Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
From a Systematic Literature Review to a Classification Framework: Sustainability Integration in Fashion Operations

Sustainability management in global fashion operations is an area of growing concern. This can be seen by the number of research articles and industrial reports published. To establish a further debate, this study pursues two objectives. Firstly, it provides a systematic literature review pertaining to environmental and social sustainability management in fashion operations by encompassing 38 research articles indexed in Scopus from 2006 to 2016. Secondly, it presents a classification framework in which sustainability practices are categorized according to a three-dimensional concurrent engineering framework by focusing on product, process and supply chain levels. Results address that the breakdown of environmental and social sustainability practices identified in earlier research is not homogenous. For instance, some critical social aspects such as human rights are not widely covered in production processes. Similarly, serious environmental aspects such as biodiversity are not entirely focused on at the chain level. Last, this study concludes with a framework illustrating strategic priorities to be taken to advance sustainability in fashion operations.
Statistical networks emerging from link-node interactions

We present a network model, where the nodes and links are interacting statistical variables. Each node can be in one of two states (Ising variable), the like nodes tend to link, while the linked nodes tend to be in the same state. The network structure is determined by an effective potential generated by the quickly relaxing nodes, and is measurable via the statistical features of the nodes. For low temperatures the nodes get spontaneously ordered inducing the connectivity enhancement, link-link correlations and clustering. The giant component of the network does appear via a first-order percolation transition leading to bistability and hysteresis.
Efficacy of yoga for mental performance in university students

Background: With growing scientific evidence, yoga is emerging as an important health behavior-lifestyle modifying module to achieve holistic health at physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual levels. Brain wave coherence (BWC) recordings from the surface of the skull are associated with different cognitive processes and plays both critical and useful roles in yoga with wide range of functional significance. The psycho-physiological changes that characterize the efficacy of yoga for better mental performance in university students have not been studied adequately. Objective: The study was designed to assess the mental performance through BWC analysis in university students undergoing Integrated Yoga Module (IYM). Materials and Methods: The IYM subjects (n=30) with 25.77±4.85 years of mean age participated in this single group pre-post study. The BWC data was collected before (pre) and after (post) the 21 days IYM using Brain Master (Model: 2E Part # 390-001), Michigan, USA. Statistical Analysis: Means, standard deviations, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Wilcoxon signed rank test were used for analyzing data with the help of SPSS-16. Results: A complete statistical and spectral analysis showed 43.24% increase (P<0.001) in Delta, 9.13% increase (P=0.289) in Theta, 57.85% increase (P<0.001) in Alpha, 17.65% decrease (P=0.136) in Beta and 9.19% increase (P=0.586) in Gamma BWC between pre and post intervention measurements. Conclusion: BWC study showed significant increase in both Delta and Alpha wave coherence suggesting that IYM can result in improvement of coherent and integrated brain functioning among students, thus paving the way for their better mental performance. Although this preliminary research is promising, more well-designed studies are needed before a strong recommendation can be made.
Revisiting the hypothesis that fungal-to-bacterial dominance characterizes turnover of soil organic matter and nutrients

Resolving fungal and bacterial groups within the microbial decomposer community is thought to capture disparate life strategies for soil microbial decomposers, associating bacteria with an r-selected strategy for carbon (C) and nutrient use, and fungi with a K-selected strategy. Additionally, food-web model-based work has established a widely held belief that the bacterial decomposer pathway in soil supports high turnover rates of easily available substrates, while the slower fungal-dominated decomposition pathway supports the decomposition of more complex organic material, thus characterizing the biogeochemistry of the ecosystem. We used a field experiment, the Detritus Input and Removal Treatments, or DIRT, experiment (Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Site, USA) where litter and root inputs (control, no litter, double litter, or no tree roots) have been experimentally manipulated during 23 years, generating differences in soil C quality. We hypothesized (1) that delta C-13 enrichment would decrease with higher soil C quality and that a higher C quality would favor bacterial decomposers, (2) that the C mineralized in fungal-dominated treatments would be of lower quality and also depleted in delta C-13 relative to bacterial-dominated high-quality soil C treatments, and (3) that higher C mineralization along with higher gross N mineralization rates would occur in bacterial-dominated treatments compared with more fungal-dominated treatments. The DIRT treatments resulted in a gradient of soil C quality, as shown by up to 4.5-fold differences between the respiration per soil C between treatments. High-quality C benefited fungal dominance, in direct contrast with our hypothesis. Further, there was no difference between the delta(CO2)-C-13 produced by a fungal compared with a bacterial-dominated decomposer community. There were differences in C and N mineralization between DIRT treatments, but these were not related to the relative dominance of fungal and bacterial decomposers. Thus we find no support for the hypothesized differences between detrital food webs dominated by bacteria compared to those dominated by fungi. Rather, an association between high-quality soil C and fungi emerges from our results. Consequently there is a need to revise our basic understanding for microbial communities and the processes they regulate in soil. (Less)
Pedicle Screw Fixation of the Cervical Spine: Guidance by Computed Tomography

