Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
BILATERAL CLAVICULAR AND SCAPULAR NECK FRACTURES. CASE REPORT

A b s t r a c t The purpose of the report is to present a very rare case of unstable clavicular and scapular neck fracture of both shoulder girdles. A 24-year-old female sustained a double floating shoulder injury and a fracture of one rib in a road-traffic car accident. She was operatively treated with open reduction and internal fixation of both bones on the one side and with only clavicular stabilization on the other with 3.5 mm reconstruction plates 4 hours after the injury. The plates were removed one year after the operation. Two years after the injury at the last checkup, the patient was satisfied with the result of the treatment. The function of the shoulder at the time was evaluated using the scoring system of Constant and Murley (1), and it was the same on both sides (88 points). A radiograph after removal of the metal revealed clavicular union in mild displacement without functional influence on one side. The conservative treatment affords good results in cases with nondisplaced fractures. In the case of bilateral unstable fractures treated surgically, an excellent result was found after operative treatment.
Secure Energy Efficiency Maximization for Untrusted Wireless-Powered Full-Duplex Relay Networks Under Nonlinear Energy Harvesting

In this article, we raise the concern on secure energy efficiency (SEE) over the wireless-powered untrusted relay networks with nonlinear energy harvesting (EH). To achieve data confidentiality and secrecy performance enhancement concurrently, the untrusted relay can enable simultaneous energy signal reception and confidential information forwarding during the second phase, where no dedicated energy transmission phase or relaying signal splitting is needed for the energy supply. In particular, with the help of destination jamming, the relay can also harvest energy from source signal and jamming signal during the first phase, which is different from conventional relaying protocol that only harvests energy from source and recycled energy. Considering the nonlinear EH efficiency, our objective is to maximize the SEE through piecewise region selection and power allocation. To address this intractable nonconvex problem, a two-layer algorithm based on optimization decoupling, fractional programming, Lagrange dual decomposition and difference of convex functions (DC) programming is proposed. The core idea of the proposed algorithm is to convert the primary problem into simple subproblems by sequentially exploiting the above-mentioned optimization methods. Simulation results reveal the superior secrecy performance of the proposed scheme. The proposed algorithm achieves near-optimal solutions with faster convergence rate.
Cricket Meal (Gryllus bimaculatus) as a Protein Supplement on In Vitro Fermentation Characteristics and Methane Mitigation

Simple Summary Protein sources of high quality and sustainability are found in insects. In many regions, insects are a primary food source, such as in Africa, South America, Asia, and Oceania. Insects are considered promising alternative feed sources, in particular as a source of protein. The use of edible insects as high-protein sources is widespread, and cricket has been proved to be a potential food and feed insect species. Cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) also contain 54.10% crude protein, 6.90% crude fiber, 26.90% fat, and 78.90% total digestible nutrient, as well as a variety of essential amino acids, including methionine, lysine, histidine, valine, and leucine. In addition, insects have been investigated as a source of protein in diets of poultry, swine, and fish. However, there are currently little data on the utilization of insects as ruminant feed. The objective of this experiment was to conduct the effects of Cricket meal (Gryllus bimaculatus) (CM) as a protein replacement for soybean meal on in vitro fermentation end products, gas production, nutrient degradability, and methane mitigation. Abstract The aim of this work was to conduct the effects of cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) meal (CM) as a protein supplement on in vitro gas production, rumen fermentation, and methane (CH4) mitigation. Dietary treatments were randomly assigned using a completely randomized design (CRD) with a 2 × 5 factorial arrangement. The first factor was two ratios of roughage to concentrate (R:C at 60:40 and 40:60), and the second factor was the level of CM to replace soybean meal (SBM) in a concentrate ratio at 100:0, 75:25, 50:50, 25:75, and 0:100, respectively. It was found that in vitro DM degradability and the concentration of propionic (C3) were significantly increased (p < 0.05), while the potential extent of gas production (a + b), acetate (C2), acetate and propionate (C2:C3) ratio, and protozoal population were reduced (p < 0.05) by lowering the R:C ratio and the replacement of SBM by CM. In addition, rumen CH4 production was mitigated (p < 0.05) with increasing levels of CM for SBM. In this study, CM has the potential to improve rumen fermentation by enhancing C3 concentration and DM degradability, reduced methane production, and C2:C3 ratio. The effects were more pronounced (p < 0.05) at low levels of roughage.
Different but Not Unique: Deciphering the Immunity of the Jamaican Fruit Bat by Studying Its Viriome

