Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of Transitory Hyperprolactinemia on Clinical Outcome of In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer

Impact of Transitory Hyperprolactinemia on Clinical Outcome of In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer This study aimed to evaluate the impact of serum prolactin concentration at the day of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) administration on the clinical outcome of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET). A total of 184 patients receiving the IVF-ET/ICSI-ET from October 2005 to March 2008 were retrospectively analyzed. Subjects were divided into four groups according to the serum prolactin concentration [<30 ng/mL (A), 30-60 ng/mL (B), 60-90 ng/mL (C), ≥90 ng/mL (D)] on the day of HCG administration during controlled ovarian stimulation (COS). In the Groups A, B, C and D, the implantation rate was 11.76%, 19.71%, 12.72% and 2.22%, respectively, and the pregnancy rate (PR) was 25.00%, 42.70%, 27.30% and 5.88%, respectively. The implantation rate and PR in the Group D were markedly lower than those in the remaining groups (P=0.011 and 0.009). During the COS, the serum prolactin concentration was dramatically elevated when compared with the baseline level leading to transient hyperprolactinemia. In addition, the implantation rate and pregnancy rate were significantly markedly decreased when the serum prolactin concentration was remarkably increased (≥90 ng/mL). To improve the clinical pregnancy rate of IVF-ET, close monitoring and appropriate intervention are needed for patients with an abnormal prolactin level during the COS. Uticaj Prolazne Hiperprolaktinemije Na Klinički Ishod Veštačke Oplodnje i Transfer Embriona Ova studija sprovedena je kako bi se procenio uticaj koncentracije prolaktina u serumu na dan administracije humanog horionskog gonadotropina (HCG) na klinički ishod in vitro oplodnje i transfera embriona (IVF-ET). Retrospektivna analiza je obuhvatila ukupno 184 pacijenta podvrgnuta IVF-ET/ICSI-ET između oktobra 2005. i januara 2008. Ispitanici su podeljeni u četiri grupe na osnovu koncentracije prolaktina u serumu [<30 ng/mL (A), 30-60 ng/mL (B), 60-90 ng/mL (C), ≥90 ng/mL (D)] na dan administracije HCG tokom kontrolisane stimulacije jajnika (COS). U grupama A, B, C i D stopa implantacije bila je 11,76%, 19,71%, 12,72% i 2,22%, dok je stopa ostvarenih trudnoća (PR) bila 25,00%, 42,70%, 27,30% i 5,88%. Stopa implantacije i PR u grupi D bile su upadljivo niže nego u ostalim grupama (P=0,011 i 0,009). Tokom COS, koncentracija prolaktina u serumu bila je dramatično povišena u poređenju sa početnim nivoom, što je dovelo do prolazne hiperprolaktinemije. Pored toga, stopa implantacije i stopa ostvarenih trudnoća bile su značajno i upadljivo niže kada je koncentracija prolaktina u serumu bila izrazito povišena. Pažljivo praćenje i odgovarajuće intervencije potrebni su kako bi se poboljšala klinička stopa ostvarenih trudnoća u IVF-TE kod pacijenata sa abnormalnim nivoom prolaktina tokom kontrolisane stimulacije jajnika.
System Level Economic Analysis of Swine Diet Modifications

Experimental data from low nitrogen and phosphorus diets (Carter et al, 1999, 2000, 2003) are being used to validate and/or modify the NRC swine growth model. A profit maximizing daily growth model that considers feed costs, excretion, waste management costs, and length of feeding period is being developed.
Teaching Computers to Understand Human Language : How Natural Language Processing is Reshaping the World of Finance

From the beginning of recorded history until 2003, man created a few dozen exabytes of information. Today, this amount of information is created within days — 90% of the world’s data was created in the last two years alone. [1] This surge in data generation is largely driven by the advent of web-based social networking and content-sharing services which allow users to create and share their own content, ideas, and opinions. Every minute 100,000 new tweets are shared, 571 new websites are created, and 205 million e-mails are sent.
Language is Not About Language: Towards Formalizing the Role of Extra-Linguistic Factors in Human and Machine Language Acquisition and Communication

