Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Magnetic resonance imaging versus computed tomography in pre-operative evaluation of cochlear implant candidates with congenital hearing loss

Recent reports indicate that the cochlear nerve may be absent in some cases of congenital sensorineural hearing loss. The aim of this prospective study was to determine the incidence of cochlear nerve anomaly in cochlear implant candidates with congenital hearing loss using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Twenty-seven patients with congenital profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss who were being evaluated for the cochlear implant procedure were studied. These patients had high-resolution computerized tomography (CT), through the petrous bone in axial sections. MRI examinations consisted of T1 and turbo spin echo (TSE) T2-weighted 3 mm axial images, and additional 3D Fourier Transform T2-weighted TSE sequences obtained on three different planes (axial, perpendicular and parallel to the internal auditory canal (IAC) i.e. oblique sagittal and coronal, respectively) for the purpose of cochlear nerve demonstration. Results showed that all of the 14 patients with normal CT of the temporal bone, had four distinct nerves in the distal part of the IAC on TSE-MRI. Thirteen patients demonstrated various bony malformations of the cochleovestibular system on CT. MRI revealed the absence of the cochleovestibular nerve in four patients where the IAC was very narrow or completely absent on CT. One patient with severe Mondini malformation who had an enlarged IAC demonstrated an isolated absent cochlear nerve.
SUPPRESSION OF TRANSVERSE INSTABILITIES BY CHROMATICITY MODULATION

The first demonstration of suppression of transverse instabilities with modulating chromaticity at a synchrotron frequency was performed at the NewSUBARU electron storage ring. This method introduces the betatron tune spread within a bunch and produces Landau damping of coherent transverse oscillations. The enhancement of the damping of the coherent betatron oscillations, suppression of a transverse multi-bunch beam instability, and the increase in the bunch current limited by a single-bunch mode-coupling instability were observed with this method.
Climate system asymmetries drive eccentricity pacing of hydroclimate during the early Eocene greenhouse

The early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO) represents the peak of Earth’s last sustained greenhouse climate interval. To investigate hydroclimate variability in western North America during the EECO, we developed an orbitally resolved leaf wax δ2H record from one of the most well-dated terrestrial paleoclimate archives, the Green River Formation. Our δ2Hwax results show ∼60‰ variation and evidence for eccentricity and precession forcing. iCESM simulations indicate that changes in the Earth’s orbit drive large seasonal variations in precipitation and δ2H of precipitation at our study site, primarily during the summer season. Our findings suggest that the astronomical response in δ2Hwax is attributable to an asymmetrical climate response to the seasonal cycle, a “clipping” of precession forcing, and asymmetric carbon cycle dynamics, which further enhance the influence of eccentricity modulation on the hydrological cycle during the EECO. More broadly, our study provides an explanation for how and why eccentricity emerges as a dominant frequency in climate records from ice-free greenhouse worlds.
RASA SYUKUR DAN KECENDERUNGAN PERILAKU PROSOSIAL PADA MAHASISWA FAKULTAS PSIKOLOGI UNIVERSITAS DIPONEGORO

Rasa syukur banyak diteliti karena mempengaruhi suasana hati seseorang. Suasana hati individu yang baik akan mendorong individu untuk lebih peka dan membagikan kebahagiaan tersebut kepada lingkungannya. Individu yang berperilaku positif akan dipandang positif orang lain dapat diterima dengan baik oleh lingkungannya. Mahasiswa, yang berada dalam masa perkembangan remaja akhir, memiliki tugas perkembangan untuk berperilaku sosial yang bertanggungjawab. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap hubungan rasa syukur dengan kecenderungan perilaku prososial pada mahasiswa Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Diponegoro. Sampel penelitian teridiri dari 79 (29 laki-laki, 50 perempuan) mahasiswa Psikologi Universitas Diponegoro menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Pengumpulan data menggunakan Skala Rasa Syukur (35 aitem valid, α=0.932) dan Skala Kecenderungan Perilaku Prososial (10 aitem valid, α=0.607). Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi sederhana. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan rasa syukur memiliki hubungan positif yang signifikan terhadap kecenderungan perilaku prososial (r=0,344; p=0,001).
Prevalence of overweight/obesity and related factors in Keerqin District, Tongliao City: A cross-sectional study

