Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Injuries to the ankle and foot in athletics.

Accurate diagnosis in ligament and ligament-bone injuries of the foot and ankle demands a knowledge of the anatomy and mechanics of the foot and ankle, a good history of the mechanism of injury, clinical examination including fingertip palpation and assessment of stability, and adequate x-ray studies, perferably in the deformed position, with stress films and arthrograms in selected cases. By making an accurate diagnosis, early proper treatment is instituted, the athlete is restored to health sooner, and, almost as important, the athlete and the coach get a more realistic prognosis regarding the end result and duration of disability. Language: en
Commande visuelle et orale d'un robot mobile

Le but de ce papier est de presenter une interface de commande multimodale d'un robot mobile distant, equipe d'une camera orientable en direction et azimut. Les modalites utilisees sont le regard associe a la parole ou au geste. Le champ d'applications que permet d'envisager le demonstrateur realise couvre des domaines varies, telesurveillance, handicap moteur, exploration de sites hostiles ou inaccessibles. Cet article decrit l'architecture materielle, l'architecture logicielle et les differents protocoles de communication mis en oeuvre sur une plateforme demonstrative realisee dans le cadre d'une collaboration regionale entre des equipes du CRAN et du LORIA.
Effect of Xuefu Zhuyu decoction on the neural functional recovery and living ability in patients with craniocerebral injury

Objective It is to investigate the clinical efficacy of Xuefu Zhuyu decoction on craniocerebral injury. Methods186 cases of patients with cerebral injury were randomly divided into a control group of 93 cases and a observation group of 93 cases. The patients in the control group were treated with conventional western medicine foundation treatment,such as anti-inflammatory,reducing intracranial pressure,dehydration and nutrition brain cells; while the patients in the observation group were treated with Xuefu Zhuyu decoction on the basis of treatment above. 7 days was one treatment course,and both groups were treated for four courses. The improvements of nerve function,coma,prognosis and living ability were evaluated by NIHSS,GCS,GOS and Barthel index. The levels of hs- CRP,IL- 1βand IL- 6 were determined before and after treatment. Results After treatment,the NIHSS scores were significantly diseased,while the Barthel index and GCS scores were increased compared with that before treatment( P 0. 05),and the degree of changes in the observation group was more obviously( P 0. 05),the GOS sores of the observation group were higher than that of the control group( P 0. 05). The levels of hs- CRP,IL- 1βand IL- 6 went up clearly in 4 days after the treatment,and went down in the following days,the levels were the lowest in the 28 th day. Every index above in the observation group was obviously higher than that at the same time in the control group( P 0. 05). Conclusion Xuefu zhuyu decoction can effectively improve the neural function of patients suffering from cerebral injury,and is helpful for the improvement of patients' living ability and prognosis,and is worthy of further research and development.
Link between sterile inflammation and cardiovascular diseases: Focus on cGAS-STING pathway in the pathogenesis and therapeutic prospect

Sterile inflammation characterized by unresolved chronic inflammation is well established to promote the progression of multiple autoimmune diseases, metabolic disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, and cardiovascular diseases, collectively termed as sterile inflammatory diseases. In recent years, substantial evidence has revealed that the inflammatory response is closely related to cardiovascular diseases. Cyclic guanosine monophosphate–adenosine monophosphate synthase (cGAS)-stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway which is activated by cytoplasmic DNA promotes the activation of interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) or nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), thus leading to upregulation of the levels of inflammatory factors and interferons (IFNs). Therefore, studying the role of inflammation caused by cGAS-STING pathway in cardiovascular diseases could provide a new therapeutic target for cardiovascular diseases. This review focuses on that cGAS-STING-mediated inflammatory response in the progression of cardiovascular diseases and the prospects of cGAS or STING inhibitors for treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
Video Object Detection by Classification Using String Kernels

