Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Depression, desperation, and suicidal ideation in college students: results from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention College Screening Project at Emory University

The objective of this investigation was to examine suicidal ideation and depression in undergraduate college students who participated in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention‐sponsored College Screening Project at Emory University. The principal measure of depressive symptoms was the nine‐item depression module from the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ‐9). Additional questions were focused on current suicidal ideation, past suicide attempts, and episodes of deliberate self‐harm and on symptoms of anxiety and distress. Seven hundred and twenty‐nine students participated over a 3‐school‐year interval (2002–2005). Most notably, 11.1% of the students endorsed current (past 4 weeks) suicidal ideation and 16.5% had a lifetime suicide attempt or self‐injurious episode. Students with current suicidal ideation had significantly higher depression symptom severity than those without suicidal ideation (t = −9.34, df = 706, P<.0001, d = 1.9), and 28.5% of the students with PHQ‐9 scores of 15 or higher reported suicidal ideation compared to 5.7% of those with lower scores (χ2 = 56.29, df = 1, P<.0001, two‐tailed). Suicidal ideation was prominently associated with symptoms of desperation (odds ratio 2.6, 95% CI 1.5–4.6, P<.001). The vast majority of students with moderately severe to severe depression (85%) or current suicidal ideation (84%) were not receiving any psychiatric treatment at the time of assessment. These results suggest that there is a strong relationship between severity of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in college students, and that suicidal feelings and actions are relatively common in this group. This underscores the need to provide effective mental health outreach and treatment services to this vulnerable population. As this analysis was based on data collected at a single institution, the results may not be representative of all college students or young adults. Depression and Anxiety 0:1–7, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome associated with hormone therapy for intrauterine insemination

Introduction: Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) comprises a heterogeneous group of acute neurological diseases which are characterized by thunderclap headache and evidence of reversible multifocal constriction of cerebral arteries. A number of precipitating factors have been described in the literature, including recent childbirth and use of vasoactive substances. Case description: Here we present the case of a female patient with RCVS which occurred in the setting of hormonal ovarian stimulation for intrauterine insemination. Discussion: This case possibly contributes to the understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying reversible cerebral vasoconstriction.
Aircraft Preliminary Design Using Nonlinear Inverse Dynamics

Abstract What shape should an aircraft have to give certain desirable properties? Nonlinear Inverse Dynamics (NID) may be one of the necessary tools needed to find an answer to this question. In flight dynamics NID is usually applied to define flight trajectories calculations and flight control systems design. The underlying concept behind inverse dynamics applications is the definition of a desired manoeuvre, usually defined by a dynamical model or a pre-established trajectory. By forcing a aircraft whose dynamics are described by a set of nonlinear differential equations to behave like a prescribed model -non necessarily linearflight control systems are designed. This technique is referred to as nonlinear model matching. As follows NID is used to assist the preliminary design of aircraft. From a set of flight characteristics defined by customer specifications the parameters which define the shape and size, such as: wing span, weight, wing aerofoil selection, engine characteristics and wing polar are estimated.
Trust relationship model to enhance security and privacy for cloud environment

These days the common term used for distinguishing the services such as availability, data mobility, cost effective, privacy and security is "Cloud Computing Technology". Cloud computing can solve technical issues, reduce organization cost, and make data available anytime, anywhere. Like many technologies, cloud computing is facing lot of challenges; one of these challenges is "Trust relationship". In this paper we will propose a model called "Cloud Computing Trust Relationship Model (CCTRM)". This model will enhance the security and privacy for cloud computing environment. CCTRM model will be used in telecommunication and non- telecommunication organizations, governments sectors, and private sectors to implement trust relationship between them and cloud computing service providers. This trust will allow the organization to obtain cloud computing services safely without the need to be worry about security and privacy on their cloud.
Environmental Disclosures and Impression Management

A significant stream of social and environmental accounting research investigates the relationship between a corporation’s self-reported disclosures of its own social responsibility and environmental activities and third-party evaluations of that corporation’s actual social responsibility and environmental performance. Generally, researchers have utilized one of two theories to motivate and test this relationship. One theory—signaling or voluntary disclosure theory—argues that corporations with superior corporate social responsibility or environmental performance use disclosure to signal to interested parties a level of performance that poorer corporate performers cannot disclose. A second theory—legitimacy or impression management theory—argues that corporations use disclosures to manage impressions, often masking their actual social responsibility and environmental performance. In this chapter, the authors seek to comment on how DICTION has been and can be utilized to advance this stream of social and environmental accounting research.
Play for Health: Videogame Platform for Motor and Cognitive Telerehabilitation of Patients

