Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Oral cancer mortality trends in Brazilian geographical regions from 1996-2001

The purpose of this study was to analyse the oral cancer mortality trends in Brazil by geographic region, age and sex, from 1996 to 2001. The Brazilian Ministry of Health database DATASUS and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics were used as the source of data. Oral cancer mortality rates per 100,000 population were estimated. Statistical analyses comprised estimates of oral cancer mortality rates, grouped according to the study variables, in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001; also, the three-year periods 1996-1998 and 1999-2001 were analysed, allowing the oral cancer mortality trends between these two periods to be calculated. For comparison, in each geographical region, the ratio between two death rates (related to period or sex) was calculated. In the period 1996-2001, a total of 25,972 deaths due to oral cancer were reported, giving a mortality rate of 2.67. The rates for the periods 1996- 1998 and 1999-2001 were 2.53 and 2.73, respectively, showing a slight increase in the rate. There was a predominance of oral cancer in males with a male/female ratio of approximately 4. All regions exhibited an increase in mortality rates, with the exception of the Southeast region. From 1996 to 2001, the average mortality rates were 3.55 and 3.58 for the Southeast and South regions, and 1.94, 1.41, and 0.86 for the Mid-West, Northeast, and North regions, respectively. Over the age of 40, oral cancer mortality rates were seen to increase rapidly with age. Oral cancer mortality increased in all regions, except in the Southeast, and was considerably higher among males and older individuals.
Natural Language Processing: Current state and future directions

The value in being able to communicate with computers by speaking or writing via “natural language” cannot be overstated. Computational linguistics, or work on “natural language processing” (NLP) began more than sixty years ago. A recent study by the Kelsey Group reports that increasing numbers of companies are investing in and deploying voice or speech recognition and processing technologies at an alarming rate to save money by replacing operators and to improve service to their customers. In recent years, the natural language text interpretation and processing technologies have also gained an increasing level of sophistication. For example, generic engines are now available which can deliver semantic representations for sentences, or deliver sentences from representations. NLP technologies are becoming extremely important in the creation of user-friendly decision-support systems for everyday nonexpert users, particularly in the areas of knowledge acquisition, information retrieval and language translation. The purpose of this research is to survey and report the current state and the future directions of the use of NLP technologies and systems in the corporate world. The research is intended to assist business managers to stay abreast with the NLP technologies and applications.
NOx as new targets of treatment in influenza-associated encephalopathy

Abstract The number of children with a new type of influenza-associated encephalopathy is increasing in Japan on a nationwide scale. It is associated with a high mortality rate of approximately 30% and there are no efficient treatments. Approximately half of the patients have sequelae despite anti-cytokine therapies. Severe cases showed high levels of free radicals in serum and cerebrospinal fluid, and previous studies suggest that free-radical scavengers may be effective to reduce sequelae. We presented two cases where a new radical scavenger, edaravone, was administered in addition to anti-cytokine therapies and reviewed our findings in the context of previously published papers.
Concurrent and Retrospective Verbal Protocols in Usability Testing: Is there Value Added in Collecting Both?

This study compared the relative sensitivities of the concurrent and retrospective verbal protocol methods in an error analysis of human-computer interaction. Twelve subjects performed bibliographic retrieval tasks in “walk-up-and-use” usability test sessions. Each subject provided concurrent “think aloud” verbal reports throughout task performance, and then provided retrospective verbal reports while viewing their video taped performance without sound. Verbal reports that related specifically to errors were encoded as mistakes or slips, in an error classification schema which distinguished errors of intent (mistakes), from unintentional errors (slips). These data were analyzed in a 2×2 (error type x verbal protocol) repeated measures analysis of variance. In a second design, verbal protocols were encoded by statement type and analyzed in a 3×2 (statement type x verbal protocol) repeated measures analysis of variance. This study demonstrated an interaction between concurrent and retrospective methodologies and the types of error-related statements elicited. In addition, this within-subjects study supported the findings of the previous between-groups study (Bowers and Snyder, 1990). The findings support the practice of collecting concurrent verbal reports and then following up with retrospective verbal reports to collect additional information about mistakes and complex design problems.
Tolerance in Nonhuman Primates by Delayed Mixed Chimerism

