Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Longitudinal analysis of weight perception and psychological factors in Chinese adolescents.

OBJECTIVES To investigate associations of overweight status and perception with trajectories of psychological distress in adolescents. METHODS Longitudinal data for 6970 Chinese adolescents were included. The multivariate curve-of-factor latent growth curve models were adopted to examine trajectories of psychological distress symptoms and associations with overweight status and perception. RESULTS After controlling for actual overweight status, psychological distress symptoms were weakly but significantly associated with overweight perception (γ = 0.08 for boys and γ = 0.10 for girls, P < 0.05) and misperception (γ = 0.06 for boys and γ = 0.09 for girls, P < 0.05). DISCUSSION Our findings help understanding associations of overweight perception and psychological well being of adolescents.
The experimental use of psychedelic (LSD) psychotherapy.

The history of research with psychedelic drugs has produced a variety of methods for their use and conflicting claims about results. First came the wave of excitement among experimentalists in the 1950s when it was claimed that lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) could produce a model psychosis which might be useful in understanding schizophrenia. While this promise was fading, enthusiastic reports about the possibility of LSD as an aid to psychotherapy in the treatment of alcoholism and other psychiatric disorders appeared. All these approaches were represented in 1959 at the first international conference devoted entirely to LSD. 1 Since then, there have been at least five more published proceedings of such conferences on various aspects of psychedelic drugs. 2-6 The most recent conference on various means of producing states of consciousness was sponsored by the Menninger Foundation and the American Association of Humanistic Psychology on April 7 to 11, 1969, in
MCM2 expression levels predict diagnosis and prognosis in gastric cardiac cancer.

BACKGROUND Gastric Cardiac Cancer (GCC) has high incidence and poor prognosis requiring early screening of high-risk populations. Minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins are used as diagnostic-biomarkers in many cancers but not validated for GCC. We evaluate MCM protein 2 (MCM2), comparing it with the validated markers Ki67 and PCNA. METHODS GCC and corresponding cardiac precancerous samples were immunostained with Ki67, MCM2 and PCNA antibodies. RESULTS 90% of dysplasia samples expressed MCM2, whereas Ki67 and PCNA were expressed in 67% and 80% respectively. The sensitivity and negative predictive values of MCM2 were also superior at 90% and 87%, respectively. Ki67 and PCNA expression was correlated with MCM2, but their expressions seldom reached surface layers, whereas MCM2 manifested mostly in easily accessible superficial layers. Labeling indices (LI) of Ki67 and PCNA were also lower. Significant associations between LI (MCM2), LI (PCNA), and TNM-stages, lymph node metastases and GCC grade were found (P<0.05). Increased protein expressions were associated with reduced overall and disease-free survival (P<0.05). Although Ki67 and PCNA were significant prognostic factors, there was no significant improvement in multivariate statistical analyses, in contrast to LI (MCM2) findings. CONCLUSIONS MCM2 is a sensitive, specific and efficient biomarker of GCC having potential use in clinic.
Fruit and Vegetable Attitudes, Norms, and Intake in Low-Income Youth

Fruit and vegetable (FV) attitudes and norms have been shown to influence intake in youth; yet research with low-income youth and studies supplementing self-report with objective measures of intake are lacking. Cross-sectional survey data on self-rated FV intake, FV attitudes, and FV norms were collected in a sample of 116 youth attending a residential summer camp serving low-income families. FV intake also was estimated by direct observation. Differences between self-rated and observed FV intake, perceived and observed peer intake, and perceived and peer-reported attitudes toward eating FVs were assessed with paired samples t tests. The role of FV attitudes, descriptive norms (perceived peer FV intake), injunctive norms (perceived peer attitudes toward eating FVs), and actual norms (observed peer FV intake and peer-reported FV attitudes) in predicting FV intake also was examined with multiple regression analysis. Youth misperceived their own and their peers’ FV intake (i.e., overestimated intake of fruit and underestimated intake of vegetables) and believed that peers held less favorable attitudes toward eating FVs than was the case. The models predicting self-rated intake were significant, accounting for 34% of the variance in fruit intake and 28% of the variance in vegetable intake. Attitudes and descriptive norms were positively associated with FV intake, and observed peer fruit intake was negatively associated with fruit intake. Findings suggest that in low-income youth, FV attitudes, descriptive norms, and normative peer behavior predict perceived but not actual intake. Youth may benefit from intervention to promote favorable FV attitudes and norms. A focus on descriptive norms holds promise for improving self-rated intake in this population.
Application of State-Dependent Queues to Pedestrian/Vehicular Network Design