—Video object detection is one of the most important research problems for video event detection, indexing, and retrieval. For a variety of applications such as video surveillance and event annotation, the spatial-temporal boundaries between video objects are required for annotating visual content with high-level semantics. In this paper, we define spatial-temporal sampling as a unified process of extracting video objects and computing their spatial-temporal boundaries using a learnt video object model. We first provide a learning approach to build a class-specific video object model from a set of training video clips. Then the learnt model is used to locate the video objects with precise spatial-temporal boundaries from a test video clip using graph kernels. A frame sorting process as a preprocessing is also proposed to transform the graph, modeling the shot configuration of a video clip, into a string of shots. Thus, the computation of graph kernels is simplified to be string kernels. The string kernels for support vector machine (SVM) classification are finally adopted to train the SVM classifiers from a set of training samples and detect the video objects in a test video clip by classification. A human action detection and recognition system is finally constructed to verify the performance of the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed method gives good performance on several publicly available datasets in terms of detection accuracy and recognition rate.
AI vs. AU in American English compared to German

American English and German AI, AU observed in cognates such as Wein, wine, Haus, house are usually treated on a par, represented with the same initial vowel (cf. [ai], [au] for Am. Engl, and German [1]). Yet, acoustic measurements indicate differences as the relevant trajectories characteristically cross in Am. Engl, but not in German. These data may indicate consistency with the same initial target for these diphthongs in German, supporting the choice of the same Symbol /a/ in phonemic representation, as opposed to distinct targets (and distinct initial phonemes) in American English.
Filtrage semi-automatique des variantes de termes dans un processus d‘indexation contrôlée

L‘extraction de l‘information pertinente contenue dans les textes par des procedures automatisees de type TALN constitue une operation essentielle dans le processus de fouille de donnees textuelles. Nous realisons cette operation a partir de la plate-forme d‘ingenierie linguistique ILC qui reconnait et extrait du corpus les termes ainsi que leurs variantes linguistiques. Nous presentons une methodologie de constitution de regles visant a ameliorer la reconnaissance de la variation terminologique en anglais par l‘exploitation de criteres syntaxiques et morpho-syntaxiques. Ces ameliorations ont pour objectif d‘obtenir un meilleur filtrage de la variation et d‘aider l‘expert dans la tâche de validation de l‘indexation.
Compression ratio and decompression overhead tradeoffs in code compression for VLIW architectures

Memory has been one of the most restricted resources in embedded system design. Therefore, code compression has been one of the approaches to reduce the system costs. Many code compression methods try to improve the compression ratio but ignore the decompression overhead. In this paper, we take advantage of the separation of coding and modeling in arithmetic coding and study the tradeoffs between compression ratio and decompression overhead by exploring different probability models. Designs of the decompression unit for different models are discussed. Our work shows that simpler models result in smaller decompression overhead in code compression for VLIW, at the expense of compression ratio.
The Center for Open Science Cultivates Openness, Integrity, and Reproducibility

As I write this column, the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org) boasts over 10,200 peer-reviewed academic journals from 136 countries. As any academic librarian who has to balance a periodicals budget knows, the rapid development of open access publishing has by no means solved the serials crisis. Access to the research conducted and reported on by academic faculty continues to be expensive in general, and in many cases, prohibitively expensive for small colleges. The most articulate expressions of the problem of paying for academic journals often come from Dr. Heather Morrison of the University of Ottawa. Her current research, which is well worth following, is reflected in the contents of Sustaining the Knowledge Commons (http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/), an open research blog that reports on a suite of research projects funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) related to the economics of scholarly publishing. Morrison sums up the need for a new approach to paying for academic journals by pointing out that 90 percent of the more than $8 billion in revenue for scholarly journals globally comes from libraries; 73 percent comes from academic libraries alone. And, using only the academic library budgets globally, it would be possible to pay for every peer-reviewed journal article in the world to be open access and achieve significant cost savings (Morrison 2013). Elsewhere she has made the point that the publisher Elsevier’s profit increased $76,000,000 from 2012 to 2013. This increase alone could pay 760 faculty salaries of $100,000 per year (Morrison 2014). So, the problem is not small, and its effects reach far beyond libraries. High prices are not the only problem associated with scholarly publishing, however, especially in the sciences. The Center for Open Science (COS) (http://centerforopenscience.org) in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been
Early Postoperative Care After Cardiac Surgery