This is an anatomic, preclinical study using computed tomography and computerized simulation to describe the morphologic features and ideal screw insertion trajectories for cervical pedicles in the southern Chinese population. The morphologic features of the pedicle of vertebrae (C3-C7) from 20 human cadaver spines were evaluated with computed tomography and with manual measurements. There was no difference between the two data sets. The topography of the cervical pedicles was recreated graphically, calculating the safe range of the insertion angle with and without consideration of the pedicle screw diameter. Neglecting the diameter of the screw, the average safe ranges of the insertion angle at each cervical level (C3-C7) in the transverse plane were 18.7°, 20.4°, 22.4°, 22.5°, and 27.6°, respectively, and in the sagittal plane 27.6°, 30.3°, 27.7°, 29.0°, and 34.9°, respectively. Including the diameter of the 3.0-mm screw, the safe ranges narrowed to 7.3°, 8.6°, 11.0°, 13.1°, and 15.5° in the transverse plane, and 16.4°, 18.7°, 16.4°, 18.3°, and 23.1° in the sagittal plane. We think computed tomography measurements can provide individual quantitative data for transpedicle screw fixation in the cervical spine.
Vasculoprotective Effects Of Oestrogens

1. The rationale for preclinical research on the atheroprotective effect of oestrogens is based on the epidemiological evidence that women are protected against the clinical complications of atherosclerosis until menopause. However, this protection, probably due to sex hormones, is progressively lost within the years following menopause.
Spatial-temporal reasoning of Geovideo data based on ontology

Geovideo is a sort of video data with spatial reference, an organism composed of video data and geographic space. It covers different kinds of information, such like images, sounds, positions and space-time information, which are all in the united georeferenced. This kind of video data can be obtained from monitoring system and other video with georeference. Obviously, Geovideo is applicable to public safety. In this paper, firstly, we proposed a description model for Geovideo based on ontology, and build it with ontology editor Protégé in OWL. This ontology described what happened in a video shot and focused on time and position information, in which high-level semantic in video may be structured. This method is conducive to video data storage and retrieval. Then we used spatial and temporal reasoning models in Geovideo ontology, implementing video data clustered under the conditions where time or position has constrains.
Advancing the Use of Secondary Inputs in Geopolymer Binders for Sustainable Cementitious Composites: A Review

Because of concerns over the construction industry‘s heavy use of cement and the general dissatisfaction with the performance of building envelopes with respect to durability, there is a growing demand for a novel class of ―green‖ binders. Geopolymer binders have re-emerged as binders that can be used as a replacement for Portland cement given their numerous advantages over the latter including lower carbon dioxide emissions, greater chemical and thermal resistance, combined with enhanced mechanical properties at both normal and extreme exposure conditions. The paper focuses on the use of geopolymer binders in building applications. It discusses the various options for starting materials and describes key engineering properties associated with geopolymer compositions that are ideal for structural applications. Specific properties, such as compressive strength, density, pore size distribution, cumulative water absorption, and acid resistance, are comparable to the specifications for structures incorporating conventional binders. This paper presents geopolymer binders, with their three dimensional microstructure, as material for structural elements that can be used to advance the realization of sustainable building systems.
Detection of coagulating blood under steady flow by statistical analysis of backscattered signals

The main purpose of this study is to detect blood coagulation under flow condition by analyzing Nakagami statistical model of backscattered signals. The radiofrequency (RF) signals backscattered from flowing blood were measured with a 10-MHz focused transducer. A 30-ml aliquot of blood was circulated in the flow model, and 3 ml of 0.5 M calcium chloride solution was added to induce blood coagulation. The progression in the blood coagulation due to the addition of the calcium chloride solution resulted in the integrated backscatter being increased by 4.2 plusmn 0.5 dB, then tended to stabilize as the clot was formed. The Nakagami parameter was approximately 0.75 plusmn 0.1 for flowing blood during the initial stage of blood coagulation, and it increased rapidly to its highest level of 2.6 plusmn 0.5 during clotting. These experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of using the ultrasonic statistical parameter for detecting blood coagulation from flowing blood and provide a novel method for further monitoring the progress of clotting and thrombosis in vivo
Lead using or lead refusing? an exploratory examination of open innovation activities by lead users in mechanical engineering

