Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
LAND COVER MAPPING USING KNOWLEDGE-MODEL WITH INTERIMAGE: THE CASE OF APA PETRÓPOLIS, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

Established in 1982, with an approximate total of 60,000 ha, APA Petropolis, the first Environmental Preservation Area (APA) of Brazil, holds priceless historical and natural riches. The monitoring of this area with the help of thematic maps can be shown as an important resource for planning and decision making by their managers against the sprawl of urban occupation. With advances in remote sensing technologies and software capable of interpreting your images in an automated way, the production of these maps can become simplified. However, high costs attributed to these software license and the images generated by satellites provided by some distributors can restrict access to these technologies. Thus, this paper aims to show an alternative that allows the use of remote sensing through InterIMAGE open source software, developed by the Computer Vision Lab LVC/PUC-Rio together with Image Processing Division DPI/INPE, and AVNIR/ALOS images traded at accessible costs by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics IBGE. From the construction of a semantic network modeled in an knowledge based system, proved the viability of producing thematic maps concerning the use and land cover, which enable the analysis of several components of the landscape as forest fragments. The methodology used as operators Baatz Segmenter, Shapefile Import, C4.5 Supervised Classification and NDVI Segmenter results showed that as the global accuracy and kappa index of 0.76 and 80% respectively in the identification of classes of forested areas (trees and grass fields) shadow area urban, rock outcrop and cloud. * Corresponding author.
Big Data Analytics for Intrusion Detection: An Overview

Intrusion detection has become a problem of big data, with a semantic gap between vast security data sources and real knowledge about threats. The use of machine learning (ML) algorithms on big data is already successfully applied in other domains. Hence, this approach is promising for dealing also with cyber security big data problem. Rather than relying on human analysts to create signatures or classify huge volumes of data, ML can be used. ML allows the implementation of advanced algorithms to extract information from data using behavioral analysis or to find hidden correlations. However, the adversarial setting and the dynamism of the cyber threat landscape stand as difficult challenges when applying ML. The next generation security information and event management (SIEM) systems should provide security monitoring with the means for automation, orchestration and real-time contextual threat awareness. However, recent research shows that further work is needed to fulfill these requirements. This chapter presents a survey on recent work on big data analytics for intrusion detection.
Teaching Discourse Stress to Asian Students

English utterances contain a main sentence stress or discourse stress which marks new information or contrast in sentences. ESL/EFL students may have difficulties if they fail to perceive or express the main point of utterances by means of stress  obstacles that are especially strong for Asian students  due to the prosodic differences between English and Asian languages. This discourse stress exists to reflect the flow of information, and mark the most salient information of an utterance, namely, new information and sometimes contrast emphasis. Simple linguistic principles account for how stress is placed in the most salient word in an utterance. These principles can be readily taught to ESL/EFL students. The stress system, how it can be taught, and ideas for some communicatively oriented lessons will be described for teaching the various aspects of English discourse stress.
Investigating phase resetting effect on adaptive rhythm control in walking based on phase response curve using a neuromusculoskeletal model

walking based on phase response curve using a neuromusculoskeletal model Daiki Tamuraa, Shinya Aoia,∗, Tetsuro Funatob, Soichiro Fujikic, Kei Sendaa, and Kazuo Tsuchiyaa aDept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan ∗shinya aoi@kuaero.kyoto-u.ac. jp bDept. of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan cDept. of Physiology and Biological Information, School of Medicine, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
EFEITOS DA ATENÇÃO DIRIGIDA PARA PARÂMETROS DA QUALIDADE DE MOVIMENTO NA RECUPERAÇÃO NEUROFUNCIONAL: relato de caso

