Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Young Clients of Hotel-Based Sex Workers in Bangladesh: Vulnerability to HIV, Risk Perceptions, and Expressed Needs for Interventions

ABSTRACT A qualitative study was conducted among key informants and 53 young clients (15 to 24 years of age) of commercial sex workers from nine hotels in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Respondents reported first sexual encounter before 18 years of age, and reasons for purchasing sex were to prove masculinity or to reduce wet dreams and masturbation, thought to be detrimental to health. Limited knowledge of HIV and sexually transmitted infections was linked to high-risk sexual practices. Condom use was related to perceptions of cleanliness, status, and trust in the sex worker. A hotel-based, confidential intervention program promoting safe sex practices among clients of sex workers is warranted.
Acute Care Psychiatry: Diagnosis and Treatment

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Emissivity-adjusted based depth profiling in eddy current pulsed thermography

The measurement of hardened case depth is important for evaluating the case treated materials, particularly in the nondestructive means. The conventional method for the task has to cut the samples to evaluate the hardness by crossing surface of it. Here we introduce a new nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT&E) method to accomplish the task by using eddy current pulsed thermography (ECPT), in comparison with another newly introduced method, magnetic Barkhausen noise. The samples used in this paper were four case nitrided gear steel samples. They have different treating times with the case depth less than 1mm, which are with different surface emissivity values. We investigated the behaviors of thermal intersection points under different lift-off of the excitation coil to the sample under test in ECPT after the emissivity adjustment. It shows that there are two kinds of intersection points. The first one is thermal intersection points of different samples are as further to the maximum heating transient as increasing the lift-off of excitation coil. The second kind is the thermal intersection point appeared in the transient thermal response of one sample with different lift-off of excitation coil, and the positions of the point is shifting close to the maximum heating transient as the case depth of the sample increasing. This paper shows, the depth-profiles of case hardened materials can be retrieved by evaluating the behaviors of lift-off point of thermal intersection (LOTI) in eddy current pulsed thermography.
Collective Service Intelligence Management in Mobiquitous Systems

—This paper describes a Self-adaptive Middleware for Mobiquitous information system and its underlying model based upon a multidimensional service representation and management. The service dimensions refer to the “4W”: 1) Who? , i.e., user profile (implicit knowledge deduced from user interaction history and explicit knowledge in form of preferences); 2) Where and 3) When? , i.e., “external” (physical) interaction context (location, time, device, etc.); 4) What? , i.e., “internal” interaction context (user ad-hoc task: goal(s), expectations and optional requirements). An original approach for dynamic adaptive service generation (on-the-fly composition) based on collective service intelligence captured in what (we call “collective services memory”) is proposed. Currently a prototype of the middleware is being implemented for touristic cultural paths in the city of Astrakhan (Russia).
Participation and collaborative learning in large class sizes: wiki, can you help me?

Abstract Collaborative learning has a long tradition within higher education. However, its application in classes with a large number of students is complicated, since it is a teaching method that requires a high level of participation from the students and careful monitoring of the process by the educator. This article presents an experience in collaborative learning adapted to large class sizes using wikis. The objective is to check if wikis allow for effective collaborative learning methods to be introduced into large groups. The results show how effective wikis can be in encouraging collaborative learning and active participation by the student, as well as facilitating the monitoring and assessment of individual work even in large classes.
086PLEURAL RECURRENCE OF THYMOMA: SURGICAL RESECTION FOLLOWED BY HYPERTHERMIC INTRA-THORACIC PERFUSION CHEMOTHERAPY

OBJECTIVES: Recurrences of thymoma are described in 10–30% of cases up to 10 years after surgical resection. Herein we report our experience with surgical removal of pleural recurrences followed by hyperthermic intrathoracic perfusion chemotherapy (HITHOC). METHODS: We prospectively collected data of patients with pleural recurrence of thymoma who underwent surgery followed by HITHOC. After thoracotomy had been closed, drainages were connected to a dedicated perfusion machine, pleural space was filled with saline solution, progressively heated up to 42.5°C. At this time, chemotherapeutic agents (Doxorubicin and Cisplatin) were injected and perfusion lasted 60 min. RESULTS: In the period 2005–2012, 13 consecutive patients have been treated (8 males, 5 females, mean age 46 years). Initial MasaokaKoga stage was 2 IIa, 5 IIb, 5 III, 1 IVa. Disease-free interval was 47.2 months on average [standard deviation (SD): 25.5]. Nine patients presented paraneoplastic syndromes (8 myasthenia gravis and 1 red cell aplasia). Complete resection was achieved in all cases except one. HITHOC was successfully performed in all cases and no signs or symptoms of toxicity were recorded in the perioperative period. With a mean follow-up period of 64.6 months (SD: 32.5), 1 patient died for toxicity following systemic chemotherapy, another one died diseasefree, 4 patients developed pleural relapses (2 ipsilateral, 2 contralateral) and 1 mediastinal and abdominal nodal metastases. Mean survival was 58 months [SD: 34.4), median survival by the Kaplan–Meier method was not reached while 5-year actuarial survival was 92%. CONCLUSIONS: HITHOC was shown to be feasible and safe. In terms of efficacy, it seems promising but multicentre studies and a longer follow-up period are required to ascertain its effectiveness.
Some Empirical Automated Software Engineering

