Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Take a Good Look

Mary is fed up of being wrapped in cotton wool by her gran. Being blind doesn't mean that she can't look after herself. So Mary decides to go down to the sweetshop by herself for the first time but the trip is more eventful than she could ever have imagined and the shop is burgled whilst Mary is in there! How will she escape and get home safely?
Quantitation of ventricular repolarization: a new approach

Ten morphological variables describing electrocardiographic ventricular repolarization were considered, an addition to the conventional QT interval, in order to have a more complete description of the phenomenon. The computer program QTNEW was developed in order to analyze the repolarization segment automatically and to measure the variables. A final list of seven variables was obtained after the application of dimensionality-reduction techniques and did not include the QT interval. Six variables were independent of the QT, six were heart-rate independent, and all were age and body surface-area independent. <<ETX>>
On Understanding User Choices: Textual Correlates of Relevance Judgments.

An empirical investigation of the role of documents in relevance judgments is reported. Abstracts previously judged relevant, partially relevant, and nonrelevant to each of 61 questions were compared to see whether textual differences could be found which might reasonably account for the rating differences. The results of this comparison were fairly clear-cut characterizations in each case of relevant and partially relevant abstracts. These characterizations were found to be expressible largely as meaningful co-occurrences of terms closely related to the question. It is suggested that the textual bases of user choices may be more understandable than has been supposed.
Development of a Novel Assay to Monitor Nuclear Pore Complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Author(s): Stanton, Leslie Helen | Advisor(s): Weis, Karsten | Abstract: Eukaryotic cells can be distinguished from prokaryotic cells because they posses membrane bound organelles. The presence of organelles in cells allowed cellular processes to be isolated into compartments, thus allowing additional levels of regulation to be applied to simple cellular processes. One of these membrane bound organelles, the nucleus, functions to isolate the cell's DNA from the cytoplasm. Large aqueous pores span the nuclear envelope and determines which molecules can enter and exit the nucleus. These channels are called Nuclear Pore Complexes (NPCs). The NPC is made up of a central core that spans the NE, a nuclear basket structure, fibers that extend into the cytoplasm, and is composed of only ~33 different proteins called Nucleoporins. The NPC exhibits an eight-fold rotation symmetry around the plane of the NE, and nucleoporins are present in eight, or multiples of eight, copies. Although the structure and composition of the NPC is well characterized, the process in which NPCs are inserted into the intact NE of yeast is unknown. In order to learn more about NPC assembly into the intact NE, I developed an assay to monitor the distribution of old and new nucleoporins in live S. cerevisiae cells. I used the photoconvertable fluorescent protein Dendra to examine a report that new NPC assembly occurs exclusively in daughter buds while old NPCs remain with mother cells. We examined two different Nups and observed new pore formation in both mother and daughter cells, additionally we determined that old pores are inherited by both mother and the daughter cells. We hypothesized that the differences in our observations from the previous report was due to differences experimental technique. To begin to understand the early events of NPC assembly, we first determined which proteins interact with the essential transmembrane Nup Ndc1. We then constructed conditional mutants of different combinations of these proteins and determined that Nup59 is functionally redundant with the combined element of Pom34 and Pom152. We show that these conditional mutants are not viable and result in mislocalization of core and cytoplasmic Nups. We use the Dendra assay to show that depletion of these elements result in a reversible defect in NPC assembly. Finally, we examine the role of Nup157 and Nup170 in NPC assembly. A nup157∆ strain conditionally expressing Nup170 results in mislocalization of core and cytoplasmic reporter Nups, but not nuclear Nups. This strain also has a reduced number of NPCs by EM in non-permissive conditions. Cells depleted of Nup170 and Nup157 were examined with the Dendra assay and new protein accumulated in the cytoplasm suggesting a block in NPC assembly. This block is overcome by reintroduction of Nup170. The work presented here represents a new way to study NPC assembly and reveals a few early events in NPC assembly.
Semi-Automatic Synthesis of Videos of Performers Appearing to Play User-Specified Music

We propose a method to synthesize the video of a user-speciﬁed band music, in which the performers appear to play it nicely. Given the music and videos of the band members as inputs, our system synthesizes the resulting video by semi-automatically cutting and concatenating the videos temporarily so that these synchronize to the music. To compute the synchronization between music and video, we analyze the timings of the musical notes of them, which we estimate from the audio signals by applying techniques including short-time Fourier transform (STFT), image processing, and sound source separation. Our video retrieval technique then uses the estimated timings of musical notes as the feature vector. To efﬁciently retrieve a part of the video that matches to a part of the music, we develop a novel feature matching technique more suitable for our feature vector than dynamic-time warping (DTW) algorithm. The output of our system is the project ﬁle of Adobe After Effects, on which the user can further reﬁne the result interactively. In our experiment, we recorded videos of performances of playing the violin, piano, guitar, bass and drums. Each video is recorded independently for each instrument. We demonstrate that our system helps the non-expert performers who cannot play the music well to synthesize its performance videos. We also present that, given an arbitrary music as input, our system can synthesize its performance video by semi-automatically cutting and pasting existing videos.
Male-female ratio in waking-life contacts and dream characters

