Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Rückenschmerz

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Rückenschmerz ist ein häufiges Krankheitsbild in der Gesellschaft und stellt die zweithäufigste Ursache für Berufsunfähigkeit in Deutschland dar. Vor allem akuter Rückenschmerz kann Anzeichen einer behandlungsbedürftigen Situation sein, wichtige Differenzialdiagnosen sollten abgeklärt werden. Häufig chronifizieren Rückenschmerzen im Verlauf. Die beschriebenen Symptome sind meist nicht eindeutig nozizeptiv oder neuropathisch, oft zeigt sich ein Mischbild beider Schmerzkomponenten. Dies spielt eine Rolle bei der Therapie, weshalb wegweisende Symptome erfragt werden sollten. Wichtige Schlüsselwörter, die einen neuropathischen Schmerz vermuten lassen, sind u. a. Brennschmerz und einschießender Schmerz sowie das Auftreten von Parästhesien wie Kribbeln und Ameisenlaufen. Die Schmerztherapie sollte leitliniengerecht erfolgen und aktivierende Maßnahmen beinhalten. Eine regelmäßige Bewertung von Verlauf und Therapie ist erforderlich.
From income inequality to social corrosion: impact on health levels in an international efficiency comparison panel

Background Health equity, although addressed in several publications dealing with health efficiency analysis, usually does not usually remain as a relevant result in empirical studies, due to the difficulty in its operationalization. Some studies provide evidence that it does not influence health outcomes; others demonstrate that its effect is an indirect one, with the hegemony of material living conditions over its social connotation. The aim of this article is to evaluate the role of health equity in determining health outcomes, in an international comparative analysis of the effectiveness and efficiency of health systems. Method Fixed Effects Model Panel and Data Envelopment Analysis, a dynamic and network model, in addition to comparative analysis between methods and health impacts. The effect variables considered in the study were life expectancy at birth and infant mortality, in 2010 and 2015, according to the sociocultural regions of the selected countries. Inequality was assessed both economically and socially. The following dimensions were considered: physical and financial resources, health production (access, coverage and prevention) and intersectoral variables: demographic, socioeconomic, governance and health risks. Results Both methods demonstrated that countries with higher inequality levels (regarding income, education and health dimensions), associated or not with poverty, are the least efficient, not reaching the potential for effective health outcomes. The outcome life expectancy at birth showed inequality and per capita health expenditure in the final model. The variable linfant mortality comprehended education, in association with care seeking due to diarrhea, births attended by skilled health professionals and the reduction in the incidence of HIV. Conclusion The dissociation between the distribution of health outcomes and the overall level of health of the population characterizes a devastating political choice for society, as it increases the levels of segregation, disrespect and violence from within. Countries should prioritize health equity, adding value to its resources, since health inequalities affect society altogether, generating mistrust and reduced social cohesion.
Relieff Matching Feature Selection for Emotion Recognition Based on EEG Signal

ReliefF Matching Feature Selection (RMFS) is proposed in the paper, which can solve the problem of individual specificity and global threshold mismatch of emotion recognition. Firstly, EEG was decomposed into six emotion-related bands by wavelet packet, then EMD was employed for extracting the 10 categories of features of wavelet coefficient and IMF component of the reconstructed signal; Secondly, the optimization formula of the feature group weight was proposed based on feature sets selected by ReliefF, and it can get the weights of different test features, which were the global optimal matching feature group and the corresponding matching channel, so it can eliminate the redundant information and solve the problem of individual specificity. Finally, SVM was employed to identify the test feature group data to obtain emotional recognition results. The experimental results show that the average correct rates of RMFS for two-category of the valence and the arousal are 93.28% and 93.32%, and the four-categories are higher than 83%. The efficiency of the single subject using RMFS is improved by 42.65%, which is better than the traditional ReliefF algorithm.
An Influence of Game Avatar on Real World

The aim of this study is to examine the influence of gamers’ avatar self-identification in massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) play on their real lives. By proposing the concepts of avatar self-identification, this study explores a model that develops the antecedents of avatar self-identification and the role in influencing gamers’ real lives. For empirical analysis, this study gathered data from 228 university students in South Korean by a survey method and analyzes the data with AMOS 24. The results show as follows. First, social interaction and social support that gamers perceive in MMORPGs increase their avatar self-identification. Second, the gamers’ avatar self-identification increases their social capital and self-esteem in real lives. Finally, social interaction that gamers perceive in MMORPGs increases their social capital in real lives through their avatar self-identification. And, social support that gamers perceive in MMORPGs increases their self-esteem in real lives through their avatar self-identification. The research contribution on game research is to pay scholarly attention to the positive effect of MMORPGs in the perspective of avatar self-identification
Rear end crashes

