Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND SPORTS

Yasadigimiz dunyanin oldukca buyuk bir hizla degistigi gorulmektedir. Bu degisimin en gorunur ornekleri teknolojide yasanmakla beraber aslinda yasamin her alanina nufuz ettigi aciktir. Uluslararasi bir perspektif ile degerlendirildiginde basta ekonomik, sosyal ve kulturel olmak uzere bircok alanda teknolojinin de etkisi ile sinirlarin neredeyse ortadan kalktigini soylemek mumkundur. Tum bu degisim ve etkilesimin kaynagi olarak gosterilen surec gunumuzde kuresellesme olarak anilmaktadir. Kuresellesme sozcugu cok boyutlu bir kavram olarak siklikla kullanilmaktadir. Bugun bircok alandaki kuresellesme sureci ile uzaklar yakin hale gelmistir. Dunyanin bir ucundaki bir ulkede yasanan gelismeler diger bir ucundaki baska bir ulkeyi etkilemektedir. Kuresellesmenin etkileri bircok alanda oldugu gibi spor alaninda da kendini gostermektedir. Spor gun gectikce daha cok endustrilesmektedir. Cesitli sportif musabakalarin naklen yayinlari tum dunyada oldukca buyuk bir izleyici kitlesine sahiptir. Bircok yabanci uyruklu sporcu vatandaslik degistirerek milli takimlarda gorev almaktadir. Ayrica gunumuzde kuresellesmenin spor alanini etkiledigi kadar sporun da kuresellesmeye etki ettigi soylenebilir. Sporun icinde barindirdigi performans, rekabet, rekor gibi kavramlarin tum dunyada yarattigi ortak dil kuresellesmenin hiz kazanmasina hizmet etmektedir
Some Reflections on the Cultural Bias of USPRA's Principles and Values

The sources of some of the values in use in United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association's declaration (USPRA, 2009) is discussed, and examples of real techniques in cross-cultural interventions are presented to show the contrasting ways of thinking of modern-individualist and traditional-collective cultures and how USPRA core principles may not be applicable to traditional-collective peoples. The state of the art concerning cultural sensitivity in the psychiatric rehabilitation field is that a practitioner should be empathic to other cultures and aware of one's own culture but without specific knowledge of tools for cross-cultural intervention. It is suggested USPRA principles be rearticulated in a culturally sensitive way as a necessary first step in the development of evidence-based, cross-cultural intervention techniques.
[Mechanism of action of clomiphene citrate].

The mechanism of action of clomiphene citrate is not yet known. Several authors have studied this mechanism with various tests. Many authors think that clomiphene stimulates the pituitary and the hypothalamus or that it inhibits the action of estrogens on the pituitary and the hypothalamus; others think that clomiphene has a totally antiestrogenic effect. This article describes the results of studies conducted on 27 amenorrheic patients treated with ethinyl estradiol first and then with clomiphene citrate. Ovulation was induced in 12 patients. Values of pituitary gonadotropins were carefully measured throughout the treatment and the peripheral effect of clomiphene was observed. It is obvious that clomiphene can advantageously be used in the treatment of anovulation.
About the quantum mechanical speeding up of classical algorithms

This work introduces a relative diffusion transformation (RDT) - a simple unitary transformation which acts in a subspace, localized by an oracle. Such a transformation can not be fulfilled on quantum Turing machines with this oracle in polynomial time in general case. It is proved, that every function computable in time T and space S on classical 1-dimensional cellular automaton, can be computed with certainty in time O(S \sqrt T) on quantum computer with RDTs over the parts of intermediate products of classical computation. This requires multiprocessor, which consists of \sqrt T quantum devices each of O(S) size, working in parallel-serial mode and interacting by classical lows.
Behavioural Sets and Operations in Treaty Systems

Capabilities are a more scalable and adaptive access control approach compared with the conventional approaches such as ACLs, due to their being held and managed by users or agents in systems, but not the middleware. This feature makes capabilities more suitable in distributed environments that have unstable populations. However capabilities have a simple structure that only supports independent and unbounded access rights, and this shows their weakness in complex cases. Treaties have been proposed to enhance the capability approach by introducing sequences of actions. In this way, treaties can capture characteristics of behaviours, and provide finer control over accesses. Treaties are also designed to be refinable by users, using the functionality provided by specific treaty operations. In this paper we introduce the concept of treaties and operations in more detail, proving that specific treaty operations maintain behavioural integrity.
Ten years of external quality audit in Australia: evaluating its effectiveness and success

