Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
complication Overweight Obesity Having 2 complications Overweight Obesity Having 3 complications Obesity Preeclampsia Overweight Obesity Gestational diabetes Overweight Obesity Higher gestational age group Overweight Cesarean section Overweight Obesity Higher birth weight group Overweight Obesity Lo

Background/Aims: Obesity along with high prepregnancy body mass index (PP-BMI) is known to cause many adverse pregnancy outcomes. In Thailand, there is not much study showing both the prevalence and complications of these conditions. The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity and their impacts on adverse pregnancy outcomes. Methods: This study was a cross sectional study. Data were collected retrospectively from hospital electronic database along with manual retrieval from medical charts and labor records. Data of all delivery women from 1 February 2011 to 31 August 2012 were collected. When excluded cases with incomplete data and those without PP-BMI, 5420 cases were into analysis. Descriptive and inferential data analyses were used with both univariate and multivariate methods. Results: The proportion of pregnant women with overweight and obesity were 11.1% and 3.9%. After multiple logistic regression analysis was done, women in obesity group were correlated with having 1, 2 and 3 complications. They were also correlated with preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, cesarean section, higher birth weight group and long neonatal length. Conclusions: This Thai prevalence of obesity in pregnancy should alarm health care providers to be more prepared, for a future health problem of the country. Many complications that come with obese pregnant women that were reported in western countries also happen in Thai population. Decreasing body weight before conception, giving correct health education, well planned pregnancy; antenatal lifestyle intervention and even gestational weight gain restricttion could help avoiding these uneventful morbidities.
Outage analysis of underlaid multi-antenna D2D communication in cellular networks

In this work, we consider in-band device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaid with an uplink cellular network, where D2D users are equipped with multiple antennas. We assume that the D2D users employ the distance cut-off mode selection scheme to reduce the interference to base stations. With the help of stochastic geometry, we derive the approximate yet accurate analytical outage probability experienced at the base station and the D2D receiver. The accuracy of the derived analytical results is confirmed by simulation results. Our numerical results show that having multi-antenna D2D users can improve the outage probability at the D2D receiver, while the outage probability at the base station is not impacted. In addition, equal number of D2D transmit and receive antennas can provide better D2D receiver outage performance. The results also show that a smaller value of the distance cut-off threshold is a good choice as it achieves good D2D communication and does not adversely impact the cellular network performance.
Working towards an international consensus on criteria for assessing internet gaming disorder: a critical commentary on Petry et al. (2014).

This commentary paper critically discusses the recent debate paper by Petry et al. (2014) that argued there was now an international consensus for assessing Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). Our collective opinions vary considerably regarding many different aspects of online gaming. However, we contend that the paper by Petry and colleagues does not provide a true and representative international community of researchers in this area. This paper critically discusses and provides commentary on (i) the representativeness of the international group that wrote the 'consensus' paper, and (ii) each of the IGD criteria. The paper also includes a brief discussion on initiatives that could be taken to move the field towards consensus. It is hoped that this paper will foster debate in the IGD field and lead to improved theory, better methodologically designed studies, and more robust empirical evidence as regards problematic gaming and its psychosocial consequences and impact.
Narrative smoothing: Dynamic conversational network for the analysis of TV series plots

Modern popular TV series often develop complex storylines spanning several seasons, but are usually watched in quite a discontinuous way. As a result, the viewer generally needs a comprehensive summary of the previous season plot before the new one starts. The generation of such summaries requires first to identify and characterize the dynamics of the series subplots. One way of doing so is to study the underlying social network of interactions between the characters involved in the narrative. The standard tools used in the Social Networks Analysis field to extract such a network rely on an integration of time, either over the whole considered period, or as a sequence of several time-slices. However, they turn out to be inappropriate in the case of TV series, due to the fact the scenes showed onscreen alternatively focus on parallel storylines, and do not necessarily respect a traditional chronology. In this article, we introduce narrative smoothing, a novel, still exploratory, network extraction method. It smooths the relationship dynamics based on the plot properties, aiming at solving some of the limitations present in the standard approaches. In order to assess our method, we apply it to a new corpus of 3 popular TV series, and compare it to both standard approaches. Our results are promising, showing narrative smoothing leads to more relevant observations when it comes to the characterization of the protagonists and their relationships. It could be used as a basis for further modeling the intertwined storylines constituting TV series plots.
Human motion recognition using Gaussian Processes classification

