Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Medikamentöse Reduktion des Pulsdrucks bei arterieller Hypertonie: die CORIPULS-Studie

Drug-Induced Reduction of Pulse Pressure in Arterial Hypertension: the CORIPULS Study. Pulse pressure > 65 mmHg appears to be an independent cardiovascular risk factor in older patients with arterial hypertension. Different antihypertensive drugs are not equal in reducing pulse pressure. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of carvedilol plus hydrochlorothiazide on pulse pressure in patients with arterial hypertension.
Distribution and Co-Exploration of Multiple Energy Minerals in Ordos Basin

Ordos basin is abundant in energy minerals of oil,gas,coal and uranium.Multiple energy minerals have some distribution laws and assemblage styles,the accordant temporal stages for accumulation,conservation,and reformation of mineral reserves.Therefore,these minerals probably have some relation in genesis.Based on mineralization settings and mechanisms,accumulation laws,and exploration theory and practice,as well as rules of the largest benefit and the optimized prospect methods,the co-exploration modes have been established.The Ordos basin is divided into seven co-exploration zones.In each zone,one or two types of minerals are designated as the main exploration objective and other minerals as secondary aim.On the basis of co-exploration modes,different co-exploration methods are worked out for different co-exploration zones,and this will lay theoretical foundation for exploration of multiple energy minerals.
Electro-Pneumatic System Monitoring Using Multivariate Latent Methods

Pneumatic actuators exhibit highly nonlinear characteristics due to air compressibility, significant friction presence and the nonlinearities of control valves. Monitoring by acquiring the system’s transfer function accurately can be difficult for nonlinear systems. This paper outlines the use of a statistical multivariate technique called Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Projection to Latent Structure Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) and applies them to the monitoring of electro-pneumatic system. This approach is used to integrate system sensory using data (Pressure, displacement and vibration) from a printing machine, an electro-pneumatic system. Experiments were conducted under three conditions, normal, throttled and leaked system. The models were tested under different conditions with the experimental results, showing that the proposed technique can be used for electro-pneumatic system monitoring in a real-time environment and could successfully differentiate between new process conditions.
Dynamic assessments of plant biomass and carbon storage during the production cycle of tea gardens

Tea(Camellia sinensis)is a kind of evergreen shrub or tree,which has been widely planted as an important economic crop in mountainous tropical and subtropical regions of China.Tea gardens are considered both ecologically friendly and economically profitable due to their high plant standing biomass and important role in soil and water conservations.Though it is recognized that the carbon sequestration potential should be huge in the plant and soil of tea gardens,few researches have been carried to quantify their carbon storage and balance.In the tea producing regions of China,tea garden area occupies a large proportion of the total forest area(e.g.3.1% in Zhejiang Province). Tea gardens might play an important role in the carbon sink of forest ecosystems in those areas.Based on publications between 1950 and 2011 on tea plant growth in China,regression models on the relationship between tea stand biomass and tea plant age or tea yield were established to find out how its carbon storage capacity changes and how much its carbon storage capacity can achieve during aproduction cycle of a common double-row tea garden.An exponential growth model was established between tea plant aboveground biomass(Ba)and its age(t):Ba =-14.95+56.3×(1-e-0.27t). Modeling results showed that tea biomass increased rapidly during the first 10 years and then slowly after the first 15years.Carbon(C)mass of 10 and 15year-old tea plants was 92% and 98% of that(30.6t/m2)of 25 year-old tea plants respectively.Carbon accumulation rate was(4.5±0.4)t/(hm2·a) for tea plants of 1-4year-old and was(0.95±0.05)t/(hm2·a)for those of 5-15year-old.When the shoot/root biomass ratio ranged from 1.68 to 2.34,the C mass of 15-year-old tea plants ranged from 31.31 to 28.02t/hm2.A model for C storage in tea garden was set up based on potential photosynthetic productivity of tea plants and tea yield,thus C storage capacity of tea plants in various tea production regions was estimated.With an efficiency of solaremergy utilization of 0.5% currently,the corresponding total C storage was amount to(9.1±1.4)t/hm2 in the tea gardens of China.As for 15-year-old tea plants,the C mass of 60t/hm2 given by the exponential model was close to the theoretical value(56.41t/hm2)with an efficiency of solar emergy utilization of 2%,and the C mass could be up to 70.5t/hm2 in tea gardens if tea yield was increased.In a word,it is important to quantify the carbon stock through modeling on the changes of biomass C accumulation with tea plant age rather than based on limited field sampling data.It is also noted that plant C pool of tea gardens is one of main agroforestry C pools in tea production regions and tea garden has a high plant C sequestration potential in China.
Effect of Long-term application of chemical fertilizers and organic manure on soil organic carbon and bulk density

