Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ansiedade infantil antes e após o tratamento endodôntico

Objetivo: avaliar o grau de ansiedade das crianças antes e após o tratamento endodôntico, por meio do teste Venham Picture Teste (VPT) modificado, e a percepção dos responsáveis diante do atendimento dos filhos. Sujeitos e método: trata-se de um estudo observacional, do tipo transversal, em que foram selecionadas 50 crianças entre 4 e 8 anos de idade, atendidas nas disciplinas de estágios supervisionados em Odontopediatria e Ortodontia I e II da Faculdade Avantis, Santa Catarina. As crianças que participaram da pesquisa foram distribuídas em dois grupos: as que passaram por consultas com terapia endodôntica (Grupo A = 25 crianças); e as que passaram por consultas menos invasivas (Grupo B = 25 crianças). O teste VPT foi aplicado em dois momentos: antes e após o atendimento odontológico. Os responsáveis legais pelas crianças também responderam perguntas relacionadas à ansiedade. Resultados: a maioria das crianças apresentou nível baixo de ansiedade antes e após os procedimentos, 84% e 92% para os grupos A e B, respectivamente. A respeito da ansiedade dos responsáveis, a maioria encontrava-se relaxada durante o procedimento do filho. Conclusões: a maioria das crianças apresentou um nível baixo de ansiedade em ambos os grupos e os responsáveis estavam se sentindo relaxados durante o atendimento dos filhos.
Generalised kriging with environmental applications

We consider the problem of spatial interpolation and outline the theory behind kriging and more specifically intrinsic random function kriging. We also mention thin-plate spline theory and show its link with kriging in order to overcome problems in which the available data are not sufficient to estimate the spatial co-variance structure of the process. A generalization of the theory to include kriging with directional derivatives is also considered.
The East Australian Current and Property Transport at 27°S from 2012 to 2013

AbstractThe East Australian Current (EAC) is the complex and highly energetic poleward western boundary current of the South Pacific Ocean. A full-depth current meter and property (temperature and salinity) mooring array was deployed from the continental shelf to the abyssal waters off Brisbane Australia (27°S) for 18 months from April 2012 to August 2013. The EAC mooring array is an essential component of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). During this period the EAC was coherent with an eddy kinetic to mean kinetic energy ratio of less than 1. The 18-month, mean, poleward-only mass transport above 2000 m is 22.1 ± 7.5 Sverdrups (Sv; 1 Sv ≡ 106 m3 s−1). The mean, poleward-only heat transport and flow-weighted temperature above 2000 m are −1.35 ± 0.42 PW and 15.33°C, respectively. A difference in the poleward-only and net poleward mass and heat transports above 2000 m of 6.3 Sv and 0.24 PW reflects the presence of an equatorward EAC retroflection at the eastern (offshore) end of the .
Roadmap for implementation of BIM in the UK construction industry

Purpose – Building information modelling (BIM) implementation is a major change management task, involving diversity of risk areas. The identification of the challenges and barriers is therefore an imperative precondition of this change process. This paper aims to diagnose UK's construction industry to develop a clear understanding about BIM adoption and to form an imperative step of consolidating collective movements towards wider BIM implementation and to provide strategies and recommendations for the UK construction industry for BIM implementation.Design/methodology/approach – Through comprehensive literature review, the paper initially establishes BIM maturity concept, which paves the way for the analysis via qualitative and quantitative methods: interviews are carried out with high profile organisations in Finland to gauge the best practice before combining the results with the analysis of survey questionnaire amongst the major contractors in the UK.Findings – The results are established in the form .
Theoretical perspective on the route to turbulence in a pipe

Copyright and reuse: The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work by researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.
INNOVATIVE COMPONENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The article is devoted to the assessment of potential for innovation in Ukraine and its condition comparing with others countries`. Author identifies and classifies main problems that negatively influences on innovation development of Ukraine. The features and interlink of the main factors of ecologicallyfocu economic development and green innovations are investigated and presented in the cognitive model. Formalization the causal links between industrial development and green innovations is the basis for the study of mechanisms of their interaction and the drawingup of appropriate instruments of sustainable development. It is proposed the specific priorities and measures to stimulate 'green' innovation development at three levels - macro�, mesoand microlevel.
INDIANA the Database Explorer

We propose INDIANA, a system conceived to support a novel paradigm of database exploration. INDIANA guides users that are interested in gaining insights about a database by involving them in a “conversation”. During the conversation, the system proposes some features of the data that are “interesting” from the statistical viewpoint. The user selects some of these as starting points, and INDIANA reacts by suggesting new features related to the ones selected by the user. A key requirement in this context is the ability to explore transactional databases, without the need to conduct complex pre-processing. To this end, we develop a number of novel algorithms to support interactive exploration of the database. We report an in-depth experimental evaluation to show that the proposed system guarantees a very good trade-off between accuracy and scalability, and a user study that supports the claim that the system is effective in real-world database-exploration tasks.
The Atomic-Level Structure of Cementitious Calcium Silicate Hydrate

