nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Imperforate hymen presenting as acute urinary retention in an adolescent girl

Acute urinary retention in a female child is rare because of its anatomy. Haematocolpos can cause a mechanical obstruction, resulting in acute urinary retention. We are presenting a case report of 13 year old female presented with complain of urine retention for 24 hours. She had no significant medical history and she had not attained menarche. Ultrasound abdomen showed hematocolpos like mass compressing the bladder. On examination; she had a palpable bladder and a bluish grey bulge posterior to her urethral meatus. She underwent a hymenotomy using cruciate incision with drainage of the hematocolpos. Postoperatively, she made a good recovery with a successful removal of the urinary catheter. She has started normal menses and had no further urinary problems. We emphasise to include hematocolpos, even though uncommon, in differential diagnosis and should be ruled out in adolescent females with amenorrhoea and acute urinary retention.
Sweet Dream Liquid Chinese Medicine Ameliorates Learning and Memory Deficit in a Rat Model of Paradoxical Sleep Deprivation through the ERK/CREB Signaling Pathway.
Venue: Journal of medicinal food

Sweet dream oral liquid (SDOL) a traditional Chinese herbal compound contains 17 traditional Chinese medicines. It has various pharmacological effects, such as improving brain dysfunction and increasing sleeping quality. This study investigated the neuroprotective effect and the underlying mechanisms of SDOL impaired hippocampus learning and memory induced paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD) in rats. Sixty Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into six groups. Before PSD, SDOL treatment group rats were intragastrically administered SDOL for 25 days at dose of 2.1, 4.2, and 8.4 mL/kg body weight per day. Normal control group, large platform control group, and PSD groups were treated with normal saline instead of SDOL. After 25 days treatment, PSD and SDOL groups were deprived of paradoxical sleep for 72 h. Then two behavioral studies were conducted to test the spatial learning and memory ability using the open field test and Morris water maze test. Expression of the c fos, c jun, cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB) extracellular signal regulated protein kinase (ERK) mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPK)/ERK kinase (MEK) and p CREB, p ERK, and p MEK in the hippocampus were also assayed by western blot. In this study, PSD decreased the levels of p CREB, p ERK, p MEK, c fos, and c jun. However, SDOL treatment increased expressions of these proteins. Our results showed that SDOL improved 72 h PSD induced cognitive impairment. These affects may be mediated by increasing the contents of c fos, c jun, and p CREB/ERK signaling.
Glutathione Peroxidase 5 Is Expressed by the Entire Pig Male Genital Tract and Once in the Seminal Plasma Contributes to Sperm Survival and In Vivo Fertility
Venue: PloS one

Glutathione peroxidase 5 (GPX5) is an H2O2 scavenging enzyme identified in boar seminal plasma (SP) This study attempted to clarify its origin and role on sperm survival and fertility after artificial insemination (AI) GPX5 was expressed (Western blot and immunocytochemistry using a rabbit primary polyclonal antibody) in testes, epididymis and accessory sex glands (6 boars) SP GPX5 concentration differed among boars (11 boars, P 0.001) among ejaculates within boar (44 ejaculates, P 0.001) and among portions within ejaculate (15 ejaculates) The first 10 mL of the sperm rich fraction (SRF, sperm peak portion) had a significantly lower concentration (8.87 0.78 ng/mL) than the rest of the SRF and the post SRF (11.66 0.79 and 12.37 0.79 ng/mL, respectively, P 0.005) Sperm motility of liquid stored semen AI doses (n 44, at 15 17degC during 72h) declined faster in AI doses with low concentrations of SP GPX5 compared to those with high levels. Boars (n 11) with high SP GPX5 showed higher farrowing rates and litter sizes than those with low SP GPX5 (a total of 5,275 inseminated sows) In sum, GPX5 is widely expressed in the boar genital tract and its variable presence in SP shows a positive relationship with sperm quality and fertility outcomes of liquid stored semen AI doses.
On the Discourse of Advertising Slogans: A Study of Advertising Language

Art is an integral part of human existence and t he question about art which has always perplexed human minds is what can be included under the gamut of art? As times progressed, this question became all the more persuasive followed by the birth of certain activities, such as advertisements, often deemed creative but not always considered artistic. This debate over the artistic or the non artistic nature of advertisements is based on the debate of banality of art and the conflict between high and low art. Certainly this debate regarding the artistic or non artistic status of advertisements is divided between two schools, each taking a side either in favor of the artistic status of advertisement or the opposite. There have been many theories and techniques devised to determine the status of advertisements. One of the techniques or devices that can be used particularly for ads abundant with texts is language and its usages as it is a determining factor from various perspectives. This element of language hence can be used to assess the debate regarding the status of ads as art or non art. Thus, the objective of this paper is to look into those elements of language which may render 'art' or 'non art' status to advertisements, with the advertising slogans being the subject of interest here. nt size: 10.0pt;font weight:normal;mso bidi font weight:bold'>In this paper we analyze news internet web page for marketing corporations so that we can discover responsiveness of consumer uses these on line news gateway. Due to the fact online media is growing daily the data is regularly and dynamically generated so we need some sort of mechanism to analyze terra bytes (TB) of data. This study will accomplish using big facts analysis.
A Short Review of Techniques for Phenol Removal from Wastewater
Venue: Current Pollution Reports

