Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Acute myocarditis demonstrated on CT coronary angiography with MRI correlation.

Acute myocarditis often is demonstrated on cardiac MRI (CMR) as increased signal on T2-weighted imaging and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in either a midwall or a subepicardial distribution. Previous reports have demonstrated a similar pattern of enhancement on delayed postcontrast CT.1–3 We present 2 cases of edema demonstrated on arterial phase CT coronary angiography (CTCA) in patients with clinical features that suggest acute myocarditis as confirmed by CMR. CT examinations were performed on a dual-source 64-detector CT scanner (SOMATOM Definition; Siemens Medical Solutions; Forchheim, Germany). Iomeron 350 (Iomoprol 71.4%; Bracco-Eisai; Tokyo, Japan) was injected at 6.5 mL/second into the cubital fossa through an 18-gauge cannula followed by a 50-mL saline flush. Scans were performed in the arterial phase, with triggering from the ascending aorta with a threshold of 100 Hounsfeld units. Both studies were acquired with dose-modulated, retrospective ECG gating. The tube voltage was set at 120 kV (peak) for the first case and 100 kV for the second case. …
Mutual synchronization behavior for chaotic systems via limited capacity communication channels

Several important properties of chaos synchronization of bidirectional coupled systems remain still unexplored. This article investigates synchronization behavior for chaotic systems subject to states quantization. Based on the invariance principle of differential equations, an adaptive feedback scheme is proposed to strictly synchronize chaotic systems via limited capacity communication channels. Furthermore, it is important to point out that the mutual synchronization behavior for bidirectional coupled systems is determined by the amount of transmitting information and the initial states of coupled systems. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity, 2015
Mamagoto: "playing" with food

"Mamagoto" is an interactive and context-aware dining system which encourage small children to "play" with food. Even greatest scientists had times when their parents told them not to play with food. For small children, especially newly-born infants, everything they see, touch, hear, smell, taste, are new experiences. What they encounter at dining tables are no exceptions. For those curious little adventurers, tremendous varieties of colors, textures, tastes, shapes of food and of dishes and silverwares are full of amusement. Even when they seem to be messing up everything on the table, they are fully using their senses for new exploration, and this process of "playing" is important for development of their senses. This project encourages them to expand their sensory experience while eating, using "Mamagoto".
Exploratory Search in an Audio-Visual Archive: Evaluating a Professional Search Tool for Non-Professional Users

As archives are opening up and publishing their content online, the general public can now directly access archive collections. To support access, archives typically provide the public with their internal search tools that were originally intended for professional archivists. We conduct a small-scale user study where non-professionals perform exploratory search tasks with a search tool originally developed for media professionals and archivists in an audio visual archive. We evaluate the tool using objective and subjective measures and find that non-professionals find the search interface difficult to use in terms of both. Analysis of search behavior shows that non-professionals often visiting the description page of individual items in a result list are more successful on search tasks than those who visit fewer pages. A more direct presentation of entities present in the metadata fields of items in a result list can be beneficial for non-professional users on exploratory search tasks.
Discovery of a Modified Tetrapolar Sexual Cycle in Cryptococcus amylolentus and the Evolution of MAT in the Cryptococcus Species Complex

Sexual reproduction in fungi is governed by a specialized genomic region called the mating-type locus (MAT). The human fungal pathogenic and basidiomycetous yeast Cryptococcus neoformans has evolved a bipolar mating system (a, α) in which the MAT locus is unusually large (>100 kb) and encodes >20 genes including homeodomain (HD) and pheromone/receptor (P/R) genes. To understand how this unique bipolar mating system evolved, we investigated MAT in the closely related species Tsuchiyaea wingfieldii and Cryptococcus amylolentus and discovered two physically unlinked loci encoding the HD and P/R genes. Interestingly, the HD (B) locus sex-specific region is restricted (∼2 kb) and encodes two linked and divergently oriented homeodomain genes in contrast to the solo HD genes (SXI1α, SXI2 a) of C. neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. The P/R (A) locus contains the pheromone and pheromone receptor genes but has expanded considerably compared to other outgroup species (Cryptococcus heveanensis) and is linked to many of the genes also found in the MAT locus of the pathogenic Cryptococcus species. Our discovery of a heterothallic sexual cycle for C. amylolentus allowed us to establish the biological roles of the sex-determining regions. Matings between two strains of opposite mating-types (A1B1×A2B2) produced dikaryotic hyphae with fused clamp connections, basidia, and basidiospores. Genotyping progeny using markers linked and unlinked to MAT revealed that meiosis and uniparental mitochondrial inheritance occur during the sexual cycle of C. amylolentus. The sexual cycle is tetrapolar and produces fertile progeny of four mating-types (A1B1, A1B2, A2B1, and A2B2), but a high proportion of progeny are infertile, and fertility is biased towards one parental mating-type (A1B1). Our studies reveal insights into the plasticity and transitions in both mechanisms of sex determination (bipolar versus tetrapolar) and sexual reproduction (outcrossing versus inbreeding) with implications for similar evolutionary transitions and processes in fungi, plants, and animals.
World Vegetable Center Eggplant Collection: Origin, Composition, Seed Dissemination and Utilization in Breeding

