Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Taxonomies moléculaire et morphologique chez les foraminifères planctoniques : élaboration d'un référentiel et cas particuliers de Globigerinoides sacculifer et Neogloboquadrina pachyderma

Les morpho-especes de foraminiferes planctoniques sont composees d'eco-genotypes parfois differentiables sur la base de la morphologie de leur coquille. Cette decouverte recente d'une diversite ainsi qualifiee de « pseudo-cryptique » ouvre des perspectives d'amelioration de la precision des reconstructions paleoceanographiques. Malheureusement, ces genotypes ont ete definis de facon subjective et ne sont pas homogenes quant a leur rang taxonomique, ce qui est pourtant un pre-requis pour leur integration dans les modeles de reconstruction. Grâce a l'application de methodes quantitatives de delimitation d'unites taxinomiques sur les sequences partielles de la petite sous-unite ribosomale (SSU) disponibles chez l'ensemble des morpho-especes de foraminiferes planctoniques, nous montrons que 49 de ces genotypes sont suffisamment divergents pour constituer d'authentiques especes. Deux morpho-especes clefs de la paleoceanographie sont etudiees plus en detail. Chez Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, l'obtention des premieres sequences completes de la SSU et la comparaison morphogenetique de specimens (sub)polaires permettent de proposer un nouveau scenario evolutif et de montrer que les variations morphologiques sont ici d'origine eco-phenotypique, et donc independantes de la diversite genetique. Chez Globigerinoides sacculifer, caracterise par une forte diversite morphologique, il existe au contraire une seule et unique espece cosmopolite dans les eaux (sub)tropicales de l'Ocean mondial. Ces deux cas particuliers montrent que, contrairement a ce que suggeraient les etudes precedentes, la speciation pseudo-cryptique n'a pas valeur de regle chez les foraminiferes planctoniques
Efficient use of frequencies in terrestrial ISDB system

Requirements for a terrestrial ISDB system and the schemes for efficiently using frequencies to fulfil the requirements are discussed. One requirement of a terrestrial ISDB system is the efficient allocation of frequencies using a SFN (single frequency network). The SFN incorporates the great advantages of OFDM, which has excellent performance under multi-path conditions. The transmission characteristics of 64QAM-OFDM and the SFN capability using 64QAM-OFDM in the Kanto area, including the Tokyo metropolitan area, are analyzed. The results show that more than a 97% coverage ratio can be obtained even by using a single channel while the same area is covered currently by more than 30 analog channels. The other requirement is a scheme for efficiently using the available frequency band for various services. A transmission scheme concept called BST-OFDM (band segmented transmission-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) is proposed as a transmission scheme for meeting the requirements of a terrestrial ISDB system. In the BST-OFDM scheme, data are transmitted in a number of OFDM blocks called a BST-segment, for which channel coding and modulation schemes can be independently defined to provide robustness in the transmission environment according to stationary, portable and mobile reception.
Prediction of treatment outcome in daily generalized mental health care practice: first steps towards personalized treatment by clinical decision support

Rationale, aims and objectives: Results from prediction studies are often of limited value because potential predictors are measured with instruments that are not routinely used, the results are presented in terms that are difficult to translate to individual patients and the relations between predictors and outcome are complex. These problems were faced by deriving decision trees for classification using information routinely accessed in generalized mental healthcare for intake purposes and treatment monitoring. Method: Positive treatment outcome was defined as symptom improvement, measured with the symptom distress scale of the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45.2). The analysis process consisted of 3 phases, derivation of a possible decision tree, selection of the best 10 trees and assessment of classification performance after integration of these 10 trees. This analysis was performed 3 times, for all patients without any missing data, for the full set of patients and for the patients in which intermediate outcome data were available. Results: The prediction performance of the 3 integrated classifiers varied from poor (AUC 0.68) in the complete sample including patients with missing variables, to good (AUC 0.83) including early response as predictor. Complex interactions between variables were found. Conclusion: The present study shows the need for registration of clinical and sociodemographic variables and outcome monitoring in a systematic way to prevent missing variables and automated decision support systems to use complex interactions between variables for outcome prediction.
Laptop, andamiaje para la Educación Especial. Guía práctica, computadoras móviles en el currículo. Roxana Elizabeth Castellano y Rafael Sanchez Montoya.

