Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The complementary nature of peer review and quality assurance data collection.

PURPOSE To assess the complementary natures of (a) a peer review ( PR peer review )-mandated database for physician review and discrepancy reporting and (b) a voluntary quality assurance ( QA quality assurance ) system for anecdotal reporting. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was institutional review board approved and HIPAA compliant; informed consent was waived. Submissions to voluntary QA quality assurance and mandatory PR peer review databases were searched for obstetrics and gynecology-related keywords. Cases were graded independently by two radiologists, with final grades resolved via consensus. Errors were categorized as perceptional, interpretive, communication related, or procedural. Effect of errors was assessed in terms of clinical and radiologic follow-up. RESULTS There were 185 and 64 cases with issues attributed to 32 and 27 radiologists in QA quality assurance and PR peer review databases, respectively; 23 and nine radiologists, respectively, had cases attributed to only them. Procedure-related entries were submitted almost exclusively through the QA quality assurance database (62 of 64 [97%]). In QA quality assurance and PR peer review databases, respectively, perceptional (47 of 185 [25%] and 27 of 64 [42%]) and interpretative (64 of 185 [34%] and 30 of 64 [47%]) issues constituted most errors. Most entries in both databases (104 of 185 [56%] in QA quality assurance and 49 of 64 [76%] in PR peer review ) were considered minor events: wording in the report, findings already known from patient history or prior imaging or concurrent follow-up imaging, or delay in diagnosing a benign finding. Databases had similar percentages of moderate events (28 of 185 [15%] in QA quality assurance and nine of 64 [14%] in PR peer review ), such as recommending unnecessary follow-up imaging or radiation exposure in pregnancy without knowing the patient was pregnant (nine of 64 [14%] in PR peer review and 28 of 185 [15%] in QA quality assurance ). The PR peer review database had fewer major events (one of 64 [1.6%]) than the QA quality assurance database (32 of 185 [17%]). CONCLUSION The two quality improvement systems are complementary, with the QA quality assurance database yielding less frequent but more clinically important errors, while the PR peer review database serves to establish benchmarks for error rate in radiologists' performance.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) Approach in Recreational Golfers

Although gaining popularity in the field of sport psychology, there is little empirical support behind the MAC approach. Moreover, none of these studies have examined the effectiveness of the MAC approach when applied to recreational or non-competitive athletes. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of the MAC approach on recreational golfers. Nineteen participants were randomly assigned to either the MAC treatment or control condition. Participants completed baseline and post-intervention golf performance tasks, as well as measures of mindfulness, flow, thought occurrence, and anxiety. Results showed that compared to the control group, the MAC treatment group exhibited significant increases in levels of mindfulness, and a trend towards significance in levels of flow. However, no significant changes were found on the golf performance tasks in the MAC and control groups from baseline to postintervention. Several potential explanations for these findings are discussed, as well as directions for future research.
Nutritional status of the Iranian children with physical disability: a cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND Malnutrition can potentially prone a disabled child to further morbidities thus imposing further suffering to the affected child and his/her family. This is the first report on the nutritional status of physically disabled children from Iran. METHODS A total of 290 physically disabled children aged 6-12 years old, of both sexes, and from all specialized schools in Tehran, Meshed and Rasht were enrolled in a descriptive cross-sectional study. Dietary assessment was performed for disabled children using 24hr and food-frequency questionnaires. Weight and height were assessed and body mass index (BMI) was calculated for all subjects. RESULTS In disabled children, while the mean energy intake was more than 90% of the amount required, mean calcium and iron intakes were 75.8% and 58.7% of the corresponding required amounts. Despite absence of significant difference in energy and fat intake, the intakes of protein, calcium and riboflavin were significantly lower in girls than in boys. Z score of weight showed that over 40% of disabled girls and boys were underweight. Comparison with anthropometric data from other studies showed that low weight was more prevalent in disabled than in non-disabled children (p<0.001). Moreover, both disabled boys and girls had significantly shorter statures than their non-disabled counterparts. CONCLUSIONS Malnutrition (low weight and stunting) is quite prevalent among Iranian children with motor disabilities and it is more prevalent in girls than in boys. It seems that poor food composition is a more important contributing factor than total low calorie intake. These data warrant further studies.
Cellular transcription factors recruit viral replication proteins to activate the Epstein–Barr virus origin of lytic DNA replication, oriLyt

