Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Manifestaciones orales en pacientes sometidos a quimioterapia

Introduction: chemotherapy is a treatment based on the use of anticancer drugs that induce the death of cancer cells. The literature describes oral lesions may arise as a result of chemotherapy. Objective: to identify the oral manifestations in patients undergoing chemotherapy treated at the reference service in oncology southern state of Ceara - Brazil. Methods: we evaluated 73 patients affected by some type of malignancy and chemotherapy from January of 2013 to December of 2014. The clinical and pathological data such as age, gender, diagnosis of malignancy, types of treatments anticancer chemotherapeutic drug treatment, among others,were obtained from medical records. Were also carried out oral examinations in all subjects of this study by the same examiner specialist in stomatology. Results: of the 73 patients 29 (39.7 %) were male and 44 (60.3 %) females with a mean age of 57.7 years, and 37 (50.7 %) of smokers. Regarding malignancy, the mama was the most prevalent location (35.6 %). The drugs most frequently used in chemotherapy treatment were aredia in 23.3 % of cases (n= 17) and paclitaxel in 17.8 % (n= 13). In the oral manifestations, of the 73 patients studied, 44 (60.2 %) had some type of oral discomfort. Most patients, 77.3 % (n= 34) were diagnosed with xerostomia and 22.7 % (n= 10) were observed mucositis. Conclusion: oral lesions found in patients undergoing chemotherapy were xerostomia and mucositis. Xerostomia being the most prevalent oral pathological condition.
Topic Modeling in Sentiment Analysis: A Systematic Review

With the expansion and acceptance of Word Wide Web, sentiment analysis has become progressively popular research area in information retrieval and web data analysis. Due to the huge amount of user-generated contents over blogs, forums, social media, etc., sentiment analysis has attracted researchers both in academia and industry, since it deals with the extraction of opinions and sentiments. In this paper, we have presented a review of topic modeling, especially LDA-based techniques, in sentiment analysis. We have presented a detailed analysis of diverse approaches and techniques, and compared the accuracy of different systems among them. The results of different approaches have been summarized, analyzed and presented in a sophisticated fashion. This is the really effort to explore different topic modeling techniques in the capacity of sentiment analysis and imparting a comprehensive comparison among them.
Predictions to the Plasma Environment of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

In summer 2014 the European Rosetta mission arrived at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and will stay close to the comet during its orbit around the Sun. As the comet approaches the Sun a cometary atmosphere is formed which interacts with the solar wind. The Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC) will study this interaction and will perform measurements of various structures and boundaries within this environment. The aim of this thesis is to make predictions about the location of the various plasma structures and boundaries. These predictions are obtained by means of analytical models and numerical simulations, i.e. the A.I.K.E. F. code. In parallel the processes which lead to the plasma interaction and the structures in the cometary plasma environment are analysed. A first study of a weakly active comet far away from the Sun shows that at this activity level the interaction is dominated by the cometary pick-up ion tail. Furthermore, it is found that along this tail a repetitive Mach cone is triggered. In a second study the close vicinity of the comet is analysed. There the cometary pick-up ion tail and the footpoint of a Mach cone is found. In addition, a low frequency wave pattern at the comet is analysed and a first preliminary comparison to the RPC magnetometer data is conducted, in which a similarity to the waves in the hybrid simulations is observed. Close to the perihelion, the cometary activity will reach its maximum and the Mach cone will be transformed into a bow shock. Its position is analysed in a third study. A comparison reveals a major difference between the fluid models and the hybrid model concerning the instantaneous pick-up of the cometary ions. Due to the more realistic description of the pick-up in the hybrid model, the bow shock is much closer to the comet than expected before. In addition, a strong dependency of the bow shock position on the solar wind parameters is found. In the fourth study the innermost coma is analysed. For the first time ever, a global hybrid simulation is able to resolve this region sufficiently to allow for an investigation of the plasma boundaries in that region, i.e. the diamagnetic cavity and the cometary ionopause. A shift of the entire interaction region as well as of all related structures and boundaries therein away from the Sun-comet line is found. In addition, this study predicts the presence of three distinct cometary ion populations at the innermost boundaries.
Raman Spectra and Ordering Processes in Alcaline-Tungsten Oxyfluorides

