Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ultrasound and Biochemical First Trimester Markers as Predictive Factors for Intrauterine Growth Restriction

Introduction: Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR) occurs in about 10% of pregnancies and it is considered the most common and complex problem in modern obstetrics. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between first trimester biochemical (PAPP-A and free b-hCG) and ultrasound (Crown-rump length; CRL and Nuchal translucency; NT) screening tests and the risk of IUGR. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of 16788 singleton pregnancies attending between January 2009 and December 2016. Sample was divided in percentiles by weight at birth and women were assigned to two groups: Normal pregnancy group (birth weight at or above the 10th percentile for gestational age) and SGA group. The SGA group was classified into three subgroups per birth weight below the 10th, 5th and 3rd percentile for gestational age. Results: In SGA pregnancies and severe IUGR, the median PAPP-A MoM, free β-hCG MoM and CRL measurements were significantly lower than that in the normal group, but the median NT was not statistically significantly different from normal. A multivariate model analysis was performed with the method of selecting successive steps, obtaining the variables able to predict SGA and severe IUGR. Discussion: After analyzing our results, we ascertained that some variables were protective, and others were risk factors for SGA, however a multivariate model established to predict SGA indicates that these were not good predictors of SGA (AUC = 0.65). When analyzing the data by comparing the normal group to severe IUGR, we conclude that the model including MoM PAPP-A, MoM β-hCG, CRL, maternal weight, smoker status, hypertension conditions and parity, was a good model for predicting the risk of IUGR severe (AUC 0.703).
Submarine reworking of exhumed subcontinental mantle rocks: field evidence from the Lherz peridotites, French Pyrenees

In the Pyrenees, the lherzolites nowhere occur as continuous units. Rather, they always outcrop as restricted bodies, never more than 3 km wide, scattered across Mesozoic sedimentary units along the North Pyrenean Fault. We report the results of a detailed analysis of the geological setting of the Lherz massif (central Pyrenees), the type‐locality of lherzolites and one of the most studied occurrences of mantle rocks worldwide. The Lherz body is only 1.5 km long and belongs to a series of ultramafic bodies of restricted size (a few metres to some hundreds of metres), occurring within sedimentary formations composed mostly of carbonate breccias originating from the reworking of Mesozoic platform limestones and dolomites. The clastic formations also include numerous layers of polymictic breccias reworking lherzolitic clasts. These layers are found far from any lherzolitic body, implying that lherzolitic clasts cannot derive from the in situ fragmentation of an ultramafic body alone, but might also have been transported far away from their sources by sedimentary processes. A detailed analysis of the contacts between the Lherz ultramafic body and the surrounding limestones confirms that there is no fault contact and that sediments composed of ultramafic material have been emplaced into fissures within the brecciated carapace of the peridotites. These observations bear important constraints for the mode of emplacement of the lherzolite bodies. We infer that mantle exhumation may have occurred during Albian strike‐slip deformation linked to the rotation of Iberia along the proto‐North Pyrenean Fault.
Internet of Things (IoT): The Most Up-To-Date Challenges, Architectures, Emerging Trends and Potential Opportunities

Internet of Things (IoT) is nowadays the most profound buzzword in Information Technology science. IoT is the evolution of Information Technology which aims to build a mutual infrastructure that integrates, connects and telecommunicates every „Things‟ (Objects) with each other on the face of the earth. This interconnected infrastructure provides humans with fully control of things. Projections and potential estimates about incomings of IoT are spectacular for future directions. IoT encompasses such a wide range of spectrum that its influences are anyone‟s guess. Not only the profits of IoT but also the forfeits and fears of IoT are unpredictable for yet. However, with the increase in research, academic studies and technological developments the atmosphere will be clear for IoT. This research paper proposes a novel comprehensive reference source for those who are interested in IoT, ubiquitous sensing, pervasive computing and smart objects. The paper explains IoT emergence and IoT history in detail, current IoT usage areas, the most up-to-date potential opportunities and future IoT directions, overall IoT architecture and well-liked architectures, security and privacy concerns about IoT. The latest ongoing IoT projects are discussed and the latest burning issues are presented. Critical and turning points of IoT are given in tabular. As compared to similar survey papers in the area, to the best of our knowledge contributions of this paper are unique. General Terms Internet of Things, Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing, Smart Environments, Security and Privacy
Adaptive Fuzzy Consensus Control for Unknown State-Delay Nonlinear Multiagent System

