Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Clinicians’ Perception and Experience of Organ Donation From Brain-Dead Patients

Objective: ICU clinicians are primarily involved in organ donation after brain death of ICU patients. Their perceptions of organ donation may affect outcomes. Our objective was to describe ICU clinician’s perceptions and experience of organ donation. Design and Setting: Cross-sectional study among physicians and nurses (90 ICUs in France). We used factorial correspondence analysis to describe categories of clinicians regarding their perceptions and experience of organ donation. Factors associated with a positive (motivating) or negative (stressful) experiences were studied using multivariate logistic regression. Participants: Physicians and nurses. Measurements and Main Results: Three thousand three hundred twenty-five clinicians working in 77 ICUs returned questionnaires. Professionals who experienced organ donation as motivating were younger (odds ratio, 0.41; 95% CI, 0.32–0.53; p < 0.001), more often potential organ donors (odds ratio, 1.92; 95% CI, 1.56–2.35; p < 0.001), less likely to describe inconsistency (odds ratio, 0.43; 95% CI, 0.23–0.8) or complexity (odds ratio, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.45–0.67) of their feelings versus their professional activity, less likely to report that organ donation was not a priority in their ICU (odds ratio, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.55–0.84), and more likely to have participated in meetings of transplant coordinators with relatives (odds ratio, 1.71; 95% CI, 1.37–2.14; p < 0.001). Professionals who felt organ donation was stressful were older (odds ratio, 1.84; 95% CI, 1.34–2.54; p < 0.001), less often physicians (odds ratio, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.44–0.77; p < 0.001), more likely to describe shift from curative care to organ donation as emotionally complex (odds ratio, 1.83; 95% CI, 1.52–2.21; p < 0.001), care of relatives of brain-dead patients as complex (odds ratio, 1.59; 95% CI, 1.32–1.93; p < 0.001), and inconsistency and complexity of personal feelings about organ donation versus professional activity (odds ratio, 3.25; 95% CI, 1.92–5.53; p < 0.001), and more likely to have little experience with caring for potential organ donors (odds ratio, 1.49; 95% CI, 1.09–2.04). Conclusions: Significant differences exist among ICU clinician’s perceptions of organ donation. Whether these differences affect family experience and consent rates deserves investigation.
Relational Classifiers in a Non-relational World: Using Homophily to Create Relations

Research in the past decade on statistical relational learning (SRL) has shown the power of the underlying network of relations in relational data. Even models built using only relations often perform comparably to models built using sophisticated relational learning methods. However, many data sets -- such as those in the UCI machine learning repository -- contain no relations. In fact, many data sets either do not contain relations or have relations which are not helpful to a specific classification task. The question we investigate in this paper is whether it is possible to construct relations such that relational inference results in better classification performance than non-relational inference. Using simple similarity-based rules to create relations and weighting the strength of these relations using homophily on instance labels, we test whether relational inference techniques are applicable -- in other words, do they perform comparably to standard machine learning algorithms. We show, in an experimental study on 31 UCI benchmark data sets, that relational inference wins more than any of the 6 classifiers we compare against, including a transductive SVM, and that it wins the majority of the time when compared against any one of them.
Molecular Imprinting ’ as Multidisciplinary Material Science : Today and Tomorrow

The review article focuses ‘Molecular Imprinting’ a multidisciplinary material view from the window of past trends to present’s and future’s road map. This is a first critical 'review of reviews' that covers the field from laboratory research to advanced material science in industrial applications. The article gives insight into ideas in the perspectives of step by step past trends, practical discussions and tips, its significance, applications, challenges, the ways to cope the challenges and a possible future or direction of the technique. By using selected case studies, it provides a comprehensive overview and a complete picture of the entire field. It illustrates the key soul of imprinting technology, via screening through pros and cons perspectives. The number of publications and applications of molecular imprinting is increasing exponentially and a common audience feels madness due to vastness in the today’s research climate of multidisciplinary nature. In which direction we are moving? It can be hard for a busy scientist to keep pace with innovations or cherry pick useful advice from the mass of literature. In these perspectives, this review is equally suitable for all audiences from beginners to experts of today and tomorrow. The article could provide a launch pad to the future of imprinting technology for mining big information in all domains, its applications and far beyond.
Motor determinants of gait in 100 ambulatory patients with multiple sclerosis

