Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ventilator-delivered nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation versus nasal biphasic positive airway pressure following extubation in infants ≤1250 g birth weight: a randomized trial

Abstract Background and objective To determine the effectiveness of ventilator-delivered nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation and nasal biphasic positive airway pressure (n-BiPAP) after first extubation attempt in infants ≤1250-g birthweight. Methods This randomized controlled study included mechanically ventilated preterm infants of ≤1250-g birthweight who were randomly assigned to ventilator-delivered NIPPV or n-BiPAP at first extubation within 2 weeks of age. The primary outcome (extubation failure within 96 h following extubation) and secondary outcomes were compared. Results Extubation failure occurred in 22 of 74 infants in n-BiPAP group and 34 of 75 infants in NIPPV group (OR 0.51, 95% CI: 0.26–1.002; p = .05). Duration of invasive and noninvasive ventilation were found to be similar between groups. Also, there were no significant differences among groups for intraventricular hemorrhage, medically/surgically treated patent ductus arteriosus, necrotizing enterocolitis, BPD or death. Conclusion Sustained extubation in infants ≤1250-g birthweight and <2 weeks age did not differ between ventilator-delivered NIPPV and n-BiPAP. Trial registration Clinical Trials.gov under identifier NCT02842190.
In vitro comparison of the accuracy of four intraoral scanners and three conventional impression methods for two neighboring implants

Purpose To determine whether the accuracy of two-implant model impressions taken with optical scanners was inferior to that of those taken with elastomeric materials. Materials and Methods Impressions of a resin reference model with two almost parallel implants were taken using three elastomeric impressions (closed tray technique, open tray nonsplinted technique and open tray splinted technique) and scanned with four optical scanners (CEREC Omnicam, 3M True Definition Scanner, 3Shape TRIOS3 and Carestream CS 3600). STL files of the different methods were superimposed and analyzed with control software (Geomagic Control X, 3D systems) to determine the mean deviation between scans. Results Compared to elastomeric impressions, optical impressions showed a significantly improved mean precision. TRIOS3 and CS3600 showed a significantly improved mean trueness compared to that of closed tray, CEREC Omnicam and TrueDefinition. All methods showed a certain degree of implant rotation over their axes, which was significantly higher in the closed tray and the open tray nonsplinted techniques. Conclusions Optical impressions, taken under these in vitro conditions, showed improved accuracy compared with that of elastomeric impressions.
Evaluation of a Game Based Tele Rehabilitation Platform for In‐Home Therapy of Hand‐Arm Function Post Stroke: Feasibility Study

There is a need for innovation to improve compliance and accessibility of rehabilitation programs for individuals with acquired brain injuries. A computer game‐assisted tele‐rehabilitation platform (GTP) has been developed to address this need. With the novel application of a miniature inertial computer mouse and taking advantage of the wide variety of computer games, the GTP can provide engaging exercises for rehabilitation of upper extremity motor skills.
Food Sensing: Detection of Bacillus cereus Spores in Dairy Products

Milk is a source of essential nutrients for infants and adults, and its production has increased worldwide over the past years. Despite developments in the dairy industry, premature spoilage of milk due to the contamination by Bacillus cereus continues to be a problem and causes considerable economic losses. B. cereus is ubiquitously present in nature and can contaminate milk through a variety of means from the farm to the processing plant, during transport or distribution. There is a need to detect and quantify spores directly in food samples, because B. cereus might be present in food only in the sporulated form. Traditional microbiological detection methods used in dairy industries to detect spores show limits of time (they are time consuming), efficiency and sensitivity. The low level of B. cereus spores in milk implies that highly sensitive detection methods should be applied for dairy products screening for spore contamination. This review describes the advantages and disadvantages of classical microbiological methods used to detect B. cereus spores in milk and milk products, related to novel methods based on molecular biology, biosensors and nanotechnology.
Whole-brain electrophysiological functional connectivity dynamics in resting-state EEG

