Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Meniére's Disease and Endolymphatic Hydrops Clinical-Histopathological Correlations

The clinical-histopathological correlation between Menière's disease and endolymphatic hydrops was done to explain, as much as possible, causes of symptoms of Menière's disease. Twenty-three temporal bones with endolymphatic hydrops from 17 patients were reviewed and clinical and histopathological findings were correlated. Histopathological examination revealed frequent, severe deformities in the labyrinthine walls and permanent changes in Reissner's membranes. Evidence of rupture was difficult to assess. Of 21 ears of patients with the clinical diagnosis of Menière's disease, 93% had endolymphatic hydrops. A statistical correlation between increased area of the cochlear duct and hearing loss was found. Some correlation was also found between frequency of vertigo and results of electronystagmography with histopathological findings. Consequently, the mechanical effect of endolymphatic hydrops seems to have greater significance in the production of symptoms of Menière's disease than the biochemical effect of ruptures. In a review of ten unusual cases from this series of 17 patients, traumatic neuromas or remnants of vestibular structures were found after an incomplete labyrinthectomy. Histopathological findings of four patients who had undergone endolymphatic subarachnoid shunt surgery are described.
EMC Analysis of High-Speed On-Chip Interconnects via a Mixed Quasi-Static Finite Difference—FEM Technique

We present a new technique to investigate electromagnetic compatibility/electromagnetic interference (EMC/EMI) interactions in high-speed transmission lines on the chip level. The time-domain method is based on the different nature of the problem in conductors and semiconductors, compared to the insulating media that separate them. Therefore, the static problem in the silicon oxide is separated from the diffusion problem in conductors. The latter one is solved by an efficient DuFort-Frankel technique, while the static problem is solved in a coarse finite element method (FEM) mesh. In each step, the two problems are appropriately coupled by means of the interface conditions. The time-domain nature of this method permits the use of proper fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based postprocessing procedures to calculate the per unit length parameters in a fast and efficient manner
Isolation and Identification of Aerobic Bacteria Flora of the Skin and Stomach of Wild and Cultured Clarias Gariepinus and Oreochromis Niloticus from Ibadan , Southwest Nigeria

Bacteria flora of wild and cultured Clarias gariepinus (African catfish) and Orepchromis niloticus (Nile Tilapia) randomly collected from different aquatic environments in Ibadan southwest Nigeria were examined and compared. 210 tissue samples harvested from skin (1cm) and stomach (1g) were aseptically analysed. Samples were cultured for bacteria using standard methods. The bacteria species isolated are those in genera Bacillus, Proteus, Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Streptococcus, Salmonella, Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, Serratia and Escherichia. The highest number of different bacteria count was recorded in tilapia species captured from natural river with mean bacteria count (6.09±0.65, t<0.05). Escherichia coli was most frequently encountered (13.06%). The bacteria isolated were of public health significance and the implications of these observations are discussed.
Running head: CONTEXT-SPECIFIC MEASURES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY 1 A Review of AAQ Variants and Other Context-Specific Measures of Psychological Flexibility CONTEXT-SPECIFIC MEASURES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY

Psychological flexibility refers to a way of interacting with internal experiences and the external environment that advances one toward chosen values whereas psychological inflexibility reflects rigid adherence to ineffective responses such that valued living is compromised. Psychological flexibility is a critical variable of interest in acceptance and commitment therapy, thus, accurate assessment of this construct is pertinent to professionals in the field. Numerous measures of psychological flexibility for specific conditions exist and the psychometric validation of each of these measures varies in breadth and depth. To orient professionals to the scope of available measures as well as their psychometric properties, the current review summarizes the existing literature on context-specific measures of psychological flexibility. Most measures demonstrated satisfactory basic psychometric properties, though their clinical utility (e.g., treatment sensitivity) has largely been underexplored. Generally, context-specific measures performed better than a generic measure of psychological flexibility with respect to incremental validity and treatment sensitivity. Still, further research is needed to validate these measures (e.g., discriminant validity) in order to justify their use across settings and study designs.
Television Viewing and Low Leisure- Time Physical Activity in Adolescence Independently Predict theMetabolic Syndrome inMid-Adulthood

RESEARCHDESIGNANDMETHODSdTV viewing habits and participation in leisuretime physical activity at age 16 years were assessed by self-administered questionnaires in a population-based cohort in Northern Sweden. The presence of the metabolic syndrome at age 43 years was ascertained in 888 participants (82% of the baseline sample) using the International Diabetes Federation criteria. Odds ratios (ORs) and CIs were calculated using logistic regression.
Glass Transition and Heavy Oil Dynamics at Low Temperature

