Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A non-invasive pulse pressure method for the estimation of total arterial compliance

With the Pulse Pressure Method (PPM; Stergiopulos et al., 1994), total arterial compliance can be estimated accurately from simultaneously measured aortic flow (Q/sub a0/) and pulse pressure (PP/sub a0/). The PPM is modified in 2 ways, yielding a non-invasive PPM (NIPPM): (i) Q/sub a0/ is replaced by a triangular flow, reconstructed from cardiac output, and is characterised by its base T/sub ej/ (systolic ejection time) and peak flow 2SV/T/sub ej/ (SV=stroke volume) at T/sub ej//3; (ii) PP/sub a0/ is estimated from a tonometric radial pressure measurement and a generalised aorta-radial pressure transfer function (TFF/sub g/). Application of the NIPPM on data from a group of hypertensive patients and young normotensive volunteers shows that (i) PP/sub a0/ is higher in the hypertensives for a same PP/sub r/ad; (ii) TAC is reduced from 2.11+/-0.51 ml/mmHg in the young volunteers to 1.13+/-0.51 ml/mmHg in the hypertensives.
Perverting the course of therapy: the fetishisation of governance in public sector mental health services

In this paper, I draw on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to consider the notion of perversion and fetishisation within the context of contemporary UK public mental health services which have been subject to New Public Management restructuring. Offering an organisational case example based on clinical experience within an expanded NHS mental health service, I explore how services that are subject to neo-liberal regulatory and performance management systems sponsor a perverse organisational solution to the anxieties and difficulties of dealing with psychologically distressed patients. I conclude that theorising the unconscious dynamics of perversion and fetishism may provide an opportunity to rethink governmentality, offering a potentially fruitful means of addressing recent political concerns about the negative impact of a ‘target culture’ on public sector health services.
Prosody and Grounding in Dialog

In a previous study we demonstrated that subjects could use prosodic features (primar ily peak height and alignment) to make different interpretations of synthesized fragm entary grounding utterances. In the present study we test the hypothesis that subjects also change the ir behavior accordingly in a human-computer dialog setting. We report on an experiment in whic h subjects participate in a color-naming task in a Wizard-of-Oz controlled human -computer dialog in Swedish. The results show that two annotators were able to categorize the subjects’ responses based on pragmatic meaning. Moreover, the subjects’ response times differed significantly, depending on the prosodic features of the grounding fragment spoken by t he system.
Inferring dependency constraints on parameters for web services

Recently many popular websites such as Twitter and Flickr expose their data through web service APIs, enabling third-party organizations to develop client applications that provide function-alities beyond what the original websites offer. These client appli-cations should follow certain constraints in order to correctly in-teract with the web services. One common type of such constraints is Dependency Constraints on Parameters. Given a web service operation O and its parameters Pi, Pj, these constraints describe the requirement on one parameter Pi that is dependent on the conditions of some other parameter(s) Pj. For example, when requesting the Twitter operation "GET statuses/user_timeline", a user_id parameter must be provided if a screen_name parameter is not provided. Violations of such constraints can cause fatal errors or incorrect results in the client applications. However, these con-straints are often not formally specified and thus not available for automatic verification of client applications. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach, called INDICATOR, to automatically infer dependency constraints on parameters for web services, via a hybrid analysis of heterogeneous web service artifacts, including the service documentation, the service SDKs, and the web services themselves. To evaluate our approach, we applied INDICATOR to infer dependency constraints for four popular web services. The results showed that INDICATOR effectively infers constraints with an average precision of 94.4% and recall of 95.5%.
Surgery for Gynecomastia in the Islamic Golden Age: Al-Tasrif of Al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD)

The rise of European science during the Renaissance is greatly indebted to the flourishing of the sciences during the Islamic Golden Age. However, some believe that medieval Islamic physicians and in particular surgeons had been merely a medium for Greco-Roman ideas. Contrarily, in some medieval Islamic medical books, such as Al-Tasrif of Al-Zahrawi (936–1013), the surgical instructions represent a change in the usual techniques or are accompanied by a case history, implying that the procedure was actually undertaken. Along with the hundreds of chapters on different diseases and related medical and surgical treatments, Al-Tasrif includes a chapter on surgical techniques for gynecomastia. The present paper is a review of the description of the surgical management of gynecomastia by Al-Zahrawi as well as that of the ancient Greek, medieval, and modern medicine. Although Al-Zahrawi seemed to base his descriptions of surgery for gynecomastia upon those of Paulus of Aegina, his modification of the procedure and application of the medicinal substances might be indicative of Al-Zahrawi's own practice of the procedure. Al-Zahrawi's surgical procedures remained unchanged for many centuries thenceforward until the technological evolution in the recent centuries.
Studying bilinguals: Methodological and conceptual issues

