Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Are audio recordings the answer? — a pilot study of a communication intervention for non‐English speaking patients with cancer

Ruby Lipson-Smith, Amelia Hyatt, Phyllis Butow, Thomas F. Hack, Michael Jefford, Sandra Hale, Alison Hocking, Michela Sirianni, Uldis Ozolins, Dorothy Yiu and Penelope Schofield* Cancer Experiences Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Centre of Medical Psychology and Evidence-Based Decision-Making, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Research Group, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia College of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Prairies/NWT, Canada Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Social Work, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia Chinese Cancer Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Network management based QoE estimation for adaptive streaming over HTTP

This decade has been marked with tremendous growth of video streaming which has been known as “bandwidth killer service”. Unmanaged services or Over-the-top (OTT) services now become more and more popular in the entertainment industry. However, it is easy to realize that those services' providers do not guarantee a stable video quality for users because they cannot control the underlying network condition at the users' side. In order to deal with this problem, several solutions have been proposed but this problem comprises of many aspects needed to be coped with. Our research comes up with the idea of performing network management referring to video quality perceived from users. In this paper, we also study the effects of available bandwidth on latency and provide an insight into the relationship between Quality of Experience (QoE) and available bandwidth.
Toxoplasma chorioretinitis in primary school children in Tehran, Iran, 2003-2004.

BACKGROUND The evaluation of toxoplasma chorioretinitis is of utmost importance in the early diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of visual problems that can otherwise lead to permanent blindness. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of toxoplasma chorioretinitis among primary school students in Tehran. MATERIAL/METHODS This cross-sectional study involved 1529 healthy primary school students from the 19 school districts in Tehran (2003-2004). The mean age was 9.7+/-1.55 years. Serum anti-toxoplasma level (IgG) was measured by quantitative chemiluminescent immunoassay (CLIA) and students with positive result were referred to an ophthalmologist for further evaluation. RESULTS Of the 1529 students, 1377 (90%) had negative and 152 (10%) had positive serum titers. Seroprevalence was higher in boys (12%) and increased with age. Sixty-five students (43%) were referred to an ophthalmologist and acute chorioretinitis was diagnosed in a nine-year-old boy who was given antitoxoplasma medication and was free of any active lesion one year later. CONCLUSIONS Seroprevalence was lower than in some other studies performed in Iran, which can be attributed to climate conditions and urban life. Considering the low rate of visits to an ophthalmologist, this indicates the need for increased awareness regarding the disease and its complications.
Solar Ultraviolet-B Radiation Affects Seedling Emergence, DNA Integrity, Plant Morphology, Growth Rate, and Attractiveness to Herbivore Insects in Datura ferox

To study functional relationships between the effects of solar ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) on different aspects of the physiology of a wild plant, we carried out exclusion experiments in the field with the summer annual Datura ferox L. Solar UV-B incident over Buenos Aires reduced daytime seedling emergence, inhibited stem elongation and leaf expansion, and tended to reduce biomass accumulation during early growth. However, UV-B had no effect on calculated net assimilation rate. Using a monoclonal antibody specific to the cyclobutane-pyrimidine dimer (CPD), we found that plants receiving full sunlight had more CPDs per unit of DNA than plants shielded from solar UV-B, but the positive correlation between UV-B and CPD burden tended to level off at high (near solar) UV-B levels. At our field site, Datura plants were consumed by leaf beetles (Coleoptera), and the proportion of plants attacked by insects declined with the amount of UV-B received during growth. Field experiments showed that plant exposure to solar UV-B reduced the likelihood of leaf beetle attack by one-half. Our results highlight the complexities associated with scaling plant responses to solar UV-B, because they show: (a) a lack of correspondence between UV-B effects on net assimilation rate and whole-plant growth rate, (b) nonlinear UV-B dose-response curves, and (c) UV-B effects of plant attractiveness to natural herbivores.
Tuberculous Meningitis in Adults: A Review of 160 Cases

Objective. This study aimed to evaluate epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and neuroimaging features of 160 adult patients with tuberculous meningitis (TBM) according to “Thwaites' diagnostic index. ” Methods. The subjects of this retrospective study are the patients with TBM who were followed up between years 1998 and 2009 in a tertiary referral hospital. Diagnosis of TBM was based on clinical, laboratory, and neuroimaging signs and Thwaites' diagnostic index. Results. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was isolated from CSF in 59 of 148 patients. Seventeen percent of the patients died, 71% recovered completely, and 13% recovered with neurological sequel at the end of the sixth month. Conclusions. Despite new developments in laboratory or neuroimaging techniques, the diagnosis of TBM is still based on clinical features with the help of laboratory. Early diagnosis by suspecting TBM may prevent therapy delay and may result in decrease in the mortality and morbidity.
TVGraz : Multi-Modal Learning of Object Categories by Combining Textual and Visual Features

