Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using Data Wavelets for Data Mining to Enhance ICU Clinical Decision Support

Effective management of device-supported patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is complex, involving the interpretation of large volumes of high frequency data from numerous cardiac and respiratory parameters presented by the ICU monitors. ICU Clinical Decision Support systems can play an important role in assisting medical staff in terms of its ability to disentangle and comprehend large amount of physiological datasets with a number of explanatory variables. We propose data wavelets as a data mining approach for analysing historical ICU data for deriving trends for summarization in order to provide clinical decision support. The monitors in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) display and store the continuous recordings of multiple physiologic signals gathered from the patient. The ICU monitors display the physiological state of the patient at any particular time. Typical parameters recorded simultaneously include the heart rate, blood pressure, saturation of oxygen in the blood, core and peripheral temperature, central venous pressure, and pulmonary arterial pressure. The frequency of the data can be higher than 1 value every second which creates information overload for medical staff. ICU medical staff, therefore, could benefit from a clinical decision support to assist in the interpretation of the volumous data.
Better care of immature infants; has it influenced long‐term pulmonary outcome?

Aims: To assess whether lung function in late childhood had improved in subjects born extremely prematurely in the early 1990s compared to the early 1980s, and whether neonatal factors in the respective periods had different impact on long‐term pulmonary outcome. Design: Population‐based, controlled cohort study. Lung function was determined in 81 of 86 (94%) eligible subjects born with gestational age ≤28 weeks or birthweight ≤1000 g in Western Norway in 1982–85 (n=46) and 1991–92 (n=35), and in 81 matched control subjects born at term. Results: The incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia was similar in the two periods. At follow‐up, airway obstruction, hyper‐responsiveness and pulmonary hyperinflation were similarly increased in both preterm cohorts compared to matched controls. Furthermore, current lung function was similarly related to neonatal respiratory disease in both birth‐cohorts: FEV1 was reduced with respectively 18.6% and 18.7% of predicted in preterms dependent on supplemental oxygen at 36 weeks postmenstrual age. Lack of antenatal treatment with corticosteroids and prolonged neonatal oxygen treatment predicted similar significant airway obstruction in the two birth‐cohorts. Conclusion: Preterms born in different eras of neonatology had similar long‐term decreases in lung function. Long periods of oxygen supplementation are still required to salvage immature infants, and airway obstruction may still be a common long‐term outcome.
Maximising transferred power and preserving zero voltage switching in grid to vehicle and vehicle to grid modes of a wireless charging system

Modelling of a wireless charging system for an electrical vehicle is one of the main challenges to control the system, optimally. Considering a suitable integrated model for both the vehicle and stationary sides is essential to guarantee the maximum power transfer in these systems. This study presents an analytical model of an inductive contactless charger, used for controlling the vehicle side of the system to transfer charging power and regenerative (vehicle to grid) power as high as possible. First, the system parameters are set based on the derived analytical model, then the settings are readjusted by a finite-element model as a fine tuning. The system is controlled in a way that soft switching in both the charging and regenerative modes is guaranteed. The under study system has 20 kW power with an inter-coil distance between 14 and 21 cm, and a bidirectional converter with series–series resonance compensation. The system is assessed in detail theoretically and the results are confirmed using some experiments carried out on a prototype in the same rating.
Osteosarcoma in the Proximal Humerus of an Adult Male: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Summary Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone malignancy. The incidence rate of the disease peaks during adolescence when bone growth is the most rapid. Primary osteosarcoma is typically seen in patients aged 10-20 years old, with 75% of cases under the age of 20 years. The incidence of osteosarcoma is 1.5 times higher in males than females. Osteosarcoma commonly occurs in the metaphyseal region of the long bones with the most commonly affected sites being the knee and humerus at rates of 60% and 10%, respectively. This paper, presents the clinical and radiological findings of a young adult male patient with osteosarcoma which was detected in the proximal humerus after presentation with shoulder pain. The diagnostic value of direct radiography is emphasized. Key Words: Osteosarcoma, adult, direct radiography
Withdrawing the BGP Re-Routing Curtain: Understanding the Security Impact of BGP Poisoning through Real-World Measurements