Roxana E. Castellano y Rafael Sanchez Montoya delinean un camino que profundiza en el contexto de las computadoras y el aprendizaje de ninos con discapacidad, incluyendo el desarrollo cognitivo y modelos de inteligencias multiples, y la necesaria institucionalizacion del Paradigma de la Inclusion.
A Survey on Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Construction Trades

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are the common health problem among workers in a construction site. Construction workers tend to experience neck pain, lower back pain, knee pain, leg fatigue and feet discomfort due to the occupation they performed. This study aims to investigate the issue related to musculoskeletal disorders among construction workers while performing construction works. Field observation was conducted at four construction sites in Perak Tengah district in order to identify the types of trades who exposed to musculoskeletal disorders. Next, a survey form was developed by modifying the existing Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) in determining the symptoms of WMSDs. Surveys were carried out on 100 construction workers at the selected four construction sites to identify the area and causes of pain and discomfort, types of treatment received by the workers and recovery duration for pain and discomfort. Based on the survey, shoulder, wrists/hands and low back were the common area of pain or discomfort after and while performing works. The main causes of pain and discomfort were mostly from repetitive works, awkward working postures and manipulation of heavy load. Types of treatment received by workers were taking a medicine and rest, while the recovery duration for pain or discomfort was around a week. Interviews with panels of expert regarding the strategies or best practice to minimize the WMSDs among construction workers revealed that the most preferable practice is the contractor of the construction project should follow the safety and health regulation, particularly in managing WMSDs, such as implementing medical surveillance for workers. This study will help construction stakeholders, especially contractors to discover the type of occupations that are majorly impacted with WMSDs and further provide the best strategies or control measures to reduce the effect of WMSDs to their employees while performing work.
Algunas variables morfométricas de imágenes tomográficas de pacientes fallecidos con hemorragias intracerebrales. Some morphometic variables of tomographic images of patients passed away with intracerebral hemorrhages.

A descriptive investigation was carried out to determine the behavior of some morphometic variables in tomographic images of patients passed away with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhages. These variables are: injury volume, elliptical form factor of injury and circular form factor of the same. For the images analysis the Cuban program MADIP was used version 4.0 from 2005; the data were collected and introduced in a data base and processing statistically with the statistical utilitarian SPSS version 11.5. Among the main results masculine sex and the ages groups between 60 and 69 years were the predominant. 64.72% of patients presented a volume of intracerebral hemorrhage superior to 30 cm. The totality of the patients presented the elliptical form factor below 0.6; this allows that tomographic images of this affection have an elliptical or extended form. It reached the conclusion that whichever greater is the volume of the hemorrhage, and more elliptical it is its form, the prognosis of patient will be worse.
6.1.2 Drahtlose Beschleunigungsmessungen Schwingungs- und Schockmessungen mit Hilfe von RFID-Transpondern

RFID – Radio Frequency Identification – ist eine bekannte und inzwischen bewahrte Auto-ID Technologie fur kontaktlose Identifikation und Datenspeicherung am Objekt. Die Grundidee diese Technologie auch als drahtlose Schnittstelle fur die Speisung und Datenubertragung von Sensoren zu nutzen ist nicht neu. Produktvisionen und diverse Realisierungen sind aus der Literatur bereits Anfang der neunziger Jahre bekannt [1], [2], [3]. Die Basis fur komfortable Transponder, als Kernelement dieser RFID Systeme, bildet ein einziger Siliziumchip, der sich durch ein absolutes Low Power Mixed Signal Design auszeichnet. Ein Trend zur Systemintegration und zur Siliziumtechnologie ist seit Jahren auch im Sensorelementbereich zu verzeichnen. Es liegt damit nahe, Sensorik und RFID in einem Bauelement zu vereinen. Bekannt sind hierbei Losungen, die dies fur die physikalischen Grosen Druck, Temperatur und Feuchte bereits umsetzen [4], [5], [6], [7]. Die Systemstruktur (siehe Abb. 1) solcher Anordnungen wiederholt sich vorteilhafterweise identisch, sodass bei einem bekannten und standardmasigen AIR-Interface identische Reader-Technik und HOST-Systeme benutzt werden konnen.
Nouvelles approches pour les communications multichemins

The criticity of the Internet keeps increasing with a very high number of services depending on its infrastructure. The Internet is expected to support services with an increasing tangible impact on the physical world such as the Internet of Things (IoT) or autonomous vehicles. It is thus important to address the current infrastructure shortcomings in terms of scalability, confidentiality and reliability. Multipath communications are one possible solution to address this challenge. The transition towards multipath technologies is not obvious, there are several challenges ahead. Some network devices block unknown protocols, thus preventing the emergence of new technologies, which plays a part in what is often referred to as the ossification of the Internet. Moreover, due to technical reasons, there are cases for which multipath technologies perform worse than their single path counterpart. In this thesis, we are interested in addressing some of these cases and limit their impact, so that multipath communications perform better than single path communications as often as possible. More specifically, we propose enhancements to Multipath TCP (MPTCP). After a detailed survey of multipath communications across all layers, we propose an answer as to the question of how many paths to use and how to ensure proper forwarding. Moreover, motivated by the intuition that packet arrival disorder can be mitigated by the knowledge of one way latencies, we propose a latency estimator with sender-side modifications only. Furthermore, as throughput maximization is in general solved regardless of the interface cost or user preferences, we elaborate a framework capable of presenting more complex strategies if for instance the user wants to enforce throughput even on less efficient paths. Finally, we develop and present a complete simulation model of MPTCP.
Handbook of Pharmacology and Physiology in Anesthetic Practice

