Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Most people do not have clear images of what kind of furniture they want regarding designs or styles before they see them in the showroom ( Roy , 2002 )

This study is a Web-based investigation that utilizes virtual reality technology to understand the factors considered for residential furniture purchase and furniture style preference. In residential interior design, furniture has significant financial and symbolic meaning. From a broader perspective, residential furniture is important to the domestic furniture industry as well as to woodworking and textile markets. Despite this importance, little is known about how consumers make residential furniture choices and what designs or styles are preferred. The purpose of this study is to understand the most important factors involved in choosing living room furniture and to identify preferences for furniture style using an online virtual showroom application. In this survey, 301 college participants responded to questions regarding priorities and style preferences when purchasing living room furniture. The participants evaluated 117 living room furniture items representing three style categories: traditional, modern, and casual. The survey results demonstrated significant differences between males and females in their priority considerations, style preferences for furniture, and the number of possibilities they try before making final choices. This empirical study is an effort to provide important information on consumer characteristics and their furniture choices for interior practitioners and furniture industry personnel in a three-dimensional virtual furniture showroom constructed for the study.
An Evaluation of Data Placement Methods for Multiple-gear Power-proportional Distributed File Systems

Recently, power-aware distributed file systems for efficient Big Data processing has increasingly moved towards power-proportional designs. However, inefficient gear-shifting in such systems has become a vital issue that could hugely degrade the performance of the systems. To address this issue, we previously proposed a powerproportional data placement method known as Accordion, which uses data replication to comprehensively arrange the data layout and provide efficient gear-shifting by reducing the amount of re-transferred data. In this paper, we discussed in detail the effectiveness of Accordion and another data placement method relating to block size, which is configurable in many distributed file systems like the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) or the Google File System. Extensive empirical experiments using actual machines based on the HDFS demonstrated that suitable block size setting was able to shorten the execution time of the data reallocation process in gear-shifting by more than
The Relationship between Depression and Sleep Duration with Components of Metabolic Syndrome in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

1 Endocrinology and Metabolism Department, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 2 Biostatistics & Epidemiology Department, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 3 Molecular Pathology Research Center, Emam Reza Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 4 Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
SEXUAL HEALTH IN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ATransdiagnosticMinority Stress Treatment Approach for Gay and BisexualMen ’ s Syndemic Health Conditions

Developing and deploying separate treatments for separate conditions seems ill-suited to intervening upon the cooccurring, and possibly functionally similar, psychosocial conditions facing gay and bisexual men. This article argues for the need tocreate transdiagnostic interventions that reducemultiple syndemic conditions facing gay andbisexualmen at the level of their shared source inminority stress pathways. This article first reviews psychosocial syndemic conditions affecting gay and bisexual men, then suggests pathways that might link minority stress topsychosocial syndemicsbasedon recent advancements in emotion science, psychiatric nosology, and cognitive-affective neuroscience, and finally suggests cross-cutting psychosocial treatment principles to reduce minority stress-syndemic pathwaysamonggayandbisexualmen.Becauseminority stress servesasacommonbasisofallpsychosocialsyndemicconditions reviewed here, locating the pathways through which minority stress generates psychosocial syndemics and employing overarching treatment principles capable of simultaneously alleviating these pathways will ultimately create a transdiagnostic approach toimprovinggayandbisexualmen’shealth.Clinicalresearchand trainingapproachesaresuggestedtofurthervalidate thepathways suggestedhere,establishtheefficacyof treatmentapproachestied to those pathways, and generate effective methods for disseminating a transdiagnostic minority stress treatment approach for gay and bisexual men’s psychosocial syndemic health.
(R )E VOLUTION OF F INANCIAL THEORY

How can we explain that in 2008/2009 the global stock markets plummeted –50% in nine months only to rebound by +60% over the following nine months? Why did investors price in the future earnings of the global stock market at 35 times the market price at the height of the TMT bubble, while the same multiple reached a low of 10 in March 2009? Can these swings be reconciled with the theory of the rational investor or are the global stock market and its participants irrational? Market participants and academics alike have struggled with finding answers to such questions. Over the years numerous potential explanations have been propagated. In this white paper we attempt to disentangle the most prevalent theories used to account for the ups and downs on the global stock market. Which theories (or maybe rather ideas) are most commonly brought forward, what is their core message, and which practical implications do they entail for the investment community? And last, but crucially, do any of these theories stand the test of reality? EFFICIENT MARKE T HYPOTHESIS
Medikal Ozon ve Veteriner Cerrahide Kullanimi