Based on a long-term located fertilization experiment,the impact of long-term application of chemical fertilizer and crop stubble on the spatial changes of soil bulk weight and organic carbon(OC)was studied.The results revealed that chemical fertilizers could not only promote the soil property of the plough layer,but also reduce the soil bulk weight and increase the OC hence improved the spatial soil fertility,whereas,the application of crop stubble only had the effect of improving soil fertility of the plough layer.The difference of the two fertilizations in behavior was due to the difference of their impact on crop and root growth.The impact of chemical fertilizer was much greater than that of the crop stubble.Thus the chemical fertilizer increased the root residue under the plough layer and these root residues had an effect of reducing soil bulk weight and increasing the OC.
Application of soil properties, auxiliary parameters, and their combination for prediction of soil classes using decision tree model

Soil classification systems are very useful for a simple and fast summarization of soil properties. These systems indicate the method for data summarization and facilitate connections among researchers, engineers, and other users. One of the practical systems for soil classification is Soil Taxonomy (ST). As determining soil classes for an entire area is expensive, time-consuming, and almost impossible, this research has tried to predict the soil classes in each level of the ST system (up to family level) by using the data of 120 excavated pedons and some auxiliary parameters (such as derivatives of digital elevation model, i.e., DEM) in Shahrekord plain, central Iran. For this reason, the decision tree model was encoded and implemented in the MATLAB software for three conditions: use of soil properties, auxiliary parameters, and its combination. According to the results, soil class prediction error by using soil properties, auxiliary parameters, and its combination was estimated to be 0, 3.33 and 0% for order and suborder levels; 0.83, 15 and 0.83% for great group level; 3.33, 22.5 and 3.33% for subgroup level and 30, 52.5 and 30% for family level, respectively. In addition, the use of kriging maps of soil properties (instead of 120 observational points) decreased the prediction error of the modeling in all levels of the ST system. It seems that the effect of auxiliary parameters (in comparison to soil properties) is not very significant for predicting soil classes in low-relief areas.
Effect of Petroleum Fuels and Lubricants on Soil Properties of Auto-mechanic Workshops and Garages in Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana

Soil properties of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils from automobile mechanical shops in the Cape Coast Municipality of the Central Region of Ghana were investigated to assess their alternation due to the petroleum hydrocarbon contamination. Soil samples were collected from eight automobile mechanical shops and control sites and analyzed using standard protocols. The mean particle size distribution followed the order: sand 64.79±19.47 > silt 22.81±9.47 > 12.40±14.68. The distributions for the control samples followed a similar order. The particle size distribution of soils from the study sites was not significantly different from those of the control sites (p<0.05). There were greater variations in soil characteristics of control samples than those of the contaminated soils, with significant differences observed between most of the soil characteristics of the two sites (p<0.05). Significant correlations were observed between some soil properties, between temperature and conductivity (p< 0.01; r=-0.689); temperature and organic matter (p< 0.05; r= 0.422); pH and conductivity (p< 0.01; r= 0.549); pH and nitrate (p< 0.05; r= 0. 430); pH and Phosphate (p< 0.01; r= 0.652); nitrate and phosphate (r= 0. 728, p< 0.01), organic matter and phosphate (p< 0.01; r= 0. 692); moisture and nitrate (r= 0. 787, p< 0.0); and between moisture and phosphate (r= 0. .633, p< 0.01). Petroleum hydrocarbon contamination altered soil properties and may adversely affect sensitive bacteria. Keywords : Physiochemical properties, Soil, Petroleum hydrocarbon, Contamination
Application level interoperability on IaaS cloud migration

The increasing awareness of people about several benefits using cloud computing technology caused a lot of organizations, companies, and agencies are switching from utilizing physical infrastructure to cloud infrastructure, especially IaaS. Considering the strong market enthusiastic about cloud computing, cloud companies were racing competitions offer the best products with various advantages. In the process of utilizing cloud computing technology there are circumstances in which the company wants to move its infrastructure to other cloud providers caused by various aspects in order to meet better expectations of to the new provider. However, there are many obstacles in practice in the process of transfer system between two different environment or can be called migration. One of them is a vendor lock-in that caused system cannot be function properly especially application functionality after migration. This paper introduces improvement method of testing interoperability between systems that were migrated between different cloud providers which use different hypervisor technology. We also conduct interoperability application testing between several cloud providers.
AIDS in the Twenty-First Century

Interestingly, aids in the twenty first century that you really wait for now is coming. It's significant to wait for the representative and beneficial books to read. Every book that is provided in better way and utterance will be expected by many peoples. Even you are a good reader or not, feeling to read this book will always appear when you find it. But, when you feel hard to find it as yours, what to do? Borrow to your friends and don't know when to give back it to her or him.
TIME SERIES MODEL FOR CARBON MONOXIDE (CO) AT SEVERAL INDUSTRIAL SITES IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA

Malaysia is reported to experience explosive rise in the demand of transport vehicles in recent years due to rapid economic development and population growth. As a result, air pollution is expected to increase in conjunction with the increase in the number of the vehicles. In particular, Carbon Monoxide (CO) has been identified as the main component of the emission sources from vehicles other than Nitrogen Oxide (NOx), hydrocarbon lead and particulate matter of size less than 10 micron (PM10). This provides the reason why CO concentration is often used to reflect traffic density in an area. CO has both short-term and long-term effect on human’s health. Thus, knowledge on CO behaviour and the future levels at an area is important to help decision makers in managing air pollution due to vehicles emission in the country. This study was conducted to describe CO data and to determine a suitable time series model to enable the prediction of CO levels at two industrial sites; Perai and Pasir Gudang, Malaysia. The model obtained could help management to mitigate CO pollution at the sites. The analysis was conducted using daily maximum data which was obtained from the Department of Environment Malaysia from 2010 to 2014. The performance of the best model was determined using several performance measures such as MAE, RMSE and MAPE. The study has found that the most appropriate time series model for Perai is ARIMA (3,1,1) and for Pasir Gudang is SARIMA (2, 1, 8) (1, 1, 2)7.
Evidence Map of Mindfulness

This evidence map provides an overview of “mindfulness” intervention research and describes its volume and focus. It summarizes patient outcomes as reported in systematic reviews of randomized controlled trial evidence. We searched 10 electronic databases to February 2014, screened reviews of reviews, and consulted topic experts. We used a bubble plot as a visual overview of the distribution of evidence and synthesized results narratively in an executive summary. In total, 81 systematic reviews met inclusion criteria and the largest review included 109 mindfulness RCTs. Most research is available for general overviews on health benefits or psychological wellbeing. Reviews on chronic illness, depression, substance use, somatization, distress, and mental illness included 10 or more RCTs. Reviews suggest differential effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and other mindfulness-based interventions, and definitions of “mindfulness-based” varied. The most consistent effect was reported for depression but published meta-analyses also indicated effects compared to passive control of MBSR on overall health, chronic illness, and psychological variables; MBCT for mental illness; and mindfulness interventions for somatization disorders. Limited evidence is also available for mindfulness interventions for pain, anxiety, and psychosis compared to passive control groups. More detail is provided for priority areas post-traumatic stress disorder, stress, depression, and wellness. The evidence map provides a broad overview (not detailed or definitive effectiveness evidence) over the existing research to help interpret the state of the evidence to inform policy and clinical decision making.
Different subtypes of Guillane-Barré syndrome in children

Abstract Guillan-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a debilitating illness with different subtypes depending on geographical area. In this study we review the GBS subtypes in Iranian children. One hundred and eight children below 15 yr entered the study during 7 yr (1998–2005), they were evaluated in 1st (95 cases) and 2nd wk (13 cases) diagnosed clinically, electrodiagnostically and their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were analyzed. Patients were divided into demyelinating and axonal forms. Data were analyzed by t test for continuous measures and the Fisher's exact test for categorical variables in SPSS 16. P less 0.05 was significant. The means age ± SD of affected patients are 4.8 ± 2.7 yr (minimum 1 yr, maximum 14.5 yr). CSF protein and pleocytosis were more common in 2nd wk group (77 mg/dL in first week versus 63 mg/dL in second week); 2% (first week) and 30% CSF pleocytosis occurred (second week). Demyelinating form happens in 47% of patients, axonal 40% and combined form of axonal and demyelinating form happened in 9%. Normal electrodiagnostic tests in spite of clinically confirmed GBS were observed in 4%. CSF protein was higher in demyelinating compared to axonal form (71 mg/dL and 54 mg/dL). There is no sex predilection for GBS affection (59 males, and 49 females). Peak incidence of GBS in children is below age of 5 yr (65%); axonal form of GBS (sensory and motor) make a considerable proportion of GBS in children (40%) with lower CSF protein compared to demyelinating type, but it is not statistically significant (P > 0.05).
Complex Earthquake Sequences On Simple Faults

While power law distributions in seismic moment and interevent times are ubiquitous in regional earthquake catalogs, the statistics of individual faults remains controversial. Continuum fault models without heterogeneity typically produce characteristic earthquakes or a narrow range of sizes, leading to the view that regional statistics originate from interaction of multiple faults. I present theoretical arguments and numerical simulations demonstrating that seismicity on homogeneous planar faults can span several orders of magnitude in rupture dimensions and interevent times, if the fault dimension W is sufficiently large compared to a characteristic length Lcrit, related to the nucleation dimension. Large faults are increasingly less characteristic, with the fraction of system‐size ruptures proportional to (Lcrit/W)1/2. Earthquake statistics for large W/Lcrit is remarkably close to nature, exhibiting Omori decay and power law distributed rupture lengths. Simple crack models are consistent with a Gutenberg‐Richter distribution with b=3/4 and provide a physical basis for these distributions on individual faults.
Solemyidae (Bivalvia, Protobranchia) from the lower Miocene of south-central Chile, with description of a new species

