Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Video and Computer Games as Grounding Experiences for Learning

A powerful role for games and simulations is providing rich, perceptuallygrounded experience with the content being learned, which when combined with more formal learning activities, provides deeper more robust learning that transfers. Research with an historical simulation game found that grappling with historical dynamics via game play prepared students to learn more from reading a difficult chapter from a college history text. Similarly, interpreting observations in an archaeological site simulation increased students’ ability to interpret and argue using such observations. Other research showed that having learners use avatars to role play historical actors and events in a virtual world simulation of the history increased learning, understanding and transfer of historical knowledge acquired from reading about the history. Further research found that increasing the perceptual richness of grounding physics experiences with a simulation game providing force feedback increased student learning and understanding of concepts in physics.
The Cardiopulmonary Effects of Calcitonin-Gene Related Peptide Family

The cardiopulmonary diseases are very common in the population. They are high-cost diseases and there are still no definitive treatments. The roles of members of the calcitonin-gene-related peptide (CGRP) family in the cardiopulmonary diseases have been studied for many years and promising results are obtained. Especially in recent years, two important members of the family, adrenomedullin and adrenomedullin2/intermedin, are considered as new treatment targets in cardiopulmonary diseases. In this review, the roles of CGRP family peptides in cardiopulmonary diseases has been investigated according to the studies that were performed to the present day.
Is the Italian student survey on teaching reliable? For what purposes?

Italian universities submit a compulsory survey to students for the evaluation of teaching activities. The questionnaire, designed by the Italian National Agency for University and Research System Evaluation (ANVUR), aims to evaluate four dimensions of teaching quality (course, instructor, personal interest and overall satisfaction) through twelve questions on a four-level scale. This paper addresses first the issue of the questionnaire’s reliability in the representation of the four evaluation dimensions. The main result is that the questionnaire do not represent properly the four dimensions of evaluation which it is intended for. Secondly, through a preliminary statistical analysis, it discusses the use of the survey for comparative purposes. A comparative analysis can be adversely affected by several contextual and subjective factors, like the size of the class and the gender of the instructor. The paper concludes by discussing the difficulty of finding proper conditioning, and raises doubts regarding an uncritical comparative use of student evaluations of teaching activities.
Ovarian Cancer Classification using Bayesian Logistic Regression

Cancer is one of the most common cause of death. One of the diseases that can be threaten women all over the world is ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is the eighth type of cancer that most women suffer from. Estimated that around 225.000 new cases are detected every year and around 140.000 people die each year from ovarian cancer. Based on WHO data, published in 2014, in Indonesia 7,6% of all cancer deaths are caused by ovarian cancer. So far there is no effective screening method for ovarian cancer. Current screening applications for high-risk women are still very controversial. There are many classification techniques has been applied for ovarian cancer prediction, for example deep learning, neuro fuzzy, neural network, and so many more. In this paper, we propose Bayesian logistic regression for ovarian cancer classification. We use data of patients suffer from ovarian cancer from RS Al-Islam Bandung to demonstrate the method. The accuracy expectation in this paper around 70%.
An Algorithm for Lane Departure Detection Based on Scan line and Region Growing

Driving fatigue is one of the main causes that result in highway crashes.The information from lane departure detection can evaluate the state of driving fatigue.This paper presents an algorithm combining scan line and region-growing method based on video images analysis,in which lane-marking recognition and driving deviation detection are realized.We use the region of interest(ROI) to figure out the current track of the driving vehicle,and give a frame disposal strategy concerning the track's parameter so as to meet the need for real time management.The result of our algorithm will provide necessary data for the future analysis of driving fatigue.
Why emphysema patients are the way they are.

The patient with chronic airway obstruction has the second most common cause for admission to hospitals, and on a nationwide basis, has an ailment which is the second most common cause for disability under the Social Security system. Thus, nurses and other health personnel working both in and out of hospitals will encounter an increasing number of emphysema patients in the future. This, coupled with the fact that the disease is a chronic progressive one, makes understanding the emphysema patient of paramount importance for all who provide health care today. What are emphysema patients really like, and why? The average patient with chronic airway obstruction has usually had a very insidious progression of disease with chronic cough and expectoration. This has been followed by the subtle
Efficient Group Key Agreement Protocol (EGKAP) using Queue Structure

