Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Traumatic brain injury may worsen clinical outcomes after prolonged partial resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta in severe hemorrhagic shock model

BACKGROUND The use of partial resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (pREBOA) in combined hemorrhagic shock (HS) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) has not been well studied. We hypothesized that the use of pREBOA in the setting of TBI would be associated with worse clinical outcomes. METHODS Female Yorkshire swine were randomized to the following groups: HS-TBI, HS-TBI-pREBOA, and HS-pREBOA (n = 5/cohort). Animals in the HS-TBI group were left in shock for a total of 2 hours, whereas animals assigned to pREBOA groups were treated with supraceliac pREBOA deployment (60 minutes) 1 hour into the shock period. All animals were then resuscitated, and physiologic parameters were monitored for 6 hours. Further fluid resuscitation and vasopressors were administered as needed. At the end of the observation period, brain hemispheric swelling (%) and lesion size (mm3) were assessed. RESULTS Mortality was highest in the HS-TBI-pREBOA group (40% [2/5] vs. 0% [0/5] in the other groups, p = 0.1). Severity of shock was greatest in the HS-TBI-pREBOA group, as defined by peak lactate levels and pH nadir (p < 0.05). Fluid resuscitation and norepinephrine requirements were significantly higher in the HS-TBI-pREBOA group (p < 0.05). No significant differences were noted in brain hemispheric swelling and lesion size between the groups. CONCLUSION Prolonged application of pREBOA in the setting of TBI does not contribute to early worsening of brain lesion size and edema. However, the addition of TBI to HS-pREBOA may worsen the severity of shock. Providers should be aware of the potential physiologic sequelae induced by TBI.
The invisible force that shapes our world : insights into complex, dynamic social influence processes, a marketing perpespective

Sociale invloed heeft een belangrijke impact op consumentengedrag en mag om die reden niet genegeerd worden in klantenonderzoek, concludeert Peter van Eck in zijn proefschrift. Van Eck toont aan hoe complex sociale beinvloedingsprocessen zijn. Hij introduceert instrumenten die een bijdrage kunnen leveren aan het wetenschappelijke en commerciele onderzoek naar deze processen. Van Eck maakt in zijn onderzoek nadrukkelijk onderscheid tussen informatieve invloed en normatieve invloed. Vaak richt onderzoek naar sociale beinvloeding zich op informatieve invloed (mond-tot-mondreclame) of wordt uitgegaan van een positieve normatieve invloed (sociale aansteking). Van Eck toont aan dat het negeren van een van de twee invloeden zal leiden tot een verkeerde inschatting van de effecten ervan. Zo blijkt normatieve invloed in alle simulaties een negatief effect te hebben. Informatieve invloed blijkt vooral een rol te spelen bij het vergroten van de bekendheid van het nieuwe product, terwijl normatieve invloed vooral het adoptiepercentage beinvloedt. Verrassend genoeg kan normatieve invloed de bekendheid van een nieuw product negatief beinvloeden.
Enseñar escuchando: la importancia para el desarrollo del lenguaje de las conversaciones entre el adulto y el niño

Objetivo: Comprobar la asociación independiente del aporte del lenguaje adulto, ver la televisión y las conversaciones entre el adulto y el niño sobre la adquisición del lenguaje en los lactantes y preescolares. Métodos: Doscientas setenta y cinco familias con niños de 2 a 48 meses de edad, representativas del censo estadounidense, fueron incluidas en un estudio horizontal del ambiente domiciliario del lenguaje y del desarrollo del lenguaje del niño (fase 1). De ellos, una muestra representativa compuesta por 71 familias siguió en una evaluación longitudinal durante 18 meses (fase 2). En la muestra horizontal se realizó la regresión de las puntuaciones del desarrollo del lenguaje sobre el recuento de palabras del adulto, controlando respecto a los atributos socioeconómicos. En la muestra longitudinal se realizó la regresión de las puntuaciones del desarrollo del lenguaje en la fase 2 sobre el desarrollo del lenguaje en la fase 1, así como sobre el recuento de palabras del adulto en la fase 1, el ver la televisión y las conversaciones entre adulto y niño, controlando respecto a los atributos socioeconómicos. Resultados: En las regresiones totalmente ajustadas, los efectos del recuento de palabras del adulto fueron significativos al ser incluidos de forma aislada, pero estuvieron parcialmente mediados por las conversaciones entre el adulto y el niño. La inclusión aislada de ver la televisión fue significativa, pero estuvo totalmente mediada por la inclusión de las conversaciones entre el adulto y el niño. Las conversaciones entre el adulto y el niño fueron significativas en la inclusión aislada, y mantuvieron la significación y la magnitud al incluir el recuento de palabras del adulto y la exposición a la televisión. Conclusiones: La exposición a la televisión no se asocia de forma independiente con el desarrollo del lenguaje del niño al controlar respecto a las conversaciones entre el adulto y el niño. Las conversaciones entre el adulto y el niño muestran una robusta asociación con el desarrollo sano del lenguaje. Se debe alentar a los padres a no ofrecer simplemente aportes de lenguaje a sus hijos mediante la lectura o la narración de cuentos, sino también a participar con sus hijos en conversaciones bilaterales.
The Poetics of Gardens

