Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Increases in HIV Testing among Men Who Have Sex with Men — National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System, 20 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 2008 and 2011

In 2011, 62% of estimated new HIV diagnoses in the United States were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact (men who have sex with men, MSM); 39% of these MSM were black or African American. HIV testing, recommended at least annually by CDC for sexually active MSM, is an essential first step in HIV care and treatment for HIV-positive individuals. A variety of HIV testing initiatives, designed to reach populations disproportionately affected by HIV, have been developed at both national and local levels. We assessed changes in HIV testing behavior among MSM participating in the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System in 2008 and 2011. We compared the percentages tested in the previous 12 months in 2008 and 2011, overall and by race/ethnicity and age group. In unadjusted analyses, recent HIV testing increased from 63% in 2008 to 67% in 2011 overall (P<0.001), from 63% to 71% among black MSM (P<0.001), and from 63% to 75% among MSM of other/multiple races (P<0.001); testing did not increase significantly for white or Hispanic/Latino MSM. Multivariable model results indicated an overall increase in recent HIV testing (adjusted prevalence ratio [aPR] = 1.07, P<0.001). Increases were largest for black MSM (aPR = 1.12, P<0.001) and MSM of other/multiple races (aPR = 1.20, P<0.001). Among MSM aged 18–19 years, recent HIV testing was shown to increase significantly among black MSM (aPR = 1.20, P = 0.007), but not among MSM of other racial/ethnic groups. Increases in recent HIV testing among populations most affected by HIV are encouraging, but despite these increases, improved testing coverage is needed to meet CDC recommendations.
An Improved Sentiment Classification using Lexicon into SVM

With the emergence of web 2.0 and availability of huge amount of digital data on the social web, people always want to discover unknown, to predict events that could occur, and the procedure on how it works and change over time. Similarly, sentiment analysis is related with the automatic extraction of sentiment information from textual data available at various social webs. While most sentiment analysis deals commercial jobs like fetching opinions from product reviews, there is significant growth in social web and it becomes a source to promote various products. This is actual reason why most of the commercial web support login through social web like facebook, twitter. There are two approaches to sentiment analysis. First one is based on lexicon and second is machine learning. It has been proved that machine learning approach performs better than lexicon based approaches but it ignores the knowledge encoded in sentiment lexicons. This paper describes a method that includes sentiment lexicons as prior information to SVM approach, a machine learning techniques, to improve the accuracy of sentiment analysis. It also describes a technique to automatically create domain specific sentiment lexicons for this learning purpose. A result shows that the domain specific lexicons lead to a significant accuracy improvement for sentiment analysis.
Mathematical aspects of BRDF modeling: Adjoint problem and green's function

Adjoint formulation of three‐dimensional radiative transfer and the Green's function concept have been developed in neutron transport several decades ago. This is not merely yet another method of simulating the radiative transfer process, but a method of reformulating the problem to better incorporate existing radiation models into a particular research. In the case of photon transport in vegetation canopies, the Green's function is a canopy radiative response to a point monodirectional source located outside the canopy. The Green's function, therefore, has intrinsic canopy information. It can be evaluated by using existing canopy radiation models. The problem‐dependent adjoint formulation of radiative transfer allows us to express a particular canopy radiation effect in terms of the Green's function and, as a consequence, to better adjust the existing models to the solution of a specific radiation problem. Application of this technique to the retrieval of biophysical parameters from remotely sensed data (the table look‐up method) was discussed in (Kimes et al., this issue). In this paper, we will illustrate how this concept can be applied to the estimation of cloud optical properties from ground‐based measurements of spectral zenith radiance above the vegetation canopy under broken cloud conditions. In spite of different physical formulations of these problems, both of them use the Green's function to describe radiation fields due to the interaction between the canopy ground and the canopy and the canopy – clouds interaction. This technique allows us not only to extend an applicability range of existing canopy – radiation models, but also to incorporate of various approaches developed in other fields of physics into BRDF modeling and its applications.
Advanced Wearable Health Systems and Applications - Research and Development Efforts in the European Union