The security of the Internet's routing infrastructure has underpinned much of the past two decades of distributed systems security research. However, the converse is increasingly true. Routing and path decisions are now important for the security properties of systems built on top of the Internet. In particular, BGP poisoning leverages the de facto routing protocol between Autonomous Systems (ASes) to maneuver the return paths of upstream networks onto previously unusable, new paths. These new paths can be used to avoid congestion, censors, geo-political boundaries, or any feature of the topology which can be expressed at an AS-level. Given the increase in BGP poisoning usage as a security primitive, we set out to evaluate poisoning feasibility in practice beyond simulation. To that end, using an Internet-scale measurement infrastructure, we capture and analyze over 1,400 instances of BGP poisoning across thousands of ASes as a mechanism to maneuver return paths of traffic. We analyze in detail the performance of steering paths, the graph-theoretic aspects of available paths, and re-evaluate simulated systems with this data. We find that the real-world evidence does not completely support the findings from simulated systems published in the literature. We also analyze filtering of BGP poisoning across types of ASes and ISP working groups. We explore the connectivity concerns when poisoning by reproducing a decade old experiment to uncover the current state of an Internet triple the size. We build predictive models for understanding an ASes' vulnerability to poisoning. Finally, an exhaustive measurement of an upper bound on the maximum path length of the Internet is presented, detailing how security research should react to ASes leveraging poisoned long paths. In total, our results and analysis expose the real-world impact of BGP poisoning on past and future security research.
Mental Health and Associated Factors amongst Women Referred to Health Care Centers

١ نارهت يكشزپ مولع هاگشناد رايداتسا ،تملاس ءاقترا يصصخت يارتكد ٢ وئسم هدنسيون و ل : هيمورا يكشزپ مولع هاگشناد ،تملاس ءاقترا تشادهب شزومآ دشرا يسانشراك Email: z.morad@yahoo.com ٣ نارهت يكشزپ مولع هاگشناد يژولويمديپا يصصخت يارتكد يوجشناد ٤ يمومع تشادهب سانشراك هديكچ فده و هنيمز : دشاب يم هعماج و هداوناخ يرادياپ و تابث رد مهم لماوع زا نانز رد ناور تملاس نيمات . تلالاتخا تحت فلتخم ياهشقن هب هجوت اب نانز ،دنك يم ليمحت هعماج و درف رب ينيگنس راب هورگ نيا رد هژيوب يناور هداوناخ بقارم ،ردام ،رسمه نيوانع دنتسه يناور تلالاتخا هب لاتبا دعتسم رتشيب . يسررب فده اب هعلاطم نيا ناور تملاس تيعضو نآ اب طبترم لماوع و لاس رد هاشنامرك رهش ينامرد يتشادهب زكارم هب نيعجارم رد 1389 تفرگ ماجنا .
Treating depression in diabetic patients: Latihan pasrah diri (LPD) revisited

The condition accompanying depression will always be progressing into poor prognosis if the depression itself is not recognized and treated properly. Among diabetic patients, depression was associated with increased mortality and poor quality of life . It was observed that diabetes and depression has a bidirectional relationship, where the clinical course of both conditions are affecting each other. Despite the effectiveness of psychological and psychopharmacological interventions in treating depressive symptoms in diabetic patients, the effect of such interventions on glycemic control is still inconsistent. Complementary alternative medicine (CAM) alone or in combination with standard medical treatment, targeting both depression and diabetes, appears to be promising. Latihan Pasrah Diri (LPD) has been recognized as a type of relaxation technique under CAM. It is initially directed to provide adequate relieve of depression using both religious and relaxative approach. Among patients with comorbid diabetes and depression, this approach has long been known and utilized over the counter, but its formal practice is seldom advocated, whereas, many clinical trials has been conducted locally to reveal its potential use. Combined with standard therapy, LPD is expected to show its beneficial effects.
Kolmogorov Model for Large Millimeter-Wave Antenna Arrays: Learning-based Beam-Alignment

