Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Light-Weight Redundancy Technique for Limited Embedded Flash Storage Device

As the capacity of NAND Flash memory is getting larger, its raw bit error rate is also getting larger, which is crucial for developing storage system with NAND flash memory. To improve reliability of Flash memory-based storage device, several redundancy schemes were developed. However, the redundancies give much overhead inherently, management for the redundancy in embedded flash memory system was not preferred. In this paper, we propose light-weight redundancy technique for limited embedded flash storage device. In the light-weight redundancy scheme, redundancy is generated as the same way of RAID, with the cluster of RAID is composed of in-block level. Foe each incoming data in a block, parity data is updated within main memory until pages are exhausted for the block. The parity is flushed to last page for the block once. By doing this, block level redundancy is maintained with minimal overhead
Isolated congenital left ventricular diverticula: A rare cardiac anomaly

Ventricular diverticula are a rare congenital abnormality characterized by synchronized contractility. Isolated diverticula mostly remain asymptomatic until adulthood. In this case report, we describe a 22-year-old woman with a history of pain in her arms and cold-induced skin discoloration. She was evaluated with echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, which illustrated a muscular basal diverticulum in the left ventricle.
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Regarding Contraception among Women with Schizophrenia: An Observational Study from South India

Background: Women with schizophrenia have needs beyond their mental health needs, such as those arising out of their gender, sexual, and reproductive functions. Very little is known about the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding contraception among women with schizophrenia from India. Materials and Methods: Study among women with schizophrenia (in reproductive age group, having at least one living child, and currently staying with husband) from south India explored their knowledge, attitude, and practice of contraception. Adhering to observational design and ethical principles, data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. Modified National Family Health Survey-3 questionnaire and Positive and Negative Symptom Scale of Schizophrenia were also used. Results: Ninety-six women with schizophrenia participated. The mean age was 33.5 years [standard deviation (SD): 6.8 years], and the mean age of onset of schizophrenia was 29.2 years (SD: 6.2 years). Although nearly 90% had knowledge on at least one method of contraception, the mean total number of methods known was mere two. Out of 65 women who were practising contraception, 86.2% adopted female sterilization. The common reasons for not using contraception were wish for another child/son, lack of awareness, and fear of side effects. Unmet need for family planning was 14%. Informed choice of contraception was below 3%. There was statistically significant association between those who were currently using contraception and variables such as age 31 years and above, undifferentiated subtype of schizophrenia, and greater severity of schizophrenia. Conclusion: Although the majority had some knowledge about contraception, decision-making largely rested with others, and informed choice regarding contraception was poor. These could pose an obstetric risk on women with schizophrenia. Sociocultural and illness-related factors influencing contraception need to be explored.
DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT USING CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS

Document management systems are complex systems, which offer services as storage, versioning, metadata, security, as well as indexing and retrieval capabilities. Large numbers of documents could be automatically grouped into classes of documents, which contain similar information. Therefor we propose to use clustering methods in order to group the documents. Clustering is an important process in text mining used for groping documents based on their contents in order to extract knowledge. In this paper we will present some requirements for clustering algorithms for a document management system
Aphidini (Hemiptera: Aphididae) living on Senecio (Asteraceae), with descriptions of a new genus and three new species

Abstract The species of Aphidini living on Senecio L. in South America are reviewed. Pehuenchaphisgen. nov. is described; it is an Aphidina genus characterized mainly by the siphunculi on abdominal segment VI when present and by its radicicolous way of life. The type species of the genus Pehuenchaphis agilissimasp. nov. is described and the new combination Pehuenchaphis americana for Sene ciobium americana Mier Durante and Ortego is established. Aphis senecionicoides E.E. Blanchard is redescribed and its neotype is established. Aphis papillosasp. nov. with very large marginal papillae and Aphis malalhuinasp. nov. with short siphunculi are described and differentiated from the previously known Aphis intrusa Ortego and A. senecionicoides. A key for the apterous viviparous females of these seven species and Andinaphis paradoxa Mier Durante et al. is given. Résumé On trouvera ici la révision des espèces sud-américaines d'Aphidini vivant sur Senecio L. Nous décrivons le nouveau genre Pehuenchaphisgen. nov., qui se classe parmi les Aphidina et se caractérise surtout par la position des cornicules sur le segment abdominal VI lorsqu'elles sont présentes et par son mode de vie particulier radicicole. Nous faisons la description de l'espèce type Pehuenchaphis agilissimasp. nov. et reclassifions Seneciobium americanum Mier Durante et Ortego qui devient Pehuenchaphis americana, nouvelle combinaison. Nous présentons une nouvelle description d'Aphis senecionicoides E.E. Blanchard, espèce pour laquelle nous avons désigné son néotype. Les nouvelles espèces, Aphis papillosasp. nov., caractérisée par de très grandes papilles marginales, et Aphis malalhuinasp. nov. aux cornicules très courtes sont décrites et distinguées des espèces déjà connues Aphis intrusa Ortego et A. senecionicoides. Une clef permet de reconnaître les femelles vivipares aptères de ces sept espèces et celles d'Andinaphis paradoxa Mier Durante et al. [Traduit par la Rédaction]
Hospital–pharmacy cooperative training and drug-taking compliance in outpatients with chronic pain: a case–control study

