Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Recurrent venous thromboembolism after deep vein thrombosis: incidence and risk factors.

BACKGROUND The recurrence rate after deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is high and the risk factors for recurrent thromboembolic events have only been investigated on a small scale. OBJECTIVES To estimate the cumulative incidence of recurrent venous thromboembolic events after a first or a second DVT and to identify possible risk factors for recurrent venous thromboembolism. METHODS We prospectively followed up 738 consecutive patients with an objectively verified symptomatic DVT for 3.7 to 8.8 years. Medical records and death certificates for all patients were reviewed during follow-up and recurrent DVT and pulmonary embolism were registered. RESULTS The 5-year cumulative incidence of recurrent venous thromboembolic events was 21.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 17.7%-25.4%) after a first DVT and 27.9% (95% CI, 19.7%-36.1%) after a second DVT. The 5-year cumulative incidence of fatal pulmonary embolism was 2.6% (95% CI, 1.1%-4.1%) after a first DVT. Proximal DVT (relative risk [RR], 2.40; 95% CI, 1.48-3.88; P<.001), cancer (RR, 1.97; 95% CI, 1.20-3.23; P<.001), and history of a venous thromboembolism (RR, 1.71; 95% CI, 1.16-2.52; P<.01) predicted an independently increased risk of recurrent events in multivariate survival analysis. Postoperative DVT (RR, 0.27; 95% CI, 0.13-0.55; P<.001) and a long duration of oral anticoagulation therapy (RR, 0.95; 95% CI, 0.92-0.98; P<.01) involved a smaller risk of recurrent events. Sex, age, initial antithrombotic therapy, or immobilization did not affect the risk of a recurrent event. CONCLUSIONS The recurrence rate after a symptomatic DVT is high. Patients with proximal DVT, diagnosed cancer, short duration of oral anticoagulation therapy, or a history of thromboembolic events had a higher risk of recurrent events, while patients with postoperative DVT had a lower recurrence rate. This knowledge could help identify patients who might benefit most from prolonged prophylactic treatment in various risk situations.
Semantic Structure and Emotional Impact of Expressive Function Overlapping or Enjambement

In this article, we approach the study of overlappings as being functional and integral units throughout any message in the communication process. We present an acoustic analysis of two variables and a reception test of the emotional impact caused by them throughout a sample of films, spots and trailers. The results show that there is a significant correlation between the change in intensity and tone, and the emotional impact on receivers. These data contribute to the formulation of a standardized tipology of overlappings, their parameters of configuration and their emotional effects in fiction. The overlapping serves a specific communication function; specifically, sound is manipulated to meet the objectives of the emiting system, that is, to cause certain effects over the receiving system.
Dexterity evaluation of a hitting skill considering motion latitudes before impact

This paper proposes an evaluation method for human hitting motion skill. The hitting motion is one of basic motions, in which a human often employs a tool to move or convert an object. Also, hitting skill is an important performance desired in many sports, such as tennis and baseball, and also in the field of traditional crafts, such as nailing and forging. In proposed method, the hitting skill using some tool is analyzed from its dynamical characteristics. When conducting a hitting skill, ideal impulsive force is added in a certain direction at specific point to obtain desired result. To add the impulsive force in such a way, human controls trajectory and velocity of the tool before impact. Therefore, the way how human controls the tool trajectory and velocity before impact is analyzed in this paper. Concretely, the hitting skill is evaluated considering trajectory latitude and velocity latitude of the tool before impact. These indexes give how much spatial and temporal latitudes human has in skill conducting, and show two dominant aspects of hitting dexterity. The proposed method is applied to the evaluation of a pocket billiard stroke motion. For the experiment, constructed billiard robotic system with two degrees of freedom is utilized. The experimental results suggest even with the same result, computed dexterities show deeper evaluation for the skill motions.
Nombres indígenas de plantas americanas en los tratados científicos de Fray Agustín Farfán