A new approach is presented to the problem of beam alignment for large-dimensional millimeter-wave antenna systems, with a single radio-frequency chain, based on the application of the Kolmogorov Model (KM) framework to enable learning-based beam alignment. Unlike the conventional exhaustive search-based approach, the proposed KM does not require the entire beam space search, i.e., the number of beam soundings can be extremely smaller than the conventional approach, which is achieved by exploiting the predictive power of KM. We show, across several metrics, that by just sounding 25% of the beams, the proposed method approaches the performance of the exhaustive search method. Simulation results that validate the training and test performance of KM and illustrate the new method with significantly reduced overhead are presented.
Memory Output-Feedback Integral Sliding Mode Control for Furuta Pendulum Systems

This paper studies the memory output-feedback integral sliding mode control for Furuta pendulum systems subject to unmatched harmonic disturbances and measurement noise. By introducing an artificial time delay, the derivatives of angular positions are approximated via Taylor’s expansion on the integral remainder. On this basis, a novel delay-dependent output-based sliding surface is constructed for state estimation and performance analysis, which inherits the appealing properties of the state-feedback integral sliding surface such as the elimination of reaching phase. Wherein, the artificial delay is regarded as a flexible design parameter ranging between 0 and its upper bound, with the bound determined by solving linear matrix inequalities. As a result, an integral sliding mode controller (ISMC) consisting of a static output-feedback part and a switching part is designed based on the descriptor system representation of the original system to control the pendulum in a noisy environment. Comparative simulation studies with $H_\infty $ control, state-feedback ISMC, and high-order ISMC demonstrate the effectiveness of the design method.
Shifting Supports in Dynamic Mechanism Design

The common-support assumption of future type distributions is standard in the dynamic mechanism design literature (e.g., Baron and Besanko, 1984, Courty and Li, 2000, Eső and Szentes, 2007, Krahmer and Strausz, 2011, and Pavan, Segal, and Toikka, 2014). It is widely perceived that the assumption is innocuous, and yet no formal analysis of shifting supports has been provided in the literature. In this paper, we fill this gap in the setting of Eső and Szentes (2007) and formally show that both analytical methodology and key insights can be extended. Our findings contribute to building up a firm foundation for enlarging the scope of technically tractable dynamic models.
Determination of genetic heterogeneity in humans by Alu insertions in Lorica-Córdoba-Colombia

El objetivo de la presente investigación fue evaluar la diversidad genética de la población humana de Lorica-Córdoba. utilizando marcadores Alu. El estudio se realizó con una muestra de 46 individuos no emparentadas, a los cuales, se les determinó la presencia o ausencia de las 5 inserciones Alu: FXIII, ACE, D1, APO, PV92. Todos los marcadores Alu evaluados resultaron polimórficos, con frecuencias que oscilaron desde 0,109 (PV92) hasta 0,707 (APO), se detectó una heterocigosidad observada de 0.066 y una heterocigosidad esperada de 0.334, también se determinó ausencia de equilibrio Hardy-Weinberg para todos los marcadores utilizados y se encontró que la población de Lorica se agrupó con poblaciones afrocolombianas, ibéricas y norteafricanas. Los resultados obtenidos en este estudio nos permiten concluir que la población humana de Lorica presenta bajos niveles de heterocigosidad. Palabras clave: Diversidad genética Heterocigosidad, Marcadores, Población,
A Cardinal Improvement to Pseudo-Boolean Solving

Pseudo-Boolean solvers hold out the theoretical potential of exponential improvements over conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) SAT solvers, but in practice perform very poorly if the input is given in the standard conjunctive normal form (CNF) format. We present a technique to remedy this problem by recovering cardinality constraints from CNF on the fly during search. This is done by collecting potential building blocks of cardinality constraints during propagation and combining these blocks during conflict analysis. Our implementation has a non-negligible but manageable overhead when detection is not successful, and yields significant gains for some SAT competition and crafted benchmarks for which pseudo-Boolean reasoning is stronger than CDCL. It also boosts performance for some native pseudo-Boolean formulas where this approach helps to improve learned constraints.
Compact Ultra-Wide Band Frequency Selective Surface With High Selectivity

