Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Response: Late Language Transfer in Patients with Rasmussen Encephalitis (Epilepsia 2003;44:870–1)

To the Editor: The article by Loddenkemper et al. (1) on late transfer of language in two patients with Rasmussen encephalitis implies a fundamental misunderstanding as to the relation between behavioral handedness and laterality of command center in the major hemisphere. This relation is statistical in nature, not anatomic, as conceived traditionally. This fact was first documented by Byrom Bramwell (in 1899), who reported the occurrence of crossed aphasia in a left-hander with a vascular lesion involving his left hemisphere, leaving him with aphasia, right hemiplegia, and apraxia of the nonparalyzed left arm (i.e., findings like those in the garden-variety syndrome seen in a right hander). Independent investigations has since repeatedly shown that the command center for all actions is housed in the same hemisphere as that which handles the speech (2) and that the hand with direct connection to the command center is the neurally dominant hand (3). Only 85% concordance is found between neural and behavioral handedness, accounting for those who display crossed aphasia, crossed nonaphasia, crossed alexia, and crossed nonalexia when afflicted with a cortical lesion ipsilateral to their avowed (i.e., behavioral) dominant hand. The unreliability of the Wada procedure in determining the laterality of the major hemisphere is well known (3,4). The minor hemisphere in neural right-handers, therefore, is devoted to processing signals arising from the (contralateral) left hemispace (including the body surface) and to relaying those signals to the major hemisphere via the callosum for conscious apprehension (5). All volitional motor activities arise from the major hemisphere (as defined above), with those conducted by the effectors on the left delayed by an amount commensurate to the interhemispheric transfer time (IHTT) (3,4). This much had been known clinically since the time of Liepmann (1900). I documented the callosal role in this process by identifying musicologists’ “melody lead of the right hand in piano players” with electrophysiologists’ “synchronization error” in bimanual coupling (3–5). Thus moving the nondominant side and sensing from the same side are bihemispheric events, requiring an extant callosum. No motor input exists from the minor to the major hemisphere, as evidenced by fact that no diaschitic motor syndrome has been described as a result of sectioning the callosum, the opposite of the situation regarding the directionality from the major to the minor hemisphere. Similarly, only moving the nondominant hand results in bilateral cortical activation in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) or positron emission tomography (PET) studies (6). To sum, the authors’ proposal of language transfer from one hemisphere to the other at any age amounts to redirecting the entire interhemispheric traffic signals. It is like viewing a subject from behind and expecting to shake hands with the person the normal way. It will not work.
Analyse physics-based de scénarios sismiques «de la faille au site» : prédiction de mouvement sismique fort pour l’étude de vulnérabilité sismique de structures critiques.

L’ambition de ce travail est la prediction du champ d’onde incident realistique, induit par des mouvement forts de sol, aux sites d’importance strategique, comme des centrales nucleaires. A cette fin, un plateforme multi-outil est developpe et exploite pour simuler les aspects differents d’un phenomene complexe et multi-echelle comme un tremblement de terre. Ce cadre computationnel fait face a la nature diversifiee d’un tremblement de terre par approche holistique local-regionale.Un cas d’etude complexe est choisie: le tremblement de terre MW6.6 Niigata-Ken Ch¯uetsu-Oki, qui a endommage la centrale nucleaire de Kashiwazaki-Kariwa. Les effets de site non-lineaires observes sont a premier examines et caracterises. Dans la suite, le modele 3D «de la faille au site» est construit et employe pour predire le mouvement sismique dans une bande de frequence de 0-7 Hz. L’effet de la structure geologique pliee au-dessous du site est quantifie en simulant deux chocs d’intensite moderee et en evaluant la variabilite spatiale des spectres de reponse aux differents endroits dans le site nucleaire. Le resultat numerique souligne le besoin d’une description plus detaillee du champ d’onde incident utilise comme parametre d’entree dans la conception structurel antisismique de reacteurs nucleaires et des installations. Finalement, la bande de frequences des signaux synthetiques obtenues comme resultat des simulations numeriques est agrandie en exploitant la prediction stochastique des ordonnees spectrales a courte periode fournies par des Reseaux Artificiels de Neurones.
Grossman’s Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography, and Intervention, 6th ed

