Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Early Motion After Repair of Achilles Tendon Ruptures*

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcome of patients treated with limited immobilization and early motion after repair of acute Achilles tendon ruptures. Thirteen consecutive patients with complete ruptures of the Achilles tendon were identified, repaired, and rehabilitated with early motion starting an average of 10 days after surgery. Active range of motion was begun at an average of 23 days and weightbearing in a walking boot was started at an average of 3.5 weeks after surgery. The average length of follow-up was 27 months. Twelve of 13 patients returned to running activities in an average of 3 months. All 12 patients who participated in lateral motion activities before their injury returned to similar activities in an average of 7 months. The patients rated their overall status at an average of 93% of their preinjury level. Follow-up Cybex testing demonstrated plantarflexion strength averaging 92%, plantarflexion power averaging 88%, and plantarflexion endurance averaging 88% of the nonindexed extremity. Early range of motion after Achilles repair is safe and there is no increased risk of rerupture in compliant patients. The patients achieved good return of plantarflexion strength, power, and endurance.
Practical and Conceptual Challenges in Measuring Antiretroviral Adherence

Summary:Accurate measurement of antiretroviral adherence is essential for targeting and rigorously evaluating interventions to improve adherence and prevent viral resistance. Across diseases, medication adherence is an individual, complex, and dynamic human behavior that presents unique measurement challenges. Measurement of medication adherence is further complicated by the diversity of available measures, which have different utility in clinical and research settings. Limited understanding of how to optimize existing adherence measures has hindered progress in adherence research in HIV and other diseases. Although self-report is the most widely used adherence measure and the most promising for use in clinical care and resource-limited settings, adherence researchers have yet to develop evidence-based standards for self-reported adherence. In addition, the use of objective measures, such as electronic drug monitoring or pill counts, is limited by poor understanding of the source and magnitude of error biasing these measures. To address these limitations, research is needed to evaluate methods of combining information from different measures. The goals of this review are to describe the state of the science of adherence measurement, to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of common adherence measurement methods, and to recommend directions for improving antiretroviral adherence measurement in research and clinical care.
Long-term economic consequences for women of delayed childbearing and reduced family size

Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study explored the association among delayed childbearing, completed family size and several measures of the economic well-being of women age 60 and older in 1976. By retirement age women who bore their first child at age 30 or older are significantly better off economically than either average-age childbearers or the childless. Economic well-being also appears to be related to family size among late childbearers. At retirement age the delayed childbearer with only one or two children appears better off than all other women. Thus, late childbearing and small family size appear associated with the highest standard of living for these women. This study also relates the experience of this early cohort of women to that of more recent birth cohorts.
Growth and bone maturation in children from two regions of the F.R.G. differing in the degree of air pollution: results of the 1974 and 1984 surveys.

Growth and bone maturation criteria were used in this collaborative study to assess the potential health risk posed by excessive air pollutant emission. The study consisted of two surveys carried out 10 years apart. During this decade, a substantial emission reduction through the effective control efforts was achieved in the index area, but not so in the reference area where the situation remained virtually unchanged during this period. In terms of body height and height-weight proportionality, no significant differences were found between areas and years of investigation. In contrast, the bone age retardation encountered in the children from the polluted area was statistically significant, both at 1974 and 1984 surveys, despite the appreciable improvement in this developmental criterion for boys in 1984. This was true for both group mean values and the percentages of individuals exhibiting the bone maturation delay greater than 10 months.
Perceived health and life satisfaction among older adults: the effects of worry and personal variables.

The purpose of this study was to describe how worry affects two desired outcomes of nursing care for older adults-perceived health and life satisfaction. A convenience sample of 100 individuals (ages 65 to 97) living in the community responded to the questionnaire. Despite several chronic diseases, 89% of the participants perceived themselves as "well. " Descriptive statistics revealed relatively high life satisfaction. Data from the Perceived Health Scale indicated the participants were functioning near their normal capacity, and with few negative emotions and physical sensations. Worry was also minimal. Nevertheless, using multiple regression, worry contributed to lower life satisfaction, negative emotions, physical discomforts, and decreased functional ability. Because the reported worries were primarily related to health and functioning, assessment of worry is significant when planning nursing care for older adults.
New visions for food allergy: An iPAC summary and future trends

