Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Quality Circles in the Secondary Prevention of Stroke – A Controlled Interventional Study

Hintergrund/Ziele: In der vorliegenden kontrollierten Interventionsstudie wurde der Effekt der Qualitätszirkelarbeit auf die hausärztliche Sekundärprävention nach Schlaganfall untersucht. Methoden: Es wurden 212 Patienten aus vier Akutkrankenhäusern im Südschwarzwald nach einem ersten Schlaganfall für die Studie rekrutiert. Ein Teil der betreuenden Hausärzte nahm an Qualitätszirkeln teil, die sich mit der Sekundärprävention nach Schlaganfall beschäftigten. Die Zuteilung der Hausärzte zur Interventionsbzw. Kontrollgruppe erfolgte nach dem Ort der Praxis. Die Versorgungsqualität der Patienten wurde anhand von 15 Qualitätsindikatoren beurteilt. Insgesamt wurden die Daten von 126 Patienten ausgewertet. Ergebnisse: 75 Patienten wurden der Interventionsgruppe zugeteilt und von 36Hausärzten betreut. Die 51 Patienten der Kontrollgruppe wurden von 25Hausärzten betreut. Die beiden Gruppen waren bis auf die Häufigkeitsverteilung von drei Komorbiditäten (Hypertonie, Diabetes, KHK) vergleichbar. Bei vier Qualitätsindikatoren zeigten sich jeweils nach Interventionsbeginn statistisch signifikante Unterschiede. Die Interventionsgruppe stellte den INR-Wert bei Antikoagulation besser ein als die Kontrollgruppe (p < 0,001). Der Anteil der antihypertensiv behandelten Patienten, bei denen jährlich Blutdruckkontrollen vorgenommen wurden, stieg in der Interventionsgruppe im Gegensatz zur Kontrollgruppe an (p < 0,05). Jedoch wurden in der Interventionsgruppe Blutdruckerhöhungen bei Patienten mit arterieller Hypertonie seltener adäquat nachuntersucht als vorher. In der Kontrollgruppe war Abstract
DNA, DIFFERENTIAL METHODS AND THE BÖHM-OUT TECHNIQUE

The “DNA is a program” metaphor is still widely used in Molecular Biology. There are good historical reasons for the use of such a metaphor or theoretical model. Yet we argue that both the metaphor and the model are essentially inadequate also from the point of view of Physics and Computer Science. Relevant work has already been done, in Biology, criticizing the programming paradigm. We will refer to empirical evidence and theoretical writings in Biology, although our arguments will be mostly based on a comparison with the use of differential methods (in Molecular Biology: a mutation or alike is observed or induced and its phenotypic consequences are observed) as applied in Computer Science and in Physics, where this fundamental tool for empirical investigation originated and acquired a well-justified status. In particular, as we will argue, the programming paradigm is not theoretically sound as a causal (as in Physics) or deductive (as in Programming) framework for relating the genome to the phenotype, in contrast to the physicalist and computational grounds that this paradigm claims to propose.
Characteristics of the fi fth paleosol complex ( S 5 ) in the southernmost part of the Chinese Loess Plateau and its paleo-environmental signi fi cance

a State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China b Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China c Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou 350003, PR China d Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, Dreijenplein 6, 6703 HB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Vitamin B 12 as a Treatment for Pain

Results: Animal studies support multiple beneficial effects of vitamin B12 including the regeneration of nerves and the inhibition of cyclooxygenase enzymes and other pain-signaling pathways. In addition, animal studies have demonstrated synergistic benefits of vitamin B12 combined with other pain medications, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opiates. Clinical trials provide evidence for the effectiveness of vitamin B12 for the treatment of low back pain and neuralgia, although data is still fairly limited and optimal treatment regimens have not been identified.
P WAVE DURATION AND DISPERSION IN PATIENTS WITH ESSENTIAL HYPERHIDROSIS

