Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Architektura świadomości. Część I: Logika i morfologia sieci neuronowej

The aim of this paper is to indicate basic neural and biophysical processes which constitute the phenomenon of conscious brain. The paper includes the computational model of neural modelling fields (NMF), which form mental representations of reality as well as biological concepts regarding the way these brain functions are implemented. The motivation of human and animal activity is also explained. The concepts regarding the emergence of consciousness are discussed, along with the perception of being conscious and the issue of self-awareness. It was demonstrated that the understanding of the phenomenon of consciousness eliminates the antinomy of a teleological and causative character of human nature, which, in turn, concludes the discussion on the duality of the physical or spiritual nature of the matter of which our minds are created. In the first part of this essay limitation of the computational model of recognition through comparison and detection patterns similarities according Perlovsky dynamic logic applied to the NMF is discussed. Further improvement of this concept was demonstrated taking under consideration morphology and biological functions of the neural network of natural brains. Neural synaptic fields can play the role of NMF and crate hierarchical structure of semblions according to Vadakkan hypothesis responsible for major psychical functions. Even deeper level of brain functions analyse hereunder doesn’t explain the consciousness phenomenon. For this goal biochemical and molecular background of these processes is necessary what will be described in following parts of this essay.
Shared Neural Resources for Expectancy Generation in Language and Music Processes: A fMRI and EEG Study with Actors and Violinists

In terms of music and language, the underlying networks that serve both kinds of processing may not be as separate as once believed. Broca‟s area and premotor regions are elicited for both musical and linguistic processing. When chords are seen as following theoretical rules of syntax in chord sequences, violations of that syntax elicit P600s just as they do in linguistic syntactic violations. N400s are elicited in the context of linguistic semantics whereas N500s are elicited in the context of musical semantics. Surprisingly, P300s are elicited when examining linguistic and musical expectancies. All of the above evidence is compiled for a better understanding of the shared syntactic integration resource hypothesis as well as the general shared resources recruited in both music and linguistic processing. Language and Music Expectancy Generation 3
Automatic New Word Acquisition: Spelling from Acoustics

The problem of extending the lexicon of words in an automatic speech recognition system is commonly referred to as the new word problem. When encountered in the context of an embedded speech recognition system this problem can be be divided into the following sub-problems. First, identify the presence of a new word. Second, acquire a phonetic transcription of the new word. Third, acquire the orthographic transcription (spelling) of the new word. In this paper we present the results of a preliminary study that employs a novel approach to the problem of acquiring the orthographic transcription through the use of an n-gram language model of english spelling and a quad-letter labeling of acoustic models that when taken together potentially produce an acoustic to spelling transcription of any spoken input.
Indoor positioning system for automatic wheelchair control

Nowadays, Global Positioning System or GPS has been used extensively in various applications such as navigating to the target location, tracking the movement of people, security monitoring and determining point to relieve public disasters. Applications in healthcare smart home are discussed in this paper. We develop an indoor GPS for wheelchair patient who suffers from paralyze or semi-paralyze condition. Our propose system consists of a series of digital camera installed on the room ceiling. The captured room images are sent to the server. The image are enhanced and stitched to form the whole room image. The location of wheelchair moving in any camera is detected. The coordinate is computed and transmitted to the wheelchair motion control to determine the direction and possible pathway.
Tumorigenic Effects of Tamoxifen on the Female Genital Tract

Tamoxifen is widely used for endocrine treatment and breast cancer prevention. It acts as both an estrogen antagonist in breast tissue and an estrogen agonist in the female lower genital tract. Tamoxifen causes severe gynecologic side effects, such as endometrial cancer. This review focuses on the effects of prolonged tamoxifen treatment on the human female genital tract and considers its tumorigenicity in the gynecologic organs through clinical data analysis. Tamoxifen is associated with an increased incidence of benign endometrial lesions such as polyps and hyperplasia and a two- to four-fold increased risk of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal patients. Moreover, the incidence of functional ovarian cysts is significantly high in premenopausal tamoxifen users. To prevent tamoxifen from having severe side effects in gynecologic organs, frequent gynecological examination should be performed for both premenopausal and postmenopausal patients with breast cancer who are treated with this drug.
Time-domain simulation of electromagnetic fields based on reduced-order models residing in the frequency domain

This work presents a method for constructing compact time-domain models from finite-element simulations in the frequency-domain. To reduce the system dimension and speed up computation times, model-order reduction techniques are applied. The resulting reduced-order system is proven to be passive. The proposed method does not only provide the output of the system, but it also enables the reconstruction of the electromagnetic fields.
Do Collaborations with Schools of Social Work Make a Difference for the Field of Child Welfare?

