Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gorlin syndrome : a case report

He denied any same history and lesions in his family and child. Patient’s medical, personal and family history was non-contributory. In physical examination dysmorphic features such as macrocephaly, prognatism and linear scar of operation in right side of his mandible were observed. Inspection revealed numerous (over 20) pigmented, some skin colour, papules and nodes on his cheeks, eyebrow, nose and scalp, predominantly on sun exposed areas (Fig. 1a). Some of these lesions were erosive. No regional lymph node was involved. The skin of his palms has tiny pits (Fig. 1b).
Technology Shocks: Novel Implications for International Business Cycles

Understanding the joint dynamics of international prices and quantities remains a central issue in international business cycles. International relative prices appreciate when domestic consumption and output increase more than their foreign counterparts. In addition, both trade flows and trade prices display sizable volatility. This paper incorporates Hicks-neutral and investment-specific technology shocks into a standard two-country general equilibrium model with variable capacity utilization and weak wealth effects on labor supply. Investment-specific technology shocks introduce a source of fluctuations in absorption similar to taste shocks, thus reconciling theory and data. The paper also presents implications for the transmission mechanism of technology shocks across countries and for the Barro and King (1984) critique of investment shocks.
The Las Cruces Trench Site: Characterization, Experimental Results, and One‐Dimensional Flow Predictions

A comprehensive field trench study was conducted in a semiarid area of southern New Mexico to provide data to test deterministic and stochastic models of vadose zone flow and transport. A 4 m by 9 m area was irrigated with water containing a tracer using a carefully controlled drip irrigation system. The area was heavily instrumented with tensiometers and neutron probe access tubes to monitor water movement and with suction tubes to monitor solute transport. Approximately 600 disturbed and 600 core samples of soil were taken to support deterministic and stochastic characterization of the soil water hydraulic parameters. The core sample-based saturated hydraulic conductivities ranged from 1.4 to 6731 cm/d with a mean of 533 cm/d and a standard deviation of 647 cm/d, indicating significant spatial variability. However, visual observation of the wetting front on the trench wall shows no indication of preferential flow or water flow through visible root channels and cracks. The tensiometer readings and the neutron probe measurements also suggest that the wetting front moves in a fairly homogeneous fashion despite the significant spatial variability of the saturated hydraulic conductivity. In addition to the description of the experiment and the presentation of the experimental results, predictions of simple one-dimensional uniform and layered soil deterministic models for infiltration are presented and compared to field observations. These models are presented here to provide a base case against which more sophisticated deterministic and stochastic models can be compared in the future. The results indicate that the simple models give adequate predictions of the overall movement of the wetting front through the soil during infiltration. However, the models give poor predictions of point values for water content due to the spatial variability of the soil. Comparisons between the one-dimensional infiltration model predictions and field observations show that the use of the layered soil model rather than the uniform soil model does not consistently improve the accuracy of the predictions for this particular field application. This result illustrates that increasing the spatial resolution of the deterministic characterization of the site in the vertical direction does not always improve the model predictions. Uncertainties due to horizontal spatial variability and due to other difficulties associated with experimental characterization appear to be more significant.
Comparison of Prognostic Models in Acute Liver Failure: Decision is to be Dynamic

ABSTRACT Background and aims Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare disease entity with a high mortality. Management is dependent on accurate prognostication. Materials and methods One hundred consecutive patients presenting with ALF were prospectively evaluated. The King's college criteria (KCC), ALF early dynamic model (ALFED), sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, and acute physiology and health evaluation II (APACHE II) scores were compared to predict mortality. Results There were significant differences in means of all the scores between survivors and nonsurvivors. The SOFA 48 hours had the highest area under receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) (0.857) closely followed by the ALFED score (0.844). The optimal cutoff for the SOFA score at 48 hours to predict subsequent survival outcome is ≥10 and for the ALFED score is ≥5. Sequential organ failure assessment 48 hours had a good sensitivity of 87%, and the ALFED score showed a good specificity of 84%. The decision curve analysis showed that between a threshold probability of 0.13 and 0.6, use of the SOFA score provided the maximum net benefit and at threshold probabilities of >0.6, the use of ALFED score provided the maximum clinical benefit. Conclusion Dynamic scoring results in better prognostication in ALF. The SOFA 48 hours and ALFED score have good prognostication value in nonacetaminophen-induced liver failure. How to cite this article Saluja V, Sharma A, Pasupuleti SSR, Mitra LG, Kumar G, Agarwal PM. Comparison of Prognostic Models in Acute Liver Failure: Decision is to be Dynamic. Indian J Crit Care Med 2019;23(12):574–581.
Effect of finger millet varieties on chemical characteristics of their malts

