Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Hypnotic Use of Waking Dreams: Exploring Near-Death Experiences Without the Flatlines by P. W. Schenk

Feel lonely? What about reading books? Book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time. When you have no friends and activities somewhere and sometimes, reading book can be a great choice. This is not only for spending the time, it will increase the knowledge. Of course the b=benefits to take will relate to what kind of book that you are reading. And now, we will concern you to try reading the hypnotic use of waking dreams exploring near death experiences without the flatlines as one of the reading material to finish quickly.
Pulsed electrical discharge propagation along the surface of liquid dielectricts

Chemical and physical processes accompanying the propagation of electrical discharges along liquid surfaces are important for wide range of applications from electrical switching to liquid disinfection. 1-μs, 10-15 kV, 800 ns flat-top pulses are applied in a pin-to-plane electrode geometry. The discharge above and along a water surface is investigated in an Ar/Air mixture. The distilled water with conductivity of 5 μS/cm serves as a dielectric surface on the time scales of this experiment. The path of the streamer discharge from the needle to the flat (disk) electrode depends on the proximity of the water surface. The results of ICCD imaging with gate widths of 5-10 ns show the discharge path transition from a straight horizontal path directly from the needle to plane to a curved path along the water surface. A 10 nm width bandpass filter selecting an Ar+ emission region is used to image the propagation of the ionization front and the build-up of plasma density. The time of the increase in plasma density corresponds to a sharp increase in the discharge current. The imaging results show distinct differences in the discharge development in the positive and negative polarity of the needle electrode. The novel aspect of this study is in combining a variety of time-resolved methods to study the dynamics of the streamer propagation along the surface of a liquid dielectric.
Identification of a novel, N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive cytosolic factor required for vesicular transport from endosomes to the trans-Golgi network in vitro

We have recently described a cell-free system that reconstitutes the vesicular transport of 300-kD mannose 6-phosphate receptors from late endosomes to the trans-Golgi network (TGN). We report here that the endosome----TGN transport reaction was significantly inhibited by low concentrations of the alkylating agent, N-ethylmaleimide (NEM). Addition of fresh cytosol to NEM-inactivated reaction mixtures restored transport to at least 80% of control levels. Restorative activity was only present in cytosol fractions, and was sensitive to trypsin treatment or incubation at 100 degrees C. A variety of criteria demonstrated that the restorative activity was distinct from NSF, an NEM-sensitive protein that facilitates the transport of proteins from the ER to the Golgi complex and between Golgi cisternae. Cytosol fractions immunodepleted of greater than or equal to 90% of NSF protein, or heated to 37 degrees C to inactivate greater than or equal to 93% of NSF activity, were fully able to restore transport to NEM- treated reaction mixtures. The majority of restorative activity sedimented as a uniform species of 50-100 kD upon glycerol gradient centrifugation. We have termed this activity ETF-1, for endosome----TGN transport factor-1. Kinetic experiments showed that ETF-1 acts at a very early stage in vesicular transport, which may reflect a role for this factor in the formation of nascent transport vesicles. GTP hydrolysis appears to be required throughout the transport reaction. The ability of GTP gamma S to inhibit endosome----TGN transport required the presence of donor, endosome membranes, and cytosol, which may reflect a role for guanine nucleotides in vesicle budding. Finally, ETF-1 appears to act before a step that is blocked by GTP gamma S, during the process by which proteins are transported from endosomes to the TGN in vitro.
Empowered for practice: The relationship among perceived autonomy support, competence, and task persistence of undergraduate applied music students

vii Chapter One: Introduction 1 Social Interaction in the Applied Studio Setting 2 Role of Intrinsic Motivation on Achievement 3 Autonomy Support 4 Autonomy-Supportive versus Controlled Contexts 6 Musical Practice 6 Goal-Setting 8 Facilitating Motivation Through Competence 10 Persistence in Practice 11 Self-Regulated Deliberate Flow Model (SRDF) 13 Conceptual Framework 16 Statement of the Problem 20 Rationale of the Study 21 Purpose of the Study 22 Research Questions 23 Definition of Terms 24 Supporting Theories of SRDF 24 Main Constructs Measured in this Study 25 Delimitations 25 Chapter Two: Literature Review 27 Perceived Competence 28 Self-Efficacy Theory 28 Social-Contextual Influences on Motivation 32 Autonomy-Supportive Contexts 35 Controlling Contexts 37 Experiential Learning: Fostering an Environment for Engagement 39 The Humanistic View of Education 41 Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) 43
A high breakdown voltage IC with lateral power device based on SODI structure