Donald S. Baim; William Grossman, eds. 960 pp. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2000. ISBN 0-683-30741-X Jeffrey W. Moses, MD Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute New York, NY As the number of cardiac catheterizations proliferate and therapeutic invasive procedures performed in the cardiac catheterization laboratory grow in importance in the comprehensive care of cardiac and extracardiac vascular disease, the need for a catheterization “bible” grows greater. Cardiologists are becoming more rooted in angiography and are in danger of becoming, as one critic of invasive cardiologists called them, “photographers. ” Data analysis has become increasingly automated, and image making and processing are now completely digitized; thus, the working cardiologist is confronted with few demands to directly interact with the creation of the data on which critical clinical decisions are made. This is particularly true for the “jack of all trades” cardiologist who renders comprehensive clinical care and visits the catheterization laboratory much like a surgeon using an operating suite. The sixth edition of Grossman’s Cardiac Catheterization effectively continues to fill the need for a comprehensive reference. This substantial text has 35 chapters divided into 8 sections with 32 authors. It spans the gamut from the history of catheterization and invasive principles to specific techniques and clinical integration. Unlike a typical multiauthored text, 22 of the 35 chapters …
Technical Report 2008-001 A Testing Framework for Real-Time Specifications ∗

We propose a new semantic model for reasoning about real-time system specifications. Based on a theory of timed omega-final regular states, we present a fram ework of timed testing and two refinement timed preorders similar to De Nicola and Hennessy’s may and m ust testing. We also provide alternative characterizations for these relations to show that the new p reorders are extensions of the traditional preorders and to lay the basis for a unified logical and algebr aic approach to conformance testing of real-time systems.
Assessment of the incidence of diarrhea in children under 5 years at the Institute of Child Health, Banzazzau, Zaria

Introduction: This study was carried out to assess the incidence of diarrhoea in children under five years at the catchment community of Institute of Child Health (ICH), Banzazzau, Zaria, affiliated to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Zaria. Aims: The study aim was to assess the incidence of diarrhoea amongst children under five years at the Institute of child health Banzazzau between January 2013 and December 2014. Settings and Design: The study was a retrospective study of the incidence of diarrhoea amongst children under five years at the Institute. Materials and Methods: The materials used for this survey include medical records, questionnaires, weighing scale and a metre rule. Hospital records of children presented with diarrhoea were reviewed to assess the occurrence of diarrhoea among under five. A total of 2,400 hospital records of children under 5 years over a period of 24 months (January 2013- December 2014) who attended the clinic were reviewed. Statistical Analysis Used: Data was analysed using SPSS, version 20.0 and anthropometric data was analysed using the WHO Anthro Software Package 2011. Results: The socio-demography of children seen in the hospital records showed a preponderance of male children over females that presented with diarrhoea (55.4%) and children within the aged 12-23 months had the most diarrhoeal cases (36.8%). Conclusions: Diarrheal disease assessed in under five years in the study area occurred more in male children who are between the ages of 12 to 23 months.
Biomarkers of airway inflammation: the use of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) in the management of adult asthma in UK primary care

Rationale: Current asthma guidelines recommend reducing inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy dose by 50% in patients with mild to moderate asthma who have demonstrated three months of good symptom control however there is evidence to suggest that this does not occur. Objectives: We tested whether exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) measurements or other clinical indices could be utilised to predict a safe reduction of ICS dose, without provoking loss of symptom control or exacerbation within 3 months. We also investigated relationships between airway inflammation and asthma symptoms in the mild to moderate asthma cohort. Methods: 191 patients with stable asthma were recruited from primary care. Patients had their FeNO level measured at baseline and then had their inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) dose reduced by 50%. FeNO measurements were reassessed seven days later. The primary outcomes were whether baseline FeNO or a change in FeNO following ICS dose reduction could predict asthma stability at 3 months. Results: 128/191 patients (67%) completed the ICS dose reduction successfully at three months. 63/191 patients (33%) suffered from either a loss of control or an exacerbation. Baseline FeNO, or change in FeNO (post step-down minus pre step-down) were not statistically significantly different between the two groups. Conclusion: 67% of patients with well-controlled asthma can safely reduce their ICS dose by half without suffering from a loss of control or exacerbation within three months; however neither baseline nor change in FeNO measurements or routine clinical indices can be used to predict which patients can or cannot successfully tolerate a reduction in ICS dose.
Flexible and dynamic SLAs management in Service Oriented Architectures

The increasing adoption of service oriented architectures across different administrative domains forces service providers to use effective mechanisms and strategies of resource management in order to guarantee the quality levels their customers demand during service provisioning. Service level agreements (SLA) are the most common mechanism used to establish agreements on the quality of a service (QoS) between a service provider and a service consumer. However, the proposed solutions have not been taken up by business stakeholders due to the low flexibility and usability together with the lack of interoperability. Any framework for SLA management should address several issues, such as SLA modeling and representation, SLA publication and discovery, protocols for establishing and negotiating SLAs, SLA monitoring and enforcement. This chapter addresses the issues related to the SLA management in service composition scenarios, which impose stronger requirements about flexibility of SLAs, and presents a framework for the management of dynamic SLAs. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-493-6.ch002
ASPECTOS DE INOVAÇÃO E DE REDES QUE AFETAM A IMAGEM DA MARCA: O CASO HARLEY-DAVIDSON E BUELL