This paper focuses on the leader-following consensus control problem of nonlinear multiagent systems. The fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the system uncertainties from the unknown nonlinear dynamics, and a novel adaptive fuzzy controller is presented by combining the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals. With the help of Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals the state-delay of systems is compensated. A major advantage of the proposed adaptive consensus method is that it can greatly reduce the computation burden. Finally, one simulation example is given to verify the effectiveness of the designed algorithm.
Polynomial Optimization via Penalized Conic Relaxation

This paper revisits conic programming relaxations for the class of quadratically-constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs). We present penalty terms, whose incorporation into the objective of convex relaxations enables the retrieval of feasible and near-optimal solutions for non-convex QCQPs. We introduce generalized linear independence constraint qualification (GLICQ) and prove that any GLICQ regular initial point that is sufficiently close to the original QCQP feasible set can be used to construct an appropriate penalty term. As a consequence, a sequential conic optimization method is developed that preserves feasibility and aims to improve the solution at every round. Numerical experiments on benchmark examples from the library of quadratic programming (QPLIB) instances demonstrate the ability of the proposed framework in finding feasible and nearglobally optimal points.
Chapter II E-Government Interoperability : Frameworks for Aligned Development

The mobilization of electronic information across government organizations has the potential of modernizing and transforming information exchanges. The current information exchanges are, however, often inefficient and error-prone, causing interoperability problems for electronic government. Based on a literature review, this chapter presents some of the many frameworks for aligned development to improve e-government interoperability.
Analysis and management of liver retransplantation following adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation

The aim of this study was to analyze clinical characteristics in liver transplantation following adult-toadult living donor liver transplantation. Six patients who had undergone ALDLT at other hospitals were performed retransplantations. The causes of graft failure included biliary complication (n = 2) associated with hepatic artery thrombosis, vascular complication (n = 2), chronic rejection (n = 1) and hepatitis recurrence (n = 1). Liver re-transplantation was performed on 6 patients through modified piggyback liver transplantation. Vascular anastomosis was performed between the hepatic arteries of donor livers and receptor abdominal aorta in 1 case, and the rest were subjected to end-to-end homonymic vascular anastomosis. No operative death occurred. Due to primary nonfunction, 1 died after the operation. During the follow-up period, 1 patient had arsastornotic stricture of hepatic artery after the operation and was cured by percutaneous venoplasty. The survival of the rest patients was 12, 9, 6, 4 and 3 months respectively. It is very important that the indications and time of retransplantation are carefully selected. Peritoneal adhesion and exploration of importantant anatomical structure is the operative difficulty for liver retransplantation following adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation.
Money velocity and asset prices in the euro area

Monetary growth in the euro area has exceeded its target since several years. At the same time, the money demand function seems to be increasingly unstable if more recent data are used. If the link between money balances and the macroeconomy is fragile, the rationale of monetary aggregates in the ECB strategy has to be doubted. In fact, a rise in the income elasticity after 2001 can be observed, and may reflect the exclusion of real and financial wealth in conventional specifications of money demand. This presumption is explored by means of a cointegration analysis. To separate income from wealth effects, the specification in terms of money velocity is preferred. Evidence for the presence of wealth in the long run relationship is provided. In particular, both stock and house prices have exerted a negative impact on velocity after 2001 and lead to almost identical equilibrium errors. The extended error correction model is stable over the entire sample period and survive a battery of specification tests.
Family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems: the current evidence base

This review updates previous similar papers published in JFT in 2000, 2009 and 2014. It presents evidence from meta-analyses, systematic literature reviews, narrative literature reviews and controlled trials for the effectiveness of systemic interventions for families of children and adolescents with common mental health problems and other difficulties. In this context, systemic interventions include both family therapy and other family-based approaches such as parent training or parent implemented behavioural programmes. The evidence supports the effectiveness of systemic interventions either alone or as part of multimodal programmes for sleep, feeding and attachment problems in infancy; recovery from child abuse and neglect; conduct problems, emotional problems, eating disorders, somatic problems, and first episode psychosis.
Underground flow, numerical methods and high performance computing

We develop a reliable numerical method to approximate a flow in a porous media, modeled by an elliptic equation. The simulation is made difficult because of the strong heterogeneities of the medium, the size together with complex geometry of the domain. A regular hexahedral mesh does not allow to describe accurately the geological layers of the domain. Consequently, this leads us to work with a mesh made of deformed cubes. There exists several methods of type finite volumes or finite elements which solve this issue. For our method, we wish to have only one degree of freedom per element for the pressure and one degree of freedom per face for the Darcy velocity, to stay as close to the habits of industrial software. Since standard mixed finite element methods does not converge, our method is based on composite mixed finite element. In two dimensions, a polygonal mesh is split into triangles by adding a node to the vertices's barycenter, and explicit formulation of the basis functions was obtained. In dimension 3, the method extend naturally to the case of pyramidal mesh. In the case of a hexahedron or a deformed cube, the element is divided into 24 tetrahedra by adding a node to the vertices's barycenter and splitting the faces into 4 triangles. The basis functions are then built by solving a discrete problem. The proposed methods have been theoretically analyzed and completed by a posteriori estimators. They have been tested on academical and realistic examples by using parallel computation.
Target strengths of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) at 38 and 120 kHz