A high-performance power technology has been developed, in which a conventional SOI lateral power device is merged with novel thick film technology on the backside of its substrate, such as a silicon on double insulator (SODI) structure. In addition to realizing a high breakdown voltage performance, with the assumption of 1.2 kV class applications, the SODI structure has mainly two advantages. One is that a low cost-performance of the initial SOI substrate can be achieved, because the design of the initial buried oxidation layer thickness is free. Another one is a huge reduction in the heat resistance of the power device, because a back metal electrode is formed just under the device.
The role of Japanese pitch accent in spoken-word recognition: evidence from middle-aged accentless dialect listeners

This paper investigates the role of pitch accent information in spoken-word recognition in listeners in Fukushima, Japan, whose dialect is accentless. Previous research revealed that accentless listeners were less sensitive to pitch accent than Tokyo Japanese listeners. The present study asked whether middle-aged listeners’ use of accent information would differ from that of young listeners. 40 middle-aged Fukushima listeners were presented with Tokyo Japanese materials used in the earlier study, employing a gating task. Results show that middle-aged Fukushima accentless listeners are even less sensitive to the pitch accent information than the younger accentless listeners. The findings suggest that the exploitation of pitch information by younger listeners reflects adaptation to the standard Tokyo Japanese dialect, e.g., via the media, whereas the older listeners are less influenced by the standard.
Design and Costruction of Step Counters for Disable People: Preliminar Experience at the Italian Institute of Health

Step counting is an important index of motion One of the most diffused wearable systems, designed for this purpose, is the pedometer. The accuracy of commercial pedometers has been tested in literature. Several limits have been found in many commercial systems both in healthy subjects and in disable people. Furthermore, commercial pedometers lack in interoperability. A new wearable system for the step counting has been introduced in this paper. The wearable system is based on a wearable device with a force sensing resistor and a band; it is affixed at the calf gastrocnemius level for the monitoring of the muscular expansion correlated to the gait. The proposed gastrocnemius expansion measurement unit (GEMU) was tested on a three subjects with the Parkinson' s disease at the Level 2 of the Tinetti test of unbalance who performed five repetition of 200 steps with three different instructions (fast, slow). The mean error was lower than 0.5 %. Results also showed that GEMU performed better than an accelerometer unit (considered in literature the best solution for this disability). The study showed that GEMU had a high performance in a subject with a pathology (the Parkinson' s disease) causing a high degree of unbalance confounding the motion style and thus pedometers. The next phase will be the optimization of GEMU for long term medical applications at patients' home with the special care to the material and with a comparison to a golden standard.
Detection and Location of Fast Moving Targets Using Minimum Redundancy Linear Array SAR

In this paper, a new system called minimum redundancy linear array SAR (MRLA-SAR) is proposed. Using multiple complex images formed by multiple antennas with a special configuration, MRLA-SAR can not only suppress the stationary clutter, but also locate and image both slowly and fast moving targets accurately. Numerical experiments are also presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of MRLA-SAR
Rules-based grammatical and semantic disambiguation of the token "hattā" in Arabic

In this paper, we present a method of grammatical and semantic disambiguation of the particle or the token "hatta̅" in Arabic language. This method is based on a thorough analysis of the context. Our goal is to achieve the maximum linguistic information of this token thanks to a corpus in order to modeling as a grammar or rules. To do this, we first developed a corpus that contains the different contexts of the token "hatta̅". Second from this corpus, we identified the different linguistic criteria of this token that allow us to correctly identify it. Finally, we codified this information in the form of linguistic rules in order to detect it easily by machine.
Régressions par analyse des valeurs latentes à noyau