Phenolic compounds are priority pollutants with high toxicity even at low concentrations. In this review, the efficiency of both conventional and advanced treatment methods is discussed. The applicability of these treatments with phenol and some common derivatives is compared. Conventional treatments such as distillation, absorption, extraction, chemical oxidation, and electrochemical oxidation show high efficiencies with various phenolic compounds, while advanced treatments such as Fenton processes, ozonation, wet air oxidation, and photochemical treatment use less chemicals compared to the conventional ones but have high energy costs. Compared to physico chemical treatment, biological treatment is environmentally friendly and energy saving, but it cannot treat high concentration pollutants. Enzymatic treatment has proven to be the best way to treat various phenolic compounds under mild conditions with different enzymes such as peroxidases, laccases, and tyrosinases. This review covers papers from 2013 through January 2016.
Fatty acid oxidation in macrophage polarization
Venue: Nature Immunology

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Design of an efficient and provably secure anonymity preserving three factor user authentication and key agreement scheme for TMIS
Venue: Secur. Commun. Networks

Several remote user authentication techniques for telecare medicine information system TMIS have been proposed in the literature. But most existing techniques have limitations such as vulnerable to various attacks, lack of functionalities, and inefficiency. Recently, Amin and Biswas proposed a three factor authentication and key agreement technique for TMIS. But their scheme is inefficient and has several security drawbacks. The attacks such as privileged insider, user impersonation, and strong reply attacks are possible on their scheme. It also has flaw in password update phase. In order to overcome drawbacks of their scheme, a new provably secure and efficient three factor remote user authentication scheme for TMIS is proposed in this paper. The proposed scheme overcomes all drawbacks of their scheme and also provides additional features such as user unlinkability, user anonymity, efficient password, and biometric update. The rigorous informal and formal security analysis using random oracle models and the mostly acceptable Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications tool is also performed. During the experimentation, it has been observed that the proposed scheme is secure against various known attacks that include replay and man in the middle attacks. Furthermore, the analysis of computation and communication cost estimation of the proposed scheme depicts that our scheme is efficient as compared with other related exiting schemes.
Gravitational theories with stable (anti )de Sitter backgrounds

In this article we will construct the most general torsion free parity invariant covariant theory of gravity that is free from ghost like and tachyonic nstabilities around constant curvature space times in four dimensions. Specifically, this includes the Minkowski, de Sitter and anti de Sitter backgrounds. We will first argue in details how starting from a general covariant action for the metric one arrives at an "equivalent" action that at most contains terms that are quadratic in curvatures but nevertheless is sufficient for the purpose of studying stability of the original action. We will then briefly discuss how such a "quadratic curvature action" can be decomposed in a covariant formalism into separate sectors involving the tensor, vector and scalar modes of the metric tensor; most of the details of the analysis however, will be presented in an accompanying paper. We will find that only the transverse and trace less spin 2 graviton with its two helicity states and possibly a spin 0 Brans Dicke type scalar degree of freedom are left to propagate in 4 dimensions. This will also enable us to arrive at the consistency conditions required to make the theory perturbatively stable around constant curvature backgrounds. This will be included as a chapter in the book entitled "At the Frontier of Spacetime Scalar Tensor Theory, Bells Inequality, Machs Principle, Exotic Smoothness" (Springer 2016)
Rice Vision for Bangladesh: 2050 and Beyond