One of the well established findings in dream research is the discrepancy between men’s and women’s dream character sex ratio, i.e. men dream more often about men but women show no such difference. Some studies stress the fact of such a ubiquitous difference by showing that for example a person’s relationship status alters these rates. The present study investigated the relationship between the sex ratio of dream characters and waking-life social contact patterns. Sixty-one participants kept a dream diary for two weeks as well as a daytime diary to thoroughly record all waking contacts in terms of duration and number of characters. After the two weeks all participants had to fill out a retrospective questionnaire about their contact patterns in the inquiry period. Both genders spent an equal amount of their waking time with men (female participants 41%, male participants 43%) and generally more time with women. Looking at the dream reports, men reveal more male characters (61%) than women (48%) but this difference barely missed significance (p = 0.0731; d = 0.518). We separated the female participants into singles and non-singles and calculated male ratios for both subgroups respectively to look for factors other than gender that may influence the ratio. Daytime prospective measures reveal that women in a relationship spent twice the time with men (50%) compared to singles (26%). Furthermore, female participants in a relationship dream significantly more about men (54%) than those without a partner (36%). Results suggest that there are other factors than gender per se contributing for the different male ratios in women’s compared to men’s dreams.
Navigating with a rat brain: a neurobiologically-inspired model for robot spatial representation

F. FaureC. FaisstnauerG. HesinaVienna University of Technology, Austriafrancois, faisst, gerd @cg.tuwien. ac.atA. AubelEcole Polytechnique F´´ ed´erale de Lausanne, Switzerlandaubel@lig.di. epﬂ. chM. EscherMIRALab, Geneve, SwitzerlandMarc.Escher@cui.unige. chF. LabrosseUniversity of Bath, United KingdomF.Labrosse@maths.bath. ac.ukJ. -C. NebelUniversity of Glasgow, United Kingdomjc@dcs.gla. ac.ukJ. -D. GascueliMAGIS, Grenoble, FranceJean-Dominique.Gascuel@imag.frAbstract
Operator Decision-Making Characteristics.

Abstract : The purpose of this report is to review the operator's decision-making characteristics as a first step in developing decision aids for the air-to-ground combat environment. Both formal and empirical models of decision-making are discussed. Four components of decision-making: information selection, probability estimation, worth assessment, and action selection are identified. Empirical results from laboratory and real-world studies are used to characterize operator performance for each of these components of decision-making. The results indicate that the operator is best characterized in terms of empirical, rather than normative, models of decision-making. In particular, models based on heuristic processes seem to best characterize operator performance. Heuristic processes are rules used by the operator which simplify the decision situation and result in predictable errors.
The Impact of UML Class Diagrams on Knowledge Modeling, Discovery and Presentations

Typically, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software-intensive systems. However, there have been some projects showing the usefulness of UML modeling of systems in other areas. In this paper we discuss how to model knowledge from an example subject area and how to convert this model into a well-structured UML graph. UML models can be built to gain a deeper understanding of a subject area, to guide knowledge discovery, to prepare better presentations about the subject (including Web presentations), or to support the learning process. We concentrate our discussion on the impact of UML diagrams on improving learning and, specifically, on new generation Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) tools that are based on UML diagrams.
Laws That Shape Therapy Services in Educational Environments.

The delivery of physical therapy and occupational therapy in schools hinges, at least in part, on an accurate understanding of educational and civil rights laws that mandate services to children with disabilities in educational environments. Frequently, therapists, in addition to physicians, parents, school administrators, and teachers, have misconceptions regarding eligibility for therapy services provided at school distric expense, the nature of therapy services in schools, and the frequency with which those services can and should be provided in educational environments. Most of the children who receive physcial therapy, occupational therapy, or both in educational environments have disabilities that adversly affect their educaitonal performance, and the assessments and interventions provided by therapists in educational environments are intended to be closely linked to the child's educational program. The legal information provided in the following paper summarizes the major provisions of statutory la.
TRANSFER OF RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF PATIENT CARE

