Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performance Measurement of Nursing Care

Concerns about nurse staffing in hospitals, nursing's influence on patient safety and health care outcomes, and nurses' work environment (e.g., equipment failures, documentation burden) have led to increased interest in measuring and reporting nursing's performance. This article reviews recent efforts and issues involved in identifying a set of nursing-sensitive performance measures. Sustaining and strengthening current efforts requires developing measures that address all the domains of nursing, addressing technical issues needed to analyze the impact of nursing on patient safety and health care outcomes, developing data systems that provide the information needed to implement the model system, regularly improving the set of endorsed standards to reflect the most current science and empirical evidence, and persuading all health care stakeholders that measurement and reporting nursing-sensitive standards make a difference in the care and quality that are delivered. Each of these tasks requires substantial development work and construction and maintenance of the infrastructure to sustain the performance measurement efforts.
Improving the usability and accessibility of Fuzzy Logic software systems with a web-based approach

This project was both a practical implementation of an online fuzzy logic software system, and a research piece into the optimal design of a fuzzy logic system, and how fuzzy logic can be best introduced to novices of the field. This report details the implementation of an online system for the creation and evaluation of fuzzy logic sets and systems, using mostly JavaScript and JQuery, with an R back end to deal with the processing requirements of fuzzy logic (the project having around 5,000 lines of code in total). In the end, it was found that the majority of participants (95%) much preferred a graphical user interface when working with fuzzy sets and systems, due to the ability to easily visualise sets and how these interfaces can be designed to aid the user. Words in text 19,552 Calculated with the TeXCount web service http://app.uio. no/ifi/texcount/online.php
Ship Motion Prediction for Maritime Flight Operations

Abstract This paper presents a novel and feasible prediction procedure for ship motion in the presence of uncertain tendency of ship motion dynamic variations and stochastic sea state disturbances. An appropriate model aiming to feature the characteristics of the dynamic relationship between an observer and a ship deck is constructed, from which an initial algorithm is implemented. The optimal system order based on Bayes Information Criterion (BIC) is derived, resulting in the development of an accurate adaptive multi-step predictor for estimation of ship motion dynamics. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed prediction approach substantially reduces the model complexity and exhibits excellent prediction performance, making it suitable for integration into ship-helicopter approaches and landing guidance systems.
Use of cellular telephones in the hospital environment.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether cellular telephones used in a normal way would cause interference with medical devices located in patient care areas of hospitals. METHODS Two cellular telephones from different cellular carriers were tested in various patient care areas between February 15, 2006, and June 29, 2006. To monitor the medical devices and equipment in the patient care areas during testing, we observed the device displays and alarms. RESULTS Interference of any type occurred in 0 of the 75 patient care rooms during the 300 tests performed. These 300 tests involved a total of 192 medical devices. The incidence of clinically important interference was 0% (95% confidence interval, 0%-4.8%). CONCLUSIONS Although cellular telephone use in general has been prohibited in hospitals because of concerns that these telephones would Interfere with medical devices, this study revealed that when cellular telephones are used in a normal way no noticeable interference or Interactions occurred with the medical devices.
Infrastructural temporalities: Facebook and the differential time of data management

Facebook presents itself as a tool in the service of humanism: it connects people through the sharing of information and experience. This article contests these assumptions about the innate humanness of Facebook’s connections through an examination of its information management and network architecture. It argues that Facebook depends on a number of radically different milieus expressed by way of different, competing conceptualizations of time that it does not or cannot negotiate. Consequentially, Facebook should not be imagined as a single network of human connectivity that will somehow realize newly identified human rights through technology. Facebook should be thought of as a multiplicity of incommensurate networks, not all of which can be brought into human experience. The time of infrastructure directs us to an uneven ‘social’ that emerges from the negotiation of multiple, often obscured forms of temporal difference, managed through multiple, often obscured systems of hardware and software that forever remain beyond the conscious experience of most Facebook users.
BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation

Greenland's bed topography is a primary control on ice flow, grounding line migration, calving dynamics, and subglacial drainage. Moreover, fjord bathymetry regulates the penetration of warm Atlantic water (AW) that rapidly melts and undercuts Greenland's marine‐terminating glaciers. Here we present a new compilation of Greenland bed topography that assimilates seafloor bathymetry and ice thickness data through a mass conservation approach. A new 150 m horizontal resolution bed topography/bathymetric map of Greenland is constructed with seamless transitions at the ice/ocean interface, yielding major improvements over previous data sets, particularly in the marine‐terminating sectors of northwest and southeast Greenland. Our map reveals that the total sea level potential of the Greenland ice sheet is 7.42 ± 0.05 m, which is 7 cm greater than previous estimates. Furthermore, it explains recent calving front response of numerous outlet glaciers and reveals new pathways by which AW can access glaciers with marine‐based basins, thereby highlighting sectors of Greenland that are most vulnerable to future oceanic forcing.
Les effets d'un entraînement psychopédagogique

Cet article presente les principaux resultats d'une recherche longitudinale visant a mesurer les effets d'un entrainement psychopedagogique centre sur la maitrise de l'oral en grande section de maternelle (GSM) sur les competences orales et ecrites en debut et fin de CP. Cet entrainement a ete mis en oeuvre par les enseignants au cours de l'annee de GSM aupres d'un groupe experimental constitue de 362 enfants repartis en petits groupes de grands, moyens et petits parleurs. Les competences cognitives et langagieres des enfants ont ete evaluees en debut et en fin de GSM, en debut et en fin de CP. Un groupe controle compose de 230 enfants a ete evalue sur les memes epreuves en debut de GSM et en fin de CP. Les principaux resultats montrent que cette demarche psychopedagogique semble avoir eu, pour une partie des enfants consideres comme petits parleurs en debut de GSM, un impact positif a moyen terme (en fin de GSM et en debut de CP) sur l'evolution de la quantite de participation a la conversation scolaire et un effet a long terme (en fin de CP) sur certaines competences langagieres et lexiques. Cependant, les donnees comparant l'evolution a long terme des performances du groupe experimental et du groupe controle ne permettent pas de conclure a un effet global de l'entrainement.
Study of the stability of tablets containing 10 mg of policosanol as active principle.

The stability studies of tablets containing 10 mg of policosanol, a new cholesterol lowering drug, were conducted to predict an expiration date and to search the appearance of putative degradation products. All quality specification parameters such as colour, moisture content, hardness, disintegration, policosanol content and microbiological limits of the tablets were done. The effect of drastic treatments such as acid and basic hydrolysis, oxidative and photolytic degradation as well as thermolysis on such parameters was studied. In addition; studies under drastic conditions of storage (40 degrees C and 75% R.H.) and under ambient conditions of storage for climatic zones II and IV were performed. These studies demonstrate that these tablets are a stable pharmaceutical formulation, without significant changes on their quality criteria at the stressed conditions studied. The chromatographic profile of the samples after 9 months of thermal degradation shows chromatographic peaks that corresponds to the octacosanoyl, triacontanoyl and hexacosanoyl esters of palmitate and stearate, being the only degradation products observed on these studies.
Bistro: Scheduling Data-Parallel Jobs Against Live Production Systems

Data-intensive batch jobs increasingly compete for resources with customer-facing online workloads in modern data centers. Today, the two classes of workloads run on separate infrastructures using different resource managers that pursue different objectives. Batch processing systems strive for coarse-grained throughput whereas online systems must keep the latency of fine-grained end-user requests low. Better resource management would allow both batch and online workloads to share infrastructure, reducing hardware and eliminating the inefficient and error-prone chore of creating and maintaining copies of data. This paper describes Facebook's Bistro, a scheduler that runs data-intensive batch jobs on live, customer-facing production systems without degrading the end-user experience. Bistro employs a novel hierarchical model of data and computational resources. The model enables Bistro to schedule workloads efficiently and adapt rapidly to changing configurations. At Facebook, Bistro is replacing Hadoop and custom-built batch schedulers, allowing batch jobs to share infrastructure with online workloads without harming the performance of either.
Behavioral Risk Factors and Mental Health: Single and Cluster Associations in Spanish Adolescents

