Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comprehensive Comparision of MOPSO methods: Study of Convergence and Diversity-Survey of State of The Art

In this paper, we review several proposals for guide selection in Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) and compare them with each other in terms of convergence, diversity and computational times. The new proposals made for guide selection, both personal best (’pbest’) and global best (’gbest’), are found to be extremely effective and perform well compared to the already existing methods. The combination of selection methods for choosing ’gbest’ and ’pbest’ is also studied and it turns out that there exist certain combinations which yield an overall superior performance outperforming the others on the tested benchmark problems. Furthermore, two new proposals namely velocity trigger (as a substitute for ”turbulence operator”) and a new scheme of boundary handling is made.
One-Off Spirometry is Insufficient to Rule-In or Rule-Out mild-moderate COPD

Making an accurate diagnosis of COPD matters. For those affected, it is the initial step in accessing appropriate interventions. First and foremost, this should start by minimising future inhaled exposures. Similarly, for those not affected, excluding COPD avoids unnecessary prescription of drugs that would have no benefit, are costly and may have side effects, and can prompt a search for alternative diagnoses. Everyone, wherever they live in the world, deserves access to an accurate COPD diagnosis.
TRANSCEND — czy wyniki terapii sartanami wykraczają poza oczekiwania?

394 www.nt. viamedica.pl przyjmujących placebo. Podwojenie stężenia kreatyniny zaobserwowano u 60 (2,0%) pacjentów z grupy telmisartanu i 42 (1,4%) z grupy placebo, zaś hiperkaliemię (stężenie potasu > 5,5 mmol/l) odpowiednio u 111 (3,8%) i 49 (1,6%) badanych. Nieistotnie częściej pacjenci z grupy placebo (10 — 0,34%) wymagali incydentalnej dializoterapii w stosunku do pacjentów leczonych telmisartanem (7 — 0,24%). Kaszel, z powodu którego pacjenci zostali zakwalifikowani do badania, był rzadką przyczyną przerwania leczenia (14 — 0,54% — w grupie telmisartanu vs. 15 — 0,57% — w grupie placebo). Wśród 244 pacjentów włączonych do badania z powodu hipotonii występującej po przyjęciu inhibitorów ACE, zaledwie 2 (1,5%) badanych w grupie telmisartanu i 1 (0,9%) w grupie placebo mieli podobne objawy. Stwierdzono jeden przypadek wystąpienia obrzęku naczynioruchowego w grupie placebo wśród 75 pacjentów z tym objawem w trakcie podawania inhibitora ACE. Wśród 58 badanych, u których przerwano leczenie inhibitorami ACE z powodu dysfunkcji nerek, tylko u dwóch pacjentów (po jednym w każdej z grup) w trakcie badania wystąpiły podobne zaburzenia.
Shorter deferral periods for blood donation following the implementation of pathogen reduction technology on platelet concentrates against the chikungunya and West-Nile viruses. Inquiry on shortening the deferral periods for blood donation following the implementation of pathogen reduction technolog

The SHC had already received a request for advice on the usefulness of pathogen reduction technology (PRT) as a means to inactivate various pathogens in fresh frozen plasma or in platelet concentrates. When carrying out these assessments, the SHC found that there are certain data (cf. Caridian, 2010; Cerus, 2010) with which it is possible to demonstrate the efficacy of these techniques in reducing the risk of plasma and platelets being contaminated with the West Nile (WNV) and chikungunya (CHIKV) viruses. In Belgium, platelet concentrates are subjected to pathogen reduction technology during their preparation. For these viruses, pathogen reduction technology could turn out to be efficacious enough for doing away with the need for a deferral period or for shortening the latter.
Simulation and dynamic analysis of military marching using lower limbs anthropometric data

