Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Auditory-Visual Speech Benefit on Working Memory in Older Adults with Hearing Impairment

This study examined the effect of auditory-visual (AV) speech stimuli on working memory in older adults with poorer-hearing (PH) in comparison to age- and education-matched older adults with better hearing (BH). Participants completed a working memory n-back task (0- to 2-back) in which sequences of digits were presented in visual-only (i.e., speech-reading), auditory-only (A-only), and AV conditions. Auditory event-related potentials (ERP) were collected to assess the relationship between perceptual and working memory processing. The behavioral results showed that both groups were faster in the AV condition in comparison to the unisensory conditions. The ERP data showed perceptual facilitation in the AV condition, in the form of reduced amplitudes and latencies of the auditory N1 and/or P1 components, in the PH group. Furthermore, a working memory ERP component, the P3, peaked earlier for both groups in the AV condition compared to the A-only condition. In general, the PH group showed a more robust AV benefit; however, the BH group showed a dose-response relationship between perceptual facilitation and working memory improvement, especially for facilitation of processing speed. Two measures, reaction time and P3 amplitude, suggested that the presence of visual speech cues may have helped the PH group to counteract the demanding auditory processing, to the level that no group differences were evident during the AV modality despite lower performance during the A-only condition. Overall, this study provides support for the theory of an integrated perceptual-cognitive system. The practical significance of these findings is also discussed.
Percutaneous Transcatheter Closure of Atrial Septal Defect in Children younger than 5 years : Initial experience of Sohag University

Objectives: This study was aimed to determine institutional efficacy and safety of percutaneous closure of secundum ASDs in symptomatic children younger than 5 years of age and discuss referral indications. Methods: The retrospective study between March 2011 and April 2013, included 24 patients (12 girls, 12 boys) with secundum ASDs measuring more than 8 mm with a hemodynamically significant shunt, resulting in failure to thrive, right ventricular dilatation, or repeated chest infections. Four patients had multiple or fenestrated ASD secundum. Defect size and total interatrial septal length were estimated by transthoracic (TTE) and transesophageal (TEE) echocardiography in 3 views. Procedures were performed under fluoroscopic and TEE guidance without balloon sizing. Patients were followed-up at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months with TTE. Major and minor complications were predefined and indications for referral were evaluated. Results: We identified 24 patients meeting criteria with a mean procedural age of (3.6±1.8 years ), and mean weight of (13.9±3.1Kg). The mean defect size was 13.6 ± 2.9 mm and mean IAS length was 26.9 ± 6.4mm on TTE and defect size was 14.3 ± 3.5 mm on TEE. The mean device size was 15.7 ± 4.5 mm (range, 9 to 28 mm). The device was placed successfully in all patients including fenestrated ASDs that were closed with a single device placement. No residual flow was seen after device placement in patients. There were one major (4.1%) in form haemopericardium and cardiac tamponade and three minor (12.5%) complications including: transient arrhythmia resolving spontaneously or with only catheter manipulation (2 cases); rebleeding from access site (1 case). Nearly two-thirds of referrals were for right heart enlargement or poor growth. There was significant in the rate of resolution of right heart enlargement after transcatheter closure of ASD II. At 6 and 12 months, all the patients were asymptomatic. No cardiac perforation, device erosion, embolization, thrombus formation, or malposition of the device was observed. Conclusions Transcatheter ASD closure in small symptomatic children is highly successful and safe. In small, asymptomatic patients, deferral of closure until the 4 to 5 years of age should be strongly considered. [Safaa Husein Ali, Sharaf Eldeen Shazly Abdalla. Percutaneous Transcatheter Closure of Atrial Septal Defect in Children younger than 5 years: Initial experience of Sohag University. Life Sci. J 2014; 11(8):954-959] (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 140
Les coopératives d’activités et d’emploi : accompagner autrement pour entreprendre autrement

L’objet de cet article est de presenter les cooperatives d’activites et d’emploi (CAE) comme une reponse apportee par l’economie sociale et solidaire (ESS) a la problematique de l’accompagnement entrepreneurial. Ces structures constituent un mode d’accompagnement original permettant de securiser un processus entrepreneurial collectif dans un cadre salarial. Un travail empirique, realise aupres de plusieurs d’entre elles, presente leur public, ce qu’il recherche, ce qu’il en retire, ainsi que le role educatif joue par les CAE pour le sensibiliser a l’ESS.
Efficient Modulation for Band-Limited Channels