We experiment with core processes within software development tasks (reuse and conflict management in requirements engineering). After defining those processes, we automatically perform 100,000s of manipulations in accordance with that process. The results of the manipulations are summarized and discussed. In two case studies with this technique we find that building widely reusable software components will be harder than we had thought while resolving conflicts amongst competing stakeholders is easier than we had thought.
Bases moleculars de la diabetis tipus 2: Determinants genètics de l'amilina.

Els diposits d'amiloide s'observen en els illots pancreatics de la immensa majoria de persones que han sofert diabetis mellitus tipus 2, i constitueixen un fet caracteristic en la historia natural de la malaltia. El principal component d'aquest diposits es la amilina, un peptid sintetitzat per la propia cel.lula i secretat amb la insulina. La hipotesi de treball del present projecte es basa en el fet que els diposits d'amiloide serien secundaris a una alteracio en la expressio de l'amilina o be en la sintesi del peptid, i aquesta alteracio podria estar determinada per un defecte genetic.
Cystische Fibrose - eine Multiorganerkrankung

Cystic Fibrosis – A Multiorgan Dis- ease In this metabolic disease, several appara- tuses are involved, which leads to a multitude of symptoms and necessity of extensive therapy con- cepts. This and an early diagnosis with newborn- screening as well were able to increase life ex- pectancy; today half of all patients with cystic fi - brosis are grown-up persons. However, hope for concerned patients’ lies in further development of causal therapy. J Pneumologie 2014; 2 (1): 21–5.
Agents that block advanced glycation end product (AGE)-RAGE (receptor for AGEs)-oxidative stress system: a novel therapeutic strategy for diabetic vascular complications

Background: Diabetic vascular complications are leading causes of acquired blindness, end-stage renal failure, a variety of neuropathies, and accelerated atherosclerosis, which together could account for disabilities and high mortality rates in patients with diabetes. Since there is accumulating evidence that the advanced glycation end product (AGE)–RAGE (receptor for AGEs)–oxidative stress axis is involved in diabetic vascular complications, inhibition of the AGE–RAGE system may be a promising target for therapeutic intervention in these devastating disorders. Objective: In this review, we discuss several types of agent that may be able to inhibit the AGE–RAGE–oxidative stress system, and their therapeutic implications in vascular complications in diabetes. Methods: We have analyzed currently available scientific literature in the field of AGE–RAGE to create a comprehensive review on novel therapeutic agents for vascular complications in diabetes. Results/conclusion: Inhibition of AGE formation, blockade of the AGE–RAGE interaction, and suppression of RAGE expression or its downstream pathways may be novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of vascular complications in diabetes.
Strategies for Improving Coordination between Enforcement and Treatment Efforts in Controlling Illegal Drug Use

Improved coordination between law enforcement, prevention, and treatment efforts is a goal articulated by almost all policymakers concerned with reducing the use of illegal drugs. This paper reviews what is currently known about interactions between these alternative intervention strategies and identifies a number of problems that impede better coordination between them — including organizational incentives, differences in philosophy, and differences in the timing of impacts. Programmatic strategies suggested for overcoming these impediments include particular forms of training, the use of joint task forces, and the assignment of liaison personnel.
The nature of Paleolithic art

The cave paintings and other preserved remnants of Paleolithic peoples shed light on a world little known to us, one so deeply embedded in time that information about it seems unrecoverable. While art historians have wrestled with these images and objects, very few scientists have weighed in on Paleolithic art as artifacts of a complex, living society. R. Dale Guthrie is one of the first to do so, and his monumental volume "The Nature of Paleolithic Art" is a landmark study that will change the shape of our understanding of these marvelous images. With a natural historian's keen eye for observation, and as one who has spent a lifetime using bones and other excavated materials to piece together past human behavior and environments, Guthrie demonstrates that Paleolithic art is a mode of expression we can comprehend to a remarkable degree and that the perspective of natural history is integral to that comprehension. He employs a mix of ethology, evolutionary biology, and human universals to access these distant cultures and their art and artifacts. Guthrie uses innovative forensic techniques to reveal new information; estimating, for example, the ages and sexes of some of the artists, he establishes that Paleolithic art was not just the creation of male shamans. With more than 3,000 images, "The Nature of Paleolithic Art" offers the most comprehensive representation of Paleolithic art ever published and a radical (and controversial) new way of interpreting it. The variety and content of these images most of which have never been available or easily accessible to nonspecialists or even researchers will astonish you. This wonderfully written work of natural history, of observation and evidence, tells the great story of our deepest past. "
The Design and Implementation of Reusable Data Reduction Tool in Cloud Computing Platform

