Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A dyadic exercise intervention to reduce psychological distress among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual cancer survivors.

e17593 Background: Disparities in psychological distress exist between LGBT cancer survivors and their heterosexual counterparts. Both exercise and caregiver (CG) support reduce distress in heterosexuals; however, exercise interventions have not typically incorporated CG support and have not been delivered to LGBT survivors. Methods: In this pilot RCT, 42 LGBT and heterosexual survivors and CGs were randomized as dyads to: Arm 1) dyadic EXCAP (Exercise for Cancer Patients, a 6-week, home-based, aerobic and resistance training program), involving both survivor and CG; or Arm 2) survivor-only EXCAP. Psychological distress factors (i.e., anxiety, depression, fatigue, overall distress from the Profile of Mood States) and dyadic support (Dyadic Support Questionnaire) were measured at baseline and post-intervention (6 weeks later). We used t-tests to examine group differences, ANCOVA to assess the effect of EXCAPon distress and support, and correlations to examine associations between distress and support. Resu.
Distribution of Skin Prick Test Results in Rhinitis Allergic Patients at Dr. Hasan Sadikin General Hospital Bandung

Background : Allergic Rhinitis (AR) is an inflammation condition in nasal mucous because of type 1 hypersensitivity. Skin prick test is one of the diagnostic tests to diagnose AR. Purpose of this study was to know the distribution of skin prick test in AR patients. Methods : This study used retrospective descriptive method as cross sectional design. This study was performed from 1 August to 31 October 2014. This study used medical record as secondary data at Department of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery of Dr. Hasan Sadikin General Hospital. There were 175 cases which fulfilled the inclusion criteria of the study. The data were then analyzed using computer program. Results : Forty seven cases were positive for house dust (26.8%), 127 cases were positive for dust mite (72.5%), 85 cases were positive for rice pollen (48.5%), 62 cases were positive for maize pollen (35.5%), 56 cases were positive for mixed fungi (32%), 100 cases were positive for cockroach (57.1%), 63 cases were positive for horse dander (36%), 50 cases were positive for cat dander (28.5%), 93 cases were positive for dog dander (53.1%), and 38 cases were positive for chicken feather (21.9%). Conclusions : The most aeroallergen making positive result in skin prick test is dust mite. [AMJ.2017;4(1):129–32] DOI : 10.15850/amj.v4n1. 1033
Scoping Study to Develop a Research Project(s) to Investigate the Presence or Absence of Lyme Disease in Australia

(a) Borrelia species in Lyme disease and their vectors, reservoirs and genomes 5 (b) The natural reservoirs of Lyme Borrelia species 7 (c) Some comments of the Borrelia genome 9 (d) Lyme Borrelia and human disease 9 (e) Other Borrelia species associated with disease 11 (f) Borrelia species in Australia 12 (g) Laboratory diagnosis 13 (h) Co-transmission of tick-borne organisms 16 Major Gaps in our Knowledge of Lyme-like Disease in Australia 20 Research Programmes to Detect/Confirm/Disprove the presence of Lyme Borreliosis in Australia 20 (1) Experimental programme to determine whether there is a Borrelia species in ticks in Australia causing Lyme-like disease, or whether another tick-borne pathogen is involved in human Lyme-like disease 21 (2) Are Australian ticks competent to maintain and transmit B.burgdorferi s.l. genospecies? 23 (3) Do we have the best reagents for detecting novel Borrelia species, including B. miyamotoi, especially in clinical specimens? 23 (4) Clinical studies of patients presenting with symptoms suggestive of Lyme or Lyme-like disease 24 (5) Retrospective investigation of chronic cases of Lyme borreliosis 25 References 26 Acknowledgments 40 4 TERMS OF REFERENCE To produce a scoping paper that identifies the research needs for an investigation into whether a causative tick-borne microorganism (Borrelia) for Lyme disease exists in Australia. This would include a consultation with relevant stakeholders including: • The Chief Medical Officer's Clinical Advisory Committee on Lyme disease to determine their views on the possible direction for any future research program; • Lyme disease and Borrelia experts, including those overseas, to seek advice on research directions and current practices; and • Identify researchers that are currently conducting or considering research projects that examine tick-borne disease in Australia and how their research may complement or inform any research program. The major outcome from the scoping paper will be the development of an outline for a research project to seek whether a causative agent(s) of Lyme disease exists in Australia. This will also address: • Optimal methods for identification and bacterial characterisation from appropriate haematophagous arthropod vectors; and • Provide guidance on a diagnostic pathway. 5 INTRODUCTION It is just over 30 years since the discovery of Borrelia burgdorferi as the aetiological agent of Lyme disease in North America (Burgdorfer et al 1982; Steere et al 1983; Benach et al 1983). Since that time, Lyme borreliosis has been recognised as an emerging disease with increasing numbers of cases across much of the temperate zones …
The Invisible Arm of Government: Some Reflections on the Political Psychology of Public Goods and Services