External quality audits are now being used in universities across the world to improve quality assurance, accountability for quality education and transparency of public funding of higher education. Some countries such as Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark have had external quality audits for more than a decade but there has been limited research as to their impact. This study analyses the extent to which external audits in Australia have improved quality assurance in universities over the past 10 years. The analysis is based on discussions with 40 participants in a workshop on the effectiveness of audits and the review of 60 external quality audit reports between 2001 and December 2010. The research found that while external audits have led to an improvement in systems and processes in Australian universities, they have not necessarily improved the student experience. This lack of impact on the student experience in Australia is similar to other countries, according to the literature review. This study is timely in its analysis on the effectiveness of the current improvement-led audits, as government in Australia is in the process of renewing quality assurance arrangements of higher education institutions with a focus on standards and outcomes.
Antimicrobial Stewardship 2012: Science Driving Practice

This edition of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE) is dedicated to articles on antimicrobial stewardship. Though such articles appear regularly in the pages of ICHE, this is the first time that an entire issue has been devoted to the topic. By design, this issue comes at a time of tremendous growth in the importance of antimicrobial stewardship. The combination of rising rates of antimicrobial resistance, a rapidly dwindling effective antimicrobial armamentarium, and increasing financial pressures for hospitals has spurred new interest in the one intervention that has been proven to address all these problems simultaneously. A number of organizations have recognized the importance of implementing stewardship interventions and programs in hospitals, with major efforts being spearheaded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). The creation of SHEA's Antimicrobial Stewardship Taskforce and the launch of CDC's "Get Smart for Healthcare" campaign (http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/healfhcare) marked the start of a new era of a nationally coordinated effort to promote inpatient antibiotic stewardship in the United States. The growing importance and profile of antibiotic stewardship are reflected in the inclusion of several antibiotic quality measures in the new "inpatient infection control worksheet" currently being piloted by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (available at https://www.cms.gov/ Surveycertificationgeninfo/downloads/SCLetter 12_01 .pdf). The measures are not all encompassing, nor will they independently improve antibiotic use in hospitals. However, it is hoped that they will both raise awareness of the importance of improving antibiotic use in hospitals and help lay a foundation for accomplishing that goal.
Effect of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy on Left Ventricular Size and Function in Chronic Heart Failure

Background—Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has recently emerged as an effective treatment for patients with moderate to severe systolic heart failure and ventricular dyssynchrony. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether improvements in left ventricular (LV) size and function were associated with CRT. Methods and Results—Doppler echocardiograms were obtained at baseline and at 3 and 6 months after therapy in 323 patients enrolled in the Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation (MIRACLE) trial. Of these, 172 patients were randomized to CRT on and 151 patients to CRT off. Measurements were made of LV end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes, ejection fraction, LV mass, severity of mitral regurgitation (MR), peak transmitral velocities during early (E-wave) and late (A-wave) diastolic filling, and the myocardial performance index. At 6 months, CRT was associated with reduced end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes (both P <0.001), reduced LV mass (P <0.01), increased ejection fraction (P <0.001), reduced MR (P <0.001), and improved myocardial performance index (P <0.001) compared with control. &bgr;-Blocker treatment status did not influence the effect of CRT. Improvements with CRT were greater in patients with a nonischemic versus ischemic cause of heart failure. Conclusions—CRT in patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure who were treated with optimal medical therapy is associated with reverse LV remodeling, improved systolic and diastolic function, and decreased MR. LV remodeling likely contributes to the symptomatic benefits of CRT and may herald improved longer-term survival.
Complement Diagnostics: Concepts, Indications, and Practical Guidelines

Aberrations in the complement system have been shown to be direct or indirect pathophysiological mechanisms in a number of diseases and pathological conditions such as autoimmune disease, infections, cancer, allogeneic and xenogeneic transplantation, and inflammation. Complement analyses have been performed on these conditions in both prospective and retrospective studies and significant differences have been found between groups of patients, but in many diseases, it has not been possible to make predictions for individual patients because of the lack of sensitivity and specificity of many of the assays used. The basic indications for serological diagnostic complement analysis today may be divided into three major categories: (a) acquired and inherited complement deficiencies; (b) disorders with complement activation; (c) inherited and acquired C1INH deficiencies. Here, we summarize indications, techniques, and interpretations for basic complement analyses and present an algorithm, which we follow in our routine laboratory.
Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change (3rd edition)

