Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cranial Doppler resistance index measurement in preterm newborns with cerebral white matter lesion.

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the resistance index (RI) within the first 72 hours of life of newborn infants with cerebral white matter lesion (WML) is correlated with the adverse outcome of WML. METHODS Retrospective study. Newborn infants with WML were identified based on cranial ultrasound results, and those with Doppler imaging and RI measurement were selected. The newborn infants were placed in three groups: low (< 0.61), normal (0.61-0.85) or high (> 0.85) RI. The sample was analyzed as a whole at first and then stratified according to birth weight. RESULTS According to the RI, cerebral blood flow was abnormal in 46 (68.7%) patients, low in 42 (62.7%), and high in four (6%). Among those with a low RI, 15 (35.7%) had an adverse outcome, with ultrasonographic signs of cerebral atrophy in 10 (23.8%) and intraventricular hemorrhage in five (11.9%) patients. The four newborn infants with a high RI also had an adverse outcome, one (25%) with signs of cerebral atrophy and three (75%) with intraventricular hemorrhage. No statistically significant differences were observed between RI groups and the group with a fatal outcome. CONCLUSION The study showed that abnormal RI within the first 72 hours was associated with healing complications in newborn infants with cerebral WML. Abnormal RI results were not correlated with the fatal outcome. Therefore, RI is an important parameter that should be measured in newborn infants.
A Methodological Strategy focused on the Integration of different Learning Contexts in Higher Education

In this paper, we describe the design and validation results for the second rollout of a learning strategy integrating formal, informal and non-formal learning and boosting interaction in a degree course for pre-service teachers at the University of the Balearic Islands, after a first implementation in the previous academic year (2012/13), following the iteration cycle of the research-based design. The learning strategy is based on the idea of the personal learning environment (PLE) as a model for ICT integration, and is applied as such in the course. We used student questionnaires to validate the second implementation of the changed learning strategy with regard to reactions, learning and transference of the different items of the strategy. We present the results as a refined model of the methodological strategy and highlight some conclusions related to the use of this model and future research lines directed at learning design by teachers.
IAPSO-TCI : Improved Ant and Particle Swarm based Optimization Techniques for Classifying Imagery

The biologically inspired world comprising of social insect metaphor for solving out wide range of dilemma has become potentially promising area in most recent duration focusing on indirect or direct coordination’s among diverse artificial agents. Swarm [8] apparently is a disorganized collection / population of moving individual that tends to cluster together while each individual seems to be moving in random directions. Swarm Intelligence techniques include Particle swarm optimization, Ant Code Optimization, Biogeography based optimization, Bee Colony Optimization, Stochastic Diffusion Search, Bacterial foraging optimization. Classification is the computational procedure [1] [3] that arrange the images into groups according to their similarities. Plentiful methods for classification have been designed and investigating novel means to increase classification exactness has been a key topic. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) [6] [11] [18] is an algorithm motivated by the foraging behaviour of ants wherein ants leaves the volatile substance called pheromone on the soil surface for the purpose of collective contact via indirect communications. Particle Swarm Optimization is an approach to problems whose solutions can be represented as a point in an n-dimensional solution space wherein number of particles [13] [19] are randomly set into motion through this space. In each of the iteration, they observe the "fitness" of themselves and their neighbours and "emulate" successful neighbours by moving towards them. This paper focuses on improved Methodology of Swarm Computing for classifying imagery termed as IAPSO-TCI exploring Improved Ant and Particle Swarm based Optimization using a traditional classifier SVM (Support Vector Machines) for edge detection and image classification KeywordsClassification, Imagery, Feature Extraction, Feature Selection, Pheromone, Swarm, Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization, Support Vector Machines, Edge Detection, Image Classification.
Development of a Consensus Taxonomy of Sedentary Behaviors (SIT): Report of Delphi Round 1

