Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Teaching, Learning, and Collaborating in the Cloud: Applications of Cloud Computing for Educators in Post-Secondary Institutions

“Cloud computing” refers to the use of computing resources on the Internet instead of on individual personal computers. The field is expanding and has significant potential value for educators. This is discussed with a focus on four main functions: file storage, file synchronization, document creation, and collaboration—each of which has applications for educators. Cloud-based application suites such as Google Apps, Zoho, and Microsoft Office 365 are important tools. In addition, web-based tools such as Google Scholar and Zotero can enhance the learning and research experience. This discussion is enriched by the results of a survey of 80 faculty members delivered in May 2011. The respondents fell into two groups—those who currently use cloud computing and those who do not. Results reveal the areas of interest, future projections, and the concerns of both groups.
Second generation antipsychotics in the treatment of bipolar depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Depressive symptoms and episodes dominate the course of bipolar disorder. However, the therapeutic armamentarium for bipolar depression is limited. Recent evidence points to the efficacy of second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) for the treatment of bipolar depression. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of SGAs (randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials; used in monotherapy) in the treatment of adult patients with bipolar depression. Publication bias was corrected for by performing similar searches using the clinical trials register of the respective pharmaceutical companies, the Cochrane Database and ClinicalTrials.gov. Seven published papers were identified on the use of aripiprazole, olanzapine and quetiapine. Internal validity of the trials was fairly good, external validity only moderate. Different outcome measures of efficacy and safety were assessed. When the individual trials were looked at, quetiapine and to a lesser extent olanzapine demonstrated significant improvement in MADRS (Montgomery–Åsberg Depression Rating Scale) total scores. This was not demonstrated for aripiprazole. Efficacy was hampered by adverse events, such as weight gain, akathisia and somnolence/sedation. Both clinical heterogeneity of the included trials and statistical heterogeneity of the meta-analytic data were considerable. The number of quetiapine trials was disproportionate to the number of trials of aripiprazole and olanzapine. Further research is needed to assess differential efficacy of the different SGAs and their use in clinical practice.
Review of geometric distortion compensation in fish-eye cameras

The majority of computer vision applications assume the pin-hole camera model. However, most optics will introduce some undesirable effects, rendering the assumption of the pin-hole camera model invalid. This is particularly evident in cameras with wide fields-of-view. The aim of distortion correction is, therefore, to transform the distorted view of wide-angle cameras to the pin-hole perspective view. Fish-eye cameras are those with "super-wide" fields-of-view, e.g. those cameras with fields-of-view of up to 180 degrees. However, these lenses exhibit severe forms of distortion. The most evident of these is radial distortion, but several other distortions, such as uneven illumination and inaccurate estimation of the centre of distortion, should also be considered when using a fish-eye camera. In this paper, we review and discuss methods of correcting radial and other distortions for fish-eye cameras and illustrate the effect of these methods on a test image exhibiting multiple types of distortion.
Spanish customized adjuvant trial (SCAT) based on BRCA1 mRNA levels

7533 Background: Patients (p) with low BRCA1 mRNA levels attained longer survival when treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy (Taron et al. 2004), while p with high BRCA1 levels attained longer survival when treated with taxanes-based therapy (Quinn et al. 2007). Early NSCLC p whose tumors had high BRCA1 levels had significantly worse survival (Rosell et al. 2007). Upregulated BRCA1 is part of a characteristic gene signature in aggressive lung cancers (Deeb et al. 2007). Methods: Adjuvant chemotherapy was customized based on BRCA1 mRNA levels in 84/100 completely resected N1 and N2 NSCLC p. 11 p with high BRCA1 levels received docetaxel (doc); 29 p with intermediate BRCA1 levels received doc/cisplatin (cis); 44 p with low BRCA1 levels received cis/gemcitabine (gem). Results: Median survival has not been reached in p with high or intermediate BRCA1 levels, while it is 25.6 months (m) in p with low levels (P=0.04). In a multivariate analysis for survival in all 84 p, the hazard ratios (HR) were 5.23 for .
Capital de salud, expansión y compresión de la morbilidad

