Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Short-term and Long-term Retention of Vocabulary through Authentic Subtitled Videos

The current study made an attempt to compare the impacts of teaching authentic materials through traditional techniques with teaching authentic materials through authentic use, where students in the experimental group were taught new vocabulary items of subtitles through watching subtitled videos, and control group were taught the same vocabulary items from subtitles using traditional instruction of vocabulary. The participants of the study consisted of 36 Iranian students from both genders. In order to ensure the homogeneity of the participants, Oxford Placement Test (2004) was administered. Then they were randomly put into two groups (18 students in each group). Immediately after the study and three weeks after the study vocabulary tests were administered to the both groups. The results indicated that the students of control group outperformed in short-term retention. However, the experimental group outperformed in long-term retention, indicating the superiority of learning vocabulary through watching subtitled videos in long-term retention of vocabulary. As many learners do not develop long-term mastery of the vocabulary, teaching vocabulary items through watching videos with subtitles can help them store and retrieve vocabulary items better. Keywords: Authentic materials, Subtitled videos, Subtitles, Long-term retention, Short-term Retention
2014 ESC guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism.

ACS : acute coronary syndrome AMPLIFY : Apixaban for the Initial Management of Pulmonary Embolism and Deep-Vein Thrombosis as First-line Therapy aPTT : activated partial thromboplastin time b.i. d. : bis in diem (twice daily) b.p.m. : beats per minute BNP : brain natriuretic peptide BP : blood pressure CI : confidence interval CO : cardiac output COPD : chronic obstructive pulmonary disease CPG : Committee for Practice Guidelines CRNM : clinically relevant non-major CT : computed tomographic/tomogram CTEPH : chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension CUS : compression venous ultrasonography DSA : digital subtraction angiography DVT : deep vein thrombosis ELISA : enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ESC : European Society of Cardiology H-FABP : heart-type fatty acid-binding protein HIT : heparin-induced thrombocytopenia HR : hazard ratio ICOPER : International Cooperative Pulmonary Embolism Registry ICRP : International Commission on Radiological Protection INR : international normalized ratio iPAH : idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension IVC : inferior vena cava LMWH : low molecular weight heparin LV : left ventricle/left ventricular MDCT : multi-detector computed tomographic (angiography) MRA : magnetic resonance angiography NGAL : neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin NOAC(s) : Non-vitamin K-dependent new oral anticoagulant(s) NT-proBNP : N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide o.d. : omni die (every day) OR : odds ratio PAH : pulmonary arterial hypertension PE : pulmonary embolism PEA : pulmonary endarterectomy PEITHO : Pulmonary EmbolIsm THrOmbolysis trial PESI : pulmonary embolism severity index PH : pulmonary hypertension PIOPED : Prospective Investigation On Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis PVR : pulmonary vascular resistance RIETE : Registro Informatizado de la Enfermedad Thromboembolica venosa RR : relative risk rtPA : recombinant tissue plasminogen activator RV : right ventricle/ventricular SPECT : single photon emission computed tomography sPESI : simplified pulmonary embolism severity index TAPSE : tricuspid annulus plane systolic excursion Tc : technetium TOE : transoesophageal echocardiography TTR : time in therapeutic range TV : tricuspid valve UFH : unfractionated heparin V/Q scan : ventilation–perfusion scintigraphy VKA : vitamin K antagonist(s) VTE : venous thromboembolism Guidelines summarize and evaluate all available evidence at the time of the writing process, on a particular issue with the aim of assisting health professionals in selecting the best management strategies for an individual patient, with a given condition, taking into account the impact on outcome, as well as the risk-benefit-ratio of particular diagnostic or therapeutic means. Guidelines and recommendations should help the health professionals to make decisions in their daily practice. However, the final decisions concerning an individual patient must be made by the responsible health professional(s) in consultation with the patient and caregiver as appropriate. A great number of Guidelines have …
Business cycle affiliations in the context of European integration

