopes of the VLT. The operational model developed and applied by this team is based on the concept that optimal exploitation of the unique potential of the VLT and of its instrumentation requires support by dedicated qualified and experienced astronomers. This applies to observing both in visitor mode and in service (queue) mode, between which VLT operations are shared approximately in a 50/50 proportion. The Paranal Science Operations team has been staffed to implement the above-mentioned operational concept in collaboration with a mountain-based engineering team for technical support, and with groups based at ESO's headquarters in Germany for front- and back-end contacts with the astronomical community. Together with these teams, and based on the experience acquired since the start of operations of the first UT in April 1999, operational procedures have been refined and new operational tools have been implemented. In this process, the aspects that are particularly revelant for on-site operations include the short-term scheduling of service mode operations, and the reporting and tracking of the service mode programme execution status.
Absence of Auditory M100 Source Asymmetry in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: A MEG Study

Background Whether schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are the clinical outcomes of discrete or shared causative processes is much debated in psychiatry. Several studies have demonstrated anomalous structural and functional superior temporal gyrus (STG) symmetries in schizophrenia. We examined bipolar patients to determine if they also have altered STG asymmetry. Methods Whole-head magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings of auditory evoked fields were obtained for 20 subjects with schizophrenia, 20 with bipolar disorder, and 20 control subjects. Neural generators of the M100 auditory response were modeled using a single equivalent current dipole for each hemisphere. The source location of the M100 response was used as a measure of functional STG asymmetry. Results Control subjects showed the typical M100 asymmetrical pattern with more anterior sources in the right STG. In contrast, both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients displayed a symmetrical M100 source pattern. There was no significant difference in the M100 latency and strength in bilateral hemispheres within three groups. Conclusions Our results indicate that disturbed asymmetry of temporal lobe function may reflect a common deviance present in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, suggesting the two disorders might share etiological and pathophysiological factors.
Screening for depression during pregnancy with the edinburgh depression scale (EDDS)

One hundred women attending a maternity hospital antenatal clinic who were between 28 and 34 weeks gestation completed the EPDS and were then interviewed using a standardized psychiatric interview. EPDS scores were compared with RDC diagnosis of major and minor depression and with total weighted score derived from the interview. The EPDS identified all women with RDC major depression but was less effective in detecting those with RDC minor depression.
Ellipsoïdes minimaux de couverture en statistique multivariée

These Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 486 (1983)Chaire de recherche operationnelle SOJury: Th. M. Liebling ; R. CIeroux Reference doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-486Print copy in library catalog Record created on 2005-03-16, modified on 2016-08-08
Generating logic representations for programs in a language independent fashion

In today's software engineering program analysis and program transformation are operations that strongly rely on software models. One important share in this direction is held by logic based models, described in a declarative language such as Prolog. There are some approaches used to represent information about software systems while at the same time preserving the logic relations between entities, but they are normally limited to software systems written in a certain programming language. There are also language independent approaches to logic based representation of programs, but they are usualy based on syntactic information about the modeled program and provide little information about the logic relations between entities at the semantic level. This paper describes a methodology that would unite the two kinds of approaches, being both language independent and expressive at the semantic level at the cost of a more complex generation process.