Summary Historically, the profession of social work has held a leadership role in the field of child welfare. Opportunities provided in a number of significant public policies allow schools of social work to be eligible to receive Title IV-E funding for professional development of child welfare workers. Today, hundreds of these partnerships throughout the country (Zlotnik, 1997) are spending millions of federal dollars to professionally educate Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work students for careers in child welfare. Unfortunately, there is not a corresponding proliferation of evaluation research to measure the effectiveness of these partnerships. This article provides a comprehensive description and evaluation of a partnership between a school of social work and a state department of child protective services.
Glycoxidation, and protein and DNA oxidation in patients with diabetes mellitus.

1. The role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of the diabetic state is being investigated extensively. Although oxidative stress has been reported in terms of glycoxidation, protein oxidation and DNA oxidation in diabetes mellitus, oxidation parameters have not been determined in parallel on the same study population.2. We studied 24 patients with diabetes mellitus (14 patients with Type I diabetes with a mean age of 62.3+/-6.3 years and 10 patients with Type II diabetes aged 67.3+/-5.9 years) and compared them with age-matched non-diabetic controls. Urinary o-tyrosine, 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine and pentosidine measurements by HPLC were made on two occasions (t1 and t2). 3.A clear statistical difference was found between diabetic patients and controls at t1 or t2 for 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine and pentosidine, but not for o-tyrosine. No significant correlations were found between clinical and other laboratory parameters except high-density lipoprotein and uric acid. We revealed significantly increased glycoxidation and DNA oxidation in patients with Type I and Type II diabetes, but protein oxidation was not different from controls.4. The finding of increased glycoxidation reflects increased oxidation of the carbohydrate moiety, whereas the increased levels of oxidized DNA may also be interpreted as due to increased DNA repair. The increased 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine does not indicate the generation of an individual active oxygen species, but DNA could have been oxidized simply by alkenals from lipid peroxidation, as e.g. malondialdehyde. As no difference in protein oxidation (i.e. o-tyrosine) between diabetics and controls could be revealed, the oxidation of DNA by hydroxyl radical attack is unlikely, as o-tyrosine was proposed as a marker for hydroxyl radical attack. Therefore, the message is that increased glycoxidation can be confirmed, protein oxidation does not appear to take place and increased DNA oxidation is still not proven, as increased 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine may simply reflect repair.
Performance of root-MUSIC algorithm using real-world arrays

In this paper we study the performance of the root-MUSIC algorithm and its extensions to non-ULA configurations using real-world antenna arrays. These arrays are non-ideal and built using directional elements, where each sensor has its own directional beampattern. We describe the Element-Space (ES) root-MUSIC algorithm for Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) estimation [1]. It uses the manifold separation technique and allows extending the known root-MUSIC algorithm to non-ULA configurations. We explain how to select the number of modes in order to minimize the array modelling error, when applying the manifold separation technique. Finally, we evaluate the ES-root-MUSIC algorithm using real-world antenna array data. The simulation results demonstrate that statistical performance close to the Cramér-Rao Bound is obtained using real-world arrays with all their imperfections.
Metro WDM Networks : Comparison of Ring and Star Topologies

Both WDM networks with a ring architecture and WDM networks with a star architecture have been extensively studied as solutions to the ever increasing amount of trafficin the metropolitan area. Studies typically focus on either the ri ng or the star and significant advances have been made in the protoc l design and performance optimization for the WDM ring and the WDM star, respectively. However, very little is known about the relative performance comparisons of ring and star networks. In this study we conduct a comprehensive comparison of a state– of– the–art WDM ring network with a state–of–the–art WDM star network. In particular, we compare a time–slotted WDM ring network with tunable–transmitter and fixed–receiver (TT–FR) nodes and an AWG based star network (TT–TR). We evaluate mean aggregate throughput, relative packet loss, and mean d elay by means of simulation for Bernoulli and self–similar traffic. Our results quantify the fundamental performance characteristics of ring networks vs. star networks and vice versa, as well as the ir respective performance limiting bottlenecks, and thus provide guidance for directing future research efforts.
BioProber2.0: a unified biomedical workbench with mining and probing literatures

