Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Chinese medicine and healing : an illustrated history

Chinese Medicine and Healing is a comprehensive introduction to a rich array of Chinese healing practices as they have developed through time and across cultures. Contributions from fifty-eight leading international scholars in such fields as Chinese archaeology, history, anthropology, religion, and medicine make this a collaborative work of uncommon intellectual synergy, and a vital new resource for anyone working in East Asian or world history, in medical history and anthropology, and in biomedicine and complementary healing arts. This illustrated history explores the emergence and development of a wide range of health interventions, including propitiation of disease-inflicting spirits, divination, vitality-cultivating meditative disciplines, herbal remedies, pulse diagnosis, and acupuncture. The authors investigate processes that contribute to historical change, such as competition between different types of practitioner--shamans, Daoist priests, Buddhist monks, scholar physicians, and even government officials. Accompanying vignettes and illustrations bring to life such diverse arenas of health care as childbirth in the Tang period, Yuan state-established medical schools, fertility control in the Qing, and the search for sexual potency in the People's Republic. The two final chapters illustrate Chinese healing modalities across the globe and address the challenges they have posed as alternatives to biomedical standards of training and licensure. The discussion includes such far-reaching examples as Chinese treatments for diphtheria in colonial Australia and malaria in Africa, the invention of ear acupuncture by the French and its worldwide dissemination, and the varying applications of acupuncture from Germany to Argentina and Iraq.
Implementación de un software para la detección y reconocimiento de señales de tráfico en tiempo real a partir de un vídeo capturado en un vehículo en circulación.

The purpose of this end-of-degree project is to implement a set of image processing algorithms that allow to detect and to recognize the type of traffic signals that a vehicle can find when circulating on a Spanish road. The developed code must be able to extract the information in real time from a video that shows a real driving situation.
Determinación de los índices glicémicos y de insulina en fórmulas para alimentación enteral en adultos sanos

diabetics with whole protein with fiber). Each study product was evaluated 10 times. Results: The diabetic formula and the high protein energy dense formulas induced a significantly lower GI (p <0.02) compared with the standard meal. The GI response did not appear to be due to enhanced insulin secretion. The other tested formulas had lower GI than the standard meal, but in addition they exhibited increased II. The whey based peptide formulation produced the highest insulin response (p <0.03). Conclusions: Both GI and II are related to the concentration, form and type of protein contained in the enteral formula. The whey peptide formulation produced a low GI with the highest insulin index. Based on the low GI of these enteral products, all can be useful to provide nutritional support during metabolic stress, without adding an additional challenge to blood glucose management (Rev Med Chile 2007; 135: 879-84). (Key words: Dietary proteins; Glycemic index; Insulin; Tube feeding)
A Case Study on Comparison of Male and Female Vowel Formants by NativeSpeakers of Gujarati

Compared to the amount of research on Gujarati consonants, few studies indeed have been done to analyse Gujarati vowels. In addition, the results of recent studies are mixed. This study was conducted for reviewing the Gujarati vowel system. In this study, we measured the formant frequencies of eight Gujarati vowels by three dialect female speakers of native Gujarati’s in their early 30s, and compared the results with those of two Gujarati males in their early 30s. We confirmed overlapped /i, i/, /u, u/ and /a, a/ formant frequencies uttered by female speakers, this was also the result of male speakers. These findings were similar to the results in the previous studies. Additionally vowel spaces of males have corresponded to the results indicated in previous studies. However the vowel spaces of females were different from the results of previous studies.
Cardiac troponin T for early detection of cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients treated with epirubicin

