Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in a Group of Patients with Addictive Problems: Exploratory Study in France

High rates of childhood ADHD has been found among substance users, revealing an important role of ADHD in addictive disorders. Compared to non-hyperactive, people with ADHD reported higher rates of co-accuracy with substance use. ADHD appears to be a risk factor for developing a consummation of one of these substances and complicates even access to the abstinence. The present study examines the prevalence of ADHD in adult patients with addictive problems (alcoholism, tobacco consumption, pathological gambling and compulsive buying). The authors compared 117 patients with and without ADHD, according to evaluations made with the Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS) and the Adult Deficit Disorders Scale [1]. Various differences were observed between the group with ADHD and that without ADHD. The percentage of adults with positive scores in scales of ADHD in the sample group was 35%, compared to average 3.4% [2] in the general population. Different trends were observed, in accord to literature, the age at beginning of addictive behaviours are more earlier in ADHD group, and the cigarette consummation are as well elevated in ADHD group. Beside the use of psychoactive substances (cocaine, heroin and cannabis) are more elevated, as well as cognitive and motor impulsivity (Barratt Impulsivity Scale BIS-10) in the ADHD group. These data show the value of early detection of ADHD in order to prevent complications during adolescence and adulthood.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH PROGRESS SYMPOSIUM ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

© PROGRESS/STW 2004, ISBN 90-73461-41-3 OCTOBRE 20, 2004, NBC NIEUWEGEIN, NL Abstract—The aim of this work is to support the multidisciplinary development of real-time embedded systems by combining tools of different disciplines. As a concrete example, we have coupled a UML-based CASE tool (Rose RealTime) and Simulink to allow simultaneous simulation. Since Rose RealTime does not have a well-defined notion of timed simulation, we have used the simulation time of Simulink also for Rose RealTime. An intermediate component has been implemented, which realizes time synchronization and data exchange between the tools.
How to Achieve Authentic Context in Classroom Oral English Teaching

Teaching oral English in traditional classroom setting is the main way conducted in China, which is artificial and not very helpful in language learning. Based on some SLA theories, this article discusses some methods to achieve authentic context in classroom oral English teaching, including ways to optimize classroom setting and classroom instruction. We hope these suggestions can give inspiration to teachers who conduct their work in a classroom.
STEREO IMAGE DENSE MATCHING BY INTEGRATING SIFT AND SGM ALGORITHM

Abstract. Semi-global matching(SGM) performs the dynamic programming by treating the different path directions equally. It does not consider the impact of different path directions on cost aggregation, and with the expansion of the disparity search range, the accuracy and efficiency of the algorithm drastically decrease. This paper presents a dense matching algorithm by integrating SIFT and SGM. It takes the successful matching pairs matched by SIFT as control points to direct the path in dynamic programming with truncating error propagation. Besides, matching accuracy can be improved by using the gradient direction of the detected feature points to modify the weights of the paths in different directions. The experimental results based on Middlebury stereo data sets and CE-3 lunar data sets demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can effectively cut off the error propagation, reduce disparity search range and improve matching accuracy.
REMIGIAL MOLT PATTERNS IN NORTH AMERICAN FALCONIFORMES AS RELATED TO AGE, SEX, BREEDING STATUS, AND LIFE-HISTORY STRATEGIES

Abstract Examination of 1622 specimens indicates that North American Falconiformes show a wide variety of remigial (primary and secondary) replacement strategies, detectable throughout the year by evaluation of replacement patterns in the wings. Most Falconidae undergo complete prebasic molts whereas most Accipitridae display retained secondaries or show stepwise molt replacement patterns (“Staffelmäuser”). Among individuals exhibiting Staffelmäuser, minimum age can be inferred up to 5 years (fifth-basic plumage) by the number of “replacement waves” present among the primaries. It may also be able to infer breeding status during the previous summer by “suspension limits,” resulting from the interruption of molt during breeding. Among Accipitridae, Staffelmäuser occurred in species with greater mass, higher wing loading, longer migration distance, and more open rather than wooded foraging habitats: species that experience time constraints on molting and incur greater costs from large gaps in the wing. Thus, this study supports both the “time-constraints hypothesis,” suggesting that Staffelmäuser is a consequence of insufficient time for a complete annual molt, and the “aerodynamic hypothesis,” suggesting that Staffelmäuser reflects an adaptive need to replace as many feathers as possible without inhibiting flight efficiency. Time constraints may have been a proximate cause of Staffelmäuser among Falconiformes, with improvements to flying efficiency being an ultimate adaptive benefit.
Dengue Virus Serotype 2 (DEN-2): the Causative Agent of 2011-Dengue Epidemic in Pakistan

