Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Computer-Supported Freewriting:Improving Writing Attitude and Idea Generation

Most students in Taiwan feel anxiety or suffering when teachers ask them to write compositions in class because writing might be viewed as a complex problem solving process and they often lack self-confidence in their writing abilities. Pre-writing has been recognized as especially relevant to successful writing at the beginning. Therefore, it is important to make students be willing to write something without fear at the pre-writing stage and improve their writing attitudes. The paper presents a computer-supported freewriting system (CSFWS) integrated with extensive reading pedagogy in order to improve their attitudes toward writing and to facilitate students' writing idea generation. The results show that after participating freewriting activities by the proposed CSFWS system, students become more positive in writing attitudes. Namely, students have more confidence and willingness in writing in their daily school life. The study found that when the difficulty level of writing topic is corresponding to students' writing abilities, students will be more productive. In addition, students' diction in freewriting should be further evaluated.
Resumption of meiotic maturation of oocytes, pre- and post-implantation mortality of embryos under ten-time intravenous treatment of silver nanoparticles in mice

Background: In recent years the use of silver nanoparticles (AgNP) has increased significantly being focused on assessing human health and environmental risks of nanotechnology.Methods: Research (two series) has been done on white laboratory mice. One dose (20 mg/kg) has been investigated. Frequency of treatment: one time per day for 10 times. Material for the study (ovaries, tubes and uterus) was taken under anesthetic anesthesia on the 10/11th, 21/22nd, 33/34th, 42/43rd days (after the last treatment). Oocyte meiotic maturation, pre- and post-implantation mortality of embryos under ten-time intravenous treatment of AgNP were investigation.Results: Under the ten-time treatment of AgNPs, the inhibition of reproductive function in female mice occurs: a decrease in the number and quality of ovarian oocytes; after male mice were planted, the females do not get pregnant to 21/22 day. The reproductive function in experimental animals is restored on the 40th day after the last treatment with AgNPs; there is no differences between the values of pre- and post-implantation mortality of embryos on the 33/34th day after male mice were planted; in one of the three experimental animals, 7 live pups were born on the 42/43rd day after the male was planted (in animals of the control group during this period: twice (6 ± 1 (n = 6) live pups). Conclusions: In mice females, under a ten-time treatment of AgNPs, the inhibition of reproductive function takes place; with the termination of the AgNPs treatment, the reproductive function is restored.
Differential regulation of genes and transcription factors in vascular endothelial cells exposed to uniform and disturbed laminar shear stress

Hemodynamic shear stress has been shown to induce various functional changes in vascular endothelium, many of which reflect alterations at the level of gene expression. We have utilized a class of endothelial-leukocyte adhesion molecules, including Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-i (ICAM1), Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-i (VCAM1), and E-selectin (ELAM1) -which are coordinately induced by soluble stimuli such as cytokines -as model genes with which to investigate the shear stress parameters which regulate endothelial gene expression. These studies indicate that ICAM-1, but not VCAM-1 or E-selectin, is upregulated in endothelial cells exposed to uniform laminar shear stress, and this induction occurs at the levels of transcriptional activation, steady state message, and functional cell surface protein. In addition, using a disturbed laminar shear stress model -designed to mimic in vivo flow patterns at sites predilected for atherosclerotic development, such as arterial bifurcations and curvatures -we have shown that cytokine induction of VCAM-1, in contrast to ICAM-1 or E-selectin, is inhibited by preconditioning with disturbed, but not uniform laminar shear stress. Thus, this differential regulation of adhesion molecule expression by fluid shear stresses, in contrast to the coordinate pattern of induction by humoral stimuli, indicates that regional differences in biomechanical forces may represent important local modulators of endothelial gene regulation. Work in our laboratory and others has identified several "shear stress response elements" within the promoters of certain endothelial genes which mediate the shear stress induction of those genes by functionally interacting with previously identified transcription factors, including nuclear factor-,B (NF-KB), early growth response-i (Egr-1), and activator protein-i (AP-1, comprised of c-Jun/c-Jun and c-Jun/c-Fos protein dimers). With the aid of newly developed image analysis techniques, we have demonstrated that endothelial cells exposed to disturbed laminar shear stress exhibit increased levels of nuclear localized NF-KB, Egr-1, c-Jun, and c-Fos, as compared with cells subjected to uniform flow and static conditions. Taken together, these data suggest that the spectrum of biomechanical forces encountered in the circulatory system may represent important stimuli that are relevant to both the physiology and pathology of vascular endothelium. Thesis Committee: Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr., Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School (Adviser) Robert Langer, Professor of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, MIT (Committee Chairman) C. Forbes Dewey, Jr., Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Rakesh K. Jain, Professor of Tumor Biology, Harvard Medical School
OFDM encoding with reduced crestfactor

