Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Rehabilitation outcome of elderly patients after a first stroke: effect of cognitive status at admission on the functional outcome.

OBJECTIVE To assess whether, and to what extent, cognitive outcome relates to overall functional outcome among elderly stroke patients. DESIGN Nonconcurrent prospective study. SETTING Geriatric rehabilitation division at a large, urban, academic, freestanding hospital in Israel. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred thirty-six patients aged 60 years and older admitted consecutively for rehabilitation after first acute stroke. Inclusion criteria were met by 315 patients, who were included in the final analysis. Average age was 75.3 years. The stroke was right sided in 44.1%. INTERVENTIONS Not applicable. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The motor subscale of the FIM instrument assessed functional status. Absolute functional gain was determined by the FIM motor gain. Relative functional gain was calculated according to the Montebello Rehabilitation Factor Score. Cognitive status was assessed with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the FIM cognitive subscale. RESULTS FIM scores increased significantly during rehabilitation, mainly due to improvement in motor functioning. A strong association was found between the cognitive scales (r=.853, P<.001). Better rehabilitation outcomes were observed in patients with higher admission cognitive status, adjusting for the effect of age, sex, onset to admission interval, length of stay, and severity of stroke (odds ratio = 2.0; 95% confidence interval, 1.5-2.5). CONCLUSIONS Impaired cognitive status at admission negatively affects the rehabilitation outcome of elderly stroke patients. The utility of routinely using a cognitive test for all patients before admission to rehabilitation, preferably the MMSE, is emphasized. The time, cost, and effort involved in performing such a test are negligible, and the potential benefits are considerable.
Synergic mode of grid-based traffic risk control in China's coastal waters

Grid is one of the most important information technologies in recently years, and its theory has been applied in a variety of industries. Based on grid management, the synergic mode has been established on the three levels (management, operation and support) of the maritime administration combined with three periods (before, in progress and after) of the marine accidents in China's coastal waters. Accordingly, some practicable measures of the management mode have been put forward, on the basis of case study of Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) Fujian, concluding that it is improving emergency handling ability in Fujian coastal and harbor waters, and accident frequency reduced from 0.0741% of 2006 to 0.0485% of 2008.
The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics

What do economists know about land-and how they know? The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics describes the latest developments in the fields of economics that examine land, including natural resource economics, environmental economics, regional science, and urban economics. The handbook argues, first, that land is a theme that integrates these fields and second, that productive integration increasingly occurs not just within economics but also across disciplines. Greater recognition and integration stimulates cross-fertilization among the fields of land economics research. By providing a comprehensive survey of land-related work in several economics fields, this handbook provides the basic tools needed for economists to redefine the scope and focus of their work to better incorporate the contemporary thinking from other fields and to push out the frontiers of land economics. The first section presents recent advances in the analysis of major drivers of land use change, focusing on economic development and various land-use markets. The second section presents economic research on the environmental and socio-economic impacts of land use and land use change. The third section addresses six cutting-edge approaches for land economics research, including spatial econometric, simulation, and experimental methods. The section also includes a synthetic chapter critically reviewing methodological advances. The fourth section covers policy issues. Four chapters disentangle the economics of land conservation and preservation, while three chapters examine the economic analysis of the legal institutions of land use. These chapters focus on law and economic problems of permissible government control of land in the U.S. context. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordhandbooks. com/oso/public/content/oho_economics/9780199763740/toc.html Contributors to this volume - Richard M. Adams Ruth Aisabokhae Christopher M. Anderson Witsanu Attavanich Edward B. Barbier Dana Marie Bauer. Daniel W. Bromley Seong-Hoon Cho Roger Claassen Joseph Cooper Christine L. Crago Joshua M. Duke Joel B. Eisen Jeffrey Ferris Ekaterina Gnedenko Dennis Heffley Ian Hodge Elena G. Irwin Robert J. Johnston Scott Kaplan Madhu Khanna Eunice Kim Seung Gyu Kim H. Allen Klaiber Nicolai V. Kuminoff David J. Lewis Rebecca Lewis Lori Lynch Bruce A. McCarl Kent D. Messer Thomas J. Miceli Edwin S. Mills Claire A. Montgomery Jianhong E. Mu Mark Musumba Erik Nelson Cynthia J. Nickerson Dawn Cassandra Parker Mark D. Partridge Andrew J. Platinga Benjamin S. Rashford Dan S. Rickman Roland K. Roberts Cristina Salvioni Kathleen Segerson Edward Stone Stephen K. Swallow Charles Towe Emi Uchida Marcella Veronesi Douglas Wrenn Junjie Wu Wendong Zhang David Zilberman
The visibility--voronoi complex and its applications

