Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State

Le tres long debat sur la nature et les causes de l'etat providence n'a pas apporte de reponses definitives a l'une ou l'autre de ces questions. Cet article a trois buts: 1/ reintegrer le debat dans la tradition intellectuelle de l'economie politique pour mieux faire ressortir les principaux problemes theoriques; 2/ specifier les caracteristiques principales de l'etat providence, les methodes traditionnelles de mesure de l'etat providence en termes de depenses n'etant plus satisfaisantes; 3/‘sociologiser’ l'etude de l'etat providence. La plupart des etudes sur le sujet ont ete basees sur une conception lineaire du monde: plus ou moins de puissance, d'industrialisation ou de depenses. Cet article considere que les etats providences sont d'abord des groupes de regimes-types et que leur developpement doit etre explique de maniere interactive. The protracted debate on the welfare state has failed to produce conclusive answers as to either the nature or causes of welfare state development. This article has three aims: 1/ to reintegrate the debate into the intellectual tradition of political economy. This serves to put into sharper focus the principal theoretical questions involved; 2/ to specify what are the salient characteristics of welfare states. The conventional ways of measuring welfare states in terms of their expenditures will no longer do; 3/ to ‘sociologize’ the study of welfare states. Most studies have assumed a world of linearity: more or less power, industrialization or spending. This article insists that we understand welfare states as clusters of regime-types, and that their development must be explained interactively.
Simultaneous Decoupling and Matching Technique for Short-Range MIMO

This paper presents a novel simultaneous decoupling and matching technique for transmitting (Tx) and receiving (Rx) ports in shortrange multiple-input multiple-output (SR-MIMO) systems. The principal difference with conventional decoupling and matching network (DMN) approaches is that the proposed technique considers strong mutual coupling between closely-positioned Tx/Rx arrays, and the S-parameter variation due to the presence of each other’s array. This technique has two stages; first, 180-degree hybrid couplers are connected to both Tx/Rx ports of a plane-symmetrical MIMO system. This decouples both Tx/Rx ports, and moreover, channels between them are orthogonalized. That is, the MIMO system is transformed into multi orthogonalized single-input singleoutput (SISO) systems. Second, Tx/Rx ports of each orthogonalized SISO system are simultaneously matched based on conjugate matching theory. Consequently, the transmission power of the short-range MIMO system is maximized. Numerical results show that the proposed technique realizes higher channel capacity than the conventional DMN; indeed it achieves the theoretically possible capacity. In addition to theoretical analyses, we provide an example for microstrip line (MSL) circuit implementation. This MSL model offers good simultaneous decoupling and matching performance yielding channel capacity comparable to that of an ideally-designed circuit model. This validates the implementation feasibility of the proposed technique. key words: short-range MIMO, decoupling and matching network
Potentially Toxic Concentrations of Synthetic Pyrethroids Associated with Low Density Residential Land Use

Trace organic compounds associated with human activity are now ubiquitous in the environment. As the population becomes more urbanised and the use of pesticides and person care products continues to increase, urban waterways are likely to receive higher loads of trace organic contaminants with unknown ecological consequences. To establish the extent of trace organic contamination in urban runoff, concentrations of emerging chemicals of concern were determined in sediments from 99 urban wetlands in and around Melbourne, Australia between February and April, 2015. As a preliminary estimation of potential risks to aquatic biota, we compared measured concentrations with thresholds for acute and chronic toxicity, and modelled toxic units as a function of demographic and land use trends. The synthetic pyrethroid insecticide bifenthrin was common and widespread, and frequently occurred at concentrations likely to cause toxicity to aquatic life. Personal care products DEET and triclosan were common and widely distributed, while the herbicides diuron and prometryn, and the fungicides pyrimethanil and trifloxystrobin occurred less frequently. Toxic unit modelling using random forests found complex and unexpected associations between urban land uses and trace organic concentrations. Synthetic pyrethroid insecticides were identified as emerging compounds of concern, particularly bifenthrin. In contrast with previous surveys, the highest bifenthrin concentrations were associated with lower housing and population density, implicating low-density residential land use in bifenthrin contamination. We discuss the implications for pesticide regulation and urban wetland management in a global context.
Pathogenetic Aspects of IgA Nephropathy

IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is a common worldwide primary glomerulonephritis whose etiology and pathogenesis have remained unresolved. This particular form is defined by diffuse glomerular mesangial deposition of IgA and, less frequently and less intensely, IgG, IgM and C3. Immune deposition is accompanied by focal or diffuse mesangial proliferation, and the consequent chronic glomerular inflammation is further associated with sclerosis and variable loss of glomerular and tubular function.
A matrix approach for hierarchical web page clustering based in hyperlinks

This paper proposes a matrix approach for hierarchical web page clustering with two algorithms using hyperlink information among pages.One clustering algorithm clusters web pages without considering cluster overlapping.Another one takes cluster overlapping into account.These algorithms take advantage of intrinsic relationships among the pages, and are independent of the order in which the pages are presented to the algorithms.Furthermore, the proposed algorithms do not require a predefined similarity threshold for clustering.They are easy to be implemented for web applications.The primary evaluations show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms, as well as a promising application.
Hospital-acquired pneumonia: risk factors for antimicrobial-resistant causative pathogens in critically ill patients.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine factors associated with antimicrobial-resistant hospital-acquired pneumonia (AR-HAP), to build an algorithm evaluating the risk for such a pneumonia, and to test this algorithm. DESIGN Combined observational and validation cohorts over two periods: January 1994 to December 1999, and January 2000 to March 2001. SETTING One ICU from a university-affiliated urban teaching hospital. PATIENTS One hundred twenty-four patients in the observational cohort and 26 patients in the validation cohort exhibiting bacteriologically documented hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP). INTERVENTIONS Prospective data collection and multivariate analysis using the chi(2) automatic interaction and detection technique. RESULTS In the observational cohort, 39 antimicrobial-resistant bacteria were incriminated in 37 patients (30%). Multivariate analysis identified four independent variables allowing a binary stratification of risk. According to the presence or absence of prior antimicrobial treatment, neurologic disturbances on ICU admission, aspiration on ICU admission, and time elapsed between ICU admission and the onset of pneumonia, we were able to identify and separate patients at high, low, or even no risk for acquiring AR-HAP. In the validation cohort, nine antimicrobial-resistant bacteria were incriminated in nine patients (34.6%). In this cohort, the algorithm performed well allowing the identification of null risk categories: the absence of prior antimicrobial treatment, the presence of prior antimicrobial treatment with neurologic disturbances on ICU admission and an early-onset pneumonia, and the presence of prior antimicrobial treatment without neurologic disturbances but with aspiration on ICU admission were always associated with antimicrobial-susceptible HAP. CONCLUSION We developed and tested a binary algorithm allowing the identification of patients at low risk for acquiring AR-HAP. An antibiotic strategy including an initial antimicrobial treatment guided by such an algorithm, followed, if possible, by a de-escalation when antimicrobial data are available, could increase the administration of adequate initial antimicrobial treatment and help prevent the emergence of antibiotic resistance in the ICU.
IMMUNOCHEMICAL STUDIES ON RABBIT ANTI-ANTIBODY.

Anti-antibody in rabbits has been found to be a 19 S globulin with specificity for rabbit 7 S γ-globulin altered either by combination with antigen or by certain nonspecific methods. The anti-antibody combines with antigenic determinants on Fragments I and II, but not III, of the papain-digested 7 S γ-globulin molecule. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Perinatal Mortality in the Normal Siblings of Anomalous Triplets