The aim of the study was to investigate the role of cTnT for the prediction of long term cardiac dysfunction after epirubicin-containing adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. The study group comprised of 45 patients (all female; mean age 48 ±8 years), treated with epirubicin-containing adjuvant chemotherapy for stage 2 and stage 3 breast cancer. Patients received either 4 cycles of cyclophosphamide plus epirubicin (90 mg/m2) (n=23; stage 2 breast cancer) or 6 cycles of cyclophosphamide plus epirubicin (75 mg/m2) plus fluorouracil (n=18; stage 3 breast cancer). Venous blood samples were drawn, before and 72 hours after, every cycle of chemotherapy for the measurement of cTnT. Cardiac assessment was carried out at baseline and 1 year after chemotherapy by clinical evaluation, electrocardiography, radio-nuclide ventriculography (RNV) and transthoracic echocardiography. All patients remained free of clinical heart failure during the study period. In 26 patients (63%), cTnT was elevated after chemotherapy. Mean left ventricular ejection fraction, assessed by RNV at baseline and one year after chemotherapy, were 61±8% and 56±7% (p<0.0001). The sensitivity and specifity of cTnT for the detection of left ventricular systolic dysfunction at one year were 69% and 39% respectively. Echocardiographic examinations at baseline and one year after chemotherapy revealed a significant decrease in E/A ratio from 1.15±0.3 to 0.9±0.2 in cTnT positive patients, suggesting diastolic dysfunction. In conclusion, elevated serum cTnT levels after epirubicin-containing adjuvant chemotherapy for stage 2 and stage 3 breast cancer, predict future cardiac dysfunction with moderate sensitivity and poor specificity.
Promoting physical activity at the workplace: a global view

Chronic disease has become a global phenomenon affecting developing and developed countries alike. According to the WHO (2008), non-communicable diseases cause 38 million deaths annually (70% of all global deaths when adding injuries), which is estimated to increase. In India, chronic diseases account for 53% of all deaths (2005) which will further increase by 18% by 2015. Deaths from diabetes will increase by 35%. The economic impact is massive: India is projected to lose $237 billion in national income due to chronic disease. The WHO has identified four related risk factors to address: tobacco use, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity and the harmful use of alcohol. This paper will highlight the current global efforts to promote physical activity with a focus on the workplace. The workplace has been identified as a key setting to tackle the chronic disease challenge and accordingly workplace health promotion is experiencing significant growth. While approaches differ from country to country business drivers and targeted health issues are quite similar across the globe according to the most recent Global Survey on Health Promotion and Workplace Wellness Strategies. For example, employers worldwide use physical activity as a means to improve productivity and reduce healthcare costs. Several global initiatives in workplace health promotion have been launched, for example, the World Economic Forum Working Towards Wellness Initiative and the International Association for Worksite Health Promotion. Physical activity plays a key role in these initiatives due to the enormous potential to make lifestyle challenges and reduce chronic disease. The chronic disease challenge remains daunting and will intensify in emerging countries, like China and India. Therefore, additional resources need to be invested and initiatives strengthened on a local, regional and global scale.
An Energy-Balanced Probability Coverage Algorithm for WSN

The sensing capabilities of sensor nodes are affected by various factors in the actual environment, and the ideal disk sensing model is not available in the practical sensor network. In this paper, we proposed an Energy-balance Coverage Algorithm based on Probability (ECAP). The algorithm applies to a limited target point monitoring issues, using the heuristic greedy strategy. The nodes that have a larger detecting probability and higher energy are selected to construct a coverage set. It improves energy efficiency, and extends the lifetime of sensor networks. Experiments also show that the algorithm has high stability.
Concept de double mobilité pour les prothèses totales de hanche : analyses multi-échelles de son fonctionnement.