Background Over the last decade, sedentary behaviors have emerged as a distinctive behavioral paradigm with deleterious effects on health independent of physical activity. The next phase of research is to establish dose response between sedentary behaviors and health outcomes and improve understanding of context and determinants of these behaviors. Establishing a common taxonomy of these behaviors is a necessary step in this process. Aim The Sedentary behavior International Taxonomy project was developed to establish a classification of sedentary behaviors by use of a formal consensus process. Methods The study follows a Delphi process in three Rounds. A preparatory stage informed the development of terms of reference documents. In Round 1, experts were asked to make statements about the taxonomy; 1) its purpose and use ; 2) the domains, categories or facets that should be consider and include; 3) the structure/architecture to arrange and link these domains and facets. In Round 2 experts will be presented with a draft taxonomy emerging from Round 1 and invited to comment and propose alterations. The taxonomy will then be finalised at the outset of this stage. Results Results of Round 1 are reported here. There is a general consensus that a taxonomy will help advances in research by facilitating systematic and standardised: 1) investigation and analysis; 2) reporting and communication; 3) data pooling, comparison and meta-analysis; 4) development of measurement tools; 4) data descriptions, leading to higher quality in data querying and facilitate discoveries. There is also a consensus that such a taxonomy should be flexible to accommodate diverse purposes of use, and future advances in the field and yet provide a cross-disciplinary common language. A consensual taxonomy structure emerged with nine primary facets (Purpose, Environment, Posture, Social, Measurement, Associated behavior, Status, Time, Type) and the draft structure presented here for Round 2.
A historical perspective on the discovery of statins

Cholesterol is essential for the functioning of all human organs, but it is nevertheless the cause of coronary heart disease. Over the course of nearly a century of investigation, scientists have developed several lines of evidence that establish the causal connection between blood cholesterol, atherosclerosis, and coronary heart disease. Building on that knowledge, scientists and the pharmaceutical industry have successfully developed a remarkably effective class of drugs—the statins—that lower cholesterol levels in blood and reduce the frequency of heart attacks.
Joint Conference on Neural Networks , Orlando , Florida , USA , August 12-17 , 2007 Modeling and Analysis of Human Binocular Perception of Position and Velocity in the Visual Cortex

This research focuses on developing a novel mapping for human visual perception from visual field to the primary visual cortex based on spatial and physiological characteristics of visual pathway. First, a spatial relationship between single visible spot in the visual field and its retinal projection on the spherical surface for a monocular vision system was established. A novel approach, called "peel-off' mapping, was then formulated in dealing with flattening the spherical retina to a 2-dimensional (2D) plane before being mapped to the visual cortex. Velocity level mapping that described how a visible moving spot was projected from visual field to the spherical retinal surface was developed and then mapped onto the visual cortex. More importantly, all the kinematical relationships established for monocular system were extended to binocular vision. Finally, a complete model was developed that allows for quantitative computation of binocular disparity as well as disparity due to stereo-motion in the primary visual cortex. Software has been written and simulation results validated the model.
Study on Squirrel Cage Faults of Induction Machines by Means of Advanced FEM Based Simulations

Squirrel-cage induction motors play an important role in the world’s industry. Hence there is a strong demand on their reliable and safe operation. Their faults and failures can lead to excessive downtimes and generate enormous costs due to reduced output, emergency maintenance and lost revenues. In this paper a FEM model of a three phase squirrel-cage induction machine is presented. It is used to analyse the behaviour of the machine having rotor faults.
On the Impact of Inter-Cell Interference in LTE

While intercell interference coordination (ICIC) for the downlink of multi-cell systems in general and orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) networks in particular has been extensively studied, the uplink has received less attention. For the uplink, the impact of ICIC on the overall system throughput ("the ICIC gain") must be analyzed in a system model that captures specific constraints such as power limitation and the behavior of other radio resource management functions including scheduling, fast packet retransmissions by means of hybrid automatic repeat requests (HARQ), power control and adaptive modulation and code rate selection. In this paper we investigate the ICIC gain for the uplink of the 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) system and find that this gain much depends on the employed traffic model. Specifically, for non greedy (sometimes termed "non full buffer") traffic sources, HARQ and link adaptation are able to compensate the effect of intercell collisions and therefore the real ICIC gains are typically smaller than those reported based on full buffer models assuming greedy traffic. We expect that our findings provide useful insights for the system design of ICIC schemes.
Competitiveness via Doubling

It is not easy to formulate a precise, yet also general and elegant description of this method. In this expositary paper, we illustrate this method by discussing several applications where doubling is used, and these examples should be sufficient to elucidate the underlying idea. (This is not meant to be a comprehensive survey; we suspect that there are many more examples of doubling-based approximation algorithms in the literature.)
“Real” high‐potential careers: An empirical study into the perspectives of organisations and high potentials