"Here at last is a book destined to restore a more affectionate and personal relationship with the garden. Charmingly written, profusely illustrated, this handsome book introduces the reader to the beauty and wide variety of gardens -- from the landscape designs of ancient China and India to those of Capability Brown and Walt Disney and the modern American suburban homeowner. " -- John B. Jackson, landscape historian "The authors begin by establishing some basic principles of gardening, then go on to discuss 20 gardens from places as diverse as ancient Rome to Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom. A provocative, challenging work. " -- "Washington Post" This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards.
Fuzzy adaptive particle swarm optimization

A fuzzy system is implemented to dynamically adapt the inertia weight of the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO). Three benchmark functions with asymmetric initial range settings are selected as the test functions. The same fuzzy system has been applied to all three test functions with different dimensions. The experimental results illustrate that the fuzzy adaptive PSO is a promising optimization method, which is especially useful for optimization problems with a dynamic environment.
A propos de cas d'extraction partielle et implantation immédiate selon la technique du "socket shield"

Le maintien du volume osseux et de l’architecture des tissus mous est un defi majeur propose au praticien desireux de realiser des restaurations implantoportees en secteur esthetique. Les techniques conventionnelles necessitent souvent le recours a des interventions invasives et couteuses d’augmentation de volume osseux et de plastie des tissus mous. L’objectif de ce travail est de presenter, par l’etude bibliographique et deux cas cliniques, une nouvelle technique d’extraction partielle implantation immediate : le « socket shield ». Grace a la preservation du fragment vestibulaire de la racine et du desmodonte, cette technique permettrait d’ameliorer l’esthetique et la perennite des implants tout en elargissant les indications de l’implantation immediate. Par son concept novateur, cette technique bouscule les paradigmes de l’implantologie conventionnelle en creant de nouvelles interfaces implantaires. Les cas cliniques realises et la bibliographie presentes dans cet ouvrage montrent des resultats prometteurs. Il faut cependant prendre en compte le faible nombre de cas realises a ce jour, les difficultes operatoires que peut poser cette technique et le risque de complications.
Learning high-level process models from event data

Information systems in different domains, such as healthcare, tourism, banking, government and others, record operational behavior in the form of event logs. The process mining discipline offers dozens of techniques to discover, analyze, and visualize processes running in information systems, based on their event logs. The representational bias (the language for processes representation) plays an important role in the process discovery. In this work BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) language was chosen as a representational bias and as a starting point for the process discovery, analysis and enhancement. BPMN is a common process modeling language, widely used by consultants, managers, analysts, and software engineers in various application domains. This work aims to bridge the gap between process mining techniques and BPMN. Existing techniques are often limited to a single perspective, e.g., just the control flow, subprocesses, or just resources. The goal of this work is to fully support the BPMN specification in the context of process mining and suggest a unified and integrated approach allowing for the discovery, analysis and enhancement of hierarchical high-level BPMN models. The approach proposed in this thesis is supported by tools that enable users to analyze discovered processes in BPMN-compliant tools and even automate their executions, using existing BPMN engines.
Evaluation and comparison of conventional brush-based and centrifugation liquid-based cytopathology

Background: Brush cytopathology is a traditional method of collecting shed cells by scrapping off the mucosal surface of the oral cavity. Liquid-based cytopathology by centrifugation is a technique that causes the cells to be suspended in a monolayer enabling better morphological assessment. Aims: The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of conventional brush cytopathology and centrifugation-based liquid cytology (CBLC) in oral lesions after staining with rapid Papanicolaou (PAP) stain. Materials and Methods: Forty cases of oral lesions comprising normal mucosa (n = 10), hyperkeratotic lesions (n = 11), ulcerated lesions (n = 15), and inflammatory lesions (n = 14) were selected. Two smears were obtained from the lesion using a cytological brush. One was spread on the slide using conventional technique, fixed immediately in 95% ethyl alcohol. The second sample was suspended in prepared fixative solution for 10 min and then spun in centrifuge for 10 min. The supernatant was poured off, and the obtained cell pellet was used to prepare a smear by sedimentation and left to dry overnight. Both the smears were stained by rapid PAP (Biolabs Pvt. Ltd.). The stained smears were compared statistically for cellular yield, cell distribution, cell morphology, and background noise (presence of blood, inflammatory cells, microbial colonies, and artifacts). Results and Conclusion: The efficacy and quality of the smears based on the liquid-based preparations indicated its superiority in obtaining a higher yield of cells and clearer background. The increased cellular yield in liquid-based preparations also showed increased clumping and overlapping of cells which proved as a drawback for CBLC.
Advance Video Analysis System and its Applications