Among the many trends impacting the business world nowadays two have become most prominent: the high tax of innovation and the fact that society is more and more organizing itself as networks. In addition, some authors pose that in such a society aspects relating to brand management tend to be more relevant for competitive differentiation than those relating to the quality of products. In this context, this paper aims at analyzing how aspects of innovation and networks affect the image of two global brands from the same company in Brazil. This is one of the first empirical investigations on the contributions of a theoretical essay and because of that the work is characterized as an exploratory and descriptive research that employed the case study research strategy. The brands chosen for analysis were Harley-Davidson and Buell, from the motorcycles produced by the Harley-Davidson Motor Company, because they conform to the requirements implicit in the objective. The analysis performed revealed great convergence and adherence between concepts and secondary and primary data collection, reinforcing the conclusions and allowing the formulation of suggestions for future research.
Multiliteracies and a Metalanguage for the Moving Image: Multimodal Analysis of a Claymation Movie

Globalised communication in society today is characterised by multimodal forms of meaning making in a context of increased cultural and linguistic diversity, calling for the teaching of multiliteracies. This transformation requires the development of a new metalanguage or language of description for the burgeoning and hybridised variety of text forms associated with information and multimedia technologies. To continue to teach to a narrow band of print-based genres, grammars, and skills is to ignore the reality of textual practices outside of schools. This paper draws from classroom research in a multiliteracies classroom to provide a multimodal analysis of a claymation movie. The significance of the paper is the synthesis of a multimodal metalanguage for teachers and students to describe the features of work in the kineikonic (moving image) mode.
MEC towards 5G: A Survey of Concepts, Use Cases, Location Tradeoffs

In recent years, there has been a new trend to push everything to a centralized cloud, triggered by virtualization and pushed by the need to reduce costs and increase suppleness. In the process, mobile operators and industry players forgot how prominent the location of the functionality is to performance, optimal use of network resources and user experience. As they progressively grasp the influence of location in wireless networks and specifically in virtualized networks they start to look for efficient ways to deploy network taking in consideration those metrics. On the one hand Distributed Cloud RAN (DC-RAN) which consists in deploying Base Band Units (BBUs) in distributed way instead of pooling the units at centralized data center and Multiple-access Edge Computing (MEC), Previously known as Mobile Edge Computing which consists in mixing the IT & Telco domains and bringing their capabilities within the close proximity of mobile subscribers to better serve them are gaining acceptance in mobile networks. On the other hand, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), two promising concepts are expected to take mobile networks to a high level of agility. While SDN is based on the separation of control and data planes, NFV separates software from hardware enabling flexible network deployment and dynamic operation. Virtualization, originally used as the support for shifting to the centralized cloud, is even more basic in permitting hybrid models because it offers service providers the chance to choose a location, hardware, and software separately to optimize end-to-end network performance and Quality of Experience (QoE). In this perspective, NFV, SDN, DC-RAN, and MEC in distinct but in complementary ways man up the necessity to put processing and storage where it’s suitable to preserve a healthful harmony between what lingers centralized and what have to be distributed to the edge based on parameters such as applications, traffic type, and network conditions. In this paper, we will present MEC use cases that have gained an attraction to date and we will shed the light on the importance of the edge location and criteria to take in consideration while deploying MEC within network along with the MEC location tradeoffs.
Depression and Antidepressant Use in Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Cancer Patients1

Although mood disturbance is a common manifestation in all cancers that require clinical attention, very little is known regarding the psychiatric management of depression in patients with gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors. The goal of this study was to evaluate the degree of depression among patients with gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors, determine the prevalence of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) use among these patients, and determine whether SSRI users differed from nonusers on demographic and general medical variables. Approximately 22% of the respondents in this study met screening criteria for clinically elevated or borderline depression. Moreover, 7% of respondents were following an SSRI regimen, whereas 7% were following a non-SSRI antidepressant regimen. Analyses revealed no differences on demographic or general medical indicators between SSRI users and nonusers.
Domain-RIP Analysis: A Technique for Analyzing Mutation Stubbornness

