Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DECIPHERING THE IONIZED GAS CONTENT IN THE MASSIVE STAR-FORMING COMPLEX G75.78+0.34

We present subarcsecond observations toward the massive star-forming region G75.78+0.34. We used the Very Large Array to study the centimeter continuum and H2O and CH3OH maser emission, and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and Submillimeter Array to study the millimeter continuum and recombination lines (H40α and H30α). We found radio continuum emission at all wavelengths, coming from three components: (1) a cometary ultracompact (UC) H ii region with an electron density ∼3.7 × 104 cm−3, excited by a B0 type star, and with no associated dust emission; (2) an almost unresolved UCH ii region (EAST), located ∼6″ to the east of the cometary UCH ii region, with an electron density ∼1.3 × 105 cm−3, and associated with a compact dust clump detected at millimeter and mid-infrared wavelengths; and (3) a compact source (CORE), located ∼2″ to the southwest of the cometary arc, with a flux density increasing with frequency, and embedded in a dust condensation of 30 M☉. The CORE source is resolved into two compact and unresolved sources which can be well fit by two homogeneous hypercompact H ii regions each one photoionized by a B0.5 zero-age main sequence star, or by free–free radiation from shock-ionized gas resulting from the interaction of a jet/outflow system with the surrounding environment. The spatial distribution and kinematics of water masers close to the CORE-N and S sources, together with excess emission at 4.5 μm and the detected dust emission, suggest that the CORE source is a massive protostar driving a jet/outflow.
Standardized quantitative high resolution CT in lung diseases.

Twenty-seven patients with diffuse fibrosing alveolitis (DFA), 27 patients with granulomatous lung disease (GLD), 3 patients with homozygous alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor deficiency (alpha 1-PID), and 6 healthy volunteers (C) were studied using thin section high resolution CT (HRCT) at 50% of actual vital capacity (VC), determined and controlled spirometrically during each exposure. A fast contour tracing algorithm was used to isolate the lung parenchyma followed by a quantitative histogram analysis of the frequencies of CT values. Mean CT values enabled us to discriminate significantly between the groups of C and alpha 1-PID. Significant differences were found between the groups of GLD and DFA versus C by applying suitably selected intervals of CT values. Moreover, if the patients were assigned to four different groups according to their lung function results (normal, restrictive, obstructive, restrictive and obstructive), again significant differences existed with respect to defined intervals of CT values. Mean CT values showed a significant negative correlation with lung function tests representative of lung parenchymal disease, i.e., VC, diffusing capacity, and exercise PaO2. Moreover, CT values ranging from -899 to -800 HU correlated positively, whereas CT value frequencies above -699 HU correlated inversely with these same lung function parameters. These results indicated that certain intervals of CT values do reflect functionally different abnormalities of lung parenchyma. It is concluded that an analysis of frequencies of CT values determined by spirometrically standardized HRCT provides objective quantitative data that reflect changes of pulmonary structure corresponding to lung function impairments. Thus, spirometrically standardized HRCT may be helpful for evaluating and staging patients with diffuse pulmonary disease.
Further results on semi-bent functions in polynomial form

Plateaued functions have been introduced by Zheng and Zhang in 1999 as good candidates for designing cryptographic functions since they possess many desirable cryptographic characteristics. Plateaued functions bring together various nonlinear characteristics and include two important classes of Boolean functions defined in even dimension: the well-known bent functions ($0$-plateaued functions) and the semi-bent functions ($2$-plateaued functions). Bent functions have been extensively investigated since 1976. Very recently, the study of semi-bent functions has attracted a lot of attention in symmetric cryptography. Many intensive progresses in the design of such functions have been made especially in recent years. The paper is devoted to the construction of semi-bent functions on the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{2^n}$ ($n=2m$) in the line of a recent work of S. Mesnager [IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol 57, No 11, 2011]. We extend Mesnager's results and present a new construction of infinite classes of binary semi-bent functions in polynomial trace. The extension is achieved by inserting mappings $h$ on $\mathbb{F}_{2^n}$ which can be expressed as $h(0) = 0$ and $h(uy) = h_1(u)h_2(y)$ with $u$ ranging over the circle $U$ of unity of $\mathbb{F}_{2^n}$, $y \in \mathbb{F}_{2^m}^{*}$ and $uy \in \mathbb{F}_{2^n}^{*}$, where $h_1$ is a isomorphism on $U$ and $h_2$ is an arbitrary mapping on $\mathbb{F}_{2^m}^{*}$. We then characterize the semi-bentness property of the extended family in terms of classical binary exponential sums and binary polynomials.
Evolution of the Amygdala: New Insights from Studies in Amphibians

