Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Learning scalable dictionaries with application to scalable compressive sensing

Learned sparse signals representations led to state-of-the-art image restoration results for several problems in the field of image processing. In this paper we show that these are achievable for a compressive sensing (CS) scenario based on the sparsity pattern provided by learned dictionary specially designed for the scalable data representation. Experimental results demonstrate and validate the practicality of the proposed scheme making it a promising candidate for many practical applications involving both time scalable image/video display and scalable frame compressive sensing. Provided simulations involve CS scalable sparse recovery of dynamic data changing over time e.g., video. These are important for situations where video streams, tailored to the needs of a diverse user pool operating heterogeneous display equipment, are required. For the aforementioned purpose the proposed method outperforms the conventional K-SVD algorithm.
The Spitzer Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud: S3MC Imaging and Photometry in the Mid- and Far-Infrared Wave Bands

We present the initial results from the Spitzer Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (S3MC), which imaged the star-forming body of the SMC in all seven MIPS and IRAC wave bands. We find that the F8/F24 ratio (an estimate of PAH abundance) has large spatial variations and takes a wide range of values that are unrelated to metallicity but anticorrelated with 24 μm brightness and F24/F70 ratio. This suggests that photodestruction is primarily responsible for the low abundance of PAHs observed in star-forming low-metallicity galaxies. We use the S3MC images to compile a photometric catalog of ~400,000 mid- and far-infrared point sources in the SMC. The sources detected at the longest wavelengths fall into four main categories: (1) bright 5.8 μm sources with very faint optical counterparts and very red mid-infrared colors ([5.8] - [8.0] > 1.2), which we identify as YSOs; (2) bright mid-infrared sources with mildly red colors (0.16 ≲ [5.8] - [8.0] < 0.6), identified as carbon stars; (3) bright mid-infrared sources with neutral colors and bright optical counterparts, corresponding to oxygen-rich evolved stars; and (4) unreddened early B stars (B3-O9) with a large 24 μm excess. This excess is reminiscent of debris disks and is detected in only a small fraction of these stars (≲5%). The majority of the brightest infrared point sources in the SMC fall into groups 1-3. We use this photometric information to produce a catalog of 282 bright YSOs in the SMC with a very low level of contamination (~7%).
Emergent damage pattern recognition using immune network theory

This paper presents an emergent pattern recognition approach based on the immune network theory and hierarchical clustering algorithms. The immune network allows its components to change and learn patterns by changing the strength of connections between individual components. The presented immune-network-based approach achieves emergent pattern recognition by dynamically generating an internal image for the input data patterns. The members (feature vectors for each data pattern) of the internal image are produced by an immune network model to form a network of antibody memory cells. To classify antibody memory cells to different data patterns, hierarchical clustering algorithms are used to create an antibody memory cell clustering. In addition, evaluation graphs and L method are used to determine the best number of clusters for the antibody memory cell clustering. The presented immune-network-based emergent pattern recognition (INEPR) algorithm can automatically generate an internal image mapping to the input data patterns without the need of specifying the number of patterns in advance. The INEPR algorithm has been tested using a benchmark civil structure. The test results show that the INEPR algorithm is able to recognize new structural damage patterns.
Advantages of Thermal Nitride and Nitroxide Gate Films in VLSI Process

Thin gate SiO/sub 2/ films thinner than 200 /spl Aring/ often deteriorate throughout developmentaf VLSI processes, including refractory metal or silicide gates and ion- or plasma-assisted processes. Thermal nitridation of such SiO/sub 2/ films improves the MOS characteristics by producing surface protective layers against impurity penetration and by producing good interfacial characteristics. This fact indicates that a thermally grown silicon nitride film on a silicon substrate is the most promising candidate for a very-thin gate insulator. Experimental data show significant benefits from the nitride film for future VLSI devices.
Sildenafil and vardenafil, types 5 and 6 phosphodiesterase inhibitors, induce caspase-dependent apoptosis of B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells.