Ozon, oksijenin dogada yuksek enerjili elektrik akimina ve ultraviyole isinlarina maruz kalmasi sonucunda olusan, 3 oksijen atomu tasiyan bir molekuldur. Guclu bir oksidasyon olusturma yetenegine sahiptir. Bu nedenle, bakterisid, virusid ve fungusid olarak etki gosterir. Ozon sagaltimi, saf oksijen ile ozonun belirli oranlarda (%0,05-5 O 3 ; %95-99,95 O 2 ) karistirilip, bu karisimin degisik yontemlerle hastaya uygulanmasini iceren bir sagaltim seklidir. Ozon, organizmada oksidatif bir etki olusturarak antioksidan enzim sistemlerini faaliyete gecirir. Lokositler tarafindan interferon ve interlokin gibi sitokinlerin salinimini saglar ve bagisiklik sistemini uyarir. Ozonun intravenoz, kas ici, transdermal, rektal ufleme ve inhalasyon gibi temel basliklar altinda toplanabilen, 30 farkli uygulama yontemi bulunmaktadir. Ozon sagaltimi yara iyilesmesi, tumorler, peritonitisler, ortopedik hastaliklar, goz hastaliklari ve dis hekimligi uygulamalarinda yer bulabilmektedir. Sunulan bu derleme ile ozonun sagaltici etkilerinin ve uygulama kolayliginin meslektaslarimizla paylasilmasi ve ulkemiz veteriner hekimligi pratigine yeni bir sagaltim proseduru olarak sunulabilmesi hedeflenmistir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Ozon sagaltimi, otohemoterapi, veteriner cerrahi
Effect of Addition Of Zirconium Oxide Nanoparticles on
Flexural Strength and Porosity of Heat Cure Acrylic
Resin

Heat cure denture base is the most commonly used material for fabrication of removable prosthesis to the present day. However difficulties persist in fabrication of satisfactory prosthesis due to poor mechanical properties which have resulted in frequent repairs in dental practice. The present study is aimed to investigate the effect of Zirconium oxide nanoparticles (ZrO2NPs) on flexural strength and porosity of denture base and its correlation. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to check the purity of NPs. NPs was dispersed at 1%, 3% and 5% by weight to the monomer of methyl methacrylate with aid of probe sonicator. In addition, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was used to observe agglomeration of particles within the acrylic. The results revealed significant flexural strength difference (p<0.05) between each concentration of ZrO2NPs. The analysis showed 17% and 11% reduction for 1% and 3% ZrO2NPs respectively while 5% caused a drastic reduction by 32% in reference to control. In regards to porosity, the results present no statistically significant difference among the concentrations in contrast to control. Pearson correlation showed strong and a negative relation (-0.83) between flexural strength and porosity. However, the results was not statistically significant (p=0.369). Within the limitations of this study, it can be concluded that the addition of ZrO2 caused reduction in flexural strength for all concentrations added. While it caused non-significant effect on porosity of acrylic. suitable additive to enhance the properties of PMMA.
MORPHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ROOTS , STEMS AND LEAVES OF SOLANUM NIGRUM L . CULTIVATED ON DIFFERENT SOIL TYPES

Solanum nigrum is a wild vegetable well-known for its nutraceutical properties. This plant’s proper identification is essential not only to plant scientists but to a wide range of users. A pot experiment was therefore conducted to determine the influence of sandy clay loam, silty clay loam, clay loam and loam soils on the morphology of the plant’s roots, stems and leaves. Roots, stems and leaves were viewed under the Scanning Electron Microscope while the leaves were further viewed under the Light Microscope. Silty clay loam recorded the highest stomata, guard, and subsidiary cell densities on the abaxial as well as on the adaxial surface. The LM revealed the hypo-amphistomatous and anisocytic type of stomata in S. nigrum. The SEM analysis revealed the presence of different types of glandular and nonglandular trichromes on both surfaces of the leaves regardless of the soil types. The soil types did not have a significant effect on the root and stem characteristics, however, the stomata, guard and subsidiary cells were significantly affected by the soil types. The presence of trichomes is a good indicator of the ability of S. nigrum to secrete bioactive compounds for which this plant is well known.
Constrained Cross-Entropy Method for Safe Reinforcement Learning

We study a safe reinforcement learning problem in which the constraints are defined as the expected cost over finite-length trajectories. We propose a constrained cross-entropy-based method to solve this problem. The method explicitly tracks its performance with respect to constraint satisfaction and thus is well-suited for safety-critical applications. We show that the asymptotic behavior of the proposed algorithm can be almost-surely described by that of an ordinary differential equation. Then we give sufficient conditions on the properties of this differential equation for the convergence of the proposed algorithm. At last, we show with simulation experiments that the proposed algorithm can effectively learn feasible policies without assumptions on the feasibility of initial policies, even with non-Markovian objective functions and constraint functions.
Graph-based features for texture discrimination