Despite the large research efforts in understanding early language acquisition (LA), it is still unclear how young children learn to transform their noisy and ambiguous auditory experience into a symbolic compositional representational system known as language. This paper argues that a major obstacle towards a more comprehensive picture of LA is the lack of a unified conceptual framework that would capture the full extent of factors critical to language learning in real world contexts, and that we should pursue such a framework in order to be able to place individual behavioral studies and computational models into a mutually compatible context. As an example of the issue, the widely used standard model of the speech chain—a description of the information flow from talker’s idea to listener’s interpretation of the meaning of the spoken message—is shown to be insufficient for characterizing learning and communication in natural contexts. Instead, a realistic model should account for the inherent multimodality and contextual dependency of communication and learning by formally acknowledging the role of a shared communicative context, interlocutors’ subjective representations of the shared situation, and how these factors drive message generation and speech perception in order to acquire information on the external world. By understanding how language is connected to the more generic sensorimotor and predictive processing principles of human cognition, we can also start to understand the core forces driving language learning in natural environments and through varying individual developmental trajectories.
Modified Formulation, ε-Regularization and the Efficient Solution of Hydraulic Fracture Problems

Analytical models and numerical simulation are important means to increase understanding and to enhance efficiency of hydraulic fracturing. The reasons for developing and using them are clearly explained, for instance, by Mack and Warpinski [1]. Thus, there is no need to dwell on them. Rather we focus on improving analytical and numeric methods used to the date. Our objective is to suggest new approaches for developing accurate, robust and stable simulators on the basis of recent analytical and computational findings [2-6].
Hypoglycaemic effect of the methanol extract of Irvingia gabonensis seeds on streptozotocin diabetic rats

The hypoglycaemic effect of the methanol extract of Irvingia gabonensis seeds (Irvingiaceae) was examined in streptozotocin-diabetic rats. A single oral administration of the methanol extract at doses of 150 and 250mg/kg significantly (P < 0.001) lowered the plasma glucose levels in diabetic rats two hours after treatment.
Unrestricted Wind Farm Layout Design With Optimal Control Considerations

Wind energy is a rapidly expanding source of renewable energy, but is highly intermittent. The performance of a wind farm, composed of a collection of wind turbines, depends not only on the placement of wind turbines in a farm, but also control actions taken by individual turbines. The wind turbine placement (layout) design problem involves adjusting turbine locations within a given area to improve a performance objective (such as maximizing annualized energy production). This layout problem has been addressed previously considering the effect of constraints such land configuration, installed capacity, and wake model choice on the performance of wind farms. All the studies, however, ignore the effects of the control system, which can have significant impact on performance. A well designed wind farm—without an optimal controller—will not achieve the full system level optimal performance, and vice-versa. In this article, we propose a novel layout co-design approach that includes optimal control considerations to exploit this synergy between farm layout and control. Layout case studies involving 8 and 12 turbines are presented. An annual energy production improvement of up to 17% is observed when accounting for coupling between control and layout design, when compared to layout-only optimization. ∗Address all correspondence to this author
Bulk and surface electronic structure of 1T-TiS2 and 1T-TiSe2

Ab initio band-structure calculations were performed for bulk, single slab, and thin films of TiX2 (X=S, Se) using the localized spherical wave method. According to these calculations, bulk TiS2 and TiSe2 are semimetallic. The calculations show that TiS2 thin films are semiconductors, but thin films of TiSe2 are semimetallic. The indirect gap for single slab TiS2 is about 1.0 eV, and the gap becomes smaller with increasing number of layers. When the number of layers increases to 11, the TiS2 thin films are semimetallic. All but the surface layers are found to be electrically neutral. The density of states as a function of the energy for the surface layer is different from that of the bulk. The Madelung energy of the Ti atoms on the surface is about 0.35 eV lower than that for the Ti atoms in the bulk. The calculations are compared with photoemission spectra, reported in the literature.
The Distortion of “Objective” Scales 1 Running Head: THE DISTORTION OF “OBJECTIVE” SCALES The Distortion of “Objective” Scales: A Theory of Judgmental Context Effects

