Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Association of Serum Uric Acid and Neuropathy in Pre-diabetic and Diabetic subjects in North Indian Population

Background: Diabetes is a metabolic condition with inappropriate hyperglycemia either due to deficiency of insulin secretion or resistance to insulin or both. It is also associated with disturbances concerned with protein, carbohydrate, and lipid metabolism. Thus we had estimated the Level of serum Uric Acid and it’s association with neuropathy in pre-diabetics and diabetics from northern India. Method: This is an observational study and total 79 subjects were enrolled as per American Diabetic Association (ADA) Guidelines 2010. Out of 79 subjects, 16 subjects were Pre-Diabetic and 63 subjects were Diabetic. Serum uric acid was estimated by using MERK Kit with the help of semi-automated analyzer. Estimation of Neuropathy was done by Nerve Conduction Studies. Result: • The Serum uric acid level of Diabetic group was lower as compared to Pre diabetic group. (p<0.001) • In diabetics upper extremity sensory nerve conduction velocity were significantly lowered as compared to prediabetic, while in lower extremity the difference was statistically not significant. • In lower extremity motor nerve conduction velocity was significantly lower in diabetics than prediabetics. We concluded that motor abnormalities more in diabetics as compared to prediabetics. • Serum uric acid of Pre diabetics negatively (inverse) and significantly correlated with neuropathy in left Sural nerve (Velocity) (r=-0.60, p<0.05). In prediabetic subjects serum uric acid level was higher and neuropathy was not observed. Conclusion: In prediabetics serum uric acid level might be useful for prediction of diabetes. Though the neuropathy was more common in diabetics but it also affect the prediabetics.
Incentive of mediator on k-implementation of strategy game

In firm's business activities, it is important to decide target which product market. Actually, firms are misspending great cost and time on marketing. Nevertheless, firms overlap product of the same quality in the market. In the strategic form game of the game theory, there is proposed a solution of the game in which the mediator participates as another party. This paper focuses on k-Implementation, from the viewpoint of the three problems in Nash equilibrium, analysis and consider about the solution of the game. In addition, the authors complement the problem of k-Implementation, and indicate that it is useful in deciding the business strategy.
Wiktionary-based word embeddings

Vectorial representations of words have grown remarkably popular in natural language processing and machine translation. The recent surge in deep learning-inspired methods for producing distributed representations has been widely noted even outside these ﬁelds. Existing representations are typically trained on large monolingual corpora using context-based prediction models. In this paper, we propose extending pre-existing word representations by exploiting Wiktionary. This process results in a substantial extension of the original word vector representations, yielding a large multilingual dictionary of word embeddings. We believe that this resource can enable numerous monolingual and cross-lingual applications, as evidenced in a series of monolingual and cross-lingual semantic experiments that we have conducted.
Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease in Diabetic and Nondiabetic Native Americans: The Strong Heart Study

The Strong Heart Study is a study of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors among diabetic and nondiabetic Native Americans. The study includes 12 tribes in Arizona, Oklahoma, and North and South Dakota. Phase I, initiated in October 1988, included a mortality survey to determine CVD death rates in individuals 35–74 yr old between 1984 and 1988, and a medical record review to determine rates of myocardial infarction and stroke for individuals ages 45–74 during the same time. In addition, a physical examination was performed on persons 45–74 yr old to measure the prevalence of cardiovascular and peripheral vascular diseases and known and suspected risk factors, in Phase II, CVD mortality and morbidity rates will be determined in the examined cohort by surveillance. CVD risk factors, changes in risk factors over time, and the relationship between risk factors and CVD incidence will be assessed longitudinally. This study provides data on the relative importance of cardiovascular risk factors in nondiabetic and diabetic Native Americans and will provide insight into possible variations in the quantitative or qualitative importance of CVD risk factors among diverse population groups.
Organisational structures for the service business in product-oriented companies

Confronted with stagnating growth rates and decreasing margins in the product business, product manufacturing companies are increasingly extending the service business. The present paper explores differences in how organisational structures trigger the service business. The study is based on the survey among manufacturing companies (product-oriented companies) that have implemented different organisational arrangements: (1) integrating the service organisation into the product division and (2) separating the service business from the product division. The investigated companies are still in the early stages of extending their service business. The total offering of the participating companies includes both services and products, but products still dominate the total offering. According to the results, separating the service business from the product division significantly enhances the extension of the service business. More specifically, the companies separating the service business achieve a higher share of service revenue, service orientation in the business strategy, corporate culture, human resource management and total offering than companies integrating the service organisation into product business. Both types of organisational arrangements achieve a similar degree of direct service profitability and quality of customer relationship. For managers, these finding indicate that setting-up a separate service division triggers the extension of the service business.
An information window about online privacy aspects perceived by social networks users