DNA replication of Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) during the productive phase of the life cycle of this herpesvirus depends on the cis‐acting element oriLyt. It consists of two essential domains, the upstream and the downstream component. Whereas the upstream component contains several DNA‐binding motifs for the viral activator protein BZLF1, the downstream component is known to be the binding site of several cellular proteins. We identified cellular transcription factors that bind synergistically to a functionally relevant subsequence of the downstream component, the TD element. Two of these transcription factors, ZBP‐89 and Sp1, stimulate replication as shown by protein fusions with the GAL4 DNA‐binding domain and a single GAL4 DNA‐binding motif inserted into the TD element. In protein binding assays, we observed an interaction of Sp1 and ZBP‐89 with the viral DNA polymerase and its processivity factor. Our data indicate that cellular transcriptional activators tether viral replication proteins to the lytic origin via direct protein–protein interactions to assemble the viral replication complex at oriLyt.
Ecology and life history affect different aspects of the population structure of 27 high‐alpine plants

A plant species’ genetic population structure is the result of a complex combination of its life history, ecological preferences, position in the ecosystem and historical factors. As a result, many different statistical methods exist that measure different aspects of species’ genetic structure. However, little is known about how these methods are interrelated and how they are related to a species’ ecology and life history. In this study, we used the IntraBioDiv amplified fragment length polymorphisms data set from 27 high‐alpine species to calculate eight genetic summary statistics that we jointly correlate to a set of six ecological and life‐history traits. We found that there is a large amount of redundancy among the calculated summary statistics and that there is a significant association with the matrix of species traits. In a multivariate analysis, two main aspects of population structure were visible among the 27 species. The first aspect is related to the species’ dispersal capacities and the second is most likely related to the species’ postglacial recolonization of the Alps. Furthermore, we found that some summary statistics, most importantly Mantel’s r and Jost’s D, show different behaviour than expected based on theory. We therefore advise caution in drawing too strong conclusions from these statistics.
Towards a Kieselguhr- and PVPP-Free Clarification and Stabilization Process of Rough Beer at Room-Temperature Conditions.

In this work, the main constraint (that is, beer chilling and chill haze removing) of the current beer conditioning techniques using Kieselguhr filtration and Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone (PVPP) treatment was overcome by developing a novel higher-throughput conditioning process, operating at room temperatures with no use of filter aids. The effect of filtration temperature (TF ) in the range of 0 to 40 °C on the hydraulic permeability of ceramic hollow-fiber (HF) membranes with nominal pore size of 0.2 to 1.4 μm, as well as on their limiting permeation flux (J* ) when feeding precentrifuged rough beer, was preliminarily assessed. When using the 1.4-μm HF membrane operating at TF ≥ 20 °C, it was possible to enhance the average permeation flux at values (676 to 1844 L/m2 /h), noticeably higher than those (250 to 500 L/m2 /h) characteristics of conventional powder filtration. Despite its acceptable permanent haze, the resulting beer permeate still exhibited colloidal instability. By resorting to the commercial enzyme preparation Brewers Clarex® before beer clarification, it was possible to significantly improve its colloidal stability as measured using a number of European Brewing Convention forcing tests, especially with respect to that of precentrifuged rough beer by itself. By combining the above enzymatic treatment with membrane clarification at 30 °C across the ceramic 1.4-μm HF membrane module, it was possible to limit the haze development due to chilling, sensitive proteins, and alcohol addition to as low as 0.78, 4.1, and 4.0 EBC-U, respectively, the enzymatic treatment being by far more effective than that using PVPP. PRACTICAL APPLICATION A novel Kieselguhr- and PVPP-free rough beer conditioning process at room temperatures was set up. By submitting precentrifuged rough beer to commercial preparation Brewers Clarex ® and then to membrane clarification at 30 °C across a ceramic 1.4-μm hollow-fiber membrane module, it was possible to obtain a clear and stable beer with a throughput (1306 ± 72 L/m2 /h) by far higher than that (250 to 500 L/m2 /h) characterizing the current powder filters. The haze development due to chilling, sensitive proteins, and alcohol adding was by far lower than that observed when microfiltering PVPP-pretreated rough beer.
Faraday rotation spectra of bismuth-substituted ferrite garnet films with in-plane magnetization