Research and development on smart wearable health systems and applications (SWHSA) was motivated by the need to respond successfully to the healthcare challenges of reducing healthcare costs while maintaining a high quality of care, providing ubiquitous easy access to care, and shifting the focus of healthcare expenditure from treatment to prevention through wellness programs. Physiological monitoring with SWHS has so far dealt mostly with measurement of vital signs like ECG, heart rate, respiratory rate, skin temperature, and posture. There is a trend to extend monitoring capabilities toward biochemical variables. There are several promising techniques for achieving this type of monitoring in a purely noninvasive, painless way. One could thus envisage the integration of noninvasive transdermal biosensors in SWHS;e.g., in biomedical clothes. The future development of intelligent biomedical clothing (IBC) based on full integration of sensors/actuators, energy sources, processing, and communication within the clothes could overcome barriers to existing wearable health systems. The area of SWHSA is further developed in FP6 (Framework Program 5) of the EC, through significant support of new functionalized systems based on the integration of several technologies and disciplines such as micro/nanotechnologies, textile materials, physiology, biology/biochemistry, and ICT (information and communication technologies) as well as data integration and decision support. This area is expected also to be further developed within FP7.
Branching-time Model Checking of One-counter Processes

One-counter processes (OCPs) are pushdown processes which operate only on a unary stack alphabet. We study the computational complexity of model checking computation tree logic (CTL) over OCPs. A PSPACE upper bound is inherited from the modal mu-calculus for this problem. First, we analyze the periodic behaviour of CTL over OCPs and derive a model checking algorithm whose running time is exponential only in the number of control locations and a syntactic notion of the formula that we call leftward until depth. Thus, model checking fixed OCPs against CTL formulas with a fixed leftward until depth is in P. This generalizes a result of the first author, Mayr, and To for the expression complexity of CTL's fragment EF. Second, we prove that already over some fixed OCP, CTL model checking is PSPACE-hard. Third, we show that there already exists a fixed CTL formula for which model checking of OCPs is PSPACE-hard. To obtain the latter result, we employ two results from complexity theory: (i) Converting a natural number in Chinese remainder presentation into binary presentation is in logspace-uniform NC^1 and (ii) PSPACE is AC^0-serializable. We demonstrate that our approach can be used to obtain further results. We show that model-checking CTL's fragment EF over OCPs is hard for P^NP, thus establishing a matching lower bound and answering an open question of the first author, Mayr, and To. We moreover show that the following problem is hard for PSPACE: Given a one-counter Markov decision process, a set of target states with counter value zero each, and an initial state, to decide whether the probability that the initial state will eventually reach one of the target states is arbitrarily close to 1. This improves a previously known lower bound for every level of the Boolean hierarchy by Brazdil et al.
Model-based control of thermoacoustic instabilities in partially premixed lean combustion – a design case study

Self-excited oscillation is becoming a major issue in low-emission, lean partially premixed combustion systems, and active control has been shown to be a feasible method to suppress such instabilities. A number of robust control methods are employed to obtain a feedback controller and it is observed that the robustness to system uncertainty is significantly better for a low complexity controller in spite of the norms being similar. Moreover, we demonstrate that closed-loop stability for such a complex system can be proved via use of the integral quadratic constraint method. Open- and closed-loop nonlinear simulations are provided.
Development of a model to quantify the accessibility of a Canadian trauma system.

