Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gait stability in diabetic peripheral neuropathy

O objetivo do estudo foi verificar a estabilidade da marcha em diabeticos com neuropatia periferica, em tres situacoes: marcha habitual com os olhos abertos; marcha com os olhos fechados e marcha com olhos abertos e diminuicao da base de sustentacao. Participaram do estudo 41 individuos, sendo 18 do grupo neuropata (GN) e 23 do grupo controle (GC). A avaliacao da estabilidade foi realizada por meio de um baropodometro associado ao software Footwalk Pro. Os dados obtidos foram: velocidade da marcha e porcentagens de tempo de duplo apoio e de apoio simples. Foram encontradas diferencas significantes nas tres situacoes entre os grupos para a velocidade e tempo de apoio simples, com diminuicao para o GN (p<0,05), e tempo de duplo apoio, com aumento para o GN (p<0,05) em todas as condicoes. Para os dados de velocidade, tempo de duplo apoio e tempo de apoio simples, a condicao de olho aberto foi diferente da de olho fechado (p=0,001) e da condicao com diminuicao da base de sustentacao (p=0,001). Foi possivel observar que nas tres situacoes avaliadas, o GN apresentou deficit na estabilidade do ato de locomocao e tal desempenho foi ainda mais comprometido nas duas situacoes que exigiam mais do controle postural. Tais modificacoes da marcha, decorrentes da complexidade imposta pelas diferentes condicoes, sugerem a insercao destas na avaliacao e no tratamento dessa populacao.
A Comprehensive Approach to Participatory Sensing of Weather Information via Mobile Devices

Data sensing techniques are becoming widely used in various applications including forecasting systems. Accurate forecasting systems must rely on multiple input data sources. In this paper, the techniques used in developing accurate weather reporting systems are reviewed and the strength of multiple data sensing techniques is utilized to conceptualize a new system architecture that aims at accurate weather forecasting. The new model is based on four main components; environmental sensing component, user submitted reports, social networks forecast, and external sensors components. The resulting system produces more accurate reports than systems that do not rely on multiple input sources.
MAPPING GAMES AND GAMING STYLE WITH LEARNING GOALS AND STYLE

In the era of e-services such as e-learning, e-government, e-business, etc. enhancing such services and adapting them to one's personal needs is a very promising way for the user to benefit even further from them. As a step forward in the development of adaptive learning systems with integrated game elements it is first necessary to review different types of games and their characteristics. Moreover, it is important to take into account gaming styles as well as to summarize the processes of learning and playing by mapping learning styles corresponding to different gaming styles. This paper attempts to investigate and describe different gaming issues as a first step toward building a software framework for the integration of game elements utilized in e-learning.
Response of Pulses to Seed or Soil Application of Rhizobial Inoculants

Abstract In micro-plot experiments growth, nodulation and seed yields of pea, yellow lupine and soybean grown in a soil colonized by high populations of pea and lupine rhizobia and low population of soybean rhizobia as influenced by seed or soil application of rhizobial inoculants were studied. The studied inoculation method had no significant effects on root nodule numbers, plant growth at the flowering stage and on seed yields of pea and yellow lupine in comparison to uninoculated control treatments. In the case of soybean seed and soil inoculation with soybean rhizobia (Bradyrhizobium japonicum) resulted in a significant increase of nodulation intensity, fresh and dry mass of shoots at the flowering stage as well as pod numbers and soybean seed yields at harvest. Soybean grown on plots in which soil was inoculated with the symbiotic bacteria gave seed yield by about 57 % higher as compared to that of soybean grown from seed inoculated with the rhizobia and by 169 % higher than when this crop was grown on the control (uninoculated) plots.
The Role of Organizational Culture in Knowledge Management

The rise of knowledge, innovation and new technologies in creating strategic advantages and value the importance of knowledge in the management of organizations, have led to put the concept of knowledge management , in heart of the strategic policies of organizations. Performing effective knowledge management requires paying attention to basics or key factors which have catalyst role and make it powerful and easy. One of these key factors is organizational culture. Paying attention to organizational culture to improve the knowledge management is a subject that has recently attracted many researchers. The purpose of the present study was to investigate theoretical concepts related to the role of organizational culture and make them practical in organizations and companies. In doing so, articles, internet and library resources were consulted. The result showed that organizational culture as an underlying factor has strengthening and weakening role in knowledge management. The organization should make sure about alignment of organizational culture in knowledge management. Naturally, organizations must establish a proper culture for knowledge management implementation. Some of these cultures are knowledge-oriented organizational culture, flexibility, support, cooperation, trust, learning, power and reliability. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016. v7n5p412
Zdravstvena njega osoba s autonomnom disrefleksijom Health care of patients suffering from autonomic dysreflexia