We introduce a new type of diagram called the VV(c)-diagram (the Visibility--Voronoi diagram for clearance c), which is a hybrid between the visibility graph and the Voronoi diagram of polygons in the plane. It evolves from the visibility graph to the Voronoi diagram as the parameter c grows from 0 to ∞. This diagram can be used for planning natural-looking paths for a robot translating amidst polygonal obstacles in the plane. A natural-looking path is short, smooth, and keeps --- where possible --- an amount of clearance c from the obstacles. The VV(c)-diagram contains such paths. We also propose an algorithm that is capable of preprocessing a scene of configuration-space polygonal obstacles and constructs a data structure called the VV(c)-complex. The VV(c)-complex can be used to efficiently plan motion paths for any start and goal configuration and any clearance value c, without having to explicitly construct the VV(c)-diagram for that c-value. The preprocessing time is O(n2 log n), where n is the total number of obstacle vertices, and the data structure can be queried directly for any c-value by merely performing a Dijkstra search. We have implemented a Cgal-based software package for computing the VV(c)-diagram in an exact manner for a given clearance value, and used it to plan natural-looking paths in various applications.
The spectrum of bulimic behaviors and attitudes and the Five factor model of personality

Bulimia Nervosa is a serious and often debilitating mental disorder conceptualized as an endpoint along the spectrum of eating disorders, which ranges from normal eating and no preoccupation with weight to clinical eating disorders. Presently, little is known about what factors distinguish individuals who engage in behaviors in varying degrees of severity along the spectrum although there are indications that personality may be one distinguishing characteristic. This study explored the relationship between the Costa and McCrae's (1985; 1992) Five Factor Model of personality and the spectrum of bulimic behaviors and attitudes as measured by the Bulimia Test-Revised (Thelen, Farmer, Wonderlich & Smith, 1991) and the Eating Disorder Inventory-Third Edition (Garner, 2004) in 237 college females. Hierarchical regressions and partial correlations indicated that neuroticism was the only Five Factor Model domain uniquely associated with bulimic symptomology. Facets of impulsiveness, depression, and excitement-seeking were also associated with bulimic symptomology. Anxiety, a facet of Neuroticism, was not significantly associated with bulimic symptomology. An exploratory factor analysis revealed that bulimic symptomology forms its own factor and is not subsumed in Five Factor Model space, although facet impulsiveness and depression loaded onto the bulimic symptomology factor. These results suggest that individuals who possess personality traits of impulsiveness, excitement-seeking and depression are more likely to report bulimic symptomology. Prevention and treatment efforts may be modified based on these personality traits. Additional research is needed to determine the etiological role these personality factors may play in the development of bulimia. Additionally, the results of this study support facet versus factor or domain level analysis of the Five Factor Model. "--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
Enriching opportunities for people living with dementia: The development of a blueprint for a sustainable activity-based model

The aim of this paper is to describe the process of building a multi-level intervention called the Enriched Opportunities Programme, the objective of which is to provide a sustainable activity-based model for people with dementia living in long-term care. It is hypothesised that five key elements need to work together to bring about a sustainable activity-based model of care. These elements are specialist expertise–the staff role of Locksmith was developed as part of this programme; individualised assessment and case work; an activity and occupation programme; staff training; and management and leadership. These elements working together are known as the Enriched Opportunities Programme. This paper reports on the processes undertaken to develop Enriched Opportunities from its inception to the present, and focuses on lessons learnt from the literature, an expert working group and action research in four UK study sites. A blueprint for evaluation in other long-term care facilities is described.
Men learning to be primary school teachers

Abstract: Few men choose to become primary school teachers. Those who do move into a world often thought of as feminised and contend with a publiclyvoiced rhetoric which simultaneously idealises and demonises them. It has not been the norm for women to research men. I am setting out from a different place as a woman and former primary school teacher writing about men doing women's work in what can be seen as a man's world. The problem I am tackling is embedded in two questions. First, how do men student teachers negotiate the assum ptions made about them as men and teachers of young children? Second, what theoretical perspectives are necessary for me to write about individual men students' complex relations with being a teacher? I turn a spotlight on men student primary school teachers and, working with data from interviews with eleven men, shed light on them as gendered individuals challenged by the task of learning to be teachers. The text I construct enacts their and my moves to establish a voice amidst a complex criss-cross of discursive positions. Individual men have an evolving and often contradictory relation to teaching, which they seldom articulate. There should be space for them to reflect critically on their professional identities. The ambivalence, emotional investment and paradox in the men's narratives cannot be understood without recourse to their and my developing understandings of masculinity and difference, learnt through language which can maintain or challenge inequalities and which interrelates with social and cultural contexts which have histories.
The Psychoanalyst as a New Old Object, an Old New Object, and a Brand New Object: Reflections on Loewald’s Ideas about the Role of Internalization in Life and In Psychoanalytic Treatment