The spectrum of food allergy consists of a variety of different clinical pictures including immunoglobulin (Ig)E, and non‐IgE food allergy as well as mixed, IgE and non‐IgE disorders. In addition, eosinophilic diseases of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract with occasional IgE‐type sensitization are increasingly recognized. As a consequence, the clinical picture of food allergy is pleomorphic and can range from chronic GI symptoms to severe anaphylaxis. The diagnosis of food allergy is mostly hampered by the lack of reliable in vitro tests for non‐IgE‐mediated diseases, and in most cases relies on a reoccurrence of symptoms upon re‐exposure to the antigen; in general during a standardized food challenge. Currently, there is no safe and efficient treatment for food allergy and the treatment relies on avoidance diets. Priorities for research have been identified by iPAC (international Pediatric Allergy and Asthma Consortium) and outlined in this review. They include studies to better identify the pathogenesis of food allergy, including genetic aspects; studies to develop diagnostic and follow‐up tests; studies for standardization of food challenges; as well as studies addressing a safe and efficient treatment of food allergy.
Leptin and the obesity hypoventilation syndrome: a leap of faith?

LVRS works, but can we make it safer? There are now five controlled trials showing that lung reduction for emphysema can alter lung function, increase walking distance, and improve quality of life.1–5 There are problems with each study in terms of design, duration, and small sample size but, taken together, they give a strong message that lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) has a role in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, we need much more evidence before we can define exactly what this role is and when to recommend surgery. In particular, we need better ways of predicting benefit and risk. We also need to understand how LVRS works in order to develop better and safer ways of doing it. The large National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT) study6 which began 2 years ago and is expected to take 4 years to complete will provide some of the answers, and early results are helping to define a high risk group. In an unusual move the New England Journal …
Phenylephrine‐induced neurogenic prostatitis facilitates the promotion of PIN‐like lesions in rats

Atypical prostate hyperplasia, resembling PIN lesions in men, together with chronic inflammatory exudates, have been reported after chronic administration of phenylephrine (PE). The present study aims to characterize the evolution of the expression of typical leukocyte markers immunohistochemically as correlated to the promotion of PIN lesions.
Stabilisation analysis for switched neutral systems based on sampled-data control

In this paper, the problem of stabilisation analysis for switched neutral systems based on sampled-data control and average dwell time approach is investigated. Delay-dependent stabilisation results are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities by constructing piecewise Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional based on the Wirtinger's inequality. Also, the controller gain matrix is designed by applying an input-delay approach. Further convex combination technique and some integral inequalities are used to derive less conservative results. The effectiveness of the derived results is validated through numerical examples.
De quelques troubles existentiels d’objets ordinaires

Les sciences positives nous ont accoutumes a voir dans les objets des choses autonomes, independantes de leurs usagers, artisans… La sociologie, et tout particulierement la sociologie pragmatique, est revenue sur ce preformatage de la presence des objets au sein des collectifs, recusant l’ontologie autonomiste des objets. Dans ses Essais de pragmatisme radical (1912), W. James propose ainsi de traiter les objets comme des "objets en train de se faire", ou le resultat provisoire de l’activite collective deployee autour d’eux. Le developpement de cette alternative ontologique des objets par la sociologie a la fin du XXe siecle a alimente un fort debat au sein de la discipline au sujet du mode d’existence des objets dans les collectifs.Les travaux recents reunis dans ce numero montrent que la controverse sur le mode d’existence des objets n’est pas confinee a la sociologie ; il ne s’agit pas seulement d’un choix de sociologue entre differentes hypotheses "theoriques". Des disputes entre acteurs au sujet de certifications notamment indiquent qu’eux aussi ont des positions divergentes a cet endroit. Parfois meme, le mode d’existence des objets, comme chose predeterminee ou comme production sans cesse relancee, occupe l’enjeu meme des debats. Avec cette livraison, Sciences de la Societe s’interesse a la presence des objets et aux instruments qui attestent leur presence, pour mieux comprendre ces controverses interminables sur les garanties, sur les tests et les epreuves, sur « l’esprit » des objets, sur leur caractere illusoire ; mais aussi afin d’aider les acteurs a tirer parti de ces modalites plurielles d’existence de nos compagnons de toujours, les objets.
Robustness in biological systems Term paper for Physics 569 : Emergent States of Matter

The systems approach to biology aims to address problems using a holistic approach that focuses on emergent properties, namely those that cannot be attributed to a single part of a biological system, but rather, arise from complex, collective processes at the molecular level. An important feature of these emergent properties is robustness— the emergent phenomena are, to a considerable extent, insensitive to changes in the parameters of the microscopic processes that give rise to the phenomena in the first place. In this paper, we examine the general features of robustness as it appears in biology. We also present a model for adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis as an example of how robustness can influence the process of understanding systems-level phenomena by model building.
Serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein are associated with HBV replication, liver damage and fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B.

