Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Massage Therapy on the Mood and Pain of Post Cardiac Catheterization Patients

Pain is the most important complaint experienced by patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. Many patients consider hospitalization and cardiac catheterization to be psychologically distressing. In recent years, there has been a focus on complimentary therapies to manage or alleviate pain and anxiety. Body massages is one of complimentary therapies and have been tested in different populations and found to have marked effect in decreasing pain and anxiety. Aim: The aim of the study is to examine the effect of massage intervention on the mood and pain of patient after cardiac catheter. Design: A randomized single blind clinical trial design was used. Setting: The study was conducted in in the Coronary Care Unit at King Fahd Hospital of the University in Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Sample: A random sample of 40 adults post cardiac catheterization. Tools: Three tools were used to collect data: tool 1: Demographic and Medical data Sheet, tool 2: The Profile of Mood States (POMS). Tool 3: The McGill Pain Questionnaire. Results: There was a highly significant reduction in pain scores after the sessions of the massage therapy, and there were a highly significant difference between before and after message sessions intervention in relation to all components and total mean score of mood profile. Conclusion: integrating the massage therapy into nursing intervention can enhance the mood and ability state and decreased anxiety, depressions, confusion and pain of patients after cardiac catheterization,. Recommendations: Based on the result of the present study, it can be recommended that further study should be applied in relation to increase the sample of the study in control and experimental group, examine the relationship between illness perceptions and mood across coronary artery disease patients.
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT WET AVALANCHE LOAD FOR THE DESIGN OF TOWER-LIKE STRUCTURES

Wet snow avalanches interact with infrastructures around the world but their significance on the structure design is frequently neglected due to the low velocity, which characterize the flow and thus the expected low impact pressures. Recent pressure measurements performed at the Swiss Vallée de la Sionne full-scale test site show that wet avalanche pressures, measured on a 20 m high tower, are considerably higher than those predicted by conventional avalanche engineering guidelines, thus potentially becoming relevant for the design of tower-like structures. In order to understand under which circumstances wet avalanches can become more relevant than their dry counter part and in order to establish simple rules to evaluate the pressure the avalanche exerts on a tower-like object, we analyse pressure and velocity data collected at the Vallée the la Sionne on obstacles of different shape and dimension.
Lung fibre burden in lung cancer cases employed in the rock and slag wool industry.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the relationship between estimated exposure to man-made vitreous fibres (MMVF) and to asbestos fibres and their concentration in the lung tissue of lung cancer cases amongst MMVF production workers. METHODS Retrospective retrieval of available lung tissue specimens was conducted following a case-control study that assessed estimated occupational exposures of MMVF workers. Fibre recovery and analysis by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were conducted to determine fibre type, fibre dimension and numbers per gram of dry lung tissue. For cases with detailed exposure data, geometric mean (GM) concentrations were compared across the exposure categories, and regression models were used to investigate the relationship between the lung fibres and the variables of estimated exposure, with and without additional variables that may affect fibre retention. RESULTS A total of 24 samples from 17 cases of lung cancer were available for analysis: MMVF were detected in all cases. Asbestos fibres were detected in 16. No difference or trend in GM MMVF concentration was observed across the estimated exposure categories. Odds ratio (OR) for MMVF g(-1) dry lung was 0.5 (95% confidence interval: 0.1-2.4) for the second, and 3.5 (0.6-18.9) for the third quartile of index of average exposure to MMVF in industry, compared with the first (lowest exposed) quartile (no cases in the highest quartile). CONCLUSIONS No observable relationship existed between estimated exposure and directly-measured lung fibres among this sample of cases. Retrospective specimen collection, intra-individual variability in fibre concentration, effect of unknown factors on fibre retention and small sample size militated against this study providing evidence for or against a relationship between estimated exposure and lung fibre concentrations.
DISCORDANT REDSHIFTS IN COMPACT GROUPS

This paper addresses the long standing question of discordant redshifts in compact groups. We have used an homogenous catalogue of 173 compact groups selected by an automated procedure to objectively predict the fraction of discordant redshifts with high statistical accuracy, and then applied these results to the sample of 92 compact groups in Hickson's revised catalogue. Our results confirm that projection effects alone can account for the high incidence of discordant redshifts in compact groups. We have also examined the spatial distribution of discordant galaxies in Hickson's compact groups. Contrary to previous studies, we find that there is no evidence for central concentration of discordant galaxies.
The Relationship between Executive Functioning and Emotional Intelligence in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) demonstrate marked deficits in the ability to initiate, maintain and sustain meaningful social interaction. While the social-emotional deficits represent a core set of problems, persons with ASD also demonstrate significant problems in initiating, sustaining and maintaining appropriate goal directed behaviors. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a construct that has been successfully applied to a range of skills that allow for the prediction of competent human social behavior. Executive Functions (EF) refer to constructs involving cognitive abilities necessary for initiating, sustaining and maintaining purposeful goal-oriented behavior. While both children and adults with ASD have previously shown to have atypical patterns of EF skills, little is known about EI in either children or adults with ASD. Moreover, there is no study examining the relationship between EI and EF that has been reported in individuals with ASD. The current study examined the relationship between EF and EI in children with ASD. Twenty children with ASD were compared to twenty neurotypical children on self-report and clinical assessments of EI and EF. Although the relationship between EF and EI was not statistically significant, results showed that children with ASD have deficits in interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills and overall EI when compared to their neurotypical peers. These results suggest that EF and EI are relatively independent domains of development that show compromise in persons with ASD and each may be necessary to support typical socially directed behaviors.
Resource location based on partial random walks in networks with resource dynamics