Efforts to tune the bulk physical properties of concrete are hindered by a lack of knowledge related to the atomic-level structure and growth of calcium silicate hydrate phases, which form about 50–60% by volume of cement paste. Here we describe the first synthesis of compositionally uniform calcium silicate hydrate phases with Ca:Si ratios tunable between 1.0 and 2.0. The calcium silicate hydrate synthesized here does not contain a secondary Ca(OH)2 phase, even in samples with Ca:Si ratios above 1.6, which is unprecedented for synthetic calcium silicate hydrate systems. We then solve the atomic-level three-dimensional structure of these materials using dynamic nuclear polarization enhanced 1H and 29Si nuclear magnetic resonance experiments in combination with atomistic simulations and density functional theory chemical shift calculations. We discover that bridging interlayer calcium ions are the defining structural characteristic of single-phase cementitious calcium silicate hydrate, inducing the strong .
Comparison of Antioxidative Effects of Biguanides and Sulfonylureas Monotherapy on Total Antioxidant Status in Newly-Diagnosed Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Objective: The objective of this study was to compare total antioxidant status (TAS) in type 2 diabetic patients treated with Biguanides monotherapy and Sulfonylureas monotherapy in a tertiary health care center. Methods: Fifty subjects using Biguanides monotherapy and another 50 subjects using Sulfonylureas monotherapy for the management of type 2 DM were included. Their fasting plasma glucose (FPG), postprandial plasma glucose (PPG) concentrations were measured by spectrophotometric technique, percentages of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) was estimated by a modified high-performance liquid chromatography. TAS was determined by a modified ferric reducing ability of plasma (FRAP) assay. Results: The mean age of the total study subjects was 50 ± 9 years. Among them, 31% were male and 69% were female. Biguanides and sulfonylureas groups were matched for age, sex and glycemic status, but not matched for body mass index (BMI) and acute glycemic status (FPG and PPG). The mean value of TAS in subjects treated by Biguanides was 1386 ± 249 μmol/L and in subjects treated with sulfonylureas it was 1278 ± 275 μmol/L. Except PPG in the Biguanides treated group, acute or chronic glycemic status showed no significant relationship with TAS. Univariate linear regression analysis showed a significant association of TAS with Biguanides monotherapy (β=0.2039, p=0.042) but it disappeared when adjusted for glycemic status, age, sex, BMI, duration of diabetes mellitus and drug use (β=0.0455, p=0.6905). Conclusion: It may be concluded that there is no difference between Biguanides and Sulfonylureas regarding their effects on total antioxidant capacity in type 2 diabetic subjects.
Evaluation of Procalcitonin in Adult Patients with Fever

Fever is one of the most common reasons for people to attend the emergency department and Infectious Diseases Service. While the fever is a symptom caused by infectious and noninfectious diseases the biggest challenge is to discriminate as soon as possible potentially life threatening conditions that have as main component the fever, like sepsis which is caused by an extreme systemic response to infection by microbial organisms. Recognition of sepsis and rapid treatment with appropriate antimicrobial drugs is important to maximize the chances of survival. There are a few laboratory tests that are used to assess for an ongoing infectious process, such as WBC, CRP, ESR, and blood cultures. These tests are not sensitive or specific for bacterial infection and sepsis. Procalcitonin is a relatively new diagnostic test which has been found useful in early identification of severe bacterial infections, and differentiating systemic inflammatory response syndrome from sepsis. Procalcitonin is a biomarker with excellent specificity for sepsis, while other laboratory values, such as WBC, CRP, sputum and urine culture, are non-sensitive, non-specific and unreliable. This is the first study conducted in the adult Albanian patients with fever in which we evaluated the levels of PCT, CRP and WBC in patients who presented or developed fever.
Aggregate Risk in Japanese Equity Markets