The proper interpretation of contextual effects on subjective scales (e.g., attractiveness, satisfaction, heaviness, etc.) has been an enduring source of controversy, with debates focusing on whether contextual effects reflect changes in the use of the response scale or changes in the mental representation of the focal stimulus. This controversy has generally not extended to judgments on objective scales (e.g. pounds, calories, meters, etc.) where the meaning of the scale is externally anchored, and responses are assumed to reflect how respondents perceive the stimulus, rather than how they use the scale. However, in the current paper, we argue that even on so called “objective” scales, many contextual effects (such as anchoring) are often best interpreted as scaling effects.
(Interpreting Deutsch’s algorithm on the Mach-Zehnder interferometer)

A Computação Quântica é uma área de pesquisa relativamente recente, que vem sendo desenvolvida nos últimos 20 anos, e que faz uso dos fundamentos da Ciência da Computação e da Fı́sica Quântica. Dois são os fenômenos quânticos em que se baseia a Computação Quântica: superposição e interferência. Neste trabalho, destacaremos o papel da interferência na solução do problema proposto por Deutsch, o qual consiste em saber se uma dada função é constante ou balanceada, calculando a função apenas uma vez. Figurativamente, isto equivale a saber se uma moeda é honesta ou viciada (duas faces iguais) olhandoa uma única vez. A solução de Deutsch (algoritmo) é, com freqüência, explicada de forma abstrata e com auxı́lio de circuitos. Contudo, embora eficiente para expressar a “lógica” e facilitar o desenvolvimento de algoritmos quânticos, esta abordagem não deixa transparecer e facilmente apreender os fenômenos fı́sicos subjacentes. Neste trabalho mostramos didaticamente como o interferômetro de Mach-Zehnder implementa o algoritmo de Deutsch, destacando desta forma a importância da interferência na realização de algoritmos quânticos. Palavras-chave: algoritmo de Deutsch, interferômetro de Mach-Zehnder, computação quântica.
Do cave mollies ( Poecilia mexicana ) obtain information about the resource value of food patches from shoal mates ? *

Zusammenfassung: Schwarmfische könnten Strategien entwickeln, um unterschiedlichen Nahrungsbzw. Beutedichten effizient auszubeuten. Zunächst sollten alle Fische die beutereiche Zone bejagen, bis diese auf das Niveau der beuteärmeren Zone dezimiert ist, dann sollte sich der Schwarm gleichmäßig auf beide Zonen verteilen. Höhlenbewohnenden Poecilia mexicana wurden zwei Zonen mit unterschiedlicher Beutedichte (Tubifex tubifex) angeboten und die Fischsowie Beutetieranzahl im zeitlichen Verlauf protokolliert. Die Anzahl von T. tubifex nahm in der beutereichen Zone zunächst steil ab, jedoch wurden ebenfalls in der beutearmen Zone einige „Würmer“ von einigen wenigen Höhlenmollys gefressen. Eine gleichmäßige Verteilung der Höhlenmollys auf beide Zonen erfolgte mit einer deutlichen Verzögerung zur Gleichverteilung der Beutetiere, was auf einen fehlenden oder zumindest sehr geringen Informationsfluss innerhalb des Fischschwarms hinweist.
High Power Soft—switching IGBT DC—DC Converter

A soft-switching topology for high power buck converter is proposed. Zero-current turn-on and zero-voltage turn-off is achieved without auxiliary switches. All active switches in the converter transmit power to the load equally. Converter control is simple despite four active switches. Converter operation is described and DC analysis is carried out. All operation modes are identified. The condition for soft-switching is derived. A full-scale 38 kW laboratory prototype with 1700 V IGBT modules is built for railway application. Switching frequency is fixed at 20 kHz. Experimental results are shown. The results confirm the analysis. A high efficiency of 97 % is achieved.
Multi-frame Concatenation for Detection of Rare Sound Events Based on Deep Neural Network

This paper proposes a Sound Event Detection (SED) system based on Deep Neural Network (DNN). Three DNN-based classifiers are trained for detecting three target sound events including baby cry, glass break and gun shot from the audio streams provided. This paper investigates the influence of different frame concatenation when detecting sound events. Our results illustrate that the number of frames concatenated affects the accuracy of SED. The SED system proposed is tested by Development Datasets provided by Detection of Rare Sound Events in DCASE Challenge 2017. The average accuracy of the detection is that F-score and Error Rate (ER) on event-based metrics are 84.98% and 0.28, respectively.
Internal fixation of fracture both bone forearm: Comparison of dynamic compression plate and IM nail

