Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Influence of interposed ventilation pressure upon artificial cardiac output during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in dogs

This study was conducted to determine the effects of high pressure interposed ventilations during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Cardiac output was measured by a modified indicator dilution technique in eight anesthetized, intubated mongrel dogs. Positive pressure ventilations (12/min, 80% O2) were interposed after every five chest compressions (performed at 62/min) by a mechanical chest compressor (Thumper). On repeated trials in the same animal, ventilation pressures from 10–50 cm of H2O were tested in randomized sequence, while the technique of chest compression was held constant. Arterial blood gases immediately after resuscitation were monitored. Increasing ventilation pressure had surprisingly little effect on cardiac output during CPR, although blood gases were profoundly altered. For ventilation pressures of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 cm of H2O, producing mean tidal volumes 23, 38, 61, 83, and 94 ml/kg; cardiac output remained nearly constant, averaging 21,25,23,26, and 24 ml/minμkg. Corresponding mean postresuscitation pH was 7.24, 7.41, 7.51, 7.56, and 7.53; Pco2 was 41, 26, 18, 16, and 15 torr. The postresuscitation arterial oxygen tension was greater than 100 torr at all ventilation pressures except 10 cm of H2O. Interposed ventilations of pressure and volume more than adequate to prevent acidosis during CPR did not impair artificial cardiac output. If anything, cardiac output was slightly improved by more forceful ventilation.
Ultrathin HfON Trapping Layer for Charge-Trap Memory Made by Atomic Layer Deposition

Charge storage characteristics of a hafnium oxynitride (HfON) charge-trapping layer prepared by atomic layer deposition in a metal-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>-HfON-SiO<sub>2</sub>-Si (MAH<sub>N</sub>OS) structure are investigated. We found that an ultrathin HfON (~2.5 nm) embedded in MAH<sub>N</sub>OS has large memory window (~7.5 V at V<sub>g</sub> = ±15 V), sufficient erase speed (Δ V<sub>FB</sub> = 4 V at -16 V/1 ms), and satisfactory data retention. From the relation of erase transient current density (J) versus tunnel oxide e-field (E<sub>TUN</sub>), we also found that the erase mechanism of MAH<sub>N</sub>OS depends on electron detrapping from HfON to Si substrates. However, MAH<sub>N</sub>OS embedding with a thicker HfON shows a poor data retention due to the increase of crystallization of the trapping layer.
User-Generated Content and Consumer Purchase Intentions in the Cosmetic Industry: Social Impact Perspective

Online retailers within the luxury cosmetics industry have grown in popularity due to a wider and more diverse catalogue of products. Beauty e-commerce has also seen an uplift due to the increase in blogs/ vlogs and online YouTube tutorials which motivate customers to click through to brands and retailer sites through links and affiliate marketing. Given the importance of computer-mediated marketing environments, particularly the burgeoning Internet tapestry along with its various social networking platforms, it is fundamental for management to foster and understand how these emerging technologies impact on their marketing strategies. Drawing on social impact theory (SIT), this paper contends that user-generated content can provide the basis for brand managers in the cosmetic industry to re-evaluate their digital marketing strategies. The paper concludes with discussions about the value of social impact theory in the development of digital marketing strategies.
Lipid Lowering Treatment: Current Issues

Lipid lowering treatment is of benefit in the prevention of coronary heart diseases (CHD) and other vascular events. So far many studies have been carried out to prove the safety, efficacy and beneficial effects of lipid-lowering treatment in various countries. These studies can be categorized into two groups: (1) studies done to prove the effectiveness of lipid lowering treatment in the primary prevention of coronary heart diseases e.g. WOSCOPS or West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (1995) and AFCAPS/ TEXCAPS or Airforce/Texas Coronary Atherosclerosis Prevention Study (1995) : (2) studies done to prove the effectiveness of these drugs in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease e.g. CARE or Cholesterol And Recurrent Events trial (1996) and LIPID or the Long-term Intervention With Pravastatin in Ischaemic Heart Disease (1998).
Genetic resources and diversity in Pakistani cattle.

