Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
OptCuts

Low-distortion mapping of three-dimensional surfaces to the plane is a critical problem in geometry processing. The intrinsic distortion introduced by these UV mappings is highly dependent on the choice of surface cuts that form seamlines which break mapping continuity. Parameterization applications typically require UV maps with an application-specific upper bound on distortion to avoid mapping artifacts; at the same time they seek to reduce cut lengths to minimize discontinuity artifacts. We propose OptCuts, an algorithm that jointly optimizes the parameterization and cutting of a three-dimensional mesh. OptCuts starts from an arbitrary initial embedding and a user-requested distortion bound. It requires no parameter setting and automatically seeks to minimize seam lengths subject to satisfying the distortion bound of the mapping computed using these seams. OptCuts alternates between topology and geometry update steps that consistently decrease distortion and seam length, producing a UV map with compact boundaries that strictly satisfies the distortion bound. OptCuts automatically produces high-quality, globally bijective UV maps without user intervention. While OptCuts can thus be a highly effective tool to create new mappings from scratch, we also show how it can be employed to improve pre-existing embeddings. Additionally, when semantic or other priors on seam placement are desired, OptCuts can be extended to respect these user preferences as constraints during optimization of the parameterization. We demonstrate the scalable performance of OptCuts on a wide range of challenging benchmark parameterization examples, as well as in comparisons with state-of-the-art UV methods and commercial tools.
Comparison the clinical application of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) level and pulmonary function for the patients with bronchial asthma

Objective: Comparison the test result of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) level and pulmonary function for the patients with bronchial asthma. We will find the fast、efficient method for early diagnosis of bronchial asthma. Methods: I determined 90 cases of suspected patients of bronchial asthma with Foundation pulmonary function、Exhaled nitric oxide measurement and Brinchial provocation test. Results: The results of 90 cases Foundation pulmonary function are normal, the cases of FeNO increased are 86 among them, the positive rate is 95%;the Positives of brinchial provocation test are 75 among them, the positive rate is 83%. FeNO and bronchial provocation test showed a moderate positive correlation. The timeliness and safety of FeNO determination is better than that of bronchial provocation test, and the difference was statistically significant ( P <0.05). Conclusion: A correlation between FeNO and airway reactivity. IF we compared exhaled nitric oxide and bronchial provocation test for early diagnosis of bronchial asthma,FeNO is simple, safe, fast, and it is easy for patients to accept the advantages. But FeNO is affected by many factors, it’s reference value is also no uniform standards, the further research is needed. For non allergic asthma patients, although FeNO determination is normal, we cannot exclude asthma, determination of BHR still need for further definite diagnosis.
Tensions and Tradeoffs in a "Design for Science" Classroom: The "Forces in Balloon" Lecture

"Design for science" curricula employ engineering-type design challenges as means for students to learn science concepts as well as skills in science and design. Teaching science in the context of engineering design, however, is not straightforward; it creates certain tensions and requires tradeoffs. This paper represents part of a larger study that examines and describes tensions and tradeoffs in a "design for science" classroom, Learning by Design™. We examine tensions in a lecture on forces in which the teacher finds herself challenged to build representational bridges between students' designed artifacts and abstract science concepts. Constrained by time and difficulty of the concepts, the teacher chooses a tradeoff that uses a lecture to provide students a model for the science underlying their designs. Our examination reveals the teacher's struggle with representation, the requirement that she engage in modeling, and the importance of in-depth pedagogical content knowledge to successful design-based science instruction.
The effect of mats on the welfare of sows and piglets in the farrowing house

Flooring in the farrowing house has changed dramatically over the years from straw bedding on concrete to metal, cast iron or plastic slats. Animals can develop abrasion injuries from these floors (Edwards and Lightfoot, 1986) and sows have been shown to avoid slatted floors during and immediately after farrowing (Phillips et al., 1996). There is some evidence that providing a cushioning material in the pen could improve animal welfare (Gravas, 1979). The objectives of this study were to assess the effect of providing mats in the farrowing house on behaviour and lesion development in sows and piglets.Nineteen sows and their litters housed on metal slatted floors (Tri-bar, Nooyen, Duerne, The Netherlands) and nineteen sows and their litters on mats (Productive Comfort, Pemarsa, S.A.) were included in the study. Mats were made of micro-cellular foam and were placed in the area of the farrowing crate and on both heat pads. Sows were examined in 34 locations for skin lesions on entry to the farrowing house and again at weaning, approximately four weeks later. Lesions were scored according to their severity (1 to 6); addition of scores yielded a total score for each sow.
Untersuchungen zum Krankheitsverlauf der Akuten Caninen Polyradikuloneuritis unter Intravenöser Immunglobulintherapie