In disordered materials, the velocities of thermal motions slow dramatically with decreasing temperatures. If there is no crystallization, the molecules will rearrange so slowly that they will cool before reaching a stable configuration necessary to form an amorphous solid, or glass. The behaviors of such liquids in terms of viscosity and relaxation time, determined in temperatures that are very close to the glass transition, have led to their classification as glasses with extremes between “strong” and “fragile. ” Previous works studied this presence of a glass transition for bitumen and successfully applied modeling that considers this transition to the temperature dependence of some heavy oil viscosities. However, the glass transition for oils and heavy oils and the molecular dynamics at ambient to low temperatures are still not fully understood. In this study, we aim to provide a better understanding of the heavy oil dynamics and the temperature dependence of the viscosity. The glass transition of heavy oils was characterized with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements, and the rheological characterization of several heavy oils at ambient to low temperatures was undertaken through shear rate sweeps and small-strain oscillatory measurements. Such a viscoelastic characterization at low temperature was undertaken to observe the glass-like behavior experimentally and also to construct the reservoir fluid master curves according to the time-temperature superposition principles, which state that at lower temperatures and longer times the fluid behaves the same. These rheological measurements in the linear viscoelastic regimes can then be understood as a response of a structure, represented by the spectrum, to the mechanical stimulation. As expected, the rheology results show that the widely used Arrhenius model cannot fit the experimental data at low temperature and that the heavy oils are highly fragile. Discussions include some comparisons of the structural and dynamics aspects of the heavy oils studied.
Control of strong motion by the upper 30 meters

Local site effects have an enormous influence on the character of ground motions. Currently, soil categories and site factors used in building codes for seismic design are generally based on, or at least correlated with, the seismic velocity of the surface layer. We note, however, that the upper 30 m (a typical depth of investigation) would almost never represent more than 1% of the distance from the source; 0.1% to 0.2% would be more typical of situations where motion is damaging. We investigate the influence of this thin skin on the high-frequency properties of seismograms. We examine properties of seismograms consisting of vertically propagating S waves through an arbitrarily complex stack of flat, solid, elastic layers, where the properties of the lowermost layer (taken at 5 km depth) and a surface layer (thickness 30 m) are constrained. Input at the bottom of the stack is an impulse. We find that the character of the seismograms, and the peak spectral frequencies, are strongly influenced by the properties of the intervening layers. However, for infinite Q, the integral of amplitude squared at the surface (which determines energy if the input and output are regarded as velocity, or Arias intensity if the input and output are regarded as acceleration) is independent of the intervening layers. Also, the peak amplitude of the seismogram at the surface is relatively independent of the intervening properties. For finite, frequency-independent Q, the integral of amplitude squared and peak amplitude decrease as t* increases. There is some scatter that depends on the intervening layers, but it is surprisingly small. These calculations suggest that the surficial geology has a greater influence on ground motions than might be expected based on its thickness alone. They suggest that variable influences of Q along the entire path have a comparable importance for predictions of ground motions. Finally, they suggest that detailed characterization of deeper velocity structure in regions where a 1D model is appropriate gives only a limited amount of added information. Based on our 1D numerical results, we propose a new method to characterize these properties as site factors that could be used in building codes. Full three-dimensional synthetics are tested and give a similar conclusion.
Spatial Planning as a Tool for Sustainable Development. Polish Realities

Sustainable development is currently the basic philosophy of shaping socio-economic development. It seeks to ensure that the improvement of living conditions and development of the economy are reconciled and the proper conditions for the functioning of the natural environment are maintained. The achievement of such objectives requires the use of numerous and varied instruments that include spatial planning whose goals are to protect and harmonize various ways of using geographic spatial resources. The role of spatial planning as an instrument for sustainable development is appreciated in international and Polish theoretical literature. Polish legislation also states, to an increasing extent, that the need for sustainable development should be regarded as the basis of spatial development. However, the reality is that the consecutive Polish spatial planning systems have created mechanisms that have aggravated spatial conflicts, including the excessive and extensive use of space. It has resulted from the privileged position given by consecutive legal solutions to a certain category of space users at the expense of other stakeholders and the natural environment. Therefore, the effective use of spatial planning to ensure sustainable development requires the creation of a new system of planning that balances the interests of various users of space.
Machine Speech Chain with Deep Learning ∗