Pacijenti koji imaju kompletnu ozljedu (prekid motoričkog i senzoričkog prijenosa impulsa ispod lezije) imaju znatno češću pojavu sindroma. AD nastaje u kroničnom stadiju u osoba koje imaju OKM, ali epizode AD-a mogu se javiti već samo nekoliko dana ili tjedana nakon ozljede [5,6]. AD može nastati i prilikom porođaja, i to u oko dvije trećine trudnica s ozljedom kralježnične moždine iznad razine Th6. Odnos muškaraca i žena u učestalosti oštećenja kralježnične moždine je 4:1, ali za nastanak AD-a ne postoji prediktivnost prema spolu. Uvod/Introduction
Cenozoic plate driving forces

Past studies of plate driving forces have concluded that the forces due to subducted slabs in the upper mantle and those due to the thickening of the oceanic lithosphere are the principal driving forces. We reexamine the balance of driving forces for the present-day and extend our analysis through the Cenozoic, using an analytical torque balance method which accounts for interactions between plates via viscous coupling to the induced mantle flow. We use an evolving mantle density heterogeneity field based on the last 200 Myr. of subduction to drive plate motions, an approach which has proven successful in predicting the present-day mantle heterogeneity field. We find that for plausible upper mantle viscosities the forces due to subducted slabs in the Cenozoic and Mesozoic account for in excess of 90% of plate driving forces and those due to lithospheric thickening for less than 10%.
Morse theory and applications to variational problems

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the topic of Morse theory, with applications to variational problems. General references are Milnor [68], Mawhin and Willem [66], Chang [21], and Benci [12]; see also Perera et al. [83] and Perera and Schechter [84]. We consider a real-valued function Φ defined on a real Banach space (W, ‖·‖). We say that Φ is Fréchet differentiable at u ∈ W if there is an element Φ′(u) of the dual space (W ∗, ‖·‖), called the Fréchet derivative of Φ at u, such that
Accounting Outsourcing and Firm Performance in Iranian SMEs.

The aim of this study is to examine the factors that influence on outsourcing of accounting functions and the effect of outsourcing on firm performance in Iranian manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Results from a survey of 658 SMEs show that outsourcing is positively associated with owner/manager knowledge and the technical competence, but was not found a positive relationship between outsourcing and the size of the firm. It was found that outsourcing has a positive impact on SME performance. In addition, our analysis suggested that outsourcing did not mediate the influence of firm size on SME performance but partially mediated the impact of owner/manager knowledge on firm performance and also technical competence of an accountant on SME performance.
The paradox of “premature migration” by adult anadromous salmonid fishes: patterns and hypotheses

In several groups of anadromous fishes, but especially the salmonids, some populations migrate from the ocean to fresh water many months prior to spawning. This “premature migration” reduces growth opportunities at sea, compels them to occupy much less productive freshwater habitats, and exposes them to extremes of flow and temperature, disease, and predation. We first review migration in salmonids and find great variation in timing patterns among and within species, relative to the timing of reproduction. Premature migration is widely distributed among species but not in all populations, and we propose two hypotheses to explain it. First, the fish may be making “the best of a bad situation” by entering early because access to suitable breeding sites is constrained seasonally by flow or temperature regimes, so they sacrifice growing opportunities at sea. Alternatively or additionally, some populations may be “balancing risks and benefits” as they trade off the benefits of growth at sea against the risk of.
Compiled MPI: Cost-Effective Exascale Applications Development

The complexity of petascale and exascale machines makes it increasingly difficult to develop applications that can take advantage of them. Future systems are expected to feature billion-way parallelism, complex heterogeneous compute nodes and poor availability of memory (Peter Kogge, 2008). This new challenge for application development is motivating a significant amount of research and development on new programming models and runtime systems designed to simplify large-scale application development. Unfortunately, DoE has significant multi-decadal investment in a large family of mission-critical scientific applications. Scaling these applications to exascale machines will require a significant investment that will dwarf the costs of hardware procurement. A key reason for the difficulty in transitioning today's applications to exascale hardware is their reliance on explicit programming techniques, such as the Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming model to enable parallelism. MPI provides a portable and high performance message-passing system that enables scalable performance on a wide variety of platforms. However, it also forces developers to lock the details of parallelization together with application logic, making it very difficult to adapt the application to significant changes in the underlying system. Further, MPI's explicit interface makes it difficult to separate the application's synchronization and communication structure, reducing the amountmore » of support that can be provided by compiler and run-time tools. This is in contrast to the recent research on more implicit parallel programming models such as Chapel, OpenMP and OpenCL, which promise to provide significantly more flexibility at the cost of reimplementing significant portions of the application. We are developing CoMPI, a novel compiler-driven approach to enable existing MPI applications to scale to exascale systems with minimal modifications that can be made incrementally over the application's lifetime. It includes: (1) New set of source code annotations, inserted either manually or automatically, that will clarify the application's use of MPI to the compiler infrastructure, enabling greater accuracy where needed; (2) A compiler transformation framework that leverages these annotations to transform the original MPI source code to improve its performance and scalability; (3) Novel MPI runtime implementation techniques that will provide a rich set of functionality extensions to be used by applications that have been transformed by our compiler; and (4) A novel compiler analysis that leverages simple user annotations to automatically extract the application's communication structure and synthesize most complex code annotations. « less
Effekt av fysisk aktivitet og omsorgstiltak for personer med demens