Raman spectra of perovskite-like (NH 4 ) 3 WO 3 F 3 (assigned below as A3), (NH 4 )2KWO 3 F 3 (A2K), Cs 2 (NH 4 )WO 3 F 3 (C2A) oxyfluorides are obtained in a wide temperature range including transition points for A3 and A2 K crystals. Transition anomalies are found and analyzed. Transformation in A3 crystal is shown to be bound with octahedron groups ordering and H-bond formation, that is accompanied by cell volume multiplication, hardening and formation of complex discrete low frequency lattice spectrum. Same cell doubling was found in A2 K crystal, but without lattice ordering. C2A lattice stays disordered down to 15 K.
Anesthetic Efficacy of Articaine Versus Lidocaine for Irreversible Pulpitis:A Meta-analysis

Objective To assess the anesthetic efficacy of articaine versus lidocaine for irreversible pulpitis.Methods We electronically searched PubMed,EMbase,Cochrane Library (Issue 4,2009),CNKI,VIP and CBM.The search was updated to December 2009.Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-RCTs were indentified about articaine and lidocaine for irreversible pulpitis.Study selection and meta-analysis were conducted according to the Cochrane Handbook for systematic reviews.And RevMan5.0 was applied for statistical analysis in success rate.Results Nine trials involving 985 pulpitis patients were included.Meta-analysis indicated that,both the anesthetic success rate (RR=1.33,95%CI 1.23 to1.44) and maxillary anesthetic success rate (RR=1.65,95%CI 1.38 to 1.98) of articaine were superior to that of lidocaine,but there was no statistical significance in mandibular anesthetic success rate between two groups (RR=1.28,95%CI 0.97 to 1.69). Conclusion The current evidence shows that articaine is superior to lidocaine in anesthetic efficacy,and is good at maxillary anesthesia.
Poprawa skuteczności osiągania celu terapeutycznego w zakresie docelowego stężenia cholesterolu frakcji LDL u pacjentów po ostrym zespole wieńcowym. Stanowisko grupy ekspertów

Intensywna terapia hipolipemizująca powoduje obnizenie ryzyka zgonu z przyczyn sercowo-naczyniowych, zawalu serca, udaru niedokrwiennego mozgu oraz rewaskularyzacji wiencowej. Niestety, mimo szerokiej dostepności na rynku farmaceutycznym preparatow hipolipemizujących, nadal obserwuje sie niewielką skutecznośc osiągania celow terapeutycznych w zakresie redukcji stezenia cholesterolu frakcji LDL, szczegolnie u pacjentow po ostrym zespole wiencowym. Ponizszy dokument, bedący stanowiskiem grupy ekspertow, w postaci krotkich i zwiezlych treści odnosi sie do przyczyny takiego stanu rzeczy, jak rowniez proponuje mozliwe rozwiązania terapeutyczne i organizacyjne.
Antioxidantes en poblaciones adultas del nivel del mar y de grandes alturas: Actividad de la superóxido dismutasa.

Los radicales libres son una amenaza importante para el organismo, en defensa a estos, las celulas han desarrollado enzimas antioxidantes como la superoxido dismutasa (SOD), la catalasa y la glutation peroxidasa. La SOD se encarga de la remocion de radicales superoxido producidos en la cadena de trasporte mitocondrial. Objetivo: Determinar y comparar los niveles de SOD en poblacion de grandes alturas y a nivel del mar. Materiales y Metodos: Fue un estudio descriptivo. Se tomaron muestras de donantes de sangre de los bancos de sangre de Lima (a nivel del mar) y Huaraz (3 052 metros sobre el nivel del mar). Se analizaron 97 muestras utilizando el metodo de Minami y Yoshikawa para determinar la actividad de la SOD Resultados : Las medias de los valores de SOD fueron 1 834 U/ gr.Hb para Lima y 926,5 U/gr.Hb para Huaraz (p < 0.05). En todos los grupos etareos el grupo de altura presento menores niveles de SOD que el grupo a nivel del mar. Existe una diferencia significativa entre mujeres de Lima y Huaraz (1 929 U/gr.Hb vs. 941,89 U/gr.Hb; p < 0,05), y entre varones de Lima y Huaraz (1 754 U/gr.Hb vs. 907,78 U/gr.Hb; p < 0,05). Conclusiones : Los nativos de altura tienen menores niveles de SOD.
Software gearing in a virtual environment: the effect on perception of optic flow

