Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The therapy of blastocystosis.

: During the period 1985-1989 I observed 35 patients of both sexes and of all ages, who were suffering from signs and symptoms of clear blastocystosis, such as prevailingly watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, tenesmus, eosinophilia and fever. 5 of them showed concomitant diseases, like Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS Related Complex (ARC), diabetes mellitus and nephrocarcinoma. By means of the administration of metronidazole 2 g/die for 5 days on average, I obtained the disappearance of Blastocystis hominis from the stools and the absence of the clinical symptomatology in 11 patients, while in another 7 the treatment did not prevent, in the following months, the arising of one or more clinical and microbiologic relapses.
Caractérisation des risques chimiques et biologiques professionnels de la filière de gestion des déchets : analyse a priori des risques potentiels.

La loi 92-646 du 13 juillet 1992 stipule que seuls les dechets ultimes pourront etre mis en decharge, les autres devant etre valorises (compostage, recyclage, incineration avec recuperation d'energie). Cette mesure necessite et encourage le developpement de la valorisation et du recyclage de tous les autres dechets a l'aide d'un procede adequat. La mise en application de cette loi et l'augmentation de la quantite de dechets produits, entrainent et accroissement des activites liees au traitement et a la valorisation des dechets. Ce rapport a pour objectif de repertorier les risques chimiques auxquels peuvent etre exposes les salaries lors du traitement de differents types de dechets : verres, plastiques, papier, cartons, metaux, bois, textiles, huiles alimentaires, dechets d'animaux et farines, etc. La premiere partie est une synthese bibliographique des connaissances disponibles. La seconde partie concerne la hierarchisation des risques potentiels. Compte tenu du nombre important de dechets et de leur diversite, il est necessaire de classer les dechets et les secteurs a etudier en considerant l'importance du gisement (la quantite), les dangers de chaque dechet aborde dans le cadre du risque chimique. La methode de Hierarchisation des Risques Potentiels(HRP), basee sur la methode SIRIS a ete utilisee pour cette evaluation.
The Utility of the U.S. Diabetes Conversation Map as an Intervention to Promote Diabetes Self-Management Adherence

OF DISSERTATION THE UTILITY OF THE U.S. DIABETES CONVERSATION MAP AS AN INTERVENTION TO PROMOTE DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT ADHERENCE Diabetes has reached epidemic levels, to the currently estimated 29 million individuals who are living with diabetes. Those with diabetes must manage their disease through a combination of medication, physical activity recommendations, and nutritional guidelines. The consequences of non-adherence to recommendations include cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, vision loss, or ultimately, death. Despite the risks of non-adherence, individuals often do not adhere to recommended treatment. Researchers have attempted to identify strategies to promote diabetes self-management adherence, thereby decreasing complications related to the disease. Specific Aims: 1) describe the factors that prohibit individuals from adhering from diabetes selfmanagement behaviors as well as the factors that promote self-management adherence, 2) compare adherence rates of individuals participating in an enhanced diabetes education program with the adherence rates of individuals that participated in enhanced diabetes education and also attended group social support sessions, 3) evaluate the adherence to self-management behaviors of individuals participating in a diabetes care coordination program. Results: A review of research articles from 2009 through 2013 identified barriers to diabetes self-management adherence as complexity of self-management, low health literacy, the financial burden of adherence, availability of resources, and lack of knowledge. Factors that promote diabetes self-management adherence include diabetes self-management education, self-efficacy, social support, and goal setting. A retrospective chart review of participants in an employer-sponsored health program was performed to examine the effectiveness of a social support intervention administered through the health program to promote adherence to recommended diabetes treatment. Results of the study revealed that individuals who participated in the social support intervention, in addition to the employer-sponsored health program, demonstrated increased adherence to recommended diabetes treatment from baseline to 12 months, in comparison to those who participated in only the health program (p = .048). Additional chart review compared participants’ self-management behaviors at baseline with their self-management behaviors at 12 months after entry into the program. There was a significant improvement in adherence to self-management behaviors of receiving an influenza vaccination (p = .036), decreased reported use of alcohol (p = .002) and tobacco (p = .043), and fewer reports of skipped meals (p = .009).
The Hand in Radiologic Diagnosis

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book hand in radiologic diagnosis. It is so usual with the printed books. However, many people sometimes have no space to bring the book for them; this is why they can't read the book wherever they want.
The Creative Process Where the Artist is Amplified or Superseded by the Computer

