Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Generation of correlated Rayleigh fading envelopes for spread spectrum applications

A procedure for generating N Rayleigh fading envelopes with any desired covariance matrix is given. This method, numerical in nature, enables researchers to simulate correlated fading envelopes, for use in: (1) the study of the impact of correlation on diversity system performance and (2) the study of multicarrier CDMA (MC-CDMA), where the number of carriers notably exceeds the degree of system diversity.
Assessment of the histological state of the healing wound

The dynamic process of wound healing has various phases, and the knowledge of which is essential for identification of the pathology involved in a chronic intractable wound. Various instruments for the assessment of wound healing have been described, primarily for clinical assessment of the wound. However, very few instruments are currently available for histological grading of the wound. The aim of this article is to review all available literature from 1993 to 2014 on the objective histological scoring of the state of wound healing. This review article emphasizes the importance of histological grading of wounds based on the different parameters from each phase of wound healing and the need for an ideal grading system in order to help assessment of wound status. The parameter chosen in an experimental model should be defined by the scientific question, the underlying hypothesis and the pathogenesis of the disease.
Preventing Capability Leaks in Secure JavaScript Subsets

Publishers wish to sandbox third-party advertisements to protect themselves from malicious advertisements. One promising approach, used by ADsafe, Dojo Secure, and Jacaranda, sandboxes advertisements by statically verifying that their JavaScript conforms to a safe subset of the language. These systems blacklist known dangerous properties that would let advertisements escape the sandbox. Unfortunately, this approach does not prevent advertisements from accessing new methods added to the built-in prototype objects by the hosting page. In this paper, we show that onethird of the Alexa US Top 100 web sites would be exploitable by an ADsafe-verified advertisement. We propose an improved statically verified JavaScript subset that whitelists known-safe properties using namespaces. Our approach maintains the expressiveness and performance of static verification while improving security.
follow-up in a unique case series mimicking intestinal lymphoma: clinicopathologic features and NK-cell enteropathy: a benign NK-cell lymphoproliferative disease

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The US7 score is sensitive to change in a large cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis over 12 months of therapy

Purpose To determine the sensitivity to change of the US7 score among RA patients under various therapies and to analyze the effect of each therapeutic option over 1 year. To estimate predictors for development of destructive bone changes. Methods Musculoskeletal ultrasound (US7 score), DAS28, CRP and ESR were performed in 432 RA patients at baseline and after 3, 6 and 12 months. The cohort was divided into four sub-groups: first-line DMARDs (Group 1; 27.3%), therapy switch: DMARDs to second DMARDs (Group 2; 25.0%), first-line biologic after DMARDs therapy (Group 3; 35.4%) and therapy change from biologic to second biologic (Group 4; 12.3%). Results The US7 synovitis and tenosynovitis sum scores in grey-scale (GSUS) and power Doppler ultrasound (PDUS) as well as ESR, CRP decreased significantly (p<0.05) after 12 months in group 1 to 3. Group 1+2 also illustrated a significant change of DAS28 after 1 year (p<0.001). Only in Group 4, the US7 erosion sum score decreased significantly from 4.3 to 3.6 (p=0.008) after 1 year. Predictors capable of forecasting US erosions after one year were: higher score of US7 synovitis (p<0.001), of US7 erosions in GSUS (p<0.001), as well as of DAS28 (p<0.001) at baseline. Conclusions The comparable developments of the US7 score with clinical and laboratory data illustrates its potential to reflect therapeutic response. Therefore, the novel US7 score is sensitive to change. Patients who switched from one biologic to another exhibited a significant decline in erosions after 12 months, while the erosions scores in the other groups were stable.
Changing communications within hospital and home health care

Over the last decade, new hospitals are integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in their facilities. Although e-health is a relatively recent term for healthcare practice supported by electronic processes, ubiquitous healthcare monitoring, also known as m-health, is already an emerging research area. Patient monitoring in diverse environments, such as nursing homes or assisted living, are gaining importance. Traditional methods present some problems, as they don't allow enough patient mobility. In this situation, real time transmission of multiple medical data, wearable computing, wireless access in ubiquitous systems and wearable devices for pervasive healthcare can meet the needs of these environments. However, the software and infrastructure deployed in hospitals is not easy to migrate to wireless systems. In some cases, the migration to new technologies can be costly. This paper focuses on the design of a modular, scalable and economical framework to improve the monitoring and checking of patients in different contexts. The challenge is to produce a system to transmit the patient's biomedical data directly to a hospital for monitoring or diagnosis using new communication modules. The modular designed adopted is intended to provide a future-proofed system, whose functionality may be upgraded by modifying the hardware or software. The modules have been validated in different contexts to prove their versatility.
Research and Teaching: Conditions for a positive link