A random walk in a network is a routing mechanism that chooses the next node to visit (uniformly) at random among the neighbors of the current node. Random walks have been extensively studied in Mathematics, and have been used in a wide range of applications such as statistic physics, population dynamics, bioinformatics, etc. When applied to communication networks, random walks have had a profound impact in algorithms and complexity theory. Some of the advantages of random walks are their simplicity, their small processing power consumption at the nodes, and the fact that they need only local information, avoiding the bandwidth overhead necessary in other routing mechanisms to communicate with other nodes.
Newborns' preference for faces: what is crucial?

Three experiments investigated whether the presence of more elements in the upper part of a configuration (i.e., up-down asymmetry) plays a role in determining newborns' preference for facelike patterns. Newborns preferred a nonfacelike stimulus with more elements in the upper part over a nonfacelike stimulus with more elements in the lower part (Experiment 1), did not show a preference for a facelike stimulus over a nonfacelike configuration equated for the number of elements in the upper part of the configuration (Experiment 2), and preferred a nonfacelike configuration located in the upper portion of the stimulus over a facelike configuration in the lower portion of the pattern (Experiment 3). Results demonstrated that up-down asymmetry is crucial in determining newborns' face preference.
DO PERIODICITIES IN EXTINCTION—WITH POSSIBLE ASTRONOMICAL CONNECTIONS—SURVIVE A REVISION OF THE GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALE?

A major revision of the geological timescale was published in 2012. We re-examine our past finding of a 27 Myr periodicity in marine extinction rates by re-assigning dates to the extinction data used previously. We find that the spectral power in this period is somewhat increased, and persists at a narrow bandwidth, which supports our previous contention that the Nemesis hypothesis is untenable as an explanation for the periodicity that was first noted by Raup & Sepkoski in the 1980s. We enumerate a number of problems in a recent study comparing extinction rates with time series models.
Navigating the plant cell: intracellular transport logistics in the green kingdom

Intracellular transport in plant cells occurs on microtubular and actin arrays. Cytoplasmic streaming, the rapid motion of plant cell organelles, is mostly driven by an actin–myosin mechanism, whereas specialized functions, such as the transport of large cargo or the assembly of a new cell wall during cell division, are performed by the microtubules. Different modes of transport are used, fast and slow, to either haul cargo over long distances or ascertain high-precision targeting, respectively. Various forms of the actin-specific motor protein myosin XI exist in plant cells and might be involved in different cellular functions.
Scene text detection based on hierarchical multilayer perceptron

In this paper, a new scene text detection method based on hierarchical multilayer perceptron (MLP) is proposed. First, connected components (CCs) are segmented locally by text probability map. Then, a novelty hierarchical architecture consisting of two MLP classifiers in tandem is utilized to analysis the CCs. In this hierarchical setup, the first stage MLP classifier is trained using unary property features. The second stage MLP classifier is trained for CCs pairs including both posterior probabilities estimated by first stage and relationship features. Finally, candidate text CCs are grouping into words. Experimental results evaluated on the public dataset show that our approach yields better performance compared with state-of-the-art methods.
Co-occurring Depression, Chronic Pain and Substance Use Disorders in People with Hepatitis C

Chronic infection with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is common and can result in serious and sometimes fatal liver complications. The impact of HCV on the liver can be further complicated by medical and psychological comorbidities. Depression, substance use, and pain syndromes are frequent co-morbid conditions in people with HCV and diminish functioning, quality of life, and treatment compliance. Understanding the underlying biological mechanisms of these comorbid conditions within the context of HCV may help elucidate factors contributing to their co-occurrence, perhaps mediated via pro-inflammatory cytokines. The current review provides a synthesis of the literature on depression, substance use disorders and chronic pain in the presence of HCV. The review includes studies conducted with both veteran and civilian populations. The implications for assessment and antiviral treatment of HCV will be considered.
What you need to know about SDN control and data planes