Abstract Group communication on the Internet is exploding in popularity. Video conferencing, Enterprise IM, desktop sharing, and numerous forms of e-commerce are but a few examples of the ways in which the Internet is being used for business. The growing use of group communication has highlighted the need for advances in security. There are several approaches to securing user identities and other information transmitted over the Internet. One of the foundations of secure communication is key management, a building block for encryption, authentication, access control, and authorization. Key Words : key management, key agreement, secure group communication, network security, secure group key * 백석대학교 정보통신학부 조교수논문접수: 2012년 4월 30일, 1차 수정을 거쳐, 심사완료: 2012년 5월 11일 1. Introduction Key management and member authentication processes take place at the beginning of group communication. To establish a secure group, all members are authenticated, then generate and use a common group key (GK) to encrypt and decrypt messages [3]. To achieve a high level of security, the GK should be changed after any member joins or leaves so that former group members have no access to current communications and new members have no access to previous communications [2]. One problem inherent in this process is that the computation of GKs often takes a significant amount of time – even when a group’s size is relatively small. To address this problem, a recent focus in key management is the efficient generation of GKs [1][8][9]. It is this need for efficient key generation that we address.I describe a new approach to GK generation, the Efficient Group Key Agreement Protocol (EGKAP) with using Queue structure. EGKAP provides a queue-based divide and conquer algorithm that is more efficient than the Tree-based Group Diffie-Hellman (TGDH) protocol that is currently the most efficient group key generation protocol [9]. I describe the EGKAP protocol in detail below. Then, to demonstrate how the EGKAP provides an efficient way to determine high-performance members without additional computational overhead, I contrast its’ efficiency with the TGDH protocol in several experimental tasks. Our
On the relative advantages of teaching Web services in .NET vs. J2EE.

KACHRU, SANDEEP TEJKISHEN. On the relative advantages of teaching Web services in . NET vs. J2EE. (Under the direction of Dr. Edward F. Gehringer.) . NET and J2EE are currently the two leading technologies in enterprise-level application development. In the coming years, according to various surveys, these two technologies will capture an almost equal amount of market share. They are also the platforms of choice for developing Web services. There is an ongoing debate about the advantage of developing Web services in one over the other. We look at this question from the perspective of educators. We compare and analyze the two platforms using a number of parameters such as features present in each platform, tools and resources offered by the two and compatibility with the rest of the curriculum. We study the most significant difference between the two platforms – the platform independence of J2EE and the language independence of . NET, and discuss their relative advantages in an academic environment. We discover that both of the platforms offer equal support for the development of Web services and teach the concepts equally well. While . NET offers integrated, native support for various phases of Web services development, Java platform achieves this with several new libraries. On the other hand, J2EE’s major advantage over . NET is the popularity of the Java language in academia. Thus, teaching Web services in Java maintains uniformity in the curriculum. A looming factor is the growth of C# as a teaching language. Though it seems destined to be adapted as a primary language in more schools, it will be some time before it can challenge Java as the most popular language in universities. We finally compare the development process of Web services in IBM’s Websphere and Microsoft’s Visual Studio . NET and find them remarkably similar. Both the tools provide comparable features to develop Web services easily. Thus, the choice of platform will depend on factors other than the relative ease of teaching Web services. Arguments in favor of J2EE are platform independence, multiple vendor support, popularity of Java in universities, a greater number of tools and resources etc. However, it does not allow programming in any other language besides Java and does not offer native support for Web services. On the other hand, the . NET platform has support for multiple languages, integrated support for Web services, an excellent development tool and a language that is becoming more popular in academia. The factors that go against . NET are inadequate platform independence and single-vendor support. We conclude that there is no clear winner and the choice of platform will depend on various local factors. Finally, we provide a road-map that will help the educators in making the decision. ON THE RELATIVE ADVANTAGES OF TEACHING WEB SERVICES IN . NET vs. J2EE
Ophthalmic Artery Occlusion From Injection of Heroin Into the Forehead

Purpose: To report a case of ophthalmic artery occlusion after injection of heroin into the forehead. Methods: Retrospective case report. Results: A 27-year-old patient with a history of intravenous heroin abuse presented with a left ophthalmic artery occlusion after attempting to inject heroin into a vein in her forehead. Exam was significant for diffuse retinal edema, disc edema, disc hemorrhage, and diffuse retinal hemorrhages. Findings were also noted in the widefield image, optical coherence tomography, and optical coherence tomography angiography of the retina. Conclusions: This patient suffered from a severe form of talc retinopathy resulting in an ophthalmic artery occlusion after injecting heroin into her forehead. To our knowledge, this is the first instance of combined ophthalmic artery occlusion and talc retinopathy resulting from intentional injection into a superficial facial vein.
The Books Management System under the Cloud Model Research

With the development of science and information technology, gradually to the books in the library information management intensification. Since the concept of the cloud computing is proposed that this rate has been greatly accelerated. Based on cloud computing service platform as a kind of suitable for library application architecture model, can be together scattered digital information resources integration, realize the intensification of the digital library, as the co-construction and sharing of digital resources provides a new solution.
Adaption of Integrated Secure Guide for Secure Software Development Lifecycle

