Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact des comorbidités sur la prise en charge des cancers de la prostate : du diagnostic au traitement

Il s'agit d'une etude retrospective sur 633 patients atteints d'un cancer de la prostate diagnostique en 2011 en region Midi-Pyrenees, evaluant l'influence de l'âge et des comorbidites sur le diagnostic et le traitement des cancers de la prostate en pratique courante. Le score de Charlson et le risque evolutif augmentaient avec l'âge (p<0,001). La realisation d'un PSA et de biopsies prostatiques diminuaient significativement avec l'avancee en âge et l'augmentation des comorbidites (p<0,001). Le cancer de la prostate etait diagnostique plus frequemment dans la tranche d'âge des 60-80 ans et chez des patients presentant significativement moins de comorbidites que la population de reference (p<0,001). Aucune difference n'etait retrouvee en faveur d'une influence du score de Charlson sur la probabilite de realisation d'un traitement curatif (HR=0,89 ; 95% IC {0,70-1,15}), contrairement a l'âge avec une reduction de 12% par tranches d'âge (HR=0,88, 95% IC {0,85-0,91}). On ne retrouvait un impact des comorbidites que lors du choix du type de traitement curatif, avec une diminution du taux de prostatectomies de 60% pour chaque point de comorbidite supplementaire (HR=0,384 ; 95% IC {0,15-0,95}) au profit de l'irradiation. Cette etude de population objectivait une selection des patients ne presentant pas ou peu de morbidites competitives lors du diagnostic de cancer de la prostate. Meme si l'âge restait le principal facteur decisionnel en matiere de traitement, le taux de sur-traitement estime etait inferieur a ceux retrouves dans la litterature (17,7% sur l'ensemble de la population), 70% des cas concernaient des patients de moins de 75 ans. Inversement, le taux de sous traitement estime concernait 19,3% des patients de plus de 75 ans presentant une maladie a risque intermediaire ou eleve et aucunes comorbidites.
Sex Roles in Divergent Thinking.

Summary. A content analysis of responses to the ’Circles’; test, designed to elicit information about sex-typing, was developed on a pilot sample of 10- to 11-year-old school children. When this analysis was applied to the main sample, characteristic sex-typed response patterns were broadly replicated, as was the finding that there was no sex difference in total Fluency scores. When instructed to adopt opposite-sex response styles on a parallel form of the same test, boys and girls in the main study showed a remarkable ability to reverse their normal patterns of response. The hypothesis that children with high Fluency scores under normal conditions would be more capable of carrying out this reversal than those with low Fluency scores was not supported. It is argued that sex-typed response styles are by no means unmodifiable psychological characteristics, and that investigations of individual differences in cognition need to emphasise styles, as well as levels, of test performance.
Penile Mondor’s disease: a case report

CASE REPORT This article describes a case report with a review of the symptomatology diagnosis, and treatment of thrombophlebitis in the superficial dorsal vein of the penis. Penile Mondor’s disease is a benign condition, and after appropriate therapy, near complete recovery takes place within three weeks. DISCUSSION Thrombophlebitis of the superficial dorsal vein of the penis (Penile Mondor’s disease) is a rare, but important clinical diagnosis that any physician, and in particular general practitioners, should be able to recognize. Indeed, correct diagnosis and consequent reassurance can help to control the anxiety typically experienced by patients suffering from the disease.
Reputations made and lost: the writing of histories of early twentieth-century British photography and the case of Walter Benington