Chemical changes during germination and malting characteristics of six Nepalese finger millet varieties (GPU 0025, GE 5016, Dalle, Okhle, Kabre and Juwain) were studied. Millets were steeped in water at room temperature overnight, germinated for 48 h at 28±1°C, kilned at 50±2°C for 24 h and then, chemical characteristics of unmalted and malted millets were analyzed. Germination increased (p<0.05) total reducing sugar and glucose contents in all millet varieties. Starch, amylose and amylopectin contents in unmalted millets were between 71.32 to 79.86, 20.39 to 24.13, and 49.11 to 55.72% dry basis (db) respectively; whereas, those of malted millets were 63.74 to 67.12, 16.62 to 19.27 and 44.47 to 50.18% (db) respectively. Similarly, total phenolics (as gallic acid), total flavonoids (as rutin) and tannin (as tannic acid) contents in unmalted millets ranged from 60.9 to 229.2, 35.2 to 141.7 and 169.9 to 566.0 mg% (db) respectively; whereas, the values in malted millets were 123.1 to 247.8, 50.1 to 236.3 and 173.7 to 301.8 mg% (db) respectively. Except in GE 5016 and Juwain millets, malting decreased (p<0.05) antioxidant activity in other varieties. Malt extract analysis revealed that all malt extracts possessed aromatic odor and showed negative starch-iodine test. Filtration rate of Juwain malt extract was slow but it was normal in other extracts. The color (EBC unit), free amino nitrogen (FAN) (mg% as glycine) and total reducing sugar (% m/v as maltose) contents in extracts were 2.77 to 5.78, 2.6 to 9.0 and 4.50 to 6.93, respectively. Glucose (%, m/v) and extract yield of malt (%, db) ranged from 1.22 to 2.51 and 80.20 to 88.83, respectively. Total soluble solids (TSS) (o Bx), pH, extract (%, m/m), FAN (mg% m/v) and total reducing sugar (% m/m as maltose) in worts derived from Dalle, Kabre and Juwain millet malts were in the range of 12.43 to 13.07, 5.44 to 5.66, 12.0 to 12.7, 19.5 to 20.3 and 7.64 to 10.45, respectively.
ASTER DEMs for volcano topographic mapping: Accuracy and limitations

High spatial resolution topographic data is essential to assist volcanic field work, for volcano morphology analyses, and for hazard modelling of volcanic flow processes. The stereoscopic capability of ASTER data provides the opportunity to derive DEMs at a spatial resolution of 15 m for the many regions lacking accurate topographic maps. Case studies of digital photogrammetry applications with ASTER data are presented for Mauna Kea and Oldoinyo Lengai volcanoes, in Hawaii and Tanzania, respectively. The accuracy of the results is quantitatively assessed against high-resolution topographic datasets and compared with the new SRTM data. High accuracy Ground Control Points (GCPs), extracted from a 1:24.000 topographic map, allowed good absolute orientation of the ASTER DEM for Mauna Kea. Small errors in the image matching process, due to low image contrast, however, resulted in small-scale artefacts. Compared with a topographic dataset with 10 m resolution, an RMSE of 13 m is obtained, twice the error obtained with the 30 m SRTM DEM (i.e. 6 m). Using GPS data acquired for other purposes, the accuracy of the absolute orientation for the Lengai ASTER DEM is poorer. The ASTER DEM, however, proves accurate for relative elevation measurements of features higher than 100 m. ASTER offers the possibility to derive DEMs with a resolution up to 6 times higher than that provided by SRTM. It is nevertheless limited by cloud coverage and requires high accuracy GPS data points (GCPs), specifically collected in the field for accurate absolute orientation. The problem of small-scale topographic artefacts can be solved by multiple DEMs combination or by low pass filtering, the latter inducing a loss of effective spatial resolution.
Better Than Concrete : Implications for the Psychological and Neural Representation of Concrete Concepts