120000 protheses de hanche sont implantees chaque annee, en France, 800000 en Europe. Cet acte chirurgical represente un enjeu de sante publique majeur, dans les annees a venir. Dans l'optique d'augmenter la duree de vie des implants, un concept original de l'articulation d'une prothese de hanche, le concept de double mobilite, represente maintenant 30 % des implants de hanche en France. 250 explants ont ete conserves avec leurs caracteristiques completes, ainsi que celles des patients. Une population homogene d'explants de LIP sans descellement acetabulaire, a meme embase femorale Profil ® a ete ciblee. Puis, une premiere analyse visuelle et les donnees operatoires ont degage 12 explants caracteristiques. Une analyse de rugosimetrie de surface de la convexite a ete menee (profilometries 2D et 3D) sur 5 zones de 1 mm² pour 2 latitudes choisies ainsi que le sommet (11 surfaces) [1,2]. La cartographie integrale, releves tridimensionnels macroscopiques, a ete realisee. La microscopie electronique a balayage munie d'une sonde EDS a permis de caracteriser les transferts metalliques, insert sur metal back, dus a la 2 e mobilite. L'evolution de parametres particuliers de rugosite 3D a permis de mettre en evidence les differents mecanismes d'usure de la 2 eme mobilite. Les metal backs en alliage de titane, ainsi que les echecs par fibrose capsulaire ont montre un fluage du UHMWPE (Ultra High Molecular Weight PolyEthylen) sans usure significative, ce qui explique une LIP precoce par un contact plus frequent sur la collerette de retentivite. Les surfaces de metal-back en acier presentent une phase de fluage puis une phase de frottement sur une bande caracteristique. L'usure du metal back en miroir correle cette observation. Le dessin prothetique et la balance de Pauwels permettent d'expliquer finement cette bande d'usure. De plus, il a ete mis en evidence que l'usure n'est pas liee a l'âge ou au diametre de l'insert. Il a ete possible d'etablir un scenario du mouvement de la deuxieme mobilite, a partir des explants etudies, en tenant compte des materiaux, de la taille des elements prothetiques et de toutes les donnees disponibles.
Robust Analysis and Control over Uncertain Networked Control System with Random Time Delays

This paper considered the robust stability problem of networked flight control system, which is a new research field with the widespread applications of avionics networks for the connection of onboard devices of the aircraft. Sufficient conditions for robust stability and stabilization of networked flight control system with random time delays and structured uncertainties are derived based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii function approach. The memoryless state feedback control law is obtained by the solution of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) that guarantees the robust stabilization of the uncertain discrete time-delay system. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of design procedure.
Polineuropatia en un paciente crítico con malaria grave y disfunción multiorgánica

Introduccion : la polineuropatia de paciente critico es una “neuropatia sensitivo-motora axonal aguda que se presenta en 60-80% de los pacientes severamente enfermos, con frecuencia pude ser subclinica o poco relevante; debe sospecharse en todo paciente que tras 2 a 3 semanas de estancia en medicina intensiva se inicia entre 2 y 5 dias desde el ingreso a la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos de la Clinica Girassol o desde el comienzo de la respuesta inflamatoria sistemica. El curso de la patologia es monofasico y autolimitado. Puede cursar con tetraparesia de intensidad variable, hipotonia, hipotrofia muscular, con o sin trastornos sensitivos (hipoestesia distal, parestesia), con rara afectacion de los pares craneales. Presentacion del caso : se presenta un paciente de 28 anos que fue admitido en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos de la Clinica Girassol con un diagnostico de malaria grave con disfuncion multiorganica y necesidad de ventilacion mecanica prolongada. Despues de siete dias de evolucion, aparecio un cuadro de tetraparesia, insuficiencia respiratoria aguda. Su rapida deteccion y tratamiento empirico combinado de inmunoglobulinas y plasmaferesis permitio una recuperacion total. Conclusiones : la polineuropatia del paciente en estado critico como el caso presentado con malaria grave, deber ser sospechada ante todo paciente con alteraciones sensitivo motora, sobre todo, en la fase de recuperacion. Es importante el diagnostico diferencial con el Guillain Barre . El tratamiento se fundamenta en el manejo adecuado de la sepsis con sindrome de disfuncion multiple de organos, control de la hiperglicemia y los factores favorecedores como medida mas efectiva para evitarla.
Introductory Chapter: Treatment of Viral Hepatitis - Current Challenges and Future Perspectives

Clinical care for patients with hepatitis C (HCV) has advanced remarkably during the last two decades, as a result of better understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease, and because of developments in diagnostic procedures and improvements in therapy and prevention. With the introduction of genotype 1 effective directly acting antiviral agents (DAAs) in 2011, the manage‐ ment of HCV infection started to change. By 2013, second-generation pangenotypic DAAs became available, and the biggest problem was solved: interferon (IFN) became no longer necessary.
Rudimentary Lexicon Based Method for Sarcasm Detection

