Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Acute Asthma Severity Assessment Protocol (AASAP) study: objectives and methods of a study to develop an acute asthma clinical prediction rule

Acute asthma exacerbations are one of the most common reasons for paediatric emergency department visits and hospitalisations, and a relapse frequently necessitates repeat urgent care. While care plans exist, there are no acute asthma prediction rules (APRs) to assess severity and predict outcome. The primary objective of the Acute Asthma Severity Assessment Protocol study is to develop a multivariable APR for acute asthma exacerbations in paediatric patients. A prospective, convenience sample of paediatric patients aged 5–17 years with acute asthma exacerbations who present to an urban, academic, tertiary paediatric emergency department was enrolled. The study protocol and data analysis plan conform to accepted biostatistical and clinical standards for clinical prediction rule development. Modelling of the APR will be performed once the entire sample size of 1500 has accrued. It is anticipated that the APR will improve resource utilisation in the emergency department, aid in standardisation of disease assessment and allow physician and non-physician providers to participate in earlier objective decision making. The objective of this report is to describe the study objectives and detailed methodology of the Acute Asthma Severity Assessment Protocol study.
Die Persönlichkeit von Jugendlichen mit Suizidhandlungen: Stichprobenvergleich und Klassifikation

Eine Stichprobe von 50 Jugendlichen nach Suizidhandlungen wurde verglichen mit einer klinischen und einer Normalkontrollgruppe. Hierbei erweisen sich die Suizidenten als am deutlichsten depressiv und im Hinblick auf die ubrigen Personlichkeitsskalen zumeist ahnlich auffallig wie die klinischen Kontrollpatienten. Eine clusteranalytische Gruppierung hat neben Â„unauffalligen" vor allem die Ermittlung depressiver, dysthym neurotischer und hysterischer Personlichkeiten zum Ergebnis. Diese Klassifikation, die deutlich mit einer symptomatologischen Klassifikation kovariiert, hat auch im Bereich der von den Probanden dargestellten Problemschwerpunkte ihre personlichkeitsspezifischen Entsprechungen. Einige Implikationen fur die Therapie der Suizidalitat im Jugendalter werden abschliesend angerissen. (DIPF/ Orig.) A sample of 50 adolescents who had committed parasuicides was compared with 50 clinical controls and 50 normal adolescents. Adolescents (43 girls, 7 boys) with parasuicides turned out to be most depressive, yet besides that result similar to clinical control patients. A clusteranalytic approach shows 4 different types of suicidal adolescents uncharacteristic patients with average scoring in nearly each personality scale, depressive personalities, introvert neurotics and hysterical personalities. An analysis of the adolescents' recognized problems is made that shows also a different cognitive structuring of problems specific to the clusters. Finally, some implications for therapy are briefly discussed. (DIPF/ Orig.)
Nuclear Weapons Versus International Law: A Contextual Reassessment

While it is true that the world community has yet to enact a treaty explicitly outlawing nuclear weapons in general, the author argues that restraints on the conduct of war never have been limited to treaty law alone. Rejecting a purely hegemonic and statist conception of international law, it is suggested instead that an argument against the legality of most and clearly all dominant uses of nuclear weapons can be fashioned from implicit treaty provisions, international customs, general principles, judicial decisions, United Nations declarations, and even from initiatives by groups having little formal international status. The author employs the "coordinate communication flow" theory of norm prescription to demonstrate that the laws of war, including their humanitarian components, do apply to nuclear weapons and warfare. After identifying the relevant rules, the author applies them to specific conflict situations in which nuclear weapons might be used, concluding that virtually all potential uses of nuclear weapons are presently unlawful. Quoiqu'il soit vrai que ]a communaut6 mondiale n'ait pas r6ussi A conclure un traitd interdisant formellement l'usage d'armes nucl6aires, l'auteur soutient que les moyens de r6glementer les conflits arm6s ne sont pas limit6s au seul domaine du droit des trait6s. Rejetant une conception purement h6g6monique et dtatiste du droit international, l'auteur propose plut6t qu'il est possible d'articuler une position contre ]a 16galit6 de l'usage d'armes nucl6aires dans la tr~s grande majorit6 des cas, A partir des dispositions implicites de trait6s existants, du droit coutumier international, des principes g6n6raux, des d6cisionsjudiciaires, des d6clarations de I'ONU, et m~me des initiatives de groupes sans statut international reconnu. L'auteur fait appel A la th6orie de la prescription de normes par flot d'information coordonn6 pour d6montrer que les r~gles de la guerre, ainsi que leurs composantes humanitaires, s'appliquent aux armes et aux conflits nucl6aires. Apr~s avoir relev6 les r~gles pertinentes, l'auteur les applique A des cas spdcifiques de conflits oa des armes nucldaires pourraient 6tre utilis6es, et en tire la conclusion qu'A peu pros tous les usages possibles des armes nucl6aires sont ill6gaux.
The effect of talker age and gender on speech perception of pediatric cochlear implant users

