Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Imported Case of Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Associated with a Member of Species Nelson Bay Orthoreovirus

A Japanese man suffered from acute respiratory tract infection after returning to Japan from Bali, Indonesia in 2007. Miyazaki-Bali/2007, a strain of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus, was isolated from the patient's throat swab using Vero cells, in which syncytium formation was observed. This is the sixth report describing a patient with respiratory tract infection caused by an orthoreovirus classified to the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus. Given the possibility that all of the patients were infected in Malaysia and Indonesia, prospective surveillance on orthoreovirus infections should be carried out in Southeast Asia. Furthermore, contact surveillance study suggests that the risk of human-to-human infection of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus would seem to be low.
Anilofos Tolerance and Its Mineralization by the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PUPCCC 64

This study deals with anilofos tolerance and its mineralization by the common rice field cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PUPCCC 64. The organism tolerated anilofos up to 25 mg L−1. The herbicide caused inhibitory effects on photosynthetic pigments of the test organism in a dose-dependent manner. The organism exhibited 60, 89, 96, 85 and 79% decrease in chlorophyll a, carotenoids, phycocyanin, allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin, respectively, in 20 mg L−1 anilofos on day six. Activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase and peroxidase increased by 1.04 to 1.80 times over control cultures in presence of 20 mg L−1 anilofos. Glutathione content decreased by 26% while proline content was unaffected by 20 mg L−1 anilofos. The test organism showed intracellular uptake and metabolized the herbicide. Uptake of herbicide by test organism was fast during initial six hours followed by slow uptake until 120 hours. The organism exhibited maximum anilofos removal at 100 mg protein L−1, pH 8.0 and 30°C. Its growth in phosphate deficient basal medium in the presence of anilofos (2.5 mg L−1) indicated that herbicide was used by the strain PUPCCC 64 as a source of phosphate.
High-rate dissolved air flotation for water treatment.

This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation about the performance of a horizontal flow high-rate pilot scale Dissolved Air Flotation (HRDAF) unit containing inclined parallel plates for treating a coloured and low turbidity raw water. Experiments were performed with the DAF unit in order to verify the influence on flotation of: (i) the water velocity (Vh) between the plates, in the range 18 to 96.5 cm.min-1 with corresponding Reynolds numbers between 240 and 1060; (ii) the supplied air (S*) value ranging from 2.2 to 8.5 g of air/m3 of water; (iii) the angle of the plates (60 degrees or 70 degrees). The best pilot plant operational condition was obtained applying only 4.0 g/m3 (S*) with Vh around 18 cm.min-1 for treatment of water coagulated with a Al2(SO4)3 dosage of 40 mg.l-1. In these conditions, the unit presented very good removal efficiencies of colour (90%, residual of 10 uC), turbidity (88%, residual of 0.8 NTU) and TSS (94%, residual of 1.8 mg.l-1). Furthermore, the unit could operate at higher Vh values up to 76 cm.min-1 and still present good results. The DAF unit thus behaved as a high rate unit presenting good performance with low air requirement.
A brief course of cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of misophonia: a case example

Abstract Misophonia is a condition of unknown cause characterized by atypically intense negative physiological and emotional reactions to hearing certain sounds – most often those associated with oral functions. Individuals with misophonia often report high levels of psychological distress and avoidance behaviours that seriously compromise their occupational and social functioning. As of yet, no effective treatment of misophonia has been identified, and health care providers often struggle when they encounter clients who have it. This case report describes the assessment, case formulation, and treatment of a client with misophonia using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and serves as an initial contribution to the evidence base for the efficacy of CBT in the treatment of misophonia.
Exploiting the therapeutic potential of the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway in enriched populations of gynecologic malignancies

Given the prevalence of phosphatase & tensin homolog mutations in histologic specimens harvested from patients with endometrial cancer, significant interest in systemic treatment with PI3K/Akt/mTOR inhibitors has emerged. Several Phase II trials have been completed studying mTOR inhibitors in advanced/recurrent endometrial cancer. The mTOR pathway also appears to be important in some cervical cancers. Finally, because clear cell carcinoma of the ovary and renal cell carcinoma have a shared histology, the potential for activity of mTOR inhibitors in clear cell cancer of the ovary is implicit. This article reviews the results of Phase II clinical trials of PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway inhibitors in patients with endometrial cancer, and discusses the potential therapeutic landscape of mTOR inhibition in enriched populations in gynecologic cancers.
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A comparative analysis of actuator technologies for robotics " , At low frequencies, performance is quite good The small downward spike corresponds to the lowest impedance that could be generated on the test rig without large-motion saturation. At resonance, performance at low impedances degrades, while at larger impedances performance is still good. Above resonance, it can clearly be seen that the actuator only performs well when its output impedance has a negative real part, which corresponds to positive spring-like behavior.
Physiology of lightly processed fruits and vegetables