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has been proposed for future high speed wireless LANs and digital (television and audio) broadcasting as a promising multicarrier modulation technique. OFDM offers robustness against significant channel degradation by dispersion. For wireless LANs, the design of the transmitter power amplifier and the characteristics of the modulated signal are key factors deciding the coverage range performance and the product cost. The peak-envelope-power of the transmitter power amplifier is an important parameter in the design of small sized, low power wireless LAN devices. This paper describes an OFDM system with a data encoder/decoder that improves the peak-to-average power ratio of the transmitted signal. In this scheme, the data to be transmitted is converted into symbols for the individual subcarriers, such that the resultant of a pair of symmetrically positioned subcarriers is orthogonal to the resultant of another pair of subcarriers with the same center of symmetry. This conversion gives a reduced ratio between peak envelope-power and the mean (RMS) power, which reduces constraints on the power stage design. Further, the impact on the bit-error rate of clipping the signal in the transmitter before the output amplifier is discussed.
Cardiac involvement in chronic polyarthritis and ankylosing spondylitis—an echocardiographic and immunological study

Twenty-eight patients with chronic polyarthritis, II patients with ankylosing spondylitis and II patients with incipient chronic polyarthritis were examined clinically, by electrocardiography, two-dimensional and TM echocardiography for cardiac involvement. Immunological investigations included determination of homologous and heterologous antimyolemmal (AMLAs), antifibrillary (AFAs) and antinuclear (ANAs) antibodies. Patients with cardiac involvement demonstrated homologous and heterologous antimyolemmal antibodies against the cardiac membrane, particularly of the IgM subclass. AMLAs of high titre were not found in patients with rheumatic diseases without cardiac involvement.
Mental practice in orthopedic rehabilitation: where, what, and how? A case report

Pratique mentale et readaptation orthopedique: Ou, quoi et comment? Une etude de casL’heterogeneite des etudes experimentales portant sur l’efficacite de la pratique mentale pour la readaptation orthopedique ne permet pas de determiner les modalites de travail les plus propices. De plus, les techniques d’entrainement mental utilisees sont souvent ouvertes et non structurees, avec peu d’indications de la part des praticiens. Le but de ce travail est double : (1) considerer l’apport des modeles de l’imagerie dans la conception des programmes, et (2) proposer une demarche d’intervention basee sur la taxonomie des tâches de Gentile (2000) pour la structuration d’un travail effectue par le patient a domicile. A titre d’illustration, nous presentons une etude de cas d’une patiente âge de 73 ans, victime d’une fracture du radius distal.
Numerical Studies of Frictional Sliding Behavior and Influences of Confining Pressure on Accoustic Activities in Compression Tests Using FEM/DEM

