Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Enhancing Muscle Strength Post Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Case Report Assessing the Effectiveness of Russian Current

The effectiveness of Russian electrical stimulation in enhancing muscular strength after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) restoration is examined in this case study. In addition to traditional physiotherapy, a 29-year-old male athlete having ACL repair took part in a Russian contemporary rehabilitation regimen. Subjective evaluations of pain and functional tests all showed a substantial increase in muscular strength following the intervention. The Russian current's distinct waveform and high-frequency bursts appeared to improve neuromuscular control and quicken the activation of skeletal muscle in the excitation-contraction phase. The evaluation conducted after the intervention revealed notable enhancements in muscular strength and scores on the lower extremity functional scale. The initial score of 32, indicating a moderate functional limitation, improved to 64, indicating a minimal functional limitation. Additionally, the use of Russian electrical stimulation in ACL rehabilitation programs resulted in a reduction in pain levels from 9/10 to 3/10, as measured by the visual analog scale. These findings suggest that the implementation of Russian electrical stimulation shows promise in ACL rehabilitation. However, to validate and further explore these results, it is necessary to conduct larger-scale research studies and randomized controlled trials.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Teduglutide Treatment in Patients with Short Bowel Syndrome in Slovakia—Multicenter Real-World Study

(1) Background: We present the first real-world-data study on teduglutide-treated SBS patients in the Slovak Republic and the first study to enable the comparison of the effects of teduglutide treatment between the adult and pediatric populations. (2) Methods: This was a non-interventional retrospective cohort study of adult and pediatric SBS patients treated with teduglutide. Primary and secondary endpoints were the results of teduglutide use at 12 weeks and 6 months after the initiation of treatment, compared to baseline. (3) Results: Teduglutide treatment led to a statistically significant reduction in the volume of intravenous hydration, HPN caloric intake, HPN and intravenous hydration applications per week and to increased urine output in adult patients. The results in the pediatric population were similar, but not statistically significant. A complete weaning off HPN was achieved in 57.14% of all patients (50.00% of children; 62.50% of adults) after a median of 0.99 years of teduglutide treatment (1.07 and 0.98 years for children and adults, respectively). (4) Conclusions: Teduglutide treatment in SBS patients leads to considerable reduction in or even weaning off PN in both pediatric and adult patients.
Diurnal and Seasonal Changes in Stem Radius Increment and Sap Flow Density Indicate Different Responses of Two Co-existing Oak Species to Drought Stress

Using continuous monitoring of stem radius combined with sap flow measurements we assessed the effects of environmental conditions on tree radial growth and water status of two coexisting oak species (Quercus petraea and Quercus cerris) at high resolution time in growing seasons of 2008 and 2009. The forest (95–100 yr) is situated in a xeric site in the transition zone between forested and forest-steppe regions in north-eastern Hungary, Bükk mountains (47o90’N, 20o46’E, elevation 320–340 m a.s.l.). Weather conditions in the growing season of 2008 (total rainfall 354 mm, mean daily temperature 17.0 oC) was less extreme than in 2009 (total rainfall 299 mm, temperature 17.9 oC). Rainfall strongly determined the course of radial growth increment in trees. Radial growth of trees was limited in 2009 due to the drought in spring. The maximum radial increment of both species was achieved three weeks earlier (4th week of June) than in 2008 (4th week of July). We used dendrometer monitoring data for estimation of stem (tree) water deficit (∆W) by measuring water-related changes in stem radius (Zweifel et al. 2005). The magnitude of tree water deficit variation (∆W) was always smaller in Q. cerris than in Q. petraea. In contrast, Quercus cerris always exhibited larger daytime averages and maxima of sap flow density. In August of 2009 when drought became severe there were larger increases in tree water deficit (∆W) (50–55 %) in both species compared to July as it could be expected from the extent of decreases in sap flow density (24–28%). Our data suggested that due to the low SWC the transpiration was supported mainly from the inner water storage of trees during prolonged drought which resulted in high stem water deficit (∆W).
Understanding Personality Disorders

Personality-disordered people are not uncommon in our neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, or even our homes. They include people who are persistently paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, antisocial, or overly dependent. Most of them do not realize the hardships they create for themselves and their families. This book is an introductory guide for those who live and work around personality- disordered people, and for general readers seeking illustrations of the disorders. Dobbert illustrates warning signs that can be missed and walks readers through scenarios that are common with personality-disordered people. He explains how such maladies might develop, and most important, how they can be successfully addressed.
Design and Evaluation of Synthetic Delivery Formulations for Peptide-Based Cancer Vaccines