The early postoperative course for most patients after cardiac surgery is characterized by a typical pattern of pathophysiologic derangements that benefits form standardized care. Multimodal, multidisciplinary standardization of the care process has been shown to improve use of resources, efficiency, quality, safety and patient satisfaction. The initial management in the postoperative care after routine cardiac surgery has fundamentally shifted during the past two decades towards a more efficient use of limited postoperative care facilities, early extubation and rapid discharge. The fast-track protocol became feasible after cardiac surgery due to improvements in perioperative anaesthesia management, new surgical techniques, better myocardial protection and cardiopulmonary bypass techniques and to better management of bleeding using point-of-care testing and new hemostatic drugs. This chapter will briefly discuss the major pathophysiologic derangements and their management during the first 24 hours after surgery. It will than summarize the postoperative care to more specific procedures. Finally, the management of common postoperative complications will be discussed.
Les professionnels de la petite enfance : formations, théories implicites du développement et pratiques éducatives

Les jeunes enfants n'interagissent pas uniquement avec leur mere, mais sont de plus en plus confrontes a divers partenaires educatifs (meres, enseignants, educateurs de jeunes enfants et assistantes maternelles) en fonction des modes d'accueil frequentes. Dans une perspective differentielle, on examine les travaux sur les formations, les theories implicites du developpement et les pratiques de divers partenaires educatifs avec les jeunes enfants. Des etudes (Gilly, 1984) montrent que les systemes normatifs regissant le deroulement des relations interpersonnelles a l'interieur des institutions educatives et scolaires (notamment les objectifs educatifs suivis par les institutions) jouent un role important dans la structuration des theories implicites developpees par les professionnels. La fonction professionnelle et les objectifs poursuivis ont egalement un impact sur le choix et la hierarchisation des valeurs a partir desquelles les enseignants, les educateurs, les assistantes maternelles et les parents percoivent les jeunes enfants. Il semble, par ailleurs, que les tuteurs sont capables de reguler leurs theories implicites, en les adaptant aux realites de la pratique (Mugny & Carugati, 1985). On remarque que rares sont les etudes qui analysent de telles interactions entre les objectifs definis dans differentes structures d'accueil, les theories implicites du developpement et les pratiques educatives elaborees avec l'enfant. C'est ce que nous nous proposons de faire.
Ultrasonic data and the thermodynamics of solids

This is primarily a tutorial paper on the use of ultrasonic velocity data, in conjunction with data on the specific heat and thermal expansion, to find the adiabatic and isothermal elastic coefficients and their first derivatives with respect to pressure and temperature. Introductory sections on the equations of continuum mechanics and on isentropic propagation of small-amplitude waves establish the basis for subsequent derivations. Two sections on established loss mechanisms illustrate some limitations of the assumption of isentropic propagation used in the remainder of the paper, and tend to justify this assumption for moderate frequencies. One of these sections derives the classical solution for the loss arising from heat conduction in a thermoelastic but nonviscous anisotropic solid. In this case, instead of assuming isentropic changes of state, the energy equation is used to determine the nature of the changes which take place. Another brief section discusses losses of a viscous type. Except for a final section which reviews some applications of third-order elastic coefficients, the remainder of the paper deals with the interpretation of data on the transit times for ultrasonic waves ("velocity data"). It is proved that the bulk modulus at any pressure is related to the effective elastic coefficients for wave propagation at that pressure by the same formula as at zero pressure. Hence, the correct derivative of the bulk modulus is obtained by differentiating the formula, interpreting the derivatives as derivatives of the effective elastic coefficients. Formulas and numerical examples are given for the conversion from the adiabatic to the isothermal bulk modulus and the conversion from pressure and temperature derivatives of the adiabatic bulk modulus to pressure and temperature derivatives of the isothermal bulk modulus. General formulas for the processing of ultrasonic data are given and specialized to cubic crystals. It is emphasized that all the first pressure derivatives of effective elastic coefficients, evaluated at zero pressure, can be calculated from the data without calculating the path length and density at any elevated pressure.
Curiosity-Driven Experience Prioritization via Density Estimation