Due to a number of formatting and layout issues, the PDF of this paper was replaced on 10th October 2016. Combined efforts of farmers, rice scientists, extension personnel and Government of Bangladesh have yielded clean rice growth rate of 0.34 million ton (MT) year 1 during 2009 10 to 2013 14 in the country. In 2014 15, the country acquired a rice surplus of about 2 MT. However, maintaining the current surplus of rice in the coming decades is a great challenge. Authentic estimation of future rice requirement and future resource availability would guide to way forward. This paper presents rice vision for Bangladesh leading to 2050 and beyond. In this study, secondary data from different government owned statistics and research institutes were collected, analyzed and synthesized to develop models and/or model parameters to generate outputs such as future population, rice production and rice requirement. Population of Bangladesh will reach 215.4 million in 2050, when 44.6 MT of clean rice will be required. With the pace of rice production increase in the last five years, production can reach 47.2 MT, having a surplus of 2.6 MT in 2050. The study sets 2.6 MT as the target for clean rice surplus every year leading to 2050 and beyond. Several hurdles, such as increasing population, decreasing resources and increasing climate vulnerability, can hinder achieving the target. Three major interventions accelerating genetic gain, minimizing yield gap and curtailing adoption lag are proposed to break the barriers to achieve the target. Major challenges to implement the interventions include shrinking net cropped area, decreasing availability of irrigation water and increasing pressure on soil fertility. Smart technology such as, location specific variety, profitable cropping sequences, innovative cultural management, and mechanization coupled with smart dissemination using multiple means would ease production barriers. We recommend a number of measures, such as, guaranteeing a minimum cropped area, accelerating the rate of genetic gain in varietal development and intensifying collaboration among the stakeholders to reduce adoption lag of newly released promising rice varieties, to achieve the rice vision of Bangladesh leading to 2050 and beyond. Bangladesh Rice j. 2015, 19(2) 1 18
Notes from the Field: Outbreak of Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease at a University California, 2016.
Venue: MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report

On January 31, 2016, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department (SCCPHD) was notified of a suspected case of meningococcal disease in a university undergraduate student. By February 2, two additional suspected cases had been reported in undergraduate students living on the same campus. The index patient (patient A) required intensive care, whereas patients B and C had milder illness; there were no deaths. All three patients were part of overlapping social networks and had attended the same events during the week before the onset of patient A's symptoms, but whether they had direct contact with one another could not be verified. Serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis was identified in cerebrospinal fluid and blood from patient A and in blood from patient B. Serogroup B has been responsible for all U.S. college outbreaks of meningococcal disease since 2011 (1) Laboratory results for patient C were inconclusive.
Prechamber Hot Jet Ignition of Ultra Lean H2/Air Mixtures: Effect of Supersonic Jets and Combustion Instability

An experiment has been developed to investigate the ignition characteristics of ultra lean premixed H2/air mixtures by a supersonic hot jet. The hot jet is generated by combustion of a stoichiometric mixture in a small prechamber. The apparatus adopted a dual chamber design in which a small volume (1% of the main chamber by volume) prechamber was installed within a large volume main chamber. A small orifice (nozzle) connects the two chambers. Spark initiated combustion inside the prechamber causes a pressure rise and pushes the gases though the nozzle, resulting in a hot jet that would ignite the lean mixture in the main chamber. Simultaneous high speed Schlieren photography and OH* Chemiluminescence were applied to visualize the jet penetration and the ignition processes inside the main chamber.  Wire Pyrometry (HWP) was used to measure temperature distribution of the transient hot jet. A novel velocity measurement technique based on Schlieren PIV (SPIV) has also been developed to characterize the local flow field. Three nozzle geometries (straight, convergent and converging diverging) have been studied to understand their effect on ignition probability and characteristics. The results show that a supersonic jet by using a converging diverging nozzle can ignite leaner mixtures than the jet produced by a straight nozzle of the same throat area (e.g. the ignition limit is reduced to ph 0.22, from 0.35) Additionally, infrared imaging and OH* Chemiluminescence indicated diamond shock structures in the supersonic jets and a high temperature zone downstream the shocks. This high temperature zone is likely the reason why the main chamber flammability limit can be further reduced. Lastly, combustion instability becomes noticeable near the lean limit conditions for all three types of nozzles, which affect the structural integrity of the combustion chamber. Two instable frequency modes, natural frequency of the combustor at 180 Hz and a higher mode at 2400 Hz were observed.  Biswas, S. and Qiao, L. "Prechamber Hot Jet Ignition of Ultra Lean H2/Air Mixtures: Effect of Supersonic Jets and Combustion Instability," SAE Int. J. Engines 9(3):2016, doi:10.4271/2016 01 0795.
UH PRHLT at SemEval 2016 Task 3: Combining Lexical and Semantic based Features for Community Question Answering
Venue: *SEMEVAL

In this work we describe the system built for the three English subtasks of the SemEval 2016 Task 3 by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Houston (UH) and the Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology (PRHLT) research center Universitat Polit`ecnica de Val`encia: UH PRHLT. Our system represents instances by using both lexical and semantic based similarity measures between text pairs. Our semantic features include the use of distributed representations of words, knowledge graphs generated with the BabelNet multilingual semantic network, and the FrameNet lexical database. Experimental results outperform the random and Google search engine baselines in the three English subtasks. Our approach obtained the highest results of subtask B compared to the other task participants.
Uh, Um, and Autism: Filler Disfluencies as Pragmatic Markers in Adolescents with Optimal Outcomes from Autism Spectrum Disorder
Venue: Journal of autism and developmental disorders