Purpose: Chronic pain is a common symptom that is suffered by 20% of the overall population in Japan. Although pharmacotherapy is critical for the treatment of chronic pain, there are no reports on the pharmacies. In the present study, we examined the effect of hospital–community pharmacy cooperative training on improving drug-taking compliance, pain relief, anxiety, insomnia, and motor function in patients with chronic pain. Patients and methods: The subject sample included 87 patients with chronic pain who were examined for the first time at the outpatient services department of Nihon University Itabashi Hospital. Patients were interviewed to obtain information regarding drugs used before and after the treatment, habitually used community pharmacies, presence of cooperative training with Itabashi Hospital, drug-taking compliance, and side effects. We compared treatment outcomes before and after consultation using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), EuroQol Group measure (EQ-5D) for quality of life, Athens Insomnia Scale, and Locomo 25 scale for motor function. Results: In patients who used community pharmacies that perform training, drug-taking compliance was significantly better, and a significant improvement was observed in the scores of BPI, HADS Anxiety, Athens Insomnia, and Locomo 25. Conclusion: Pharmacotherapy is essential for the treatment of chronic pain. To this end, appropriate drugs with proper drug management guidance are indispensable. In this study, the use of community pharmacies that have undergone cooperative training with hospitals improves pain and anxiety. This is achieved through proper drug management guidance, shared awareness of drug information, and achievement of better drug-taking compliance. To improve the quality of treatment for chronic pain, involvement of community pharmacies such as by providing accurate information is essential. In the future, expanding cooperative training with hospitals may further help reassure patients, facilitate drug-taking, and improve the quality of treatment for chronic pain.
The development of an integrated GPS/INS/sonar navigation system for autonomous underwater vehicle navigation

The need to successfully navigate in an underwater environment is rapidly becoming an important concern in the 1990's. This paper presents the development of an integrated navigation system for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) using GPS, INS and sonar. This paper discusses the existing problems with sub-sea navigation, the motivation for an integrated system, the mathematical derivation for an integrated GPS/INS/sonar system, and the results obtained from extensive testing.
Activation of the P38/CREB/MMP13 axis is associated with osteoarthritis

Purposes Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common joint disease characterized by the degradation of articular cartilage and joint inflammation. Interleukin-1ß induces P38/cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) pathway activation, resulting in increased expression of matrix metallopeptidase-13 (MMP13) in chondrocytes. However, the role of the P38/CREB/MMP13 axis is unclear in the progression of OA. In this study, we aimed to answer the following questions: (1) how does the P38/CREB/MMP13 axis in cartilage from patients with OA compare with control specimens? (2) Can the P38 agonist anisomycin (ANS) induce mouse OA? Materials and methods Surgical specimens of human cartilage were divided into OA and control groups. Surgical specimens of mouse cartilage were divided into control and ANS-induced groups. Safranin O staining of the cartilage tissues was performed to evaluate the extracellular matrix. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction was performed using these tissues to investigate messenger RNA expressions of type II collagen, aggrecan, MMP13, and ADAM metallopeptidase with thrombospondin type 1 motif 5. Phosphorylated (p)-P38, p-CREB, and MMP13 were evaluated by Western blot analysis. Anisomycin was used to activate P38, and p-P38, p-CREB, and MMP13 were evaluated by immunofluorescence and Western blot analysis. Results Safranin O staining showed that the extracellular matrix degraded in humans with OA and ANS-induced mouse cartilage samples. The expressions of p-P38, p-CREB, and MMP13 were all upregulated in osteoarthritic cartilage or anisomycin-induced chondrocytes, suggesting that the P38/CREB/MMP13 axis may play a role in the progression of OA. Conclusions The P38/CREB/MMP13 axis is active in osteoarthritic chondrocytes and may cause the degeneration of cartilage. Effective new therapy directed against this pathway could be developed.
A Survey and Exploration of Relation Extraction in Active Learning Systems

