Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Surface Dyslexia: Neuropsychological and Cognitive Studies of Phonological Reading

much of the first five chapters, whilst the material relating more specifically to speech control and its pathology is ofmore interest. Chapter 6, on treatment of the dysarthrias, is worthy of the attention of a wide variety of readers. It emphasises that specific rehabilitation and treatment of this particular motor skill, which may be severely disabling, is beginning to be under-pinned by a physiologically rational approach and may sometimes be rewarding. This volume will be of interest to some specialist libraries, but it is to be hoped that Dr Netsell will, in a few years time, produce a book describing his subject in more particular detail than he has been able to here.
Cross cultural comparison of information system personnel in the Pacific Basin versus the US

The purpose of the project was to demonstrate the efficacy of the PRIISM Consortium Network to conduct cross cultural and other cooperative studies. A second purpose was to provide insights to Pacific Basin countries and a model which can be used to enrich and make more effective the information systems personnel in their respective nations. Findings showed many similarities and differences between the US and the Pacific Basin countries. <<ETX>>
Encrypted data stream identification using randomness sparse representation and fuzzy Gaussian mixture model

The accurate identification of encrypted data stream helps to regulate illegal data, detect network attacks and protect users' information. In this paper, a novel encrypted data stream identification algorithm is introduced. The proposed method is based on randomness characteristics of encrypted data stream. We use a l1-norm regularized logistic regression to improve sparse representation of randomness features and Fuzzy Gaussian Mixture Model (FGMM) to improve identification accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate that the method can be adopted as an effective technique for encrypted data stream identification.
American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Cannon DE, Dillingham TR, Miao H, Andary MT, Pezzin LE: Musculoskeletal disorders in referrals for suspected lumbosacral radiculopathy. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2007;86:957–961. Objective: An electrodiagnostic evaluation is often requested for patients with suspected lumbosacral radiculopathy. Although musculoskeletal disorders can produce lower-limb symptoms, their prevalence in this referral population is unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of common lower-limb musculoskeletal disorders in patients referred for lower-limb electrodiagnosis and determine whether these findings predict study outcome. Design: Subjects undergoing an electrodiagnostic study for lower-limb symptoms and suspected lumbosacral radiculopathy constituted the sample. A standardized clinical and electrodiagnostic evaluation was performed for all patients. Results: There were 170 subjects included. The mean age was 52 (SD 17), and 45% were males. The total prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in the sample was 32%. The prevalence in those with a normal study was 55% as compared with 21% in those with lumbosacral radiculopathy (P 0.0001). Conclusions: Musculoskeletal disorders are common in patients suspected of having lumbosacral radiculopathy. The high prevalence among both patients with normal studies and those with radiculopathy and other disorders limits the usefulness of this information in predicting study outcome. In particular, it is common for patients to have two or more problems and the presence of a musculoskeletal disorder should not preclude such testing.
Fracture faces of the junctional complexes in the reticular membrane of the organ of corti

The junctional complexes in the reticular membrane of the organ of Corti have been investigated in chinchilla inner ear by the freeze-fracture method. Extremely developed zonulae occludentes were observed where the supporting cells contact each other and the sensory cells. These junctions can be considered “very tight” and completely seal off the tunnel of Corti, Nuel's space and the outer tunnel from the endolymph, as observed by investigations carried out by using tracers. The zonulae occludentes between Hensen's cells are always uninterrupted but considerably lower than among supporting and sensory cells.
Heuristics for Cultural Algorithm Knowledge Driven Search in Dynamic Social Systems

Population evolution algorithms such as Cultural Algorithms (CA) enable a global repository known as the belief space consisting of common cultural traits or generalized schemas to influence the population space. Two important aspects of CA are the knowledge and its propagation. Individuals in the population use social networks for communication. Knowledge representation is generally dependent on the application at hand. In this thesis the role of CA belief space knowledge in application neutral simulation is explored. A standard benchmark function is used to study the performance of various heuristics on the quality of the belief space knowledge. The function captures the characteristics of a neutral world in static and dynamic settings. A multi-agent simulation was designed where autonomous agents are able to communicate, acquire and exploit various knowledge types including topographic, domain, historical and situational. While all these strategies showed improvements when searching for the global maximum in both static and dynamic environments, we found that domain based topographic exploitation strategies of the landscape were the more efficient.
Microwave Doppler sensors for terrestrial transportation applications

In order to increase the safety of intelligent road vehicles of the future and to automate their driving, priority is being given to help systems for drivers. One critical need is the determination of real-time information about the instantaneous motion of the vehicles. Small-sized, low-cost, low-time constant, low-power consumption, contactless microwave sensors are well suited to these applications and give reliable measures in the real-time domain. A K-band Doppler sensor has been developed both in hybrid and monolithic technology. For both the X-band and K-band sensors, printed microstrip flat patch antennas were used. Some experimental results obtained both in the laboratory and on vehicles with some different experimental integrated Doppler radar are provided. The performance are compared at 10 and 24 GHz.
Principles Of Secure Communication Systems