Better Than Concrete: Implications for the Psychological and Neural Representation of Concrete Concepts Sarah D. Breedin, Eleanor M. Saffran, and H. Branch Coslett Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Temple University Vol. 8, no. 2, April 1994 Analogic and Metaphoric Mapping in Blended Spaces: Menendez Brothers Virus Seana Coulson Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD Vol. 9, no. 1, February 1995 In Search of the Statistical Brain Javier Movellan Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD Vol. 9, no. 2, March 1995 Connectionist Modeling of the Fast Mapping Phenomenon Jeanne Milostan Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD Vol. 9, no. 3, July 1995 Representing the Structure of a Simple Context-Free Language in a Recurrent Neural Network: A Dynamical Systems Approach Paul Rodriguez Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD Vol. 10, no. 1, October 1995 CRL Newsletter November 1995 Vol. 10, No. 2 3 A Brain Potential Whose Latency Indexes the Length and Frequency of Words Jonathan W. King† and Marta Kutas†* †Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD *Department of Neurosciences, UCSD
Differences in reading acquisition development in two shallow orthographies: Portuguese and Spanish

The present study examines the role of the relative transparency of Portuguese and Spanish orthographies in schoolchildren's word recognition procedures. Both Portuguese and Spanish may be considered as transparent orthographies. However, mappings at the grapheme–phoneme level are more consistent in Spanish than in Portuguese. Four groups of Portuguese and Spanish children from grades 1, 2, 3, and 4, who had been taught to read using a phonics-based approach, were given a Portuguese and a Spanish version of three different continuous reading tasks: numeral reading, number word reading, and pseudoword reading. Reading time per item was measured and errors noted. Improvement in reading time was observed in both orthographies from grades 1 to 4. There were no errors in numeral recognition and few children made errors in reading the number words. In pseudoword reading, the Spanish children were faster and made fewer errors than the Portuguese children. Errors in pseudoword reading were scored as phonological when leading to the production of another pseudoword and as lexical when involving refusals and/or the production of a real word. Portuguese children made more phonological errors than the Spanish group, and there was no difference in the number of lexical errors. The results are discussed in terms of the role played by the differing orthographic transparency of Spanish and Portuguese in young readers' word recognition procedures.
Work Engagement : A Handbook of Essential Theory and Research

Leiter, Bakker, Work Engagement: State of the Art. Schaufeli, Bakker, Defining and Measuring Work Engagement: Bringing Clarity to the Concept. Sonnentag, Dormann, Demerouti, Not All Days are Created Equal: The Concept of State Work Engagement. Taris, Schaufeli, Shimazu, The Push and Pull of Work: The Differences between Workaholism and Work Engagement. Sweetman, Lutgans, The Power of Positive Psychology: Psychological Capital and Work Engagement. Shirom, Feeling Energetic at Work: On Vigor's Antecendents. Hakanen, Roodt, Using the Job-Demands-Resources Model to Predict Engagement: Analysing a Conceptual Model. Halbesleben, A Meta-analysis of Work Engagement: Relationships with Burnout, Demands, Resources and Consequences. Salanova, Schaufeli, Xanthopoulou, Bakker, The Gain Spiral of Resources and Work Engagement: Sustaining a Positive Worklife. Spreitzer, Lam, Fritz, Engagement and Human Thriving: Complementary Perspectives on Energy and Connections to Work. Demerouti, Cropanzano, From Thought to Action: Employee Work Engagement And Job Performance. Leiter, Maslach, Building Engagement: The Design and Evaluation of Interventions. Bakker, Leiter, Where To Go From Here: Integration and Future Research on Work Engagement.
The Role of Roots in Slope Stability