Background: Gait analysis is receiving increasing attention due to various applications in athletic performance, man-machine interfaces and especially in military services. This analysis involves the analysis of human locomotion augmented by body movements and biomechanics of joints. The kinematic motion of the body during a gait cycle capturing by cameras is then used as the desired target for modelling the motion of body segments. By taking advantage of gait analysis concept, this study aims to model the military marching, using anthropometric data with the focus on lower limbs while introducing top candidates with better healthy conditions in lower limb joints during a cycle of marching. Methods: Using 100 anthropometric data from military soldiers, equations of motion for the model are derived by applying Lagrangian methods in an inverse dynamic approach. In this model, the joints are simulated using springs and dampers while the actuators, simulated the muscles, acted like motors and applied enough torque on joints so that the model motion replicates normal military marching. Finally, all the springs and dampers coefficients are driven from optimization process. Results: Hip, knee and ankle torques were calculated after the optimization process for all 100 soldiers and then 5 candidates among them were established with less suffering forces and torques in their joints. Conclusions: In this study using biomechanics basics and anthropometry data at the same time, a standard could be evaluated to select the soldiers based on healthy condition of lower organs. Keywords: marching, anthropometric data, gait analysis, biomechanics, torque, equations of motion, optimization.
The past, present, and future of ego depletion

At the center of social psychology just a few years ago, ego depletion is now widely seen as a controversial topic, one of the chief victims of the replication crisis. Despite over 600 studies of apparent support, many are now asking if ego depletion is even real. Here, we comment on the articles included in this Special Issue: Ego Depletion. Specifically, we delineate the contributions and limitations of these articles by embedding them in a brief history of ego depletion, describing the current state of uncertainty about ego depletion’s scientific status, and outlining necessary steps for the study of ego depletion to have a healthy future. To us, the most troubling aspect of this controversy is not what is suggests about ego depletion; but what it suggests about social psychology more broadly. If the mere existence of ego depletion is seriously doubted by many, what can be confidently regarded as real in social psychology? By increasing the precision of our theories, continuously validating our manipulations and measures, and practicing the full suite of open science practices we have the potential to identify legitimate and robust effects and build a cumulative and trustworthy psychological science.
A Comparison of Mercer Mayer’s Frog Books in the Narrative Assessment of Cantonese-English Bilinguals

The purpose of this study is to compare two commonly used wordless picture books (Frog On His Own and Frog, Where Are You? ) in the context of narrative sample analysis for bilingual assessment. Thirty-one sequential Cantonese-English bilingual language learners produced narrative retells of each book in English, which were then transcribed and analyzed using SALT 18. Samples were analyzed for multiple measures of language development and narrative microstructure including morpheme accuracy, mean length of utterance, number of different words, and number of total words. Results from the study show no significant differences between the books in terms of mean length of utterance (MLU), number of different words (NDW), or number of total words (NTW). Significant differences were observed between the two books in the number of opportunities provided to produce regular past tense markers (ed) and articles, and in morpheme accuracy for the possessive –s. The number of omissions for the past tense –ed was also significantly higher in Frog On His Own. The production of other grammatical morphemes was not significantly different between the books. The findings from this study suggest that performance on the narrative retell task may vary by book with respect to the production and accuracy of specific morphemes, although no significant differences were observed for general measures (MLU, NDW, NTW). Clinical implications for narrative assessment with Cantonese English bilingual populations are discussed.
Avoiding Negative Side-Effects and Promoting Safe Exploration with Imaginative Planning

With the recent proliferation of the usage of reinforcement learning (RL) agents for solving real-world tasks, safety emerges as a necessary ingredient for their successful application. In this paper, we focus on ensuring the safety of the agent while making sure that the agent does not cause any unnecessary disruptions to its environment. The current approaches to this problem, such as manually constraining the agent or adding a safety penalty to the reward function, can introduce bad incentives. In complex domains, these approaches are simply intractable, as they require knowing apriori all the possible unsafe scenarios an agent could encounter. We propose a model-based approach to safety that allows the agent to look into the future and be aware of the future consequences of its actions. We learn the transition dynamics of the environment and generate a directed graph called the imaginative module. This graph encapsulates all possible trajectories that can be followed by the agent, allowing the agent to efficiently traverse through the imagined environment without ever taking any action in reality. A baseline state, which can either represent a safe or an unsafe state (based on whichever is easier to define) is taken as a human input, and the imaginative module is used to predict whether the current actions of the agent can cause it to end up in dangerous states in the future. Our imaginative module can be seen as a “plug-and-play” approach to ensuring safety, as it is compatible with any existing RL algorithm and any task with discrete action space. Our method induces the agent to act safely while learning to solve the task. We experimentally validate our proposal on two gridworld environments and a self-driving car simulator, demonstrating that our approach to safety visits unsafe states significantly less frequently than a baseline.
Therapy of Multiple Myeloma and Myeloma-Related Kidney Disease

Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a hematological malignancy characterized by the clonal expansion of monoclonal immunoglobulin-secreting plasma cells in the Bone Marrow (BM). MM is associated with lytic bone lesions, anemia, immunodeficiency, and renal impairment. MM accounts for more than 10% of all hematologic malignancies and about 1% of all cancers [1]. In 2013, approximately 22,500 individuals in the United States and 6/100,000 in Europe were diagnosed with MM [2]. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) lists myeloma as the 14th most common type of cancer in the United States. There will be 30,280 new cases (17,490 men and 12,790 women) and 12,590 deaths (6,660 men and 5,930 women) this year in the United States. That is only 1.9% of all cancer deaths. MM remains mostly incurable despite conventional intensive high dose chemotherapy followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplant. The costs associated with MM are among the highest.
Seismic Data Processing and Reconstruction without Fourier Phase Information

The most advanced seismic data processing/imaging algorithms fail to achieve an acceptable result when there are strong phase errors in the observations. To remedy this deficiency, I replace the time domain misfit term in such algorithms by a Fourier magnitude fidelity term in order to recover the desired signal from just the amplitude spectrum of the observed wavefield. The generated problem is used to tackle two common phase problems arising in seismic processing: data recovery in the presence of residual static shifts and deconvolution with missing wavelet phase. The primary applications of interest are interpolation and deconvolution. It is shown that under appropriate constraints, both problems can be solved accurately using just the amplitude spectrum of the observed data. Numerical experiments show that in both cases the proposed phase retrieval algorithm is able to obtain significantly better results than similar method that work in the time domain.
Cytomegalovirus Encephalitis in an Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipient: A Case Report and Review of Literature

AbstractCytomegalovirus (CMV) commonly reactivates in seropositive recipients after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant but rarely causes infection. Since the implementation of preemptive approaches, infection by CMV has become a rare occurrence. We describe the successful treatment of a case of late ganciclovir-resistant CMV encephalitis occurring 2 ½ years after an HLA-mismatched allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
PON1 (Paraoxonase 1) Q192R Gene Polymorphism in Ischemic Stroke among North Indian Population

Background: PON1 is an High Density Lipoprotein (HDL)-associated esterase. Two common polymorphisms in the PON1 gene, Q192R and L55M substitutions, determine the inter-individual variation in PON1 activity. The association of these polymorphisms with the risk of ischemic stroke remains controversial. In the present study, the role of PON1 Q192R gene polymorphism in ischemic stroke was studied in the Indian population. Design and Methods: In the present case-control study, the PON1 Q192R gene polymorphism was screened in ischemic stroke patients (n: 63) and age, sex-matched controls (n: 63) using the Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Segment Length Polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method. Results: The mean age of stroke presentation was 58.11 ± 15.4 years. A total of 17.4% cases presented with young stroke (<45 years age) and 9.52% cases were seen to have a recurrent stroke. The distribution of -192Q/R PON1 gene polymorphism was not seen to differ between cases and controls. The traditional stroke risk factors did not have any effect on the PON1 genotype expression. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was done in order to assess an independent association of age, gender, traditional stroke risk factors, and PON1 polymorphism with acute ischemic stroke. However, neither the RR genotype nor the presence of the R allele was associated with an increase in the risk of acute ischemic stroke (OR [RR genotype]-4.76, P value: 0.24, 95% CI: 0.3497–64.8531; OR [R allele]-0.94, P value: 0.90, 95% CI: 0.3516–2.4989). Conclusion: PON1 Q192R gene polymorphism is not associated with an increased risk of acute ischemic stroke in the North Indian population. Further studies with a larger sample size are needed before PON1 Q192R gene polymorphism can be considered as a genetic risk factor for ischemic stroke.
Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Secondary to Mesalamine Use in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis

Although clinical features are suggestive, a diagnosis of FSGS is confirmed only by histopathology findings [3]. The disease represents several patterns of glomerular injury, and biopsy findings provide no insights into the pathogenesis. FSGS arises through idiopathic (primary) or secondary causes. Ulcerative Colitis (UC) is one of the 2 major types of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), along with Crohn’s disease. Unlike Crohn’s disease, which can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract, UC characteristically involves the large bowel.
DAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF ACUTE