Treatment of dogs with acute canine polyradiculoneuritis (ACP) is restricted to physical rehabilitation and supportive care. In humans with Guillain-Barre syndrome, the counterpart of ACP, randomized trials show that intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) speeds recovery. We hypothesized that dogs would tolerate IVIg well and recover faster from ACP than dogs with supportive treatment only. Sixteen client-owned dogs with ACP were treated with IVIg. Five dogs were identified by a medical record search, 11 dogs were enrolled prospectively. Fourteen client-owned dogs served as a retrospective control group. Diagnosis was confirmed using clinical features, electrodiagnostic, cerebrospinal fluid analyses and muscle/nerve biopsies. The duration of the initial progressive phase, the time from IVIg administration until dogs were ambulatory without assistance and the duration of the complete episode were evaluated and compared with the control group. Adverse reactions (anaphylaxis, mild hematuria) were observed in two dogs. Dogs treated with IVIg were ambulatory without assistance after a median of 27.5 days (range 15-127 days) from onset of clinical signs. The control group was ambulatory without assistance at a median of 75.5 days (range 5-220 days). Even though this result is not statistically significant, there is a clear trend toward faster recovery in dogs treated with IVIg.
VHDL: Analysis and Modeling of Digital Systems

From the Publisher: Here's the new second edition of the authoritative reference engineers need to guide them through the use of VHDL hardware description language in the analysis, simulation, and modeling of complicated microelectronic circuits. You'll find extensive new material to bring the guide fully up to date with the new VHDL93 standard, including new chapters on design flow, interfacing, modeling, and timing. Extensive appendixes, including ones on logic synthesis and CPU description styles, provide up-to-date information on the use of VHDL in design. The number and depth of its relevant and practical examples and problems is what sets this edition apart from other VHDL texts.
NGO Structural Adaptation to Funding Requirements and Prospects for Democracy: The Case of the European Union

Most studies on voluntary organisations and advocacy groups focus on their contribution to democracy through participation in the policy-making process. The uniqueness of this study consists in shifting the emphasis to participatory democracy at the implementation stage of the policy process. We argue that public donors may affect the democratic potential of voluntary organisations at this stage. To this purpose, we explore the European Union's structuring effects. Firstly, the European Union manufactures a non-governmental organisation (NGO) landscape through a top-down process of redistribution of resources. Secondly, our attention is drawn to NGOs' adaptations of EU requirements, which entails a transformation process often at odds with participatory practices. In order to grasp the European Union's differential impact, we include in our analysis two sectors (humanitarian NGOs and social voluntary organisations) and two Member States (France and Spain).
Intranasal Sufentanil for Postoperative Pain Control in Lower Abdominal Pediatric Surgery

The most important role in postoperative pain management is still played by opioid administration through various modes. For the last few years, there has been an intensive search for alternative mode of opioid administration in pain management. The intranasal modes of opioid administration seems to be an attractive alternative. Sixty boys (aged 0.5-6 yr); ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) physical status I, who were candidates for lower abdominal surgery, were included in this prospective randomized, controlled study. Five minutes before extubation, patients were randomized to two groups and allocated to receive intranasal sufentanil (0.7 µg/kg) or normal saline, using a double-blinded study design. Satisfactory analgesia was achieved with intranasal sufentanil. It was effective after 10 minutes with the least pain scores (pain score 2.30.4 vs. 4.10.5) (p = 0.001). Pain scores in 15, 20 and 25 minutes were similar in sufentanil group. None of patients had bradycardia, hypotension or SpO2 (arterial O2 saturation) <95%. High bioavailability of sufentanil after intranasal administration due to direct entrance of the drug into the systemic circulation and avoidance of the hepatic first- pass effect makes sufentanil an opioid with rapid onset and limited duration. As it has minimal side effects, sufentanil is one of the best choices for postoperative pain control in children. We used 0.7 µg/kg of intranasal sufentanil and found satisfactory analgesia accompanied with least side effects.
Motivated Interactions with Digital Games in a Science Center

: There is untapped value in adopting motivation theories to inform the design of educational technology. Achievement goal theory explains why students whose primary aim is to learn and understand (mastery goal) think and act differently from those who focus mostly on competition (performance goal). We use self-reports to identify students with different motivational patterns and video analyses to understand how learners’ motivational profiles relate to their interactions with a digital science game with hands-on features.
FACTORS AFFECTING THE SUCCESS OF ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT AT DRY OFF

