Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Resection of the axillary vein in radical mastectomy: Its relation to the mechanism of lymphedema

E V I D E N C E to be offered in this communication will indicate the frequent necessity for axillary-vein resection in the operative treatment of mammary carcinoma and will also suggest the possibility of eventually including this anatomical extension of radical mastectomy as a routine measure. The absolute indication for axillary-vein resection should be the presence of apparent lymphnode metastases attached, or in close proximity, to the sheath of the vessel. Resection of the vein in such instances provides a real approach to the adequate en-bloc dissection of the axillary space. Its inclusion as a routine step should be equally as desirable, if it can be shown that the postoperative sequelae, particularly lymphedema of the homolateral extremity, are no greater, or even less severe, than those of the conventional procedure. The early results in a small group of patients, reported herewith, constitute tentative confirmation of the latter possibility. The diminished degree of lymphedema consequent upon axillary-vein resection will be discussed in terms of the possible mechanism of its production. Neuhof, in I 938, reported eleven patients in whom he had resected the axillary vein in the presence of adherent lymph-node metastases. Two of these women had “some” lymphedema, two had fluctuating edema of the hand, the others were reported as having developed no lymphedema. In 1932, nine cases that had had resection of the axillary vein were reported by Costantini, who observed immediate, transient edema in some patients but concluded that the late results were as good as, or better than, in those with conservation of the vein. Costantini suggested
Human Patient Simulations: Evaluation of Self-Efficacy and Anxiety in Clinical Skills Performance.

The relationship between self-efficacy (self-confidence) and anxiety levels, and the use of Human Patient Simulations (HPS) as a teaching-learning strategy, has not been sufficiently studied in the area of clinical nursing education. The purpose of this chapter is to evaluate the self-efficacy/self-confidence and anxiety levels in clinical skills performance of undergraduate nursing students, pre-use and post-use of Human Patients Simulations (HPS), as a teaching and learning strategy in maternity nursing. The study used a quantitative, pre-experimental, one group study design with a pretest and posttest experiment in data collection. The findings concluded that HPS reduced anxiety and increased self-efficacy/self-confidence in clinical skills performance and decision-making of the participants. In addition, the study found that the participants had difficulties in tasks performance with the following action verbs associated with the cognitive domain of Bloom’s taxonomy. The verbs were “identify,” “apply,” and “analyze. ” INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM The relationship between self-efficacy, anxiety, and the use of Human Patient Simulations (HPS) as a teaching-learning strategy has not been sufficiently studied in the area of clinical nursing education. Despite the evidence in the literature that HPS increases self-efficacy and decreases anxiety levels in nursing clinical skills performance in the hospital setting (Cant & Cooper, 2010; Fanning & Gaba, 2007), a great number of third-year undergraduate nursing students have difficulty transitioning from the nursing learning laboratory setting to the real-life hospital setting in all nursing specialties (Kameg, Mitchell, Clochesy, Howard, & Suresky, 2009; White, 2003; White, 2011). Critics attributed the cause to a lack of self-efficacy/self-confidence, increase in anxiety level in the hospital setting post use of HPS as a teaching-learning tool, a lack of critical thinking and critical reflection in teaching and learning, in addition to teaching naively—by which the facilitators believe that the students are learning and understanding what is being taught (Brookfield, Grace N. Onovo Hostos Community College, USA
Ubiquitous Musics: The Everyday Sounds That We Don’t Always Notice

Ubiquitous Musics: The Everyday Sounds That We Don’t Always Notice is a recent addition to Ashgate’s influential Folk and Popular Music series. Editors Marta Garćia Quiňones, Anahid Kassabian and Elena Bosch have assembled a collection of nine essays, each of which deals with some form of ‘ubiquitous music’. So, what is meant by this phrase? Starting with a day in the life of an ‘average’ person, the editors show the numerous situations in which this person will be surrounded by some form of music – alarms, at the coffee shop, in the gym, and so forth (pp. 1–2). The editors reach the conclusion that the concept of ‘ubiquitous music’ cannot be described effectively in terms of a style (e.g. muzak) or a genre (e.g. a common setting); rather, it is best conceived as ‘musical events that take place alongside other activities’ (p. 7), a definition that takes its cue from Kassabian’s previous work in the area. This definition also creates an open-ended framework, in which many musical contexts may be explored. This theme of exploration is prominent throughout the book. Having shown where and when music appears in our daily lives, the editors note, ‘despite their pervasiveness, the everyday situations just described have so far largely been neglected by music scholars’ (p. 2). The problem, they argue, is that the study of music has been grounded in the ‘aesthetic paradigm’ whereby the musical work sits at the centre of the discussion, and listeners are expected to afford their full and uninterrupted attention to that work (p. 3). While this collection does not necessarily seek to overturn this paradigm, each contribution pursues areas that have hitherto passed under the academic radar. The contributors thus deserve praise for this expansionary approach to the academic study of music. The book is divided into three sections, each comprising three essays of moderate length (ca. 15–20 pages). Lawrence Kramer opens the first section, ‘Histories’, with a rather virtuosic ‘genealogy’ of ambient music (p. 17). His essay begins with three texts and contexts – Caliban’s Island in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the recurring segments titled ‘On the porch’ in Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and Penn Street Station, New York – in which music surrounds the characters of each setting. With short diversions into the worlds of Browning, Berlioz and Wagner, Kramer suggests that the historical transition from early modernity to postmodernity is reflected in the changing nature of ambient music: where the music had a magical and cosmological presence in The Tempest, the ‘piped-in classics’ of the train station ‘[model] the orderly movement of the crowd in space and an underlying condition of calm, choreographed motion’ (p. 28). The following two chapters are narrower in their historical focus. Tony Grajeda outlines a fascinating experiment undertaken by the Edison Company in the 1920s that sought to document the precise effects particular styles of music may have on a
Curva de sobrevida e fatores prognósticos no lúpus eritematoso sistêmico infanto-juvenil