Objective. Functional connectivity (FC) dynamics have been studied in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, while it is largely unknown in electrophysiological data, e.g. EEG. Approach. The present study proposed a novel analytic framework to study spatiotemporal dynamics of FC (dFC) in resting-state human EEG data, including independent component analysis, cortical source imaging, sliding-window correlation analysis, and k-means clustering. Main results. Our results confirm that major fMRI intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs) can be successfully reconstructed from EEG using our analytic framework. Prominent spatial and temporal variability were revealed in these ICNs. The mean dFC spatial patterns of individual ICNs resemble their corresponding static FC (sFC) patterns but show fewer cross-talks among distinct ICNs. Our investigation unveils evidences of time-domain variations in individual ICNs comparable to their mean FC level in terms of magnitude. The major contributors to these variations are from the frequency below 0.0156 Hz, in the similar range of FC dynamics from fMRI data. Among different ICNs, larger temporal variabilities are observed in the frontal attention and auditory/visual ICNs, while sensorimotor, salience, and default model networks showed less. Our analytic framework for the first time revealed quasi-stable states within individual EEG ICNs, with various strengths or spatial patterns that were reliably detected at both group and individual levels. These states all together reveal a more complete picture of EEG ICNs: (1) quasi-stable state spatial patterns as a whole for each EEG ICN are more consistent with the corresponding fMRI ICN in terms of the bilateral distribution and multi-nodes structure; (2) EEG ICNs reveal more transient patterns about within-ICN between-node communications than fMRI ICNs. Significance. The present findings highlight the fact that rich temporal and spatial dynamics exist in ICN that can be detected from EEG data. Future studies might extend investigations towards spectral dynamics of EEG ICNs.
Evaluation and management of motor disability of congenital origin and the role of consanguinity in the region of Tlemcen

© 2020 E Materials and methods. – We present the extraordinary case of one, suffering from multiple disabilities following a meatoplasty and whose older sister, who has him under her charge, still has hopes, 17 years after the fact, for compensation for an apparently obvious damage. We have of course anonymized our whole presentation as per the seriousness of the presented facts. Results. – The analysis shows: That the contribution of the rehabilitation doctor is just as important in the fair evaluation of the damage and the indispensable compensations as they are essential in recognizing the principle of compensation. That specialization of the lawyer is required to, firstly, meet the procedural requirements of expertise, on the other hand, reduce the asymmetry between the casualty and predominant insurance companies (technical staff, financial resources devoted to their defense). That cooperation between the doctor and the lawyer is required to respond appropriately to forensic hazards (questionable neutrality of the expert, exempting corporatism, orientating conclusions on biases contrary to medical ethics). Discussion. – Is this type of case a prerogative of the French overseas departments? Is the fact that being an MPR referent of a child an obstacle to this approach? Conclusion. – The necessary means to an accomplished rehabilitation often exceed the possibilities offered by the social protection and national solidarity. The involvement of the MPR in the indemnity issue can bring out a powerful rehabilitation leverage.
Local heritage food as a significant factor in Malaysia gastronomy tourism.

Food has been recognized as an effective promotional and positioning tool for a destination. Similarly, with the increasing interest in local cuisine, more destinations are focusing on food as their core tourism product. For example, France, Italy, and Thailand have been known for their cuisine. The importance of the connection between food and tourism cannot be ignored. Each destination has different levels of attractiveness that can draw tourists from different countries. Malaysia offers various kinds of food, including traditional and modern cuisines. As time goes by, the national heritage food is likely to be forgotten due to some factors such as lack of chefs and tourist awareness on this kind of food. Thus this research aims to investigate the level of awareness of food industry players on local heritage food, identifying the promotion effort implemented by the food industry players in marketing local heritage food and to explore the perception from food industry players on the potential, importance and opportunities of local heritage foods to be a factor of gastronomy tourism in Malaysia. The samples of a selfadministered questionnaire were chefs who registered under the Malaysia Professional Chef Association (MPCA). It is shown that only one out of four hypotheses is statistically significant and has a strong relationship between the variables of the perception of the importance of local heritage food with the perception of the potential of local heritage food.
Economic Commission for Europe Inland Transport Committee World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations

* In accordance with the programme of work of the Inland Transport Committee for 2018–2019 (ECE/TRANS/274, para. 123 and ECE/TRANS/2018/21/Add.1, Cluster 3), the World Forum will develop, harmonize and update UN Regulations in order to enhance the performance of vehicles. The present document is submitted in conformity with that mandate. United Nations ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRB/2018/9 Economic and Social Council Distr. : General 3 July 2018
For the like of the game: assessing the role of social media engagement in football consumer outcomes

