Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Guanxi versus networking: Distinctive configurations of affect- and cognition-based trust in the networks of Chinese and American managers

This research investigates hypotheses about differences between Chinese and American managers in the configuration of trusting relationships within their professional networks. Consistent with hypotheses about Chinese familial collectivism, an egocentric network survey found that affectand cognition-based trust were more intertwined for Chinese than for American managers. In addition, the effect of economic exchange on affect-based trust was more positive for Chinese than for Americans, whereas the effect of friendship was more positive for Americans than for Chinese. Finally, the extent to which a given relationship was highly embedded in ties to third parties increased cognition-based trust for Chinese but not for Americans. Implications for cultural research and international business practices are discussed.
This information is current as Plateletsafricae, Endothelial Cells, and TLRs in the Pathogenic Interaction between Tick Bite Fever: Possible Involvement of Increased Levels of Soluble CD40L in African

The pathophysiological hallmark of spotted fever group rickettsioses comprises infection of endothelial cells with subsequent inﬁltration of inﬂammatory cells. Based on its ability to promote inﬂammation and endothelial cell activation, we investigated the role of CD40L in African tick bite fever (ATBF), caused by Rickettsia africae , using different experimental approaches. Several signiﬁcant ﬁndings were revealed. 1) Patients with ATBF ( n (cid:1) 15) had increased serum levels of soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L), which decreased during follow-up. 2) These enhanced sCD40L levels seem to reﬂect both direct and indirect (through endothelial cell activation involving CX3CL1-related mechanisms) effects of R. africae on platelets. 3) In combination with sCD40L, R. africae promoted a procoagulant state in endothelial cells by up-regulating tissue factor and down-regulating thrombomodulin expression. 4) Although the R. africae -mediated activation of platelets involved TLR2, the combined procoagulant effects of R. africae and sCD40L on endothelial cells involved TLR4. 5) Doxycycline counteracted the combined procoagulant effects of R. africae and sCD40L on endothelial cells. Our ﬁndings suggest an inﬂammatory interaction between platelets and endothelial cells in ATBF, involving TLR-related mechanisms. This interaction, which includes additive effects between sCD40L and R. africae , may contribute to endothelial inﬂammation and hypercoagulation in this disorder. The Journal of Immunology, 2006,
STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN hs-CRP LEVEL AND RISK OF ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME

Background : The CRP protein is well known as an acute phase protein whose concentration increases as a result of inflammatory process. However, in an attempt to improve global cardiovascular risk prediction, considerable interest has focused on detection of low levels of CRP. The CRP seems indeed to be a strong predictor of vascular events. Hence aim of this study is to study hs-CRP level in acute coronary syndrome and to determine the mortality risk associated with serum level of hsCRP Material and method : A cross-sectional observational study on 55 patients was done in indoor patients of Department of Medicine, R.I. M.S, Ranchi. The Inclusion criteria was cases of acute coronary syndrome diagnosed clinically and supported by ECG, echocardiography and cardiac enzyme. Patients suffering from chronic kidney disease and pulmonary disease were excluded from this study. Immunoturbidimetric method was used for hs-CRP detection. Results: In our study 19 case (57.54%) is male and 14 case (42.43%) is females were at the age group (30-60), and 81.82% males and 18.18% females were more than 60 years. Out of 55 cases of acute coronary syndrome, 10.92% patient died. All patients who died had more than 3mg/l hsCRP level. Conclusion:Higher mean level of hs-CRP was observed when acute coronary syndrome was present.
Floral organogenesis and morphogenesis of [italic]Staphisagria[/italic] (Ranunculaceae): Implications for the evolution of synorganized floral structures in Delphinieae

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Floral organogenesis and morphogenesis of [italic]Staphisagria[/italic] (Ranunculaceae): Implications for the evolution of synorganized floral structures in Delphinieae Julie Zalko, Samuel Frachon, Antoine Morel, Thierry Deroin, Felipe Espinosa, Kun-Li Xiang, Wei Wang, Wen-Gen Zhang, Simon Lang, Lara Dixon, et al.
Analyzing Collaborative Learning Process by Deep Learning Methods: A Multi-Dimensional Coding Scheme with an Assessment Model