Most clinically-employed speech materials for testing hearing impaired individuals are recordings made by adult male talkers. The author examined the possible effect of talker age and gender on the speech perception of children through the use of 1) two speech perception tests, each with four talker types (adult males, adult females, 10-12 year olds, 5-7 year olds), and 2) two groups of pediatric listeners: normal-hearing (NH) and cochlear implant users (CI).
An Amphiphilic Ruthenium Polymetallodrug for Combined Photodynamic Therapy and Photochemotherapy In Vivo

An amphiphilic Ru-containing block copolymer is used as a photoactivated polymetallodrug for anticancer phototherapy. The block copolymer self-assembles into nanoparticles, which can accumulate at tumor sites in a mouse model. Red light irradiation of the block copolymer nanoparticles releases anticancer Ru complexes and generates cytotoxic 1 O2 , both of which can inhibit tumor growth.
A decomposition model for scatterers change detection in multi-temporal series of SAR images

This paper presents a method for strong scatterers change detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images based on a decomposition for multi-temporal series. The formulated decomposition model jointly estimates the background of the series and the scatterers. The decomposition model retrieves possible changes in scatterers and the date at which they occurred. An exact optimization method of the model is presented and applied to a TerraSAR-X time series.
Integration of a multidimensional schema from different social media to analyze customers'opinions

The increasing role of social media has pushed the scientific community to invest in them and take advantage of their information. Furthermore, the diffusion of social media has a very significant impact on several areas, such as marketing (customer's opinion analysis), terrorism, politics, etc. They affect a very wide audience, such as students, teenagers and companies. In fact, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube platforms play an increasingly important role for companie's to analysis customers generated content and also the information about their competitors. The transformation of data from social media into new knowledge for decision makers is a challenging task nowadays. In this context, several businesses have worked on these media to get extra information about their customers. Thus, the need for a data warehouse has become an emergency for the storage and management of data from social media. However, most of research studies have worked on only one social medium. Specifically, in this paper, we are interested in the design of multidimensional schema of data warehouse for opinion analysis. Firstly, we focuse on the design of the data mart from each social medium. Secondly, we present the data mapping between the multidimensional concepts of data mart determined from different social media. Thirdly, we are interested in the schema integration of several data mart schemes. Our goal is to achieve a generic data warehouse schema, including the most popular social media in order to analyze customers'opinions.
Cross-Cultural Frictions in Information System Management: Research Perspectives on ERP Implementation Misfits in Thailand