Single crystal films of bismuth-substituted ferrite garnets have been synthesized by the liquid phase epitaxy method where gadolinium gallium garnet substrates are dipped into the flux. The growth parameters are controlled to obtain films with in-plane magnetization and virtually no domain activity, which makes them excellently suited for magnetooptic imaging. The Faraday rotation spectra were measured across the visible range of wavelengths. To interpret the spectra we present a simple model based on the existence of two optical transitions of diamagnetic character, one tetrahedral and one octahedral. We find excellent agreement between the model and our experimental results for photon energies between 1.77 and 2.53 eV, corresponding to wavelengths between 700 and 490 nm. It is shown that the Faraday rotation changes significantly with the amount of substituted gallium and bismuth. Furthermore, the experimental results confirm that the magnetooptic response changes linearly with the bismuth substitution.
High-performance global routing with fast overflow reduction

Global routing is an important step for physical design. In this paper, we develop a new global router, NTUgr, that contains three major steps: prerouting, initial routing, and enhanced iterative negotiation-based rip-up/rerouting (INR). The prerouting employs a two-stage technique of congestion-hotspot historical cost pre-increment followed by small bounding-box area routing. The initial routing is based on efficient iterative monotonic routing. For traditional INR, it has evolved as the main stream for the state-of-the-art global routers, which reveals its great ability to reduce the congestion and overflow. As pointed out by recent works, however, traditional INR may get stuck at local optima as the number of iterations increases. To remedy this deficiency, we replace INR by enhanced iterative forbidden-region rip-up/rerouting (IFR) which features three new techniques of (1) multiple forbidden regions expansion, (2) critical subnet rerouting selection, and (3) look-ahead historical cost increment. Experimental results show that NTUgr achieves high-quality results for the ISPD'07 and ISPD'08 benchmarks for both overflow and runtime.
Integration of Proviral DNA in Chicken Cells Infected with Schmidt-Ruppin Rous Sarcoma Virus Is Not Enhanced by DNA Repair

The effect DNA repair might have on the integration of exogenous proviral DNA into host cell DNA was investigated by comparing the efficiency of proviral DNA integration in normal chicken embryonic fibroblasts and in chicken embryonic fibroblasts treated with UV or 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide. The cells were treated with UV or 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide at various time intervals ranging from 6 h before to 24 h after infection with Schmidt-Ruppin strain A of Rous sarcoma virus. The chicken embryonic fibroblasts were subsequently cultured for 18 to 21 days to ensure maximal integration and elimination of nonintegrated exogenous proviral DNA before DNA was extracted. Integration of proviral DNA into the cellular genome was quantitated by hybridization of denatured cellular DNA on filters with an excess of 3H-labeled 35S viral RNA. The copy number of the integrated proviruses in normal cells and in infected cells was also determined from the kinetics of liquid RNA-DNA hybridization in DNA excess. Both RNA excess and DNA excess methods of hybridization indicate that two to three copies of the endogenous provirus appear to be present per haploid normal chicken cell genome and that two to three copies of the provirus of Schmidt-Ruppin strain A of Rous sarcoma virus become integrated per haploid cell genome after infection. The copy number of viral genome equivalents integrated per cell treated with UV or 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide at different time intervals before or after infection did not differ from the copy number in untreated but infected cells. This finding supports our previous report that the integration of oncornavirus proviral DNA is restricted to specific sites in the host cell DNA and suggests a specific mechanism for integration.
Neural-Network-Based Robust Linearization and Compensation Technique for Sensors Under Nonlinear Environmental Influences

