Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Discharge Knowledge and Concerns of Patients Going Home With a Wound

PURPOSE To examine patients' wound care knowledge and concerns prior to discharge from an acute care hospital. DESIGN Comparative descriptive study of patients with wounds. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Participants (N = 76) included 17 men and 59 women who were African American (n = 33, 43.4%) or Caucasian (n = 43, 56.6%) and ranged in age from 20 to 83 years (M = 48, SD = 13). There were 67 persons with acute wounds and 9 with chronic wounds. All were scheduled to be discharged home from a large urban acute care hospital. INSTRUMENTS The questionnaire for this study included the following sections: Demographic, Admission and Discharge, Health, Wound Care, Beliefs about Wounds and their Care, Pain and Wounds, Literacy and Learning, and Discharge Concerns. RESULTS Participants' greatest concerns about going home were: (1) how active to be at home, (2) wound pain, (3) looking for wound complications, and (4) watching for wound infection. Many participants did not know the dressing (38.2%) or solution to cleanse the wound (58.7%) at home. Most had taken care of a wound before (67.1%), could see (68.4%) and reach (69.7%) the wound, and had looked at it (64.5%) during the hospitalization. Patients with acute and chronic wounds did not differ significantly in their concerns about their wound or their fear of taking care of their wound. Participants generally had appropriate knowledge about wounds and hand washing, nutrition, going out of the home, and cigarette smoking. They had incorrect information about drying out wounds and leaving them open to breathe the air. The majority of patients with chronic wounds preferred getting answers to questions about their wound and its care from their physician followed by their clinic and family/friends. Patients with acute wounds overwhelmingly chose their physician as a source of information about their wound and its care, followed by calling a nurse at the hospital and using the Internet. CONCLUSIONS Patients were able to verbalize their concerns about going home with a wound. Concerns about discharge may help to direct patient teaching in preparation for discharge. Teaching literature could include the most common concerns, as well as ways to avoid misinformation about wound care. Discharge teaching needs to begin early so that patients feel they have adequate time to learn and ask questions. Further research is needed about patients' wound care knowledge and discharge concerns.
Communitywide cryptosporidiosis outbreak associated with a surface water-supplied municipal water system – Baker City, Oregon, 2013

SUMMARY Cryptosporidium, a parasite known to cause large drinking and recreational water outbreaks, is tolerant of chlorine concentrations used for drinking water treatment. Human laboratory-based surveillance for enteric pathogens detected a cryptosporidiosis outbreak in Baker City, Oregon during July 2013 associated with municipal drinking water. Objectives of the investigation were to confirm the outbreak source and assess outbreak extent. The watershed was inspected and city water was tested for contamination. To determine the community attack rate, a standardized questionnaire was administered to randomly sampled households. Weighted attack rates and confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated. Water samples tested positive for Cryptosporidium species; a Cryptosporidium parvum subtype common in cattle was detected in human stool specimens. Cattle were observed grazing along watershed borders; cattle faeces were observed within watershed barriers. The city water treatment facility chlorinated, but did not filter, water. The community attack rate was 28·3% (95% CI 22·1–33·6), sickening an estimated 2780 persons. Watershed contamination by cattle probably caused this outbreak; water treatments effective against Cryptosporidium were not in place. This outbreak highlights vulnerability of drinking water systems to pathogen contamination and underscores the need for communities to invest in system improvements to maintain multiple barriers to drinking water contamination.
On the Co-Existence of 10G-EPONs and WDM-PONs: A Scheduling and Bandwidth Allocation Approach

Dynamic bandwidth allocation and grant scheduling are important factors when designing passive optical networks. In this paper, we investigate the problem of optimal scheduling and bandwidth allocation in next generation 10G-EPON coexisting with 1G WDM-PONs. We propose a network architecture for providing this coexistence and derive an ILP model for offline joint scheduling and bandwidth assignment for 10G-TDM and 1G-WDM ONUs. To address the scalability of the ILP model, we introduce a Tabu Search based heuristic for efficiently obtaining near optimal solutions. We further explore the tradeoff which exists in terms of delay, scheduling length, and channel utilization, when separate or the same DBA modules are used for 1G- and 10G-ONUs.
Highly ordered mesoporous silica films with perpendicular mesochannels by a simple Stöber-solution growth approach.