It has become increasingly clear over the past decade that the question of a positive link between research and teaching has no simple or general answer. At the same time, there may well be a positive link under particular conditions. This paper argues that a positive link can be due primarily to the processes, rather than the outcomes, inherent in research and teaching, and that, in particular, student-centred teaching and learning processes are intrinsically favourable towards a positive link, while more traditional teaching methods may at best lead to a positive link for the most able students, who in the perception of traditional academics are, of course, the future university teachers. This finding, in turn, leads to a rational explanation of the persistent myth of a general positive link. Finally, it is argued that pedagogic research and its outcomes could play an important role in strengthening the link.
Coherence of the relationship theme: An extension of Luborsky's core conflictual relationship theme method.

Lester Luborsky's core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT ; 1977) method of evaluating relationship patterns of therapy patients makes an important assumption, which this article examines theoretically and empirically : that patients in psychotherapy routinely describe themselves in an interactive relationship with others, rather than as people acting and reacting in isolation. Kleinian and Mahlerian psychoanalytic theories hold that the capacity for interaction or relatedness is not a given but a developmental achievement, an increasing function of differentiation. An enhancement of the CCRT approach, called the coherence of the relationship theme (CRT), is introduced here. It measures the degree to which patients describe themselves and others in interaction. It is predicted and empirically observed that interaction and relatedness as measured by the CRT increase with differentiation, supporting the proposal that the CRT is a meaningful measure of a capacity for relatedness, and a useful enhancement of the CCRT system.
Endocannabinoid Signaling in Early Neurodevelopment: Effect of Gestational Δ9-THC Exposure

Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug by pregnant women in the world. Its psychoactive cannabinoid, 9 -tetrahydrocannabinol, crosses the placenta and accumulates in the fetus, potentially harming its development. In humans, marijuana use in early pregnancy is associated with an increased risk for miscarriage, anencephaly, as well as subtle neurodevelopmental defects in the offspring, including ADHD, psychiatric disorders, learning disabilities and memory impairment. Little is known about the mechanisms by which marijuana exert its detrimental effects on the developing embryo, although recent evidence points to the possibility that 9 tetrahydrocannabinol might interfere with an endogenous endocannabinoid system present in the embryo during early stages of pregnancy. Here we review our current knowledge on evidence for an endocannabinoid system in early embryonic development and discuss a possible mechanism of action for 9 -tetrahydrocannabinol in early pregnancy.
Teacher Stress and Burnout: An International Review.

Summary This paper reviews studies on teacher stress and burnout conducted over the past decade. The range of studies considered indicates that this topic is now of major international concern. Such studies have led to a much clearer understanding of teacher stress and burnout. Priority now could usefully be given to exploring how such understanding can foster the reduction of stress levels in schools.
Modeling ion transport through molding compounds and its relation to product reliability

Nowadays highly filled epoxy molding compounds are used as material for encapsulation of microelectronic devices. These molding compounds always contain a very low concentration of ionic impurity. In addition ionic species can originate from chemical processes inside the encapsulation. In the presence of an electrical field ions will migrate through the encapsulation, which might eventually result in failures, such as corrosion or dendrite growth. Although these failures are well-known they still lack a knowledge based description of their failure mechanism. Therefore a model describing the transport of ions might be useful to give more insight into these failures. However, calculating the transport of ions is numerically very challenging since it requires a multi-physics model on a multi-time and length-scale. Besides, the notion of a maximum ion concentration due to volume constraints opposed by the molding compound increases the complexity of the mathematical framework even further and results in a model that is very difficult to solve. In this paper we discuss several simplified models for the transport of ionic species that might be used to model their corresponding failure mechanisms. Further, we show the conductivity of molding compounds as a function of temperature and discuss how this accelerates the transport of ions.
Automated Test Approach for Web Based Software

– Modern society is getting themselves more and more familiar with web enabled services. Its efficiency requires different mission critical pre deployments challenges. Thus we require extensive testing of such software applications. However the method of testing for web based applications are dissimilar from traditional software testing methods. This is due to the versatile use of diverse technologies in the web application. Literature doesn’t suggest any modest modular testing technique for these mission critical applications. The main challenges for web based application testing lies within the strategy to find out a proper technique for identification of different static and dynamic module contained within an web application. In our paper we propose a simple automated testing technique for these applications. This proposed model identifies different static and dynamic components or modules of any specific web application. Then all those logical and functional modules are tested individually through control path flow based testing.
Extremities of Love: The Sudden Sacrifice of Career, Family, Dignity