The histology of amphibian brains gives an impression of relative simplicity when compared with that of reptiles or mammals. The amphibian telencephalon is small and contains comparatively few and large neurons, which in most parts constitute a dense periventricular cellular layer. However, the view emerging from the last decade is that the brains of all tetrapods, including amphibians, share a general bauplan resulting from common ancestry and the need to perform similar vital functions. To what extent this common organization also applies to higher brain functions is unknown due to a limited knowledge of the neurobiology of early vertebrates. The amygdala is widely recognized as a brain center critical for basic forms of emotional learning (e.g., fear conditioning) and its structure in amphibians could suggest how this capacity evolved. A functional systems approach is used here to synthesize the results of our anatomical investigations of the amphibian amygdala. It is proposed that the connectivity of the amphibian telencephalon portends a capacity for multi-modal association in a limbic system largely similar to that of amniote vertebrates. One remarkable exception is the presence of new sensory-associative regions of the amygdala in amniotes: the posterior dorsal ventricular ridge plus lateral nuclei in reptiles and the basolateral complex in mammals. These presumably homologous regions apparently are capable of modulating the phylogenetically older central amygdala and allow more complex forms of emotional learning.
Outbreak of Swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus

Influenza has been recognized as a respiratory disease in swine since its first appearance concurrent with the 1918 „„Spanish flu‟‟ human pandemic. All influenza viruses of significance in swine are type A, subtype H1N1, H1N2, or H3N2 viruses. Swine Influenza is a respiratory disease of pig caused by Type A influenza viruses. Influenza A causes moderate to severe illness and affects all age groups. The virus infects humans and other animals. Influenza A viruses are perpetuated in nature by wild birds, predominantly waterfowl. The WHO declared the H1N1 pandemic on June 11, 2009, after more than 70 countries reported 30000 cases of H1N1 infection. In 2015 the instances of Swine Flu substantially increased to five year highs with over 10000 cases reported and 774 deaths in India. The CDC recommends real time PCR as the method of choice for diagnosing H1N1. Prevention of swine influenza has three components: prevention in swine, prevention of transmission to humans, and prevention of its spread among humans. If a person becomes sick with swine flu, antiviral drugs can make the illness milder and make the patient feel better faster. They may also prevent serious flu complications. The CDC recommends the use of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) or Zanamivir (Relenza) for the treatment.In this review, a brief overview on swine flu is presented highlighting the characteristics of the causative virus, the disease and its advances made in its diagnosis, vaccine and control to be adapted in the wake of an outbreak.
The health care burden of acute chest pain

Each year, over 15 million people attend an emergency department in England and Wales.1 It has been estimated that 2.4% of attendances are because of chest pain,2 representing 360 000 emergency department attendances. Despite this, surprisingly little data have been published describing this problem. Studies typically report selected groups of patients, or retrospective audits of routinely collected data. Both approaches may lead to biased results. Accurate estimates of the size and nature of the problem are required to allow rational planning of services and to put the findings of research into context. The ESCAPE (effectiveness and safety of chest pain assessment to prevent emergency admissions) randomised controlled trial of chest pain observation unit versus routine care3 required prospective identification of all patients attending with acute chest pain; it thus provided an ideal opportunity for a descriptive study of the health care burden created by this problem. We aimed to describe the clinical epidemiology of acute chest pain, the incidence of emergency department presentation and hospital admission, the proportion with ECG evidence of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), clinically diagnosed ACS, non-ACS, or undifferentiated chest pain, and variations in these parameters by hour of day and day of week. The Northern General Hospital emergency department is the only adult department for the 530 000 population …
De l'énactivisme appliqué à la mémoire humaine : Athena, un modèle fractal de covariances sensorimotrices

Depuis la revolution cogniviste des annees 50, le paradigme cognitiviste a ete accepte par la grande majorite des chercheurs, en particulier dans le domaine de la memoire. Le connexionnisme est venu remettre en cause son organisation modulariste en mettant en avant son caractere emergent. Cependant, la question de la reference restait posee en ce sens qu'elle reposait sur l'existence de representations internes d'un monde externe au sujet. Le paradigme enactiviste qui reprend les principes du constructivisme propose que la cognition ne soit plus consideree comme la representation d'un monde preexistant mais comme le produit de nos experiences sensori-motrices. Dans ce travail, nous presentons ATHENA : un modele de memoire enactiviste sans representations inspire de MINERVA2 mais prenant en compte les apports du modele Act-In. La memoire se construit ici par une contextualisation fractale des covariances sensorimotrices. Une serie de simulations experimentales nous permet de rendre compte de nombreux phenomenes mnesiques de maniere plus efficace que ce que permet le representationnalisme : l'emergence, l'apprentissage et manipulation d'abstractions sans representations ; mais aussi d'autres phenomene cognitifs tels que la construction temporelle subjective (sans representations temporelles apprises).
Long-term aerial robot localization based on visual odometry and radio-based ranging