We study affiliations for the countries of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) with Germany and the USA, using various business cycle measures derived from quarterly real GDP. These measures are Hodrick-Prescott and Baxter-King filtered series and annual growth rates. By using rolling contemporaneous and maximum (over a short lead/lag interval) correlations, we document increasing correlations of EMU countries with Germany, with these typically being largest during the 1990s. We also document a strong leading role for the USA in relation to these countries in the period since 1993, thereby correcting the fallacy that the European business cycle was disjointed from the USA for most of the 1990s.
Modelos de precificação forward-looking aplicados à blue chips e small caps do mercado brasileiro

Na literatura de precificacao de ativos, o modelo APT e criticado por conceder ampla liberdade para a escolha das variaveis explicativas. Contornando tais criticas, o presente trabalho tem como principal contribuicao a conciliacao do APT com a tecnica BMA, instrumental bayesiano que pressupoe a ignorância do pesquisador quanto a verdadeira especificacao do modelo. Alinhado com a abordagem forward-looking proposta por Sampaio (2015), o modelo APT do presente trabalho elenca as variaveis de expectativas macroeconomicas divulgadas no Relatorio Focus do BCB como candidatos a fatores de risco, juntamente com o premio de risco de mercado. O presente estudo analisa dez acoes negociadas na BM&FBovespa, cinco caracterizadas como blue chips e cinco como small caps, investigando se os resultados se diferenciam entre os dois grupos. Contando com uma base de dados de frequencia semanal, de junho/2003 ate junho/2015, as evidencias encontradas mostram que o BMA valoriza modelos parcimoniosos, independente da capitalizacao de mercado das acoes. Alem disso, os resultados revelam que os candidatos a fatores de risco extraidos do BCB nao representam uma melhoria na modelagem de blue chips em relacao ao CAPM, mas em contrapartida estas informacoes sao mais uteis para a precificacao de small caps. Este fenomeno pode representar oportunidades de arbitragem com small caps brasileiras mediante alteracoes bruscas nas expectativas macroeconomicas.
Macro surprises and short-term behaviour in bond futures

This paper analyses how the macro news affect the future price of the ten year Treasure bond future (TY), one of the mostimportant US bonds. We consider different fundamentals and we analyze the effect of their forecasting errors conditionally on their sign and the momentum of the business cycle. To obtain a smooth effect of the news arrival we consider a Polynomial Distributed Lag (PDL) model. We conclude that i)fundamentals affect TY for some hours, ii)their effect depends on the sign of the forecast error and iii) it depends on the business cycle. Finally the timeliness of the releases matters.
Etomidate: Effective Dosages for a New Fish Anesthetic

Abstract Etomidate (r-(+)-ethyl-1-(1-phenylethyl)-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate) is a potent and safe anesthetic for fish. The minimum effective dose for four species of aquarium fish ranged from 2.0 to 4.0 mg/liter, and the maximum safe dose ranged from 7.0 to 20.0 mg/liter. In general, the lower the dose, the longer the time for anesthesia, but the faster the recovery time. At 4.0 mg/liter, fish typically entered anesthesia within 90 seconds and recovered within 40 minutes. Etomidate is more effective in alkaline water and higher water temperature but is not affected by total hardness. Test species varied in their ability to survive extended or repeated exposures to the drug. Etomidate has advantages over other commonly used fish anesthetics and should be evaluated further.
A Mixed Finite Element Method for the Coupling of Linear Elasticity and Stokes Flow

The complex interaction between fluids and structures require the coupling the laws concerning structure mechanics and fluid dynamics and are of vital importance to many scientific and engineering fields. We propose a method for modeling the coupling of a linearly elastic solid and slow fluid flow modeled by Stokes equations. The model equations are expressed in terms of displacement, velocity and stress. With these primary variables, we use a single mixed finite element space based on the Hellinger-Reissner variational principle for linear elasticity to discretize the resulting system spatially. This results in more accurate approximations for stress than those obtained by using standard finite element methods followed by post processing and simple imposition of the interface conditions. Although the solid and fluid subproblems using this mixed form have been studied separately, to our knowledge, a fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problem has not been studied using these models. In this dissertation, we first discuss the linear elasticity and fluid flow models separately. This includes an improvement to the proved convergence rate of a nonconforming mixed finite element method originally discovered by Arnold and Winther [MATHEMATICAL MODELS & METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES,13 ,3, March 2003] for the steady state problem with certain boundary conditions. Also a description of the special attention required to obtain approximations to the initial conditions for the fluid model is required to make use of a second order in time discretization. A fully discrete implicit in time model is presented for the complete FSI problem. A priori error estimates are derived for all primary variables. These error estimate show a unfavorable effect caused by the presence of an interface. However, this effect may be not be noticeable when compared with the approximation properties of the mixed finite element space chosen for spatial discretization of the problem. Numerical results using conforming and nonconforming finite element spaces are provided for the interaction problem.
TweeProfiles2: real time detection of spatio-temporal patterns in Twitter

