Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prosthetic hip joint infection due to Campylobacter fetus

We were interested to read the report of a prosthetic hip joint infection due to Campylobacter fetus (1), as we have recently been involved with a similar case. Our patient was a 68-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis, for which she had been taking prednisolone 2.5 mg tds since 1977. She had undergone a right total hip replacement in 1985 and a left total knee replacement in 1987. She was well until 3 months prior to admission, when she began to complain of increasing pain in her right hip joint. She had no systemic or gastrointestinal symptoms. Investigations on admission were unremarkable, so a bone biopsy was performed. During the operaton, a collection of pus which was contiguous with the hip prosthesis was drained. The sample was cultured, as is our laboratory routine, on chocolate agar (incubated in 5% CO2), blood agar (incubated anaerobically), and MacConkey agar (incubated aerobically) and into fastidious anaerobe (FA) broth. No growth was seen after a 24-h incubation at 37°C, but small discrete translucent colonies were present 24 h later on both the chocolate and blood agar plates. These were oxidase positive, and Gramstained smears revealed spiral, Gram-negative organisms. Because of the colonial appearance and clinical presentation, the isolate was presumed to be C fetus and the patient was commenced on intravenous gentamicin. The organism was further identified as C. fetus subsp. fetus by using the API Campy identification system. Because of deteriorating renal function, gentamicin was discontinued and azithromycin was given for 3 days together with a prolonged course of chloramphenicol. The patient refused further medication after a total of 4 weeks of antibiotic therapy. She was systemically well and apyrexial throughout her admission and remained so after being discharged, until her death 2 months later due to an unrelated cardiac event. Campylobacter spp. are relatively fastidious and slowly growing organisms, but in this case, and with two other recent blood culture isolates in our laboratory, colonies appeared at 48 h, on routine media, incubated under routine conditions. We agree that prolonged incubation may be necessary, but it is not essential, and routine media are sufficient to support growth of these organisms, even for primary isolation from clinical specimens. In our laboratory, the FA broth is subcultured after 72 h onto chocolate agar (incubated in 5% CO2 for 48 h) and blood agar (incubated anaerobically for 72 h). No Campylobacter spp. have been isolated apart from those mentioned above, even though our laboratory serves a relatively large population at risk for infections caused by these organisms. We believe that it is unlikely that many infections remain undetected by our protocol and therefore conclude that this organism is indeed a rare cause of prosthetic joint infection.
Order Allocation for Stock Cutting in the Paper Industry

A common problem encountered in paper-production facilities is that of allocating customer orders to machines so as to minimize the total cost of production. It can be formulated as adual-angular integer program, with identical machines inducing symmetry. While the potential advantages of decomposing large mathematical programs into smaller subproblems have long been recognized, the solution of decomposableinteger programs remains extremely difficult. Symmetry intensifies the difficulty. This paper develops an approach, based on the construction of tight subproblem bounds, to solve decomposable dual-angular integer programs and successfully applies it to solve the problem from the paper industry. This method is of particular interest as it significantly reduces the impact of symmetry.
Fault reactivation due to the M7.6 Nicoya earthquake at the Turrialba‐Irazú volcanic complex, Costa Rica: Effects of dynamic stress triggering

The M7.6 Nicoya earthquake struck at the interface between the Cocos plate and the Caribbean plate on 5 September 2012 inducing a ground acceleration of 0.5 m s−2 at the Irazú‐Turrialba volcanic complex. We use data from six seismic stations deployed around and atop the Irazú‐Turrialba volcanic complex to show the increase of local seismic activity after the M7.6 Nicoya earthquake. The response consists in more than 300 locatable earthquakes occurring in swarm sequences along a fault system that intersects the Irazú‐Turrialba volcanic complex. In addition, we point out that major aftershocks are followed by increases of seismic activity in the same region. The weak static stress variation imposed by the main slip of the Nicoya earthquake at the Irazú‐Turrialba volcanic complex suggests a dynamic triggering mechanism. We expand this concept suggesting that this behavior may be similar to the one observed in the Chilean and Japanese volcanic arcs during the M8.8 2010 Maule, Chile, and M9.0 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquakes. Finally, we highlight that the combined action of dynamic stress and short‐lived coseismic relaxation may trigger seismic activity in geological systems in near‐critical conditions.
Problematizing Cultural Stereotypes in TESOL

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The Triad of Crime, Punishment, and Forgiveness in the Kyrgyz Epic Kojojash