The rise of social media use has altered the marketing context globally. In this regard, sport consumerism in particular has been influenced by the need of fans to communicate in real time and through remote means accessed digitally. However, limited research exists insofar frequency of social media use influences specific consumer outcomes. In this study, an investigation was undertaken to evaluate how regular social media use associates with positive consumer outcomes. These outcomes were performance tolerance of fans, stadium match attendance and consumer expenditure. Drawing from relationship marketing – and market segmentation theories, the postulated paths were scrutinised. 2465 adult fans of a predominant South African professional football club participated in the study. Of this sample, 67.75% indicated that they visit the social media platforms of the club under investigation on a daily basis. A cross-sectional design was implemented, with structural equation modelling as analysis used to explore postulated regression paths. Positive predictive relationships between frequent social media use and all consumer outcomes were established. Results are discussed and recommendations are made for future research.
Asymptotic Stability of Uncertain Lagrangian Systems with Prescribed Transient Response

This paper considers the asymptotic tracking problem for 2nd-order nonlinear Lagrangian systems subject to predefined constraints for the system response, such as maximum overshoot or minimum convergence rate. In particular, by employing discontinuous adaptive control protocols and nonsmooth analysis, we extend previous results on funnel control to guarantee at the same time asymptotic trajectory tracking from all the initial conditions that are compliant with the given funnel. The considered system contains parametric and structural uncertainties, with no boundedness or approximation/parametric factorization assumptions. The response of the closed loop system is solely determined by the predefined funnel and is independent from the control gain selection. Finally, simulation results verify the theoretical findings.
Corrupt Police

We employ laboratory experiments to examine the effects of corrupt law enforcement on crime within a society. We embed corruption in a social dilemma setting where citizens simultaneously choose whether to obey the law or to break the law and impose a negative externality on others. Police officers observe citizens' behavior and decide whether to impose fines on law-breakers or, in treatments with corruption, extort bribes from any citizen. In the first study, we find that the presence of police substantially reduces crime, as compared to a baseline setting without police. This is true also when police officers are corrupt. This result is driven by corrupt police officers using bribes in a targeted manner as a substitute for official fines to punish law-breakers. In the second study, we test the effectiveness of two reward mechanisms aimed at reducing police corruption, both of which are based on society-wide police performance measures and not on the observation/monitoring of individual officers. We find that both mechanisms make bribery more targeted toward law-breakers, and one of them leads to a moderate reduction in crime.
Diabetic retinopathy is an eye complication of diabetes

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common metabolic diseases with an increasing incidence, and its complications can affect almost all tissues and organs, causing high morbidity, disability and mortality [1]. Diabetic retinopathy is an eye complication of diabetes and it is the main cause of visual function loss in the working-age population [2]. Blindness is 25 times more common in diabetics than in the general population [3]. The consistent risk factors for diabetic retinopathy include duration of diabetes, age of the patient, nephropathy/albuminuria, genetic factors, pregnancy and degree of retinopathy, and variable risk factors including hyperglycemia/glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), hypertension, dyslipidemia, physical inactivity and obesity [4]. Two major processes are involved in the development of diabetic retinopathy and clinically significant macular edema: occlusion of the retinal capillaries and other blood vessels, resulting in ischemia, and abnormal vascular permeability [5]. Another significant chronic complication of diabetes Summary Introduction. Complications of diabetes can affect almost all tissues and organs, causing high morbidity, disability and mortality. The aim of this study was to examine eye and kidney disorders of patients with patients with diabetes, and assess the correlation between them. Material and Methods. This retrospective study included 45 patients suffering from type 2 diabetes for more than ten years. The patients were divided into three groups of 15 subjects each: patients without diabetic retinopathy, patients with non-proliferative retinopathy, and patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Results. The average levels of fasting blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin were highest in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (11.27 mmol/l and 8.48%, respectively). Of 30 patients with diabetic eye diseases, diabetic maculopathy was found in 60% of cases; of those, 20% had nonproliferative retinopathy and 40% had proliferative retinopathy. The mean values of best corrected visual acuity, in both eyes, were 0.45 in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, while mean values of serum urea and creatinine, creatinine clearance, and 24-h albuminuria in this group were 7.37 mmol/l, 106.13 μmol/l, 72.80 ml/min, and 346.31 mg/24h, respectively. Conclusion. Severe forms of diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy were found in patients with poor metabolic regulation. A correlation between diabetic eye and kidney diseases was established, and the level of visual damage correlated with the degree of renal function impairment.
New Family, Genus, and Species of Microsporida (Protozoa: Microsporida) from the Tropical Fire Ant, Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius) (Insecta: Formicidae)*