This paper argues that the important work of government often goes unnoticed in the public mind because of how public goods and services are experienced psychologically by citizens. Specifically, it suggests that several cognitive mechanisms and biases—habituation, inattentional blindness, negativity bias, attribution error, and present bias—combine to shape public awareness and subjective evaluations of government. These theoretical ideas are illustrated in the case of specific public services, and a few practical ideas are proposed to address the problem. Importantly, these various mechanisms and biases can have important political consequences to the extent they influence preferences for public goods and services in the political process.
Service robots in hotels: understanding the service quality perceptions of human-robot interaction

ABSTRACT Hotel industry started to adopt service robots, which are considered a future workforce. However, no attempt was conducted to examine the dimensionality of service quality of service robots. This paper aims to understand the influence of human–robot interaction from the viewpoint of hoteliers and guests. Two studies are conducted in this respect. Study 1 organizes focus-group interviews with hotel managers from various departments to elicit themes related to guest–robot interaction and robot-delivered services. Based on the findings in Study 1, Study 2 conducts an experiment to examine and compare hotel guests’ perceptions about the quality of services provided by human staff and service robots, as well as their joint services. Human staff services are perceived higher than the services of service robots in terms of interaction quality and physical service environment. However, no significant difference in outcome quality is noted.
The effect of maternal weight gain during pregnancy on the child growth until the age of 6 months: A retrospective cohort study

Back ground & Aim : Recently, early growth patterns have been associated with metabolic and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood. Early child development depends on women’s health. Lack of maternal health during pregnancy can lead to death, disease, and disability in the newborn baby. This research was conducted to study the effect of maternal weight gain during pregnancy on the children’s growth until 6 months of age. Methods & Materials : This retrospective cohort study was conducted on a sample of 257 mother/child pairs using the household records of the urbane health center of Amirieh in Shahriar County. Health care records of pregnant women were collected, and their children’s weight was measured at birth and 6 months of age. Multiple linear regressions were used to estimate the adjusted association between maternal and infant weight gain from birth to 6 months of life. Results : According to multiple analysis, there was no statistically significant and clinically important association between the infant weight gain and gestational weight gain [b = 3.8; 95% confidence interval (CI): −20.8, 28.5; P = 0.076]. Gestational weight gain, however, showed a significant association with birth weight (b = 16.34; 95% CI: 3.4, 29.3; P = 0.014). Conclusion : In this study, there was no association between gestational weight gain and infant weight gain from birth to 6 months. It seems that further studies with larger sample sizes and variables can help us to understand the maternal factors affecting early infant growth.
Patients'Perceptions of Having a Good Life One Year After Arthritis Patient Education: a Qualitative Study Nested Within a Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Patients with inflammatory polyarthritis have various degrees of disease-related challenges such as joint pain, stiffness, fatigue, and physical limitations. Despite these challenges, patients strive for a good life using their personal resources, often taught in patient education. The effect of patient education in polyarthritis is well studied; however, long-term studies on what patients perceive as a good life after participating in arthritis patient education are scarce. Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore patients’ perceptions of having a good life one year after attending a nurse-led patient education intervention. Methods: This was a qualitative study nested within a randomized controlled trial (RCT) studying the effect of nurse-led patient education. Fifteen individual semi-structured interviews were conducted among those who attended the nurse-led patient education intervention. The intervention focused on the consequences of living with chronic inflammatory arthritis. The interviews explored how and whether the intervention had made any changes in the informants perceived health, well-being, arthritis, flares, and treatment regimes. The data were analyzed thematically using systematic text condensation. Results: The findings showed that the informants’ perceptions of having a good life were related to a stable disease with few symptoms, effective treatment regimes, discovering new opportunities and perspectives in life, as well as making choices that felt right. Creating a good life was something the informants had acquired knowledge about in the nurse-led patient education intervention, particularly in the part where they had discussed and shared experiences with each other on how they managed their arthritis in different ways and settings. Conclusion : Participating in a nurse-led patient education intervention in arthritis helped the informants to discover new opportunities and perspectives on creating a good life, especially through exchanging experiences with fellow patients.
Selling brands while staying “Authentic”: The professionalization of Instagram influencers