This work was supported by the NSF of China (20890123), the State Key Basic Research Program of the PRC (2009AA033701 and 2009CB930400), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (08DZ2270500), and the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (B108). Z.T. thanks the National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China (20100480030) and the Shanghai Postdoctoral Sustentation Fund (11R21411500) for financial support. We thank the Instrument Center of Central University in Taiwan for measuring the GISAX data.
HIV Co-Morbidities and Multi-Morbidities

The co-morbidity and multi-morbidity observed in individuals afflicted by HIV infection is veritably overwhelming, extending as it does from obesity/overweight and metabolic syndromes, through chronic cardiovascular disease and dysfunctional immune systems, to serious loss of integrity of brain and central nervous system and the concomitant disruptions of cognitive function and affective status. Thus, it comes as no surprise that HIV patients report depressiveness and anxiety accompanied by lapses in memory performance and retention, sleeplessness, emotional disturbance, decline in mental health syndromes and the mismanagement of pain. These disorders may be exacerbated by smoking and alcohol problem that accelerate further the health and well-being of HIV-infected patients.
Animate Being Reclaiming Instinct : Exploring the Phylogenetic Unfolding of

Is instinct a viable concept for contemporary psychology? At the turn of the 20th century the concept of human instinct was the focus of extensive discussion. Today instinct has been all but forgotten. This article explores the historical circumstances that led to the rejection of the concept of human instinct. It then turns a critical eye to a number of presuppositions that continue to equate instinct with preprogrammed genetic mechanisms. An expanded and holistic understanding of instinctual life that includes the subjective reality of the organism is then explored. It is suggested that such an expanded account may be a valuable and necessary theoretical tool for broadening our understanding of human psychology as intimately connected to its evolutionary past.
Clinical Decision-Making among Critical Care Nurses: A Qualitative Study

The purposes of this study were to describe the decision making process and decision activities of critical care nurses in natural clinical settings. An exploratory descriptive approach utilizing both interview and observation methods, was used for data collection. The study involved twenty four critical care nurses from three hospitals in Jordan. Participant observation was performed to understand the routine clinical decisions made by Intensive Care nurses. About 150 hours of observations were spent in the involved Intensive Care Units. Nurses were interviewed to elicit information about how they made decisions about patient’s care. The study revealed that the most common model nurses tend to use was intuitive model in order to observe the cues relating to the patient’s situation. Data revealed that the decision making process is continuous and that experience is one of the main factors that determine nurses’ ability to take decisions. Five themes were generated from the data: on-going process, autonomy, experience/power, joint/ethical decisions, and advocacy. Critical care nurses were seen to be sensitive to the patient’s verbal and non-verbal cues; they were able to respond to these evidences to ensure that the patient’s condition did not deteriorate. Critical care nurses are likely to be more confident and effective when dealing with patient’s changing situations with more experience.
Human Fc(gamma) receptors for differentiation in throat cultures of group C "Streptococcus equisimilis" and group C "Streptococcus milleri"

The biochemical characteristics and the presence of human Fc(gamma) receptors of 52 throat isolates of group C beta-hemolytic streptococci were examined. Among these isolates, 38 were identified as "Streptococcus milleri" and 14 were identified as "Streptococcus equisimilis. " The differentiation of group C "S. equisimilis" from "S. milleri" with identical group antigens was easy to perform by the measurement of the size of the hemolytic zone on a sheep blood agar plate in an anaerobic atmosphere and by biochemical tests (Voges-Proskauer test). A clear-cut criterion for differentiation was noted among these isolates, i.e., the presence of Fc(gamma) receptors. "S. equisimilis," which are generally associated with pharyngitis, possess human Fc(gamma) receptors, while "S. milleri", which are generally isolated from healthy persons, have no such receptors.
Optical Waveguides