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of this study was to explore the potential role of serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in the pathogenic process of chronic hepatitis B. METHODOLOGY A total of 380 patients with chronic hepatitis B were included in this study. All patients received the concentrations of serum hs-CRP, Hepatitis B sero-markers, serum HBV-DNA loads, liver function parameters and liver stiffness were measured, and in which 172 patients undertaken liver biopsy and immunohistochemistry analysis. RESULTS Serum hs-CRP concentration in patients with the chronic hepatitis B (2.38 ± 5.52) was significantly higher than healthy controls (0.60 ± 0.53), P < 0.05. The area under ROC curve in fibrosis S4 and S3 is 0.826 and 0.78. The sensitivity and specificity of hs-CRP for fibrosis S3 and S4 diagnosis were 81.8%, 80% and 73.4%, 76.2% respectively (cut off: 1.01 mg/ml, 1.11 mg/l). CONCLUSIONS C-reactive Protein are associated with HBV replication, liver damage and fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B, and serum High-sensitivity C-reactive Protein may be a marker for diagnosing significant fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B, and can reflect the severity of liver damage.
Gender and Self in Children's Autobiographical Narratives

In this study, we examined relations among gender, self-concept and children's autobiographical narratives. Twenty-two white middle-class children 8 years of age (50% female) were administered the Children's Self-View Questionnaire (CSVQ). In addition, children were asked to recall a specific experience associated with each of the nine self-concept dimensions assessed by the CSVQ, including Achievement, Alienation, and Social Closeness. Consistent with previous research with adults, girl's autobiographical narratives were longer, more coherent and more detailed than were boys' narratives. Girls were also more likely to place their autobiographical narratives in a social context, to refer to more affiliative themes, and to mention more people and more emotions than were boys. In all these ways, girls' narratives were more socially contexted and relational than were those of boys. However, no relations were found between specific dimensions of self-understanding and children's autobiographical narratives. Theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.
Near Field Characterization of the GeoSTAR Demonstrator

The GeoSTAR proof of concept demonstrator can be characterized at close range by means of a simple near-to-far- field phase correction. This reduces the test set-up configuration to reasonable dimensions. In order to simulate the Earth as seen from GEO, the target consists of a disc of absorbent material at ambient temperature placed against the sky. This work presents the details of the near-to-far-field correction as well as some preliminary results that confirm its suitability to characterize the demonstrator.
STUDIES ON HYBRID STERILITY. 11. LOCALIZATION OF STERILITY FACTORS I N DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA HYBRIDS

HE causation of hybrid sterility has long been one of the unsolved problems of biology. To date, probably the greatest advance in this field has been made by FEDERLEY who discovered a failure of the meiotic chromosome pairing in the sterile hybrids between moths of the genus Pygaera. This finding has since been amply corroborated by other investi-gators in sterile hybrids both in animals and in plants. Naturally enough it became tempting to suppose that the failure of the meiotic pairing is the cause of hybrid sterility. The restitution of the normal meiotic pairing as well as of fertility following the reduplication of the chromosome complement in allotetraploid hybrids seems to be further evidence in favor of this view. And yet, this view proves to be inadequate as a general explanation of hybrid sterility. Two difficulties deserve particular attention. First, some hybrids sterile despite the fact that the meiotic pairing in their is apparently normal ; while in other sterile hybrids the does not reach the meiotic stages Second, the failure of the meiotic pairing in sterile hybrids is usually attributed to an “incom-patibility” of the chromosomes of species or races entering the cross. This, clearly, is a restatement of facts and not a causal explanation. It remains possible that suppression of meiotic pairing may be caused by different mechanisms in different cases, and that sometimes there is no cause and effect relation between the failure of paking and the sterility.
Computational Mathematical Modeling - An Integrated Approach Across Scales