Hace mas de veinticinco anos Fries publico el articulo Aging, natural death and the compression of morbidity, cuyas ideas generaron grandes discusiones y convirtieron a la publicacion en una de las mas influyentes de los ultimos tiempos (1). En el se describieron los puntos basicos del paradigma de la compresion de la morbilidad, como sigue:  El numero de personas muy ancianas no aumentara.  La duracion media del periodo con reduccion del vigor fisico disminuira.  Las enfermedades cronicas ocuparan una proporcion mayor del ciclo de vida.  La necesidad de cuidados medicos en los anos tardios disminuira.  Las politicas de mejoria de la salud en las proximas decadas se deberan enfocar en las enfermedades cronicas mas que en las agudas, en la morbilidad mas que en la mortalidad, en la calidad de vida mas que en la duracion de la vida y en retardar la evolucion mas que en lograr la cura.
Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients with Acute Surgical Diseases

The aim of the study was to analyse patients in whom upper gastroinentestinal bleeding appeared during hospitalization in the surgical clinic. Material and methods. The study group consisted on 61 patients. 35 were women and 26 were men. The mean age of women was 76 and men 64.8 years. The mean age of the whole group was 72.3 years. 30 patients (49%) were hospitalized in general surgery ward, 16 (26%) in trauma unit and 15 patients (25%) in intensive care unit. Results. The reasons of hospitalisation in general surgery ward were: acute cholecystitis, acute pancrtatitis, peritonitis, lower extremity ischemia with foot necrosis, large bowel cancer and cancer of the gall-bladder. Patients were admitted to trauma unit because of hip and pelvic fractures. Patients were hospitalized in intensive care unit because of polytrauma, diffuse peritonitis, isolated head trauma and necrotising pancreatitis. The main source of bleeding were duodenal and gastric ulcers. It appeared in 28 (45.9%) and 18 (29.5%) patients respectively. The other reasons of bleeding were: erosive gastritis (9 patients) and Mallory-Weiss syndrome (6 patients). Bleeding recurrence was found in 21 patients (34.4%). This group of patients was characterised by high mortality rate 43%. The highest was among patients in intensive care unit. It reached 60%. Conclusions. Based on the performed analysis we come to the following conclusions: 1. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is serious complication during hospitalisation in surgical clinic; 2. Usually it affects older patients; 3. This complication is associated with high rate of rebleeding and high mortality rate.
Constructing Diverse Classifier Ensembles using Artificial Training Examples

Ensemble methods like bagging and boosting that combine the decisions of multiple hypotheses are some of the strongest existing machine learning methods. The diversity of the members of an ensemble is known to be an important factor in determining its generalization error. This paper presents a new method for generating ensembles that directly constructs diverse hypotheses using additional artificially-constructed training examples. The technique is a simple, general metalearner that can use any strong learner as a base classifier to build diverse committees. Experimental results using decision-tree induction as a base learner demonstrate that this approach consistently achieves higher predictive accuracy than both the base classifier and bagging (whereas boosting can occasionally decrease accuracy), and also obtains higher accuracy than boosting early in the learning curve when training data is limited.
Primary User Emulation Attack Analysis on Cognitive Radio

Objectives: For dynamic spectrum sharing and for spectrum scarcity problem solution, Cognitive radio is used. This paper provides Primary User Emulation Attack analysis on Cognitive radio. Methods: This paper presents simulation framework to evaluate the impact of Primary User Emulation Attack on Cognitive radio network. For evaluation of the capability analysis of Cognitive radio networks under Primary User Emulation Attack, a hypothesis test at secondary user based on measured Probability density function of power received has been conducted. Simulation is done with MATLAB 2012b. Findings: For Primary User Emulation Attack analysis on Cognitive radio, the simulation results based on probabilities of miss detection as well as false alarm have been shown. The conclusion is that with increased number of malicious users within the system, false alarm probability also increases. Application: These results are useful for Primary User Emulation Attack analysis on Cognitive radio and are also useful to telecom operators.
Modélisation analytique des machines à aimants à induit sans encoches

