Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Systematic Review of Iranian Experiences in Seismo-Nephrology

Context Crush syndrome and its potentially life-threatening complications, such as acute kidney injury (AKI), are one of the most important medical problems of disaster victims. However, today, many unanswered questions abound about the potential risk factors of crush syndrome, predictive factors of AKI, proper amount of prophylactic hydration therapy, type of fluid, time of continuing fluid, intravenous versus oral hydration, etc. Therefore, this study was designed to review the findings on Iranian nephrologist experiences in diagnosis and management of traumatic rhabdomyolysis following the last two strong earthquakes of Bam (2003) and Manjil-Rudbar (1990). Evidence Acquisition The study was conducted according to the MOOSE reporting guideline. A literature review was conducted on the nephrologic aspects of earthquakes in Iran. Relevant articles were identified through a comprehensive search of online databases until 2014. The search was limited to articles studying the Iranian population published in English and Persian languages. The validated combination of MeSH terms and key words was used. In addition, a manual search was run among the references of all articles that met the entrance criteria and previous reviews. Only cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies were enrolled. Two reviewers independently reviewed the eligible studies, and another reviewer contributed in case of a disagreement. Basic information from each study was evaluated from the aspects of purpose and design, year of publication, methodology, main population, and source of data. The quality of the included studies was assessed using methods guide for effectiveness and comparative effectiveness reviews. Two reviewers independently rated each paper as “good”, “fair”, or “poor”. Results A total of 1256 non-duplicate articles were identified, but only 35 potentially relevant papers were screened. Finally, 21 articles were found eligible and studied in details. In addition, one unpublished report was included. In the quality assessment, two articles had poor quality, and thus only 20 were finally included in the systematic review. No publication bias (coefficient = −2.28; 95% Confidence interval: −6.17 - 1.78; P = 0.26) was observed among the included studies. Conclusions A few eligible articles on seismo-nephrology were found in Iran, and a limited number of current articles had poor or fair quality. As expected, the chaotic situation after mass disasters and the lack of documentation led to the loss of much important data on the diagnosis and management of victims. Lessons learned from the current researches can be used as a valuable guide for future studies.
Mathematical analysis of buffer sizing for Network-on-Chips under multimedia traffic

Designing appropriate buffer sizes for routers within Network-on-Chip (NoC) so as to minimize the power while preserving the required performance in the presence of self-similar traffic has been considered a challenging problem in the literature. A few analytical studies carried out in NoC modeling have been adopted assumptions such as exponentially-distributed packet inter-arrivals, and conclusions reached under such assumptions may be inappropriate in the presence of self-similar traffic. Through mathematical analysis this paper predicts the optimal buffer size under self-similar traffic using Discrete Poisson Pareto Burst Process (DPPBP). The validity of the mathematical expressions is demonstrated through simulation experiments.
Full-text story alignment models for Chinese-English bilingual news corpora

In this paper, we describe the full-text story alignment on Chinese-English bilingual corpora of news data to mine potential parallel data for machine translation. Several standard information retrieval methods are tested and two translation-model based alignment models are proposed and studied. Modeling the process of generating the parallel English story from Chinese story gives significant improvements over the standard information retrieval techniques. Refinements of the alignment model are also proposed and tested in detail. On one day’s bilingual news collection, our methods improved the mean reciprocal rank from 0.31 to 0.68.
Theory of Lipid Polymorphism as a Function of pH

We introduce a microscopic model of a lipid with a charged headgroup and flexible hydropho-bic tails, a neutral solvent, and counter ions. Short-ranged interactions between hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties are included as are the Coulomb interactions between charges. Further, we include a short-ranged interaction between charges and neutral solvent, which mimics the short-ranged, thermally averaged interaction between charges and the dipole of water. We show that the model of the uncharged lipid displays the usual lyotropic phases as a function of the relative volume fraction of the headgroup. We then show that the phase behavior of the neutral lipid as a function of solvent concentration is very similar to that of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine. Finally we choose a solvent concentration and temperature at which the uncharged lipid exhibits an inverted hexagonal phase and turn on the headgroup charge. The lipid system makes a transition from the inverted hexagonal to the lamellar phase which is related to the increased waters of hydration correlated with the increased headgroup charge via the charge-solvent interaction. The polymorphism displayed upon variation of pH mimics that of the behavior of phosphatidylserine.
Ambient Grids: Maintain Context-Awareness via Aggregated Off-Screen Visualization

When exploring large spatial datasets, zooming and panning interactions often lead to the loss of contextual overview. Existing overview-plus-detail approaches allow users to view context while inspecting details, but they often suffer from distortion or overplotting. In this paper, we present an off-screen visualization method called Ambient Grids that strikes the balance between overview and details by preserving the contextual information as color grids within a designated space around the focal area. In addition, we describe methods to generate Ambient Grids for point data using data aggregation and projection. In a use case, we show the usefulness of our technique in exploring the VAST Challenge 2011 microblog dataset.
Longitudinal and Panel Data

