nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Effects of Acupuncture, Tuina, Tai Chi, Qigong, and Traditional Chinese Medicine Five Element Music Therapy on Symptom Management and Quality of Life for Cancer Patients: A Meta Analysis.
Venue: Journal of pain and symptom management

Most cancer patients suffer from both the disease itself and symptoms induced by conventional treatment. Available literature on the clinical effects on cancer patients of acupuncture, Tuina, Tai Chi, Qigong, and Traditional Chinese Medicine Five Element Music Therapy (TCM FEMT) reports controversial results.  The primary objective of this meta analysis was to evaluate the effect of acupuncture, Tuina, Tai Chi, Qigong, and TCM FEMT on various symptoms and quality of life (QOL) in patients with cancer; risk of bias for the selected trials also was assessed.  Studies were identified by searching electronic databases (MEDLINE via both PubMed and Ovid, Cochrane Central, China National Knowledge Infrastructure,  All randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using acupuncture, Tuina, Tai Chi, Qigong, or TCM FEMT published before October 2, 2014, were selected, regardless of whether the article was published in Chinese or English.  We identified 67 RCTs (5465 patients) that met our inclusion criteria to perform this meta analysis. Analysis results showed that a significant combined effect was observed for QOL change in patients with terminal cancer in favor of acupuncture and Tuina (Cohen's d: 0.21 4.55, P 0.05) whereas Tai Chi and Qigong had no effect on QOL of breast cancer survivors (P 0.05) The meta analysis also demonstrated that acupuncture produced small to large effects on adverse symptoms including pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and some gastrointestinal discomfort; however, no significant effect was found on the frequency of hot flashes (Cohen's d 0.02; 95% CI 1.49 to 1.45; P 0.97; I(2) 36% and mood distress (P 0.05) Tuina relieved gastrointestinal discomfort. TCM FEMT lowered depression level.  Chi improved vital capacity of breast cancer patients. High risk of bias was present in 74.63% of the selected RCTs. Major sources of risk of bias were lack of blinding, allocation concealment, and incomplete outcome data.  Taken together, although there are some clear limitations regarding the body of research reviewed in this study, a tentative conclusion can be reached that acupuncture, Tuina, Tai Chi, Qigong, or TCM FEMT represent beneficial adjunctive therapies. Future study reporting in this field should be improved regarding both method and content of interventions and research methods.
Charge compensation in 3d transition metal oxide intercalation cathodes through the generation of localized electron holes on oxygen.
Venue: Nature chemistry

During the charging and discharging of lithium ion battery cathodes through the de and reintercalation of lithium ions, electroneutrality is maintained by transition metal redox chemistry, which limits the charge that can be stored. However, for some transition metal oxides this limit can be broken and oxygen loss and/or oxygen redox reactions have been proposed to explain the phenomenon. We present operando mass spectrometry of (18)O labelled Li1.2[Ni0.13(2+)Co0.13(3+)Mn0.54(4+]O2, which demonstrates that oxygen is extracted from the lattice on charging a Li1.2[Ni0.13(2+)Co0.13(3+)Mn0.54(4+]O2 cathode, although we detected no O2 evolution. Combined soft X ray absorption spectroscopy, resonant inelastic X ray scattering spectroscopy, X ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy demonstrates that, in addition to oxygen loss, Li( removal is charge compensated by the formation of localized electron holes on O atoms coordinated by Mn(4+ and Li( ions, which serve to promote the localization, and not the formation, of true O2(2 (peroxide, O O ~1.45 A) species. The quantity of charge compensated by oxygen removal and by the formation of electron holes on the O atoms is estimated, and for the case described here the latter dominates.
Formation and Stabilization of Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals Induced by the Interaction of Anthracene with Fe(III) Modified Clays.
Venue: Environmental science technology

Environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) are occasionally detected in Superfund sites but the formation of EPFRs induced by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is not well understood. In the present work, the formation of EPFRs on anthracene contaminated clay minerals was quantitatively monitored via electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, and surface/interface related environmental influential factors were systematically explored. The obtained results suggest that EPFRs are more readily formed on anthracene contaminated Fe(III) montmorillonite than in other tested systems. Depending on the reaction condition, more than one type of organic radicals including anthracene based radical cations with g factors of 2.0028 2.0030 and oxygenic carbon centered radicals featured by g factors of 2.0032 2.0038 were identified. The formed EPFRs are stabilized by their interaction with interlayer surfaces, and such surface bound EPFRs exhibit slow decay with 1/e lifetime of 38.46 days. Transformation pathway and possible mechanism are proposed on the basis of experimental results and quantum mechanical simulations. Overall, the formation of EPFRs involves single electron transfer from anthracene to Fe(III) initially, followed by H2O addition on formed aromatic radical cation. Because of their potential exposure in soil and atmosphere, such clay surface associated EPFRs might induce more serious toxicity than PAHs and exerts significant impacts on human health.
MultiVec: a Multilingual and Multilevel Representation Learning Toolkit for NLP
Venue: LREC

We present MultiVec, a new toolkit for computing continuous representations for text at different granularity levels (word level or sequences of words) MultiVec includes Mikolov et al. [2013b]'s word2vec features, Le and Mikolov [2014]'s paragraph vector (batch and online) and Luong et al. [2015]'s model for bilingual distributed representations. MultiVec also includes different distance measures between words and sequences of words. The toolkit is written in C+ and is aimed at being fast (in the same order of magnitude as word2vec) easy to use, and easy to extend. It has been evaluated on several NLP tasks: the analogical reasoning task, sentiment analysis, and crosslingual document classification.
Antimicrobial textiles for treating skin infections and atopic dermatitis

Clothing, or "the second skin," not only provides an additional shield for most parts of the body, but also creates a portable living microclimate that improves human survival. A growing interest in the use of antimicrobial active textiles/clothing has being developed as a desirable goal of prevention and nonpharmacological treatment for the management of atopic dermatitis and skin infective diseases. This review focuses on new development of antimicrobial active textiles using appropriate natural or special treated fabrics coated with antimicrobial agents or using nanotechnology and nanomaterial in the care of atopic dermatitis or other skin diseases. Clinical evaluations of current available antimicrobial active textiles were summarized according to the aim, design, human subjects, intervention/control, duration, and SCORAD index and other outcomes. Lastly, evaluation of the safety of antimicrobial textiles for humans and the environment is also discussed.
Numerical analysis of flame and particle behavior in an HVOF thermal spray process

In this study, a kerosene fueled high velocity thermal spraying model is used to examine the flame and particle behavior in a thermal spray process. The gas flow characteristics (including temperature, velocity, and pressure) mass fraction of the gas components, and the particle characteristics (including the particle temperature, velocity, and in flight trajectory) are successfully simulated. Besides, the effects of particle diameter, particle shape, and particle injection velocity on the particle behavior in the spraying flame are also investigated. The optimal particle size range is found to be between 20 and 40 mm. In this case, most of the particles are located towards the center of the gun and are in a semi solid state before impacting the substrate. When the shape factor falls from 1 to 0.6, the non spherical particles gain more momentum and less heat than spherical particles in the process owing to their higher drag coefficient and shorter dwell time within the flame flow. A comprehensive consideration of the injection velocity on the spray particle dynamics revealed that the optimal particle injection velocity should be greater than 5 m/s but no more than 20 m/s.
Longitudinal reproducibility of default mode network connectivity in healthy elderly participants: A multicentric resting state fMRI study
Venue: NeuroImage