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Successful Aging 1

The Cerontologist Vol. 37, No. 4, 433-440 Substantial increases in the relative and absolute number of older persons in our society pose a challenge for biology, social and behavioral science, and medicine. Successful aging is multidimensional, encompassing the avoidance of disease and disability, the maintenance of high physical and cognitive function, and sustained engagement in social and productive activities. Research has identified factors predictive of success in these critical domains. The stage is set for intervention studies to enhance the proportion of our population aging successfully.
Floristic and phytogeographic analysis of the woody vegetation of the cliff of Ngaoundéré and its peripheries

Field investigations have been carried out in the forest landscapes of the Ngaoundéré cliff and its outskirts, in the Vina Department of Cameroon. To learn more about the floristic richness and the chorologic position of the site of interest, an analysis of the flora, the autoecological and phytogeographic spectra of species has been undertaken. This analysis is based on floristic material from different surveys carried out in seven villages. On an area of 8.4 hectares prospected, through 84 phytosociological surveys, a floristic matrix of 87 species distributed in 46 genera and in 39 families was retained. Some of these species are of high ecological importance to the instar Terminalia laxiflora (16.58%), Isoberlinia doka (15.26%), Terminalia glaucescens (13.55%), Vitellaria paradoxa (10.17%), Parkia biglobosa (8.78%), Sarcocephalus latifolius (8.30%), Pterocarpus lucens (8.22%), Daniellia oliveri (7.92%). The families of the Fabaceae (64.83%), Combretaceae (43.18%), Euphorbiaceae (22.98%), Moraceae (16.35%), Rubiaceae (16.34%), Anacardiaceae (16.02%), Sapotaceae (10.17%), Myrtaceae (9.89%), Meliaceae (8.85%) and Annonaceae (7.51%) are the most diversified in cash. The ecological spectra highlight the high representativeness of microphanerophytes and ballochorous. On the phytogeographic level, the preponderance of multiregional species detected indicates the instability of forest landscapes in the study area. Moreover, the high rate of species with limited distribution in the African continent is an indication of disturbance and shows that the flora loses its specificity. All in all, this vegetation is in gradual degradation because of human activities.
The Limitation of Pre-processing Techniques to Enhance the Face Recognition System Based on LBP

Most systems are intelligent and the industrial world is moving now towards technology. Most industrial systems are now computerized and offer a high speed. However, Face recognition is a biometric system that can identify people from their faces. For few number of people to be identified, it can be considered as a fast system. When the number of people grew to be bigger, the system cannot be adopted in a real-time application because its speed will degrade along with its accuracy. However, the accuracy can be enhanced using pre-processing techniques but the time delay is still a challenge. A series of experiments had been done on AT&T-ORL database images using Enhanced Face Recognition System (EFRS) that is adopting a Local Binary Pattern Histogram (LBPH) as feature extraction method. During these experiments, LBP parameters and pre-processing techniques have been changing and the results were recorded for accuracy and time for different database sizes. The accuracy reaches 98.5% but the time delay keep increasing with the number of people in the database.
Intelligent Spectrum Control in Heterogeneous Networks With High Security Capability

In this letter, an intelligent spectrum control (ISC) scheme is proposed to enhance the communication security performance in heterogeneous networks (Het-Nets), where the available spectrum can be efficiently managed by avoiding interferences flexibly with the aid of spectrum sensing technique. We analyze the security performance for the Het-Nets, and derive the closed-form expressions for the reliable transmission probability and the secrecy probability of the authorized user. Our numerical simulation results validate the accuracy of the analytical expressions, and imply that the Het-Nets with the ISC scheme can achieve a high security performance.