PHARMACOLOGY Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Injected and Inhaled Drugs Inhaled Anesthetics Opioid Agonists and Antagonists Barbituates Benzodiazepines Nonbarbituate Induction Drugs Local Anesthetics Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs Anticholinesterase Drugs and Cholinergic Agonists Anticholinergic Drugs Nonopioid and Nonsteroidal Analgesic, Antipyretic, and Antiinflammatory Drugs Sympathomimetic Digitalis and Related Drugs Alpha- and Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists Antihypertensive Drugs Peripheral Vasodilators Cardiac Antidisrhythmic Drugs Calcium Entry Blockers Drugs Used in Treatment of Psychiatric Disease Prostaglandins Histamine and Histamine Receptor Antagonists Renin, Plasma Kinins, and Serotonin Hormones as Drugs Insulin and Oral Hypoglycemic Diuretics Gastric Antacids, Stimulants and Antiemetics Anticoagulants Antibiotics Chemotherapeutic Drugs Antiepileptic Drugs Drugs used in the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease Drugs used to Treat Hyperlipoproteinemia Central Nervous System Stimulants and Muscle Relaxants Vitamins Minerals Blood Components and Substitutes Hyperalimentation Solutions Antiseptics and Disinfectants PHYSIOLOGY Cell Structure and Function Body Fluids Central Nervous System Autonomic Nervous System Pain Systemic Circulation Capillaries and Lymph Vessels Pulmonary Circulation Heart The Electrocardiogram and Analysis of Cardiac Dysrhythmias Lungs Pulmonary Gas Exchange and Blood Transport of Gases Acid-Base Balance Endocrine System Kidneys Liver and Gastrointestinal Tract Skeletal and Smooth Muscle Erythrocytes and Leukocytes Hemostasis and Blood Coagulation Metabolism of Nutrient
Product-to-Product Tables via Product-Technology with No Negative Flows

This paper presents and evaluates a way of making product-to-product tables from Use and Make matrices that are of immediate relevance to any statistical office that makes input-output tables. Two ways of making a product-to-product table are in common practice: one based on the product-technology assumption and the other on the industry-technology assumption. The industry-technology assumption is recognized as highly implausible but is often used because the product-technology assumption frequently leads to small negative flows which make no economic sense. This paper shows how a slight adjustment in the product-technology assumption leads to an algorithm that is certain to avoid negative flows yet keeps close to the spirit of the product-technology idea. Some details of the application of this method to the USA table for 1992 are reported. Similar applications to every American table since 1958 have given consistently sensible results. A computer program for the method is available.
A Web Question-Answering Method for Any Class of Non-Factoid Questions

In this paper, we propose a method of non-factoid Web question-answering that can uniformly deal with any class of Japanese non-factoid question by using a large number of example Q&A pairs. Instead of preparing classes of questions beforehand, the method retrieves already asked question examples similar to a submitted question from a set of Q&A pairs. Then, instead of preparing clue expressions for the writing style of answers according to each question class beforehand, it dynamically extracts clue expressions from the answer examples corresponding to the retrieved question examples. This clue expression information is combined with topical content information from the question to extract appropriate answer candidates. The score of an answer candidate is measured by the density of submitted question's keywords, words associated with the question and the clue expressions. Note that we utilize the set of Q&A pairs, not to find answers from them, but to obtain clue expressions about the writing style of their answers. The information source for question answering is the Web documents retrieved by using an API of a Web search engine. Experimental results showed that the clue expressions obtained from the set of examples improved the accuracy of answer candidate extraction.
Occurrence of Bovine and Human Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Organised Dairy Farms of Andhra Pradesh, India -

The present study was undertaken for isolation and molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from nasal swabs of apparently healthy cattle, buffaloes and their handlers. Out of 513 nasal swab samples analyzed, 162 (31.6%) S. aureus isolates were recovered, of which 104 (20.2%) were found positive for coagulase enzyme production. On MeReSa HICHROM agar supplemented with cefoxitin, bluish green colonies were observed in 100% coagulase positive S. aureus isolates of livestock handlers followed by buffaloes (48.6%) and cattle (24%). Disc diffusion test showed resistance to both oxacillin and cefoxitin in 7 (77.7%), 16 (43.7%) and 20 (33.3%) coagulase positive isolates of livestock handlers, buffaloes and cattle, respectively. Both mecA and blaZ genes were detected in 3 (33.3%), 10 (28.6%) and 11 (18.6%) coagulase positive isolates of livestock handlers, buffaloes and cattle, respectively. Correlation between phenotypic resistance to oxacillin, cefoxitin and presence of mecA gene was not observed.
Overview of Online Teaching Resources for Logic Programming

