Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Perceived Risk for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Type 2 among Samoans with Metabolic Syndrome

Purpose/Aims: To explore the relationship between perceived risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes and the health-world view of Samoans with two or more components of metabolic syndrome. 1. Describe participant‘s perceptions of risk for CVD and diabetes. 2. Compare participants‘ actual risk of CVD and diabetes based on presence of components of metabolic syndrome to their perceived risk of CVD and diabetes. 3. Describe the relationships among participants‘ health-world views and perceived risk for CVD and diabetes. Rationale/Background: Diabetes and CVD are leading causes of health disparities in the United States, particularly among Pacific Islanders, whose rates for CVD and diabetes are among the highest in the Nation. Metabolic syndrome significantly increases risks for CVD and diabetes and can be prevented using behavioral approaches. An important concept in behavioral models, perceived risk is influenced by both sociocultural and health-world views; yet is understudied in Pacific Islanders with regard to CVD and diabetes. Methods and Sample: Questionnaires and focus groups were used in this mixed methods study involving 43 adult Samoans at moderately high risk of CVD or diabetes. Culture brokers were used to access potential participants using a non-probabilistic sampling scheme. Qualitative and quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis respectively, and points of convergence, complementarity, and/or divergence were identified.
A comparison of traditional physical laboratory and computer simulated laboratory experiences in relation to engineering undergraduate students conceptual understandings of a communication systems topic

This study was designed to investigate an alternative to the use of traditional physical laboratory activities in a communication systems course. Specifically, this study examined whether as an alternative, computer simulation is as effective as physical laboratory activities in teaching college-level electronics engineering education students about the concepts of signal transmission, modulation and demodulation. Eighty undergraduate engineering students participated in the study, which was conducted at a southeastern four-year university. The students were randomly assigned to two groups. The groups were compared on understanding the concepts, remembering the concepts, completion time of the lab experiments and perception toward the laboratory experiments. The physical group’s (n=40) treatment was to conduct laboratory experiments in a physical laboratory. The students in this group used equipment in a controlled electronics laboratory. The Simulation group’s (n=40) treatment was to conduct similar experiments in a PC laboratory. The students in this group used a simulation
Ecosystem Resilience on Human Terms

Linked socioecological systems consist of economies in societies in nature and make explicit the relationship between the natural environment and human well‐being using the language of ecosystem services. A growth‐based economy within a constrained biophysical planet (e.g., human activities) has led to a need for ecosystem resilience. Valuation of ecosystem services using the language of economics appears insufficient in the face of human activity. All ecosystems are resilient but will demonstrate that resilience in unexpected and potentially unwanted ways, particularly as human pressures and influences lead to tipping points of extinction (e.g., complete die‐off of coral reefs) in these linked socioecological systems. Structured approaches for evaluating the risks, benefits, and impacts of human activities exist but are not effectively applied and when applied, focus on downstream outcomes rather than on upstream actions (e.g., responding to climate change impacts rather than addressing causes of climate change). Ecosystem resilience in the face of unprecedented environmental challenges may not result in the hoped‐for set of ecosystem services. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2018;14:598–600. © 2018 SETAC
Design And Implementation Of A Portable Global Code Optimizer

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I w ould rst like to thank my advisor, Professor Wen-mei Hwu, for his guidance, his support, and, most importantly, his patience. I have learned a great deal from him during my y ears in graduate school, and I look forward to working together in the future. I wish to extend my appreciation to two people, Pohua Chang and William Chen, with whom I have w orked very closely in the past few years. Pohua wrote most of the IMPACT-I C compiler. He also helped with the formulation of many of the optimizations, helped with initial implementation, and assisted with many of the diiculties encountered along the way. William wrote the rst code generator for the compiler and helped with much of the debugging of the optimizer. Without both of them, this project would never have been nished. I also would like to thank three other people, Nancy Warter, and my t w o oocemates, Sadun Anik and Tom Conte. Nancy and I have s p e n t many long nights writing papers together. Sadun and Tom have answered my endless supply of day t o d a y questions. Finally, I wish to thank everyone above and all of my other friends who have made my life in graduate school very enjoyable.
Associations between Ozone and Fine Particulate Matter and Respiratory Illness Found to Vary between Children and Adults. Implications for U.S. Air Quality Policy