Immersing patients in a Virtual Reality environment whilst walking may engage and motivate them, stimulating a greater level of effort than exercise alone. Initial work has demonstrated that walking speed may be manipulated by controlling the rate of optic flow, which has potential for enhancing the recovery process for patients undergoing rehabilitation. However, it has been reported that there is a perceived mismatch between walking speed on a treadmill and the presented rate of optic flow when it is set to be equivalent to current walking speed. The consistency of this “gain mismatch”within and between participants is currently unclear and further clarification is needed if the beneficial effect of manipulating optic flow in a Virtual Rehabilitation setting is to be optimised. Preliminary findings of a study investigating this gain mismatch in a treadmill-mediated Virtual Environment indicate that substantial changes in optic flow are required before they are perceived as unmatched,and that slightly fast optic flow speeds are more likely to be perceived as normal than slightly slow optic flow speeds.
Mining Conversational Text for Procedures

With the advances in speech recognition systems, large volumes of call transcripts are being collected from call centers. Many organizations have started giving customer support through instant messaging tools. The agents who attend to calls in call centers typically use manually authored proceduredocuments. Even with the advances in text analytics, there has not been much work in extracting useful information from call transcripts. In this paper, we consider any text derived from conversations like phone calls, web-chat and attempt to discover various procedures that are followed by agents during calls by analyzing the call transcripts in a semi-supervised manner. We also discuss how to use the discovered procedures for agent prompting and knowledge authoring. We first cluster the call transcripts in a given corpus to find the groups of conversations related to a single topic. Then, we analyze the calls within each topic-cluster for procedure-steps by again clustering agent and user transcripts separately. In this paper, we propose an approach for analyzing clusters to determine whether they describe topics or steps in a process. We formalize the differences between the two kinds of clusters and define a measure to differentiate between such clusters. Once, the steps in the calls are found, we find distinct frequent sequences of steps in the calls to discover the procedures. Call centers are centralized offices for the purpose of receiving and transmitting a large volume of requests by various communication channels like telephone, emails, and instant messages. A call centre is operated by a company to administer incoming product support or information inquiries from customers. This model is becoming more widespread because it allows companies to be in direct touch with their customers. A typical call center agent handles tens to hundreds of calls per day depending on the complexity of the issues that she addresses. With the advances in speech recognition technologies and their widespread deployment in call centers, huge volumes of data are produced everyday in the form of call transcripts. This is in addition to the data that is produced as a part of the process such as e-mail, instant messages (IM), reports from the agent, customer satisfaction surveys etc. In this paper, we use the phrase conversation (or simply call) transcripts to include transcripts of conversations through various media like audio calls and IM/web-chat. In this paper, we focus on unsupervised analysis of transcripts of conversations at typical call centers to extract various procedures followed by call center agents. There are quite a few applications that can use the procedures extracted from the conversational transcripts. We illustrate one example here and few more examples in the next section. Call center agents typically use manually authored documents (or knowledge bases) to answer the calls. Because they are manually authored, these knowledge bases can not quickly adapt to the various kinds of new problems that arise during the course of time. Moreover, manual aug
Is cardiac arrest an inflammatory state? Adding steroid into ACLS guidelines will save more lives?