Because the field of bilingualism is still relatively new, studies in the linguistics, psycholinguistics, language development and neurolinguistics of bilingualism have often produced conflicting results. It will be argued in this paper that some of the difficulties encountered by researchers could have been lessened, if not avoided, had close attention been paid to methodological and conceptual issues. Among the issues covered are bilingual participants, language mode, stimuli, tasks as well as models of bilingual representation and processing. Each issue is dealt with in the following way: first it is explained, then the problems it causes are discussed, and, finally, tentative solutions are proposed. Examples are taken from descriptive and experimental studies of normal bilingual adults and children as well as bilinguals suffering from aphasia and dementia.
Maternal reports of child behavior problems and personal distress as predictors of dysfunctional parenting

Abstract A community sample of 96 mother-child dyads participated in a study evaluating the extent to which directly observed differences in maternal parenting behavior could be predicted on the basis of both global and proximal maternal reports of child behavior problems and personal distress. To allow for simultaneous testing of a set of relations and make tentative causal inferences, a structural equation modeling approach was used. When the analysis was conducted on the entire sample, results indicated that global and to a lesser extent proximal measures of child behavior problems and personal distress made modest contributions to dysfunctional parenting, with neither child behavior problems or personal distress playing a more important role than the other. When the sample was divided into low (n = 54) and high (n = 42) socioeconomic disadvantage (SED) families, a different picture emerged. In low disadvantage families, parenting was most strongly predicted by mothers' proximal reports of their children's behavior; whereas in high disadvantage families, parenting was best predicted by mothers' proximal reports of their own personal distress. Results are interpreted in light of Wahler and Dumas' (1989) attentional hypothesis. It suggests that mothers who do not experience chronic sources of distress (such as SED) attend and respond to their children's behavior in a fairl accurate and consistent manner, but that mothers who experience chronic distress are unable to attend effectively to their children, responding to them often in light of the many stressors to which they are exposed, rather than in light of the children's actual behavior.
AC 2008-814: MODELING AND CONTROL OF SMART ACTUATORS: INTEGRATING NANO/BIO TECHNOLOGY INTO THE ME CURRICULUM

A laundering implement is provided for cleaning an external surface of a vehicle. A plurality of spacers are supportable with respect to a path of travel for a vehicle to be cleaned and are arranged in first and second stacked or sandwiched groups of spacers for oscillating or rotating movement about a common axis of rotation or axial shifting oscillation along a common axis. The spacers are of a color different from that of the rest of the fixed structure of the laundering implement so that when the implement is in operation the moving spacers and cloth elements create an attractive and attention-getting visual effect. The colors of the spacers may be customized to suit the desires of any particular purchaser or operator of the vehicle laundry system. Each spacer has opposite complimentary faces matable with an opposing face of an adjacent spacer. A plurality of cloth elements are interposed between adjacent stacked spacers for movement in concert therewith. At least a portion of a cloth element is interposed between adjacent spacers. The interposed portion of the element is pinched between a projection extending from one spacer and into engagement with the adjacent spacer, and the cloth element and adjacent spacers are compressively sandwiched toward one another.
Development of a Questionnaire Assessing School Physical Activity Environment

This study was designed to develop the Questionnaire Assessing School Physical Activity Environment (Q--SPACE) based on student perceptions. Twenty-eight items rated on 4-point Likert scales were administered to 244 middle school students in 9 schools. Exploratory factor analysis was used to evaluate the underlying structure of the items and 2 factors were extracted: physical environment (PE) and social environment (SE). Twelve and 8 items loaded saliently on PE (e.g., gym classes available) and SE (e.g., teacher encouragement), respectively. Factor scales had alpha coefficients of . 86 (PE) and . 81 (SE). One-week test–retest reliabilities for the factor scales of PE and SE were . 78 and . 72, respectively. Differences in PE scale scores across schools and PE and SE scale scores across student school physical activity behavior (e.g., participation on school teams) provided some evidence of scale construct validity. Overall, Q–SPACE demonstrates acceptable reliability for capturing middle school students' perceptions of school physical activity environment. The factorial validity needs to be assessed with confirmatory factor analysis and invariance testing procedures.
Anomalous climatic conditions during winter 2010–2011 and vulnerability of the traditional Inuit food system in Iqaluit, Nunavut