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Second Language Writing: Composing in English: effects of a first language on writing in English as a second language

Traditionally, ESL teachers have emphasized the need for ESL writers to think and write as completely as possible in English. The belief is that if ESL writers do any of their work in their first language, this will inhibit acquisition of the second language (L2) and will interfere with the generation of L2 structures, due to transfer of structures and vocabulary from the first language in an incorrect way. For instance, Arapoff (1967) suggested that students should avoid topics related to firsthand experience because they may then translate from their first language into English. However, a number of studies have indicated that, regardless of a language prescription, writers will transfer writing abilities and strategies, whether good or deficient, from their first language to their second language. Mohan and Lo (1985), for instance, cite a study by Das which indicated that students had similarly deficient rhetorical strategies in their first language and in English. In other words, students who lacked first language strategies displayed a similar lack of strategies for writing in their second language. Mohan and Lo suggest that this deficiency may be developmental – students who have not developed good strategies for writing in their first language will not have appropriate strategies to transfer to their second language. Edelsky's study (1982) of the writing of first, second, and third graders in a bilingual program also indicates that writing knowledge transfers across languages. Her results show that writers use first language strategies and knowledge to aid their second language writing.
Progression of glucose‐lowering diabetes therapy in TECOS

TECOS was a randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trial assessing the impact of sitagliptin vs. placebo on cardiovascular outcomes when added to usual care in patients with type 2 diabetes. We report the use of concomitant diabetes medications and the risk for progression to insulin during follow‐up.
The Magnetic Resonator Piano: Electronic Augmentation of an Acoustic Grand Piano

Abstract This paper presents the magnetic resonator piano, a hybrid acoustic-electronic instrument extending the traditional grand piano. Sound is produced without loudspeakers using electromagnetic actuators to directly manipulate the piano strings, expanding its vocabulary to include infinite sustain, notes that crescendo from silence, harmonics, and a variety of timbres. A feedback-based approach senses string vibrations from a single pickup on the soundboard, using filters and phase-locked loops to generate signals which reinforce the natural motion of each string. Signal-routing hardware enables coverage of all 88 notes of the piano using a standard digital audio interface. This paper describes the hardware, software, and performing interface of the instrument and presents measurements of amplitude, frequency response, and phase-locked loop performance. Sounds generated by the actuators achieve similar amplitudes to the traditional piano, and while they cannot replicate the rapid attack produced by a piano hammer, they complement the percussive nature of the piano by enabling continuous legato control of amplitude, frequency, and timbre.
Human Recognition with Ear Image by Principal Component Analysis

3次元スキャナを用いて日本語五十音指文字を認識する方式を提案する. データグローブなどのデバイスの装着を必要としないジェスチャや指文字の認識方式は快適で負担が少ないものの, カメラから得られる2次元画像のみでは, 類似した形状の指文字の識別が困難である. 本稿で提案する方式は, 精度と速度を両立した認識を行うために, 3次元スキャナから得られる距離画像に対して主成分分析を行う. 10名の被験者による評価実験を行い, 提案する方式が, 従来の方式と同程度の精度を保ちつつ, 認識速度を大幅に改善し, 10ミリ秒程度で指文字を認識できることを確認した.
Bilateral pneumothoraces and thyroid storm in undiagnosed Graves' disease following posterior fusion scoliosis surgery: A case report

The coexistence of idiopathic scoliosis and Graves’ disease is not an established phenomenon. Bilateral pneumothoraces as a complication of posterior pedicle screw correction of scoliosis is an uncommon finding. Thyroid storm as initial presentation in Graves’ disease is also uncommon. Surgery and stress are known precipitants of thyroid storm in untreated Graves’ disease. We report on a 14-year-old female with idiopathic scoliosis who underwent posterior only pedicle screw correction of the deformity and developed bilateral pneumothoraces and thyroid storm in the first post-operative day. This was her first presentation with Graves’ disease. Pre-operatively she had reported no symptoms of hyperthyroidism. She was treated successfully and discharged from the hospital.
Early Detection of Glaucomatous Optic Nerve Abnormality by Nonmydriatic Digital Fundus Camera in a Routine Health Check-up