O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a influencia do direcionamento da atencao para parâmetros da qualidade de movimentos na execucao da transferencia da posicao deitada para a sentada (C1) e da posicao sentada para a ortostatica (C2). Foi selecionado, aleatoriamente, um sujeito do sexo masculino, com 37 anos e sequela neuromotora de tetraparesia. O tratamento consistiu de sequencias motoras randomicas com atencao dirigida para parâmetros do espaco, peso/forca e tempo dos movimentos, realizado no periodo de 4 meses, com frequencia de 2 sessoes semanais. A execucao de C1 e C2 foi avaliada por meio de pre-teste, pos-teste e teste de retencao 2 meses apos o posteste, utilizando-se os criterios da escala de Israel 2.000 que variam da nao execucao do comportamento (nivel 1) ate a execucao com total dominio motor (nivel 5), considerando-se uma melhora funcional de 25% para cada nivel. Os resultados indicaram uma evolucao do nivel 3 para o 5 com um ganho de 50% de funcionalidade no C1, e do nivel 3 para o 4 com 25% de melhora funcional no C2, mantidos no teste de retencao. Concluiu-se que o tratamento favoreceu a execucao funcional dos dois comportamentos selecionados.
The use of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) infusion pump for a continuous infusion of 5-FU

A patient with stomach cancer was started on a chemotherapy regimen of epirubicin 50 mg/m and cisplatin 60 mg/m, administered every 3 weeks and 5-FU administered for 21 weeks as a continuous infusion of 200 mg/m/day. An ambulatory infusion pump was not available in the hospital; instead, an ambulatory PCA infusion pump was reprogrammed to provide a continuous infusion of 5-FU. It was therefore made possible for the patient to go home for the 21 weeks of treatment and only come to the hospital for refill of the cassette and readjustment of the dosage as a result of severe mucositis that has developed 6 weeks after initiation of treatment.
Assurance: Discussing the Differences

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Treatment of Mental Illness and Comorbid Substance Abuse: Concepts for Evidence‐Based Practice

&NA; Dually diagnosed clients are proven to be among the most difficult and costly to treat, and have a high rate of relapse. Evidence‐based models have been identified that may improve outcomes, but research indicates the models face barriers to implementation. The author provides a historical perspective of care to the dually diagnosed client, a view of a proposed evidence‐based model, and strategies that research indicates may help overcome the barriers of implementing evidence‐based care. The Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) is poised to coordinate the process of implementing evidence‐based practices, which includes consideration of multicultural, ethical, political, and socioeconomic factors. Research is indicated to determine strategies to finance, contract for, reorganize, and train in relation to dual diagnosis services.
A alta hospitalar na avaliação de pacientes e cuidadores: uma revisão integrativa da literatura The hospital discharge as evaluated by patients and their caregivers: an integrative literature review*

Objective: To evaluate hospital discharge among patients and their caregivers. Methods: A integrative literature review was performed in the database of Pubmed, CINAHL and Lilacs from 2000 and 2005, focusing on the adult patient discharge and elderly with clinical-surgical problems, published in the English or Portuguese language. Results: The population was made up of 54 publications and the sample was made up of 23 papers, which were sorted into two theme categories: 13 focused on the effectiveness and 10 on the process inefficiency. Concluding remarks: In the subjects standpoints, the effectiveness of the discharge planning stems to the provision of information related to the disease and its treatment, contents suitable to their socioeducational characteristics and needs, through individual educational strategies, visual and written, and suitable communication among professionals, patients, caregivers and services.
2D AND 3D breast elastography with a combined ultrasound/digital tomosynthesis mammography system