Type 4 phosphodiesterase (PDE4) inhibitors reportedly induce apoptosis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells. Following clinical improvement of one previously untreated CLL patient with sildenafil therapy, we evaluated the in vitro induction of apoptosis in CLL cells by 4 PDE5/6 inhibitors, including sildenafil, vardenafil, zaprinast, and methoxyquinazoline (MQZ). After 24 hours of culture, the various PDE inhibitors differed in their ability to induce apoptosis, with zaprinast displaying no killing effect. Normal B cells isolated from control donors were totally resistant to PDE-induced apoptosis. Vardenafil was 3 and 30 times more potent an inducer of apoptosis than sildenafil and MQZ, respectively. Both vardenafil and sildenafil failed to elevate adenosine 3'5' cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) levels, largely excluding an inhibitory effect on cAMP-PDE3, -PDE4, and -PDE7. Vardenafil- or sildenafil-treated B-CLL cells displayed up to 30% intracellular active caspase 3. Drug-induced apoptosis was inhibited by the caspase inhibitor z-VAD.fmk, prevented by interleukin-4 (IL-4), and significantly reduced by stromal-derived factor1-alpha (SDF-1alpha). We conclude that vardenafil and sildenafil induce caspase-dependent apoptosis of B-CLL cells in vitro and thus might be considered in the treatment of CLL patients. However, further in vivo investigations should be warranted.
A randomized controlled trial on medication‐overuse headache: outcome after 1 and 4 years

Hagen K, Stovner LJ. A randomized controlled trial on medication‐overuse headache: outcome after 1 and 4 years. Acta Neurol Scand: 2011: 124 (Suppl. 191): 38–43. © 2011 John Wiley & Sons A/S.
Sensing Pressure for Authentication System Using Keystroke Dynamics

(cid:3) Abstract — In this paper, an authentication system using keystroke dynamics is presented. We introduced pressure sensing for the improvement of the accuracy of measurement and durability against intrusion using key-logger, and so on, however additional instrument is needed. As the result, it has been found that the pressure sensing is also effective for estimation of real moment of keystroke. The shape of each sensor is circle with 10 mm in diameter and 0.1 mm in thickness. The data from each sensor are sent to A/D converter through band pass filter and amplifier to be converted to 10-bit digital data in 1.0000 kHz rate. The difference from previous data in 8-bit are preserved temporarily in a ring buffer of serial memory. The size of the ring buffer is 1,048,576-bit, then it can retain the measured data of last 65,536 ms. According to a request via USB from PC, previous unsent data in the ring buffer are transferred to PC.
American Journal of Epidemiology Original Contribution Hair Relaxer Use and Risk of Uterine Leiomyomata in African-american Women

Hair relaxers are used by millions of black women, possibly exposing them to various chemicals through scalp lesions and burns. In the Black Women's Health Study, the authors assessed hair relaxer use in relation to uterine leiomyomata incidence. In 1997, participants reported on hair relaxer use (age at first use, frequency, duration, number of burns, and type of formulation). From 1997 to 2009, 23,580 premenopausal women were followed for incident uterine leiomyomata. Multivariable Cox regression was used to estimate incidence rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals. During 199,991 person-years, 7,146 cases of uterine leiomyomata were reported as confirmed by ultrasound (n ¼ 4,630) or surgery (n ¼ 2,516). The incidence rate ratio comparing ever with never use of relaxers was 1.17 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.06, 1.30). Positive trends were observed for frequency of use (P trend < 0.001), duration of use (P trend ¼ 0.015), and number of burns (P trend < 0.001). Among long-term users (10 years), the incidence rate ratios for frequency of use categories 3–4, 5–6, and 7 versus 1–2 times/year were Risk was unrelated to age at first use or type of formulation. These findings raise the hypothesis that hair relaxer use increases uterine leiomyomata risk. Uterine leiomyomata are tumors of the myometrium that are responsive to estrogens and progesterone. Although benign , uterine leiomyomata are associated with significant gynecologic morbidity and are the leading indication for hysterectomy in the United States (1, 2). The incidence of uterine leiomyomata is 2–3 times higher in US black women than in US white women (3, 4), and the lifetime risk of uterine leiomyomata—based on ultrasound evidence of pre-clinical and clinical disease—is estimated to be as high as 80% in US black women (4). The black-white disparity in uterine leiomyomata risk is not explained by established risk factors (3, 5). Hair relaxers (straighteners) have been used by millions of US black women, often for long periods of time (6). Hair relaxers can cause burns and lesions in the scalp, facilitating entry of hair relaxer constituents into the body (7–14). The main ingredient of ''lye'' relaxers is sodium hydroxide; no-lye relaxers contain calcium hydroxide and guanidine carbonate, and ''thio'' relaxers contain thioglycolic acid salts (15). No-lye relaxers are advertised to cause fewer scalp lesions and burns than lye relaxers, but there is little evidence to support this claim (16). Products may also contain hormonally active compounds (17), such as …
Mentor Policy and the Quality of Mentoring