A specialized and fine-tuned immune response of bats upon infection with viruses is believed to provide the basis for a “friendly” coexistence with these pathogens, which are often lethal for humans and other mammals. First insights into the immunity of bats suggest that bats have evolved to possess their own strategies to cope with viral infections. Yet, the molecular details for this innocuous coexistence remain poorly described and bat infection models are the key to unveiling these secrets. In Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis), a New World bat species, infection experiments with its (putative) natural viral pathogens Tacaribe virus (TCRV), rabies virus (RABV), and the bat influenza A virus (IAV) H18N11, have contributed to an accurate, though still incomplete, representation of the bat-imposed immunity. Surprisingly, though many aspects of their innate and adaptive immune responses differ from that of the human immune response, such as a contraction of the IFN locus and reduction in the number of immunoglobulin subclasses, variations could also be observed between Jamaican fruit bats and other bat species.
Effect of Chitosan, Coconut Water and Potato Extract on Protocorm Growth and Plantlet Regeneration of Cymbidium aloifolium (L.) Sw.

Effective and rapid in vitro plantlet regeneration from protocorms of Cymbidium aloifolium using chitosan, coconut water and potato extract were investigated. Two experiments were performed using twelve week old protocorms of size 2-3 mm. In the first experiment, the protocorms were propagated on solid New Dogashima (ND) medium supplemented with various concentrations of chitosan (0, 0.05, 0.10 and 1.00 mg/l). For the second experiment, the protocorms were cultured on the same medium supplemented with coconut water (0, 100, 150 and 200 ml/l) and potato extract (0, 5, 10 and 15 g/l). Survival and response percentages, shoot number and length, root number and length, leaf number and fresh and dry weight were collected after 10 weeks of culture. The results showed that 0.05 mg/l chitosan treatment was the most effective for protocorm growth, producing the highest shoot number and length, root number and length, leaf number, and fresh and dry weight. The combination of coconut water and potato extract treatments revealed that 150 ml/l coconut water alone was the best for plantlet regeneration and growth, shoot length, root length, and fresh and dry weight. This treatment gave significantly different results from the other treatments. Findings will provide useful information for other in vitro commercial or conservation orchid propagation programs.
An Assessment of GPX1 (rs1050450), DIO2 (rs225014) and SEPP1 (rs7579) Gene Polymorphisms in Women with Endometrial Cancer

Background: Numerous studies indicate a relationship between the presence of GPX1 (rs1050450), DIO2 (rs225014) and SEPP1 (rs7579) gene polymorphisms and the development of chronic or neoplastic diseases. However, there are no reports on the influence of these polymorphisms on the development of endometrial cancer. Methods: 543 women participated in the study. The study group consisted of 269 patients with diagnosed endometrial cancer. The control group consisted of 274 healthy women. Blood samples were drawn from all the participants. The PCR-RFLP method was used to determine polymorphisms in the DIO2 (rs225014) and GPX1 (rs1050450) genes. The analysis of polymorphisms in the SEPP1 (rs7579) gene was performed by means of TaqMan probes. Results: There was a 1.99-fold higher risk of developing endometrial cancer in CC homozygotes, DIO2 (rs225014) polymorphism (95% Cl 1.14–3.53, p = 0.017), compared to TT homozygotes. There was no correlation between the occurrence of GPX1 (rs1050450) and SEPP1 (rs7579) polymorphisms and endometrial cancer. Conclusion: Carriers of the DIO2 (rs225014) polymorphism may be predisposed to the development of endometrial cancer. Further research confirming this relationship is recommended.
Protective Effect of Rutin Trihydrate Against Dose-Dependent, Cisplatin-Induced Cardiac Toxicity in Isolated Perfused Rat’s Heart

