Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Normal-tension glaucoma.

A 55-year-old myopic woman with typical features of progressive normal-tension glaucoma was referred by a colleague. The patient had initially presented 3.5 previously with intraocular pressures (IOPs) of 15 mm Hg (range 14–16 mm Hg confirmed on 24-hour diurnal curve monitoring), grossly cupped optic discs in both the right and left eyes, and corresponding extensive visual field loss, extending almost to the point of fixation in the right eye. The patient suffered from migraine, but was otherwise healthy. Visual acuities measured 6/6 in each eye with myopic correction. Careful monitoring was carried out every 3 months, with both repeated visual field testing (Humphrey Threshold 24–2), as well as serial stereo disc photography. Over the first 2 years after presentation, there was a gradual deterioration in the left visual field, and topical hypotensive therapy (latanoprost administered every evening) was prescribed for both eyes. This regimen reduced the IOP to 10 mm Hg. The fields remained stable over the next 12 months, but the patient was noted to have a splinter hemorrhage at the right optic disc and subsequent further progression of the right visual field, which reduced visual acuity to 6/12.
L’impact des motivations des parents sur la performance des coentreprises internationales implantées en Turquie

L’objectif de cet article est d’etudier, d’une part, les motivations des partenaires des coentreprises internationales entre les pays emergents et les pays developpes et, d’autre part, l’impact de ces motivations sur la performance de l’entite commune. L’analyse de 123 coentreprises internationales en Turquie montre que les motivations des partenaires sont complementaires. Les parents turcs souhaitent partager les frais de recherche et de developpement, maitriser une nouvelle technologie et obtenir de nouvelles ressources. Les partenaires etrangers sont davantage motives par la diversification et l’expansion de leur firme, l’acces a de nouveaux marches et la compatibilite des attentes avec leur partenaire local.
Reliability Testing of Triacs

A laboratory testing program which was conducted on triacs used in a prototype all-solid-state household dishwasher is described. This testing program was deemed necessary after an inordinately high number of failures of the triacs were encountered in field testing, even though the triacs were being operated well within their published specifications. The operation of triacs, the specific appliance application, and a comparative triac testing plan are described. The test results which led to the selection of a triac which met the high-reliability criteria are given, as well as some specific recommendations for the use of triacs in appliance applications.
Disparidades Inter-Regionais e Características dos Municípios do Estado de Minas Gerais

Objetivando verificar a existencia de estruturas socioeconomicas distintas significativamente entre si, este estudo se valeu de tecnicas estatisticas que permitiram, tendo por base as condicoes socioeconomicas, de financas publicas e atividade economica, caracterizar os municipios do estado de Minas Gerais e investigar as disparidades inter-regionais no interior do estado. Sob a luz do referencial teorico que aborda os temas Disparidades Regionais e Intervencao do Estado e Novo Ordenamento do Estado e Promocao do Desenvolvimento Socioeconomico, destacaram-se as relacoes entre o papel do Estado no contexto do federalismo e o desenvolvimento socioeconomico dos municipios, alem de abordar as principais correntes teoricas que tratam da eclosao das disparidades e seus motivadores. Assim, os resultados confirmaram a ocorrencia de disparidades significativas entre si e, conforme o exposto no referencial teorico, confirmaram tambem que o territorio mineiro e marcado por diferencas economicas, sociais e de financas publicas, demonstradas pela existencia de dois grupos de municipios. Destaca-se, alem disso, uma concentracao espacial dos municipios, cujas condicoes socioeconomicas, de financas publicas e de atividade economica sao melhores que nos demais. Dentre as principais consideracoes pode se destacar a existencia de uma relacao entre as variaveis analisadas, ja que aqueles municipios que possuem uma maior atividade economica possuem, tambem, melhores condicoes socioeconomicas e de financas publicas, comprovando, assim, a importância do mercado na provisao de bens e de, em conjunto com o Estado, ser um catalisador do desenvolvimento socioeconomico, mas que, por outro lado, contribui para a eclosao das disparidades que, em tese, devem ser combatidas pelo Estado.
Reasons not to deploy