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the risk of survival of unaffected cofetuses of anomalous triplets. METHODS: Retrospective cohort study of triplets delivered in the United States from 1995 through 1998. Four triplet clusters were identified: cluster A (all members anomaly-free); cluster B (1 anomalous member); cluster C (2 anomalous members), and cluster D (all 3 members anomalous). We compared the risk for stillbirth and infant mortality among nonanomalous fetuses in clusters A, B, and C after adjusting for intracluster correlations. RESULTS: A total of 7,560 triplet clusters (98.9%) were analyzed after excluding cluster D (1.1%). The total stillbirth rate was 20.9 (cluster A), 61.0 (cluster B), and 81.1 (cluster C) per 1,000 (P for trend < .001), and infant mortality rate was 56.4 (cluster A), 108.8 (cluster B), and 196.1 (cluster C) per 1,000 (P for trend < .001). Using cluster A as the referent category, the risk for stillbirth among anomaly-free clustermates climbed with increase in the number of siblings with anomalies in a dose-response pattern (adjusted odds ratio, 95% confidence interval 1.5, 0.7–3.1, for cluster B; and 5.2, 1.4–18.8, for cluster C; P for trend = .03). For infant mortality, the only rise in risk was in cluster C (3.3, 1.6–6.7), whereas cluster B showed comparable risk with the referent category (0.8, 0.5–1.4; P for trend > .05). CONCLUSION: The presence of anomalous fetuses compromises the survival of normal cotriplets. These findings could prove useful for counseling affected parents and highlight the need for follow-up of normal coinfants of anomalous fetuses. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: II-2
Lack of bcl-2 persistence: an independent prognostic indicator of poor prognosis in endometrial carcinoma.

OBJECTIVE bcl-2 is a protein which prohibits programmed cell death. The purpose of this study was to determine whether bcl-2 staining was related to traditional prognostic factors and/or recurrence in patients with endometrial carcinoma. METHODS One hundred twenty consecutively surgically treated patients with endometrial carcinoma had their tumors studied immunohistochemically for bcl-2 staining. RESULTS The mean follow-up of the patients was 53 months with a median of 56 months (range 30 to 68 months). bcl-2 staining was positive in 44.0% of patients with endometrioid carcinomas and in 23. 1% of patients with nonendometrioid carcinomas (P < 0.001). Increasing depth of invasion (P = 0.014), grade (P = 0.011), and FIGO stage (P = 0.018) were each correlated with decreasing bcl-2 staining. bcl-2 staining was positive in 44.1% of patients whose tumors showed no lymphovascular space invasion and in 11.1% of patients with lymphovascular space invasion (P < 0.001). Only 1 of 26 patients with recurrent disease had persistence of bcl-2 staining. Multivariate analysis revealed FIGO stage (P = 0.0051), histologic grade (P = 0.050), and lack of staining for bcl-2 (P = 0.012) to be independent predictors of recurrence. CONCLUSION bcl-2 persistence is more common in endometrioid than in nonendometrioid adenocarcinomas of the endometrium. It appears to be inversely correlated with the universally recognized prognostic factors of depth of invasion, histologic grade, and FIGO stage. Lack of bcl-2 persistence was an independent predictor of recurrence of disease. This group of patients continues to be followed to determine the role of bcl-2 persistence or lack of persistence as a predictor of 5-year survival of patients with endometrial carcinoma.
Branding Practices in The New(Er) Media: A Comparison of Retailer Twitter and Web-Based Images

To date, there has been little empirical focus on how different online mediums affect the branding practices of retailers. In this working paper, I compare how specialty coffee retailers of different sizes use webpages and Twitter. I examine over 2800 unique images from 86 retailers using a quantitative content analysis that enumerates visual elements within pictures. I find that there are significant differences in the use of these two mediums in terms of retailer scale, and that based on their size, retailers display different types of images at much different proportions.
A Physics-Based Approach to Unsupervised Discovery of Coherent Structures in Spatiotemporal Systems

Author(s): Rupe, A; Crutchfield, JP; Kashinath, K; Prabhat | Abstract: Given that observational and numerical climate data are being produced at ever more prodigious rates, increasingly sophisticated and automated analysis techniques have become essential. Deep learning is quickly becoming a standard approach for such analyses and, while great progress is being made, major challenges remain. Unlike commercial applications in which deep learning has led to surprising successes, scientific data is highly complex and typically unlabeled. Moreover, interpretability and detecting new mechanisms are key to scientific discovery. To enhance discovery we present a complementary physics-based, data-driven approach that exploits the causal nature of spatiotemporal data sets generated by local dynamics (e.g. hydrodynamic flows). We illustrate how novel patterns and coherent structures can be discovered in cellular automata and outline the path from them to climate data.
Validated high performance thin layer chromatography method for simultaneous estimation of ofloxacin and ornidazole in tablet dosage form

