Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DETERMINATION OF THE CONTENT OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE CARE TEAM AND FAMILY MEMBERS OF PATIENTS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: THE EXPERIENCE OF NURSES AND PATIENTS’ FAMILIES

Introduction: Establishing an effective communication with patients is an essential aspect of nursing care. However, most studies have described the nurse-patients’ family relationship as weak. Recognition of the content of effective care team-patient’s family communication will facilitate a more affective relationship between the care team and family members of patients in intensive care units. The present study aimed to determine the content of effective communication between the care team and family members of patients in the intensive care unit from the perspective of nurses and patients’ families. Method: This study was performed with a qualitative approach and content analysis method. Participants included 8 Iranian registered nurses and 4 physicians working in intensive care units (ICU) of hospitals affiliated to Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran, and 10 first-degree relatives of patients. Data were collected using interviews and observations. Unstructured interviews were used in the present study. We used observation in order to gain a deeper understanding and verify data from interviews. The observations focused on the interactions between the care team and patients’ families during mutual communications. Results: The data analysis of the handwritten account of the communication of the participants resulted in five categories of spiritual care (subcategories: giving hope, considering Allah, and performing religious practices) emotional reaction (subcategories: empathy, mutual understanding, promoting comfort, and trust), encouraging participation (subcategories: participation in decision making, and participation in physical care), interactive learning (subcategories: identification of the information requirements of the family, responding to the needs of the patient’s family, and training the patients), and consultation and guidance (subcategories: consultation in selecting treatment, and selecting the best care method). Conclusion: The findings resulted in the recognition of important aspects in communication between the ICU team and the family of the patients. By identification of the content of communication, establishing new rules, and application of creative methods in educating the care team on establishing communication, implementation of rules, and application of the patient-based approach in clinical environments we can communicate more effectively.
ALBERT-LUDWIG UNIVERSITY FREIBURG Institute of Computer Science Chair for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Multiview Deblurring for 3-D Images from Light Sheet based Fluorescence Microscopy - Supporting Online Material

This report provides additional results on multiview deblurring and accompanies the work in [11]. In particular, we provide images of all data sets before and after reconstruction. Moreover, we give more insights into the point spread function (PSF) of the Single Plane Illumination Microscope (SPIM) theoretically and empirically. Finally, the influence of the number of views on the resolution in frequency space is discussed.
Boosting Applied to Word Sense Disambiguation

In this paper we apply Schapire and Singer's AdaBoost.MH boosting algorithm to the Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) problem. Initial experiments on a set of 15 selected polysemous words show that the boosting approach surpasses Naive Bayes and Exemplar--based approaches, which represent state--of--the--art accuracy on WSD. In order to make boosting practical for a real learning domain of thousands of words we study several ways of accelerating the algorithm by reducing the feature space. The best variant, which we call LazyBoosting, is tested on a medium--large sense--tagged corpus containing 192,800 examples of the 191 most frequent and ambiguous English words. Again, boosting compares favourably to the other benchmank algorithms.
Model transformation from CIM to PIM in MDA: from business models defined in DFD to design models defined in UML

This research represents a methodology that control model transformation from CIM level to PIM level in accordance with MDA approach. Our approach is founded on establishing a good CIM level, through well-selected rules, to facilitate transformation to PIM level. However, we create a rich PIM level through use case diagram model, state diagram model, class diagram model and package diagram models. Then, we establish transformation rules to ensure a semi-automatic transformation from CIM level to PIM level. Our Approach conform MDA approach by taking into consideration the business dimension in CIM level, since, we present this level through DFD and UML activity diagram. However, we model into PIM by UML diagrams, because UML is recommended by MDA in this level.
A comparative study of efficacy of imiquimod 5% versus podophyllin 20% in treatment of external ano genital warts (60 patients).