neutrophil exocytosis would be required before this biomarker could be translated to the clinical setting. Neutrophil exocytosis–specific inhibitors with antiinflammatory activity have been developed and tested in animal models (10). Could these small-molecule drugs have therapeutic potential in CF lung disease? Although this is an enticing prospect, our understanding of the process of neutrophil degranulation is still in its infancy; therefore, it is difficult to predict whether the neutrophil activation process would be an appropriate therapeutic target. If the major driver for enzyme release is cell death rather than exocytosis from live neutrophils, then pursuing the antiprotease shield mechanism would likely be a more successful approach. Ultimately, longitudinal studies directly assessing neutrophil degranulation will be required to determine exactly how NE and other neutrophilderived products damage the airways, to better define the best targets for antiinflammatory treatment in patients with CF. n
Natural Killer Cell Homing and Persistence in the Bone Marrow After Adoptive Immunotherapy Correlates With Better Leukemia Control

Cellular immunotherapy using allogeneic natural killer (NK) cells may overcome chemotherapy-refractory acute myeloid leukemia. Our goal was to document NK cell homing/persistence in the bone marrow following adoptive immunotherapy. Our cohort included 109 patients who received NK cell therapy for refractory acute myeloid leukemia following lymphodepleting conditioning +/− denileukin diftitox, +/− low-dose total body irradiation. We evaluated the NK cell density in bone marrow core biopsies performed an average of 14 days after NK cell transfer using a CD56 immunohistochemical stain. The NK cell density in core biopsies showed only moderate correlation with NK cell percentage in bone marrow aspirates evaluated by flow cytometry (rs=0.48) suggesting that distribution of CD56+ cells in the bone marrow niche offers unique insight into NK cell homing. Better leukemia control was associated with increased NK cell density, such that patients with <5% blasts had a higher NK cell density (P=0.01). As well, NK cell density above the median of reference group was significantly associated with morphologic remission of leukemia (P=0.01). Moreover, the NK cell density varied significantly between conditioning protocols. Our findings suggest that the use of low-dose irradiation or CD25-targeting immunocytokine (denileukin diftitox, IL2DT) as part of conditioning results in increased NK cell homing/persistence in the bone marrow. These novel results will help guide future immunotherapy with NK cells.
Detection and Recognition of Selected Class Railway Signs

Abstract The paper aims at presentation of results of research on detection and recognition of selected class railway signs (W11p). When conducting the research, the authors have proposed their own algorithm, which achieved about 90% effectiveness at detecting W11p signs and 98% effectiveness at classifying them. The processes of localisation, segmentation and recognition of W11p signs were considerably simplified thanks to the application of backpropagation neural network. The authors believe that two non-standard methods related to the use of the network deserve attention: the application of an interactive method of generating the training set, owing to which also pixels highly diversified in terms of their colours could be included, and the use of a full spectrum of neural network responses, which made it possible to accomplish a feedback. It consisted in an automatic adjusting of the network responses’ threshold to the results of segmentation and recognition.
Internet of Things and the Credit Card Market: How Companies Can Deal with the Exponential Increase of Transactions with Connected Devices and Can Also be Efficient to Prevent Frauds

Communication devices like cell phones, refrigerators, TVs, and others have been considered lately as some Internet of Things (IoT) components, mainly due to the embedded systems evolution and web connectivity. During the first semester of 2014, at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica -- ITA), a successful Interdisciplinary Problem Based Learning (IPBL) experience took place. At that time, almost 60 graduate students from three different courses (CE-229 Software Testing, CE-240 Database System Project, and CE-245 Information Technologies), within just 17 academic weeks, had the opportunity to conceptualize, model, and develop a system prototype to capture, store, and analyze credit card transactions. This system, named BDIT-C2 (Big Data, Internet of Things, and Credit Cards), has used an Application Programing Interface to enable communication devices to make purchases, allowing e-commerce through a web portal where fraud analysts could monitor all suspicious transactions.
Tutorial: Adaptive Replication and Partitioning in Data Systems