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is still a relatively recent approach. It first emerged in the early 1980s as a result of Miller’s reflections on how to improve his clinical psychology practice. However, the first edition of the text book was not published until 1992. Since then the popularity of MI has burgeoned, as has the evidence for its effectiveness in a range of workplace contexts. For those unfamiliar with MI, the authors describe it as a ‘collaborative communication style’. They state MI practitioners ‘guide’ conversations rather than ‘direct’ them or simply react or ‘follow’. In other words, MI does not tell people what to do (directing), nor does it just mean good listening (following); the authors describe it as the ‘middle ground’ between the two requiring a practitioner who is a good listener but can also offer expertise where and when appropriate. MI offers:
A Realization of Goal-directed Behavior - Implementing a Robot Model based on Cortico-Striato-Thalamic Circuits

Computational models of cognitive processes based on neural substrates clarify our understanding of the ongoing mechanisms during these high order processes. These models also inspire new approaches and techniques for implementing intelligent systems. Here, an implementation of goal-directed behaviour on Khepera II mobile robot will be presented. The main point of this work is to show the potential use of robot models for tasks requiring high order processes like goal-directed behaviour.
Faculty at Work: Motivation, Expectation, Satisfaction

In recent years, college and university faculty members have witnessed a marked change in institutional climate. Competition has replaced collegiality. Criticism of faculty from outside the university has increased in both volume and intensity. The litigious larger society has arrived on campus with a vengeance. In this ground-breaking volume, Robert Blackburn and Janet Lawrence respond to these developments by showing how faculty and administrators can benefit from learning how to make motivation, expectation, and satisfaction function in concert when faculty are at work. With the ultimate goal of helping faculty and administrators make effective and positive decisions, Blackburn and Lawrence explain and predict faculty behavior in three key areas: research, teaching, and service and scholarship. The authors use what they have learned as a springboard for speculating on the future of faculty work.
Recent advancements in M2M communications in 4G networks and evolution towards 5G

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications is considered to be one of the key enablers for the provisioning of advanced applications and services such as smart cities and hospitals, as well as automated vehicular and industrial automation operation. Currently, in LTE-Advanced systems, the main focus has been on supporting massive deployment of low cost devices, with enhanced radio access network coverage. In this work, we present the recent MTC enhancements in LTE system. Detailed performance analysis based on LTE system settings is also presented. The LTE capacity evaluations performed based on devices per physical resource block indicate that significantly large number of devices can already be supported in an LTE system, based on the assumptions used, with minimal system overhead. We also present an overview of some of the key scenarios, requirements and use cases currently being considered for M2M communication in fifth generation (5G) systems. The performance requirements currently being considered for massive and ultra-reliable M2M communication are also discussed.
Econometric Modeling of Multivariate Irregularly-Spaced High-Frequency Data

The recent advent of high frequency data provides researchers with transaction by transaction level data. Examples include scanner data from grocery stores or financial transactions data. These new data sets allow researchers to take an unprecedented look at the underlying economic structure of the markets. Often the hypothesis of interest is in the context of multivariate time series data. Analysis of multivariate high frequency data is complicated by the fact that the multiple processes are irregularly spaced in time with different arrival rates. This has lead many investigators to work with aggregated data which can blur the market structure and contaminate the analysis. In this paper we propose a new method of working with the dissaggregated data and develop an econometric model for the arrival rates of multivariate dependent point processes. We apply the model to financial transactions data and estimate models for the bivariate point process of transaction and limit order arrival times. Since limit orders dictate the structure of the limit order book they are a direct determinant of market liquidity. To our knowledge little work has examined the dynamic structure of limit order submissions. Since transactions represent a floor trader or market order demand for liquidity the bivariate model characterizes the dynamic behavior of liquidity supply and demand. The proposed model also allows for marks, or characteristics associated with the arrival times, to influence future arrival rates. For the stock market data analyzed we find strong evidence of codependence in the two processes and both liquidity demand and supply are influenced by past volume and prevailing spreads.
Evaluating and understanding the usability of a pen-based command system for interactive paper