Hans Loewald is one of the most important contributors whom the field of psychoanalysis has had. In a relatively soft-spoken way, he has been a seminal voice in effecting the transition that has taken place —away from the authoritarian, complacent, overly certain, theoretically narrow, and reductionistic form in which psychoanalysis tended to be understood and practiced during the first half century of its existence, and toward the increasingly open, egalitarian, fallibilistic nature of psychoanalytic art and science that has characterized it during the past fifty years. What has made Loewald’s contribution all the more remarkable is that he never succumbed to the temptation to belittle or scoff at the achievements of his predecessors in order to elevate himself to a position of preeminence or superiority. Unlike those who move from apotheosis to apostasy, he always remained appreciative of and respectful toward the pioneers who established the foundations of our discipline, while he allowed his patients to educate him and his colleagues to inform him from the vantage
COMMUNICATION SUPPORT NEEDS A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

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Feature Factorization for Top-N Recommendation: From Item Rating to Features Relevance

In the last decade, collaborative ltering approaches have shown their e ectiveness in computing accurate recommendations starting from the user-item matrix. Unfortunately, due to their inner nature, collaborative algorithms work very well with dense matrices but show their limits when they deal with sparse ones. In these cases, encoding user preferences only by means of past ratings may lead to unsatisfactory recommendations. In this paper we propose to exploit past user ratings to evaluate the relevance of every single feature within each pro le thus moving from a user-item to a userfeature matrix. We then use matrix factorization techniques to compute recommendations. The evaluation has been performed on two datasets referring to di erent domains (music and books) and experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the matrix factorization approach performed in the user-item space in terms of accuracy of results. ACM Reference format: Vito Walter Anelli, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio and Pasquale Lops. 2017. Feature Factorization for top-n Recommendation: from item rating to features relevance. In Proceedings of RecSysKTL Workshop @ ACM RecSys ’17, August 27, 2017, Como, Italy, , 6 pages.
Cerebral venous system and anatomical predisposition to high‐altitude headache

As inspired oxygen availability falls with ascent to altitude, some individuals develop high‐altitude headache (HAH). We postulated that HAH results when hypoxia‐associated increases in cerebral blood flow occur in the context of restricted venous drainage, and is worsened when cerebral compliance is reduced. We explored this hypothesis in 3 studies.
VEGF gene delivery to myocardium: deleterious effects of unregulated expression.

BACKGROUND Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is being investigated for therapeutic angiogenesis in ischemic myocardium. Primarily, transient delivery systems have been tested. The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of continuous expression of VEGF in myocardium by use of myoblast-mediated delivery. METHODS AND RESULTS Primary murine myoblasts (5 x 10(5) cells in 10 microL of PBS with 0.5% BSA) expressing both the murine VEGF gene and the beta-galactosidase (beta-gal) gene from a retroviral promoter were implanted in the ventricular wall of immunodeficient mice (n=11) via a subdiaphragmatic approach. Control immunodeficient mice (n=12) were injected with the same number of myoblasts expressing only the beta-gal gene. Between days 14 and 16, surviving mice were euthanized and the hearts processed for histology. In the experimental group, 11 of 11 mice demonstrated failure to thrive by day 13; 5 deaths occurred between days 8 and 15. There were no complications in the control mice. Histochemistry documented successful implantation of myoblasts (positive beta-gal reaction product) in 6 of 6 surviving experimental mice and 12 of 12 controls. Histology disclosed intramural vascular tumors resembling hemangiomas in the VEGF-myoblast-injected myocardium in 6 of 6 surviving mice. beta-Gal-expressing cells were present at the site of the vascular tumors. Immunohistochemistry localized abundant endothelial nitric oxide synthase and CD31 (platelet and endothelial cell adhesion molecule) within the lesion, consistent with the presence of endothelial cells. CONCLUSIONS In this model, unregulated continuous expression of VEGF is associated with (1) a high rate of failure to thrive/death and (2) formation of endothelial cell-derived intramural vascular tumors in the implantation site. These results underscore the importance of regulating VEGF expression for therapeutic angiogenesis.
Ageism'S Impact and Effect on Society

Abstract Ageism, or discrimination against individuals because of their age, is a problem for both the individual and society. This article examines ageism as a prejudice against older persons (those age 65 and older) from the perspectives of social work, sociology, psychology, and human communication. An explanation of how ageism is manifested and communicated is offered in an attempt to provide an understanding of its impact on the individual, on society, and on service provision. Implications for social work as we enter the next century are provided, especially in relation to the changes anticipated in demographics.
Emotional Responses to Art: From Collation and Arousal to Cognition and Emotion