OBJECTIVE: To analyze clinical, laboratory, serological and treatment factors associated with death in a childhood onset childhood systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) population. METHODS: 55 patients out of 519 prospectively followed-up cohorts were identified as having childhood onset SLE in the State University of Campinas. Univariate analysis and Cox regression model were used to determinate the variables associated with death in this cohort. RESULTS: Death occurred in 12 patients (21.8%), caused by sepsis in 6 (50%), stroke in 4 (33.3%), and renal insufficiency in two (16.7%) cases. In the univariate analysis, male sex, infection and the use of cyclophosphamide were associated with death. In the multivariate regression, only male sex was related to death (odds ratio = 5.8). CONCLUSIONS: During a follow-up period of 27 years, death was observed in 21.8%. Although infection was directly responsible for half of the deaths, survival was not influenced by the presence of infection or renal insufficiency. Male sex was the only variable that influenced survival in this cohort. A greater attention should be given to boys with SLE in order to improve survival.
Information Extraction from Medical Notes

Health providers tend to prefer free text when describing drug dosages prescribed to their patients. However, unstructured text is not amenable to large scale analysis such as data mining. In this paper, we explore four methods that automatically identify drug, dosage,and method of delivery information from transcribed physician notes. Our final method uses just one extraction heuristic, and achieves an average precision of 96.74% on a training set and 96.70% on the test set and average recall of 69.48% on the training set and 79.72% on the test set. These results suggest that a small number of heuristics can provide accurate extraction of drug, dosage and method of delivery information in medical notes.
A Model of Employment Decision Making: An Analysis of Quit/Stay Decisions of Junior Army Officers

Abstract : The purpose of this research is to identify and assess the effect of factors which guide the decisions of junior Army officers to stay or quit the active force. Since these decisions are most important in the early years of career, analyses are done only for junior Army officers. The two endogenous variables in the system are the officers perceptions of the number of years they expect to serve and their satisfaction with the military life. Aggregation bias is reduced by estimating separate equations for different groups of officers. The equations are estimated using the Army portion of data from the 1985 DOD survey of Officers and Enlisted Personnel. Satisfaction with the military life in turn depends on good retirement and medical benefits, satisfaction with pay and allowances, educational and recreation facilities, employment opportunities for spouses, working conditions, job security,commissary services and environment for the family.
Designing a new tool for modeling and simulation of discrete-event based systems

This paper talks about design, development, and application of a new Petri net simulator for modeling and simulation of discrete event system (e.g. information systems). The new tool is called GPenSIM (General purpose Petri Net Simulator). Firstly, this paper presents the reason for developing a new tool, through a brief literature study. Secondly, the design and architectural issues of the tool is given. Finally, an application example is given on the application of the tool.
Notice of Retraction Water conservancy monitoring system based on wireless sensor network

With the rapid development of national economy, for dependency on the water conservancy monitoring system design put forward higher request, will wireless sensor network into water conservancy monitoring system. Introduction to the wireless sensor network hardware design, including digital water-level sensor SHT11 and CC1110 microcontroller, Communication protocol modular CC2420 to realize, Software of main advantage of assembly and C language development, by gprs-based software, RF communications software, command line software and task management software completed. The monitoring system can realize flexible rapid networking and automatic configuration, expansibility.
Vestibular evoked myogenic potential : its basics and clinical applications