In this paper, we develop a closed-loop speech chain model based on deep learning and construct a sequence-to-sequence model for both ASR and TTS tasks as well as a loop connection between these two processes. The sequence-to-sequence model in closed-loop architecture allows us to train our model on the concatenation of both labeled and unlabeled data. While ASR transcribes the unlabeled speech features, TTS attempts to reconstruct the original speech waveform based on text from ASR. In the opposite direction, ASR also reconstructs the original text transcription given the synthesized speech. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first deep learning model that integrates human speech perception and production behaviors.
Interaction Technologies Used in Intelligent Residences: A Systematic Review

Sustainability is an updated research topic. In Computer Science, researchers especially from Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering areas have started to focus on how to design and build more sustainable technologies and mainly how to build technologies that could help us to live in a more sustainable way. In this last sense, several solutions have been studied and developed to be used at home. The concept of sustainable houses is growing and generally relies on technological solutions which we should interact with. However, how human-centered aspects have been considered in these works? Which aspects of sustainability have been addressed? In this work, we present a critical view on the works found in literature and also a discussion about the research gap considering the design and evaluation methodologies for such technology.
Error Typology and Remediation Strategies for Requirements Written in English by Non-Native Speakers

In most international industries, English is the main language of communication for technical documents. These documents are designed to be as unambiguous as possible for their users. For international industries based in non-English speaking countries, the professionals in charge of writing requirements are often non-native speakers of English, who rarely receive adequate training in the use of English for this task. As a result, requirements can contain a relatively large diversity of lexical and grammatical errors, which are not eliminated by the use of guidelines from controlled languages. This article investigates the distribution of errors in a corpus of requirements written in English by native speakers of French. Errors are defined on the basis of grammaticality and acceptability principles, and classified using comparable categories. Results show a high proportion of errors in the Noun Phrase, notably through modifier stacking, and errors consistent with simplification strategies. Comparisons with similar corpora in other genres reveal the specificity of the distribution of errors in requirements. This research also introduces possible applied uses, in the form of strategies for the automatic detection of errors, and in-person training provided by certification boards in requirements authoring.
Running Head : ORE AND MEMORY PRECISION 1 Encoding Differences Affect the Number and Precision of Own-vs . Other-Race Faces Stored in Visual Working Memory

Other-race faces are discriminated and recognized less accurately than own-race faces. Despite a wealth of research characterizing this other-race effect (ORE), little is known about the nature of the representations of ownvs. other-race faces. This is because traditional measures of this other-race effect provide a binary measure of discrimination or recognition (correct/incorrect), failing to capture potential variation in the quality of face representations. We applied a novel continuous-response paradigm to independently measure the number of ownand other-race face representations stored in visual working memory (VWM) and the precision with which they are stored. Participants reported target ownor other-race faces on a circular face space that smoothly varied along the dimension of identity. Using probabilistic mixture modeling, we found that following ample encoding time, the ORE is attributable to differences in the probability of a face being maintained in VWM. Reducing encoding time, a manipulation that is more sensitive to encoding limitations, caused a loss of precision or an increase in variability of VWM for otherbut not own-race faces. These results suggest that the ORE is driven by the inefficiency with which other-race faces are rapidly encoded in VWM, and provide novel insights about how perceptual experience influences the representation of ownand other-race faces in VWM.
New output stage for low supply voltage, high-performance CMOS current mirrors

This paper presents a new simple output stage for CMOS current mirrors. The stage is a new low-voltage regulated cascode circuit, which achieves a very high output impedance and accurate current copy when combined with a suitable input stage. A 122 MHz bandwidth with 1 V supply voltage has been obtained using a standard 0.35 /spl mu/m CMOS technology.
Validity of GrayMatters: A Self-Administered Computerized Assessment of Alzheimer's Disease

The need for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease has been well established in previous literature. As technology has spread across all professional fields, computerized screening instruments for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease have begun to draw attention. Research has noted that computerized screeners of dementia should be implemented in primary care physician offices, as the majority of elderly persons see their PCP more frequently than other health professionals. Specifically, self-administered computerized screening instruments that have acceptable psychometric sturdiness are needed for these offices. GrayMatters is a self-administered computerized screening measure that has previously been shown to have acceptable reliability and validity. The aim of this study was to reevaluate the concurrent validity of GrayMatters. Reevaluation was needed in order to compare GrayMatters to the Wechsler Memory Scale-IV, rather than the Wechsler Memory Scale-III as previous research had done, and due to population changes over time. In order to evaluate the concurrent validity of GrayMatters, archival data from 149 female participants and 102 male participants was gathered from the Texas Neuropsychology Clinic. Data sets included participants GrayMatters scores, Wechsler Memory Scale-IV scores, Mini-Mental Status Examination scores, Trailmaking A and B scores, Boston Verbal Fluency Test scores, as well as the participant’s age, gender, race, and level of education. GrayMatters scores were compared to scores from the WMS-IV, MMSE, Trailmaking A and B, and Boston Verbal Fluency Test in order to examine concurrent validity. Results indicate that GrayMatters scores were compatible with scores from all previously mentioned measures. These findings are important because they indicate that GrayMatters can be used as a screening instrument of Alzheimer’s disease that can be used to measure cognitive impairment and guide decisions regarding patient care. Validity of GrayMatters: A Self-Administered Computerized Assessment of Alzheimer’s Disease A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Psychology Abilene Christian University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science
A Summary of Ten Years of PCAOB Research : What Have We Learned