- This paper presents Play for Health platform for the rehabilitation of patients suffering from various diseases developed by iBit Foundation and Son Llàtzer Hospital. The platform is basically formed by a management module intended for clinical therapies of telerehabilitation and an unlimited number of games that can be combined with different methods of interaction. Users interact with the computer in different ways according to their needs. These games provide an incentive for patients and promote the realization of the exercises planned by the medical staff in a fun, easy and intuitive way. Furthermore, this system is applicable to other fields such as education and social care
Mathematical approaches for complexity/predictivity trade-offs in complex system models : LDRD final report.

The goal of this research was to examine foundational methods, both computational and theoretical, that can improve the veracity of entity-based complex system models and increase confidence in their predictions for emergent behavior. The strategy was to seek insight and guidance from simplified yet realistic models, such as cellular automata and Boolean networks, whose properties can be generalized to production entity-based simulations. We have explored the usefulness of renormalization-group methods for finding reduced models of such idealized complex systems. We have prototyped representative models that are both tractable and relevant to Sandia mission applications, and quantified the effect of computational renormalization on the predictive accuracy of these models, finding good predictivity from renormalized versions of cellular automata and Boolean networks. Furthermore, we have theoretically analyzed the robustness properties of certain Boolean networks, relevant for characterizing organic behavior, and obtained precise mathematical constraints on systems that are robust to failures. In combination, our results provide important guidance for more rigorous construction of entity-based models, which currently are often devised in an ad-hoc manner. Our results can also help in designing complex systems with the goal of predictable behavior, e.g., for cybersecurity.
The transient global amnesia syndrome. A defect in the second stage of memory in man.

IN 1964 C. Miller Fisher and Raymond D. Adams reported in detail 17 cases of a new syndrome which they called "transient global amnesia," 1 characterized by a sudden loss of ability to lay down lasting memory traces of any kind, essentially without other neurological impairment, lasting for a period of hours with apparent complete recovery. These authors were able to find only one previous report describing a group of 12 patients who probably also represent examples of this syndrome. 2 Since then, we have been impressed with the relative frequency of occurrence of this phenomenon. In the space of one year, seven cases have been referred to the Division of Neurology, four of these while the patient was having an attack. Four patients were seen personally by one of us (E.C.S), two of them during the attack. Aside from the question of etiology, which has not yet been
Clustering system and clustering support vector machine for local protein structure prediction

Protein tertiary structure plays a very important role in determining its possible functional sites and chemical interactions with other related proteins. Experimental methods to determine protein structure are time consuming and expensive. As a result, the gap between protein sequence and its structure has widened substantially due to the high throughput sequencing techniques. Problems of experimental methods motivate us to develop the computational algorithms for protein structure prediction. In this work, the clustering system is used to predict local protein structure. At first, recurring sequence clusters are explored with an improved K-means clustering algorithm. Carefully constructed sequence clusters are used to predict local protein structure. After obtaining the sequence clusters and motifs, we study how sequence variation for sequence clusters may influence its structural similarity. Analysis of the relationship between sequence variation and structural similarity for sequence clusters shows that sequence clusters with tight sequence variation have high structural similarity and sequence clusters with wide sequence variation have poor structural similarity. Based on above knowledge, the established clustering system is used to predict the tertiary structure for local sequence segments. Test results indicate that highest quality clusters can give highly reliable prediction results and high quality clusters can give reliable prediction results. In order to improve the performance of the clustering system for local protein structure prediction, a novel computational model called Clustering Support Vector Machines (CSVMs) is proposed. In our previous work, the sequence-to-structure relationship with the K-means algorithm has been explored by the conventional K-means algorithm. The K-means clustering algorithm may not capture nonlinear sequence-to-structure relationship effectively. As a result, we consider using Support Vector Machine (SVM) to capture the nonlinear sequence-to-structure relationship. However, SVM is not favorable for huge datasets including millions of samples. Therefore, we propose a novel computational model called CSVMs. Taking advantage of both the theory of granular computing and advanced statistical learning methodology, CSVMs are built specifically for each information granule partitioned intelligently by the clustering algorithm. Compared with the clustering system introduced previously, our experimental results show that accuracy for local structure prediction has been improved noticeably when CSVMs are applied.
Nasal teeth