Dans cet article, nous etendons au noyaux de Mercer, la regression par analyse des valeurs latentes (Latent Root regression, LRR). Cette methode de regression lineaire est basee sur l'usage de variables latentes tout comme la regression aux moindre carres partiels (PLS) ou la regression sur composantes principales (PCR). Dans le cas de la LRR, les variables latentes sont construites en utilisant les vecteurs propres de la matrice regroupant les predicteurs et les variables dependantes. L'extension au noyau de Mercer est realisee en projetant les predicteurs dans un espace caracteristique, connu seulement a travers son produit scalaire et en reformulant la construction des variables latentes dans ce cadre. Ces methodes de regression sur variables latentes et leurs extensions aux noyaux de Mercer sont comparees pour un noyau gaussien dans le cadre de donnees de reconstruction faciale. Le but de la reconstruction faciale est de predire la forme du visage a l'aide de la forme du crâne. Ce probleme est reduit a la prediction de la position d'un ensemble de points caracteristiques de la face en fonction de la position de points caracteristiques du crâne.
Involvement of the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) receptor and ligand in liver damage

Apoptosis occurs in the normal liver and in various forms of liver disease. The CD95 (APO-1/Fas) (CD95) receptor mediates apoptosis, and liver cells in animal models are acutely sensitive to apoptosis initiated by this receptor. We have used primary human hepatocytes as a model system to investigate CD95-mediated apoptotic liver damage. Treatment of fresh human hepatocytes with low concentrations of agonistic antibodies against CD95 resulted in apoptosis of > 95% of the cultured liver cells within 4 and 7.5 h. Immunohistology of a panel of explanted liver tissues revealed that hepatocytes in normal livers (n = 5) and in alcoholic cirrhosis (n = 13) expressed low constitutive levels of CD95. CD95 receptor expression was highly elevated in hepatocytes in hepatitis B virus-related cirrhosis (n = 9) and in acute liver failure (n = 8). By in situ hybridization CD95 ligand messenger RNA expression was absent in normal liver but detected at high levels in livers with ongoing liver damage. In cases of hepatitis B virus- related cirrhosis and acute hepatic failure, ligand expression was found primarily in areas with lymphocytic infiltration. In contrast, in patients with alcoholic liver damage, high CD95 ligand messenger RNA expression was found in hepatocytes. These findings suggest that liver destruction in hepatitis B may primarily involve killing of hepatocytes by T lymphocytes using the CD95 receptor-ligand system. In alcoholic liver damage, death of hepatocytes might occur by fratricide and paracrine or autocrine mechanisms mediated by the hepatocytes themselves.
Spatio-Temporal Boolean Compressed Sensing for Human Localization With Fiber-Optic Sensors

Human localization with fiber-optic sensors is a data-efficient, low-computational-cost substitute for vision-based approaches, especially, in indoor environments. A challenging task in building such a system is increasing the sensing efficiency, that is, the ratio of the number of monitored cells to that of sensors involved. In this paper, we develop a spatio-temporal Boolean compressed sensing model for addressing this issue. Specifically, we formulate the sensing task as the issue of encoding and decoding the sensed space in a joint spatio-temporal fashion, and we employ ant colony optimization for creating the required codebook. The design and implementation of this model is presented as well. Two aspects are mainly concerned. First, the modular design paradigm is explored to facilitate the deployment scalability. Second, a calibration mechanism is incorporated into the signal acquisition process for reliability enhancement. A lab-scale prototype system is developed for localizing two persons within a \(7 \times 7\) grid using only 12 sensors, which are more efficient compared with 15 sensors required in a conventional model. The experimental results are reported to validate the proposed model.
Organotypic three-dimensional cancer cell cultures mirror drug responses in vivo: lessons learned from the inhibition of EGFR signaling