Dans cet article une methode d'etude adaptee aux machines a aimants a induit sans encoches est proposee. Cette methode est basee sur la resolution analytique de l'equation du champ magnetique dans les differentes zones constitutives de la machine. Apres avoir presente les bases de la methode, les auteurs insistent sur les particularites relatives a la description mathematique de l'inducteur a aimants et de l'enroulement d'induit. La procedure de resolution des equations est ensuite explicitee et le resultat est utilise pour calculer les principales grandeurs caracteristiques de la machine : induction, f.e. m. , couple. Les resultats theoriques sont finalement confrontes aux mesures effectuees sur un prototype particulier.
Reading Poetry: An Introduction

Contents Acknowledgements Preface Part One: Formal Introduction 1. What Is Poetry? How Do We Read It? 2. Rhythm and Metre 3. Significant Form: Metre and Syntax 4. Creative Form and the Arbitrary Nature of Language Part Two: Textual Strategies 5. Figurative Language 6. Poetic Metaphor 7. Hearing Voices in Poetic Texts 8. Voices with Attitude: Tone and Irony 9. Ambiguity Part Three: Texts in Contexts/Contexts in Texts 10. Introducing Contexts 11. Genre 12. The Sonnet 13. Allusion, Influence and Intertextuality 14. Poetry, Discourse, History 15. The Locations of Poetry 16. Post-Colonial Poetry Part Four: An Open-ended Conclusion 17. Closure, Pluralism and Undecidability Glossary Key to Poems and Passages Discussed or Used for Exercises Bibliography Index
Defining Phonography: An Experiment in Theory

Phonography can be taken to define a period in our relation to music, a period marked by a distinct set of attitudes, practices, and institutions made possible by a particular technology, the phonograph.1 The age of phonography came into being with the popularization of the phonograph as in-home entertainment, cultural medium, and educational tool. With the popularization of digital recording and playback techniques (CD, DAT, DCC, etc.), the end of the age of phonography is at hand. In one of those luminous phrases more often quoted than understood, Hegel said that "the owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the onset of dusk. "2 By this he meant that an era or civilization can be understood only as it begins to disappear from the scene of history. Death, for Hegel, is the price of intelligibility. Hence there is always something both mournful and belated about historical understanding. We believe that small differences in the media of recorded music are not mere trifles for the fetishist but have large cultural consequences. The death of the vinyl LP is an event of potential civilizational significance and deserves to be mourned properly. This essay is in part a meditation on those graveyards of recorded sound that fill shelf space in our living rooms. Precisely how the coming and going of phonography matters is yet to be seen, perhaps partly because the LP's death is yet incomplete. The recent "analog renaissance" may mean the return of vinyl in full force;3 it may also be a passing retro phase of the fashion cycle that only shows how dead vinyl is. But before speculating on the nature of the age, we must define the nature of the technique. This essay discusses phonography as a technology and social practice in contrast to the pre-phonographic era and the post-
Change in Elderly Residential Segregation in Canadian Metropolitan Areas, 1981–91