A simple, accurate and precise high performance thin layer chromatographic method has been developed for the estimation of ofloxacin and ornidazole simultaneously in tablet dosage form. The method employed silica gel 60GF254 precoated plates as stationary phase and a mixture of n-butanol: ethanol: ammonia (5:5:4 %v/v/v) as mobile phase. The plate was scanned and quantified at 295 nm using Camag TLC scanner. The method was validated for linearity, accuracy, precision, repeatability and specificity, proving its utility in estimation of ofloxacin and ornidazole in combined dosage form.
OpenSURF performance in windows phone 7

OpenSURF is an algorithm to detect point correspondences between two images. OpenSURF is an integral part of computer vision and machine vision. The Algorithm aims is to find important region in images which can found under variety of image transformation. This algorithm can be used for augmented reality object recognition, or medical imaging. This research is to reach maximum performance augmented reality markerless application. Especially on Actual Mobile Guide for Tourist application. OpenSURF doesn't have library for windows phone so we have to porting from C++ to C#. The performance of OpenSURF is not much further than android library, it is 6,666 second(windows phone) versus 8.779 second(android) with 604 × 453 pixel picture.
Factor VIII Inhibitors in Mild and Moderate-severity Haemophilia A

Summary Twenty six patients with mild or moderate haemophilia A and inhibitors are described. The inhibitor was detected at a median age of 33 years, after a median of 5.5 bleeding episodes. This usually following intensive replacement therapy. The median presenting inhibitor titre was antihuman 11.6 BU/ml, antiporcine 1.45 BU/ml. Plasma basal factor VIII level declined from a median of 0.08 IU/ml to 0.01 IU/ml following the inhibitor development. This caused spontaneous bleeding in 22 and a bleeding pattern similar to acquired haemophilia in 17. Bleeding was often severe and caused two deaths. The inhibitor disappeared spontaneously, or following immune tolerance induction, in 16 cases after a median of 9 months (range 0.5-46), with a return to the original baseline VIIIC level and bleeding pattern accompanied inhibitor loss. The inhibitor persisted in the remainder of the cases over a median period of 99 months (range 17-433 months) of follow-up. Inhibitors are an uncommon complication of mild haemophilia which frequently persist and may be associated with severe, life-threatening, haemorrhage. Forty-one percent of treated haemophilic family members had a history of factor VIII inhibitors, suggesting a familial predisposition to develop inhibitors in these kindreds. Sixteen patients from 11 families were genotyped. Seven different missense mutations affecting the light chain were detected and two in the A2 domain. Five patients from three families had a mutation causing a substitution of Trp2229 by Cys in the C2 domain which appears to predispose to inhibitor formation since 7 of the 18 affected individuals have a history of inhibitor development.
Effects of dietary starch types on rumen fermentation and blood profile in goats

The objective of the present study was to investigate how feeding a diet containing a type of puri- fied starch entirely produced from normal or high amylose maize grains would affect rumen fermentation and blood profile in goats. Twenty rumen-cannulated growing goats were assigned equally to one of two dietary treatments according to a randomized controlled trial design and fed two total mixed rations with similar ingredients and chemical composition except for the types of purified maize starch. One type was the high amylose starch (HAS), and the other was the normal amylose starch (NAS). Compared to goats fed the NAS diet, goats fed the HAS diet had significantly higher ruminal pH (P = 0.00), molar proportions of acetate (P = 0.00), butyrate (P = 0.01) and isobutyrate (P = 0.00), acetate to propionate ratio (P = 0.00), plasma concentra- tions of glucose (P = 0.02) and C-reactive protein (P = 0.03), and plasma levels of insulin (P = 0.03) and gastrin (P = 0.04), but had significantly lower ruminal concentrations of lactate (P = 0.04) and total volatile fatty acids (P = 0.04), propionate molar percentage (P = 0.00), whole blood ammonia concentration (P = 0.02), plasma concentrations of urea nitrogen (P and creatinine (P = 0.02), plasma levels of glucagon (P = 0.02) and motilin (P = 0.04), and plasma activities of glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (P = 0.02) and creatine kinase (P = 0.03). In addition, the HAS diet in comparison to the NAS diet tended to raise whole blood hematocrit (P 0.08), plasma concentrations of albumin (P branched-chain amino acids (P valine (P = 0.09), phenylalanine (P = 0.08) and proline (P = 0.07), plasma levels of growth hormone (P = 0.06) and interleukin-2 (P = 0.07), and plasma α-amylase (P = 0.05) activity in goats. In conclusion, results showed that feeding goats the HAS diet instead of the NAS diet had multiple beneficial effects.
A Photoactivatable GFP for Selective Photolabeling of Proteins and Cells