Complex three-dimensional (3D) in vitro models that recapitulate human tumor biology are essential to understand the pathophysiology of the disease and to aid in the discovery of novel anti-cancer therapies. 3D organotypic cultures exhibit intercellular communication, nutrient and oxygen gradients, and cell polarity that is lacking in two-dimensional (2D) monolayer cultures. In the present study, we demonstrate that 2D and 3D cancer models exhibit different drug sensitivities towards both targeted inhibitors of EGFR signaling and broad acting cytotoxic agents. Changes in the kinase activities of ErbB family members and differential expression of apoptosis- and survival-associated genes before and after drug treatment may account for the differential drug sensitivities. Importantly, EGFR oncoprotein addiction was evident only in the 3D cultures mirroring the effect of EGFR inhibition in the clinic. Furthermore, targeted drug efficacy was strongly increased when incorporating cancer-associated fibroblasts into the 3D cultures. Taken together, we provide conclusive evidence that complex 3D cultures are more predictive of the clinical outcome than their 2D counterparts. In the future, 3D cultures will be instrumental for understanding the mode of action of drugs, identifying genotype-drug response relationships and developing patient-specific and personalized cancer treatments.
Graph Model Selection via Random Walks

In this paper, we present a novel approach based on the random walk process for finding meaningful representations of a graph model. Our approach leverages the transient behavior of many short random walks with novel initialization mechanisms to generate model discriminative features. These features are able to capture a more comprehensive structural signature of the underlying graph model. The resulting representation is invariant to both node permutation and the size of the graph, allowing direct comparison between large classes of graphs. We test our approach on two challenging model selection problems: the discrimination in the sparse regime of an Erd\"{o}s-Renyi model from a stochastic block model and the planted clique problem. Our representation approach achieves performance that closely matches known theoretical limits in addition to being computationally simple and scalable to large graphs.
Systematic comparison of perfusion‐CT and CT‐angiography in acute stroke patients

To systematically evaluate the accuracy of noncontrast computed tomography (NCT), perfusion computed tomography (PCT), and computed tomographic angiography (CTA) in determining site of occlusion, infarct core, salvageable brain tissue, and collateral flow in a large series of patients suspected of acute stroke.
Beneficial impact of fenoldopam in critically ill patients with or at risk for acute renal failure: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.

BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury is common in critically ill patients. Fenoldopam mesylate is a potent dopamine A-1 receptor agonist that increases blood flow to the renal cortex and outer medulla. Because there is uncertainty about the benefits of fenoldopam in such a setting, we performed a systematic review of randomized controlled trials of intensive care unit patients or those undergoing major surgery. METHODS BioMedCentral, CENTRAL, PubMed, and conference proceedings were searched (updated October 2005). Investigators and external experts were contacted. Two unblinded reviewers selected randomized controlled trials that used fenoldopam in the prevention or treatment of acute kidney injury in postoperative or intensive care patients. Studies involving the prevention of contrast nephropathy or containing duplicate data were excluded from analysis. Two reviewers independently abstracted patient data, treatment characteristics, and outcomes. RESULTS A total of 1,290 patients from 16 randomized studies were included in the analysis. Pooled estimates showed that fenoldopam consistently and significantly reduced the risk for acute kidney injury (odds ratio [OR], 0.43; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.32 to 0.59; P < 0.001), need for renal replacement therapy (OR, 0.54; 95% CI, 0.34 to 0.84; P = 0.007), and in-hospital death (OR, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.45 to 0.91; P = 0.01). These benefits were associated with shorter intensive care unit stay (weighted mean difference, -0.61 days; 95% CI, -0.99 to -0.23; P = 0.002). Sensitivity analyses, tests for small-study bias, and heterogeneity assessment further confirmed the main analysis. CONCLUSION This analysis suggests that fenoldopam reduces the need for renal replacement and mortality in patients with acute kidney injury. A large, multicenter, appropriately powered trial will need to be performed to confirm these results.
Macropredatory ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic and the origin of modern trophic networks