Los tratados cientificos de Fray Agustin Farfan (Tractado Breve deAnothomia y Chirvgia, Mexico, 1579, y Tractado Brebe de Medicina,Mexico, 1592), de los que nos ocupamos, no habian sido analizados desdeel punto de vista linguistico, aunque recogen informacion detallada sobrela flora mejicana: hierbas silvestres, arboles, arbustos y frutos, con indicaciones sobre sus caracteristicas botanicas, propiedades medicinales yalucinogenas, etc. Al mismo tiempo, estos tratados practicamente desconocidos constituyen una valiosa fuente para la documentacion historico-linguistica de la terminologia indigena -de 11 indigenismos en1579 se llega a los 50 en 1592-, a veces acompanada de la sinonimiacastellana y de consideraciones sociolinguisticas. Solo se estudian aquilos terminos americanos relativos a la flora, por ser los mas numerosos, adiferencia de las denominaciones indigenas de la fauna. De este modo,creemos haber contribuido al mejor conocimiento del proceso historico ysociolinguistico de acomodacion a las estructuras gramaticales del espanolde una importante gavilla de voces de origen nahuatl, en su granmayoria, recogidas por el sabio y perspicaz Fray Agustin Farfan (? 1534-1604? ).
Molecular Mechanisms of Hepatitis B Virus-Associated Liver Cancer

Hepatitis B infection is associated with an increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma development. Hepatitis B proteins, such as the hepatitis B x protein, the large hepatitis B surface protein, or truncated middle hepatitis B surface proteins, regulate transcription of many candidate genes for liver carcinogenesis by trans-mechanisms. They also alter mechanisms of apoptosis and interfere with nucleotide excision repair of damaged DNA. Together with an influence on cellular signaling, these mechanisms may favor the cell’s clonal expansion.
完全基於類神經網路之語音合成系統初步研究 (A Preliminary Study on Fully Neural Network-based Speech Synthesis System) [In Chinese]

A Preliminary Study on Fully Neural Network-based Speech Synthesis System 廖書漢 SHU-HAN Liao ,蔡亞伯 YaBo Chai , 廖元甫 a Yuan-Fu Liao, a 國立台北科技大學電子工程系 sam8105111@gmail.com, d0030253@gmail.com, yfliao@ntut.edu. tw 摘要 傳統的語音合成使用先文字分析後語音合成的架構,但是這種兩階段的作法, 通常會有,若前級分析錯誤,就會影響後級合成,且無法挽救的問題。 因此,在 本論文中我們希望嘗試把前後級,全部都改成以類神經網路實現,以便將來可以 直接合成一個大的端對端語音合成類神經網路。 主要的想法是,直接以字元串為 輸入單位,並盡量用大量未標記語料,進行非監督式類神經網路訓練。 我們的系 統包含四個子網路,分別是DNNG以sequence-to-sequence[1] [2]架構作字轉音,DNNC 以word2vec[3]擷取 characterclass,DNNT以 recurrent neural networklanguage model (RNNLM)[4],求取字元時序關係,與DNNs以deep neural network進行語音合成。 實驗語料由專業播音員錄製,內容包括孟德爾傳全書以及從網路擷取約3000句的 中英夾雜句子。 並以相同文字要求新舊系統各自合成測試語料,請10人進行聽測 試,分別以新舊系統各聽10句,進行A/B/X偏好度測試,與以新舊系統各聽20句, 做mean opinion score(MOS)評分,評估新舊系統的可理解度,自然度與相似度。 從實驗結果發現,在可理解度、自然度和相似度方面,分別有72%、70%和61%的 人偏好新系統。 而且新系統的可理解度、自然度和相似度的MOS主觀分數各為 3.59、3. 1和3. 18分,高於舊系統的3. 33、3. 03和2. 9分,顯示我們所提出的系統效能 相當不錯,印證我們提出的想法確實可行。 關鍵詞:語音合成、深度類神經網路、端對端 一、簡介 傳統語音合成系統中,包含兩個處理階段,分別是前端文本分析與後端聲音合 成(如下圖1)。 其中在前端文本分析模組,包含了文字正規化、斷詞、字轉音、詞
Competition in the Unstirred Chemostat with Periodic Input and Washout