Ultrasound elastography is a novel imaging method which acts as a surrogate to manual palpation to evaluate elastic properties of tissue. In this dissertation, elastography was conducted through a mammographic paddle in conjunction with a combined ultrasound/digital tomosynthesis mammography system to improve breast lesion characterization. Imaging through a mammographic paddle may adversely affect ultrasound image quality by reducing spatial resolution, increasing attenuation, and decreasing contrast. Thus, appropriate paddle choice is essential to create high quality through-paddle ultrasound images and strain images. Sonographic image quality through mammographic paddles of varying materials and thicknesses was compared with directcontact (no paddle) image quality. TPX plastic paddles ≤ 2.5 mm thick performed best ; when employed in vivo, 83% of cases produced image quality as good or better than their direct-contact analogues. Through-paddle 2D elastography was conducted through the best paddle using a 1D ultrasound transducer at 7.5 MHz and performance was compared with freehand elastography. For small strain step sizes (< 0.5%), through-paddle elastography produced correlation coefficients and strain SNR comparable to freehand elastography. Ultimately, the aim of elastography is to acquire high quality strain estimates in 3D to fully characterize tissue. Thus, data acquisition techniques were extended to a small 3D volume. Compared with its 2D analogue, 3D elastography created higher correlation coefficients for strain step sizes ≥ 1% and at least 35% improve ment in strain SNR for all step sizes. These early successes indicate that through-paddle elastography can create high quality elastograms which might aid in breast lesion characterization. Next, through-paddle elastography was performed in 20 human subjects with varying breast masses. This dissertation introduced the elasticity characteristic “differential correlation coefficient,” which exploits the severe decorrelation observed in cysts under compression to differentiate cystic and solid masses. When applied in a clinical setting, this characteristic demonstrated potential to reduce the malignancy rating of a complicated cyst, changing management options from biopsy to imaging follow-up. Additional elastographic appearances of breast masses were evaluated, including lesion size, stiffness, margin regularity, and boundary flow. These studies suggest that elastography has potential to improve characterization of breast masses beyond x-ray tomography and sonography alone.
Initial results from ASSURE (E2805): Adjuvant sorafenib or sunitinib for unfavorable renal carcinoma, an ECOG-ACRIN-led, NCTN phase III trial.

403 Background: Patients (pts) with locally advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are not uniformly cured by resection. The pursuit of tolerable and effective adjuvant therapies led to this investigation of two oral agents that are widely effective in the metastatic setting. Methods: 1,943 pts with completely resected RCC (pT1b high grade to pT4 any grade N any) were stratified on risk (intermediate-high or very high), clear/non-clear histology, ECOG PS, and resection approach, and randomized equally to sunitinib daily for 4 of 6 wk cycle, sorafenib daily, or placebo, then treated for up to 1 year. The primary endpoint was disease-free survival (DFS). The study was designed to detect a 25% reduction in the hazard rate, corresponding to an improvement from 5.8 to 7.7 years median DFS. After accrual of 1322 pts, the starting dose was reduced and then individually titrated to mitigate the effect of pt discontinuation from treatment intolerance. Results: At an interim analysis conducted with 62% information, al.
Child's compliance: behavioral orientation to mothers of children with atopic dermatitis

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a brief behavioral orientation program for mothers of children with atopic dermatitis. The participants were four children between 5 and 12 years, diagnosed with the disease and their mothers. Mothers were instructed individually on how they should act upon behaviors 1 Endereços para correspondência: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Psicologia Geral e Análise do Comportamento, Campus Universitário, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445) km380, Gleba Palhano, Caixa Postal: 86051-980. Londrina, PR, Brasil 86051-990. E-mail: jardsonwtj@gmail.com e marciagon@sercomtel.com. br Agência de fi nanciamento: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes). Carvalho, J. F. , Gon, M. C. C. 372 of compliance and noncompliance of children to their instructions to provide medical treatment. The evaluation was conducted through direct observation of mother and child, during treatment, prepared for the purpose of research. The results showed that mothers followed the guidance given during the procedure of behavioral intervention. More specifi cally, the study showed that the use of direct instruction and descriptive praise, contingent on the child’s behavior to perform the treatment, increased the frequency of childlike obedience. These results indicate that brief behavioral interventions can be effective to guide caregivers how to instruct children with atopic dermatitis to undertake medical treatment. The direct instruction, while antecedent event, may increase the likelihood that children obey their caregivers. Descriptive praise may promote the maintenance of childlike obedience and learning behaviors of skin care.
Proceed carefully but with a sense of urgency and speed.

