Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact de la restriction cognitive sur le stress, les sensations d'appétit et les rages alimentaires au cours d'une restriction énergétique chez des femmes présentant une obésité

iv Table des matières . v Liste des tableaux . vii Liste des figures . viii Liste des abréviations et des sigles . ix Avant-propos . x Chapitre I : Introduction générale . 1 Chapitre II : Problématique . 4 1 La problématique reliée à l’excès de poids corporel . 4 1.1 Définition de l’excès de poids et de l’obésité selon les outils de mesure utilisés . 4 1.2 Prévalence de l’excès de poids et de l’obésité au Canada et au Québec . 6 1.3 Conséquences de l’excès de poids sur la santé . 6 2 Le processus de perte de poids . 8 2.1 Traitement et approche de perte de poids . 8 2.2 Barrières à la perte de poids . 12 2.3 Tendance au regain de poids . 13 3 La restriction cognitive dans le processus de perte de poids. 14 3.1 Les origines de la théorie de la restriction cognitive. 14 3.2 Définition actuelle du concept de la restriction cognitive . 17 3.3 Outils de mesure de la restriction cognitive et validité . 19 3.4 Désinhibition et distinction entre restriction flexible et rigide . 20 4 Effet de la restriction cognitive sur les comportements alimentaires et le stress . 21 4.1 Impact de la restriction cognitive sur les sensations d’appétit . 21 4.2 Le concept de désinhibition alimentaire en lien avec la restriction cognitive. 25 4.3 Influence de la restriction cognitive sur le développement de rages alimentaires . 26 4.4 Influence de la restriction cognitive sur le stress . 27 Chapitre III : Mise en contexte, objectifs et hypothèses . 30 Chapitre IV : Impact de la restriction cognitive sur le stress perçu, les sensations de satiété et les rages alimentaires au cours d’une restriction énergétique chez des femmes présentant une obésité . 32 Résumé . 33 Abstract . 35. 35
The pathic nature of inquiry and nursing

WHEN WE GET to know someone or something really well we sometimes use a special name, a nick name. A nick name is really a name over and above the name that something or someone already carries. The original meaning of surname (French surnom) is that it is a re-naming, the placement of a second name above or on top (sur) the first name.i With the nick name we indicate our special relation to something or someone. We make our world knowable by giving names, assigning labels to them. But nicknames and proper names serve a special function. They (re-)name the often more subjectively felt meanings of our relations with others Giving names is a most peculiar act. What occurs when one gives a name? asks Derrida (1995). What does one give? One does not offer a thing. One delivers nothing. And yet something comes to be. What is this something? And why do we re-name? We seem to rename when the usual name is found to be lacking of something, Sometimes, ordinary words have become too ordinary; we feel the need to get at what is unique, personal, singular, un-translatable about that what we name. We could push the problem further, beyond the cognitive toward the unnameable, the pathic dimensions of life. In order to explore the living relations we maintain with the world we first need to un-name things. In the short story “She Unnames Them” the science fiction author Ursula Le Guin hints at what happens in un-naming. Le Guin tells the tale of woman who asks Adam to take back the name he had given her just as he had given names to all the animals that the Creator had brought before him. She had already persuaded the animals and the birds and the insects and the fishes to accept namelessness. They had agreed and decided to give back their names. For most of them the act of unnaming had been very easy since the names given to them had left them utterly indifferent. She must have suspected that for humans the effect of unnaming might be quite dramatic. The effect she had been after, of becoming more attached to the world, was even more powerful than she had anticipated. After the unnaming she had discovered with surprise how close she felt to the creatures around her.
Using Information Systems Effectively: A Representational Perspective