Abstract : Vascularized composite allografts (VCA) are transplants containing multiple tissue types (including bone, muscle, skin, nerves and blood vessels), which offer patients restoration of function and form following severe, disabling and disfiguring injury or tissue loss, in circumstances where the results of conventional reconstructive surgery remain unsatisfactory. The high incidence of episodes of skin-targeted acute rejection, and the morbidity associated with current immunosuppression regimens, necessary throughout the life of the recipient to prevent rejection, remain significant areas in which improvement would enhance quality of life, improve the risk-benefit ratio and ultimately expand availability of these procedures to severely injured service men and women, and civilians victims of disabling and disfiguring trauma or disease (Leonard et al, 2013). The objective of the VCA laboratory at the TBRC is to develop a clinically-applicable strategy for the induction of immune tolerance of VCAs. The aim of the work supported by this award is to introduce and optimize a protocol for VCA tolerance based on the principal of delayed induction of mixed chimerism in a non-human primate model. This approach, in contrast to protocols which have already reached clinical trial for kidney transplantation, permits induction of tolerance in the context of transplantation from deceased donors a prerequisite for clinical application in VCA. Successful induction of tolerance of VCAs using this protocol in non-human primates can be expected to lead to rapid translation to clinical trial.
An Enhanced Method for Content Based Image Retrieval

The content based image retrieval (CBIR) is the wellliked and heart favorite area of research in the field of digital image processing. The key goal of content based image retrieval (CBIR) is to excerpt the visual content of an image directly, like color, texture, or shape. There are several applications of the CBIR technique such as forensic laboratories, crime detection, image searching etc. For the purpose of feature extraction of well-matched images from the database, a universal CBIR system utilizes texture, color and shape based techniques. In this presented work, we have offered an efficient approach for the content based image retrieval, where images are decomposed using the wavelet transform, it means that the image features are converted in the matrix form and a color feature data set is prepared. In order to improve search results we have used k-means algorithm. It is shown by experimental results that, the efficiency of the proposed method is improved in contrast with the existing method.
The Role of Therapeutic Alliance in Therapy Outcomes for Youth in Residential Care

SUMMARY This study examined the impact of therapeutic alliance (TA) on therapy outcomes for youth with behavioral and emotional problems residing in residential care. Study participants were 71 youth in an out-of-home family-style residential treatment facility who were referred to an onsite psychotherapy clinic. A therapeutic alliance scale was completed independently after each session by the youth and their therapist. Two outcome measures were used: a symptom scale that was completed by the youth before each therapy session, and a daily observational measure made by direct care staff of all significant events for each youth. Youth symptoms improved significantly over the course of therapy and their behaviors decreased to a rate similar to their peers. TA ratings, however, were only marginally related to therapy outcomes. Implications for assessing therapeutic alliance in child therapy are discussed.
Preference evaluation techniques of preference queries in database

Preference queries are considered as a major necessity tool in today’s database management system (DBMS). Adopting preference queries in the database application systems enable users to determine more than one objective in the submitted query which result into more accurate results compared to the traditional queries. Preference queries prefer one data item (tuple) p over the other data item (tuple) q if and only if p is better than q in all dimensions (attributes) and not worse than q in at least one dimension (attribute). Several preference evaluation techniques for preference queries have been proposed which aimed at finding the “best” results that meet the user preferences. These include but not limited to top-k, skyline, ranked skylines, k-representative dominance, k-dominance,top-k dominating, and k-frequency. This paper attempts to survey and analyze the following preference evaluation techniques of query processing in database systems: top-k, skyline, top-k dominating, k-dominance, and k-frequency by highlighting the strengths and the weaknesses of each technique.
EFFICIENT VERIFIER-BASED AUTHENTICATED KEY AGREEMENT PROTOCOL FOR THREE PARTIES

Authenticated key agreement protocols for three parties enable two clients to establish a secure communication channel through an authentication server. Generally speaking, there are two approaches to achieve this purpose. One is to issue a common session key for both clients by the key distribution center (KDC). The other is to use public key cryptosystems and the encrypted key exchange (EKE) protocol to encrypt the transmitted messages and then further derive a common session key. Recently, lots of researches on authenticated key agreement protocol for three parties use the server’s public key to ensure the security of transmitted messages. Yet, the approach obviously has some drawbacks, such as increasing the cost of key management for each client. Hence, the demand for secure protocols without the server’s public key comes out. In this paper, we propose an efficient verifier-based authenticated key agreement for three parties. The proposed protocol can resist the password guessing attack and other existential attacks. Moreover, compared with previous works, the proposed one also has lower computational costs.
Playing Games with Quantum Mechanics

We present a perspective on quantum games that focuses on the physical aspects of the quantities that are used to implement a game. If a game is to be played, it has to be played with objects and actions that have some physical existence. We call such games playable. By focusing on the notion of playability for games we can more clearly see the distinction between classical and quantum games and tackle the thorny issue of what it means to quantize a game. The approach we take can more properly be thought of as gaming the quantum rather than quantizing a game and we find that in this perspective we can think of a complete quantum game, for a given set of preferences, as representing a single family of quantum games with many different playable versions. The versions of Quantum Prisoners Dilemma presented in the literature can therefore be thought of specific instances of the single family of Quantum Prisoner's Dilemma with respect to a particular measurement. The conditions for equilibrium are given for playable quantum games both in terms of expected outcomes and a geometric approach. We discuss how any quantum game can be simulated with a classical game played with classical coins as far as the strategy selections and expected outcomes are concerned.
Comparação entre diferentes modelos de periodização sobre a força e espessura muscular em uma sequência dos menores para os maiores grupamentos musculares