OBJECTIVES Trauma systems have been widely implemented across Canada, but access to trauma care remains a challenge for much of the population. This study aims to develop and validate a model to quantify the accessibility of definitive care within one provincial trauma system and identify populations with poor access to trauma care. METHODS A geographic information system (GIS) was used to generate models of pre-scene and post-scene intervals, respectively. Models were validated using a population-based trauma registry containing data on prehospital time intervals and injury locations for Nova Scotia (NS). Validated models were then applied to describe the population-level accessibility of trauma care for the NS population as well as a cohort of patients injured in motor vehicle collisions (MVCs). RESULTS Predicted post-scene intervals were found to be highly correlated with documented post-scene intervals (β 1.05, p<0.001). Using the model, it was found that 88.1% and 42.7% of the population had access to Level III and Level I trauma care within 60 minutes of prehospital time from their residence, respectively. Access for victims of MVCs was lower, with 84.3% and 29.7% of the cohort having access to Level III and Level I trauma care within 60 minutes of the location of injury, respectively. CONCLUSION GIS models can be used to identify populations with poor access to care and inform service planning in Canada. Although only 43% of the provincial population has access to Level I care within 60 minutes, the majority of the population of NS has access to Level III trauma care.
Real Time Tweet Summarization and Sentiment Analysis of Game Tournament

: Streaming data analysis in real time is becoming the fastest and most efficient way to obtain useful knowledge from what is happening now, allowing organization to react quickly when problem appear or to detect new trends helping to improve their performance. There is substantial volume of tweet about each event, and there is press coverage of each event to serve as a gold standard. The problem we try to solve is that in absence of being live in front of television set, build data processing system that create informative data regarding tournament matches and correlate sentiment of fans to match play. Using twitter data, we find sub-events in game and sentiment of fans posting tweet related to game. We propose a system for real time summarization of scheduled sub-events for games using twitter data. We also propose an approach that analyzes feelings of people posting tweet. We focused on summarizing sporting events, specifically FIFA World Cup 2015 and IPL 2015. For a system using social media like twitter to keep track of things happening around, we look for following traits: (I) Detection of bursty topic as soon as it emerges; (II) Summarization of related bursty topic; (III) Analyzing feelings of fans and correlating sentiment to game.
Polycomb genes are associated with response to imatinib in chronic myeloid leukemia.

AIM Imatinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor that has revolutionized the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Despite its efficacy, about a third of patients discontinue the treatment due to therapy failure or intolerance. The rational identification of patients less likely to respond to imatinib would be of paramount clinical relevance. We have shown that transmembrane transporter hOCT1 genotyping predicts imatinib activity. In parallel, Polycomb group genes (PcGs) are epigenetic repressors implicated in CML progression and in therapy resistance. PATIENTS & METHODS We measured the expression of eight PcGs in paired pre- and post-imatinib bone marrow samples from 30 CML patients. RESULTS BMI1, PHC3, CBX6 and CBX7 expression was significantly increased during imatinib treatment. Post-treatment levels of CBX6 and CBX7 predicted 3-month response rate. Measurement of post-treatment BMI1 levels improved the predictive power of hOCT1 genotyping. CONCLUSION These results suggest that the expression levels of PcGs might be useful for a more accurate risk stratification of CML patients.
In Situ Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles on Wool Powder and Their Catalytic Application

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were synthesized in situ on wool powder (WP) under heating conditions. Wool powder not only reduced Au ions to AuNPs, but also provided a support for as-synthesized AuNPs. WPs were treated under different concentrations of Au ions, and corresponding optical features and morphologies of the treated WPs were investigated by UV-VIS diffuse reflectance absorption spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and transmission electron microscope (TEM) were also employed to characterize the WP treated with AuNPs. The results demonstrate that AuNPs were produced in the presence of WP and distributed over the wool particles. The porous structure led to the synthesis of AuNPs in the internal parts of WP. Acid conditions and high temperature facilitated the synthesis of AuNPs by WP in aqueous solution. The reducibility of wool was improved after being converted to powder from fibers, due to exposure of more active groups. Moreover, the obtained AuNP-WP complexes showed significant catalytic activity to accelerate the reduction reaction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) by sodium borohydride (NaBH4).
A new prenylated xanthone from the branches of Calophyllum inophyllum