Purpose: To investigate the usefulness of the non-mydriatic digital fundus camera for detection of normal-tension glaucoma in routine health check-ups. Methods: Among 1986 persons who received a routine health check-up in the Kangnam Health Care Center of Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) from October to December 2003, 60 patients were referred to the Glaucoma Clinic of SNUH due to a suspicious optic nerve head or a retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) defect detected by a non-mydriatic digital fundus camera. The glaucoma work-up was performed, including Goldmann applanation tonometry, red free RNFL photography, Humphrey visual field (HVF), Stratus OCT and HRT II. Results: Among 60 patients with a suspicious optic nerve head or suspected RNFL defect, 23 patients showed a retinal nerve fiber layer defect on red free RNFL photography. Those 23 patients had already demonstrated possible RNFL defects on photographs taken by a non-mydriatic digital fundus camera at their routine health check-up. In comparison with the normal, high PSD value of HVF (p=0.002), the narrow neuroretinal rim area shown by OCT (p=0.05) and HRT (p=0.02) were significantly different statistically. Conclusions: The non-mydriatic digital fundus camera can serve as a useful tool to screen normal-tension glaucoma in routine health check-up systems. However, the final diagnosis of glaucoma should be confirmed by red free RNFL photography and standard automated perimetry.
Analysis on the Active/Inactive Status of Computational Resources for Improving the Performance of the GPU

In recent high performance computing system, GPGPU has been widely used to process general-purpose applications as well as graphics applications, since GPU can provide optimized computational resources for massive parallel processing. Unfortunately, GPGPU doesn’t exploit computational resources on GPU in executing general-purpose applications fully, because the applications cannot be optimized to GPU architecture. Therefore, we provide GPU research guideline to improve the performance of computing systems using GPGPU. To accomplish this, we analyze the negative factors on GPU performance. In this paper, in order to clearly classify the cause of the negative factors on GPU performance, GPU core status are defined into 5 status: fully active status, partial active status, idle status, memory stall status and GPU core stall status. All status except fully active status cause performance degradation. We evaluate the ratio of each GPU core status depending on the characteristics of benchmarks to find specific reasons which degrade the performance of GPU. According to our simulation results, partial active status, idle status, memory stall status and GPU core stall status are induced by computational resource underutilization problem, low parallelism, high memory requests
GENERATING REPRESENTATIVE ATTACK TEST CASES FOR EVALUATING AND TESTING WIRELESS INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS

Openness of wireless communication medium and flexibility in dealing with wireless communication protocols and their vulnerabilities create a problem of poor security. Due to deficiencies in the security mechanisms of the first line of defense such as firewall and encryption, there are growing interests in detecting wireless attacks through a second line of defense in the form of Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS). WIDS monitors the radio spectrum and system activities and detects attacks leaked from the first line of defense. Selecting a reliable WIDS system depends significantly on its functionality and performance evaluation. Comprehensive and credible evaluation of WIDSs necessitates taking into account all possible attacks. While this is operationally impossible, it is necessary to select representative attack test cases that are extracted mainly from a comprehensive classification of wireless attacks. Dealing with this challenge, this paper proposes a holistic taxonomy of wireless security attacks from the perspective of the WIDS evaluator. This proposed taxonomy includes all relevant necessary and sufficient dimensions for wireless attacks classification and it helps in generating and extracting the representative attack test cases.
Benefit of antibiotic therapy on pouchitis after ileal pouch anal anastomosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials

The aim of the study was to evaluate and collect current evidence on the effect of antibiotics in pretreatment of pouchitis after restorative ileal pouch anal anastomosis (IPAA). Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, and Cochrane Library databases were searched between 1966 and July 2008; and relevant clinical trials extracted, reviewed, and validated according to the study protocol. The outcome of interest was clinical improvement after treatment. Nine randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials were found relevant and studied but 3 of them with 70 patients were entered into meta-analysis. Pooling of the results from these trials yielded an odds ratio of 15.96 with a 95% CI of 4.20–60.70, indicating a significant OR (p<0.0001) in treatment group in comparison to the placebo group. In conclusion, the meta-analysis confirms benefit of antibiotics in management of pouchitis after IPAA operation.
On a control Lyapunov function based anytime algorithm for control of nonlinear processes

We present an algorithm to calculate control inputs when available processing resources are time-varying. The basic idea is to calculate the control input to decrease a Lyapunov function value as compared to as many time steps in the past as allowed by the system to be controlled and the available processing resources. We analyze the stability of the resulting closed loop system using stochastic Lyapunov functions and indicate, through numerical simulations, that the performance gains obtained can be significant.
A recurrent neural network architecture for biomedical event trigger classification