Walter Benington (1872-1936) was a major British photographer, a member of the Linked Ring and a colleague of international figures such as F H Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Alvin Langdon Coburn. He was also a noted portrait photographer whose sitters included Albert Einstein, Dame Ellen Terry, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and many others. He is, however, rarely noted in current histories of photography. Beaumont Newhall’s 1937 exhibition Photography 1839-1937 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is regarded by many respected critics as one of the foundation-stones of the writing of the history of photography. To establish photography as modern art, Newhall believed it was necessary to create a direct link between the master-works of the earliest photographers and the photographic work of his modernist contemporaries in the USA. He argued that any work which demonstrated intervention by the photographer such as the use of soft-focus lenses was a deviation from the direct path of photographic progress and must therefore be eliminated from the history of photography. A consequence of this was that he rejected much British photography as being “unphotographic” and dangerously irrelevant. Newhall’s writings inspired many other historians and have helped to perpetuate the neglect of an important period of British photography. As a result, the work of key photographers such as Walter Benington is now virtually unknown. Benington’s central involvement with the Linked Ring and his national and international exhibition successes demonstrate his significance within post-1890 British photography. Recent moves in the writing of histories of photography have called for the exploration of previously unknown archives and collections. A detailed examination of a cross-section of Benington’s work will illustrate that he was a photographer of great distinction and marked individuality fully worthy of a major reappraisal.
SOI technology for the GHz era

Silicon on Insulator (SOI) CMOS offers 20-35% performance gain over bulk CMOS. High performance microprocessors using SOI CMOS have been shipping since 1998. As we move to 0.13 /spl mu/m generation, it will be used by more companies, and spread to lower-end microprocessors and SRAMs. In this paper, after a short history of SOI in IBM, we will describe causes of performance gain on SOI, and its scalability to 0.1 /spl mu/m generation and beyond. Some of the recent applications of SOI in high-end microprocessors will be described. It is fully expected that as we move to 0.1 /spl mu/m and beyond, SOI is the technology of choice for applications which require high performance, and/or low power.
‘I'm Crushing Your Binaries!’ Drag in Monty Python and Kids in the Hall

ABSTRACT Monty Python (1969–1974) and Kids in the Hall (1988–1994) are two male comedy sketch show troupes well known for performing as women. Through analysis of the performance styles present in Monty Python and Kids in the Hall sketches, we can observe a shift from a camp to a queer sensibility. Esther Newton's Mother Camp (1972) and Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (1990) were released, respectively, during the broadcast of each show and provide a critical framework through which the subversiveness of a given act of drag can be evaluated. Female impersonation in Monty Python's Flying Circus is signified by handbags, permed hair and voices that alternate between shrill and husky. Gender transformation is achieved through the foregrounding of token signifiers that hyperbolically represent femininity, but do not attempt to approximate it. By contrast, the more nuanced female impersonation in Kids in the Hall reconfigures the gender of the performers to achieve a queering effect. Using Newton and Butler to define and illustrate the difference between these two modes of performance, the subversive/conservative value of both (as enacted in the shows) will be evaluated.
Carotid Atherosclerosis is Associated with In-hospital Mortality After CABG Surgery 


Atherosclerosis is a widespread disease involving coronary and extra coronary arteries. Few data are reported about the association between degree of arterial involvement and in-hospital mortality rate in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Aim of the present study was to evaluate whether carotid, femoral and abdominal aorta atherosclerosis, detected by ultrasound, is associated with in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing CABG. All patients undergoing coronary angiography and candidates to CABG, visited between January 1997 and November 1998 at the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery of the Second University of Naples, underwent coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors evaluation and complete echo-Doppler study. Out of 600 patients enrolled, 34 died before discharge. Both groups, survivors and deceased, were analyzed for studied variables. Hyperlipidemia was more prevalent among subjects who survived (30% vs. 18%, p <0.0001). Subjects who died were significantly older (64.1 ± 7.8 vs. 60.0 ± 9.4 years, mean ± SD, p <0.01), had higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus (56% vs. 29%, p <0.0008), carotid atherosclerosis (85% vs. 60%, p <0.003), left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) <40% (47% vs. 23%, p <0.001), and previous CABG surgery (5.8% vs. 1.2%, p <0.003). In multiple logistic regression analysis, only diabetes mellitus, EF <40%, and carotid atherosclerosis were significantly and independently associated with CABG outcome. The present findings demonstrate that echo-Doppler evaluation, at least of the carotid arteries, in addition to classical CHD risk factors, can help to predict the outcome after CABG surgery.
Experimental Colon Loop Seromuscular Cover Cystoplasty in Dogs