Background Cisplatin is a common anticancer drug with potential cardiac and renal toxicities. Rutin, a natural compound present in various medicinal plants, has been shown to protect against chemotherapy-induced toxicities. In this study, we explored the protective effect of rutin against the dose-dependent cardiotoxic effects of cisplatin such as perfusion pressure, histopathologic effect on the myocardium, and oxidative stress in isolated perfused rat hearts. Methodology The cardiotoxic effects of cisplatin were studied at three dosages (1, 7, and 14 mg/L) in isolated perfused rat hearts. The dose-dependent, cisplatin-induced toxic effects on left ventricular pressure (LVP), heart rate (HR), dp/dt (maximum), dp/dt (minimum), perfusion pressure, pressure-time index, contractility index, and duration of diastole were assessed. The effects of cisplatin were measured one minute before perfusion of cisplatin and 60 minutes after perfusion of the isolated rat hearts. Results Cisplatin (1-14 mg/L) caused a significant (p < 0.05) dose-dependent reduction in LVP. The percentage LVP values reduced from 94 ± 9 (control untreated hearts) to 70 ± 6, 69 ± 5, and 65 ± 4 in hearts treated with 1, 7, and 14 mg/L of cisplatin, respectively. Similarly, cisplatin at similar doses caused a marked reduction in the values of dp/dt (maximum), dp/dt (minimum), and pressure-time index in isolated rat hearts. The respective percentage values of these parameters compared to those of untreated hearts were significantly reduced from 101 ± 7 to 72 ± 5, 92 ± 8 to 69 ± 4, and 92 ± 12 to 57 ± 7 in hearts treated with 14 mg/L of cisplatin. Perfusion of hearts with rutin trihydrate (1 µM/L) 10 minutes before administration of cisplatin and throughout the experiment attenuated the detrimental effects of cisplatin on cardiac functions in isolated rat hearts (p < 0.05). In addition, cisplatin-induced degeneration and necrosis of cardiac muscle cells reduced with the concurrent administration of rutin and restored normal heart histology. Moreover, cisplatin-induced reduction in glutathione and increased level of malondialdehyde in the myocardium was reversed by concurrent administration of rutin in isolated rat hearts. Conclusions Cisplatin produced a dose-dependent impairment of several parameters of cardiac function such as LVP, contractility index, and pressure-time index. It caused histopathological alterations in isolated rat hearts. These harmful effects of cisplatin were suppressed by rutin trihydrate, suggesting the potential protective effects of rutin against cisplatin-induced cardiotoxicity. Rutin trihydrate also improved the reduced glutathione contents and suppressed the malondialdehyde contents in the cardiac tissue of isolated rat hearts, suggesting that the observed beneficial effects of rutin trihydrate in this study could be related to its antioxidant properties.
Slowing Down the Aging of Learning-Based Malware Detectors With API Knowledge

Learning-based malware detectors are widely used in practice to safeguard real-world computers. One major challenge is known as model aging, where the effectiveness of these models drops drastically as malware variants keep evolving. To tackle model aging, most existing works choose to label new samples to retrain the aged models. However, such data-perspective methods often require excessive costs in labeling and retraining. In this article, we observe that during evolution, malware samples often preserve similar malicious semantics while switching to new implementations with semantically equivalent APIs. Such observation enables us to look into the problem from a different perspective: feature space. More specifically, if the models can capture the intrinsic semantics of malware variants from feature space, it will help slow down the aging of learning-based detectors. Based on this insight, we design APIGraph to automatically extract API knowledge from API documentation and incorporate these knowledge into the training of malware detection models. We use APIGraph to enhance 5 state-of-the-art malware detectors, covering both Android and Windows platforms and various learning algorithms. Experiments on large-scale, evolutionary datasets with nearly 340K samples show that APIGraph can help slow down the aging of these models by 5.9% to 19.6%, as well as reduce labeling efforts from 33.07% to 96.30% on top of data-perspective methods.
‘I am not who you think I am’: public stigma and invisible brain injury (‘No soy quien creen que soy’: estigma público y daño cerebral invisible)