Abstract Ectopic and supernumerary teeth occur in a wide variety of sites. Those that have been reportedinclude the mandibular condyle, coronoid process, orbit, palate, nasal cavity and the maxillaryantrum. Eruption of teeth into these sites is rare, and easily overlooked. We present two casesin which eruption of teeth into the nose and paranasal sinuses was associated with significant morbidity and show how this was relieved by appropriate surgery.
Coordinating flexible human-robot teams by local world state observation

We envision a system that treats humans and robots as equal partners in achieving a common goal. Equality of agents offers high flexibility through dynamic task allocation and flexible team composition, but thereby complicates the coordination of robots with human actions. We contribute a formal framework and system architecture that integrates planning of perception operations into dynamic plan execution to recognize whether subtasks have already been carried out by another agent or are ready to be executed by the robot. This is achieved by locally observing the world state with robot-mounted sensors to evaluate pre- and postconditions linked to every operation of the task. Our approach is prepared to handle arbitrary teams of multiple humans and robots. Experiments show, that our prototype is able to coordinate a stationary robot arm with human actions in pick-and-place tasks formulated as precedence graphs.
Biochemical Demonstration of the Involvement of Fatty Acyl-CoA Synthetase in Fatty Acid Translocation across the Plasma Membrane*

Fatty acyl-CoA synthetase, the first enzyme of the β-oxidation pathway, has been proposed to be involved in long chain fatty acid translocation across the plasma membrane of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. To test this proposal, we used an in vitro system consisting of Escherichia coli inner (plasma) membrane vesicles containing differing amounts of trapped fatty acyl-CoA synthetase and its substrates CoA and ATP. This system allowed us to investigate the involvement of fatty acyl-CoA synthetase independently of other proteins that are involved in fatty acid translocation across the outer membrane and in downstream steps in β-oxidation, because these proteins are not retained in the inner membrane vesicles. Fatty acid uptake in vesicles containing fatty acyl-CoA synthetase was dependent on the amount of exogenous ATP and CoASH trapped by freeze-thawing. The uptake of fatty acid in the presence of non-limiting amounts of ATP and CoASH was dependent on the amount of endogenous fatty acyl-CoA synthetase either retained within vesicles during isolation or trapped within vesicles after isolation by freeze-thawing. Moreover, the fatty acid taken up by the vesicles was converted to fatty acyl-CoA. These data are consistent with the proposal that fatty acyl-CoA synthetase facilitates long chain fatty acid permeation of the inner membrane by a vectorial thioesterification mechanism.
Measuring near field coseismic displacements from SAR images: Application to the Landers Earthquake

We describe a procedure to compute SAR interferograms based on the compensation of the images' mis‐registrations due to the ground deformation and on a specific adaptive filtering to improve the SNR in the measurement where displacement gradients are large. Applied to the Landers earthquake case, the registration reduces the phase noise by 20° (rms) near the fault and the interferogram reveals fringes that would not show out otherwise. The interferogram is validated by comparison, in the far field, with a GPS/EDM‐based model. The inferred displacement field shows discontinuities that follow the fault within few hundred meters. Close to the fault the measured displacements differ significantly from that predicted by elastic modeling of the far‐field data. Interferometry and measurements derived from the images' amplitude (offsets) appear to be complementary techniques providing original measurements that may help to reconcile seismological and geodetic models of coseismic deformation with measurements of fault‐slip at the surface.
The cuffed oropharyngeal airwayIts clinical use in 100 patients

We studied the efficacy of the cuffed oropharyngeal airway in 100 patients. Insertion of the airway after induction of anaesthesia with propofol was easy in 95 of 100 patients, moderately difficult in four patients and failed in one patient. Complications, such as coughing, gagging or body movement, occurred during induction and insertion in 15 patients. Insertion of the airway was not associated with tachycardia or hypertension. Manual ventilation through the airway was easy in less than 30% of patients immediately after insertion. Manual ventilation became easier after adjusting the position of the patient's head, neck or jaw. During spontaneous breathing, adjustment of the head, neck or jaw was required in 30% of patients. Complete airway obstruction occurred in one patient after insertion of the device and in two patients during maintenance of anaesthesia. The airway was left in place during emergence from anaesthesia in the remaining 97 patients. No complications occurred in 91 patients and coughing occurred in the remaining six patients before or during removal of the airway. No regurgitation, vomiting or laryngospasm occurred in any patient at any time. Therefore, the cuffed oropharyngeal airway has a potential use in anaesthetised patients who are breathing spontaneously.
5-GHz Low-Phase Noise CMOS Quadrature VCO