Preface Introduction Propagation Characteristics of Planar Waveguides Ajoy Ghatak and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan Birefringent Optical Waveguides Maria L. Calvo and Ramon F. Alvarez-Estrada Optically Induced Nonlinear Waveguides Philip Jander and Cornelia Denz Active Optical Waveguides Michael Cada Wavelength Dispersive Planar Waveguide Devices: Echelle and Arrayed Waveguide Gratings Pavel Cheben Silicon Waveguides for Integrated Optics Andrew P. Knights and Paul E. Jessop Enabling Fabrication Technologies for Planar Waveguide Devices Boris Lamontagne Biomedical Fiber Optics Vadakke Matham Murukeshan Neutron Waveguides and Applications Ramon F. Alvarez-Estrada and Maria L. Calvo Index
Censored quantile instrumental-variable estimation with Stata

Many applications involve a censored dependent variable, an endogenous independent variable, or both. Chernozhukov, Fernández-Val, and Kowalski (2015, Journal of Econometrics 186: 201–221) introduced a censored quantile instrumental-variable (CQIV) estimator for use in those applications. The estimator has been applied by Kowalski (2016, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 34: 107–117), among others. In this article, we introduce a command, cqiv, that simplifies application of the CQIV estimator in Stata. We summarize the CQIV estimator and algorithm, describe the use of cqiv, and provide empirical examples.
Healthy Lifestyle Behavioral Needs among the Elderly with Hypertension in Chiang Mai, Thailand

This research aimed to identify the healthy lifestyle needs of hypertensive elderly and to explore the barriers and facilitators associated with healthy lifestyle behaviors. A sequential explanatory mixed-method design was used. In the quantitative phase, a cross-sectional survey of 400 hypertensive elderly was conducted through the self-administered questionnaire. In the qualitative phase, a total of 10 hypertensive elders attended one of two focus groups held in community health centers. Descriptive statistics, the modified priority needs index (PNIModified) and content analyses were used for the data analysis. According to the finding, it was found that three priorities of healthy lifestyle behaviors were identified as: health responsibility, healthy eating, and engaging in social activity (PNIModified = 0.36, 035, and 0.34, respectively). Participants identified barriers that included a lack of health care concerns, a lack of motivation, their perceived poor physical and mental health and inadequate community resources. Facilitators possessing knowledge of hypertension as well as relevant family supports were also identified. The findings are thought to be useful in terms of the planning and developing of an effectively tailored program to promote HLBs. Keywords: needs assessment, healthy lifestyle behaviors, hypertension, older adults, aging
The effects of dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on attention and impulsivity in an animal model of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Background: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the commonest psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. The main symptoms of ADHD are hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity. Both etiology and neurobiological basis of ADHD are unknown. In this context, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs), especially omega-3 (n-3) PUFAs, have become a focus of interest. The symptoms of ADHD have been suggested to be associated with a deficiency of n-3 PUFAs. In addition, the impact of a supply of dietary n-3 PUFAs in the treatment of ADHD has frequently been discussed. Objective: The aim of the present study was to examine the influence of n-3 PUFA supplementation on attention and impulsivity in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) which has been proposed to be a valid genetic animal model of ADHD. Methods: Seven-week-old male SHRs were randomly divided into two groups of 15 rats and fed one of two experimental diets (n-3 PUFA-enriched or n-3 PUFA-deficient) prior to and during behavioral testing. Attention and impulsivity were assessed using a three-choice-serial-reaction-time-task (3CSRTT) which is based on the five-choice-serial-reaction-time-task. The experiment was performed with three-month-old rats. Results: Our findings demonstrate a marked difference between groups regarding impulsivity but not attention. The n-3 PUFA-enriched diet significantly reduced impulsivity in SHRs compared with rats fed with the n-3 PUFA-deficient diet. Conclusion: The present data show a decrease in impulsivity following a dietary n-3 PUFA supplementation, but no changes in attention. A possible explanation for these results is that the attention displayed by SHR may not be linked to n-3 PUFA supply. It is important to note that inattention and impulsiveness are two of the main symptoms of ADHD. Our results regarding dietary n-3 PUFA supply may support the positive findings in human studies demonstrating that n-3 PUFA administration can improve the cognitive or behavioral symptoms in children with ADHD. Key words: omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid, animal model, spontaneously hypertensive rat, attention, impulsivity, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Configurable Component Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems with Aperiodic and Periodic Tasks