Mentoring is a common form of support for beginning teachers. State and district mentoring policies vary along a number of dimensions, yet policymakers have little evidence to draw on in designing effective mentoring programs. We use quantitative and qualitative data from a study of beginning middle school mathematics teachers in 10 districts to investigate the relationship of mentor policy features with the quality of mentoring received by new teachers. We find a strong and significant association indicating that mentors who have time during the day to meet with their new teachers are associated with higher-quality mentoring interactions. These results are supported through teacher interviews, and interviews also suggest that teachers experience better outcomes when mentors are located in the same school and have an evaluative role. These results suggest that proximity and availability may be particularly important features if mentors are to provide high-quality support to new teachers.
Simplifying Random Satisfiability Problem by Removing Frustrating Interactions

How can we remove some interactions (generate shorter clauses) in a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) such that it still remains satisfiable? In this paper we study a modified survey propagation algorithm that enables us to address this question for a prototypical CSP, i.e., random K-satisfiability problem. The average number of removed interactions is controlled by a tuning parameter in the algorithm. If the original problem is satisfiable then we are able to construct satisfiable subproblems ranging from the original one to a minimal one with minimum possible number of interactions. The minimal satisfiable subproblems will directly provide the solutions of the original problem.
Type-specific persistence or regression of human papillomavirus genotypes in women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 1: A prospective cohort study

Objective To evaluate the type-specific human papillomavirus (HPV) persistence or regression in women with or less than low-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Methods This prospective cohort study included patients with or less than cytological low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (or histologically CIN 1 when biopsy was performed) combined with HPV infection. The cohort was collected from July 2006 to November 2011 at Korea University Guro Hospital. Follow-up was performed with liquid-based Papanicolaou test, hybrid capture 2 test, AnyplexTM II HPV 28 Detection, colposcopic biopsy if necessary every 4 months. All patients were prospectively observed without treatment. Results One hundred and thirty-seven patients were enrolled. Of these, 21 patients whose minimum follow-up periods were less than 8 months were excluded. Finally, one hundred sixteen patients were included and followed-up. Median follow-up period was 16 months. In case of high-risk HPVs, HPV 53 was the most prevalent type, followed by HPV 52, 68, 66, and 16. HPV 16 took 10.6 months to regress spontaneously, which was the longest period among the 10 most prevalent high-risk HPV genotypes. In case of spontaneous regression, HPV clearance was always accompanied by lesion clearance. A total of 13 patients showed disease progression either cytologically or histologically. Two cases of CIN 3 were confirmed by colposcopy-directed biopsy during follow-up, which were subsequently managed by conization. Conclusion HPV 16 is the most persistent HPV genotypes. Studies with longer term follow-up and larger sample size are needed to demonstrate whether persistence of HPV 16 is directly correlated with progression of low-grade lesions.
DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR AND VIOLENCE IN LUXEMBOURG SCHOOLS