This paper attempts to present a comprehensive tutorial survey of the development of efficient modulation techniques for bandlimited channels, such as telephone channels. After a history of advances in commercial high-speed modems and a discussion of theoretical limits, it reviews efforts to optimize two-dimensional signal constellations and presents further elaborations of uncoded modulation. Its principal emphasis, however, is on coded modulation techniques, in which there is an explosion of current interest, both for research and for practical application. Both block-coded and trellis-coded modulation are covered, in a common framework. A few new techniques are presented.
Topological Data Analysis as a Morphometric Method: Using Persistent Homology to Demarcate a Leaf Morphospace

Current morphometric methods that comprehensively measure shape cannot compare the disparate leaf shapes found in seed plants and are sensitive to processing artifacts. We explore the use of persistent homology, a topological method applied as a filtration across simplicial complexes (or more simply, a method to measure topological features of spaces across different spatial resolutions), to overcome these limitations. The described method isolates subsets of shape features and measures the spatial relationship of neighboring pixel densities in a shape. We apply the method to the analysis of 182,707 leaves, both published and unpublished, representing 141 plant families collected from 75 sites throughout the world. By measuring leaves from throughout the seed plants using persistent homology, a defined morphospace comparing all leaves is demarcated. Clear differences in shape between major phylogenetic groups are detected and estimates of leaf shape diversity within plant families are made. The approach predicts plant family above chance. The application of a persistent homology method, using topological features, to measure leaf shape allows for a unified morphometric framework to measure plant form, including shapes, textures, patterns, and branching architectures.
No . E 2008 / 2 Information-Based Trade in the Shanghai StockMarket

Information-Based Trade in the Shanghai StockMarket Laurence Copeland, Woon K Wong and Y Zeng We show that the probability of information-based trade (PIN) played a signi cant role in explaining monthly returns on Shanghai A shares over the period 2001 to 2006. In particular, PIN, as approximated by order imbalance as a proportion of total transactions, appears to explain returns even after controlling for risk in the much-cited Fama and French (1992) three-factor model. However, we also nd that some of the PIN e¤ect appears to be indistinguishable from a turnover e¤ect.
On Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Private Ballot Submission

We exhibit the precise security guarantees that a public key encryption scheme needs to satisfy to guarantee ballot privacy when used in a large class of voting systems. We also identify new security notions for public key encryption that characterize the number of times that a public key can be used in different elections, and show that the most common ballot preparation approach that consists in encrypting the vote and adding a NIZK proof of its validity is sound, even without hardwiring the voter identity in the proof. Our results provide important steps towards proving the privacy of the ballot submission procedure in the widely deployed Helios voting system.
Data Storage Control System Design

The paper presents a methodology for evaluating and improving the effectiveness of storage management during the development of automated control systems. The description of the storage management system in terms of queuing theory is proposed. The model of the system and the criteria for efficient processing of requests to read and write data are provided. The authors also propose the partitioning of stored data and the use of several software solutions to improve the system performance.
Residents’ recreational and social use of and perspectives on a World Heritage Site: Temple of Heaven, Beijing, China

Many heritage sites are shared by tourists and local residents. Possessing more familiarity and often a deeper understanding of local heritage meanings and values, residents are often considered to be more worthy users of the heritage resources. However, the recreational use of heritage resources by local residents, who are often portrayed and examined as service providers and impact receivers, is often neglected at heritage sites. This research identifies the use patterns, motivations, perceptions and experiences of local residents at Temple of Heaven World Heritage Site in Beijing, China. Research findings enhance understanding of the recreational use of residents and their perspectives on the heritage sites. Practical implications are generated to inform future planning and management decisions at heritage sites shared by local users and tourists.
Are Partnered Women Added Workers ? Evidence from Women ' s Labour Force Participation in the UK Version : November 2017

I examine whether and how an inactive married or cohabiting woman's participation decision is in uenced by her partner's di erent labour market activities and investigate the e ect of the time she spends away from the labour market on her labour supply decision. Using a panel of couples' monthly labour market histories that I constructed from the British Household Panel Survey 1991-2009, I show that there is signi cant negative duration dependence in woman's participation, which is strongest in the rst three years of her inactivity. A woman with an unemployed partner is 23% less likely to enter the labour market than a woman whose partner is employed, i.e. a negative added worker e ect. On the other hand, a woman's labour supply decision depends on her partner's labour market activity, and a woman with an inactive partner is more likely to participate in the labour force than a woman whose partner is unemployed. The duration dependence and the added worker effect do not vary by the way a woman enters the labour force, i.e. via jobnding or job-search; however, claiming income support or unemployment bene t within an interview year has destination speci c e ects as it increases the probability of a woman's participation via job-search rather than jobnding.
Red Alert for Women’s Hearts

• Clinical trials and meta-analyses on cardiovascular diseases did not show a significantly lower efficacy of interventions in women when compared with men, although 50% of the studies did not report an analysis of the results by gender. For some therapies there is even a suggestion for greater efficacy in women than in men, as in the case of cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure or thrombolysis after ischemic stroke.
Multidecadal ocean variability and NW European ice sheet surges during the last deglaciation