To combine the affordances of paper and computers, prior research has proposed numerous interactive paper systems that link specific paper document content to digital operations such as multimedia playback and proofreading. Yet, it remains unclear to what degree these systems bridge the inherent gap between paper and computers when compared to existing paper-only and computer-only interfaces. In particular, given the special properties of paper, such as limited dynamic feedback, how well does an average new user learn to master the interactive paper system? What factors affect the user performance? And how does the paper interface work in a typical use scenario? To answer these questions, we conducted two empirical experiments on a generic pen-gesture-based command system, called PapierCraft [Liao et al. 2008], for paper-based interfaces. With it, people can select sections of printed document and issue commands such as copy and paste, linking and in-text search. The first experiment focused on the user performance of drawing pen gestures on paper. It proves that users can learn the command system in about 30 minutes and achieve a performance comparable to a table PC-based interface supporting the same gestures. The second experiment examined the application of the command system in active reading tasks. The results show promise for seamless integration of paper and computers in active reading for their combined affordances. In addition, our study identifies some key design issues, such as the pen form factor and feedback of gestures. This article contributes to better understanding on pros and cons of paper and computers, and sheds light on the design of future interfaces for document interaction.
Heuristic Scheduling Algorithms for Allocation of Virtualized Network and Computing Resources

Cloud computing technology facilitates computing-intensive applications by providing virtualized resources which can be dynamically provisioned. However, user’s requests are varied according to different applications’ computation ability needs. These applications can be presented as meta-job of user’s demand. The total processing time of these jobs may need data transmission time over the Internet as well as the completed time of jobs to execute on the virtual machine must be taken into account. In this paper, we presented V-heuristics scheduling algorithm for allocation of virtualized network and computing resources under user’s constraint which applied into a service-oriented resource broker for jobs scheduling. This scheduling algorithm takes into account both data transmission time and computation time that related to virtualized network and virtual machine. The simulation results are compared with three different types of heuristic algorithms under conventional network or virtual network conditions such as MCT, Min-Min and Max-Min. e evaluate these algorithms within a simulated cloud environment via an abilenenetwork topology which is real physical core network topology. These experimental results show that V-heuristic scheduling algorithm achieved significant performance gain for a variety of applications in terms of load balance, Makespan, average resource utilization and total processing time.
Neutrophil Accumulation in Ischemic Canine Myocardium: Insights Into Time Course, Distribution, and Mechanism of Localization During Early Reperfusion

BackgroundWe have previously demonstrated that chemotactic factors released from the ischemic canine myocardium peak early during reperfusion and that they elicit neutrophil adherence reactions in vitro that are dependent on the CD18 glycoprotein family. In this study we investigated the hypothesis that neutrophil localization in ischemic canine myocardium in vivo occurs over a similar time course during early reperfusion and involves a CD18-dependent mechanism. Methods and ResultsWe occluded the circumflex coronary artery for 1 hour in acute, open-chest dogs, followed by reperfusion for 1, 2, 3, or 4 hours. Regional myocardial blood flow was determined using radiolabeled microspheres, and localization was traced using technetium- 99m-labeled autologous neutrophils. In the first hour of reperfusion, neutrophil localization occurred preferentially within the subendocardial region and was inversely related to flow. Neutrophil localization diminished across the ischemic myocardium from endocardium to epicardium but remained negatively related to flow in the midmyocardial region. Regardless of flow, little neutrophil localization occurred in the subepicardial region. Neutrophil localization was greatest in the first hour of reperfusion and diminished thereafter. By 4 hours of reperfusion, the rate of localization was markedly attenuated relative to 1 hour. Dogs given anti-CD18 monoclonal antibody R15.7 (1 mg/kg i.v.) before occlusion underwent 1 hour of occlusion followed by 1 hour of reperfusion. When compared with 1-hour reperfusion controls, the R15.7-treated dogs demonstrated significant attenuation of neutrophil localization in the subendocardial region. ConclusionsThese data support the concepts that rapid neutrophil localization during reperfusion occurs within regions of previous myocardial ischemia and that neutrophils preferentially localize within the subendocardial region. The rate of neutrophil localization is greatest within the first hour after the initiation of reperfusion, and localization is, at least in part, CD18 dependent. Therapies directed against neutrophil-mediated reperfusion injury should be initiated with these considerations in mind. (Circulation 1991;84:400–411)