ducin a atada lene fruit uit, cteric g. 2). lene lso der, Fig. 1. Wound ethylene production at 20C by tomato pericarp disks cut from the blossom, equator, and stem regions of mature green fruit. Data are means The physiology of lightly processed (LP) fruits and vegetable essentially the physiology of wounded tissue. This type of proces involving abrasion, peeling, slicing, chopping, or shredding, dif from traditional processing in that the tissue remains viable “fresh”) during subsequent handling. Thus, the behavior of the ti is generally typical of that observed in plant tissues that have wounded or exposed to stress conditions. This behavior incl increased respiration and ethylene production, and, in some c induction of wound-healing processes. Other consequences of w ing are chemical or physical in nature, such as oxidative brow reactions and lipid oxidation, or enhanced water loss. Appearan new RNA and protein species in wounded tissue provides eviden genomic control of the response. Many factors may affect the intensity of the wound response i tissues. Among these are species and variety, stage of physiol maturity, extent of wounding, temperature, O 2 and CO2 concentrations, water vapor pressure, and various inhibitors. Wounded tis undergo accelerated deterioration and senescence. Minimizin negative consequences of wounding in LP fruits and vegetable result in increased shelf life and greater maintenance of nutriti appearance, and flavor quality in these products. Reviews of physiological aspects of lightly processed prod (LPP) that have appeared in recent years include Huxsoll et al. (1 King and Bolin (1989), Rolle and Chism (1987), and Watada e (1990). Miller’s (1992) review of the postharvest physiology mechanical stress in fruits and vegetables is germane to this d sion, as are Shewfelt’s (1987) review of quality aspects and Kle (1987) review of nutritional consequences of lightly processing fr and vegetables.
Orientations--Cognitive, Affective, and Evaluative--of IAS Officers in India

Orientation implies knowledge of one’s immediate environment, e.g. of time, position, who the other people in the environment are, how to react to them.1 In yet another dictionary, orientation is de ned as ‘the act or process of ascertaining, or fact of knowing, the position of anything or of oneself in relation to objects in general, determination of (one’s) bearings or relative positions’. 2 Some social scientists believe that administrative culture has to be a part of political culture, which in turn is a part of the total culture of a given society. On the contrary, political culture refers to political orientations—attitudes towards the political system and its various parts, and attitudes towards the role of the self in system . It is a set of orientations towards a speci c set of social objects and processes.3 Values are a code or standard which has some persistence over time and which places things on the approval–disapproval continuum for making selection.4 Values, thus ‘form part of actor’s orientations, and enable him to make selection in terms of a certain evaluative standard’. 5 Values refer to those aspects of the actor’s orientations, which commit him to the observation of certain norms, standards, and criteria of selection. Such orientation ‘is not random but tends to form a system having some organized set of rules’. 6 Observing and following this model, a similar study was conducted about administrative culture. This was  rst explained by Nichmias and Rosenbloom, ‘a similar model can be developed to study usefully, orientations towards a speci c unit of political system, such as public bureaucracy’. 7 They suggested to include the orientations of the bureaucrats towards bureaucracy and themselves in order to understand bureaucratic culture. Such an aspect was missing in the classic study of political orientations by Almond and Verba. The reason for it is that there needs to be synchronization in the orientations of the general public and the administrators or the bureaucrats. The components of administrative culture are cognition, evaluations, and affectivity which together form the subjective orientations of the administration and its ecology.8 (1) Cognitive orientations in the context of political culture, ‘is knowledge or belief about the political system, its roles and the incumbents of these roles, its inputs, and its outputs, (2) affective orientation, International Review of Sociology—Revue Internationale de Sociologie, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2002
Differential Activation of Innate Immune Responses by Adenovirus and Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors

ABSTRACT Adenovirus vectors induce acute inflammation of infected tissues due to activation of the innate immune system and expression of numerous chemokines and cytokines in transduced target cells. In contrast, adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are not associated with significant inflammation experimentally or clinically. We tested the ability of AAV vectors to induce the expression of chemokines in vitro and to activate the innate immune system in vivo. In human HeLa cells and murine renal epithelium-derived cells (REC cells) the adenovirus vector AdlacZ induced the expression of multiple inflammatory chemokines including RANTES, interferon-inducible protein 10 (IP-10), interleukin-8 (IL-8), MIP-1β, and MIP-2 in a dose-dependent manner. The use of AAVlacZ did not induce the expression of these chemokines above baseline levels despite 40-fold-greater titers than AdlacZ and greater amounts of intracellular AAVlacZ genomes according to Southern and slot blot analysis. This finding confirmed that the lack of AAVlacZ induction of chemokine was not due to reduced transduction. In DBA/2 mice, the intravenous administration of 2.5 × 1011 particles of AAVlacZ resulted in the rapid induction of liver tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), RANTES, IP-10, MIP-1β, MCP-1, and MIP-2 mRNAs. However, 6 h following injection, chemokine mRNA levels returned to baseline. As expected, administration of 10-fold less AdlacZ caused an induction of liver TNF-α and chemokine mRNAs that persisted for more than 24 h posttransduction. Whereas intravenous administration of 2.5 × 1011 particles of AAVlacZ triggered a transient infiltration of neutrophils and CD11b+ cells into liver, this response stood in contrast to widespread inflammation and toxicity induced by AdlacZ. Kupffer cell depletion abolished AAVlacZ but not AdlacZ-induced chemokine expression and neutrophil infiltration. In summary, these results show that AAV vectors activate the innate immune system to a lesser extent than do adenovirus vectors and offer a possible explanation for the reduced inflammatory properties of AAV compared to adenovirus vectors.
Effects of ultra-narrow channel on characteristics of MOSFET memory with silicon nanocrystal floating gates

This paper describes the improved characteristics of a newly proposed ultra-narrow channel floating-dot memory where the channel width is scaled to sub-10 nm. Thanks to the classical bottleneck effect and the quantum confinement effect, large threshold voltage shift and long retention time have been obtained in the fabricated ultra-narrow channel memory. The extreme case of the proposed ultra-narrow channel memory is the ultimate single-electron memory where one bit is represented by one electron. In the narrowest (5 nm) channel device, the threefold increase in drain current has been actually observed due to the discharging of a single electron from a dot.
Recruiter and Job Influences on Candidates for Employment

Employment interview research has been so largely focused on employer hmng decisions that little is known about job applicant decisions regarding employment. Two experiments were conducted to study the influences of recruiter behavior and job attributes on job applicant employment decisions Videotapes of mock interviews were constructed that varied recruiter affect and recruiter knowledge of the job (Experiment 1) and recruiter affect and job attractiveness (Experiment 2). These interviews were shown to student subjects (Ns =133 and 178) who were likely to apply for jobs similar to the sales position portrayed. Reliable effects of recruiter behavior and job attributes on subjects' propensities to pursue the job were obtained. Results indicated that recruiter behavior was consistently interpreted by subjects as a signal regarding their chances of getting a job offer, whereas job attributes exerted clear influence on perceived desirability of the job. Experiment 1 results (but not Experiment 2) indicated that recruiters may also influence the perceived desirability of the job
The development of reaching in blind children

The development of object awareness was studied longitudinally in five blind infants by presenting them with tasks designed to investigate the sequential development of reaching and search. The tasks tapped the relative importance of sound and touch in eliciting a reach and the development of object permanence from Stage 3 to Stage 5. The children's pattern of mastery of the tasks suggests that it is touch rather than sound which initially cues the children to the existence and/or location of an object and that the sequential development of object permanence in blind children parallels that of sighted children.
Selenium concentrations and glutathione peroxidase activities in whole blood of New Zealand residents

1. A relationship was found between selenium concentrations and glutathione peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.9) activities in whole blood of 264 New Zealand residents (r 0.71, P < 0.001). 2. New Zealand residents returning from visits overseas of 7 months to 3 years had elevated blood Se, but normal GSH-Px activities, whereas for some new settlers in New Zealand both Se and GSH-Px activities were high.
Data from “Demographic Influences on Disgust: Evidence from A Heterogeneous Sample."

The dataset contains the data of a large heterogeneous sample of participants who completed the Hebrew version of the Disgust Scale Revised (DS_R), and provided various demographic variables. Participants were chosen from the general population, using a convenience sampling method. They were approached at various locations (e.g., shopping centres, transport hubs, and government buildings) during the period of 2011- 2012. The raw data is stored in a table form, in both SPSS and tab-delimited formats. The dataset may aid in understanding disgust in different cultural settings and the relationship between disgust sensitivity and demographic variables.
REINA at iCLEF 2004