—In computer-supported collaborative learning research, it may be a significantly important task to figure out guidelines for carrying out an appropriate scaffolding by extracting indicators for distinguishing groups with poor progress in collaborative process upon analyzing the mechanism of interactive activation. And for this collaborative process analysis, labelling for appropriately representing properties of each contribution (coding) and statistical analysis are often adopted as a method. But as far as this paper is concerned, it tries to automate this huge laborious coding work with deep learning technology. In its previous research, supervised data was prepared for deep learning based on a coding scheme consisting of 16 labels according to speech acts. In this paper, with a multi-dimensional coding scheme with five dimensions newly designed aiming at analyzing collaborative learning process more comprehensively and multilaterally, an automatic coding is performed by deep learning methods and its accuracy is verified. The results indicate with certainty that we can introduce this model to authentic educational settings and that even for large classes with many students, we can perform real-time monitoring of learning process or ex-post analysis of big educational data. However, presenting raw results of automatic coding on each dimension is not enough to indicate the collaborative process quality to teachers and students. Therefore, a new rating model that can assess and visualize the quality of collaborative process is proposed.
COPD_A_250191 1887..1898

1Departments of Medicine and Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 2Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; 3Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 4Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 5National Jewish Health, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA; 6University of North Carolina Marisco Lung Institute, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; 7Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA; 8Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 9Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 10Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; 11Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; 12Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; 13Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; 14Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; 15Joan and Sanford IWeill Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA Rationale: Some COPD patients develop extreme breathlessness, decreased exercise capa-
Automated Recognition Of Object In Digital Images And Real Time Videos

— Object detection has seen huge process in recent years. Object detection is the process to determine whether there are instances of interest in an image. The main difficulty of object detection arises from high variability in appearance among objects of the same class. An automatic object detection system. must also to determine the presence and absence of objects with different sizes and viewpoints under complex background clutters. An object detection approach using histogram features is proposed. The Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) is a feature descriptor used in computer vision and image processing. The influence of each stage of the computation on performance, concluding that fine scale gradients, fine orientation binning, relatively coarse binning and high quality local contrast normalization in overlapping descriptor blocks are all important for good results . Experimental results show that the proposed approach is for effective object detection has better accuracy with less processing time consumption rather than existing methods.
Constructing draggable figures using GeoGebra: The contribution of the DGE for geometric structuring

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Constructing draggable figures using GeoGebra: The contribution of the DGE for geometric structuring Lina Brunheira, João Pedro da Ponte
Remote Control Operation of Autonomous Cars Over Cellular Network Using PlayStation Controller

—A big challenge regarding the development of autonomous vehicles is how to handle complex situations. If an autonomous vehicle ends up in a situation where it cannot make a decision on its own it will cause the car to stop, unable to continue driving. For these situations, human intervention is required. By making it possible to control the car remotely there is no need for an actual human in the car. Instead, a human operator can remotely control one or several cars from a distance. The purpose of this project was to identify such complex situations, evaluate remote control options and implement one of these controllers to drive the SVEA cars in the Smart Mobility Lab. After evaluation of possible remote control options, the PlayStation controller was chosen to be the simplest and most intuitive steering option. The controller was successfully implemented ﬁrst in simulation and then on the SVEA cars in the Smart Mobility Lab. A test track was designed to measure the performance of the implemented controller and to be able to measure user-friendliness through a survey. It was concluded that a majority of the participants would not feel comfortable steering a real car using the PlayStation controller. However, a more extensive evaluation would be required to draw any major conclusions.
Elevated MMP-12 protein levels in induced sputum from COPD patients.

Background: Several Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMP’s) are involved in the pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). In mice, MMP-12 plays a crucial role in the development of cigarette smoke induced emphysema. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the role of MMP-12 in the development of COPD in human smokers. Methods: Induced sputum samples were collected from stable COPD patients (n = 28), healthy smokers (n = 14), never smokers (n = 20) and former smokers (n = 14). MMP-12 protein levels in induced sputum were determined by ELISA and compared between the four study groups. MMP-12 enzymatic activity in induced sputum was evaluated by casein zymography and by cleaving of a fluorescence-quenched substrate. Results: Median (IQR) MMP-12 levels were significantly higher in COPD patients when compared to healthy smokers, never smokers and former smokers (17.5 (7.1-42.1) v 6.7 (3.9-10.4) v 4.2 (2.4-11.3) v 6.1 (4.5-7.6) ng/ml, p = 0.0002). MMP-12 enzymatic activity was significantly higher in COPD patients compared to controls (4.11 (1.4-8.0) v 0.14 (0.1-0.2) µg/µl respectively, p = 0.0002). Conclusion: MMP-12 is markedly increased in induced sputum from stable COPD patients when compared to controls, suggesting a role for MMP-12 in the development of COPD in smokers.
Angiogenesis and Pseudo-Vasculogenesisin Human Placenta: Early Trophoblast Invasion and Spiral Artery Remodelling