Com o advento das redes sociais surgiu tambem muita informacao, especifica de cada utilizador e voluntariamente cedida. De ha alguns anos para ca, as pessoas e as empresas comecaram a perceber o valor que existe dentro dessas enormes quantidades de informacao e comecou a investigacao em maneiras de encontrar padroes a partir desses dados que possam ser utilizados de forma proveitosa. O TweeProfiles e uma ferramenta de visualizacao de clusters que permite a analise de tweets sob 4 dimensoes: espacial, temporal, social e conteudo. No entanto, e limitado no sentido em que nao esta preparado para lidar com streams de dados. O objetivo deste trabalho e encontrar, em tempo real, padroes de informacao em dados extraidos do Twitter. Os dados a serem recolhidos sao multi-dimensionais em natureza, ou seja, tem uma dimensao espacial (a localizacao dos tweet), uma dimensao temporal (o momento de publicacao dos tweets) e uma dimensao de conteudo (texto e hashtags dos tweets). Para atingir esse objetivo espera-se aplicar tecincas de clustering sobre os dados recolhidos; os clusters resultantes serao entao apresentados ao utilizador final usando uma ferramenta de visualizacao, que tambem sera desenvolvida no âmbito deste projecto
An atlas of monthly mean distributions of SSMI surface wind speed, AVHRR/2 sea surface temperature, AMI surface wind velocity, TOPEX/POSEIDON sea surface height, and ECMWF surface wind velocity during 1993

The following monthly mean global distributions for 1993 are presented with a common color scale and geographical map: 10-m height wind speed estimated from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSMI) on a United States (U.S.) Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft; sea surface temperature estimated from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR/2) on a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite; 10-m height wind speed and direction estimated from the Active Microwave Instrument (AMI) on the European Space Agency (ESA) European Remote Sensing (ERS-1) satellite; sea surface height estimated from the joint U.S.-France Topography Experiment (TOPEX)/POSEIDON spacecraft; and 10-m height wind speed and direction produced by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF). Charts of annual mean, monthly mean, and sampling distributions are displayed.
Angiopoietin-2 in white adipose tissue improves metabolic homeostasis through enhanced angiogenesis

Despite many angiogenic factors playing crucial roles in metabolic homeostasis, effects of angiopoietin-2 (ANG-2) in adipose tissue (AT) remain unclear. Utilizing a doxycycline-inducible AT-specific ANG-2 overexpression mouse model, we assessed the effects of ANG-2 in AT expansion upon a high-fat diet (HFD) challenge. ANG-2 is significantly induced, with subcutaneous white AT (sWAT) displaying the highest ANG-2 expression. ANG-2 overexpressing mice show increased sWAT vascularization and are resistant to HFD-induced obesity. In addition, improved glucose and lipid metabolism are observed. Mechanistically, the sWAT displays a healthier expansion pattern with increased anti-inflammatory macrophage infiltration. Conversely, ANG-2 neutralization in HFD-challenged wild-type mice shows reduced vascularization in sWAT, associated with impaired glucose tolerance and lipid clearance. Blocking ANG-2 causes significant pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrotic changes, hallmarks of an unhealthy AT expansion. In contrast to other pro-angiogenic factors, such as vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A), this is achieved without any enhanced beiging of white AT. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.7554/eLife.24071. 001
Field Review of Fish Habitat Improvement Projects in the Grande Ronde and John Day River Basins of Eastern Oregon.

