nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Conocimiento, aceptacion y uso de la medicina tradicional, alternativa y/o complementaria por medicos del Seguro Social de Salud

Objetivo: determinar el conocimiento, aceptacion y uso de la medicina tradicional, alternativa y/o complementaria (MTAC) en un grupo de medicos del Seguro Social de Salud (EsSalud) Materiales y metodos estudio transversal, descriptivo. Se realizo un muestreo monoetapico por conglomerado entre medicos pertenecientes a redes asistenciales de Lima, a quienes se les aplico una encuesta validada por expertos y luego en una prueba piloto (alfa de cronbach=0,80) Se calcularon los porcentajes de niveles de conocimiento, aceptacion y uso de las terapias de MTAC. Resultados se evaluo a 412 medicos de los cuales el 68,2% se encontraban entre los 40 y 60 anos. El 64,6% de la muestra eran de sexo masculino. El 85,4% de los encuestados conocian la diferencia entre medicina tradicional y medicina lternativa/complementaria; el 82% remitiria a los pacientes a los servicios de Medicina Complementaria y el 56,1% ha realizado una referencia a medicina complementaria. El 80,1% aceptaria la ensenanza de MTAC en pregrado y el 78,9% tiene una percepcion positiva de la MTAC. La terapia alternativa mas conocida y aceptada fue la acupuntura seguida de la itoterapia (77,8 y 65,9% respectivamente) mientras la mas usada fue la itoterapia (22,4% Conclusiones los medicos de las redes asistenciales de Lima de EsSalud tienen un nivel alto de conocimiento y aceptacion hacia la MTAC, sobre todo a metodos como acupuntura y itoterapia. Se recomienda enfatizar en las estrategias de difusion e informacion sobre MTAC para poder incrementar la cifra de pacientes referidos.
Formacion, registro y la practica autorizada de la medicina tradicional, alternativa y complementaria OMS Macao/China 2014

Muchos paises estan reconociendo la contribucion potencial de la medicina tradicional alternativa y complementaria (MT/MAC) a la salud, el bienestar de las personas y al sistema oficial de salud, tal es asi que existe un creciente interes por evaluar aspectos relativos a la formacion, practicas autorizadas y al registro de los profesionales de MT/MAC. Objetivo. Sistematizar las experiencias expuestas por diferentes paises en el Taller de Capacitacion Interregional de la OMS sobre el registro y la practica autorizada de la MT/MAC RAE Macao China 2014. Para ello se ha seleccionado algunas experiencias de los cuarenta y uno expertos participantes, entre ellas: Hong Kong/China, China, Macao/China, Iran, India y Peru.  Algunos paises/regiones como: Hong Kong/China, Macao/China, China las practicas de MT/MAC estan integradas en el sistema oficial de salud; otros paises como India y Peru realizan las practicas de MT/MAC con equipos basicos. En relacion a la formacion y registro en Hong Kong/China, Macao/China y China cuentan con centros de educacion superior oficialmente reconocidos en el que se imparten conocimientos en MT/MAC a nivel de pregrado, postgrado (maestria y doctorados) y estudios basicos de corta duracion (3 anos) asimismo, estas regiones cuentan con diversos comites de MT/MAC orientadas a la evaluacion registro certificacion y vigilancia en el ejercicio etico de MT/MAC.
Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (PCL 5) in veterans.
Venue: Psychological assessment

This study examined the psychometric properties of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (PCL 5; Weathers, Litz, et al. 2013b) in 2 independent samples of veterans receiving care at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center (N 468) A subsample of these participants (n 140) was used to define a valid diagnostic cutoff score for the instrument using the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale for DSM 5 (CAPS 5; Weathers, Blake, et al. 2013) as the reference standard. The PCL 5 test scores demonstrated good internal consistency (a .96) test retest reliability (r .84) and convergent and discriminant validity. Consistent with previous studies (Armour et al. 2015; Liu et al. 2014) confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the data were best explained by a 6 factor anhedonia model and a 7 factor hybrid model. Signal detection analyses using the CAPS 5 revealed that PCL 5 scores of 31 to 33 were optimally efficient for diagnosing PTSD (k(.5) .58) Overall, the findings suggest that the PCL 5 is a psychometrically sound instrument that can be used effectively with veterans. Further, by determining a valid cutoff score using the CAPS 5, the PCL 5 can now be used to identify veterans with probable PTSD. However, findings also suggest the need for research to evaluate cluster structure of DSM 5.
Psychometric analysis of the PTSD Checklist 5 (PCL 5) among treatment seeking military service members.
Venue: Psychological assessment