Visual odometry approaches have demonstrated to work very well for localization in GPS-denied areas, however they could quickly diverge depending on the environment. In order to achieve reliable long-term localization, it is a good practice to complement vision-based estimations with an additional source of information able to correct odometry drifts. This paper presents an approach that complements stereo visual odometry with distance measurements from several radio beacons located in an indoor scenario. The computational efficiency of the whole processing pipeline allows for real-time and bounded drift localization. Field experiments have been conducted using an indoor testbed with a very accurate tracking system in order to validate the algorithms.
Pediatricians and Pediatric Nurses in the Delivery of Culturally Competent Care: A Scoping Literature Review to Investigate Progress and Issues around Culturally Diverse Care in Pediatrics

The demographics in the United States are rapidly changing. In 2012, 47.2% of the children who lived in the United Stated were of color. However, three out of four physicians identified themselves as White non-Hispanic and approximately 83% of nurses are White, nonHispanic. The changing demographics and increasing diversity of the population has an impact on care and quality of care being delivered by pediatric healthcare providers to children and their families. In 2005, The Office of Minority Health reported that the main ingredient in closing the gap in health care disparities is cultural competency. This scoping literature review investigated how pediatricians and pediatric nurses were progressing with their delivery of culturally competent care. The studies in the review revealed that the delivery of culturally competent care by pediatric health care providers has been a slow and difficult process and that there are identified areas of improvement. Pediatricians, pediatric nurses, other pediatric health care providers and families whose children received health care services from these providers were participants in the studies reviewed. Health care providers reported that more cultural competence training and education was necessary. Families in several studies identified communication/linguistics and the provider’s ability to be more open and aware as areas where more cultural education and training are needed.
A Novel Rice MAPK Gene, OsBIMK2, is Involved in Disease-Resistance Responses

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The Systemic Inflammatory Response to Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Pathophysiological, Therapeutic, and Pharmacological Considerations

C ardiac surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) activate a systemic inflammatory response characterized clinically by alterations in cardiovascular and pulmonary function. Significant morbidity is rare (approximately l%-2% of cases), but when severe acute lung injury occurs, mortality is high (50%-70%) (1). H owever, most patients undergoing CPB experience some degree of organ dysfunction as a result of activation of the inflammatory response. The purpose of this review is to examine the recent developments in our understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms responsible for this response, the treatment modalities that have been used to ameliorate it, and the possible implications of these findings for the conduct of anesthesia for cardiac surgery.
Land-cover change analysis in 50 global cities by using a combination of Landsat data and analysis of grid cells

Global urban expansion has created incentives to convert green spaces to urban/built-up area. Therefore, understanding the distribution and dynamics of the land-cover changes in cities is essential for better understanding of the cities’ fundamental characteristics and processes, and of the impact of changing land-cover on potential carbon storage. We present a grid square approach using multi-temporal Landsat data from around 1985–2010 to monitor the spatio-temporal land-cover dynamics of 50 global cities. The maximum-likelihood classification method is applied to Landsat data to define the cities’ urbanized areas at different points in time. Subsequently, 1 km2 grid squares with unique cell IDs are designed to link among land-cover maps for spatio-temporal land-cover change analysis. Then, we calculate land-cover category proportions for each map in 1 km2 grid cells. Statistical comparison of the land-cover changes in grid square cells shows that urban area expansion in 50 global cities was strongly negatively correlated with forest, cropland and grassland changes. The generated land-cover proportions in 1 km2 grid cells and the spatial relationships between the changes of land-cover classes are critical for understanding past patterns and the consequences of urban development so as to inform future urban planning, risk management and conservation strategies.
A pattern-based design process for the creation of cscl macro-scripts computationally represented with ims ld

Las Tecnologias de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones (TIC) se utilizan principalmente en el campo del Aprendizaje Colaborativo Apoyado por Ordenador (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, CSCL) para mediar interacciones sociales como activadores significativos del aprendizaje. Sin embargo, un problema importante en el CSCL es que la colaboracion libre no produce necesariamente aprendizajes. En determinadas circunstancias la colaboracion debe ser guiada de manera que aumente la probabilidad de alcanzar beneficios educativos. Precisamente, los guiones de CSCL integrados en sistemas TIC tienen como objetivo indicar como los alumnos deben interactuar entre ellos para que tengan lugar interacciones fructiferas. El ambito de investigacion especifico de esta Tesis Doctoral recae sobre los denominados macro-guiones de CSCL, que describen metodos pedagogicos formulados como flujos de actividades. Este documento identifica y hace frente a tres retos relacionados con el problema de facilitar a los profesores el diseno de estos macro-guiones integrados en las TIC. El primer reto hace referencia al diseno de los guiones de manera que estos sean potencialmente productivos. Este trabajo propone utilizar patrones para capturar buenas practicas en cuanto a la estructuracion de situaciones de CSCL. El objetivo es que los patrones puedan ser reutilizados en la creacion de nuevos guiones. Para ello, presentamos un modelo conceptual de lenguajes de patrones para guiones de CSCL, asi como un lenguaje de patrones concreto que es conforme con el modelo. Dicho modelo define los diferentes tipos de patrones y relaciones entre patrones de manera que es posible definir numerosas posibilidades de secuencias de patrones que dan forma al diseno de guiones especificos. El segundo reto tiene que ver con la implementacion de los guiones en sistemas TIC. Con el proposito de que los guiones puedan ser interpretados automaticamente sin necesidad de desarrollar nuevos s
Studies of the latency period in multiple sclerosis