The "lesser" Kyrgyz epic Kojojash is one of the best-known monuments of Kyrgyz oral heritage. Using a structural-semiotic approach, the article shows the mechanism by which new elements are incorporated into the epic structure and argues that all of the epic's components consistently deal with the primary moral "thou shall not kill. " The article also focuses on the conflict's multiple meanings: initially it is a struggle between a hunter and an animal and thus a conflict between human beings and nature; at the same time Kojojash and his foe the Goat represent such oppositions as youth/age, naïvité/wisdom, male/female, son/mother, profane/sacred, risk/intelligence, accident/fate, and human/god. An analysis of the heroes' names, one of the main semantic codes of the epic, shows that Kojojash is centered not around an opposition of crime and punishment, but rather around a triad of crime, punishment, and forgiveness. Kojojash is based on the idea that humans are entrusted with many things and that they are responsible for his own actions just as much as any superior force is. Kojojash is thus a narrative of the biblical type: the sorts of moral truths placed in the Bible in the Judeo-Christian realm find their home in epic form (with the lesser epics among the primary example) among the Kyrgyz.
Adaptación española de una Escala de Apoyo Social percibido para deportistas

Spanish adaptation of a perceived Social Support Scale in sportspeople. Social support is a variable that has a great infl uence in the sport context. In fact, this variable not only affects the athlete’s performance but it has also shown to be related to psychological disorders such as Burnout Syndrome. The aim of this paper was to illustrate the Spanish adaptation of a social support scale in the sport context. The normative group who took part in the fi nal version of the research was composed of 397 athletes aged between 13 and 64 years old (mean= 19.23 and standard deviation= 6.67). The scale shows: adequate factorial and construct validity, acceptable fi t indexes (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin= 0.785, Root Mean Square Residual= 0.078; Kelly’s criterion= 0.075), a negative correlation with the dimensions of burnout and no relationship with respect to self-esteem. In addition, it also shows high reliability (α= 0.88). Furthermore, statistically signifi cant differences have been found in relation to genders - where women require greater social support. In contrast, males tend to display a lower level of social support with team players and international athletes. Moreover, differential item functioning (DIF) was carried out to explore sex bias, however, none of the items exhibit DIF problems.
Importance of neutralization sieve analyses when seeking correlates of HIV-1 vaccine efficacy

This commentary describes a rationale for the use of breakthrough viruses from clinical trial participants to assess neutralizing antibodies as a correlate of HIV-1 vaccine efficacy. The rationale is based on principles of a genetic sieve analysis, where the 2 analyses may be cooperative for delineating neutralizing antibodies as a mechanistic correlate of protection.
Topigraphy: visualization for large-scale tag clouds

This paper proposes a new method for displaying large-scale tag clouds. We use a topographical image that helps users to grasp the relationship among tags intuitively as a background to the tag clouds. We apply this interface to a blog navigation system and show that the proposed method enables users to find the desired tags easily even if the tag clouds are very large, 5,000 and above tags. Our approach is also effective for understanding the overall structure of a large amount of tagged documents.
Human Activity Recognition Based on Similarity

Human activity recognition based on smart phones has been widely used in many fields including the mobile context awareness and inertial positioning. Compared to the activity recognition whose sensor location is fixed, the activity recognition based on smartphones has a new problem because the mobile direction and position are not fixed. In this paper, we study the activity recognition on the Android smartphones to find out a location-free method. Firstly, this paper analyzes the human motion and experimental data, and proposes a method using the similarity of activity to achieve the location independence to further improve the recognition precision. Secondly we describe how to calculate and use the similarity in the process of activity recognition to help our research. Finally, the experiments are introduced, including the collection of experimental data, results of different methods and the direction of further study.
A Performance Analysis ofSubspace-Based Methods in thePresence of Model Errors { Part I : The MUSIC AlgorithmA

Application of subspace-based algorithms to narrowband direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation requires that certain modeling assumptions be made. Most importantly, both the array response in all directions of interest and the spatial covariance of the noise must be known. In practice, however, neither of these quantities is known precisely. Depending 1 on the degree to which they deviate from their nominal values, serious performance degradation may result. In this two-part paper, the performance of subspace-based algorithms is examined for situations in which the noise covariance and array response are perturbed from their assumed values. Part I focuses on the popular MUSIC algorithm. Theoretical expressions for the error in the MUSIC DOA estimates are derived and compared with simulations performed for several representative cases, and with the appropriate Cram er-Rao bound. In addition, an optimally weighted version of MUSIC is proposed for a particular class of array errors. In the companion paper, a similar analysis is performed for various multidimensional algorithms.
Computing Optical Flow Distributions Using Spatio-temporal Filters