In the past decade Japanese households have been buffeted by some big aggregate shocks. Economic growth has slowed, unemployment risk has risen, and asset prices have fallen to levels not seen since the early 1980's. These shocks have hit both households' financial and human capital. This paper develops a framework for identifying the sources of these shocks and a way to measure how household assessments of these risks vary over time. We consider the perspective of a forward-looking risk-averse household and derive expected returns and time-varying risk premia for each risk factor. We then construct times-series of historical expected risk premia using Japanese data on industry returns. An analysis of this data provides four main findings. First, prior to 1984 expected risk premia on identified goods market shocks, monetary policy and financial market risk are all important determinants of industry level expected returns. Second, starting in 1984 households perceive that the risk from financial shocks is increasing and demand higher risk premia to hold this risk. Third, between 1987 and 1990 risk premia on monetary policy are large and positive. Monetary policy is perceived to be adding to financial risk. Fourth, in 1990 as expected risk premia on financial risk shoot up, expected risk premia on monetary policy shocks turn negative for all industry returns. As stock prices collapse between 1990 and 1995, monetary policy shocks play an important role in hedging risk emanating from the financial sector.
Gas Turbine Engine Performance Estimation and Prediction

Modern health management approaches for gas turbine engines (GTE) aim to acquire precise information about the health state of the GTE components to optimize the maintenance decisions with respect to both the economy and safety. The task becomes more challenging for the GTE parts inaccessible to direct measurements with the available sensors of the GTE control system. This article-based thesis integrates a set of five coherent research work to address this problem. A detailed nonlinear thermodynamic model for single shaft GTEs is developed to predict the expected cycle parameters for the GTE in the healthy condition. In reality, the measured cycle parameters gradually deviate from the prediction due to performance deterioration. Physics-based performance indicators are defined based on the deviations in the measured performance parameters, compared to the respective model predictions. The indicators can effectively monitor the GTE performance deterioration in both short-term and long-term regimes. In the next step, effect of the air humidity is taken into account to enhance the GTE model, and it is shown that the enhanced model can improve the performance monitoring by reducing the uncertainties. In order to separate the effects of different fault modes, an inference-based model is developed to predict the short-term recoverable performance deterioration due to the compressor fouling under different ambient and operating conditions. For the long-term non-recoverable performance deterioration due to the degradation mechanisms in the turbine hot section, two steps are undertaken; 1) a state estimation framework is developed for nonlinear/non-Gaussian systems with non-uniform time steps to track a degradation symptom of the turbine, i.e., loss of isentropic efficiency, using the observable performance indicators, and 2) the state estimation framework is extended to multidimensional dynamical systems with stochastic inputs for simultaneous tracking of two degradation symptoms, i.e., loss of isentropic efficiency and increase of the mass flow, using the observable parameters, provided by the GTE operating system. The developed techniques and frameworks are verified and validated, using a set of three-year operating data from an industrial GTE in a power plant.
Sensorless Fuzzy Direct Torque Control for High Performance Electric Vehicle with Four In-Wheel Motors

This paper describes a control scheme of speed sensorless fuzzy direct torque control (FDTC) of permanent magnet synchronous motor for electric vehicle (EV). Electric vehicle requires fast torque response and high efficiency of the drive. Speed sensorless FDTC In-wheel PMSM drives without mechanical speed sensors at the motor shaft have the attractions of low cost, quick response and high reliability in electric vehicle application. This paper presents a new approach to estimate the speed of in-wheel electrical vehicles based on Model Reference Adaptive System (MRAS). The direct torque control suffers in low speeds due to the effect of changes in stator resistance on the flux measurements. To improve the system performance at low speeds, a PI-fuzzy resistance estimator is proposed to eliminate the error due to changes in stator resistance. High performance sensorless drive of the in-wheel motor based on MRAS with on line stator resistance tuning is established for four motorized wheels electric vehicle and the whole system is simulated by matalb/simulink. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the new control strategy. This proposed control strategy is extensively used in electric vehicle application.
Method Development for Contaminant Uptake Pathways Using Triclosan and Macroinvertebrates

Triclosan (TCS) is an antibacterial chemical added to personal care products. Because large quantities of triclosan are produced and subsequently introduced into environmental systems, it is important to understand how it behaves in these systems, including its movement through food webs. Analytical methods were modified to extract triclosan and methyl-triclosan (MTCS) from water and biota samples. A bioaccumulation and biomagnification study was performed, using Chironomus riparius and Aeshnids (Odonata: Aeshnidae). C. riparius was exposed to a controlled amount of triclosan for 20 days and sampled periodically. Aeshnids, in separate aquaria, were fed triclosan-exposed C. riparius concurrently. They were sampled at the completion of the 23 days. Results indicate a decrease in concentration of triclosan in water, no detectable concentrations in biota, having the sand as the major sorption pool. Future work will focus on the improvement of the analytical methods and the transfer of these chemicals into higher trophic levels.
National responsibilities for conserving habitats – a freely scalable method