Purpose – The purpose of this empirical study is to make a contribution to career theory in general, and to the literature on high‐potential careers in particular, by examining the careers of real high potentials, taking place in the twenty‐first century world of work, from the perspectives of the high potentials themselves as well as those of their organizations.Design/methodology/approach – A total of 34 interviews were conducted within three study samples: high potentials (n=14), organisational representatives employed by the same organisations that provided the high‐potential participants (n=8), and organisational representatives employed by organisations that did not allow for interviewing of their high potentials (n=12). Findings – The current study suggests that high potentials still have organisational‐traditional careers. High upward mobility, low inter‐organisational mobility and career self‐management emerged as key features of real high‐potential careers.Practical implications – Implications ar.
The Changing Workplace and Its Effects

The present study explores the multiple ways employees are affected by pervasive and complex organizational change. Across a 10-year period, the authors surveyed 525 white- and blue-collar workers on four separate occasions during which time the company experienced, for example, a difficult financial period, several large downsizing events, the implementation of new technologies, and a move toward a “flatter” managerial structure. At Time 4, shortly after the organization experienced a substantial economic turnaround, the authors found that most but not all of the job and organizational attitudes returned to Time 1 levels. Many of the measures of health and various indices of the work—family relationship however showed both positive and negative lasting effects. These findings are discussed in light of current thinking regarding worker engagement and the psychological contract between workers and organizations.
Changes in polychaete standing stock and diversity on the northern side of Senghor Seamount (NE Atlantic)

Interest in seamount research has gathered momentum over the past five years in an effort to understand the physical, geochemical and biological characteristics as well as the interconnectedness of seamount ecosystems. The majority of biological seamount research has concentrated upon the rich and diverse suspension feeding organisms that dominate the megafauna, such as gorgonians and antipatharian corals; by comparison there have been few studies that have investigated the no less enigmatic, but possibly just as important infauna. To help fill this knowledge gap, the macrofaunal community was sampled from a total of five stations along a northerly transect (capturing water depths from ∼130 m to ∼3300 m), on Senghor Seamount (NE Atlantic). The focus of this study is on the polychaete communities. Polychaete abundance peaked at the summit and a mid-slope station (∼1500 m), a pattern mirrored by the biomass values. The polychaete community along the transect appeared to be particularly diverse, with 135 species nominally identified to putative species from a total of 954 individuals. A diversity maximum was identified on the upper slope at ∼800 m depth, with species diversity, richness and evenness also all peaking at this station. Depth is likely to be a significant factor in determining levels of similarity between stations.
IRRADIATED RED GIANT ATMOSPHERES IN S-TYPE SYMBIOTIC STARS

We present non-LTE calculations for an expanding red giant's atmosphere ionized from the outside by the radi- ation of a nearby hot radiation source. We show that the hy- drogen emission lines emerge from a narrow transition zone where hydrogen changes from ionized to neutral. In this region the Balmer lines are optically thick, and their proles crucially depend on the magnitude of optical thickness which in turn, depends on the velocity gradient within that region. Balmer decrements of the model calculations depend on the densities in the recombination zone of the radiatively ionized wind. We nd a large variety of complex line proles, that in some cases could be mistaken for accretion disk proles. The proles depend on the velocity law in the formation zone at sub-sonic velocities, but contrary to expectation, the proles do not reflect the termi- nal velocity of the wind. The central part of our model proles compare well with the observed prole of the eclipsing binary SY Mus at maximum light.
Flexibility of Oral Cholera Vaccine Dosing—A Randomized Controlled Trial Measuring Immune Responses Following Alternative Vaccination Schedules in a Cholera Hyper-Endemic Zone

Background A bivalent killed whole cell oral cholera vaccine has been found to be safe and efficacious for five years in the cholera endemic setting of Kolkata, India, when given in a two dose schedule, two weeks apart. A randomized controlled trial revealed that the immune response was not significantly increased following the second dose compared to that after the first dose. We aimed to evaluate the impact of an extended four week dosing schedule on vibriocidal response. Methodology/Principal Findings In this double blind randomized controlled non-inferiority trial, 356 Indian, non-pregnant residents aged 1 year or older were randomized to receive two doses of oral cholera vaccine at 14 and 28 day intervals. We compared vibriocidal immune responses between these schedules. Among adults, no significant differences were noted when comparing the rates of seroconversion for V. cholerae O1 Inaba following two dose regimens administered at a 14 day interval (55%) vs the 28 day interval (58%). Similarly, no differences in seroconversion were demonstrated in children comparing the 14 (80%) and 28 day intervals (77%). Following 14 and 28 day dosing intervals, vibriocidal response rates against V. cholerae O1 Ogawa were 45% and 49% in adults and 73% and 72% in children respectively. Responses were lower for V. cholerae O139, but similar between dosing schedules for adults (20%, 20%) and children (28%, 20%). Conclusions/Significance Comparable immune responses and safety profiles between the two dosing schedules support the option for increased flexibility of current OCV dosing. Further operational research using a longer dosing regimen will provide answers to improve implementation and delivery of cholera vaccination in endemic and epidemic outbreak scenarios.
Extracting parallel phrases from comparable corpora