A prospective analysis of gait and strength parameters was performed in 100 patients diagnosed with MS and pyramidal involvement admitted in a rehabilitation unit. The patients were divided into two groups based on their ability to walk in daily life (nonassisted or cane-assisted gait) and into four clinical subgroups depending on associated involvements such as sensory loss or cerebellar ataxia. Twenty healthy subjects were studied as a control group. Gait parameters were evaluated with a Locometre and muscle strength with an isokinetic dynamometer. The results showed that the average velocity and strength of the hamstring and quadriceps were strongly correlated and reduced in the MS group in comparison with the control, and in the cane-assisted group compared with the nonassisted group. Gait velocity tended to be more correlated to hamstring strength in the nonassisted group with a determination coefficient (r2) reaching a value of 0.44 in the sensory subgroup. These findings provide evidence that a correlation between strength reduction and gait impairment is obvious whatever the clinical form in patients with MS. This correlation is higher with hamstrings but may change depending on the disability level and the clinical form. This could be taken into account in the individual assessment of further rehabilitation programmes.
Indian hedgehog: Its roles and regulation in endochondral bone development

Normal endochondral bone development requires the coordination of chondrocyte proliferation and differentiation. Indian hedgehog (Ihh) is a morphogen produced by chondrocytes in the early stage of terminal differentiation and plays several key roles in this process. Ihh regulates growth of adjacent proliferative chondrocytes and can also regulate the rate of differentiation of chondrocytes indirectly through its stimulation of parathyroid hormone‐related protein (PTHrP). In this review, we focus on recent studies that have identified new functions of Ihh and how Ihh itself is being regulated. J. Cell. Biochem. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Work Design in Knowledge-Based Network Organizations: Facilitating Supply Chain  Knowledge Flows via Network Entrepreneurship

We introduce social network theory as a way of understanding work design, which can facilitate knowledge flows in knowledge based network organizations (e.g. supply chain network). We introduce a typology of "work design network" to view work design as a strategic option of creating and recreating knowledge network; then we discuss what type of work design can facilitate more network entrepreneurial activities so that the resulting work networks can be more agile, adaptable and easy to achieve collective alignment.
3661 - CRACK PROPAGATION MECHANISM IN ROUNDED COHESIVE GRANULAR MEDIA

This work investigates the influence of cohesion on the aspect of fracture and crack propagation in 2D rounded cohesive granular packing simulated by the molecular dynamics method involving simple contact laws with adhesion. 2D numerical “Brazilian” test with samples of 8000 identical radius circular particles suggest that the formation of crystallized agglomerates within samples depends on the value of the cohesive energy between particles. The agglomerate size is increased when the surface energy increases. In the testing phase and for the high values of surface energy, the fissures appear at the agglomerate interfaces in the center of sample and propagate toward to the periphery in parallel to the compressive direction.
The incubation of laminin, collagen IV, and heparan sulfate proteoglycan at 35 degrees C yields basement membrane-like structures

Three basement membrane components, laminin, collagen IV, and heparan sulfate proteoglycan, were mixed and incubated at 35 degrees C for 1 h, during which a precipitate formed. Centrifugation yielded a pellet which was fixed in either potassium permanganate for ultrastructural studies, or in formaldehyde for Lowicryl embedding and immunolabeling with protein A-gold or anti-rabbit immunoglobulin-gold. Three types of structures were observed and called types A, B, and C. Type B consisted of 30-50-nm-wide strips that were dispersed or associated into a honeycomb-like pattern, but showed no similarity with basement membranes. Immunolabeling revealed that type B strips only contained heparan sulfate proteoglycan. The structure was attributed to self- assembly of this proteoglycan. Type A consisted of irregular strands of material that usually accumulated into semisolid groups. Like basement membrane, the strands contained laminin, collagen IV, and heparan sulfate proteoglycan, and, at high magnification, they appeared as a three-dimensional network of cord-like elements whose thickness averaged approximately 3 nm. But, unlike the neatly layered basement membranes, the type A strands were arranged in a random, disorderly manner. Type C structures were convoluted sheets composed of a uniform, dense, central layer which exhibited a few extensions on both surfaces and was similar in appearance and thickness to the lamina densa of basement membranes. Immunolabeling showed that laminin, collagen IV, and proteoglycan were colocalized in the type C sheets. At high magnification, the sheets appeared as a three-dimensional network of cords averaging approximately 3 nm. Hence, the organization, composition, and ultrastructure of type C sheets made them similar to the lamina densa of authentic basement membranes.
Logical Circuit Filtering

Logical Filtering is the problem of tracking the possible states of a world (belief state) after a sequence of actions and observations. It is fundamental to applications in partially observable dynamic domains. This paper presents the first exact logical filtering algorithm that is tractable for all deterministic domains. Our tractability result is interesting because it contrasts sharply with intractability results for structured stochastic domains. The key to this advance lies in using logical circuits to represent belief states. We prove that both filtering time and representation size are linear in the sequence length and the input size. They are independent of the domain size if the actions have compact representations. The number of variables in the resulting formula is at most the number of state features. We also report on a reasoning algorithm (answering propositional questions) for our circuits, which can handle questions about past time steps (smoothing). We evaluate our algorithms extensively on AI planning domains. Our method outperforms competing methods, sometimes by orders of magnitude.
Named data networking on a router: forwarding at 20gbps and beyond