Placental trophoblasts have a heterogeneous group of immature cell populations including stem cells. These cells undergo a series of molecular events such as proliferation, migration, and metastasis to produce blood vessels. The cytotrophoblast cells undergo two different but inter-connected pathways to establish a functional placenta in humans. The first one, the invasive pathway, leads tospiral artery remodelling (psudo-vaculogenesis) and thereby increases the placental blood flow; and the other, non-invasive pathway, produce villous circulation (angiogenesis). Both processes are tightly controlled by several internal and external factors; many of which, the functions and the control mechanisms are yet to be elucidated. Although these steps resemble the events in tumorigenesis, unlike tumour, the trophoblast cells proliferate and then invade. Therefore their tumour-like behaviour is kept at check. Since placentation resembles tumour invasion, understanding the factors/mechanisms that control trophoblast invasion may help us to identify target molecules for cancer chemotherapy.
Merging the State-Space Representation and the Mean-Variance Characterization of the Efficient Frontier

In financial economics the classical mean-variance characterization and the orthogonal state-space representation of the efficient frontier coexist. In this paper we establish a link between these approaches to the efficient frontier. The two orthogonal payoffs which span the efficient frontier in the state-space and the two portfolios which allow to construct the efficient frontier in the classical mean-variance world are related to each other explicitly. Basically, a decomposition of the two orthogonal spanning payoffs in the state-space is provided. The results allow to switch between both approaches to the efficient frontier quickly and easily.
atural resistance to experimental feline infectious peritonitis virus nfection is decreased rather than increased by positive genetic election

A previous study demonstrated the existence of a natural resistance to feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV) among 36% of randomly bred laboratory cats. A genome wide association study (GWAS) on this population suggested that resistance was polygenic but failed to identify any strong specific associations. In order to enhance the power of GWAS or whole genome sequencing to identify strong genetic associations, a decision was made to positively select for resistance over three generations. The inbreeding experiment began with a genetically related parental (P) population consisting of three toms and four queens identified from among the survivors of the earlier study and belonging to a closely related subgroup (B). The subsequent effects of inbreeding were measured using 42 genome-wide STR markers. P generation cats produced 57 first filial (F1) kittens, only five of which (9.0%) demonstrated a natural ositive selection nbreeding resistance to FIPV infection. One of these five F1 survivors was then used to produce six F1/P-backcrosses kittens, only one of which proved resistant to FIP. Six of eight of the F1 and F1/P survivors succumbed to a secondary exposure 4–12 months later. Therefore, survival after both primary and secondary infection was decreased rather than increased by positive selection for resistance. The common genetic factor associated with this diminished resistance was a loss of heterozygosity. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND
Développement d'un banc de test par gonflement de membranes destiné à la caractérisation mécanique de matériaux déposés en films minces

L'objectif de la these est de developper et optimiser un banc de test pour la caracterisation mecanique des materiaux deposes en film minces. Les MEMS qui comportent des parties mecaniques mobiles doivent atteindre des performances maitrisees. Ces parties mobiles sont soumises a des forces, a des differences de temperatures, a des contraintes, des deformations. Les caracteristiques des materiaux qui les composent doivent etre bien connues comme dans tout systeme mecanique. Ces principales caracteristiques sont : le module d'Young, les contraintes residuelles de fabrication, la limite elastique et bien d'autres liees a la fiabilite. A l'echelle des microsystemes elles dependent etroitement du processus de fabrication et n'ont souvent rien a voir avec celles du meme materiau pris a l'echelle macroscopique, de telle sorte qu'il est quasiment obligatoire d'effectuer des mesures a chaque nouvelle fabrication. Parmi les tests possibles, le gonflement de membrane presente des avantages decisifs : il donne des resultats suffisamment precis pour la conception des MEMS, il est non destructif, il donne en meme temps le module d'Young et les contraintes residuelles. Lie a un modele de comportement aux elements finis il permet d'atteindre quasiment toutes les caracteristiques d'elasticite, de plasticite et de rupture. Le test de gonflement consiste a appliquer une pression hydrostatique sur une face de la membrane dans le but de la faire flechir. Les releves de mesure de la pression en fonction de la deflexion sont utilises pour extraire les proprietes mecaniques du materiau moyennant un modele mathematique ou numerique approprie qui traduit le comportement de la membrane. Si le principe de cette technique est relativement simple, la mise en œuvre, quant a elle, est source de beaucoup de difficultes. Celles-ci concernent aussi bien la mise en place d'un appareillage performant capable de mesurer avec precision la pression et la deflexion a l'echelle des microstructures, que l'interpretation de la theorie elle-meme decrivant l'evolution de la pression en fonction de la deflexion au centre de la membrane. Nous avons mis en place un protocole d'essai fiable qui permet de tirer le maximum de precision de la mesure tout en ayant un processus largement automatise de sorte que ce banc est desormais utilisable par un industriel pour un cout de main d'œuvre raisonnable. Nos travaux de recherches s'articulent autour de trois thematiques : La premiere est consacree a la mise en place d'un mode operatoire optimise qui permet de caracteriser mecaniquement des materiaux deposes en couches minces. Dans la deuxieme nous avons developpe des techniques basees sur les calculs par elements finis pour caracteriser des membranes rectangulaires avec un rapport geometrique quelconque et qui manquaient jusque-la. La troisieme est une application de la technique de gonflement a certains materiaux utilises dans la fabrication des MEMS.
Azithromycin and Cardiac Arrhythmias

Azithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic that is widely used for the treatment of various infections. Furthermore, it is prescribed for long periods of time in inflammatory airway or cardiovascular diseases. There have been reports of induction of cardiac arrhythmias that in some cases result to death after administration of azithromycin. Prolonged QTc-interval in the form of rectangulated potentials has been suggested to be linked to arrhythmic cardiac death in patients that had already prolonged QTc as well as in patients with no previous problems. However, attempts to study the mechanism(s) elucidating the origin of these arrhythmias, mostly implemented in animal models, did not reveal any clear arrhythmogenic substrate, making the need for further investigation more eminent. Even though azithromycin appears to be less cardiotoxic than other antibiotics, the prescription of this drug should be made under caution so as not to have the genesis of arrhythmias that could be fatal.
Murine Intestinal Tract Effects of Anthrax Lethal Toxin in the Neutrophil Elastase Mediates Pathogenic

Neutrophils isolated from BALB/c or C57BL/6 mice and treated in vitro with anthrax lethal toxin release bioactive neutrophil elastase, a proinﬂammatory mediator of tissue destruction. Similarly, neutrophils isolated from mice treated with anthrax lethal toxin in vivo and cultured ex vivo release greater amounts of elastase than neutrophils from vehicle-treated controls. Direct meas-urements from murine intestinal tissue samples demonstrate an anthrax lethal toxin-dependent increase in neutrophil elastase activity in vivo as well. These ﬁndings correlate with marked lethal toxin-induced intestinal ulceration and bleeding in neutrophil elastase +/+ animals, but not in neutrophil elastase 2 / 2 animals. Moreover, neutrophil elastase 2 / 2 mice have a signiﬁcant survival advantage over neutrophil elastase +/+ animals following exposure to anthrax lethal toxin, thereby establishing a key role for neutrophil elastase in mediating the deleterious effects of anthrax lethal toxin. The Journal of Immunology , 2010, 185: 000–000.
Prevalence and determinants of fertility desire among HIV-positive 1 women in Rwanda in the context of improved life expectancy : a 2 statistical analysis of cross-sectional data 3 4

13 Background: The knowledge of the key determinants of fertility desire among people living 14 with HIV/AIDS is crucial for the design of efficient maternal and child health care 15 programs. However, such determinants are not well understood in the context of a successful 16 scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Rwanda. The present study aim was to assess fertility 17 desire among HIVpositive women and its determinants in Rwanda. 18 * Correspondence: fniragire@gmail.com 1 Department of Applied Statistics, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
Hurley, Matthew and McKeeve, Tricia M. and Prayle, Andrew P. and Smyth, Alan R. and Fogarty, Andrew W. (2014) Rate of improvement of CF life expectancy exceeds that of general population: observational death

Background: It is unclear why cystic fibrosis (CF) survival has improved. We wished to quantify increases in CF median age of death in the context of general population survival improvement. Method: Death registration data analysis (US, England & Wales (E&W)—1972–2009). Results: CF median age of death is higher in US than E&W and greater for males, opposite to that of death from all causes. CF median age of death has increased by 0.543 life years per year (E&W, US combined (95% confidence interval 0.506, 0.582)). The difference in median age at death between those dying from all causes and CF decreased in both territories. CF median age of death for males is greater than for females in both territories. This gap has not narrowed. Conclusion: The median age of death of people with CF is improving more rapidly than that of the general population in US and E&W. © 2013 European Cystic Fibrosis Society. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A SINGULAR DEMAILLY-PĂUN THEOREM UN THÉORÈME DE DEMAILLY-PĂUN SINGULIER

We give a numerical characterization of the Kähler cone of a possibly singular compact analytic variety which is embedded in a smooth ambient space. Résumé. On donne une caractérisation numérique du cône kählérien d’une variété analytique compacte qui est plongée dans un espace ambiant lisse.