Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An overview of the first occurrences of Rhodotypos scandens in Austria

I give an overview of the first two records of black jetbead (Rhodotypos scandens) (Rosaceae, Magnoliopsida), a native of East Asia, in Austria. The species is locally established in a deciduous forest in the eastern lowlands of Austria c. 10 km north of Vienna. The population consists of c. 1,000–2,000 specimens distributed over an area of c. 2.5 ha. The composition of the invaded vegetation has been documented by three relevés. In addition, an escaped population of 17 young specimens of Rhodotypos scandens is recorded from Vienna. Rhodotypos scandens is widely naturalized in forests of the eastern USA, where it is considered to be invasive. Recently, in several Central European countries escaped populations of Rhodotypos scandens have been documented. Thus, the future spread of this species in Europe should be monitored.
Thai Culture creates Value Added for Thai Culinary Tourism

The objective of this research was to study the behavior of food tourists who used Thai culinary school service, and determining the value added models of food tourism through Thai culture. The results found that most of sample groups were female, aged between 21-30 years old, with bachelor’s degree and freelance. Most of foreign tourists learned half a day course of Thai cooking for doing by themselves. The course were 5 types of Thai cooking included theoretical and practical classes, visiting fresh markets, buying ingredients and eating. Some tourists have participated fruits and vegetables carving classes, visiting backyard garden and brought them to cook, and joined the traditional and cultural activities of community. Regarding the satisfaction of using Thai culinary schools, it was found that foreign tourists were satisfied at the highest level with the place, curriculum, personnel, fee and channel of distribution, and it was at a high level for sales promotion. In addition, the findings showed that 26 Thai culinary schools in Chiang Mai Province, where the researcher conducted in depth interview blended Thai cultures for teaching foreign tourists such as Thai greeting culture: “Sawatdee ka”, “Sawatdee krub”, dressing culture and infused Thai dinning culture into Thai cooking as well.
بیماری فیبروز کیستیک و پراکندگی و آنالیز جهشهای ژن CFTRدر بیماران ایرانی

(Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductive regulator) CFTR تسا . شهج اه ي ددـعتم ي نژ رد CFTR شرازـگ اك هب رجنم هك تسا هدش شه ئتورپ دركراك ي ن CFTR تونف زورب و ي پ ب ي رام ي م ي دوش . اش ي ع رت ي ن ،شـهج ΔF508 ، ـ ي ا نف فذح ي ل نلاآ ي ن عقوم رد ي ت هرامش 508 ئتورپ ي ،ن تسا . ا رد ي ن ،اج و ادتبا ي گژ ي اه ي لاب ي ن ي ، هار اه ي خشت ي ص ب ي راـم ي هئارا س و هدش تنژ سپ ي ك ب ي رام ي شهج و اه ي مه و هطوبرم ي ن روط تنژ تاعلاطم ي ك ي ا ي نار م رورم ي دوـش . اـت ك رد ،نون عومجم 56 ب رد شهج ي نارام ا ي نار ي ارب نآ دروم تشه هك تسا هدش شرازگ ي لوا ي ن هدش شرازگ راب دنا . شـهج تفه اش ي ع ا ي نار ترت هب ـ ي ب ـ ناوارف ي لماـش p.F508del ) 33 / 33 (% ، c.1677delTA ) 41 / 7 (% ، c.2183_2184delAAinsG ) 56 / 5 % ( ، p.N1303K ) 81 / 4 % ( ، c.2789+5G>A ) 44 / 4 % ( ، p.S466X ) 44 / 4 % ( و p.G542X ) 07 / 4 % ( دنتسه .
Effect of pretreatments and retort process on characteristics and sensory quality of edible bird’s nest beverage