Amaç: Bu çal›flmada, esansiyel hiperhidrozlu hastalarda ve sa¤l›kl› kontrollerde P dalga süresi ve dispersiyonunu karfl›laflt›rd›k. Materyal ve Metod: Esansiyel hiperhidrozlu yirmi birey (ortalama 28 ± 7 yafl) ve yirmi sa¤l›kl› birey (ortalama 31 ± 8 yafl) çal›flmaya al›nd›. Tüm kat›l›mc›lardan 50 mm/saniyelik ka¤›t h›z›nda kaydedilmifl 12 kanall› yüzey EKG elde edildi. Maksimum ve minimum P dalga süresindeki de¤iflim elle ölçüldü ve ikisi aras›ndaki fark P dalga dispersiyonu olarak tan›mland›. Tüm kat›l›mc›lara ayr›ca transtorasik ekokardiyografik de¤erlendirme yap›ld›. Bulgular: Demografik özellikler bak›m›ndan iki gurup aras›nda fark yoktu. Ekokardiyografik de¤erlendirmede P dalga süresi ve dispersiyonu hiperhidrotik ve kontrol bireylerinde benzer bulundu (111 ± 10 ve 110 ± 6 ms p = 0.6, 64 ± 12 ve 67 ± 9 ms p = 0.4, s›ras›yla). P dalga disersiyonu da hiperhidrotik bireylerle kontrol bireylerinde benzer bulundu (47 ± 8 ve 43 ± 9 ms p = 0.1). Sonuç: Bu bulgular göstermektedir ki hiperhidrotik bireylerde P dalga süresi ve dispersiyonu sa¤l›kl› kontrol bireylerine k›yasla artmam›flt›r ve bu hastalar atriyal ileti anomalilerine yatk›n de¤ildirler.
AT MS IN DI A 20 15 Wideband Dual Segment Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Annular Shaped Feed

In this paper, design and simulation of wideband dual segment cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (CDRA) is presented. Proposed antenna excited by 50Ω annular shaped microstrip line and provides wide impedance bandwidth 74.8 % (S11<10dB) within the frequency range 3.25-7.14 GHz centered at 5.195 GHz.
Bertrand and Chamberlin meet Schumpeter ∗

The paper studies the question what is an impact of concentration in industry on the Social welfare, measured as consumer’s indirect utility. Is the Schumpeter hypothesis that this impact may be advantageous the truth, or concentration is always harmful for the end consumers? We study a general equilibrium model with two types of firms and imperfect price competition. Firms of the first type are monopolistic competitors with negligible impact to market statistics, subjected to typical assumptions, e.g., free entry until zero-profit cut-off. Unlike this, the firms of second type assumed to have non-zero impact to market statistics, in particular, to consumer’s income via distribution of non-zero profit across consumers-shareholders. Moreover, these large firms (oligopolies) allow for dependence of profits on their strategic choice, generating so called Ford effect. The first result we present is that in case of CES utility the concentration effect is generically harmful for consumers’ well-being. However, the result may be different for preferences, generating the demand with Variable Elasticity of Substitution (VES). We find the natural assumption on VES utilities, which hold for most of the commonly used classes of utility functions, such as Quadratic, CARA, HARA, etc., which allows to obtain the positive welfare effect, i.e., to vindicate Schumpeter hypothesis.
Syringe Pump Needle Drop Computer Lamp Diffuse Paper H Glass Plate High-speed Camera

The capillary wave and initial spreading velocity in the spreading phase of drop impacting on a glass surface are studied experimentally, while the drop photos are obtained by using a high-speed video camera, which can catch up to 9000 images per second with an exposure time of 4 μs. A wide range of impact velocities are studied by varying the fall height, showing different capillary waves. All attention is given to the capillary wave and initial spreading velocity of drop. A non-linear relation between the wavelength and the impact velocity is found experimentally. Combined with the minimum spreading radius theory, a linear relation between the initial spreading velocity and the impact velocity is acquired.
Analysis of the influence of open door size on fire smoke diffusion law in protective engineering