Introduction: Dengue virus (DENV) is an arthropod-borne virus that belonged to the Flaviviridae viral family. Four known serotypes DEN-1 through DEN-4 do exist and circulate in diverse geographical regions of the world causing epidemics. The management of dengue patients, and especially dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)/Dengue shock syndrome (DSS) cases, has been a challenge in Pakistan now days. Method: We have carried out a comprehensive study of the current outbreaks of dengue virus infection on molecular level with the aim to find out the common serotype/s of DENV responsible for this outbreak using PCR, real-time PCR and nucleotide sequencing targeting the C-prM gene junction. For this purpose total 1129 serum samples received between from start of August till end of November 2011 from all the major hospitals of Lahore, Punjab at Division of Molecular Virology, National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) University of the Punjab Lahore were utilized for the DENV diagnosis and serotypes/genotypes analysis. Results: Male female ratio of the suspected dengue patients was 2.4:1. Their mean age were 31.14 + 16.03 (SD) years ranging from 9 months to 90 years. Out of these 1129 serum samples, total 930 (82.37%) were found infected with DENV. Out of the 930 DENV RNA positive samples, 893 (96.02%) had DEN-2
Improvements in Energy Efficiency of Polyethylene Autoclave Reactor using Advanced Process Control

Abstract This work presents how advanced process control can improve energy efficiency of an industrial plant employed to production of low density polyethylene. First, using industrial data, a phenomenological-based model is developed to infer temperature and component concentrations profiles along high-pressure autoclave reactor where polymerization occurs. Then, an advanced control strategy based on feedback linearization technique is proposed for automatic control of reactor variables. Besides promoting operational safety and productivity improvements, use of advanced control strategy allows the operations of autoclave manipulated variables closer to their constraints and, consequently, a remarkable reduction in energy consumption associated to the process is obtained.
LIVESTOCK SECTOR IN ZAMBIA : OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS

LIVESTOCK SECTOR IN ZAMBIA: OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS. Zambia is endowed with a vast feed resource base for animal production purposes. However, the feed resource base is not fully utilised and this is manifested by low livestock productivity. The quality and production levels of animal products depend largely on the quality and quantity of feed, which is fed to the livestock. Among the constraints limiting livestock productivity in Zambia, insufficient and low quality of veld grass, particularly during the long dry season (March-November) is responsible for low production levels and poor reproductive performance in ruminants. The problem of inadequate veld grass can be overcome by feeding crop residues which are in abundance during the dry season. Zambia produces large quantities of sugarcane tops, bagasse and straws from maize, sorghum, wheat, millet and rice. These could sustain livestock productivity if supplemented with protein sources or treated with urea. Despite the production of large quantities of crop residues, these are wasted by burning or get destroyed by termites. There is a need, therefore, to develop feeding systems based on crop residues which are compatible with the farming systems in Zambia and to promote such feeding systems.
Transdimensional Love-wave tomography of the British Isles and shear-velocity structure of the East Irish Sea Basin from ambient-noise interferometry

We present the first Love-wave group velocity and shear velocity maps of the British Isles obtained from ambient noise interferometry and fully non-linear inversion. We computed interferometric inter-station Green's functions by cross-correlating the transverse component of ambient noise records retrieved by 61 seismic stations across the UK and Ireland. Group velocity measurements along each possible inter-station path were obtained using frequency-time analysis and converted into a series of inter-station traveltime datasets between 4 and 15 seconds period. Traveltime uncertainties estimated from the standard deviation of dispersion curves constructed by stacking randomly-selected subsets of daily cross-correlations, were observed to be too low to allow reasonable data fits to be obtained during tomography. Data uncertainties were therefore estimated again during the inversion as distance-dependent functionals. We produced Love-wave group velocity maps within 8 different period bands using a fully non-linear tomography method which combines the transdimensional reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (rj-McMC) algorithm with an eikonal raytracer. By modelling exact raypaths at each step of the Markov chain we ensured that the non-linear character of the inverse problem was fully and correctly accounted for. Between 4 and 10 seconds period, the group velocity maps show remarkable agreement with the known geology of the British Isles and correctly identify a number of low-velocity sedimentary basins and high-velocity features. Longer period maps, in which most sedimentary basins are not visible, are instead mainly representative of basement rocks. In a second stage of our study we used the results of tomography to produce a series of Love-wave group velocity dispersion curves across a grid of geographical points focussed around the East Irish Sea sedimentary basin. We then independently inverted each curve using a similar rj-McMC algorithm to obtain a series of one-dimensional shear velocity profiles. By merging all 1D profiles, we created a fully three-dimensional model of the crust beneath the East Irish Sea. The depth to basement in this model compares well with that averaged from seismic reflection profiles. This result is the first 3-dimensional model in the UK with fully quantified uncertainties: it shows basin depths and basement structures, and their concomitant uncertainties.
Plant analysis as a tool to determine crop nitrogen status