While Instagram influencers may have started out as ordinary people documenting their everyday life through a stream of photographs, they are increasingly emerging as an intermediary between advertisers and consumers. This study examines the professionalization of Instagram influencers, combining data from 11 interviews with travel influencers with a visual and textual content analysis of their 12 most recent Instagram posts (N = 132). We show how the increasing professionalization of the influencer steers their relationship with their audience, the advertisers they work with, and the platform Instagram. We argue that, for the Instagram influencer to be perceived as successful, they need to negotiate a tension: they need to appear authentic, yet also approach their followers in a strategic way to remain appealing to advertisers. Although Instagram influencers are seen as more trustworthy than traditional forms of advertising, this tension ultimately leads to a standardization of the content shared by influencers.
Measurement and analysis of vibrations - evaluation of the criteria of acceptance ISO Standard 10816-6

During the reception and / or delivery tests of a ship, vibration measurement and analysis is made to the propulsion line in order to evaluate and predict the condition of the machinery. The values taken during the measurement of the vibrations are evaluated with the acceptance criteria provided by the standards. International Standard ISO 10816-6 (1995) focuses on reciprocating machinery with power of greater than 100kW, is used by both analysts and manufacturers of propulsion machinery for ships. Through this work, we intend to evaluate the acceptance criteria of this norm in boats smaller than 100 meters. At the end of this work it is concluded that the standard must be updated, indicating and differentiating the acceptance criteria for machinery taking into account its type of anchorage to the structure (flexible or rigid), boats with length less than or greater than 100 meters and the Ship building material (Aluminum, Steel or Composite material).
Nutritional Ergogenic Aids in Tennis: A Brief Review

ABSTRACT IN RECENT YEARS, THE INTEREST OF ERGOGENIC AIDS HAS GROWN IN THE COMPETITIVE SPORTS ARENA. AS A RESULT, SUPPLEMENTATION COMPANIES HAVE FOUND A NEW MARKET AND HAVE CREATED AN ARRAY OF PRODUCTS TARGETING COMPETITIVE ATHLETES. HOWEVER, ONLY A FEW LEGAL SUPPLEMENTS HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED BY SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE AS BEING ABLE TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE. THESE COMPOUNDS ARE CAFFEINE, CREATINE, AND BICARBONATE. MORE RECENTLY, OTHER SUBSTANCES SUCH AS &bgr;-ALANINE AND NITRIC OXIDE PRECURSORS HAVE SHOWN ERGOGENIC EFFECTS, BUT MORE RESEARCH IS NEEDED. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS REVIEW IS TO PROVIDE TENNIS COACHES AND SPORTS SCIENCE RESEARCHERS THE LATEST INFORMATION.
Effective Fuzzing Framework for the Sleuthkit Tools