Open reduction and internal fixation can be considered as the treatment of choice if there were no contraindications for this because it is important to maintain length, opposition, axial alignment and rotational alignment if a good range of movement of forearm is to be restored. This is achieved in the present study. Anatomical reduction and internal fixation of forearm fractures can facilitate restoration of function. Any axial or rotatory malalignment or any narrowing of interosseous space produces disproportionate loss of pronation and supination. In addition proximal and distal radioulnar joints do not function properly if there is significant shortening of either bone. 50 cases of fracture both bones forearm were attended in the casualty and OPD and admitted in the hospital were treated by open reduction and internal fixation with Dynamic Compression Plate and Intramedullary nailing by Square nail. The study was conducted between June 2016 to May2017 at Pravara Rural Hospital, Loni. 25 cases were treated by open reduction and internal fixation with dynamic compression plate, and 25 cases were treated with closed or open reduction and internal fixation with IM nails. Most common age group recorded in our study 20-30 (46%), and 32 (64%) cases are Male and 18 (36%) cases are Female. Anderson Scoring System 25 cases of DCP 76% were excellent, 24% were satisfactory and 25 cases of Intramedullary nailing with square nails 56% were excellent, 16% were satisfactory, 20% were unsatisfactory, 8% had failure results. Open reduction and plating fixation of fracture both bone forearm are better than intramedullary nailing. To conclude DCP offers excellent results in displaced diaphyseal fracture of forearm bone in adults and to be considered as first line of management.
PRECISION REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE: THE DAWN OF PRE-IVF GENETIC SCREENING

Thrombophilia and impaired placental vasculature are a major cause of adverse pregnancy outcome. In 2007, a new hereditary factor for obstetric complications and recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) was identified as a sequence variation in the core promoter of the annexin A5 gene, ANXA5, called the M2 haplotype. M2 carriership has been demonstrated in couples with recurrent miscarriage and its origin is embryonic rather than specifically maternal, confirmed by subsequent papers. The M2 haplotype is the first report of a hereditary factor related to pregnancy pathology caused by embryonic-induced anticoagulation. It has been demonstrated that couples with RPL had equal and significantly increased M2 carriership and that maternal and paternal carriership confers equal risk. Given its importance for patients with RPL, and potentially implantation failure, this study assessed the incidence of carrier status for the M2 ANXA5 haplotype in both the male and female of couples attending five CARE IVF centres. In 314 patients (157 couples), 44% of couples (one or both partners), 24% of females, 26% of males and 37% of couples with unexplained infertility were M2 carriers. This high incidence has provoked further urgent studies on specific patient populations and on the value of post embryo-transfer therapy.
I. Rationale for HIV-1 drug resistance testing II. Evolution of HIV-1 drug resistance III. Identifying and characterizing drug resistance mutations IV. Protease inhibitor (PI) resistance V Nucleoside/nucleotide RT inhibitor (NRTI) resistance VI Nonnucleoside RT inhibitor (NNRTI) resistance mutations

I. Rationale for HIV-1 drug resistance testing II. Evolution of HIV-1 drug resistance III. Identifying and characterizing drug resistance mutations IV. Protease inhibitor (PI) resistance V Nucleoside/nucleotide RT inhibitor (NRTI) resistance VI Nonnucleoside RT inhibitor (NNRTI) resistance mutations VII. HIV-1 fusion inhibitors VIII. Intersubtype variability IX. Interpretation of genotypic resistance tests X. Genotype-phenotype discordances XI. Limitations of drug resistance testing
A pilot study on correlations between preoperative intravoxel incoherent motion MR imaging and postoperative histopathological features of rectal cancers

Background: To explore the role of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in predicting the histopathological features of rectal cancers preoperatively. Methods: Forty-six patients with a diagnosis of rectal cancer through endoscopic biopsy were prospectively enrolled and underwent IVIM MR imaging (12 b values: 0–1,200 s/mm2) before surgery. Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), pure diffusion coefficient (D), perfusion-related incoherent microcirculation (D*) and perfusion fraction (f) values of the lesions were obtained and compared among rectal cancers with different histopathological features, including maximum diameter, pathological type, differentiation degree, TNM stage, lymphovascular and neural invasion status. Results: The f and D* values of rectal cancers with lymphovascular invasion (LVI) were significantly higher than those without LVI (P=0.034, 0.037, respectively). And the LVI rate differed significantly among rectal cancers with different pN stages (P=0.003). Conclusions: We demonstrated that the f value derived from IVIM MR imaging might be useful to predict LVI status of rectal cancers preoperatively, which required further confirmation in a larger cohort.
Attached Algae: The Cryptic Base of Inverted Trophic Pyramids in Freshwaters