ABSTRACT Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is a silent epidemic that affects people’s cognitive, neurobehavioural and socio-emotional functioning, generating impairments that are often invisible, that is, not apparent to the naked eye and difficult to understand. The literature suggests that the invisibility of ABI in addition to a lack of knowledge, misinformation and unfamiliarity in the general public are common sources of the stigma towards this population. As a consequence, psychoeducation to the general public has been defined as a key intervention, even though it has been traditionally directed at ABI survivors, their families and their immediate social environment. The purpose of this literature review is to outline the relationship between invisible deficits and public stigma. This review is theoretically guided by the social attribution theory and the danger appraisal model. We also discuss the implications of these models for the neuropsychological rehabilitation of people with ABI, placing special emphasis on the need to make psychoeducation available to the general public as an intervention that reduces stigma and, consequently, facilitates community reintegration.
A compact dual band short ended metamaterial antenna with extended bandwidth

A compact dual‐band CPW–fed metamaterial inspired antenna using Composite Right/Left Handed (CRLH) resonant approach is presented in this article. The antenna is designed such that it can be operated in series resonant mode where resonance behavior is characterized by series LC parameters. Proposed antenna comprises two annular ring resonators connected with the signal patch intended to excite the higher order modes. This results extension of second band from 51.4% (fc = 6.92 GHz) to 69.2% (fc = 7.35 GHz). In addition to that proposed antenna shows compact nature with an electrical size of 0.14 λ0 × 0.21 λ0 × 0.01 λ0 at f0 = 2.18 GHz. The antenna is operating over 2.14–2.23 GHz, 4.81–9.90 GHz with simulated peak gain of 0.66 and 4.44 dB, respectively. Simulated radiation efficiencies of proposed antenna are 69.8 and 94.1% throughout first and second band, respectively. To examine the resonance and radiation characteristics prototype is fabricated and measured. Observed experimental results are in good agreement with those simulated one. These characteristics makes this antenna is a good candidate for modern wireless communication systems such as Bluetooth, WLAN/Wi‐Fi band. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 26:435–441, 2016.
One-Pot Thermal Synthesis of g-C3N4/ZnO Composites for the Degradation of 5-Fluoruracil Cytostatic Drug under UV-LED Irradiation

Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) was used to enhance the photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanoparticles for the degradation of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) cytostatic drug under UV-LED irradiation. CN/ZnO composites were synthetized by an easy one-pot thermal method, varying the g-C3N4 loading, i.e., from 10 to 67 wt% and a post-thermal exfoliation in air. The physicochemical and optical properties of the materials were analyzed by several techniques. CN/ZnO composites showed a coral-like structure of spherical ZnO wurtzite particles on the g-C3N4 structure. In general, the synergism and heterojunction interface between both phases allowed the enhancement of the mesoporosity, light absorption ability, and the aromaticity of the corresponding composites. Moreover, the photocatalytic activity of the CN/ZnO composites was increased with the addition of g-C3N4 in comparison with pristine ZnO. The highest activity was found for the composite containing 25 wt% of g-C3N4 (i.e., CN25/ZnO), reaching the total degradation of 5-FU and a mineralization of 48% at 180 min, as well as a good photostability during four reuse cycles. Experiments with different pH solutions and scavengers allowed for the assessment of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) involved in the 5-FU degradation pathway, with radicals and non-radical species as the main responsible active species. Furthermore, a tentative photocatalytic mechanism was proposed for CN/ZnO composites.
Robust dynamic sliding mode control design for interval type-2 fuzzy systems

