Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Early Fate Choice Determines in vivo Engraftment and in vitro Behavior of Epidermal Stem Cells

Keywords: Stem cell ; Engraftment ; Fate choice ; Epidermis ; Cultured epidermal autograft ; Extensive burn injury ; Live cell imaging ; Cellules souches ; Prise de greffe ; Choix de destinee ; Epiderme ; Autogreffe epidermique de culture ; Grands brules ; Microscopie en temps reel These Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 5406 (2012)Programme doctoral Biotechnologie et Genie biologiqueFaculte des sciences de la vieInstitut interfacultaire de Bioingenierie (SV)Laboratoire de dynamique des cellules souches Public defense: 2012-7-5 Reference doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-5406Print copy in library catalog Record created on 2012-07-23, modified on 2017-05-12
Innovative Teaching Strategies in Research for Health Professions

The purpose of this article is to assist the health educator in teaching and creating innovative methods for facilitating research. A brief background and discussion of the research process is presented followed by how and why research is directly applicable in health professions. A variety of methods and strategies are presented in an overall format of the research process. Lastly, practical application of the strategies presented in this article is discussed. © 2007 Californian Journal of Health Promotion. All rights reserved.
A Minimalist Parsing Account of Attachment Ambiguity in English and Korean

This paper investigates whether attachment ambiguity preference attested in psycholinguistic literature can be correctly predicted, utilizing memory based metrics developed by Graf et al. (2017). Two different types of attachment ambiguity in Korean, the dative argument attachment ambiguity and the relative clause attachment ambiguity, are mainly tested. Furthermore, in order to examine whether the Minimalist Grammar Parsing Model can predict the broad human sentence processing effects, the work in the previous literature in Graf et al. (2017) were tested together. While none of the single metrics made the correct predictions, the combination of metrics based on tenure and size could predict the preferences of all different kinds of constructions reported in psycholinguistic studies. This suggests that human sentence processing effect cannot be understood by a single element. The well-selected metrics in this paper can tell us what kind of structural complexity are related to processing sentences.
Diabetics at the Charitable Clinic of Hot Springs, AR

The Charitable Christian Medical Clinic (CCMC) served adults without healthcare reimbursement plans with medical, dental, and pharmacy services. Five hundred seventy diabetics were followed from 2005 to 2014. Of these, 300 attended at least one of eight classes on management of diabetes. Body mass index (BMI), hemoglobin A1c(HgbA1c), blood pressure (BP) readings were recorded before treatment and periodically throughout care at the clinic. All patients averaged BMI of 34.6, HgbA1c of 8.94%, and BP of 133/84 prior to initiation of care. Many patients kept unacceptably high BMI and HgbA1c readings throughout their care. Linear regression revealed that, after consideration of HgbA1c values, entry BMI was significantly predictive of Year 3 hemoglobin A1c. These findings may inform providers to patients now accessing care as part of Affordable Care Act plans, but who have limited out of pocket funds for newer medications that might result in better diabetes control.
Iterative Krylov Methods for Large Linear Systems

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Mathematical preliminaries 3. Basic iteration methods 4. Construction of approximate solutions 5. The conjugate gradients method 6. GMRES and MINRES 7. Bi-conjugate gradients 8. How serious is irregular convergence? 9. BI-CGSTAB 10. Solution of singular systems 11. Solution of f (A)x = b with Krylov subspace information 12. Miscellaneous 13. Preconditioning References Index.
"Disembering": The Activity of the Archive in Hollis Frampton

