Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Terminological Search Algorithm for Ontology Matching

Most of the ontology alignment tools use terminological techniques as the initial step and then apply the structural techniques to refine the results. Since each terminological similarity measure considers some features of similarity, ontology alignment systems require exploiting different measures. While a great deal of effort has been devoted to developing various terminological similarity measures and also developing various ontology alignment systems, little attention has been paid to develop similarity search algorithms which exploit different similarity measures in order to gain benefits and avoid limitations. We propose a novel terminological search algorithm which tries to find an entity similar to an input search string in a given ontology. This algorithm extends the search string by creating a matrix from its synonym and hypernyms. The algorithm employs and combines different kind of similarity measures in different situations to achieve a higher performance, accuracy, and stability in comparison with previous methods which either use one measure or combine more measures in a naive ways such as averaging. We evaluated the algorithm using a subset of OAEI Bench mark data set. Results showed the superiority of proposed algorithm and effectiveness of different applied techniques such as word sense disambiguation and semantic filtering mechanism.
Long‐run health effects of cost‐related non‐adherence to prescribed medications among adults in late midlife

Objectives Sub‐optimal adherence to prescribed medications due to cost is known to have adverse health effects over 2–4 years, but little is known about its longer run effects. Here we quantify whether and how cost‐related non‐adherence (CRN) influences the risk of adverse health events over a 10‐year period.
Formant frequencies of some fixed-mandible vowels and a model of speech motor programming by predict

Formant frequency data are reported for Swedish vowels produced both with fixed and unconstrained mandible. Measurements were made at the first glottal pulse to confine interpretation of the results to nonauditory feedback mechanisms. Results indicated that in spite of physiologically unnatural jaw openings, subjects were able to produce F patterns within the ranges of variation of the normal vowels. Results are explained by hypothesizing that the “instantaneous” learning of highly unfamiliar tasks, such as compensatory articulation of fixed‐mandible vowels, is possible because normal speech motor programming is indeed “compensatory” rather than due to either speakers drawing upon past similar experience or invoking special motor mechanisms distinct from those of natural speech. That is, it operates in a context‐sensitive mode to achieve listener‐oriented goals. Since “contexts” constitutes an essentially infinite class of events the programming must be “creative,” or capable of handling conditions never before experienced. A model of speech production is proposed that achieves increased plasticity of motor control by incorporating an “upstairs” predictive component used to simulate “downstairs” processes of execution.
Response to poliovirus immunization and type of feeding in babies of atopic families

The aim of the present study was to investigate the antibody response to oral poliovirus immunization, and to evaluate the infection morbidity in a group of infants with a positive family history of atopy who were soy‐protein‐formula fed during the first 6 months of life. We have selected and followed from birth to 4 yr, 107 babies, 18 of whom were exclusively soy‐protein‐formula fed during the first 6 months of life. All infants were seen at our clinic at the ages of 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, and once‐a‐year afterwards. They regularly received the oral vaccine against polioviruses at the ages of 3, 5 and 12 months. At age 6, 12 and 24 months, poliovirus type 1, 2 and 3 antibodies were detected. There was no significant difference of seroconversion in the babies, breast, soy or breast and soy fed. Furthermore, no increase in infection morbidity was observed in the soy‐protein‐formula fed infants. Our data shows that soy‐protein‐formula feeding in the first 6 months of life does not induce any abnormal antibody response to the oral poliovirus vaccination, as well as no increase in infection morbidity.
Distortion analysis of transistor networks

Two numerical methods for distortion analysis of transistorized networks are compared. One, based on Volterra series expansions, is generally accepted as being useful for small signals and mildly nonlinear systems. The other is a new piecewise harmonic balance technique which works for small as well as large signals. For very small signals, both methods give identical results. If the signals are moderately large or the system moderately nonlinear, the Volterra series method gives erratic and incorrect results and breaks down completely for large signals.
Anorexie mentale: la tentation de l'histoire