Interesting, real-world mathematical modeling problems are complex and can usually be studied at different scales. The scale at which the investigation is carried out is one of the factors that determines the type of mathematics most appropriate to describe the problem. This book concentrates on two modeling paradigms: the macroscopic, in which the authors describe phenomena in terms of time evolution via ordinary differential equations, and the microscopic, which requires knowledge of random events and probability. The text emphasizes the development of computational skills to construct predictive models and analyze the results. To elucidate the concepts, a wealth of examples and portions of MATLAB code used by the authors are included. Computational Mathematical Modeling: An Integrated Approach Across Scales is designed for classroom use and has been extensively tested by the authors. The homework problems have been carefully designed to develop students computational skills. The book is based on an unorthodox combination of deterministic and probablistic methodologies that are naturally bridged through examples; it painlessly introduces students to advanced themes in a natural progression and includes suggestions for further reading. Audience: This book is intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mathematics, engineering, and physical and life sciences. Contents Chapter 1: Review of Multivariate Calculus and Differential Equations; Chapter 2: Compartment Models; Chapter 3: From Compartment Models to Continuous Models; Chapter 4: Dimensional Analysis and Scaling; Chapter 5: Introduction to Stochastic Modeling; Chapter 6: Modeling of Noise; Chapter 7: Modeling with Waiting Processes; Chapter 8: Markov Processes; Chapter 9: Cellular Automata, Agent Based Modeling
Quantum Circuit Synthesis Targeting to Improve One-Way Quantum Computation Pattern Cost Metrics

One-way quantum computation (1WQC) is a model of universal quantum computations in which a specific highly entangled state called a cluster state allows for quantum computation by single-qubit measurements. The needed computations in this model are organized as measurement patterns. The traditional approach to obtain a measurement pattern is by translating a quantum circuit that solely consists of CZ and J(α) gates into the corresponding measurement patterns and then performing some optimizations by using techniques proposed for the 1WQC model. However, in these cases, the input of the problem is a quantum circuit, not an arbitrary unitary matrix. Therefore, in this article, we focus on the first phase—that is, decomposing a unitary matrix into CZ and J(α) gates. Two well-known quantum circuit synthesis methods, namely cosine-sine decomposition and quantum Shannon decomposition are considered and then adapted for a library of gates containing CZ and J(α), equipped with optimizations. By exploring the solution space of the combinations of these two methods in a bottom-up approach of dynamic programming, a multiobjective quantum circuit synthesis method is proposed that generates a set of quantum circuits. This approach attempts to simultaneously improve the measurement pattern cost metrics after the translation from this set of quantum circuits.
Insight into Alternative Approaches for Control of Avian Influenza in Poultry, with Emphasis on Highly Pathogenic H5N1

Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) of subtype H5N1 causes a devastating disease in poultry but when it accidentally infects humans it can cause death. Therefore, decrease the incidence of H5N1 in humans needs to focus on prevention and control of poultry infections. Conventional control strategies in poultry based on surveillance, stamping out, movement restriction and enforcement of biosecurity measures did not prevent the virus spreading, particularly in developing countries. Several challenges limit efficiency of the vaccines to prevent outbreaks of HPAIV H5N1 in endemic countries. Alternative and complementary approaches to reduce the current burden of H5N1 epidemics in poultry should be encouraged. The use of antiviral chemotherapy and natural compounds, avian-cytokines, RNA interference, genetic breeding and/or development of transgenic poultry warrant further evaluation as integrated intervention strategies for control of HPAIV H5N1 in poultry.
Voice based interface for route search system

In this paper we are presenting our approach of creating voice based interface for one of the leading Lithuania bus route search system — www.autobusubilietai. lt. We designed a hybrid speech recognition system which is based on one Lithuanian speech recognizer (LIEPA) and two foreign language recognizers (German and Spanish). We experimented with different methods that may be used for combining outputs of these recognizers: k-Nearest Neighbors, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines, Decision tree (CART), Linear discriminant analysis and Logistic regression. We achieved 88.0 % recognition accuracy by using 3-Nearest Neighbors as combination method. Compared with best single recognizer we increased recognition accuracy by 3.5 %. Our experiments proved that recognition accuracy can be improved by combining outputs of different speech recognizers. What is more by using voice based interface we decreased time spent for route search from 10–15 sec. to 5–10 sec. and improved end user satisfaction.
The quest to improve Aboriginal health

The epidemic of diabetes mellitus is still growing in many of Canada's First Nations communities, and the causes remain to be fully elucidated. [1][1],[2][2] Various intervention projects have been tried, and some show promise. However, much still needs to be understood. One in 5 First Nations
Cocaine psychosis.

A 28-year-old divorced black male intranasal cocaine abuser presented three times in seven days to the psychiatric emergency service of a general hospital with complaints of psychotic symptoms in the context of a cocaine binge. His repeated visits provided the opportunity to correlate his clinical picture with serum cocaine levels. This article describes that correlation and reviews the current literature on cocaine abuse and the cocaine abstinence syndrome.