Although there has been a great deal of research on why individuals adopt and use information systems, there is little research on what it takes for individuals to use information systems effectively. Motivated by the view that much of the impacts of information systems stem from how they are used, we propose a model to explain the nature and drivers of effective system usage. The model is designed to explain effective system usage in the context of an individual user employing any individual information system. In this context, we build on a theory of information systems known as representation theory to propose that effective system usage requires a user to engage in three activities: adaptation activities (adapting the system so that it provides better representations), learning activities (learning how to access the representations offered by the system), and verification activities (verifying the representations in the system as well as the real world domain being represented). The model suggests a set of factors that drive these activities, specifies how these activities drive effective usage, and proposes a link between effective usage and users task performance. After specifying the model, we provide examples of how it could be used to explain the effective use of several types of information systems and we discuss how the model could be expanded to explain other contexts of use (e.g., multiple systems and multiple users) and to incorporate process forms of theorizing as well as variance forms of theorizing.
Chronic Hepatitis B with Spontaneous Severe Acute Exacerbation

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major global health problem with an estimated 400 million HBV carriers worldwide. In the natural history of chronic hepatitis B (CHB), spontaneous acute exacerbation (AE) is not uncommon, with a cumulative incidence of 10%–30% every year. While exacerbations can be mild, some patients may develop hepatic decompensation and even die. The underlying pathogenesis is possibly related to the activation of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-mediated immune response against HBV. An upsurge of serum HBV DNA usually precedes the rise of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and bilirubin. Whether antiviral treatment can benefit CHB with severe AE remains controversial, but early nucleos(t)ide analogues treatment seemed to be associated with an improved outcome. There has been no randomized study that compared the effects of different nucleos(t)ide analogues (NA) in the setting of CHB with severe AE. However, potent NAs with good resistance profiles are recommended. In this review, we summarized current knowledge regarding the natural history, pathogenetic mechanisms, and therapeutic options of CHB with severe AE.
Factored Edge-Valued Binary Decision Diagrams 1

Factored Edge-Valued Binary Decision Diagrams form an extension to Edge-Valued Binary Decision Diagrams. By associating both an additive and a multiplicative weight with the edges, FEVBDDs can be used to represent a wider range of functions concisely. As a result, the computational complexity for certain operations can be significantly reduced compared to EVBDDs. Additionally, the introduction of multiplicative edge weights allows us to directly represent the so-called complement edges which are used in OBDDs, thus providing a one to one mapping of all OBDDs to FEVBDDs. Applications such as integer linear programming and logic verification that have been proposed for EVBDDs also benefit from the extension. We also present a complete matrix package based on FEVBDDs and apply the package to the problem of solving the Chapman-Kolmogorov equations.
NACHOS: Network-aware chains orchestration selection for NFV in SDN datacenter

Network function virtualization (NFV) provides the flexibility for service providers to scale up their service systems and also enhances the possibility to satisfy user demand with limited resources by enabling network functions on commodity servers, as well as by allowing multiple identical network functions existing in the service networks. On the other hand, to accommodate various user demands, multiple service chains need to be applied in this network. However, due to the flow mingling problem in network service chaining, the system throughput can hardly be evaluated, and determining multiple service chains becomes a challenge. In this work, we identify two types of flow-mingling problems: intra-chains link contention and inter-chains link contention, and propose an algorithm named NACHOS to facilitate selection of multiple service chains. As a result, NACHOS can result in the optimality with maximum available bandwidth in a datacenter network, and can select service chains in polynomial time.
The Use and Usefulness of Performance Measures in the Public Sector

The paper focuses on the empirical evidence on the use and usefulness of performance measures in the public sector. It begins with consideration of the features of the public sector which make the use of performance measures complex: the issues of multiple principals and multiple tasks. It discusses the form that performance measures may take, the use made of these measures and the responses that individual may make to them. Empirical examples from the fields of education and health, with a focus on the US and UK, are examined. There is clear evidence of responses to such measures. Some of these responses improve efficiency, but others do not and fall into the category of ‘gaming’. Generally, there has been little assessment of whether performance measures bring about improvements in service. The paper ends with consideration of how such measures should be used and what measures are useful to collect.
Radar for the Blind