The number of biomedical literatures is increasing at a considerable rate, and the information is growing continuously and fast as well. Accordingly, information retrieval is more and more important to support biomedical researches. However, it often retrieves too many literatures or too few literatures for the target gene/proteins or relations. And extremely various synonyms of the gene and protein names make information retrieval more difficult to support biomedical researches. To overcome these difficulties, we propose a unified biomedical workbench with mining and probing literatures. The proposed workbench is composed of searching/collecting, literature mining, relation probing, and statistics analysis. It provides searching and collecting literatures of Pubmed articles and USPTO patents. And, to extract biomedical relations, the collected literatures are mined using text mining techniques such as named entity recognition, gene/protein name normalization, and relation extraction. Users can probe their target relations using these extracted relation information, shown in form of relation network. Finally, the workbench provides statistics information of literature meta data such as authors, organizations, publication years and so on. That is, the proposed workbench provides unified literature-based functions from searching to probing, and including text mining and statistics analysis.
A Review of: “Woolfolk, R. L., & Allen, L. A. (2007). Treating Somatization: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach.”

Patients who somaticize pose significant challenges to clinicians on both sides of the mind-body divide. In the medical world, they present with chronic unexplained symptoms that incur disproportionate healthcare expenses. Among mental health professionals, they are known as resistant, uninsightful, and notoriously unresponsive to psychological and psychotropic interventions. In Treating Somatization, Robert Woolfolk and Lesley Allen take a giant step toward remedying this frustrating and expensive situation. Any mental health provider who treats patients with unexplained medical complaints— fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, pseudoseizures, headaches, chronic pelvic pain, irritable bowel syndrome, or anything else—would do well to read this book very carefully and heed its advice. The data supporting Woolfolk and Allen’s treatment is impressive. A mere 10-session treatment program results in highly significant improvement in self-report and structured interview measures. These improvements endure for at least 15 months (Allen, Woolfolk, Escobar, Gara & Hamer, 2006). They occur over and above gains provided by the only other empirically-supported treatment for somatization disorders—Smith, Monson, and Ray’s (1986) ‘‘psychiatric consultation’’ (sending a letter to patients’ primary care physicians that recommends limiting diagnostic procedures and instituting regular check-ups instead of ‘‘as needed’’ appointments). Woolfolk and Allen call their treatment Affective Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (ACBT). ACBT applies familiar CBT techniques to the specific signs and symptoms of somatization disorders: Behavioral activation treats the depression; exercise develops strength and improves mood; cognitive therapy corrects dysfunctional thoughts about illness; skill training teaches direct communication instead of manipulation; and couple therapy changes reinforcement contingencies. In these efforts, ACBT is a treatment that is competent, but hardly notable. But Woolfolk and Allen do more than make good use of the traditional CBT technology. They offer advances in two general areas: (a) They depart Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 31:61–73, 2009 Copyright # Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 0731-7107 print=1545-228X online DOI: 10.1080/07317100802701418
Lay metalanguage on grammatical variation and neutrality in Wikipedia's entry for Che Guevara

Abstract This paper examines the editorial discussion of Wikipedia's policy of “Neutral Point of View” during the collaborative authorship of the entry for Che Guevara. Such data provide a rare source of unprompted lay metalanguage on the relationship between the lexicogrammatical form of a text and its evaluative orientation and make possible an inductive approach to exploring this longstanding issue in critical linguistics inquiry. The paper illustrates this inductive approach in selecting a stretch of text identified by the editors themselves as problematic and relating their metalinguistic commentaries to the lexicogrammatical features of both the original text and the variations proposed. However, recognizing that naturally occurring metalanguage is itself situated within its own social practice, the paper considers ways in which the editors' readings are a function of their role as Wikipedia “prosumers” and goes on to discuss the need to theorize specific reader types within critical linguistic approaches to discourse analysis.
The role of HBsAg levels in the current management of chronic HBV infection

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection can result in liver cirrhosis, hepatic decompensation, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the natural course of the disease is highly dynamic and not every patient requires therapy. The challenges for optimal management are who to treat, which therapeutic regimen to use, and when to begin or stop treatment. Constant monitoring is mandatory to predict the natural course and guide treatment decisions. Surrogate markers for baseline and on treatment decisions are needed. Besides HBV DNA, hepatitis B surface antigen levels also proved to be useful to help judge the natural course and guide treatment. High levels of HBsAg are suggestive of low fibrosis and immune tolerance in hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) positive patients; whereas low levels of HBsAg indicate a lower risk for HCC and inactive carrier state in HBeAg negative patients. Data also support the possible use of HBsAg levels as an on-treatment response marker. So far, the best evidence exists for treatment with interferon (IFN)-α where lack of HBsAg decline after 12 weeks is associated with non-response. Thus, stopping rules after 12 weeks therapy could be established for HBeAg positive as well as for HBeAg negative patients. However, the positive predictive value for achieving sustained response is still vague. The value of HBsAg monitoring is less clear during treatment with nucleos(t)ide analogues (NA) but it can be a useful marker for new concepts such as stopping NA or add-on IFN strategies. Currently, several studies are underway to validate HBsAg in these settings.
An Intelligent Data Management Reasoning Model within a Pervasive Medical Environment