With the recent advances in neoantigen identification, peptide-based cancer vaccines offer substantial potential in the field of immunotherapy. However, rapid clearance, low immunogenicity, and insufficient antigen-presenting cell (APC) uptake limit the efficacy of peptide-based cancer vaccines. This review explores the barriers hindering vaccine efficiency, highlights recent advancements in synthetic delivery systems, and features strategies for the key delivery steps of lymph node (LN) drainage, APC delivery, cross-presentation strategies, and adjuvant incorporation. This paper also discusses the design of preclinical studies evaluating vaccine efficiency, including vaccine administration routes and murine tumor models.
Generation of Wide-Pulsewidth Synchronous Shocks and Calibration for Triaxial Accelerometers

Synchronous calibration for the triaxial accelerometers with nonultrahigh (~10 kHz) frequency response requires synchronous shocks with high amplitudes and wide pulse widths (narrower band). However, the generation of high-energy shocks with both large widths and high amplitudes is challenging at this stage, especially for the shocks requiring synchronization in three dimensions. This article then focuses on the method investigation for the generation of synchronous shocks with wide pulse widths and its application in triaxial accelerometer calibration. A device capable of generating 3-D synchronous shocks with an amplitude of $10^{2}$ g and a pulsewidth of 3.5–4 ms, or an amplitude of $10^{3}$ g and a pulsewidth of 0.85–1.1 ms, was developed based on a high-energy vertical shock device and a shock amplification technique. It complements the amplitude and pulsewidth ranges that cannot be covered by the common Hopkinson bar method. A synchronous calibration method for triaxial accelerometers was then proposed based on the shocks generating method. The sensitivity of the triaxial accelerometer was mathematically characterized as an exploitation and sensitivity matrix using the least-square method. Calibration experiments were carried out on a typical high-g triaxial accelerometer using the newly proposed synchronous method and the conventional asynchronous method, respectively. Results show that the developed synchronous shocks generating method is feasible and effective for triaxial accelerometer calibration. And synchronous calibration methods ought to be given priority for triaxial accelerometers, because they can significantly improve the measurement accuracy. At last, several key issues regarding to the application of the proposed shocks generating method in triaxial accelerometer calibration were discussed.
Variation of Prokaryotic and Fungal Soil Communities across a Vegetative Transect

Soil microbial communities are affected by a number of biotic and abiotic factors including pH, nitrogen (N), carbon (C), and vegetation. Soil pH is one of the primary influences on microbial communities. Soil chemical properties, especially pH, rather than spatial effect, land use, climate, or soil physical properties, explain the largest amount of variance in microbial communities [1]. Soil pH impacts microbial and fungal diversity, but temperature and latitude do not, and greater diversity is found where soil pH is more basic [2]. Additionally, Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities are dependent on pH, carbonate content, base saturation, and phosphorus [3].
Corporate Governance as Antecedent of Financial Distress: Case Study of Textile Industry of Pakistan

Purpose: The present research studies the effect of corporate governance practices on the level of financial distress of the Textile companies listed at PSX. Design/Methodology: Data from 2019 to 2022 from a sample of 43 companies operating in the weaving, spinning and composite textile industry was assessed in the study. Regression analysis was used to predict the impact of board independence, board size, audit committee independence and duality in the role of CEO and chairman on the financial distress. Findings: The findings reveal that board independence, board size and the duality in the role of Chairman and CEO impacts the financial distress level of the companies and that in companies wherein governance structure is strong, the likelihood of financial distress is lower. However, the effect of Audit committee independence is found to be insignificant in this study. Originality: This study provides support to the companies in understanding the importance of governance structure and its significance in reducing financial distress level. The findings of the study will be of value to the companies operating in textile sector by enabling them to strengthen their governance structure to address the financial distress situation. Further, this study will help the regulators in drafting the governance requirements for the companies and also educating them about the importance of the latter. In future, other studies using different proxies of corporate governance like gender diversity in the board, number of board meetings and characteristics of audit committee may be conducted.
Ultrasensitive Edible Oil Sensor Based on Spiral SLSP Combined With Stepped Structure

This article presents a microwave sensor for detecting edible oils based on a spiral spoof localized surface plasmon (SLSP) resonator combined with a stepped structure. The stepped structure is able to concentrate the electric field in the middle substrate, while the spiral SLSP has the exceptional ability to collect the electric field with dimensions only a few tens of wavelengths. The electrical properties of the stepped structure and the spiral SLSP resonator are investigated. The effective permittivity of the proposed sensor is captured, and the circuit model is developed to explain its operating principle. The sensor demonstrates an ultrahigh sensitivity in detecting low-permittivity liquids, making it suitable for detecting oily substances. Experimental results confirm the sensor’s ability to distinguish between different types of edible oils and detect adulterated edible oils. In addition, the proposed sensor offers the benefits of portability, low cost, and high sensitivity, which make it equally competent for industrial oils detection.
A Transitivity Analysis of Miss Brill’s Mind Style in Miss Brill