Edible bird’s nest (EBN) flakes were pretreated using sodium alginate (AG) in the presence of different divalent cross‐linking agents before retorting at different temperatures (118 and 121 °C). Protein was the dominant component (58.61 g 100 g⁻¹, wet weight basis), followed by carbohydrate (24.38 g 100 g⁻¹, wet weight basis). Fourier transform infrared spectra (FTIR) showed the interaction between 1.0 g 100 mL⁻¹ AG with protein as induced by cross‐linking agents including 0.5 g 100 mL⁻¹ calcium chloride, 1.0 g 100 mL⁻¹ calcium lactate or 1.0 g 100 mL⁻¹ magnesium chloride. Those alginate gels formed in beverage (EBNB) could withstand retorting at both temperatures. All pretreated EBN yielded EBNB with higher hedonic liking scores than control and non‐retort process. Pretreatment of ENB using 1.0 g 100 mL⁻¹ AG and 1.0 g 100 mL⁻¹ calcium lactate before retorting at 121 °C rendered safe ready‐to‐drink EBNB with high hedonic liking score of all attributes.
Statistical pattern recognition reveals shared neural signatures for displaying and recognizing specific facial expressions

Human neuroimaging and behavioural studies suggest that somatomotor “mirroring” of seen facial expressions may support their recognition. Here we show that viewing specific facial expressions triggers the representation corresponding to that expression in the observer’s brain. Twelve healthy female volunteers underwent two separate fMRI sessions: one where they observed and another where they displayed three types of basic facial expressions (joy, anger and disgust). Pattern classifier based on Bayesian logistic regression was trained to classify facial expressions i) within modality (trained and tested with data recorded while observing or displaying expressions) and ii) between modalities (trained with data recorded while displaying expressions and tested with data recorded while observing the expressions). Cross-modal classification was performed in two ways: with and without functional realignment of the data across observing / displaying conditions. All expressions could be accurately classified within and also across modalities. Brain regions contributing most to cross-modal classification accuracy included primary motor and somatosensory cortices. Functional realignment led to only minor increases in cross-modal classification accuracy for most of the examined ROIs. Substantial improvement was observed in the occipito-ventral components of the core system for facial expression recognition. Altogether these results support the embodied emotion recognition model and show that expression-specific somatomotor neural signatures could support facial expression recognition.
Wireless Sensor Network Energy Model and Its Use in the Optimization of Routing Protocols

In this study, a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) energy model is proposed by defining the energy consumption at each node. Such a model calculates the energy at each node by estimating the energy of the main functions developed at sensing and transmitting data when running the routing protocol. These functions are related to wireless communications and measured and compared to the most relevant impact on an energy standpoint and performance metrics. The energy model is validated using a Texas Instruments CC2530 system-on-chip (SoC), as a proof-of-concept. The proposed energy model is then used to calculate the energy consumption of a Multi-Parent Hierarchical (MPH) routing protocol and five widely known network sensors routing protocols: Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), ZigBee Tree Routing (ZTR), Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH), and Power Efficient Gathering in Sensor Information Systems (PEGASIS). Experimental test-bed simulations were performed on a random layout topology with two collector nodes. Each node was running under different wireless technologies: Zigbee, Bluetooth Low Energy, and LoRa by WiFi. The objective of this work is to analyze the performance of the proposed energy model in routing protocols of diverse nature: reactive, proactive, hybrid and energy-aware. Experimental results show that the MPH routing protocol consumes 16%, 13%, and 5% less energy when compared to AODV, DSR, and ZTR, respectively; and it presents only 2% and 3% of greater energy consumption with respect to the energy-aware PEGASIS and LEACH protocols, respectively. The proposed model achieves a 97% accuracy compared to the actual performance of a network. Tests are performed to analyze the consumption of the main tasks of a node in a network.
Sleep apnea detection using deep learning

Sleep apnea is the cessation of airflow at least 10 seconds and it is the type of breathing disorder in which breathing stops at the time of sleeping. The proposed model uses type 4 sleep study which focuses more on portability and the reduction of the signals. The main limitations of type 1 full night polysomnography are time consuming and it requires much space for sleep recording such as sleep lab comparing to type 4 sleep studies. The detection of sleep apnea using deep convolutional neural network model based on SPO2 sensor is the valid alternative for efficient polysomnography and it is portable and cost effective. The total number of samples from SPO2 sensors of 50 patients that is used in this study is 190,000. The performance of the overall accuracy of sleep apnea detection is 91.3085% with the loss rate of 2.3 using cross entropy cost function using deep convolutional neural network.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUBJECTIVE DISCOMFORTS AND EVALUTION OF DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES BASED ON THE STAGES OF CHRONICAL ARTERY INSUFFICIENCY OF LOWER EXTREMITIES