ABSTRACT This study examines how climatic extremes during winter 2010–2011 affected the traditional food system in Iqaluit, Nunavut. This winter was anomalous throughout the Canadian Arctic, and manifested itself locally by warmer temperatures and decreased ice coverage. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with hunters (n = 25), a fixed question survey with public housing residents (n = 100), as well as analysis of remotely sensed sea-ice charts and temperature data from the Iqaluit weather station, this work identifies and characterises the extreme climatic conditions experienced, their subsequent effects on Iqaluit's traditional food system, and coping strategies used for dealing with food-related stresses. The results show increased environmental stress on the traditional food system compared to previous years. Freeze up occurred 59 days later than the average for the 1982–2010 period, while mean annual temperatures were 4. 9ºC higher than the climatological mean, which negatively impacted hunters’ harvests and residents’ food supplies. Coping strategies alleviated some stresses, but adaptability was limited for financially insecure households reliant on income support. The study shows that when challenging socioeconomic conditions, such as those associated with public housing, are coupled with significant environmental stress, such as experienced during that winter, the vulnerability of the traditional food system is exacerbated. We suggest that winter 2010–2011 can be used as an analogue for exploring future food system vulnerabilities, with climate models projecting similar conditions in the coming decades.
D-cycloserine for treatment of numbing and avoidance in chronic post traumatic stress disorder: A randomized, double blind, clinical trial

Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tends to follow a chronic and treatment resistant course. Avoidance and numbing are symptoms associated with chronicity and impaired life quality. As D-cycloserine (DCS) can facilitate extinction of conditioned fear, we aimed to investigate the efficacy and tolerability of DCS for the treatment of numbing and avoidance in chronic PTSD. Materials and Methods: This was an 11-week, double-blind, cross-over trial conducted in 2012 and 2013, in out-patient University psychiatry clinics. The studied population was selected randomly among outpatients with chronic combat-related PTSD (based on DSM-IV-TR criteria for chronic PTSD), who were males over 18 and <65 years of age (n = 319). Seventy six eligible patients were randomly assigned to two groups. Patients entered a 1-week run-in period. The groups received either an add-on treatment of DCS (50 mg daily), or placebo (4-week). After a 2-week washout, the groups received cross-over treatments (4-week). Clinical, paraclinical assessments, and clinician administered PTSD scale (CAPS) were performed at baseline, and at the end of the 1st, 5th, and 11th week. Side-effects were also evaluated. The overall number of avoidance and numbing symptoms, symptom frequency, and symptom intensity were measured separately. Results: Neither frequency nor number of symptoms was significantly influenced. However, DCS treatment demonstrates a significant decrease in intensity of avoidance/numbing symptoms, and improvement in function (mean [standard error] = −4.2 [1.5], P = 0.008). Side-effects were not statistically remarkable. Conclusion: D-cycloserine can help as an adjunctive treatment to alleviate numbing and avoidance in combat-related chronic PTSD.
Traversals of object structures: Specification and Efficient Implementation

Separation of concerns and loose coupling of concerns are important issues in software enginnering. In this paper we show how to separate traversal-related concerns from other concerns, how to loosely couple traversal-related concerns to the structural concern, and how to efficiently implement traversal-related concerns. The stress is on the detailed description of our algorithms and the traversal specifications they operate on.Traversal of object structures is a ubiquitous routine in most types of information processing. Ad hoc implementations of traversals lead to scattered and tangled code and in this paper we present a new approach, called traversal strategies, to succinctly modularize traversals. In our approach traversals are defined using a high-level directed graph description, which is compiled into a dynamic road map to assist run-time traversals. The complexity of the compilation algorithm is polynomial in the size of the traversal strategy graph and the class graph of the given application. Prototypes of the system have been developed and are being successfully used to implement traversals for Java and AspectJ [Kiczales et al. 2001] and for generating adapters for software components. Our previous approach, called traversal specifications [Lieberherr 1992; Palsberg et al. 1995], was less general and less succinct, and its compilation algorithm was of exponential complexity in some cases. In an additional result we show that this bad behavior is inherent to the static traversal code generated by previous implementations, where traversals are carried out by invoking methods without parameters.
Krukenberg tumors. Prognostic factors, surgical treatment and survival benefit. A literature review

Acknowledgement: This work received financial support through the project entitled “CERO Career profile: Romanian Researcher”, grant number POSDRU/159/1.5/S/ 135760, cofinanced by the European Social Fund for Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013. The Krukenbergtumor (KT) represents a metastatic lesion to the ovary from a primary gastrointestinal tumor (GI) most frequently the stomach being the site from which the malignant cells disseminate to the ovaries. KT are generally bilateral metastatic ovarian tumors which are associated with a low overall survival rate and a poor prognosis. Usually, it develops in women at the age of 40-50 years. The purpose of this article is to review the prognostic factors for KT, the surgical treatment and its impact on survival in women with KT of the ovary. A Pubmed database search for English language articles using key words (e.g‘‘ovarian cancer”, “Krukenberg tumors’’, ‘‘treatment’’, ‘‘surgery) has been conducted. Systematic reviews, retroprospective studies, controlled and randomized clinical trials were selected if the research subjects were treated with surgery. Detection of a unilateral KT, the absence of any other metastases, the primary tumor originating in the colon or rectum as well as the identification of the primary GI tumor during the resection of the KT have been recognized as favourable prognostic factors associated with the postoperative evolution of women diagnosed with KT.A complete resection of the KT (negative margins, R0) improves the overall survival rate especially in women with colorectal cancer and no other medical or surgical comorbidities. In women with gastric cancer and metachronous KT, the absence of any other distant visceral metastastes represents an indication for the complete resection of the KT. Women with primary gastric cancer and KT s have generally a poor prognostic.
Arrays of plasmonic nanocavities for non-linear light interactions