Objective: The risk factors associated with mental health in adolescents are not well known in the general population of Mediterranean countries. Therefore, this study aimed to identify individual and clustered behavioral risk factors for psychological distress. Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted between 2008 and 2009 among 4054 students representative of those in the fourth year of secondary education in the region of Madrid (Spain). Mental health was assessed using the General Health Questionnaire, with psychological distress defined as a score ≥3. The analyses were performed with logistic regression and adjusted for the main confounders. Results: Psychological distress was more frequent in those who did insufficient physical activity (odds ratio [OR], 1.23; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03–1.47), smokers (OR, 1.30; 95% CI, 1.07–1.59), and users of illegal drugs (OR, 1.46; 95% CI, 1.21–1.76). Psychological distress also showed a positive dose-response relationship with the number of risk behaviors for eating disorders (p for linear trend <0.001). Moreover, it was associated with both thin (OR, 1.37; 95% CI, 1.16–1.62) or very thin body image (OR, 2.15; 95% CI, 1.39–3.32) and perceived overweight (OR, 1.74; 95% CI, 1.40–2.15) or obesity (OR, 3.12; 95% CI, 2.23–4.37). Compared with individuals without classic risk behaviors (low physical activity, low consumption of fruits/vegetables, smoking, high-risk alcohol consumption), frequency of psychological distress was higher in those with 2 risk behaviors (OR, 1.47; 95% CI, 1.19–1.82) and was even greater in those with 3 or 4 risk behaviors (OR, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.21–2.01). Conclusions: During adolescence, psychological distress is associated with lifestyles, body image, and eating behaviors. Clustering of classic risk behaviors increases the likelihood of poor mental health.
Xmpi { an Mpi Implementation over X-kernel for Atm Networks

High-speed computing experiments using networked multi-computers demonstrate the potential and viability of low-cost alternatives to special purpose parallel computing systems. However, to realize this goal, the application environment must provide support for parallel applications, high-performance computation, low-latency, and high-bandwidth communication. To maximize performance, the software systems must be optimized for parallel applications, exploiting the characteristics of the hardware and network. In this position paper, we describe the design philosophy of xMPI , an implementation of MPI based on the x-kernel that is adapted for ATM networks. X-kernel is an embeddable network subsystem which provides a exible protocol composition frameworkk3]. The x-kernel abstractions viz. messages, protocol and session objects, events and the uniform protocol interface allow customization of the operating system services.
Hierarchical Grouping Approach for Fast Approximate RGB-D Scene Flow

A new approach to efficiently compute RGB-Dscene flow is introduced based on matching 3D points fromone frame to the next in a hierarchical fashion. Most stateof-the-art RGB-D scene flow methods are set in a variationalframework and formulated as an energy minimization problem. While these methods are able to provide high accuracy, theyare computationally expensive and not robust under largermotions in the scene. As well, the RGB-D scene flow datasetspresented to date are mostly based on qualitative evaluationof real scenes. The main contributions of this work are topresent a method of efficiently computing approximate sceneflow and provide an RGB-D scene flow dataset with groundtruth flow for quantitative evaluation. Quickly determiningapproximate motions in a scene is tremendously useful forany computer vision tasks that benefit from motion cues suchobstacle avoidance, object recognition, action recognition, etc. The proposed method, named Hierarchical Spectral GroupingScene Flow (HSG-SF), uses a simple coarse-to-fine voxelizationscheme combined with spectral grouping methods to providefast estimates of motion and accommodate for larger motions. Experimental results show that HSG-SF can provide reliablescene flow estimates at significantly faster runtime speed thancurrent methods.
A comparative study of sTREM-1, IL-6 and IL-13 concentration in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in asthma and COPD: A preliminary study.