The reliable recognition and extraction of semantic relations between entities is important to many applications in the domain of natural language processing and information retrieval, such as search engines and question-answering systems. In this survey I summarize the primary relation extraction approaches presented in the literature, particularly focusing on weakly supervised bootstrap methods. I oer a critique and discuss possible improvements of the dierent methodologies used at various points in the relation extraction process. Finally, I discuss an extension of relation extraction to an active, unsupervised ontologylearning system in the context of a conguration space exploration framework.
ENHANCED GLADE AND ITS IMPACT ON COMPUTATIONAL DATA ANALYTICS

of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science ENHANCED GLADE AND ITS IMPACT ON COMPUTATIONAL DATA ANALYTICS By Daley Alex August 2012 Chair: Alin Dobra Cochair: Sanjay Ranka Major: Computer Engineering The management and analysis of large amounts of constantly increasing data is required to facilitate better knowledge and understanding. Such analysis extracts less apparent information and forms fodder for enhancement of products and services by business institutions and also in a variety of other domains. Two techniques that are available for managing large amounts of data and simultaneously performing complex computations are MapReduce and User Defined Aggregates (UDA). However, the flexibility with which you can express computations in either models require enhancements. This thesis focuses on enhancing a computational model called GLADE which is already efficient at managing computations on large data but has a shortcoming in its flexibility to express computations. This work transforms GLADE into a comprehensive format for large data management and for carrying out complex analytic computations with improved flexibility and performance when compared to other existing computational models. The first part of the thesis deals with proposing the required enhancements in detail and in the second part, this flexibility is exhibited by encoding some of the classical data mining algorithms in this format. Also, comparisons are drawn wherever possible with existing implementations in Mahout, a MapReduce based machine learning library.
Multi-Agent Architecture for Point of Interest Detection and Recommendation

Geographical positions are widely employed in many applications, such as recommendation systems. The wide-spread use of mobile devices and location-based Internet services (e.g., Google Maps) gives the opportunity to collect user locations. Taking advantage of a multi-agent system, this work proposes an approach providing users with personalised recommendations of places of interests, such as libraries, museum, restaurants, etc. The approach offers a better experience by giving additional dynamic data (e.g. popularity, as number of users) to a list of Points Of Interest (POIs), and by exploring their temporal relations. Indeed, for POIs, which we determine using a DBSCAN algorithm, we take into account the time slots when the users visited them, to offer a more advanced service. Finally, the approach was designed to preserve the privacy of users, i.e. it does not reveal the position of users.
Nomograms Predict Survival Advantages of Gleason Score 3+4 Over 4+3 for Prostate Cancer: A SEER-Based Study

Background: Different proportions of Gleason pattern 3 and Gleason pattern 4 lead to various prognosis of prostate cancer with Gleason score 7. The objective of this study was to compare the survival outcomes of Gleason score 3+4 and 4+3 based on data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results cancer registry database, and to investigate independent prognosis-associated factors and develop nomograms for predicting survival in Gleason score 7 prostate cancer patients. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on 69,116 cases diagnosed as prostate adenocarcinoma with Gleason score 7 between 2004 and 2009. Prognosis-associated factors were evaluated using univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis, and a 1:1 ratio paired cohort by propensity score matching with the statistical software IBM SPSS, to evaluate prognostic differences between Gleason score 3+4 and 4+3. The primary cohort was randomly divided into training set (n = 48,384) and validation set (n = 20,732). Based on the independent factors of prognosis, nomograms for prognosis were established by the training group and validated by the validation group using R version 3.5. 0. Results: After propensity score matching, Cox regression analysis showed that Gleason 4+3 had an increased mortality risk both for overall survival (HR: 1.235, 95% CI: 1.179–1.294, P < 0.001) and cancer-specific survival (HR: 1.606, 95% CI: 1.468–1.762, P < 0.001). Nomograms for overall survival and cancer-specific survival were established with C-index 0.786 and 0.842, respectively. The calibration plot indicated an optimal agreement between the actual observation and nomogram prediction for overall survival and cancer-specific survival probability at 5 or 10 year. Conclusions: Prostate cancer with Gleason score 4+3 had worse overall survival and cancer-specific survival than Gleason score 3+4. Nomograms were formulated to predict 5-year and 10-year OS and CSS in patients with prostate cancer of Gleason score 7.
The German Ethical Culture Scale (GECS): Development and First Construct Testing

Misconduct in organizations (such as fraud, stealing, deception, and harming others) is not only a matter of some “bad apples” but also related to the organizational context (“bad barrels”), which can facilitate either ethical or unethical behaviors. Given the financial crisis and recurring corporate ethics scandals, policymakers, regulators and organizations are interested in how to change their organizational cultures to enhance ethical behavior and to prevent further disasters. For this purpose, organizations need to better understand what strategies and factors of the organizational environment can affect (un)ethical behavior. However, to assess the corporate ethical culture, solid measures are required. Since there is an urgent need to have a German measure to promote research in German-speaking countries, this research developed and tested the German Ethical Culture Scale (GECS). Drawing on a prominent approach that has received much attention from scholars and practitioners alike, the GECS attempts to integrate the notion of compliance- and integrity-based ethics programs (with its focus on how to steer organizations) with the notion of ethical culture (with its focus on what factors inhibit or foster ethical behavior). Three studies with heterogeneous samples of German and Swiss employees and managers were conducted to develop, test and validate the multidimensional scale (total N > 2000). Overall, the studies provide first evidence of the measure’s construct, criteria-related and incremental validity. The paper concludes with a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the GECS and implications for future research.
Prognostic analysis of patients with mutant and wild-type EGFR gene lung adenocarcinoma