The presence of roots is highly influential on slope stability. The strength properties of the roots and the extensiveness of the root network dictate the degree of mechanical stabilization. Research surrounding this topic has expanded significantly in the last thirty years due to the attention gathered from deforestation in mountainous areas leading to landslides and slope failures (Nilaweera & Nutalaya, 1999). Roots provide mechanical stabilization of slopes through its tensile strength, frictional properties and bending stiffness. An ideal slope contains both fine and coarse roots, as both offer different advantages. Fine roots have higher tensile strengths and are effective at stabilizing the upper soil layers while coarse roots extend into greater depths of the soil and aid in anchoring large volumes of soil. The growth of roots among other factors can create continuous macropores known as soil pipes. Soil pipes improve drainage, which help to dissipate pore water pressure and is especially important in slopes experiencing large volumes of rainfall. However, when soil pipes become eroded and the cavities become blocked, water can build up and cause a slope failure.
Does One Size Fit All? The CPI and Canadian Seniors

The paper shows that the consumer price index (CPI) is often a very poor measure of inflation rates relevant to individual senior households. A high proportion of the inflation rates measured by household-specific price indexes falls more than one percentage point above or below the CPI inflation rate. Moreover, I use the Engel method proposed by Hamilton and Costa and demonstrate that the CPI inflation rate overestimated the average inflation rate faced by Canadian senior households during the 1970s and the 1980s but has accurately measured average inflation for such households during the 1990s. Finally, I estimate costs of overstating inflation adjustments to Canada Pension Plan.
Home Cooking, Food Consumption and Food Production among the Unemployed and Retired Households *

Utilizing the 1996 Canadian Food Expenditure survey matched with Canadian Nutrient File, we separate actual food consumption from observed expenditure and test the Permanent Income/Life Cycle Hypothesis on the true consumption data. We find that the lower food expenditure during periods of unemployment or retirement (previously reported in the literature), does not translate into poorer nutrition. Household calorie intake and major nutrient intake seem to be unaffected by changes in employment status. We find evidence that unemployed or retired households substitute food purchased from restaurants for food purchased for at home consumption. Further, with the 1998 Time Use Survey we find that individuals who are not employed devote more time for food preparation. Finally we present limited evidence that unemployed and retired households substitute precooked meals for meals made from primary ingredients.
Caracterización molecular de cepas de Bacillus Thuringiensis con propiedades entomocidas, para vectores transmisores de enfermedades metaxénicas (dengue)

Bacillus thuringiensis (B. thuringiensis), is a Gram-positive bacterium, that forms a parasporal crystals with insecticidal activity against different insect orders. Bioinsecticides manufactured with B. thuringiensis spores and crystals are a useful alternative to synthetic chemical pesticide in agriculture and for mosquito control. B. thuringiensis has also been used successfully to suppress the population levels of medically important dipteran pests. Examples include the mosquito vectors of malaria, virus diseases including dengue. It was characterized 53 strains peruanas of Bacillus thuringiensis with entomocidal properties from soil Peruvian’s farms of the deparments of Junin, Lima (Huaral), Ica, Cuzco, Tacna, Arequipa, Chiclayo y Cajamarca, two: Ica10 y Caj1 with activity against Aedes aegypti. There are strains with toxins betwen 36 y 116kDa. Strains with bands to 97 and 70KDa, as those of Arequipa, Cajamarca and Chiclayo, which would be entomocidal with band of 130 kDa that correspond to cry gen, toxic to Lepidoptera and Diptera. Cry2 gene was the most abundant (92%), followed by cry1 (45%) and cry 4 (42%), which means that the strains would have activity against Dipterans. The sequencing confirms the content of cry genes in most of the analyzed strains. The strain Cuz5 as variety cries 2Ab. The PCR method is effective to rapidly characterize the strains based on the content of genes that amplify with known sequences of oligonucleotidos and REP-PCR shows patterns of different bands in the isolated strains that could mean genetic variability among the studied strains, the dendogram allows to group them into three clusters and subclusters, that might be due to the varieties of the gene cry.
4. Conclusion