A multiproxy paleoceanographic record from the Atlantic margin off the British Isles reveals in unprecedented detail discharges of icebergs and meltwater in response to sea surface temperature increases across the last deglaciation. We observe the earliest signal of deglaciation as a moderate elevation of sea surface temperatures that commenced with a weakly developed thermocline and the presence of highly ventilated intermediate waters in the Rockall Trough. This warming pulse triggered a series of multidecadal ice‐rafted debris peaks that culminated with a major meltwater discharge at 17,500 years before present related to ice sheet disintegration across the NW European region. The impact of meltwater caused a progressive reduction in deep water ventilation and a sea surface cooling phase that preceded the collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during Heinrich event 1 by 500–1000 years. A similar sequence of rapid ocean‐ice sheet interaction across the European continental margin is identified during the Bølling‐Allerød to Younger Dryas transition. The strategic location of our sediment core suggests a sensitive and rapid response of ice sheets in NW Europe to transient increases in thermohaline heat transport.
FORMATION AND PRIMARY HEATING OF THE SOLAR CORONA - THEORY AND SIMULATION

An integrated magneto-fluid model, that accords full treatment to the velocity fields associated with the directed plasma motion, is developed to investigate the dynamics of coronal structures. It is suggested that the interaction of the fluid and the magnetic aspects of plasma may be a crucial element in creating so much diversity in the solar atmosphere. It is shown that the structures which comprise the solar corona can be created by particle (plasma) flows observed near the Sun’s surface—the primary heating of these structures is caused by the viscous dissipation of the flow kinetic energy.
A retrospective analysis of patients with gallbladder cancer: surgical treatment and survival according to tumor stage.

INTRODUCTION gallbladder cancer is the most common biliary neoplasm and the sixth most common tumor of the digestive system. The disease has an ominous prognosis, with a 5-year survival rate of approximately 5%. It is usually diagnosed late and surgical resection is the only potential cure. METHODS a retrospective study was carried out in 92 patients with a pathological diagnosis of gallbladder cancer from January 2000 to January 2016. RESULTS the mean age of cases was 72 ± 11 years; 64 subjects were females and 28 were males. Symptoms at admission included abdominal pain (78%), anorexia (77%), nausea (76%) and jaundice (45%). Surgery was indicated in 92 (100%) patients and 59 (64%) underwent a curative/intent resection. The initial surgical procedures included simple cholecystectomy in 69 (75%) cases and extended cholecystectomy in eleven (11%) subjects. Rescue surgery was performed in 15 patients with tumor tissue in the cholecystectomy specimen; ten individuals underwent an R0 curative resection. Adjuvant therapy was administered in 30 (33%) patients. The median survival in our series was 12.5 months, with survival rates of 57%, 30% and 20% at one, three and five years, respectively. CONCLUSION to conclude, surgical treatment with a complete tumor resection should be considered for all patients, provided that their clinical status allows it.
The mid-IR spatially resolved environment of OH 26.5+0.6 at maximum luminosity

We present observations of the famous OH/IR star OH 26.5+0.6 obtained using the Mid-Infrared Interferometric Instrument MIDI at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope Interferometer VLTI. Emission of the dusty envelope, spectrally dispersed at a resolution of 30 from 8 µm to 13.5 µm, appears resolved by a single dish UT telescope. In particular the angular diameter increases strongly within the silicate absorption band. Moreover an acquisition image taken at 8.7 µm exhibits, after deconvolution, a strong asymmetry. The axis ratio is 0.75 ± 0.07 with the FWHM of the major and minor axis which are 286 mas and 214 mas respectively. The measured PA angle, 95 ◦ ± 6 ◦ , is reminiscent of the asymmetry in the OH maser emission detected at 1612 MHz. In interferometric mode the UT1−UT3 102 m baseline was employed to detect the presence of the star. No fringes were found with a detection threshold estimated to be about 1% of the total flux of the source, i.e. 5−8 Jy. These observations were carried out during the maximum luminosity phase of the star, when the dust shell is more diluted and therefore the chance to detect the central source maximized. We modeled the dusty environment based on the work of Justtanont et al. (1996). In particular, the failure to detect fringes provides strong constraints on the opacities in the inner regions of the dust shell or in the close vicinity of the star.
Text mining of bilingual parallel corpora with a measure of semantic similarity