Cloud computing model makes software reuse from the simple code reuse to the service-oriented software reuse . This paper based on the extended Google App Engine cloud computing platform, designed a reusable data reduction tool, which mainly to solve the access problem of heterogeneous data and an un-existed data type. In order to achieve data reuse, a layered data structure definition based on the reuse is provided. Finally, a data-mining system built on top of cloud computing platform is designed and implemented to verify the efficiency and the validity of data reduction module.
Clinical Trials Currently Being Conducted with the Use of Adult Stem Cells Transplantation to Treat Retinal Diseases

Current clinical trials are underway to evaluate the potential of stem cell therapy to treat multiple retinal diseases. These trials can be divided into two categories: regenerative and trophic. The regenerative therapies utilize differentiated cells such as RPE or photoreceptors that have been isolated, expanded, and derived from pluripotent embryonic or adult stem cells. The functional cells are intended to replace the damaged native cells to restore retinal function. In the trophic approach, the stem cells remain undifferentiated and are intended to repair the injured tissue or preserve function by altering the cellular microenvironment either by releasing cytokines or cell-to-cell interactions. The ability of regenerative cell therapies to replace diseased tissues has been widely publicized, yet the capacity of trophic therapies to restore visual function also holds promise [1,2]. The mechanisms by which cell therapy may be associated with functional and structural improvements in retinal diseases are unclear, but several stem cell paracrine effects may be important. For example, it has been demonstrated that, when stimulated by pro-inflammatory agents such as tumor necrosis factor, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells release anti-inflammatory paracrine factors, exerting modulation of local inflammation, which could improve vascular permeability [3-6]. In addition, bone marrow-derived hematopoietic stem cells injected intravitreally have been shown to exert trophic rescue effects in animal models of retinal light-damage, retinal ischemia, and diabetic retinopathy [7-9].
Teaching English Idioms to EFL Studentsthrough Songs

Abstrak. BahasaInggris di Indonesia telah diajarkan mulai tingkat pendidikan dasar. Bahasa Inggrisini dipelajari oleh para siswa nulai dari tingkat dasar sampai dengan menengahbahkan di perguruan tinggi. Di Indonesia para siswa mempelajari Bahasa Inggrissebagai bahasa asing (English as a Foreign Language). Umumnya pembelajaranBahasa Inggris mencakup grammar, writing, reading, listening, dan speaking.Namun demikian, para pengajar Bahasa Inggris juga perlu mengajarkan aspekbudaya dari bahasa Inggris tersebut. Aspek budaya dari bahasa Inggris ini dapatditemukan dalam idiom. Idiom yang merupakan bahasa kiasan seringkali digunakandalam percakapan sehari-hari oleh para penutur asli Bahasa Inggris. Salah satucara yang dapat dipergunakan untuk mengajarkan idiom adalah dengan instrumentlagu. Tulisan ini membahas pengajaran idiom Bahasa Inggris melalui lagu-laguberbahasa Inggris. Lagu-lagu berbahasa Inggris yang memuat idiom di dalamliriknya dapat menjadi sarana yang efektif, karena dengan mendengarkan lagu,murid-murid akan termotivasi untuk mencari tahu makna idiom yang terdapat dalamlirik lagu tersebut.
Nurses' Consolation: A Grounded Theory Study

To date, consolation has not been clearly defined in nursing science. The purpose of this study was to identify the phenomenon of consolation from the perspective of practising nurses. Data from interviews with 21 nurses were analysed by means of the grounded theory approach. Consolation comprised supportive consolation, avoiding consolation, insufficient consolation and inaccessible consolation, which were integrated into the nurses' professional approach and personal outlook. More basic research is required in order to illuminate the meaning of the phenomenon of consolation with focus on supportive consolation as well as the non-consolation phenomenon comprising the so-called avoiding, insufficient and inaccessible consolation. In order for nurses to be able to prescribe, carry out and evaluate consoling care which alleviates patient suffering, there is a need for further knowledge of what constitutes and does not constitute consolation.
Compound verbs in codeswitching: Bilinguals making do?