To date, limited data are available regarding the inter site consistency of test retest reproducibility of functional connectivity measurements, in particular with regard to integrity of the Default Mode Network (DMN) in elderly participants. We implemented a harmonized resting state fMRI protocol on 13 clinical scanners at 3.0T using vendor provided sequences. Each site scanned a group of 5 healthy elderly participants twice, at least a week apart. We evaluated inter site differences and test retest reproducibility of both temporal signal to noise ratio (tSNR) and functional connectivity measurements derived from: i) seed based analysis (SBA) with seed in the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) ii) group independent component analysis (ICA) separately for each site (site ICA) and iii) consortium ICA, with group ICA across the whole consortium. Despite protocol harmonization, significant and quantitatively important inter site differences remained in the tSNR of resting state fMRI data; these were plausibly driven by hardware and pulse sequence differences across scanners which could not be harmonized. Nevertheless, the tSNR test retest reproducibility in the consortium was high (ICC=0.81) The DMN was consistently extracted across all sites and analysis methods. While significant inter site differences in connectivity scores were found, there were no differences in the associated test retest error. Overall, ICA measurements were more reliable than PCC SBA, with site ICA showing higher reproducibility than consortium ICA. Across the DMN nodes, the PCC yielded the most reliable measurements (4% test retest error, ICC=0.85) the medial frontal cortex the least reliable (12% ICC=0.82) and the lateral parietal cortices were in between (site ICA) Altogether these findings support usage of harmonized multisite studies of resting state functional connectivity to characterize longitudinal effects in studies that assess disease progression and treatment response.
An 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN Transceiver for 2x2 MIMO and simultaneous dual band operation with +29 dBm Psat integrated power amplifiers
Venue: ESSCIRC Conference 2016: 42nd European Solid State Circuits Conference

This paper describes the first dual band MIMO 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN RF transceiver capable of simultaneous dual band operation. The measured receiver sensitivity of 2 GHz at 54 Mbps is 78.3 dBm and of 5 GHz for VHT80 is 66 dBm. The 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO 20 MHz MCS0 2 GHz and 5 GHz receiver sensitivity levels are 96 dBm and 95.5 dBm respectively. Integrated power amplifiers with Psat of +29 dBm enable the 2 GHz transmitters to achieve TX output power of +23.5 dBm at 54 Mbps 64 QAM. The 5 GHz transmitters achieve +17 dBm output for VHT80 256 QAM. This WLAN BT connectivity SoC is implemented in 40 nm CMOS technology.
9.4 A 2x2 WLAN and Bluetooth combo SoC in 28nm CMOS with on chip WLAN digital power amplifier, integrated 2G/BT SP3T switch and BT pulling cancelation
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

The 2x2 wireless LAN (WLAN) Bluetooth (BT) combo chip continues to be the most versatile product category in the wireless connectivity space. It finds usage in a wide range of applications, such as laptops, tablets, high end smartphones, gaming consoles, set top boxes, wireless routers and in car/personal hot spot devices. Digital intensive SoCs have been relying on Moore's law to keep the cost down. However, traditional RF and analog circuits are facing more difficulties to keep up with Moore's law due to the physical constraint of inductors, capacitors, and resistors. To overcome these difficulties, we leveraged digital and mixed signal techniques to architect the transceiver, with a WLAN Digital PA (DPA) a WLAN All Digital PLL (ADPLL) a BT ADPLL with pulling cancellation, and a high speed SAR ADC with reduced analog filter order in the WLAN RX.
InsectBase: a resource for insect genomes and transcriptomes
Venue: Nucleic Acids Res.

The genomes and transcriptomes of hundreds of insects have been sequenced. However, insect community lacks an integrated, up to date collection of insect gene data. Here, we introduce the first release of InsectBase, available online at http:/www.insect genome.com. The database encompasses 138 insect genomes, 116 insect transcriptomes, 61 insect gene sets, 36 gene families of 60 insects, 7544 miRNAs of 69 insects, 96 925 piRNAs of Drosophila melanogaster and Chilo suppressalis, 2439 lncRNA of Nilaparvata lugens, 22 536 pathways of 78 insects, 678 881 untranslated regions (UTR) of 84 insects and 160 905 coding sequences (CDS) of 70 insects. This release contains over 12 million sequences and provides search functionality, a BLAST server, GBrowse, insect pathway construction, a Facebook like network for the insect community (iFacebook) and phylogenetic analysis of selected genes.
A Method for Non Rigid Face Alignment via Combining Local and Holistic Matching
Venue: PloS one