Bizarre love might be defined as that which is not explainable as simply an extreme case of the usual. We first examined various theoretical perspectives on extreme love, including developmental history and personality and a self-expansion motive. We then reanalyzed several previously collected data sets finding predicted perceived qualities of the beloved for extreme lovers, an increased propensity to unrequited love with increased love, and qualitative differences in associations with expansion-related variables between extremity love and what would be expected from a linear trend of love intensity. Results provided only mixed support for a developmental/personality interpretation, but results (especially the predicted nonlinearities) fairly consistently supported a self-expansion view of the motivation for extreme love as the seeking to merge one's individual identity with another's in order to achieve a new self that is imagined to be expanded completely, perfectly, beyond all limits of individuality.
Exacerbation of Retinal Degeneration and Choroidal Neovascularization Induced by Subretinal Injection of Matrigel in CCL2/MCP-1-Deficient Mice

This study presents a mouse model for human age-related macular degeneration (AMD) as characterized by subretinal deposit and choroidal neovascularization. Matrigel, a basement membrane extract, solidifies after implantation in tissue and can stimulate local angiogenesis. This study demonstrates the induction of neovascularization and focal retinal degeneration following subretinal Matrigel injection in mice. In senescent mice, the normal functioning of CC chemokine CCL2/MCP-1 and its receptor CCR2 confers protection against age-related retinal degeneration, a disease that shares many similar features with human AMD. Our data shows that CCL2-deficient mice develop more severe disease as compared to the wild-type controls. These findings suggest that Matrigel subretinal injection could be used to generate AMD-like pathological changes. The data support the previously proposed role of CCL2 in AMD pathogenesis.
A power allocation algorithm for throughput maximization in mobile networks

The paper focuses on competitively optimal power-control and signal-shaping for "ad-hoc" networks composed of multiple-antenna noncooperative transmit/receive terminals affected by spatially colored multi-access interference (MAI). The target is the competitive maximization of the information throughput (measured in bits/slot) sustained by each link active over the network. For this purpose, the MAI-impaired network is modeled as a noncooperative strategic game, and sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the Nash equilibrium are provided. We develop fully distributed and scalable power-control and signal-shaping algorithms allowing the implementation of asynchronous space-division multiple access strategies (SDMACSs) able to guarantee the competitive maximization of the users' throughput under both best effort and contracted QoS access policies. We give evidence that the developed SDMACSs outperform (in terms of aggregate throughput) the conventional centralized ones (such as TDMA/FDMA/CDMA), especially in operating scenarios affected by strong MAI. We study the convergence property of the presented SDMACSs and show that, when the throughput set requested by the users is not achievable by the network, then the developed SDMACSs are able to move the working point of the system to the nearest one sustainable by the network. By exploiting the distributed feature of the presented SDMACSs, we propose two connection admission procedures (CAPs) able to optimize (in a competitive sense) the tradeoff between aggregate networking throughput and connection requirements advanced by the users.
Postsynthetic Incorporation of a Singlet Oxygen Photosensitizer in a Metal-Organic Framework for Fast and Selective Oxidative Detoxification of Sulfur Mustard.

A fullerene-based photosensitizer is incorporated postsynthetically into a Zr6 -based MOF, NU-1000, for enhanced singlet oxygen production. The structural organic linkers in the MOF platform also act as photosensitizers which contribute to the overall generation of singlet oxygen from the material under UV irradiation. The singlet oxygen generated by the MOF/fullerene material is shown to oxidize sulfur mustard selectively to the less toxic bis(2-chloroethyl)sulfoxide with a half-life of only 11 min.
Randomly sampling maximal itemsets

Pattern mining techniques generally enumerate lots of uninteresting and redundant patterns. To obtain less redundant collections, techniques exist that give condensed representations of these collections. However, the proposed techniques often rely on complete enumeration of the pattern space, which can be prohibitive in terms of time and memory. Sampling can be used to filter the output space of patterns without explicit enumeration. We propose a framework for random sampling of maximal itemsets from transactional databases. The presented framework can use any monotonically decreasing measure as interestingness criteria for this purpose. Moreover, we use an approximation measure to guide the search for maximal sets to different parts of the output space. We show in our experiments that the method can rapidly generate small collections of patterns with good quality. The sampling framework has been implemented in the interactive visual data mining tool called MIME1, as such enabling users to quickly sample a collection of patterns and analyze the results.
Pertussis Sources of Infection and Routes of Transmission in the Vaccination Era