This dissertation approaches the avant-garde filmmaker, critic, and photographer Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) through a particular strait. Twenty years after his death, the executrix of his estate, photographer Marion Faller (1941-2014), began donating his materials (correspondences, film footage, audio recordings, working notes, etc.) to a number of archives and museums. Through my cataloging of these new holdings at both the Harvard Film Archive and Anthology Film Archives, I not only had access to things that Frampton alone had seen, but began to sense a new model for approaching his art, one my dissertation identifies as being the result of Frampton’s “fantasy of the archive. ” Chapter 1 re-reads Frampton’s first published essays (written for Artforum and gallery catalogs in the early 1970s) to establish the above concept. Frampton used the figure of the archive in his writing about 19th century photography and in fables about an ancient form of cinema, as ways of developing his theory of the “metahistorian. ” I tie these concerns of his as a critic to the context of his life at the time: his involvement in resurrecting the early sculpture of his friend Carl Andre through photographic documentation, and his connection to the formation of Anthology Film Archives. Frampton’s film Zorns Lemma (1970) serves as a touchstone for this chapter as its form and production history exemplify one way that Frampton incorporated his “fantasy of the archive” into his own films. Chapter 2 performs an extremely close reading of Frampton’s most well known film, (nostalgia) (1971) – which was placed on the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry in 2003 – for another way. Through its patterns, puns, and deliberate discrepancies, (nostalgia) challenges the critic to take on a metahistorical guise in order to fully activate the autobiography that the film presents. Chapter 3 surveys the now real Frampton archive that has been left to us. Much of the unreleased moving image material was created for Frampton’s mammoth film cycle Magellan (1972 - ). I touch on three relatively developed segments and look at how they elucidate Frampton’s thinking about word and image, Marcel Duchamp and Stan Brakhage. Building off of previous scholars’ work on Frampton (P. Adams Sitney, Scott MacDonald, Annette Michelson, Bruce Jenkins, Rachel Moore) this dissertation makes use of new primary research materials – embers that can be reignited by the metahistorian – to add deeper dimensions to our understanding of this important figure from the intersecting worlds of art and avant-garde film in the 1970s.
Transient Root Cause Analysis: A Model-Based Systems Engineering Methodology

This paper presents a model-based systems engineering methodology that can be applied to perform a root cause analysis on transient systems. The methodology extends existing root cause analysis best practice by incorporating system modeling and analysis techniques. The methodology is deployed through a detailed 5-step process to understand, identify, assess, FMEA, and validate potential transient system-level root causes. A transient performance reliability analysis for a dual mode refrigeration system is used to demonstrate how the methodology can be applied. The paper also describes a set of success factors for applying the methodology using a phased approach with a large cross-functional team.Copyright © 2004 by ASME
Fountain-Coding-Based Secure Communications Exploiting Outage Prediction and Limited Feedback

This paper develops a fountain-coding-based scheme to secure communications over fading wiretap channels, in which the transmission between the legitimate nodes is overheard by a malicious eavesdropper. The transmitter first splits its message into K source packets and generates a potentially infinite number of fountain-coded packets, each of which is the XOR of distinct source packets chosen according to the channel feedback. Based on the characteristics of fountain-coded transmissions, a sufficient number of independent coded packets have to be successfully received to recover the original source message. Therefore, secrecy is guaranteed if the legitimate receiver can accumulate the required number of coded packets before the eavesdropper does. To realize this, we propose to exploit outage prediction and channel feedback to optimize the fountain encoding procedure. To be more specific, upon the reception of any packet, the receiver predicts the conditional outage probability of the next slot's transmission based on the current channel state and notifies the transmitter to adjust the structure of the fountain code accordingly. In this manner, the encoder design matches well with the time-varying channel conditions of the legitimate link such that the receiver can achieve a high accumulation rate for the fountain packets. Meanwhile, because of the mismatch between the fountain encoder and the eavesdropper's channel, it is extremely difficult for the eavesdropper to collect enough independent fountain-coded packets, and transmission secrecy is thus guaranteed. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing candidate solutions in terms of the intercept probability, the decoding delay at the legitimate receiver, and the achievable throughput, as well as the quality-of-service violating probability.
A8.34 CD1C + dendritic cells are overrepresented in lymph nodes of early arthritis patients and related to B cell responses