An effective plant nutrient management strategy optimises nitrogen (N) use efficiency for minimised environmental impact, while ensuring an optimum N status of the crop for good product quality and maximum growth. Soil or plant analysis can be used to evaluate the strategy; however the use of plant analysis for this purpose has been limited. One reason is lack of reliable reference values for the critical concentration needed for optimal growth. This study builds on theories that relate ontogenetic changes in the critical N concentration to changes in the relation between mass and surface area of the entire plant and of individual leaves. Through the establishment of critical N concentrations on the basis of these theories, some of the drawbacks hitherto experienced with plant analysis, such as difficulties in defining growth stage or plant part to sample, can be avoided. The aim of this thesis was to establish critical N concentrations for white cabbage (Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L. f. alba D.C.) on the basis of these theories. Multi-N-rate and multi-harvest experiments were conducted in the field and in a climate chamber. The results showed that the critical N concentration declined at the same rate (-0.33) as the plant's leaf area ratio (leaf area divided by plant mass), which is in agreement with the 2/3-Power rule or "skin-core" hypothesis. The critical N concentration (% of DM) on a whole plant basis was estimated to 4.5 (W 1.5 t ha-1), where W is weight per unit area of plant dry matter exclusive of roots. Moreover, it was concluded that the unshaded horizontally orientated leaves of cabbage can be used for leaf area based plant analysis of individual leaves. The critical N concentration of these leaves expressed on an area basis was found to be 3.7 g N m-2, while that for the whole plant N on a leaf area basis was 4.7 g N m-2. The ratio of these two critical concentrations, 0.8, was similar to the leaf N ratio (leaf N/whole plant N) of young plants before self shading occurs.
Title Racial disparities and patterns of ovarian cancer surgical care in California Permalink

Objective—To investigate disparities in the frequency of ovarian cancer-related surgical procedures and access to high-volume surgical providers among women undergoing initial surgery for ovarian cancer according to race. Methods—The California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development database was accessed for women undergoing a surgical procedure that included oophorectomy for a malignant ovarian neoplasm between 1/1/06 and 12/31/10. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to evaluate differences in the odds of selected surgical procedures and access to high-volume centers (hospitals≥20 cases/year) according to racial classification. Results—A total of 7,933 patients were identified: White=5,095 (64.2%), Black=290 (3.7%), Hispanic/Latino=1,400 (17.7%), Asian/Pacific Islander=836 (10.5%) and other=312 (3.9%). White patients served as reference for all comparisons. All minority groups were significantly younger (Black mean age 57.7 years, Hispanic 53.2 years, Asian 54.5 years vs. 61.1 years, p <0.01). Hispanic patients had lower odds of obtaining care at a high-volume center (adjusted OR (adj. OR)=0.72, 95% CI=0.64-0.82, p<0.01) and a lower likelihood of lymphadenectomy (adj. OR=0.80, 95%CI=0.70–0.91, p<0.01), bowel resection (adj. OR=0.80, 95% CI=0.71–0.91, p<0.01), and peritoneal biopsy/omentectomy (adj. OR=0.69, 95% CI=0.58–0.82, p<0.01). Black racial classification was associated with a lower likelihood of lymphadenectomy (adj. OR=0.76, 95%CI=0.59–0.97, p=0.03). Conclusions—Among women undergoing initial surgery for ovarian cancer, Hispanic patients are significantly less likely to be operated on at a high-volume center, and both Black and Hispanic patients are significantly less likely to undergo important ovarian cancer-specific surgical procedures compared to White patients.
On the foundations of Lévy finance. Equilibrium for a single-agent financial market with jumps

For a continuous-time financial market with a single agent, we establish equilibrium pricing formulae under the assumption that the dividends follow an exponential Levy process. The agent is allowed to consume a lump at the terminal date; before, only flow consumption is allowed. The agent's utility function is assumed to be additive, defined via strictly increasing, strictly concave smooth felicity functions which are bounded below (thus, many CRRA and CARA utility functions are included). For technical reasons we require that only pathwise continuous trading strategies are permitted in the demand set. The resulting equilibrium prices depend on the agent's risk-aversion through the felicity functions. It turns out that these prices will be the (stochastic) exponential of a Levy process essentially only if this process is geometric Brownian motion.
Down-slope cascading modulated by day/night variations of solar heating