This focuses on models and data that arise from repeated observations of a cross-section of individuals, households or companies. These models have found important applications within business, economics, education, political science and other social science disciplines. The author introduces the foundations of longitudinal and panel data analysis at a level suitable for quantitatively oriented graduate social science students as well as individual researchers. He emphasizes mathematical and statistical fundamentals but also describes substantive applications from across the social sciences, showing the breadth and scope that these models enjoy. The applications are enhanced by real-world data sets and software programs in SAS and Stata.
Review of the book Impacts of Cyberbullying, Building Social and Emotional Resilience in Schools

Impacts of Cyberbullying, Building Social and Emotional Resilience in Schools, by Sharlene Chadwick, provides an overview describing cyberbullying and its impact on the social and emotional wellbeing of youth. Chadwick’s book integrates American, Australian, and British research findings to provide a foundational summary of current understandings of the cyberbullying construct and related factors. The scope of this book extends cyberbullying research to applied practice that can be implemented for future research and within school settings to promote social and emotional resilience in youth. Chadwick’s thesis identifies cyberbullying as a recent phenomenon that is relational-behavioural at its core rather than primarily a technological problem. She argues that cyberbullying is simply another form of bullying that has the potential for serious long-term effects on youth wellbeing. Thus, Chadwick proposes there is a need for cyberbullying safety that must begin in school settings and include student-driven programs.
Sports utility semiotics: A semantic differential study of symbolic potential in automobile design

Abstract The article aims to illuminate the issue of symbolic potential in postmodern society through a semiotic study of car design. In Baudrillard’s terminology, we explore the experience and sociological and psychological materiality of objects that, being above objects’ perceptible materiality, constantly modify the integrity of technological systems (Baudrillard 2005 [1968]: 6). The target concepts are analyzed through Baudrillard’s lens of symbolic capital and his technological system of objects, coupled with the method of semantic differential (SD; e.g., Osgood 1979, 1981) against the insights of Tartu semiotics. Such a complex framework helps to establish affective attitudes of the subjects towards scales selected for their perceptual saliency. The analysis is based on the responses of students in a Polish university who were administered an instrument comprising 14 concepts and 37 scales. The results of statistical analysis yield a semantic space with two factors: potency and activity/dynamism, which we shall call social prestige. At this stage of the analysis we could not determine the evaluation factor. The scales that loaded significantly showed that there is indeed an increment of perceptual saliency in both extracted factors in the case of target stimuli (pickups and SUVs).
Options for estat archlm

These commands provide regression diagnostic tools specific to time series. You must tsset your data before using these commands; see [TS] tsset. estat archlm tests for time-dependent volatility. estat bgodfrey, estat durbinalt, and estat dwatson test for serial correlation in the residuals of a linear regression. For non-time-series regression diagnostic tools, see [R] regress postestimation. estat archlm performs Engle’s Lagrange multiplier (LM) test for the presence of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity. estat bgodfrey performs the Breusch–Godfrey test for higher-order serial correlation in the disturbance. This test does not require that all the regressors be strictly exogenous. estat durbinalt performs Durbin’s alternative test for serial correlation in the disturbance. This test does not require that all the regressors be strictly exogenous. estat dwatson computes the Durbin–Watson d statistic (Durbin and Watson 1950) to test for first-order serial correlation in the disturbance when all the regressors are strictly exogenous.
Synchronization of Chaotic Lur’e Systems With Time Delays Using Sampled-Data Control

The asymptotical synchronization problem is investigated for two identical chaotic Lur'e systems with time delays. The sampled-data control method is employed for the system design. A new synchronization condition is proposed in the form of linear matrix inequalities. The error system is shown to be asymptotically stable with the constructed new piecewise differentiable Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF). Different from the existing work, the new LKF makes full use of the information in the nonlinear part of the system. The obtained stability condition is less conservative than some of the existing ones. A longer sampling period is achieved with the new method. The numerical examples are given and the simulations are performed on Chua's circuit. The results show the superiorities and effectiveness of the proposed control method.
Evaluation of corpus callosum anisotropy in young adults with fetal alcohol syndrome according to diffusion tensor imaging.

