Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Reliability and Validity of the Chinese Version of the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile.

IMPORTANCE In Chinese-speaking societies, a reliable and valid measure is needed to enable early identification of young children's challenges in sensory processing. OBJECTIVE To examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile (ITSP-C) when used with Taiwanese children. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Multiple settings. PARTICIPANTS Participants were 367 typically developing (TD) infants ages 0-6 mo (mean [M] age = 3.44 mo, standard deviation [SD] = 1.82) and 677 toddlers ages 7-36 mo (M age = 22.33 mo, SD = 8.15), along with 42 toddlers with developmental disabilities (DD; M age = 28.4 mo, SD = 6.7). OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The ITSP, a caregiver questionnaire that measures how children respond to sensory events in daily life, was translated and cross-culturally adapted into a Chinese version (ITSP-C). RESULTS Internal consistency was high for the 0-6 mo subscale (α = .80) and the 7-36 mo subscale (α = .82). Test-retest reliability was excellent for the 7-36 mo subscale (intraclass correlation coefficient = .94). Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that the ITSP-C discriminated between children with DD and TD children. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE The ITSP was successfully adapted to Chinese with similar reliability and validity to the original ITSP. The 7-36 mo subscale had a higher level of reliability than the 0-6 mo subscale, and quadrant scores were more reliable than section scores. Moreover, the ITSP-C discriminated children with DD from TD children on the basis of their sensory processing patterns. WHAT THIS ARTICLE ADDS The ITSP-C has sound psychometric properties and support for its use in early identification of sensory processing difficulties in young Chinese-speaking children.
Social Groups and the Effectiveness of Protests

We present an informational theory of public protests, according to which public protests allow citizens to aggregate privately dispersed information and signal it to the policy maker. The model predicts that information sharing of signals within social groups can facilitate information aggregation when the social groups are sufficiently large even when it is not predicted with individual signals. We use experiments in the laboratory and on Amazon Mechanical Turk to test these predictions. We find that information sharing in social groups significantly affects citizens' protest decisions and as a consequence mitigates the effects of high conflict, leading to greater efficiency in policy makers' choices. Our experiments highlight that social media can play an important role in protests beyond simply a way in which citizens can coordinate their actions; and indeed that the information aggregation and the coordination motives behind public protests are intimately connected and cannot be conceptually separated.
LES NOUVELLES CIBLES BIOLOGIQUES DU MÉTABOLISME MINÉRAL ET OSSEUX SELON LES KIDNEY DISEASE: IMPROVING GLOBAL OUTCOMES

Les recommandations des Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Improvement (KDOQI) du métabolisme minéral et osseux de l’insuffi sant rénal chronique ont été publiées en octobre 2003 [1]. Ces recommandations ont constitué depuis lors un guide pour les néphrologues, mais aussi un référentiel international pour les différents registres et les études prospectives. Ces KDOQI étaient constitués de cibles biologiques, censées améliorer la morbimortalité des patients, et d’arbres décisionnels permettant d’atteindre ces cibles. Les KDOQI ont fait l’objet de nombreuses critiques depuis leur publication : ils avaient été conçus par et pour des NordAméricains, il y avait de nombreux partis pris non basés sur l’évidence, et enfi n ces recommandations étaient devenues obsolètes à la lumière des récentes publications et des nouvelles thérapeutiques disponibles. Les recommandations des Kidney Disease : Improving Global Outcomes [2] ont réuni un panel d’experts internationaux avec l’ambition d’unifi er l’ensemble des recommandations existantes dans les différents pays. La parution en aout 2009 d’un
Asymmetrical myofiber architecture along the murine tibialis anterior suggests distinct functional regions