We propose a method for non rigid face alignment which only needs a single template, such as using a person's smile face to match his surprise face. First, in order to be robust to outliers caused by complex geometric deformations, a new local feature matching method called K Patch Pairs (K PP) is proposed. Specifically, inspired by the state of art similarity measure used in template matching, K PP is to find the mutual K nearest neighbors between two images. A weight matrix is then presented to balance the similarity and the number of local matching. Second, we proposed a modified Lucas Kanade algorithm combined with local matching constraint to solve the non rigid face alignment, so that a holistic face representation and local features can be jointly modeled in the object function. Both the flexible ability of local matching and the robust ability of holistic fitting are included in our method. Furthermore, we show that the optimization problem can be efficiently solved by the inverse compositional algorithm. Comparison results with conventional methods demonstrate our superiority in terms of both accuracy and robustness.
Face alignment via an ensemble of random ferns
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA)

This paper proposes a simple but efficient shape regression method for face alignment using an ensemble of random ferns. First, a classification method is used to obtain several mean shapes for initialization. Second, an ensemble of local random ferns is learned based on the correlation between the projected regression targets and local pixel difference matrix for each landmark. Third, the ensemble of random ferns is used to generate local binary features. Finally, the global projection matrix is learned based on concatenated binary features using ridge regression. The results demonstrate that the proposed method is efficient and accurate when compared with the state of the art face alignment methods and achieve the best performance on LFPW and Helen datasets.
Integrating Client Profiling in an Anti money Laundering Multi agent Based System
Venue: WorldCIST

Continuing previous work by the authors, where an Anti Money Laundering (AML) agent based system was introduced, we now provide some detail on one of the elements of this system the learning component. The system we are developing focuses on how a financial institution, a bank, can obtain better results in AML initiatives. More specifically, we're trying to improve the suspicious transaction signaling process and the subsequent final decision. For this, it is critical to model client behavior, having a clear definition of the different client profiles. Having available a real world data set of bank transactions, we explain in this contribution how some data mining techniques were used in order to build the needed client profiles, and how the results obtained can be integrated in the system.
On Chip Integrated, Silicon Graphene Plasmonic Schottky Photodetector with High Responsivity and Avalanche Photogain
Venue: Nano letters

We report an on chip integrated metal graphene silicon plasmonic Schottky photodetector with 85 mA/W responsivity at 1.55 mm and 7% internal quantum efficiency. This is one order of magnitude higher than metal silicon Schottky photodetectors operated in the same conditions. At a reverse bias of 3 V, we achieve avalanche multiplication, with 0.37A/W responsivity and avalanche photogain ~2. This paves the way to graphene integrated silicon photonics.
Solar blind avalanche photodetector based on the cation exchange growth of b Ga2O3/SnO2 bilayer heterostructure thin film

Solar blind photodetectors have shown a paramount encouragement owing to their promising applications in the fields of ultraviolet (UV) astronomy, fire alarms, missile warning, environmental studies, biological/chemical analysis and short range communication security. Due to the weak solar blind signal, there is a real need to develop solar blind avalanche photodiode (APD) with high internal avalanche gain to compete with the commercial Si APDs and photomultiplier tubes. Herein, we report the development of APD based on the growth of two wide band gap metal oxides operating within the solar blind region of the UV spectrum (200 280 nm) It was found that the growth of b Ga 2 O 3 on SnO 2 thin film via cation exchange mechanism results in the development of a solar blind photodetector with ultrahigh sensitivity, high spectral selectivity, very fast response, high stability and high signal to noise ratio. The high external quantum efficiency of the APD developed was assigned to the avalanche multiplication effect.
Disaster Victim Management: Role of Forensic Pathologists