This paper investigates the applicability of Gaussian processes (GP) classification for recognition of articulated and deformable human motions from image sequences. Using tensor subspace analysis (TSA), space-time human silhouettes (extracted from motion videos) are transformed to low-dimensional multivariate time series, based on which structure-based statistical features are calculated to summarize the motion properties. GP classification is then used to learn and predict motion categories. Experimental results on two real-world state-of-the-art datasets show that the proposed approach is effective, and outperforms support vector machine (SVM).
NOAA CIRES Twentieth Century Global Reanalysis Version 2

The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project, supported by the Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division from NOAA and the University of Colorado CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, is an effort to produce a global reanalysis dataset spanning a portion of the nineteenth century and the entire twentieth century (1871 - near present), assimilating only surface observations of synoptic pressure, monthly sea surface temperature and sea ice distribution. Products include 6-hourly ensemble mean and spread analysis fields on a 2 by 2 degree global latitude-longitude grid, and 3 and 6-hourly ensemble mean and spread forecast (first guess) fields on a global Gaussian T62 grid. Fields are accessible in yearly time series (1 file per parameter) and monthly synoptic time (all parameters per synoptic hour) files. Ensemble grids, spectral coefficients, and other information will available by offline request in the future. \n\n The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which are supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 and Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725, respectively. \n\nNote: Version 2c of this reanalysis (running from 1851 - 2011) is the recommended research version. Please see ds131.2 to access Version 2c.
SANE: A Protection Architecture for Enterprise Networks

Connectivity in today's enterprise networks is regulated by a combination of complex routing and bridging policies, along with various interdiction mechanisms such as ACLs, packet filters, and other middleboxes that attempt to retrofit access control onto an otherwise permissive network architecture. This leads to enterprise networks that are inflexible, fragile, and difficult to manage. To address these limitations, we offer SANE, a protection architecture for enterprise networks. SANE defines a single protection layer that governs all connectivity within the enterprise. All routing and access control decisions are made by a logically-centralized server that grants access to services by handing out capabilities (encrypted source routes) according to declarative access control policies (e.g., "Alice can access http server foo"). Capabilities are enforced at each switch, which are simple and only minimally trusted. SANE offers strong attack resistance and containment in the face of compromise, yet is practical for everyday use. Our prototype implementation shows that SANE could be deployed in current networks with only a few modifications, and it can easily scale to networks of tens of thousands of nodes.
Water-based interventions for schistosomiasis control

Abstract Mass drug administration with praziquantel is the mainstay of programs for the control of schistosomiasis morbidity. However, there is a growing recognition that treatment alone will not be sufficient for eventually effecting elimination and that additional measures will be required to interrupt transmission. In the absence of a safe and an effective vaccine for human schistosomiasis, the strategies to reduce infection levels will necessarily involve some interventions that affect the water-related stages of the schistosome life cycle: by reducing exposure to infectious water, by moderating availability of the intermediate snail host, or by decreasing contamination of water with egg-containing excreta. While much research on the importance of water on schistosomiasis has been performed, advances in these areas have perhaps languished with the ready availability of a cost-effective treatment. As some endemic areas near a shift to an elimination goal, a better understanding of water-based interventions that can be used alone or in concert with treatment will be needed. Reinvigoration of laboratory, field, and human behavioral aspects of this research now will ensure that the appropriate strategies are available by the time their implementation becomes necessary.
Resting state MEG oscillations show long-range temporal correlations of phase synchrony that break down during finger movement

The capacity of the human brain to interpret and respond to multiple temporal scales in its surroundings suggests that its internal interactions must also be able to operate over a broad temporal range. In this paper, we utilize a recently introduced method for characterizing the rate of change of the phase difference between MEG signals and use it to study the temporal structure of the phase interactions between MEG recordings from the left and right motor cortices during rest and during a finger-tapping task. We use the Hilbert transform to estimate moment-to-moment fluctuations of the phase difference between signals. After confirming the presence of scale-invariance we estimate the Hurst exponent using detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). An exponent of >0.5 is indicative of long-range temporal correlations (LRTCs) in the signal. We find that LRTCs are present in the α/μ and β frequency bands of resting state MEG data. We demonstrate that finger movement disrupts LRTCs correlations, producing a phase relationship with a structure similar to that of Gaussian white noise. The results are validated by applying the same analysis to data with Gaussian white noise phase difference, recordings from an empty scanner and phase-shuffled time series. We interpret the findings through comparison of the results with those we obtained from an earlier study during which we adopted this method to characterize phase relationships within a Kuramoto model of oscillators in its sub-critical, critical, and super-critical synchronization states. We find that the resting state MEG from left and right motor cortices shows moment-to-moment fluctuations of phase difference with a similar temporal structure to that of a system of Kuramoto oscillators just prior to its critical level of coupling, and that finger tapping moves the system away from this pre-critical state toward a more random state.
Identifying Gene Clusters and Regulatory Themes using Time Course Expression Data , Hidden Markov Models and Transcription Factor Information