Due to the common occurrence of rear end collisions in South Australia, and the costliness of Compulsory Third Party (CTP) claims associated with them, a study was undertaken into the nature of, and possible countermeasures for, rear end collisions. This study included an analysis of five years of police-reported crash data, an analysis of a sample of rear end crashes investigated as part of the CASR metropolitan in-depth crash study, and a literature review concerned with countermeasures for rear end crashes. The most common factors contributing to these types of crashes are the lack of protection for right turning vehicles and the inadequate allocation of attention by drivers to the driving task. Countermeasures are available for both of these contributing factors. Providing greater protection for right turning vehicles requires road-based countermeasures, while the most promising countermeasure for inadequate allocation of attention is the installation in vehicles of collision avoidance systems. However, the latter countermeasure will only be available after further testing and refinement of current prototype systems. http://casr.adelaide. edu.au/casrpubfile/125/CASR018.pdf
Centralized Support Node for Mobility Management in Cognitive Radio Networks

Cognitive radio is expected to address several operational challenges like dynamic spectrum access, spectral heterogeneity and facilitate end-to-end Quality of Service (QOS). The complex nature of cognitive radio is due to its dependency on various network parameters at different levels and ambiguous standards. It is a challenge to address the issues related to effective management of cognitive radio. Issues related to mobility management such as signaling overhead need to be addressed for effectual operation of cognitive radio networks. Signaling enables devices to exchange control information over control channel and helps facilitate data communication. Modern telecommunication-data networks have seen a tremendous increase in signaling and the trend is expected to continue through to the networks of the future. Recent network outrages due to excessive signaling overhead have emphasized the need to develop effective mechanisms to handle signaling overhead. Cognitive radio networks are expected to have high signaling overhead considering their complex cognition cycle. This thesis we investigate the amount of signaling generated during a period due to mobility of nodes on the cognitive radio network using a centralized support node, additionally solutions are proposed for effective management of control signaling overhead.
Waxy barley starch as raw material for healthy food products

The article justifies the expediency of the breeding of barley cultivars with waxy starch, grain of which can be raw material for functional food production. The study purpose was to create food barley cultivars with waxy starch. To accomplish this, qualitative parameters of barley accessions were determined, and starting material was selected for breeding. The study was conducted at the Plant Production Institute named after V.Ya. Yuriev of NAAS in 2015–2017. Twenty four chaffy and naked barley accessions of different origin were taken as the test material. Grain quality parameters of wild type and waxy accessions were compared. The yield, protein and starch contents, endosperm vitreousness, and antioxidant activity were shown to depend both on growing conditions and on genotypes. High nutritional quality of waxy barley cultivars was proved, videlicet, significantly higher content of oil compared with accessions with wild type starch and lower vitreousness of endosperm in chaffy accessions. Accessions with very valuable characteristics were selected: line 12-1014 with high digestibility of protein (61.75 mg tyrosine/g protein for pepsinolysis + trypsinolysis), line 12-945 with high antioxidant activity (2.02 mg chlorogenic acid equivalent/g), line 12-954 with a high content of oil (3.75%) and awnless line 14-1183 with a high content of polyunsaturated ω-3 linolenic acid (6.09%). These lines are valuable both as starting material for the breeding of food cultivars, and directly for functional food production. Waxy cultivars Shedevr and Amil were submitted to the state variety trials. Grain of these cultivars is noticeable for high contents of starch (>60%), oil (3.45–3.47%) and fiber (3.65–3.70%). Antioxidant activity is also sufficiently high (1.94–2.07 mg chlorogenic acid equivalent/g). Being low vitreous (40–43%), cultivars Shedevr and Amil can be used for production of flakes and flour, including extruded flour.
Industrialising the construction industry: A collaborative training and education model