Encaged aggregations of live krill in good to pristine condition have been ensonified at 38 and 120 kHz. Concurrent underwater television observations of behavior resemble those made by underwater divers in naturally occurring swarms, with comparably high densities of the order of 104 animals/m3 . Mean, single‐animal target strengths have been inferred from measurements of echo energy. For aggregations with mean lengths in the range [30,39] mm, the mean single‐krill target strengths are in the range [−88,−83] dB at 38 kHz and [−81,−74] dB at 120 kHz. Collateral measurements on some of the same encaged specimens determined a density contrast of 1.0357±0.0067 and sound‐speed contrast of 1.0279±0.0024, relative to seawater. These numbers have been used with the fluid‐sphere model as stated by Greenlaw [Limnol. Oceanogr. 24, 226–242 (1979)] . Computed backscattering cross sections have been averaged over the length distributions of each measured aggregation, resulting in target strength predictions in the ran.
Elicited Awe Decreases Aggression

Awe is a feeling of wonder and amazement in response to experiencing something so vast that it transcends one's current frames of reference. Across three experiments (N = 557), we tested the inhibition effect of awe on aggression. We used a narrative recall task paradigm (Studies 1 and 2) and a video (Study 3) to induce the emotion of awe. After inducing awe, we first examined participants’ emotion and their sense of ‘small self’, and then the manifestation of aggressiveness in a Shooting Game (Study 1), Tangram Help/Hurt Task (Studies 2 and 3) and Aggression-IAT (Study 3), respectively. Results indicated that awe reduced aggression and increased prosociality and a sense of small self relative to neutral affect and positive emotions of happiness and amusement. Mediation analyses evidenced mixed support for a sense of small self mediating the effect of awe on aggression and prosociality.
Structure Formation in the Quasi-Steady State Cosmology: A Toy Model

The problem of formation of large-scale structure is discussed within the framework of the quasi-steady state cosmology (QSSC). The primary process of creation of matter and the resulting dynamics of ejection of matter from regions of strong gravitational fields play a key role. To understand their workings, a toy model is used, in which from a set of randomly distributed creation centers a new generation of centers is created as part of an iterative algorithm. It is shown that the system develops clusters and voids along with filamentary structure, within a few iterations. The two-point correlation function and density distribution function for these simulations are shown to reproduce the observed clustering of the large-scale structure in the real universe.
A Canon Hack Development Kit implementation of Time Domain Continuous Imaging

Time Domain Continuous Imaging (TDCI) is a new model for photography that allows exposure timing to be freely manipulated after capture. This is done by creating, and operating on, a continuous waveform representation of how the value of each pixel changes over time. However, at this writing, there are no sensors that directly implement TDCI capture. The FourSee multi-camera prototype enables temporally-skewed exposures to be captured using the four component cameras and then later post-processed to create a TDCI representation, but the postprocessing is awkward and requires upload of image data to a separate computer. In contrast, this paper reports on a method whereby a single, conventional, Canon PowerShot camera can be used as a stand-alone TDCI platform. The camera programming is enhanced by custom code which is loaded into the camera using the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK). Thus, using code that should be portable to most camera models supported by CHDK, an inexpensive Canon PowerShot camera is able to internally capture and manipulate TDCI streams in the new . tik (Temporal Image Kontainer) file format.
Assessment of Allergic Biomarkers; Total Immunoglobulin E Antibodies Levels and Peripheral Blood Eosinophil among Public Transporter Drivers with Traffic–Related Respiratory Diseases in Tehran