The fields of digital forensics and incident response have seen significant growth over the last decade due to the increasing threats faced by organizations and the continued reliance on digital platforms and devices by criminals. In the past, digital investigations were performed manually by expert investigators, but this approach has become no longer viable given the amount of data that must be processed compared to the relatively small number of trained investigators. These resource constraints have led to the development and reliance on automated processing and analysis systems for digital evidence. In this paper, we present our effort to develop an automated stress testing platform specifically tailored to assess the robustness and reliability of digital forensics tools. For our initial testing, we chose to target The Sleuthkit framework, given its prominence both as a standalone tool as well as a programming library that is utilized by many open source and commercial file system analysis systems. The results of our efforts were the automated discovery of many critical programming errors in the Sleuthkit framework.
The Diffusion of Alternative Fuel Vehicles: A Generalised Model and Future Research Agenda

ABSTRACT The rapid decarbonisation of transportation is critical if global efforts to mitigate the worst possible impacts of anthropogenic climate change are to be successful. Transportation is a leading sectoral contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, and demand for transportation continues to grow globally. Alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) powered by fuels such as electricity, hydrogen, and biofuels promise to mitigate the environmental impacts of automotive transportation, including urban air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. However, multiple barriers to AFV diffusion exist, including low consumer acceptance, high vehicle costs, and a lack of refuelling infrastructure, meaning that sophisticated policies and strategies will be needed to achieve an AFV market transition that is both ecologically and economically sustainable. While more EVs were sold in 2018 than ever before, these sales were the result of aggressive policy support in places such as China and Norway, and it is not clear that EV sales would persist at this level if these policies were removed. In this paper, we present and make freely available a generalised model of AFV diffusion that is flexible for the exploration of these critical policy questions, building on recent AFV diffusion literature from system dynamics and related fields. We demonstrate using illustrative scenarios the fragility of AFV diffusion, with a range of behaviour modes possible depending on the structure of the market and the actions of stakeholders. Finally, we identify a number of contemporary research topics of interest to automotive manufacturers and policymakers that can be addressed using the model.
A Reputação Como Mecanismo de Promoção da Cooperação

Neste trabalho, propomos dois modelos probabilisticos para analisar a evolucao de caracteristicas fenotipicas dos individuos em uma populacao. No primeiro modelo, a caracteristica fenotipica e a probabilidade de cada individuo cooperar no jogo Dilema do Prisioneiro. No segundo, o fenotipo de interesse e o peso dado para a reputacao do oponente na interacao entre individuos tambem por meio do Dilema do Prisioneiro. Em ambos modelos, fenotipos distintos conferem diferentes valores adaptativos e assim usamos o processo de selecao natural de Darwin para determinar a evolucao dos fenotipos na populacao. Mais especificamente, estamos interessados em mostrar o surgimento da cooperacao em populacoes em que os individuos levam em consideracao o historico, ou a reputacao, dos oponentes nas interacoes.
Postfire recruitment failure in Scots pine forests of southern Siberia

Wildfire disturbances effect changes in vegetation communities that in turn influence climate. Such changes in boreal forest ecosystems can persist over decadal time scales or longer. In the ecotone between boreal forest and steppe in the region southeast of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, shifts between the two vegetation types may be precipitated by variations in site specific conditions, as well as disturbance characteristics such as fire frequency and severity. Warmer, drier conditions in the region have been associated with a decrease in fire return intervals and greater burn severity that may, in turn, drive conversion of forests to steppe vegetation at a greater rate than has occurred prior to the onset of warming and drying. Stand-replacing fires in Pinus sylvestris stands in southern Siberia may lead to recruitment failure postfire, particularly on southwest to west-facing slopes, which are more often dominated by grasses. This study uses a combination of field data and remotely sensed indices of vege- tation and moisture to distinguish between recruitment pathways in southern Siberia, and to study the influence of factors related to soils, topography, fire severity and winter snow cover on these. We expected that recruitment success would be associated with lower burn severity (higher NBR), higher greenness (NDVI) and moisture (NDMI), and winter snow (NDSI) postfire. We also expected phenological characteristics to differ among recruitment paths. Prior to burning, our sites are broadly similar in terms of remotely sensed indices of moisture (NDMI), vegetation (NDVI), and winter fractional snow cover (NDSI), but recruitment failure sites are generally drier and less green postfire. Initial differences in greenness and moisture among sites characterized by abundant recruitment (AR), intermediate recruitment (IR) and recruitment failure (RF) become more pronounced over the initial decades postfire. The earliest separability of AR and RF sites using remotely sensed indices occurs in the winter months 3–4 years postfire, during which time NDSI is highest for AR sites and lowest for RF. Although seasonality was important with regard to distinguishing among AR, IR and RF index values, the timing of phenological events such as start and end of season did not differ significantly among the sites.
Intérêt d'un milieu chromogène pour la détection des variants à petites colonies de Staphylococcus aureus: Epidémiologie bactérienne des patients atteints de mucoviscidose suivis au Centre de Ressources et de Compétences de la Mucoviscidose de Nancy en 1997 et en 2007

