Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
9 th IWA Symposium on Systems Analysis and Integrated Assessment 14 -‐ 17 June 2015 , Gold Coast , Australia Elucidating the effects of mixing on nitrous oxide emissions using computational fluid dynamics in a full scale WWTP

U. Rehman*, Y. Amerlinck*, M. Arnaldos**, J. Porro, C. De Mulder*, I. Nopens* * BIOMATH, Department of Mathematical Modelling, statistics and bio-informatics, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent, Belgium. (E-mail: usman.rehman@ugent.be) ** Acciona Agua S.A. , R&D Department, Av. De les Garrigues 22, 08820 El Prat del Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain + LEQUIA, Institute of the Environment, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, E-17071 Girona, Spain
Cognitive Behavioural Formulation for Focal Dystonia in a Student Athlete: A Case Report

This case study introduces brief cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for a student athlete with focal dystonia and describes the development of an idiosyncratic cognitive model of the symptom. In order to aid case formulation of the idiosyncratic dystonic symptom, the therapist adapted and applied an existing cognitive model, which emphasizes the interactions between cognition, anxiety, and bodily sensation (e.g. Clark, 1986; Salkovskis and Warwick, 2001).
Support Vector Machine Based Approach for State Estimation of Iraqi Super Grid Network

The correct assessment of network topology and system operating state in the presence of corrupted data is one of the most challenging problems during real-time power system monitoring, particularly when both topological and analogical errors are considered. This paper deals with Support Vector Machine method for state estimation problem in power systems including estimation and detection, which can help to improve Iraqi super grid electrical power network state estimation. The results of state estimation using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and the conventional weighted Least Squares (WLS) State Estimator on basis of time, accuracy and robustness, particularly when both bad data and topological errors are to be considered. It has been established that the SVM based models provide results much faster, and work well even including single and multiple bad measurements, topology branches errors.
Reachability and controllability of discrete time descriptor systems

The causal and non-causal reachability Gramians are used, in order to define the reachability subspace which is the set of all states reachable from the origin. Controllability of the disrete-time regular descriptor system by means of the forward solution is examined and new criteria for testing reachability (controllability from the origin) and controllability to the origin in the forward sense are proved.
Effect of six week plyometric exercise on dynamic p ostural control of male athletic students

The purpose of this study was to consider the effec t of plyometric exercises on dynamic postural control of male athlete students. 30 male athletic students with average and standard deviation age of 22.17±6.2yr, weight 74.21±2.92kg and length 171.62±3.83cm without any precedence of lower extremity, head and vestibular injuries, volu ntarily participated in this study. They divided into two groups as follow: group 1: plyometric exer cise and group 2: control group. One day before from executing of exercises, dynamic postura l control assessed with using The SEBT test. Within 6 week that plyometric exercise groups execu ting exercise programs, Control group asked to continue their daily activities. One day after from completing of exercises, dynamic postural control of subjects assessed with using The SEBT 1 test. Descriptive statistics, Dependent and Independent T-test used for data analysis. Signific ant increase shown in reaching distance in all directions for two groups. Due to results, using pl yometric exercises in training programs are recommended to decrease likelihood of injury and im prove the athletes' dynamic postural control.
Men who have sex with men, risk behavior, and HIV infection: integrative analysis of clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory databases.

BACKGROUND Centralized data collection and analytic tools facilitate tracing HIV transmission trends at the patient-population level with increasing resolution, complementing behavioral studies while avoiding sampling biases. By several measures, the rate of HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Israel increased in the past several years more rapidly than was expected. We describe features of the data that connect this increase to behavioral changes. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed data from the national HIV reference laboratory and the national HIV and sexually transmitted infections registries. We examined changes in selected epidemiologic and clinical parameters and in the pattern of drug-resistant virus transmission among MSM in Israel. In particular, virus isolates from 296 MSM (23.8% of all MSM who received a diagnosis) were genotyped, drug-resistance conferring mutations were characterized, and phylogenetic trees were constructed. RESULTS Compared with earlier years, during 2007-2009 MSM were more often infected with drug-resistant virus before treatment initiation, were coinfected with syphilis, and received a diagnosis during acute retroviral syndrome. Phylogenetic analysis suggested frequent transmission of drug-resistant HIV by drug-treated individuals to >1 partner. Secondary transmission of resistant virus by drug-naive patients is also consistent with the phylogenetic patterns. In addition, non-B HIV subtypes began to appear among MSM. CONCLUSIONS Together, our findings suggest that the sexual behavior of MSM, both HIV-infected and uninfected, has become riskier, contributing to the number of those seeking early clarification of status, to syphilis comorbidity, and to the spread of drug resistance. These findings call for action by public health planners and community-based organizations aimed at increasing awareness of the risks, bringing a change in attitude and establishing safe sex norms.
Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies: A Pragma-dialectical Perspective