A tape loading apparatus for use in a digital video cassette recorder provided with a deck, a driving unit and a head drum includes a pair of pole base assemblies for loading a tape, each of the pole base assemblies including a pole base having a hole, a pair of guide rails for guiding the pole base assemblies toward the head drum, and a power conveying unit for transmitting a power from the driving unit into the pole base assemblies. The hole of the pole base has such a shape that the pole base assembly fitted around a periphery of the guide rail does not rotate about the periphery of the guide rail.
Suporte a consultas por similaridade unárias em SQL

Conventional operators for data comparison based on exact matching and total order relations are not appropriate to manage complex data, such as multimedia data (e.g. images, audio and large texts), time series and genetic sequences. In fact, the most important aspect to compare complex data is usually the similarity degree between instances, leading to the use of similarity operators to perform search and retrieval operations. Similarity operators can be classified as unary or as binary, respectively used to implement selection operations and joins. However, the Relation Algebra, employed in Relational Database Management Systems (DBMS), does not provide resources to express similarity search criteria. In order to fulfill this lack of support, an extension to the Relational Algebra is under development at GBdI-ICMC-USP (Grupo de Bases de Dados e Imagens), aiming to represent similarity queries in algebraic expressions. This work contributes to such an effort by dealing with unary similarity operators in Relational Algebra and by developing a similarity query optimizer for SIREN (Similarity Retrieval Engine), therefore allowing similarity queries to be answered by Relational DBMS.
Simulation Research of Active vibration control for elastic missile with swing nozzle thrust Vector control

Aiming at the deficiencies of notch filters on the aspect of vibration suppression for elastic missile with swing nozzle thrust vector control (SNTVC), an active vibration controller (AVC) is proposed. It is composed of an optimal state feedback controller (OSFC) and an optimal minimal order state observer (OMOSO), which can be respectively designed based on the separation principle. The design rules of these two elements are successively given. Computer simulation results present that AVC can realize strong vibration suppression and good convergence property after disturbing. Moreover, it has simple design and then it is easily implemented in engineering. In addition, the AVC scheme can also resolve the poor system stability to a great extent, which is resulted from the bad static stability of missile body.
Neosymbiosis, How Humans and Software Benefit from Multi-Agent Cognitive Prosthesis

This paper discusses how Licklider’s [Licklider 1960] idea of symbiosis can be implemented with software agents [Vane, Griffith 2005] that sense, model, project/predict and judge; using the latest theories of decision making [Vane 2006] and cognitive psychology [Kahneman 2002]. Neosymbiosis [Griffith 2005; Griffith, Greitzer in press] addresses how humans aided by software might overcome their respective weaknesses synergistically. This paper explores how neosymbiosis delivered via a cognitive automaton (CogBot), a network of software agents, might handle surprising emergent phenomena. Particular care will be given to whether an agent (either human or software) is surprised versus whether a CogBot-enhanced observer is surprised by emergence. Finally, it considers scenario involving a community of knowledge workers intelligently augmented with CogBots while they adapt to emergent threats while attempting to achieve organizational objectives.
Post-transfusion viral hepatitis in sickle Cell Anaemia: Retrospective-Prospective analysis

Several complications of sickle cell anaemia (SCA) are well known including hepatobiliary dysfunction. We here present a study 151 randomly selected SCA patients to highlight the contributory role of blood transfusion to the development of viral hepatitis in them. Twenty (13.2%) had not received blood transfusion and no case of acute viral hepatitis (AVH) was recorded in them. One hundred and thirty one (86.8%) had received an average of 4.2 pints of blood as at the time of study. Sixteen (12.3%) of these developed post-transfusion hepatitis (PTH) out of which 8 (50%) were positive for hepatitis B virus during the acute hepatitic phase. In the post-hepatitic state, 4 patients were positive for HbsAg only while 5 tested positive for anti-HCV only and I patient had both viruses. Six patients were seronegative for both HbsAg and anti-HVC. Three of the seronegative patients had previously been seropositive for HbsAg and anti-HCV. Three of the seronegative patients had previously been seropositive for HbsAg in the acute hepatitic phase. It is concluded that blood transfusion carries a significant risk for the development of PTH in SCA. We suggest more vigorous efforts by the government and the transfusion centers on strict adherence to blood safety guidelines. [Nig J Clinical Practice Vol.5(1) 2002: 16-19]
The Ambivalent Function of YAP in Apoptosis and Cancer