Background and Objectives The immune system is composed of different cell populations that circulate in our body through lymphoid organs. We have recently shown that the numbers of CD69+ T cells and B cells are increased in lymph node (LN) biopsies from early arthritis patients. DCs are fundamental in initiating and modulating T and B cell responses and may therefore play an essential pathologic role in autoimmune diseases. We hypothesize that an in-depth analysis of DCs within LNs of at risk individuals and early arthritis patients can provide a better understanding of immune function and dysregulation during the earliest phases of arthritis. Materials and Methods We included 22 individuals with arthralgia without any evidence of arthritis who were positive for IgM rheumatoid factor and/or anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA; RA risk group), 20 DMARD and biological naïve early arthritis patients (2010 criteria < 1 year) and 8 seronegative control individuals. All study subjects underwent ultrasound-guided inguinal LN biopsy. DC subsets (CD1a, CD1c, and CD304) were analysed by multi-colour flow cytometry. Results All DC subsets included in this study could be detected in LN biopsies. However, CD1c+ DC were the major subset present in LNs of early arthritis patients compared to both CD304+ DCs (p < 0.0001) or CD1a+ DCs (p < 0.002). In line with this, there was a significant increase of CD1c+ DCs in the early arthritis group compared to the at risk group (p = 0.009) and compared to control individuals (p = 0.01). Moreover, in early arthritis patients the frequencies of CD1c+ DCs were significantly increased in ACPA+ compared to ACPA- patients (p = 0.03). The frequencies of CD304+ DC were also significantly increased in early arthritis compared to the at risk group (p = 0.009) but did not correlate with ACPA status. Conclusions This is the first study that reports the presence of DC subsets in LNs during the earliest phases of arthritis. As CD1c+ DCs are the main DC subset present in early arthritis and the only subset related with ACPA status, this study supports the notion that in addition to the well-known capacity of CD1c+ DCs to activate naïve T cells, CD1c+ DC might also contribute to B cell responses.
Style Change in the Fifteenth-Century Chanson: A Comparative Study of Compositional Detail

T he synthesis of meaningful style description based on precise measurements of compositional detail has interested a number of music historians and theorists from at least the early 1940s to the present day. One of the first such studies, an investigation of the harmonic practice of J. S. Bach carried out by Allen McHose,l drew its evidence from tallies of chord type, inversion, function, progression, and doubling as well as tabular summaries of nonharmonic and modulatory practice, and resulted in the publication of an influential and widely used textbook on harmony.2 In more recent years, others have attempted to describe the style of single composers or to compare the several styles of groups of related composers through the use of a variety of statistical techniques. Most noteworthy are studies of the Josquin Masses begun by Arthur Mendel and Lewis Lockwood at Princeton,3 analyses of Nielsen symphonies by Dean Wilson,4 Hindemith string quartets by Stefan Kostka,5 Ockeghem Kyries by Jerry
Which medical device and/or which local treatment for prevention in patients with risk factors of pressure sores in 2012. Towards development of French guideline for clinical practice

Introduction. – Implementation of a prevention strategy after the identification of risk factors is essential at the entrance in a care unit or in a medical-social unit. Objectives. – Determine which medical devices and which treatments may be used in order to prevent pressure sore in 2012. Method. – Systematic review of the literature using databases: Pascal, Biomed, PubMed, and Cochrane library between 2000 and 2010. Results. – Nursing care including use of soft product, non-irritating for the cleaning, hydration of the skin with emollients, protection of fragile skin in case of incontinence by applying a skin protector and application of dressings in front of bony prominences to reduce shear forces, remain valid (level C). Discussion. – Nursing cares and use of dressing in patients with high risks of pressure sores are the responsibility of the nurses. The engagement of health care teams involves screening of risk factors and the knowledge of treatments and local devices. Conclusion. – Local preventive treatment in a patient with risk factors of pressure sore is of great interest at entrance in a care unit or in a medicalsocial unit. # 2012 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
Feasible Sonographic features of Thyroid nodules for Liquid-based cytology: Comparison with Conventional cytology

Poster: "ECR 2013 / C-1192 / Feasible Sonographic features of Thyroid nodules for Liquid-based cytology: Comparison with Conventional cytology" by: "J. H. Rim, S. J. Kim, N. Kim, S. Chong, S. H. Park, S. J. Lee; Seoul/KR"
Online Exploration When Search Topic and Popularity Ranking Are Decoupled: Insights on Echo Chambers

