Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Blessed Alienation

Being mentally ill is often associated with experiencing alienation from society because sensations are not easily shared with others. Modern health care leads us to pose many questions. Some sufferers search and find their way to monasteries as they did centuries ago. We interviewed six persons staying in a monastery to understand the meaning of health and care in a monastic environment in contemporary Sweden. We analyzed the transcripts by means of a hermeneutic approach and discovered that the helping effect of the monastery was based on its contradictory/paradoxical structure that corresponded to the lifeworld of a person suffering from mental illness. The monastery was a place where one could be different but equal, and simultaneously provided freedom within boundaries, calmness and intensity, privacy and relations, demands and confirmation. This facilitated experiences of health and wholeness, necessary to manage the challenges of recovery.
Multicell Fault Current Limiter

A multicell fault current limiter (MCFCL) is proposed in this paper. The MCFCL is composed of multiple fault current limiting cells. Each fault current limiting cell consists of a fault current limiting inductor and a power electronic module. The proposed MCFCL has the flexibility in expanding the operation voltage by increasing the number of fault current limiting cells. The MCFCL has excellent static and dynamic voltage equalizing capability between different cells, which makes it highly reliable. The MCFCL utilizes the fault energy absorption bypasses instead of varistors to prevent overvoltages across the semiconductor devices, which makes it able to repeat fault current limitation multiple times in a short time interval. Moreover, the MCFCL has rather high efficiency, which is expected to be no less than 99.9% with appropriate semiconductor devices. The operational principles and parameter design methods of the MCFCL are presented. A medium-voltage prototype is developed and tested. The simulation and experimental results are presented to clarify the theory and feasibility of the proposed approaches.
Genome mapping of the orange blotch colour pattern in cichlid fishes

The dramatic variation of cichlid fish colour pattern is thought to function in mate choice, evolve by sexual selection, and contribute to explosive speciation. Here, we combine linkage mapping and population genetic analyses to identify a single region of the cichlid genome responsible for the orange blotch (OB) colour phenotype. In each analysis, OB is tightly linked to the c‐ski1 gene. Additionally, we use comparative mapping information from the Takifugu rubripes and human genomes to suggest positional candidate loci for OB. Our work should engender a more comprehensive understanding of the molecular ecology of OB and its role in cichlid speciation. Moreover, we have assembled the components of a method to focus upon the genetic basis of evolutionarily and ecologically significant phenotypes.
Molecular virology of hepatitis B virus, sub‐genotype C4 in northern Australian Indigenous populations

Indigenous Australians experience a significant health burden from chronic hepatitis B infection; however, the strain of hepatitis B virus (HBV) found among Indigenous Australians has not been well characterized. Blood samples were collected from 65 Indigenous Australians with chronic HBV infection from across the Top End of Australia's Northern Territory. Phylogenetic analysis of HBV from these samples revealed that 100% of the isolates were genotype C, sub‐genotype C4, expressing the serotype ayw3. This strain is a divergent group within the HBV/C genotype, and has only been described in Indigenous Australians. Evidence of recombination was suggested by discordant phylogenetic clustering of the C4 sequences when comparing the full genome to the surface region and confirmed by recombination analysis which showed the surface gene region to be most closely related to genotype J, while the remaining regions of the genome were most similar to genotype C sequences. Mutational analysis revealed the presence of multiple mutations that have been linked with more rapid liver disease progression and an increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma. These mutations were detected in the majority of sequences examined. Variants associated with vaccine failure were detected as the predominant viral quasi‐species in 3/35 samples. In summary, the HBV C4 variant found in this population has a high potential to cause advanced liver disease and to escape vaccination programs. Further in vitro functional and natural history studies are warranted in order to determine the clinical and public health consequences of infection with the HBV C4 variant in these communities. J. Med. Virol. 86:695–706, 2014. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Where is my mind? How sponges and placozoans may have lost neural cell types

Recent phylogenomic evidence suggests that ctenophores may be the sister group to the rest of animals. This phylogenetic arrangement opens the possibility that sponges and placozoans could have lost neural cell types or that the ctenophore nervous system evolved independently. We critically review evidence to date that has been put forth in support of independent evolution of neural cell types in ctenophores. We observe a reluctance in the literature to consider a lost nervous system in sponges and placozoans and suggest that this may be due to historical bias and the commonly misconstrued concept of animal complexity. In support of the idea of loss (or modification beyond recognition), we provide hypothetical scenarios to show how sponges and placozoans may have benefitted from the loss and/or modification of their neural cell types.
Effects of fade distribution on a mobile satellite down‐link and up‐link performance in a frequency reuse cellular configuration