For researching the influence of the area of room door to the smoke distribution in room-corridor geometry fire, based on similar principle to build a model-entity ratio of 1:4 model experiment system, conducted four conditions of model experiment, analyzed the temperature distribution in corridor, investigated the concentrations of CO, CO2, O2 in corridor under different room door area. The results showed that, the temperature in corridor decreased as door area decreased; the concentrations of CO, CO2 increased obviously and the concentrations of O2 descended with the decline of door area; the decline of door area would cause very disadvantageous effect on the evacuation of occupants.
In Vitro Ant imicrobia l Effect of Bioadhesive Oral Membrane

based oral membrane with chlorhexidine for local treatment of infections in the oral tissues. Five oral membranes of different compositions were tested: 5% chitosan (G1); 5% chitosan ± 0.2% chlorhexidine (G2), 5% chitosan ± 0.6% chlorhexidine (G3), 5% chitosan ± 1.0% chlorhexidine (G4), and 5% chitosan ± 2.0% chlorhexidine (G5). Also, five gel types were tested according to the following compositions: 5% chitosan gel (G6), 0.2% chlorhexidine gel (G7), 2.0% chlorhexidine gel (G8), 5% chitosan gel ± 0.2% chlorhexidine gel (G9), and 5% chitosan gel ± 2.0% chlorhexidine gel (G10). The antimicrobial action of the samples was tested against Candida albicans and Streptococcus mutans through antibiogram by measuring the inhibition halos. Data were statistically analyzed by KruskalWallis and one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey test (p<0.05). The 2.0% chlorhexidine membrane (G5) and the disks containing 2.0% chlorhexidine gel (G8) showed the greatest inhibition halos for both microorganisms, with statistically significant difference when compared to others tested groups (p=0.008) only for Candida albicans inhibitions results. All the other formulations of membranes and gels showed inhibition halos, but without statistically significant difference. The bioadhesive chitosan-based oral membrane with 2% chlorhexidine and 2% chlorhexidine gel were the most effective in inhibiting the tested microorganisms. In Vitro Ant imicrobia l Effect of Bioadhesive Oral Membrane w i t h C h l o r h e x i d i n e G e l
Effect of Compaction , Particle Size Distribution and Moisture Content on Gas Emission in Landfill Final Cover

Abstract: Landfill sites have become main cause for climate change scenarios as one of significant sources of greenhouse gasses. Solid waste inside the landfill undergoes complex sequence of biological and chemical reactions. These reactions can be categorized mainly into two, aerobic and anaerobic. In both these two reactions, Carbon Dioxide generates. But in anaerobic condition methane produces, which emits through final soil cover. Hence final cover of landfill plays a vital role for gas emission which causes severe environmental problem. Hence it is important to create aerobic condition by ventilation inside the landfill. Hence there should be a clear idea about the gas emission through soil in order to take necessary precautions. Gas exchange through final cover soil is governed by two gas transport mechanisms, advection and diffusion. Based on series of laboratory experiments, it was found that gas transport parameters are significantly vary with moisture content of soil, compaction energy applied to soil layers and particle size distribution of soil present in final cover. Obtained results were compared with existing gas diffusion and advection relationships. Finally optimum ranges of those soil parameters were found in order to enhance the gas transport parameters of cover material.
A visualization technique to improve situational awareness

Visual analytics is a field of study which imparts knowledge through visual representations. The use of these visual representations provide a common method for analysts to sift through vast amounts of information and make informed decisions on critical matters. However, assisting the analyst in making connections with visual tools can be challenging if the information is not presented in an intuitive manner. This study aims to build upon our previous work and further investigate whether line thickness can be used as a valid visualization tool to improve situational awareness. In this paper, we follow-up on previous work to discuss research results exploring the impact that information complexity, measured as graph density, has on situational awareness. Our results indicate an increase in situational awareness, compared to non-enhanced visualizations for select graph densities. Furthermore, the results obtained in this study validate previous pilot study findings. The enhancement identified and validated with this research confirms that the line thickness visual cue represents a perceived information value tied to situational awareness. We conclude that this improved situational awareness and time savings occur from the decreased mental burden placed on the analyst.
NEES / E-Defense Base-Isolation Tests : Interaction of Horizontal and Vertical Response