The combined finite-discrete element method (FEM/DEM) has been used to simulate processes of brittle fracturing and associated seismicity. With the newly extended FEM/DEM algorithm, two topics involving rock mechanics and geophysics are investigated. In the first topic, a velocityweakening law is implemented to investigate the initiation of frictional slip, and an innovative method that incorporates surface roughness with varying friction coefficients is introduced to examine the influences of surface roughness. Simulated results revealed detailed responses of stresses to the propagation of the slip front. In the second topic, acoustic activities induced in confined compression tests are simulated and quantitatively studied using the internal monitoring algorithm in FEM/DEM. It is shown that with increasing confinement, AE events are spatially more concentrated and temporally more separated, accompanied by a decreasing b-value. Moreover, interesting correlation between orientations of cracks and the mechanical behavior of the rock was observed.
Anatomy of a Message in the Alewife Multiprocessor

Shared-memory provides a uniform and attractive mechanism for communication. For efficiency, it is often implemented with a layer of interpretive hardware on top of a message-passing communications network. This interpretive layer is responsible for data location, data movement, and cache coherence. It uses patterns of communication that benefit common programming styles, but which are only heuristics. This suggests that certain styles of communication may benefit from direct access to the underlying communications substrate. The Alewife machine, a shared-memory multiprocessor being built at MIT, provides such an interface. The interface is an integral part of the shared memory implementation and affords direct, user-level access to the network queues, supports an efficient DMA mechanism, and includes fast trap handling for message reception. This paper discusses the design and implementation of the Alewife message-passing interface and addresses the issues and advantages of using such an interface to complement hardware-synthesized shared memory.
An identification of the core variables that assist people diagnosed with mental illness in a time of transition

This study has sought to idPntify the core variables or factors that are utilised by people with a diagnosis of mental illness in a lime of transition. The specific transition involved study participants exiting a non government community mental health agency. The variables of interest are those that assist individuals to cope during this time of change and transition. The specific transition involves participants leaving or exiting from a non government mental health agency that provides community based, psychosocial support. The study topic is located in the context of a formalised mental health system in the process of changing from predominantly hospital to community based care options. The major variable that has been found to assist people in this process is that of narrating about the experience of transition. The other core variables found to assi5t in the process of transition are undertaking meaningful activity: having sufficient support systems: having access to adequately supportive social networks: possessing minimal mental health risk factors: ability to self manage mental health factors; possessing adequate self esteem and confidence. Narrating i� a process undertaken by an individual which describes past and present experiences: hopes. desires and goals and beliefs about self. others and the environment occupied by the individual. The narrative constructed is materialised in action taken by the individual or externalise d versiom of the narrative· shared and enacted with others.
Climate control of the spring clear‐water phase through the transfer of energy and mass to lakes

We analyzed decade‐long time series of water transparency, algal abundance, zooplankton density, heat income, hydrology, and climate from six polymictic lakes of the northern Great Plains to determine how energy and mass transfers interact to regulate lake structure during the spring clear‐water phase (CWP). Timing (date of occurrence) and intensity (Secchi transparency) of CWP were highly variable among lakes (mean lake‐pair synchrony, S = 0.072, p = 0.53); however, CWP occurred in all lakes when water overlying the sediments reached 16.1°C ± 3.7°C and Daphnia cleared the water column of diatoms. At a decadal resolution, timing and intensity of CWP were correlated strongly and positively (r2 > 0.90, p < 0.05) with the net heat income (θ) and lake volume, but not with other independent lake, catchment, or climate features. Instead, at an annual resolution, the strength of correlations between CWP characteristics and heat income (rCWP‐θ) was itself correlated inversely with the winter index of the North Atlantic Oscillation (r < −0.55, p < 0.05) and with precipitation during February‐April (r < −;0.675, p < 0.05). We conclude that the transfer of energy interacts with lake volume to regulate differences in timing and intensity of CWP among lakes, whereas the transfer of mass overrides energetic regulation to introduce temporal variation in CWP characteristics among years.
Dietary supplement use in the Netherlands: Current data and recommendations for future assessment

