Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Clinical and radiological value of whole-body magnetic resonance imaging in health screening of top executives

Background : Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) and angiography (WB-MRA) has become increasingly popular in population-based research. We evaluated retrospectively the frequency of potentially relevant incidental findings throughout the body. Materials and methods: 22 highly health-conscious managers (82% men, mean age 47±9 years) underwent WB-MRI and WB-MRA between March 2012 and September 2013 on a Discovery MR750w wide bore 3 Tesla device (GE Healthcare) using T1 weighted, short tau inversion recovery (STIR) and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) acquisitions according to a standardized protocol. Results: A suspicious (pararectal) malignancy was detected in one patient (4.5%) which was confirmed by an endorectal sonography. Incidental findings were described in 20 subjects (91%), including hydrocele (50%), benign bony lesion (32%) and non-specific lymph nodes (23%). Further investigations were recommended in 68% (ultrasound: 36%, computed tomography: 28%, mammography: 9%, additional MRI: 9%). WB-MRA were negative in 16 subjects (73%). Vascular normal variations were reported in 23%, and a 40% left proximal common carotid artery stenosis were described in one subject (4.5%). Conclusion: WB-MRI and MRA lead to the detection of clinically relevant diseases and unexpected findings in a cohort of top executives that require further imaging or surveillance in 68%. WB-MR imaging may play a paramount role in health screening, especially in the future generation of (epi)genetic based screening of malignant and atherosclerotic disorders. Our study is the first which involved a highly selected patient group using a high field 3-T wide bore magnet system with T1, STIR, MRA and whole-body DWI acquisitions as well.
Primer epiploik apandisit: Klinik ve radyolojik görüntüleme bulgulari Primary epiploic appendagitis: Clinic and radiologic imaging findings

Introduction: Primary epiploic appendagitis (PEA) is a rare and self-limiting disease that can mimicking acute apendicitis and diverticulitis because of the clinical symptoms. The present retrospective study was discussed to clinical and radiologic characteristics of PEA. Methods: We reviewed the clinical, laboratory and computed tomography (CT) findings of 10 patients with PEA between August 2010 and December 2012.
Exploring Cheat Sheets for Data Visualization Techniques

A cheat sheet is a set of concise graphical and textual explanations, inspired by infographics, data comics, and cheat sheets in other domains. Cheat sheets aim to support learning, teaching, and the regular use of both common and novel visualization techniques in a variety of contexts. To design cheat sheets for visualization techniques, we describe four components of a cheat sheet: anatomy, visual patterns, pitfalls and introduction and show examples for three visualization techniques. Our cheat sheets address the increasing need for accessible material that supports understanding data visualization techniques, their use, their fallacies and so forth by a larger audience.
Title: Uncertainty and decision making in clinical development: the impact of an interim analysis based on the posterior predictive power on depression trials

Objectives: Clinical trials for marketed anti-depressant have a failure rate of almost 50%1. This failure rate may be attributed to several factors, among which (1) the heterogeneity of the patient population, (2) the insensitivity of the endpoint (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, HAMD)2 to detect drug effect, (3) the nature of the disease, which leads to a high placebo effect and (4) inadequately powered studies. An appropriate interim analysis may lead to early detection and stopping of failing clinical trials, and may prevent clinical trials to accrue patients long after sufficient evidence of statistical significance has been achieved. In previous work we have suggested the use of a Bayesian hierarchical model with composite random effects to analyse depression data. The current investigation explores the feasibility of applying a Bayesian approach for interim analysis, thereby improving the accuracy of estimates for futility and efficacy criteria.
13 Detection of indoor fungi bioaerosols