In this communication, an ultra-wide band frequency selective surface (FSS) with excellent transmission performance in the desired passband and reflection performance in the out-of-band is proposed. In order to simultaneously achieve a wide bandwidth, as well as the better band-stop characteristic, a cascaded hybrid resonant element is employed to construct the FSS, which is composed of resonant circular rings and inductive meandering grid arranged on different layers. In addition, a fifth-order equivalent circuit model (ECM) is established over the entire band from 0.1 to 8 GHz, which can accurately describe the frequency responses. Finally, a prototype of the proposed design is fabricated and measured. The results show that a wide −3 dB bandwidth of 154.4% from 0.5 to 3.88 GHz is achieved. The −10 dB stopband is from 4.04 to 7.68 GHz and a sharp transition within 160 MHz from passband to stopband is obtained. The dimensions of the element are as compact as $0.0263\lambda \times 0.0263\lambda $ at the starting frequency of the passband. All the results demonstrate the ultra-wide bandwidth advantage and excellent out-of-band reflection, steep roll-off, and miniaturization performances.
Impact of Child Characteristics and Mother's Educational Level on Child Engagement Levels

This study looked at the effect of mother's educational level, child emotional difficulties, peer interactions, age, and gender on children's sophistication level of engagement. Eighty-six randomly selected children, aged between 36 and 72 months, and 20 teachers from 5 early childhood education centers in Valencia, Spain, participated in the study. Teachers reported on children's sophistication levels of engagement, interaction with peers, and emotional difficulties. Mothers reported on their highest educational level. The results indicated a direct effect of age, emotional difficulties, peer interactions, and mother's educational level on sophistication level of engagement. Emotional difficulties mediated the relation between mother's educational level and children's sophistication level of engagement, and peer interactions mediated the relation between sophistication level of engagement and age. Our results and those of other studies suggest promoting children's interactions with peers and emotionally secure environments as best practices for supporting children's higher sophistication levels of engagement in early childhood education routines.
Adherence of family medicine physicians to therapy based on medicinal plants in a Greater Lisbon sample: a first survey: Adesão de médicos de medicina familiar à terapia baseada em plantas medicinais, numa amostra da Grande Lisboa: uma primeira pesquisa

The aim of this study was to verify the adherence of general practitioners to the therapy with medicinal plants, and the constraint underlying the acceptance of their therapeutic value and use in clinical practice. An observational-transversal exploratory study was carried out through the application of a questionnaire to physicians of the National Health System in the Greater Lisbon area. A total of 80 valid questionnaires were obtained. The doctors’ ages ranged from 29 to 64 years (51.85 ± 9.95), 71.4% of whom were female, and 52.6% with more than 30 years of clinical practice. There was a general lack of knowledge regarding phytotherapy legislation. Of the sample of physicians interviewed, it was verified that 33.8% never and 28.85% only a few times recommended/prescribed any type of herbal therapy. Concerning their own use, 61.25% indicated that they never, and 21.08% rarely, used herbal medicines, primarily as self-medication. There is a poor adherence on the use of herbal medicines or medicinal plants by physicians. This underuse may underlie the lack of training on both herbal medicinal products and legislative aspects more than rejection of this therapeutic approach. Education in phytotherapy can prevent misuse and reduce risks linked to herbal-drug interactions, dealing with patient ́s preference in behalf of a healthy physician-patient interaction.
Association of Bax and Bcl-2 Functional Polymorphisms and Protein Levels with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disease influenced by both environmental and genetic factors, which affects a patient’s quality of life and social stability. Recent studies have shown that the pathogenesis of PTSD is associated with apoptosis; however, the molecular mechanisms that cause such damage are not well-understood. Also it is unclear whether these pathologic alterations are genetically determined or caused by other factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic association of functional polymorphisms in genes coding for apoptosis-related Bcl-2 and Bax proteins with PTSD as well as proteins levels in the blood of affected subjects. Methods: The study groups consisted of 200 combat veterans with PTSD and an equal number of healthy subjects with no family- or past-history of any psychiatric disorders. Bax and Bcl-2 proteins levels in blood were measured by ELISA. DNA samples were genotyped for SNPs using PCR-SSP. Results: According to our results, PTSD patients are characterized by increased levels of apoptotic proteins and the imbalance in the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio compared to healthy subjects. Our results also demonstrate that rs956572*A minor allele of the BCL2 gene was overrepresented in patients with PTSD compared to healthy subjects. Conclusions: The results implicate Bcl-2 and Bax in pathogenesis of PTSD on genetic and protein levels, though further studies on enlarged cohort and in different populations are required.
Estimating the risk of 2019 Novel Coronavirus death during the course of the outbreak in China, 2020