Objective: This paper reports on a study of clinical incidents related to the transfer of accountability and responsibility of patient care during clinical handover in three major health facilities in regional Australia. It aims to identify significant issues in the area of transferring accountability and responsibility. Background: Although clinical handover is widely acknowledged as the process which transfers accountability and responsibility, issues occur particularly when this transfer is incomplete, shared or when one clinician feels an ongoing sense of responsibility for the patient. Methods: A thematic analysis of incidents related to clinical handover was conducted on data collected at three regional settings within Australia in order to identify issues which had occurred during this process. The Incident Information Management System (IIMS) is a database that collects information about clinical incidents and near misses and relies on health staff to report them. The initial information retrieved from IIMs identified 3716 possible events for inclusion. A thematic analysis was undertaken of the data which identified transfer of responsibility and accountability as a key theme. Results: The data related to the transfer of responsibility and accountability came to prominence in the incident reports in three ways. These included; identifying omissions, issues with information exchange and refusal to accept responsibility of care. Conclusions: This study demonstrates the need for a more systematic approach regarding communication between health professionals regarding the transferability and accountability of patient care. Relevance to clinical practice: Clinical handover remains a contentious issue regarding patient care and safety. Health professionals may benefit from this review of incidents related to clinical handover and consider some of the recommendations to improve clinical practice.
Influência do ambiente na criação de codornas de corte: Revisão

The objective of this article to review the influence that environment plays in creating quail. The animal welfare has occupied a prominent place in farms since stress situations lead to a physiological state that is characterized as undesirable. The temperature and microclimate in the authoring system can be considered as physical factors having the greatest effect on the growth of quails, influencing directly on the feed use. Thermally stressed animals cannot efficiently take advantage of the nutrients provided by the diet, decreasing feed intake. To evaluate the thermal environment in which the animals are exposed, we use the Temperature Index Black Globe Humidity. Indexes vary in temperature and humidity caused by environmental conditions, reflect the change in the average surface temperature by modifying the physiological response of the animal. The vent temperature of the bird can also be an interpreted to identify conditions of comfort or thermal stress measurement representing the temperature of the body core. During heat stress, physiological, hormonal and molecular adjustments occur, causing modifications in function and structure of cells.
Quality of life (QOL) among people between 30 to 60years of age with acute Arthralgia.

Introduction The commonly used measurements of health are in terms of mortality, morbidity, disability etc. However these measurements do not project the impact of disease on daily activities, quality of life of people with the disease, behavior of people, satisfaction levels of people with their disease. A measurement which gives the objective evidence of satisfaction in life lived by the people is needed which is done by measuring Quality of Life (QOL). Since QQL was not considered by the scientific world in early ages, it was described as missing measurement in health by Fallow field in 1990. One of the QOL measurement tool is the WHO-Quality of life100 (WHOQOL100) which has a brief version called WHO-BREF which could be applied internationally across cultures. This present study focuses on the QOL among people who had any joint pain or multiple joints pain and elicits their level of satisfaction regarding their health and life.Methodology This was a Cross sectional study done on 100 people between age 30 to 60 years with any joint pain or multiple joints pain withwithout swelling in the past two weeks and were relatives of patients visitingstaying at the hospital, at a rural health centre in Vellore. The Convenient sampling technique was used to obtain the sample. The study tool WHO-BREF questionnaire was administered by the interviewer. Data entry was done with Epidata and data analysis by SPSS.Results Physical health was not statistically significant on all four domain of QOL with respect to age, gender, socioeconomic status and marital status and joint pain duration. Age and marital status were found to be statistically significant by Wald chi square test with (p value0.004) (p value 0.025) respectively in social relationships domain. Socio economic status was found to be statistically significant in environmental support domain with (p value0.012). There was no statistically significant difference between people with joint pain greater than 3 years and less than three year in QOL.Discussion Further studies, national and state new policy and program initiatives needed to improve QOL among people with musculoskeletal disorders and chronic degenerative disorders.
The Federated Filtering Algorithm based on the Asynchronous Multisensor System