The purpose of this paper is to establish if rudimentary methods can be used for classifying text as being sarcastic using data taken from the social media website, Twitter. Data collection for this study was carried out using text extracted from Twitter. It applies string matching against positive sentiment and interjection lexicons to test if the presence of both can be used to classify content as being sarcastic. The result shows that the most frequently used terms are too generic to be suitable for a sarcasm specific lexicon. It further shows that Boolean matches to two lexicons are suitable for classification of text as being sarcastic. This is significant as many methods require significant time in collecting and analysing the data to be used within the classification process, as well as complex algorithms to conduct the task. By using simplistic processes, it is hoped that some of the challenges related to performance are overcome. Additionally, this study is the precursor to planned further research into sarcasm detection methods.
Efficacy and safety of reduced-dose non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

AIMS Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) require dose reductions according to patient or clinical factors for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). In this meta-analysis, we aimed to assess outcomes with reduced-dose NOACs when given as pre-specified in pivotal trials. METHODS AND RESULTS Aggregated data abstracted from Phase III trials comparing NOACs with warfarin in patients with AF were assessed by treatment using risk ratios (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) stratified by patient eligibility for NOAC dose reduction. Irrespective of treatments, annualized rates of stroke or systemic embolism and major bleeding were higher in patients eligible for reduced-dose NOACs than in those eligible for full-dose NOACs (2.70% vs. 1.60% and 4.35% vs. 2.87%, respectively). Effects of reduced-dose NOACs compared with warfarin in patients eligible for reduced-dose NOACs on stroke or systemic embolism [RR 0.84 (95% CI 0.69-1.03)] and on major bleeding [RR 0.70 (95% CI 0.50-0.97)] were consistent with those of full-dose NOACs relative to warfarin in those eligible for full-dose NOACs [RR 0.86 (95% CI 0.77-0.96) for stroke or systemic embolism and RR 0.87 (95% CI 0.70-1.08) for major bleeding; interaction P, 0.89 and 0.26, respectively]. In addition, NOACs were associated with reduced risks of haemorrhagic stroke, intracranial haemorrhage, fatal bleeding, and death regardless of patient eligibility for NOAC dose reduction (interaction P > 0.05 for each). CONCLUSIONS Patients eligible for reduced-dose NOACs were at elevated risk of thromboembolic and haemorrhagic complications when treated with anticoagulants. NOACs, when appropriately dose-adjusted, had an improved benefit-harm profile compared with warfarin. Our findings highlight the importance of prescribing reduced-dose NOACs for indicated patient populations.
Precision of Digital Prosthodontic Planning for Oral Rehabilitation

Author designed the study, performed the statistical analysis, wrote the protocol, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript and managed literature searches. Authors MB, MT, JM managed the analyses of the study and literature searches. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. ABSTRACT Aims: Recently, digital wax-up is proposed as a tool to aid prosthodontic planning. Accuracy is a requirement of the diagnostic wax-up in order for its information to be transferrable clinically. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the precision of digital prosthodontic planning in the form of digital wax-up. Study Design: Comparative study. Place of Study: Oral Western Australia School of Computer Science and Engineering, of Australia, from June 2012 to December 2013. Methodology: Twenty-five dental arch models of 15 patients were collected. The models were duplicated twice to allow for the execution of conventional wax-up the 3D image registration process, the segmented models were superimposed on the pre-treatment models to evaluate the accuracy of fit. Further, the gingival margin discrepancies of each wax-up protocol were evaluated. Results: The image registration process revealed less discrepancies for the digital wax-up (soft tissue = 0.11mm, tooth-gingiva junction = 0.11mm) than the conventional wax-up (soft tissue = 0.18mm, tooth-gingiva junction = 0.20mm). Similarly, the gingival margin discrepancies were less for the digital wax-up. However, the patterns of discrepancies were similar for the two wax-up protocols. Conclusion: In terms of accuracy and transferability, the digital wax-up is comparable to the conventional wax-up.
Contributions To The Methodology Of Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) And Application Of ECGI To Study Mechanisms Of Atrial Arrhythmia, Post Myocardial Infarction Electrophysiological Substrate, And Ventricular Tachycardia In Patients