As interests in security increases, several software development lifecycle considering security have been proposed. Actual results of applying software development lifecycle considering security reduced threats have been reported. But to apply software development lifecycle considering security, requires expertise and experiences. In this paper a secure software development lifecycle applying integrated secure guide is proposed. Secure Guides such as Misuse Case, Security Patterns and Secure Coding are integrated in the proposed method. And then, by applying integrated Secure Guide in each software development phase, the security becomes available in every phase of software development. Since, proposed secure guide provides more security information than available secure guides, software developer can use more security information while they are developing software. As a result, it is expected that developers could consider security more easily when developing software even though developers lacks expertise in security or experience.
The Present and the Future Perspectives of Biological Network Inference

Biological network inference is based on a series of studies and computational approaches to the deduction of the connectivity of chemical species, the reaction pathway, and the reaction kinetics of complex reaction systems from experimental measurements. Inference for network structure and reaction kinetics parameters governing the dynamics of a biological system is currently an active area of research. In the era of post-genomic biology, it is a common opinion among scientists that living systems (cells, tissues, organs and organisms) can be understood in terms of their network structure as well as in term of the evolution in time of this network structure. In this chapter, the authors make a survey of the recent methodologies proposed for the structure inference and for the parameter estimation of a system of interacting biological entities. Furthermore, they present the recent works of the authors about model identification and calibration.
Thoracolaparoscopic McKeown esophagectomy.

Unlike Europe and America, the rate of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in China is 90% higher (1); also, most of the lesions are located at the middle thoracic part of the esophagus. There has been an increasing number of esophagectomies has been performing by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in China. Patients are staged with an upper endoscopy and computed tomography (CT) chest/abdomen scan with oral and intravenous contrast.
Antimicrobial Profile of Clinical Isolates in Intensive Car e Unit at a Tertiary Care Hospital

Introduction: Intensive Care Units (ICU’s) provides a suitable environment for the proliferation and persistence of multidrug organisms. The burden of nosocomial infections among critically ill patients is much higher in developing countries. Aims and Objectives: The present study was conducted to know the prevalence of bacterial pathogens from various ICU’s of a tertiary care hospital and to determine their resistance profile. Materials and methods: A retrospective study was done on 188 isolates collected over a period of 10 months from January 2018 to October 2018. The isolates were identified by the conventional biochemical method and antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by Kirby bauer disc diffusion method. Results: The most common gram negative isolate obtained in this study was Klebsiella spp. About 90/188 (47.87%), followed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa 22/188 (11.70%), Acinetobacter spp. 21/188 (11.17%), and E. coli 20/188 (10.64%). The predominant gram positive cocci isolated were Enterococcus spp. 9/188 (4.79%). All gram negative bacilli were sensitive to Imipenem. About 23.33% of Klebsiella isolates were resistant to Piperacillin tazobactam and 18.89% to Cefoperazone sulbactam. The most effective drugs against gram negative bacilli were Imipenem, Piperacillin tazobactam, and Cefoperazone sulbactam. Conclusion: This study showed the prevalence of multidrug resistant Klebsiella spp. from various ICU’s. These isolates were resistant to third generation cephalosporins, quinolones, and aminoglycosides and were sensitive to carbapenems. Among the non-fermenting gram negative bacilli, the resistant rates were higher for Acinetobacter isolates compared to Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
The oxidative stress in preeclampsia

Background: The pathogenesis theories of preeclampsia include inappropriate trophoblast invasion and incomplete remodeling of spiral uterine arteries. This is followed by a reduced utero-placental perfusion; ischemia is the cause of oxidative stress activation. The imbalance between the oxidant and antioxidant components in favor of pro-oxidation, induce endothelium activation and / or dysfunction with the occurrence of clinical and laboratory manifestations. Material and methods: It was proposed a comparative prospective study including 105 pregnant women with preeclampsia in comparison with 367 pregnancies without preeclampsia. Pro-oxidant and antioxidant status and its correlation with systolic blood pressure values and classical laboratory marchers were analyzed. Results: In preeclampsia there is an excess accumulation of pro-oxidants comparing to control group p<0.001 . Malondialdehyde and Advanced Oxidation Protein Products are most implicated in hypertensive syndrome r 0.7, p<0.001. Inflammatory diseases of uro-excretory tract accompanying preeclampsia, demonstrate excess accumulation of Advanced Oxidation Protein Products and AGE verprelizine-like and AGE pentozidine-like r 0.7, p<0.001. Modified ischemic albumin did not get the modified value in the research group. Conclusions : Excess accumulation of pro-oxidants in preeclampsia plays an important role in pathogenesis pathway, clinical and laboratory manifestation of preeclampsia.
A retrospective analysis of the correlation between AXL expression and clinical outcomes of patients with urothelial bladder carcinoma