This paper document proposes a low cost solution for integrating ultrasonic sensors onto a white-cane and a hat, enhancing the detection capability of the visually impaired by providing haptic feedback to the user. Using the devices is made more intuitive by adding an attachment to the white-cane, a device commonly used by the visually impaired. The white-cane attachment detects objects above the white-cane while the sensor hat detects objects in front of the user.
A 0.67mW 14.55Mbps OFDM-based sensor node transmitter for body channel communications

This paper presents an energy-efficient sensor node transmitter for body channel communication (BCC) system. The OFDM modulation is adopted in this work to achieve both high transmission data rate and spectrum efficiency. To reduce the power dissipation of the front-end (FE) circuits, a phase-modulated outphasing architecture is applied to avoid the power-hungry data converters and linear amplifier. Besides, the voltage scaling and balanced source gating (BSG) schemes are proposed to save the circuit active power, resulting in 81.3% reduction. The proposed sensor node transmitter chip is manufactured in 90 nm standard CMOS process with a die area 1.1016 mm2. The proposed BCC system is operated at 40 / 80 MHz with 10 MHz signal bandwidth, and the maximum data rate of 14.55 Mbps with 0.67 mW power dissipation can be achieved, leading to 0.05 nJ/b transmission energy and 1.46 bps/Hz spectral efficiency.
Refinable shift invariant spaces

Let ϕ : R d −→ C be a compactly supported function which satisfies a refinement equation of the form ϕ(x) = k∈Λ c k ϕ(Ax − k), c k ∈ C, where Γ ⊂ R d is a lattice, Λ is a finite subset of Γ, and A is a dilation matrix. We prove, under the hypothesis of linear independence of the Γ-translates of ϕ, that there exists a correspondence between the vectors of the Jordan basis of a finite submatrix of L = [c Ai−j ] i,j∈Γ and a finite dimensional subspace H in the shift invariant space generated by ϕ. We provide a basis of H and show that its elements satisfy a property of homogeneity associated to the eigenvalues of L. If the function ϕ has accuracy κ, this basis can be chosen to contain a basis for all the multivariate polynomials of degree less than κ. These latter functions are associated to eigenvalues that are powers of the eigenvalues of A −1. Further we show that the dimension of H coincides with the local dimension of ϕ, and hence, every function in the shift invariant space generated by ϕ can be written locally as a linear combination of translates of the homogeneous functions.
Dual Role of Fas/FasL-Mediated Signal in Peripheral Immune Tolerance

Fas-mediated apoptosis contributes to physiological and pathological cellular processes, such as differentiation and survival. In particular, the roles of Fas in immune cells are complex and critical for the maintenance of immune tolerance. The precise pathways and unique functions associated with Fas/FasL-mediated signaling in the immune system are known. The dual character of Fas/FasL-mediated immune regulation that induces beneficial or harmful effects is associated with the onset or development of immune disorders. Studies on mutations in genes encoding Fas and FasL gene of humans and mice contributed to our understanding of the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. Here, we review the opposing functions of Fas/FasL-mediated signaling, bilateral effects of Fas/FasL on in immune cells, and complex pathogenesis of autoimmunity mediated by Fas/FasL.
High mitochondrial DNA sequence divergence in New Guinea Carabdytes stream beetles and the taxonomist’s dilemma when other evidence is kind of subtle… (and collecting localities are far far away)

Abstract Carabdytes upin tindige ssp. n. is described from the Arfak Mountains Bird’s Head Indonesian Papua. It is morphologically very similar to Carabdytes upin upin Balke et al. 1992 known from eastern Indonesian Papua eastward to the western limits of the Papuan Peninsula of Papua New Guinea. For 726 bp at the 3’ end of the mitochondrial cox1 gene the subspecies differ by 8.1–9.2% uncorrected p-distance. However we also document considerable cox1 divergence within Carabdytes upin upin. We find few diagnostic positions in the nuclear genes argenine kinase as well as elongation factor 1 alpha that suggest there are indeed two isolated groups of Carabdytes but evidence in elongation factor 1 alpha is not unambiguous. We decided to highlight this phenomenon of ambiguous evidence for ongoing/just attained speciation by describing a subspecies. We argue that such cases are actually common once mitochondrial sequence data are routinely added to the taxonomist’s toolkit and sometimes simply adding data from few nuclear genes will not suffice the solve taxonomic riddles. Here detailed population genetic investigations would be required – for which sufficient numbers of specimens from a sufficiently wide geographical sampling might be nearly impossible to acquire.
Amyloid-beta and Alzheimer’s disease: the role of neprilysin-2 in amyloid-beta clearance