The detection of microorganisms in environmental samples, particularly from air, has a long history, greatly pre-dating the analysis of the chemical contaminants that are now generally more familiar to occupational hygiene. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was the first to demonstrate the presence of microbial cells in indoor dust, but it was not until two centuries later that Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously demonstrated lactic acid fermentation by airborne microbes by introducing air into sterile broth in swan-necked flasks, thereby defeating the spontaneous generation hypothesis of microbial life (Pasteur 1857). Based on the recognition that living microorganisms could travel through the air, Pasteur’s methods were rapidly enlisted in the search for agents of human diseases, such as cholera and typhoid. Another early air sampler, the “aeroconioscope” of Maddox (1870), relied on wind pressure to propel air through a cone tapered to a narrow point positioned above an adhesivecoated slide onto which particles were impacted (Cunningham 1873, MacKenzie 1961). Although this device was effective in capturing particles from the air, airborne concentrations could not be determined because the volume of air drawn through the instrument could not be measured.
A Study on the Magnitude and Causes Ethiopian Higher Institutions: Evidence from Ambo University

Considering high turnover as a sign of failure in an educational organization, the study was conducted to assess the causes of turnover among the academic staffs of Ambo University. The study focused on six plausible factors: economic, managerial, environmental, social and technological, teaching related factors and student characters. To achieve this end, the data were collected from 295 (113 former and 182 current) staff members through attitudinal survey questionnaire, semi-structured interview, focused group discussions analysis. The former staff members were selected on the bases of available and snowball sampling techniques, whereas, multistage stratified sampling techniques were employed to select the current staffs. The analysis employed both quantitativ approaches. Considering data were ordinal, percentage, median, weighted mean, standard deviation, ranking methods and Mann Whitney U Test were used analyze the data. The results determined that economic, social service and technological, characters, teaching related and environmental factors in descending order are identified as the reasons for the teacher turnover in the university. In relation to the groups, male, experienced, elder instructors were dissatisfied and t than their counterparts. Therefore, in bringing about improvement in these factors, the government should revise the compensations, fringe benefit, promotion performance appraisal policies to enhance opportunities for the academic staffs for experienced Maters and PhD holder instructors further opportunities and implement the policies in fair and transp both federal and the regional government should give due attention to improve the supply of pure water, electric power, network and internet service for Ambo town in general and for AU in particular. Copyright@2015 STAR Journal
Career paths in mathematics: a comparison between women and men

In western industrialized countries, we can still find the stereotype that Mathematics is not a subject for women. This is reflected, for instance, in the number of female university professors: in many countries (we shall be focussing on Germany), the percentage of women among the university professors is very small. In order to discover the (historical and current) causes of this phenomenon, we analyzed the career paths of several thousand individuals who successfully completed their studies of mathematics at German universities during the 20th century. This paper introduces the resources and methods of our interdisciplinary research project and presents the main results obtained by comparing career paths of male and female mathematicians. Some popular science books currently enjoying wide distribution suggest that women may be genetically predisposed to be poor at mathematics. These books—allegedly based on scientific results—serve to reinforce gender stereotypes and claim, among other things, that women have a weaker spatial sense than men due to structural differences of the brain. The argument goes that therefore women are less likely than men to choose professions that require spatial visualization skills. To see an example of this:
The Effect of Polypropylene Fibers on Mechanical Behavior of Perlite Based Geopolymers

Anahtar Kelimeler Geopolimer, Basınç Mukavemeti, Eğilme Mukavemeti, Polipropilen Lif Özet: Altyapı çalışmaları dünya çapında büyüdükçe, Normal Portland Çimento (NPÇ) talebi de katlanarak artmaktadır. Çalışmalar, bir ton çimento üretiminin, kireç taşının kalsinasyonu ve fosil yakıtın yanması nedeniyle bir ton CO2' i atmosfere saldığını ortaya koymuştur. Çimento üretimi son derece enerji-yoğun bir süreç olmasının yanında enerji elde etmek için fosil kaynakları tüketen ve sera gazı üreten bir süreçtir. Davidovits (1978), bağlayıcıların, alkali sıvının uçucu kül, yüksek fırın cürufu, pirinç kabuğu külü gibi alümino-silikat materyalleri ile polimerik reaksiyonu ile üretilebileceği yeni bir yol önermiştir. Ayrıca kaya bazlı puzolanlardan üretilen geopolimerlerin güçlü kimyasal bağlar oluşturma yetenekleri vardır. Elyaf takviyeli geopolimer, mukavemet özelliklerini geliştirmek amacıyla, mikro takviye olarak, karışımına fiberlerin sokulduğu, görece yeni bir kompozit malzemedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı eğilme ve basınç mukavemeti yüksek olan ve normal çimentoya alternatif olan bir yapısal bağlayıcı geliştirmektir. Bunun için bu çalışmada polipropilen liflerin, perlit tabanlı geopolimerlerin mekanik davranışı üzerindeki etkisi incelenmiştir. Bu eksikliklerin giderilmesi ile geopolimerlerin yararlı çevre dostu bir malzeme olduğu da vurgulanmış olacaktır.
Efficient Checkpointing in Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems

DistributedByzantinefault-tolerantsystems requirefrequentcheck-points of the application state to perform periodic garbage collection and enable faulty replicas to recover efficiently. State-of-the-art checkpointing approaches for replicated systems either cause significant service disruption when the application state is large, or they are unable to produce checkpoints that are verifiable across replicas. To address these problems we developed and evaluated deterministic fuzzy checkpointing , a technique to create consistent and verifiable checkpoints in parallel with request execution
Rede de cuidados de crianças com necessidades especiais de saúde

This is a qualitative study that aimed to describe the care network of children with special health care needs in different levels of the health care system, during the follow-up after discharge. The data were produced through the development of the dynamics of creativity and sensitivity, the speaking map and the creative and sensitive method, involving five children’s families between 2009 and 2011. The caregivers’ discourse pointed out that these children’s care network comprises the institutional and familial dimensions. The first showed to be broad and diverse but scattered, comprising various health and education professionals. The second consists of members of the close female relatives, such as mothers and grandmothers, showing an exclusively familial care. The expansion and consolidation of multiprofessional care networks is recommended to facilitate the access to health care and quality of life for these children and their family caregivers. DESCRIPTORS: Child health. Pediatric nursing. Family. Caregivers. RED DE CUIDADOS DE LOS NIÑOS CON NECESIDADES ESPECIALES EN SALUD RESUMEN: Estudio cualitativo que objetivó describir la red de cuidados de niños con necesidades especiales en salud en los diferentes niveles de atención después del alta hospitalaria. Los datos fueron producidos con la aplicación de la dinámica de creatividad y sensibilidad, el mapa hablante y del método creativo sensible, con cinco familias de estos niños entre 2009 y 2011. Los discursos de la familia señalaron que la red de cuidados se compone de las dimensiones institucional y familiar. La primera se mostró amplia y diversa, aunque dispersa, compuesto por profesionales de salud y educación. Y en la segunda, la asistencia es exclusivamente familiar, con miembros, todas mujeres, como madres y abuelas. Se recomienda la ampliación y consolidación de la red de cuidado con abordaje multidisciplinar, facilitando el acceso a la atención de salud y la calidad de vida estos niños y sus familiares cuidadores. DESCRIPTORES: Salud del niño. Enfermería pediátrica. Família. Cuidadores. 399 http://dx.doi. org/10.1590/0104-07072015003010013
A Unifying Perspective of Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition

Plan, activity, and intent recognition (PAIR) have much in common and are often discussed within the same research community. However, the actual methods for each type of recognition are rarely considered with respect to the others. This leads to lost opportunities where the work in one type of PAIR can play a role in the advancement of other types. To motivate taking advantage of commonalities between different types of PAIR, we propose a generalized formalization of recognition that can be used in all three types of recognition. We also propose a perspective that emphasizes how PAIR applies to different aspects of the generative planning and execution process. The relations between PAIR in this perspective enable us to illustrate a few examples of how current PAIR methods can be used in other types of recognition outside the one for which they were developed.
PROPERTIES OF HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETE CONTAINING ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE STEEL SLAG AGGREGATE