A novel artificial neural network (NN)-based technique is proposed for enabling smart sensors to operate in harsh environments. The NN-based sensor model automatically linearizes and compensates for the adverse effects arising due to nonlinear response characteristics and nonlinear dependency of the sensor characteristics on the environmental variables. To show the potential of the proposed NN-based technique, we have provided results of a smart capacitive pressure sensor (CPS) operating under a wide range of temperature variation. A multilayer perceptron is utilized to transfer the nonlinear CPS characteristics at any operating temperature to a linearized response characteristics. Through extensive simulated experiments, we have shown that the NN-based CPS model can provide pressure readout with a maximum full-scale error of only 1.5% over a temperature range of 50 to 200 with excellent linearized response for all the three forms of nonlinear dependencies considered. Performance of the proposed technique is compared with a recently proposed computationally efficient NN-based extreme learning machine. The proposed multilayer perceptron based model is tested by using experimentally measured real sensor data, and found to have satisfactory performance.
Development and characterization of microsatellite loci for the Moroccan endemic endangered species Argania spinosa (Sapotaceae)1

Premise of the study: Microsatellite loci were developed for the Moroccan endemic endangered species Argania spinosa with a combination of a typical library enrichment procedure and a 454 GS FLX Titanium–based high-throughput sequencing approach. Methods and Results: A genomic DNA library was enriched and further screened using (GA)15, (GTA)8, and (TTC)8 biotin-labeled probes coupled with chemi-luminescence detection. To increase simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci number, an ultra-high-throughput sequencing-based approach was used. Evaluation of all primer pairs was performed with labeled dUTP on an ABI 3130xl sequencer. Eleven polymorphic SSR loci were selected out of 79 SSR regions and extensively characterized on 150 individuals from eight populations. Total alleles ranged from six to 19 alleles per locus while expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.618 to 0.869. Conclusions: The SSRs developed here will be used to further characterize the genetic diversity of A. spinosa across its distribution range, mainly in the southern part of Morocco and southwestern Algeria. They may also be transferable to other Sapotaceae species.
Backscatter Communications over Ambient OFDM Signals: Transceiver Design and Performance Analysis

Ambient backscatter communications (AmBC) enables radio-frequency (RF) powered devices (e.g., tags, sensors) to modulate their information bits over ambient RF carriers in an over-the-air manner. This system, called ``modulation in the air'', thus has emerged as a promising technology for green communications and future Internet-of-Things. This paper studies the AmBC system over ambient orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) carriers in the air. We first establish the system model for such AmBC system from spread-spectrum perspective, from which a novel joint design for tag waveform and reader detector is proposed. We construct the test statistic that cancels out the direct-link interference by exploiting the repeating structure of the ambient OFDM signals due to the use of cyclic prefix. The maximum-likelihood detector is proposed to recover the tag bits, for which the optimal threshold is obtained with closed-form expression. Also, we analyze the effect of various system parameters on the transmission rate and detection performance. Finally, extensive numerical results show that the proposed transceiver design outperforms the conventional design.
Digital Human Model and Motion Capture Techniques for Home Kinesitherapy

The key feature of home kinesitherapy is real-time monitoring of movements and reacting to a wrong behavior. That is why the very important technology challenge is to apply a proper effective and efficient motion capture technique. A system dedicated for such a therapy should be based on a digital human model and involve motion capture techniques. First attempts for such systems have already appeared, but they are not satisfactory for home inde- pendent kinesitherapy. This paper presents the definition of the system for home kinesitherapy. It points out the deficiencies of existing systems for com- pleting a full therapy program. Authors describe research results regarding the usage of some motion capture techniques for home kinesitherapy: the advanced and ex pensive ShapeWrap II system and the cheap Microsoft Kinect Sensor.
How much of the web is archived?