Accumulation of the amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide is a central factor in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis as supported by continuing evidence. This review concisely summarizes this evidence supporting a critical role for Aβ in AD before discussing the clearance of this peptide. Mechanisms of clearance of Aβ are critical for preventing pathological elevations in Aβ concentration. Direct degradation of Aβ by endopeptidases has emerged as one important pathway for clearance. Of particular interest are endopeptidases that are sensitive to the neprilysin (NEP) inhibitors thiorphan and phosphoramidon (i.e., are “NEP-like”) as these inhibitors induce a dramatic increase in Aβ levels in rodents. This review will focus on neprilysin-2 (NEP2), a NEP-like endopeptidase which cooperates with NEP to control Aβ levels in the brain. The evidence for the involvement of NEP2 in AD is discussed as well as the therapeutic relevance with regards to gene therapy and the development of molecular markers for the disease.
EvoSuite at the SBST 2015 Tool Competition

EvoSuite is a mature research prototype that automatically generates unit tests for Java code. This paper summarizes the results and experiences of Evo Suite's participation at the third unit testing competition at SBST 2015. An unfortunate issue of conflicting dependency versions in two out of the nine benchmark projects reduced Evo Suite's overall score to 190.6, leading to the overall second rank.
Improving Accuracy of Software Performance Models on Multicore Platforms with Shared Caches

In broad terms, the thesis of Vlastimil Babka is situated in the domain of software performance modeling, where the uses of performance models range from supporting decisions at design time to guiding system adaptation at run time. The models often simplify the software systems into formal abstractions such as service queues, which have been shown to faithfully capture the performance relevant behavior in many systems over the past decades. Unfortunately, the performance of contemporary systems is a result of numerous mechanisms interacting at various levels of granularity – and some of these mechanisms, such as thread level parallelism or cache coherent shared memory, are becoming increasingly difficult to model by the existing formal abstractions with sufficient accuracy.
Daily and Weekly Standing Patterns When Using a Sit-Stand Desk in a College Class

Objective: Sit-stand desks have been designed to address high daily sitting in work and school environments. The purpose was to determine the daily pattern of use and overall likeability of sit-stand desk over the course of a semester. Participants: A total of 18 subjects (12 standing) completed the 11-week study (week 5-15 of the semester) from January-April, 2016. Methods: Each student in the standing group was given a sit-stand desk to use as they desired. Results: Individual daily standing time ranged from 0-100% of daily attendance time and the daily group average ranged from 2.1-38.4%. Two-thirds of the standing bouts were ≤ 2 min. Perception questionnaire answers were positive for using the desk and their effect on students’ ability to work in class. Conclusions: The results indicate the sit-stand desks were utilized at low levels and for short durations for most participants, but perceptions of desk use remained positive.
Novel Anti-Nicotine Vaccine Using a Trimeric Coiled-Coil Hapten Carrier