What you need to recognise is that theres probably 20 000 people more on treatment than there were about a year ago and that could not have happened if the operational plan wasnt adopted and implemented. 20 000 on treatment is too few people obviously because government indicated that last year alone 500 000 people needed access to ARVs so you know 20 000 is way below that. The second point to recognise is that there is an overwhelming demand for treatment. Its not that only 20 000 people want treatment there are waiting lists already running into months in some provinces. In KwaZulu-Natal theres a waiting list for a three-month period. A lot of people are very sick and waiting for an appointment or waiting for access to medicines - it means that they are going to suffer or theyre going to die. But having said that we welcome the operational plan and it is a step forward. In provinces such as the Northern Cape where we never thought youd ever have an ARV programme - there are already hundreds of patients on treatment. Thats quite a step forward. (excerpt)
From the therapeutic community to the community: A preliminary evaluation of a psychosocial outpatient service for severe personality disorders

In this paper a preliminary evaluation of a specialist programme for the ambulatory treatment of patients with personality disorder is presented. The integration of analytically oriented group psychotherapy and psychosocial nursing in the external community aims to address these patients' complex interpersonal psychodynamics and concurrent need for external support. This study presents 36 months' follow-up results in several dimensions of patients' functioning, including number and severity of psychiatric symptoms, social adaptation, self-harm, attempted suicide and psychiatric utilisation. The results showed significant improvements in all areas. In addition a significant change in personality disorder status in the sample was found by 36 months. A cost analysis revealed that treatment costs were almost offset after only 12 months after expected discharge from the programme by savings obtained in healthcare utilisation. This study shows that the programme is a promising model for the treatment of personality disorder.
Erythropoietin Treatment in Advanced Multiple Myeloma Is Associated with Improved Immunological Functions: Could It Be Beneficial in Early Disease?.

Erythropoietin (Epo), the main growth regulator of erythropoiesis, is being used to treat anemias associated with renal disease and malignancies. We have previously observed prolonged survival of patients with advanced multiple myeloma (MM) who were treated with recombinant human Epo (rHuEpo) (Mittelman et al, Eur J Haematol2004:72:155). Further studies on murine MM models confirmed this observation and suggested that Epo has an anti-MM immunomodulatory effect (Mittelman et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA2001:98:5181; Katz et al. Acta Haematol2005:114:177). We have reported (ASH 2004) preliminary results showing that the rHuEpo-treated MM patients acquired improved immunological functions. We have since then extended the numbers of patients and the range of immunological functions tested. Here, we show that rHuEpo, prescribed for anemia in patients with advanced MM (Durie and Salmon Stage 2–3), is associated with effects on a variety of immunological parameters and functions, as presented in the table. Compared with non rHuEpo-treated MM patients, who demonstrated immunological abnormalities, rHuEpo-treated MM patients resumed normalization of the CD4:CD8 cell ratio, enhanced T-cell (both CD8 and CD4) PHA-mediated activation, improved mononuclear proliferation potential, higher expression of the co-stimulatory molecule CD28, lower values of the inhibitory CTLA-4 molecule and decreased levels of serum IL-6. The immunological parameters in the rHuEpo-treated MM patients were close to the normal healthy controls. Results are presented in the table below (mean +/− SE). We also found similar immunological abnormalities in patients at an early stage (Durie and Salmon stage 1, smoldering) MM (n=8). Our findings a) confirm and extend reports by others regarding immunological abnormalities in patients with advanced MM; b) show that patients with advanced MM treated with rHuEpo for their anemia benefit from improved immunological functions; c) show that patients with early-stage MM already manifest similar immunological abnormalities. Our data thus indicate that patients with early-stage MM might benefit from rHuEpo with improved immune functions, even prior to the development of anemia in later stages of the disease. Taken together, our study suggests rHuEpo as a potential immunomodulatory agent in the treatment of MM.
Evaluation of Effective Low Dose Bupivacaine with Fentanyl in Spinal Anaesthesia for Lower Segment Caesarean Section Surgeries