SDN and OpenFlow are actively being standardized and deployed. These deployments rely on switches that come from various vendors and differ in terms of their performance and available features. Understanding these differences and basic performance characteristics is essential for ensuring efficient deployments. In this paper we measure, report, and explain the performance characteristics of the controland data-planes in three hardware OpenFlow switches. Our results can help controller developers to make their programs efficient. Further, we also highlight differences between the OpenFlow specification and its implementations, that if ignored, pose a serious threat to network security and correctness.
Resource coordination in Wireless Sensor Networks by combinatorial auction based method

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) consists of small sensor devices with sensing, processing and communication capabilities. Sensor nodes are operated by batteries. As the replacement of these batteries are not practical, this network is very much energy sensitive. Resource coordination is an important issue to make this system energy efficient. Sensor nodes can be applied in various applications. Object tracking, routing, event detection are some common applications in WSN. These application needs to perform some tasks like sensing, transmitting, sleeping, receiving etc. At each time step, the sensor nodes need to perform one task based on its application demand. Scheduling of these tasks is very important aspect for WSN in order to coordinate the resources. In this paper, an effective market based method is proposed for resource coordination in WSN. At first the description of the problem is presented then the combinatorial auction based method is proposed. The simulation results show the efficiency of the proposed method comparing with other existing methods.
CApacity provisioning and PRIcing for cloud computing with energy capping

The past few years have been witnessing a surging demand for cloud computing services, resulting in a huge carbon footprint and making energy cost one of the top operational costs of data centers. Meanwhile, as sustainable computing has become increasingly important, data centers are constantly pressured to cap the long-term usage of their energy produced from carbon-intensive sources (a.k.a., “brown” energy). In this paper, we study energy budgeting with dynamic pricing and propose a novel online algorithm, called CAPRI (CApacity provisioning and PRIcing), to maximize the profit of a data center while satisfying the energy capping constraint. We prove that CAPRI achieves a close-to-maximum profit compared to the optimal offline algorithm with future information, while bounding the potential violation of energy capping, in an almost arbitrarily random environment. We also perform a trace-based simulation study to complement the analysis and validate the effectiveness of CAPRI.
Mutagenic Heterocyclic Amines Tester Strain Highly Sensitive to Salmonella Establishment of a Updated

Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) that are present in cooked foods require metabolic activation to exert their genotoxicity. They undergo activation via /v-hydroxylation by cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP1A2), followed by 0-esterification by 0-acetyltransferase (OAT). To develop a Salmonella tester strain that is highly sensitive to mutagenic HCAs, we introduced a coexpression plasmid (plA2OR) carrying human CYP1A2 and NADPHCYP reducÃ-ase cDNAs and an expression plasmid (pOAT) carrying Sal monella OAT to Salmonella typhimurium TA1538 to yield a TA1538/ARO strain. The TA1538/ARO strain was proven to express the enzymes, as indicated by high activities of 7-ethoxyresorufin 0-deethylase and isoniazid JV-acetylase. The TA1538/ARO strain exhibited very high sensitivity to mutagenic HCAs 2-amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo[4,5-/|quinoline, 2-amino-3-methyIiniida/o|4,5-/1q limoline (IQ), and 2-amino-3.8-dimethvlimidazo(4,5-/]quinoxaline and a somewhat higher sensitivity to 2-amino-1 -inrtliv l-6-pliriiylimidazo[4,5-Â¿]pyridine compared with the parent Ames tester strain TA 1538. The minimum concentrations of 2-amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo[4,5-/|quinoline, IQ, 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-/]quinoxaline, and 2-amino-l-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-e]pyridine giving positive re sults were defined by evidence that the number of colonies increased in a dose-dependent manner and reached a number two times higher than that obtained by vehicle alone as a control in the TA1538/ARO strain at concentrations of 0.3, 3, 30, and 1000 pM, respectively. When the mem brane and cytosol fractions prepared from TA1538/ARO were added to a mixture containing the parental TA1538, the sensitivity of TA1538 to IQ was much lower than that seen with TA1538/ARO. These results indicate that the intracellular expression of drug-metabolizing enzymes makes the established strain of Salmonella highly sensitive to mutagenic HCAs.
An Experimental Evaluation of Apple Siri and Google Speech Recognition

We perform an experimental evaluation of two popular cloud-based speech recognition systems. Cloud-based speech recognition systems enhances Web surfing, transportation, health care, etc. Using voice commands helps drivers stay connected to the Internet by avoiding traffic safety risks. Thus, performance of these type of applications should be robust under difficult network conditions. User frustration with network traffic problems can affect the usability of these applications. We evaluate the performance of two popular cloud-based speech recognition applications, Apple Siri and Google Speech Recognition (GSR) under various network conditions. We evaluate the delay of each application under different packet loss and jitter values. Results of our study show that performance of cloudbased speech recognition systems can be affected by jitter and packet loss; which are commonly occurring in WiFi and cellular network connections. Our results also show that Google Speech Recognition has better performance under different network conditions.
Seasonal Longitudinal Study of Oxidative Stress and Redox Status in Professional Athletes of Different Sports