Contents: Part I:Argumentation and Communication. The Pragma-Dialectical Approach. Standpoints and Differences of Opinion. Argumentation as a Complex Speech Act. Speech Acts in a Critical Discussion. Implicit and Indirect Speech Acts. Unexpressed Premises in Argumentative Discourse. Complex Argumentation Structures. Part II:Communication and Fallacies. Analyzing and Evaluating Argumentative Discourse. Fallacies in the Confrontation. Fallacies in the Distribution of Discussion Roles. Fallacies in Representing a Standpoint. Fallacies in Choosing the Means of Defense. Fallacies in Dealing with Unexpressed Premises. Fallacies in Utilizing Starting Points. Fallacies in Utilizing Argumentation Schemes. Fallacies in Utilizing Logical Argument Forms. Fallacies in Concluding the Discussion. Fallacies in Usage. Conclusion.
Observational Investigation of Student Problem Solving: The Role and Importance of Habits.

The problem-solving strategies of students enrolled in general chemistry courses have been the subject of numerous research investigations. In most cases, the investigators were interested in the specific areas or concepts that posed the greatest difficulty to a student's success in achieving the correct answer. However, the investigation reported here is based on a study of student problem-solving habits that have been classified by the authors as minor variables: what is the first step that the students complete, how fluent is their work, do they check their work at the end of the process? While these minor variables do not directly evaluate a student's knowledge of chemistry, the results indicate a clear correlation between those students who are "successful" and those students who are "unsuccessful" on a written exam. The data were obtained via observation during think-aloud sessions held in a Midwestern university in the United States of America. The aim of this study is to give educators an understanding of the strategies used by the students as well as provide instructors with visual cues regarding a student's success in problem solving. These problem-solving habits may not directly affect the student's ultimate solution of a single problem, but can indirectly influence their overall performance in either a positive or negative manner.
Gastroduodenal, intestinal and colonic permeability during anticancer therapy.

BACKGROUND/AIMS Measurement of the permeability of gut mucosa may offer a method for objective assessment of mucosal dysfunction during cancer therapy. METHODOLOGY Gastroduodenal, intestinal and colonic permeability was studied by using capillary gas chromatography and measuring urinary sucralose, sucrose, lactulose, xylose and mannitol levels. A total of 41 patients with metastatic colorectal carcinoma or epithelial ovarian carcinoma were studied before and during chemotherapy with the combinations of cetuximab, irinotecan, 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin; bevacizumab, oxaliplatin, 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin; or paclitaxel/ platinum. RESULTS Compared to pretreatment values, a significant increase was observed during the first cycle of therapy in the percentage of sucrose, sucrose/mannitol ratio, lactulose and lactulose/ mannitol ratio in patients treated with the combination of bevacizumab, oxaliplatin, 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin. No changes were observed in patients treated with cetuximab, irinotecan, 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin, but these patients had significantly higher baseline percentage of lactulose excretion and sucrose/mannitol and lactulose/ mannitol ratios. CONCLUSIONS An increase in gastroduodenal and intestinal permeability was observed in patients treated with bevacizumab, oxaliplatin, 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin, but not in patients treated with cetuximab, irinotecan, 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin. No significant increase in colonic permeability was observed, but the present method was insufficient to detect colonic permeability in a significant proportion of patients.
Measuring health‐related quality of life in childhood cancer: Lessons from the workshop (discussion)

In this article, I will focus on some of the themes that emerged from the reports presented at the International Workshop and the discussion that flowed out of them. I will focus on how investigators should be clear on their purposes and the implications of different goals, alternative strategies for instrument development and the uses of parent and child ratings of health-related quality of life (HRQL).
Establishing priority during investigation of tuberculosis contacts.

Persons coming into contact with patients who have active pulmonary tuberculosis are at risk of tuberculous infection. There is a need for a simple way to identify contacts who have the greatest risk, so that they can be investigated with least delay. In addition, if resources and manpower limit investigation of contacts, then the lower-risk contacts can be omitted. By using 2 characteristics of the exposure, local health department personnel in Birmingham and New Orleans categorized 1,590 contacts into 4 groups with differing risks of infection. The 2 characteristics used were the relative concentration of tubercle bacilli in the sputum of the source case (evaluated by Ziehl-Neelsen smear; high = smear-positive, low = smear-negative) and the intimacy of exposure of the contact to the source case (household or nonhousehold). Household contacts of smear-positive patients were at highest risk of infection (infection rate of 46 per cent). At lower risk were non-household contacts of smear-positive patients (.
Magnetotactic Coccus Strain SHHC-1 Affiliated to Alphaproteobacteria Forms Octahedral Magnetite Magnetosomes

Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are morphologically and phylogenetically diverse prokaryotes. They can form intracellular chain-assembled magnetite (Fe3O4) or greigite (Fe3S4) nanocrystals each enveloped by a lipid bilayer membrane called a magnetosome. Magnetotactic cocci have been found to be the most abundant morphotypes of MTB in various aquatic environments. However, knowledge on magnetosome biomineralization within magnetotactic cocci remains elusive due to small number of strains that have been cultured. By using a coordinated fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy method, we discovered a unique magnetotactic coccus strain (tentatively named SHHC-1) in brackish sediments collected from the estuary of Shihe River in Qinhuangdao city, eastern China. It phylogenetically belongs to the Alphaproteobacteria class. Transmission electron microscopy analyses reveal that SHHC-1 cells formed many magnetite-type magnetosomes organized as two bundles in each cell. Each bundle contains two parallel chains with smaller magnetosomes generally located at the ends of each chain. Unlike most magnetotactic alphaproteobacteria that generally form magnetosomes with uniform crystal morphologies, SHHC-1 magnetosomes display a more diverse variety of crystal morphology even within a single cell. Most particles have rectangular and rhomboidal projections, whilst others are triangular, or irregular. High resolution transmission electron microscopy observations coupled with morphological modeling indicate an idealized model—elongated octahedral crystals, a form composed of eight {111} faces. Furthermore, twins, multiple twins and stack dislocations are frequently observed in the SHHC-1 magnetosomes. This suggests that biomineralization of strain SHHC-1 magnetosome might be less biologically controlled than other magnetotactic alphaproteobacteria. Alternatively, SHHC-1 is more sensitive to the unfavorable environments under which it lives, or a combination of both factors may have controlled the magnetosome biomineralization process within this unique MTB.
Getting In: Mexican Americans' Perceptions of University Attendance and the Implications for Freshman Year Persistence.

In view of its importance for social advancement [1 1] and its contribution to the improvement of personal well-being [2, 5 1], it is not surprising that higher education in the United States has become a cynosure for efforts to improve the condition of economically and socially disadvantaged subpopulations. Ironically, the present condition of these subpopulations exists because, in the past, higher education's service as an instrument for social mobility was seldom indiscriminate. America's racial and ethnic minorities have been and continue to be "grossly underrepresented in higher education and in almost all occupational fields that require a college education" [2], and do not, as a consequence, enjoy equitable participation in the larger society's social, economic, and political life. One racial minority that has been particularly underserved by American higher education, in general, and by the four-year institution, in particular, is the Mexican American. In 1979, according to an estimate by the Bureau of the Census [47], the rate of baccalaureate degree attainment in the general population was more than four times the rate in the Mexican American subpopulation alone. Data presented by Brown [10] tend to confirm the link between social and economic ad-
Active Query Forwarding in Sensor Networks ( ACQUIRE )

While sensor networks are going to be deployed in diverse application specific contexts, one unifying view is to treat them essentially as distributed databases. The simplest mechanism to obtain information from this kind of a database is to flood queries for named data within the network and obtain the relevant responses from sources. However, if the queries are a) complex, b) one-shot, and c) for replicated data, this simple approach can be highly inefficient. In the context of energy-starved sensor networks, alternative strategies need to be examined for such queries. We propose a novel and efficient mechanism for obtaining information in sensor networks which we refer to as ACQUIRE. The basic principle behind ACQUIRE is to consider the query as an active entity that is forwarded through the network (either randomly or in some directed manner) in search of the solution. ACQUIRE also incorporates a look-ahead parameter d in the following manner: intermediate nodes that handle the active query use information from all nodes within d hops in order to partially resolve the query. When the active query is fully resolved, a completed response is sent directly back to the querying node. We take a mathematical modelling approach in this paper to calculate the energy costs associated with ACQUIRE. The models permit us to characterize analytically the impact of critical parameters, and compare the performance of ACQUIRE with respect to other schemes such as flooding-based querying (FBQ) and expanding ring search (ERS), in terms of energy usage, response latency and storage requirements. We show that with optimal parameter settings, depending on the update frequency, ACQUIRE obtains order of magnitude reduction over FBQ and potentially 60 to 85% energy reduction over ERS (in highly dynamic environments and high query rates). We show that these energy savings are provided in trade for increased response latency. The mathematical analysis is validated through extensive simulations.
Integrating process modelling and soft systems analysis