OF THE DISSERTATION Contributions to the Methodology of Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) and Application of ECGI to Study Mechanisms of Atrial Arrhythmia, Post Myocardial Infarction Electrophysiological Substrate, and Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients by Yong Wang Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering Washington University in St. Louis, 2009 Professor Yoram Rudy, Chair Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) is a noninvasive imaging modality for cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmia. ECGI reconstructs epicardial potentials, electrograms and isochrones from body-surface electrocardiograms combined with heart-torso geometry from computed tomography (CT). The application of a new meshless method, the Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS) is introduced to ECGI with the following major advantages: 1. Elimination of meshing and manual mesh optimization processes, thereby enhancing automation and speeding the ECGI procedure. 2. Elimination of
Charge Pump Circuits with Low Area and High Power Efficiency for Memory Applications

New charge pump circuits with low area and high power efficiency are proposed and verified in this paper. These pump circuits do not suffer the voltage stress higher than VDD across their pumping capacitors. Thus they can use the thin-oxide MOSFETs as the pumping capacitors. Using the thin-oxide capacitors can reduce the area of charge pumps greatly while keeping their driving capability. Comparing the new pump (NCP-2) with the conventional pump circuit using the thick-oxide capacitors shows that the power efficiency of NCP-2 is the same with the conventional one but the area efficiency of NCP-2 is improved as much as 71.8% over the conventional one, when the V PP /V DD ratio is 3.5 and V DD =1.8V.
A Gait Patterns Recognition Approach Based on Surface Electromyography and Three-axis Acceleration Signals

In this paper, an approach based on combining surface electromyography(sEMG) and three-axis acceleration(ACC) signal was proposed to recognize 5 different kinds basis daily gait patterns, including walking on the ground, going up stairs, going down stairs, going up slope and going down slope. Firstly, the gait related sEMG signal and three-axis ACC signal were collected from the lower limbs of subjects. Secondly, the de-noising of sEMG signal was finished and the segmentation of the fusion signal was done. Thirdly, the features of fusion signal were extracted. Finally, a classifier based on 2-stream hidden Markov model (HMM) was built to recognize 5 kinds of basis daily gait patterns. The experiment obtained an average recognition accuracy of 94.32%, which is 4.15% higher than the accuracy by adopting sEMG signal only (Average 90.17%), and 9.60% higher than the accuracy by adopting ACC signal only (Average 84.72%). The result demonstrated that it can improve the recognition accuracy of gait patterns effectively to combine sEMG signal and three-axis ACC signal.
Personalized Distance Education System Based on Data Mining

To improve the poor intelligence and personalized service of the learning system in current distance education and training, a personalized learning system model based on data mining technology was proposed. Then, the method of applying the decision tree and BP neural network algorithm to de-sign the system was described in detail. Finally, the core module of the per-sonalized distance education system combined with Web was designed. The personalized function module introduced how the user operates the intelli-gent Web reasoning in the module according to the user input learning in-formation and gave the most matching learning materials. Finally, the appli-cation results showed that the system greatly improved the personalized ser-vice module.
Small thermoelectric generators

Thermoelectric generators with combustion heat sources are being developed for the US Army, TACOM-ARDEC, by Hi-Z Technology, Inc., for battery replacement in the field and for powering lightweight portable battery chargers. These small generators range in output power from 0.3 Watts to 20 Watts. The main thrust of the development work is to demonstrate utilization of diesel or other military logistics fuel as the heat source. The thermoelectric generating modules being used operate at relatively low hot side temperatures and with modest power conversion efficiencies. Nevertheless, the concept shows potential advantage over batteries in watts per pound and watt-hours per pound, thus addressing the "battery problem" and the need for lightening the soldier's battery burden, and doing so at reasonable costs. The thermoelectric material used in this application is current state-of-the-art. However, Hi-Z is also developing advanced thermoelectric materials and devices that promise significantly improved performance in the near future.