Er zijn in Nederland weinig gegevens over de inneming van voedingsstoffen of mogelijk schadelijke stoffen uit voedingssupplementen. Reden tot zorg over een grootschalige excessieve inneming van vitamines en mineralen lijkt echter niet nodig. Voor de toekomst wordt aanbevolen om gegevens over het gebruik van voedingssupplementen te verzamelen binnen het voedingspeilingsysteem en een databestand bij te houden van de samenstelling van beschikbare supplementen. Met deze gegevens kan nagegaan worden in hoeverre gebruik van voedingssupplementen mogelijke tekorten in de voeding aanvult, dan wel leidt tot excessieve inneming van voedingsstoffen of mogelijk schadelijke stoffen. In dit rapport zijn gegevens over voedingssupplementgebruik samengebracht uit de Nederlandse voedselconsumptiepeilingen en uit de diverse monitoring en cohortonderzoeken van na 1998. Verschil in onderzoekmethoden en ontbrekende informatie van de dosering maken vergelijkbaarheid van de gegevens lastig. Het percentage supplementgebruikers lijkt toe te nemen, vrouwen gebruiken vaker supplementen dan mannen en het gebruik van supplementen is hoger bij toenemend opleidingsniveau. Ongeveer de helft van de supplementgebruikers beperkt zich tot een supplement per dag. Er lijkt geen reden tot bezorgdheid te zijn voor overschrijding van aanvaardbare maxima aan voedingsstofinneming, hoewel dit voor een klein deel van de supplementgebruikers ook niet kan worden uitgesloten. Voor monitoringdoeleinden wordt aanbevolen om supplementgebruik in detail na te gaan voor enkele specifieke dagen waarover ook de voedselconsumptie wordt nagevraagd, aangevuld met informatie uit een frequentievragenlijst om ooit- en nooit-gebruikers te kunnen onderscheiden. Bovendien is een up-to-date databestand nodig van de samenstelling van beschikbare supplementen.
Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XIX : papers from the nineteenth annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Urbana, Illinois, April 2005

1. Acknowledgments 2. Preface (by Benmamoun, Elabbas) 3. Section I. Computational and corpus linguistics 4. Systematicity in the Arabic Mental Lexicon (by Bromberg, Ilana) 5. Arabic PAPPI: A Principles and Parameters Parser (by Fong, Sandiway) 6. Corpus-based linguistic analyses: Testing intuitions about Arabic structure and use (by Ghazali, Salem) 7. Learning Arabic morphology using statistical constraint-satisfaction models (by Rodrigues, Paul) 8. Learning to use the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank (by Smrz, Otakar) 9. Section II. Phonology, morphology, and syntax 10. Intonational and rhythmic patterns across the dialect continuum (by Ghazali, Salem) 11. Roots and patterns in Arabic lexical processing (by Mahfoudhi, Abdessatar) 12. Affrication in North Arabic revisited (by Mustafawi, Eiman) 13. The syntax of complex tense in Moroccan Arabic (by Ouali, Hamid) 14. Section III. Sociolinguistics and second language acquisition 15. On agree and postcyclic merge in syntactic derivations: First conjunct agreement in standard Arabic (by Soltan, Usama) 16. Null subjects use by English and Spanish learners of Arabic as an L2 (by Alhawary, Mohammad T.) 17. Linguistic diversity: The Qaaf across Arabic dialects (by Bahloul, Maher) 18. Arabic sociolinguistics and cultural diversity in Morocco (by Ennaji, Moha) 19. The gendered use of Arabic and other languages in Morocco (by Sadiqi, Fatima) 20. Index of subjects
A neural network model applied to the detection of digital signals

This work presents an artificial neural network (ANN) approach for the signal decision problems associated with digital communication system receivers which use modulation schemes whose signal elements belong to finite bidimensional constellations. The decision system proposed, named a neural decoder (ND), is a multilayer perceptron neural network trained with a backpropagation algorithm and models a maximum-likelihood receiver. The ND training process and simulation results of their performance, regarding a conventional receiver, are presented for some of the modulation systems studied.
La riabilitazione respiratoria in pazienti sottoposti ad intervento per neoplasia polmonare: protocolli a confronto