Social networks have changed the social and informational processes in society, changing the way to interact and think about reality. The growing use of these systems have raised several concerns for its users, being privacy one of the leading concerns. Based on that, a qualitative and exploratory study was run, to investigate the perception of a specific community of Facebook users regarding privacy. This study used as reference some categories of analysis related to online privacy already existing in the research literature. The results showed two types of categories, subdivided into aspects and strategies on the topic in question, aimed at expanding knowledge about perceptions related to privacy in online social networks.
Mechanical properties and failure behavior of phosphorene with grain boundaries

Using the density-functional tight-binding method, we studied the effect of grain boundaries on the mechanical properties and failure behavior of phosphorene. We found that the high-angle tilt boundaries with a higher density of (5∣7) defect pairs (oriented along the armchair direction) are stronger than the low-angle tilt boundaries with a lower defect density, and similarly the high-angle boundaries with a higher density of (4∣8) defect pairs (oriented along the zigzag direction) are stronger than the low-angle boundaries with a lower defect density. The failure is due to the rupture of the most pre-strained bonds in the heptagons of the (5∣7) defect pair or octagons of the (4∣8) pairs. The high-angle grain boundaries are better at accommodating the pre-strained bonds in heptagon and octagon defects, leading to a higher failure stress and strain. The results cannot be described by a Griffith-type fracture mechanics criterion, since this does not take into account the bond pre-stretching. Interestingly, these anomalous mechanical and failure characteristics of tilt grain boundaries in phosphorene are also shared by graphene and hexagonal boron nitride, signifying that they may be universal for 2D materials. The findings revealed here may be useful in tuning the mechanical properties of phosphorene via defect engineering for specific applications.
Aggregation Capacity of Wireless Sensor Networks: Extended Network Case

A critical function of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is data gathering. One is often only interested in collecting a specific function of the sensor measurements at a sink node, rather than downloading all the raw data from all the sensors. In this paper, we study the capacity of computing and transporting the specific functions of sensor measurements to the sink node, called aggregation capacity, for WSNs. We focus on random WSNs that can be classified into two types: random extended WSN and random dense WSN. All existing results about aggregation capacity are studied for dense WSNs, including random cases and arbitrary cases, under the protocol model (ProM) or physical model (PhyM). In this paper, we propose the first aggregation capacity scaling laws for random extended WSNs. We point out that unlike random dense WSNs, for random extended WSNs, the assumption made in ProM and PhyM that each successful transmission can sustain a constant rate is over-optimistic and unpractical due to transmit power limitation. We derive the first result on aggregation capacity for random extended WSNs under the generalized physical model. Particularly, we prove that, for the type-sensitive divisible perfectly compressible functions and type-threshold divisible perfectly compressible functions, the aggregation capacities for random extended WSNs with n nodes are of order Θ ((logn)-α/2-1)) and Θ(((log n) - α /2)/(loglogn)), respectively, where α >2 denotes the power attenuation exponent in the generalized physical model. Furthermore, we improve the aggregation throughput for general divisible perfectly compressible functions to Ω((logn) - α/2)) by choosing Θ(logn) sensors from a small region (relative to the whole region) as sink nodes.
Experimental Study on Generation of Single Cavitation Bubble Collapse Behavior by a High Speed Camera Record

It has been known that the collapse of the cavitation bubbles could cause serious destruction of pressure pipes, hydraulic machineries and turbine structures. After the cavitation bubble is generated, the variation of its surrounding velocity and pressure field could result in its collapse. If the process of the collapse of a cavitation bubble appears near the solid boundary, its impact to the boundary could generate an immense water-hammer pressure effect (Plesset and Chapman, 1971). The shock wave generated in this process of bubble collapse could possibly impact or even destroy the solid boundary of structure. The bubble collapse studies include the understanding of the shock wave, the characteristics of the resultant luminescence, and the jet related fields. If the cavitation bubble is located near the solid boundary at certain suitable distance, it is more possible for the production of counterjet in the process of bubble collapse. There has not been a firm conclusion for the exact characteristics which causes the destruction of the interface on the solid boundary.
At-least-N voting over biomedical named entity recognition systems