The Question Answering Task requires interaction with the user. Users can provide aid to the system reformulating questions, adding information to these or selecting the documents with which it must operate. This year our group has explored the eects of the interaction with the user in suggesting terms to add to the question; also, operating only with passages of documents or with complete documents. The experiments carried out are described and the results are discussed
A Decentralized Approach for Implementing Identity Management in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the next generation of computing paradigm. Along with cloud computing, many related problems come up. And these problems in turn slow the speed of the development of cloud computing down. Among these problems, e.g. interoperability and privacy, identity management and security are strong concerned. Many researchers and enterprises have already done a lot to optimize the identity management and strengthen the security in cloud computing. Most of these studies focus on the usability of identity management and various kinds of method to help improve security. But in this paper, we do some research from a new angle. While the federated solution of identity management helps relieve many problems, it's adopted by many platforms and enterprises. The general approach for deploying identity management is a centralized component processing authentication and authorization requests. But with the cloud growing in scale and the increasing number of users, this centralized solution will be the bottleneck of the cloud. In this paper, we propose a decentralized approach for implementing identity management in service oriented architecture in cloud computing and a grouping algorithm as the deploy strategy. Security is another problem involved in this paper. Since many researchers have done many detailed and fruitful studies in security, the security solution illustrated in this paper is specific in the proposed architecture.
Sustaining School-Based Individualized Positive Behavior Support

This qualitative interview study investigates the perceived barriers and enablers to implementing and sustaining individualized positive behavior supports (IPBS) by school-based team members across five stakeholder groups. The findings reveal specific factors across five broad themes: (a) school culture, (b) administrative leadership and support, (c) structure and use of time, (d) ongoing professional development, and (e) family and student involvement. The findings offer insight into the interconnectedness of factors that can interfere with or support IPBS in schools and suggest implications for practice and future research.
John Dewey-Hero? Villain? Social Educator?

least sophisticated of America's educational critics (4). In this sense, Dewey was the created hero of a decade of reform. However, the reformers have tended not to use the intricate, profound, and often obscure core of Dewey's work. Rather, to support their particular innovations, the reformers have used whatever in Dewey's writing lent itself to easy sloganeering. Their innovations have often been romantic, child-centered, pedagogical reforms that lacked a social perspective and bore little resemblance to Dewey's ideas.
Crowdsourcing knowledge-intensive tasks in cultural heritage

Large datasets such as Cultural Heritage collections require detailed annotations when digitised and made available online. Annotating different aspects of such collections requires a variety of knowledge and expertise which is not always possessed by the collection curators. Artwork annotation is an example of a knowledge intensive image annotation task, i.e. a task that demands annotators to have domain-specific knowledge in order to be successfully completed. This paper describes the results of a study aimed at investigating the applicability of crowdsourcing techniques to knowledge intensive image annotation tasks. We observed a clear relationship between the annotation difficulty of an image, in terms of number of items to identify and annotate, and the performance of the recruited workers.
A movement perspective on the 1972 presidential election

Employing the 1972 presidential campaign and “The Movement” as extended examples, tentative hypotheses are offered identifying the relationships between campaigns and movements. Since McGovern's lopsided defeat also constituted arepudiation by the electorate of “The Movement” on which his candidacy was built, this analysis examines, retrospectively, the options which were open to “The Movement” and offers hypotheses about relationships between presidential campaigns and protest movements.
Introduction: ‘Inside-out/outside-in’: constructions and practices of security in regional organizations

The study of regions, regionalism and regional security has increased significantly in the last few decades, while, at the same time, the discourse of the ‘regional’ has also become prominent in both national and international politics. As part of this broader transformation in international relations, the role of regional organizations (ROs) in the international system has grown. Against this background, an important aspect of the study of contemporary international security is to understand the security conceptions and practices of the various ROs active within the international system, and how they interact with those of the actors seen as representing global governance. To this end, a contemporary and important aspect of academic debate on regional organizations, and regionalism more broadly, relates to the question of whether regional security constructions and practices evolve according to influences from global geographical and cultural spaces or from national and local spaces. In other words, are the security constructions and practices of ROs the product of ‘inside-out’ or ‘outside-in’ processes; and how canweweigh and assess the influence of these differing directions of normative and cultural diffusion or influence? The study of ROs as a subject in its own right has been relatively rare, and instead ROs have tended to be analysed within the literature on regionalism and regional security. Within these literatures, the perspectives adopted have tended to favour either a systemic-level viewpoint centred on top-down influence upon regions, or a locally contextualized standpoint taking a bottom-up approach. The systemic-level approaches have tended to emphasize the influence of global-level dynamics upon the regional, and in particular the impact of external hegemons’ projection of influence onto and into regions (Katzenstein 2005; Buzan andWaever 2003; Lake and Morgan 1997). This has been referred to by Buzan and Waever (2003) as great power ‘penetration’ or ‘overlay’. Others have emphasized a structural neo-realist focus on balance-of-power, depicting ROs as temporary alliances, aimed at countering rivals and the imposition of influence from an external hegemon (Mearsheimer 1994). From a different ontological starting point, some constructivist scholars interested in norms have examined the diffusion of norms from a global level, often from international institutions, downwards onto