Sixty HIV negative patients of external anogenital warts were enrolled in the study and 30 each were treated either with Imiquimod 5% (Group 1) or Podophyllin 20% (Group II) results were analysed. This study shows that Group I (Imiquimod 5%) apart from its equal efficacy to Group II (Podophyllin 20%) has lesser and milder local site reaction and lesser recurrence rate. (authors)
VIAS DE SINALIZAÇÃO INTRACELULAR NA ATROFIA MUSCULAR E NO TREINAMENTO RESISTIDO

INTRODUCAO: A atrofia muscular e caracterizada como um decrescimo da area de seccao transversa da fibra muscular e conteudo de proteina muscular, reduzida producao de forca, aumentada resistencia a insulina tao bem como, na maioria das vezes, transicao do tipo de fibras lentas para rapidas. Os decrescimos na taxa de sintese proteica e aumento na taxa de degradacao sao responsaveis pela perda de massa muscular induzida pelo desuso, no entanto, esses mecanismos estao comecando a ser elucidados por causa da evolucao das tecnicas de biologia molecular, as quais permitiram um melhor entendimento das vias de sinalizacao e as proteinas-chave envolvidas no processo de atrofia muscular induzida pelo desuso. OBJETIVO: o presente estudo realizou uma revisao de literatura referente a atrofia muscular induzida pelo desuso e suas vias de sinalizacao. METODOLOGIA: realizou-se uma busca de estudos indexados as bases de dados Lilacs, Pubmed/Medline e Scielo, entre o periodo de 01/01/1997 a 30/06/2008, utilizando as combinacoes das seguintes palavras-chave: atrophy AND skeletal muscle AND disuse AND lysosomal; atrophy AND skeletal muscle AND disuse AND calpain; atrophy AND skeletal muscle AND disuse AND caspase; atrophy AND skeletal muscle AND disuse AND ubiquitin-proteasome. RESULTADOS E CONCLUSAO: a partir dessa busca, selecionaram-se cinco artigos e, apos sua leitura, buscou-se 35 artigos referenciados por estes, que alem das palavras-chave anteriormente descritas incluiam o exercicio resistido como terapeutica para a atrofia muscular induzida pelo desuso. Verificou-se de acordo com os estudos apresentados na revisao atual, que o treinamento contra a resistencia pode atuar como uma importante modalidade terapeutica para atenuar ou reverter a atrofia muscular induzida pelo desuso.
ANÁLISE DA COMPOSIÇÃO CORPORAL E A REMISSÃO DE COMORBIDEZES EM PACIENTES SUBMETIDOS À GASTROPLASTIA REDUTORA COM DERIVAÇÃO GASTROJEJUNAL EM Y-DE-ROUX

OBJECTIVE: The aim of our study is to assess the body composition and to associate it with the remission of comorbidities in morbidly obese people who undergone the Rouxen-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted with patients that underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery in 2010 and 2011. Anthropometric, biochemical and body composition data were collected preoperatively and postoperatively at 12 months and 24 months. RESULTS: 49 individuals with an average age of 39.3 ± 13.0 years and were overweight by 51.7 ± 21.0 kg were included in the study. Metabolic syndrome was found in 79.6% of the individuals preoperatively. The group of women presented older age (p = 0.048), lower weight (= 0.48) and higher rates of insulin (p = 0.034) when compared to the group of men. The evaluation of the best cutoff point for the percentage of fat considering the remission of comorbidities at 12 months postoperatively resulted in a value below 34% (95% CI: 53.9% to 85.9%), while at 24 months postoperatively it is a value below 30.5% (95% CI: 42.7% to 85.4%). CONCLUSION: The remission of metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hyperuricemia was associated with the reduction in the body fat percentage.
Lactose Intolerance: Considerations for the Clinician

An estimated 30% of Americans and approximately 65%‐75% of people worldwide have decreased intestinal lactase levels, which may lead to lactose intolerance and difficulty digesting dairy products. The primary goals for treatment of lactose intolerance include symptom relief and ensuring adequate nutritional status. Many patients who wish to continue to consume dairy products (lactose) can do so by adjusting the type, amount and timing of intake. Patients with lactose intolerance are at risk for inadequate intake of calcium and vitamin D, which ultimately leads to an increased risk of osteoporosis. The intent of this article is to provide practical guidelines for working with patients who are lactose intolerant and to answer some common questions that may arise.
When is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Identifying high-risk candidates for case management

ABSTRACT Case management is a $6 billion industry that employs over 34,000 people in the United States alone. Traditionally, case management has been utilized to help patients navigate the health care system and to coordinate care in the hope of lowering costs and achieving better health outcomes. However, since enrollment into these programs is typically either universal or limited to very sick patients, studies on the cost-effectiveness of case management programs find that their performance is mixed, at best. In this article we posit an opportunity to improve outcomes and lower costs by targeting certain patients for case management and early intervention. Utilizing modern data mining methods, we develop a methodology to identify these patients, who we describe as “jumpers” because their costs are currently low but will increase significantly in the near future. Given the performance of the prediction models, we also show that unless case management can prevent over 7.5% of health care cost increases, it may benefit enrolled members but will not reduce overall costs. The article then introduces a performance bounding methodology that characterizes the best obtainable prediction accuracy on a given data set. The derived upper bound demonstrates that searching for jumpers presents a far more challenging prediction problem than identifying future high-cost members, which is the traditional approach to selecting case management candidates.
Complexity : the emerging science and the edge of order and chaos

In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radical idea is to create a new science called complexity. These mavericks from academe share a deep impatience with the kind of linear, reductionist thinking that has dominated science since the time of Newton. Instead, they are gathering novel ideas about interconnectedness, coevolution, chaos, structure, and order - and they're forging them into an entirely new, unified way of thinking about nature, human social behavior, life, and the universe itself. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell - and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. They want to know why ancient ecosystems often remained stable for millions of years, only to vanish in a geological instant - and what such events have to do with the sudden collapse of Soviet communism in the late 1980s. They want to know why the economy can behave in unpredictable ways that economists can't explain - and how the random process of Darwinian natural selection managed to produce such wonderfully intricate structures as the eye and the kidney. Above all, they want to know how the universe manages to bring forth complex structures such as galaxies, stars, planets, bacteria, plants, animals, and brains. There are commonthreads in all of these queries, and these Santa Fe scientists seek to understand them. Complexity is their story: the messy, funny, human story of how science really happens. Here is the tale of Brian Arthur, the Belfast-born economist who stubbornly pushed his theories of economic ch
England : Assessing the linkages and limitations – a case study of the Sheffield City

This paper examines changes in local economic development policy which occurred between 2010-2015, with a focus on the relationship between industrial strategy and skills policy. Under the Coalition Government, Local Enterprise Partnerships were established and tasked with facilitating local growth, and to do so many identified a set of (potential) growth sectors for industrial strategy to support. These sectors tended to be drawn from a relatively narrow range of industries which therefore often excluded a large proportion of the local economy. An important focus of the support for growth sectors for many has been through an ambition to influence the local skills system. Skills policy more broadly has been an important dimension of devolution, and a number of City Deals have included elements of skills policy. Echoing previous national policy however, the focus of local concerns with skills under devolution has been framed largely with reference to skills gaps and shortages. While specific skills gaps and shortages can be identified, this paper questions whether this default position is reflected widely, and as such, if a narrow focus on skills supply is a sufficient approach. It is argued that to support local growth across a broad base, greater attention needs to be paid to stimulating employer demand for skills through better integrating industrial and innovation policy with skills policymaking across a wider section of the local economy. To support these arguments we present a case study of the Sheffield City Deal.
Prospective clinical study of surgical management of varicose veins of lower limb and its complications

Background: Varicose veins of the lower extremities are the most common peripheral vascular disease and their treatment is as old as mankind. This prospective clinical study of surgical management of varicose vein was conducted to study the age, sex and occupational distribution of varicose veins of lower limb. Evaluations of clinical features and surgical methods of treatments that were in practice in the management of varicose veins in terms of recurrence and symptoms improvement were also studied. Methods: Two years prospective study was conducted in our institution from May 2007 to April 2009. During this period 62 cases of varicose veins of lower limbs were admitted to our hospital of which 50 cases were selected and were studies in detail. After thorough clinical examination and relevant investigation they are all subjected to surgical management. Results: Out of 50 cases studied, 21 (42%) had only long saphenous vein involvement, 7 (14%) had short saphenous vein involvement and in 5 (10%) cases both short and long saphenous system were involved. In addition to long saphenous vein involvement, incompetent perforators were present in 17 (34%) cases. Among them prominent veins and pain were the main complain in 38 (78%) patients. Itching and pigmentation were present in 4 (8%) patients. Ankle edema was present in 6 (12%) patients. Pain and ulceration of lower leg were present in 2 (4%) patients. After clinical assessment appropriate surgical procedures were followed for each of patients. These cases were followed for 3 year durations. Out of 50 patients 7 (14%) patients had recurrence of varicose vein. 7 (14%) patient complained of recurrence of pain after 2 years of surgery but no appearance of varicose vein. One patient (2%) complained of persistence of pigmentation after surgery. 2 (4%) patients complained of persistence of ankle edema and there was complete healing of ulcer which was present earlier. Conclusions: Commonest age group of varicose vein of lower limb was 20 to 40 years. Definite relationship exists between the occupation and the incidence of varicose veins. The patients were in the occupation which required standing for long time had the higher chances of varicose vein. Severity of the symptoms is not proportional to the duration of varicose veins. The involvement of long saphenous vein is more common than the short saphenous vein. Since our study shows very low percentage of recurrence and symptoms related to varicose vein the surgical line of treatment is an ideal treatment for varicose vein. For incompetent perforators, sub-fascial ligation appears to be a better method of treatment than extra fascial ligation. Because in the former all the perforators could be visualized and dealt with, while in the latter there were chances of missing one or two perforators. If cases are selected properly with good operative technique the complications are negligible.
Optimizing Time and Energy in MPI Programs on a Power-Scalable Cluster by Robert C. Springer IV