Lower-extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) represents a group of disorders characterized by narrowing or occlusion of the arteries resulting in gradual reduction of blood supply to the limbs. The aim of this study was to examine the predominance of subjective discomfort, objective clinical findings and the predominance of localization of steno-occlusive lesions in patients with functional and critical ischemia of chronic arterial insufficiency (CAI) of the lower extremities. Prospectively, we analyzed a group of 50 patients, admitted at the Vascular Department of Surgical Clinic in Niš during the period from September 2000 to October 2001, with evident symptoms and signs of different stages of CAI of THE lower extremities verified by color Doppler ultrasonography and objective clinical examination. The critical ischemia was more frequently associated with the change of skin color (p<0.05), atrophic changes (p<0.001), absent pulsations (p<0.01), the occurrence of muscle atrophy (p<0.01), gangrene (p<0.05). Gangrene was the most dominant clinical occurrence with respect to ulceration (p<0,05) in the critical ischemia. The functional ischemia had frequent occurrence of pallor (p<0.01), as a significant sign, as well as preserved pulsations of a. poplitelis (p<0.01). Asymptomatic steno-occlusive lesions with stenosis of 1-19% were predominant in patients with stage I functional ischemia. Subcritical stenosis with 20-49 % stenosis was characteristic of patients in stage IIa, while critical stenosis with 50-99% stenosis was characteristic of patients in stage IIb and III stage of critical ischemia. Patients in the IV stage of critical ischemia had total occlusion of distal arteries of the lower extremities. In the stage of critical ischemia, the most common steno-occlusive process is localized on femo-ropopliteal segment (a. Femoralis superficialis) Early detection of PAD is crucial for the timely treatment and prevention of amputation, heart attack, stroke, and death. Acta Medica Medianae 2016;55(3):44-56.
Tort Reform and the Length of Physician Office Visits

By holding healthcare providers accountable for medical errors, the medical malpractice system should steer physicians towards providing adequate levels of care. This paper tests whether tort reforms induce physicians to be more or less careful when treating patients, using the length of office visits as a proxy for physician efforts. Analyzing data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey on more than half a million physician office visits between 1993 and 2011, I find that caps on noneconomic damages, caps on punitive damages, and reforms of the joint-and-several liability rule have no impact on the time physicians spend with patients. Reforms of the collateral-source rule decrease the length office visits in some specifications and act as a substitute for managed care.
Original article THE ASSESSMENT OF ANTIBIOTICS THERAPIES IN DIFFERENT GROUPS IN ACUTE CYSTITIS IN TERMS OF PHARMAECONOMICAL ASPECTS

The urinary tract infection (UTI) is the second most common community acquired infection following the upper respiratory tract infections. In this study 160 subjects aged between 18-65 years with the diagnosis of acute cysytitis between 2005-2006 were involved and the objective was to determine the true cost of trimethoprim- sulphamethaxasol and fluoroquinolone group therapies that were given according to "Turkish Ministry of Health Diagnosis and Therapy Guideline". The aim of this study was to analyse the pharmacoeconomic aspect of the therapies that are proved to be effective, rather than their clinical effectiveness. The improvement rate of patients was 81.9 % at the end of the third day. The disapperance of symptoms in patients threated with ciprofloxacin, urociproxin, chemoprim forte and bactrim forte were 77.5 %, 72.5 %, 87.5 % and 90.0 % respectively. The side effects were noted in 10 % of patients involved in the study, candida vaginitis and allergy as being the most common ones. Therefore factors increasing cost and additional therapy costs become current issue. When the incremental cost effectiveness was calculated at the end of three day therapy, it is observed that the cost of urociproxin® is higher than the others. Pharmacoeconomic analysis models specific for our country should be developed, the diagnosis and therapy guidelines should be updated and statistical data should be well preserved, pharmacoeconomic studies of a drug should be performed before the drug will be involved in reimbursement system.
High roadkill rates in the Dong Phayayen‐Khao Yai World Heritage Site: conservation implications of a rising threat to wildlife