This research aims at developing an Advance Video Analysis System (AVAS) which can be used in wide range of video surveillance applications as well as to detect moving objects and human beings. The AVAS is able to detect and track interested objects along with human. It recognizes activities in an application environment, such as in a room, supermarket, car, or security checkpoint. Designing a real-time video analysis system is a complex task, as many factors including processing speed, system cost, accuracy, and robustness, need to be carefully balanced. This research has focused these factors at two levels, algorithm level and software level. Background elimination algorithm is proposed in this paper to enhance the performance of Smart Camera systems in changing background and varying lighting condition environment. Among the main features of this research some are, Event Id, Video Id, and Human Id which give detail information about the events, videos and other tracked objects. Finally, the software implementation of AVAS is applied to detect motion and then to trigger alarm for the security purposes. The system will trigger alarm once the motion is detected and when it exceeds the desire threshold value it will give warning to prevent any loss or mass destruction. Finally, we have given a number of recommendations that need to be addressed for the future growth of surveillance technologies and meeting the end-users' diversified and dynamic requirements. © EuroJournals Publishing, Inc. 2010.
Implementation and Analysis of the File System Based on Metadata Dynamic Hashing

Metadata management algorithm plays an important role in file system performance and file system is the most common way of data accessing in mass storage systems, so metadata management algorithm is very important for the performance of mass storage system. In this paper we analyze current metadata management algorithms and bring in the metadata dynamic hashing algorithm to solve the problem of poor adaptability of them. We realize the prototype on Lustre. After testing system performance with common tools by adjusting the several parameters’ value of metadata dynamic hashing algorithm, we find that performance of the prototype I/O is superior to Lustre. Furthermore, we analyze impacts of the parameters of dynamic hashing function on I/O performance of prototype
AMAP Association pour le Maintien d'une Agriculture Paysanne

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Nontumbling Gait for Multilegged Robots and Its Directional Normalized Energy Stability Margin

This paper discusses the importance of a nontumbling gait, a gait that allows preventing complete tumbling of the robot. Nontumbling gait is made possible by the effect of the swing leg which may contact the ground even when the robot is affected by an external disturbance. Such an effect is present in both static walking and dynamic walking. Stability criterion required to maintain the nontumbling gait is then considered and proposed through generalized directional normalized energy stability margin. The validity of the introduced criterion is evaluated by a tumbling experiment with a simplified walking robot model. The concept is also applied to the gait control of the newly developed walking robot TITAN-XIII.
Role of Relationship Management and Value Co-Creation in Social Marketing

This article addresses deep-seated problems in applying traditional relationship marketing and customer relationship management concepts in the context of social marketing. Further, it points out the recent changes in interactive technologies, culture, lifestyle, and the marketing logic and discusses the “makeover” of the concept and practices of the customer relationship management. It describes how the revised logic of marketing is more accommodative of social marketing and how the new avatar of customer relationship management 2.0 is more relevant for social marketers. It explains how the concepts and practices of customer relationship management 2.0, which are rooted in service logic, can be applied in the context of social marketing to co-create value. It explores the role of social marketers and their customers as active relationship partners and describes their interactions as a locus of value co-creations. Through these interactions, customers engage with social marketers to co-create different aspects of the market offerings, and social marketers engage in customers' value-generating processes to co-create better value-in-use. The key building blocks described in the article enable the value co-creations. The article concludes with implications in terms of how social marketers can use these insights to make the world a better place.
Action, binding and awareness

This chapter focuses on the process of intentional action, on our conscious awareness of some events occurring during that process and on the chronometry of these conscious states. We first introduce the concept of efferent binding: a hypothesized neural process which links representations of intentions to act to representations of the action itself, and finally to representations of the external consequences of action. We then describe two experiments investigating the perceived times of actions and of associated stimulus events. Our results provide evidence for an efferent binding process which influences conscious awareness, and which amounts to a common principle for conscious coding of perception and action.
Based Stochastic Particle Swarm Optimization and Random Simulation for Solving Stochastic Dependent-Chance Programming