Biomedical named entity recognition (BNER) has been actively studied over the years, and several BNER systems have become publicly available. In this study, we investigate the utility of a simple voting method called at-least-n voting to improve gene name recognition, which takes advantage of the availability of BNER systems in the domain. We found this voting scheme is effective in combining BNER systems, and furthermore a combined system derived with publicly available BNER resources can be competitive with that of state-of-the-art gene recognition systems. The study implies that system combination utilizing diverse techniques and resources is very promising for BNER.
Effects of Botulinum Toxin A Therapy with Electrical Stimulation on Spastic Calf Muscles in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Kang B-S, Bang MS, Jung SH: Effects of botulinum toxin A therapy with electrical stimulation on spastic calf muscles in children with cerebral palsy. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2007;86:901–906. Objective:To assess the additive effect of adjuvant electrical stimulation on botulinum toxin A injection in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy. Design:Eighteen children with dynamic foot equinus deformity were treated with botulinum toxin A injection into the calf muscles. Seven children were assigned to a treatment group who received botulinum toxin A and adjuvant electrical stimulation, and 11 children were assigned to a control group with botulinum toxin injection only. Before botulinum injection, and at 2 wks and 3 mos after injection, the Physician Rating Scale, passive ranges of ankle and knee motion, and the modified Ashworth scale were measured. Results:A significant increase in passive range of ankle motion was observed at 2 wks after injection in the treatment group and at 3 mos after injection in both groups. Both groups showed significant improvements by the modified Ashworth scale at 2 wks after injection. Subscales of the Physician Rating Scale (equinus foot, crouched gait) and total Physician Rating Scale scores were significantly improved in the treatment group at 3 mos after injection, but this was not observed in the control group. Conclusions:Adjuvant electrical stimulation for a short period after botulinum toxin A injection was found to benefit early improvement of range of motion and maintenance of gait improvement in children with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy showing dynamic equinus.
Demographic and risk factors in patients with head and neck tumors

The association between human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and the development of head and neck cancer has been documented recently. In this study on 86 head and neck cancer patients and 124 controls, data regarding demographics, behavioral risk factors, and risks related to HPV exposure were collected. HPV detection was carried out using polymerase chain reaction in the tumors and in oral exfoliated cells, and HPV typing by a reverse line blot assay specific for 37 HPV types. Sera were tested by an enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay specific for HPV proteins. Head and neck cancer cases report significantly more oral‐anal contact (P = 0.02) and tobacco and alcohol use than controls (P = 0.001; P = 0.02, respectively). High‐risk HPV DNA was detected in 43% of oral washings of cases and 4% of controls (P < 0.0001). The association between the presence of high‐risk HPV DNA in oral exfoliated cells and in tumor tissues was statistically significant (adjusted P < 0.0001). The prevalence of HPV‐specific antibodies was significantly higher in cases than in controls (adjusted P < 0.0001). These results provide epidemiological and immunological evidence for HR HPV as a strong risk factor (OR = 44.3, P < 0.0001) for head and neck cancer, even after controlling for age, tobacco and alcohol use. The detection of high‐risk HPV DNA in oral exfoliated cells and HPV‐specific antibodies in serum can be considered as clinically relevant surrogate markers for the presence of a HPV‐associated head and neck cancer, with a high sensitivity (83%) and specificity (88%). J. Med. Virol. 81:878–887, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Development of a trimmer-type mowing robot

Until now, most mowing work has been performed manually. However, manual mowing is quite laborious. Therefore, we have designed a robot that can reduce the amount of labor involved in mowing. In this paper, we present a mowing robot that can mow a patch of land adjacent to an obstacle such as a wall.
The contribution of KIBS to innovation in cities: an evolutionary and institutional perspective

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to begin to develop a theoretical position for understanding the role of services in innovation in post‐industrial societies.Design/methodology/approach – This study develops an evolutionary and institutional approach to understanding the role of certain specialist services in innovation and illustrate how significant they are for the economies of large metropolitan areas in England and Germany.Findings – The paper argues that the role of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) in innovation may be understood theoretically in terms of evolutionary and institutional economics. From this perspective is is argued that urban economies are path dependent interactive learning systems that develop individually through time. They are increasingly characterized by networked production systems in which KIBS play a key role in the transfer of bespoke knowledge between actors both within and from outside individual cities. As a result the authors argue that KIBS make a sign.
Personal Disaster Preparedness: An Integrative Review of the Literature