Internet offers a vast amount of multi-modal and heterogeneous information mainly in the form of textual and visual data. Most of the current web-based visual object classification methods only utilize one of these data streams. As we will show in this paper, combining these modalities in a proper way often provides better results not attainable by relying on only one of these data streams. However, up to our knowledge, there is no publicly available dataset for benchmarking algorithms which use textual and visual data simultaneously. Therefore, in this work, we present an annotated multi-modal dataset, named TVGraz, which currently contains 10 visual object categories. The visual appearance of the objects in the dataset is challenging and offers a less biased benchmark. In order to facilitate the usage of this dataset in vision community, we additionally provide a preprocessed text data by using VIPS (VIsion-based Page Segmentation) method. We use a Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) method to combine the textual and visual features in a proper way and show improved classification and ranking results with respect to the using only one of the data streams.
THE “INVASION” OF MANUFACTURED CIVIL SOCIETY: GOVERNMENT–NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIPS IN A BRAZILIAN STATE

SUMMARY The growth of the nonprofit sector in Brazil has been conceptually similar to that of the Anglo‐Saxon Third Way, where the government promotes the creation of partnerships with civil society. This process has been criticized for creating a “manufactured civil society”. This study will investigate whether the same pattern can be observed in the Brazilian context, particularly within the Management Shock Reform implemented by Minas Gerais, one of the principal Brazilian states. Management Shock is guided by a governmental partnership discourse that promotes contractual partnerships with both businesses and nonprofits. We opted for a bottom‐up oriented research approach, aiming to comprehend the rationale for initiating and sustaining the partnerships revealed in the narratives that emerged from both government and nonprofit partners. Data were collected through semistructured interviews and content analysis of documents and the media. Results show the predominance of agency‐type partnerships, highlighting the centrality of the government and its techno‐bureaucratic role in fostering and maintaining Organizacao da Sociedade Civil de Interesse Publico or Civil Society Organization of Public Interest designs. Differing from the Anglo‐Saxon context, we observed the “invasion” of market‐driven values in nonprofits and, to some extent, in government narratives. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Anesthetics Affect the Uptake but Not the Depolarization‐evoked Release of GABA in Rat Striatal Synaptosomes

Background Numerous classes of anesthetic agents have been shown to enhance the effects mediated by the postsynaptic gamma‐aminobutyric acid A (GABAA) receptor‐coupled chloride channel in the mammalian central nervous system. However, presynaptic actions of anesthetics potentially relevant to clinical anesthesia remain to be clarified. Therefore, in this study, the effects of intravenous and volatile anesthetics on both the uptake and the depolarization‐evoked release of GABA in the rat stratum were investigated. Methods Assay for specific GABA uptake was performed by measuring the radioactivity incorporated in purified striatal synaptosomes incubated with3 H‐GABA (20 nM, 5 min, 37 degrees Celsius) and increasing concentrations of anesthetics in either the presence or the absence of nipecotic acid (1 mM, a specific GABA uptake inhibitor). Assay for GABA release consisted of superfusing3 H‐GABA preloaded synaptosomes with artificial cerebrospinal fluid (0.5 ml *symbol* min sup 1, 37 degrees Celsius) and measuring the radioactivity obtained from 0.5 ml fractions over 18 min, first in the absence of any treatment (spontaneous release, 8 min), then in the presence of either KCl alone (9 mM, 15 mM) or with various concentrations of anesthetics (5 min), and finally, with no pharmacologic stimulation (5 min). The following anesthetic agents were tested: propofol, etomidate, thiopental, ketamine, halothane, enflurane, isoflurane, and clonidine. Results More than 95% of3 H‐GABA uptake was blocked by a 10 sup 3 ‐M concentration of nipecotic acid. Propofol, etomidate, thiopental, and ketamine induced a dose‐related, reversible, noncompetitive, inhibition of3 H‐GABA uptake: IC50 = 4.6 plus/minus 0.3 x 105 M, 5.8 plus/minus 0.3 x 10 sup ‐5 M, 2.1 plus/minus 0.4 x 10 sup ‐3 M, and 4.9 plus/minus 0.5 x 10 sup ‐4 M for propofol, etomidate, thiopental, and ketamine, respectively. Volatile agents and clonidine had no significant effect, even when used at concentrations greater than those used clinically. KCl application induced a significant, calcium‐dependent, concentration‐related, increase from basal3 H‐GABA release, +34 + 10% (P < 0.01) and +61 plus/minus 13% (P < 0.001), respectively, for 9 mM and 15 mM KCl. The release of3 H‐GABA elicited by KCl was not affected by any of the anesthetic agents tested. Conclusions These results indicate that most of the intravenous but not the volatile anesthetics inhibit the specific high‐affinity3 H‐GABA uptake process in vitro in striatal nerve terminals. However, this action was observed at clinically relevant concentrations only for propofol and etomidate. In contrast, the depolarization‐evoked3 H‐GABA release was not affected by anesthetics. Together, these data suggest that inhibition of GABA uptake, which results in synaptic GABA accumulation, might contribute to propofol and etomidate anesthesia.
The effect of static facial cues and cosmetics on social judgements

