Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Light-Field Style Transfer

Light-Field Style Transfer David Marvin Hart Department of Computer Science, BYU Master of Science For many years, light fields have been a unique way of capturing a scene. By using a particular set of optics, a light field camera is able to, in a single moment, take images of the same scene from multiple perspectives. These perspectives can be used to calculate the scene geometry and allow for effects not possible with standard photographs, such as refocus and the creation of novel views. Neural style transfer is the process of training a neural network to render photographs in the style of a particular painting or piece of art. This is a simple process for a single photograph, but naively applying style transfer to each view in a light field generates inconsistencies in coloring between views. Because of these inconsistencies, common light field effects break down. We propose a style transfer method for light fields that maintains consistencies between different views of the scene. This is done by using warping techniques based on the depth estimation of the scene. These warped images are then used to compare areas of similarity between views and incorporate differences into the loss function of the style transfer network. Additionally, this is done in a post-training fashion, which removes the need for a light field training set.
Preliminary Results of Multichannel SAR-GMTI Experiments for Airborne Quad-Pol Radar System

Much research from open literature shows that polarization diversity can provide another dimension which may be exploited to improve the performance in ground moving target indication (GMTI), compared with space–time adaptive processing (STAP). In this article, we report the multichannel synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-based GMTI (SAR-GMTI) experiment and its preliminary results with a N-SAR system which is an airborne quadrature-polarimetric (quad-pol) radar system. First, the joint polarization-space adaptive processing (JPolSAP) is performed in the image level, but two suboptimal versions of JPolSAP, where the polarimetric matched filter (PMF) vector and the full-one vector are exploited to substitute for the polarimetric steering vector, respectively, are evaluated since the polarimetric steering vector of the moving target is unknown precisely in practical applications. Then, considering the computational complexity and lack of secondary data in a inhomogeneous environment due to high degrees of freedom of the JPolSAP processor, two cascade processors are evaluated, including the polarization enhancement that uses PMF and noncoherence integration detection (NCID) technique. Furthermore, we utilize the polarization information to accomplish SAR terrain classification, and subsequently secondary data from the same scattering type clutter can be obtained for clutter suppression under the guidance of polarization classification results as a priori knowledge. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate that: 1) the suboptimal JPolSAP processor with PMF steering vector can effectively enhance GMTI performance about 13 dB (or even up to 5 dB) relative to the worst (or best) single-polarization (S-pol) processor case and has the best robustness compared with the one with full-one steering vector; 2) polarization enhancement using PMF also obtains a good output gain of polarization filter, especially for quad-pol enhancement, which gains up to 2–3 dB with respect to the best output of S-pol processor, and the NCID technique can obtain good performance of moving-target detection; and 3) under the guidance of polarization classification results, the capability of clutter suppression can improve even up to 15 dB with respect to the one without classification.
The Effects of Customer’s Psychological Ownership on Intention to Establish Long-Term Relationships with the Company

Purpose: It is very important for companies to maintain long-term relationship with their customers. This study focused on the psychological ownership of customers to improve and make strong relationship with the company. This study aimed to find out the main antecedents that form psychological ownership. It also conceptually examine whether psychological ownership affects the intention to sustain long-term relationship with companies. Methodology: This study will conduct a comparative study between the US and Korea by surveying customers using hotels and department stores. The results of survey will be analyzed by structural equation model using AMOS program. Findings: Through previous studies and inferences, we extracted customer participation, customer experience, and customer-company identification as the main antecedents influencing psychological ownership in the customer-company relationship. Discussion: If it is verified that psychological ownership has a significant impact on long-term relationship, marketing practices could be suggested that can maximize the psychological ownership of customers by analyzing three factors of customer participation and four types of customer experience.
Commentary: A qualitative examination of the perceived impact of bureaucratic managerialism on evidence-based practice implementation in Nigeria: a collective case study