To meet growing application demands, distributed data systems replicate and partition data across multiple machines. Replication increases the resource and request processing capabilities of a system by spreading copies of the data across multiple machines, while partitioning splits data across machines to achieve the same objectives. Replication and partitioning present different trade-offs in the form of replication maintenance and multi-machine coordination costs, which system administrators must carefully evaluate. Traditionally, administrators made replication and partitioning decisions based on their understanding of the application workload, which results in suboptimal performance if the system is misconfigured or if the workload changes. However, systems that adaptively employ replication and partitioning can adjust these decisions based on workload observations and predictions, which improves performance and reduces complexity for administrators. In this tutorial, we present an overview of techniques used by systems to adaptively partition and replicate data and services. We focus on the decision-making strategies employed by these systems, and how these decisions are executed in an online environment. Finally, we identify opportunities for research in the area.
An Efficient Cut-through Mechanism for Tree-based RFID Tag Identification Schemes

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology successfully integrates radio transmitter and receiver, small size memory space and control circuitry to remotely store and retrieve data via wireless RF transceiver. As low-cost RFID tag can be massively manufactured by semiconductor industry, new applications associated with RFID technology have emerged rapidly such as inventory tracking, book storage and management, and airport baggage handling. Generally an RFID system is composed of many RFID tags (or tagged objects), at least one RFID reader, and one backend application system with database. An RFID tag gains its operation energy from query signals that are radio waves transmitted by RFID reader. Once a tag responds the query with its stored information to RFID reader, usually a unique identity number or string, the RFID system can recognize the tag carrier and perform required business logic operation. As RFID technique is widely used in supply chain management, the corresponding RFID application systems are expected to process and manage large amount of tagged objects at a predefined period of time regularly. Therefore, for large-scaled RFID applications, tag reading throughput is very critical since it will affect the total data processing time. To measure tag reading throughput of a RFID system, two performance criteria are usually adopted: tag reading delay and reader energy consumption [5]. As RFID reader and tag always communicate over a shared wireless channel, it is very easy to have signal collisions during a normal tag identification process when multiple tags exist in reader’s interrogation area. Signal collision results in query or data retransmission and eventually increases communication overhead and time delay of tag identification. Hence, an efficient tag collision arbitration mechanism is very important and critical for RFID systems to achieve effective performance. Existing RFID tag identification schemes can be classified into aloha-based solutions [3, 10, 12-13, 16, 21, 23-24] and tree-based solutions [1, 2, 4, 6-9, 14-15, 17-20, 22]. In aloha-based schemes, a reader estimates the number of tags in its interrogation area and broadcasts the total number of timeslots to each tag. Then each RFID tag randomly selects its own timeslot to transmit its ID without knowing which timeslots have been selected by other tags. By distributing tag responses to distinct timeslots instead of getting all tag responses at the same time, aloha-based schemes effectively reduce the probability of signal collision. However, aloha-based schemes have tag starvation problem in which certain tags may not
37例遗传性球形细胞增多症基因突变特征分析

目的 揭示遗传性球形细胞增多症（HS）红细胞膜蛋白基因突变特征。 方法 应用二代测序技术检测2015年4月至2018年1月临床明确诊断的51例HS患者红细胞膜蛋白基因突变情况，将检出并预测为红细胞膜蛋白基因有害突变的37例患者纳入研究，分析基因突变构成、突变类型及与临床表现型的关系。 结果 37例HS患者中，ANK1突变17例（45.9%）、SPTB突变14例（37.8%）、SLC4A1突变5例（13.5%）、ANK1突变复合SPTB突变1例（2.7%），未发现SPTA1及EPB42突变。 红细胞膜蛋白基因突变类型中无义突变（36.8%）和错义突变（31.6%）最常见。 在检出的38个突变位点中，34个为新发突变（89.5%）。 16例HS患者进行父母基因验证，6例（37.5%）为遗传获得突变，10例（62.5%）为自发突变。 HS患者外周血细胞参数与红细胞膜蛋白突变基因类型无关；轻型+中间型患者SPTB突变构成比更高，重型患者ANK1突变构成比更高，但差异无统计学意义（P=0.664）。 结论 中国HS以ANK1和SPTB基因突变最常见，突变类型主要为错义突变和无义突变；不同HS相关基因突变与HS严重程度间无明显相关。
INTEGRATED SURVEY FOR TENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE VAULT OF THE CHURCH OF SAN NICOLA IN MONTEDORO