L'epoque de Pinel et l'introduction de la dimension sociale et culturelle, le moment ou Lasegue «invente» l'anorexique, le temps de Charcot et de l'isolement therapeutique, l'intrusion des tenants de la somatogenese, le Congres de Montpellier en 1939 et sa tentative de clarification constituent quelques-uns des temps forts de l'histoire de l'anorexie. Une affection qui resiste, ressort intacte des dissertations medicales et semble defier jusqu'a la tentation de l'aborder par le biais de son histoire. La question demeure de savoir si l'etude de l'histoire de l'anorexie peut faire de celle-ci un objet de connaissance
Glioblastoma multiforme: a review of therapeutic targets

Glioblastoma is the commonest primary brain tumor, as well as the deadliest. Malignant gliomas such as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) present some of the greatest challenges in the management of cancer patients worldwide, despite notable recent achievements in oncology. Even with aggressive surgical resections using state-of-the-art preoperative and intraoperative neuroimaging, along with recent advances in radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the prognosis for GBM patients remains dismal: survival after diagnosis is about 1 year. Established prognostic factors are limited, but include age, Karnofsky performance status, mini-mental status examination score, O6-methylguanine methyltransferase promoter methylation and extent of surgery. Standard treatment includes resection of > 95% of the tumor, followed by concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Nevertheless, GBM research is being conducted worldwide at a remarkable pace, in the laboratory and at the bedside, with some of the more recent promising studies focused on identification of aberrant genetic events and signaling pathways to develop molecular-based targeted therapies, tumor stem cell identification and characterization, modulation of tumor immunological responses and understanding of the rare long-term survivors. With this universally fatal disease, any small breakthrough will have a significant impact on survival and provide hope to the thousands of patients who receive this diagnosis annually. This review describes the epidemiology, clinical presentation, pathology and tumor immunology, with a focus on understanding the molecular biology that underlies the current targeted therapeutics being tested.
Experiences with porting and modelling wavefront algorithms on many-core architectures

We are currently investigating the viability of many-core architectures for the acceleration of wavefront applications and this report focuses on graphics processing units (GPUs) in particular. To this end, we have implemented NASA’s LU benchmark – a real world production-grade application – on GPUs employing NVIDIA’s Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). This GPU implementation of the benchmark has been used to investigate the performance of a selection of GPUs, ranging from workstation-grade commodity GPUs to the HPC "Tesla” and "Fermi” GPUs. We have also compared the performance of the GPU solution at scale to that of traditional high perfor- mance computing (HPC) clusters based on a range of multi- core CPUs from a number of major vendors, including Intel (Nehalem), AMD (Opteron) and IBM (PowerPC). In previous work we have developed a predictive “plug-and-play” performance model of this class of application running on such clusters, in which CPUs communicate via the Message Passing Interface (MPI). By extending this model to also capture the performance behaviour of GPUs, we are able to: (1) comment on the effects that architectural changes will have on the performance of single-GPU solutions, and (2) make projections regarding the performance of multi-GPU solutions at larger scale.
Glass substrate for micro display devices

Glass substrate suitable for wearable micro display devices for augmented/virtual reality was developed. This glass has highly matched thermal expansion coefficient with that of silicon, and it enables to suppress the amount of warpage caused by the boding between Si and glass wafers. The glass also shows lower thermal shrinkage than that of conventional non‐alkali glass for thin‐film transistor substrate. In this paper, the effect of the temperature dependence of the thermal expansion coefficient on warpage generation after bonding process was investigated using both numerical simulation and experiment. The newly developed glass showed remarkably low warpage after the bonding process.
Augmenting Expensive Functions in Macsyma with Lookup Tables