ABSTRACT Using census data, this study investigates change in the residential segregation of persons age 65 years and over from younger persons in Canadian census metropolitan areas (CMAs) between 1981 and 1991. In each CMA, age-segregation is first evaluated in terms of inner city-suburban population distributions, and then according to the degree of segregation across census tracts expressed by the Index of Dissimilarity. Although the CMAs typically had moderate segregation levels in both 1981 and 1991, there were consistent trends toward (i) increasing proportions of the elderly living in suburban areas, and (ii) declining degrees of age-segregation across census tracts. It is proposed that these trends are partly attributable to the aging in place of suburban residents. Correlation and regression analyses indicate that in 1991 lower degrees of segregation were associated with CMAs which had relatively high percentages of both older dwellings and elderly population. The policy implications of the results are discussed. RÉSUMÉ À partir de données de recensement, cette étude examine les variations de ségrégation résidentielle chez les personnes de 65 ans et plus par rapport aux jeunes canadiens dans les régions métropolitaines de recensement (RMR) au Canada entre 1981 et 1991. Dans chaque RMR, on évalue d'abord la ségrégation selon l'âge en fonction de la répartition de la population entre les villes et les banlieues et ensuite, on examine le degré de ségrégation entre les secteurs de recensement défini par l'indice de dissimilitude. Bien que les RMR aient présenté des degrés moyens de ségrégation en 1981 comme en 1991, on a relevé des tendances constantes vers des proportions croissantes d'aînés vivant en banlieues et un degré décroissant de ségrégation selon l'âge les différents secteurs de recensement. On attribue en partie ces tendances au vieillissement des résidents de banlieues. Les analyses de corrélation et de régression indiquent qu'en 1991, de faibles indices de ségrégation étaient associés aux RMR où on retrouvait à la fois une population plus âgée et des habitations plus vieilles. Les incidences politiques des résultats de cette analyse sont discutées.
Tweakof Voltage Profile Considering Uncertain Load Models in Power Systems using TLBO

Actual power system exhibits various uncertainties. This paper focuses on theload uncertainty impact on potential variables at multiple frames. Various load models based on normal, exponential, beta, gamma and lognormal distribution have been used. Subjected to above uncertain inputs adverse case is identified by severity indexwhile considering line flow limits. The violation in stability limits due to load uncertainties have been limited by designing the constrained objective function to improve voltage profile and in turn reduce active and reactive power losses by minimizing severity index. A single objective problem is designed to minimize severity of bus index, subsequently minimum voltage deviation and minimum power losses were achieved while satisfying the operating constraints. The SVC is used as a control variable. The selection of candidate busesfor placement of SVCs is obtained by calculating the L-Index of load buses. Lastly, Teaching Learning based Optimization (TLBO) is used to obtain optimal value of control variable. The results are validated with the help of other optimization technique namely, Black Hole Algorithm (BHA). IEEE-30 bus system is used to implement the aforementioned problem.
Value of Adaptation of Methodologies Between Different Knowledge Areas: As Applied in the Context of Project-Based Learning

Project-based learning (PBL) is a powerful tool for teaching that helps students to get the best in terms of ratio effort/learning outcomes, especially in studies with a very practical basis, such as university degree studies in engineering. A way of getting even more out of this is by means of the adaptation of methodologies from different knowledge areas, because this allows the launch of innovative ways of working with certain guarantees of success from the very first moment, and at the same time to integrate skills from different fields within a shared context. Furthermore, it helps to put into practice some transversal competences, which are very useful for future professionals. The chapter also includes some case studies on the successful adaptation of different methodologies coming from different fields such as graphic design, biology, and social sciences in the context of a university engineering degree in industrial design and product development. Value of Adaptation of Methodologies Between Different Knowledge Areas: As Applied in the Context of Project-Based Learning
Het begrip van persoonlijke voornaamwoorden en reflexieven bij agrammatische afasie

In dit artikel gaan we in op het begrip van persoonlijke voornaamwoorden (hem, haar) en reflexieven (zichzelf) door Nederlandstalige agrammatische afasiepatienten. In drie opeenvolgende studies hebben we onderzocht in hoeverre er een verschil is tussen de interpretatie van persoonlijke voornaamwoorden en reflexieven, welke invloed zinsstructuur heeft, of patienten in staat zijn geslachts- en getalskenmerken van persoonlijke voornaamwoorden te interpreteren en in hoeverre verschillende linguistische operaties (syntactisch, semantisch, discourse) een rol spelen. De resultaten van deze studies bespreken we aan de hand van verschillende linguistische modellen. We stellen voor dat het Primitives of Binding model van Reuland (2001) de data het beste kan verklaren. Daarbij zijn we ervan uitgaan dat agrammatisme wordt veroorzaakt door een ‘verzwakking’ van het syntactische systeem waardoor voor de interpretatie van persoonlijke voornaamwoorden alternatieve linguistische routes kunnen worden gebruikt (wat soms tot fouten in de interpretatie leidt).
Optical switch fabrics for terabit-class routers and packet switches [Invited]