The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL 5; Weathers et al. 2013) was recently revised to reflect the changed diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) We investigated the psychometric properties of PCL 5 scores in a large cohort (N 912) of military service members seeking PTSD treatment while stationed in garrison. We examined the internal consistency, convergent and discriminant validity, and DSM 5 factor structure of PCL 5 scores, their sensitivity to clinical change relative to PTSD Symptom Scale Interview (PSS I; Foa, Riggs, Dancu, Rothbaum, 1993) scores, and their diagnostic utility for predicting a PTSD diagnosis based on various measures and scoring rules. PCL 5 scores exhibited high internal consistency. There was strong agreement between the order of hypothesized and observed correlations among PCL 5 and criterion measure scores. The best fitting structural model was a 7 factor hybrid model (Armour et al. 2015) which demonstrated closer fit than all other models evaluated, including the DSM 5 model. The PCL 5's sensitivity to clinical change, pre to posttreatment, was comparable with that of the PSS I. Optimally efficient cut scores for predicting PTSD diagnosis were consistent with prior research with service members (Hoge, Riviere, Wilk, Herrell, Weathers, 2014) The results indicate that the PCL 5 is a psychometrically sound measure of DSM 5 PTSD symptoms that is useful for identifying provisional PTSD diagnostic status, quantifying PTSD symptom severity, and detecting clinical change over time in PTSD symptoms among service members seeking treatment.
A Smart Device Integrated with an Android for Alerting a Person's Health Condition: Internet of Things

The main objective is to develop a smart device, which is integrated in order to help the aged people during the time of medical emergency situations using Internet of Things (IoT)  The technical methodology implemented is to develop a smart device which works on the basic support of the android application. The device serving people in danger is built using the smart phone applications, Bluetooth transmitter and receiver and microcontroller (Kiel micro vision) Kiel micro vision is an integrated development environment used to create software to be run on embedded system (like a microcontroller) Effective Quality of Service (QoS) is achieved using the concept of IoT.  The concept of IoT is implemented in order to develop an environment which provides a unique way to communicate and transfer data from one end to the other end. The Internet of Things is a new way implementation in the field of medical background, which acts as a media for information retrieval from physical world to digital world, which is enhanced by the support of android platform. Hence the embedded system together constitutes two devices: Stationary device and a Movable device. The Stationary device is inbuilt with an ATMEL Microcontroller, RF Receiver, Bluetooth module, Step down transformer, an LCD display, Voltage regulator, resistors and Capacitors. The movable device is inbuilt with two buttons along with a RF Transmitter.  The smart device for alerting a person's critical health condition is of good use as it is less expensive and easy to handle, since the people in need are helped in the right time. Moreover this system can also alert our neighborhood even in situations like robbery. The Stationary device which the person is handling can be made as a device attached to human body, say a watch. The size of the device is made smaller, even though the cost becomes higher. Call features also added instead of message feature because everyone looks on text message.
The case for localised energy management to support resilient cities

Localised energy generation, ownership and management provide a mechanism to address issues of affordability, energy security, infrastructure resilience and the need to reduce greenhouse gases emissions. There is potential for the growth of community energy schemes in the UK. However, small to medium sized schemes find it hard to compete with large energy providers. Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) are created to manage the local production and distribution of energy. In Nottingham, the Meadows Ozone Energy Services (MOZES) is a community owned organisation that aims to reduce their carbon footprint, support experimentation and learning in relation to sustainable energy, support energy self sufficiency, help to provide access to affordable energy, and contribute to socio economic development. In this paper, the authors described some of the benefits that an ESCO can bring to a community drawing on examples from MOZES. The benefits and challenges associated with the implementation of community energy schemes were examined and the results of a questionnaire administered to residents of the Meadows community are presented for the first time. Conclusions are drawn and recommendations are made on how the model developed by MOZES in Nottingham can benefit other communities and contribute to resilient cities for the wider development of distributed energy storage in the UK.
Selling Health and Fitness to Sporty Sisters: A Critical Feminist Multi Modal Discourse Analysis of the Lorna Jane Retail Website

In this paper, I conduct a feminist multimodal critical discourse analysis (FMCDA) of the Lorna Jane (LJ) retail website (www.lornajane.com.au) an Australian fitness fashion company, to examine the discursive strategies used by the company to authorize a particular notion of "active living" for women. Specifically, I shall examine how the semiotic choices on the LJ website signify key discourses and themes related to health and fitness and how they are used to place the responsibility for fitness and health onto individual women. In particular, I focus on the discourses inscribed through the technologies, styles, fabrics, colors, cuts, and sizing of LJ clothing items. I am also interested in the underlying choices, assumptions, and biases of these constructions and the power relationships underpinning them. I conclude that "empowerment" for women on the LJ website is imagined in a limited, individualistic way.
Herbert Walter Levi (1921 2014) and Lorna Levi (1928 2014)
Venue: Breviora