nnes omtrent 70 000 personer med demens i Norge. Demens er vanligvis en sykdom som forverrer seg og forekomsten stiger med økende alder. Over halvparten av personer med demens bor hjemme. Om lag 80 prosent av alle beboere i sykehjem har en demenslidelse. • Vi har oppsummert resultater fra Cochrane-oversikter om effekt av fysisk aktivitet og omsorgstiltak for personer med demens på utfallene kognisjon, atferds-problemer, depresjon, angst, livskvalitet, daglig funksjon, heldøgnsomsorg og utfall målt på pårørende. Oppsummeringen skal brukes i Helsedirektoratets arbeid med å utvikle en kunnskapsbasert veileder/retningslinje for behandlingen av personer med demens. • Vi inkluderte sju systematiske oversikter, én om fysisk aktivitet og seks om ulike omsorgstiltak. Dokumentasjonen viste at: • Fysisk aktivitet har trolig liten eller ingen effekt på depresjon hos personer med demens, men gir muligens noe bedre kognitiv funksjonsevne og daglig funksjonsevne. • Belysningstiltak om morgenen gir muligens noe bedre daglig funksjonsevne, men Effekt av fysisk aktivitet og omsorgstiltak for personer med demens
Constructing an elastic touch panel with embedded IR-leds using silicone rubber

This paper presents a technique for the construction of an elastic touch panel using silicone rubber. The technique is similar to that of the frustrated total internal reflection-based method for multi-touch sensing, but the surface of the touch panel is made of transparent silicone rubber rather than acrylic. Moreover, we embedded infrared LEDs within the rubber for multi-touch sensing. In tests, our touch panel had better sensitivity than one made of acrylic. Furthermore, unlike acrylic panels, it readily detects contact by styluses and other stiff objects. We implemented a touch panel based on our technique and tested it through experiments.
Investigating the mathematics teaching efficacy beliefs of student teachers

This research study seeks to explore the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs of student teachers as part of a longitudinal design-research study, whereby research findings will guide planning for future modules. The Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs Instrument (MTEBI) of Enochs, Smith and Huinker (2000) was employed to measure the overall efficacy beliefs of teachers, and also the beliefs within two subscales, the Personal Teacher Efficacy, and Teaching Outcome Expectancy. A convenience sample of 40 undergraduate students participated in a questionnaire based upon the MTEBI with additional questions relating specifically to the content of a Mathematics Education module recently completed by the students. The sample was drawn from a year group of 440 students by invitation.
Crying Behaviour and Its Importance for Psychosocial Development in Children

Introduction For generations, parents have experienced the stress and frustration of increased, inconsolable crying in their infants in the first three to five months of life. In its most extreme manifestations, this increased crying has been considered a clinical problem, often referred to as “colic. ” The most extreme and dangerous consequence for the infant is abuse or neglect, and especially the specific form of abuse referred to as “shaken baby syndrome. ” Many of the properties of crying are unique to the first few months, and therefore generate their own particular problems. Later in the first year of life, the amount of crying is much reduced. However, more stable individual differences between infants appear. Those infants who tend to be more reactive and to respond negatively (by crying) can be completely normal, but they are often thought of clinically as having a “difficult temperament. ” If the crying is associated with difficulties feeding and sleeping, they are often thought of in clinical terms as having behavioural regulation problems (“regulatory disorder”). While the vast majority of these crying behaviours are not associated with disease or pathology, the meaning of the crying behaviour for the infants’ caregivers (“perceptual set”) is usually a determinant of its psychosocial consequences for the infant. Although many questions remain, research findings have changed our understanding of the nature and significance of this early behaviour.
LOW POWER IC DESIGN CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES UNDER PROCESS VARIATIONS LOW POWER IC DESIGN CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES

This paper surveys state of the art low-power techniques for both single and multicore systems. Based on our proposed power management model for multicore systems, we present a classification of total power reduction techniques including both leakage and active power. According to this classification, three main classes are discussed: power optimization techniques within the cores, techniques for the interconnect and techniques applicable for the whole multicore system. This paper describes several techniques from these classes along with a comparison. For the whole multicore system, we focus on adaptive voltage scaling and propose a comprehensive taxonomy of adaptive voltage scaling techniques, while considering process variations.
Language Learning Research at the Intersection of Experimental, Computational, and Corpus-Based Approaches

Language acquisition occupies a central place in the study of human cognition, and research on how we learn language can be found across many disciplines, from developmental psychology and linguistics to education, philosophy, and neuroscience. It is a very challenging topic to investigate given that the learning target in first and second language acquisition is highly complex, and part of the challenge consists in identifying how different domains of language are acquired to form a fully functioning system of usage (Ellis, 2017). Correspondingly, the evidence about language use and language learning is generally shaped by many factors, including the characteristics of the task in which the language is produced (Alexopoulou, Michel, Murakami, & Meurers, 2017).
Beebe's Monograph of the Pheasants

adopted as the subspecific riterion, what a lot of changes we would be in for. Think of the opportunities among the Empidonaces, and the gulls ! Oberholser (loco citato, p. 79) implies that because a form is clearly a "geographic race," this consideration alone is a reason for employment of he trinomial. Is it necessary for him to be reminded that according to widely held current belief the great majority, if not all, of the lesser differ: entiated species, among the higher vertebrate animals, are but the results of geographic variation and isolation? There may be species of hybrid origin, but if so, they are relatively rare. Geography, the evolution of habitats through time, has been the sine qua non of vertebrate speciation: Very many good species are "merely" geographic variants. The subspecies concept will fall, just as some few people devoutly hope it will (and we will get back to pure binomials for every form recognizable at all), if it fails to be used on a consistently definite basis. Of course there is no real phylogenetic difference between a species and a subspecies. Degree of difference is a subjective matter; and the only criterion left is that of intergradation, actually known to exist. --J. GRINNELL, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California.
Linking accretion flow and particle acceleration in jets – I. New relativistic magnetohydrodynamical jet solutions including gravity

We present a new, approximate method for modelling the acceleration and collimation of relativistic jets in the presence of gravity. This method is self-similar throughout the computational domain where gravitational effects are negligible and, where significant, self-similar within a flux tube. These solutions are applicable to jets launched from a small region (e.g. near the inner edge of an accretion disc). As implied by earlier work, the flow can converge on to the rotation axis, potentially creating a collimation shock. In this first version of the method, we derive the gravitational contribution to the relativistic equations by analogy with non-relativistic flow. This approach captures the relativistic kinetic gravitational mass of the flowing plasma, but not that due to internal thermal and magnetic energies. A more sophisticated treatment, derived from the basic general relativistic magnetohydrodynamical equations, is currently being developed. Here we present an initial exploration of parameter space, describing the effects the model parameters have on flow solutions and the location of the collimation shock. These results provide the groundwork for new, semi-analytic models of relativistic jets which can constrain conditions near the black hole by fitting the jet break seen increasingly in X-ray binaries.
Studying Changes in Life Circumstances and Personality: It's about Time

Most theories of personality development posit that changes in life circumstances (e.g. due to major life events) can lead to changes in personality, but few studies have examined the exact time course of these changes. In this article, we argue that time needs to be considered explicitly in theories and empirical studies on personality development. We discuss six notions on the role of time in personality development. First, people can differ before the event. Second, change can be non–linear and discontinuous. Third, change can be reversible. Fourth, change can occur before the event. Fifth, control groups are needed to disentangle age–related and event–related changes. Sixth, we need to move beyond examining single major life events and study the effects of non–normative events, non–events, multiple events, and minor events on personality. We conclude by summarizing the methodological and theoretical implications of these notions. Copyright © 2014 European Association of Personality Psychology
Assessing the Employment Effects of Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden

Several studies have examined the effects of training programs on employment. Most of them assume that the effects of training are constant for all potential trainees. We use an econometric framework that allows studying the heterogeneous training effects on discrete outcomes. The treatment effect is allowed to vary depending on the trainee’s observable and unobservable characteristics, and allows selection into training to be determined in part by the trainee’s idiosyncratic treatment effect. Furthermore, we investigate the importance of the unobservables in the selection to training and how efficient the selection is with respect to the outcome. The results show small positive effects for the Swedish-born. The treatment on the treated is larger than the average treatment effect, indicating that the selection is stronger for the treated, and 40% of those treated gain by participating in training. Foreign-born have a negative effect from training the first year, with an average treatment effect larger than the treatment on the treated. From those who participated in training, only 11% experienced positive effect, while 38% were hurt by the training. The unobserved factors are important in the selection to training, as well as for the outcome. The effect of the selection is stronger for Swedish-born compared to foreign-born.