This paper describes and reflects on the experience of attempting to integrate process-oriented formal modelling with activity modelling in soft systems analysis. The work is part of a larger project at the University of Ulster to develop RACE, a new general purpose requirements engineering method for computing systems. Two distinctive characteristics of the integration approach used are that (i) formal modelling is offered as an optional facility, and so must be attractive; and (ii) the RACE method has been tailored to aid integration, in support of (i). The paper explains the relevant parts of the RACE method and the progress made so far to link its activity models with formal process models in LOTOS. The benefits and limitations of this work are discussed and proposals for an improved, tighter integration outlined.
Predicting episodic and spatial memory performance from hippocampal resting‐state functional connectivity: Evidence for an anterior–posterior division of function

fMRI studies have identified distinct resting‐state functional connectivity (RSFC) networks associated with the anterior and posterior hippocampus. However, the functional relevance of these two networks is still largely unknown. Hippocampal lesion studies and task‐related fMRI point to a role for the anterior hippocampus in nonspatial episodic memory and the posterior hippocampus in spatial memory. We used Relevance Vector Regression (RVR), a machine‐learning method that enables predictions of continuous outcome measures from multivariate patterns of brain imaging data, to test the hypothesis that patterns of whole‐brain RSFC associated with the anterior hippocampus predict episodic memory performance, while patterns of whole‐brain RSFC associated with the posterior hippocampus predict spatial memory performance. Magnetic resonance imaging and memory assessment took place at two separate occasions. The anterior and posterior RSFC largely corresponded with previous findings, and showed no effect of laterality. Supporting the hypothesis, RVR produced accurate predictions of episodic performance from anterior, but not posterior, RSFC, and accurate predictions of spatial performance from posterior, but not anterior, RSFC. In contrast, a univariate approach could not predict performance from resting‐state connectivity. This supports a functional dissociation between the anterior and posterior hippocampus, and indicates a multivariate relationship between intrinsic functional networks and cognitive performance within specific domains, that is relatively stable over time.
Mapping net form net blotch and septoria speckled leaf blotch resistance Loci in barley.

Septoria speckled leaf blotch (SSLB), caused by Septoria passerinii Sacc. , and net form net blotch (NB), caused by Pyrenophora teres f. teres Drechsler, are fungal diseases that decrease the yields of barley in the Upper Midwest. An effective way to manage these diseases is to plant resistant cultivars. To characterize the genetics of resistance to both pathogens, two advanced barley breeding lines, one resistant to NB (M120) and another resistant to SSLB (Sep2-72), were crossed, creating a population of 115 recombinant inbred lines. The two parents and the population were evaluated in three greenhouse seedling assays for each pathogen and for simple-sequence repeat and diversity arrays technology markers. Composite interval mapping revealed two major quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with NB on chromosome 6H, located in bins 2 and 6. The QTL located in bin 6 explained 19 to 48% of the phenotypic variation and the QTL located in bin 2 explained 25 to 44% of the phenotypic variation. A new locus for resistance to SSLB, Rsp4, was identified on chromosome 6H, located in bins 3 to 4. Mapping these genes in elite breeding germplasm will accelerate the development and utilization of marker-assisted selection to enhance resistance to these diseases.
Contrôle et RSE aux frontières de l’entreprise : la gestion responsable de la relation fournisseurs dans les grands groupes industriels

L'importance de l'externalisation et de la sous-traitance est croissante. Dans ce contexte, la chaine d'approvisionnement doit etre integree au perimetre de responsabilite sociale de l'entreprise (RSE) et par consequent dans le systeme de controle inter-organisationnel. Cet article analyse comment les grands groupes controlent les performances RSE de leur fournisseurs et a quelles conditions ce controle est effectif. Le cadre theorique s'appuie sur les trois formes de controle inter firme : controle par le marche, par la bureaucratie, par la confiance et le reseau. La recherche empirique porte sur l'etude de la RSE dans la gestion des relations fournisseurs de cinq groupes industriels consideres comme pro-actifs dans ce domaine. Le controle par le marche n'integre pas effectivement la RSE ; le controle bureaucratique met en place des codes de conduite, des evaluations des performances RSE des fournisseurs, des audits. Les fournisseurs sont alors places dans une injonction contradictoire entre une pression pour un prix le plus bas possible et des contraintes de stricte conformite a des procedures et a des codes de conduite. Le troisieme mode de controle est un controle social, base sur la confiance ; Il est adapte aux caracteristiques des attentes en matiere de RSE : resultats non mesurables, criteres d'evaluation peu precis, perspective gagnant-gagnant au sein d'un partenariat. Cependant cette forme n'est mise en oeuvre que dans un tres petit nombre de cas, alors que les relations fournisseurs analysees sont controlees par le marche ou la bureaucratie. Il existe un fosse important entre le discours messianique des grandes entreprises etudiees et l'effectivite des dispositifs de controle RSE qu'elles mettent en oeuvre dans leur chaine d'approvisionnement.