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene mutation and clinicopathological features of lung adenocarcinoma, and the prognostic and therapeutic value of EGFR. Methods EGFR gene mutations were detected in 424 patients with lung adenocarcinoma by amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS). Results The total EGFR gene mutation rate was 55.2% (234/424) and EGFR gene mutation rates were statistically different in gender, smoking status, and pathological degree (P<0.05). The overall survival (OS) time of lung adenocarcinoma patients with mutation of exon 18 was lower than those with mutation of exon 19 and exon 21 (both P<0.05), but no significant difference was seen between those with mutation of exon 19 and exon 21 (P>0.05). Among 424 cases of lung adenocarcinoma, multivariate analysis showed that EGFR gene mutation, age, gender, clinical stages, and pathological degree (P<0.05) were statistically significant prognostic factors. In multivariate analysis, prognostic factors of patients with EGFR gene mutation were associated with EGFR-TKI treatment, surgery treatment, pathological degree, clinical stages, and age (P<0.05), whereas in patients without EGFR gene mutation, prognostic factors were related to surgery treatment, pathological degree, clinical stages, gender, age, and smoking status (P<0.05). Conclusion The OS time of patients with mutation of exon 18 was lower than those of exon 19 and exon 21. EGFR-TKI treatment was an independent positive predictor in patients with EGFR gene mutation. Surgery treatment, age, clinical stages, and pathological degree were independent prognostic factors in Chinese patients with lung adenocarcinoma no matter whether with EGFR gene mutation or not.
SHEAN (Simplified Human Error Analysis code) and automated THERP

One of the most widely used human error analysis tools is THERP (Technique for Human Error Rate Prediction). Unfortunately, this tool has disadvantages. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, realizing these drawbacks, commissioned Dr. Swain, the author of THERP, to create a simpler, more consistent tool for deriving human error rates. That effort produced the Accident Sequence Evaluation Program Human Reliability Analysis Procedure (ASEP), which is more conservative than THERP, but a valuable screening tool. ASEP involves answering simple questions about the scenario in question, and then looking up the appropriate human error rate in the indicated table (THERP also uses look-up tables, but four times as many). The advantages of ASEP are that human factors expertise is not required, and the training to use the method is minimal. Although not originally envisioned by Dr. Swain, the ASEP approach actually begs to be computerized. That WINCO did, calling the code SHEAN, for Simplified Human Error ANalysis. The code was done in TURBO Basic for IBM or IBM-compatible MS-DOS, for fast execution. WINCO is now in the process of comparing this code against THERP for various scenarios. This report provides a discussion of SHEAN.
Agent stha tLear nt oGiv ePersonalise dT VProgra mRecommendations

In this paper we present an intelligent, personalised TV recommender system with an agent based infrastructure that provides the user both with content based and collaborative recommendations based on the user’s viewing profile, which is our model of the user. We represent the viewing profile using separate categories of interest such as dramas and game shows, where each category in turn is made up of programs that the user liked and disliked. The profile is continuously updated via feedback to the viewers agent. The liked and disliked programs are then distilled into a weighted tuple of key words produced from their descriptions. This weighted tuple is then used to make recommendations based on the descriptions of new programs. Programs whose descriptions are ’close’ to the user’s liked profile for some category are recommended.
The Polyamine Putrescine Contributes to H2O2 and RbohD/F-Dependent Positive Feedback Loop in Arabidopsis PAMP-Triggered Immunity

Polyamines are involved in defense against pathogenic microorganisms in plants. However, the role of the polyamine putrescine (Put) during plant defense has remained elusive. In this work, we studied the implication of polyamines during pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity (PTI) in the model species Arabidopsis thaliana. Our data indicate that polyamines, particularly Put, accumulate in response to non-pathogenic Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 hrcC and in response to the purified PAMP flagellin22. Exogenously supplied Put to Arabidopsis seedlings induces defense responses compatible with PTI activation, such as callose deposition and transcriptional up-regulation of several PTI marker genes. Consistent with this, we show that Put primes for resistance against pathogenic bacteria. Through chemical and genetic approaches, we find that PTI-related transcriptional responses induced by Put are hydrogen peroxide and NADPH oxidase (RBOHD and RBOHF) dependent, thus suggesting that apoplastic ROS mediates Put signaling. Overall, our data indicate that Put amplifies PTI responses through ROS production, leading to enhanced disease resistance against bacterial pathogens.