The model of an unstirred chemostat is generalized to that of a chemostat with time-dependent input/washout rates. The novelty of the new model is that time periodicity appears in the boundary conditions. The asymptotic dynamics of the competition between two microbial populations is determined in terms of the corresponding period map, which is shown to preserve the standard competitive ordering. It is shown that the dynamics of competition is similar to that of a chemostat with constant boundary conditions. Simple criteria for coexistence versus competitive exclusion are presented. 1. Introduction. The chemostat represents a basic model of an open system in microbial ecology. In its simplest form, it consists of three vessels. The rst, called the feed bottle, contains medium with all of the nutrients needed for growth in sur- plus except one, which hereafter is simply called the nutrient. The contents of the feed bottle are pumped at a constant rate into the second vessel, called the culture vessel or bioreactor. The culture vessel is charged with one or more populations of microorganisms. The contents of the culture vessel are pumped into the remaining vessel, called the over∞ow vessel, at a constant rate, keeping the volume of the reactor constant. The organisms compete for the nutrient in a purely exploitative manner. Basic assumptions include that the vessel is well mixed and that all other parame- ters (pH, temperature, etc.) are strictly controlled. The ∞ow rate is assumed to be sucient to preclude wall growth or the accumulation of metabolic products. Let S(t) denote the concentration of the nutrient in the culture vessel and xi(t), i =1 ; 2, denote the concentration of the competitors. LetS 0 denote the concentration of the input nutrient and let D denote the dilution rate (∞ow rate/volume). If growth is assumed to be proportional to consumption then the basic equations take the form
Global Optimization Algorithms In Data Clustering Problems (August 2014)

Global optimization algorithms applied to solve the problems clear and fuzzy data clustering. With their help and using of different target functions the centers boundaries and forms of the clusters defined by modeling in MATLAB. It is shown that the centers of the clusters defined by algorithms patternsearch and K-means are the same. The advantages of global optimization algorithms are in the unity of approach, proximity solutions to an optimal solution, there is no requirements of continuity and differentiability of the objective function, taking into account the linear and non-linear constraints on the variables. The applications of the automatic clustering to processing tracks in high-energy physics, remote sensing of the Earth, geochemical data were discussed.
MR elastography of the liver: preliminary results.

PURPOSE To develop a method for measuring liver stiffness with magnetic resonance (MR) elastography and to prospectively test this technique in healthy volunteers and patients with liver fibrosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS This HIPAA-compliant study was approved by an institutional review board, and informed consent was obtained from each subject. First, to determine the feasibility of applying shear waves to the liver, a pneumatic acoustic wave generator was developed and tested by using a tissue-simulating gel phantom with ribs on one side and without ribs on the other. The effect of interposed ribs on stiffness measurements was tested. Then, liver stiffness was measured with MR elastography in 12 healthy volunteers (eight men, four women; mean age, 26.7 years; age range, 19-39 years) by using the subcostal approach and the transcostal approach and in 12 patients with chronic liver disease (six men, six women; mean age, 50.5 years; age range, 36-60 years) by using the transcostal approach. Various statistical analyses were performed to assess all measurements. RESULTS Ex vivo, interposed ribs reduced shear wave amplitude but did not hinder stiffness measurements. In volunteers, the transcostal approach surprisingly yielded better shear waves in the liver than did the subcostal approach. The mean liver shear stiffness was significantly lower in volunteers (mean, 2.0 kPa +/- 0.3 [standard deviation]) than it was in patients with liver fibrosis (mean, 5.6 kPa +/- 5.0; median, 3.7 kPa; range, 2.7-19.2 kPa; P < .001). CONCLUSION MR elastography of the liver is feasible and shows promise as a quantitative method for noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis.
Lawyers, Judges, and the Making of a Transnational Constitution