Named data networking (NDN) is a new networking paradigm using named data instead of named hosts for communication. Implementation of scalable NDN packet forwarding remains a challenge because NDN requires fast variable-length hierarchical name-based lookup, per-packet data plane state update, and large-scale forwarding tables. We have designed and implemented an NDN data plane with a software forwarding engine on an Intel Xeon-based line card in a Cisco ASR9000 router. In order to achieve high-speed forwarding, our design features (1) name lookup via hash tables with fast collision-resistant hash computation, (2) an efficient and secure FIB lookup algorithm that provides good average and bounded worst-case FIB lookup time, (3) PIT partitioning that enables linear multi-core speedup, and (4) an optimized data structure and software prefetching to maximize data cache utilization. In this demonstration, we showcase our NDN router implementation on the ASR9000 and demonstrate that it can forward real NDN traffic at 20Gbps or higher.
Lithography challenges of dual-damascence process in 0.13 μm era

In an attempt to develop the dual damascene process in 0.13 micrometer design rule, the trench optics, resist usage, reflectivity control and BARC strategy for 0.18 micrometer S/L on 0.20 micrometer via dual damascene process are discussed. The difficulty of 0.18 micrometer trench process will be concentrated by two reasons: First, the trench optics is totally different from the traditional L/S patterns either observing the pupil plane wave vector or the aerial image versus defocus, it contains the intrinsic limitation to drive and enough process DOF. Secondly, the PR residues remain in via due to the weak light incidence into via as soon as trench exposure. The side issues are the MEEF problem in dark field exposure and lens aberration problem enhanced in the use of PSM or some kinds of special customized illumination filter CIFs. As a result, the negative resist together with NA equals 0.55, (sigma) equals 0.8, annular 1/2 illumination were applied, it reveals that all mentioned issues are properly compromised by this optimized condition. It is also found that the PR window and profile is quite sensitive to substrate acidity and reflectivity. When BARC protecting coating and reflectivity control problems are taken into account simultaneously, the thin conformal BARC and fully filled polymer on dual SiOXNY underlayer are introduced to get a good profile and CD control. Experimental results exhibit the feasibility in manufacturing.
A middleware architecture for unmanned aircraft avionics

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is a non-piloted airplane designed to operate in dangerous and repetitive situations. With the advent of UAV's civil applications, UAVs are emerging as a valid option in commercial scenarios. If it must be economically viable, the same platform should implement a variety of missions with little reconfiguration time and overhead. This paper presents a middleware-based architecture specially suited to operate as a flexible payload and mission controller in a UAV. The system is composed of low-cost computing devices connected by network. The functionality is divided into reusable services distributed over a number of nodes with a middleware managing their lifecycle and communication. Some research has been done in this area; yet it is mainly focused on the control domain and in its realtime operation. Our proposal differs in that we address the implementation of adaptable and reconfigurable unmanned missions in low-cost and low-resources hardware.
Some connections between nonuniform and uniform complexity classes

It is well known that every set in P has small circuits [13]. Adleman [1] has recently proved the stronger result that every set accepted in polynomial time by a randomized Turing machine has small circuits. Both these results are typical of the known relationships between uniform and nonuniform complexity bounds. They obtain a nonuniform upper bound as a consequence of a uniform upper bound. The central theme here is an attempt to explore the converse direction. That is, we wish to understand when nonuniform upper bounds can be used to obtain uniform upper bounds. In this section we will define our basic notion of nonuniform complexity. Then we will show how to relate it to more common notions.
KECIR Information Retrieval System for NTCIR7 IR4QA Task

The KECIR group participated in the Information Retrieval for Question Answering task of the NTCIR-7 ACLIA (Advanced Cross-lingual Information Access) Task Cluster. In this paper, we describe our approach on the Simplified Chinese (CS) document collections of ACLIA for the IR4QA task. This year we compared three different approaches of standard query expansion, including Local Context Analysis (LCA) method (KECIR-CS-CS-01-T), Relevance feedback method (KECIR-CS-CS-02-DN) and using online encyclopedia method (KECIR-CS-CS-03-DN). Some famous information retrieval models, i.e., Vector Space Model, Language Model were also adopted in our study for ranking relevant documents.
Protein networking: insights into global functional organization of proteomes