The advent of computing stimulates a desire to re-examine the subject of creativity. Though the computer can replace man in the production of graphic images, its function in the arts is seen as assisting in the specification of art systems and in their subsequent real-time management. An art of system or process is placed in the context of primarily the visual or plastic arts but the authors disavow concern with any ‘new’ or ‘modern technological’ art. Various types of art systems are mentioned and advantages of the fully interactive one are considered. It is pointed out that the inclusion of complex real-time responses in an interactive art system can frequently make use of a computer. In such work, the artist and the viewer play an integral part. The traditional role of the artist, composer or writer is thus called into question; it may no longer be necessary to assume that he is a specialist in art—rather he is a catalyst of creative activity. Three cases are discussed to illustrate the applications of this approach. L’avènemenl de l’informatique exige que Fon reconsidère le probième de la créativité. Bien que l’ordinateur puisse remplacer l’homme dans la production d’images graphiques, on peut penser que sa fonction dans les arts est d’aidcr à specifier les systèmes artistiques, et à les répartir ullérieurement dans le temps réel. Un art du Systéme et du processus se situe d’abord dans le contexte des arts visuels ou plastiques; cependant la préoccupation des auteurs n’est d’aucune manière un art ‘nouveau’ ou ‘technologique’. Ils citent plusieurs sortes de systèmes artistiques et décrivent les avantages de celui qui est entièrement ‘interactif’. Ils font remarquer que l’inclusion de réponses complexes du temps réel dans un système artistique interactif peut souvent appeler l’utilisation d’un ordinateur. Dans une telle œuvre, l’artiste et le spectateur jouent un rôle à part entière. Le rôle traditionnel de l’artiste, du compositeur ou de l’écrivain est ainsi remis en question; il n’est plus nécessaire d’affirmer que l’artiste est un spécialiste—il est plutôt le catalyseur d’une activité créatrice. Trois exemples illustrent les applications de cette approche.
Compiler optimizations for parallel loops with fine-grained synchronization

Loops in scientific and engineering applications provide a rich source of parallelism. In order to obtain a higher level of parallelism, loops with loop-carried dependences, which are largely serialized using the traditional techniques, need to be parallelized with fine-grained synchronization. This approach, so-called DOACROSS parallelization, requires new optimization strategies in order to preserve parallelism while minimizing the amount of inter-processor communication. In this thesis, I examine closely issues involved in the DOACROSS parallelization. There are two focuses in this work: (1) increasing parallelism, and (2) reducing communication overhead. Strategies for four major optimization problems are proposed and described in detail in this thesis. Our statement re-ordering and redundant synchronization optimization can enhance the overlap between iterations with reduced synchronization for loops with uniform dependences (i.e., with constant dependence distance vectors). For loops with non-uniform dependences, a new dependence uniformization scheme is used to compose a small set of uniform dependences which has a small dependence cone. These uniform dependences can be used to preserve all non-uniform dependences, and a small dependence cone size implies a higher speedup and lower communication overhead. Our last loop transformation is for loops with unknown dependences at compile time. It is a runtime parallelization technique with good locality and high concurrency. It has fairly consistent performance because its runtime analysis, which is usually the performance bottleneck of most runtime schemes, requires less global communication. We provide performance measurement and comparison with the schemes previously proposed. The results indicate that these schemes out-perform earlier schemes in terms of higher parallelism and lower communication requirement. These schemes form an integral part of the future high performance parallelizing compilers.
Optimization of a set of thermovision image features with the use of evolutionary algorithms

Extraction of diagnostic information from the thermovision images is connected with analysis and evaluation of a huge amount of different diagnostic features which could cause problems with efficient assessment of technical state due to informational noise. In the paper, application of an evolutionary algorithm for optimization of a set of diagnostic features has been presented. In the case of assessment of selected optimal features, neural classifier has been used. A set of 259 features has been considered. Classification results have shown that the evolutionary algorithm can be applied in selection of relevant diagnostic features. Efficiency of classifier has come to more than 92%.
Prevalencia de sífilis gestacional e incidencia de sífilis congénita, Cali, Colombia, 2010

Objective: Obtaining gestational syphilis prevalence and congenital syphilis incidence data in the city of Cali, Colombia during 2010.Materials and methods: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study. The study population consisted of pregnant women who had attended prenatal control sessions and given birth in Cali and whose maternal and perinatal results were known. Patients whose epidemiological data had not been properly recorded were excluded. The clinical sociodemographic characteristics of pregnant women suffering from gestational syphilis were determined. Gestational syphilis prevalence and congenital syphilis incidence in Cali during 2010 were estimated.Results: Gestational syphilis prevalence for Cali was 1.4% and congenital syphilis incidence was 2.5 per 1,000 live births during 2010; 35% of women having positive serology had not received suitable treatment.Conclusions: Gestational syphilis prevalence was greater than expected, in view of available PAHO data.
Drugs Inducing Insomnia as an Adverse Effect