INTRODUCAO: Estudos comparando modelos de periodizacao em sequencias de treinamento resistido (TR) realizadas do menor para o maior grupo muscular sobre as alteracoes musculares em individuos destreinados em TR sao escassos. OBJETIVO: Comparar o efeito da periodizacao ondulatoria (PO) e da periodizacao linear (PL) sobre a forca maxima e hipertrofia muscular em uma sequencia de execucao dos exercicios dos menores para os maiores grupamentos musculares. METODOS: Vinte e nove homens nao experientes em (TR) foram distribuidos aleatoriamente em tres grupos: PO (n =10), PL (n = 13) e grupo controle (GC, n = 9). Os individuos realizaram o teste de uma repeticao maxima (1RM) nos exercicios rosca biceps (RB), rosca triceps (RT), puxada aberta (PA) e supino reto (SR), contracao isometrica voluntaria maxima (CIVM) e espessura muscular (EM) para flexores de cotovelo (FC) e extensores de cotovelo (EC) antes e apos o periodo de 12 semanas de treinamento. O grupo PO variou o volume e a intensidade do treinamento diariamente, e o grupo PL a cada quatro semanas. O GC nao realizou TR. Foi realizada uma ANOVA de dois caminhos com medidas repetidas, e calculo do tamanho do efeito (TE), nas cargas obtidas para analisar o efeito do tratamento sobre as variacoes pre- e pos-periodo de TR. RESULTADOS: Os principais achados do estudo foram: 1) o grupo PO apresentou maior TE para 1RM dos exercicios RT e RB e para EM dos FC e EC quando comparado ao grupo PL; 2) nao houve diferenca no TE para os exercicios SR e PA que finalizavam a sessao. CONCLUSAO: Ambos os modelos de periodizacao adotados foram eficientes para promover aumentos de forca e hipertrofia muscular. Contudo, segundo o calculo do TE, a PO promoveu maior incremento da forca maxima nos exercicios que iniciaram a sessao e hipertrofia muscular.
Entwicklung eines ganzheitlichen Prognosemodells zur Kompensation von Varianzen in Prozessfolgen mittels Support Vektor Maschinen

Der globale Wettbewerb und eine immer transparentere Marktsituation verlangen heute mehr denn je eine Ausschopfung aller Potentiale uber die gesamte Wertschopfungskette in der Produktion. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat am Beispiel einer varianzbehafteten Prozessfolge aus dem Rapid Manufacturing gezeigt, dass die ganzheitliche Betrachtung technischer und betriebsorganisatorischer Kenngrosen deutliche Optimierungspotentiale eroffnet. Der Einsatz der Support Vektor Methode ermoglicht diese ganzheitliche Analyse und Bewertung des Ist-Zustands und erlaubt durch die direkte Generierung von Masnahmen im Hinblick auf anvisierte Zielgrosen die Kompensation von Varianzen. In dieser Arbeit wurde eine Methode entwickelt, welche zunachst mittels einer vektoriellen Darstellung ein ganzheitliches Monitoring aller betrachteter Zielgrosen erlaubt um anschliesend die so entstandenen Merkmalsraume mit Hilfe eines Ansatzes aus der kunstlichen Intelligenz analysieren und klassifizieren zu konnen. Auf Grund der sehr guten Prognosefahigkeit dieser Support Vektor Methode erlaubt dieser Ansatz eine auf die Ist-Situation angepasste und auf die Gesamtzielgrosen ausgerichtete Generierung von Masnahmen. Die Entwicklung eines Kostenmodells komplettierte die ganzheitliche Betrachtungsweise. Eine beispielhafte Ubertragung auf eine ausgewahlte Prozessfolge aus dem Rapid Manufacturing zeigte hierbei die Funktionsweise und diente zur Verifikation. The base for an effective planning and optimization in production is the understanding of working connections between process parameters, product qualities and the business organizational putting levers. The customer-oriented alignment of a production line with the target figures product cost, product quality and delivery time can be reached by means of classification methods. Thereby one can show and classify each relevant control variable of the production line, both on a technical and organizationally level. Through this a coupled analysis of the working connections, with regard to the result at the end of the process consequence and an assignment of measures is made possible. In this dissertation a method was developed, which at first permits an integral monitoring of all aim sizes looked at by means of a vectorial representation to be able to analyze and to classify the feature rooms with the aid of an approach from the artificial intelligence. This approach permits a generation of measures adapted on the situation and aligned with the complete aim sizes support vector method due to the very good forecast ability of these. In conclusion the method was transferred and the method verified on an exemplary process consequence.
The Effect of ‘Prekese’ (Tetrapleura tetraptera) Pod Extract Processed at Different Time Intervals on the Sensory Qualities of Pork Sausage