Skeletal muscle function is inferred from the spatial arrangement of myofiber architecture and the molecular and metabolic features of myofibers. Features of myofiber types can be distinguished by the expression of myosin heavy chain (MyHC) isoforms, indicating contraction properties. In most studies, a local sampling, typically obtained from the median part of the muscle, is used to represent the whole muscle. It remains largely unknown to what extent this local sampling represents the entire muscle. Here we studied myofiber architecture over the entire wild type mouse tibialis anterior muscle, using a high-throughput procedure combining automatic imaging and image processing analyses. We reconstructed myofiber architecture from consecutive cross-sections stained for laminin and MyHC isoforms. The data showed a marked variation in myofiber geometric features, as well as MyHC expression and the distribution of neuromuscular junctions, and suggest that muscle regions with distinct properties can be defined along the entire muscle. We show that in these muscle regions myofiber geometric properties align with biological function and propose that future studies on muscle alterations in pathological or physiological conditions should consider the entire muscle.
Current Status of R&D and PIE Program for ADS Material Development in JAEA

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) proposes transmutation of minor actinides (MA) by accelerator-driven systems (ADS). The ADS designed by JAEA is a system composed of a high intensity proton accelerator, a lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) spallation target and a subcritical core. Since a beam window (BW) of ADS is exposed in a complex field of heavy irradiation by proton/neutron and corrosion by flowing LBE, JAEA plans to construct a materials irradiation facility at J-PARC. In the facility, a proton-beam extracted from J-PARC LINAC is injected to a LBE spallation target with 250 kW beam power, and post irradiation examination (PIE) is done for the samples such as BW of the target. Irradiation conditions in terms of temperature range, LBE flow rate, irradiation dose are from 400°C to 500°C, 1 m/s and 10 dpa/year, respectively. Along with conceptual design study of the facility, various R&Ds are being carried out by a LBE target mock-up loop “IMMORTAL” and a high temperature (550°C) material corrosion test loop “OLLOCHI”. Oxygen potential control systems for LBE flow have been also developed. As for PIE, specimen preparing procedure from the irradiated samples and BW including notching method and LBE cleaning technology have been investigated. Testing techniques for small specimens under LBE have been also developed. In this paper, we described the current status of facility development with major focus on the PIE program.
Estimation of GFR in First Degree Relatives and Spouses of Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis by Using Formulae.

Glomerular filtration rate can be estimated by various formulae including Cockroft - Gault formula, MDRD equation, CKD-EPI. The first degree relatives and the spouses of patients with kidney disease are at high risk of development of chronic kidney disease. In this background, we undertook a prospective study of estimation of GFR in FDRs and spouses of patients on maintenance hemodialysis using various formulae.
High-Intensity, Non-Sport-Specific Strength and Conditioning for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Athletes: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) is a grapplingbased combat sport with a growing recreational and professional athlete population. The sport is notoriously hard to master, which requires practitioners to maintain a high BJJ-specific training volume. High-intensity training is a well-established approach to rapid improvements in strength and endurance. Recent studies show that concomitant BJJ and high-intensity strength and conditioning training can improve several physical and physiological attributes. The present article briefly reviews literature pertaining to BJJ and its athletes and provides training recommendations based on highintensity strength and conditioning concepts.
Unusual Intracerebral Hemorrhage as a Postoperative Complication of A Metastatic Tumor

Described here is an unusual complication after diagnostic biopsy for brain metastasis. We admitted a 39-year-old male patient with history of recent onset seizure. MRI revealed multiple lesion . Workup to diagnosis of metastasis was negative. He underwent a lesionectomy. Histological examination identified metastatic adenocarcinoma. After the surgery hemorrhage in corpus callosum deteriorated his neurological status. Brain metastases represent a significant source of morbidity and mortality in patients with systemic cancer. Among adults, the highest incidence is observed in the fifth to seventh decades of life[1]. The most common sources of brain metastases in this patient group are cancers of the lung, breast, and skin, in descending order[2]. As many as 10% to 15% of patients with a clinical diagnosis of metastasis may, in fact, have nonmetastatic lesions such as abscesses or primary tumors[3]. So in patients without known primary site of tumor, sampling can provide tissue for confirming the diagnosis of metastasis. In other hands post operative hemorrhage has been known as a complication of surgery.
Heteroplasmy variability in individuals with biparentally inherited mitochondrial DNA