State-dependent queues and finite capacity queueing network models of facilities are important tools for the topological design of facilities, the routing of customers, and the allocation of resources to accommodate customer traffic. Key properties of these M/G/C/C queueing models and their applications in facility planning are described in detail. The incorporation of these concepts, tools, and techniques is important to the OR profession because they provide a unifying, system-wide planning methodology for tackling the many complex issues of designing, analyzing, and synthesizing pedestrian traffic flows in large-scale facilities and their environments. The scope and limitations of the methodology are demonstrated in the design of a pedestrian/vehicular circulation system of a large regional hospital campus.
Intracoronary brachytherapy for the treatment of complex in-stent restenosis

The development of an effective strategy for management of in-stent restenosis (ISRS) following “bare metal” stenting has proved difficult. Standard percutaneous therapy for ISRS leads to re-restenosis rates above 50% and consequently represents a poor treatment option.1 At present the “gold standard” treatment for ISRS is vascular brachytherapy (VBT), with re-restenosis rates falling to below 20% in most trials.2,3 While the use of drug eluting stents (DES) appears to be effective in simple ISRS lesions, the results in complex cases are less impressive.4,5 At present, however, there are no published data on the clinical utility of VBT in complex native coronary lesions and multivessel disease. We have therefore analysed the procedural details and clinical outcome of patients with complex ISRS treated with intracoronary brachytherapy at our institution. A total of 126 consecutive patients treated at our institution with ISRS from August 2000 to February 2003 were assessed. Cases were deemed complex if: Clinical and procedural data were collected prospectively and clinical follow up was by telephone interview at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. A total of 39 patients were …
Use of mass spectrometry for characterising microbial communities in bioaerosols.

The use of chemical marker analysis for characterising microbial communities in organic dust samples is exemplified in a comparative study of dusts collected in a home and a swine confinement building, respectively. The chemical markers studied included 3-hydroxy fatty acids (markers of endotoxin), ergosterol (marker of fungal biomass), and muramic acid (marker of peptidoglycan/bacterial biomass). Samples were hydrolysed and subjected to various chemical manipulations for rendering the markers suitable for gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis. Considerable differences between the dust samples were revealed. Swine dust contained 46 ng/mg of ergosterol (house dust 2.1 ng/mg), 0.096 nmol/mg of endotoxin (house dust 0.020 nmol/mg), and 483 ng/mg of muramic acid (house dust 366 ng/mg). The 3-hydroxy fatty acid and muramic acid results demonstrated a much higher proportion of Gram-negative bacteria to Gram-positives in swine dust than in house dust, and ergosterol results demonstrated a much higher proportion of fungi. The different distribution of 3-hydroxy fatty acids in the 2 samples illustrated differences in their flora of Gram-negative bacteria. The described method allows accurate determination of markers even when present down to trace levels in chemically complex matrices and should be useful in evaluating the role of microorganisms in the development of occupational lung disease, e.g. in agricultural environments.
EFFECTS OF BETA-ADRENOCEPTOR BLOCKADE ON THE PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THYMOCYTES AND PERIPHERAL BLOOD LYMPHOCYTES

The study revealed that β-adrenoceptor blockade with propranolol (0.40 mg/100 g/day, s.c.) in adult male DA rats: (i) increased the thymocyte proliferation and apoptosis, (ii) caused disturbances in kinetics of T cell differentiation leading to distinguishable changes in relative proportion of thymocytes at distinct maturational steps and to an expansion of the most mature single positive (CD4+, CD8+) thymocyte pool, (iii) affected the relative proportion of neither CD4+ nor CD8+ peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL), and (iv) augmented the relative number of CD8+CD25+ cells. Thus, the results suggest the role of β-adrenoceptors in fine-tuning of T cell maturation, and, possibly, distribution and activation of distinct PBL subsets
Iron smelting in pre-colonial Zimbabwe: Evidence for diachronic change from Swart village and Baranda, northern Zimbabwe

In conventional reconstructions of southern African archaeology, the production of iron has been seen as unchanging for the last 2000 years. Significantly, this contrasts with the changes that have been noted in broader society and other classes of material culture of the same period. Despite iron being used as a chronostratigraphic indicator, virtually nothing is known on the patterns of iron production within the Iron Age and whether change in technology and the socio-cultural context of production took place. From a combined archaeological and metallurgical perspective, the historical development of iron working has never been explored. For example, it is not known whether similar types of furnaces were constantly operated throughout the last two millennia. Excavations at two sites in northern Zimbabwe, one Gokomere-Ziwa (800 - 1200 cal AD) and one Zimbabwe tradition (1500 - 1700 cal AD), have shown differences in iron pyrometallurgical debris, tentatively suggesting that they represent separate metal working practices. By comparing the archaeological and metallurgical evidence from the two sites, this paper represents an initial step in delineating patterns of indigenous iron production in one region of Zimbabwe.
Sliding-Mode Control for Single-Phase Grid-Connected  $\mbox{LCL}$-Filtered VSI With Double-Band Hysteresis Scheme