To what extent does information in a person’s face predict their likely behaviour? There is increasing evidence for association between relatively neutral, static facial appearance and personality traits. By using composite images rendered from 3D scans of women scoring high and low on health and personality dimensions, we aimed to examine the separate contributions of facial shape, skin texture and viewing angle to the detection of these traits, whilst controlling for crucial posture variables. After controlling for such cues, participants were able to identify Agreeableness, Neuroticism and Physical Health. For personality traits, we found a reliable laterality bias, in that the right side of the face afforded higher accuracy than the left. The separate contributions of shape and texture cues varied with the traits being judged. Our findings are consistent with signalling theories suggesting multiple channels to convey multiple messages. 2.
Designing and Optimizing the Fetch Unit for a RISC Core

Despite the extensive deployment of multi-core architectures in the past few years, the design and optimization of each single processing core is still a fresh field in computing. On the other hand, having a design procedure (used to solve the problems related to the design of a single processing core) makes it possible to apply the proposed solutions to specific-purpose processing cores. The instruction fetch, which is one of the parts of the architectural design, is considered to have the greatest effect on the performance. RISC processors, which have architecture with a high capability for parallelism, need a high instruction width in order to reach an appropriate performance. Accurate branch prediction and low cache miss rate are two effective factors in the operation of the fetching unit. In this paper, we have designed and analyzed the fetching unit for a 4-way (4-issue) superscalar processing core. We have applied the cost per performance design style and quantitative approach to propose this fetch unit. Moreover, timing constrains are specially analyzed for instruction cache to enable the proposed fetch unit to be in a superpipeline system. In order to solve the timing problem, we have applied the division method to the branch prediction tables and the wave pipelining technique to the instruction cache.
Embracing Common Core State Standards One Project at a Time

AbstractThe Common Core State Standards increase both the number of concepts covered in core courses and the scope of those concepts. With insufficient time for students to reach subject mastery, and amid controversy accompanying the adoption of the standards, teachers are hesitant to embrace the new standards. Acknowledging that textbooks are not the curriculum, teachers struggle to search for meaningful ways to accomplish their curricular goals. Integrating topics and standards into thoughtfully designed and engaging project-based units framed in career-oriented and other real-world themes give students the meaningful challenges needed to be career-ready problem-solvers, thinkers, and creators upon graduation.
Modeling and simulation of a jumping frog robot

In nature, several animals and insects use jumping locomotion in rough terrains. Jumping locomotion is useful for ground robots as jumping provide high speed movement with enhanced energy efficiency. It also helps in overcoming obstacles relatively larger than their body sizes. Jumping needs coordination and large instantaneous forces within a very short duration. In this paper, a method of jumping by using a four-bar spring/linkage mechanism integrated with spool winding and ratchet release mechanism has been presented. Inspired by the frogs, we have modeled and simulated a simple and efficient four legged jumping frog robot.
Categorically Biased: The Influence of Knowledge Structures on Law and Legal Theory

This Article focuses primarily on one slice of social psychology and social cognition research, namely the vast and vibrant field examining the integral role that knowledge structures play in the way we attend to, remember, and draw inferences about information we encounter and, more generally, the way we make sense of our world. The human system of processing information is, in many cases, an efficient means of understanding our worlds and ourselves. Classification of people, objects, and other stimuli is often both indispensable and ineluctable. Still, as social psychologists have demonstrated, "virtually any of the properties of schematic functioning that are useful under some circumstances will be liabilities under others. " The categories and schemas that operate, usually automatically, influence all aspects of information processing - from what information we focus on, to how we encode that information, to which features of that information we later retrieve and remember, and to how we draw inferences and solve problems based on that information. Given the unconscious and biasing influence of our schemas, combined with the fact that our schemas themselves will often reflect our unconscious motives, we should be mindful, even distrustful, of our schemas and the conclusions that they generate. These effects, the processes that drive them, and the biases they engender are the primary subject of this Article. A central goal is to offer a broad understanding of how individuals utilize categories, schemas, and scripts to help make sense of their worlds. In doing so, we serve another main objective: to provide a comprehensive (yet manageable) synthesis of a vast body of social psychology literature. This overview should transform how we make sense of our laws and legal-theoretic world. Part II of this Article is devoted to describing the significance of knowledge structures. Part III briefly summarizes how legal scholars have thus far applied insights about knowledge structures and argues that their most profound implications have yet to be appreciated. Part III then provides a set of predictions regarding the influence of knowledge structures and the biases they likely engender for legal theories and laws.
Morphological interpolation for temporal changes