For the past 10 years, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has operated as an independent overseer of public company audits. Over 70 percent of PCAOB studies have been published since 2010, evidencing the increasing relevance of PCAOB-related research in recent years. Our paper reviews the existing literature on the PCAOB’s four primary functions – Registration, Standard-Setting, Inspections, and Enforcement. In particular, we examine PCAOB registration trends and evaluate the effects of PCAOB registration requirements on the issuer audit market, as well as discuss the relative costs and benefits (e.g., auditor behavior changes, improvements in audit quality, auditor perceptions) of the 16 auditing standards the PCAOB passed in its first 10 years of operation. Further, we summarize the literature’s findings on the effects of the PCAOB inspection process on various facets of audit quality. Finally, we analyze the research concerning the PCAOB’s enforcement actions to determine how markets have responded to sanctions against auditors and audit firms. We contend that understanding and reviewing the effects of the PCAOB’s activities are important to future audit research because of the PCAOB’s authority over and oversight of the issuer audit profession. We also identify PCAOB-related research areas that have not been fully explored and propose several research questions intended to address these research areas.
Characterization and fitness of carbendazim-resistant strains of Fusarium graminearum (wheat scab).

BACKGROUND Carbendazim (MBC) has failed to control wheat scab, caused by Fusarium graminearum Schwabe, on the eastern coast of China in recent years after about 30 years of application. RESULTS MBC resistance was found to be common in pathogen populations on the eastern coast and along areas of the Yangtze River. EC(50) and minimum inhibitive concentration (MIC) values of MBC inhibiting mycelium growth of wild-type isolates were less than 0.9 and 1.4 microg mL(-1) respectively, while EC(50) values of resistant collections averaged 7.02 +/- 11.86 microg mL(-1). The slope of the MBC dosage-response curve (DRC) for resistant isolates of F. graminearum was flat: 1 < b < 2.8 for resistant isolates and 3.5 < b < 11 for sensitive isolates). Both field resistant and sensitive MBC strains shared similar temperature sensitivity, fitness and virulence on ears. Field resistant strains and UV-induced mutants showed positive cross-resistance to other benzimidazole derivatives and were mainly at intermediate MBC resistance level. Highly resistant field MBC strains rarely appeared, but only some of the highly resistant MBC UV mutants were insensitive to N-phenylaminecarbamates. No mutation in beta-tubulin was found in F. graminearum, in contrast to mutation in this tubulin which has led to MBC resistance in other plant pathogens. CONCLUSION MBC(R) isolates have high fitness and competition in field, conferred by a novel molecular mechanism.
OR Gate & Delay Generator PC CSAs Shapers A Gamma-ray source CdTe Diode Detectors GateStart Conv . Trigger ADC Modules Hit Pattern Module Discriminators

We describe a stacked detector made of thin CdTe diode detectors. By using a thin CdTe device, we can overcome the charge loss problem due to the small mobility and short lifetime of holes in CdTe or CdZnTe detectors. However, a CdTe detector with a thickness of more than 5 mm is needed for adequate detection efficiency for gammarays of several hundred keV. Good energy resolution and good peak detection efficiency are difficult to obtain using such a thick CdTe detector. The stacked detector enabled us to realize a detector with both high energy resolution and good efficiencies for gamma-rays up to several hundred keV. In order to verify this concept, we constructed a prototype made of ten layers of a 0.5 mm thick CdTe diode detectors with a surface area of 21.5 mm × 21.5 mm. With this, we have achieved 5.3 keV and 7.9 keV energy resolution (FWHM) at 356 keV and 662 keV, respectively, at the temperature of −20 ◦C . Keywords—CdTe, CdZnTe, CdTe Diode Detector, Stacked