Eggplant is the fifth most economically important solanaceous crop after potato, tomato, pepper, and tobacco. Apart from the well-known brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena L.), two other under-utilized eggplant species, the scarlet eggplant (S. aethiopicum L.) and the gboma eggplant (S. macrocarpon L.) are also cultivated. The taxonomy and identification of eggplant wild relatives is challenging for breeders due to the large number of related species, but recent phenotypic and genetic data and classification in primary, secondary, and tertiary genepools, as well as information on the domestication process and wild progenitors, facilitates their utilization in breeding. The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) holds a large public germplasm collection of eggplant, which includes the three cultivated species and more than 30 eggplant wild relatives, with more than 3,200 accessions collected from 90 countries. Over the last 15 years, more than 10,000 seed samples from the Center's eggplant collection have been shared with public and private sector entities, including other genebanks. An analysis of the global occurrences and genebank holdings of cultivated eggplants and their wild relatives reveals that the WorldVeg genebank holds the world's largest public collection of the three cultivated eggplant species. The composition, seed dissemination and utilization of germplasm from the Center's collection are highlighted. In recent years more than 1,300 accessions of eggplant have been characterized for yield and fruit quality parameters. Further screening for biotic and abiotic stresses in eggplant wild relatives is a priority, as is the need to amass more comprehensive knowledge regarding wild relatives' potential for use in breeding. However, as is the case for many other crops, wild relatives are highly under-represented in the global conservation system of eggplant genetic resources.
Relating binocular and monocular vision in strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia.

OBJECTIVES To examine deficits in monocular and binocular vision in adults with amblyopia and to test the following 2 hypotheses: (1) Regardless of clinical subtype, the degree of impairment in binocular integration predicts the pattern of monocular acuity deficits. (2) Subjects who lack binocular integration exhibit the most severe interocular suppression. METHODS Seven subjects with anisometropia, 6 subjects with strabismus, and 7 control subjects were tested. Monocular tests included Snellen acuity, grating acuity, Vernier acuity, and contrast sensitivity. Binocular tests included Titmus stereo test, binocular motion integration, and dichoptic contrast masking. RESULTS As expected, both groups showed deficits in monocular acuity, with subjects with strabismus showing greater deficits in Vernier acuity. Both amblyopic groups were then characterized according to the degree of residual stereoacuity and binocular motion integration ability, and 67% of subjects with strabismus compared with 29% of subjects with anisometropia were classified as having "nonbinocular" vision according to our criterion. For this nonbinocular group, Vernier acuity is most impaired. In addition, the nonbinocular group showed the most dichoptic contrast masking of the amblyopic eye and the least dichoptic contrast masking of the fellow eye. CONCLUSION The degree of residual binocularity and interocular suppression predicts monocular acuity and may be a significant etiological mechanism of vision loss.
Structures of radioactive Cs-bearing microparticles in non-spherical forms collected in Fukushima

Copyright © 2018 by The Geochemical Society of Japan. conditions, etc. In addition to these geological and climatic factors, the physicochemical properties of airborne materials that contain radiocesium are important factors in determining their process of deposition and environmental fate. Autoradiography using imaging plates can visualize the spatial distribution of radionuclides attached on environmental samples with a minimum resolution of 50 mm. Many researchers have noted heterogeneous adhesion of radioactive microparticles on plant leaves and bark based on observations by autoradiography (Itoh et al., 2014; Mimura et al., 2014; Nakanishi et al., 2014; Tanaka et al., 2013). These radioactive microparticles have limited solubility in water (Itoh et al., 2014; Mimura et al., 2014; Tanaka et al., 2013) and remain on plant tissues even after several rainfall events (Nakanishi et al., 2014). Adachi et al. (2013) initially identified a spherical microparticle with a diameter of 2.6 mm containing Cs, Fe, Zn, Mn and Cl as an insoluble radioactive microparticle found in an aerosol filter by scanning elecStructures of radioactive Cs-bearing microparticles in non-spherical forms collected in Fukushima
Uncertainty in ecosystem services maps: the case of carbon stocks in the Brazilian Amazon forest using regression analysis