Graph-based features, such as the number of con­ nected components, edges of a given orient ation and vertices per unit area, and the number of vertices and pixels per connected component, are proposed for the analysis of textures which consist o f structural ele­ ments. The proposed set of features is compared with features obtained by a typical filter-based scheme which makes use of Gabor filters. The discrimination proper­ ties of the two types of features are assessed by evaluat­ ing the separability of sets of feature vectors which are derived from different types of texture using the Maha­ lanobis distance. The graph-based features are shown to be superior to the filter-based features for the class of concerned textures. They are particularly suited for dis­ crimination between textures which have the same spa­ tial and orientation regularity but consist of elements of different form.
Modelado y control de un convertidor NPC de tres niveles como rectificador activo con función de filtro activo de corriente

Resumen. En este art́ıculo se presenta el modelado de un convertidor multinivel de diodo de enclavamiento (NPC) como rectificador de frente activo (AFE) empleado adicionalmente como filtro activo para compensar las corrientes armónicas y potencia reactiva generadas al conectar una carga no lineal en paralelo. Se propone un esquema de linealización del sistema por retroalimentación de estados y un control lineal empleando controladores PI y PID, obtenido en el marco de referencia dq0. Este esquema asegura que el nivel de tensión en cd se mantiene constante reduciendo el desbalance de tensión entre los condensadores; además, al conectar y desconectar una carga no lineal en paralelo al sistema, el mismo esquema controla su función adicional como filtro activo de potencia manteniendo un factor de potencia cercano a la unidad y una baja distorsión armónica.
Afterslip aod aftershocks in the rate-aod-state frictioo law

[I] We study how a stress perturbation generated by a main shock affects a fault obeying the rate-state friction law using a simple slider block system. Depending on the model parameters and on the initial stress, the fault exhibits aftershocks, slow earthquakes, or decaying afterslip. We found several regimes with slip rate decaying as a power law of time, with different characteristic times and exponents. The behavior of the rate-state friction law is thus far more complex than described by the "steady state" approximation frequently used to fit afterslip data. The fault reaches steady state only at very large times, when slip rate has decreased to the tectonic loading rate. The complexity of the model makes it unrealistic to invert for the friction law parameters from afterslip data. We modeled afterslip measurements for three earthquakes using the complete rate-and-state law and found a huge variety of model parameters that can fit the data. In particular, it is impossible to distinguish the stable velocity-strengthening regime (A > B) from the (potentially) unstable velocity-weakening regime (A < B). Therefore, it is not necessary to involve small-scale spatial or temporal fluctuations of friction parameters A or B in order to explain the transition between stable sliding and seismic slip. In addition to BIA and stiffuess, the fault behavior is strongly controlled by stress levels following an event. Stress heterogeneity can thus explain part of the variety of postseismic behaviors observed in nature. Afterslip induces a progressive reloading of faults that are not slipping, which can trigger aftershocks. Using the relation between stress and seismicity derived from the rate-and-state friction law, we estimate the aftershock rate triggered by coseismic and postseismic slip. Aftershock rate does not simply scale with stress rate but exhibits different characteristic times and sometimes a different power law exponent. Afterslip is thus a possible candidate to explain observations of aftershock rate decaying as a power law of time with an Omori exponent that can be either smaller or larger than 1. Progressive unloading due to afterslip can also produce delayed seismic quiescence.
Le syndrome du muscle piriforme ? : éléments de pertinence pour valider l'implication du muscle piriforme dans ce "syndrome canalaire"

Le syndrome du muscle piriforme (SMP) est une entite clinique probablement meconnue et sous-estimee en pratique courante. L'objectif de ce travail est d'apporter des arguments permettant d'aider a concretiser la realite de la responsabilite du muscle piriforme dans la souffrance provoquee sur le nerf ischiatique lors de son passage dans le foramen infra-piriforme.A partir de ("evaluation des rapports anatomiques locaux certaines manœuvres susceptibles de provoquer les contraintes du muscle piriforme sur le nerf ischiatique semblent plus sensibles et specifiques. C'est ce qui est mis en evidence dans ce travail pour les manœuvres de Freiberg, PAIR et de Beatty. Il valide egalement la manœuvre « TG-CL » que nous mettons en avant.Pour optimiser le diagnostic de SMP, nous avons elabore un score clinique a partir de 12 items. Ce score a ete evalue sur une serie personnelle de 250 patients compares a 30 temoins avec conflit disco-radiculaire et 30 temoins sains. La sensibilite et la specificite du score etaient respectivement de 96,4% et 100%, alors que la valeur predictive etait de 100% et la valeur predictive negative de 86,9%. Pour les patients avec SMP nous avons propose une prise en charge therapeutique standardisee centree sur le muscle piriforme. Le protocole medicamenteux et reeducatif permet d'obtenir 51,2% de guerison. Cent vingt deux patients en echec ont beneficie d'injections de toxine botulinique. Les resultats evalues par l'EVA etaient tres bons et bons dans 94 cas (77%), moyens dans 8 cas (7,4%) et mauvais dans 19 cas (15,6%). Quinze des 19 patients en echec ont ete pris en charge chirurgicalement avec de tres bons et bons resultats dans 12 cas
2 Exponentiated Strongly Rayleigh measures