The investigation of chemical constituents from the branches of Calophyllum inophyllum Linn led to the isolation of a new prenylated xanthone, named caloxanthone Q (1), together with three known compounds, 2-deprenylrheediaxanthone B (2), jacareubin (3), and 6-deoxyjacareubin (4). Their structures were completely elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic methods (UV, IR, HR-ESI-MS, 1D NMR, and 2D NMR).
Sphingosine and the transient receptor potential channel kinase(s)

Transient receptor potential melastatin 7 (TRPM7) is a multifunctional ion channel playing crucial roles during development. TRPM7 is a member of the highly diverse TRP ion channel family. Most TRP channels are regulated by membrane phospholipids, especially phosphoinositides. In this issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology, Qin et al. describes the regulation of TRPM7 and its close homologue TRPM6 by a different kind of membrane lipid: sphingosine. The study finds that sphingosine is a potent and specific inhibitor of TRPM7 and TRPM6 channels. This commentary briefly summarizes the findings of the study, their potential significance and discusses open question and future directions.
A Knowledge Compilation Map for Ordered Real-Valued Decision Diagrams

Valued decision diagrams (VDDs) are data structures that represent functions mapping variable-value assignments to non-negative real numbers. They prove useful to compile cost functions, utility functions, or probability distributions. While the complexity of some queries (notably optimization) and transformations (notably conditioning) on VDD languages has been known for some time, there remain many significant queries and transformations, such as the various kinds of cuts, marginalizations, and combinations, the complexity of which has not been identified so far. This paper contributes to filling this gap and completing previous results about the time and space efficiency of VDD languages, thus leading to a knowledge compilation map for real-valued functions. Our results show that many tasks that are hard on valued CSPs are actually tractable on VDDs.
Evaluation de la symptomatologie sensorielle des personnes adultes avec autisme et incidence des particularités sensorielles sur l'émergence des troubles du comportement

Les anomalies sensorielles jouent un role central dans les Troubles du Spectre Autistique comme en temoigne leur apparition recente dans les criteres diagnostiques de l'autisme (DSM-5, APA, 2013). Il existe toutefois tres peu d'outils permettant de les evaluer et qui soient valides en francais et adaptes aux adultes avec autisme. Cette recherche vise a (1) creer un nouvel outil, l'ESAA : Evaluation Sensorielle de l'Adulte avec Autisme, (2) realiser les etudes de validation psychometriques de celui-ci aupres d'un groupe clinique d'adultes avec autisme, (3) etudier de facon differentielle les profils sensoriels des adultes avec autisme et degager d'eventuelles dominantes pathologiques de la sensorialite, (4) etudier le lien entre l'intensite des troubles sensoriels et les troubles du comportement. L'echantillon de l'etude est constitue de 118 adultes presentant un autisme modere a severe avec retard mental associe, accueillies en institutions medico-sociales ou en structures sanitaires, qui sont partenaires cliniciens de la recherche. La mesure de la reactivite sensorielle de l'adulte avec autisme est effectuee a l'aide de l'ESAA. L'intensite de la reactivite sensorielle est evaluee pour chacune des modalites sensorielles. Les troubles du comportement sont evalues a l'aide de l'EPOCAA : Echelle d'Evaluation pour l'Observation des Comportements-problemes d'Adultes avec Autisme (Recordon-Gaboriaud & Granier-Deferre, ECPA, 2012). L'echelle permet de determiner un degre de severite des troubles et une typologie comportementale. Les resultats mettent en evidence les qualites metrologiques de l'echelle ESAA, des profils sensoriels differencies et des reactivites sensorielles dominantes chez les participants. Des correlations sont observees entre les caracteristiques des sujets et la severite des perturbations sensorielles de l'echantillon. Enfin, pour un sous-echantillon de l'etude (n=27), les resultats montrent egalement des correlations entre la severite des anomalies sensorielles et la severite des troubles du comportement ainsi que des liens specifiques entre les modalites sensorielles affectees et les typologies comportementales des sujets. Ces resultats permettent d'affirmer que ce nouvel outil est pertinent pour identifier les troubles de la reactivite sensorielle des personnes adultes avec autisme et retard mental et qu'il pourrait contribuer (1) a ameliorer les connaissances cliniques des adultes avec autisme (2) a mieux analyser et prendre en compte les specificites sensorielles dans l'accompagnement de ces personnes (3) a amenager un environnement adapte a leurs reactivites sensorielles.
Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family