Cattle in Pakistan have traditionally been raised for producing bullocks except breeds such as Sahiwal and Red Sindhi which are established milch breeds. General production system is low-input extensive system with crossbreds mainly raised under intensive high input system in the cattle/buffalo colonies to sustain the demand of milk especially during summer, the slump period in buffalo milk. Although, draft breeds are losing utility yet, it will take many generations before they are replaced due to mechanization. Efforts, however, are needed for their in situ conservation and directional selection towards beef. Institutional records indicate weak genetic control for most of the economic traits but accurate recording of performance and pedigrees can improve these estimates. Breeding policy guidelines need adoption in letter and sprit to conserve various breeds. Institutions established for breed improvement need to be restructured for achieving the goals. Adequate diversity in performance and adaptability can be exploited for actual improvement accruing to conservation and development of indigenous cattle resources.
Effect of arsenite on the induction of CYP1A4 and CYP1A5 in cultured chick embryo hepatocytes.

We had reported previously that 2.5-5 microM sodium arsenite decreased the phenobarbital-mediated induction of CYP2H activity and protein but not CYP2H1 mRNA in chick-embryo hepatocyte cultures. Induction of a CYP1A activity and protein by 3-methylcholanthrene was also decreased by low arsenite concentrations; however, CYP1A mRNAs were not measured in those studies. We report here that low concentrations of arsenite decreased induction of activities and mRNAs of two chicken cytochromes P450, CYP1A (1A4 and 1A5), by 3-methylcholanthrene in chick-embryo hepatocyte cultures. Arsenite treatment did not affect the turnover of either mRNA, nor did it decrease the superinduction of each mRNA caused by treatment with cycloheximide in addition to 3-methylcholanthrene. Glutathione depletion enhanced the effect of arsenite to decrease induction of CYP1A4. These results indicate the induction of CYP1A4 and 1A5 is inhibited by sodium arsenite at the level of transcription, suggesting that the Ah receptor complex may be involved.
Dialogue Response Generation using Neural Networks with Attention and Background Knowledge

Constantly increasing amounts of data on the Internet as well as fast GPUs available allowed for the research in AI. Google DeepMind and self-driving cars are showing how fast machine learning flows into industry. It helps humans to do their job, and the chatbots are a good example of it. We use them to play music, tell us the weather, order a cab, and much more. Chatbots are all about generating the response given the conversation so far. In this work we train a dialogue response generation model using neural networks. It is a sequence to sequence model which takes a dialogue as an input and produces the next response as an output. The data used is the Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus a large dataset for research in unstructured multi-turn dialogue systems. Since the input sequences are the dialogues, the inputs are pretty long, and in this case the information at the very beginning of the sequence is often lost while training the model. That is one of the reasons we are using attention. It allows the decoder more direct access to the input and lets the model itself decide which inputs consider more for output generation. Also, we extend the Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus with the information from the man pages in order to enrich the input with the technical information. We use the short descriptions. In this way we do not overload the input with too much additional information, but still add some background knowledge.
C reactive protein: protecting from lupus in familial Mediterranean fever

C reactive protein (CRP), a member of the pentraxin family, is a widely measured acute phase reactant. CRP concentrations have been shown to be increased in familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), which is the most common autoinflammatory disorder around the world.1–3 Interestingly, CRP is not only increased during the attacks of FMF but in between the attacks as well.3 Serum amyloid A protein levels are also increased in these patients.4 We have …
Genitourinary dysfunction in Parkinson's disease

Bladder dysfunction (urinary urgency/frequency) and sexual dysfunction (erectile dysfunction) are common nonmotor disorders in Parkinson's disease (PD). In contrast to motor disorders, genitourinary autonomic dysfunctions are often nonresponsive to levodopa treatment. The brain pathology causing the bladder dysfunction (appearance of overactivity) involves an altered dopamine‐basal ganglia circuit, which normally suppresses the micturition reflex. By contrast, hypothalamic dysfunction is mostly responsible for the sexual dysfunction (decrease in libido and erection) in PD, via altered dopamine‐oxytocin pathways, which normally promote libido and erection. The pathophysiology of the genitourinary dysfunction in PD differs from that in multiple system atrophy; therefore, it might aid in differential diagnosis. Anticholinergic agents are used to treat bladder dysfunction in PD, although these drugs should be used with caution particularly in elderly patients who have cognitive decline. Phosphodiesterase inhibitors are used to treat sexual dysfunction in PD. These treatments might be beneficial in maximizing the patients' quality of life. © 2010 Movement Disorder Society
Smart Glasses - A New Tool in Medicine

Smart glasses, defined as a computerized communicator with a transparent screen and a video camera, wearable as a pair of glasses, have started to be tested for a variety of health related applications. This poster reviews some of the early experiences and gives a series of proposals for possible uses in medicine with a particular emphasis on medical education.
Political culture's effect on voter turnout: the 2004 election and beyond