The restoration of vegetation adapted to riparian environments and the natural succession of riparian plant communities is necessary to recreate sustainable salmonid habitat and should be the focal point for fish habitat improvement programs. In mid-August of 1991, a field review of 16 Salmon habitat improvement sites in the Grande Ronde and John Day River Basins in Eastern Oregon was undertaken. The review team visited various types of fish habitat improvements associated with a wide range of reach types, geology, channel gradients, stream sizes, and vegetation communities. Enhancement objectives, limiting factors, landuse history, and other factors were discussed at each site. This information, in conjunction with the reviewer's field inspection of portions of a particular habitat improvement project, provided the basis for the following report. This report that follows is divided into four sections: (1) Recommendations, (2) Objectives, (3) Discussion and Conclusions, and (4) Site Comments. The first section represents a synthesis of major recommendations that were developed during this review. The remaining sections provide more detailed information and comments related to specific aspects of the field review.
Ferramenta Para Identificação de Recursos no Lado da Procura para o Fornecimento de Serviços de Sistema

Since the very beginning, the electricity sector has been a constantly changing sector. In the last decades of the twentieth century there was a deverticalization of its activities and a liberalization in the sector. This restructuring brought along new agents, rules and behaviors but its basic assumptions have been preserved. One of these basic assumptions is that the normal functioning of the electric power systems requires a constant balance between generation and demand. In order to get this it was commonly asked the producer groups to adapt their production levels to the demand. However, due to the high costs associated with these ways of producing electricity, it is necessary to find less expensive methods of keeping the reliability and the stability of the electrical power systems. The Demand Response has gained a special relevance at this level, since the introduction of new technologies and new market rules paved the way for the demand to actively participate in the systems operation, through the provision of essential services to its proper functioning, such as emergency, economic and ancillary services. Ancillary services are essential services to keep the proper functioning of electrical power systems. These services, in the past only provided by the generation side, can now also be provided by the demand side, due to the evolution of market rules and the smart grids. We thus open a way to some charges, like thermostatic charges, to also provide these services to the electrical network, by participating in demand response programs. Given the complexity of the actions required to provide these services, it is essential they are subject to a prior accurate study. The main goal of this thesis is therefore to identify some resources on the demand side, in order to provide ancillary services. To achieve that goal a MATLAB tool was developed to simulate the functioning of Domestic Cold Storage charges groups, such as combined refrigerators and freezers, using Simplified Physically Based Models and Artificial Neural Networks. This tool was developed in order to create algorithms fast enough to simulate demand response actions in real time, so that the independent system operator can include the demand on the ancillary services provision. This tool also allows the study of the impact of the different demand response actions in the supply
La infermeria d'atenció primària en l'atenció als problemes del peu en la diabetis tipus 2 a Catalunya

Aquesta tesi preten respondre a la pregunta: Que pot fer la infermeria d'atencio primaria i que es el que fa, en els problemes del peu en persones amb diabetis tipus 2 a Catalunya? L'estat del tema exposa la importancia de les complicacions en el peu i la possibilitat de reduir-les amb un paper rellevant de la infermeria d'atencio primaria. La investigacio s'ha centrat en coneixer de que disposa, les activitats que desenvolupa, i que li manca a la infermeria per desenvolupar el seu potencial. Els resultats observats son representatius i mostren clares desigualtats assistencials entre centres, regions sanitaries i tipus de gestio. Suggerint que en l'atencio primaria conve organitzar i coordinar l'atencio als problemes del peu en la diabetis, millorar la formacio i la capacitacio infermera en el tema, fomentar i optimitzar la presencia de professionals especialitzats, i potenciar l'educacio en diabetis i la promocio de la salut.
Méthodes pour la réduction d’attaques actives à passives en cryptographie quantique