References [1] A. C. Berg et al. " Shape matching and object recognition using low distortion correspondences, " Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. 1, pp. 26–33, 2005. [2] E. Otte et al. " Social network analysis: a powerful strategy, also for the information sciences, " [4] M. Leordeanu et al. " A spectral technique for correspondence problems using pairwise constraints ". Promising direction to tackle graph matching in real-world scenes: ‒ analyse the individual graph structure ‒ explore graph's own characteristic and hidden constraints 3. Experiments • Comparison with SM (Spectral Matching) [4] and RRWM (Re-weighted Random Walk Graph Matching) [5] • CMU dataset: same object, deformation increases with temporal baseline ‒ graph nodes: manually labeled points in images • Intra-class dataset: different objects, various poses with different background ‒ graph nodes: MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Regions) feature points in images Common linkage information evaluation (local) Active association nodes ranking (global) • Graph matching challenges in real-world scenes: ‒ unreliable nodes (do not necessarily have true matches) ‒ false correspondences due to inaccurate descriptors ‒ insufficient constraints of IQP (Integer Quadratic Programming) model [1]
Mechanical properties at nano-level

Nowadays the recent growing interest for nanotechnology leads us to want to understand the materials at nano-scale. This thesis aims to deepen into the materials mechanical properties from a molecular point of view. Molecular Dynamics (MD) is the simulation tecnique that is going to be used to understand molecules behavior. The software that uses this kind of simulation is called Lammps and during this thesis we will see how to perform a simulation to extract the elastic constants and other mechanical properties. In order to get a real and useful simulation, a copper nanowire is going to be performed with this program, from which its Young’s Modulus is going to be find and used to describe the mechanical properties.
Marijuana Dependence and Its Treatment

The prevalence of marijuana abuse and dependence disorders has been increasing among adults and adolescents in the United States. This paper reviews the problems associated with marijuana use, including unique characteristics of marijuana dependence, and the results of laboratory research and treatment trials to date. It also discusses limitations of current knowledge and potential areas for advancing research and clinical intervention.
3D Reconstruction of Individual Anatomy from Medical Image Data: Segmentation and Geometry Processing

For medical diagnosis, visualization, and model-based therapy planning three-dimensional geometric reconstructions of individual anatomical structures are often indispensable. Computer-assisted, model-based planning procedures typically cover specific modifications of “virtual anatomy” as well as numeric simulations of associated phenomena, like e.g. mechanical loads, fluid dynamics, or diffusion processes, in order to evaluate a potential therapeutic outcome. Since internal anatomical structures cannot be measured optically or mechanically in vivo, three-dimensional reconstruction of tomographic image data remains the method of choice. In this work the process chain of individual anatomy reconstruction is described which consists of segmentation of medical image data, geometrical reconstruction of all relevant tissue interfaces, up to the generation of geometric approximations (boundary surfaces and volumetric meshes) of three-dimensional anatomy being suited for finite element analysis. All results presented herein are generated with amira ® – a highly interactive software system for 3D data analysis, visualization and geometry reconstruction.
Trends and Patterns of WWW Browsing Behavior

Are there any trends in web browsing behavior by individual users? On the popularity of web sites? On the frequency of revisitation? These are questions that we address in this work. Our study uses an extensive clickstream data from U.S. households from July 1997 to December 1999. It is unique, for several reasons: (1) it uses an extensive clickstream data from U.S. households for a long interval (30 months), and (2) it uses web viewing patterns captured from the browser window, as opposed to relying upon hits recorded in server logs, and (3) these users comprise a representative sample of U.S. web users. We present some surprising empirical regularities that seem to hold consistently for the time-span of our dataset. Specifically, we found that (a) the growth of the internet usage seems exponential over time, with a growth rate of about 2.4% per month (b) the growth is mainly due to the new users, while the per-user behavior seems to remain stable over time (c) the popularity of web sites (visits per month per user) seems to follow a power law, with slope about -1.2 (d) the ‘stickiness’, that is, revisitation patterns (inter-arrival times) follows another power law, with slope -. 6.