DaddyStress/ Daddy Success Daddystress: The Invisible Dilemma DaddySuccess The Payoff for Fathers, Mothers, Companies, and Kids Strategies for Work Creating the Father-Friendly Workplace Breaking the Culture Collusion Managing Paternity Leave: A Smart Investment Strategies for Home Connecting with Your Family Staying Connected When Youre Traveling Connecting through School, Day Care, and Other Significant Others Conclusion: Working Fathers: Balancing the New Work-Family Equation
Cognitive Function of the Urban Elderly

Purpose: This study was performed to assess the degree of cognitive function of elderly by MMSE-K performances and of that effect. Method: The subjects were 185 aged over 65 in Daejeon Metropolitan city. Data were collected through personal interview using the questionnaire from 10 to 31, Jan. 2003. The measures were Korean version of Mini-Mental State Examination(MMSE-K). Results: The mean score of MMSE-K was . The prevalence of cognitive impairment was estimated as 48.6% by MMSE-K and significantly age, gender, and education effect. The subtype score of MMSE-K were significantly lower in female group in each items : orientation in time and place, attention/calculation, language except registration and recall. And the scores were significantly lower in the older group and non-educated group in the all items of MMSE-K. Conclusion: Gender, age, and education showed significant effects on total and subtype MMSE-K score. Cognitive function decline were higher in female, older age group, and non-educated group. Therefore, those three factors are thought to be one of important risk factors for development of dementia, also it is assumed to be affected by other variables than age, gender, education effect.
The Circulatory Influences of Vagal Afferents at Rest and during Coronary Occlusion in Conscious Dogs

We studied the role of cardiopulmonary vagal afferents in the cardiovascular responses to coronary artery occlusion in conscious dogs with intact carotid sinuses and following functional denervation of the arterial baroreceptors. The contributions of vagal afferents were determined by cold blocking the vagi. In dogs with intact carotid sinuses, coronary artery occlusion produced small decreases in mean cardiac output and arterial pressure, whereas heart rate increased by 35 beats/min. In dogs with intact carotid sinuses, vagal cold block increased mean arterial pressure by 22 ± 2 (mean ± SE) mm Hg and heart rate by 90 ± 6 beats/min. Mean cardiac output increased by 505 ± 90 ml/min. With the exception of heart rate, responses to coronary occlusion during vagal cold block were similar to the occlusion response prior to vagal cold block. Furthermore, prior occlusion of the coronary artery did not significantly influence the responses to vagal cold block. After arterial baroreceptor denervation, coronary artery occlusion resulted in a substantially greater fall in systemic arterial pressure (-52 mm Hg as compared to −8 mm Hg, with intact carotid sinuses) and peripheral resistance decreased by −0.49 peripheral resistance units (PRU). Vagal cold block following denervation increased the arterial pressure by 49 ± 10 mm Hg and peripheral resistance by 0.59 ± 0.13 PRU. Both values were significantly greater than those observed during vagal cold block prior to denervation. In arterial baroreceptor-denervated dogs, vagal blockade significantly attenuated the response to coronary occlusion. Therefore, in conscious dogs, vagal afferents from cardiopulmonary receptors exert a significant inhibitory influence on the peripheral vascular tone. When the carotid sinuses are intact, this inhibitory influence appears to be marked during myocardial ischemia. In the absence of functional arterial baroreflexes, vagal afferent activity contributes to the depressor responses observed during ischemia.