Steel slag is produced as by-product during the oxidation of steel pellets in an electric arc furnace. This by-product can be broken down to smaller sizes to be used as aggregates in asphalt and concrete. In the current research, locally produced steel slag in Egypt was used as a replacement of the natural aggregate for producing high strength concrete. Four groups consisted of twenty-four normal, high and ultra-high strength concrete mixtures with replacement percentages 0%, 33.33%, 66.67% and 100% by weight of the coarse aggregate with two cement contents (450 kg/m 3 and 600 kg/m 3 ) and three silica fume percentages (0%, 10% and 20%) were investigated. In addition, other three groups consists of six concrete mixes of cement contents 350 kg/m 3 and 450 kg/m 3 were cast to study the possibility of using the fine electric arc furnace steel slag particles as a replacement of the used natural fine aggregate in the concrete mixtures . The effect of the studied key parameters which are the replacement ratio of the used electric arc furnace steel slag (EAFSS), the cement content and the silica fume percentage on the volume weight, compressive strength, flexural strength, indirect tensile strength, static of elasticity modulus and Permeability coefficient were studied. The results indicated that the highest concrete strength was obtained for the mixtures possessed a percentage of 66.67% steel slag aggregates as a replacement of the coarse aggregate. Moreover, the replacement of the natural fine aggregate by the fine steel slag as well as the EAFSS coarse aggregate produced a high strength pervious porous concrete.
Epidemiological Studies on Canine Microfilariosis due to Dirofilaria repens in and around Mangalore- a Coastal Region of Karnataka

Canine filariasis is caused by several species of filarid nematodes which are widely prevalent throughout the world, more specifically in the coastal region. They belong to the super family Filarioidea and family Onchocercidae. About nine filarial nematode species known to infect dogs worldwide are Acanthocheilonema reconditum, Acanthocheilonema dracunculoides, Brugia malayi, Brugia pahangi, Brugia ceylonensis, Brugia patei, Cercopithifilaria grassii, Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens (Nelson, 2011). D. immitis is also known as heartworm, distributed worldwide and endemic in North, Central and South America, Africa, southern Europe and Asia. Subcutaneous dirofilariasis due to D. repens is widely distributed throughout Europe, Asia and Africa, with higher prevalence reported International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 09 (2019) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Fast Computation of the Expected Loss of a Loan Portfolio Tranche in the Gaussian Factor Model: Using Hermite Expansions for Higher Accuracy

We propose a fast algorithm for computing the expected tranche loss in the Gaussian factor model. We test it on portfolios ranging in size from 25 (the size of DJ iTraxx Australia) to 100 (the size of DJCDX.NA.HY) with a single factor Gaussian model and show that the algorithm gives accurate results. The algorithm proposed here is an extension of the algorithm proposed in \cite{PO}. The advantage of the new algorithm is that it works well for portfolios of smaller size for which the normal approximation proposed in \cite{PO} in not sufficiently accurate. The algorithm is intended as an alternative to the much slower Fourier transform based methods \cite{MD}.
CATHETER ABLATION OF LONE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION Running title: Lone AF Ablation Authors:

Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained arrhythmia in clinical practice, associated with increased mortality, risk of stroke and heart failure, as well as the reduction of the quality of life. Atrial fibrillation may be encountered in young otherwise healthy individuals, due to the isolated electrophysiological disorder limited mostly to the pulmonary veins and posterior left atrial wall, or associated with the presence of advanced underlying heart disease and numerous cardiac and non-cardiac comorbidities with significant structural remodeling of the atrial myocardium. Due to limited efficacy and serious side effects of antiarrhythmic drugs, catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, based on the pulmonary vein isolation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and adjunctive substrate modification for persistent atrial fibrillation, has emerged as an attractive and promissing alternative therapeutic option for selected patients with atrial fibrillation. In this review article, we discuss the electrophysiological left atrial abnormalities underlying lone atrial fibrillation and the role of pulmonary veins in pathophysiology of arrhythmia, and we summarize results of the studies on the long term outcome of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, as well as the studies on comparison of antiarrhythmic drugs with catheter ablation for treatment of atrial fibrillation. In addition, we present available data that provide better understanding of mechanisms, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of specific procedure-related complications and discuss current periprocedural anticoagulation strategies and their impact on the thromboembolic risk reduction.
Challenges of language change and variation: towards an extended treebank of Medieval French