Motivation: The development of microarrays has allowed the gene expression of thousands of genes to be simultaneously observed. Methods are required that analyse this expression data in order to discover information about gene function and regulatory mechanisms. The regulatory information would be very useful for the understanding of biological processes and the changes to these processes associated with disease and development. Methods of clustering genes that show similar expression patterns using hidden Markov models have recently been developed for time series data. We extend this previous work by suggesting some improvements as well as developing a strategy to incorporate transcription factor information directly into the model. Results: We applied the method to a large dataset containing 22283 genes and 5 time points. The results showed that expression patterns had been sensibly clustered, however many further improvements and analysis of the method need to be made. Contact: karen.lees@linacre.ox. ac.uk, taylor@stats.ox. ac.uk
Visualising and Interacting with a CAVE using Real-WorldSensor Data

A CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) is a 3D interactive environment that enables a user to be fully immersed in a virtual world and o ers a unique way to visualise and interact with digital information. In this paper we build a foundation of CAVE interaction design by characterising generic a ordances of such an environment and enumerating currently conceivable/implementable interaction mechanisms. In particular, we focus on how different aspects of the CAVE a ordances relate to virtual worlds that are generated for the purpose of visualising and interacting with real-world sensor data. In support of this we present a case study which explores how the CAVE can be used to visualise and better understand data from 16 residential apartments where we have been collecting daily home usage information for the past year. We summarise our on-going work by demonstrating how the unique characteristics of the CAVE can be used to visualise this large quantity of heterogeneous data, which provides more novel possibilities than traditional data visualisation and interaction methods.
Improving the neural meshes algorithm for 3D surface reconstruction with edge swap operations

The reconstruction of a three-dimensional surface from a set of unorganized points is a fundamental process in a lot of applications, including laser range scanners, medical imaging, and others. This work presents a modified version of the Neural Meshes algorithm for surface reconstruction from point cloud, called Neural Meshes with Edge Swap, or Neural Meshes ES. From the original basic Neural Meshes algorithm we developed a new heuristic that include an edge-swap operation, making the algorithm less sensible to parameters variation, improving the quality of the generated surfaces. The results show that the edge-swap operation is able to avoid a series of incorrect reconstructed areas in the mesh, mainly in the concave structures.
The relationship between some demographic characteristics and organizational commitment of nurses working in the Social Security Hospital of Khorramabad

Background Reduction in organizational commitment of nurses results in deficiency of care services. Some demographic factors affect organizational commitment. Objective The present study is intended to determine the organizational commitment of nurses and its relationship with demographic characteristics. Methods This study was a descriptive correlation (cross-sectional) study in January and February of 2016 on 126 nurses who held Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) or Master of Science (M.Sc.) and at least one year of work experience in the Social Security Hospital of Khorramabad, selected using the census method. Data collection tools included a demographic characteristics form and Allen and Meyer questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 20. Independent-samples t-test and one-way ANOVA were used to determine the relationship between organizational commitment and demographic characteristics. Results The majority of nurses had moderate organizational commitment, the highest score belonging to the continuance commitment (22.33%), and the lowest score belonging to the normative commitment (19.16%). Also, there was a significant correlation between the continuance commitment and work experience (p=0.001), the staff posts (p=0.01) and shifts (p=0.04). Conclusion Considering the moderate level of subjects’ organizational commitment in the present study, managers should take necessary measures to increase the attachment and organizational commitment of nurses and provide the ground for improving nursing services.
AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDY OF PINOCYTOSIS IN AMEBA II. The Cytoplasmic Uptake Phase