Abstract: This paper is concerned about the asynchronous multisensor dynamic system and an asynchronous fusion algorithm is proposed, which is depended on the federated Kalman filter. Each sub filter is updated on the rate that is associated with the local sensors. Then outputs of sub filters are propagated to the next fusion time. These propagated values are to be combined with the time update value of the main filter and the fusion results are fed back to each sub filter. This algorithm effectively solves the problem that sub filters may not able to provide data to be fused at the fusion time for the asynchronous sensor system. The detailed process of the new algorithm is introduced. The simulation results for the satellite autonomous navigation system is given to demonstrate its validity.
KARAKTERISASI FISIK ABU VULKANIK GUNUNG KELUD YANG DIHASILKAN DARI PERENDAMAN BERBAGAI KONSENTRASI NATRIUM HIDROKSIDA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui sturktur kristal, kristalinitas, luas permukaan dan ukuran pori setelah perendaman dengan berbagai konsentrasi natrium hidroksida (NaOH) pada abu vulkanik gunung Kelud. Subjek penelitian ini adalah abu vulkanik dari gunung Kelud yang berada di daerah sekitar Sidokarto, Godean, Sleman, Yogyakarta yang direndam dengan berbagai konsentrasi larutan NaOH 0,5 M, 1 M, 1,5 M, 2,5 M, dan 5 M. Pengujian struktur kristal dan kristalinitas dilakukan dengan menggunakan alat XRD (X-Ray Diffraction) dengan bantuan program Fullprof dan U-Fit. Pengukuran luas permukaan dan ukuran pori menggunakan alat porosimeter Micromeritics ASAP 2020. Hasil analisis XRD menunjukkan bahwa padatan abu vulkanik gunung Kelud sesudah perendaman dengan NaOH berbagai konsentrasi memiliki struktur kristal triklinik. Kristalinitas abu vulkanik sesudah perendaman dengan NaOH berbagai konsentrasi memiliki fase kristalin dan sedikit amorf. Analisis isoterm adsorpsi-desorpsi padatan abu vulkanik gunung Kelud didapatkan luas permukaan, diameter pori (4V/Aby BET), rata-rata ukuran pori BJH adsorpsi, rata-rata ukuran pori BJH desorpsi (nm) abu vulkanik sebelum perendaman dengan NaOH secara berturut-turut adalah 0,7525 (m²/g), 18,98080 (nm), 35,1687 (nm), 19,4788 (nm) sedangkan dengan perendaman NaOH 1,5 M secara berturut- turut adalah 4,0816 (m²/g), 9,72835 (nm), 10,8990 (nm), 10,2964 (nm).
A STUDY OF DRIVER NONCOMPLIANCE WITH TRAFFIC SIGNALS

There is a perception among traffic engineers that driver noncompliance with traffic control devices is a significant problem. Summarized in this paper are the results of a study of driver noncompliance at 12 signalized intersections in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area to determine whether driver noncompliance is a problem and to define its relationship to intersection operational characteristics and roadway features. The results indicated that driver noncompliance is a problem that requires attention. It was found that higher violation rates occurred at intersections with low annual average daily traffic volume levels. These high violation rates were predominant on one-lane approaches during the off-peak hours. A correlation analysis indicated moderately high associations between high traffic signal violation rates and low traffic volumes. This research study recommends that drivers, local police, and local traffic engineers be informed that driver noncompliance with traffic signals is a problem with potential safety consequences and should be addressed through education, increased enforcement and the application of sound engineering principles.
An Architecture for Web Service Similarity Evaluation Based on Their Functional and QOS Aspects

By increasing popularity of SOC, using Web services in applications has increased too. SOC creates a loosely coupled environment in which the actual execution environment might differ significantly from the one with the presupposed conditions during application design. Therefore, although an appropriate Web service might have been selected, by passing time, the Web service may not be efficient enough or may not be applicable under specific conditions. For service-oriented systems to be flexible and self-adaptive, it is necessary to automatically select and use a similar service instead of the one which causes the above mentioned problems. Finding a similar service means specifying the proper services which fulfill the same requirements as those fulfilled by the problematic service. In most of the previous works, a number of the best services (k) are selected and ordered based on functional similarity. The user must select one of these services based on his/her preferences. One important metric in selecting a similar service is considering QoS properties and user preferences about QoS. Because of the importance of this issue, in the present paper, an architecture is proposed in which, in addition to functional similarity, QoS properties and user preferences are also considered in selecting a similar service.
Medical and service delivery guidelines for sexual and reproductive health services. 3rd ed.

The IPPF Medical and Service Delivery Guidelines for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services are designed to be used in sexual and reproductive health service programmes including family planning: As a guide for the delivery of services: These guidelines provide clear guidance to managers and service providers for the planning and performance of tasks which are related to their duties. As a reference document for assessing quality of care: The focus of the guidelines is on providing services which reach essential standards of quality. Therefore the quality of services can be assessed by comparing actual performance with the recommendations and instructions contained in the guidelines. As a training instrument: Each chapter of the guidelines can serve as the basis for the development of training curricula. As a tool for supervision: The guidelines can serve as a reference to supervisors in identifying situations which require corrective actions and in identifying training needs. The supervisors can use the guidelines for bringing to the attention of service delivery personnel essential elements of quality of care and proper procedures.