Objective This study aimed to analyze the prevalence of overweight/obesity and the factors influencing these conditions among 9- to 18-year-old adolescents in Keerqin District of Tongliao City. We explored whether overweight/obesity is accompanied by differences in eating habits, lifestyle, and mental health. Methods A cross-sectional survey was administered to 1,736 adolescents in November 2020. A physical examination was performed for each participant, and an online questionnaire was adopted to collect information. The association of several risk factors with overweight/obesity was explored using a logistic regression model. Results The prevalence of overweight/obesity in the study population was 43.32%. The risk of overweight/obesity was higher among nonresident students (odds ratio [OR] = 1.564, 95% CI = 1.182–2.069) who had an average of 3–4 (OR = 2.164, 95% CI = 1.087–4.308) or 5 or more (OR = 2.114, 95% CI = 1.376–3.248) PE classes per week. The risk of overweight/obesity was lower among girls (OR = 0.485, 95% CI = 0.396–0.593), students aged 15–16 years (OR = 0.288, 95% CI = 0.135–0.617) and those aged 17–18 years (OR = 0.282, 95% CI = 0.124–0.639), students who ate sweets more than once a week (OR = 0.570, 95% CI = 0.366–0.887), students who spent less than 1 hour per day on the computer each week (OR = 0.776, 95% CI = 0.620–0.971), students with depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale [CES-D] score ≥ 16) (Model 2: OR = 0.618, 95% CI = 0.385–0.990; Model 3: OR = 0.623, 95% CI = 0.388–1.000), and students with depressed affect (Model 2: OR = 0.921, 95% CI = 0.877–0.967; Model 3: OR = 0.929, 95% CI = 0.885–0.976). Conclusion Overweight/obesity was influenced by eating habits and lifestyle factors. In addition, overweight/obesity adolescents had a lower risk of depressed than those with normal weight.
Data and text mining BioBERT: pre-trained biomedical language representation model for biomedical text mining

Motivation: Biomedical text mining has become more important than ever as the number of biomedical documents rapidly grows. With the progress of machine learning, extracting valuable information from biomedical literature has gained popularity among researchers, and deep learning is boosting the development of effective biomedical text mining models. However, as deep learning models require a large amount of training data, biomedical text mining with deep learning often fails due to the small sizes of training datasets in biomedical ﬁelds. Recent researches on learning contextualized language representation models from text corpora shed light on the possibility of leveraging a large number of unannotated biomedical text corpora. Results: WeintroduceBioBERT(BidirectionalEncoderRepresentationsfrom Transformersfor Biomedical Text Mining), which is a domain speciﬁc language representation model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical corpora. Based on the BERT architecture, BioBERT effectively transfers the knowledge of large amount of biomedical texts into biomedical text mining models. While BERT also shows competitive performances with previous state-of-the-art models, BioBERT signiﬁcantly outperforms them on three representativebiomedicaltext mining tasks includingbiomedicalnamed entity recognition( 1.86% absolute improvement), biomedical relation extraction ( 3.33% absolute improvement), and biomedical question answering ( 9.61% absolute improvement) with minimal task-speciﬁc architecture modiﬁcations. Availability: We make pre-trainedweights of BioBERT freely availablein https://github.com/naver/biobert-pretrained, and source codes of ﬁne-tuned models in https://github.com/dmis-lab/biobert. Contact
Classification and clinical significance of the posterior group of renal calyces

To study the anatomical orientation of the posterior group of calyces based on reconstructed images of computerized tomography urography (CTU) and provide a novel classification with its clinical significance. Clinical data of a total of 1321 patients, who underwent CTU examination in our hospital were retrospectively analyzed. Among these, a total of 2642 3-dimensional reconstructed images of CTU scans were considered in this study. Based on the morphology of the renal calyces and the influence on the establishment of surgical access, the posterior group renal calyces are classified into 3 major types including pot-belly type, classically branched and elongated branched. The classically branched type is further classified into 3 sub-types: a, b and c, based on the association of minor calyces of the posterior group to the major calyces. Type a is derived from 1 group of major calyces only, type b is derived from 2 groups of major calyces simultaneously, and type c is derived from 3 groups of major calyces simultaneously. Statistical findings revealed that all kidneys possess posterior group calyces. The percentage of occurrence of pot-belly type, classically branched and elongated branched is 8.06%, 73.13%, and 18.81%, respectively. The anatomical typing of the classical branching type occurred in 19.36%, 68.17%, and 12.47% for types a, b, and c, respectively. In this study, the posterior group calyces were found to be present across all patients. The posterior group calyces were highest in the classical branching type, of which anatomical typing was highest in type b. The typing of the posterior group of calyces could provide an anatomical basis for percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) puncture from the posterior group.
Cylinder stitching interferometry: with and without overlap regions