Today, enterprise systems (ERP) are considered as ones of most impacting IT on business and decision processes because of their cross-functional perspective and readiness to change. As a consequence, a lack of “organisational fit” is observed as the main failure cause of ERP implementation. A lot of acts of resistance are observed as being task oriented and related to the non-appropriateness of IT that users have to cope with. Existing literature provides practical knowledge about conflict types and conflict management styles related to process and task misalignment between ERP and corporation needs. However, few researches were made about cultural misfits. Indeed, when an organisation is composed of several sub-cultures, the use of ERP can be problematic because mandating one epistemological position through the software design is based on “best practices”. Subsidiaries of multinational corporations have their own subculture varying in their national cultural content. Value conflicts may arise from inconsistency between cultural principles of users or groups of users and the perceived underlying strategic objectives assigned to IT implementation. Expending the classical Schein triadic model with the concept of “cultural friction”, this paper provides a critical analysis of cultural dimension misalignment between ERP standard processes and Thai managerial culture. Key theoretic discussed dimensions are Ego orientation (“Kreng Jai”) and, Social orientation (“Bunkhun”). The article concludes that failing projects are more about the way ERP ought to be implemented than about the system itself.
Sea Slugs, Subliminal Pictures, and Vegetative State Patients: Boundaries of Consciousness in Classical Conditioning

Classical (trace) conditioning is a specific variant of associative learning in which a neutral stimulus leads to the subsequent prediction of an emotionally charged or noxious stimulus after a temporal gap. When conditioning is concurrent with a distraction task, only participants who can report the relationship (the contingency) between stimuli explicitly show associative learning. This suggests that consciousness is a prerequisite for trace conditioning. We review and question three main controversies concerning this view. Firstly, virtually all animals, even invertebrate sea slugs, show this type of learning; secondly, unconsciously perceived stimuli may elicit trace conditioning; and thirdly, some vegetative state patients show trace learning. We discuss and analyze these seemingly contradictory arguments to find the theoretical boundaries of consciousness in classical conditioning. We conclude that trace conditioning remains one of the best measures to test conscious processing in the absence of explicit reports.
An Ontology-Based Support for Asset Design and Reuse

In the World-Wide Web context, availability of software components increases the possibility of applying a reuse approach in software development. Thus, component retrieval is a key problem, both for software industry and for end-users. Several problems should be solved: components formalisms are very different from one source to another, knowledge for guiding components retrieval is often poor and search process often misses. In this research, we propose to unify components formalisms and, then, to encapsulate components in a semantic layer. This layer, called ldquoasset Srdquo, aims at describing semantically software components for guiding their retrieval. We also introduce a search process based on exploitation of this semantic layer. Our proposal is based both on ontologies and user profiles. We think those concepts can increase efficiently the pairing of available software components and userspsila queries expressed during information systems design by reuse.
Impact of exacerbations on COPD

Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) determine disease-associated morbidity, mortality, resource burden and healthcare costs. Acute exacerbation care requirements range from unscheduled primary care visits to emergency room, inpatient or intensive care, generating significant costs in COPD. Even after an exacerbation resolves, respiratory, physical, social and emotional impairment may persist for prolonged time. Frequent exacerbations, mainly in patients with severe COPD, accelerate disease progression and mortality. Thus, patients with frequent exacerbations have a more rapid decline in lung function, worse quality of life and decreased exercise performance. Management of COPD directed to reduce incidence and severity of exacerbations improves long-term health status and conserves health care resources and costs.
Current Scientific Impact of Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia in the Scopus Database (1960-2014)

AIM: The aim of this study was to analyze current scientific impact of Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia in the Scopus Database (1960-2014). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Affiliation search of the Scopus database was performed on November 23, 2014 in order to identify published papers from the Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (UC&M), Republic of Macedonia. A total number of 3960 articles (3055 articles from UC&M, 861 articles from Faculty of Medicine, UC&M, and 144 articles from Faculty of Pharmacy, UC&M) were selected for analysis (1960-2014). SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) and h-index were calculated from the Scopus database. RESULTS: The number of published papers was sharply increased with maximum of 379 papers in 2012 year. The largest number of papers has been published in Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, Journal of Molecular Structure, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Acta Pharmecutica, and Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. The biggest SJR and SNIP has journal Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. First three places of the top ten authors belong to Dimirovski GM, Gavrilovska L, and Gusev M. Top three places based on Scopus h-index (total number of published papers) belong to Kocarev L, Stafilov T, and Polenakovic M. The majority of papers originate from UC&M, but significant numbers of papers are affiliated to Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, and Institute of Chemistry as members of UC&M, as well as Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Articles are the most dominant type of documents followed by conference papers, and review articles. Medicine is the most represented subject. CONCLUSION: Officials of the Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje should undertake more effective and proactive policies for journal publishers and their Editorial Boards in order to include more journals from UC&M in the Scopus database.
Locus de control, autoeficacia para la memoria episódica verbal y rendimiento en adultos mayores no dependientes