Tobacco addiction represents one of the largest public health problems in the world and is the leading cause of cancer and heart disease, resulting in millions of deaths a year. Vaccines for smoking cessation have shown considerable promise in preclinical models, although functional antibody responses induced in humans are only modestly effective in preventing nicotine entry into the brain. The challenge in generating serum antibodies with a large nicotine binding capacity is made difficult by the fact that this drug is non-immunogenic and must be conjugated as a hapten to a protein carrier. To circumvent the limitations of traditional carriers like keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), we have synthesized a short trimeric coiled-coil peptide (TCC) that creates a series of B and T cell epitopes with uniform stoichiometry and high density. Here we compared the relative activities of a TCC-nic vaccine and two control KLH-nic vaccines using Alum as an adjuvant or GLA-SE, which contains a synthetic TLR4 agonist formulated in a stable oil-in-water emulsion. The results showed that the TCC's high hapten density correlated with a better immune response in mice as measured by anti-nicotine Ab titer, affinity, and specificity, and was responsible for a reduction in anti-carrier immunogenicity. The Ab responses achieved with this synthetic vaccine resulted in a nicotine binding capacity in serum that could prevent >90% of a nicotine dose equivalent to three smoked cigarettes (0.05 mg/kg) from reaching the brain.
A semantic grading model integrated local and global semantic relatedness for English text

This paper proposed a semantic grading model (SGM) for English text based on its content in different views. The SGM not only assesses the global semantic relatedness between ideal text and tested essay, local semantic relatedness between adjoining text segments, as well as the semantic relationship between vary text segments and the whole texts are also taken into account. Local and global semantic relatedness are combined to measure the overall quality of text contents on the basis of semantic. Our experiment shows that the SGM is competent in assessing the content of English text in terms of semantic grading.
Anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of methanol extract of Helianthus annuus Linn. (Asteraceae) leaf

Abstract This study evaluate the anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties of Helianthus annuus Linn. in rats. Methanol extract of Helianthus annuus (HAE) leaf was used in this study. Formalin- and egg-albumin induced-paw edema were used to investigate the anti-inflammatory activities while acetic acid-induced writhing reflex and tail flick models were used to evaluate the analgesic properties. The doses of HAE used were 150, 300 and 600 mg/kg. Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) was used as reference drug in the anti-inflammatory and writhing reflex models while pentazocine (reference drug) was used in tail flick model. The negative control was dosed 5% tween-20 (10 ml/kg). The HAE exhibited significant (P < 0.05) dose-dependent anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities. At 3 hour (h) post treatment, the HAE (300 mg/kg) produced 33.33% and 32.94% while ASA produced 36.36% and 35.29% reduction in paw volume in the formalin and egg-albumin induced paw edema models respectively when compared with negative control. In the acetic acid-induced writhing reflex, ASA and HAE (600 mg/kg) produced 67.89% and 35.78% reduction in the number of writhing, respectively when compared with the negative control. Pentazocine and HAE (300 mg/kg) caused 67.62% and 35.24% increase in pain reaction time when compared with the negative control. The study affirms the folkloric uses of Helianthus annuus in the management of pain and inflammation.
HOMOLOGICAL ALGEBRA FOR SCHWARTZ ALGEBRAS

Let G be a reductive group over a non-Archimedean local field. For two tempered smooth representations, it makes no difference for the Ext-groups whether we work in the category of tempered smooth representations of G or of all smooth representations of G. Similar results hold for certain discrete groups. We explain the basic ideas from functional analysis and geometric group theory that are needed to state this result correctly and prove it.
Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora

The corpus is a fundamental tool for any type of research on language. The availability of computers in the 1950’s immediately led to the creation of corpora in electronic form that could be searched automatically for a variety of language features and compute frequency, distributional characteristics, and other descriptive statistics. Corpora of literary works were compiled to enable stylistic analyses and authorship studies, and corpora representing general language use became widely used in the field of lexicography. In this era, the creation of an electronic corpus required entering the material by hand, and the storage capacity and speed of computers available at the time put limits on how much data could realistically be analyzed at any one time. Without the Internet to foster data sharing, corpora were typically created, and processed at a single location. Two notable exceptions are the Brown Corpus of American English (Francis and Kucera, 1967) and the London/Oslo/Bergen (LOB) corpus of British English (Johanssen et al., 1978); both of these corpora, each containing one millions words of data tagged for part of speech, were compiled in the 1960’s using a representative sample of texts produced in the year 1961. For several years, the Brown and LOB were the only widely available computer-readable corpora of general language, and therefore provided the data for numerous language studies.