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The Precompression Processing of LMS Algorithm in Noise Elimination

In this study, the authors propose a novel precompression processing (PCP) of the least mean squares (LMS) algorithm based on a regulator factor. The novelty of the PCP algorithm is that the compressed input signals vary from each other on different components at each iteration. The input signal of the improved LMS algorithm is precompressed based on the regulator factor. The precompressed input signal is not only related to the regulator factor α and the current value of the input signal at each iteration but also related to the amplitude of the input signal before this iteration. The improved algorithm can eliminate the influence of input signal mutation on the filter performance. In the numerical simulations, we compare the improved LMS algorithm and NLMS algorithm in the cases of normal input signal and input signal with mutation and the influence of different regulator factors on the noise elimination. Results show that the PCP algorithm has good noise elimination effect when the input signal changes abruptly and the regulator factor α = 0.01 can meet the requirements.
Asymmetric Monetary Policy Towards the Stock Market: A DSGE Approach

In the aftermath of the nancial crisis, it has been argued that a guideline for future policy should be to take the aout of asymmetryin the way monetary policy deals with asset price movements. Recent empirical evidence has suggested that the Federal Reserve may have followed an asymmetric policy towards the stock market in the pre-crisis period. The present paper studies the e¤ects of such a policy in a DSGE model. The asymmetric policy rule introduces an important non-linearity into the model: Booms in output and ination will tend to be ampli ed, while recessions will be dampened. I further investigate to what extent an asymmetric stock price reaction could be motivated by the desire of policymakers to correct for inherent asymmetries in the way stock price movements a¤ect the macroeconomy. Keywords: Asymmetries, Monetary Policy, Asset Prices, DSGE Modelling. JEL classi cation : E13, E32, E44, E52, E58. The author wishes to thank Henrik Jensen for competent and inspiring guidance, and Niels Blomquist, Martin Ellison, Adalheidur Gudlaugsdottir, Antonio Mele, Tommaso Monacelli, Gert Peersman, Jesper Rangvid, Emiliano Santoro, and Morten Spange for useful comments and discussions. Also thanks to seminar participants at the University of Oxford, Danmarks Nationalbank. All remaining errors are my own. The views expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily correspond to those of Danmarks Nationalbank. yDepartment of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, building 26, DK-1353 Copenhagen, Denmark, and Danmarks Nationalbank, Havnegade 5, DK-1093 Copenhagen, Denmark. Email: shr@nationalbanken.dk. Phone: +45 26 55 73 35.
Economic Analysis of Dairy Cattle Farms in Turkey: A Case of Karacabey District

The aim of this study was to analyse the economic structure of dairy cattle farms in Karacabey district of Bursa province in Turkey. The number of farms in the research area was determined through stratified random sampling method. The data were collected from a total of 208 selected farms by means of survey method. The selected farms were divided into three groups (5 to≤11 cattle, 12 to ≤26 cattle and equal 27 and >27 cattle). The data were based on the 2017 production period. The study concluded that the average daily milk yield and lactatiton milk yield per cow of farms were 18.72 kg and 4835.81 kg year -1 . The total production cost was found to be $49103.07. The average feed cost per farm was accounted for 52.11% of the total production costs. As a result, the study will potentially contribute to the increase of the amount of milk production in farms and the development of dairy farming in Karacabey district, which is the research are of this study.
Supporting Information: Specification of neural model of MT and MST

This appendix outlines the mathematical specification of the neural model of MT and MST simulated in the present study. The model extends the Competitive Dynamics Model and builds on the ViSTARS model [1, 2] to encompass object motion during self-motion, motion parallax, and disparity [3, 4]. The sections that follow present the baseline model used in Simulation 1. Modifications for Simulation 2 are described in the main text and those for Simulation 3 are described in a section at the end of the appendix.
Modeling Solid-Liquid Settling System as a Two-Phase Flow Problem

A challenging two-phase flow problem is modelled and simulated in COMSOL Multiphysics environment. Velocities of a single solid bead settling in different liquids are determined by the simulation and compared to measurement value. Fluid-solid interaction is approached by Level Set interface tracking method with the cost of treating solid as a viscous fluid. Method parameters are examined and found to be a good tool in modeling sedimentation. The study is ready to be continued by other modelling approaches.