Next-generation switches and routers may rely on optical switch fabrics to overcome cost, power, space, and scalability problems that arise in sizing traditional electrical backplanes into the terabit regime. However, several technological and architectural problems must be overcome to be able to use such an approach. The reconfiguration times of optical packet fabrics are longer than those of electronic fabrics. Even though we can relax some of the constraints in switching speed by using appropriate packetization and scheduling mechanisms, we need to adapt optical technology to the needs of packet switching. We present an optical packet fabric design, based on arrayed waveguide gratings and fast wavelength tuning, and present methods for solving the technical problems of fast switching.
The Feasibility of utilizing Vascularity Characteristics in Three-Dimensional Power Doppler Ultrasonography to Predict Complete Responses in Patients Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

Pathological complete response (pCR) is most significantly associated with the likelihood of benefit in neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) treatment. Tumor vascularity and morphology is shown has correlated with the degree of malignancy and prognosis, therefore the change of the vascularity and morphology may help predict the pCR of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. Two new studies which published recently represent that utilized the 3D-HDF ultrasound (US) to quantify vascularity characteristics and identify differences associated with varying levels of chemotherapeutic response is possible.
Viral Respiratory Infections in Patients with Cancer

Context: Cancers are among the gravest causes of the intensive immunodeﬁciency and provide favorable conditions for severe respiratory tract infections. Evidence Acquisition: Using various keywords related to the subject matter, articles were analyzed in PubMed and appropriately selected for review. Results: Inpatientswithcancer,someviralrespiratoryinfectionssuchasHRSV,Inﬂuenzavirus,HCMV,HMPVandHPIVareprevalent. Conclusions: Viral respiratory infections in cancer patients are common and can worsen the patients’ condition and disrupt the treatment process. Therefore, prevention and treatment of respiratory viral infections in cancer patients is important. rhesus monkey (RMK), MRC-5 antibody (DFA) testing, viral culture and real time RT-PCR. Twenty-four inﬂuenza infected pediatric cancer patients (20 inﬂuenza A and 4 inﬂuenza B cases) 27 clinical
Increased uptake of low density lipoprotein by SV40-transformed smooth muscle cells

We compared the metabolism of low density lipoprotein (LDL) in SV40-transformed smooth muscle cells (TSMCs) to that in nontransformed smooth muscle cells (SMCs). When SMCs were incubated in medium with 100 μg/ml LDL for 24 hours, they did not accumulate sudanophilic lipid droplets. On the other hand, when TSMCs were incubated in medium containing more than 100 μg/ml LDL, they accumulated a large amount of lipid droplets in their cytoplasm. When cells were incubated with 200 μg/ml LDL for 24 hours, cholesteryl ester levels significantly increased in TSMCs (18.3±3.53 μg/mg protein), as compared with SMCs (2.40±0.85 μg/mg protein). However, there was no difference in the cellular level of free cholesterol between the TSMCs and SMCs. Although the TSMCs and SMCs had a similar number of binding sites for LDL, the TSMCs demonstrated a markedly higher uptake of LDL labeled with 1,1′-dioctadecyl-3,3,3′,3′-tetramethyl indocarbocyanine perchlorate (Dil-LDL), compared with the SMCs. SMCs that had been pretreated with 100 μg/ml of unlabeled LDL for 24 hours showed a decreased uptake of Dil-LDL. In contrast, TSMCs incorporated Dil-LDL independently of the preincubation with 100 μg/ml LDL. The presence of brefeldin A, which may block the transport of glycoproteins from the ER to Golgi apparatus, had less of an effect on the uptake of LDL in the TSMCs than in the SMCs. These results suggest that SV40-transformed smooth muscle cells show an increased uptake of LDL independent of the cellular cholesterol level, which may induce the accumulation of lipid droplets in their cytoplasm. A LDL receptor-independent pathway may be related to the increased uptake of LDL in SV40-transformed smooth muscle cells.