Many distributed real-time applications must handle mixed periodic and aperiodic tasks with diverse requirements. However, existing middleware lacks flexible configuration mechanisms needed to manage end-to-end timing easily for a wide range of different applications with both periodic and aperiodic tasks. The primary contribution of this work is the design, implementation and performance evaluation of the first configurable component middleware services for admission control and load balancing of aperiodic and periodic tasks in distributed real-time systems. Empirical results demonstrate the need for and effectiveness of our configurable component middleware approach in supporting different applications with periodic and ape-
A high ratio of dietary animal to vegetable protein increases the rate of bone loss and the risk of fracture in postmenopausal women 1 – 3

Background: Different sources of dietary protein may have different effects on bone metabolism. Animal foods provide predominantly acid precursors, whereas protein in vegetable foods is accompanied by base precursors not found in animal foods. Imbalance between dietary acid and base precursors leads to a chronic net dietary acid load that may have adverse consequences on bone. Objective: We wanted to test the hypothesis that a high dietary ratio of animal to vegetable foods, quantified by protein content, increases bone loss and the risk of fracture. Design: This was a prospective cohort study with a mean (± SD) of 7.0 ± 1.5 y of follow-up of 1035 community-dwelling white women aged > 65 y. Protein intake was measured by using a food-frequency questionnaire and bone mineral density was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Results: Bone mineral density was not significantly associated with the ratio of animal to vegetable protein intake. Women with a high ratio had a higher rate of bone loss at the femoral neck than did those with a low ratio (P = 0.02) and a greater risk of hip fracture (relative risk = 3.7, P = 0.04). These associations were unaffected by adjustment for age, weight, estrogen use, tobacco use, exercise, total calcium intake, and total protein intake. Conclusions: Elderly women with a high dietary ratio of animal to vegetable protein intake have more rapid femoral neck bone loss and a greater risk of hip fracture than do those with a low ratio. This suggests that an increase in vegetable protein intake and a decrease in animal protein intake may decrease bone loss and the risk of hip fracture. This possibility should be confirmed in other prospective studies and tested in a randomized trial. Am J Clin Nutr 2001;73:118–22.
Maximum Overinflation of Tissue Expanders

An ex vivo study was undertaken to document the maximum possible overinflation of tissue expanders with a comparison of all major manufacturers. Ten standard round implants from each vendor were expanded. Mean overinflation varied from 33 to 99 times stated capacity, with a range from 16 to 157 times this volume. The mechanism of failure in 93 percent of implants was envelope rupture. Overexpansion appears safe without risk of implant failure at least to 15 times vendors' stated maximum volume.
Response Inhibition, Categorization, and Set-Shifting in College Students with ADHD Symptoms

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in college students is not well researched nor well understood, but is likely to present special challenges to academic performance. Individuals with ADHD symptoms have sometimes been found to show deficits in executive functioning, including response inhibition, categorization and set-shifting abilities. However, the relationship between these abilities and ADHD symptoms in college students remains unclear. In the present study, the response inhibition, categorization and set-shifting abilities of college students with low (n = 15), moderate (n = 15), and high (n = 16) self-reported ADHD symptoms were compared. No overall group differences were found. It thus appears that in these important executive functions, college students with high self-reported levels of ADHD symptoms are not more impaired, as compared to those with fewer symptoms. Possibly, the group comparisons obscured a subset of students whose cognitive inhibition, categorization and set-shifting abilities are affected. Other limitations, including the use of self-report and the relatively low sample size, are discussed.
Text classification using semi-supervised approach for multi domain