Computer science studies offer a number of programming courses. Previous research, mostly concentrated on object-oriented programming, has shown that students face various obstacles in learning programming languages, which resulted in suggestions for improving teaching process in this field. Logic programming, belonging to a different, declarative programming paradigm, has been researched to a smaller extent, although it raises even bigger challenges for both students and teachers. Students are recommended to first acquire knowledge in formal logic, and then to learn how to apply that knowledge in logic programming. This paper addresses teaching formal logic and especially logic programming. As a first step in initiative for its improvement, an overview of existing logic programming teaching resources is made, with the emphasis on freely available online courses, materials and tools.
The Interactive Syllabus: Modifications and New Insights.

In a 2003 article in The Technology Source, Sylvie Richards coined the term "interactive syllabus" to refer to a Web-based method of presenting assignments and course themes. Richards's interactive syllabus presents in a simple, chronologically organized table the weekly discussion topic, that week's reading assignment, and an array of supplementary information and activities in print and online. The interactive syllabus "solve[s] some fundamental problems in course design and delivery" chiefly by providing "a high level of initial interaction between the learner and the material" in place of the more static paper-and-ink syllabus (Richards 2003, ¶2).
The Social Origins of Essayist Writing

L'A. demontre que certaines conditions d'enseignement sont susceptibles de favoriser le developpement de capacites de production de proto-discours theoriques chez les enfants du 1 er degre de l'ecole primaire. Il souligne le role des aspects motivationnels, en ce qui concerne le contenu thematique, et met en evidence l'effet positif de la mise en place de veritables situations d'interaction, d'echange et de confrontation. Cette etude appuie une these plus generale contestant la place preeminente, voire exclusive, des genres narratifs dans les demarches d'enseignement destinees aux jeunes enfants
Methylation profile of selected TSGs in non-cancerous thyroid tissue adjacent to primary PTC

was to analyse the methylation profile of the eight tumour suppressor genes (TSGs) ARHI, CDH1, KCNQ1, MEST, p16INK4A, RASSF1A, SLC5A8 and VHL in noncancerous thyroid tissue adjacent to papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and to assess whether it parallels the methylation level of the studied TSGs in the primary tumour. Material and methods: Thyroid tissue samples were obtained from patients with PTC from the centre of the primary lesion and the adjacent noncancerous tissue, macroscopically unchanged (n = 11). Genomic DNA was modified with sodium bisulfite and methylationspecific polymerase chain reactions (MSPs) were performed. For each studied TSG methylated and unmethylated MSP primers were designed. Quality and quantity of MSP products were assessed in automated electrophoresis. Results: Qualitative analysis revealed the presence of methylated and nonmethylated alleles both in PTC and normal thyroid tissue for all genes, except one (KCNQ1). The highest methylation frequency was observed for ARHI, CDH1, p16INK4A, MEST and RASSF1A. Quantitative assessment confirmed a very high methylation level (MI values) for ARHI, CDH1 and RASSF1A. Methylation levels of the studied TSGs were only slightly higher in the PTC group. Conclusions: Alterations of TSG methylation levels in thyroid tissue may be considered as an early molecular event, specific not only for cancerous lesions. Epigenetic modifications of these genes may be of functional importance for thyroid carcinogenesis. On the other hand, it may be explained by the concept of field cancerization.
Investigating an Automatic Method in Summarizing a Video Speech Using User-Assigned Tags

We investigated how useful video tags were in summarizing video speech and how valuable positional information was for speech summarization. Furthermore, we examined the similarity among sentences selected for a speech summary to reduce its redundancy. Based on such analysis results, we then designed and evaluated a method for automatically summarizing speech transcripts using a modified Maximum Marginal Relevance model. This model did not only reduce redundancy but it also enabled the use of social tags, title words, and sentence positional information. Finally, we compared the proposed method to the Extractor system in which key sentences of a video speech were chosen using the frequency and location information of speech content words. Results showed that the precision and recall rates of the proposed method were higher than those of the Extractor system, although there was no significant difference in the recall rates.
Measuring the success of total quality management

In order to determine the success of a TQM (total quality management) implementation, adequate measurement is needed. One way to ensure that everyone is involved is to establish key measurement indicators throughout all areas of a company. As actions are assigned and tracked to determine their effectiveness, trends in the key indicators can be monitored. The success of various types of corrective actions should be publicized so that others may benefit from the approaches that have worked. Over time, more individuals will become involved in quality management thinking and will accept it as their personal philosophy. <<ETX>>