BACKGROUND Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (sTREM-1) is a cell-surface receptor presented on neutrophils, macrophages and monocytes. Elevated sTREM-1 levels are a marker of acute microbial infections, and have also been reported in chronic lung diseases. IL-6 and IL-13 are effective markers in distinguishing these diseases. IL-6 has been shown to play an important role in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), while IL-13 is described as one of the key mediators of allergic asthma. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to evaluate the level of sTREM-1 in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from stable mild-to-moderate asthma and COPD patients and to compare the utility of BALF sTREM-1 measurements in asthma/COPD differentiation with those of IL-6 and IL-13. MATERIAL AND METHODS The concentration of sTREM-1, IL-6 and IL-13 was evaluated by ELISA in the BALF of stable mild-to-moderate asthma and COPD patients. RESULTS There were no significant differences in BALF sTREM-1 levels between asthma and COPD patients (52.5 pg/mL for asthma vs 73.4 pg/mL for COPD, p = 0.492), in contrast to the differences in the IL6/IL13 ratio (0.68 in COPD, 0.22 in asthma, p = 0.043). CONCLUSIONS The study showed that BALF sTREM-1 levels do not discriminate between mild-to-moderate asthma and COPD. In contrast, the IL-6/IL-13 ratio measured in BALF effectively differentiated these two diseases in their stable state. These results suggest that the most important marker of inflammation in mild-to-moderate obstructive lung disease is not microbiology-dependent.
p85 Associates with Unphosphorylated PTEN and the PTEN-Associated Complex

ABSTRACT The lipid phosphatase PTEN functions as a tumor suppressor by dephosphorylating the D3 position of phosphoinositide-3,4,5-trisphosphate, thereby negatively regulating the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT signaling pathway. In mammalian cells, PTEN exists either as a monomer or as a part of a >600-kDa complex (the PTEN-associated complex [PAC]). Previous studies suggest that the antagonism of PI3K/AKT signaling by PTEN may be mediated by a nonphosphorylated form of the protein resident within the multiprotein complex. Here we show that PTEN associates with p85, the regulatory subunit of PI3K. Using newly generated antibodies, we demonstrate that this PTEN-p85 association involves the unphosphorylated form of PTEN engaged within the PAC and also includes the p110β isoform of PI3K. The PTEN-p85 association is enhanced by trastuzumab treatment and linked to a decline in AKT phosphorylation in some ERBB2-amplified breast cancer cell lines. Together, these results suggest that integration of p85 into the PAC may provide a novel means of downregulating the PI3K/AKT pathway.
Ligand-induced Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-3 (VEGFR-3) Heterodimerization with VEGFR-2 in Primary Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Regulates Tyrosine Phosphorylation Sites*

Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) regulate the development and growth of the blood and lymphatic vascular systems. Of the three VEGF receptors (VEGFR), VEGFR-1 and -2 are expressed on blood vessels; VEGFR-2 is found also on lymphatic vessels. VEGFR-3 is expressed mainly on lymphatic vessels but it is also up-regulated in tumor angiogenesis. Although VEGFR-3 is essential for proper lymphatic development, its signal transduction mechanisms are still incompletely understood. Trans-phosphorylation of activated, dimerized receptor tyrosine kinases is known to be critical for the regulation of kinase activity and for receptor interaction with signal transduction molecules. In this study, we have identified five tyrosyl phosphorylation sites in the VEGFR-3 carboxyl-terminal tail. These sites were used both in VEGFR-3 overexpressed in 293 cells and when the endogenous VEGFR-3 was activated in lymphatic endothelial cells. Interestingly, VEGF-C stimulation of lymphatic endothelial cells also induced the formation of VEGFR-3/VEGFR-2 heterodimers, in which VEGFR-3 was phosphorylated only at three of the five sites while the two most carboxyl-terminal tyrosine residues appeared not to be accessible for the VEGFR-2 kinase. Our data suggest that the carboxyl-terminal tail of VEGFR-3 provides important regulatory tyrosine phosphorylation sites with potential signal transduction capacity and that these sites are differentially used in ligand-induced homo- and heterodimeric receptor complexes.
Youths' Definitions of Dating Aggression: Context and Measurement