The study of emotional responses to art has remained curiously detached from the psychology of emotions. Historically, the leading tradition has been Daniel Berlyne's psychobiological model, embodied by the “new experimental aesthetics” movement of the 1970s. That theory explained hedonic qualities of art by referring to arousal-modifying “collative properties” of art, such as complexity, novelty, uncertainty, and conflict. Berlyne's influence on the experimental study of aesthetics has been enormous, largely for the better but also for the worse. Berlyne's suspicion of cognitive psychology led to an unproductive perseveration on arousal as the mechanism of “aesthetic responses. ” This article describes how appraisal theories of emotion inform the study of aesthetics. Appraisal theories make new predictions about emotional responses to art, expand the domain of aesthetic emotions beyond positive emotions such as interest and enjoyment, inform other theories (e.g., prototypicality models), and reinterpret past findings.
Investigating motivation, attitudinal loyalty and attendance behaviour with fans of Australian football

The present study examined how individual difference factors contribute to attitudes and behaviour of spectators attending an Australian Football League game. The results revealed that four factors: Team Interest, Vicarious Achievement, Excitement and Player Interest were successful in predicting level of loyalty, while five factors: Vicarious Achievement, Player Interest, Entertainment Value, Drama and Socialization predicted game day attendance. This study illustrates the applicability of the Sport Interest Inventory developed in North America to understand motivational factors of Australian sports fans.
Syllabus for IEOR 8100: PhD Seminar on Queueing Theory

This will be a research course in which the participants will read research papers, conduct indivdual research projects and make presentations to the class. Students already engaged in research can present their own recent research results as well as important background papers and new research papers in the same area. Other students can present new research as well as research papers. There will be no tests or homework problem sets. Consistent with my recent research and the research of my current students, the main themes for the seminar will be: (i) heavy-traffic approximations based on stochastic-process limits, (ii) robust queueing, (iii) queues with time-varying arrival rates, (iv) fitting queueing models to system data and (v) applications of queueing models to service systems. The following sections point out relative background and recent research efforts in these areas. The papers provide links to the previous literature. (My book [45] and almost all of my papers are available for downloading from my web page. For the full book, use the link: http://www.columbia.edu/∼ww2040/jumps.html) Students may also pursue a research topic of their own choosing. Former student Song-Hee Kim started her research interest in healthcare by electing to study queueing models in healthcare in a similar seminar a few years ago. Queueing theory can be usefully applied to many problems. To illustrate one nonstandard application, I refer to my papers on managing the pace of play in golf [7, 8, 15, 50]. The seminar will be run from the instructor’s web page: http://www.columbia. edu/∼ww2040
A Proportional Derivative FES Controller for Planar Arm Movement

In most clinical applications of Functional Electrical Stimulation, the timing and amplitude of electrical stimuli have been controlled by open loop pattern generators. The control of upper extremity reaching movements, however, will require feedback control. Here we present a Proportional Derivative (PD) controller for six arm muscles, using two joint angle sensors. Controllers were optimized and evaluated on a computational arm model that includes realistic musculoskeletal dynamics. Optimization was performed by minimizing a weighted sum of position errors and muscle forces. Generalizability of the controllers was quantified by performing movements for which the controller was not optimized, and robustness was quantified by removing single muscles from the model. After optimization with a properly weighted cost function, PD controllers performed fast and accurate reaching movements. Oscillatory behavior of muscles was sometimes seen after improper tuning. Performance improved as the number of independently optimized gains increased. Robustness and generalizability were deemed satisfactory for practical applications, even when all muscle-sensor combinations were given identical proportional and derivative gains. Considering the ease of tuning only two parameters, this controller architecture is recommended for initial clinical tests.
EHM-Based Web Pages Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm

Recently various clustering approaches have been developed for Web pages clustering optimization. Most of them take the vector model as their free-text analytical foundation. However these algorithms cannot perform well on problems involving many e-commerce information-clustering objectives. A novel approach based on the EHM vector space model FCM clustering algorithm is proposed to deal with the problems in this paper. By introducing Ecommerce hierachical model (EHM), the automatic constructing concept (ACC) algorithm is proposed at first. Through the ACC algorithm and fields keywords table, the e-commerce concept objects are established automatically. The EHM-based fuzzy (EFCM) clustering is used to divide Web pages into the different concept subsets. The experiment has compared it with such methods as Kmeans, Kmedoid, Gath-Geva clustering algorithm, and results demonstrate the validity of the new algorithm. According to classification performance, the EFCM algorithm shows that it can be clustering method for the semantic information searching in Internet.