This is one of four papers reporting a NEES/E-Defense collaborative program on base-isolated buildings. A fullscale, five-story, two-by-two bay, steel moment-frame building was subjected to a number of bidirectional (XY) and bidirectional-plus-vertical (3D) ground motions using the E-Defense shake table. The building was tested under three different configurations: 1) base isolated with triple-friction-pendulum bearings (TPB), 2) base isolated with a combination of lead-rubber bearings (LRB) and cross-linear bearings (CLB), and 3) fixed-base. This paper discusses the influence of vertical excitation on the overall response of the building in each configuration, and introduces an explanation for the horizontal-vertical coupling that amplified the horizontal accelerations in 3D relative to XY excitation. Observed nonstructural damage was felt to be more closely correlated to vertical slab acceleration than horizontal floor acceleration, and the horizontal amplification did not compromise the effectiveness of the isolation system to completely protect the structural system from damage.
Values as an object of study for the American and the French sociology. A review of F. Znaniecki’s and R. Boudon’s perspectives

Even if the notion of “value” is studied for many disciplines, such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, management, communication sciences, there is not one unitary perspective on this concept in the social sciences. Why it is important to study values? Because, we are living today in a society where everything is changing rapidly, with permanent changes in the economic, demographic, technological or social level, changes that have a strong effect on the individual (implicitly, his social role) on the family he is part of the work he does (implicitly, his job). It is, therefore, important to analyse the set of values for each generation, because the changes brought by the post-modern society have also been translated into values and there are values that can be found to a person who is a part of the “Millennials” and not to another person who is part of the “Generation X”. The article is presenting the most important theoretical perspectives on the concept of value. Even if there are a lot of sociologists who have studied it, this article is presenting, in a comparative way, two perspectives of two important scholars from American and French sociology. Even if Znaniecki and Boudon have lived in different periods of time (the beginning and the end of the XXth century) we may find a lot of similarities in their perspectives, especially on the topic of the “classical debate” between relativism and realism.
Attempt to improve crops irrigation using soil , air canopy and plant leaf temperature

This study was initiated to provide guidance on the irrigation timing and requirements for some field crops based on the relationship between plant leaf temperature, canopy air temperature and soil moisture content in an attempt to improve crop irrigation management. Methodology: A field experiment on alfalfa and wheat crops was conducted in the Research Station, at the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Qassim University, kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Soil analysis, evapotrasnspiration rate (ET), stomatal conductance, leaf and air temperature and water use efficiency were determined. Results: Air temperature was always higher than soil temperature for both crops. The lowest values of soil and air temperature were recorded in January, but increased successively starting from February to April. While, leaf temperature increased gradually during the months of active growth (from February to April). Crop irrigation requirements were nearly equal during the months of December and January, but both were raised during February and April. Water use efficiency (WUE) of alfalfa ranged between 0.51 Kg/ m 3 for first cut, and 1.29 Kg/m 3 for the second cut. This change in WUE was attributed to increasing rate of evaporation from the bare soil before germination during December, and January months, for that the first cut has a low water use efficiency. Conclusion: Soil temperature, air temperature and plant leaf temperature can be used to determine irrigation requirements for many field crops.
1 SM / EB-24 E-Beam Flue Gas Treatment Plant for “ Sviloza Power Station ” AD

After the successful operation of e-beam flue gas treatment pilot plant in Maritza East 2 power plant equipped with three electron accelerators (0.8 MeV, total power 90 kW) with a gas flow rate of 1.0 ×10 m/h containing 5,600 ppm SO2 and 390 ppm NOX, the feasibility study for an industrial scale EBFGT facility for a 165 MW power plant in “Sviloza Power Station” AD in Svishtov, Bulgaria, treating a flue gas flow of 6.0×10 m/h (NTP) has carried out with a comprehensive engineering and cost study. The power of accelerators required is 4 × 350 kW, and expected efficiency of removal for SOX is 90 % and 40% for NOX. There are two reaction chambers each equipped with two accelerators, which have two irradiation windows each, installed in series irradiate each chamber. The applied dose is around 4kGy, and the by-product will be collected for fertilizer. This study showed that the large-scale EB plants for flue gas cleaning have cost advantages over conventional technologies.
Rolü THE EFFECT OF INSULIN ADMINISTRATION ON GLUCOSE LEPTIN METABOLISM IN OPEN HEART SURGERY