With the death of Herbert Walter Levi on 3 November 2014, a major figure in arachnology was lost. Herb was associated with Harvard University for over 60 years. As Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, he taught Invertebrate Zoology in lecture, laboratory, and in the field. As Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) Curator of Invertebrates, he managed a large and taxonomically diverse collection. Over the course of his career Herb published more than 200 scientific papers and described 1,254 spider species. His descriptions and illustrations set a standard for the field, and his Spiders and Their Kin Golden Guide remains a popular resource. The MCZ benefitted widely from his collecting nearby and abroad. From Herb's original cadre of students several academic generations have entered contemporary arachnology. Sadly, Herb's death was followed shortly by the death of Lorna (Rose) Levi on 15 November 2014, his wife of 65 years, research partner, and co author, and conservationist, naturalist, and educator in her own right. This paper offers a short biography of Herbert W. Levi and lists his publications and named species.
The hard work of leisure: healthy life, activewear and Lorna Jane

Since the 2000s activewear has grown as a fashion category, and the tropes of gym wear leggings, leotards and block colours have become fashionable attire for both men and women outside the gym. This article examines the rise of activewear in the context of an on going dialogue between fashion and sport since the beginning of the twentieth century. Through an analysis of the Australian activewear label, Lorna Jane, we consider the fashionable female body as both the object and subject of a consumer culture that increasingly overlays leisure with fashion. Activewear can be seen as the embodiment of an active and fashionable lifestyle that is achieved through a regime of self discipline, and that symbolizes the pleasure in attaining and displaying the healthy and fit body.
What about Sam The Kid in the Corner Whose Voice Doesn't Come Out? Tensions between Open Discussions and Inclusive Educational Opportunities for English Learners.

This article identifies a tension between a teacher's inten tion and an English learner's interpretation of his experiences in a US high school English class for native users of English and English learners. The tension highlights two issues. First, democratic classroom practices, frequently advocated by second language acquisition theorists, may be misunderstood or misused in general education classrooms. For example, respecting students by giving them the choice to speak or be silent can negatively affect Eng lish learners' opportunities to acquire language, subjectarea content knowledge, and social status as knowers. Second, many general education teachers believe they are unprepared to help English learners develop English or subject area content skills and knowledge. Their lack of preparation can present obstacles for English learners. The author contends that structured, inclusive discussion can benefit English learners' cognitive, academic, linguistic, and social development, while unstructured, open discussion compromises learning opportunities for all students.
Liquid foam assisted sol gel synthesis of iron oxides for hydrogen storage via chemical looping

Chemical looping of iron oxides is capable of storing hydrogen with high capacity and low material costs. In this paper, we prepared iron oxides materials from the liquid foam templated sol gel precursors and demonstrated its application in the chemical looping hydrogen storage process. By tuning the precursor chemistry, we obtained a series of materials with different pore configuration, and found this approach a convenient access to define the material configuration. With assistance of SDS, materials showed promoted porosity and better reactivity compared with the sample without SDS. In particular, samples with isolated pore structure were better able to limit the sintering. By characterizing the materials before and after cycles, we found the confinement effects of pore wall was capable of restraining the growth of the crystalline size, and thus mitigated the material deactivation in the high temperature redox cycles.
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was set up by the Swedish central bank in 1968. The last ten recipients of the prize, worth 8m. Sw. kr. in 2015 (unchanged since 2012, although down from 10m. Sw. kr. for the previous 11 years) are: 2006 Edmund S. Phelps (USA) for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy. 2007 Leonid Hurwicz (USA) Eric S. Maskin (USA) and Roger B. Myerson (USA) for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.
Spark GPU: An accelerated in memory data processing engine on clusters
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)

Apache Spark is an in memory data processing system that supports both SQL queries and advanced analytics over large data sets. In this paper, we present our design and implementation of Spark GPU that enables Spark to utilize GPU's massively parallel processing ability to achieve both high performance and high throughput. Spark GPU transforms a general purpose data processing system into a GPU supported system by addressing several real world technical challenges including minimizing internal and external data transfers, preparing a suitable data format and a batching mode for efficient GPU execution, and determining the suitability of workloads for GPU with a task scheduling capability between CPU and GPU. We have comprehensively evaluated Spark GPU with a set of representative analytical workloads to show its effectiveness. Our results show that Spark GPU improves the performance of machine learning workloads by up to 16.13x and the performance of SQL queries by up to 4.83x.
Text/Image Region Separation for Document Layout Detection of Old Document Images Using Non linear Diffusion and Level Set