In a mobile satellite system with a frequency reuse cellular configuration, significant co-channel interference can be experienced due to the antenna sidelobe level. The signal will be subjected not only to its own fading, but also to the effect of the varying degree of fading on co-channel interferer, and this interference will behave differently in the up and in the down link. This paper presents a quantitative evaluation of the combined effects of fades and co-channel interference on a mobile satellite link.
FlyBase: enhancing Drosophila Gene Ontology annotations

FlyBase (http://flybase.org) is a database of Drosophila genetic and genomic information. Gene Ontology (GO) terms are used to describe three attributes of wild-type gene products: their molecular function, the biological processes in which they play a role, and their subcellular location. This article describes recent changes to the FlyBase GO annotation strategy that are improving the quality of the GO annotation data. Many of these changes stem from our participation in the GO Reference Genome Annotation Project--a multi-database collaboration producing comprehensive GO annotation sets for 12 diverse species.
Discrete dynamics lab: tools for investigating cellular automata and discrete dynamical networks

DDLab is interactive graphics software for creating and visualizing discrete dynamical networks, and studying their behavior in terms of both space‐time patterns and basins of attraction. The networks can range from cellular automata to random Boolean networks. This article provides some general background, and gives the flavor of DDLab with a range of examples. Further details can be found at www.ddlab. comwww.ddlab. com
Low molecular weight heparin self-injection training: assessment of feasibility, tolerance and economic analysis in emergency departments

Background The purpose of this study was to assess low molecular weight heparin auto-injection skills of self-supporting patients, taught by a nurse through a rapid demonstration in an emergency department. Methods The study was a prospective, multicentre study, carried out in emergency departments. It included all ambulatory attending patients over 18 years of age, who were given a lower limb cast in an emergency ward and provided with limited orthopaedic treatment. Eligible patients who accepted self-injection training were given a quick demonstration by the nurse in the emergency ward. A questionnaire about the perception of the patient was completed at the beginning of the treatment and at the end of the treatment. A surveillance chart for recording injections and side effects was also given to the patient, and platelet counts were performed twice weekly. Findings Two hundred and fourteen patients have been assessed. Forty-four patients (20.5%) were judged inappropriate for training (n=19) or refused it (n=25). Primary perception of the self-injection method showed absence of fear of injections among patients in 43.7% of cases. Training was successful in 88% of cases. Twenty-one patients out of 170 (12%) gave up after completing the training. Questionnaires given at the end of the treatment found a generally favourable opinion on self-injections among 73.26% of patients (n=86). Compliance was good – 95.5% of patients completed all their injections. Platelet counts were considered appropriate only in 52.5% of cases. Interpretation It seems possible to extend the practice of self-injection to other types of injections prescribed after discharge from the emergency department, such as preventive low molecular weight heparin for surgical or medical purposes and curative ambulatory low molecular weight heparin treatment for deep vein thrombosis.
Preliminary design of rowing simulator for in-door skill training

In this paper we report on the preliminary design of a rowing simulator to be integrated in a VR sport training system for rowing. The proposed simulator aims at bringing in an indoor location the specific features and situations of outdoor rowing, by means of an enhanced Virtual Environment (VE) that combines visual, haptic, acoustic flows to proprio- and exteroception of user status. This paper describes the experimental activities carried out on in-door rowing to characterize the main features of the stroke gesture, the design and analytical study of a fluidodynamic dissipator for force rendering and an overview of graphic simulation and of the overall system architecture.
Sublabel–Accurate Relaxation of Nonconvex Energies

We propose a novel spatially continuous framework for convex relaxations based on functional lifting. Our method can be interpreted as a sublabel-accurate solution to multilabel problems. We show that previously proposed functional lifting methods optimize an energy which is linear between two labels and hence require (often infinitely) many labels for a faithful approximation. In contrast, the proposed formulation is based on a piecewise convex approximation and therefore needs far fewer labels - see Fig. 1. In comparison to recent MRF-based approaches, our method is formulated in a spatially continuous setting and shows less grid bias. Moreover, in a local sense, our formulation is the tightest possible convex relaxation. It is easy to implement and allows an efficient primal-dual optimization on GPUs. We show the effectiveness of our approach on several computer vision problems.
Segmentation et classification de points 3D obtenus à partir de relevés laser terrestres : une approche par super-voxels

Une methode de classification de donnees 3D eparses obtenues a partir de releves laser terrestres en environment urbain est presentee. Elle est fondee sur une technique de segmentation manipulant des super-voxels. Le nuage de points 3D est tout d'abord divise en voxels caracterises par plusieurs attributs. Ils deviennent des super-voxels qui sont lies entre eux pour former des objets par une methode de chainage plutot que par une croissance de regions classique. Ces objets sont ensuite classifies a partir de modeles geometriques et des descripteurs locaux. Afin d'evaluer les resultats, une nouvelle metrique est introduite. Elle caracterise a la fois les resultats de la segmentation et de la classification. L'influence sur les resultats de classification de la taille du voxel et de l'incorporation des informations couleur RVB et intensite de reflectance dans le super-voxel est aussi analysee
Passive Diagnosis for Wireless Sensor Networks