Reasons not to deploy RED Martin May , Jean Bolot , Christophe Diot , and Bryan Lyles INRIA SPRINT Labs mmay,bolot@sophia.inria. fr cdiot,lyles@sprintlabs.com Abstract In this paper we question the bene ts of RED by using a testbed made of two CISCO 7500 routers and up to 16 PCs to observe RED performance under a tra c load made of FTP transfers, together with HTTP tra c and non responsive UDP ows. The main results we found were, rst, that RED with small bu ers does not improve signi cantly the performance of the network, in particular the overall throughput is smaller than with Tail Drop and the di erence in delay is not signi cant. Second, parameter tuning in RED remains an inexact science, but has no big impact on the end-to-end performance. We argue that RED deployment is not straight forward, and we strongly recommend more research with realistic network settings to develop a full quantitative understanding of RED. Nevertheless, RED allows us to control the queue size with large bu ers.
Extracting structured data from publications in the Art Conservation Domain

The most common method of publishing new discoveries about art conservation techniques and research has been through traditional full-text publications. Such corpora typically only support searching via metadata (e.g. title, authors, or keywords) and full-text. In particular, it is difficult to discover valuable information about the chemical processes, experimental results, or preservation treatments associated with the conservation of paintings from a specific genre. This article addresses this problem by focusing on the extraction of structured data (that complies with a pre-defined ontology) from a distributed corpus of publications about painting conservation. Our specific extraction method involves a unique combination of named entity recognition (using gazetteer-based and machine learning-based methods) followed by relationship extraction (using rule-based and machine learning-based methods). The resulting structured data are stored in a resource description framework triple store, and a Web-based graphical user interface enables the SPARQL querying, retrieval, and display of the search results. The results from applying our techniques to a corpus of publications on art conservation indicate that our approach achieves higher quality precision and recall in extracting named entities and relations from publications, relative to alternative existing approaches.
Simultaneous Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Two Pneumococcal Multilocus Sequence Types with a Serotype 3 Phenotype

Knowledge of the epidemiology of pneumococcal disease in Bolivia is sparse, and Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) of isolates has not been previously possible. Beni state has until recently been a geographically isolated region of the Bolivian Amazon basin and is a region of significant poverty. During June and July 2007, we performed a pneumococcal carriage study recruiting over 600 schoolchildren in two towns in the Beni state. Here, we describe the unique identification of simultaneous nasopharyngeal carriage of two pneumococcal multilocus sequence types with a serotype 3 phenotype within a single subject.
ANALISIS VOLATILITY FORECASTING SEMBILAN BAHAN POKOK MENGGUNAKAN METODE GARCH DENGAN PROGRAM R

Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk meramalkan volatilitas harga sembilan bahan pokok yaitu minyak, gula, telur, tepung terigu, beras, cabai, susu, bawang, dan daging ayam dengan model GARCH menggunakan program R 2.11. 1. Metode GARCH merupakan salah satu metode yang digunakan dalam pemodelan data runtun waktu yang teridentifikasi efek heteroskedastik. Langkah pertama yaitu, melakukan uji stasioner data kenaikan harga sembilan bahan pokok, data yang sudah stasioner dianalisis menggunakan metode ARIMA. Dari analisis menggunakan metode ARIMA, dilakukan estimasi beberapa model. Untuk menentukan model ARIMA terbaik, dilakukan perbandingan dari beberapa model yang telah di estimasi kemudian dipilih model dengan nilai parameter yang signifikan, nilai yang terkecil, nilai AIC yang terkecil dan nilai log likelihood terbesar. Model ARIMA yang memenuhi kriteria tersebut yaitu model ARIMA( ). Dicari nilai residual dari model ARIMA( ) yang akan digunakan untuk menentukan model GARCH pada data kenaikan harga sembilan bahan pokok. Setelah diperoleh model GARCH terbaik, maka akan dilakukan peramalan dengan menggunakan model tersebut. Berdasarkan hasil peramalan model GARCH terbaik, maka akan dipilih data peramalan yang mempunyai nilai standart error terkecil dan mendekati data aslinya. Model yang memenuhi kriteria tersebut merupakan model terbaik yang akan digunakan untuk peramalan data kenaikan harga sembilan bahan pokok pada tahun 2015. Hasil peramalan pada kenaikan harga sembilan bahan pokok tahun 2015 dengan model GARCH terbaik yaitu GARCH(1,1) untuk kenaikan harga minyak, cabai, bawang, ayam dan tepung terigu, model GARCH (2,1) untuk harga gula, susu, beras dan telur. Model GARCH terbaik mempunyai nilai standart error lebih kecil dan cenderung mendekati data aslinya. Dengan menggunakan metode GARCH, dilakukan peramalan kenaikan harga sembilan bahan pokok tahun 2015. Dengan demikian model GARCH terbaik digunakan untuk penelitian analisis volatility forecasting sembilan bahan pokok atau penelitian lainnya yang mengandung heteroskedastik.
A global tropospheric ozone climatology from trajectory-mapped ozone soundings

Abstract. A global three-dimensional (i.e. latitude, longitude, altitude) climatology of tropospheric ozone is derived from the ozone sounding record by trajectory mapping. Approximately 52 000 ozonesonde profiles from more than 100 stations worldwide since 1965 are used. The small number of stations results in a sparse geographical distribution. Here, forward and backward trajectory calculations are performed for each sounding to map ozone measurements to a number of other locations, and so to fill in the spatial domain. This is possible because the lifetime of ozone in the troposphere is of the order of weeks. This physically based interpolation method offers obvious advantages over typical statistical interpolation methods. The trajectory-mapped ozone values show reasonable agreement, where they overlap, to the actual soundings, and the patterns produced separately by forward and backward trajectory calculations are similar. Major regional features of the tropospheric ozone distribution are clearly evident in the global maps. An interpolation algorithm based on spherical functions is further used for smoothing and to fill in remaining data gaps. The resulting three-dimensional global tropospheric ozone climatology facilitates visualization and comparison of different years, decades, and seasons, and offers some intriguing insights into the global variation of tropospheric ozone. It will be useful for climate and air quality model initialization and validation, and as an a priori climatology for satellite data retrievals. Further division of the climatology into decadal and annual averages can provide a global view of tropospheric ozone changes, although uncertainties with regard to the performance of older sonde types, as well as more recent variations in operating procedures, need to be taken into account.
CONTESTED IDENTITY: MACEDONIANS IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIA

As argued in this thesis, a Macedonian-Australian identity is an elusive and evolving category. Nonetheless, the various Macedonian-Australian institutions and organisations, as well as the activities that they perform, described in this thesis, give definition and shape to a distinctive Macedonian identity. The thesis argues that Macedonian identity is not fixed, but is the product of lived experience and engagement with the issues that confront them in the modern context. This identity is not a static fusion of discrete 'traditional' and 'modern' identities, which come together to constitute another (composite) self-contained identity. Rather, the Macedonian-Australian identity is viewed as representing dynamic processes of 'negotiation' between various cross-cutting trajectories, that are constructed in response to changing social and cultural circumstances. The thesis describes these processes as they are enacted in the Australian context, including the contestation Macedonian identity that was part of what has come to be known as 'the Greek- Macedonian debate'. The thesis argues that Macedonians draw on their historic heritage and culture, as well as on elements that are part of their lives in Australia, in order to construct an evolving identity unlike any other. The thesis also poses some important questions about the future development of a tolerant and democratic multicultural policy for Australia.
Investigation of Measurement Uncertainties and Errors in a Radiated Emission Test System