The problem of interpolation of images is defined as - given two images at time t = 0 and t = T, one must find the series of images for the intermediate time. This problem is not well posed, in the sense that without further constraints, there might be many solutions possible. We thus focus on the interpolation problem with respect to problems in geoscience and remote sensing. Mathematical Morphology (MM) can be considered as the theory of non-linear operators on images. The aim of this article is to review the techniques of morphological interpolation, compare the various techniques and observe its implications on a problem in geoscience and remote Sensing. Also, we provide a new approach combining ideas from the other methods and compare them to the original morphological interpolation methods. Application of these methods are shown on the RADARSAT images of pre and post flood images of the Mekong river.
3-dimensional Chaotic Dynamics on Jacobian Elliptic Space Curve

Sufficient conditions have been recently given for a classs of ergodic maps of an interval onto itself: I = [0, 1] ⊂ R1 → I and its associated binary function to generate a sequence of independent and idetically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables. Jacobian elliptic Chebyshev map, its derivative and second derivative induce Jacobian elliptic space curve. A mapping of the space curve onto itself: R3 → R3 is introduced which defines 3 projective onto mappings, represented in the form of rational functions of xn, yn, zn and gives a 3-dimensional sequence of i.i. d. random vectors.
Geodesic paths on triangular meshes

We present a new algorithm to compute a geodesic path over a triangulated surface. Based on Sethian's (1996) fast marching method and Polthier's (1998) straightest geodesics theory, we are able to generate an iterative process to obtain a good discrete geodesic approximation. It can handle convex and nonconvex surfaces as well.
Implementation of Inverse Hysteresis Model Into EMTP—Part I: Static Model

The main features of the history-dependent inverse model of magnetic hysteresis are outlined. Its implementation into the Electromagnetic Transient Program-Alternative Transients Program (EMTP-ATP) is described, and the fitting of the model to catalog data is demonstrated. The abilities of the model are illustrated by its use in a single-phase transformer model.
Aerobic reserve and physical functional performance in older adults.

BACKGROUND older adults can be limited in their performance of daily tasks due to an inadequate aerobic capacity. Aerobic capacity below minimum physiological thresholds required to maintain independence leaves older adults with little, or no, aerobic reserve. OBJECTIVE the aim of this study was to measure functional performance and aerobic reserve in older adults during the serial performance of daily tasks. SUBJECTS twenty-nine (n = 29) men and women (n = 23 females) 70-92 years of age participated in this study. METHODS performance based physical function was assessed using the Continuous-Scale Physical Functional Performance test (CS-PFP). A Cosmed K4b(2) portable metabolic system was used to measure VO(2PEAK) and oxygen uptake during the serial performance of a battery of daily tasks (VO(2PFP)). Aerobic reserve was calculated as the difference between VO(2PEAK) and VO(2PFP). RESULTS the correlation coefficient between aerobic reserve and functional performance was r = 0.50(P = 0.006). Participants utilized 32.2 +/- 8.1%, 42.7 +/- 10.8%, and 50.3 +/- 12.3% of VO(2PEAK) for the low, moderate, and high workloads of the CS-PFP, respectively. CONCLUSIONS light housework and carrying groceries require 40 to 50% of peak oxygen consumption. This information can be used by clinicians and health professionals working with older adults as a guide to how much aerobic fitness is needed to perform ADLs and maintain independence. These can then be used as guides for assessment and for setting training goals in older adults.
Regularity Preserving but Not Reflecting Encodings

Encodings, that is, injective functions from words to words, have been studied extensively in several settings. In computability theory the notion of encoding is crucial for defining computability on arbitrary domains, as well as for comparing the power of models of computation. In language theory much attention has been devoted to regularity preserving functions. A natural question arising in these contexts is: Is there a bijective encoding such that its image function preserves regularity of languages, but its pre-image function does not? Our main result answers this question in the affirmative: For every countable class C of languages there exists a bijective encoding f such that for every language L ∈ L its image f[L] is regular. Our construction of such encodings has several noteworthy consequences. Firstly, anomalies arise when models of computation are compared with respect to a known concept of implementation that is based on encodings which are not required to be computable: Every countable decision model can be implemented, in this sense, by finite-state automata, even via bijective encodings. Hence deterministic finite-state automata would be equally powerful as Turing machine deciders. A second consequence concerns the recognizability of sets of natural numbers via number representations and finite automata. A set of numbers is said to be recognizable with respect to a representation if an automaton accepts the language of representations. Our result entails that there is one number representation with respect to which every recursive set is recognizable.