Conservation of habitats is a major approach in the implementation of biodiversity conservation strategies. Because of limited resources and competing interests not all habitats can be conserved to the same extent and a prioritization is needed. One criterion for prioritization is the responsibility countries have for the protection of a particular habitat type. National responsibility reflects the effects the loss of a particular habitat type within the focal region (usually a country) has on the global persistence of that habitat type. Whereas the concept has been used already successfully for species, it has not yet been developed for habitats. Here we present such a method that is derived from similar approaches for species. We further investigated the usability of different biogeographic and environmental maps in our determination of national responsibilities for habitats. For Europe, several different maps exist, including (1) the Indicative European Map of Biogeographic Regions, (2) Udvardy’s biogeographic provinces, (3) WWF ecoregions, and (4) the environmental zones of Metzger et al. (2005). The latter is particularly promising, as the map of environmental zones has recently been extended to cover the whole world (Metzger et al. in press), allowing the application of our methodology at a global scale, making it highly comparable between countries and applicable across variable scales (e.g. regions, countries). Here, we determined the national responsibilities for 71 forest habitats. We further compared the national responsibility class distribution in regard to the use of different reference areas, geographical Europe, Western Palearctic and Palearctic. We found that the distributions of natural responsibility classes resembled each other largely for the different combinations of reference area and biogeographic map. The most common rank in all cases was the “medium” rank. Most notably, with increasing size of the reference area, a shift from allocaNature Conservation 3: 21–44 (2012) doi: 10.3897/natureconservation.3. 3710 http://www.pensoft. net/natureconservation Copyright Dirk S. Schmeller et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ReseARCh ARtiCle Launched to accelerate biodiversity conservation A peer-reviewed open-access journal
Natural Language-based Visualization and Modeling for Updatable Process Views

Nowadays, an understanding of its own business processes is crucial for companies, to ensure an efficient and quick changing work flow. While several tools exists using graphical annotations, e.g. Business Process Model and Annotation (BPMN), an untrained staff member may not be able to understand business processes described in these annotations, resulting in additional investments into staff member training. Furthermore, some structures used in graphical annotations may not seem native to untrained users, causing misinterpretations of business process models. Fostering this issue, natural language-based process descriptions may used. These descriptions are automatic-generated from process models. Another problem of modern business process modeling is the communication between process modelers and domain experts. A thought of a domain expert can be misinterpreted by the process modeler. The results are discrepancies in business process models. Avoiding this problem, modeling mechanics for natural language-based process descriptions may used. Therefore, the thesis introduces fundamentals of the proView project as well as the generation and editing of natural language-based process descriptions. Subsequently, integration steps of natural language into the proView project, divided into two parts, are shown. The first part contains integration of a process model to natural language text converter. The second part discusses problems and solutions of natural language-based modeling. Further, the second part shows the integration of natural language-based modeling into the proView project. Finally, further steps in the future are discussed.
“ Is , or is not , the two great ends of Fate”: Errors in Agronomic Research

Published in Agron. J. 107:718–729 (2015) doi:10.2134/agronj14.0167 Available freely online through the author-supported open access option. Copyright © 2015 by the American Society of Agronomy, 5585 Guilford Road, Madison, WI 53711. All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. ABSTRACT
Bicyclic semigroups of left I-quotients

In this article we study left I-orders in the bicyclic monoid $\mathcal{B}$. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a subsemigroup of $\mathcal{B}$ to be a left I-oreder in $\mathcal{B}$. We then prove that any left I-order in $\mathcal{B}$ is straight.
Modification of the Pointe Scientific Automated Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) Assay for High-Throughput Use in the Clinical Laboratory

Herein we report a modified Pointe Scientific method for Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) testing which eliminates time-consuming and labor intensive pre-analytical steps previously required. Pre-lyse and on-board lyse Pointe Scientific methods were compared to the on-board lyse Trinity Biotech method using Abbott Architect c8000 analyzers integrated into an a3600 track system. In order to streamline the implementation of this method involving both G6PD and hemoglobin analysis, we sought to capitalize on the Instrument Manager (IM) middleware and the a3600 Abbott track system for high-throughput analysis using the Abbott Architect c8000 platform. IM rules were developed to route the whole blood specimen to the wait area of the Input Output Module (IOM) while the initial result is determined. When the initial result is intermediate or deficient, the G6PD activity per gram of hemoglobin (U/g Hgb) is determined by rerouting the specimen to the analyzer as an automated reflex test. The data associated with method comparison, precision, carryover and linearity studies completed per regulatory guidelines indicate the assay parameters reported herein are available for the immediate implementation of fully-automated G6PD testing. A viable method that includes on-board lysing and reflex testing has been implemented allowing for high-throughput G6PD testing in a clinical laboratory. Given market research yielded limited vendors with Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared G6PD assays, the automation of the Pointe Scientific method will allow Department of Defense (DOD) laboratories to rapidly screen service members in order to ascertain the tolerability of a Primaquine dosing regimen.