Quantum mechanics offers an undeniable advantage over classical mechanics for conceiving protocols for cryptographic tasks. However, it also enables complex attacks that make quantum protocols hard to analyse and cryptographers are thus always looking for new tools to simplify proofs. In this thesis, we introduce new techniques that simplify the analysis of quantum cryptographic protocols and we showcase their usefulness with some applications. Our techniques are used to show that, under certain conditions, the security of a protocol against an attacker that more or less follows the honest behaviour (passive) is a sufficient condition to show the security against arbitrary attacks (active). We first demonstrate a general technique for reducing the security of a quantum protocol against an attacker with some amount of quantum memory to its security against an attacker with no quantum memory at all. This technique is especially useful due to the fact that attacks that have access to a quantum memory are notoriously difficult to analyse. We then introduce a second technique for certifying that a quantum population is close to a given mixed reference state : given n quantum registers, it is possible to make sure that the state of these n registers is close to φ⊗n for some mixed state φ. This technique offers a general framework for analysing a common situation in quantum cryptography where we want to certify that a state prepared by a distrusted source is close to the honest state. Both our techniques allowed us to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in quantum cryptography. Our first result is the main tool used to solve two open problems : the first concerning the cryptographic power of the one bit cut-and-choose primitive, and the second concerning the security of the BCJL bit commitment protocol. Our second technique is used to prove the security of a protocol that implements the task of producing a common random bit string that is almost uniformly distributed, even if one of the parties is dishonest. Our protocol outperforms any classical protocol for this task.
Kleinhirninsult: Neurochirurgisches Vorgehen bei einer akuten, nicht-neoplastischen Raumfoderung in der hinteren Schädelgrube

Kurzfassung: Eine Kleinhirnblutung oder ein Kleinhirninfarkt ist eine lebensbedrohliche Erkrankung. Die akute Raumforderung in der hinteren Schadelgrube kann zur Hirnstammeinklemmung fuhren. Wenn der Hirnstamm nicht durch eine Blutung oder einen Infarkt beeintrachtigt ist, ist bei vielen Patienten eine Dekompression die Therapie der Wahl. Wir haben die Literatur verglichen, eine retrospektive Analyse unserer Patienten durchgefuhrt und das chirurgische Management zusammengefasst. Bei einer Kleinhirnblutung ist das Ziel eine Dekompression, also die Raumforderung zu beheben; nur wenige Patienten werden ausschlieslich mit einer externen Ventrikeldrainage behandelt. Im Gegensatz dazu werden deutlich mehr Patienten mit einem Kleinhirninsult ausschlieslich mit einer externen Ventrikeldrainage behandelt. Allerdings kann auch bei diesen Patienten eine Dekompression bzw. Nekrosektomie notwendig werden. Der optimale Zeitpunkt fur eine Dekompression ist nicht eindeutig geklart. Kleinhirnblutungen werden meist initial dekomprimiert und entleert, wahrend eine Dekompression bei Kleinhirninsulten oft erst nach klinisch-neurologischer Verschlechterung durchgefuhrt wird. Nichtsdestoweniger gibt es Patienten mit grosen Kleinhirnblutungen, deren Hamatom aufgrund eines sehr guten klinisch-neurologischen Zustands nicht ausgespult wird. Patienten mit einer akuten Raumforderung der hinteren Schadelgrube sollten interdisziplinar in einem neurologisch-neurochirurgischen Zentrum behandelt werden. Das ist die Voraussetzung, um eine eventuelle chirurgische Therapie unverzogert durchfuhren zu konnen. Schlusselworter: Kleinhirninsult, Kleinhirnblutung, Schlaganfall, hintere Schadelgrube, Raumforderung
Small terrestrial mammals and bats of Melaleuca and Claytons, southwestern Tasmania

A survey of small terrestrial mammals and bats was undertaken in two areas of southwestern Tasmania: around Melaleuca, in sedgeland, scrub and woodland communities, and at Claytons in mixed forest. The density of bats was extremely low in comparison with populations in eastern Tasmania. The densities of Rattus lutreolusand Antechinus minimuswere greatest in sedgeland/scrub with a dense undergrowth. Pseudomys higginsi was only captured in mixed forest but is also present around Deny King's garden. Dasyurus viverrinus was most abundant in young sedgeland. Cercartetus nanus was present at both Clay tons and Melaleuca. No introduced rodents were trapped, but an outbreak of Rattus rattus had occurred previous to our study. No Mastacomys fuscus were trapped but they have been recorded in a previous study. Fire has an important influence on the composition and structure of the vegetation which, in turn, influences the composition and density of the mammal community.