Nowadays the importance of lead users as an important source for innovating new products or services is commonly acknowledged. Conventional accounts frequently elaborate upon ways of improving lead user integration with regards to opening up new avenues for further collaboration. Against this background, this study concentrates upon qualitative data from the field of mechanical engineering, which suggest that companies oftentimes also deliberately try to refuse to engage with lead users. This unanticipated finding thwarts the supremacy of an uncritical integration of lead users, indicating that the extent to which lead users are integrated depends upon the nature of the product and the particularities of the relationship between the company and the respective lead user. The article concludes with a discussion, critical reflection, and options for future research.
PRINCIPLES OF SPECIFIC DESENSITIZATION TO POLLEN

Any discussion of hay fever should begin with the confession that no one knows much about it. This sad fact depends upon the lack of any reliable and objective measure of what the treatment does. So far the study of treatment must depend upon the statement of the patient, and his record of symptoms, that his hay fever was relieved or improved, or else not improved. So long as this difficulty continues, the discussion of the technique of treatment: the material used, the size and number of doses, and the intervals between them, is not likely to give us basic information, and the treatment will never be satisfactory in a real sense. In spite of this unhappy situation there are a number of clinical observations which may lead toward a better understanding of the process. What follows is based upon a study of a small group of patients treated in private practice whose principle problem was ragweed hay fever, although some of them were sensitive also to other substances. The "tree" and/or "grass" cases are not included in this report. The extract used was the routine extract of short ragweed (Ambrosia Elatior) made with Coca's salt solution, and the doses were given preseasonally and not perennially. In 1947 my paper ( i ) on "Pollen Tolerance" showed that for each patient there is a level of dosage: a tolerance level beyond which injections of larger quantities produce general systemic reactions, and it showed that for each patient his
TCR- and CD28-Mediated Recruitment of Phosphodiesterase 4 to Lipid Rafts Potentiates TCR Signaling1

Ligation of the TCR along with the coreceptor CD28 is necessary to elicit T cell activation in vivo, whereas TCR triggering alone does not allow a full T cell response. Upon T cell activation of human peripheral blood T cells, we found that the majority of cAMP was generated in T cell lipid rafts followed by activation of protein kinase A. However, upon TCR and CD28 coligation, β-arrestin in complex with cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) was recruited to lipid rafts which down-regulated cAMP levels. Whereas inhibition of protein kinase A increased TCR-induced immune responses, inhibition of PDE4 blunted T cell cytokine production. Conversely, overexpression of either PDE4 or β-arrestin augmented TCR/CD28-stimulated cytokine production. We show here for the first time that the T cell immune response is potentiated by TCR/CD28-mediated recruitment of PDE4 to lipid rafts, which counteracts the local, TCR-induced production of cAMP. The specific recruitment of PDE4 thus serves to abrogate the negative feedback by cAMP which is elicited in the absence of a coreceptor stimulus.
Amblyopia and Real-World Visuomotor Tasks

A question of increasing interest to the basic science and clinical management communities during the past decade is whether children and adults with amblyopia and associated binocular visual abnormalities experience difficulties in executing real-world actions, to which vision normally makes an important functional contribution. Here we provide objective evidence that they do, by reviewing quantitative data from a number of studies comparing their performance with that of matched normally sighted subjects on a range of everyday visuomotor tasks. Because in real life, these tasks (grasping objects, walking, driving, reading) are habitually performed with both eyes open, our focus is on their binocular skill deficits, rather than those with their amblyopic eye alone. General findings are that individuals with abnormal binocularity show impairments in critical aspects of motor control—movement speed, accuracy or both—on every one of these activities, the extent of which correlates with their loss of stereoacuity, but not the severity of their amblyopia. Impairments were especially marked when the task was time-limited or novel. Implications are that children and adults with severely reduced or absent binocularity may be accident-prone when required to respond rapidly to unexpected situations and that amblyopia management should focus more attention on evaluating and restoring stereoacuity and stereomotion processing.
Chapter Twelve Social Problem Solving and Health

Counseling psychology is committed to helping people meet the challenges and solve the problems they encounter in daily routines and in stressful circumstances. To a great extent, this holds true for other professional psychology specialties (including clinical, educational and health psychology) as clients usually seek professional assistance in solving the problems they face. Thus, the study of problem-solving abilities—their measurement and correlates—and efficient ways to improve these abilities is of keen interest to clinicians and researchers. Counseling psychology has played an influential role in this area of inquiry. Historically guided by early cognitive-behavioral theorists (D’Zurilla & Goldfried, 1971), counseling psychology contributed essential theoretical refinements (Heppner & Krauskopf, 1987) and measurement tools (Heppner, 1988) that remain landmark events. However, related and subsequent theoretical and empirical contributions—appearing primarily in outlets associated with clinical and health psychology, and in the larger, multidisciplinary literature—have yet to be sufficiently integrated with contributions from counseling psychology. This lack of scholarly integration has not necessarily impeded advancements and applications, but it has thwarted a deeper theoretical understanding of the mechanisms at work in the learning and application of social problem-solving abilities.
Output Regulation for Control Systems on  $SE(n)$: A Separation Principle Based Approach