Abstract. This paper presents some of the results obtained from the integrated use of 3D surveying techniques and illustrates some types of analysis and graphic representations that can be conducted and reproduced. The case study concerns the church of San Nicola in Montedoro that is one of the oldest in the city of Martina Franca in the province of Taranto (Italy) and presumably dates back to the fourteenth century. The work consists of a survey with different integrated methodologies, the creation of thematic tables all in order to allow a structural analysis.The contribution shows how this approach is not intended for a single case study, but starting from it can be extended to other contexts that present similar criticality and potential, often recurrent in the field of the survey and representation of cultural heritage.
Subject Cataloging and Social Tagging in Library Systems

In the library world, controlled vocabularies have long been created and maintained by professional catalogers for ease of retrieving relevant library materials. Recently, social tagging has been widely applied in many social network sites such as Flickr and Delicious. This phenomenon reflects the needs of online users for information organization and retrieval in online communities. This report focuses on current development in social tagging applications in libraries and uses of subject headings data beyond traditional library catalog model. Some good practices and library system developments are introduced to demonstrate improvements information professionals have made to provide more personalized and friendly bibliographical services and assist users to explore library collections more efficiently. It also attempts to point out possible future development directions in social tagging and subject cataloging in library information systems.
Effect of a Toothpaste/Mouthwash Containing Carica papaya Leaf Extract on Interdental Gingival Bleeding: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical research on herbal-based dentifrice +/− mouth rinse products is very limited compared with the plethora of research on conventional oral care products under normal oral hygiene conditions. The aim of this study was to determine the anti-inflammatory effects of a novel plant Carica papaya leaf extract (CPLE) on interdental bleeding in healthy subjects. In this randomized, single-blind parallel-design study, the eligible subjects were generally healthy non-smokers, aged 18–26, who exhibited healthy periodontal conditions upon study entry. The participants were equally randomized into the following four groups: CPLE dentifrice, CPLE dentifrice and mouthwash, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS)-free enzyme-containing dentifrice and SLS-free enzyme-containing dentifrice with essential oil (EO) mouthwash. Subjects were instructed to brush their teeth twice a day without changing their other brushing habits. Interdental bleeding (BOIP) was measured from inclusion (T0) until the fourth week (T4) of the study. Clinical efficacy was assessed after one, two, three and four weeks of home use. The analyses compared BOIP between groups and were then restricted to participants with ≥70% and then ≥80% bleeding sites at T0. Pairwise comparisons between groups were performed at T0 and T4, and a logistic regression identified correlates of gingival bleeding (T4). Among 100 subjects (2273 interdental sites), the median percentage of bleeding sites per participant at T0 was 65%. The bleeding sites dramatically decreased in all groups between T0 and T4 (relative variations from −54% to −75%, p < 0.01 for all). Gingival bleeding did not significantly differ between the CPLE dentifrice and the SLS-free dentifrice +/− EO mouthwash groups (from p = 0.05 to p = 0.86), regardless of the baseline risk level. Among the CPLE dentifrice users, fewer bleeding sites were observed when toothpaste and mouthwash were combined compared to bleeding sites in those who used toothpaste alone (21% vs. 32%, p = 0.04). CPLE dentifrice/mouthwash provides an efficacious and natural alternative to SLS-free dentifrice +/−EO-containing mouthwash when used as an adjunct to mechanical oral care to reduce interdental gingival inflammation.
Infecciones bacterianas en pacientes trasplantados de hígado en el Centro de Investigaciones Médico Quirúrgicas (CIMEQ) entre los años 2002-2005

