Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Longitudinal analysis of an antihypertensive trial comparing the single pill combination of telmisartan and amlodipine with their monotreatments

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Language and the Internet

In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as 'technospeak' comes to rule, standards will be lost. In this book, David Crystal argues the reverse: that the Internet has encouraged a dramatic expansion in the variety and creativity of language. Covering a range of Internet genres, including e-mail, chat, and the Web, this is a revealing account of how the Internet is radically changing the way we use language. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to account for more recent phenomena, with a brand new chapter on blogging and instant messaging. Engaging and accessible, it will continue to fascinate anyone who has ever used the Internet.
SVM-based intrusion detection system for wireless ad hoc networks

Wireless ad hoc networks present more security problems than the conventional wired and wireless networks. Intrusion detection, as a complementary mechanism to the regular intrusion prevention approaches, is needed to secure the wireless ad hoc networks. In this paper we focus on the network layer security issues and propose a practical support vector machine (SVM) based intrusion detection system. The effectiveness of our proposed approach has been verified by extensive simulation results.
Low educational status is a risk factor for mortality among diabetic people

Diabetes mellitus and its complications are an important cause of mortality in Western populations. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between self‐reported diabetes mellitus, gender, attained level of education, and socio‐economic resources to all‐cause mortality risk in a simple random sample of 39055 subjects, aged 25 to 74 years. Follow‐up data were obtained for a maximum of 16 years, from baseline (1979–1985) to 31 December 1995. Diabetic males (2.2 % of the male study group) had a relative risk (RR) for total mortality of 2.24 (CI = 1.96–2.57), adjusted for age, education, marital status, housing tenure, and car ownership, compared with non‐diabetic males. The corresponding figure for females with diabetes (1.9 %) was RR = 3.67 (CI = 3.16–4.27). Diabetic women had the highest age‐adjusted mortality risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) of 8 compared with non‐diabetic women. The corresponding RR for men was just below 3 (p<0.0001). Males and females (with and without diabetes) of low attained educational level had a RR = 1.26 (CI = 1.15–1.39) and RR = 1.54 (CI = 1.31–1.81), respectively. When analysing all people with diabetes separately, adjusting for sex and age, low‐educated subjects had a 40 % excess all‐cause mortality compared with high‐educated subjects. We conclude that diabetic women have a very high relative risk for CHD mortality compared to non‐diabetic women. Furthermore, diabetic people with a low attained level of education, have an increased vulnerability to, and a higher total mortality. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Head Tracking and its Applications in HCI Framework

Traditional mouse and keyboard interaction is suitable for few applications like word processing but for drawing and designing, mouse becomes more difficult. As any user can draw a simple process on paper which can be implemented on desktop by interactive user interface and also creating infrared tracking interface like touch screen but more affordable than it. Further, this application provides extension to gesture control by other application. Major existing systems with widespread implementations are available but are limited to: Optical mice, capacitive touch panels, resistive touch panels, surface acoustic wave touch panels, etc. Touch panels move one step closer towards enhancing the interactivity of computing devices; however they have their own shortcomings. We present an alternative to the aforementioned traditional pointing devices which makes use of infrared radiations as a means of propagating user interactions between the computers and the users. The paper proposes a framework for a pointing device based on tracking of infrared light and determining its relative position and motion with respect to the computer system or device. The use of targeted infrared radiations as a medium of location information delivery forms the basis of the proposed framework. Keywords—Infrared Tracking,HCI,HCI Framework,Natural User WII Interface,IHCI.
Virtual Farmers Training: Realistic Simulation with Amusements using Historic Simulation and Game Storyline

In this paper, we present realistic farming trainer for experiencing crop cultivation and livestock breeding simulation. Farming simulation utilizing game experience has been presented by various formats but current researches have not presented balanced farming experience and amusement to users. We achieved both education purpose and entertainment feature by realistic farming trainer using historic simulation and gaming elements. To achieve realistic educational purpose, we implemented realistic farming simulation using historic simulation, which covers last ten years of weather, disease, and other factors. Also, we use storyline with quest design to give amusement to users. Technical details include (1) Crop simulator, (2) Livestock simulator, (3) Weather simulator, (4) Disease and insect simulator, (5) Fertilizer simulator and (6) Business simulator. Experimenting with sample user groups, they can easily learn how to farming and livestock management with amusements.
Características epidemiológicas del síndrome de Guillain-Barré en población chilena: estudio hospitalario en un período de 7 años