La mucoviscidose (ou fibrose kystique du pancreas) est la plus frequente des maladies genetiques touchant les populations caucasiennes. Elle resulte du dysfonctionnement du gene codant la proteine CFTR (Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator) qui joue un role dans le transport des ions chlorure. Au cours de cette affection, l'atteinte pulmonaire est quasiment constante et se caracterise par une deterioration progressive des fonctions respiratoires. Cette evolution est expliquee par la survenue d'episodes infectieux repetes et lies a l'existence de micro-organismes colonisant de maniere chronique le tractus respiratoire de ces patients.Le but de ce travail etait d'etudier et de comparer les flores bacteriennes respiratoires chez les patients mucoviscidosiques suivis au Centre de Ressources et de Competences de la Mucoviscidose (CRCM) de Nancy en 1997 et 2007. Nous avons egalement evalue l'interet du milieu chromogene SAID (bioMerieux) pour la detection des "Staphylococccus aureus small colony variants" (SCV SA) en routine. Nous avons realise une etude retrospective des donnees bacteriologiques obtenues apres analyse des prelevements respiratoires des patients suivis au CRCM de Nancy en 1997 (n = 148) et en 2007 (n = 227). Une etude comparant les performances de deux milieux (gelose Columbia ANC additionnee de 5% de sang mouton et gelose SAID) pour la detection des SCV SA a ete effectuee sur 122 prelevements consecutifs obtenus chez 108 patients. La frequence des bacteries isolees respectivement en 1997 et 2007 etait de 70.9% et 65% pour Haemophilus spp. , 58,1% et 58,1% pour S. aureus, 45,2% et 36,5% pour Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 9,5% et 2,2% pour Burkholderia cepacia, 3,3% et 3% pour Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, 1,4% et 3% pour Achromobacter xylosoxidans et 8,8% et 4,8% pour les autres bacilles a Gram negatif non fermentants. La resistance aux antibiotiques de P. aeruginosa observee respectivement en 1997 et en 2007 etait de 30,8% et 58% pour la piperacilline - tazobactam, 37,7% et 57% pour la ceftazidime, 36,5% et 58,5% pour l'imipeneme, 40% et 42,7% pour la ciprofloxacine. Pour S. aureus, nous avons observe en 1997 et 2007, des taux de resistance respectifs de 12,2% et 27,4% pour la meticilline, 28,7% et 80,1% pour l'erythromycine, 14,7% et 37,7% pour la lincomycine, 3,4% et 19,2% pour la rifampicine et pour l'acide fusidique. La sensibilite est restee relativement stable pour la gentamicine, la pristinamycine, le cotrimoxazole et la minocycline. Entre 1997 et 2007, nous avons observe une relative stabilite de la frequence d'isolement des principales especes bacteriennes habituellement isoles chez les patients mucoviscidosiques (P. aeruginosa, Haemophilus spp. et S. aureus) et une diminution significative de celle appartenant au complexe B. cepacia. L'utilisation du milieu SAID a permis d'augmenter la sensibilite de detection des SCV SA.