In Reinforcement Learning (RL), an agent explores the environment and collects trajectories into the memory buffer for later learning. However, the collected trajectories can easily be imbalanced with respect to the achieved goal states. The problem of learning from imbalanced data is a well-known problem in supervised learning, but has not yet been thoroughly researched in RL. To address this problem, we propose a novel Curiosity-Driven Prioritization (CDP) framework to encourage the agent to over-sample those trajectories that have rare achieved goal states. The CDP framework mimics the human learning process and focuses more on relatively uncommon events. We evaluate our methods using the robotic environment provided by OpenAI Gym. The environment contains six robot manipulation tasks. In our experiments, we combined CDP with Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) with or without Hindsight Experience Replay (HER). The experimental results show that CDP improves both performance and sample-efficiency of reinforcement learning agents, compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Etude des mécanismes extracellulaires régulant la fonction du récepteur MerTK au cours de la phagocytose rétinienne

Le recepteur MerTK est implique dans la phagocytose des segments externes des photorecepteurs (SEP) par l'epithelium pigmentaire retinien (EPR), fonction cruciale pour la survie des photorecepteurs et la vision. Dans la retine, ces deux tissus sont en contact permanent et la phagocytose ne survient qu'une fois par jour, cette fonction necessite donc d'etre controlee precisement. Le pic de phagocytose est lie a l'activation intracellulaire de MerTK via l'integrine αvβ5. Ce projet a eu pour but d'etudier les mecanismes extracellulaires regulant la fonction de MerTK au cours de cette phagocytose.Nous avons montre que MerTK est clive a la surface des cellules d'EPR in vivo avant et apres le pic de phagocytose. Ceci permettrait d'eviter une phagocytose trop prononcee des SEP.Nous avons demontre le role oppose des ligands de MerTK, specifique a l'EPR. Gas6 semble inhibiteur, il stimule le clivage de MerTK et inhibe la phagocytose in vitro, et son expression in vivo est faible au moment du pic de phagocytose. Au contraire, Proteine S, dont l'expression augmente in vivo au moment du pic, inhibe le clivage de MerTK et stimule la phagocytose in vitro, et pourrait ainsi potentialiser cette fonction.Parmi les proteases etudiees, l'inhibition d'ADAM17 in vitro engendre une diminution du clivage de MerTK correlee a une augmentation de sa biodisponibilite a la surface cellulaire et de son activite. Cependant, cet effet n'etant pas total, l'implication d'une autre protease n'est pas exclue.Ainsi, mes travaux de Doctorat permettent de mieux comprendre la regulation complexe de l'activite de MerTK dans la phagocytose retinienne, essentielle pour le rythme circadien de cette fonction.
Correlación entre Estudios Electrocardiográficos y Cinecoronariográficos en Enfermedades Coronarias