Road networks are increasing globally, and as such incur increased pressure on wildlife communities. Large‐scale road expansion and infrastructure development occurring throughout Asia (i.e. Belt and Road Initiative) will affect hundreds of threatened species, leading to an increase in wildlife‐vehicle collisions. However, only a limited number of studies have quantified road mortality within this threatened landscape. To rectify this, we monitored the spatial‐temporal patterns of vertebrate roadkill in the Dong Phayayen‐Khao Yai forest complex, an UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Thailand, considered a refuge for many globally threatened species. We ran 100 standardized road surveys between 2015 and 2017, on a 47.8‐km highway transect currently being expanded, and recorded a total of 1395 casualties from 124 species. After correcting for removal time and detection probability, we estimated an average of 9688 vertebrate mortalities per year. We observed a mortality peak during the dry season for almost all taxonomic groups, due to a combination of high bird and bat mortality events. All taxa showed significant spatial clustering, highlighting high‐risk road sections. We modelled the road and landscape features most likely to lead to higher mortality rates, disentangling small‐scale (250–500 m from road) from large‐scale effects (1000–2500 m). We recorded lower mortality rates and species diversity near forest sites in protected areas, representing either lower crossing events due to habitat quality or an already depleted environment. Spatial analyses provided information on hotspots and landscape factors, which can be used to inform future mitigations at multiple scales throughout the Southeast Asia region. Our study provides a baseline of the direct road impacts on vertebrate species in a tropical biodiversity hotspot, and we suggest that more studies be conducted to fully assess the direct road effects on the many threatened species in this landscape.
Who Influences the Asian–Pacific Real Estate Markets: The Us, Japan or China?

As rapid economic growth in China has led to significant appreciation of urban real estate market values, this study examines China's influence on Asian&#8211;Pacific real estate markets by focusing on their respective market integration with the US, Japan and China during the period January 2005 to December 2017. Market integration is examined by unconditional and time&#8208;varying conditional correlations, nonlinear Granger causality and dynamic connectedness effects. Overall, although the US and Japanese real estate markets have significantly influenced return and volatility in the regional markets, China has emerged as another major regional real estate volatility leader with rising influence over volatility integration, especially during the 2007&#8211;2011 crisis period. Financial crises have strengthened China's volatility connectedness effects and market integration with other Asian&#8211;Pacific real estate markets. Our results imply that the benefits of regional portfolio diversification may be declining as volatility integration across the Chinese and Asian&#8211;Pacific real estate markets becomes stronger. Therefore, diversified global investors should pay greater attention to these real estate markets.
Organizational factors that contribute to the persistence of two-year transfer athletes at Division I four-year institutions: A multiple case study

v List of Figures . xi List of Tables . xii Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 Statement of the Problem . 6 Purpose of Study . 11 Research Questions . 11 Significance of Study . 12 Definition of Terms.14 Summary . 16 Chapter 2: Literature Review . 19 Berger and Milem’s Organizational Behavior Theory . 19 Student Characteristics.21 Peer Group Characteristics . 22 Organizational Characteristics . 23 Organizational Environments . 27 Student Experiences . 28 Organizational Behavior and Student Outcomes . 30 Conceptual Framework . 34 Organizational Dimensions . 37 Experiences . 38 Persistence.39 vii Table of
Investigation of the Acoustical Environment in A Shopping Mall and Its Correlation to the Acoustic Comfort of the Workers