In order to automatically extend a treebank of Old French (9 th -13 th c.) with new texts in Old and Middle French (14 th -15 th c.), we need to adapt tools for syntactic annotation. However, these stages of French are subjected to great variation, and parsing historical texts remains an issue. We chose to adapt a symbolic system, the French Metagrammar (FRMG), and develop a lexicon comparable to the Lefff lexicon for Old and Middle French. The ﬁnal goal of our project is to model the evolution of language through the whole period of Medieval French (9 th -15 th c.).
Ophiopogon japonicas (Linn. f.) Ker-Gawl. extract ameliorates chronic heart failure in rats

Purpose: To investigate the effect of Ophiopogon japonicas (Linn. f.) Ker-Gawl. extract (OJKE) on oxidative stress and hemodynamics in chronic congestive heart failure (CHF) rats. Methods: The rats were modelled to congestive heart failure (except normal group) , and then randomly divided into normal control group, model (untreated) group, captopril group, high-dose, middle-dose and low-dose of OJKE groups. They were treated for 4 weeks as appropriate for each group. At the end of treatment, the hemodynamic function, whole heart weight index, and blood creatinine kinase (CK), as well as superoxide dismutase (SOD), malondialdehyde (MDA), nitric oxide (NO), nitricoxide synthase (NOS) were determined. Results: Compared with the normal control group, arterial systolic pressure (SBP), diastolic pressure (DBP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), left ventricular systolic peak (LVSP), and left ventricular pressure change rate (dp/dt max) significantly decreased (p < 0.05), while left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP), whole heart weight index, blood CK, MDA, NO, NOS significantly increased in the untreated group (p < 0.05). A high dose of OJKE significantly improved hemodynamic function, lowered MDA (8.33 ± 2.12 nmol/mL) and NO (20.58 ± 3.53 umol/L) levels (p < 0.05), and also decreased CK (0.53±0.37 U/mL) and NOS (22.46±3.29 U/mL) in CHF rats (p < 0.05). Conclusion: OJKE improved adriamycin-induced chronic congestive heart failure in rats significantly.
Realization of Bluetooth-equipped Device for Wireless Sensor Network†

In this paper, we realized a portable Bluetooth-equipped device for the wireless sensor network. This device is designed to be able to connect various sensors and control external devices. Bluetooth has so nice features such as low power consumption, sufficient data throughput and high resistance to noise that we utilize Bluetooth as a basis of the device for the wireless sensor network. We implement not only the ad hoc network to realize a small network but also the scatternet to construct a large scale network by connecting and switching the small network. We demonstrate applications using the device for wearable sensors, environmental information sensors and controllers of home electric appliances. These demonstrations prove that the realized device has sufficient performance for the wireless sensor network in the daily life.
Racial factors in the incidence and causation of end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

: During the years 1973, 1974 and 1975, the average annual rate of new ESRD patients was 50.4/million in a 7-county region of Southeastern Michigan. There were marked differences in the rate of new ESRD cases which paralleled the proportion of black individuals in the population. The ESRD rate for the black population was not significantly different in 3 districts within this region, ranging from 125.4 to 159.4/million. The ESRD rate for the white population ranged from 29.4 to 41.3/million, white individuals in Detroit having a significantly lower ESRD rate than white individuals in the area immediately adjacent to the city. The reason for this difference is not apparent. The data indicate that black individuals are more prone to develop ESRD from glomerulonephritis, hypertension, and diabetic nephropathy. In addition, racial factors are an important consideration in health care planning for ESRD treatment.