Since the cylinder surface is closed and periodic in the azimuthal direction, existing stitching methods cannot be used to yield the 360° form map. To address this problem, this paper presents two methods for stitching interferometry of cylinder: one requires overlap regions, and the other does not need the overlap regions. For the former, we use the first order approximation of cylindrical coordinate transformation to build the stitching model. With it, the relative parameters between the adjacent sub-apertures can be calculated by the stitching model. For the latter, a set of orthogonal polynomials, termed Legendre Fourier (LF) polynomials, was developed. With these polynomials, individual sub-aperture data can be expanded as composition of inherent form of partial cylinder surface and additional misalignment parameters. Then the 360° form map can be acquired by simultaneously fitting all sub-aperture data with LF polynomials. Finally the two proposed methods are compared under various conditions. The merits and drawbacks of each stitching method are consequently revealed to provide suggestion in acquisition of 360° form map for a precision cylinder.
Stability Of Superposed Fluids Through Magnetic Field With Suspended Particles Of Different Permeability Saturated Through Porous Layer

Abstract The instability of plane interface between two superposed Rivlin-Ericksen elastico-viscous fluids saturated through a porous medium has been studied to include the suspended (dust) particles effect. Following the linearized stability theory and normal mode analysis the dispersion relation is obtained. For stationary convection, the Rivlin-Ericksen elastico-viscous fluid behaves like Newtonian fluids. It found that for a potentially stable arrangement the Rivlin-Ericksen elastico-viscous fluid of different permeabilities in the presence of suspended particles in a porous medium is stable, whereas in a potentially unstable case instability of the system occurs. In the presence of a magnetic field for a potentially stable arrangement the system is always stable and for the potentially unstable arrangement, the magnetic field succeeds in stabilizing certain wave-number band which was unstable in the absence of the magnetic field.
LVMI: A detrimental paradigm shift of left ventricular geometry and function in accidently detected hypertensives

Introduction: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an important predictor of mortality and morbidity in hypertension, leading to hypertensive heart disease (HHD). Left ventricular mass (LVM), therefore, chiefly determines the geometrical reorientation of LV in hypertensives and these geometrical patterns are useful determinant of severity and prognosis of congestive heart failure (CHF). Studies on the geometrical assessment of LV in hypertensive patients involving large number of patients are limited in India. 2-D Echocardiography, is a non-invasive, cost effective, and a gold standard technique in the early detection of LV hypertrophy in hypertensive patients. Aims and Objectives: To determines the structural and functional integrity of LV in accordance with the variability of the LV geometry and function in recently detected hypertensive patients by 2D- Echocardiography and Colour Doppler. Material and Methods: 2D-Echocardiography and colour Doppler was done in 1000 randomly selected patients in OPD with accidently detected hypertension. LV geometrical patterns were determined by using Echocardiographic parameters chiefly left ventricular mass (LVM), left ventricular mass index to the power 2.7 of ht. (LVMI) and relative wall thickness (RWT) were recorded according to American society of Echocardiography convention (ACE). Results and Observations: Four patterns of LV geometry were noted i.e. concentric hypertrophy (CH) (22.9%), eccentric hypertrophy (EH) (9.7%), and concentric remodeling (CR) (50%) and normal geometry (NG) (17.4%). In this study, we observed that patients with concentric hypertrophy were significantly ( LV systolic function was significantly lower in patients with eccentric hypertrophy and some degree of diastolic dysfunction was present in abnormal geometry. Conclusion: The study determines that if there are regular screenings of the high blood pressure, then early steps can be taken to detect the establishment of LV hypertrophy. Keywords: LV hypertrophy, 2D-Echocardiography, LV mass, Hypertension.
Quantum Correlations: Experimental EPR-Steering, Bilocality and Weak Tomography in Photonic Quantum Information Science

Quantum mechanics has led to the biggest technological breakthroughs of last century. However, many paradoxes still remain in the foundations of quantum theory. In this research we study one effect that leads to such paradoxes; quantum correlations. Quantum nonlocality refers to the set of quantum correlations that are not explainable using local models. It is quantum nonlocality that has troubled physicists since the inception of quantum theory nearly 100 years ago. However, these nonlocal quantum correlations offer a range of advantages in quantum information tasks. For example, quantum key distribution and quantum computing are two tasks that are powered by quantum correlations. For this reason a wide range of quantum correlations are studied experimentally in this research. These include: entanglement, EPR-steering, Bell nonlocality and bilocality. We study these correlations using the framework of quantum information, using single photons as our chosen quantum information carriers. The first quantum correlation tested in this research is EPR-steering. EPR-steering is the application of the EPR-paradox to a quantum information task. We implement three different experiments on EPR-steering. By studying the properties of the quantum information task we find that: EPR-steering is more robust to depolarisation noise than Bell-nonlocality; EPR-steering is absolutely loss tolerant; and tests of EPR-steering are easier to carry out, than tests of Bell nonlocality, but harder to implement compared to tests of non-separability. As a result of these three findings we experimentally show that EPR-steering can be demonstrated on Belllocal states, we close the detection loophole in a photonic test of quantum nonlocality, and we discover and implement maximally parsimonious tests of non-separability, EPR-steering and Bell nonlocality.
3 DFeat-Net : Weakly Supervised Local 3 D Features for Point Cloud Registration-Supplementary Material