Insomnia is a symptom, not a stand-alone disease. By definition, insomnia is "difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep, or both" or the perception of poor quality sleep (APA, 1994). As an adverse effect of medicines, it has been documented for several drugs. This chapter describes some drugs whose safety profile includes insomnia. In doing so, it discusses the mechanisms through which drug-induced insomnia occurs, the risk factors associated with its occurrence, and ends with some guidance on strategies to prevent and manage druginduced insomnia.
Safety Checklist for Four-Variable Requirements Methods

This paper organizes safety criteria, as given by Leveson, Ja e, Heimdahl, Melhart, and Lutz, as a safety checklist for use on four-variable requirements models for real-time process-control systems. Special attention is given to the Software Productivity Consortium CoRE and Naval Research Laboratory SCR requirements speci cations built on the four-variable model. The criteria are presented in English text and may be applied during the requirements engineering phase of software development to reduce safety-related software errors.
Monitoring a freeway network in real-time using single-loop detectors: System design and implementat

With the widespread adoption of automated traffic sensors, the increase of computer processing power, and the evolution and growth of the global Internet, our ability to monitor traffic and convey traffic information in real-time has been dramatically advanced. To the authors' knowledge, most of the current traffic information systems mainly provide general traffic flow information. Vehicle classification data, such as truck volumes that should be key inputs for good transportation planning, freight mobility analysis, roadway geometric and structural design and traffic control and operation, are often excluded or only roughly estimated. To address this problem, this paper describes the design and implementation of a traffic monitoring and information system recently developed at the University of Washington that visually conveys speed and vehicle classification information, obtained by processing real-time single-loop measurements, to the general public through the client/server computer architecture. The development of this system makes real-time monitoring of truck volume data on a freeway network possible.
Sharing and Reuse in Knowledge Discovery

This chapter explains why the reuse and shareability of all the types of components that are used in knowledge discovery processes can be useful to improve efficiency and productivity. It illustrates the variety of descriptions that are needed for processing elements? -? this would be extended to functions and types. This metadata is organized as libraries of components. The chapter also shows that these descriptions can be layered according to different types of vocabularies, which focus on different aspects of the description of components. Data analysis ontologies are domain-independent vocabularies that support the broad description of the data analysis tasks undertaken in the knowledge discovery process. Finally, domain ontologies are one of the most important types of ontologies to be considered in this effort to support shareability and reusability of processing elements, functions, and types.
Who let the dog out? Implementing a successful therapy dog program in an academic law library

The motivation for introducing a therapy dog to the Yale Law Library was twofold. Inarguably, attending law school can sometimes be stressful. Studies indicate that, particularly in the first year of law school, when newcomers are adjusting to new teaching methods, materials, external and internal expectations, and even geographic locations, students can experience elevated stress levels. ' The evidence that visits from therapy dogs have resulted in increased happiness, calmness, and overall …
Perception based image editing

A lo largo de los ultimos anos, las tecnicas de edicion y post-proceso de imagen han madurado hasta el punto en que es muy dificil, si no imposible, detectar si una imagen has sido mejorada o modificada digitalmente. A pesar de su avance, actualmente este tipo de manipulaciones todavia requieren una gran cantidad de tiempo, destreza y amplios conocimientos tecnicos y artisticos. En esta tesis, presentamos nuestro trabajo en edicion avanzada de imagenes. Trabajo que extiende el abanico de herramientas actuales mediante el estudio de las limitaciones del sistema visual humano, extrayendo dimensiones de informacion (como profundidad o textura) que de otra manera, serian inabordables como problema inverso. Nuestro trabajo se fundamenta en dos pilares: - La edicion multimensional. Partiendo de una imagen bidimensional, mediante diversos algoritmos extraemos niveles de informacion extra que nos permiten realizar ediciones en un espacio multidimensional para generar resultados bidimensionales. Asi por ejemplo, para reiluminar un imagen extraemos la profundidad y la textura, calculamos las interacciones en 3D y generamos una imagen bidimensional como resultado. - El estudio de los limites de la percepcion y la validacion perceptual de resultados. Nuestros algoritmos seran disenados teniendo en cuenta los conocimientos actuales acerca del funcionamiento y limitaciones de la percepcion humana, llegando a aportar nuestros propios estudios al campo en lo referente a la percepcion de inconsistencias luminicas. Por otro lado, al trabajar en espacio perceptual, nuestros resultados seran validados mediante pruebas psicofisicas objetivables, comparandonos con metodos que disponen de informacion perfecta cuando ello sea posible. A lo largo de la tesis presentamos una propuesta de esquema para el procesado multimensional de imagenes, para el que se han disenado cuatro nuevos algoritmos destinados a la obtencion de informacion a partir de una sola imagen, asi como el desarrollo de cinco tecnicas de edicion basadas en dicho esquema.
The management of projects