Background: Guillian Barre syndrome (GBS) is the commonest cause of acute flaccid paralysis worldwide, with an incidence of 0.6-4 per 100.000 inhabitants per year. It affects all age groups and carries an incapacity burden of up to 20%. Aim: To describe the features of GBS in adult Chilean patients admitted to a tertiary care hospital. Material and methods: Review of medical records of 41 patients aged 17 to 81 years (30 males) admitted to a public hospital with the diagnosis of GBS between 2003 and 2009. According to clinical and electrophysiological criteria, the patients were classified into different varieties of GBS. Results: The incidence of GBS was higher in males (2.7:1) and the demyelinated GBS variety was found in 66% of cases. According to the Hughes’ disability score, patients treated with plasmapheresis, showed non-statistically significant better outcomes than those treated with intravenous immunoglobulin. Conclusions: In this group of patients the demyelinated variety of GBS was more common than the axonal type. Although not statistically significant, the better response to plasmapheresis is encouraging and should prompt a controlled study.
Consumption-investment models with constraints

The author treats a general consumption and investment problem for a single agent who consumes and distributes his wealth, dynamically, between a bond and a stock. The agent faces trading constraints: bankruptcy never occurs and the amount invested in stock must not exceed an exogeneous function of the current wealth. The objective is to maximize the expected utility of consumption. The value function is shown to be a smooth solution of the associated Bellman equation and the optimal policies are determined. <<ETX>>
Improved SURF Detection Combined with Dual FLANN Matching and Clustering Analysis

In this paper, an improved object detection method based on SURF (Speed-Up Robust Feature) is presented. SURF is a widely used method in computer vision. But it’s still not efficient enough to apply in real-time applications, such as real time object tracking. To reduce the time cost, the traditional descriptor of SURF is altered. Triangle and diagonal descriptor is adopted to replace the Haar wavelet calculation. Then dual matching approach based on FLANN is employed. Thus matching errors can be cut down. Besides, the traditional SURF does not give the accurate region of the target. To restrict the area, clustering analysis is used which is promoted from K-WMeans. Experimental work demonstrates the proposed approach achieve better effect than traditional SURF in real scenarios.
Processos dependentes de informação em empresas incubadas e graduadas de base tecnológica: um estudo comparativo de casos

Nowadays, competitiveness introduces new behaviors and leads companies to a discomforting situation and often to non adaptation to environmental requirements. A growing number of challenges associated with control of information in organizations with engineering activities can be seen, particularly, the growing amount of information subject to continuous changes. The innovative performance of an organization is directly proportional to its ability to manage information. Thus, the importance of information management is recognized by the search for more competent ways to face current demands. The purpose of this article was to analyze information-dependent processes in technology-based companies, through the four major stages of information management. The comparative method of cases and qualitative research were used. The research was conducted in nine technology-based companies which were incubated or recently went through the incubating process at the Technological Park of Sao Carlos, in the state of Sao Paulo. Among the main results, it was found that in graduated companies information management and its procedures were identified as more conscious and structured in contrast to those of the incubated companies.
Outage Analysis in a Cooperative System with Beamforming and Worst Relay Cancellation

In this paper, realizing full diversity in relay channels operating in decode and forward (DF) scheme is considered. In the proposed system, the worst relay according to a chosen criterion is cancelled while the remaining ones utilize beamforming. Both theoretical analysis, and experimental comparisons in bit error rate (BER) performance are given for the proposed system and the system where all relays are active. The scheme which cancels the worst relay achieves full diversity order which is demonstrated through outage probability (OP) upper bound. The derivation of the OP upper bound is carried out using order statistics. Simulations are performed for various numbers of relays and differential signal to noise ratios (DSNR) which are the differences in SNR between source-relay and relay-destination channels. This way, the full diversity order of the proposed system is validated experimentally. Moreover, it is observed that the proposed system achieves better performance in BER compared to the system with no cancellation.
Influencia de factores virales y del huésped en la actividad histológica en pacientes con hepatitis crónica por virus de la hepatitis B y elevación moderada o intermitente de alanina aminotransferasa

Objective: viralandhostfactorsarerelatedwithprogressionof pathologicallesioninchronichepatitisB.Weanalyzedthesefactors inpatientswithmoderateorintermittentlyelevatedALTlevels,and itsthresholdthatdeterminatesignificanthistologicalactivity. Patients and methods: retrospective analyses of viral and host parameters in 89 consecutive chronic hepatitis B patients biopsied because of moderate or intermittently elevated ALT lev els[1-2xULN(ULN=39IU/mL)]and/orDNA-HBV>2x10 3
GMV technique for nonlinear control with neural networks