Vaccination against pertussis has resulted in reduction of the infection pressure of Bordetella pertussis (partial herd immunity), but the circulation of B. pertussis has persisted as a consequence of waning of vaccine-induced and naturally acquired immunity. An increase in the reported incidence of B. pertussis infection in older children, adolescents and young adults has been noted, resulting in a perceived resurgence of the disease in these age groups. Regardless of whether this resurgence is real or not, older groups are increasingly recognized as playing an important role in transmitting B. pertussis infection to incompletely immunized infants, in whom pertussis disease continues to cause severe and fatal illness, albeit at much lower levels than in the prevaccine era. Several studies have suggested that mothers, in particular, are a significant source of infection for infants. Adolescents, grandparents and health care workers can also play a role. By contrast, most adolescents acquire the infection from schoolmates and friends, whereas for adults the main sources are children and work colleagues. Furthermore teachers, child care workers and health care workers could be at increased risk of being exposed to, and transmitting, B. pertussis infection. Current immunization strategies inadequately control the circulation of B. pertussis, in part because of suboptimal adherence to current pediatric immunization guidelines. In addition to efforts to improve pertussis immunization rates in children, the expansion of pertussis immunization to target specific groups should be considered. Besides reducing morbidity in the targeted groups, these strategies could decrease the residual burden of pertussis morbidity and mortality in infants.
Effects of the Chitin Synthesis Inhibitor Buprofezin on Survival and Development of Immatures of Chrysoperla rufilabris (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

Abstract Effects of buprofezin (Applaud), a chitin synthesis inhibitor, on survival and development of eggs, three instars, and pupae of Chrysoperla rufilabris (Burmeister) were determined in the laboratory. Buprofezin at three tested concentrations (100, 500, and 1,000 mg [AI]/liter) did not affect the viability and development of eggs when the eggs were treated, or third instars and pupae when those stages were treated. Although the degree of effects by buprofezin on larvae varied with instar, buprofezin at the higher concentrations (500 and 1,000 mg [AI]/liter) reduced survival rates 17–47% and prolonged the overall development from first instars to adult emergence by 2 or 3 d when first instars were treated, indicating that the first instar is the most vulnerable stage. When second instars were treated, the survival of C. rufilabris from second instars to pupae was not significantly affected. However, the developmental time from second instar to adult emergence was longer in the treatments with the highest concentration (1,000 mg [AI]/liter) than that with the lowest concentration (100 mg [AI]/liter). The compatibility of buprofezin with natural enemies in integrated pest management programs is discussed.
An Investigation of the Joint Influence of Faculty Control and Student Locus of Reinforcement on Instructional Evaluation.

AbstractThis research was based on the theoretical belief that student evaluations of faculty teaching are related to the person-environment congruence between students’ locus of reinforcement and the degree of control exercised by faculty instructional styles. Fifty-seven college students were classified as internally or externally reinforced based on Rotter’s locus of reinforcement theory. Students evaluated high and low faculty control instructional styles by rating daily seven classroom evaluative questions on a five-point differential scale. It was hypothesized that the evaluation of instruction by students experiencing congruent control styles (internal students/low control and external students/high control) would be more positive than incongruent combinations (external students low control and internal students/high control). ANOVA results yielded a significant 937’value p <. 01) for interaction effects which supported the research hypothesis. Implications for student evaluation of faculty teaching.
Death, Anxiety, and Depression: A Comparison between Egyptian, Kuwaiti, and Lebanese Undergraduates

Three samples of male and female undergraduates were recruited from Egypt (N=208), Kuwait (N=215), and Lebanon (N=228). The Death Anxiety Scale, Death Depression Scale, Trait Anxiety Scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Beck Depression Inventory were administered to participants in small group sessions in each country. Alpha reliabilities of the four scales in the three nations ranged from almost satisfactory to high levels. In death anxiety, Lebanese subjects had significantly the lowest mean score. As for death depression in males, Kuwaitis attained the highest mean score, while the Lebanese had the lowest. In females, Egyptians and Kuwaitis had the highest mean death depression scores, while the Lebanese attained the lowest. Regarding the trait anxiety, female Egyptians had the highest mean score, while the Lebanese attained the lowest. The differences between the mean scores of the three nations in the Beck Depression Inventory were not statistically significant. By and large, the gender differences were significant denoting the higher mean scores of females than their male counterparts.