ABSTRACT Experts generally agree that individuals will require partial or complete self-sufficiency for at least the first 72 hours following a disaster. In the face of pervasive environmental and weather hazards, emerging biological threats, and growing population densities in urban areas, personal preparedness is critical. However, disaster planners and policymakers require further information to create meaningful improvements to this aspect of disaster preparedness. A systematic review of the literature was conducted to determine the state of evidence concerning personal disaster preparedness. The purpose of this integrative review is to describe and analyze the professional literature as an intended basis for advancing the field of disaster management research and practice. Included in the review were 36 studies that met the predetermined inclusion criteria. The current evidence indicates that factors influencing preparedness attitudes and behaviors are complex and multifaceted, including demographic characteristics, trust in government efforts, previous exposure to a disaster, and number of dependents in a household. Furthermore, certain population groups, households, and individuals have different disaster preparedness needs and vulnerabilities. This constellation of findings has significant implications for community and national emergency planning and policymaking. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2012;6:217–231)
Memory Augmented Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing

Designing of general-purpose learning algorithms is a long-standing goal of artificial intelligence. A general purpose AI agent should be able to have a memory that it can store and retrieve information from. Despite the success of deep learning in particular with the introduction of LSTMs and GRUs to this area, there are still a set of complex tasks that can be challenging for conventional neural networks. Those tasks often require a neural network to be equipped with an explicit, external memory in which a larger, potentially unbounded, set of facts need to be stored. They include but are not limited to, reasoning, planning, episodic question-answering and learning compact algorithms. Recently two promising approaches based on neural networks to this type of tasks have been proposed: Memory Networks and Neural Turing Machines. In this tutorial, we will give an overview of this new paradigm of “neural networks with memory”. We will present a unified architecture for Memory Augmented Neural Networks (MANN) and discuss the ways in which one can address the external memory and hence read/write from it. Then we will introduce Neural Turing Machines and Memory Networks as specific instantiations of this general architecture. In the second half of the tutorial, we will focus on recent advances in MANN which focus on the following questions: How can we read/write from an extremely large memory in a scalable way? How can we design efficient non-linear addressing schemes? How can we do efficient reasoning using large scale memory and an episodic memory? The answer to any one of these questions introduces a variant of MANN. We will conclude the tutorial with several open challenges in MANN and its applications to NLP. We will introduce several applications of MANN in NLP throughout the tutorial. Few examples include language modeling, question answering, visual question answering, and dialogue systems. For updated information and material, please refer to our tutorial website: https://sites.google. com/view/mann-emnlp2017/.
Sharing a diagnosis of dementia--learning from the patient perspective

Sharing a diagnosis of dementia is a key focus of debate and research in the field of dementia care. The pivotal role of the GP in the early identification and subsequent management of dementia has long been recognized and whilst diagnostic practice is improving, the knowledge gained from research exploring the patient perspective is insufficiently absorbed. This paper presents the evidence from the two perspectives of the diagnostic relationship: the views of GPs around giving a diagnosis and the views of patients on receiving one. The authors draw upon their own projects--as well as wider research--in suggesting ways that diagnostic practice can be improved by taking account of the patient perspective. The learning can be distilled around the dimensions of the process, approach and nature of disclosure with evidence particularly challenging the 'myths' held by many GPs around the value of early diagnosis. Whilst much work still needs to be done to incorporate the patient perspective in dementia care, there is clear evidence that patient oriented research has much to offer the development of disclosure practice in primary care to the benefit of patients, their families and GPs.
The Norwegian dementia plan 2015—‘making most of the good days’

In autumn 2006 the Norwegian government proposed a sub plan of the Care plan 2015 (Report nr. 15 2005/2006: Long-term care—future challenges) called the Dementia Plan (Norwegian ministry of health and care services, 2007). It was debated in the Stortinget (Parliament) during the spring of 2007, and set into action autumn 2007. All political parties supported the plan. It is strategy and action plan for dementia care that aim to improve the care for persons with dementia, the family carers and professional caregivers. Actions should be taken during the time period between 2007 and 2015. The Dementia Plan has been drawn against a report ’Forgetful but not forgotten’ made by the Norwegian directorate of Health and Social Affairs in 2005 and 2006 (Norwegian directorate of health and social affairs, 2007). This report outlines challenges and needs and recommended focus area. Today about 70 000 of the Norwegian population of 4.8 million suffer from dementia (2005). Due to longer life expectancy and changes in the age composition in the population it is estimated that twice as many; 140 000 will suffer from dementia in the next 35 years. The sharpest growth will be in 15 year. Several challenges have been identified. The Directorate has specially focussed on the need to implement good knowledge-based services, and to develop new models on how to provide services in primary health and social care (Norwegian directorate of health and social affairs, 2007).