BACKGROUND Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and associated disorders resulting from maternal alcohol use during gestation are among the most common developmental disorders. However, they are rarely diagnosed and not fully understood in terms of their behavioral and neurocognitive phenotype. Prenatal exposure leads to alterations in facial morphology, growth, and neurocognition. The nature and extent of teratogenic effects on the brain and the relationship between such effects and observed behaviors remain in debate because there are no established markers for the neurological effects of exposure. In this study, we examined the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on white-matter integrity in the corpus callosum by using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and herein describe the relationship between such effects and observed physical and behavioral outcomes. METHODS DTI was used to evaluate diffusion anisotropy in the genu and splenium of corpus callosum in 16 low-income, primarily African-American volunteers. Volunteers were recruited from a cohort of young adults who had received neuropsychological evaluations during adolescence. Nine had been prenatally exposed to alcohol and had characteristics of FAS, and seven were nonexposed controls. RESULTS Significant difference in the means for diffusion fractional anisotropy (t = 2.26, df = 9, p <0.002) and apparent diffusion coefficient (t = 2.14, df = 14, p < 0.008) were observed in the corpus callosum of alcohol-exposed youth compared with nonexposed youth. No significant differences were found in intracranial volume between these groups. CONCLUSIONS Our results illustrate that DTI can be used in evaluating the integrity of corpus callosum in alcohol-exposed individuals. If future studies support these findings, diffusion anisotropy, represented by fractional anisotropy, has the potential to be used as a clinical marker in the diagnosis of FAS.
Early clinical outcome and complications related to balloon kyphoplasty

The treatment of painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures using transpedicular cement augmentation has grown significantly over the last two decades. The benefits of balloon kyphoplasty compared to conservative treatment remain controversial and are discussed in the literature. The complication rates of vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are considered to be low. The focus of this study was the analysis of acute and clinically relevant complications related to this procedure. In our department, all patients treated between February 2002 and February 2011 with percutaneous cement augmentation (372 patients, 522 augmented vertebral bodies) were prospectively recorded. Demographic data, comorbidities, fracture types, intraoperative data and all complications were documented. The pre- and postoperative pain-level and neurological status (Frankel-Score) were evaluated. All patients underwent a standardized surgical procedure. Two hundred and ninety-seven patients were treated solely by balloon kyphoplasty; 216 females (72.7%) and 81 males (27.3%). Average patient age was 76.21 years (±10.71, range 35–98 years). Average American Society Anestesiologists score was 3.02. According to the Orthopedic Trauma Association classification, there were 69 A 1.1 fractures, 177 A 1.2 fractures, 178 A 3.1.1 fractures and 3 A 3.1. 3 fractures. Complications were divided into preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative events. There were 4 preoperative complications: 3 patients experienced persistent pain after the procedure. In one case, the pedicles could not be visualized during the procedure and the surgery was terminated. One hundred and twenty-nine (40.06%) of the patients showed intraoperative cement leaking outside the vertebras, one severe hypotension and tachycardia as reaction to the inflation of the balloons, and there was one cardiac arrest during surgery. Postoperative subcutaneous hematomas were observed in 3 cases, 13 patients developed a urinary tract infection, and 2 patients died during hospitalization. Twenty-four patients (8.1%) returned because of new pain events and 23 patients reported a new painful fracture. Balloon kyphoplasty is a save and effective procedure to treat patients with painful vertebral compression fractures. Rapid patient mobilization after kyphoplasty, as well as a prompt reintegration into the social environment, are possible. Compared to other surgical procedures, especially in patients with an average age of 75 years, balloon kyphoplasty seems to offer some advantages. However, the procedure still has a potential for serious complications and should be performed by well trained personnel.
Discovery-Driven Prototyping for User-Driven Creativity

It has always been challenging for designers and developers to readily pinpoint potentially viable opportunities for emerging technologies in people's daily lives. In ubiquitous computing in particular, the uncontrollable dynamics of a user's context makes this issue even more prominent. In this article, the authors assume they can't hypothesize what users of new technologies will desire. To address this challenge, they developed discovery-driven prototyping, which lets users control what they will do with new technologies. Here, the authors describe DDP and its effectiveness through a series of in- situ user studies.
The State of the Field of Social Norms Research

This investigation provides a synthesis of the state of social norm research in the social sciences using a content analysis of 821 empirical studies that employed social norms as a primary construct. Questions guiding this analysis included: What theories are most often used in social norms research? What types of social norms are used most often in research? What referents are typically used in social norm measures? What topics are typically investigated with social norms? What outcomes are frequently associated with social norms? And what ages and in what countries are norms commonly studied? By highlighting the trends in this vast area, it is hoped that future work can focus on integrating and advancing theory in this popular domain of communication research.
Consultations et groupes d’intérêt: un aperçu quantitatif