RESUMEN: Las enfermedades cardiovasculares son la principal causa de muerte en Chile. Los Síndromes Coronarios Agudos (SCA), obligan a los sistemas de salud a destinar recursos de elevado costo para su diagnóstico. Procedimientos como el electro cardiograma (ECG) y la cinecoronariografía (CCG) orientan en el diagnóstico de dichas patologías, siendo el ECG un examen no invasivo de fácil ejecución y de bajo costo. El objetivo de este estudio fue relacionar el examen ECG con la CCG para mejorar la precisión diagnóstica de obstrucción coronaria. El estudio fue de tipo descriptivo de corte transversal, constituido por 44 pacientes adultos de ambo s exos que presentaron infarto de miocardio con elevación de segmento ST (STEMI), derivados al Servicio de Hemodinamia de la Clínica Iquiq ue, Chile, para intervención coronaria. Los 44 pacientes tenían un ECG previo y se les realizó una CCG. Los resultados estableciero n una fuerte correlación entre los diagnósticos por ECG y por CCG del total de las arterias obstruidas (según prueba de Correlación d e P arson = 0,80; p < 0,001). Se demostró relación entre ambos exámenes en un 92,3 % (p = 0,001) para la obstrucción de la arteria corona ria derecha (ACD) con hallazgo electrocardiográfico que correspondía a infarto de pared inferior. Relación de 100 % para la obstruc ción de la rama circunfleja de la arteria coronaria izquierda (ACI) (p = 0,036) y 100 % para la obstrucción de la rama interventricular anterior de la ACI o arteria coronaria descendente anterior (p = 0,001) correspondiente a infarto de pared lateral. Se concluyó que existe relación significativa entre el infarto de pared anterior según los hallazgos electrocardiográficos y la obstrucción de la ACD y la rama circunflej de la ACI según CCG; además, la relación es significativa entre los infartos de pared lateral y pared anterior con hallazgos po r ECG y la obstrucción de la rama interventricular anterior de la arteria coronaria izquierda diagnosticada por CCG. Es fundamental la int erpretación correcta del ECG para mejorar la atención del infarto agudo al miocardio.
Prevalence and pattern of internet addiction among medical students in Nagpur, Maharashtra

Background: Internet has become an integral part of our life and internet addiction is a growing problem affecting many spheres of our lives. Considering the potential negative effects of internet addiction on health this study aims to study the prevalence and pattern of Internet addiction among medical students by using Internet Addiction Test in Nagpur. Methods: The cross‑sectional study was conducted in 488 medical students in year 2016. Data was collected by using semi structured proforma including socio-demographic variables and Young’s 20-item Internet Addiction Test (IAT) questionnaire. Statistical analysis done by Epi info 7.1 and SPSS (20). Results: Prevalence of internet addiction by using Young’s original criteria was 3.68%. Internet addiction was significantly more common in males than females (p<0.05). This study reveals that according to IAT score, (61.47%) were average users, (34.83%) were possible addicts and (3.68%) were addicts. Chi square test is applied between average users and addicts, was found to be statistically significant (p<0.01). There was no statistically significant difference in the mean of total IAT scores between male and female students (p=0.27) and F statistics is applied between mean value of three groups (i.e. Average users, Possible addict and addict) was found to be statistically significant (<0.0001). Conclusions: Prevalence of internet addiction was 3.68% with male predominance indicate that internet addiction is growing problem. Prevalence of possible addict was also alarming which was 34.83%. Early recognition of internet addiction and appropriate preventive measures should be taken.
Effect of detector element size on signal detectability in digital mammography

The purpose of this work was to evaluate the effect of detector element size on detection and discrimination of small objects in digital mammograms in the presence of quantum noise, stochastic breast structure {P (f) = K/f3)} and system (electronic) noise. Theoretical analysis was done using the Fourier domain approximation of Albert and Maidment (Medical Physics, Vol. 27, pp 2417-2434, 2000), including averaging over random but known signal locations and aliasing. Realistic CsI-based indirect detection system operating parameters were used with 4 detector element sizes (25, 50, 75 and 100 microns). Detailed results depended on selected input exposure and system noise level (10 mR and 100 photons/del equivalent photon input were used). Results will be described using size thresholds based on human decision performance estimates -- typical threshold SNRs were about 6 to 7 at 95% decision accuracy. The selected tasks and approximate threshold sizes were: searching for a microcalcification in a 1 cm2 cluster (140 microns), two-alternative forced-choice microcalcification discrimination of shape (220 microns) and edge gradient (290 microns), and searching for a spiculation (cylinder model) around the perimeter of a known mass. MC task threshold variations with del size were small (usually less than 5% variation). Spiculation thresholds depended on length and surrounding tissue composition -- del size and system noise had little effect. For 15 mm spiculations, the threshold diameters were about 0.5 mm in fatty tissue and 1.3 mm in 50% glandular tissue.