This study was conducted to determine the effect of ‘prekese’ (Tetrapleura tetraptera) pod extract (PPE) processed at different time intervals on the sensory qualities of pork sausage. Four (4) kg of minced pork was used. The pork was divided into four batches of one (1) kg each and placed in a metal pan and labeled treatment 1 to 4. Each product contained the following: Treatment 1 (T1) contained 0ml of the PPE to serve as the control product, Treatment 2 (T2) contained 10ml of PPE soaked for 12 hours , Treatment 3 (T3) contained 10ml of PPE soaked for 24 hours and Treatment 4 (T4) contained 10ml of PPE soaked for 36 hours. The products were evaluated for sensory and nutritional qualities. The study indicated that, the use of ‘prekese’ pod extract at different processing time intervals had no adverse effect (P > 0.05) on the sensory characteristics of the smoked pork sausage at an inclusion level of 10ml/kg of meat. The study also revealed that, the use of ‘prekese’ pod extract had no significant effect (P > 0.05) on the nutritional qualities in terms of moisture and crude protein. However, there were significant effects (P < 0.05) on pH and crude fat content. pH of the test product T2, T3 and T4 were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than T1 (control).
Service-Oriented Sharing Architecture for Mining Area Spatial Information and Key Techniques

Mining spatial information sharing platform, as a new type of mining information management systems, will greatly enhance the level of the existing mine information management and their ability to support production operations. Based on the analysis of the current information sharing framework, a new mining information sharing platform which is service-oriented GIS is introduced. Then, this article describes three key techniques to achieve: the SOA-based GIS technology, metadata technology and spatial database technology. Finally, the paper talks about the research way for the development of mining area spatial information sharing architecture in the future.
Colorectal Carcinoma in the Young

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most common malignancy of the gastrointestinal tract. In the United States, it is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer, next only to breast and lung. It is the second most common cause of cancer-related death both in the USA and in the UK. (www. cancer. org, O’Connell et. al. 2004a, Leff et. al. 2007). Its incidence has risen rapidly in Asia to pose a problem (Yuen et. al. 1997, Huang et. al. 1999, Mohandas et. al. 1999, Yiu et. al. 2004, Goh et. al. 2005,Gupta et. al. 2010). Sung et. al. (2005) in a review on CRC in Asia stated that many Asian countries, e. g. , China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore have experienced an increase of two to four times in CRC incidence during the past few decades. In Hong-Kong CRC is the second most common cancer and the third most common cause of cancer death (Yuen et. al. 1997). Tamura et. al. (1996) in a Japanese study reported that age adjusted incidence for CRC per 100,000 population were 12. 6 and 8. 7 for males and females respectively in 1974, 20 and 13. 6 in 1980, 42. 5 and 25. 6 in 1991. Bae et. al. (2002) estimated on the basis of Korean data, that the expected number of cancer deaths in Korea showed an increasing trend for CRC, although the same did not hold for all cancers. In Iran, age adjusted CRC incidence per 100,000 population per year increased from 1. 61 in 1970-80 to 4. 2 in 19902000 in men and 2. 35 to 2. 72 for women (Hosseini et. al. 2004). The rising trend is more striking in affluent than in poorer societies and differs substantially amongst ethnic groups. Changes in dietary habits and lifestyle are recognized causes. Genetic characteristics of a population mediate the effect of life style change into disease propensity (Lin et. al. 2010). Although the common perception is that it is a disease of an older person, there have been many reports from different parts of the world on CRC in the young adults (Bulow 1980, Denmark; Ohman 1982, Sweden;Jarvinen and Turunen 1984, Finland; Ibrahim and Karim 1986, Lebanon; Adloff et. al. 1986, France; Isbister and Fraser 1990, New Zealand; Yuen et. al. 1997, Hong-Kong; Fante et. al. 1997, Italy; Ashenafi 2000, Ethiopia; deSilva et. al. 2000, Srilanka; Paraf and Jothy 2000, Canada; Turkiewicz et. al. , 2001, Australia; Singh et. al. 2002a, Nepal; Kam et. al. 2004, Malayasia; Frizis et. al. 2004, Greece; Guraya and Eltinay2006, Saudi Arabia; Fazeli et. al. 2007, Iran; Karsten et. al. 2008, USA; Gupta et. al. 2010, India). O’Connell et. al. (2004a) have reviewed the literature. The proportion of patients in the young group in a population of CRC patients was significantly larger in reports from Asia and Africa, as compared to the Western reports.