This paper presents a sliding-mode control (SMC) strategy for single-phase grid-connected LCL-filtered voltage source inverters (VSIs) with double-band hysteresis scheme. The proposed SMC is simpler than the existing SMC methods devised for grid-connected VSIs since its sliding-surface function requires the sensing of capacitor voltage and grid current only. In addition, a double-band hysteresis scheme which ensures the switching of a transistor in the VSI during a half cycle while it remains either on or off in the other half cycle of the fundamental period is used to mitigate the switching frequency. Furthermore, the analytical expressions for the instantaneous and average switching frequencies are derived. The theoretical considerations and analytical results are verified through computer simulations and experimental results obtained from a 3.3-kW system. Simulation and experimental results show that the proposed SMC strategy exhibits an excellent performance in achieving the required control objectives such as fast dynamic response, robustness, sinusoidal grid current with low total harmonic distortion, and simplicity in a practical implementation.
Overview of the Seventh NTCIR Workshop

This paper outlines the seventh NTCIR Workshop, which is the latest in a series. It briefly describes the background, tasks, participants, and test collections of the workshop. The purpose of this paper is to serve as an introduction to the research described in detail in the rest of the proceedings of the seventh NTCIR Workshop.
Climate envelope predictions indicate an enlarged suitable wintering distribution for Great Bustards (Otis tarda dybowskii) in China for the 21st century

The rapidly changing climate makes humans realize that there is a critical need to incorporate climate change adaptation into conservation planning. Whether the wintering habitats of Great Bustards (Otis tarda dybowskii), a globally endangered migratory subspecies whose population is approximately 1,500–2,200 individuals in China, would be still suitable in a changing climate environment, and where this could be found, is an important protection issue. In this study, we selected the most suitable species distribution model for bustards using climate envelopes from four machine learning models, combining two modelling approaches (TreeNet and Random Forest) with two sets of variables (correlated variables removed or not). We used common evaluation methods area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) and the True Skill Statistic (TSS) as well as independent test data to identify the most suitable model. As often found elsewhere, we found Random Forest with all environmental variables outperformed in all assessment methods. When we projected the best model to the latest IPCC-CMIP5 climate scenarios (Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) 2.6, 4.5 and 8.5 in three Global Circulation Models (GCMs)), and averaged the project results of the three models, we found that suitable wintering habitats in the current bustard distribution would increase during the 21st century. The Northeast Plain and the south of North China were projected to become two major wintering areas for bustards. However, the models suggest that some currently suitable habitats will experience a reduction, such as Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Basin. Although our results suggested that suitable habitats in China would widen with climate change, greater efforts should be undertaken to assess and mitigate unstudied human disturbance, such as pollution, hunting, agricultural development, infrastructure construction, habitat fragmentation, and oil and mine exploitation. All of these are negatively and intensely linked with global change.
Fuzzy modeling of measurement data acquired from physical sensors

The measurement uncertainty in physical sensors is often represented by a probabilistic approach, but such a representation is not always adapted to new intelligent systems. Therefore, a fuzzy representation, based on the possibility theory, can sometimes be preferred. We previously proposed a truncated triangular probability-possibility transformation to be applied to any unimodal and symmetric probability distribution which can be assimilated to one of the four most encountered probability laws (Gaussian, double-exponential, triangular, uniform). In this paper, we propose to build a fuzzy model of data acquired from physical sensors by applying this transformation. For this purpose, a minimum of knowledge about the probabilistic modeling of sensors is required. Three main situations are considered and for each situation, an adapted fuzzy modeling is proposed. Examples of these three situations are based on FM-chirped ultrasonic sensors.
A study on the architecture of manufacturing internet of things

Manufacturing internet of things (MIoT) is an important means to upgrade the traditional manufacturing operational framework and information/material flow. This paper proposes a creative architecture of MIoT for advanced complex manufacturing processes, which accommodates those factors frequently encountered in operation and management, such as dynamic, large-scale, complex, heterogeneous, strong uncertainty and diverse optimisation objectives. With layered technologies of reliable sensing, real-time transmission, pervasive computing, precise controlling and trusted service based on MIoT, this new proposal attempts to achieve precise scheduling and controlling of a whole manufacturing process and to provide effective dynamic information services. For the whole manufacturing process, the proposed architecture and the related key technologies have been comprehensively taken into account for the main issues which should be focused on and solved in every aspect such as data collection, network transmission, data processing, manufacturing process control and information service. It is hoped that the study can provide useful reference for future academic researches and potential industrial applications of MIoT.
Evaluation of a Truncated Recombinant Flagellin Subunit Vaccine against Campylobacter jejuni