Network diagnosis, an essential research topic for traditional networking systems, has not received much attention for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Existing sensor debugging tools like sympathy or EmStar rely heavily on an add-in protocol that generates and reports a large amount of status information from individual sensor nodes, introducing network overhead to the resource constrained and usually traffic-sensitive sensor network. We report our initial attempt at providing a lightweight network diagnosis mechanism for sensor networks. We further propose PAD, a probabilistic diagnosis approach for inferring the root causes of abnormal phenomena. PAD employs a packet marking scheme for efficiently constructing and dynamically maintaining the inference model. Our approach does not incur additional traffic overhead for collecting desired information. Instead, we introduce a probabilistic inference model that encodes internal dependencies among different network elements for online diagnosis of an operational sensor network system. Such a model is capable of additively reasoning root causes based on passively observed symptoms. We implement the PAD prototype in our sea monitoring sensor network test-bed. We also examine the efficiency and scalability of this design through extensive trace-driven simulations.
Advances in the study of nodavirus

Nodaviruses are small bipartite RNA viruses which belong to the family of Nodaviridae. They are categorized into alpha-nodavirus, which infects insects, and beta-nodavirus, which infects fishes. Another distinct group of nodavirus infects shrimps and prawns, which has been proposed to be categorized as gamma-nodavirus. Our current review focuses mainly on recent studies performed on nodaviruses. Nodavirus can be transmitted vertically and horizontally. Recent outbreaks have been reported in China, Indonesia, Singapore and India, affecting the aquaculture industry. It also decreased mullet stock in the Caspian Sea. Histopathology and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are used to examine the presence of nodaviruses in infected fishes and prawns. For classification, virus isolation followed by nucleotide sequencing are required. In contrast to partial sequence identification, profiling the whole transcriptome using next generation sequencing (NGS) offers a more comprehensive comparison and characterization of the virus. For rapid diagnosis of nodavirus, assays targeting the viral RNA based on reverse-transcription PCR (RT-PCR) such as microfluidic chips, reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) and RT-LAMP coupled with lateral flow dipstick (RT-LAMP-LFD) have been developed. Besides viral RNA detections, diagnosis based on immunological assays such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), immunodot and Western blotting have also been reported. In addition, immune responses of fish and prawn are also discussed. Overall, in fish, innate immunity, cellular type I interferon immunity and humoral immunity cooperatively prevent nodavirus infections, whereas prawns and shrimps adopt different immune mechanisms against nodavirus infections, through upregulation of superoxide anion, prophenoloxidase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), crustin, peroxinectin, anti-lipopolysaccharides and heat shock proteins (HSP). Potential vaccines for fishes and prawns based on inactivated viruses, recombinant proteins or DNA, either delivered through injection, oral feeding or immersion, are also discussed in detail. Lastly, a comprehensive review on nodavirus virus-like particles (VLPs) is presented. In recent years, studies on prawn nodavirus are mainly focused on Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV). Recombinant MrNV VLPs have been produced in prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems. Their roles as a nucleic acid delivery vehicle, a platform for vaccine development, a molecular tool for mechanism study and in solving the structures of MrNV are intensively discussed.
The Rank and Minimal Border Strip Decompositions of a Skew Partition

The rank of an ordinary partition of a nonnegative integer n is the length of the main diagonal of its Ferrers or Young diagram. Nazarov and Tarasov gave a generalization of this definition for skew partitions and proved some basic properties. We show the close connection between the rank of a skew partition λ/µ and the minimal number of border strips whose union is λ/µ. A general theory of minimal border strip decompositions is developed and an application is given to the evaluation of certain values of irreducible characters of the symmetric group.
Demo abstract: A testbed infrastructure to study the impact of temperature on WSN

Temperature strongly affects the operation of integrated circuits, and its impact has been largely investigated on a device level. However, the impact of temperature variations on networks of multiple devices is far less understood and requires investigation. We aim to close this gap and analyse the impact of temperature fluctuations on low-power wireless sensor networks, a key enabling technology of pervasive computing. As we are moving forward into an era of human-centric safety-critical applications (e.g., smart health and intelligent transportation systems), it is particularly important to make sure that a networked system offers a reliable and deterministic performance despite all possible temperature changes over its deployment lifetime. In this demo, we present a testbed infrastructure based on infra-red heating lamps that allows to vary the on-board temperature of sensor nodes on a large scale in a repeatable fashion. Using this experimental infrastructure, we show the effects of temperature variations on network performance in two different ways. First, in a small-scale local testbed at PerCom, we highlight the degradation of the wireless link quality at high temperatures, and show that the performance of radio transceivers is temperature-dependent. We quantify this degradation and parametrize the dependency between temperature and link quality using the signal strength information captured between four wireless sensor nodes. Second, we connect remotely to our large-scale experimental infrastructure at TU Graz, and assess the impact of temperature variations on the performance of state-of-the-art network protocols, showing that the typical outdoor temperature fluctuations occurring during 24-hours do affect key network metrics such as throughput, delay, and lifetime.
Network Working Group