Yes-associated protein, a core regulator of the Hippo-YAP signaling pathway, plays a vital role in inhibiting apoptosis. Thus, several studies and reviews suggest that yes-associated protein is a good target for treating cancer. Unfortunately, more and more evidence demonstrates that this protein is also an essential contributor of p73-mediated apoptosis. This questions the concept that yes-associated protein is always a good target for developing novel anti-cancer drugs. Thus, the aim of this review was to evaluate the clinical relevance of yes-associated protein for cancer pathophysiology. This review also summarized the molecules, processes and drugs, which regulate Hippo-YAP signaling and discusses their effect on apoptosis. In addition, issues are defined, which should be addressed in the future in order to provide a solid basis for targeting the Hippo-YAP signaling pathway in clinical trials.
Shaping Electronic Communication: The Metastructuring of Technology in Use

In this paper we suggest that the use of computer-mediated communication technologies in new and fluid organizations can be facilitated by the explicit and ongoing adapting of those technologies to changing contexts of use. In an exploratory study on the use of a computer conferencing system in an R&D setting, we found that the new medium's effectiveness was significantly influenced by the intervention of a few individuals who took on a role we label technology-use mediation. These mediators shaped everyday use of the conferencing technology, modifying the technology as well as the context of use to promote effective electronic communication. Drawing on the insights of this empirical study, we develop a theoretical framework that views technology-use mediation as influencing how users structure their communication technologies, and hence as one form of metastructuring. We believe that the role of technology-use mediation constitutes a valuable mechanism for providing the ongoing attention and resources needed to contextualize what are often generic computer-mediated communication technologies to the shifting conditions of dynamic organizational forms.
New challenges in psycho‐oncology: An embodied approach to body image

Physical appearance and the image of the human body have long been relevant in a wide variety of clinical settings in medicine. The concept of body image is of particular importance to oncology, as all types of cancer and its treatment have some impact on it. Body image has obvious connotations of physical appearance. However, it is complex, with multiple aspects that have important but not always obvious, connections with cancers and their treatment problems arising from bodily changes. This presents a challenge in research and clinical care. Breast cancer has been the most widely investigated cancer in empirical research in psycho‐oncology, and findings show that impaired body image can have marked negative and potential long‐term effects on psychological adjustment and quality of life. However, body image outcomes and treatment effects on the body are often reported separately in quality of life outcomes. We suggest this division is problematic and the challenge is to work with a coherent framework that demonstrates interrelated body image and body changes. Defining body image has proved elusive, but it can be approached in different ways. For example, established cognitive behavioural perspectives have been adapted for cancer patients, foregrounding psychological assessments of body image disruption. Other models, designed for use in clinical practice, acknowledge self‐perceived appearance change but emphasise different aspects, such as decreased physical and social functioning. Price includes the concept of an ideal body, influenced by sociocultural factors, and Fingeret presents a comprehensive management model, embracing treatment‐ related bodily changes and psychosocial difficulties.
Traumatic Brain Injury in Aged Mice Induces Chronic Microglia Activation, Synapse Loss, and Complement-Dependent Memory Deficits

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is of particular concern for the aging community since there is both increased incidence of TBI and decreased functional recovery in this population. In addition, TBI is the strongest environmental risk factor for development of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia-related neurodegenerative disorders. Critical changes that affect cognition take place over time following the initial insult. Our previous work identified immune system activation as a key contributor to cognitive deficits observed in aged animals. Using a focal contusion model in the current study, we demonstrate a brain lesion and cavitation formation, as well as prolonged blood–brain barrier breakdown. These changes were associated with a prolonged inflammatory response, characterized by increased microglial cell number and phagocytic activity 30 days post injury, corresponding to significant memory deficits. We next aimed to identify the injury-induced cellular and molecular changes that lead to chronic cognitive deficits in aged animals, and measured increases in complement initiation components C1q, C3, and CR3, which are known to regulate microglial–synapse interactions. Specifically, we found significant accumulation of C1q on synapses within the hippocampus, which was paralleled by synapse loss 30 days post injury. We used genetic and pharmacological approaches to determine the mechanistic role of complement initiation on cognitive loss in aging animals after TBI. Notably, both genetic and pharmacological blockade of the complement pathway prevented memory deficits in aged injured animals. Thus, therapeutically targeting early components of the complement cascade represents a significant avenue for possible clinical intervention following TBI in the aging population.
Editorial: FibroTest to predict liver‐related mortality in NAFLD. Should this change the diagnostic algorithm in NAFLD?

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