Since the first case of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCov) was identified in December 2019 in Wuhan City, China, the number of cases continues to grow across China and multiple cases have been exported to other countries. The cumulative number of reported deaths is at 637 as of February 7, 2020. Here we statistically estimated the time-delay adjusted death risk for Wuhan as well as for China excluding Wuhan to interpret the current severity of the epidemic in China. We found that the latest estimates of the death risk in Wuhan could be as high as 20% in the epicenter of the epidemic whereas we estimate it ~1% in the relatively mildly-affected areas. Because the elevated death risk estimates are likely associated with a breakdown of the medical/health system, enhanced public health interventions including social distancing and movement restrictions should be effectively implemented to bring the epidemic under control.
Enhanced Light‐Absorption of Black Carbon in Rainwater Compared With Aerosols Over the Northern Indian Ocean

Black carbon (BC) aerosols affect climate, especially in high aerosol loading regions such as South Asia. A key uncertainty for the climate effects of BC is the evolution of light‐absorbing properties in the atmosphere. Here, we present a year‐round comparison of the mass absorption cross section (MAC; 678 nm) of BC in air (PM10) and rain, for samples collected at the Maldives Climate Observatory at Hanimaadhoo. We develop a filter‐loading correction scheme for estimating BC absorption on filters used in high‐volume samplers. The year‐round average MAC678 of BC in the rain is almost twice (13.3 ± 4.2 m2/g) compared to the PM10 aerosol (7.2 ± 2.6 m2/g). A possible explanation is the elevated ratio of organic carbon (OC) to BC observed in rain particulate matter (9.4 ± 6.3) compared to in the aerosols (OC/BC 2.6 ± 1.4 and water‐insoluble organic carbon/BC 1.2 ± 0.8), indicating a coating‐enhancement effect. In addition to BC, we also investigated the MAC365 of water‐soluble brown carbon in PM10 (0.4 ± 0.4 m2/g, at 365 nm). In contrast to BC, MAC365brown carbon relates to air mass history, showing higher values for samples from air originating over the South Asian landmass. Furthermore, calculated washout ratios are much lower for BC compared to OC and inorganic ions such as sulfate, implying a longer atmospheric lifetime for BC. The wet deposition flux for BC during the high loading winter was 3 times higher than during the wet summer, despite much less precipitation in the winter.
Defining cardiovascular risk in diabetes: the emerging role of troponin assays

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), including acute coronary syndrome (ACS), myocardial infarction (MI), angina, arterial revascularization, stroke, transient ischemic attack, or peripheral arterial disease, is the leading cause of mortality for individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and is the largest contributor to the economic costs of diabetes.
Computational load reduction of fuzzy duplicate detection in large amounts of information

The paper deals with the detection of fuzzy duplicates of documents in large amounts of information with low computational costs. The existing methods give either low search completeness at low computational costs, or acceptable completeness at very large computational costs. It is proposed to use combined method of detecting fuzzy duplicates. At the beginning of the whole set of documents with the help of signatures similar texts are searched and then, using context analysis methods, a detailed comparison of the texts found in this way is carried out. The method first performs an approximate search for similar documents using description words signature with a small match threshold. A detailed search for matches in previously found documents is performed using the shingles method.