Strongly Rayleigh (SR) measures are discrete probability distributions over the subsets of a ground set. They enjoy strong negative dependence properties, as a result of which they assign higher probability to subsets of diverse elements. We introduce in this paper Exponentiated Strongly Rayleigh (ESR) measures, which sharpen (or smoothen) the negative dependence property of SR measures via a single parameter (the exponent) that can be intuitively understood as an inverse temperature. We develop efficient MCMC procedures for approximate sampling from ESRs, and obtain explicit mixing time bounds for two concrete instances: exponentiated versions of Determinantal Point Processes and Dual Volume Sampling. We illustrate some of the potential of ESRs, by applying them to a few machine learning problems; empirical results confirm that beyond their theoretical appeal, ESR-based models hold significant promise for these tasks.
Syddansk Universitet Revisiting the cost-effectiveness of universal HPV-vaccination in Denmark accounting for all potentially vaccine preventable HPV-related diseases in males and females

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the consequences of a national immunization program with HPV vaccine for both boys and girls in Denmark, including the prophylactic effects on all potentially vaccine preventable HPV-associated diseases in male and female. Methods: The study focussed on the quadrivalent vaccine which protects against HPV type 6, 11, 16 and 18, and the vaccine’s protection against genital warts, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, cervical cancer, anogenital cancer (anal, penile, vaginal and vulvar cancer) and head and neck cancer (oral cavity, oropharyngeal, hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer) were included in the analyses. In general, the analysis was performed in two phases. First, an agent-based transmission model that described the HPV transmission without and with HPV vaccination was applied. Second, an analysis of the incremental costs and effects was performed. The model did not include naturally-acquired immunity to HPV in the simulations. Results: In the base case result (i.e. vaccination of girls only, 85% vaccination rate, private market price at € 123 per dose ex. VAT) an ICER of 3583 €/QALY (3-dose regime) is estimated when all HPV-related diseases are taken into account. Vaccination of girls & boys vs. vaccination of girls only an ICER of 28,031 €/QALY (2-dose regime) and 41,636 €/QALY (3-dose regime) is estimated. Conclusions: Extension of the current HPV programme in Denmark to include boys and girls is a cost effective preventive intervention that would lead to a faster prevention of cancers, cancer precursors and genital warts in men and women.
A NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE WIND-DRIVEN WATER CIRCULATION ON THE SUNDA SHELF 1 by

A numerical simulation of the barotropic circulation over the Sunda Shelt was carried out for a time-invariant wind field corresponding to (a) the Northwest Monsoon and (b) the Southeast Monsoon seasons. Starting from a state of rest, the current and surface configurations were timestepped until an apparent state of equilibrium was reached. The resulting current pattern and sea-surface topography are in good agreement with observations during those two seasons.
Kobe University Repository : Kernel タイトル Tit le A New in Vit ro Model of Cancer Invasion Using AlloDermR , a Human Cadaveric Dermal Equivalent : a Preliminary Report 著者

Objectives. The first stage in the metastasis of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the oral cavity involves the destruction of the basement membrane and invasion into the submucosal tissue. The purpose of this study is to develop a new in vitro model of cancer invasion using a human dermal equivalent, AlloDerm®. Study design. Normal epithelial cells from a gingiva and a SCC line originating from human tongue cancer (HSC-3 and 4 cells) were cultured on AlloDerm®, and composites of these cells and AlloDerm® were evaluated histologically by HE staining and immunostaining with anti-laminin and type IV collagen antibodies. Furthermore, HSC-3 and 4 cells were transplanted into the tongues of nude mice, and regional lymph node metastases were examined histologically. Results. HSC-3 cells had invaded through the basement membrane into the AlloDerm® dermis at 25 days after seeding. Decreases in the levels of laminin and type IV collagen were observed in the locations where HSC-3 had invaded. Metastasis to regional lymph nodes was observed at 3 weeks after transplantation in 4 of 10 (40%) mice. On the other hand, normal epithelial cells and HSC-4 cells did not show invasion into AlloDerm®. Lymph node metastasis was not observed in the mice bearing HSC-4 cells. Conclusion. This experimental model using AlloDerm® is a potential new in vitro model of cancer invasion.
Atomic structure and hierarchical assembly of a cross-β amyloid fi bril

Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom; Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom; Maurice E. Müller Institute, Biozentrum, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom; Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom; and Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom