Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DFT & ATPG: together again

A system which adds DFT and generates test vectors for the enhanced circuit is described. Partial reset, observability enhancement and partial scan are employed. A dynamic partial reset flip-flop selection method is described utilizing a fast genetic algorithm based sequential test generator. This system trades off various parameters to obtain high fault coverage, low test application times, low hardware overhead and low CPU time.
Lithium, manic-depressive illness, and psychological test performance.

Lithium, manic-depressive illness, and psychological test performance For over 10 years patients responding to treatment at a lithium clinic' have been free from psychiatric symptoms. Little is known about the psychological performance of such patients, but a report,2 using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), confirmed that lithium produces a response in depression. Clinical impressions agree that lithium responders are patients with typical manic-depressive illness.3 It is still not known how well patients are when taking lithium.
Mycobacterium xenopi pulmonary infection in an HIV infected patient under highly active antiretroviral treatment

Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is responsible for a striking reduction in AIDS related morbidity and mortality by partly restoring immune function. However, HAART can also precipitate the development of clinically apparent opportunistic infections in patients with latent infections. We report a case of an HIV infected patient who developed granulomatous nodular and cavitatory lesions of the lungs due to Mycobacterium xenopi as a manifestation of the immune restoration syndrome.
ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES OF CAPSAICIN EXPOSURE IN HEALTH CARE WORKERS

the specific issues raised in their letter. In this response, let US instead consider our points of agreement with the writers. Richardson and colleagues agree with us that the efficacy of providing care in geriatric day hospitals remains unproved. We, in turn, agree with them that day hospitals should be studied after they are fully functional and that randomization is exceedingly difficult to do at that point because of patient and provider resistance. From this point on, our views diverge. We argue that the efficacy of day hospitals still needs to be evaluated using randomized trials or other available research methods when randomization is not possible. It is less clear what Richardson and colleagues would propose.
In vitro and in vivo proliferation, differentiation and migration of cardiac endothelial progenitor cells (SCA1+/CD31+ side‐population cells)

To cite this article: Liang SX, Khachigian LM, Ahmadi Z, Yang M, Liu S, Chong BH. In vitro and in vivo proliferation, differentiation and migration of cardiac endothelial progenitor cells (SCA1+/CD31+ side‐population cells). J Thromb Haemost 2011; 9: 1628–37.
Enhanced Thermal Model of a Totally Enclosed Fan Cooled Squirrel Cage Induction Machine

Thermal simulations are a very important tool for optimizing the design of electric machines. In this paper, two thermal simulation models for totally enclosed fan cooled (TEFC) induction machines are compared with thermal measurement results. For both one dimensional models of the induction machine a thermal equivalent circuit of the machine is presented. The enhanced model was built with the possibility to split the middle part into equal sized parts to model a more detailed axial temperature distribution in the machine. For modelling the circuits, MODELICA language was used in combination with the simulation tool DYMOLA. Simulation results are obtained for both thermal models at the thermal equilibrium. For a comparison between simulated and measured results two measurements on an 18.5 kW four pole induction machine have been accomplished. With iron-copper-nickel sensors embedded in the winding, the housing and between the ribs of the machine temperatures have been determined.
Constitutive expression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) nef protein in human astrocytes does not influence basal or induced HIV long terminal repeat activity

Since human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) nef has been suggested to exert regulatory effects on HIV long terminal repeat (LTR) activity, we transiently transfected HIV LTR chloramphenicol acetyltransferase or luciferase expression vectors into a human astrocytoma clone (U-373nef) that constitutively expresses the HIV nef gene. In these cells, basal HIV LTR activity, as well as tumor necrosis factor-induced or tat-driven activity, was similar to that in control cells. Lack of any detectable effect of HIV nef on LTR activity was not the result of mutations in integrated nef DNA, as was shown by polymerase chain reaction. These data suggest that the role of nef in HIV genome transcription does not necessarily involve a direct influence on HIV LTR activity.
An investigation of phenomena observed in scale-free coupled circle map

In this study, phenomena observed in scale-free coupled circle map are investigated. The circle map is a one-dimensional discrete-time dynamical system which exhibits various kinds of behavior as the parameters change. As the high-dimensional coupled circle map, the coupled map lattice and the globally coupled map have been studied. However, the scale-free coupled circle map has not been well investigated so far. We study the model in which one of the circle maps corresponding to a hub node of the scale-free network has the parameter which leads the single circle map to generate high-order periodic points, and the parameter values of the other maps are set to converge to a fixed point. Changing the coupling strength between each map, we investigated the synchronization in the scale-free coupled circle map by calculating the value of the order parameter. The result of this study elucidated that when the coupling strength between each map was negative, all circle maps in the network behaved chaotic whatever the parameter value of the hub node was set to. That means the phenomena was generated because of the scale-free network structure itself but not the state of the hub node. On the other hand, the coupling strength was positive, the behavior observed in the network was based on the state of the hub node. In addition, the result showed the periodic point observed in the hub node could change to the fixed point after the scale-free network generated. The result suggests that the phenomena such as chaos and periodic oscillation could change to be converged into stable fixed point by forming the scale-free network and appropriately controlling the parameters.
Effectiveness of query formulation based on durian characteristics

Although there are many information about crops in the web that can be retrieved, usually user is unable to extract preferred information. Most of the time the problem is caused by poor query formulation. This paper examines the effectiveness of the query word “durian” and its thesaurus as benchmark terms versus query formulation based on the characteristics of durian. Findings shows that using characteristic of durian in query formulation significantly improved the effectiveness of the query.
Senior Nursing Students' Perceptions of Caring for Patients at the End of Life.

BACKGROUND Nursing students often feel unprepared to provide end-of-life care. Studies have examined students' learning outcomes and attitudes regarding end-of-life care, but it is unclear how students perceived their nursing program prepared them in both knowledge and confidence. Such research could help inform curricula revisions. METHOD This pilot study used a primarily qualitative approach with narrative questions and quantitative survey questions to a lesser degree. Seventy-one students from three baccalaureate nursing cohorts were participants. RESULTS Five themes became apparent: Students Have Confidence in Provision of Physical Care, Students Lack Confidence in Provision of Emotional Care, Students Experience Stress and Lack of Knowledge When Caring for Families, Students Have Concern They Will Be Too Emotionally Involved, and Students Feel Personal Experiences Enhance Their Confidence. CONCLUSION Student perceptions are important to consider when revising curricula to enhance learning and promote confidence in addressing emotional care at the end of life. [J Nurs Educ. 2016;55(5):279-283. ].
World Glaucoma Day, 6 March 2008: tackling glaucoma internationally

© 2007 Scientific Communications International Limited Correspondence: Dr George Lambrou, Athens Institute of Ophthalmology, Agias Barbaras 61, Halandri 15231, Athens, Greece. Tel: (30 210) 722 2722; Fax: (30 210) 722 2747; E-mail: gnlambrou@hotmail.com, george@lambrou.eu We have all heard many times that “Glaucoma is the second most common treatable cause of blindness worldwide”. Glaucoma is a significant public health concern, being the leading cause of irreversible blindness and consistently ranking among the leading causes of blindness in virtually every nation. In developing countries, cataract is the leading cause of blindness. In developed countries, the leading cause of blindness is age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, there is a fundamental difference between these 2 diseases and glaucoma; their high rank as causes of blindness is due to structural reasons that are hard to address (limited access to surgical infrastructure for cataract and lack of an effective preventive treatment for AMD), whereas in the case of glaucoma, the main reason is low awareness of the disease and its implications. Indeed, it is estimated that only 50% of those affected with glaucoma in developed nations are aware that they have the disease, while as many as 90% or more of people with glaucoma in underdeveloped countries are unaware of having the disease or have even heard of glaucoma. Despite our better understanding of risk factors for glaucoma, we have yet to see an improvement in these numbers. Worse, although glaucoma occurs in all age groups, it is more common in older adults, and with an ageing population, estimates of glaucoma prevalence are increasing. It has been predicted that by 2020, 79.6 million people worldwide will have glaucoma, 11.2 million of whom will be bilaterally blind, up from the current 4.5 million. Recent years have seen considerable progress in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. Technological advances in optic nerve and retinal nerve fibre layer imaging and visual field testing make it possible to diagnose glaucoma at earlier stages, when treatment has a better prognosis. Medical treatment is available and effective for controlling glaucoma for most patients, while for those who have uncontrolled disease, laser and surgical interventions are often successful. Optic nerve and visual field damage are irreversible. As damage progresses gradually, often unnoticed by the patient, early detection and treatment are of paramount importance to prevent blindness. For individuals with known risk factors for glaucoma, particularly elevated intraocular pressure, increasing age, African descent, family history of glaucoma, vasospasm, low blood pressure, and high myopia, the importance of routine examinations cannot be understated. Also, despite strong evidence that lowering intraocular pressure can delay the onset and progression of glaucoma, reported rates of non-compliance with glaucoma therapy range from 5% to as high as 80%. This high variability results from different definitions for non-compliance and the way it is measured.
Angiopoietin 2 regulates the transformation and integrity of lymphatic endothelial cell junctions

Lymphatic endothelial cell junctions in lymphatic capillaries transform from a zipper-like to a button-like pattern during development. Here, Zheng et al. found that an Angiopoietin 2 (ANG2)-blocking antibody inhibits embryonic lymphangiogenesis, whereas endothelium-specific ANG2 overexpression induced lymphatic hyperplasia. ANG2 inhibition blocked VE-cadherin phosphorylation and suppressed the onset of lymphatic valve formation and subsequent valve maturation. These data identify ANG2 as the first essential regulator of the functionally important interendothelial cell–cell junctions that form during lymphatic development.
A Classification Of Various Indian Script Recognition : A Survey

Till now, many researches have been done for optical character recognition (OCR) and a number of articles have been published in the last few decades. In market a number of commercial OCR systems are available. But these OCR systems are developed for Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and roman but only few are available for Indian languages though there are 12 major scripts in India. This paper provides a review for the OCR work done on Indian languages scripts. This review is arranged in some sections. Section 1 contains Introduction part. In section 2, Indian script Features are discussed and methodologies in OCR system is discussed in section 3. Section 4 concludes the paper.
Superiorization-based multi-energy CT image reconstruction

The recently-developed superiorization approach is efficient and robust for solving various constrained optimization problems. This methodology can be applied to multi-energy CT image reconstruction with the regularization in terms of the prior rank, intensity and sparsity model (PRISM). In this paper, we propose a superiorized version of the simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) based on the PRISM model. Then, we compare the proposed superiorized algorithm with the Split-Bregman algorithm in numerical experiments. The results show that both the Superiorized-SART and the Split-Bregman algorithms generate good results with weak noise and reduced artefacts.
Gingival bleeding on probing increases after quitting smoking.

BACKGROUND Gingival inflammation associated with plaque accumulation is delayed or impaired in smokers. Anecdotal evidence suggests that smokers who quit experience an increase in gingival bleeding. METHOD A group of 27 subjects on a Quit-smoking programme were examined for changes in gingival health over a 4-6-week period. RESULTS The bleeding on probing with a constant force probe increased from 16% of sites to 32% of sites, despite improvements in the subjects oral hygiene. CONCLUSION This provides further evidence that tobacco smoking affects the inflammatory response and that these changes are reversible on quitting.
Garlic: always good for the health?

on admission. He rapidly developed respiratory failure with fltiffy shadowing on the chest X-ray. ''^ Tt was possible that his previous heavy alcohol intake contributed to his demise. However, although his liver function tests were abnormal on admission, there was no evidence of an alcohol-related cardiomyopathy which might have precipitated the terminal event. The unexpected finding of a raised CVP was compatible with right heart failure secondary to capiilary leak syndrome. He also had a proven staphylococcal septicaemia, but his sepsis was treated promptly, and after the initially positive blood cultures no further organisms were grown from any source. When he was in the intensive care unit he was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. The S, aureus grown from the hlood cultures did not react with normal phages but reacted strongly with phage types 90 and 932. These have no special association with pathogenicity, in particular endotoxin production or toxic shock syndrome.
Fasting levels of hepatic p-S6 are increased in old mice

TOR is involved in aging in a wide range of species from yeast to mammals. Here we show that, after overnight fasting, mTOR activity is higher in the livers of 28 months old female mice compared with middle-aged mice. Taken together with previous reports, our data predict that the life-extending effect of calorie restriction (CR) may be diminished, if CR is started in very old age. In contrast, rapamycin is known to be effective, even when started late in life.
Spontaneous programmed death (apoptosis) of B‐chronic lymphocytic leukaemia cells following their culture in vitro

Summary When B‐cell lymphocytic leukaemia (B‐CLL) cells derived from peripheral blood were cultured in vitro, a substantial proportion of them spontaneously died by apoptosis. This type of cell death is morphologically and biochemically distinct from necrosis and has previously been found to occur under physiologic and certain pathologic conditions where cell deletion appears controlled and biologically meaningful. By 30 h of culture, approximately 20% of the unfractionated B‐CLL cells were affected. There was no significant difference in the incidence of apoptosis in T‐cell depleted and undepleted cultures or when either autologous or normal human serum was used. Furthermore, seeding densities of 2 × 106 and 5 × 105 cells/ml resulted in a similar incidence of apoptosis, indicating that cell density was unlikely to be a contributing factor in producing the death. The finding that B‐CLL cells spontaneously die in vitro has at least two important implications. Firstly, previous work relating to some of the functions of B‐CLL cells and their interactions with T cells may require re‐evaluation. Secondly, an understanding of the mechanisms involved in the induction of apoptosis in this disease may have therapeutic consequences.
Temporary Bonding of Wafer to Carrier for 3D-Wafer Level Packaging

With great demand of high-end applications such as high-integration microelectronics, system-in-packaging (SiP), power application and flexible ICs, a device wafer needs to be thinned down and further structured, for example, fabrication of through-silicon via for the improved performance. Therefore, handling of ultrathin wafer (less than 100¿m in thickness) becomes a great challenge for both front-end and back-end processes. In current practice, a supportive carrier substrate inclusive of silicon, ceramic, glass and tape is used to protect the thinned device wafer from cracking and deforming and make front-end, assembly and test easier to process. The materials used for bonding the device wafer onto the above mentioned substrates play a critical role in the fabrication of ultrathin devices and high-performance packages. This paper covers two parts: temporary bonding of a device wafer onto a carrier wafer and debonding after completion of the entire through-silicon-via (TSV) process. The purpose of temporary bonding is to attach the device wafer onto the rigid carrier substrate prior to the back-grinding and subsequent processes and thus prevent cracking and chipping of thinned device wafer. The temporary bonding agent allows the release of the device wafer using different approaches such as heat, UV and solvent, etc. The bonding defects such as delamination, bubbling, thickness variation and chemical attack are discussed. Much endeavor is put onto the temporary bonding materials and process optimization. Two types of temporary bonding adhesives are studied to bond a device wafer onto a glass wafer.
Improvement of pedestrian dead reckoning by heading correction based on optimal access points selection method

In the traditional indoor positioning systems, because of high cost or various environmental interferences, most existing technology such as GPS, Bluetooth and RFID are not so useful. Pedestrian Dead-Reckoning (PDR) is a kind of low-cost location positioning technique that can get high accuracy by estimating the heading angle of target from acceleration, gyro and compass data. Usually, researchers use compass data to estimate heading angle. However, the compass data is easily affected by external environment, such as electrical equipment or some objects made by iron or steel. On the other hand, the calculation results by the obtained data of acceleration and gyro usually have accumulated error with time. When time comes longer, the bigger error often appears. Some researchers use Wi-Fi based on received signal strength indicator (RSSI) to assist PDR for correction. However, some Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) cannot be used because RSSI can be affected by external factors, such as people moving, wall. In this paper, a novel method that can improve PDR by heading correction is proposed. In this method, heading angle is estimated by calculating the yaw angle with Quaternion from acceleration and gyro data, and optimal APs selection method is used to select suitable RSSI for getting high accuracy.
Liquid biopsies for surveillance and monitoring treatment response of bladder cancer.

Urinary bladder cancer is a frequent disease representing the ninth most common cancer worldwide with significant morbidity and mortality (1,2). Men are more often affected by bladder cancer than women, however for still unknown reasons women have a higher mortality rate (2). Besides external exposure to carcinogens such as tobacco, aromatic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons inherent genetic predisposition is discussed as risk factor for bladder cancer (2,3). At initial diagnosis approximately 75% of patients have non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with a high recurrence rate of at least 50% and a progression rate to muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) of about 15% within 5 years (3,4). Urine cytology and cystoscopy are the gold standard for early bladder cancer diagnosis (5).
State of the Art in Biometric Key Binding and Key Generation Schemes

Direct storage of biometric templates in databases exposes the authentication system and legitimate users to numerous security and privacy challenges. Biometric cryptosystems or template protection schemes are used to overcome the security and privacy challenges associated with the use of biometrics as a means of authentication. This paper presents a review of previous works in biometric key binding and key generation schemes. The review focuses on key binding techniques such as biometric encryption, fuzzy commitment scheme, fuzzy vault and shielding function. Two categories of key generation schemes considered are private template and quantization schemes. The paper also discusses the modes of operations, strengths and weaknesses of various kinds of key-based template protection schemes. The goal is to provide the reader with a clear understanding of the current and emerging trends in key-based biometric cryptosystems.
On the Equivalence between Bayesian and Classical Hypothesis Testing

For hypotheses of the type H_0:theta=theta_0 vs H_1:theta ne theta_0 we demonstrate the equivalence of a Bayesian hypothesis test using a Bayes factor and the corresponding classical test, for a large class of models, which are detailed in the paper. In particular, we show that the role of the prior and critical region for the Bayes factor test is only to specify the type I error. This is their only role since, as we show, the power function of the Bayes factor test coincides exactly with that of the classical test, once the type I error has been fixed. For more complex tests involving nuisance parameters, we recover the classical test by using Jeffreys prior on the nuisance parameters, while the prior on the hypothesized parameters can be arbitrary up to a large class. On the other hand, we show that using proper priors on the nuisance parameters results in a test with uniformly lower power than the classical test.
Histone Replacement Marks the Boundaries of cis-Regulatory Domains

Cellular memory is maintained at homeotic genes by cis-regulatory elements whose mechanism of action is unknown. We have examined chromatin at Drosophila homeotic gene clusters by measuring, at high resolution, levels of histone replacement and nucleosome occupancy. Homeotic gene clusters display conspicuous peaks of histone replacement at boundaries of cis-regulatory domains superimposed over broad regions of low replacement. Peaks of histone replacement closely correspond to nuclease-hypersensitive sites, binding sites for Polycomb and trithorax group proteins, and sites of nucleosome depletion. Our results suggest the existence of a continuous process that disrupts nucleosomes and maintains accessibility of cis-regulatory elements.