We describe the relationship between gradient methods for computing optical ow and lter-based spatio-temporal energy models of biological motion processing, revealing that these techniques are equivalent under certain conditions. We discuss extensions of these techniques which compute probability distributions of optical ow. The use of distributions allows proper handling of the uncertainties inherent in the optical ow computation, facilitating the combination with information from other sources. The probabilistic framework also leads to several useful extensions of the standard quadratic gradient solution. We use these extensions to compute optical ow for both a synthetic and a real image sequence. This research was partially supported while the rst author was a visiting scientist at the NASA-Ames Research Center.
Multiple myeloma maintenance therapy: A review of the pharmacologic treatment

Over the last decade, numerous drug therapies have emerged for the treatment of multiple myeloma including immunomodulating agents namely thalidomide, lenalidomide, and pomalidomide and proteasome inhibitors namely bortezomib and carfilzomib. These agents have transformed the treatment of multiple myeloma and the role of high-dose chemotherapy followed by stem cell transplantation in the treatment of the disease. There are now studies that evaluate the use of drug therapy as maintenance following autologous stem cell transplantation; these studies have shown improvements in surrogate endpoints such as progression-free survival. Studies that have evaluated thalidomide or lenalidomide maintenance therapy have demonstrated an overall survival (OS) benefit in individuals with multiple myeloma who received high-dose chemotherapy followed by stem cell transplantation. A meta-analysis of thalidomide maintenance therapy did show a possible late survival benefit. The use of dexamethasone, thalidomide, lenalidomide, or combination bortezomib with thalidomide in patients who did not undergo transplantation demonstrated progression-free survival benefit; although there was no OS advantage for these agents in this population. There are a number of important considerations when selecting a drug therapy strategy for maintenance therapy which includes practical considerations such as route of administration and frequency of administration. Additionally, patient-specific elements such as potential toxicities, end-organ function, quality of life, cytogenetics, and previous treatment should be considered. Additional studies are needed to elicit the timing for initiation and duration of maintenance therapy, determine the role of cytogenetics, further characterize possible resistance patterns, and determine the combinations necessary to achieve an optimal increase in OS. Until more data are available, the risks and benefits should be evaluated on a patient-specific basis when deciding to initiate maintenance therapy or observation.
The Effects of using Stimuli from Three Different Dimensions on Autoshaping with a Complex Negative Patterning Discrimination

In two experiments pigeons received a complex negative patterning discrimination, using autoshaping, in which food was made available after three stimuli if they were presented alone (A, B, C), or in pairs (AB, AC, BC), but not when they were all presented together (ABC). Subjects also received a positive patterning discrimination in which three additional stimuli were not followed by food when presented alone (D, E, F), or in pairs (DE, DF, EF), but they were followed by food when presented together (DEF). Stimuli A and D belonged to one dimension, B and E to a second dimension, and D and F to a third dimension. For both problems, the discrimination between the individual stimuli and the triple-element compounds developed more readily than that between the pairs of stimuli and the triple-element compound. The results are consistent with predictions that can be derived from a configural theory of conditioning.
Global Rules and Private Actors - Towards a New Role of the Transnational Corporation in Global Governance

We discuss the role that transnational corporations (TNCs) should play in developing global governance, creating a framework of rules and regulations for the global economy. The central issue is whether TNCs should provide global rules and guarantee individual citizenship rights, or instead focus on maximizing profits. First, we describe the problems arising from the globalization process that affect the relationship between public rules and private firms. Next we consider the position of economic and management theories in relation to the social responsibility of the firm. We argue that instrumental stakeholder theory and business and society research can only partially solve the global governance issue, and that more recent concepts of corporate citizenship and republican business ethics deliver theoretically and practically helpful, fresh insights. However, even these need further development, especially with regard to the legitimacy of corporate political activity.
An Optimal Algorithm to Generate Pointed Trivalent Diagrams and Pointed Triangular Maps

A trivalent diagram is a connected, two-colored bipartite graph (parallel edges allowed but not loops) such that every black vertex is of degree 1 or 3 and every white vertex is of degree 1 or 2, with a cyclic order imposed on every set of edges incident to to a same vertex. A rooted trivalent diagram is a trivalent diagram with a distinguished edge, its root. We shall describe and analyze an algorithm giving an exhaustive list of rooted trivalent diagrams of a given size (number of edges), the list being non-redundant in that no two diagrams of the list are isomorphic. The algorithm will be shown to have optimal performance in that the time necessary to generate a diagram will be seen to be bounded in the amortized sense, the bound being independent of the size of the diagrams. That's what we call the CAT property. One objective of the paper is to provide a reusable theoretical framework for algorithms generating exhaustive lists of complex combinatorial structures with attention paid to the case of unlabeled structures and to those generators having the CAT property.
Stochastic resonance