Amaç: Hipotermik kardiyopulmoner bypassda glikoz-leptin aras›ndaki iliflkiyi ve normoglisemi sa¤lamak amac›yla uygulad›¤›m›z insulinin serum glikoz-leptin düzeyine olan etkisini belirlemeyi amaçlad›k. Materyal ve Metod: Hastalar kontrol ve çal›flma grubu olmak üzere ikiye ayr›ld›. Çal›flma grubundaki hastalara peroperatif insülin uyguland›. Anestezi öncesi dönemden bafllayarak sternum kapat›l›ncaya kadar geçen süreçte hastalardan 20 dakikada bir kan al›nd›. Son kan örnekleri yo¤un bak›mda al›nd›. Tüm örneklerde glikoz ve leptin de¤erleri kaydedildi. Bulgular: Çal›flma grubunda 71 ± 12 ünite insülin uyguland›. ‹ki grupta da intraoperatif hiperglisemi geliflmekle birlikte çal›flma grubunda glikoz de¤erleri daha düflüktü. Kardiyopulmoner bypass süreci ve sonras›ndaki de¤erler aras›ndaki fark istatiksel olarak anlaml›yd› (p < 0.05). Ayn› süreçte glikoz de¤erleri ile leptin de¤erleri aras›nda ters bir korelasyon mevcuttu. Sonuç: Bu çal›flmada hipotermik kardiyopulmoner bypassta glukoz düzeyinin insulin infüzyonu ile daha düflük düzeylere çekilebilece¤ini gösterdik. Ayr›ca glukoz leptin aras›nda saptad›¤›m›z ters korelasyon nedeniyle kardiyopulmoner bypassta leptinin hiperglisemi gelifliminde etkili faktörlerden biri olabilece¤i sonucuna vard›k.
BILATERAL FILTERING ASSOCIATED WITH BILATERAL NEURAL NETWORKS BASED AUTOMATIC NOISE REMOVAL SYSTEM FOR BRAIN IMAGES

Today’s the medical image processing represent important role in the medical field. Image processing is an Electronic Domain wherein image is divided into small unit called pixel, and then various operation has been carried out. Image filtering, these days, has become an active research area in the domain of Image processing. Noise removal in MRI (Magnetic Resonance Image) scan image is important and essential for a wide variety of subsequent processing applications. Among the abundant denoising algorithms, the bilateral filter has been widely used in many image preprocessing procedures. However, it requires laborious tuning of parameters to obtain optimal filtering results, which is tedious and time-consuming. In this paper, we propose an automatic noise removal system based on the bilateral filter with bilateral neural network for different brain images. And we use bilateral neural networks for the use of high dimensional sparse data.
Optical add / drop multiplexer using short-and chirped long-period fibre gratings for dense wavelength-division multiplexing

We propose and demonstrate the use of a novel wavelength-tuneable optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) device based on fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) and chirped long-period gratings (CLPGs) having a broad transmission spectrum. Numerical simulations predict bandwidths in the order of 40 nm and higher. Fabrication of the symmetric CLPGs, and the method of strain used for tuning of the fibre Bragg grating are also discussed.
Methods of Density-Based Clustering Algorithm using DBSCAN

Cluster analysis (clustering) is one of the statistical technique used to classify a range of data with high similarity in comparison to one another, but they are different from the objects in other groups. Clustering generally classified into hierarchical and non-hierarchical algorithm later evolved into many of them DBSCAN. DBSCAN is one algorithm which classifies the object based on the density of the input parameters Eps and MinPts. In this paper DBSCAN method will be compare with the k-means. The data used is secondary data of customers that having a credit facility. The results show that with Eps = 0.0128 and MinPts = 5 debtor data is divided into two clusters, that is good credit cluster and bad credit cluster with a run time faster than classical k-means algorithm.