Cardiac arrest is a life-threatening condition with low survival rate. Over the years ACLS guidelines have been developed to reduce cardiac arrest specific mortality rate. In this review article, the authors researched steroid use during and after CPR for determining its effect on survival rate and post cardiac arrest disabilities. Scholarly articles from well-known reputed journals relevant to both cardiac arrest and steroid use since 1960 have been reviewed. This article first examines the question whether cardiac arrest can be considered an inflammatory state. Afterwards, evidence of the beneficial role of steroid use in cardiac arrest and in other cardiac conditions have been outlined. In conclusion, this review paper summarizes any benefits of steroid use in cardiac arrest.Bangladesh Crit Care J September 2018; 6(2): 92-94
TV Applications for the Elderly: Assessing the Acceptance of Adaptation and Multimodality

— Current TV applications present uncountable challenges to an elderly user and these are prone to increase, working as a vehicle of exclusion. The GUIDE project aims at improving the elderly experience with present TV applications by deploying interfaces adapted to their abilities and preferences. We do so by building the interface based on a user model and providing new ways to interact with the TV (multimodality), and tailoring the UI to the users’ abilities, needs and preferences. In this paper, we assess concepts of the GUIDE framework with particular focus to the User Initialization Application (UIA), an interactive application able to build the aforementioned user model. We report an evaluation with 40 older users from two countries (UK and Spain). Results show that the UIA is able to create adequate profiles and that the users are able to positively observe the adaptations. Further, novel ways of interacting with the TV were also successfully evaluated as the users tended to experiment and rate positively most alternatives, particularly Speech and Tablet interaction.
Auditory illusion through headphones: History, challenges and new solutions

The dream of perfect re-creation of sound has always consisted of the reproduction of sounds such that they seem to be exact copies of an original signal and the plausible re-creation of complex sound environments, the possibility to be immersed in sound. The goal seems to be challenging, especially if reproduction via headphones is considered. In spite of an adequate technical realization the creation of a perfect auditory illusion is not predictable in a reliable way. Contemporary investigations show clearly that in addition to the static, source and listener dependent modifications to headphone sound, attention must be paid to cognitive effects: The perceived presence of a room rendering changes depending on the expectations of a listener. Prominent effects are acoustic divergence between the listening room and the synthesized scene, visibility of the room, and prior knowledge triggered by the location where the listener has been before. Cognitive effects are mostly time variant which includes anticipation and assimilation processes caused by training and adaptation. The contribution presents experiments showing some of these contextual effects. Quality features are shifted by adaptation and training. Furthermore, this contribution presents some proposals on how to get to the next level of fidelity in headphone listening.The dream of perfect re-creation of sound has always consisted of the reproduction of sounds such that they seem to be exact copies of an original signal and the plausible re-creation of complex sound environments, the possibility to be immersed in sound. The goal seems to be challenging, especially if reproduction via headphones is considered. In spite of an adequate technical realization the creation of a perfect auditory illusion is not predictable in a reliable way. Contemporary investigations show clearly that in addition to the static, source and listener dependent modifications to headphone sound, attention must be paid to cognitive effects: The perceived presence of a room rendering changes depending on the expectations of a listener. Prominent effects are acoustic divergence between the listening room and the synthesized scene, visibility of the room, and prior knowledge triggered by the location where the listener has been before. Cognitive effects are mostly time variant which includes anticipa.
Overweight and obesity in adults aged 20-74 in southern Iran.

OBJECTIVE : There is paucity of data on actual weight patterns among Iranians. It was the purpose of this study to provide estimates of prevalence of overweight and obesity among adult population aged 20-74 in southern Iran. DESIGN AND METHODS : In a cross-sectional study during January 1993 to September 1994, anthropometric measurements, including height and weight, were obtained in a randomly selected sample population (n = 3378), aged 20-74 years, and permanently resident of the southern province of Fars in Iran. Body mass index (BMI) (kg/m 2 ) was calculated for each individual, and the results were categorized for each sex by age groups of 5 years. RESULTS : The mean body mass index was 22.8 ± 4.6 (± SD) for men and 23.6 ± 6.6 (± SD) for women. Men had their highest BMI in their late forties and women did so in their early fifties. Twenty-five percent of men and 30% of women were overweight (BMI = 25-30). Eight percent of women and 2.5% of men were obese (BMI > 30). CONCLUSIONS : Contrary to the commonly-held belief that overweight and obesity are generally uncommon in Iran, this study revealed that both are prevalent in the adult population of southern Iran and both are more frequent among women than men. The frequency for either overweight or obesity in Iran is expected to increase further as life becomes increasingly sedentary unless early intervention by promotion of healthy life styles and provision of nutritional information to the public is implemented.
A Community of Practice Around Peer Review for Long-Term Research Software Sustainability