Objective: In the present study it was be evaluated the incidence that control beliefs and memory self efficacy have on verbal memory tasks. Hypothesis: Control and memory self efficacy beliefs of older adults affect performance on memory tasks. Method: It was used a transversal ex post facto-comparison group design. The following instruments were selected: Rey Auditory Verbal Learnig Test and Logic Memory , from the Signoret Battery. The Self-Efficacy episodic memory and two questions where added to asses locus of control. There were assessed 200 senescent that reside in the Independent City of Buenos Aires. Discussion: From the values obtained in the statistical analysis made, it is possible to concluded with a certain margin of error, that control and verbal memory self efficacy on episodic memory performance beliefs in older adults, especially internal locus of control with the dimensions self efficacy level and strength, affect performance on memory tasks.
Postural abnormalities to multidirectional stance perturbations in Parkinson’s disease

Objective: We investigated trunk control, protective arm movements, and electromyographic responses to multidirectional support-surface rotations in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), aiming to better understand the pathophysiology underlying postural instability in PD, on and off antiparkinson medication. Methods: Ten patients with PD were compared with 11 age matched healthy controls. Seven patients were also tested without (OFF) antiparkinson medication. All subjects received rotational perturbations (7.5 deg amplitude) that were randomly delivered in six different directions. Results: The PD patients had decreased trunk rotation and ankle torque changes, consistent with a stiffening response. Stiffness appeared to be caused by the combined action of three factors: co-contraction that interfered in particular with the normal response asymmetry in trunk muscles; increased response amplitudes in agonist and antagonist muscles at both medium (∼80 ms) and balance correcting (∼120 ms) response latencies; and increased background activity in lower leg, hip, and trunk muscles. Although the patients had significantly earlier onset of deltoid muscle responses, this gave no functional protection because the arm movements were abnormally directed. Most instability in PD occurred for backward falls, with or without a roll component. Medication provided partial improvement in arm responses and trunk roll instability. Conclusions: Our results confirm previous findings in ankle muscles, and provide new information on balance impairments in hip, trunk, and arm responses in PD.
TRANSPARENCY AND OTHER JOURNALISTIC NORMS ON TWITTER

A growing argument in communication scholarship is that quality journalism online can distinguish itself from rumor and unchecked information by being transparent, by revealing how information was obtained, so audiences can see through it to its origins and help correct errors. This study examined the extent to which female and male journalists differ in their use of Twitter and, specifically, their journalistic transparency on Twitter. Female journalists were found to differ little from male journalists in their Twitter presence, topics, opining or gatekeeping, but they were significantly more transparent. They revealed more about their jobs, personal lives and everyday activities, and they linked more to external websites, all indicators of greater transparency. While women working for national news media were less likely to offer opinion, retweet, link or tweet about themselves or their everyday lives than women working for less “elite” media—which would support a professional socialization perspective—none of these differences was statistically significant.
TransMIDI: A System for MIDI Sessions Over the Network Using Transis