This report is devoted principally to a consideration of the fate of the pinocytotic vacuole and its content in thc ameba Pelomyxa earolinensis (Chaos chaos). High resolution micrographs of the plasmalemma have shown it to consist of three layers, i.e., an outermost filamentiferous zone, a middle homogencous zone, and an inner zone which appears to be a unit membrane. The three zones can be identified in the membranes lining thc pinoyctotic tunnels and vacuoles of amebas fixed shortly aftcr pinocytosis occurred. The first apparent change in the pinocytotic vacuole is an increase in thc surface-to-volumc ratio which occurs during the I st hour of its existence. Within 24 hours thc marker substance commonly collects in defecation vacuolcs which can bc identified by thc profiles of bacteria usually found in the lumen. Occasionally, howcver, thorotrast can be seen in the lumen of the contractile vacuole. The thorotrast appears to enter the two excretory organclles by the coalescence of vesicular fragments of the pinocytotic vacuoles with the limiting membranes of the excretory organclles. I N T R O D U C T I O N Pinocytosis appears to be a device for coupling the unique properties of the surface membrane to the physiological and biochemical activities of the cytoplasm. Part I (6) of this series of reports was concerned with the demonstration of the site of at tachment of pinocytosis-stimulating substances to the plasmalemma of ameba. This subsequent report is devoted principally to a consideration of the fate of the pinocytotic vacuoles consequent to the adsorption of substances onto the plasmalemma as well as to further studies on the nature of the initial adsorption site. Higher resolution of the plasmalemma obtained by studying Aralditeembedded amebas has demonstrated that it is a laminated structure and that only the most superficial layer seems to be involved in the initial adsorption. A number of hypotheses concerning the fate of pinocytotic vacuoles were tested in part at least by exposing amebas to thorium dioxide suspensions or ferritin solutions for a short interval during which some of the particles were pinocytosed. At a series of intervals after this exposure the cells were fixed and prepared for study in the electron microscope. Earlier (4, 6) it was suggested that the adsorption to the plasmalemma of molecules in solution, or particles in suspension, evokes pinocytosis in the test cells. Since the adsorption of solute transforms it to another phase, it is noted that ultimately the cell may be responding not to a solution but perhaps to a solid. In this respect there appears to be a close relationship between pinocytosis and phagocytosis. It may be useful, how-
Towards Small‐Molecule CXCR3 Ligands with Clinical Potential

The CXCR3 chemokine receptor was first discovered in 1996 and has been shown to play an important role in several diseases, most of which are related to inflammation. This review describes in detail the development of small CXCR3 ligands and their therapeutic potential. Classes of CXCR3 antagonists with strikingly variable core structures have emerged. Some of these compounds have confirmed the beneficial role of CXCR3 antagonism in animal models of disease. One of the compounds, AMG487, progressed to Phase II clinical trials but has been withdrawn because of lack of efficacy. New antagonist classes are being developed to reveal the full therapeutic potential of CXCR3.
Hunting by male lions: ecological influences and socioecological implications

In the Kruger National Park, male lions, Panthera leo, acquire most of their food by hunting rather than scavenging. This study, the most intensive to date of male lion ecology, showed that in savanna woodlands, with high buffalo, Syncerus caffer, densities, male lions were frequent and successful hunters. The main prey species of all male group types, but particularly nonterritorial males, was buffalo. By contrast, females preyed more frequently on the most abundant medium-sized ungulates, such as wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus, and zebra, Equus burchelli. Thus intraspecific prey selection separation was based primarily on intersexual and, to a lesser extent, social differences. Furthermore, both nonterritorial males and pride females located their favoured prey, buffalo and medium-sized ungulates, respectively, more often than other prey. We investigated the influence of several ecological variables on the socioecology of male lions, particularly as we had determined that territorial males spent little time with their pride females and tended to hunt by themselves in their respective male coalitions. Further analysis showed that in a range of ecosystems in southern and eastern Africa the proportion of time territorial males spent with, and thus scavenged from, their pride females was strongly influenced by vegetation structure, and therefore probably by the assemblage of available ungulates. In open systems, territorial males were, therefore, likely to be encountered with pride females, whereas in more wooded areas they were likely to be encountered away from their pride females. We suggest that this is because vegetation structure influences food/prey availability and hunting success and influences territory maintenance and/or cub defence. (c) 1998 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.