ABSTRACT A recombinant protein comprising the maltose-binding protein (MBP) of Escherichia coli fused to amino acids 5 to 337 of the FlaA flagellin of Campylobacter coli VC167 was evaluated for immunogenicity and protective efficacy against challenge by a heterologous strain of campylobacter, Campylobacter jejuni81-176, in two murine models. The sequence of the flaA gene of strain 81-176 revealed a predicted protein which was 98.1% similar to that of VC167 FlaA over the region expressed in the fusion protein. Mice were immunized intranasally with two doses of 3 to 50 μg of MBP-FlaA, given 8 days apart, with or without 5 μg of the mutantE. coli heat-labile enterotoxin (LTR192G) as a mucosal adjuvant. The full range of MBP-FlaA doses were effective in eliciting antigen-specific serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) responses, and these responses were enhanced by adjuvant use, except in the highest dosing group. Stimulation of FlaA-specific intestinal secretory IgA (sIgA) responses required immunization with higher doses of MBP-FlaA (≥25 μg) or coadministration of lower doses with the adjuvant. When vaccinated mice were challenged intranasally 26 days after immunization, the best protection was seen in animals given 50 μg of MBP-FlaA plus LTR192G. The protective efficacies of this dose against disease symptoms and intestinal colonization were 81.1 and 84%, respectively. When mice which had been immunized with 50 μg of MBP-FlaA plus LTR192G intranasally were challenged orally with 8 × 1010, 8 × 109, or 8 × 108 cells of strain 81-176, the protective efficacies against intestinal colonization at 7 days postinfection were 71.4, 71.4, and 100%, respectively.
reorganization at mammalian nuclear pore complexes Global histone acetylation induces functional genomic data

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Transient modeling and simulation of high current vacuum arc under different conditions

In this paper, based on a two-dimensional (2D) transient magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) model, HCVA under different interruption conditions was simulated and analyzed. The simulation results of power-frequency current show that the simulation results of the transient model are the same as those of the steady-state model, as the varying time of current is much longer than the relaxation time of plasma. This verified the correctness of previous conclusions of simulating power-frequency vacuum arc by steady-state model. For fast current drop process in DC interruption, simulation results show that higher frequency makes current drops faster and ion number density larger, besides, the density of residual plasma between electrodes at current-zero moment is higher, and interruption becomes more difficult. Finally, transient characteristics of high-frequency HCVA also was simulated and analyzed. Simulation results showed that plasma between electrodes was too slow to spread in the high-frequency condition, and the change of ion number density lagged behind the current change; the higher ion number density in the second 1/4 cycle weakens the Hall Effect, and leading to a more uniform distribution of current density.
Immunogenicity of Peanut Proteins Containing Poly(Anhydride) Nanoparticles

ABSTRACT In the last decade, peanut allergy has increased substantially. Significant differences in the prevalence among different countries are attributed to the type of thermal processing. In spite of the high prevalence and the severe reaction induced by peanuts, there is no immunotherapy available. The aim of this work was to evaluate the potential application of poly(anhydride) nanoparticles (NPs) as immunoadjuvants for peanut oral immunotherapy. NPs loaded with raw or roasted peanut proteins were prepared by a solvent displacement method and dried by either lyophilization or spray-drying. After physicochemical characterization, their adjuvant capacity was evaluated after oral immunization of C57BL/6 mice. All nanoparticle formulations induced a balanced TH1 and TH2 antibody response, accompanied by low specific IgE induction. In addition, oral immunization with spray-dried NPs loaded with peanut proteins was associated with a significant decrease in splenic TH2 cytokines (interleukin 4 [IL-4], IL-5, and IL-6) and enhancement of both TH1 (gamma interferon [IFN-γ]) and regulatory (IL-10) cytokines. In conclusion, oral immunization with poly(anhydride) NPs, particularly spray-dried formulations, led to a pro-TH1 immune response.
Solution to economic dispatch problem with valve-point loading effect using IPSO algorithm

This paper involves a novel application of the improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) in an economic dispatch problem (EDP) that consists influence of valve-point loading, power balance, and generators constraints. This method is able to improve the best value of the cost function with a slight increase in the average time trials. This procedure is suitable for solving large-scale and complex economic dispatch problems. In this report, IPSO algorithm is tested on three systems and experimental results are compared with other efficient methods. Simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of proposed algorithms for solving economic dispatching problems.
MACHINE PREDICTS THE DIAGNOSIS A BRIEF REVIEW OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS BY MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

Big data analytics and intelligent decision making systems are gaining importance in today’s era. Applications of such systems are wide spread and have changed major areas of human living. Even medical domain is being revamped by these systems. Now intelligent systems predict or suggest the diagnosis based on history of the patient. Early predictions for critical disease like diabetes are very much possible. This review gives a brie insight to such systems with focus on diabetic patients. Survey shows it can also help out to point out the various risk factors that can alarm the scenario well in time. The intension of the paper is to analyze how data mining can be helpful in such early diagnosis of diabetes as well as to see how different researchers has used this techniques for better predictions.