Background : Traffic air pollution can be induced or developed the different respiratory diseases. Megacity has potential magnitude in the production of high density and large- volume traffic triggering factors in the outdoor environment. High concentrations of Formaldehyde and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are found in traffic density of ambient air in urban area. It can be stimulated both allergic state and diseases. The PAHs originates from the motor engine are as pro-inflammatory compounds which can enhance Immunoglobulin E (IgE) responses. The purpose of the study was evaluation of allergic markers among public drivers in Tehran, to assess the respiratory diseases. Materials and Methods: A total of 151 subjects were sequentially enrolled among public drivers with traffic related respiratory diseases. The total IgE antibodies in serum were measured according to manufacture recommendation. Results: The mean age recorded 47.66±8.82 standard deviation (SD). The peripheral eosinophil proportion was 3.19±2.16 SD. The mean IgE antibody levels were 205.89±238.67SD. Allergic state was found in 47% of target population. Frequencies of traffic-related air pollution diseases (TRAPD) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) 34%, asthma 25%, rhinitis 21% and bronchitis 21%, respectively. Allergic state distributed high frequency in asthma, rhinitis, COPD and bronchitis diseases, respectively. Conclusion: Allergic biomarkers of IgE antibody and peripheral eosinophilia were widely distributed among TRAPD. They observed more frequency on the allergic base diseases than non-allergic small airway diseases. It may be reflected the actual role of traffic -related air pollution on the sensitization of all categories of TRAPD.
Problems and Pitfalls in ICZM Implementation: lessons from Some Selected Mediterranean and Black Sea Cases

Integrated Coastal Zone Management is widely recognised as a set of principles, approaches and tools for the sustainable development of coastal zones. However, while its importance as a theoretical framework for approaching the complexity of coastal governance is not opinable, the problem of translating ICZM principles into every-day management practice still represents a basic point to deal with. This paper aims at clarifying the most important elements that hinder ICZM adoption and implementation. To this purpose, it critically evaluates the results of the EU FP7 Project PEGASO (People for Ecosystem-based Governance in Assessing Sustainable development of Ocean and coast). The project considered ICZM efforts and initiatives in 10 case studies, 7 in the Mediterranean Sea and 3 in the Black Sea. The study confirms that dealing with the multi-scale nature of coastal governance, the poor coordination of policies and administrative fragmentation, the dictatorship of sectoral approaches, the difficulty to promote integration, both thematic and geographic, the complex relationship between voluntary agreements and statutory frameworks, the difficult relationship between science and decision making, and the problem of the sustainability over time of ICZM initiatives and efforts still represent the main factors that hamper a wider adoption of ICZM in the considered cases.
Aircraft observations of water-soluble dicarboxylic acids in the aerosols over China

Abstract. Vertical profiles of dicarboxylic acids, related organic compounds and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) tracer compounds in particle phase have not yet been simultaneously explored in East Asia, although there is growing evidence that aqueous-phase oxidation of volatile organic compounds may be responsible for the elevated organic aerosols (OA) in the troposphere. Here, we found consistently good correlation of oxalic acid, the most abundant individual organic compounds in aerosols globally, with its precursors as well as biogenic-derived SOA compounds in Chinese tropospheric aerosols by aircraft measurements. Anthropogenically derived dicarboxylic acids (i.e., C5 and C6 diacids) at high altitudes were 4–20 times higher than those from surface measurements and even occasionally dominant over oxalic acid at altitudes higher than 2 km, which is in contrast to the predominance of oxalic acid previously reported globally including the tropospheric and surface aerosols. This indicates an enhancement of tropospheric SOA formation from anthropogenic precursors. Furthermore, oxalic acid-to-sulfate ratio maximized at altitudes of ∼ 2 km, explaining aqueous-phase SOA production that was supported by good correlations with predicted liquid water content, organic carbon and biogenic SOA tracers. These results demonstrate that elevated oxalic acid and related SOA compounds from both the anthropogenic and biogenic sources may substantially contribute to tropospheric OA burden over polluted regions of China, implying aerosol-associated climate effects and intercontinental transport.
Quantitative trait loci for mature embryo culturability traits from Yuanjiang common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.).

Low callus subculture and regeneration ability are the main factors restricting the genetic transformation potential of indica rice varieties. In the present study, an Oryza rufipogon introgression line population in the background of indica cultivar 93–11 was used to evaluate mature embryo culturability after callus induction, two-round of subculture, and differentiation of culture. A total of 25 quantitative trait loci related to tissue culturability were detected that included QTLs for callus browning index after one- and two-round subculture and callus regeneration rate. Among them, QTLs detected at the RM335 locus on chromosome 4 were found to control callus browning index after one- and two-round subculture and accounted for 11 and 15% of the phenotypic variation. QTLs detected at the RM341 locus on chromosome 2 and at the RM8206 on chromosome 9 were found to control regeneration rate with 10% contributions to the observed variation, respectively. The alleles of O. rufipogon were found to reduce callus browning and were possibly involved in the improvement of callus differentiation ability. Six introgression lines with excellent culturability characteristics were identified. It is expected that these lines will be useful materials for genetic transformation and fine mapping of culturability-trait.