Based on national reviews and current systematic research the present paper analyses the frequency and evolution of deviant—especially violent— behaviour in Luxembourg schools. Findings are presented in terms of how the students and teachers percieve the respective situation themselves. The empirical results for Luxembourg give an account of the incidence rates of different forms of deviant behaviour and violence in comparison with other (European) countries. In addition, specific methods of prevention and reduction of deviant and violent behaviour that have recently been used and evaluated in Luxembourg will be presented. The report closes with a preview of future developments and recommendations.
Investigation of parametric rectified linear units for noise robust speech recognition

Convolutional neural networks with rectiﬁed linear unit (ReLU) have been successful in speech recognition and computer vision tasks. ReLU was proposed as a better match to biological neural activation functions compared to sigmoidal non-linearity function. However, ReLU has a disadvantage that the gradient is zero whenever the unit is not active or saturated. To alleviate the potential problems due the zero gradient, Leaky ReLU (LReLU) was proposed. Recently, a parametrized form of ReLU (PReLU) was shown to give superior performance compared to ReLU on large scale computer vision tasks. PReLU is a generalized version of LReLU where the gradient is learned adaptively from the training data. In this paper we investigate PReLU based deep convolutional neural networks for noise robust speech recognition. We report experimental results on Aurora-4 multi-condition training task. We show that PReLU gives slightly better Word Error Rates (WERs) on noisy test sets compared to ReLU. In combination with dropout generalization method we report one of the best WERs in the literature for this noisy speech recognition task.
Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Automatically Designing of Genetic Operators

At present there is a wide range of evolutionary algorithms available to researchers and practitioners. Despite the great diversity of these algorithms, virtually all of the algorithms share one feature: they have been manually designed. Can evolutionary algorithms be designed automatically by computer? In this paper, a novel evolutionary algorithm based on automatically designing of genetic operators is presented to address this problem. The resulting algorithm not only explores solutions in the problem space, but also automatically generates genetic operators in the operator space for each generation. In order to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, comprehensive experiments on 23 well-known benchmark optimization problems are conducted, and the results show that the proposed algorithm can outperform standard Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm.
Nuclear bone imaging in metastatic cancer of the prostate

A reproducible technique of bone scanning in prostatic cancer is described that helps ensure the production of successive studies of highly comparable technical quality. Through an analysis of survival data based on changes in distribution, anatomic extent, and intensity of bone scan abnormalities in patients with advanced prostatic cancer, it is demonstrated that alterations in the appearance of the bone scan correlate closely with disease activity and have great prognostic significance.
Anaphylaxis to protamine masquerading as an insulin allergy.

This is the case of a 62-year-old man referred for the evaluation of insulin allergy. This patient had reacted to the subcutaneous injection of Novolin 70/30 (Squibb, Princeton, N.J.) and Humulin NPH (Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Ind.). These reactions were characterized by the immediate onset of diffuse pruritic urticaria and angioedema with progression to hypotension as well as a local reaction. Past history also included anaphylactic shock after intravenous administration of protamine sulfate used for heparin reversal during arterial bypass surgery. Immediate hypersensitivty skin testing to protamine containing (NPH) insulin and protamine sulfate USP were strongly positive, while Lente insulin (Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Ind.) and controls were negative. RAST tests revealed the titers > 24 ng/ml of protamine specific IgE with 98 percent inhibition and 1163 ng/ml of protamine specific IgG with 29 percent inhibition, while levels of insulin specific antibodies were negligible. Subsequently, the patient was treated with non-protamine containing insulin preparation, Lente insulin, without further incident. This study confirms the diagnosis of Type I hypersensitivity to protamine sulfate masquerading as insulin allergy.
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the treatment of gallbladder polypoid lesions--15 years of experience.