We report a photoactivatable variant of theAequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (GFP) that, after intense irradiation with 413-nanometer light, increases fluorescence 100 times when excited by 488-nanometer light and remains stable for days under aerobic conditions. These characteristics offer a new tool for exploring intracellular protein dynamics by tracking photoactivated molecules that are the only visible GFPs in the cell. Here, we use the photoactivatable GFP both as a free protein to measure protein diffusion across the nuclear envelope and as a chimera with a lysosomal membrane protein to demonstrate rapid interlysosomal membrane exchange.
Distributed object-oriented real-time simulation of the multicast protocol RFRM

A real-time fault-tolerant multicast protocol is necessary for obtaining high performance in operating distributed real-time computing systems. This paper shows the efficiency of the RFRM (Release-time based Fault-tolerant Real-time Multicasting) protocol, which is based on the idea of attaching the official release time to each multicast message. As a part of this, a real-time simulation based on the TMO (Time-triggered Message-triggered Object) structuring scheme is conducted in order to evaluate the proposed approach. We experiment with a real-time multicast model which does not receive ACK messages, with the purpose of reducing the message traffic on the network by employing a fault detection mechanism. Simulation results promise good efficiency for the proposed real-time multicast protocol.
Experiments on Combining Demand Forecasts with Semiconductor Data

In this paper we test several forecast combination methods on industrial demand and forecast data from a semiconductor company. The tested combination methods include four popular methods existing in the literature, and new methods proposed in a companion paper. There are two forecasts to be combined: a time series forecast and a marketing forecast. According to the experiments, combining different demand forecasts does help to improve accuracy. The new combination methods proposed by authors have better and more stable performance than the others. The application of appropriate non-linear transformations to the original demand and forecast data before feeding it into the combination models is strongly recommended.
RAP‐011 augments callus formation in closed fractures in rats

ACE‐011 is a bone anabolic agent generated by fusing the extracellular domain of the Activin Type 2A receptor (ActRIIA) to an IgG‐Fc. The orthopedic utility of ACE‐011 was investigated using a murine analogue, RAP‐011. Initially, a rat closed fracture model was tested using bi‐weekly (biw) 10 mg/kg RAP‐011. RAP‐011 significantly increased callus length and callus bone volume (BV, +43% at 6w, p < 0.01). The polar moment of inertia was calculated to be substantively increased (+80%, p < 0.01), however mechanical bending tests showed a more modest increase in maximum load to failure (+24%, p < 0.05). Histology indicated enhanced appositional bone growth, but it was hypothesized that reduced remodeling, evidenced by decreased serum CTX (−16% at 6w, p < 0.01), could be compromising bone quality in the callus. A second closed fracture study was performed to examine lower “pulse” [RAP‐011(p)] and “sustained” [RAP‐011(s)] regimens of biw 0.6mg/kg × 2, 0.35mg/kg × 3 and 0.18mg/kg × 2, 0.1mg/kg × 7 respectively, compared with PTH(1–34) (25 μg/kg/d) and vehicle controls. RAP‐011 treatments gave modest increases in callus length and callus BV at 6w (p < 0.01), but did not achieve an increase in maximum load over vehicle. In summary, RAP‐011 is effective in promoting bone formation during repair, but optimizing callus bone quality will require further investigation. © 2015 Orthopaedic Research Society. Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Orthop Res 34:320–330, 2016.