Most research on dating aggression in youth uses act-based questionnaires created by adult researchers, which measure the frequency of specific behaviours but not the context in which the behaviours occurred. This study used mixed methods to investigate whether attitudes and definitions of dating aggression assessed via these act-based questionnaires fully capture the experiences and opinions of emerging adults. University students (ages 17-20 years) completed quantitative self-report questionnaires (n = 172; 70% women) or took part in focus group discussions (n = 21; 57% female) regarding attitudes toward and involvement in dating aggression. I explicitly compared the quantitative and qualitative data to demonstrate how views of dating aggression in youth differed according to method of measurement. Participants also identified factors that influenced the development of their beliefs about dating aggression in order to provide insight into the context in which dating aggression is understood by young people. Quantitative questionnaires adequately captured the types of aggressive behaviours experienced by participants, but did not capture the nuanced beliefs and judgments that participants made about dating aggression. Quantitative questionnaires alone did not provide information about differences between beliefs and behaviours, differences in judging aggression in youths’ own versus others’ relationships, and the important role of patriarchy and gender roles in how participants understood dating aggression. The context in which participants developed these views about dating aggression was complex and dynamic, and included multiple intersecting factors such as family, friends, culture, media, and education. Findings point to a need for more context-sensitive measurement of dating aggression and acknowledgement that attitudes towards dating aggression may not be as
Earth First! Activism: Ecological Postmodern Praxis in Radical Environmentalist Identities

Classical and conventional sociological theories cannot explain social-psychological dynamics in contemporary social movements. A synthesis of symbolic interactionism and New Social Movement theory offers a useful framework for analyzing and interpreting the role of consciousness/identity and culture/lifestyle in new social movements. Movement identifications are social-interactional processes that symbolize collectively constructed cognitive frameworks. Activist identities are forms of collective consciousness that function as symbolic resources in the ongoing mobilization of collective action. Activism in the radical environmentalist Earth First! movement is theorized as an ecological postmodern identity praxis that expresses biocentric, transpersonal ecological consciousness. The identity-constructs of the “Ecological Self” and “Wild Within” are expressed in activists' social gatherings and symbolic direct actions. These movement identifications/activist identities represent symbolic, counter-discursive challenges to technocracy.
Dynamics of carbon, biomass, and structure in two Amazonian forests

(1) Amazon forests are potentially globally significant sources or sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide. In this study, we characterize the spatial trends in carbon storage and fluxes in both live and dead biomass (necromass) in two Amazonian forests, the Biological Dynamic of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), near Manaus, Amazonas, and the Tapajos National Forest (TNF) near Santarem, Para´. We assessed coarse woody debris (CWD) stocks, tree growth, mortality, and recruitment in ground-based plots distributed across the terra firme forest at both sites. Carbon dynamics were similar within each site, but differed significantly between the sites. The BDFFP and the TNF held comparable live biomass (167 ± 7.6 MgCha � 1 versus 149 ± 6.0 MgCha � 1 , respectively), but stocks of CWD were 2.5 times larger at TNF (16.2 ± 1.5 MgCha � 1 at BDFFP, versus 40.1 ± 3.9 MgCha � 1 at TNF). A model of current forest dynamics suggests that the BDFFP was close to carbon balance, and its size class structure approximated a steady state. The TNF, by contrast, showed rapid carbon accrual to live biomass (3.24 ± 0.22 MgCha � 1 � a � 1 in TNF, 2.59 ± 0.16 MgCha � 1 � a � 1 in BDFFP), which was more than offset by losses from large stocks of CWD, as well as ongoing shifts of biomass among size classes. This pattern in the TNF suggests recovery from a significant disturbance. The net loss of carbon from the TNF will likely last 10-15 years after the initial disturbance (controlled by the rate of decay of coarse woody debris), followed by uptake of carbon as the forest size class structure and composition continue to shift. The frequency and longevity of forests showing such disequilibruim dynamics within the larger matrix of the Amazon remains an essential question to understanding Amazonian carbon balance.