With very few exceptions, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in humans is transmitted exclusively from mothers to their offspring, suggesting the presence of a strong evolutionary pressure favoring the exclusion of paternal mtDNA. We have recently shown strong evidence of paternal mtDNA transmission. In these rare situations, males exhibiting biparental mtDNA appear to be limited to transmitting just one of the mtDNA species to their offspring, while females possessing biparental mtDNA populations consistently transmit both populations to their offspring at a very similar heteroplasmy level. The precise biological and genetic factors underlying this unusual transmission event remain unclear. Here, we have examined heteroplasmy levels in various tissues among individuals with biparental inheritance. Our results indicate that individuals with biparental mtDNA have remarkable inter-tissue variability in heteroplasmy level. At the single-cell level, paternal mtDNA heteroplasmy in sperm varies dramatically, and many sperm possess only one of the two mtDNA populations originally in question. These results show a fundamental, parent-of-origin difference in how mtDNA molecules transmit and propagate. This helps explain how a single population of mtDNAs are transmitted from a father possessing two populations of mtDNA molecules, suggesting that some mtDNA populations may be favored over others when transmitted from the father.
Delinquent Youth Concentration and Juvenile Recidivism

ABSTRACT Examining the environmental correlates of deviant behavior is a large area of interest that continues to promote much research in criminology. Recent attention has been given to understanding the effects of an elevated concentration of offenders on an individual’s likelihood of recidivism. To our knowledge, no study has explored whether an elevated delinquent youth concentration negatively affects the recidivism of a juvenile population. Using data from a large number of adjudicated delinquents on community supervision from the state of Florida, mixed effects logistic regression analyses indicate that increases in delinquent youth concentration contribute to an increased risk of reoffending for younger, but not older, juvenile offenders. Future research directions and policy implications are also discussed.
A study of the suitability of marine transportation personnel using brainwave analysis and virtual reality technology

This work aims to investigate the possibility of reducing the occurrence of marine accidents by avoiding the unsuitability of marine transportation personnel. Recognizing that a majority of marine accidents arise from the improper reactions of transportation workers, we propose to evaluate the suitability of transportation personnel with the aid of brainwave analysis and Virtual Reality (VR) technology. By analyzing the brainwaves of a person facing operation situations simulated via VR, it may be possible to predict his/her responses in the situations and, thereby, determine if he/she is suitable to be involved in transportation work. Our preliminary experiments show that the brainwave analyses do have the capability of evaluating the appropriateness of the decisions made by a person when he/she faces operation situations.
Senataxin: A Putative RNA: DNA Helicase Mutated in ALS4—Emerging Mechanisms of Genome Stability in Motor Neurons

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis type 4 (ALS4) is a rare, autosomal dominant childhood- or adolescent-onset motor neuron disease caused by genetic defects in senataxin (SETX), a putative RNA–DNA helicase. Studies on the yeast SETX ortholog Sen1 revealed its role in small RNA termination pathways. It has been postulated that ALS4-associated neuronal pathologies could stem from defects in RNA metabolism and altered gene expression. Importantly, SETX prevents the accumulation of R-loops, which are potentially pathogenic RNA–DNA hybrids that stem from perturbations in transcription. SETX also interacts with the tumor suppressor BRCA1 that helps promote DNA double-strand break repair by homologous recombination. As such, SETX could contribute toward the removal of harmful R-loops and DSBs in postmitotic neurons. This chapter will visit the plausible mechanistic role of SETX in R-loop removal and DNA break repair that could prevent the activation of apoptotic cell death in neurons and pathological manifestation of ALS4.
Experimental Investigations on Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Loaded on a Microstrip Line