AbstractFiller disfluencies uh and um are thought to serve distinct discourse functions. We examined fillers in spontaneous speech by youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who struggle with pragmatic language, and by youth with ASD who have achieved an 'optimal outcome' (OO) as well as in peers with typical development (TD) While uh rates did not differ, participants with ASD produced um less frequently than OO or TD groups. Um rate was associated with autism symptom severity, but not executive function or language abilities, suggesting that um serves a pragmatic, listener oriented function. Moreover, in contrast to minimal production in ASD, the typical OO um production substantiates the normalization of subtle social communication in this population.
Uh and um in children with autism spectrum disorders or language impairment
Venue: Autism research official journal of the International Society for Autism Research

Atypical pragmatic language is often present in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) along with delays or deficits in structural language. This study investigated the use of the "fillers" uh and um by children ages 4 8 during the autism diagnostic observation schedule. Fillers reflect speakers' difficulties with planning and delivering speech, but they also serve communicative purposes, such as negotiating control of the floor or conveying uncertainty. We hypothesized that children with ASD would use different patterns of fillers compared to peers with typical development or with specific language impairment (SLI) reflecting differences in social ability and communicative intent. Regression analyses revealed that children in the ASD group were much less likely to use um than children in the other two groups. Filler use is an easy to quantify feature of behavior that, in concert with other observations, may help to distinguish ASD from SLI.
The student's choice based on consumer psychology: an analysis applied to higher education institutions of Brazil

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the student's choice of a higher education institution (HEI) in Brazil, through the Consumer Cultural Influence Model (CCIM) that considers subjective aspects of consumer behavior involving human values, social axioms, judgment and meaning of product, and product attributes. Through a quantitative approach, participants were surveyed via Internet. They were Brazilian university students, from all geographic regions of Brazil, mostly attending the first year of higher education, and enrolled in either private or public HEI. The instrument was presented in Portuguese using four Likert type measurement scales (i.e. human values, social axioms, judgment and meaning, and HEI attributes) and social economic status questions. Findings reveal important results, consistent and complementary to the tools commonly used for understanding consumer behavior. They also support HEI can be clustered in three distinct categories in Brazil, and that students from each category make their HEI choice influenced by different aspects. For large HEI, student's choice showed to be related to subjective aspects. The students of this category give more importance for the social axiom of social complexity than students from other categories and, in a negative way, for the dimensions of reward for application (social axiom) and conformity (human value) For small HEI, CCIM explains 11.4 of choice related to subjective aspects. This study provides valuable information to the development of specific public policies to enhance student's enrollment in HEIs and accomplish the goals of Brazilian National Education Plan (PNE) 2014 2024. It also provides valuable managerial insights into HEI's choice and offers specific information to provide strategic positioning guides to college managers competing in Brazilian educational marketplace.
Blended internet care for patients with severe mental illnesses: An open label prospective controlled cohort pilot study
Venue: Internet interventions

This paper reports first experiences while providing blended (combined face to face and internet based) flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) to outpatients with severe mental illnesses (SMI) The aim was to compare treatment satisfaction, clinical outcome and quality of life in the short term (3 months) of patients receiving blended FACT with those receiving conventional FACT.  This pilot study was designed as an open label prospective controlled cohort study. 47 SMI patients were found eligible and non randomly allocated to Blended FACT (n 25) or to conventional FACT (n 22) Data were collected at baseline and at a 3 month follow up. Measures included were the Dutch Mental Health Care Thermometer, Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HONOS) Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life (MANSA) EuroQoL 5 dimensional (EQ5D) and the Mental Health Confidence Scale (MHCS)  At a three months follow up, patients reported slightly improved quality of life (EuroQoL 5 dimensional, Wald kh2(1) 6.80, p 0.01; MANSA, Wald kh2(1) 4.02, p 0.05) and self efficacy beliefs regarding their mental health problems (MHCS, Wald kh2(1) 3.71, p 0.05) HONOS scores did not change over time, Wald kh2(1) 2.34, p 0.13. Satisfaction scores were on average between satisfactory good (BI: M 7.50, SD 1.54; CAU: M 7.53 SD 0.96; on a 1 10 scale) These results did not differ between the two study groups.  It appears acceptable to patients to provide blended FACT with SMI, with outcomes comparable to face to face FACT. A future high quality trial is warranted to establish (cost )effectiveness of blended FACT.
Mobile assisted language learning community and culture in French speaking Belgium: the teachers' perspective

This paper focuses on the perceptions and uses of mobile technologies by 118 Belgian teachers in foreign language teaching and learning in secondary education. The purpose of the study is to analyze the teachers' attitudes towards the use of mobile technologies inand outside the classroom via an online questionnaire. The preliminary findings presented in this paper establish that the concept of a 'Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) community' does not yet exist in our context as the use of mobile devices is still limited. Nevertheless, it can also be stated that teachers' attitudes and behavioral intention towards the use of tablets are slightly more positive than towards the use of smartphones, and that a vast majority of the teachers are interested in being trained to MALL.