Personalized search algorithms produce results that are both topically relevant and ranked by their general popularity and individual fit to users’ previous searches and choices. New choices from such tailored lists feed back into the algorithms, over time creating content echo chambers, where content exposure is increasingly biased toward users’ and their friends’ interests and views. We create an online search environment for TED Talks, where topic and popularity are separately controlled, and study the relationship between users’ characteristics and their reliance on own interests vs. crowd-based popularity sorting in content exploration. In topic-based searches, we randomly block/show popularity information to examine its impact on the tendency to explore. We find that high levels of sociability, previous experience with similar content, and a younger age are associated with an increased susceptibility to echo chambers, represented by little to no exploration and popularity sorting prior to content choice. Opinion leaders may alleviate echo chambers in their social circles as they conduct more topic-based exploration and exhibit lower popularity reliance. Showing popularity information increases opinion leaders’ popularity sorting, but does not impact non-leaders’ exploration. Our findings identify users’ echo chamber risk factors, and suggest that reducing the salience of popularity information may contribute to more balanced content exposure facilitated by opinion leaders.
The Texas active vision testbed

The Texas active vision testbed (TAVT) represents the most recent stage of an ongoing design process that weighed a large number of alternatives, for both hardware and software to create a flexible and precise tool for active vision research. In this paper, we describe this platform and our ongoing research employing this tool. The platform is used in the development of depth recovery algorithms to extend conventional active vision techniques, such as variable baseline stereo and active focus control, as well as support research in the active control of a vergent stereo geometry. <<ETX>>
EVALUATION DES PERFORMANCES DES CODEURS D'IMAGES DANS UN CANAL SANS FIL

Dans ce travail, nous evaluons les performances de certains algorithmes de codage tels que QV (quantification vectorielle), et SPIHT(set partitioning in hierarchical trees). Dans un premier temps nous realisons une comparaison entre les deux codeurs. A cet effet, des images de test de 512*512 pixels ont ete utilises. Les resultats montrent les meilleurs performances de l‟algorithme SPIHT. La deuxieme etape consiste a evaluer la robustesse du SPIHT et l‟algorithme du codage QV sur la transmission sans fil. Les resultats montrent la superiorite du QV. En effet, il a ete demontre que le QV est plus robuste contre les erreurs de transmission. Ainsi on peut conclure la necessite d'utiliser des codes correcteurs en vue de proteger les informations transmises.
Architecture reconfigurable pour la numérisation du signal radio de récepteurs mobiles multi-standards

L'explosion de la telephonie cellulaire et des normes de communications mobiles de couverture reduite (Wide, Local, Personal Area Networks, WAN, LAN et PAN), motivent de nombreuses etudes avec des approches tres differentes. C'est dans ce contexte que s'inscrit ce travail de these qui propose une architecture reconfigurable pour la numerisation du signal radio de recepteurs mobiles multistandards. La premiere phase du travail cherche a determiner la chaine la mieux adaptee a la reception de differentes normes. Les recepteurs a conversion directe sont particulierement adaptes a cette application car ils allient forte integration et implementation multi-standard. La deuxieme phase propose une architecture reconfigurable GSM/UMTS pour la bande de base analogique. La troisieme phase presente une methode qui permet de definir un cahier de charges a partir des specifications techniques d'une norme pour les differents blocs de la bande de base analogique. Cette methode met en evidence les compromis entre les differentes fonctions. La quatrieme decrit un convertisseur analogique-numerique GSM/UMTS et enfin, la conception d'un filtre anti-repliement GSM/UMTS.
Desenvolupament, caracterització i avaluació in vitro-ex vivo de noves formulacions tòpiques pel tractament de la leishmaniosi cutània