We built a system that allows musical performers (and listeners) who wish to play together to organize into multiple session groups. The users interact in real time over the network, and may dynamically join or leave a session group. The players contribute to the session by playing on their MIDI controllers, using General MIDI protocol. We assume a totally asynchronous environment in which failures of both end systems and communication links are possible. TransMIDI was implemented using the Transis group communication system for fault tolerance and coordination. Transis is a transport layer that supports e cient and reliable multicast and membership services. The advanced Transis group services allow for di erent forms of cooperation among performers, so that many di erent kinds of musical ensembles can be easily established. Moreover, TransMIDI provides its users with means for exploring novel ways of musical interaction.
Using Securities Disclosures to Advance Human Rights: A Consideration of Dodd-Frank Section 1502 and the Securities and Exchange Commission Conflict Minerals Rule

This article considers how US securities disclosures might be used to further human rights interests. It focuses on Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act. That section was enacted as an express reaction to human rights violations occurring in the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”). Section 1502 requires certain companies to disclose their use of conflict minerals in their products, in the hope that such disclosure requirements would cause companies to stop using the minerals and thereby to force change in the DRC. The section thus serves as a potential model for future human-rights-based disclosure. This article explores that potential.
Calcium, Strontium, and Barium Movements during Ischemia and Reperfusion in Rabbit Ventricle: Implications for Myocardial Preservation

Global ischemia was induced in isolated blood-perfused rabbit interventricular septa at 37 °C beating at 72 beats/min. Uptake of133BaCl2 (0.85 JIM) or85SrCl2 (0.4 JIM) during perfusion with solutions containing 2.5 mM CaCh was monitored by gamma probe. Since barium is not sequestered by sarcoplasmic reticulum, its uptake was used to monitor sarcolemmal function. The uptake of133BaCl2 increased from 21.1 ± 5.5 to 29.5 ± 8.2 pmol/min (P < 0.05) upon reperfusion after 30 minutes of ischemia and from 13 ± 2.9 to 28.5 ± 5.7 pmol/min (P < 0.05) after 60 minutes of ischemia. There was no change in85Sr uptake until reperfusion after 60 minutes of ischemia when it increased from 8.5 ± 1.8 to 29.3 ± 11.4 pmol/min (P < 0.025). The effects of calcium upon recovery were assessed. Ten septa made ischemic for 60 minutes and reperfused with 1.5 mM CaCh recovered 31.6 ± 9.1% of preischemia developed tension. Ten other septa reperfused with red cell perfusate containing 0.75 mM CaCh for 5 minutes, then exposed to red cell perfusate containing 1.5 mM CaCl2 recovered 67.1 ± 7.5% (P< 0.05) of preischemia developed tension. Improved recovery was shown after 20 minutes of ischemia, 77.4 ± 6.1% vs. 103.4 ± 7.8% (P< 0.025). Five septa reperfused with anoxic Tyrode's solution containing 50 /tM CaCh after 15 minutes and 45 minutes of total ischemia showed no decrease in resting tension despite a progressive rise during ischemia. Resting tension upon reperfusion with red cell perfusate depended strongly upon perfusate calcium concentration. Impaired relaxation during ischemia had calcium-dependent and calcium-independent components. A mild sarcolemmal leak ofl33Ba after 30 minutes progressed to severe disruption after 60 minutes of ischemia. Reperfusion with red cell perfusate containing 0.75 mM CaCU for 5 minutes enhanced recovery. Ischemic injury can be significantly modified by the calcium content of the blood with which the myocardium is reperfused.
Cortical granule translocation during maturation of starfish oocytes requires cytoskeletal rearrangement triggered by InsP3-mediated Ca2+ release.

Cortical granules (secretory vesicles located under the cortex of mature oocytes) release their contents to the medium at fertilization. Their exocytosis modifies the extracellular environment, blocking the penetration of additional sperm. The granules translocate to the surface during the maturation process, and it has been suggested that they move to the cortex via cytoskeletal elements. In this paper we show that the increase in intracellular Ca2+, which the maturing hormone 1-methyladenine (1-MA) induces in starfish through the activation of inositol 1,4, 5-trisphosphate (InsP3) receptors, triggers changes in filamentous actin, which then direct the correct movement and reorientation of the cortical granules and the elevation of the fertilization envelope.