This paper discusses the problem of stabilization of interval type-2 fuzzy systems with uncertainties, time delay and external disturbance using a dynamic sliding mode controller. The sliding surface function, which is based on both the system's state and control input vectors, is used during the control design process. The sliding mode dynamics are presented by defining a new vector that augments the system state and control vectors. First, the reachability of the addressed sliding mode surface is demonstrated. Second, the required sufficient conditions for the system's stability and the proposed control design are derived by using extended dissipative theory and an asymmetric Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional approach. Unlike some existing sliding mode control designs, the one proposed in this paper does not require the control coefficient matrices of all linear subsystems to be the same, reducing the method's conservatism. Finally, numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the viability and superiority of the proposed design method.
Towards Automatic Job Description Generation With Capability-Aware Neural Networks

A job description shows the responsibilities of the job position and the skill requirements for the job. An effective job description will help employers to identify the right talents for the job, and give a clear understanding to candidates of what their duties and qualifications for a particular position would be. However, due to the variation in experiences, it is always a challenge for both hiring managers and recruiters to decide what capabilities the job requires and prioritize them accordingly on the job description. Also, tedious and expensive human efforts are usually required to prepare a job description. Therefore, in this paper, we investigate how to automate the process to generate job descriptions with less human intervention. To this end, we propose an end-to-end capability-aware neural job description generation framework, namely Cajon, to facilitate the writing of job description. Specifically, we first propose a novel capability-aware neural topic model to distill the various capability information from the larger-scale recruitment data. Also, an encoder-decoder recurrent neural network is designed for enabling the job description generation. In particular, the capability-aware attention mechanism and copy mechanism are proposed to guide the generation process to ensure the generated job descriptions can comprehensively cover relevant and representative capability requirements for the job. Moreover, we propose a capability-aware policy gradient training algorithm to further enhance the rationality of the generated job description. Finally, extensive experiments on real-world recruitment data clearly show our Cajon framework can help to generate more effective job descriptions in an interpretable way. In particular, our Cajon framework has been deployed in Baidu as an intelligent tool for talent recruitment.
An in vitro explant model of overuse tendinopathy. The effects of cyclic loading and inflammatory mediators on mechanical and compositional properties of tendons

AADITYA DEVKOTA: An In Vitro Explant Model Of Overuse Tendinopathy. The Effects of Cyclic Loading And Inflammatory Mediators On Mechanical And Compositional Properties of Tendon. (Under the direction of Paul Weinhold) Overuse injuries are common clinical problems, athletically and occupationally, with estimates that nearly 50% of all injuries are overuse. Though a major clinical issue, the underlying etiology of tendon overuse injuries is unknown. Currently, the prevailing thought centers on microdamage accumulation. This is where loading (well below failure levels) causes damage at the fibrillar level. When this damage outpaces the tendon’s ability to repair itself, then tendinopathy is thought to occur. The elastic limit beyond which this microdamage occurs has long been accepted at 4% strain. The first objective was to examine this idea utilizing newer methodologies by first loading tendons to various subfailiure strain levels, then loading to failure after rest. The elastic limit approached the failure strain limit (16%), implicating cellular responses as the driving factor in tendinopathy. To examine overuse tendinopathy, the next objective was to develop and characterize a model to apply and monitor complex, cyclic loadings to viable tendon. This device was able to significantly reduce the mechanical properties of loaded tendons (relative to control) as well as monitor this damage (strain accumulation).
Improving the Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester Performance by Using a Double Coil Structure

The power generation capability of an electromagnetic vibration energy harvester augmented with an additional coil was investigated and compared with that of a standard single coil electromagnetic energy harvester. A single degree of freedom model and the corresponding equivalent electric circuit were employed for the analysis of the standard and of the augmented harvesters. The harvester model was validated by means of an accurate experimental characterization of a commercial electromagnetic harvester, i.e., the model-D by ReVibe. The electric circuits for the standard and for the augmented harvesters were implemented by electronic components and experimentally tested to determine the maximum power they are able to generate in four test conditions. Results from simulations and from experiments showed significant improvement of the power extraction performance exhibited by the double coil energy harvester, particularly at frequencies lower than the harvester mechanical resonance frequency.