Abstract. The Miocene Solemyidae of Chile are revised. The holotype of Solemya antarctica Philippi, 1887, originally described as Solenomya, is lost. Due to the lack of information on internal characters, its systematic position is considered as uncertain. A new species, Solemya lucifuga n. sp. , is described from the lower Miocene Ranquil Formation of south-central Chile. Its dense radial external ornamentation shows that it is clearly different from S. antarctica. It is currently the only confirmed and described Miocene solemyid bivalve from the Southern Hemisphere.
Data-driven control for combustion process of circulating fluidised bed boiler

Owing to the advantages of burning low-quality coal (coal slime and coal gangue), furnace desulfurisation, low N O x emission and deep load adjustment, the circulating fluidised bed (CFB) combustion technology becomes one of the few fossil fuel utilisation technologies funded continuously by the Chinese government. However, compared with the pulverised coal boiler, the combustion process of CFB boiler is more complicated because of the larger time delay, significant uncertainty and more coupled variables. In this study, a data-driven proportional–integral-derivative (DD-PID) control strategy is presented for the combustion control of CFB boiler to improve the operating performance under full operating conditions. By analysing the running mechanism of combustion process, an inverse decoupler is introduced to transfer the combustion object to the generalised controlled object, which has relatively independent input–output relationship. After that, a normative procedure of DD-PID, including PID-parameter database establishment, information-vector neighbourhood selection, active PID-parameter determination, database update, and redundant vector deletion, is given. Finally, a series of case study, including numerical tests applied to the proposed combustion model and application test employed on 330 MW CFB simulation platform proves the feasibility of DD-PID control strategy.
Tuberculosis treatment in high TB / HIV settings : evaluating public-private partnerships in South Africa.

The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the perfonnance of different models of publicprivate partnerships in the provision of tuberculosis treatment, and explore incentive mechanisms for private sector participation. It makes recommendations to policymakers in South Africa and elsewhere on the best way to approach a policy on the enhanced role of private sector providers in tuberculosis treatment in light of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. A common framework is used to analyse the nature of the models, their perfonnance in tenns of cost, effectiveness and quality of care, and incentives for private participation. Multiple research methods are employed in order to fully investigate complex situations and to validate the findings. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used. The study found that the quality of care is superior in both models of public-private partnerships when compared to the purely public sector model of delivery, and shows that increased collaboration with private providers through partnerships could potentially improve the quality of care and increase access to care. The results of the cost-effectiveness show that, in comparison with the purely public provision, the public-private partnership models could significantly reduce costs to both the public health sector and patient, and increase cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis treatment. Private providers in the existing and potential partnerships have both financial and non-financial motivations and incentives for participation in partnership. Overall, these pUblic-private partnerships show that there is a strong economic case for expanding the private sector involvement in tuberculosis treatment in South Africa. Expansion may require increased investment in the public-private partnerships, but they seem to be capable of delivering important improvements in the affordability and efficiency of tuberculosis treatment, and improving the South African health system's capacity to cope with the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Half a century of discontinuous permafrost persistence and degradation in western Canada

Long‐term field studies of permafrost change are needed to validate predictive models but few are possible because of a paucity of direct observations prior to the late 1970s. To help fill this knowledge gap, we resurveyed a transect of 68 sites, originally investigated in 1962, to evaluate change in the isolated patches and sporadic discontinuous permafrost zones between Keg River, Alberta (57.8°N) and Hay River, Northwest Territories (60.8°N). The goal was to establish the degree of permafrost degradation due to approximately 2°C of regional climate warming over the intervening 55 years, compounded at some sites by forest fire. By 2017–2018, permafrost had degraded at 36% of the 44 sites which exhibited it in 1962, but had persisted at a minimum of 50% with a further 14% potentially retaining permafrost. This is much less degradation than reported for a 1988–1989 survey of the same transect. Permafrost was maintained under thicker organic layers (86% > 40 cm) and at the majority of sites with fine‐grained substrates, while degradation occurred preferentially at sites with coarse soils and thinner organic layers. Forest fire did not enhance the degree of permafrost loss, but greater frost table depths were observed at some burned locations. This study demonstrates that while the trajectory of change is towards permafrost loss, thin permafrost in the discontinuous zone can be persistent, even when disturbed. It also underlines the importance of considering the range of landscape types when projecting the rate of future permafrost thaw.