Abstract : Tabulating the corresponding inputs and outputs to computer function reduces recomputation to a simple table lookup. This idea has been used by the symbolic algebra systems Maple and SMP, but to a much lesser degree in Macsyma. The authors report on some experiments which test this idea for certain critical functions in Macsyma. Although the idea holds some promise, some alleged performance improvements may merely represent redistribution of accounting costs. In many cases performance was degraded. This report explains why. Keywords: Computer program verification.
Epidemiological, Clinical, Para clinical Aspects of Brucellosis in Imam Khomeini and Sina Hospital of Tehran (1998-2005)

Introduction: Brucellosis is one of the most common infectious diseases in some area of Iran. It has very different clinical sings and symptoms, thus it should be considered in differential diagnosis of most infectious and non-infectious diseases. Materials and Methods: 415 Brucellosis patients, who referred to Imam Khomeini and Sina Hospitals of Tehran during 1998 to 2005, were studied from epidemiological, clinical, laboratory and treatment protocols aspects. Results: 52.5% of patients were female and 47.5% male with mean age of 35.5 years old. 84.3% of subjects were living in urban and 15.7% in rural area. The commonest transmission way was consuming of contaminated dairy products however 17.1% of patients had history of animal contact. The most contagious seasons were summer and spring. Family history of brucellosis was positive in 19.51% of the patients. The most common symptoms were fever (67.22%), sweating (73.25%), malaise and fatigue (65.45%), arthralgia (29.15%), headache and coughing. Whilst the most common clinical signs were fever (56.62%), peripheral arthritis, sacroilitis and splenomegaly. CBC analysis showed normal range in majority of subjects. Although doxycycline and Rifampin were the most common prescribed medicines combination of cotrimoxasule and doxycyline showed more efficient effects to control the diseases. Conclusion: Regarding variable clinical presentations, brucellosis should be considered in differential diagnosis in subjects with chronic fever or chronic fever plus other organs abnormalities.
Corticosteroid Injections, Eccentric Decline Squat Training and Heavy Slow Resistance Training in Patellar Tendinopathy

Physiotherapeutischer Hintergrund Seit Ende der 90er-Jahre und den Arbeiten von Alfredson [1] ist das exzentrische Training bei degenerativen Sehnenveränderungen integrativer Bestandteil des Behandlungsmanagements bei diesen Patienten. Die ersten und nach wie vor meisten Arbeiten [1, 4, 5] wurden zur Behandlung der Achillessehne und deutlich weniger für die Patellasehne, Supraspinatussehne oder Sehnen der Dorsalextensoren des Handgelenks verfasst. Die Autoren der vorliegenden Studie versuchten, diese Lücke zu schließen.
A Pilot Microbial Assessment Of Beef Sold In The Ashaiman Market, A Suburb Of Accra, Ghana

Food safety is a matter of great public health concern worldwide and particularly crucial if the environment in which the food is handled is heavily contaminated. Most fresh foods particularly that of animal origin like beef is highly susceptible to microbial invasion and food poisoning. In poorly managed market environment particularly in Ghana, unhygienic practice is the major cause for food contamination. This study observed the hygienic practices and microbiological food safety standards of butchers who specifically sold beef in the Ashaiman market in Accra, Ghana. Hygienic practices of sixteen (16) butchers were randomly selected in a cross sectional study using an eight point scale checklist weekly over a period of four weeks. The microbial quality of one hundred and twenty-eight (128) fresh beef samples were aseptically collected and analysed using standard microbiological techniques. It was observed that majority of the butchers did not practice safe hygiene standards as recommended by the Ghana Food and Drugs Board and the Ghana Standards Board. The beef samples were contaminated with Aerobic mesophiles (189-23000 cfu/g), Staphylococcus aureus (22-59 cfu/g), Bacillus cereus (17-41 cfu/g), Clostridium perfringens (21-48 cfu/g) and Escherichia coli (31-2200 cfu/g). The pH of the beef samples were between 6.50 and 6.90. The butchers in Ashaiman market supplied fairly contaminated beef to the general public. Escherichia coli, which is a sign of faecal contamination, was the predominant microbial contaminant in the samples examined. The result of unhygienic practices and poor handling of beef by butchers in the Ashaiman market is the major cause of contaminated beef. There are chances that other meat sold by virtually the same group of persons could equally or even more be contaminated by food borne pathogens. Hence food industry and consumers should be made aware of the potential risk of food borne pathogens in beef sold by butchers in Ashaiman market. Keywords : Hygienic practices, meat, food safety. AJFAND Vol. 8 (1) 2008 pp. 91-103
Lyrical prose and the ritualistic: Lyricality as an interpretative lens for analysing C. C. Krijgelmans’s short story “Homunculi”