Ecosystem Service (ES) mapping has become a key tool in scientific assessments of human-nature interactions and is being increasingly used in environmental planning and policy-making. However, the associated epistemic uncertainty underlying these maps often is not systematically considered. This paper proposes a basic procedure to present areas with lower statistical reliability in a map of an ES indicator, the vegetation carbon stock, when extrapolating field data to larger case study regions. To illustrate our approach, we use regression analyses to model the spatial distribution of vegetation carbon stock in the Brazilian Amazon forest in the State of Pará. In our analysis, we used field data measurements for the carbon stock in three study sites as the response variable and various land characteristics derived from remote sensing as explanatory variables for the ES indicator. We performed regression methods to map the carbon stocks and calculated three indicators of reliability: RMSE-Root-mean-square-error, R2-coefficient of determination - from an out-of-sample validation and prediction intervals. We obtained a map of carbon stocks and made explicit its associated uncertainty using a general indicator of reliability and a map presenting the areas where our prediction is the most uncertain. Finally, we highlighted the role of environmental factors on the range of uncertainty. The results have two implications. (1) Mapping prediction interval indicates areas where the map's reliability is the highest. This information increases the usefulness of ES maps in environmental planning and governance. (2) In the case of the studied indicator, the reliability of our prediction is very dependent on land cover type, on the site location and its biophysical, socioeconomic and political characteristics. A better understanding of the relationship between carbon stock and land-use classes would increase the reliability of the maps. Results of our analysis help to direct future research and fieldwork and to prevent decision-making based on unreliable maps.
Face detection using data mining approach

Face detection has become a fundamental task in computer vision and pattern recognition applications. This paper describes a system for face detection using data mining approach. The proposed face detection method is a two phase process comprising of training and detection phase. In the training phase, training image is transformed into an edge and non-edge image. Maximal Frequent Itemset Algorithm (MAFIA) is used to mine positive and negative feature patterns from edge and non-edge images respectively. Based on the feature patterns mined, a face detector is constructed to prune non-face candidates. In the detection phase, sliding window approach is applied to the test image in different scales. Experimental results on FEI face database show good performance even across different orientations, pose and expression variations to a certain extent.
Glucose modulates Drosophila longevity and immunity independent of the microbiota

ABSTRACT The acquisition of nutrients is essential for maintenance of metabolic processes in all organisms. Nutritional imbalance contributes to myriad metabolic disorders that include malnutrition, diabetes and even cancer. Recently, the importance of macronutrient ratio of food has emerged as a critical factor to determine health outcomes. Here we show that individual modifications to a completely defined diet markedly impact multiple aspects of organism wellbeing in Drosophila melanogaster. Through a longitudinal survey of several diets we demonstrate that increased levels of dietary glucose significantly improve longevity and immunity in adult Drosophila. Our metagenomic studies show that relative macronutrient levels not only influence the host, but also have a profound impact on microbiota composition. However, we found that elevated dietary glucose extended the lifespan of adult flies even when raised in a germ-free environment. Furthermore, when challenged with a chronic enteric infection, flies fed a diet with added glucose had increased survival times even in the absence of an intact microbiota. Thus, in contrast to known links between the microbiota and animal health, our findings uncover a novel microbiota-independent response to diet that impacts host wellbeing. As dietary responses are highly conserved in animals, we believe our results offer a general understanding of the association between glucose metabolism and animal health. Summary: Dietary glucose improves both longevity and immunity in adult Drosophila through a mechanism independent of the intestinal microbiota.
Free floating thrombus in right heart associated with pulmonary embolism: The effect of streptokinase -

Floating right heart thrombus in -transit originate from the deep veins of lower limbs, travel to the pulmonary arteries and is uncommon in patients with pulmonary embolism. This condition is a medical emergency due to the high risk of mortality. However, the most appropriate treatment is yet to be determined and there is no clear consensus in the literature on therapeutic management. We have described two cases of deep vein thrombosis complicated with pulmonary embolism and right heart thrombus, which were treated with streptokinase and had diverse outcomes.
Configuration of intestinal slow waves obtained by monopolar recording techniques.

BQRTQFF, ALEX. ConJigur&n of intestinal slow waves obtained by monopolar recording techniques. Am. J. Physiol. 2 I 3 ( I > : I 57-162. I967* -This paper represents an attempt to analyze the configuration of the intestinal slow wave recorded from cat jejunum with extracellular monopolar electrodes. The “intermediate” form of the monopolar slow wave consists of an abrupt positive deflection followed by a negative notch and a more positive plateau that gradually subsides to the original potential level. It is shown, first, by systematically altering the position of the recording electrode while monitoring interelectrode resistance, and second, by summating monophasic and electronically differentiated forms of the slow potential, that the intermediate form represents a combination of the propagated monophasic slow wave and its associated field potential. Which form predominates depends on the relative magnitude of the shunting resistance, R,, around the tip of the recording electrode. I f R, is large the monophasic form, representing the temporal course of membrane potential, predominates. As R, decreases, the field potential, representing the temporal course of membrane current, becomes predominant, Unless the time courses, polarities, and magnitudes of each of these components can be determined, the intermediate type of record cannot be interpreted in terms of electrical changes at the membrane level.
2 Hazard Identification and Factors Related to Infection and Disease