It is well established that physical exercise induces reactive oxygen species production, while physical training increases antioxidant defense systems thereby reducing exercise-induced oxidative stress. However, intense physical exercise, competition, and training such as those imposed on high-level athletes may lead to increased oxidative stress implicating an overtraining condition. In the present study, the effects of training and competition load on oxidative stress, redox and antioxidant status, and cell damage markers have been studied on high-level players in different sports (i.e., 15 ultra-endurance and 12 long-distance runners, and 12 junior professional rugby players) during a competitive season. Oxidative damage plasmatic markers, including protein carbonyls (PC) and thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS), total antioxidant capacity (TAC), and amino-thiols redox status were assessed at three critical time points of the season: T0, the beginning; T1, the top; T2, the end. Seasonal variations of all the investigated parameters were observed. With respect to the basal level T0 (0.69 ± 0.14), significant increases of PC concentration (nmol/mg protein) at T1 (1.08 ± 0.36, p < 0.001) and T2 (1.04 ± 0.27, p < 0.01), as well as of TBARS concentration (µM, T0: 6.11 ± 1.11) at T2 (8.09 ± 1.07, p < 0.0001) and T1 (6.77 ± 1.22, p < 0.01) were measured in ultra-endurance athletes. PC was found significantly increased in rugby players too (T0: 0.76 ± 0.26 vs. T2: 1.19 ± 0.34; p<0.05). With regard to the oxy-redox status, TAC activity was not found significantly changed during the monitored time period, while amino-thiols redox status was upregulated, as demonstrated by the increase of oxy and total glutathione (GSH) and cysteine (Cys) concentrations, particularly in ultra-endurance athletes. On the other hand, the significant decrease in reduced GSH, Cys, and cysteinylglycine (CysGly) concentrations measured in rugby players at T2 suggested that non-enzymatic antioxidants were strongly consumed during the competitive season, and this finding was closely linked to an overtraining condition. Altogether, the results achieved in the present study confirmed the hypothesis that oxidative stress and antioxidant measurements play a peculiar role in monitoring the athletes’ training response and performance, whose variations are in turn strictly linked to the played activity.
Recognizing human daily activity using a single inertial sensor

As robot assisted living is becoming increasingly important for elderly people, human daily activity recognition is necessary for human-robot interaction. In this paper, we proposed an approach to daily activity recognition for elderly people. This approach uses a single wearable inertial sensor worn on the right thigh of a human subject to collect motion data. This setup can reduce the obtrusiveness to the minimum. Human daily activities can be recognized in two steps. First, two neural networks are used to classify the basic activities. Second, the activity sequence is modeled by an HMM to consider the sequential constraints exhibited in human daily life and the modified short-time Viterbi algorithm is used for realtime daily activity recognition as the fine-grained classification. We conducted experiments in a mock apartment environment and the obtained results proved the effectiveness and accuracy of our approach.
Fatty Acid Binding Proteins FABP9 and FABP10 Participate in Antibacterial Responses in Chinese Mitten Crab, Eriocheir sinensis

Invertebrates rely solely on the innate immune system for defense against pathogens and other stimuli. Fatty acid binding proteins (FABP), members of the lipid binding proteins superfamily, play a crucial role in fatty acid transport and lipid metabolism and are also involved in gene expression induced by fatty acids. In the vertebrate immune system, FABP is involved in inflammation regulated by fatty acids through its interaction with peroxidase proliferator activate receptors (PPARs). However, the immune functions of FABP in invertebrates are not well characterized. For this reason, we investigated the immune functionality of two fatty acid binding proteins, Es-FABP9 and Es-FABP10, following lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge in the Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis). An obvious variation in the expression of Es-FABP9 and Es-FABP10 mRNA in E. sinensis was observed in hepatopancreas, gills, and hemocytes post-LPS challenge. Recombinant proteins rEs-FABP9 and rEs-FABP10 exhibited distinct bacterial binding activity and bacterial agglutination activity against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Furthermore, bacterial growth inhibition assays demonstrated that rEs-FABP9 responds positively to the growth inhibition of Vibrio parahaemolyticuss and S. aureus, while rEs-FABP10 responds positively to the growth inhibition of Aeromonas hydrophila and Bacillus subtilis. Coating of agarose beads with recombinant rEs-FABP9 and rEs-FABP10 dramatically enhanced encapsulation of the beads by crab hemocytes in vitro. In conclusion, the data presented here demonstrate the participation of these two lipid metabolism-related proteins in the innate immune system of E. sinensis.