A nonlinear extension of minimum variance and generalised minimum variance control strategies is developed. The plant is modelled with a linear autoregressive part and a nonlinear dependency on the input. A neural network based implementation of the control law is discussed. This results in a nonlinear controller constituted by a few linear blocks complemented with not more than two neural networks. The weights of the networks are estimated off-line and the learning is carried out with input-output data provided by suitable open loop identification experiments. The performance of the time-invariant neuro-control system is compared with the one achievable by adaptive controllers based on linear models of the plant.
Diagnose, Therapie und Tumornachsorge - Prostatakarzinom

Prostate cancer is the most frequent diagnosed malignancy in men with an increasing incidence. In well informed men between the age of 50 and 70 years screening should be offered when requested. Not every newly diagnosed prostate cancer requires immediate treatment. Curative treatment should be offered to men with a minimal life expectancy of 10 years. In men older than 50-75 years, therefore further screening is not necessary due to a lack of a therapeutic consequence. Curative treatment options enclose as the gold standard surgical removal, i.e. open radical prostatectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection, and radio-oncologic treatments, be it percutaneous radiation therapy, brachytherapies or a combination thereof. Palliative treatment options are mainly hormonal treatment (medical or surgical androgen deprivation), local radiation, treatment with bisphosphonates, chemotherapy and surgical desobstruction of the prostate. Regular follow up allows for early detection of recurrences and an active treatment concept.
ATM infrared wireless LANs: a proposed architecture

As infrared wireless LANs for in-building applications become more popular because of their many advantages, it is of interest to design such LANs to support the ATM protocol and therefore provide wireless access to fixed ATM networks. The architecture of such a LAN is presented in this article. Emphasis is placed on the protocol stacks of the model to provide seamless operation with the wired network, on the cellular topology, and on the MAC protocol. Under the proposed topology the system performance is revealed in terms of packet dropping probability, average access delay, channel throughput, and statistical multiplexing gain for a range of system parameters.
Unpacking Techniques and Tools in Malware Analysis

Nowadays most of malware samples are packed with runtime packers to complicate the task of reverse engineering and security analysis in order to evade detection of signature-based anti-virus engines. In the overall process of malware analysis, unpacking a packed malicious binary effectively is a necessary preliminary to extract the structure features from the binary for generation of its signature, and therefore several unpacking techniques have been proposed so far that attempt to deal with the packer problem. This brief survey article provides an overview of the currently published prevalent unpacking techniques and tools. It covers the operation process of packing and unpacking, packer detection methods, heuristic policies for spotting original entry point (OEP), environments for runtime unpacking, anti-unpacking techniques, and introduces several typical tools for unpacking.
Designing documents for train operators: A contribution to graphic design from cultural psychology

This paper addresses the issue of redesigning a train list. The train list is a paper document of few pages that provides train operators of the Italian railway company with basic information about the features of the railway line they are moving along, the means of traction and engine characteristics.Methodologies borrowed from the fields of document design and human–computer interaction were applied to the analysis, redesign, and evaluation of a new train list following a first prototype developed by the railway company.In all phases (analysis, redesign, evaluation) the study was guided by the theoretical framework of cultural-historical psychology, according to which artifacts historically shaped by human practice always mediate human cognition. The results of the evaluation provide empirical evidence to support the added value of combining document design techniques with the heuristic role of the historical analysis of an artifact, especially in a safety-critical context, so as to properly improve tools and instruments used in human activity and thus reduce the risk of breakdowns.
Multiple specification design in flight control system

A practical flight control system design needs to address multiple performance criteria. This paper presents a new control design method to achieve multiple specifications simultaneously. This method provides a two-stage design procedure: sample control laws are designed to meet individual specifications respectively, then based on those sample control laws, a convex combination approach is applied to find a new controller to achieve multiple simultaneous specifications (MSS). This method is straightforward and easy to be implemented. An aircraft control example is introduced and simulation results verify the effectiveness of this method.
The Ego-Motion Detection Algorithm for Digit-Writing Hand Gesture Recognition