Les groupes d’interet representent plus de la moitie des acteurs participant aux procedures de consultation federales. Ils se mobilisent particulierement lors des consultations ouvertes par le DETEC, le DFI et le DEFR. Toutefois,la majorite de groupes n’expriment leur avis que de maniere ponctuelle. Une vingtaine d’associations faitieres de l’economie privee, de syndicats, d’acteurs institutionnels ou d’organisations defendant des interets publics comptent parmi les groupes les plus actifs. Ces constats meriteraient d’etre prolonges par des analyses sur l’influence qu’exercent les groupes lors des consultations et les effets de l’abandon, des avril 2016, des auditions et conferences.
Seed supply for broadscale restoration: maximizing evolutionary potential

Restoring degraded land to combat environmental degradation requires the collection of vast quantities of germplasm (seed). Sourcing this material raises questions related to provenance selection, seed quality and harvest sustainability. Restoration guidelines strongly recommend using local sources to maximize local adaptation and prevent outbreeding depression, but in highly modified landscapes this restricts collection to small remnants where limited, poor quality seed is available, and where harvesting impacts may be high. We review three principles guiding the sourcing of restoration germplasm: (i) the appropriateness of using ‘local’ seed, (ii) sample sizes and population characteristics required to capture sufficient genetic diversity to establish self‐sustaining populations and (iii) the impact of over‐harvesting source populations. We review these topics by examining current collection guidelines and the evidence supporting these, then we consider if the guidelines can be improved and the consequences of not doing so. We find that the emphasis on local seed sourcing will, in many cases, lead to poor restoration outcomes, particularly at broad geographic scales. We suggest that seed sourcing should concentrate less on local collection and more on capturing high quality and genetically diverse seed to maximize the adaptive potential of restoration efforts to current and future environmental change.
Rapid Redistribution of the Postsynaptic Density Protein PSD-Zip45 (Homer 1c) and Its Differential Regulation by NMDA Receptors and Calcium Channels

PSD-Zip45 (Homer 1c) and PSD-95 are postsynaptic density (PSD) proteins containing distinct protein-interacting motifs. Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged PSD-Zip45 and PSD-95 molecules were targeted to the PSD in hippocampal neurons. We analyzed dynamic behavior of these GFP-tagged PSD proteins by using time-lapse confocal microscopy. In contrast to the less dynamic properties of PSD-95, PSD-Zip45 showed rapid redistribution and a higher steady-state turnover rate. Differential stimulation protocols were found to alter the direction of PSD-Zip45 assembly–disassembly. Transient increases in intracellular Ca2+ by voltage-dependent Ca2+ channel activation induced PSD-Zip45 clustering. In contrast, NMDA receptor-dependent Ca2+ influx resulted in the disassembly of PSD-Zip45 clusters. Thus, neuronal activity differentially redistributes a specific subset of PSD proteins, which are important for localization of both surface receptors and intracellular signaling complexes.
Congestion-Adaptive Video Multicast in an Active Network

We present a service model for video multicast in an active network that considers heterogeneity of the session clients. We consider a network with a hierarchical structure, where active nodes located at the edges become local servers, taking charge of the multicast transmission to the clients in the local domain. Active nodes adjust the rate of the incoming stream, and transmit the filtered streams to the local clients. Clients are organized in several multicast groups, according to their reception conditions. We show through preliminary simulation experiments the effectiveness of the approach.
Constructing a Theory of 'IS Business Value' from the Literature

The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to an innovative use of literature in social science research where the literature may not only be seen as a secondary source of data (Strauss & Corbin 1990) but may also serve as the basis for theory building (Lewis & Grimes 1999; Saunders et. al. 1999). This will be exemplified by attempting to construct a theory of ‘IS business value’ from the literature.
The impact of perceptual grouping on repetition blindness

Repetition blindness is the failure to detect repetitions in a display of items that are presented visually and rapidly (Kanwisher, 1987). In contrast, perceptual grouping of nonlinguistic items has been found to prevent RB (Goldfarb & Treisman, 2011). Parts I – II review a series of experiments described in full in a paper by Jackson and Buchanan (2016) where the effect of perceptual grouping on linguistic items in an RB paradigm is explored. Participants viewed rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) and brief simultaneous visual presentation (BSVP) streams populated with letters or words and provided a judgment of frequency. Two highly discrepant patterns of performance across participants were observed; one that evidenced repetition blindness for groups of three identical linguistic stimuli and one that demonstrated improved accuracy for those groups. Part III describes a series of novel experiments where participants viewed the BSVP displays used in Parts IA – II as well as BSVP displays where groups were made more salient through use of well-established grouping principles (e.g., proximity, similarity). A variable pattern of performance was observed, whereby grouping based on letter case demonstrated the strongest effect in the form of increased accuracy as compared to the non-grouped display. Grouping based on proximity and color similarity demonstrated somewhat increased accuracy, and grouping that contained a time component demonstrated no improvement in accuracy as compared to the non-grouped display. RUNNING HEAD: Grouping on repetition blindness vi