La leishmaniosi constitueix un conjunt de malalties causades per diferents especies del genere Leishmania que presenten diferents formes cliniques depenent de l’especie, del seu tropisme i de la resposta immune de l’hoste. Les manifestacions cliniques inclouen lesions cutanies (leishmaniosi cutania), mucocutanies (leishmaniosi mucocutania) i viscerals (leishmaniosi visceral o Kala-azar). Els farmacs actualment disponibles per al tractament de la leishmaniosi en general inclou antimonials pentavalents, amfotericina B, miltefosina i paromomicina entre altres, molts d'ells amb grans limitacions relatives a la seva toxicitat, elevat cost i administracio. Degut a la necessitat existent de nous compostos anti-Leishmania mes segurs, mes barats i mes facils d’administrar que els medicaments actuals, l’objectiu d’aquesta tesi ha sigut desenvolupar, caracteritzar i avaluar una nova nanoformulacio d’administracio topica pel tractament de la leishmaniosi cutania. S’ha elaborat una formulacio en forma de nanogel a base de poloxamer 407 incloent paromomicina com a farmac anti-Leishmania per l’aplicacio topica en el tractament de la leishmaniosi cutania. S’ha optimitzat i avaluat aquest nou vehicle d'aplicacio topica, fent assajos d'alliberament in vitro aixi com assaigs de permeacio ex vivo. Una condicio basica i fonamental per a la consecucio d'aquests assaigs es disposar d'un metode apropiat de quantificacio del farmac. Per aixo, un segon objectiu ha sigut desenvolupar i validar segons la normativa ICH en termes de linealitat, precisio, exactitud, robustesa i sensibilitat un metode analitic basat en una cromatografia liquida de fase inversa. Per a realitzar l’avaluacio dels diferents parametres de caracteritzacio de la formulacio de nanogel, s’han dut a terme estudis d’alliberacio del farmac del vehicle mitjancant membranes artificials en cel·les de Franz i estudis de permeacio en pell humana. Els estudis de citotoxicitat s’han efectuat en diferents linies cel·lulars tumorals i l’efectivitat antileishmanicida s’ha realitzat enfront a dues especies diferents de Leishmana. Per ultim, s’han iniciat estudis de microscopia confocal de fluorescencia amb l’objectiu d’estudiar la localitzacio subcel·lular de nanoparticules (liposomes) mitjancant la utilitzacio de quantum dots englobats dins de liposomes i utilitzant diferents marcadors cel·lulars.
Towards Scientific Conception Acquisition under Ubiquitous Environment

We introduce ICT‐based applications, offering students to shape their scientific concepts. Students’ misconceptions are coming from their daily life and robust even after studying physics. These tendencies are significant on invisible phenomena. Visualization of these phenomena may be one of the solutions to overcome their naive concepts. We have developed ICT‐based various modules to visualize phenomena. These modules are useful and effective enough to change students’ concept dramatically. We also propose some experiments through the active utilization of ICT tools.
Study on Eco-optimization Model of Rural Water Landscape Based on Regional Sustainable Development

In order to meet the needs of ecological security and sustainable development of rural landscape, this paper makes an in-depth study on the selection and optimization strategy of rural development mode based on the dynamic change of rural landscape pattern. Based on the current pattern of land use, the principles of landscape ecology and sustainable development criteria are discussed in depth. According to the characteristics of extensive landform development, fragile rural ecological environment and backward economic and social development, the significance of rural landscape optimization is pointed out. Studies have shown that the optimal allocation of regional water resources must be based on the “bearable” of water resources for each subsystem.
Obfuscated Malicious Script Response Technique Deployed at Host Level

JavaScript functions have been remarkably enhanced thanks to the emergence of the next generation web standard HTML5 presented by W3C. HTML5 provides powerful functions that could replace non-standard technologies such as Active X by providing functions such as media play, 3-D graphic processing and Web socket communications using JavaScript only without the installation of separate plugins. Along with these trends in the ICT environment, many studies have been done related to threats exploiting JavaScript, which comprises a core of HTML5 functions. There are, however, many limitations in detecting obfuscated malicious scripts since most detection techniques use signature-based pattern matching. This paper will propose a method capable of detecting obfuscated malicious scripts at the host level and preventing the scripts’ execution.