Nine apparently healthy mongrel dogs were divided in to two groups , the first group contained 6 animals which subjected to 25% partial cystectomy followed by colon loop seromuscular cover cystoplasty, the second group contained 3 animals as control group subjected to 25% partial cystectomy followed by cystorrhaphy. the evaluation of this experemental study was performed via clinical observation. Laboratory estimation of serum urea and creatinine at day 0, 3,7,15,21, and day 28 postoperative. Ultrasonographic evaluation one week postoperative and one month postoperative. Contrast cystographic evaluation at 12th week post operative . Gross and histopathological evaluation at the 6th week and the 12th week postoperative.
Speech enhancement for hands-free terminals

This paper discusses signal processing methods for speech extraction in use with voice communication applications such as personal digital assistants (PDA), mobile telephone terminals and personal computers. The user is distant from the device and thus the speech signal entering the device may be subject to reverberation and may be disturbed by background noise. The proposed structure consists of a microphone array which allows for techniques of directional processing. Thus it is able to enhance a desired speech source and suppress other speech sources in the background. Three different optimal beamforming methods are considered in a real world car hands-free environment: an optimal near-field array gain optimization procedure, a theoretical diffuse noise field model for a point source and a least squares solution.
A search for parent molecules at millimetre wavelengths in comets Austin 1990 V and Levy 1990 XX: upper limits for undetected species

The microwave spectra of comets Austin 1990 V and Levy 1990 XX were observed with the IRAM 30-m radio telescope. As we have reported previously, the HCN, H 2 S, H 2 CO and CH 3 OH molecules were detected. In addition, the lines of several other molecules of cometary interest were searched for without success, either during dedicated searches or serendipitously: H 2 O 2 , CH 3 CCH, HCOOH, C 2 H 5 OH, CH 3 OCH 3 , CH 3 COOH, HC 3 HO, HC 3 N, and many others. We report these searches in detail and evaluate the corresponding limits on the production rates. For several molecules, this limit is of the order of 10 −3 relative to water, or less. The consequences for the nature of comets are discussed
English-Korean Automatic Transliteration/Back-transliteration System and Character Alignment

Recently there is increasing concern about automatic transliteration and back-transliteration across two different languages, especially with radical differences in their alphabets and phoneme inventories such as English/Korean (Kang & Choi, 2000; Lee & Choi, 1998; Jeong et al., 1999), English/Japanese (Knight & Graehl, 1997), English/Arabic (Stalls & Knight, 1998), English/Chinese (Wan & Verspoor, 1998), etc. Transliteration is, given a source language word, to find its phonetic equivalent in target language. Back-transliteration is the backward process that finds the origin word from the transliterated word. For example, English word “internet” is generally transliterated into “intonet (romanization)” in Korean and the right back-transliteration of “intonet” should be “internet”. Automatic transliteration and back-transliteration have several important applications in NLP systems such as machine translation, cross-lingual information retrieval, etc. In this demo, we present English-to-Korean automatic transliteration system and Korean-to-English automatic back-transliteration system that are based on decision tree learning (Kang & Choi, 2000; 2000a). Our methodology is fully bi-directional, i.e. the same methodology is used for both transliteration and back-transliteration. For the machine learning of transliteration and back-transliteration rules, many phonetically aligned English word and Korean transliteration pairs are needed. However, such aligned pairs are not generally available so that automatic alignment is necessary. We developed a very effective English/Korean character alignment algorithm (Kang & Choi, 2000b). English/Korean character alignment is, given a source language word (English) and its phonetic equivalent in target language (Korean), to find the most phonetically probable correspondence between their characters. Generally English/Korean character alignment has many-to-many correspondence and also has null correspondence. These characteristics make the application of machine learning methods difficult or ineffective. So we constrained the alignment configuration such that in transliteration one and only one English character may be mapped to one or more Korean characters or null, on the other hand, in back-transliteration one and only one Korean character may be mapped to one or more English characters or null. This way of alignment reduces the number of decision trees to be learned to only 26 for each English alphabet in the case of English-to-Korean transliteration and only 46 for each Korean alphabet in the case of Korean-to-English back-transliteration. Once the 26 or 46 decision trees are independently learned, the transliteration of an English word or the back-transliteration of a Korean word is very straightforward. Given an input English word, in the case of transliteration, each alphabet is mapped to Korean strings using its decision tree and then concatenating all the Korean strings produces final Korean transliteration. Back-transliteration is done in the similar way.
PREVALENCE, DETERMINANTS AND AWARENESS REGARDING HYPERTENSION AMONG ADULTS IN A RURAL AREA OF MANIPUR