Noise in shopping centers and restaurants can reduce intelligibility and affect the comfort of the employees working for long periods in such environments. In this study, the interior acoustics of a shopping mall are studied by measuring the reverberation time (RT), with no occupation, and the equivalent sound pressure levels (LAeq), with occupations at different times of the day, over a period of one week. The measurements were done at different locations, chosen based on their usage (shopping areas, entrances, food courts, and playing area). The values are correlated to the subjective acoustic comfort and the experience of loudness of the staff working at these locations, as measured through a questionnaire. The average RT values that were measured ranged between 0.9 s in the food court and 1.4 s for the main entrance. The LAeq was measured with a minimum of 58 dB in the shopping area in the early morning and a maximum of 83 dB in the playing area in the evening. The results showed an increase in the LAeq for the afternoon and evening in comparison with the early morning and midday time (p < 0.05); similarly, the sound levels for the weekends were higher than the weekdays (p < 0.05). The questionnaire results showed that headaches and difficulties in communicating with others (speech intelligibility) are the most important problems induced by the noise in shopping malls, occurring for 47.1% and 38.2% of respondents, respectively.
Risk of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis: Record-Linkage Studies

Background The epidemiology of psychiatric comorbidity in multiple sclerosis (MS) remains poorly understood. Objective We aimed to determine the risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in MS patients. Material and Methods Retrospective cohort analyses were performed using an all-England national linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) dataset (1999–2016) and to determine whether schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are more commonly diagnosed subsequently in people with MS (n=128,194), and whether MS is more commonly diagnosed subsequently in people with schizophrenia (n=384,188) or bipolar disorder (n=203,592), than would be expected when compared with a reference cohort (~15 million people) after adjusting for age and other factors. Adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) were calculated using Cox proportional hazards models. Results Findings were dependent on whether the index and subsequent diagnoses were selected as the primary reason for hospital admission or were taken from anywhere on the hospital record. When searching for diagnoses anywhere on the hospital record, there was a significantly elevated risk of subsequent schizophrenia (aHR 1.51, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.40 to 1.60) and of bipolar disorder (aHR 1.14, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.24) in people with prior-recorded MS and of subsequent MS in people with prior-recorded schizophrenia (aHR 1.26, 1.15–1.37) or bipolar disorder (aHR 1.73, 1.57–1.91), but most of these associations were reduced to null when analyses were confined to diagnoses recorded as the primary reason for admission. Conclusion Further research is needed to investigate the potential association between MS and schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder as it may shed light on underlying pathophysiology and help identify potential shared risk factors.
Dzielimy się doświadczeniem Primary closure of the sternum using a new method in a female patient with risk of sternum closure complications

Wstęp: Sternotomia pośrodkowa jest standardową metodą umożliwiającą kardiochirurgowi dostęp do całego serca i zapewnia doskonałą ekspozycję śródpiersia. Pomimo szeregu korzyści wynikających z powszechnego stosowania stalowego drutu zespolenie mostka po sternotomii wciąż nie jest wolne od komplikacji. Szczególnie dotyczą one pacjentów z cukrzycą, osteoporozą lub mostkiem zniekształconym w przebiegu innych chorób kości bądź w wypadku istnienia jego wady rozwojowej, z przewlekłą obturacyjną chorobą płuc (POChP), niewydolnością nerek, zabiegiem powikłanym wystąpieniem zespołu małego rzutu serca oraz u osób starszych. Ze względu na ryzyko powikłań wciąż poszukuje się alternatywnych metod zamykania mostka po sternotomii. Materiał i metody: 56-letnia pacjentka z rozpoznaną stenozą aortalną dużego stopnia oraz przewlekłą chorobą wieńcową została poddana operacji kardiochirurgicznej. Do zamknięcia mostka użyto systemu Modular Sternal Cable System, Synthes, Szwajcaria, składającego się z kaniulowanych śrub, linek i płytek rekonstrukcyjnych. Wyniki: Po zespoleniu mostka palpacyjnie potwierdzono jego stabilność. Po zakończonym leczeniu szpitalnym pacjentkę wypisano do domu z zaleceniem dalszej rehabilitacji. Pacjentka będzie poddawana dalszej ocenie w 3-miesięcznych odstępach czasu. Wnioski: Po zastosowaniu systemu u pacjentki uzyskano optymalną stabilność mostka. Posługiwanie się systemem jest intuicyjne i mimo że jest to nowa metoda, łatwość założenia gwarantuje krótką krzywą uczenia. Słowa kluczowe: sternotomia pośrodkowa, zespolenie mostka, niestabilność mostka. Abstract