The Memento Project's archive access additions to HTTP have enabled development of new web archive access user interfaces. After experiencing this web time travel, the in- evitable question that comes to mind is "How much of the Web is archived? " This question is studied by approximating the Web via sampling URIs from DMOZ, Delicious, Bitly, and search engine indexes and measuring number of archive copies available in various public web archives. The results indicate that 35%-90% of URIs have at least one archived copy, 17%-49% have two to five copies, 1%-8% have six to ten copies, and 8%-63% at least ten copies. The number of URI copies varies as a function of time, but only 14.6-31.3% of URIs are archived more than once per month.
AP1-mediated Multidrug Resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Requires FLR1 Encoding a Transporter of the Major Facilitator Superfamily*

We have isolated a Candida albicansgene that confers resistance to the azole derivative fluconazole (FCZ) when overexpressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This gene encodes a protein highly homologous to S. cerevisiae yAP-1, a bZip transcription factor known to mediate cellular resistance to toxicants such as cycloheximide (CYH), 4-nitroquinolineN-oxide (4-NQO), cadmium, and hydrogen peroxide. The gene was named CAP1, for C. albicansAP-1 . Cap1 and yAP-1 are functional homologues, since CAP1 expression in a yap1mutant strain partially restores the ability of the cells to grow on toxic concentrations of cadmium or hydrogen peroxide. We have found that the expression of YBR008c, an open reading frame identified in the yeast genome sequencing project and predicted to code for a multidrug transporter of the major facilitator superfamily, is dramatically induced in S. cerevisiae cells overexpressingCAP1. Overexpression of either CAP1 orYAP1 in a wild-type strain results in resistance to FCZ, CYH, and 4-NQO, whereas such resistance is completely abrogated (FCZ and CYH) or strongly reduced (4-NQO) in a ybr008c deletion mutant, demonstrating that YBR008c is involved inYAP1- and CAP1-mediated multidrug resistance.YBR008c has been renamed FLR1, forfluconazole resistance 1. The expression of an FLR1-lacZ reporter construct is strongly induced by the overexpression of either CAP1 orYAP1, indicating that the FLR1 gene is transcriptionally regulated by the Cap1 and yAP-1 proteins. Taken collectively, our results demonstrate that FLR1 represents a new YAP1-controlled multidrug resistance molecular determinant in S. cerevisiae. A similar detoxification pathway is also likely to operate in C. albicans.
A POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE IN ANALYZING SOCIO-LEGAL PHENOMENA

The characteristic of postmodernism as a cultural paradigm is deconstruction. The fact that this concept – deconstruction- allows a hermeneutical adrift, centrifuge and without poles, shows the difficulty of understanding the ways of thinking, supreme tolerance, which accepts any text. No interpretation of Deconstruction, in Derrida's way as the sense of universality of language, it is not possible, because any interpretation goes in same direction as deconstruction. From the deconstructive-reconstructive hermeneutic methodology we can analyze the existential meaning of historical or social phenomena in terms of understanding the sociohistorical reality as a construct that was generated by a "reframed" interpretation. Philosophical issue is "a pretext" of the hermeneutical process of creating the significance. Constructionist epistemology is a structure close to postmodernism perspective in manner of the vision of Lyotard, under which our image of reality is a narrative one, a consensus of speech. The legal discourse is a particular form of speech and can be analyzed in constructionist manner as a textual analysis. The analysis of the legal system must take into account the collective character of interpretive construction. Radically changing the interpretation or the context we modify the interpretation of the representation of reality which consciousness substitute for reality itself. In Foucault's view, Power is internal and constitutive to the discourse.