The state-of-the-art statistical machine translation models are trained with the parallel corpora. However, the traditional SMT loses its power when it comes to language pairs with few bilingual resources. This paper proposes a novel method that treats the phrase extraction as a classification task. We first automatically generate the training and testing phrase pairs for the classifier. Then, we train a SVM classifier which can determine the phrase pairs are either parallel or non-parallel. The proposed approach is evaluated on the translation task of Chinese-English. Experimental results show that the precision of the classifier on test sets is above 70% and the accuracy is above 98% The quality of the extracted data is also evaluated by measuring the impact on the performance of a state-of-the-art SMT system, which is built with a small parallel corpus. It shows better results over the baseline system.
The role of equities in corporate finance in Belgium

Share issues are a significant source of finance for non-financial corporations in Belgium. Between 1995 and 2005, they represented around 32 p.c. of the cumulative new liabilities of non-financial corporations. Share issues are therefore the second most important source of finance, the first being non-bank credit, which accounts for 51 p.c. of the total. Share issues are a much more important source of funding than bank credit and issues of fixed-income securities. Unquoted shares represent the major part of this, namely 27 p.c. , mainly because of the high level of foreign direct investment. Quoted shares represented only 5 p.c. of the cumulative new liabilities of non-financial corporations during the period 1995-2005. An empirical analysis of the determinants of the capital structure highlights the fact that quoted companies having more intangible fixed assets are more inclined to opt for equity financing. Conversely, other factors, such as the company’s debt level, size and internal resources have a negative influence on equity financing. The timing of the use of this type of financing depends partly on macroeconomic factors such as real and financial investments of the corporations. The cost of capital may also be regarded as a key determinant of the use of equity financing over time. Substantial issues were recorded during the period 1999-2001 and from mid 2005 onwards. These developments coincided with either a cost of capital well below its long-run average or a movement in the cost of capital which was more favourable than the price of alternative sources of finance. The recent government measure aimed at allowing the deduction of notional interest charges could also give a substantial boost to new share issues.
Developmental perspectives on personality: implications for ecological and evolutionary studies of individual differences

Developmental processes can have major impacts on the correlations in behaviour across contexts (contextual generality) and across time (temporal consistency) that are the hallmarks of animal personality. Personality can and does change: at any given age or life stage it is contingent upon a wide range of experiential factors that occurred earlier in life, from prior to conception through adulthood. We show how developmental reaction norms that describe the effects of prior experience on a given behaviour can be used to determine whether the effects of a given experience at a given age will affect contextual generality at a later age, and to illustrate how variation within individuals in developmental plasticity leads to variation in contextual generality across individuals as a function of experience. We also show why niche-picking and niche-construction, behavioural processes which allow individuals to affect their own developmental environment, can affect the contextual generality and the temporal consistency of personality. We conclude by discussing how an appreciation of developmental processes can alert behavioural ecologists studying animal personality to critical, untested assumptions that underlie their own research programmes, and outline situations in which a developmental perspective can improve studies of the functional significance and evolution of animal personality.
Análise da Capacidade Dinâmica na Indústria de Máquinas para Madeira: estudos de caso

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the capability of companies of woodworking machinery branch to adapt its productive resources to the specific features of the concorrencial and technological environment which they are inserted. It was adopted as method three case studies of companies considered representative in the market segments which they act. The emphasis was given to the procedures of search of information that provide the foundations of companies’ decision-making in the development of new products. It was observed that these companies have in common the adoption of information search routines about the market, tied basically in sales and technical assistance activities. There are no accompaniment routines of the national and international market evolution, neither competitors nor customers market. This makes the quality of the obtained information to be tied with the abilities of employees whose main activity is the accompaniment of the demand in short term. The companies’ decision-making are based exclusively on a standard of reactive behavior that does not take into account planning activities, neither the elaboration of probable or desirable scenes for the firm.