Several important measurement uncertainties and errors associated with test receivers and preamplifiers in a radiated emission test system are rigorously investigated. It is found that some defective RF connectors can have abnormal insertion loss (~0.8 dB in our study) at certain frequencies. Signal synchronization between the signal generator and the test receiver is found to be an important factor in cable attenuation measurements, and an uncertainty of about 0.8 dB is recorded between using and not using signal synchronization. The measurement uncertainty associated with the preamplifier gain variation is found to be as large as 0.47 Db, when the temperature changes from the room temperature (25 °C) to 35 °C or to 15 °C. The results obtained in this study provide additional knowledge to the existing measurement standards used in the industry. They also have important implications for practical measurements in seeking to fulfil industrial measurement standards.
The prevalence and causes of younger onset dementia in Eastern Sydney, Australia

ABSTRACT Background: Service planning for people with younger onset dementia (YOD; an onset of symptoms before the age of 65 years) relies on prevalence estimates, with existing models based upon older people. This pilot study investigated the prevalence and causes of YOD in a defined catchment area of Eastern Sydney, Australia. Methods: The study was conducted in three stages: publicity building, case finding, and case validation. A brief structured questionnaire was sent to health professionals in the catchment area asking how many patients with YOD they had seen over the previous 12 months. Memory clinics and hospital records were also searched for YOD patients. Clinicians assigned a Statistical Linkage Key to each patient to prevent double counting, and indicated the cause of dementia. The majority of patients were validated by a review of medical case notes. Prevalence data were calculated for the following age groups: 30–64, 30–44, and 45–64 years. Results: Two hundred and four potential patients were identified, of which 141 met inclusion criteria. The primary clinical subtypes were alcohol-related dementia (18.4%), Alzheimer's disease (17.7%), vascular dementia (12.8%), and frontotemporal dementia (11.3%). Eighty-eight patients were aged 30 to 64 years on census date and were therefore included in the prevalence calculations. The overall prevalence was 68.2 per 100,000 population at risk for the 30–64-year age group (95% Confidence Interval (CI): 54.9–83.4); 11.6 per 100,000 for the 30–44-year age group (95% CI: 5.3–21.7); and 132.9 per 100,000 for the 45–64 age group (95% CI: 105.8–164.2). Conclusions: Younger onset dementia affects a significant number of people in Eastern Sydney with a diverse range of clinical types. This prevalence rate is higher than previous reports from the United Kingdom and Japan, with a different distribution of etiologies, which have important implications for service planning for this group.
Distinct Effects of Surfactant Protein A or D Deficiency During Bacterial Infection on the Lung1

Mice lacking surfactant protein (SP)-A (SP-A−/−) or SP-D (SP-D−/−) and wild-type mice were infected with group B streptococcus or Haemophilus influenzae by intratracheal instillation. Although decreased killing of group B streptococcus and H. influenzae was observed in SP-A−/− mice but not in SP-D−/− mice, deficiency of either SP-A or SP-D was associated with increased inflammation and inflammatory cell recruitment in the lung after infection. Deficient uptake of bacteria by alveolar macrophages was observed in both SP-A- and SP-D-deficient mice. Isolated alveolar macrophages from SP-A−/− mice generated significantly less, whereas those from SP-D−/− mice generated significantly greater superoxide and hydrogen peroxide compared with wild-type alveolar macrophages. In SP-D−/− mice, bacterial killing was associated with increased lung inflammation, increased oxidant production, and decreased macrophage phagocytosis. In contrast, in the absence of SP-A, bacterial killing was decreased and associated with increased lung inflammation, decreased oxidant production, and decreased macrophage phagocytosis. Increased oxidant production likely contributes to effective bacterial killing in the lungs of SP-D−/− mice. The collectins, SP-A and SP-D, play distinct roles during bacterial infection of the lung.
What Works for Whom?