The biotic recovery from Earth’s most severe extinction event at the Permian-Triassic boundary largely reestablished the preextinction structure of marine trophic networks, with marine reptiles assuming the predator roles. However, the highest trophic level of today's marine ecosystems, i.e., macropredatory tetrapods that forage on prey of similar size to their own, was thus far lacking in the Paleozoic and early Mesozoic. Here we report a top-tier tetrapod predator, a very large (>8.6 m) ichthyosaur from the early Middle Triassic (244 Ma), of Nevada. This ichthyosaur had a massive skull and large labiolingually flattened teeth with two cutting edges indicative of a macropredatory feeding style. Its presence documents the rapid evolution of modern marine ecosystems in the Triassic where the same level of complexity as observed in today’s marine ecosystems is reached within 8 My after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction and within 4 My of the time reptiles first invaded the sea. This find also indicates that the biotic recovery in the marine realm may have occurred faster compared with terrestrial ecosystems, where the first apex predators may not have evolved before the Carnian.
Increased tumor necrosis factor production by monocytes in alcoholic hepatitis

Tumor necrosis factor is a cytokine that mediates many of the biologic actions of endotoxin. Recent studies have shown that tumor necrosis factor administration may cause liver injury and that tumor necrosis factor may mediate the lethality of the hepatotoxin galactosamine. One of the most potent inducers of tumor necrosis factor production is endotoxin. Because patients with alcoholic liver disease frequently have endotoxemia and because many of the clinical manifestations of alcoholic hepatitis are known biologic actions of tumor necrosis factor, we thought it would be important to evaluate tumor necrosis factor activity in patients with alcoholic hepatitis. Basal and lipopolysaccharide‐stimulated tumor necrosis factor release from peripheral blood monocytes, a major source of tumor necrosis factor production, was determined in 16 patients with alcoholic hepatitis and 16 healthy volunteers. Eight of 16 alcoholic hepatitis patients and only two of 16 healthy volunteers had detectable spontaneous tumor necrosis factor activity (p < 0.05). After lipopolysaccharide stimulation, mean monocyte tumor necrosis factor release from alcoholic hepatitis patients was significantly increased to over twice that of healthy controls (25.3 ± 3.7 vs. 10.9 ± 2.4 units per ml, p < 0.005). We conclude that monocytes from alcoholic hepatitis patients have significantly increased spontaneous and lipopolysaccharide‐stimulated tumor necrosis factor release compared to monocytes from healthy volunteers. We suggest that some of the metabolic abnormalities and possibly some of the liver injury of alcoholic hepatitis may be due to enhanced tumor necrosis factor production.
Homocysteine trials--clear outcomes for complex reasons.

In 1969, McCully first proposed that homocysteine causes atherosclerosis.1 His hypothesis was based on the finding of atherosclerotic plaque at autopsies of young people with homocystinuria. This hypothesis was later modified to include a broader population, positing that mild hyperhomocysteinemia caused by dietary deficiencies of the vitamin cofactors required for the metabolism of homocysteine — folic acid, vitamin B12, and vitamin B6 — is a risk factor for atherothrombosis. In developed countries, these vitamins are partially removed from foods during processing,2 and typical diets are rich in the precursor amino acid methionine (which is derived from animal .
Observing temperature fluctuations in humans using infrared imaging

In this work we demonstrate that functional infrared imaging is capable of detecting low frequency temperature fluctuations in intact human skin and revealing spatial, temporal, spectral, and time-frequency based differences among three tissue classes: microvasculature, large sub-cutaneous veins, and the remaining surrounding tissue of the forearm. We found that large veins have stronger contractility in the range of 0.005-0.06 Hz compared to the other two tissue classes. Wavelet phase coherence and power spectrum correlation analysis show that microvasculature and skin areas without vessels visible by IR have high phase coherence in the lowest three frequency ranges (0.005-0.0095 Hz, 0.0095-0.02 Hz, and 0.02-0.06 Hz), whereas large veins oscillate independently.
Birman ’ s Conjecture is True for I 2 ( p ) James East December 22 , 2003

In 1993, Birman conjectured that the desingularization map from the singular braid monoid to the integral group ring of the braid group determined by σ i 7→ σ i and τi 7→ σi − σ −1 i is injective. The conjecture, which has recently been proven true by Paris (2003), may be generalised to all Artin groups. In this article we prove that the conjecture holds for one of the infinite families of Artin groups of spherical type, namely I2(p).