UNLABELLED Due to the constant increase of public health awareness and widespread "cancerophobia", the progressively larger number of incidentally diagnosed gall-bladder polyps became the source of anxiety, which leads patients and physicians to undertake therapeutic decisions, despite the absence of symptoms. The majority of gall-bladder polyps are benign. It is estimated that only 3 to 5% of polyps are malignant. Currently, there is lack of randomized control trials based on which the clear-cut criteria of qualification of patients with gall-bladder polyps for surgical procedure can be created. The aim of the study was to analyze gall-bladder polyps in patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the 2nd Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum. MATERIAL AND METHODS The retrospective study was conducted on 5369 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the 2nd Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum with special attention to 152 (2.8%) patients in whom gall-bladder polyps were diagnosed preoperatively. Qualification criteria for surgery, surgical treatment results, and histopathological examination results were also analyzed. RESULTS Amongst the 5369 patients qualified for laparoscopic cholecystectomy, 152 (2.8%) were diagnosed with gall-bladder polyps during the preoperative ultrasound examinations. Postoperative histopathological examinations of 41 (27%) patients confirmed the presence of gall-bladder polyps. In 102 (67%) patients, only gall-stones were diagnosed without previously described polyps during the ultrasound examination. Analysis of the histopathological examination results revealed the presence of benign lesions in 35 (23.35%) patients. In 5 (3%) patients the presence of an adenoma, and in one (0.65%) the presence of adenocarcinoma were confirmed. CONCLUSIONS Based on the conducted study and previous personal experience in the treatment of patients with gall-bladder polyps, we believe that due to the potential risk of neoplastic transformation, patients with polyps larger than 10 mm in diameter and polyps of proven rapid growth should be qualified for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Indications for surgical treatment also seem reasonable in case of patients with present polyps and coexisting right upper quadrant pain, even though the above-mentioned is connected with gall-bladder deposits.
Towards automatic performance-driven animation between multiple types of facial model

The authors describe a method to re-map animation parameters between multiple types of facial model for performance-driven animation. A facial performance can be analysed in terms of a set of facial action parameter trajectories using a modified appearance model with modes of variation encoding specific facial actions which can be pre-defined. These parameters can then be used to animate other modified appearance models or 3D morph-target-based facial models. Thus, the animation parameters analysed from the video performance may be re-used to animate multiple types of facial model. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach by measuring its ability to successfully extract action parameters from performances and by displaying frames from example animations. The authors also demonstrate its potential use in fully automatic performance-driven animation applications.
A Method for Mining Infrequent Causal Associations and Its Application in Finding Adverse Drug Reaction Signal Pairs

In many real-world applications, it is important to mine causal relationships where an event or event pattern causes certain outcomes with low probability. Discovering this kind of causal relationships can help us prevent or correct negative outcomes caused by their antecedents. In this paper, we propose an innovative data mining framework and apply it to mine potential causal associations in electronic patient data sets where the drug-related events of interest occur infrequently. Specifically, we created a novel interestingness measure, exclusive causal-leverage, based on a computational, fuzzy recognition-primed decision (RPD) model that we previously developed. On the basis of this new measure, a data mining algorithm was developed to mine the causal relationship between drugs and their associated adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The algorithm was tested on real patient data retrieved from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan. The retrieved data included 16,206 patients (15,605 male, 601 female). The exclusive causal-leverage was employed to rank the potential causal associations between each of the three selected drugs (i.e., enalapril, pravastatin, and rosuvastatin) and 3,954 recorded symptoms, each of which corresponded to a potential ADR. The top 10 drug-symptom pairs for each drug were evaluated by the physicians on our project team. The numbers of symptoms considered as likely real ADRs for enalapril, pravastatin, and rosuvastatin were 8, 7, and 6, respectively. These preliminary results indicate the usefulness of our method in finding potential ADR signal pairs for further analysis (e.g., epidemiology study) and investigation (e.g., case review) by drug safety professionals.