This paper addresses digit-writing hand gesture recognition using ego-motion detection algorithm. In training stage, according to the manual labeled feature points, the ego-motion detection algorithm is constructed and the corresponding average feature is obtained. In recognition stage, the interesting digit-writing hand gesture region is firstly segmented by skin and movement cues. Secondly, the models are fitted to the image that includes the hand gesture, and the relative features are extracted. Thirdly, the classification is done by comparing the extracted features and average features.
Animated Maps of Aggregate Data: Conceptual and Practical Problems

Predictions of the 1960s about the computer's potential to change cartography are finally being fulfilled. Dynamic maps for vehicle navigation, interactive cartographic/statistical tools, and map animation are being investigated actively. As these new environments for mapping become available, we must reevaluate past questions about transformations from reality to data and data to map. In this paper, we consider these transformation questions in the context of statistical map animation. The issues discussed were raised in producing a “map movie” depicting the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) over time. Jenks' data model concept is used as the basis for a typology of data models representing phenomena typically depicted by enumeration unit data. The typology is then used to evaluate symbolization decisions for AIDS incidence maps. Implications for symbol selection imposed by dynamic rather than static maps are considered, as are technical issues involved in producing the animation on a .
A 2-1600-MHz CMOS clock recovery PLL with low-Vdd capability

A general-purpose phase-locked loop (PLL) with programmable bit rates is presented demonstrating that large frequency tuning range, large power supply range, and low jitter can be achieved simultaneously. The clock recovery architecture uses phase selection for automatic initial frequency capture. The large period jitter of conventional phase selection is eliminated through feedback phase selection. Digital control sequencing of the feedback enables accurate phase interpolation without the traditional need of analog circuitry. Circuit techniques enabling low Vdd operation of a PLL with differential delay stages are presented. Measurements show a PLL frequency range of 1-200 MHz at Vdd=1.2 V linearly increasing to 2-1600 MHz at Vdd=2.5 V, achieved in a standard process technology without low threshold voltage devices. Correct operation has been verified down to Vdd=0.9 V, but the lower limit of differential operation with improved supply-noise rejection is estimated to be 1.1 V.
High density sickle cell erythrocyte core membrane skeletons demonstrate slow temperature dependent dissociation

We have previously demonstrated that slow dissociation of HDSS membrane skeletons in high ionic strength Triton X‐100 buffer was related to a posttranslational modification in β‐actin, in which a disulfide bridge was formed between cysteine 284 and cysteine 373 [Shartava et al: J Cell Biol 128:805, 1995]. These previous dissociation assays were limited to two homozygous (SS) sickle cell patients and a single temperature (37°C). In the current work, we have expanded the SS subjects to 9 and have carried out dissociation assays at 0, 24, 30, 34, and 37°C. At 0°C there was limited dissociation of spectrin and actin from normal (AA), low density sickle cell (LDSS), and high density sickle cell (HDSS) core skeleton up to 24 hr. The first order rate constants for dissociation of spectrin, at 0°C, was 0.030–0.035 × 10−4sec−1 for AA, LDSS, and HDSS core skeletons. However at 24, 30, 34, and 37°C the rate of dissociation of spectrin from HDSS core skeletons was significantly slower than the rate of dissociation from AA core skeletons. Having determined the first order rate constants for spectrin dissociation at these specified temperatures, we then asked whether dithiothreitol (DTT) would hasten the dissociation of core skeletons. The presence of DTT caused the rate of dissociation of the HDSS membrane skeleton to become statistically indistinguishable from the rate of dissociation of AA membrane skeletons. This is consistent with the suggestion that reversible thiol oxidation is responsible for the slow dissociation of the HDSS membrane skeleton. © 1996 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
A 10-bit 5-MS/s successive approximation ADC cell used in a 70-MS/s ADC array in 1.2-μm CMOS

A 10-bit 5-MS/s successive approximation ADC cell and a 70-MS/s parallel ADC array based on this cell, designed and fabricated in a 1.2-/spl mu/m CMOS process, are presented. The ADC cell was designed to have an input bandwidth of more than 35 MHz and a sampling time of 14 nS at a clock rate of 70 MHz. The parallel ADC array consists of 14 such cells which are timed in one clock cycle skew successively in order to obtain digitized data every clock cycle. A two-step principle based on unsymmetrical dual-capacitor charge-redistribution-coupling has been used. With the help of a reset function, the comparator presents a fast response to the successive comparison. Each successive approximation ADC cell occupies an area of 0.6 mm/sup 2/ and the core of the parallel ADC array occupies an area of 2.7/spl times/3.3 mm/sup 2/. The power consumptions for the cell and the parallel ADC array are 18 mW and 267 mW respectively. >