Aiming at being hard to solve stochastic Dependent-chance Programming in uncertainty programming,a new algorithm for stochastic dependent-chance programming combined particle swarm optimization with random simulation for approximation of the chance function is presented in the paper.It overcomes the defaults such as needing a long time,complex calculation,easy falling into local optimal in the hybrid intelligence algorithm based on GA,the result of experiment shows the correctness and effectiveness of the algorithm.After testing its performance and comparing with algorithm of based on GA,the results show that the algorithm is more preferable.
Security Privacy in Internet of Things(IOT)

The Internet Of Things(IOT) is interconnection between identifiable embedded computing devices. Internet of Things is highly on the rise from smart cities, environment, health, energy, vehicle, transport, public safety to our daily essentials. Internet of Things has completely revitalized these areas. IOT expect the advanced connectivity with devices services. This paper highlighted the security and privacy aspect of IOT and various security threats which are given in each concept related to IOT. Various techniques are used for security and privacy of IOT devices and easy to adapt by users.
Estudo anatômico comparativo dos músculos da coxa de Cebus spp. (Erxleben, 1777; Primates, Cebidae)

The objective of this paper to study the anatomy of the thigh muscles of Cebus spp. We used 16 members of eight 8 monkey (Cebus spp.), 7 males and 1 female. For perfusion fixation was performed through the femoral vein of 10% formaldehyde at 5% glycerin. No animals were euthanized for the purposes of this study: four of them suffered accidental deaths in their natural habitat and were donation from Laboratory of Anatomy, Biochemistry, Neuroscience and Behaviour of Primates (LABINECOP) Federal University of Goias, Campus of Catalao, rest of them donation to the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA). It described the origin and insertion of muscles: tensor fascia lata, sartorius, rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, vastus intermedius, adductor magnus, adductor longus, adductor short, pectineus, gracilis, biceps femoris, adductor cruris caudalis, semitendinosus, semimembranosus own accessory. The thigh muscles of Cebus spp. , In general, are more similar to baboons, presumably because both are quadrupeds, submit tail behavior semibipedal and arboreal.
Who_Is : système d'identification des visages humains

Bien que la reconnaissance des visages humains soit un domaine difficile a cause de la multitude des parametres qu'il faut prendre en compte (variation de posture, eclairage, style de coiffure, port de lunettes, de barbes, de moustaches, vieillesse…), il est tres important de s'en interesser vu les nombreux champs d'applications (verification de personnes, telesurveillance, interfaces homme-machine …). Dans ce travail nous presentons la mise en œuvre de WHO_IS, un systeme d'identification de personnes par reconnaissance des visages humains. Nous avons developpe un modele geometrique du visage base sur un ensemble de points caracteristiques extraits a partir de l'image du visage. La procedure d'identification consiste a calculer les K plus proches voisins de l'individu test dans le sens de la distance City-Block. Le systeme WHO_IS a ete teste sur un echantillon de 100 personnes. Un taux de reconnaissance correcte de 86% a ete obtenu
Entre modèle et outil pour l'acquisition de la langue de spécialité : le prototype RAFALES – Recueil automatique favorisant l’acquisition d’une langue étrangère de spécialité

Le travail que nous presentons est le produit d'une recherche interdisciplinaire impliquant l'Intelligence Artificielle, la psychologie cognitive et la didactique des langues. LSA (Analyse Semantique Latente) est un outil informatique qui a ete applique a l'acquisition du langage (Landauer & Dumais 1997). Nous avons utilise LSA pour elaborer un prototype appele RAFALES (Recueil automatise favorisant l'acquisition d'une langue de specialite). RAFALES est un outil informatique d’aide a l’acquisition d’une langue etrangere inspire a la fois des theories de Vygotsky sur la zone proximale de developpement (1968) et de la theorie de l’input developpee par Krashen (1985). Apres avoir expose les bases theoriques de LSA et de RAFALES, nous presentons la procedure que nous avons adoptee pour valider la Proximite Optimale d'Acquisition des sujets apprenant l'anglais juridique comme langue de specialite.
Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS): use in an Irish psychiatric outpatient population

Abstract Objectives: To evaluate the clinical utility and validity of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) in an Irish catchment area psychiatric service. Method: One hundred consecutive outpatients were assessed using the HoNO S and Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scales. Results: It was feasible to administer HoNOS in day-to-day clinical practice. There was a statistically significant correlation between the HoNO S and GAF scores. Attenders at the outpatient department had significantly lower HoNOS scores compared to individuals assessed on domiciliary visits or at the day hospital. Individuals with schizophrenia had significantly higher HoNO S scores compared to affective disordered patients. However, this difference was confined to the Social subscale of HoNOS. Conclusions: Although these findings indicate that HoNOS has significant convergent and criterion validity as a measure of psychiatric morbidity, its widespread use in day-to-day clinical practice may be premature.