Existing mutation techniques generate vast numbers of equivalent and trivial mutants, which do not contribute on the improvement of test quality. One possible solution, as is proposed in this paper, is to measure the difficulty of killing a mutant and choose the stubborn (hard-to-kill) mutants in testing, which can be used to challenge the engineers to design new tests so to enhance the testing effectiveness. This paper introduces the domain-based reachability-infection-propagation analysis (D-RIP), a technique that can rank the mutants according to their difficulty of being revealed and present the reason for mutants being stubborn. More specifically, the D-RIP uses subdomain-based testing method and RIP analytical tool to measure the difficulty degree and decide whether a mutant is stubborn. Furthermore, it generates a report that displays the mutants that are hard-to-kill for a given testing method and presents the reasons to interpret why the test suites fail in detecting these mutants. Using this tool, the engineers are able to choose the useful mutants for improving test quality and obtain the guidance to design tests for detecting the stubborn mutants.
3D Laser Scanning for Image-Guided Neurosurgery

This paper describes on-going work by the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) and The University of Michigan Medical Center to develop a new approach to frameless stereotsxy, in which patient-image registration is accomplished using a 3D laser imaging sensor and precaptured CT scans. Alternative methods under development for frameless stereotactic neurosurgery are reviewed and compared.
What Happened to the E-book Revolution? : The Gradual Integration of E-books into Academic Libraries

An examination of the literature published about electronic books (e-books) between 2000-2007 helps to determine the factors that may have influenced academic e-book offerings and the adoption of e-books in academic libraries. The literature reflects e-book concepts and offerings dating back to 1945, as well as studies and perceptions of opportunities and challenges related to e-books. In an attempt to explain why the integration of e-books into academic library collections has been very gradual during this period, this article presents a summary of the literature that addresses issues related to electronic versions of books that are made accessible online. This includes both books that are digitized and born digital.
A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Background: The purpose of this study was to assess the cost benefit and transfusions of oral and IV tranexamic acid (TXA) in primary total hip arthroplasty (THA). Methods: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library were systematically searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing oral and IV TXA in primary THA. Primary outcomes were total blood loss, maximum hemoglobin drop, transfusion requirements, and cost benefit. Secondary outcomes were length of stay, deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and/or pulmonary embolism (PE). Results: Four independent RCTs were included involving 391 patients. There was no difference in the total blood loss (P= .99), maximum hemoglobin drop (P= .73), and the length of stay (P= .95) between the 2 groups. Transfusion requirements (P= .97) were similar. The total mean cost was the US $75.41 in oral TXA group and the US $580.83 in IV TXA group. The incidence of DVT (P= .3) did not differ significantly between the 2 groups, and no PE was reported in all studies. Conclusion: Oral TXA shows similar efficacy and safety as IV TXA in reducing total blood loss, maximum hemoglobin drop and transfusion requirements in primary THA. However, oral TXA may be more cost-benefit than IV TXA. Level of Evidence: Level I, therapeutic study. Abbreviations: CI = confidence interval, DVT = deep vein thrombosis, IV = intravenous, MD =mean difference, PE = pulmonary embolisms, RCTs = randomized controlled trials, TKA = total knee arthroplasty, TXA = tranexamic acid.
Fraud Risk Assessment Using the Fraud Risk Model as a Decision Aid

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the efficacy of using a technology based on an elaboration of the traditional fraud risk model to assess the risk of fraud and subsequently plan the audit. The fraud risk model used is based on Srivastava, Mock, and Turner (2007, 2009) and explicitly assesses the presence of fraud triangle factors and the need for forensic tests to aid in the assessment of fraud detection risk and audit planning. Previous studies that examine fraud risk decomposition simply advise subjects to assess fraud risks separately without an analytical model. We examine the effectiveness of the approach using an experiment involving 76 experienced auditors where specific fraud risks are present or absent. As expected, the results indicate that the model significantly enhances auditors' sensitivity to differences in the level of fraud risks. That is, the auditors using the fraud risk model appropriately assessed low fraud risk as low and high fraud risk as high, whereas the auditors using the tradi.
A survey of the undergraduates'beverage ingestion

In order to learn the undergraduates 'ingestion of beverage,we investigated their ways of water supplement,ingestion structure of beverage,difference of sex,habits and cognitions on beverages,etc.;and found it was reasonable in their ingestion of category,proportion and habits,but there were some bias in cognition on beverage in their mind,only 20% of them knew the beverage might be harmful to their health.So,we suggest they not only drink boiled water every day,but also control the quantity and time.
THE ISSUES OF COMIC EFFECT TRANSLATION IN CHILDREN’S ANIMATED MOVIE

The referred work is devoted to the research of current issues of humor translating aspects based on children’s animated movies. The undertaken developmental linguistics approach is targeted to define the linguostylistic and psycholinguistic features in order to outline the “core of the joke” within the dialogical text of children’s animated movie. The best translational tools and strategies as well as translational communicative losses were outlined as a result of the comparative analysis of jokes and their Russian translations within children’s animated movies targeted onto the children audience belonging to a definite age group.