It seems improbable that a thin veneer of attached algae coating submerged surfaces in lakes and rivers could be the foundation of many freshwater food webs, but increasing evidence from chemical tracers supports this view. Attached algae grow on any submerged surface that receives enough light for photosynthesis, but animals often graze attached algae down to thin, barely perceptible biofilms. Algae in general are more nutritious and digestible than terrestrial plants or detritus, and attached algae are particularly harvestable, being concentrated on surfaces. Diatoms, a major component of attached algal assemblages, are especially nutritious and tolerant of heavy grazing. Algivores can track attached algal productivity over a range of spatial scales and consume a high proportion of new attached algal growth in high-light, low-nutrient ecosystems. The subsequent efficient conversion of the algae into consumer production in freshwater food webs can lead to low-producer, high-consumer biomass, patterns tha.
Analysis of Eye Movements with Eyetrace

In the time of affordable and comfortable video-based eye tracking, the need for analysis software becomes more and more important. We introduce Eyetrace, a new software developed for the analysis of eye-tracking data during static image viewing. The aim of the software is to provide a platform for eye-tracking data analysis which works with different eye trackers, offering thus the possibility to compare results beyond the specific characteristics of the hardware devices. Furthermore, by integrating various state-of-the-art and new developed algorithms for analysis and visualization of eye-tracking data, the influence of different analysis steps and parameter choices on typical eye-tracking measures is totally transparent to the user. Eyetrace integrates several algorithms to identify fixations and saccades, and to cluster them. Well-established algorithms can be used side-by-side with bleeding-edge approaches with a continuous visualization. Eyetrace can be downloaded at http://www.ti. uni-tuebingen.de/Eyetrace.1751. 0.html and we encourage its use for exploratory data analysis and education.
Very high thermoelectric figure of merit found in hybrid transition-metal-dichalcogenides

The search for thermoelectrics with higher figures of merit (ZT) will never stop due to the demand of heat harvesting. Single layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD), namely, MX2 (where M is a transition metal and X is a chalcogen), that have electronic band gaps are among the new materials that have been the focus of such research. Here, we investigate the thermoelectric transport properties of hybrid armchair-edged TMD nanoribbons, by using the nonequilibrium Green's function technique combined with the first principles and molecular dynamics methods. We find a ZT as high as 7.4 in hybrid MoS2/MoSe2 nanoribbons at 800 K, creating a new record for ZT. Moreover, the hybrid interfaces by substituting X atoms are more efficient than those by substituting M atoms to tune the ZT. The origin of such a high ZT of hybrid nanoribbons is the high density of the grain boundaries: the hybrid interfaces decrease thermal conductance drastically without a large penalty to electronic conductance.
The functionality of incomplete neutralization in Dutch: The case of past-tense formation

In many languages, underlyingly voiced obstruents are realized as voiceless in word-final position (Final Devoicing). Previous research has shown that this neutralization of the underlying [voice]-specification may be phonetically incomplete, with underlyingly voiced obstruents being realized as slightly voiced. Listeners are sensitive to incomplete neutralization, since they can tell apart above chance level the phonetic realizations of words underlyingly ending in voiced and voiceless obstruents. This study discusses to what extent incomplete neutralization is functional. It reports a series of experiments showing that incomplete neutralization can be induced in Dutch just by the way words are spelled, and that no minimal word pairs are required for incomplete neutralization to emerge. In addition, these experiments also show that Dutch listeners take advantage of incomplete neutralization, even when there are no task-specific reasons for them to do so. Incomplete neutralization appears to be a subphonemic cue to past-tense formation, and has a more substantial role in language processing than has been assumed thus far. Finally, our data show that Dutch listeners and speakers dynamically adapt their production and interpretation of the acoustic signal to the voicing properties of the orthographic and acoustic forms encountered previously in the experiment.