Here we present a plasmonic metamaterial consisting of a large-scale array of gold coaxial rod-tube (CRT) nanocavities. The CRT nanocavities were fabricated using an anodized alumina template. The etching process used in the fabrication process can create 5nm cavities, smaller than conventional top-down techniques. The large electric-field enhancements associated with nanometer-sized gaps and the tunability of the modes excited in the structure show potential for applications in non-linear optics including second harmonic generation (SHG) and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
Developmental pathways in disruptive child behavior

Abstract Developmental sequences in disruptive behavior from childhood to adolescence are traced retrospectively and prospectively in two community samples of boys. Three developmental pathways are distinguished: (a) an early authority conflict pathway, consisting in sequence of stubborn behavior, defiance, and authority avoidance; (b) a covert pathway, consisting of minor covert behaviors, property damage, and moderate to serious forms of delinquency; and (c) an overt pathway, consisting of aggression, fighting, and violence. The overlap among the three disruptive pathways is examined. Those boys who escalated in the overt pathway were more likely to escalate in the covert pathway than boys escalating in the covert pathway showing an escalation in the overt pathway. Escalation in the authority conflict pathway was not associated with escalation in either the overt or the covert pathways. Boys' rate of self-reported delinquency was highest for those in triple pathways (covert-overt-authority conflict) or in certain dual pathways (covert-overt, covert-authority conflict). However, by age 16 the highest rate of offending was displayed by those in the triple pathways. The rate of violent offenses was also highest for those in the triple pathways and for those in the overt and covert pathways. Results from the rate for court petitions largely supported these findings. Lowest rates of offending were observed for boys in the overt and authority conflict pathways. Implications are discussed for clinical practice and future research.
A Robust and Portable Approach for Extracting Build-System Variability

Build systems play, besides the actual source code itself, an important role in a software product and its development. They control the build process and implement a part of the compile-time variability within a static conﬁgurable system. With more than 11,000 optional and alternative features, the Linux kernel is such a static conﬁgurable piece of software. Its build system Kbuild manages the inﬂuence of nearly 8,000 of these features on the build process. Hence, variability-aware static analysis tools have to take the inﬂuence of the build system into account. But extracting the variability information from a build system is hard, since no real standard for such systems has emerged yet. And even for a speciﬁc build system the extraction is challenging, because often declarative and turing-complete languages, like the make -language in Kbuild , are used. The problem dramatically increases when more than one version of the build system should be taken into consideration. After describing a robust approach for extracting implementation variability from the Linux build system, a more abstract version of the used ideas is presented and the approach is ported to diﬀerent build systems. As the results show, the approach is robust in respect to the development history of Linux and easily portable to other build systems.
[Maternal smoking in pregnancy].

OBJECTIVE In the last years has been a progressive increase of tabagism in the female sex. This study wanted to examine the influence of the pregnancy on voluntary practices and especially on smoking. PATIENTS AND METHODS 140 women with a mean age of 33.05 years and with a mean gestational age of 28.56 weeks (range 5-42) were interviewed. Each one received a questionnaire about social and psychosocial status, a schedule about style of living (CAGE), a questionnaire "How much do you drink" (from SQQ) and a series of questions about smoking. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Our study suggests that the tabagism decreases in the greatest part of pregnant women, and them increases again after child birth. Pregnancy gets women both to finish and to decrease smoking apart from social status and any variant contemplated.
R u txting? Is the Use of Text Speak Hurting Your Literacy?

Recent negative media attention surrounding the use of text speak (shorthand abbreviations of words such as gr8 for “great”) and the potentially detrimental effects of text speak on literacy prompted this study of texting and literacy in 80 college students. Thirty-four text speak users and 46 nontext speak users were assessed on their proficiency and familiarity with text speak as well as their standardized literacy levels and misspellings of common text speak words. Results showed that while text speak users were more proficient with the vocabulary, both groups showed familiarity with text speak. More important, there were no significant differences between the two groups in standardized literacy scores or misspellings of common text speak words. Thus, our analyses showed that the use of text speak is not related to low literacy performance. Nonetheless, more than half of the college students in this sample, texters and nontexters alike, indicated that they thought text speak was hindering their ability to remember standard English. These conflicting findings are discussed within a framework of future directions for research.