The United Kingdom (UK) construction industry has long been the centre of criticism and debate for its relative poor performance and high turnover. In this respect, the UK Government embarked on reviving Offsite Production (OSP) in an attempt to negate these issues, whilst simultaneously reducing the dependence on manual skills. However, extant literature highlights that professional (non-manual) skill shortages are just as acute. Notwithstanding these factors, from a training and education perspective, it is widely acknowledged that the myriad of approaches currently deployed to address professional education and training needs have systematically failed to fully satisfy industry's expectations. This is due in part to the lack of a 'common language' between the construction industry and the training/education providers. Given that OSP training and education is a predominant driver for the successful and wider uptake of OSP, there is no direct empirical evidence on the type, level, or priorities of OSP training and education required to meet the new exigent business drivers. This research focuses on addressing the polarised silos that currently exist between industry and training/education providers through the provision of a flexible collaborative model. This model embodies multi-criteria and multistakeholder perceptions and imperatives in order to help provide a 'shared' language and understanding across these multivariate issues to formally identify and prioritise OSP training and education needs. This research adopted a system approach to OSP training and education using the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method to develop an OSP-QFD model. The positioning of this research adopts the positivism paradigm to infer OSP skills requirements, underpinned and supported by a triangulation approach to define the measures to satisfy those needs and help increase the validity and reliability of the data obtained. The model was iteratively tested and validated using domain experts from industry, academia and research organisations. Research findings confirmed the scepticism and misconception of the construction industry and academia with regard to OSP and industryacademia collaboration. However, the developed OSP-QFD model demonstrated that it could be used to shape, structure, and document the skills needed from multivariate viewpoints, thereby addressing the different drivers and expectations of the polarised stakeholders. Furthermore, the OSP-QFD model accommodates design flexibility, so that individual priorities can be independently assessed and analysed.
Teaching and learning strategies for embedding key skills: reshaping a marketing programme

Information, communication and technology skills (ICT) are directly relevant to the development of graduate skills, the benchmarking of the Business and Management Subject, employer requirements for more skilled and prepared graduates, quality of education provision and the government's policy on lifelong learning (Dearing, 1997). Employers have expressed concern regarding graduates in that, "whilst new recruits may have the expected knowledge and understanding, they display a serious inability to apply that knowledge effectivelyto real workplace situations" (DfEE, 1998:30). As such, the role of higher education is increasingly to inculcate the development of the type of skills that will ultimately bridge the developing training gap between education and employability for graduates. This paper will explore the training needs identified by employers and discuss the research undertaken at Edge Hill College of HE to integrate and contextualise ICT and other key skills within an undergraduate marketing programme in order to ensure that graduate are not excluded from the workplace. The action research and implementatin of teaching and learning strategies has been undertaken through collaboration between Library and Information Services (LIS) and the subject area of Business, Management and Leisure (BML). The objectives of the research were to: Identify and define the concept of graduate skills with specific reference to ICT; Evaluate how experiential learning can facilitate the development of ICT skills; Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of the revised curriculum; Evaluate the collaboration between LIS and BML in supporting the development of effective teaching and learning strategies. The paper will consider and evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching and learning strategies, including the design of the curriculum, the focus on experiential learning activities adn the learning materials and resources produced (including web based). It will also provide an analysis of student feedback and recommendations for future developments in key skills embedding withn an undergraduate programme.
Modelling the absorption of binary mixtures in plate heat exchangers

Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is currently developed as a clean and sustainable energy technology for offshore application in tropical areas. The technology shows promising possibilities in combination with the Kalina cycle, a thermodynamic cycle for the generation of energy from low temperature difference heat sources using a working fluid mixture. Due to the differences in boiling point between the components in a mixture and the resulting temperature glide, this allows more heat to be exchanged and thus a higher thermal effectiveness of the overall cycle. Ammonia-water is identified to be a suitable candidate for application in the cycle, but still relatively little is understood about the performance of different components in the cycle when this mixture is used. The condenser in the cycle exchanges heat between the working fluid and cold deep ocean water. In case a mixture is used, the process in this heat exchanger is described as absorption. In this study, an attempt is made to model the relevant hydrodynamics and heat and mass transfer processes in the heat exchanger, given typical operating conditions and a specified heat exchanger geometry. A plate heat exchanger is used for the absorber, due to specific advantages of this type of heat exchanger. A review of the used thermodynamic cycle, working fluids and their properties, and the heat exchanger type is included in this study. Also, literature on the hydrodynamics, pressure drop, heat transfer and mass transfer is discussed. A review of modelling approaches is provided before an extensive description of the implemented model is given. The model is stable, the predicted parameters converge to constant values during the iterative procedure, and the predictions show reasonable agreement with other work. The heat transfer may be overestimated as a result of the assumed hydrodynamics in the model. Besides, jumps in parameter profiles result from full condensation and the corresponding change in flow pattern. The modelling approach shows promise to be extended to make predictions for different operating conditions, working fluids and heat exchanger geometries. In the future, the model could be developed into a tool for optimization of the absorber performance. A preliminary experiment was performed for validation of the model. Comparison of the numerical results with the experiment and previously developed numerical models points out that the prediction of the model for the heat exchanger performance is promising. More experiments of sufficient accuracy and reliability are required for a better validation of the model, and to allow predictions of the heat exchanger performance for a wider range of conditions.
Vibration of Plates