This document describes the Simple Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). SCTP is designed to transport PSTN signalling messages over IP networks, but is capable of broader application. SCTP is an application-level datagram transfer protocol operating on top of an unreliable datagram service such as UDP. It offers the following services to its users: -acknowledged error-free non-duplicated transfer of user data -application-level segmentation to conform to discovered MTU size -sequenced delivery of user datagrams within multiple streams, with an option for order-of-arrival delivery of individual datagrams -optional multiplexing of user datagrams into SCTP datagrams, subject to MTU size restrictions -enhanced reliability through support of multi-homing at either or both ends of the association. The design of SCTP includes appropriate congestion avoidance behaviour and resistance to flooding and masquerade attacks. Stewart, et al [Page 1] Internet Draft Simple Control Transmission Protocol September 1999 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Salud Y Migración: Análisis Descriptivo Comparativo De Los Egresos Hospitalarios De La Población Extranjera Y Chilena (Health and Migration: A Comparative Descriptive Analysis of Hospital Discharges in the Foreign and Chilean Populations)

Spanish Abstract: La migracion es un reconocido determinante social, con amplio impacto en la salud publica. Chile es uno de los paises que presenta mayores cifras de crecimiento de la migracion en Latinoamerica; pese a esto, son pocos los datos estadisticos oficiales en relacion con la prevalencia de enfermedades o condiciones de salud de los inmigrantes. Este articulo tiene como proposito aportar al conocimiento de la salud de los inmigrantes externos en Chile, con foco en la morbilidad hospitalaria. Estudio observacional y de corte transversal. Analisis de datos sobre hospitalizaciones (egresos hospitalarios) en Chile, ano 2012, a traves de tasas especificas, cifras absolutas y distribuciones porcentuales –con y sin considerer los egresos relacionados con embarazos partos o puerperio– segun variables demograficas, territoriales y prevision de salud, en poblacion chilena y extranjera. English Abstract: Migration is a well-recognized social determinant with broad impact on public health. Chile is one of the countries with the largest numbers of immigrants in Latin America. However, there are few official statistics regarding the prevalence of diseases or health conditions of immigrants in this country. This article aims to contribute to the current knowledge on the health of foreigners in Chile, focusing on hospital morbidity in Chile in 2012. This was an observational, cross-sectional study in which hospital discharge data in Chile, 2012 was analyzed through specific rates along with absolute and percentage distributions, both with and without pregnancy or childbirth records, according to demographic variables and health forecasts in the Chilean and immigrant populations. One area of major concern is the large proportion of foreign population without health insurance.
The Pareto Regret Frontier for Bandits

Given a multi-armed bandit problem it may be desirable to achieve a smaller-than-usual worst-case regret for some special actions. I show that the price for such unbalanced worst-case regret guarantees is rather high. Specifically, if an algorithm enjoys a worst-case regret of B with respect to some action, then there must exist another action for which the worst-case regret is at least Ω(nK/B), where n is the horizon and K the number of actions. I also give upper bounds in both the stochastic and adversarial settings showing that this result cannot be improved. For the stochastic case the pareto regret frontier is characterised exactly up to constant factors.
Frequency response of variable orifice type peak flow meters: requirements and testing.

Little is known about the response of variable orifice peak flow meters to high frequency flow input. The purpose of this study was to define and test dynamic requirements for such peak flow meters. In a population sample we measured peak expiratory flow (PEF), rise time (tr), from 10-90% PEF and the duration of the flow in excess of 97.5, 95 and 90% of PEF, by use of a carefully calibrated Fleisch pneumotachograph with known and adequate frequency response. Three peak flow meters (Mini Wright, Vitalograph and Ferraris) were tested with an explosive decompression calibrator adjusted to values for PEF and tr as close as possible to the 95th and 5th percentile values, respectively, both for males and females, and with peak durations between 5 and more than 100 ms. The 95th percentile values of PEF were 597 L.min-1 for females and 894 L.min-1 for males. The 5th percentile values of tr were, respectively 55 and 45 ms. The duration of flow in excess of 95% PEF was longer than 10 ms in 99% of the subjects. For all meters, the deviation of PEF corrected for alinearity were less than 5% at a peak duration of 10 ms. We conclude that PEF, rise time, and peak duration can be used for description of dynamic properties of variable orifice meters, and that the tested meters had a satisfactory frequency response for recording PEF in mostly normal subjects.