Recently, the idea that power is a performance-limiting factor has gained traction in the high-performance computing community. This may be due to the fact that the cost of energy has become increasingly significant, or that the heat produced by higher-energy components tends to reduce their reliability. In addition, cooling and providing ample power to supercomputers is becoming more difficult as their power requirements increase. One way to reduce power (and therefore energy) requirements is to use high-performance cluster nodes that are frequencyand voltage-scalable (e.g., AMD-64 processors). The problem we address in this thesis is: given a power-scalable cluster and an upper limit for energy consumption, choose a schedule (number of nodes and CPU speed per node) that simultaneously (1) satisfies an external upper limit for energy consumption and (2) minimizes execution time. We do this using a novel combination of modeling, execution and profiling. Using our technique, we are able to find a near-optimal schedule in just a handful of partial program executions. Index words: MPI, power scalable, clusters, profiling Optimizing Time and Energy in MPI Programs on a Power-Scalable Cluster
An evolutionary algorithm to calculate the ground state of a quantum system

We present a new method based on evolutionary algorithms which permits to determine efciently the ground state of the time-independent Schr odinger equation for arbitrary external potentials. The approach relies on the variational principle. The ground-state wave function of a given Hamiltonian is found by using the procedure of survival of the ttest, starting from a population of wave functions. To perform the search for the ttest wave function we have extended a genetic algorithm to treat quantum mechanical problems. We present results for di erent one dimensional external potentials and compare them with analytical solutions and with other numerical methods. Our approach yields very good convergence in all cases. Potential applications of the quantum genetic algorithm presented here to more dimensions and many-body problems are discussed. c © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 02.90. +p; 03.65. −w
The effects of isometric exercises and stretching on postural stability in Non–Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus patients with diffuse symmetrical sensory motor neuropathy

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of isometric exercises and stretching on postural stability in Non – Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM) patients with diffuse symmetrical sensory motor neuropathy. Patients were assigned to an experimental group and amatched control group. The experimental group received isometric exer-cises and stretching three times weekly for 12 weeks in addition to routine medication and dietary advice. A t the end of this period, this group wascompared with the control group, which received routine medication anddietary advice only. Measurements of muscle strength of quadriceps, ham-strings, ankle plantar and dorsiﬂexors, and Romberg’s test for postural sta-bility were carried out before and after the 12 weeks intervention. The study showed that isometric exercises and stretching for the lower extremities improved postural stability (p = 0.00)and strength of the quadriceps (p = 0.001) hamstrings (p = 0.001) dorsiﬂexors (p = 0.001) plantarﬂexors (p = 0.001)in NIDDM patients with diffuse symmetrical sensory motor neuropathy. This exercise regimen also had a loweringeffect on blood glucose level (p = 0.00). In conclusion it seems that the simple exercise intervention described in thisstudy may be of beneﬁt to these patients if incorporated into their management programmes.
1 0 M ay 2 01 6 ASYMPTOTICS AND LOCAL CONSTANCY OF CHARACTERS OF p-ADIC GROUPS

In this paper we study quantitative aspects of trace characters Θπ of reductive padic groups when the representation π varies. Our approach is based on the local constancy of characters and we survey some other related results. We formulate a conjecture on the behavior of Θπ relative to the formal degree of π, which we are able to prove in the case where π is a tame supercuspidal. The proof builds on J.-K. Yu’s construction and the structure of Moy-Prasad subgroups.