Assessment of the health impacts of recreational water quality is a useful tool in developing appropriate policies. Risk assessment approaches are increasingly being used as a scientific rationale for risk management. This chapter describes the various methods used for identification and quantification of hazards in recreational water risk assessment. It also looks at how different factors influence infection and disease.
On the Role of Sensory Feedbacks in Rowat–Selverston CPG to Improve Robot Legged Locomotion

This paper presents the use of Rowat and Selverston-type of central pattern generator (CPG) to control locomotion. It focuses on the role of afferent exteroceptive and proprioceptive signals in the dynamic phase synchronization in CPG legged robots. The sensori-motor neural network architecture is evaluated to control a two-joint planar robot leg that slips on a rail. Then, the closed loop between the CPG and the mechanical system allows to study the modulation of rhythmic patterns and the effect of the sensing loop via sensory neurons during the locomotion task. Firstly simulations show that the proposed architecture easily allows to modulate rhythmic patterns of the leg, and therefore the velocity of the robot. Secondly, simulations show that sensori-feedbacks from foot/ground contact of the leg make the hip velocity smoother and larger. The results show that the Rowat–Selverston-type CPG with sensory feedbacks is an effective choice for building adaptive neural CPGs for legged robots.
Prehospital use of hemostatic dressings by the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps: A case series of 122 patients

BACKGROUND Hemostatic dressings are advanced topical dressings designed to control hemorrhage by enhancing clot formation. These dressings may be effective when used on injuries sustained in junctional zones. The Israeli Defense Forces Medical Corps (IDF-MC) chose to equip its medical personnel with the QuikClot Combat Gauze. There is a paucity of data describing clinical use and results of hemostatic dressing especially at the point of injury. The purpose of this article was to report the IDF-MC experience with prehospital use of the QuikClot Combat Gauze in junctional zones in a case series retrieved from the IDF Trauma Registry. METHODS All IDF Trauma Registry documented cases of prehospital use of hemostatic dressings in the IDF-MC between January 2009 and September 2014 were retrieved. Data collection included injury mechanism, wound location, reported success of hemostatic dressing, tourniquet use, lifesaving interventions, mortality, and caregiver identity. RESULTS A total of 122 patients on whom 133 hemostatic dressings were applied were identified. Median age was 22 years. Of the patients, 118 (96.7%) were male and 2 (1.6%) were female (missing, n = 2). Injury mechanism was penetrating in 104 (85.2%), blunt in 4 (3.3%), and combined in 14 (11.5%) patients. Seven patients (5.9%) died. Thirty-seven dressings (27.8%) were used for junctional hemorrhage control (pelvis, shoulder, axilla, buttocks, groin, neck), and 92 dressings (72.1%) were placed in nonjunctional areas (missing, n = 4). Nonjunctional dressings included 63 (47.4%) applied to the extremities, 14 (10.5%) to the back, and 4 (3%) to the head. Hemostatic dressing application was reported as successful in 88.6% (31 of 35 available; missing, n = 2) of junctional hemorrhage applications and in 91.9% (57 of 62 available; missing, n = 1) of extremity hemorrhage applications. CONCLUSION Hemostatic dressings seem to be an effective tool for junctional hemorrhage control and should be considered as a second-line treatment for extremity hemorrhage control at the point of injury. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Therapeutic study, level V.
Indications, procedure and results for the treatment of polycythaemia vera by bleeding, pipobroman and hydroxyurea.

The present report is based on an analysis of the evolution of 720 cases of Polycythaemia vera treated with pipobroman and 624 cases treated with hydroxyurea. General modes of treatment are identical for the two drugs, consisting of initial therapy at relatively high dose aimed at obtaining complete remission and maintenance therapy essential to conserve the improved clinical status. Both types of treatment must be adapted to suit the patient. Complete remission is achieved in 95 to 100% of cases with pipobroman and in 80 to 90% of cases with hydroxyurea. Incidents which may occur during initial therapy include cytopenia, more frequent and severe under treatment with hydroxyurea, rare transitory digestive troubles and cutaneous and mucous eruptions. Subject to control of the blood cell count every three to four months, maintenance therapy may be continued for many years and while the time lapse is as yet insufficient for hydroxyurea, resistance to pipobroman does not appear to develop even after more than 20 years of treatment. Although neither of these two drugs entirely avoids the occurrence of acute leukaemia which appears in 5 to 8% of subjects irrespective of the duration of therapy, on the contrary to observations in patients treated by bleeding alone, myeloid splenomegaly with myelofibrosis is rare and develops in no more than 2% of cases. The frequency of visceral cancers is not increased by either drug. Provided Polycythaemia vera is maintained in complete remission, thrombotic accidents occur no more often than in a normal population of the same age bracket. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)