As we have heard, yesterday and today, despite the myriad studies of the etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) many questions remain unanswered. There have been suggestions that the time has come to take stock of what we have learned and enter a new phase of focussed research. We concur with these suggestions and anticipate that one of the products of this symposium will be recommendations for future research: recommendations concerning not only what directions to take but also guidelines for the methodologic approaches to be used. The nature of MS restricts our potential choices of design for etiologic research to case control studies. As Dr. Weinshenker will be discussing strategies in general later this afternoon, this presentation will be limited to consideration of the latent period of MS (1). When causal factors act close in time to onset of detectable disease, investigators are in a relatively strong position to tie together factor and disease. Our ability to link causal factors, however, dimishes markedly as the time between the action of a causal factor and disease occurrence increases. In contrast to many diseases where assumptions concerning the time of action of causal factors are guesses at best, in MS research we have the advantage of years of investigation which allows us to narrow down the time of action of possible etiologic factors. As early as 1921, it was suggested that MS was a disease likely acquired early in life that lay dormant until the appearance of detectable symptoms in adulthood. Since that time, many investigations have been carried out to establish when the disease C. Wolfsonl, D. 6. Wolfson*
User needs for technology supporting physical activity in chronic pain

An emerging field of HCI is the use of interactive technology to promote fitness. However, current persuasive fitness technologies for the general population do not address the psychological needs of users with chronic conditions. This is particularly the case in chronic pain. Research indicates that people with chronic pain have negative beliefs and experiences associated with pain such as anxiety about provoking pain through exercise. We interviewed physiotherapists and people with chronic pain to get an understanding of the physical and psychological needs that must be addressed by a technology for supporting physical activity in this population. Five themes emerged: pain management approach, personalisation/tailoring, exercise adherence, supportive functions, and visual representations.
Interference Coordination in Compact Frequency Reuse for Multihop Cellular Networks

Continuously increasing the bandwidth to enhance the capacity is impractical because of the scarcity of spectrum availability. Fortunately, on the basis of the characteristics of the multihop cellular net- j works (MCNs), a new compact frequency reuse scheme has been proposed to provide higher spectrum utilization efficiency and larger capacity without increasing the cost on network. Base stations (BSs) and relay stations (RSs) could transmit simultaneously on the same frequency according to the compact frequency reuse scheme. In this situation, however, mobile stations (MSs) near the coverage boundary will suffer serious interference and their traffic quality can hardly be guaranteed. In order to mitigate the interference while maintaining high spectrum utilization efficiency, this paper introduces a fractional frequency reuse (FFR) scheme into multihop cellular networks, in which the principle of FFR scheme and characteristics of frequency resources configurations are described, then the transmission (Tx) power consumption of BS and RSs is analyzed. The proposed scheme can both meet the requirement of high traffic load in future cellular system and maximize the benefit by reducing the Tx power consumption. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed FFR in compact frequency reuse achieves higher cell coverage probability and larger capacity with respect to the conventional schemes.
Imaging and Characterization of Engineered Nanoparticles in Sunscreens by Electron Microscopy, Under Wet and Dry Conditions

Abstract There is increasing concern over the risks of nanoparticles to humans and the environment, but little is known about the properties of the nanoparticulate mineral filters, such as titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, in sunscreens. There is an urgent need to develop methods for characterizing nanoparticles in (NPs) such products to provide data for human and environmental risk assessments. This study explored three methods (transmission electron microscopy [TEM], conventional scanning electron microscopy [SEM], and wet-scanning electron microscopy [WetSEM]) for characterizing NPs in sunscreens. Our results showed that these products contained titanium dioxide and zinc oxide particles in the nanometer range; thus, it is likely that consumers and the environment are exposed to engineered NPs through the use of these products. Further, we found that the combination of all three microscopy methods provided the most comprehensive information on size-related properties, which are crucial parameters for risk assessment of NPs in wet matrices.