This paper provides useful evidence about the problems that are generated by tensions between bureaucratic imperatives concerning productivity and professional concerns about the quality of care. It also demonstrates the importance of widening nursing discourse out from the confines of North America, Europe and Australasia. The African perspective on the relationships between healthcare bureaucracy, evidence-based practice and the quality of nursing care is a fascinating one. It provides a stimulating contrast to influential Western perspectives on these relationships. The authors of this study argue that the authoritarian bureaucratic structures pertaining in the Nigerian healthcare system prevent nurses from taking professional responsibility for, and control over, their actions. They argue that this has a serious negative impact upon the quality of care because it prevents nurses from engaging in evidence-based practice, which is the mode of care that they would wish to adopt if they were given the freedom to do so. The nurses interviewed in this study are guided by a number of assumptions. First, that evidence-based practice is the optimum mode of patient care; second, that the reason it is not adopted is that it is inimical to the bureaucratic system and the cost imperatives that govern it; and third, that the arbitrary imposition of practice guidelines vitiates nurses’ capacity to generate evidence about contextually appropriate care. These assumptions stand in stark contrast to the assumptions adopted by Western critics of evidence-based practice. So, in relation to the first assumption, rather than seeing
Verbesserung der Lebensqualität von Endometriosepatientinnen durch naturheilkundliche und komplementärmedizinische Behandlungsverfahren

Zusammenfassung Endometriose ist eine benigne, proliferative, chronische Erkrankung, für die das Auftreten von endometriumartigen Zellverbänden außerhalb ihrer eutopen Lokalisation im Cavum uteri charakteristisch ist. Die Erkrankung äußert sich mit sekundärer Dysmenorrhö, zyklischen, azyklischen oder chronischen Unterbauchschmerzen und Dyspareunie. Aufgrund der unklaren Ätiologie stehen nur kausale, endokrine und operative Therapieansätze zur Verfügung, die häufig von starken Nebenwirkungen begleitet werden. Die vorliegende Befragungsstudie ergab, dass die Patientinnen durch naturheilkundliche und komplementärmedizinische Behandlungsverfahren, besonders von TCM und ihr verwandten Verfahren, Homöopathie und Osteopathie, profitieren.
Lateral Extraarticular Tenodesis in Combined ACL and ALL Reconstruction. Case presentation

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the necesity of associating a lateral extraarticular tenodesis in patients that will undergo an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction or revision and to briefly describe the surgical procedure. Multiple lateral extraarticular tenodesis techniques were described and also graft selection and fixation types are also important. In conclusion acute ACL tears with grade 3+ pivot shift can be succesfully treated by combined ACL reconstruction and LEAT association.
Metaphor or not metaphor: Harmonizing cosmological and scriptural-text account of creation

Development of scientific knowledge had previously undermined people’s embrace of the scriptural-text account of creation when cosmology established its explanation of the coming into being of the universe. From the perspective of those who embrace the scriptural-text account, there are two main strands of responses to the cosmological proposition, i.e., first, those who reject it and hold on tightly to the scripturaltext account literally and, second, those who receive it and consequently have to find an alternative metaphorical interpretation of the scriptural-text account. Schroeder’s (1992) evaluation of astrophysical and cosmological principles resulted in an unexpected account that the coming into being of the universe fits into the literal interpretation of the six-day process (six times 24 hours), but that the observation was made from the point of view of an observer present at the very initial stage of the process. The paper concludes that a harmony between scriptural-text and cosmological explanation cannot be achieved without allowing a level of metaphor involvement in the interpretation of the account.
Destructive Technologies As Driving Forces of New Technological Cycles for Industrial and Corporate Change

Abstract. This study suggests a new concept of technology that is a main element of the system of technological change in society: killer or disruptive technology is a based on new products and/or processes that destroys the usage of established products/processes sold and used. The behavior of killer technologies is operationalized here with a simple model that shows how new technologies substitute old ones. technologies. Several examples illustrate this vital concept for economics of technology that can explain the drivers of technological cycles and technological change in society. Empirical evidence of this theoretical framework is based on data of some example technologies. Theoretical framework and empirical evidence hint at general properties of the behavior of killer technologies: a) killer technology is always associated with some comparable established technology in markets; b) killer technology has a disproportionate growth in relation to victim technology; c) in the long run, killer technology has a series of technological advances of its own resulting from various major and minor innovations to pave the way for the dominance over other established technologies in markets; d) learning via diffusion and diffusion by learning are driving forces underlying the development and adoption of killer technology in turbulent markets. The proposed theoretical framework can explain industrial, economic and social change and support strategies of management of technology for competitive advantage of firms and nations. Keywords. Killer technology, Diffusion of innovation; Radical innovation, Destructive creation, Evolution of technology, Development of technology, Technological cycles, Dynamics of technological innovation, Technology change, Management of technology, Allometric process, Learning processes. JEL. O30, O32, O33, B50.
Pancreatic beta-cell mass biological marker