In this section, we show detailed results on the ETH “challenging dataset for point cloud registration algorithms” [7]. As in [1], we evaluate on the Gazebo and Wood scenes which are each captured in two different seasons (Table 1). Each season-scene combination has its respective coordinate frame, and groundtruth poses are available to relate the local point clouds within the same season and scene. We use these groundtruth poses to stitch all the individual point clouds to generate four global point clouds, one for each season-scene combination.
Association between apolipoprotein e gene polymorphism and mild cognitive impairment: a meta-analysis

: A number of published case–control studies reported that the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) gene polymorphism was associated with the mild cognitive impairment (MCI). How-ever, previous reports still remain conflicting. To estimate the association between ApoE polymorphism and MCI susceptibility, we searched the electronic databases including PubMed, Wanfang, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), VIP, and EMBASE to retrieve all available studies. A total of 18 studies with 2,004 cases and 3,705 controls were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled analysis based on selected studies showed that statistically significant risk association was found between ApoE gene polymorphism and MCI in overall population ( ε 4 vs ε 3: odds ratio [OR] ε 2/ ε 3 genotype provided a slight protection for MCI.
Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with the Parameter Server

Big data may contain big values, but also brings lots of challenges to the computing theory, architecture, framework, knowledge discovery algorithms, and domain specific tools and applications. Beyond the 4-V or 5-V characters of big datasets, the data processing shows the features like inexact, incremental, and inductive manner. This brings new research opportunities to research community across theory, systems, algorithms, and applications. Is there some new "theory" for the big data? How to handle the data computing algorithms in an operatable manner? This report shares some view on new challenges identified, and covers some of the application scenarios such as micro-blog data analysis and data processing in building next generation search engines.
Efficacy of ranibizumab combined with photocoagulation for diabetic retinopathy: A meta-analysis study

Background: Ranibizumab addition may benefit to improve the efficacy in patients with diabetic retinopathy than only photocoagulation, and this meta-analysis aims to explore the impact of ranibizumab addition on efficacy for diabetic retinopathy. Methods: PubMed, EMbase, Web of science, EBSCO, and Cochrane library databases were systematically searched, and we included randomized controlled trials assessing the effect of ranibizumab addition on patients with diabetic retinopathy for this meta-analysis. Results: Six randomized controlled trials were finally included in the meta-analysis. Overall, compared with control intervention for diabetic retinopathy, ranibizumab addition showed significantly increased number of neovascularization area reduction (OR = 4.20; 95% CI = 1.47–12.02; P = .007) and reduced fluorescein leakage (MD = −2.53; 95% CI = −3.31 to −1.75; P < .00001), but showed no obvious impact on neovascularization area (MD = −1.80; 95% CI = −3.68 to 0.08; P = .06), photocoagulation retreatment (OR = 1.03; 95% CI = 0.47–2.27; P = .94) or adverse events (OR = 1.45; 95% CI = 0.49–4.29; P = .50). Conclusions: Ranibizumab combined with photocoagulation is effective to improve efficacy for diabetic retinopathy.
Efficacy and safety of an extended-release sebacoyl dinalbuphine ester for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A randomized controlled trial

Background: A long-acting κreceptor agonist parenteral analgesic may theoretically improve acute pain and reduce incidence of chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) after laparoscopic cholecystectomy with minimal drug-related side effects of the traditional μreceptor opioids. Methods: Eighty adult patients undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy were randomly assigned to receive single intramuscular injection of an extended-release sebacoyl dinalbuphine ester (SDE, Naldebain 150 mg; n = 40) or placebo (n = 40) after anesthesia induction. Standard multimodal analgesia (MMA) was administered for postoperative pain control. The primary endpoint was pain intensity within 7 days after surgery. The secondary endpoints were incidence CPSP at 3 months and adverse reactions up to 7 days after surgery. Results: The highest visual analogue scale (VAS) and area under the curve of VAS 0 to 48 hours after operation were not different between the two groups and a similar proportion of patients requested rescue parenteral analgesics. Average pain intensities were also not different at 72 hours and 7 days after surgery. Incidence of CPSP was 22.5% and 13.1% in patients who received placebo and SDE treatment, respectively (P = .379). Significantly higher incidence of drug-related adverse events, including dizziness, nausea and injection site reactions, were recorded in the SDE group. Conclusion: A single dose of extended-release analgesic SDE given intraoperatively did not provide sufficient add-on effect for acute and chronic pain management after laparoscopic cholecystectomies in patients who received standard postoperative MMA. Intramuscular injection of 150 mg SDE in patients with average body mass causes adverse events that could have been overlooked. More clinical studies are warranted to determine the target populations who may benefit from SDE injections for improvement of acute and chronic postsurgical pain management.