Introduction Developments prior to the 1940s The Second World War The 1950s: the development of Systems Management The 1960s: Apollo and the decade of management systems The 1970s: the expansion of project management The 1980s: expansion of the strategic perspective of managing projects The Management of Projects: the new model And now? Notes Selected bibliography Index
DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services

The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources offering particular services and having particular properties. As part of the DARPA Agent Markup Language program, we have begun to develop an ontology of services, called DAML- S, that will make these functionalities possible. In this paper we describe the overall structure of the ontology, the service profile for advertising services, and the process model for the detailed description of the operation of services. We also compare DAML-S with several industry efforts to define standards for characterizing services on the Web.
Changes in the regulation of oenological practices to meet consumer demands in our global society

En 2000, l'autorite alimentaire australienne et neo-zelandaise (ANZFA) a acheve la mise a jour des reglementations alimentaires pour l'Australie et la Nouvelle Zelande (Australian and New Zealand Food Regulations). Elle comprenait la mise en place d'une norme alimentaire mixte Australie/Nouvelle-Zelande pour les boissons alcoolisees et pour l'etiquetage d'aliments contenant de l'alcool. Le code australien des normes alimentaires et les reglementations alimentaires neo-zelandaises actuels ont ete elabores il y a de nombreuses annees, a une epoque ou les choix et les gouts des consommateurs etaient beaucoup plus limites qu'aujourd'hui. Le code des normes alimentaires mixte Australie/Nouvelle-Zelande reflete les changements des demandes des consommateurs vers une plus grande variete d'aliments, une information plus importante sur les etiquettes et la necessite de l'industrie a innover lorsqu'elle exploite des produits alimentaires tout en assurant un approvisionnement alimentaire sur. L'Australie et la Nouvelle Zelande ont ete parmi les premiers pays a reconsiderer leurs normes alimentaires et a les mettre a jour en fonction de la science moderne. Lorsque cela etait opportun, les normes alimentaires du code mixte ont ete alignees sur les normes internationales. Les repetitions dans la legislation et les reglementations ont ete reduites et les prescriptions inutiles supprimees. Les reglementations dans le code des normes alimentaires seront limitees aux problemes de sante, de securite et de tromperie du consommateur. Les vins nationaux et importes ne seront plus soumis aux memes restrictions qualitatives qui etaient en vigueur dans le code precedent. Grâce a cela, l'industrie du vin national pourra innover pour satisfaire les besoins des consommateurs et ameliorer la competitivite. La mise a jour du code de normes alimentaires apparait et s'integre dans le contexte des changements visant a liberaliser le commerce par une approche d'acceptation reciproque des pratiques oenologiques. Cette reaction de politique generale active appliquee dans tous les pays pour repondre aux demandes des consommateurs va permettre aux consommateurs de vins australiens et neo-zelandais de continuer a avoir acces a des produits surs, de grande qualite et le commerce des vins en sera ainsi facilite.
0005/2009 - Mineração da Base de Dados de Defeitos de Software

Mesmo que uma equipe utilize as melhores praticas que a Engenharia de Software oferece para a garantia de qualidade no desenvolvimento de software, e provavel que o cliente descubra defeitos no software. Estes defeitos devem ser corrigidos e novas versoes do software com as respectivas correcoes devem ser liberadas. De posse do conjunto de defeitos reportados, o gerente do projeto de software deve alocar os desenvolvedores para as atividades de correcao e estabelecer o sequenciamento destas atividades. Este trabalho propoe uma tecnica para alocacao e sequenciamento das atividades de correcao de defeitos baseada na mineracao da base de dados de defeitos de software. A proposta sugerida foi analisada utilizando os dados historicos dos defeitos reportados para o projeto Eclipse.
Neural networks in forecasting models: Nile River application

The neural network approach is applied to the prediction of the flow of the River Nile. A multilayer feedforward network is constructed and trained by the backpropagation algorithm. We propose several different methods for single-step ahead forecast and multi-step ahead forecast in an attempt to get the least prediction error. These methods investigate different ways to preprocess the inputs and the outputs. We consider ten-days ahead forecast and one-month ahead forecast. In both cases good results were observed.
MRI from Picture to Proton

MR is a powerful modality. At its most advanced, it can be used not just to image anatomy and pathology, but to investigate organ function, to probe in vivo chemistry, and even to visualise the brain thinking. However, clinicians, technologists and scientists struggle with the study of the subject. The result is sometimes an obscurity of understanding, or a dilution of scientific truth, resulting in misconceptions. This is why MRI from Picture to Proton has achieved its reputation for practical clarity. MR is introduced as a tool, with coverage starting from the images, equipment and scanning protocols and traced back towards the underlying physics theory. With new content on quantitative MRI, MR safety, multi-band excitation, Dixon imaging, MR elastography and advanced pulse sequences, and with additional supportive materials available on the book's website, this new edition is completely revised and updated to reflect the best use of modern MR technology.