This paper is an analysis of the filter characteristics of a rectangular dielectric resonator (DR) loaded on a Microstrip Line (MSL). Position of the rectangular DR on the Microstrip Line is optimized for best performance of the filter and different orientations of the dielectric resonator are tried out for finding the optimized orientation and position. For efficient coupling between MSL and DR a metallic patch is provided at the bottom of dielectric resonator with the same dimension as the surface touching the feedline. Experimental studies carried out ascertain, the proposed DR loaded on MSL is an effective filter.
The Effect of Education on Residents’ Subjective Well-Being

Using the 2015 China Comprehensive Social Survey (CGSS) data and an ordered logit model, this article empirically tests the impact of education on residents' subjective well-being and analyzes its impact mechanism. Sample data show that education significantly improves residents' subjective well-being. It can affect residents’ subjective well-being by affecting residents' perceptions of social justice, class mobility opportunities, social trust, and class cognition which are beneficial to subjective well-being. To be specific, education promotes people's improvement of social justice, social trust and class cognition, but reduces people's cognition of class mobility.
Electromyographically Assessed Exercises for the Scapular Muscles

Overhead athletes including those in racket sports, throwers, volleyball players, and swimmers require full, unrestricted use of their upper extremities to compete at optimal levels. Scapulothoracic and scapulohumeral (rotator-cuff) muscle function are critical for normal overhead activities of the shoulder and play an important role in normal shoulder function. Furthermore, weakness of scapulothoracic and scapulohumeral muscles is a common cause of shoulder pathology. The primary purpose of this article is to describe therapeutic exercises that activate the scapulothoracic and scapulohumeral muscles. They were derived from literature examining the electromyographical (EMG) activation of the scapular muscles. Therapeutic exercises have been investigated using surface and indwelling EMG electrodes in order to determine to what level specific scapulothoracic and scapulohumeral muscles are activated. Electromyographic studies will be cited to provide a rationale for exercise recommendations to strengthen scapulothoracic and scapulohumeral muscles. Scapulothoracic Muscles and Pathology
Student as Producer: how do revolutionary teachers teach?

Student as Producer is a curricula for revolutionary teaching that emerged from inside an English university at the start of the 21st century. Grounded in a pedagogy derived from Marxist social theory, Student as Producer provides a practical and critical response to the on-going assault on higher education by the social power of Money and the State, with a focus on Police. This account of Student as Producer is set within a particular moment in time: between the student protests and urban riots that erupted in England in 2010 - 2011 and the 2017 General Election in the UK, when students and young people played a significant role protesting the politics of austerity and supporting the politics of Corbynism. This book explores the intellectual origins of Student as Producer, with particular reference to Walter Benjamin’s The Author as Producer (Benjamin 1934), and develops the concept of Student as Producer through an engagement with the work of major writers on revolutionary education: Jacques Ranciere, Paulo Freire, and Paula Allman. Student as Producer’s revolutionary curriculum is framed around unlearning the law of labour as a critique of capitalist work and the institutions through which the law of labour is enforced, including the capitalist university. The critique proposes a new form of higher education institution: a co-operative university, as a moment of revolutionary transition towards communism: making a clear link between democracy and Marx’s law of value. This moment of revolutionary transition is consolidated by drawing on the power of Strike, not to defend labour but to move towards the abolition of capitalist work. And, finally, at the end of the book, a thought experiment about how such a university and its communist sociality would be defended: not by Police, but another form of Authority and Authorship. The theoretical frame for an alternative to Police is taken from the work of the Soviet legal theorist, Evgeny Pashukanis (1891-1937) based on common purpose and social defence. Authority comes from a critique of authoritarianism recovered from ancient Roman philosophy. Authorship is after Walter Benjamin’s The Author as Producer inflected with a dialectical twist.
Integrated Service Delivery to Ensure Persons' Functional Autonomy (review)