Scientific open source projects are responsible for enabling many of the major advances in modern science including recent breakthroughs such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory project recognized in the 2017 Nobel Prize for physics. However, much of this software ecosystem is developed ad hoc with no regard for sustainable software development practices. This problem is further compounded by the fact that researchers who develop software have little in the way of resources or academic recognition for their efforts. The rOpenSci Project, founded in 2011 with the explicit mission of developing software to support reproducible science, has in recent years undertaken an effort to improve the long tail of scientific software. In this paper, we describe our software peer-review system, which brings together the best of traditional academic review with new ideas from industry code review.
L’aspect imperfectif dans le passé-Approche contrastive français-chinois

Résumé Cette étude analyse les marqueurs de l‟aspect imperfectif du passé en français et en chinois. Ces deux langues sont typologiquement éloignées et les moyens pour exprimer la valeur aspectuelle sont différents. On va d‟abord présenter les marqueurs de l‟aspect imperfectif au passé dans les deux langues. Puis en se fondant sur la théorie de l‟analyse contrastive, on comparera les deux et on indiquera les similitudes et les divergences. On remarquera que l‟aspect imperfectif et les types de procès coexistent. Toutefois, la compatibilité entre l‟aspect imperfectif et les types de procès ainsi que la nécessité d‟un marqueur d‟aspect dans les deux langues sont différentes. Mots-clés : aspect imperfectif, type de procès, analyse contrastive, français,
Lexical acquisition: Exploiting on-line resources to build a lexicon.

Contents: U. Zernik, Introduction. Part I:Lexical Senses. P. Jacobs, Making Sense of Lexical Acquisition. R. Krovetz, Lexical Acquisition and Information Retrieval. B. Slator, Using Context for Sense Preference. U. Zernik, Tagging Word Sense In Corpus. Part II:Lexical Statistics. K. Church, W. Gale, P. Hanks, D. Hindle, Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis. F. Smadja, Macrocoding the Lexicon with Co-Occurrence Knowledge. N. Calzolari, Lexical Databases and Textual Corpora: Perspectives of Integration for a Lexical Knowledge-Base. Part III:Lexical Representation. R. Beckwith, C. Fellbaum, D. Gross, G. Miller, WordNet: A Lexical Database Organized on Psycholinguistic Principles. B. Atkins, B. Levin, Admitting Impediments. B. Dorr, Conceptual Basis of the Lexicon in Machine Translation. M. Dyer, Lexical Acquisition Through Symbol Recirculation. Part IV:Lexical Semantics. P. Velardi, Acquiring a Semantic Lexicon for Natural Language Processing. L. Braden-Harder, W. Zadrozny, Lexicons for Broad Coverage Semantics. J. Martin, Representing and Acquiring Metaphor-Based Polysemy.
Evidence-Based Practice Models to Maximize Nursing’s Contributions to Global Health

Despite the growing recognition of the importance of evidence-based practice (EBP) and Evidence Based Nursing (EBN), there remain barriers to the implementation of EBP and EBN in many countries including lack of knowledge as well as time and resources for full EBP implementation. The International Council of Nursing, recognizing the need to prepare nurses and midwives in EBP, has published a toolkit to help nurses better understand EBP so that they can make optimal contributions to global health care. This paper is based on a presentation made at the first International Nursing Conference on “Enhancing Evidence Based Nursing Practice, held at Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University in Nepal in November 2014. The purpose of this paper is to review the history of the EBP movement in nursing and health care, compare concepts of EBP with the concepts of translational science, implementation science, and improvement science, and describe the process of Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) practice. The paper concludes with a discussion of barriers to EBP, recommendations for strategies to address these barriers, and implications for improving EBN in Nepal and other Asian countries.