The paper describes a new application of a text-mining algorithm to the text sources of bilingual parallel corpora. The ultimate task, being undertaken in the context of a Chinese-English machine translation project, will be to develop a language-neutral method to discover similar documents from multilingual text collections. Using a variation of automatic clustering techniques which apply a neural net approach, namely the self-organizing maps (SOM), we have conducted several experiments to uncover associated documents based on Chinese-English bilingual parallel corpora, and a hybrid Chinese-English corpus. The experiments show some interesting results and a couple of potential ways for future work towards the field of multilingual information discovery. In addition, for exploring the impacts on linguistic issues with the machine learning approach to mining sensible linguistics elements from multilingual texts, we have examined the resulting term associations and text associations from the view of cross-lingual text similarity. To evaluate semantic relatedness of the mined bilingual texts, we applied a measure technique of semantic similarity in the resulting bilingual document clusters and word clusters. The paper presents algorithms that enable multilingual text mining based on the self-organizing map (SOM) for automatically grouping similar multilingual texts (i.e. Chinese and English texts), along with a means of measuring their semantic similarity to resolve the difficulties of syntactic and semantic ambiguity in multilingual information access.
Fixed Dystonia of the Left Hand in a Violinist: a Rare Functional Disorder

Background Fixed dystonia leads to an immobile abnormal posturing of the affected limb. There is an ongoing debate whether this condition is psychogenic in origin. Case report We present a 21-year-old violinist with fixed dystonia after an acute overuse injury with a transient cyanosis but no signs for psychological trauma. After Incobotulinumtoxin injection, symptoms subsided within 8 hours. Discussion Our case corroborates the notion that fixed dystonias after minor injuries are functional disorders. It underlines the necessity of a biopsychosocial approach to functional disorders, considering the possibility of an overlay between organic and non-organic disorders.
Ideology, Competence and Luck: What determines general election results?

This paper investigates the impact of luck, defined as global economic growth, and competence, defined as the difference between domestic and world growth, on voting in general elections since 1960. The vote of incumbent parties of the right is found to be sensitive to luck, whereas that of incumbent parties of the left is not. This is consistent with the Clientele Hypothesis given electorates which fail to perfectly distinguish luck from competence. Economic competence plays a strong role in determining the vote, especially in high-income democracies. The electoral reward to competence is essentially equal across parties of either ideology, contra to the Saliency Hypothesis. The data are also supportive of the Territory Hypothesis, namely that greater ideological territory increases a party's relative vote share.
Product range spaces, sensitive sampling, and derandomization

We introduce the concept of a sensitive /spl epsi/-approximation, and use it to derive a more efficient algorithm for computing /spl epsi/-nets. We define and investigate product range spaces, for which we establish sampling theorems analogous to the standard finite VC-dimensional case. This generalizes and simplifies results from previous works. We derive a simpler optimal deterministic convex hull algorithm, and by extending the method to the intersection of a set of balls with the same radius, we obtain an O(nlog/sup 3/ n) deterministic algorithm for computing the diameter of an n-point set in 3-dimensional space. <<ETX>>
Surging verticality: an experience of balance

In our approach to body-focused interactive art, the tangible material with which we craft interactional aesthetic experiences is body experience. Touch and proprioception become primary materials for exploration and embedding in technology-mediated interactional situations. We applied the Feldenkrais Method of somatic bodywork in the development of a prototype interactive artwork, Surging Verticality, to pursue our understanding of how to craft audience experience, where the artwork offers a framework for critical reflection and self-enquiry. The Feldenkrais Method is based on an appreciation of musculo-skeletal organization as a fundamental component of our self-image and subjectivity. Our preliminary reflections on our experience of making, testing and evaluating body-focused interactions reveal the importance of the contract between artist and audience, the care, skill and sensitivity required by the artist and the receptivity of the audience.
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Redundancy of Tryptophan Biosynthetic Enzymes in Dinotoms

A tertiary endosymbiosis between a dinoflagellate host and diatom endosymbiont gave rise to “dinotoms,” cells with a unique nuclear and mitochondrial redundancy derived from two evolutionarily distinct eukaryotic lineages. To examine how this unique redundancy might have affected the evolution of metabolic systems, we investigated the transcription of genes involved in biosynthesis of the amino acid tryptophan in three species, Durinskia baltica, Kryptoperidinium foliaceum, and Glenodinium foliaceum. From transcriptome sequence data, we recovered two distinct sets of protein-coding transcripts covering the entire tryptophan biosynthetic pathway. Phylogenetic analyses suggest a diatom origin for one set of the proteins, which we infer to be expressed in the endosymbiont, and that the other arose from multiple horizontal gene transfer events to the dinoflagellate ancestor of the host lineage. This is the first indication that these cells retain redundant sets of transcripts and likely metabolic pathways for the biosynthesis of small molecules and extend their redundancy to their two distinct nuclear genomes.