Background: This randomised study was conducted to compare the synergistic effect of intrathecally administered Fentanyl & hyperbaric Bupivacaine on haemodynamic, sensory & motor block characteristics and side effects, on pregnant women undergoing caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia. Methods: One hundred twenty women were randomized into four groups of thirty each. Group-I (n=30) received 0.5% Bupivacaine 1.8ml (9mg) +25µg Fentanyl, Group-II (n=30) received 0.5% Bupivacaine 1.6ml (8mg) +25µg Fentanyl, Group-III (n=30) received 0.5% Bupivacaine 1.4ml (7mg)+ 25µg Fentanyl and GroupIV (n=30) received 0.5% Bupivacaine 1.2ml (6mg)+25µg Fentanyl. Results: Onset of sensory block to T6 dermatome occurred faster with increasing Bupivacaine doses from 6mg to 9mg. Onset of motor block was also earlier in Group I. Total duration of analgesia and motor block were longer in group I than in other groups. The addition of Fentanyl to Bupivacaine significantly delayed the postoperative pain and sensory recovery. Conclusion: Addition of Fentanyl 25µg to 0.5% hyperbaric Bupivacaine 6mg,& 7mg was effective for spinal anaesthesia in caesarean section surgeries, with minimal side effects. Combinations of 8mg & 9mg of 0.5% bupivacaine with fentanyl 25µg provide more duration of analgesia when compared to 6mg and 7mg, but with increased side effects and prolonged duration of motor block, which interferes with early ambulation.
Invasive hemodynamic assessment of pulmonary hypertension

The diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension requires an invasive confirmation of an elevated mean pulmonary artery pressure during a right heart catheterization. The present thesis reviews the invasive hemodynamic approaches to assess the functional state of the pulmonary circulation and its impact on right ventricular function in pulmonary vascular diseases. Pulmonary vascular resistance is better characterized by multi-point pressure/flow measurements. The occlusion analysis of the pulmonary artery pressure decay curve permits to locate the site of increased resistance. Pulmonary vascular resistance permits to assess the steady component of the pulmonary circulation, whereas the pulsatile component can be better appreciated by pulmonary vascular impedance. Determination of ventriculo-arterial coupling permits to assess the impact of an elevated afterload on right ventricular function, which ultimately determines symptoms and prognosis of patients with pulmonary hypertension.
Factors Affecting Catheter Contact in the Human Left Atrium, its Impact on the Electrogram and Radiofrequency Ablation.

s & presentations at learned societies Ullah W, Hunter RJ, Baker V, Liang-han L, Dhinoja MB, Sporton S, Earley MJ, Schilling RJ. , Catheter Contact Force and Human Left Atrial Electrogram Parameters in Sinus Rhythm and Atrial Fibrillation Poster Presentation Heart Rhythm Congress 2014. Ullah W, Hunter RJ, Baker V, Liang-han L, Dhinoja MB, Sporton S, Earley MJ, Schilling RJ. , Catheter Contact Force and Human Left Atrial Electrogram Parameters in Sinus Rhythm and Atrial Fibrillation Poster Presentation ECAS 2015. Ullah W, Hunter RJ, Baker V, Liang-han L, Dhinoja MB, Sporton S, Earley MJ, Schilling RJ. , Catheter Contact Force and Human Left Atrial Electrogram Parameters in Sinus Rhythm and Atrial Fibrillation Poster Presentation Heart Rhythm Society 2015.
Angiogénesis retiniana inducida por oxígeno en ratón: un modelo económico

La neovascularizacion retiniana es una de las principales causas de ceguera en el mundo (1). En estas enfermedades, colectivamente denominadas retinopatias proliferativas, que incluyen a la retinopatia diabetica, retinopatia por oclusion de rama venosa y retinopatia del prematuro, la hipoxia aparece como el precursor principal de la neovascularizacion mediante la liberacion de factores vasoactivos como el FCVE – factor de crecimiento vascular endotelial (2-5). A pesar de la prevalencia de estas enfermedades, los eventos bioquimicos responsables de la neovascularizacion retiniana no se han comprendido en su totalidad. Es de esperarse que un mejor entendimiento de las bases fundamentales de la angiogenesis retiniana pueda mejorar el tratamiento y la prevencion de estas patologias. Con base en esto, surge la idea de desarrollar un modelo animal de angiogenesis retiniana inducida por hipoxia (6-9). El fundamento de este modelo se basa en la fisiopatologia de la retinopatia del prematuro, en la cual la hiperoxia o hiperoxia Angiogenesis retiniana inducida por oxigeno en raton: un modelo economico