Part I. Introduction. - Part II. Basics. - Overview of the Vestibular System Sound Sensitivity of the Vestibular End-Organs and Sound-Evoked Vestibulocollic Refl exes in Mammals. - Recording and Assessing VEMPs. - VEMP Variants. - Part III. Clinical Applications. - Menier's Disease and Related Disorders: Detection of Saccular Endolymphatic Hydrops. - Vestibular Neuritis (Neurolabyrinthitis) and Other Peripheral Vestibulopathies: Detection of Inferior Vestibular Nerve Damage. - Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome and VEMPs: Detection of Hypersensitivity of the Vestibular System to Sound. - Migraine-Associated Vertigo and VEMPs: Detection of Vestibular Signs in a Common but Unclear Entity. - Acoustic Neuroma and Other Cerebellopontine Angle Tumors: Detecting a Neoplasm in the Cerebellopontine Angle. - Disorders of the Central Nervous System and VEMPs: Detecting Lesions in the Vestibulospinal Pathway. - Part IV. Pediatric Applications. - Neurootological Application of VEMP Recording During Infancy and Childhood.
Expression in mammalian cells of the diaminopimelic acid decarboxylase of Escherichia coli permits cell growth in lysine-free medium.

The lysA gene of Escherichia coli encodes for a diaminopimelic acid decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.20) which allows the conversion of diaminopimelic acid into lysine in bacteria. It has been cloned in an eukaryotic expression vector containing upstream the SV40 early promoting sequence, and downstream mouse alpha-globin maturating sequences. The recombinant plasmid pSB99 (4800 base pairs) has been introduced into several mammalian cell lines by cotransfection with a second selectable marker i.e. the polyoma-transforming DNA. Selection for morphologically transformed rat cells which contained the intact lysA sequences, allowed the determination of the concentration of diaminopimelic acid in the lysine-free medium that permitted cell growth. lysA-expressing clones were directly selected in a medium containing 10 mM diaminopimelic acid, after transfection with pSB99 alone. Southern blot analysis on selected clones have shown that they contain up to 30-50 integrated copies of the plasmid in tandem arrangement. Finally, we demonstrated that lysA-expressing clones incorporate a significant amount of radiolabelled [3H]diaminopimelic acid in acid-insoluble material. The recombinant plasmid can serve as a selectable marker, in growth medium in which lysine was replaced by its direct bacterial precursor.
The community pharmacist as a member of a primary health care team in South Africa — perceptions of pharmacists, doctors and nurses

The growing emphasis on primary health care (PHC) has drawn increased attention to disease prevention and health promotion activities from many health professionals, among them pharmacists. This paper explores the role of the community pharmacist as a member of the PHC team in South Africa, through the perceptions of pharmacists, nurses and doctors. Data were collected by survey and interviews. The results reveal a scenario where pharmacists are eager to engage in PHC activities, whereas nurses and doctors are more cautious in their support. Although they see pharmacists as health professionals, and are of the opinion that they should play a part in the PHC team, doctors and nurses strongly protect their own domains when it comes to allocation of potential tasks. This raises some difficulties with regard to the effective implementation of PHC. Based on the South African reality and a literature review, suggestions are made to develop models of PHC centres which would potentially overcome some of the problems raised.
Najčešći sindromi prenaprezanja na gornjim ekstremitetima pri određenim radnim djelatnostima

Ponavljane nefizioloπke kretnje, prisilan poloaeaj glave, ramena i ruku pri radu prisutni su u modernim tehnologijama. Uzroci su sindroma prenaprezanja (SIP) i neergonomski kreirani alati i radna sredina. Komorbiditet je dodatni Eimbenik veEe uEestalosti SIP-a. Podaci o visokoj uEestalosti tegoba i/ili bolesti gornjih udova u metalskih radnika izloaeenih velikim fiziEkim naprezanjima upuEuju na zahvaEenost tetiva, miπiEa i zglobova osobito desne ruke (12,5:7,5%). U vratnoj kraljeaenici to je joπ izraaeenije (45% prema 7,5% u poredbenoj skupini radnika umjerenih opereEenja; P<0,01). SliEan je odnos i u profesionalnih glazbenika, izraaeenije u dominantoj ruci. Prikazani su sluEajevi agravacije sindroma prenaprezanja tekstilne radnice, kao i disimulacije u mlade gitaristice i lijeEnice. Raspravlja se o polipragmaziji u lijeEenju i rehabilitaciji SIP-a. Naglaπava se nuaenost edukacije zdravstvenih radnika, potreba objektivizacije funkcionalnih promjena kao preventivnog pristupa u ranoj dijagnostici i lijeEenju sindroma prenaprezanja gornjih udova.
A Computerized Editor of Benesh Movement Notation