A 5-GHz low-phase noise CMOS quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (QVCO) is described. Two differential pairs (one for negative gm generation and the other one for the coupling input) of each resonator have separate biasing transistors which are switched on and off by the coupling input of each resonator. The proposed QVCO implemented in a 0.13-mum CMOS technology shows 17-dB phase noise improvement from a conventional QVCO with constant tail current sources while the two QVCOs consume the same power of 5.28mW. The phase noise of the proposed QVCO is measured to be -102dBc/Hz and -117dBc/Hz at 100KHz and 1-MHz offset, respectively
The effect of downsizing on worker teams performance - Evidence from a retail chain 1

We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, it decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops between June and December 2014. Our knowledge of the firm downsizing policies enables us to detect exogenous variation in the timing of the sale or closure announcement in the individual shops and thus identify the effect of downsizing in a quasi-experimental way. We find that the announcements of the shop being sold to a new owner and being closed down reduce sales by 6% and 22%, respectively. We also show that the negative effect of downsizing increases with the share of workers with a permanent contract in the shop to be sold or closed, even though permanent workers faced a much lower unemployment risk. We relate our findings to the literatures on downsizing and psychological contract.
A quantitative theory of time-order effects.

The time-order effect (TOE), commonly referred to as time-order error, has been the subject of much investigation and has been extensively discussed in the literature.l It has both practical and theoretical importance. One of the most valuable practical results of work on TOE has been the knowledge that comparisons must be made in two time-orders if errors are to be minimized. In the absence of a quantitative theory, it has been customary to assume, however, that the TOE for standard first, variable second (S1V2) will be exactly equal to TOE for variable first, standard second (V1S,). 2 If this assumption is incorrect, serious errors may creep into psychophysical measurements designed to establish psychological equality between physically different stimuli; for example; in the establishment of the luminosity function of the C.I.E. standard observer.3 The theoretical importance of TOE lies in its implications for psychological scaling and for theories of perception and judgment. The successful application of rating-scale techniques and adaptationlevel (AL) theory to comparative judgments makes possible the development of a treatment of TOE which is quantitative and which integrates TOE with other psychological phenomena.4 The present study was undertaken to test the validity of an extension of adaptation-level theory to timeorder effects.
Updated treatment guidelines.

An updated version of the Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents is now available. Ziagen (abacavir) has been added to recommended first-time HIV regimens. The revised edition also includes a hypertext link to a discussion of Hydroxyurea, a cancer drug being used for HIV. Information for obtaining a free copy is provided.
Transparency of Accounting Information in Achieving Good Corporate Governance. True View and Fair Value

One of the key factors affecting the efficient use of resources, the increase of shareholders confidence in the managers of the company, the success in achieving objectives and economic efficiency is the system of corporate governance by which a company is managed and controlled. We cannot talk about a culture of corporate governance without thinking of the criteria of transparency, of responsibility in ensuring the accuracy of data from financial reports. Transparency is a prerequisite of good communication between the company and the interested parties. This paper examines the concepts of true image and fair value as premises of transparency of the accounting information in order to accomplish good corporate governance.
A Comparative Analysis of US Departments of Transportation Scheduling Specifications and Industry Recommended Scheduling Practices

A Comparative Analysis of US Departments of Transportation Scheduling Specifications and Industry Recommended Scheduling Practices Salam Abdalla Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor Ahmed M. Abdel Aziz Construction Management Scheduling is a key process in delivering construction projects in time and within budget. States departments of transportation (DOTs) rely on scheduling to achieve such objectives. However, a review the standard specifications of most states reveals considerable inconsistencies in those specifications. For example, some states require CPM schedules some simply require Gant Charts. This research work investigates the scheduling practices adopted by states DOTs by conducting a full content review of standard specifications of all 50 states and the special provisions of a number of projects in various states. The content review is followed by a comparative analysis of the scheduling practices of State DOTs and industry best practices presented by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEI), Unified Facility Guide Specifications (UFGS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). A survey questionnaire of a 110 of various DOT scheduling personnel was also administered to get their perception about the inconsistencies. The results of the research work contributed by proposing new recommended standard scheduling specification that mainly reflect the scheduling needs of the DOTs.