Stochastic resonance (SR) - a counter-intuitive phenomenon in which the signal due to a weak periodic force in a nonlinear system can be {\it enhanced} by the addition of external noise - is reviewed. A theoretical approach based on linear response theory (LRT) is described. It is pointed out that, although the LRT theory of SR is by definition restricted to the small signal limit, it possesses substantial advantages in terms of simplicity, generality and predictive power. The application of LRT to overdamped motion in a bistable potential, the most commonly studied form of SR, is outlined. Two new forms of SR, predicted on the basis of LRT and subsequently observed in analogue electronic experiments, are described.
Making sense through coaching

Purpose – The paper sets out to consider the value of coaching to the sensemaking process. It aims to demonstrate how coaching enhances sensemaking and seeks to describe coaching as a sensemaking activity.Design/methodology/approach – The objectives are achieved by exploring the literature of both coaching and sensemaking with the purpose of demonstrating the mutually supportive nature of coaching and sensemaking.Findings – By analysing sensemaking and coaching activities, the paper aims to demonstrate that coaching greatly supports and enhances the quality of the sensemaking activities of the individual.Research limitations/implications – Coaching as an academic discipline is still in its infancy and lacking in sound empirical research. It would be value for future research activities to focus on the sensemaking the individual engages with during the coaching process.Practical implications – As mentioned above, sound academic research is necessary in order to understand the nature of coaching. This paper.
Triangles in the family circle: effects of family structure on marriage, parenting, and child adjustment

Mothers, fathers, and 6- to 10-year-old children used the Family Cohesion Index to type their family system as cohesive (all close), separate (all distant), triangulated (cross-generational coalitions), or detouring (child excluded from the parental subsystem). Family members agreed modestly with one another. Multivariate analyses of variance showed that parents in triangulated families were higher in marital conflict and dissatisfaction than were cohesive and detouring parents. Children in triangulated families reported more interparental conflict and more negative affect in the family. Children in detouring families rated themselves higher in self-blame for their parents' conflicts, and their parents rated them highest in internalizing problems. Parents in separate families rated their children highest in externalizing problems. Implications for the integration of family systems perspectives with research on marriage and parenting are discussed
Wealth and Volatility

Periods of low household wealth in United States macroeconomic history have also been periods of high business cycle volatility. This paper develops a simple model that can exhibit self-fulfilling fluctuations in the expected path for unemployment. The novel feature is that the scope for sunspot-driven volatility depends on the level of household wealth. When wealth is high, consumer demand is largely insensitive to unemployment expectations and the economy is robust to confidence crises. When wealth is low, a stronger precautionary motive makes demand more sensitive to unemployment expectations, and the economy becomes vulnerable to confidence-driven fluctuations. In this case, there is a potential role for public policies to stabilize demand. Microeconomic evidence is consistent with the key model mechanism: during the Great Recession, consumers with relatively low wealth, ceteris paribus, cut expenditures more sharply.
Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers

Over recent decades a structural transformation has affected agriculture in the frontier areas of Malaysian Borneo and Outer Island Indonesia with the rapid conversion of agricultural lands, fallows, and formerly forested areas into oil palm. These frontiers have similar positions in the international political economy of oil palm and have complementary resource endowments. In both cases, state planners face the common challenges of finding a disciplined labour force, delivering land for estate development, maintaining local legitimacy, and dealing with local contestation. Yet there are significant differences in systems of governance and policy frameworks regarding land, shifting capacity of state actors to facilitate the transformation of these agrarian frontiers, and changing degrees of local, national and international contestation. Considering the generic and the specific elements at play in each case, this paper argues that analogous policy narratives have shaped the ways in which landholders have been engaged in the process of oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia. In both cases, with the shift from state-led to neoliberal governance approaches to agricultural development, the 'frontier' has been created and transformed through policy narratives that facilitate the conversion of whole landscapes into oil palm. This has been achieved by obscuring indigenous forms of agriculture and land tenure, while creating reserves of available 'state' or 'idle' customary land, and counterpoising smallholder 'marginality' and 'backwardness' to the modernity of contemporary estate agriculture.