Large quantities of sensory data may be generated within a pervasive medical environment. Using the information gathered, intelligent systems may be developed to assist our medical practitioners in real-time. Patient datasets require constant scrutiny and must be analysed in the context of other available information (e.g. patient profile, medical knowledge base). An accurate real-time overview of a patients state of health is not always possible as communication links may break or servers fail. Therefore it is essential that the information provided on a patients state of health in taken in the context of available datasets. Presented is a Data Management SystemTripartite Ontology Medical Reasoning Model (DMS-TOMRM). It is built on three input streams 1) External stimuli (e.g. patient vital signs, patient location), 2) Medical knowledge base (medical database, ontologies) and 3) User profiles (medical history and patient properties). All three pools of information are merged together to provide the medical practitioner with a real-time diagnosis assistant. A key element of the DMS-TOMRM is its ability to cope with physical failures. For example, if the medical knowledge base fails, the DMS-TOMRM may still provide a diagnosis based on the users profile and current real-time sensor values. This supports the DMS principle of providing a higher quality of service at the patient point of care. Presented is the DMS-TOMRM and how it intelligently interacts with a context rich medical environment.
Complex colony‐level organization of the deep‐sea siphonophore Bargmannia elongata (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) is directionally asymmetric and arises by the subdivision of pro‐buds

Siphonophores are free‐swimming colonial hydrozoans (Cnidaria) composed of asexually produced multicellular zooids. These zooids, which are homologous to solitary animals, are functionally specialized and arranged in complex species‐specific patterns. The coloniality of siphonophores provides an opportunity to study the major transitions in evolution that give rise to new levels of biological organization, but siphonophores are poorly known because they are fragile and live in the open ocean. The organization and development of the deep‐sea siphonophore Bargmannia elongata is described here using specimens collected with a remotely operated underwater vehicle. Each bud gives rise to a precise, directionally asymmetric sequence of zooids through a stereotypical series of subdivisions, rather than to a single zooid as in most other hydrozoans. This initial description of development in a deep‐sea siphonophore provides an example of how precise colony‐level organization can arise, and illustrates that the morphological complexity of cnidarians is greater than is often assumed. Developmental Dynamics 234:835–845, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Cutaneous melanoma in relation to intermittent and constant sun exposure—the western canada melanoma study

The histories of exposure to sun through occupational, recreational and vacation activities of 595 patients with newly incident cutaneous melanoma excluding lentigo maligna and acral lentiginous melanoma, were compared to those of comparison subjects drawn randomly from the same population and matched for age, sex and province of residence in Western Canada. Significant increases in risk were seen with increasing amount of sun exposure through outdoor activities associated with recreation and vacations; activities likely to involve more intense sun exposure were associated with greater increases in risk. While a moderate amount of occupational exposure was associated with increased risk, greater occupational exposure resulted in no further increase; in men a decrease in risk was seen. These findings were independent of the effects of hair and skin colour, freckles, ethnic origin and socio‐economic status. The results suggest that short‐term exposure to unusually intense sunlight increases the risk of melanoma, while long‐term constant exposure has no effect or may decrease risk. No simple relationship was seen between melanoma risk and total sunlight exposure. This study introduces new methods of assessing different types of sun exposure from retrospective data.
Examining the impact of social exchange relationships on innovative work behaviour

Purpose – This paper concurrently examines the antecedents, moderator as well as mediator of innovative work behavior (IWB). Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports a quantitative study of 510 managers from two service organizations based in western India. The focus of the paper is to examine the predictive ability of leader–member exchange (LMX), perceived organizational support (POS) and engagement on employees' IWB. Role of LMX as moderating variable (in POS–IWB relationship) and work engagement as the underlying mechanism explaining the relationship between predicting variables (LMX and POS) and IWB is tested. Findings – Results suggest that LMX, POS and work engagement positively relate to innovative employee behavior; LMX moderates the relationship between POS and innovative employee behavior. Additionally, work engagement mediates the relationship of LMX and POS with IWB. Research limitations/implications – Although this study is cross-sectional in nature, its findings have implications for.