This paper builds on an earlier one (Gardner-Chloros & Edwards, 2004), where we pointed to various problems underlying the search for grammatical constraints on codeswitching (CS), these problems being largely derived from the assumption that CS is the sum of two finite and discrete systems which together make up the competence of the bilingual speaker. Here we look more closely at the type of grammatical knowledge involved in intrasentential CS, by examining a widely attested structure in CS, bilingual compound verbs (BCVs). We consider the properties of compound verbs in general, including in monolingual contexts, their significance in the CS literature, notably for the notion of Matrix Language, and their implications for an understanding of bilingual grammars, broadly defined. We conclude that this widespread feature of bilingual speech is more than a convenient frame for inserting foreign words, and should be seen as part of a more general verb-formation process. The types of linguistic knowledge which allow such formations to emerge are based on what Sebba (1998) has called conceptual work, rather than on the simple interaction of two linguistic systems as such. We list a number of factors to be taken into account in trying to identify a CS grammar, within which idiolect, metalinguistic knowledge and community norms are particularly significant.
Responsabilité sociale des entreprises et diversité des capitalismes

L’analyse de la litterature sur la responsabilite sociale des entreprises permet dans une premiere partie de l’article de distinguer trois temps : aux preoccupations ethiques des premiers temps ont d’abord fait suite des considerations utilitaristes puis une volonte d’apprecier l’activite des entreprises sur les trois plans de l’environnement, du social et de l’economique en termes de developpement durable. Dans une seconde partie on a cherche a etablir a partir de six enquetes realisees par l’entreprise KPMG entre 1993 et 2008 sur les rapports non financiers des plus grandes entreprises cotees de divers pays de l’OCDE les conditions dans lesquelles se developpent un processus d’institutionnalisation autour de ce « reporting ». La encore on distingue deux periodes, la premiere est poussee par la montee d’une preoccupation de l’opinion mondiale sur les problemes d’environnement, elle concerne plus particulierement certains secteurs d’activite. La seconde periode suit a partir des annees 2000 l’acceleration de la financiarisation ; le « reporting » devient une « obligation » generale pour toutes ces societes cotees sur les places financieres internationales. Le futur de cette pratique va dependre dans un « troisieme temps » a la fois des certifications et garanties qui continueront ou non a se developper et des conditions d’extension aux autres entreprises. Plusieurs scenarios pour cette troisieme phase sont analyses en conclusion, qui a des degres divers soulignent le caractere determinant des types de capitalisme concerne.
A fast RLS algorithm for multiuser detection

The multi-input single-output (MISO) system of the decentralized (single-user) MMSE receiver for CDMA signals has precluded the exploitation of a fast RLS algorithm. Conventional multichannel lattice-based algorithms applicable to the centralized (multiuser) MMSE receiver incur a significant complexity increase due to their basis, the classical multichannel Levinson algorithm. In the author's recent paper, a new multichannel Levinson algorithm has been proposed. The new algorithm is not only more computationally efficient but more flexible than the classical algorithm. This paper shows how we can exploit the new Levinson type algorithm in a least squares (LS) fashion for such a complicated application as the CMMSE receiver requiring a high level of computational efficiency and flexibility. The proposed LS algorithm is still a fast algorithm. It is further observed that the fast RLS-driven CMMSE receiver exhibits better convergence and performance than LMS-driven MMSE receivers.
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1

On behalf of the program committee for ACL-2003, consisting of 12 area chairs and two program committee co-chairs, we are pleased to present you with this volume. It contains the papers accepted for presentation in the main conference program of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics held in Sapporo, Japan on July 7-12, 2003.The 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics consists of the main program, a student workshop, interactive poster/demo sessions, ten pre- and post-conference workshops, and four tutorials. Associated conferences for ACL-2003 include The Eighth Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2003) and the Sixth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL2003). These workshops and associated conferences have published separate proceedings that are available at the conference or from the ACL office (http://www.aclweb.org/). This year, 360 papers were submitted for the main program of the meeting, from which 71 were accepted for presentation and inclusion in the conference proceedings. An acceptance rate of 19.72% makes ACL-2003 one of the most selective international conferences of the year. Among the accepted papers, 32 come from North America and Canada, 22 from Asia and the Pacific Rim area, and 17 from Europe. As a whole, the accepted papers provide a unique overview of cutting-edge research in the field of Computational Linguistics conducted at present.
Processing of radio-holographic image with a cellular neural network (CNN)

Digital radio-holographic images of 10 kinds of airplanes, which can serve as 'etalon' standard models, are used. On the grounds of the results of the processing of these images with a Kalman filter and CNN neural networks, a comparative analysis of the precision of the two approaches is done at the filtration of the image with background noise. The comparison is done on the basis of two geometrical features (characteristics) of the target (the plane) - the length of the fuselage axis and the to width (the spread) of the wings of the plane. At filtration the approach to be chosen is the one where the values of the two characteristics approximate at the most those of the 'etalon' plane.