La piu recente letteratura e ormai concorde nel ritenere la riabili-tazione respiratoria parte integrante del trattamento dei pazienti sot-toposti ad intervento per neoplasia polmonare, per la sua capacita diridurre l’incidenza delle complicanze post-operatorie nonche per lasua efficacia in termini di miglioramento delle prestazioni fisiche,recupero delle capacita funzionali e della qualita di vita
Comprehensive imaging and Raman spectroscopy of carbonate globules from Martian meteorite ALH 84001 and a terrestrial analogue from Svalbard

Abstract— We report a comprehensive imaging study including confocal microRaman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and 3‐D extended focal imaging light microscopy of carbonate globules throughout a depth profile of the Martian meteorite Allan Hills (ALH) 84001 and similar objects in mantle peridotite xenoliths from the Bockfjorden volcanic complex (BVC), Svalbard. Carbonate and iron oxide zoning in ALH 84001 is similar to that seen in BVC globules. Hematite appears to be present in all ALH 84001 carbonate‐bearing assemblages except within a magnesite outer rim found in some globules. Macromolecular carbon (MMC) was found in intimate association with magnetite in both ALH 84001 and BVC carbonates. The MMC synthesis mechanism appears similar to established reactions within the Fe‐C‐O system. By inference to a terrestrial analogue of mantle origin (BVC), these results appear to represent the first measurements of the products of an abiotic MMC synthesis mechanism in Martian samples. Furthermore, the ubiquitous but heterogeneous distribution of hematite throughout carbonate globules in ALH 84001 may be partly responsible for some of the wide range in measured oxygen isotopes reported in previous studies. Using BVC carbonates as a suitable analogue, we postulate that a low temperature hydrothermal model of ALH 84001 globule formation is most likely, although alteration (decarbonation) of a subset of globules possibly occurred during a later impact event.
Insulin Resistance and Visceral Fat Obesity in Hyperlipidemia

Background and Objectives:Insulin resistance is associated with hyperlipidemia. Recently, visceral fat adiposity is reported to be associated with insulin resistance and hyperlipidemia. We investigated insulin resistance and visceral fat adiposity in hyperlipidemic patients. Materials and Method:Hyperlipidemic group included 14 hyperlipidemic patients (total cholesterol ≥ 220 mg/dl and triglyceride ≤ 400 mg/dl without hypertension, angina, impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes mellitus (DM. Control group included age, sex and body mass index (BMI matched 25 healthy volunteers. We measured plasma lipid profiles and the insulin and glucose during the oral glucose tolerance test. We measured visceral fat area and abdominal subcutaneous fat area with computed tomography (CT. Results:There were no differences of age, sex and BMI in both group. Total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglyceride increased significantly in hyperlipi- demic group. Fasting plasma glucose, insulin, area under curve (AUC of the glucose and insulin and the Insulin/Glucose (IG ratio increased significantly in hyperlipidemic group. Significant positive correlations were demonstrated between visceral fat area and the fasting plasma glucose, AUC of glucose and insulin at 120 minutes after glucose load. However, there was no difference in visceral fat area between both groups. After adjustment of visceral fat area, fasting plasma glucose, insulin, area under curve (AUC of the glucose and insulin and the Insulin/Glucose (IG ratio still remained increased significantly in hyperlipidemic group. Conclusion:We observed significantly increased insulin resistance in hyperlipidemic group. There was partial relationship between visceral fat area and the glucose and insulin profile. However, we did not find increased visceral fat area in hyperlipidemic group. (Korean Circulation J 1999;29(7 :673-679
Academic Writing and Plagiarism: A Linguistic Analysis

I: Plagiarism in Context 1. Plagiarism as a pedagogical question 2. Plagiarism as a linguistic question II: Investigating Plagiarism 3. Source dependence in academic writing 4. The role of intention in inappropriate source use 5. Explaining inappropriate source use III: Implications 6. The problem 7. Disciplinarity and standards 8. Solutions 9. Changes in the university References.