The rapid growth of Internet technologies has resulted in an increase in online user's content creation. User generated information, usually represents the people's opinions, thoughts, reviews and sentiments. Automatic sensing and analysis of opinions about products, brands, political publications, etc. is a challenging job. Opinions are expressed in different ways in different domains. Constructing and labeling corpus for every domain is a pricey thing. Words from source and target domains are not always similar; hence classifier trained with one domain to another domain leads into poor performance. Therefore the need of domain adaptation algorithms arises to diminish domain's reliance and tagging costs. Using adapted maximum entropy with bipartite clustering in the proposed work, opinionated words are classified in two categories as positive and negative. Results demonstrated that proposed approach performs fairly well compared to baseline method.
Hubble Space Telescope STIS Observations of GRB 000301C: CCD Imaging and Near-Ultraviolet MAMA Spectroscopy

We present Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph observations of the optical transient (OT) counterpart of the γ-ray burster GRB 000301C obtained 5 days after the burst, on 2000 March 6. CCD clear-aperture imaging reveals a R ≃ 21.50 ± 0.15 source with no apparent host galaxy. An 8000 s, 1150 Å < λ < 3300 Å near-ultraviolet MAMA prism spectrum shows a flat or slightly rising continuum (in fλ) between 2800 and 3300 Å, with a mean flux of × 10-18 ergs s-1 cm-2 Å-1, and a sharp break centered at 2797 ± 25 Å. We interpret this as the H I Lyman break at z = 2.067 ± 0.025, indicating the presence of a cloud with an H I column density log N > 18 on the line of sight to the OT. This measured redshift is conservatively a lower limit to the GRB redshift. However, as all other GRBs that have deep Hubble Space Telescope images appear to lie on the stellar field of a host galaxy, and as the large H I column density measured here and in later ground-based observations is unlikely on a random line of sight, we believe we are probably seeing absorption from H I in the host galaxy. In any case, this represents the largest direct redshift determination of a γ-ray burster to date. Our data are compatible with an OT spectrum represented by a power law with an intrinsic index α = 1.2 (fν ∝ ν-α) and no extinction in the host galaxy, or with α = 0.5 and extinction by SMC-like dust in the OT rest frame with AV = 0.15. The large N and the lack of a detected host are similar to the situation for damped Lyα absorbers at z > 2.
A fast image registration approach based on SIFT key-points applied to super-resolution

Abstract An accurate image registration is a fundamental stage in many image processing problems. In this paper, a new and fast registration approach based on scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) key-points, under Euclidean transformation model, is proposed. The core idea of the proposed method is estimation of rotation angle and vertical and horizontal shifts using averaging of differences of SIFT key-point pairs locations. The method is simple but requires some tuning modules for accurate estimation. Orientation modification and compensation and shift compensation are some of the proposed modules. The proposed method is fast, about ive times faster than RANSAC method for model parameters estimation. The accuracy of the proposed method is compared with some popular registration methods. Various comparisons have been done with LIVE database images with known motion vectors. The experimental results over two real video sequences show the high performance of the proposed algorithm in a super-resolution application.
Cooperative speed harmonization for efficient road utilization

Cooperative speed harmonization based on floating car data aiming at improving manoeuvrability in a highly utilized intersection is presented. Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) aims at gather information about the current traffic situation based on wireless communication and provide aggregated information back to the road users in order to improve e.g. efficiency, safety and/or comfort. Simulations show that the proposed speed harmonization application is capable of lowering the CO2 emissions with up to 11%, increasing the average speed with up to 14% and reducing the travel time with up to 16% for all vehicles in the simulation. It is also found that not only the cooperative vehicles benefit from the application but also the non-equipped vehicles. Furthermore, the cooperative traffic simulator has been shown to be a valuable tool for investigating how C-ITS applications may be utilized to develop future traffic system.