AIMS: To find out the prevalence, determinants and awareness regarding hypertension. SETTING AND DESIGN: Community based cross-sectional study conducted in Saikot PHC area under Churachandpur district of Manipur. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Structured interview schedule was administered to 504adults selected by multistage sampling during 1 st October 2005 to 30 th September 2006. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: SPSS 11.5 was used for data entry and analysis, descriptive statistics, χ 2 test, student - t test, binary logistic regression analysis etc. were used for presenting data and p ≤ 0.05 was considered significant. RESULTS: Prevalence of hypertension and pre hypertension were 25% and 14.3% respectively and 11.5% subjects had optimum BP. Awareness regarding hypertension was 7.7%. Prevalence of hypertension was significantly higher among older subjects (p = 0.000), females (p = 0.01), Meitei (p = 0.000), obese subjects (p = 0.003), sedentary workers (p = 0.000), ex-smokers (p = 0.000), regular BP checkers (p = 0.01) and subjects, who used to consume chicken and fish in more number of days per week (p = 0.000). Age (OR = 1.042, 95% CI = 1.027 - 1.056, p = 0.000), BMI (OR = 1.132, 95% CI = 1.050 - 1.220, p = 0.001), diet (OR = 7.381, 95% CI = 1.200 - 45.406, p = 0.031) etc. were significant determinants of hypertension. Very few subjects were aware about the risk factors of hypertension. Knowledge regarding the preventability and controllability of hypertension was also poor. CONCLUSIONS: Prevalence of hypertension was higher and knowledge regarding hypertension was poorer than other areas of India, so behaviour change and communication for promotion of healthy lifestyle in order to prevent hypertension in this community is needed.
On achievable rates in a multi-antenna broadcast downlink

A Gaussian broadcast channel with r single-antenna receivers where the transmitter is equipped with t antennas and where both the transmitter and the receivers have perfect knowledge of the propagation channel is considered. This provides a very simple model for the downlink of a wireless system, but despite its apparent simplicity it is in general a nondegraded broadcast channel, for which the capacity region is not fully known. We propose a novel transmission scheme based on \ranked known interference". In brief, the transmitter decomposes the channel into an ordered (or ranked) set of interference channels for which the interference signal of the i-th channel is generated as a linear combination of the signals transmitted in channels j < i. In this way, known techniques of coding for non-causally known interference can be applied to make the interference in each channel harmless without further power penalty. We show that the proposed scheme is throughputwise asymptotically optimal for both low and high SNR. In the special case of 2-antenna and 2-users we propose a modi cation of the basic strategy achieving optimal throughput for all SNRs. Finally, the in nite-dimensional Rayleigh channel is considered and throughput closed-form expressions are provided in various cases. This analysis shows that a practical and sensible strategy to the downlink of a wireless system consists of hybrid TDMA and space-time multiplexing where only a subset of active users, whose optimal size depends on the available SNR, is served at any given channel use by using our ranked known interference scheme. TDMA is used for time-sharing between di erent active user subsets to give to all users the same average rate without penalty in the maximum throughput. Also, constant-power variablerate coding achieves practically the same throughput of variable-power variable-rate coding (water lling power allocation).
Compiler techniques for efficient communications in multiprocessor systems