: Katherine Mansfield, a British female writer, was a bright star in English Literature World in the 1920s. She was famous for her short novels written in unique style all around the world. Mansfield had a good command of depicting the trivia of life and describing delicate changes of human beings’ emotions, especially women’s sensitive and exquisite feelings at the bottom of their hearts. Miss Brill, written in 1920s, was a classic of this kind of short novels. This paper will explore Miss Brill’s mind style by transitivity analysis of the novel and further reveal her social marginalization. Through analyzing Miss Brill’s activities on Sunday, it is founded that Miss Brill’s mind style mainly has changed from an outsider of social activities to an observer of social activities, an imaginary participant of social activities, and finally to a social abandonee. At the same time, loneliness penetrates all through Miss Brill’s mind style.
High frequency post-disfluency word choices and task-dependent speech behavior characterize connected speech in individuals with mild cognitive impairment

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline, including impairments in speech production and fluency. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a prodrome of AD, has also been linked with changes in speech behavior but to a more subtle degree. Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether speech behavior immediately following disfluencies (post-disfluency speech behavior) differs between individuals with MCI and healthy controls (HCs), and how these differences are influenced by the cognitive demands of various speech tasks. Methods: Transcribed speech samples were analyzed from both groups across different tasks, including immediate and delayed narrative recall, picture descriptions, and free responses. Key metrics including lexical and syntactic complexity, both overall and post-disfluency, were examined. Results: Significant differences were observed between the MCI and HC groups in terms of filled disfluencies, particularly "uh", with a higher incidence and longer latencies following these disfluencies in the MCI group. Word frequency following filled disfluencies was higher among MCI participants, with this effect varying based on the cognitive load of the tasks. Predictive analyses utilizing random forest classifiers demonstrated high specificity in using speech behavior metrics to differentiate between MCI and HCs. Conclusions: Speech behavior following disfluencies differs between MCI participants and healthy controls, with these differences being influenced by the cognitive demands of the speech tasks. Post-disfluency speech metrics can be easily integrated into existing speech analysis paradigms. This study contributes to the growing evidence on the significance of nuanced speech analysis in understanding and predicting cognitive decline in MCI.
New organizational principles and 3D cytoarchitectonic maps of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the human brain

Areas of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) are part of the frontoparietal control, default mode, salience, and ventral attention networks. The DLPFC is involved in executive functions, like working memory, value encoding, attention, decision-making, and behavioral control. This functional heterogeneity is not reflected in existing neuroanatomical maps. For example, previous cytoarchitectonic studies have divided the DLPFC into two or four areas. Macroanatomical parcellations of this region rely on gyri and sulci, which are not congruent with cytoarchitectonic parcellations. Therefore, this study aimed to provide a microstructural analysis of the human DLPFC and 3D maps of cytoarchitectonic areas to help address the observed functional variability in studies of the DLPFC. We analyzed ten human post-mortem brains in serial cell-body stained brain sections and mapped areal boundaries using a statistical image analysis approach. Five new areas (i.e., SFG2, SFG3, SFG4, MFG4, and MFG5) were identified on the superior and middle frontal gyrus, i.e., regions corresponding to parts of Brodmann areas 9 and 46. Gray level index profiles were used to determine interregional cytoarchitectural differences. The five new areas were reconstructed in 3D, and probability maps were generated in commonly used reference spaces, considering the variability of areas in stereotaxic space. Hierarchical cluster analysis revealed a high degree of similarity within the identified DLPFC areas while neighboring areas (frontal pole, Broca's region, area 8, and motoric areas) were separable. Comparisons with functional imaging studies revealed specific functional profiles of the DLPFC areas. Our results indicate that the new areas do not follow a simple organizational gradient assumption in the DLPFC. Instead, they are more similar to those of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (Broca's areas 44, 45) and frontopolar areas (Fp1, Fp2) than to the more posterior areas. Within the DLPFC, the cytoarchitectonic similarities between areas do not seem to follow a simple anterior-to-posterior gradient either, but cluster along other principles. The new maps are part of the publicly available Julich Brain Atlas and provide a microstructural reference for existing and future imaging studies. Thus, our study represents a further step toward deciphering the structural-functional organization of the human prefrontal cortex.
Exploration of Phosphate Soluting Bacteries Located Near Rubber Plant (Hevea brasiliensis) Field on Different Topography

The exploration of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria in the root-soil of rubber plants was conducted to determine their beneficial effects. This research aimed to identify the sampling locations of rubber plantations where phosphate solubilizing bacteria are suspected to be present, isolate and identify colonies of these bacteria, assess their ability to break down P elements from Pikovskaya media and determine their genus. The research took place at the INSTIPER Yogyakarta Central Laboratory, Kec. Maguwoharjo, Kab. Sleman from February to April 2022. A descriptive method was employed, involving surveying rubber plants in different topographies, sterilizing tools and materials, collecting soil samples from rubber plants, and isolating and identifying bacteria. The research analysis included macroscopic and microscopic observations and measuring the diameter of the transparent zone. Phosphate solubilizing bacteria were found in the sampling locations of Karanggondang Village and Popongan Village. Macroscopic observations revealed 17 isolates with bacterial color morphology ranging from milky white, transparent white, to yellow. The average diameter of the transparent zone, from highest to lowest, was as follows: B5(4)2A (18.3 mm), A1(4)1B (14.3 mm), A1(4)2A (14 mm), and C1(3)1 (14 mm). The phosphate solubilizing bacteria isolate A1(4)2A was identified as the Escherichia Genus while isolating C1(3)1 was identified as the Genus Acetobacter.
Distribuição e personalização de conteúdo multimídia em ambientes educacionais ubíquos

Ubiquitous computing is known as the third wave of computing, which aims at making computational devices become more permeated to the users lives. It has helped people to perform their daily activities in many areas of expertise, especially in the educational domain where it assists instructors and students during their academic duties, achieving knowledge anywhere and anytime, making use of unobtrusive ways of reaching the desired content. Multimedia capture and context-awareness are two relevant subjects in ubiquitous computing research. While the former results in large amounts of digital media (e.g., video, audio, slides, text comments) being automatically produced, the latter o ers the proper means to integrate and access such content. By merging the two concepts, users may bene t from tools that allow them to retrieve, view and interact with the captured media artifacts. Thus, this work presents a communication model based on peer-to-peer networks, used for transferring and replicating the captured content. Furthermore, a contextual access architecture is presented for personalization and recommendation of interactive multimedia content captured in an instrumented educational environment. This architecture takes into account context information, user preferences and presentation constraints in order to personalize the access experience, tailoring it to users' needs. As a case study, the proposals were implemented in Classroom eXperience, which is a ubiquitous computing platform for multimedia capturing designed to automatically record lectures and make them available to students.
AGE, SEX CLASS, AND PREY ABUNDANCE INFLUENCE THE FREQUENCY AND TYPE OF PERCUSSIVE BEHAVIOR IN THE SOUTHERN RESIDENT KILLER WHALE (ORCINUS ORCA) POPULATION AT LIME KILN POINT STATE PARK

Abstract The endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale (Orcinus orca, SRKW) is an iconic species in the Pacific Northwest. Although many ecological aspects of this population have been studied, why SRKW perform above-surface “percussive” behavior such as breaching, cartwheeling, pectoral-fin slapping, tail lobbing, and dorsal-fin slapping remains unclear. In the present study, we observed SRKW in Haro Strait, Washington, to evaluate trends in percussive behavior by age and sex class during the summer of 2016, and used long-term data (1996–2016) to compare the relationship between the seasonal frequency of percussive behaviors and the abundance of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) the primary food source of SRKW. Over the summer season in 2016, we documented 24 encounters involving percussive behavior. We found a significant difference between ages and sexes in the rate of percussive behaviors performed, with adult females performing the most behaviors among these groups, and tail slaps comprising the most frequent behavior performed. We also found a significant positive relationship between the rate of percussive behaviors and Chinook Salmon abundance in the Salish Sea over the past 2 decades. These findings present a preliminary investigation into the potential for behavioral observations to serve as indicators of population-level health or behavioral trends, which could be important for this population's conservation.
Toward GPS-Denied, Multi-Vehicle, Fixed-Wing Cooperative Localization

This paper describes a vision and proposes a method for multiple, small, fixed-wing aircraft cooperatively localizing in GPS-denied environments. Recent work has focused on the development of a monocular, visualinertial odometry for fixed-wing aircraft that accounts for fixed-wing flight characteristics and sensing requirements. The odometry was developed to be a front-end for novel methodology called relative navigation, which has been developed in prior work. This paper describes how the front-end could enable a back-end where odometry from multiple vehicles and inter-vehicle measurements could be used in a single, global, back-end, graph-based optimization. The inter-vehicle measurements over constrain the graph and allow the optimization to remove accumulated drift for more accurate estimates. The goal of this work is to show that many, small, potentially-lower-cost vehicles could collaboratively localize better than a single, more-accurate, higher-cost GPS-denied system.