A biomarker for pancreatic beta-cell mass comprising measuring the levels of CFC1 in the serum of a subject is described. The biomarker provides a noninvasive means for measuring pancreatic beta cell mass that is particularly useful for monitoring the efficacy of treatments for metabolic disorders such as Type I or Type II diabetes, including pancreatic islet cell transplantations.
Clinico-Pathogenetic Regularities of Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Restorative Treatment in Patients After Acute Coronary Syndrome at the Stages of Rehabilitation

The implementation and improvement of new treatment methods for patients with acute coronary syndrome poses new challenges in finding the newest methods of rehabilitation and restorative treatment. The effectiveness of such interventions depends on the integrated approach and patient’s involvement. Accepting the disease, the patient builds an idea about the disease and integrates the internal picture of the disease into a new internal picture of health. The ability to see illness only as part of health is a strategy of self-preservation and self-renewing behaviour. Objective of the study. To evaluate the clinical-pathogenetic regularities of the effectiveness of the restorative treatment in patients after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) at the stages of rehabilitation. Materials and methods. There were 135 patients with acute coronary syndrome without ST segment elevation were examined, who were divided into the groups depending on the used treatment tactics – conservative or invasive – PCI. Clinical-anamnestic indices, psychometric, subjective and objective data were analyzed. Along with the traditional treatment, there was used the rehabilitation of patients according to the author’s method, based on a multidisciplinary approach with optimization of the internal picture of health. The examinations were performed before the beginning of rehabilitation, after 1 week, 1 month and 6 months. Results. The use of the program, along with the traditional treatment of patients, helped to improve the effectiveness of treatment by normalization of the major objective indices, reduction of the anxiety levels, and improvement of life quality. More pronounced dynamics was noted in patients with acute coronary syndrome without ST segment elevation with invasive treatment tactics. Conclusions. Clinical-psychological rehabilitation of patients with acute coronary syndrome without ST-segment elevation can improve the effectiveness of rehabilitation and rehabilitation, regardless of treatment tactics, although the effect is somewhat higher in patients with invasive therapy tactics. This approach helps to improve the course of the disease. A multidisciplinary approach involving a cardiologist and a physical restorative and rehabilitation physician, a psychologist and a physiotherapist is important.
A longitudinal study of depression, PTSD, and anxiety symptoms in first responders

First responders witness traumatic events at rates unmatched by nearly any other profession, and research has subsequently found that they exhibit elevated rates of psychopathology. Factors predicting the development of this psychopathology, however, remain largely unknown. This study longitudinally examines predictors of PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms in first responders. Participants included 135 emergency medical technicians and paramedics. Multiple linear regressions were used to model predictors of PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptomatology at baseline, as well as changes from baseline to 3-month follow-up. Baseline levels of social support, sleep, emotional stability, and perceived stress were examined as potential predictors. Results revealed that at baseline a) higher depression symptoms were predicted by a model that included greater sleep dysfunction, lower social support, and higher perceived stress; b) PTSD symptoms were also predicted by a model that included greater sleep dysfunction, lower social support, and higher perceived stress; and c) anxiety symptoms were predicted by a model that included greater sleep dysfunction, lower social support, higher as well as stability. At 3-month follow-up b) in anxiety symptoms, and c) in PTSD symptoms were each predicted by worse sleep and lower social support at baseline. In particular, the sleep subscale of disturbed sleep and the social support subscale of appraisal appeared to be driving these effects. These results highlight the importance of social support and sleep hygiene in protecting against increases in psychopathology symptoms in first responders. Although these factors have established relationships to psychopathology in the general population, their potential to serve as risk or protective factors in first responders has been largely unexplored. Future studies should examine whether interventions targeting sleep disturbances and encouraging deeper social connections can be utilized to protect against symptoms of distress in first responders.
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Approach Towards Speaking Ability

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a way to deal with the educating of second and unknown dialects that emphasis on cooperation as both the methods and the last objective of learning a language. Targets are (1) to discover Effectiveness of CLT Approach in Improving Speaking Ability. (2) huge contrasts between students who are instructed by CLT and not. Quantitative research is a true design experiment. Design used was a pretest-posttest control group design. Population is eighth grader students in Junior High School 1 Tegal. Research uses cluster random sampling with two group design (experiment group and control group). Data was broke down utilizing a t-test, score of the t-test is 2.744. Score of t-table is at 5% level importance and on level of 62 is 1.670, t-test result is higher than t-table (2.744>1.670). t-test hypothesis is rejected, and t-table hypothesis is accepted. CLT improve speaking capability.
Comparative study between pi and fuzzy pi controllers for DFIG integrated in variable speed wind turbine