I provide an account of the psychological elements that combine within an actor, motivating them to vote. Political scientists have written extensively on the topic of turnout, however, no one has attempted to explain turnout based primarily on political culture. Political culture has improved our understanding of states, parties, and elections alike. This thesis uses a political culture ordinal scale as the primary explanatory variable in an OLS regression. Political culture has rarely been used as an explanatory variable and to my knowledge never as an ordinal scale, as it is used within this thesis. I posit that political culture, like a sense of civic duty, or any other “interpersonal influence” can and does become a motivating force in an actor’s decision to vote and acts as a long-term aggregate psychological influence in the act of voting and as. This relationship is explored via the use of data from the 2004 presidential election.
Genetic relationship of lactation persistency with milk yield, somatic cellscore, reproductive traits, and longevity in Slovak Holstein cattle

Abstract. The objective of this study was to estimate the breeding values (BVs) of lactation persistency, the test day of milk yield, the somatic cell score, reproductive traits (calving interval, days open), longevity in Slovak Holstein dairy cattle. BVs were used for the detection of relationships among the persistency of lactation and other selected traits. Data for the estimation of BVs of milk production and somatic cell score were collected from 855 240 cows. BVs for reproductive traits were estimated for 352 712 cows and for longevity for 528 362 cows. The highest correlations were confirmed between the BV of persistency and the BV of test day milk yield at 100, 200, and 305 days (−0.88, −0.65, and −0.61). Correlations between the BV of lactation persistency and the BV of somatic cell score at day 305 or the BV of somatic cell score persistency were favorable: −0.05 and −0.12, respectively. The relationship between the BV of persistency and the BV of the calving interval or the BV of days open was 0.11 and 0.10 respectively. The selection for the persistency of lactation may not improve longevity because there is no relation between the BV of persistency and the BV of longevity (rg = 0.06).
Towards understanding users' motivation to share health information on Facebook

Motivated by the two-way benefits, people have used a variety of web-based services to share health information (HI) online. Among these services, Facebook, which enjoys the largest population of active subscribers, has become a common place for sharing various types of HI. At the same time, Facebook was shown to be vulnerable to various attacks, resulting in unintended information disclosure, privacy invasion, and information misuse. As such, Facebook users face the dilemma of benefiting from HI sharing and risking their privacy. In this work, we investigate HI sharing practices, preferences, and risk perceptions among Facebook users. Our exploration focused on two main goals: (1) to identify the key factors that influenced users’ motivation to share HI on Facebook, and (2) to highlight a number of features that could motivate people toward engaging in effective HI sharing on Facebook. To achieve these goals, we first surveyed 166 active Facebook users about their HI sharing practices and risk perceptions. We quantified HI sharing practices and confirmed that it has become a common practice among users. Moreover, we found that the type of the shared HI and its recipients, can highly
Consumer Behavior on Online Shopping in India

: nline shopping in India has been shown to be a good potential market, buying online gives customers the opportunity to find a great variety of products, customers can review a wide selection of products and find special offers with the best deals online. However, the tangible and intangible problems of online shopping still exist and the online store retailers lack the customer knowledge in some extent. Therefore, the intention of this paper is to explore customer behavior when purchasing online through investigating the factors that can affect online consumer`s attitudes, intention and actual consumers` behavior. The study investigates the main web - experience factors that customer takes into consideration when purchasing online, yet, the most important online elements are categorized in two main groups: customer - oriented factors and technology - oriented factors. This paper uses quantitate research in term of survey to analyze the consumer`s attitudes towards the web experience elements, moreover it finds out the relationship between the web factors and the customer`s attitudes, intentions and actual buying behavior. The results had led to the understanding of the most important web experience elements that influence the purchase decision of the consumers and the final findings show that web elements web content and trust are considered to be the most influential for the consumer`s online behavior towards online shopping of sports apparel, this study contributes to the retailers by understanding customer attitudes and the web factors that influence the purchase intention and contributes with valuable information on the sales of sports apparel online retail.
Searches for heavy Higgs bosons in two-Higgs-doublet models and for t -> ch decay using multilepton and diphoton final states in pp collisions at 8 TeV