Image region separation is the process of identifying location of various text and image regions in a scanned document image. This is particularly helpful in detecting the layout of a scanned document image. The text region thus obtained can be used for optical character recognition (OCR) operation. The text region can be used to label and train automatic layout learning system to detect locations of title, keywords, subheadings, paragraphs, image locations etc. In case of regular image and text boundaries, Profiling or morphological operations can be used for separating the text and image regions and to achieve correct document layout out detection. However, the real world documents will have irregular boundaries and noise, the usual profile based methods and its heuristic often fails. This will lead to incorrect document layouts. This paper proposes to use edge enhancement diffusion and level set method for text/image region separation from scanned document images. The result obtained shows that the proposed method works when the document contain multiple images. The proposed method detects the layout of the scanned document even when the image and the text regions have irregular shape.
ATR FTIR characterization of old pressure sensitive adhesive tapes in historic papers

In this study, several deteriorated pressure sensitive adhesive tapes (PSATs) applied in the past for repairing ripped paper documents of 19th century and books of 20th century were analyzed by attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR FTIR) spectroscopy technique. The comparison of FTIR spectra of the old tapes with those of some commercially available tapes subjected to accelerated aging allowed us to identify, in a fast and nondestructive way, the main classes of old tapes on the basis of their backing (cellophane, cellulose acetate, polyvinyl chloride and polypropylene) and adhesive (natural rubber, synthetic rubber and acrylic polymer) compositions. This procedure's results were very useful to the paper restorers and conservators, who will have the possibility of choosing the most appropriate conservation treatment for the removal of pressure sensitive adhesive tapes that can be found on many paper documents.
Reporting standards for the imaging based diagnosis of renal masses on CT and MRI: a national survey of academic abdominal radiologists and urologists
Venue: Abdominal Radiology

PurposeTo define important elements of a structured radiology report of a CT or MRI performed to evaluate an indeterminate renal mass.MethodsIRB approval was waived for this multi site prospective quality improvement study. A 35 question survey investigating elements of a CT or MRI report describing a renal mass was created through an iterative process by the Society of Abdominal Radiology Disease Focused Panel on renal cell carcinoma. Surveys were distributed to consenting abdominal radiologists and urologists at nine academic institutions. Consensus within and between specialties was defined as =70% agreement. Respondent rates were compared with Chi Square test.ResultsThe response rate was 68% (117/171; 55% [39/71] urologists, 78% [78/100] radiologists) Inter specialty consensus was that the following were essential: mass size with comparison to prior imaging, mass type (cystic vs. solid) presence of fat, presence of enhancement, and radiologic stage. Urologists were more likely to prefer the Nephrometry score (75% [27/36] vs. 22% [17/76] p 0.0001) quantitative reporting of enhancement on CT (85% [32/38] vs. 46% [36/77] p 0.0001) and mass position with respect to the renal polar lines (67% [24/36] vs. 36% [27/76] p 0.002) There was inter specialty consensus that the Bosniak classification for cystic masses was preferred. Most urologists (60% [21/35] preferred management recommendations be omitted for solid masses or Bosniak III IV cystic masses.ConclusionsImportant elements to include in a CT or MRI report of an indeterminate renal mass are critical diagnostic features, the Bosniak classification if relevant, and the most likely specific diagnosis when feasible; including management recommendations is controversial.
Ant colony optimization control of brushless DC motor driving a hybrid electric bike and fed from photovoltaic generator
Venue: 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)

The aim of this work is to design speed and current controllers of a brushless dc (BLDC) motor to drive a hybrid electric bike. The system is fed from two hybrid sources for driving the motor and charging of storage elements; one is a photovoltaic (PV) generator as a green and neat source; and the other is a human powered pedal dc generator. The proposed design of the controllers is formulated as an optimization problem to overcome the most static and dynamic fluctuations of the system. The ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is employed to search for the optimal proportional integral derivative (PID) parameters of the proposed controllers by minimizing the time domain of the objective function. The performance of the system is analysed when using the proposed controller with and without storage elements. Extensive simulation results are provided to validate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed approach against system dynamics and PV fluctuations. The obtained results confirm the better performance of the system with the proposed controllers for several speed trajectories of the drive compared to the classical PID controllers.
Reducing risks to food security from climate change

Climate change will have far reaching impacts on crop, livestock and fisheries production, and will change the prevalence of crop pests. Many of these impacts are already measurable. Climate impact studies are dominated by those on crop yields despite the limitations of climate crop modelling, with very little attention paid to more systems components of cropping, let alone other dimensions of food security. Given the serious threats to food security, attention should shift to an action oriented research agenda, where we see four key challenges: (a) changing the culture of research; (b) deriving stakeholder driven portfolios of options for farmers, communities and countries; (c) ensuring that adaptation actions are relevant to those most vulnerable to climate change; (d) combining adaptation and mitigation.