Las infecciones bacterianas asociadas al periodo post-trasplante se consideran una de las causas mas importantes de morbilidad y mortalidad en pacientes a los cuales se les ha practicado un trasplante de higado. En el CIMEQ durante los anos 2002-2005 encontramos una tasa de infeccion nosocomial bacteriana para este tipo de pacientes del 76%. Las infecciones fueron causadas por bacterias pertenecientes a la familia Enterobacteriaceae y por especies de los generos Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas y Staphylococcus ; los que encontramos asociados a muestras clinicas como drenajes hepaticos, hemocultivos y cateteres endovasculares fundamentalmente. La resistencia antimicrobiana encontrada fue muy alta fundamentalmente frente a los antibioticos de la familia de las cefalosporinas (60%-85%) en cepas Gram negativas y frente a penicilina G (93%) y a cefazolina (43%) en el caso de las cepas Gram positivas.
Komputasi Paralel Integral Definit Rangkap Tiga Dengan Metode Monte Carlo Di Cluster Bewoulf

Komputasi paralel adalah proses pengoperasian aritmatikatau logik terhadap bilangan-bilangan yang sejenis secarabersamaan pada prosesor majemuk. Cluster Beowulfmengimplementasikan sistem komputasi paralel denganperangkat komputer comsumer-grade dengan perangkatlunak berlisensi free/open-source.Komputasi integral dengan metode Monte Carlo bersifatpleasingly parallel sehingga dapat dengan sankildiimplementasikan pada cluster Beowulf.Ketelitian dan kecepatan komputasi integral rangkap tigadengan metode Monte Carlo dibandingkan dengan metodebalok, di mana metode Monte Carlo memiliki ketelitianyang lebih baik namun dengan kecepatan yang lebihlambat.Kecepatan komputasi paralel integral rangkap tigametode Monte Carlo berbanding lurus dengan cacah prosesyang berjalan paralel iika cacah proses tidak melebihi cacahcore.Kesangkilan penggunaan energi sistem komputasi paralelcenderung konstan pada cluster dengan spesifikasi nodeyang homogen dan menurun saat terdapat node denganspesifikasi yang inferior.Kata Kunci—cluster Beowulf, integral numerik, integralrangkap tiga, komputasi paralel, metode Monte Carlo.
Sprint Mechanical Properties of Female and Different Aged Male Top-Level German Soccer Players

This study compared the sprint mechanical properties of female and different aged male top-level soccer players. A total of 14 adult females (FEM) and 115 different aged male field players, competing at German top levels, participated in this study. The males belonged to teams of under 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, and 23 years (U 12–23) and professionals (PRO). All players were tested for a 30 m linear sprint. From timing gate derived sprint times, force-velocity and power-velocity relationships, as well as theoretical maximum running velocity, force, and power data were computed by an inverse dynamic approach applied to the center of mass. The approach was optimized for taking the starting time into account, which is a progress in the present research field, when aiming to compute sprint mechanical properties by different methodological approaches under field conditions. Sprint mechanical properties of FEM were lower than those of PRO. Compared to other age groups, sprint mechanical properties of FEM were similar to those of U 14 and U 15. An increase in sprint mechanical properties was found from U 12 to U 17. The study shows that sprint mechanical properties differ according to gender and age in top-level soccer players.
Dr Jekyll and Mr C

Jekyll is a high level programming language that can be translated losslessly to and from human readable, human editable C. This makes it possible to maintain Jekyll and C versions of the same file, with any changes made to one file being automatically reflected into the other. By being losslessly inter-translatable with C, Jekyll reduces the switching costs normally associated with moving to a new language. If a programmer does not know Jekyll, or a tool does not understand Jekyll, or the Jekyll compiler ceases to be available, then developers can simply use the C version of a file, rather than the Jekyll version. Jekyll enhances C with many high level features, including safety, generic types, lambda expressions, and type classes. All features have been carefully designed so that they map elegantly to and from C.