Plates are integral parts of most engineering structures and their vibration analysis is required for safe design. Vibration of Plates provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to vibration theory and analysis of two-dimensional plates. Reflecting the author's more than 15 years of original research on plate vibration, this book presents new methodologies and demonstrates their effectiveness by providing comprehensive results. The text also offers background information on vibration problems along with a discussion of various plate geometries and boundary conditions, including the new concepts of Boundary Characteristic Orthogonal Polynomials (BCOPs).
Email Security

A crucial network application is the email client. It is significant when it is used by the business, health, and educational groups to communicate vital information like business data, patient medical records, and so on. Data and messages can be easily transmitted between senders and receivers across internal networks or the Internet, enabling messages to be received, forwarded, saved, and broadcast to recipients. Due to its numerous features, email has become a popular choice for official communications in many companies. Electronic mail is accessible through a wide range of suitable software clients, as well as through a web browser, and is also widely used for personal usage. For the information security research community, email security becomes a critical concern. to increase the security of email.
Robust adaptive matched field processing with environmental uncertainty

The main challenges on detection and localization of quiet targets in littoral regions for passive sonar are the complicated acoustic propagation and the prevalence of loud ship interference on the surface. Adaptive Matched Field Processing (AMFP) can provide the ability to null surface interference, but the mismatch between the computed and actual array steering vectors due to environment uncertainty, and the motion of both target and interference can result in loss of array gain significantly. To address the problem of environmental mismatch and target motion, a robust motion compensation algorithm and a system scheme for adaptive matched field processing have been developed. Both numerical simulation and analysis of experimental data demonstrated that the rpbust AMFP scheme could suppress surface loud interference and improve the detection performance for underwater weak moving target in complex shallow water.
Conversion of Volunteer-Collected GPS Diary Data into Travel Time Performance Measures: Literature Review, Data Requirements, and Data Acquisition Efforts

Conventional travel-survey methodologies require the collection of detailed activity-travel information, which impose a significant burden on respondents, thereby adversely impacting the quality and quantity of data obtained. Advances in the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology has provided transportation planners with an alternative and powerful tool for more accurate travel-data collection with minimal user burden. The data recorded by GPS devices, however, does not directly yield travel information; the navigational streams have to be processed and the travel patterns derived from it. The focus of this research project is to develop software to automate the processing of raw GPS data and to generate outputs of activity-travel patterns in the conventional travel-diary format. The software will identify trips and characterize them by several attributes including trip-end locations, trip purpose, time of day, distance, and speed. Within the overall focus of the research, this report describes the data collection equipment specifications, data collection protocols, and data formats, and presents a comprehensive synthesis of the state of the practice/art in processing GPS data to derive travel diaries. This synthesis is intended as the basis for developing input specifications and processing algorithms for the software. A second objective of this report is to identify the data requirements for the software development purposes and document the efforts undertaken to acquire the data.
Valorisation des déchets naturels dans l’ élaboration de s nouveaux bétons et matériaux de construction.

The silting up of dams took a lot of extents in the Mediterranean countries. Indeed, the hydraulic potential of these areas unceasingly falls. Therefore, silt removing of these works becomes urgent. However, it leads to important volumes of silt subjected to the environment. So In this study we propose to use this silt in the development of concretes and construction materials. The objective of this work is ecological (to limit the silt stored in nature), technical (to use treated silt to develop concrete and construction materials such as bricks), economical (to replace a great part of cement by treated silt)