Searches are presented for heavy scalar (H) and pseudoscalar (A) Higgs bosons posited in the two doublet model (2HDM) extensions of the standard model (SM). These searches are based on a data sample of pp collisions collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 inverse femtobarns. The decays H to hh and A to Zh, where h denotes an SM-like Higgs boson, lead to events with three or more isolated charged leptons or with a photon pair accompanied by one or more isolated leptons. The search results are presented in terms of the H and A production cross sections times branching fractions and are further interpreted in terms of 2HDM parameters. We place 95% CL cross section upper limits of approximately 7 pb on sigma times B for H to hh and 2 pb for A to Zh. Also presented are the results of a search for the rare decay of the top quark that results in a charm quark and an SM Higgs boson, t to ch, the existence of which would indicate a nonzero flavor-changing Yukawa coupling of the top quark to the Higgs boson. We place a 95% CL upper limit of 0.56% on B(t to ch).
Effect Of Corporate Social Responsibility Performance On Stakeholder’s Perception Of Telecommunication Companies In Nigeria (A Study Of Mtn, Globalcom & Etisalat)

This study aimed at determining the effect of corporate social responsibility performance on stakeholder’s perception of telecommunication companies in Nigeria. An ex-post facto research design was employed. Data were collected and statistically analysis using multiple regression. Based on the empirical analysis, the study revealed that economic expectation of CRS performance do has a significant effect on stakeholder’s perception. The study also revealed that legal expectation of CRS performance do has a significant effect on stakeholder’s perception. The study further revealed that ethical expectation of CRS performance do has a significant effect on stakeholder’s perception. The study finally revealed that discretional expectation do has a significant effect on stakeholder’s perception. Conclusively, behaving in a socially responsible way normally raises the cost profile of a firm, there have been evidence, although not unchallenged, that firms that do so tend to enjoy better long run corporate performance, arising mostly from the support, friendliness and peace they often experience in their operating environment. The study therefore recommended that firms should institute proactive waste management systems and structures that ensure that the disposals of the harmful by-products in every aspect of their operations are properly handled. Such systems need not be compelled by government regulation, but should be voluntarily provided by the firms themselves. The long run benefits of avoidance of fines and penalties justify such expenditure. Corporate social responsibility projects should be provided by firms especially within and for the benefit of their host communities, especially as government has not been very successful in meeting the basic needs of most communities. Typical areas of intervention for firms in Nigeria include education, health and physical infrastructure support. Such actions ensure that a firm enjoys a positive image and good neighborliness from its host community.
Acute HIV-1 infection in sub-Saharan Africa: a common occurrence overlooked.

HIV-1 transmission rates peak in the first months of infection [1], when viral burden [2] and per-virion infectivity [3] are high. Although the precise contribution of early-stage transmission to overall HIV incidence varies across settings according to local transmission dynamics, numerous modeling [4,5] and phylogenetic [6–10] studies indicate that this early period plays a disproportionate role in the spread of HIV. Detection of acute HIV infection (AHI), comprising the first weeks of infection prior to antibody development [11], has attracted particular attention as an opportunity to avert further transmission and improve both individual and public health [12]. Treatment of AHI with antiretroviral agents can stop the onward spread of infection [12], reduce the viral reservoir [13], potentially restrict viral diversification [14], and increase chances for viral control or even cure of the infection [15].
Analysis and estimation of effectiveness of investment projects

Analysis and general characteristics of international practice of existing methods for effectiveness evaluation of investment projects/programs are presented, and the rationale for making investment decisions regarding selected investment projects is presented. For the adoption of an optimal investment solution, there is a need to carry out preparatory and design work, namely: preliminary calculations of the financial diagnosis of the investment project, analysis of management and budgeting of the investment project, analysis of the calculation of profits from the implementation of investment projects, calculations of the evaluation of performance indicators of investment projects. The article presents the stages of development and implementation of the investment project/program, namely: organizational and preparatory stage; stage of development of the project/program; stage of agreement and approval of the project/program; stage of project/plan propaganda and organization of control over its implementation. Research results will allow for a preliminary detailed analysis of the investment project in order to receive a response: to what extent the specified objectives of the investment campaign correspond to the existing objective requirements and the outlined task of the future investment project.
Human-Inspired Walking in AMBER 1 . 0 and AMBER 2 . 0

Human evolution has made the two legs as the only tools for locomotion in humans. In other words, human evolution has made and continuously improved bipedal (two legged) walking to an extent that it can exhibit amazingly robust behaviors over a wide variety of terrains in the environment. This is one of the factors why emulating human walking has been a continued objective for a majority of bipedal walking researchers. Our approach is to carefully understand the dynamics underlying natural human-like walking, apply provable control laws that achieve the desired walking ”pattern” in the robot, and at the same time have human-like nature entwined in these walking controllers.