RÉSUMÉ Cet ouvrage porte sur PRISMA, un programme de recherche sur l'intégration des services de maintien de l'autonomie. S'appuyant sur un partenariat entre chercheurs, gestionnaires et cliniciens, PRISMA a permis de développer, d'implanter et d'évaluer un modèle organisationnel original visant à assurer l'intégration des soins aux personnes âgées en perte d'autonomie. Les mécanismes et outils inhérents au programme incluent, entre autres, une porte d'entrée unique, un processus de gestion par cas; un plan de service individualisé et un ensemble de mécanismes de gouvernance. En plus de fournir une gamme d'options pour renforcer l'intégration, cet ouvrage illustre comment une action concertée entre chercheurs et praticiens peut faciliter des changements organisationnels.
Bispectral analysis in medical-surgical ICU

The effectiveness of sedation in the ICU is routinely assessed by subjective monitoring of the patient’s clinical condition or by using the monitors. The aim of our study was to review the monitoring of sedation using bispectral analysis (BIS) in medical-surgical ICU. A retrospective analysis of patients who were treated in the ICU from 2008 to 2014 was made. The data of 104 patients were analyzed. The average values of age are 54.38 (SD ±18, 93 ; median 58). 39 (37, 5%) of the patients died. The patients were referred to the ICU from medical (37), surgical departments (23) and traumatology (44). The patients were treated in the ICU for 13.84 days (SD ±17.29 ; median 8). The burst suppression pattern was noticed in 31 (29.8%) patients. Delirium occurred in 3 patients after the separation from the ventilator. In heterogeneous groups of patients, in which BIS was applied, it is not possible to make certain conclusions. The cost of the method unfortunately limits its wider usage. It is necessary to wait for the results of future studies which will set clear indications for the use of BIS in certain groups of patients.
Investigation of Kronecker-based Recovery in Compressive Sensing

In this thesis, modified Kronecker-based CS 1-D and 2-D recovery techniques with random and deterministic measurement matrices are investigated to improve signal quality despite resource restricted acquisition. For regular recovery of individual segments of the compressed signal, the measurement and sparsifying matrices are required. While the regular Kronecker-based CS recovery technique uses expanded Kronecker measurement and basis matrices to achieve one-time recovery of a collection of compressively acquired segmented signal, in the proposed modified Kronecker-based CS recovery, a new basis matrix which is an expanded version of the basis matrix is used. The reduction of mutual coherence between the expanded Kronecker measurement and the expanded basis matrix leads to improvement in the recovery of the signal. Deterministic sensing further improves the recovery and preserves the structure of the acquired signal in the compressed domain which can be exploited for compressed domain signal processing algorithms.
A Cross‐Linked Interconnecting Layer Enabling Reliable and Reproducible Solution‐Processing of Organic Tandem Solar Cells

The performance of tandem organic solar cells (OSCs) is directly related to the functionality and reliability of the interconnecting layer (ICL). However, it is a challenge to develop a fully functional ICL for reliable and reproducible fabrication of solution‐processed tandem OSCs with minimized optical and electrical losses, in particular for being compatible with various state‐of‐the‐art photoactive materials. Although various ICLs have been developed to realize tandem OSCs with impressively high performance, their reliability, reproducibility, and generic applicability are rarely analyzed and reported so far, which restricts the progress and widespread adoption of tandem OSCs. In this work, a robust and fully functional ICL is developed by incorporating a hydrolyzed silane crosslinker, (3‐glycidyloxypropyl)trimethoxysilane (GOPS), into poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), and its functionality for reliable and reproducible fabrication of tandem OSCs based on various photoactive materials is validated. The cross‐linked ICL can successfully protect the bottom active layer against penetration of high boiling point solvents during device fabrication, which widely broadens the solvent selection for processing photoactive materials with high quality and reliability, providing a great opportunity to continuously develop the tandem OSCs towards future large‐scale production and commercialization.