Tucked away in the fairyland Duchy of Luxembourg and blessed, until recently, with benign neglect by the powers that be and the mass media, the Court of Justice of the European Communities has fashioned a constitutional framework for a federal-type structure in Europe. From its inception a mere quarter of a century ago, the Court has construed the European Community Treaties in a constitutional mode rather than employing the traditional international law methodology. Proceeding from its fragile jurisdictional base, the Court has arrogated to itself the ultimate authority to draw the line between Community law and national law. Moreover, it has established and obtained acceptance of the broad principle of direct integration of Community law into the national legal orders of the member states and of the supremacy of Community law within its limited but expanding area of competence over any conflicting national law.
Abelian Complexity and Frequencies of Letters in Infinite Words

Abelian complexity in infinite words is a combinatorial tool which developed essentially during the last five years. In this paper, we undertake to establish connections between abelian complexity and uniform frequencies in infinite words. In particular, we focus on the binary case to link uniform equi-frequency with abelian complexity. We also provide various examples of infinite words to illustrate the absence of connection between usual complexity and abelian complexity. Some properties involving uniform recurrence are also given.
Signaling approach for NoC quality of service requirements

This paper proposes a new communication protocol based on signaling mechanisms on mesh architecture for a network on chip in order to improve mapping between QoS requirements for a communication processes and available hardware resources in NoC routers. This approach consists on broadcasting the instantaneous informations between routers related to same metrics to abstract physical system capacities. Theses informations will be useful at the routing action to avoid a static routing and congestion during the establishment of a virtual communication path. To validate this new approach and to integrate protocolar architecture, we have choosed a high level description language allowing the synthesis of a typical architecture for a NOC router with quality of service management.
Ibm Research Report Balancing Processor Loads and Exploiting Data Locality in Irregular Computations Balancing Processor Loads and Exploiting Data Locality in Irregular Computations 1

LIMITED DISTRIBUTION NOTICE This report has been submitted for publication outside of IBM and will probably be copyrighted if accepted for publication. It has been issued as a Research Report for early dissemination of its contents. In view of the transfer of copyright to the outside publisher, its distribution outside of IBM prior to publication should be limited to peer communications and speciic requests. After outside publication, requests should be lled only by reprints or legally obtained copies of the article (e.g., payment of royalties). Abstract Fractiling is a scheduling scheme that simultaneously balances processor loads and exploits locality. Because it is based on a probabilistic analysis, frac-tiling accommodates load imbalances caused by both predictable phenomena, such as irregular data and conditional statements, and also unpredictable phenomena , such as data access latency and operating system interference. Fractil-ing exploits both temporal locality, which is often prootable for computations on regular data, and spatial locality, which is often prootable for computations on irregular data. Here, we report on a case study involving the application of fractiling to computations on irregular data, namely N-body simulations. In experiments on a KSR1, performance was improved by as much as 43% by frac-tiling. Performance improvements were obtained on nonuniform and uniform distributions of bodies, underscoring the need for a scheduling scheme that accommodates application as well as system induced execution time variance.
Performative experience design

This paper categorises key HCI literature that engages with performance theory or practice according to a taxonomy that puts the user at the centre of the analysis. This taxonomy reveals three strands of research that use performance to address HCI and interaction design at the most fundamental level. We use these strands of research to map out what we have identified as the emerging field of Performative Experience Design. This field, which lies between HCI and performance studies, presents an extraordinarily rich potential for the design of interactive systems.
Testicular dysgenesis syndrome: an increasingly common developmental disorder with environmental aspects

Numerous reports have recently focused on various aspects of adverse trends in male reproductive health, such as the rising incidence of testicular cancer; low and probably declining semen quality; high and possibly increasing frequencies of undescended testis and hypospadias; and an apparently growing demand for assisted reproduction. Due to specialization in medicine and different ages at presentation of symptoms, reproductive problems used to be analysed separately by various professional groups, e.g. paediatric endocrinologists, urologists, andrologists and oncologists. This article summarizes existing evidence supporting a new concept that poor semen quality, testis cancer, undescended testis and hypospadias are symptoms of one underlying entity, the testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS), which may be increasingly common due to adverse environmental influences. Experimental and epidemiological studies suggest that TDS is a result of disruption of embryonal programming and gonadal development during fetal life. Therefore, we recommend that future epidemiological studies on trends in male reproductive health should not focus on one symptom only, but be more comprehensive and take all aspects of TDS into account. Otherwise, important biological information may be lost.
Characterization of a tetraploid derivative of Candida albicans ATCC 10261