Sloping sides of natural basins favour the formation of cross-shore temperature gradients (differential coastal heating/cooling), which cause significant littoral-pelagial water exchange. Autumnal denser water cascading along a sloping lake boundary, modulated by day/night variations of solar heating is considered numerically, in order to reveal the development of the cascading process in time, spatial structure of the exchange flows, and diurnal variations of volumetric flow-rate of littoral-pelagial exchange flow, as well as to compare its daily maxima at different depths/cross-sections, with known quasi-steady state predictions under constant buoyancy flux. The development of exchange flows progress through two phases: i) appearance and adjustment to day/night buoyancy flux variations; and ii) quasi-steady exchange, when variations of the flow rate in every next diurnal cycle are more or less the same as the previous day. The duration of the first phase depends on local depth (~1 day for depths of about 10 m, ~2 days for depths 15-25 m, and ~5 days down to 30 m for the considered initial linear vertical temperature stratification). Maximum horizontal exchange takes place in the cross-section where the thermocline meets the slope, and the cold down-slope currents detach from the bottom. The location of this cross-section advances off-shore with time, in accordance with the deepening of the upper mixed layer. The existence of a specific coastal circulation cell, with different water dynamics from those above the main part of the slope, is a characteristic feature of horizontal convective exchange. The mean value of the specific volumetric flow rate of the convective exchange, driven by day/night oscillations in its fully developed quasi-steady phase increases almost linearly with local depth, and is about twice as large as the quasi-steady exchange values, predicted by formula Q =0.0013· d 1.37 ( Q is measured in m 2 s -1 , and local depth above the slope d in m), suggesting that the thermal siphon, energized by oscillating day/night buoyancy fluxes, flushes coastal regions twice as efficiently as the cascading, developing under (more or less) uniform external conditions in field observations and laboratory experiments, which lie behind the given formula. Flushing time in the considered case has an order of 10-60 hours for a littoral zone of 6-30 m depth. Application of convective phase diagrams ( e.g. , Q vs ΔT) is suggested as a convenient way to describe the day/night convective exchange, allowing for visualization of the flow development process, its coherency and the time lag of the development at different depths.
Gene networks involved in iron acquisition strategies in plants

Les reseaux de genes impliques dans les strategies d'absorption de fer par les plantes. L'absorption de fer est controlee de maniere rigoureuse dans tous les organismes. La carence en fer entraine des series bien connues d'incidents physiologiques, qu'ils soient bases sur la reduction de fer (strategie 1, dicotyledones et monocotyledones a l'exception des plantes herbacees) ou la chelation de fer (strategie II, plantes herbacees). Les genes codant pour les composants structuraux des strategies I et Il ont ete decrits recemment en utilisant des techniques moleculaires, genetiques et biochimiques. Les principaux participants de la strategie 1 sont la reductase ferrique et le transporteur Fe Il codes respectivement par les homologues de Atfro2 et Atirt1. La strategie Il comporte les enzymes pour la biosynthese de phytosiderophore codees par les genes de la nicotianamine synthase, de la nicotianamine aminotransferase et d'autres. les mecanismes de regulation transcriptionels et post-transcriptionels controlent les genes des strategies I et II. le gene fer de la tomate figure parmi les premiers genes regulateurs pour l'absorption de fer a avoir ete identifies. L'identification et la caracterisation des mecanismes regulateurs est une avancee considerable pour envisager de nouvelles strategies visant a ameliorer le contenu en fer des plantes cultivees pour la sante humaine.
Optical control of the quality factor of photonic crystal nanocavities for cavity quantum electrodynamics

We demonstrate the quality-factor (Q-factor) tuning of a photonic crystal nanocavity by thermo-optically bringing it into resonance with a different nearby cavity. Q-tuning of up to a factor 2 has been observed. The spontaneous emission rate of quantum dots in the cavity has also been measured, a lifetime depending on the spectral alignment of the two cavities has been found.
Namescape : Named Entity Recognition from a Literary Perspective

The project Namescape: Mapping the Landscape of Names in Modern Dutch Literature (2012–2013) was a demonstrator project granted in the third CLARIN-NL call. Partners in the project were the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, the University of Amsterdam, and the Institute for Dutch Lexicology (CLARIN centre). The project dealt with Named Entity Recognition (NER) for modern Dutch fiction and delivered two new NER tools for this purpose. It also addressed Named Entity Resolution and focused on a set of visualisations of names in individual texts from the corpus. This chapter gives an overview of the results of the project, starting with a description of the background of the research questions in the discipline of comparative literary onomastics. It then goes on to describe the tools that were delivered, and which can be found on the project website, http://www.namescape. nl/ .
Extracting parameters from colour–magnitude diagrams

We present a simple approach for obtaining robust values of astrophysical parameters from the observed colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of star clusters. The basic inputs are the Hess diagram built with the photometric measurements of a star cluster and a set of isochrones covering wide ranges of age and metallicity. In short, each isochrone is shifted in apparent distance modulus and colour excess until it crosses over the maximum possible Hess density. Repeating this step for all available isochrones leads to the construction of the solution map, in which the optimum values of age and metallicity - as well as foreground/background reddening and distance from the Sun - can be searched for. Controlled tests with simulated CMDs show that the approach is ecient in recovering the input values. We apply the approach to the open clusters M 67, NGC 6791, and NGC 2635, which are characterised by dierent ages, metallicities and distances from the Sun.