This technical note considers a solution to an output regulation problem for control systems on the special Euclidean group SE(n). The proposed solution consists of a convergent observer together with a certainty equivalence implementation of an almost globally stable state feedback law. The design of the observer and the state feedback are carried out independently. We show that all closed loop solutions remain bounded, that the steady-state solution is contained in exactly one of a finite number of isolated sets which are all unstable except one, which is the desired equilibrium set and which is asymptotically stable.
Dependence of 1H NMR chemical shifts of geminal protons of glycosyloxy methylene (H2‐26) on the orientation of the 27‐methyl group of furostane‐type steroidal saponins

An approach based on the difference (Δab = δa − δb) between the 1H NMR chemical shifts (δa, δb) of the geminal protons of glycosyloxy methylene (H2‐26) (Δab = <0.48 for 25R; Δab = >0.57 for 25S) is proposed for ascertaining 25R/25S orientation of the 27‐methyl group of furostane‐type steroidal saponins. These studies suggested the 25R‐orientation of the 27‐Me group for the furostanol glycosides isolated by Wu et al. from Tribulus terrestris. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Interferon-induced guanylate-binding proteins lack an N(T)KXD consensus motif and bind GMP in addition to GDP and GTP

The primary structures of interferon (IFN)-induced guanylate-binding proteins (GBPs) were deduced from cloned human and murine cDNAs. These proteins contained only two of the three sequence motifs typically found in GTP/GDP-binding proteins. The N(T)KXD motif, which is believed to confer guanine specificity in other nucleotide-binding proteins, was absent. Nevertheless, the IFN-induced GBPs exhibited a high degree of selectivity for binding to agarose-immobilized guanine nucleotides. An interesting feature of IFN-induced GBPs is that they strongly bound to GMP agarose in addition to GDP and GTP agaroses but failed to bind to ATP agarose and all other nucleotide agaroses tested. Both GTP and GMP, but not ATP, competed for binding of murine GBP-1 to agarose-immobilized GMP. The IFN-induced GBPs thus define a distinct novel family of proteins with GTP-binding activity. We further demonstrate that human and murine cells contain at least two genes encoding IFN-induced GBPs. The cloned murine cDNA codes for GBP-1, an IFN-induced protein previously shown to be absent from mice of Gbp-1b genotype.
Joint Downlink and Uplink Tilt-Based Self-Organization of Coverage and Capacity Under Sparse System Knowledge

Concurrent self-organization of coverage and capacity in both downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) is an ambitious task since 1) Coverage and capacity are conflicting key performance indicators (KPIs), and 2) an adequate DL performance does not necessarily entail an adequate UL performance because the DL and UL interference scenarios are fundamentally different. However, considering the UL when self-organizing the network is crucial because the UL transmission becomes more important due to the emergence of new applications and services, such as social networking, video calls, or sensor networks, which require either parity between DL and UL traffic or even more UL than DL traffic. In this paper, we propose a general concept for the self-organization of multiple KPIs while having only very sparse knowledge about the network. Using this concept, we propose an effective tilt-based algorithm that manages to jointly optimize coverage and capacity in DL and UL. In an urban scenario with real Long-Term Evolution (LTE) site locations, we were able to increase the cell-edge user throughput by 70% (DL) and 24% (UL) while concurrently decreasing the number of uncovered users by 21% (DL) and 25% (UL), compared with a well-chosen reference tilt setting.
Hyperinvasive Neonatal Group B Streptococcus Has Arisen from a Bovine Ancestor

ABSTRACT The genetic relatedness and evolutionary relationships between group B streptococcus (GBS) isolates from humans and those from bovines were investigated by phylogenetic analysis of multilocus sequence typing data. The collection of isolates consisted of 111 GBS isolates from cows with mastitis and a diverse global collection of GBS isolates from patients with invasive disease (n = 83) and carriers (n = 69). Cluster analysis showed that the majority of the bovine isolates (93%) grouped into one phylogenetic cluster. The human isolates showed greater diversity and clustered separately from the bovine population. However, the homogeneous human sequence type 17 (ST-17) complex, known to be significantly associated with invasive neonatal disease, was the only human lineage found to be clustered within the bovine population and was distinct from all the other human lineages. Split decomposition analysis revealed that the human isolate ST-17 complex, the major hyperinvasive neonatal clone, has recently arisen from a bovine lineage.