The formulation of network models from global protein studies is essential to understand the functioning of organisms. Network models of the proteome enable the application of Complex Network Analysis, a quantitative framework to investigate large complex networks using techniques from graph theory, statistical physics, dynamical systems and other fields. This approach has provided many insights into the functional organization of the proteome so far and will likely continue to do so. Currently, several network concepts have emerged in the field of proteomics. It is important to highlight the differences between these concepts, since different representations allow different insights into functional organization. One such concept is the protein interaction network, which contains proteins as nodes and undirected edges representing the occurrence of binding in large‐scale protein‐protein interaction studies. A second concept is the protein‐signaling network, in which the nodes correspond to levels of post‐translationally modified forms of proteins and directed edges to causal effects through post‐translational modification, such as phosphorylation. Several other network concepts were introduced for proteomics. Although all formulated as networks, the concepts represent widely different physical systems. Therefore caution should be taken when applying relevant topological analysis. We review recent literature formulating and analyzing such networks.
Ileal Digestibility of Amino Acids in Conventional and Low-Kunitz Soybean Products Fed to Weanling Pigs

An experiment was conducted to determine the standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of amino acids (AA) in four sources of full-fat soybeans (FFSB) and in one source of soybean meal (SBM). The FFSB had different concentrations of trypsin inhibitor units (TIU) and included two sources of conventional FFSB, and two sources of a soybean variety that was selected for a reduced concentration of the Kunitz trypsin inhibitor. The conventional FFSB was either low temperature-processed (LT-FFSB-CV; 37.7% CP, 35.4 TIU/mg) or high temperature-processed (HT-FFSB-CV; 40.5% CP, 4.4 TIU/mg). The low-Kunitz FFSB was also either low temperature-processed (LT-FFSB-LK; 36.2% CP, 23.5 TIU/mg) or high temperature-processed HT-FFSB-LK; (38.2% CP, 4.0 TIU/mg). The SBM contained 47.5% CP and 3.20 TIU/mg. Twelve weanling barrows (initial BW: ) were fitted with a T-cannula in the distal ileum. Pigs were allotted to a replicated Latin square design with six diets and six periods per square. Five diets were prepared using each of the soybean sources as the only source of AA in the diet. An N-free diet was also included in the experiment to measure basal endogenous losses of AA. The two low temperature-processed FFSB had lower (p
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How patients and nurses experience the acute care psychiatric environment The concept of the therapeutic milieu was developed when patients’ hospitalizations were long, medications were few, and one-to-one nurse–patient interactions were the norm. However, it is not clear how the notion of ‘therapeutic milieu’ is experienced in American acute psychiatric environments today. This phenomenological study explored the experience of patients and nurses in an acute care psychiatric unit in the USA, by asking them, ‘What stands out to you about this psychiatric hospital environment? ’ Three ﬁgural themes emerged, contextualized by time, which was a source of stress to both groups: for patients there was boredom, and for nurses, pressure and chaos. Although they shared some themes, nurses and patients experienced them differently. For instance, nurses felt caged-in by the Plexiglas-enclosed nursing station, and patients felt caged-in by the locked doors of the unit. The ﬁndings from this US study do not support the existence of the therapeutic milieu as described in the literature. Furthermore, although the nurse–patient relationship was yearned for by nurses, it was nearly absent from patients’ descriptions. The caring experienced by patients was mainly derived from interactions with other patients.
Novel perspectives in wood certification and forensics: dry wood as a source of DNA

The importance of wood for human societies can hardly be understated. If dry wood were amenable to molecular genetic investigations, this could lead to major applications in wood forensics, certification, archaeology and palaeobotany. To evaluate the potential of wood for molecular genetic investigations, we have attempted to isolate and amplify, by PCR, DNA fragments of increasing size corresponding to all three plant genomes from different regions of 10 oak logs. Stringent procedures to avoid contamination with external DNA were used in order to demonstrate the authenticity of the fragments amplified. This authenticity was further confirmed by demonstrating genetic uniformity within each log using both nuclear and chloroplast microsatellites. For most wood samples DNA was degraded, and the sequences that gave the best results were those of small size and present in high copy number (chloroplast, mitochondrial, or repeated nuclear sequences). Both storage conditions and storage duration play a role in DNA conservation. Overall, this work demonstrates that molecular markers from all three plant genomes can be used for genetic analysis on dry oak wood, but outlines some limitations and the need for further evaluation of the potential of wood for DNA analysis.
An identification of authentic narrator's name features in Malay hadith texts

Name is regarded as important to human. A person's name can give impact to him/her either positively or negatively. It is important to recognize or match a person's name with the right person. To do this on the computer, we need to develop a rule so that the computer will be able to recognize the right name with the right person. Before developing the rule, the features about the person's name itself need to be identified. So far, there has been very little work on recognizing a person's name in the Malay texts. This research identifies features of authentic narrator's name in the Malay hadith texts. We extracted the authentic narrators' names manually from hadith texts in the purpose of identifying the features of the names. We extracted manually 455 narrator's name from 150 Malay hadith texts. From the extracted name, exist same person of narrator's name with different types of spelling. There are also many forms of the narrator's names which refers to one person. We also identify the name manner in the Malay hadith texts and added 3 more name manners. Then, we developed the rule to recognize the narrators' names in the Malay hadith texts based on the identified features.