Technical advances have brought circuit switching back to the stage of interconnection network design for high performance computing. Although circuit switching has long connection establishment delays and the dedication of connections prevents other communicating nodes from sharing the network, it has simple control logic and significant cost advantage over packet or wormhole switching. With the proper assistance from compilers, circuit switching has the potential of providing significant performance benefits when connections can be established prior to the actual communication. This dissertation presents a novel compilation framework for achieving efficient communications in circuit switching interconnection networks. The goal of the framework is to identify communication patterns in Single-Program-Multiple-Data (SPMD) parallel applications and compile these patterns as network configuration directives. This can significantly reduce the communication overhead on circuit switching interconnection networks. A powerful representation scheme is developed in this research to capture the property of communication patterns and allow manipulation of these patterns. Based on the temporal and spatial localities of communications and the capability of the compiler to identify the communication patterns, we classify communication patterns into three categories—static, persistent , and dynamic. We target static and persistent communications, which are dominant in most parallel applications. To identify communication patterns, we develop a novel symbolic expression analysis. We develop certain compiler techniques for analyzing communication patterns. Since the underlying network capacity is limited, we develop an algorithm to partition the program into phases based on the communication requirements and network capacity. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework, we implement an experimental compiler. The compiler identifies the communication patterns from the source code, partitions the program into phases, and inserts the network configuration directives at phase boundaries to achieve efficient communications. The compiler also can generate communication traces, which provides useful information about the communication pattern correlated to the structure of the source code. We develop a multiprocessor system simulator to evaluate our techniques. Our simulation-based performance analysis demonstrates that using our compiler techniques can achieve the same level, or even better level of communication performance than fast packet switching networks while using much less expensive circuit switches.
Validation of decisional balance inventory test in Italian: assessment of motivation in weight loss

The decisional balance inventory (DBI) test is a valuable tool to assess motivation to change; we consider its application in enhancing motivation of losing weight. Our aim is the translation, cultural adaption and validation in Italian of this test originally designed and drafted in English. The questionnaire has been translated according to an English → Italian → Italian → English algorithm with reconciliation of the differences. Pilot study and retests were performed on 47 cases [body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m 2 ] and 15 controls (BMI value between 18.5 and 25 kg/m 2 ). The internal consistency of the Italian version of DBI test, was satisfied (Cronbach α 0.87 on patients); test-retest shows a good concordance in pilot [Lin’s concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) 0.79; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.68-0.90] and in patient sample (Lin’s CCC 0.83; 95% CI: 0.67 0.99). Our study demonstrated the trans-cultural adaptation and validation of DBI test in Italian.
Antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin in vascular diseases: clinical evidence for and against the combination

The focus of this review is to discuss the hypothesis that justifies the use of dual antiplatelet therapy of aspirin and clopidogrel versus monotherapy with aspirin in arterial vascular disease. By analyzing the CLARITY-TIMI and COMMIT trials, the authors discuss the appropriate use of aspirin plus clopidogrel for patients suffering acute myocardial infarction. In contrast, in the CHARISMA trial, the combination was not justified in stable high-risk patients with documented coronary disease, cerebrovascular disease or symptomatic peripheral artery disease. In two additional cardiovascular studies, the CURE and the PCI-CURE trials, the benefit of the drug combination was evident in those patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass grafting. Finally, two focused cerebrovascular studies, the CARESS and the MATCH trials, were analyzed. The CARESS trial demonstrated the clinical benefit of this combination in an acute clinical setting. However, the combination proved to be ineffective in the longer-term MATCH trial. It appears from these large clinical trials that the risk-benefit of dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel is justified in high-risk symptomatic patients but not in asymptomatic patients. The exact dose regimen and duration of combination therapy await definition and require careful assessment to optimize the anticoagulant benefit, while minimizing the hemorrhagic risk.