This article presents estimates of program-induced, post-program earnings gains for men and women who enrolled in CETA between January 1975 and June 1976. Data for the analysis were obtained from the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey for CETA participants with corresponding comparison group information for respondents from the March 1976 Current Population Survey. Although subject to methodological limitations, the findings suggest that CETA-sponsored classroom training, on-the-job training, and subsidized work experience noticeably increased the future earnings of female participants, but had virtually no impact for men. Impacts for women were roughly the same for all three program activities and were due primarily to increased employment rather than increased wage rates.
Migrantes 2.0. Funciones y potencialidades del uso de Internet por las colectividades de migrantes en la Argentina

En los ultimos anos la red Internet se perfilo como una de las herramientas mas utilizadas por las colectividades de migrantes para comunicarse con el pais de origen y, de esta forma, mantener los lazos sociales nativos. Asimismo, la apropiacion y uso de esta tecnologia adquirio un rol cada vez mas esencial dentro los paises de destino al posibilitar la ramificacion de lazos comunitarios, favorecer la visibilizacion y funcionar como espacios para la construccion identitaria. Consecuentemente, sostenemos que el uso de las tecnologias de la informacion y comunicacion (TIC) ha recuperado y enriquecido funciones de los medios de comunicacion tradicionales de migrantes como la prensa y la radio. En sintesis, este articulo plantea un estudio sobre el pasaje de la prensa grafica emitida por grupos de migrantes latinoamericanos en la Argentina al universo de la World Wide Web, particularmente, de las redes sociales virtuales como el caso de Facebook. Proponemos un analisis comparativo basado en las continuidades y rupturas dentro del ecosistema mediatico.
Does sildenafil enhance the effect of tamsulosin in relieving acute urinary retention?

OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and efficacy of combined therapy using sildenafil and tamsulosin for management of acute urinary retention (AUR) with tamsulosin alone in patients with benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). MATERIALS AND METHODS 101 patients were enrolled in a randomized placebo-controlled study from June 2009 to April 2012. Patients presenting with an initial episode of spontaneous AUR underwent urethral catheterization and then prospectively randomized to receive tamsulosin 0.4 mg plus sildenafil 50mg in group A and tamsulosin 0.4 mg plus placebo in group B for three days. Urethral catheter was removed three days after medical treatment and patient's ability to void assessed at the day after catheter removal and seven days later. Patients who voided successfully were followed at least for three months. RESULTS Mean age of patients was 59.64 ± 3.84 years in group A and 60.56 ± 4.12 years in group B (p value = 0.92). Mean prostate volume and mean residual urine were comparable between both groups (p value = 0.74 and 0.42, respectively). Fifteen patients in group A (success rate: 70%) and nineteen patients in group B (success rate: 62.7%) had failed trial without catheter (TWOC) at 7th day following AUR (p value = 0.3). No significant difference was noted between both groups regarding the rate of repeated AUR at one month and three month follow-up period (p = 0.07 and p = 0.45, respectively). CONCLUSION It seems that combination therapy by using 5-phosphodiesterase inhibitor and tamsulosin has no significant advantages to improve urinary retention versus tamsulosin alone.
Exploiting Single View Geometry in Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Networks

PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera networks have an important role in surveillance systems. They have the ability to direct the attention to interesting events that occur in the scene. In order to achieve such behavior the cameras in the network use a process known as sensor slaving: one (or more) master camera monitors a wide area and tracks moving targets so as to provide the positional information to one (or more) slave camera. The slave camera foveates at the targets in high resolution. In this paper, we propose a simple method to solve two typical problems that are the basic building blocks to create high level functionality in PTZ camera networks: the computation of the world to image homographies and the computation of camera to camera homographies. The first one is used for computing the image sensor observation model in sequential target tracking, the second one is used for camera slaving. Finally a cooperative tracking approach exploiting the use of both homographies