Background Immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis of primary tumors revealed that AXL expression is associated with survival in patients with different cancers. The objective of our study is to investigate the relationship between the expression of AXL and clinical outcomes of patients with bladder carcinoma (BC). Methods A total of 407 samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database and 203 patients with clinical and pathological diagnosis of BC in our hospital were used to assess the association of AXL and clinical outcomes of BC patients. IHC was performed to evaluate the expression of AXL in tumor tissue collected after surgical treatment. Results Data from TCGA showed that AXL mRNA expression was significantly associated with poor clinical-pathological characters and short overall survival (OS) of BC patients. In our study, AXL was significantly related to worse pathological T-stage (pT), lymph node metastasis (pN), and tumor grade. In univariate analysis, abundant AXL was significantly associated with the worse OS. In multivariate analysis, AXL, as well as pT, pN, and Ki67, was an independent prognostic factor in predicting the survival of patients. Conclusions AXL was an unfavorable prognostic factor, which was associated with poor clinical outcomes of BC patients.
Lightweight Extraction of Variability Information from Linux Makefiles

In Linux v3.19, the configuration system KCONFIG offers more than fourteen thousand configurable options that allows users to build a kernel specific to their respective needs. As these configurable options span across all layers involved in the kernel build process (KCONFIG, the build system KBUILD, and the code), manual checking for inconsistencies caused by these options is close to impossible. Recently, Valentin Rothberg presented UNDERTAKER-CHECKPATCH, a tool based on the UNDERTAKER toolchain which allows developers to quickly check their proposed patches for errors introduced by the use of configurable options. Unfortunately, the tool currently can not incorporate information from KBUILD, as the extractor needs several hours to compute the variability data. In this thesis, I therefore present a parsing-based approach to extract variability information from Makefiles. Contrary to earlier assumptions, I show that my solution is able to extract highly accurate conditions from KBUILD, and that it is able to work robustly across a wide range of Linux versions while slashing the runtime to just over one second on Linux version v3.19. This, for the first time, allows us to run an accurate, daily analysis of the commits sent into the linux-next development tree, and to have very fast response times to the authors of the buggy commits. Through its modular design, my tool can easily be enhanced to support other software projects, which I demonstrate by providing plug-in modules for BUSYBOX and COREBOOT.
Reduced Ovarian Function in Female Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Trying to Conceive

Subfertility, a time to pregnancy (TTP) longer than 12 months, is present in 40% of female patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are actively trying to conceive. Because patients with RA appear to reach menopause at a younger age, diminished ovarian function may explain the reduced fertility. Serum anti‐Müllerian hormone (AMH) levels are the best proxy to measure ovarian function. Our objectives were to study AMH levels in female patients with RA and determine the association of preconception serum AMH levels with TTP.
Sucesso da inserção de sistema intrauterino de levonorgestrel após dequitação placentária em cesárea eletiva / Success of insertion of levonorgestrel intrauterine device after afterbirth immediate placental removal in elective cesarean section

Introducao: O Sistema intrauterino de levonorgestrel (SIU-LNG ou MIRENA ® ), escolha frequente entre as mulheres em seu planejamento familiar, se mostra um metodo de contracepcao seguro, com a vantagem de iniciar-se logo no puerperio imediato. Objetivo: Avaliar o sucesso da insercao do SIU-LNG imediatamente apos a dequitacao placentaria, utilizando-o como metodo de contracepcao, em pacientes submetidas a cesarea eletiva. Metodos: Avaliacao em prontuario de 23 pacientes atendidas no Hospital e Maternidade Nossa Senhora de Fatima em Curitiba-PR no periodo de outubro de 2011 a Agosto de 2014, com assinatura previa do termo de consentimento livre e esclarecido. Excluiram-se 2 pacientes com cultura positiva para Streptococcus agalactiae. Resultado: No exame especular houve a visualizacao do fio de SIU-LNG em 76.2% (n=16) dos casos, 19.1% (n=4) nao foram visualizados, e em 4.7% (n=1) houve retirada do dispositivo pela paciente. Na ultrassonografia, 19 dispositivos estavam normoposicionados, 1 estava em baixa extremidade, e 1 ausente. Conclusao: Conclui-se que o sucesso da insercao do sistema intrauterino de levonorgestrel apos a dequitacao placentaria mostrou-se positivo e eficaz, uma vez que, com base na ultrassonografia, o dispositivo estava normoposicionado em 90% das pacientes, com taxa de expulsao espontânea de 0%. No entanto, houve insucessos, sendo 5% devido a insercao baixa do SIU-LNG, e 5% de ausencia por tracionamento e retirada manual pela paciente. Descritores: Levonorgestrel, Dispositivos intrauterinos, Anticoncepcao/metodos, Placenta, Periodo pos-parto, Cesarea