This paper presents the contribution of the application of fuzzy logic for the independent control of the active and reactive power stator of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG), used in a variable speed wind energy conversion system. So in this work, we are particularly interested in the application of indirect vector control by stator flux orientation to the DFIG, based on fuzzy controllers. These latter surpass the limits of conventional controllers and possess essential characteristics for the improvement of the robustness of the vector control with against parameters variations of the system. The obtained simulation results have shown that it is possible to control the stator powers, even in the presence of parametric variations.
Sentinel lymph node biopsy in endometrial cancer

20 Abbreviations . 23 Introduction . 25 Background . 27 Endometrial cancer . 27 Epidemiology and aetiology . 27 Symptoms and diagnosis . 28 Histopathology . 29 Preoperative risk assessment . 32 Classification . 33 Lymphatic anatomy . 34 Routes of lymphatic spread . 38 Surgical treatment . 38 Adjuvant treatment . 40 Lymphatic complications . 43 Prognosis . 46 Sentinel lymph node biopsy . 50 Development . 50 Sentinel lymph node biopsy in endometrial cancer . 51 Aims . 57 General aims . 57 Specific aims . 57
Housing Financialization in the Global South: In Search of a Comparative Framework

ABSTRACT The financialization of housing in the Global South (GS) and peripheries of the Global North (GN) develops in different ways than in the GN because the mechanisms underlying and pushing financialization are fundamentally different. We argue that subordinated financialization in the GS is the contemporary form of uneven and combined development, shaped by the financialization of the GN. The recycling of GN excess liquidity in countries lower in the global money hierarchy has contributed to the growth of mortgage lending in the GS and peripheries of GN. With the macrocomparative perspective in our article we provide a framework to rethink the relations between GN and GS in shaping distinct patterns of uneven and combined financialization, but also to rethink the varieties of capitalism and residential capitalism approaches. In the GS we can distinguish between at least two additional types: state-led market economies and less-financialized market economies.
Constructing the “ideal” first-post sonographer: mapping the views of ultrasound department leads in the UK

Background: The findings reported in this presentation emerge from a broader project investigating the future of Ultrasound education in the UK. Specifically addressed herein is the way in which the employers of prospective first-post sonographers assembled the attributes and aptitudes that would constitute an “ideal” person for such a role. Method: In line with the conventional methods of Straussian Grounded Theory, N=20 Ultrasound Department leads in the North West of England, working within NHS Trusts (N=17) and independent provision (N=3), were interviewed. All interviews were semi-structured, conducted and recorded by telephone and transcribed verbatim. Results: Participants cited “acquired” capacities such as advanced communication skills, good time management and the ability to work autonomously as essential in a first post-sonographer. They also argued that certain “inherent” personality traits should be sought out as part of a selection process; these attributes included patience, amicability, empathy, caring and a tendency towards perfectionism. Although academic aptitude was deemed important, the ability to be non-judgmental was deemed more so. Conclusion: In discussing the ideal attributes of a workplace sonographer, it became clear that the participants had a clear sense of which were desirable and undesirable. However, and in a more novel vein, it was equally clear that they also held strong and relatively consistent views on which kinds of personal attribute were static (i.e. immanent qualities of a prospective employee) and which were malleable (i.e. could be altered/improved with on-the-job training). This, it is contended, has significant import for educators and trainees alike.
ISAAC II: Prevalence of allergic disease and risk factor for asthma in childhood in the region of Brodsko-posavska county

Objavljeni su rezultati ISSAC II (prevalencija astme, alergijskog rinitisa i atopijskog dermatitisa)za podrucje Brodsko-posavske županije te su uspoređeni rezultati s rezultatima autora u Hrvatskoj i u svijetu.
Efficacy of Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Group Intervention for Parents of Children With Eczema: A Randomized, Wait-List Controlled Clinical Trial

Objectives: This randomized controlled trial evaluated the effects of a psychosocial intervention developed based on the Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit (IBMS) model that aimed to enhance the well-being of parents of children with eczema. Methods: Ninety-one families were randomly allocated to either the six-session intervention group (n = 48) or the wait-list control group (n = 43) and completed the randomized trial. For both groups, a range of psychosocial outcome measures were taken before the intervention (T0), postintervention (T1), and 6 weeks after the intervention (T2). Results: Relative to the control group, the intervention group was significantly improved over time in their levels of perceived stress, depression, and a number of holistic well-being measures, including nonattachment, afflictive ideation, and general vitality. Discussion: The results provided empirical support for an IBMS-informed psychosocial intervention in reducing stress and depression and enhancing well-being among parents of children with eczema.