Abstract Homunculi (1967) is the first short story collection by the Flemish-Belgian experimental writer Claude C. Krijgelmans. The stories challenge narrative conventions. The title story of the collection mainly experiments with formal conventions: it foregrounds rhythmic repetition and musicality, and deviates from grammatical rules. These features are conventionally associated with lyrical poetry, rather than with narrative texts. Moreover, the text thematises rituals, which hints at the presence of a ritualistic quality that is often linked with lyrical texts. This article focuses on the lyrical elements in “Homunculi” and associates them with the ritualistic. I define lyricality as a literary mode that consists of lyrical tendencies, which can be realised in different ways. The ritualistic quality associated with this mode can be defined as a recurrent combination of lyrical tendencies. The ritualistic involves both semantic and formal aspects. Semantically, it is characterised as an impersonal quality of language. Formally, the ritualistic is memorable, non-representational language. The focus on lyricality enables a working definition of the ritualistic. Approaching “Homunculi” with lyricality as an interpretative lens has theoretical as well as analytical advantages. First, it situates the prose text in a wider tradition of lyrical, ritualistic texts. Next, the focus on lyricality reveals new interpretative possibilities for “Homunculi”. Against that background, this paper demonstrates the need for a narratology that considers the interaction between narrativity and other modes, like lyricality.
The medium is not the message : topic maps and the separation of presentation and content in indexes

The topic maps model is an ISO standard often presented as a semantic web technology aimed at knowledge management, but its origins lie in indexing. This article introduces the key concepts of topic maps, relates them to back-of-the-book indexing, and explores some of the possibilities of using a model such as topic maps to separate index content from presentation to meet the challenges of publishing index information in multiple formats.
A/h C - 3" USE AND DISUSE AND THE CONTROL OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE ACTIVITY IN PAST AND SLOW TWITCH MUSCLE OF RAT

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Handbook of physical medicine and rehabilitation : the basics

* Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Philosophy, Patient Care Issues, and Physiatric Evaluation . 1 Ramakrishna K. Gadi and David X. Cifu * Acute Pain . 10 Steve M. Gnatz * Amputations . 24 Jay V. Subbarao and Gary S. Clark * Arthritis . 50 John J. Nicholas and C. George Kevorkian * Burns . 67 Karen Kowalske and Phala Helm * Cancer Rehabilitation . 80 David X. Cifu and Theresa Gillis * Cardiovascular Conditioning Exercise and Cardiac Rehabilitation . 86 Donna M. Bloodworth * Chronic Pain . 105 Martin Grabois * EMG . 127 Jacqueline J. Wertsch and Gulapar Phongsamart * Geriatric Rehabilitation . 139 Susan J. Garrison and Gerald Felsenthal * Immobilization . 152 Andy S. Chan and Carlos Vallbona * Limb Fractures . 161 Fae H. Garden * Neuromuscular Diseases . 171 Maureen R. Nelson * Osteoporosis . 182 Susan J. Garrison * Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine . 190 Margaret A. Turk * Peripheral Neuropathy and Plexus Injury . 227 Kenneth Kemp, Jr. and Michael J. Vennix * Pressure Ulcers . 241 Susan L. Garber and Thomas A. Krouskop * Pulmonary Rehabilitation . 261 Sally Ann Holmes * Spinal Cord Injury . 270 Jennifer J. James and Diana D. Cardenas * Stroke . 310 Susan J. Garrison and Elliot J. Roth * Traumatic Brain Injury . 322 Cindy B. Ivanhoe and Gerard E. Francisco * Wheelchairs . 339 Charles E. Levy, Theresa Frasca Berner, and Michael L. Boninger Subject Index . 370
The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines

‘This new edition . may very well contribute to safer, more rational and more responsible current psychopharmacotherapy if applied correctly. It is intended as a reference guide but may also contribute to the consolidation of previously attained knowledge of clinical psychopharmacology. As a prescription guide it can be useful combined with existing (but not only NICE) guidelines, in both pharmacological treatment of major mental disorders and in consultation-liaison psychiatry. ’ British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
Heparin resistance and the potential impact on maintenance of therapeutic coagulation

Background and objectives: The main aim of this review is to summarize the literature with respect to the impact of anticoagulation monitoring strategies and therapeutic strategies to manage heparin resistance and optimize anticoagulation with cardiac surgery. Methods: This review was generated using peer‐reviewed manuscripts pertinent to this topic that were identified using a computer‐based Medline search. Results: There are a small number of well‐controlled prospective, randomized studies, some of which suggest that bleeding and transfusion can be attenuated by refining heparin monitoring techniques by sustaining better anticoagulation during cardiopulmonary bypass especially when applied to operative cases that involve complex procedures that require long intervals on cardiopulmonary bypass. Recent studies indicate that antithrombin III concentrates can be used to treat heparin resistance and thereby enhance preservation of the hemostatic system during CPB. A few recent retrospective analyses suggest that low ATIII concentration is associated with negative outcomes. Conclusions: The literature indicates that enhanced anticoagulation via more sophisticated heparin monitoring schemes can reduce bleeding and transfusion and that antithrombin III concentrates can be used to effectively manage heparin resistance during cardiac surgery. Well‐controlled, randomized studies are needed to better define the relative importance of AT IIII supplementation with respect to either the management of heparin resistance or with respect to optimization of anticoagulation during CPB and specifically if these interventions are able to decrease the incidence of bleeding and/or thrombotic complications.
Single mirror tracking system for free-head video-based eye-gaze detection method

The single rotation mirror system was designed for the development of the free-head video-based eye-gaze detection device used on communicators for the physically disadvantaged. In a previous study, the camera with the zoom lens rotated to direct its shooting area toward the eye. However, a better tracking system using a single mirror was expected. In the present study, the mirror was rotated two-dimensionally by a pair of servomotors through the lever crank mechanism. The image rotation owing to the mirror was compensated. The response of the mirror rotation system was much better than that of the camera rotation system. The eye-gaze point was determined from the eye position in space and the eye-gaze direction relative to the camera axis. The eye position was estimated using the mirror angle and the distance from the mirror rotation center to the eye, which was measured by the ultrasonic distance meter. The eye-gaze direction was estimated using the relative positions between the pupil and corneal reflection images, which were obtained using the real time image processor. Eye-gaze detection was extremely precise under the head-fixed conditions. Under the head-unfixed condition, however, the improvement of the ultrasonic distance meter or the arrangement of the mirror and menu screen relative to the head was expected.
The Role of Natural Products in Pharmacotherapy of Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by forgetfulness, disturbance in memory and loss of mental abilities. The final outcome of the disease is loss of personality and intellectual functions. Alzheimer’s disease is common cause of dementia particularly after the age of 70 years. Cholinesterase inhibitors are used for the treatment of Alzheimer’s dementia, but due to unpleasant side effect; these groups of drugs can not be used for long term treatment. Phyto drugs are being investigated for possible cure of Alzheimer’s disease. A number of constituents like Galanthamine, Huperzine, Hyperforin, & Desoxy-peganine have shown promising result. Some Ayurvedic herbs like Bacopa monneria (Bacosides) have recently gained attention because of memory enhancing activity. The article deals with latest findings in phytotherapy of Alzheimer’s disease.