A morphometric analysis of Candida albicans yeast cells utilizing scanning electron microscopy showed that the cell volume and the DNA content of a tetraploid strain (derived by cell fusion) were 2.4 to 3.0 and 2.0 times, respectively, those of the progenitor diploid strain, ATCC 10261. The pathogenicities of both strains were similar.
Speech perception as probabilistic inference under uncertainty based on social-indexical 1 knowledge 2 3

45 46 Word count: 10,184 (excluding abstract, references and appendices) 47 This manuscript is currently under review. Please don't cite this without the authors' permission. We'll appreciate your comments and feedback. Please direct them to Abstract 48 Talkers differ from each other in how they pronounce the same phonetic contrast. In speech perception, 49 such inter-talker variability contributes to the lack of invariance problem, creating uncertainty about the 50 mapping between acoustic cues and linguistic representations. However, inter-talker variability is not 51 random: talker-specific cue-to-category mappings are often systematically conditioned on social group 52 membership (including, e.g., a talker's gender and age, but also sociolect and dialect). There is now 53 substantial evidence that listeners take advantage of these statistical contingencies. We provide an 54 introduction to how such sensitivity can be productively understood in terms of ideal observer 55 approaches—mathematical models that describe statistically optimal solutions to inference under 56 uncertainty. We then discuss a challenge that any model of speech perception needs to address: how do 57 listeners know when to adapt or, put differently, what variables should cue-to-category mappings be 58 conditioned on? We link this question to the informativity that indexical cues carry with respect to the 59 relevant linguistic distributions, and we demonstrate how the informativity of indexical cues with respect 60 to linguistic distributions can be quantified. If talker identity or social group membership carry important 61 information about the distribution of phonetic categories, ideal observer approaches predict talker-and 62 group-specific expectations. We illustrate how these accounts work against realistic speech data. 63 64
Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: THE THEORY DEVELOPED

Part I. The Theory Developed: 1. A theory of institutional change: concepts and causes 2. The government, coercion, and the redistribution of income 3. A theory of institutional innovation: description, analogy, specification 4. Changes in the institutional environment: exogenous shifts and arrangemental innovation Part II. The Theory Applied: 5. Land policy and American agriculture 6. Organization and reorganization in the financial markets: savings and investment in the American economy, 1820-1950 7. Transportation developments and economic growth 8. Economies of scale, unsuccessful cartelization, and external costs: some sidelights on the growth of manufacturing in the United States 9. Institutional change in the service industries 9. The labor force: organization and education Part III. Conclusions: 11. The changing public-private mix 12. History and the analysis of arrangemental change: a look to the past with an eye to the future.
Lecture notes on approximation algorithms: Volume I

These lecture notes are based on the course CS351 (Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University) offered during the academic year 1991-92. The notes below correspond to the first half of the course. The second half consists of topics such as AL4X SNP. cliques, and colorings, as well as more specialized material covering topics such as geometric problems, Steiner trees and multicommodity flows. The second half is being revised to incorporate the implications of recent results in approximation algorithms and the complexity of approximation problems. Please let me know if you would like to be on the mailing list for the second half. Comments, criticisms and corrections are welcome, please send them by electronic mail to rajeev@cs.Stanford. edu.
Interpersonal Comparison for Better or for Worse: The Effects of Social Motivation in Negotiations Over Time

The present paper builds on social comparison theory and the motivated information processing model to explain negotiation behavior and outcomes in two different economic contexts: for better or for worse. Across two experiments (scenario and repeated negotiations) results show that negotiating for better or worse determines negotiator’s satisfaction and relational concerns while fairness perceptions and trust are built upon the basis of social comparison processes. Moreover, results show that social motivation is a moderator of these relationships.