This chapter explains the role of forensic pathologists in the investigation and analysis of mass disasters. Definitions associated with mass fatality management and an outline of duties and jobs performed are supplied. The importance of this work in the context of large scale deaths is described. Details of the scientific evaluation of the scene and the decedents are reviewed including disaster manual preparation, standard operating procedures, notification, advance team deployment, triage, recovery of bodies, computer assistance, identification, release of bodies, personal property and evidence recovery, delegation of duties, communication, security, and posttraumatic stress.
PERBANDINGAN METODE PENENTUAN Pb(II) DI SUNGAI KAPUAS SECARA SPEKTROFOTOMETRI UV VIS CARA KALIBRASI TERPISAH DAN ADISI STANDAR

Sungai Kapuas merupakan perairan yang digunakan sebagai jalur transportasi air. Aktivitas transportasi air di Sungai Kapuas memiliki gas buangan berpotensi menimbulkan pencemaran logam berat salah satunya timbal (Pb) Kadar logam Pb dapat dianalisis menggun a kan s pektrofotometri ultra violet vis ible dengan metode kalibrasi terpisah Metode kalibrasi terpisah memiliki kelemahan jika sampel air yang dianalisis mengandung matriks, sehingga dipilih metode lain yaitu adisi standar. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membandingkan metode kalibrasi terpisah dan adisi standar dalam menentukan kadar timbal di Sungai Kapuas serta melakukan validasi hasil analisis dari kedua metode tersebut. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pada metode kalibrasi terpisah diperoleh nilai akurasi 0,38% 57,07% presisi 8,06% 21,62% LOD 2,04 mg/L, LOQ 6,8 mg/L, koefisien korelasi 0,984. Parameter analitik dengan m etode adisi standar diperoleh nilai akurasi 8% 63% presisi 9,07% 14,29% LOD 0,08 mg/L, LOQ 0,28 mg/L dan koefisien korelasi 0,889. Hasil penentuan kadar Pb(II) dalam air Sungai Kapuas dengan metode kalibrasi terpisah dan adisi standar secara berturut turut adalah 0,985+ 0,102 ppm dan 0 ,003+ 0,0036 ppm. Berdasarkan uji t penentuan kadar Pb dengan menggunakan spektrometri UV Vis yang dianalisis dengan metode kalibrasi terpisah dan adisi standar menunjukkan hasil analisis yang berbeda secara signifikan. Berdasarkan parameter analitiknya, metode yang lebih baik dalam menentukan kadar Pb adalah dengan metode adisi standar.  Pb(II) kalibrasi standar, adisi standar, validasi metode, spektrofotometri UV Vis
The Effect of Internal Marketing on Organizational Citizenship Behavior of Academic Staff in Higher Educational Institutions.

Due to their important roles in organizational performance, internal marketing and organizational citizenship behavior have become more interesting subjects among researchers and practitioners. However, empirical research is limited in the literature, and the relationship between these two variables in higher educational institutions is not clear. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of internal marketing on organizational citizenship behavior of academic staff in higher educational institutions. The data for the study was collected from academic staff who worked in the faculty of sport sciences in Turkey. The findings showed a statistically significant positive effect of internal marketing on organizational citizenship behavior. As a result, this study revealed that internal marketing is an effective tool for organizational citizenship behavior of academic staff.
Exploring the locus of internal marketing

Service and business to business companies have remained at the forefront of studies into internal marketing due to close contact between employees and customers. Marketing academics and practitioners have shown particular interest in the supermarket sector over recent years due to fluctuations in performance that have been reported. Consumers have negligible switching costs, so the risk of them purchasing substitute products is a problem to marketers where there is insignificant product differentiation. There is little evidence to support the benefits of internal market orientation in the food retail industry, and the main reason is difficulty of measuring its value. Although the UK food retail industry has been extensively researched, researchers have yet to address it properly in regard to internal market orientation. There is now an opportunity to create sustainable competitive advantage by providing a variety of offerings.
An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Commitment and Trust on Internal Marketing

This article seeks to explore the impact of commitment and trust on internal marketing effectiveness within the hospital industry. The study was exploratory in nature and was conducted using the case study methodology. It involved 10 cases in the hospital industry, and a total of 20 interviews were conducted. Results revealed that both commitment and trust played a moderating role in five of the key tasks (i.e. training, motivation, company vision/goals, co optation, and communication) of effective internal marketing.