OF THESIS A recurrent neural network architecture for biomedical event trigger classification A “biomedical event” is a broad term used to describe the roles and interactions between entities (such as proteins, genes and cells) in a biological system. The task of biomedical event extraction aims at identifying and extracting these events from unstructured texts. An important component in the early stage of the task is biomedical trigger classification which involves identifying and classifying words/phrases that indicate an event. In this thesis, we present our work on biomedical trigger classification developed using the multi-level event extraction dataset. We restrict the scope of our classification to 19 biomedical event types grouped under four broad categories Anatomical, Molecular, General and Planned. While most of the existing approaches are based on traditional machine learning algorithms which require extensive feature engineering, our model relies on neural networks to implicitly learn important features directly from the text. We use natural language processing techniques to transform the text into vectorized inputs that can be used in a neural network architecture. As per our knowledge, this is the first time neural attention strategies are being explored in the area of biomedical trigger classification. Our best results were obtained from an ensemble of 50 models which produced a micro F-score of 79.82%, an improvement of 1.3% over the previous best score.
An incremental network construction algorithm for approximating discontinuous functions

Traditional neural network training techniques do not work well on problems with many discontinuities, such as those that arise in multicomputer communication cost modeling. We develop a new algorithm to solve this problem. This algorithm incrementally adds modules to the network, successively expanding the 'window' in the data space where the current module works well. The need for a new module is automatically recognized by the system. This algorithm performs very well on problems with many discontinuities, and requires fewer computations than traditional backpropagation. <<ETX>>
Efectividad de la terapia antirretroviral en niños con infección por VIH-1. Corte transversal

Introduccion Hay pocos estudios transversales que muestren la situacion actual de los ninos con infeccion por el virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana de tipo 1 (VIH-1). Estos estudios serian muy utiles para determinar como estan nuestros pacientes clinica e inmunovirologicamente, las terapias que reciben en la actualidad y la toxicidad asociada. Objetivos Realizar un analisis descriptivo de la situacion clinica, inmunologica y virologica de los pacientes con infeccion por VIH-1, seguidos hasta enero del 2002 en un hospital terciario, y analizar las terapias antirretrovirales que reciben en la actualidad. Material y metodos Se realizo un corte transversal de los ninos con infeccion por el VIH-1 seguidos hasta enero de 2002 en la Consulta de Inmunodeficienciencias del Hospital 12 de Octubre. La evaluacion de todos los pacientes fue clinica y analitica. Se analizaron los ultimos recuentos de CD4. Se consideraron indetectables aquellos pacientes con carga viral inferior a 300 copias/ml en el ultimo control. Resultados Se analizaron 66 ninos con infeccion por el VIH-1, seguidos hasta enero de 2002. Todos salvo uno, de transmission desconocida, adquirieron la infeccion por transmission vertical. La mediana de edad fue de 111 meses (rango, 18-216). Veinte ninos se encuentran en categoria C. La mediana de CD4 fue de 953 ± 497 cel. /μl (limites, 276-3.137), el 28% ± 8 (limites, 12-42). En cuanto al tratamiento uno de los pacientes no recibia tratamiento, cuatro recibian biterapia con dos analogos inhibidores de la transcriptasa inversa y 61 en tratamiento antiretroviral de gran actividad (TARGA). Veintisiete ninos (44 %) se encontraban en su primer ciclo de TARGA, 23 en el Segundo y 11 habian recibido tres o mas ciclos. Treinta y siete de los 61 pacientes que recibian TARGA tenian una carga viral inferior a 300 copias/ml. Conclusion La mayoria de nuestros pacientes han recibido varios regimens de tratamiento, si bien actualmente no todos reciben terapia antirretroviral. De los que reciben TARGA, el 56 % tiene una carga viral indetectable. En contrapartida, se estan observando nuevas complicaciones asociadas al tratamiento.
A qualitative assessment of the Kindle e‐book reader: results from initial focus groups

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess initial user perceptions and use of Amazon's Kindle e‐book reader.Design/methodology/approach – Thirty‐six participants were provided with a Kindle e‐book reader and $100 to spend at Amazon. After one month of use focus groups were conducted to elicit user feedback about their experiences and overall first impressions.Findings – Analysis of the discussions indicates overall interest in the Kindle as a basic reading device for fiction. However, its use in an academic setting is limited due to content availability and licensing issues, graphic display capabilities, organizational issues, and its prohibitive cost.Originality/value – This is the first research paper of its kind to report on qualitative research conducted on user perceptions of the Kindle e‐book reader.
Computer Vision based Machine Interaction

This paper introduces the Laboratory of Technologies for Interaction(LaTIn) and briefly describes its current main projects. The mainfocus of LaTInhas been developing new ways of human-machineinteraction using computer vision techniques. The projects arecathegorized according to the distance between the human user and themachine being operated. For close distances, appropriate forinteraction with desktop computers for example, we have developed eye-gazebased interfaces. We have also built hand and body gestures interfacesappropriate for kiosks and virtual reality settings and, for largedistances, we have developed novel multiple people tracking techniquesthat have been used for surveillance and monitoring applications.