Notation plays a very important role in today's society. It acts as a communication medium between inventors and those who will implement their ideas. Without notation our knowledge of the past and present would be limited by our memory and prone to errors in oral transmission. Although we take for granted the existence of a suitable notation in almost all fields of human study, this is not true in the field of human movement. For example, in Western theatrical dance, no adequate means to record masterpieces existed until the twentieth century and thus most works from the past have been lost. In response to the literacy problem in dance, a number of systems have been developed in the past five centuries to record human movement, but most of these have failed to be practical under rigorous working conditions. Only a few have attracted substantial professional interest. The difficulty is that a dance notation must capture on paper a precise record, at each moment in time, of the position of each body part in three dimensions of space, as well as provide comprehensive information about movement dynamics and choreographic intention.
Evidentiary assessment for protecting WSNs from internal attacks in real-time

Abstract Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming a vital role in our current modern life for detecting and collecting data about a natural or built environment, including human body. One of the reasons is due to WSNs have very attractive advantages. But one of the problems is internal attacks that have gained prominence and posed most challenging threats to all WSNs. In this paper, we extend our discussion at the conference of the AISC 2016 to an effective algorithm to make an evaluation for detecting internal attack by evidentiary assessment for protecting a WSN from the internal attacks with multi-criteria in real-time. This protecting is based on the combination of the multiple pieces of evidences collected from the nodes suffering from an internal attacker in a network. A decision made is carefully discussed based on the Dempster–Shafer Theory (DST). One of the advantages of this proposed method is that it is not just making a performance in real-time but also it is effective due to it does not need the knowledge about the normal or malicious node in advance with very high average accuracy that is close to 100%.
Est-il toujours temps de penser à la démocratie ?

L'auteur revient sur l'acte du « deces » de la democratie europeenne annoncee par le retrait de la reference a Thucydide definissant la democratie comme le pouvoir du plus grand nombre. Il revient ensuite sur les limites actuelles de la theorie politique en la matiere, en montrant comment des elitistes aux tenants de la democratie procedurale ou encore deliberative, l'objet democratique est « dynamite ». Cette remise en question de la dynamique democratique joue aussi par le bas a travers la remise en question de la citoyennete democratique. L'affaiblissement des ressorts de la qualite democratique est imputable a l'action de certains acteurs professionnels de la politique. Il convient alors de reinventer les valeurs de la democratie liberale.
Parallel Implementations of Local Sequence Alignment: Hardware and Software

With the progress in computer science and raw computational power available today, human quest to learn and understand the complex relationships within the subsets of biology, e.g., biological response, biodiversity, genetics, medicine, etc. has got a new promise. Computational Biology represents the marriage of computer science and biology, and spans may disciplines, such as bioinformatics (genomics and post-genomics), clinical informatics, medical imaging, bioengineering, etc. It finds application in many areas of life science, e.g., the development of human therapeutics, diagnostics, pyrognostics and forensics, up through the simulation of large entities such as populations and ecosystems. Genomics is the determination of the entire DNA sequence of an organism. The goal of modern human genomics is preventive, predictive, and individualized medicine. In agriculture, the goal is the production of foods with improved production characteristics and, increasingly beneficial consumer traits. Post-genomics refers to the biological processes that follow from DNA sequence(e.g. transciptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.).
Appearance and Geometry Assisted Visual Navigation in Urban Areas

Navigation is a fundamental task for mobile robots in applications such as exploration, surveillance, and search and rescue. The task involves solving the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem, where a map of the environment is constructed. In order for this map to be useful for a given application, a suitable scene representation needs to be defined that allows spatial information sharing between robots and also between humans and robots. High-level scene representations have the benefit of being more robust and having higher exchangeability for interpretation. With the aim of higher level scene representation, in this work we explore high-level landmarks and their usage using geometric and appearance information to assist mobile robot navigation in urban areas. In visual SLAM, image registration is a key problem. While feature-based methods such as scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) matching are popular, they do not utilize appearance information as a whole and will suffer from low-resolution images. We study appearance-based methods and propose a scale-space integrated Lucas-Kanade’s method that can estimate geometric transformations and also take into account image appearance with different resolutions. We compare our method against state-of-the-art methods and show that our method can register images efficiently with high accuracy. In urban areas, planar building facades (PBFs) are basic components of the quasirectilinear environment. Hence, segmentation and mapping of PBFs can increase a robot’s abilities of scene understanding and localization. We propose a vision-based PBF segmentation and mapping technique that combines both appearance and geometric constraints to segment out planar regions. Then, geometric constraints such as reprojection errors, orientation constraints, and coplanarity constraints are used in an optimization process to improve the mapping of PBFs.
A survey of present-day Japanese concepts and classifications of musical instruments

Abstract Japanese musical instruments are classified in Japan today in numerous and unique ways. As well as using well-known international classifications, together with other modern-day Japanese and non-Japanese counterparts, Japanese classifications of musical instruments are found on several levels of discourse. An examination of such hierarchies and divisions reveals not only an abundance of information about the structures of the instruments themselves, but also about aspects of Japanese culture in general. This initial survey examines Japanese concepts of, names for, and classifications of musical instruments.