nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Substance Abuse, Relapse, and Treatment Program Evaluation in Malaysia: Perspective of Rehab Patients and Staff Using the Mixed Method Approach
Venue: Front. Psychiatry

This study examined reasons for substance abuse and evaluated the effectiveness of substance treatment programs in Malaysia through interviews with rehab patients and staff. Substance rehab patients (aged 18 69 years; n 30) and staff (ages 30 72 years; n 10) participated in semi structured interviews covering a range of topics, including family and peer relationships, substance use and treatment history, factors for substance use and relapse, motivation for entering treatment, work experience, job satisfaction, treatment evaluation, and patient satisfaction. Most patients did not demonstrate the substance progression trend and had normal family relationships. Most patients reported having peers from normal family backgrounds as well. Various environmental and personal factors was cited as contributing to substance abuse and relapse. There was no significant difference between patient and staff program evaluation scores although the mean score for patients was lower. A holistic treatment approach with a combination of cognitive behavioral, medical, social, and spiritual components was favored by patients. Suggestions for improving existing programs include better tailoring treatment to individual needs, and providing more post treatment group support.
Adaptive flexible antennas for wireless biomedical applications
Venue: 2016 IEEE 17th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)

Flexible electronics enables wireless medical applications for mobile physiologic monitoring. Antennas for such applications remain in their developmental stage. We implemented novel fabrication and integration methods to embed flexible antennas into FDA approved skin adhesives routinely used in clinical settings. We prototyped our approach using a Bluetooth transceiver cascaded with an antenna mounted on the skin and a bottle. The system robustly communicated to a smart phone with coverage of 175ft. Our antennas are tuned for different materials and curvatures by simply altering the length using a pair of scissors.
Cryptography Made Simple
Venue: Information Security and Cryptography

In this introductory textbook the author explains the key topics in cryptography. He takes a modern approach, where defining what is meant by "secure" is as important as creating something that achieves that goal, and security definitions are central to the discussion throughout. The chapters in Part 1 offer a brief introduction to the mathematical foundations: modular arithmetic, groups, finite fields, and probability; primality testing and factoring; discrete logarithms; elliptic curves; and lattices. Part 2 of the book shows how historical ciphers were broken, thus motivating the design of modern cryptosystems since the 1960s; this part also includes a chapter on information theoretic security. Part 3 covers the core aspects of modern cryptography: the definition of security; modern stream ciphers; block ciphers and modes of operation; hash functions, message authentication codes, and key derivation functions; the "naive" RSA algorithm; public key encryption and signature algorithms; cryptography based on computational complexity; and certificates, key transport and key agreement. Finally, Part 4 addresses advanced prot ocols, where the parties may have different or even conflicting security goals: secret sharing schemes; commitments and oblivious transfer; zero knowledge proofs; and secure multi party computation. The author balances a largely non rigorous stylemany proofs are sketched onlywith appropriate formality and depth. For example, he uses the terminology of groups and finite fields so that the reader can understand both the latest academic research and "real world" documents such as application programming interface descriptions and cryptographic standards. The text employs colour to distinguish between public and private information, and all chapters include summaries and suggestions for further reading. This is a suitabletextbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in computer science, mathematics and engineering, and for self study by professionals in information security. While the appendix summarizes most of the basic algebra and notation required, it is assumed that the reader has a basic knowledge of discrete mathematics, probability, and elementary calculus.
Analyzing Quantum Correlations Made Simple

The understanding of correlations in degenerate nonideal many particle systems is complex and theoretically challenging. Using the recently proposed permutation blocking path integral Monte Carlo (PB PIMC) scheme, which allows for an exact treatment of many body correlations, we study the influence of quantum statistics in a confined few particle Coulomb (quantum dot) system. As a versatile tool to gain insight into the internal structure of correlated many body systems, the application of triple correlation functions is extended to quantum systems.
Turbulent patterns made simple?
Venue: Journal of Fluid Mechanics

An observed, spectacular and puzzling distinctive feature of wall bounded flows transitioning to/from turbulence is the large scale ordered coexistence of laminar and turbulent flow over a wide range of Reynolds numbers. In their article, Chantry et al. ( 2016, R8) circumvent the problem of turbulence modulation in genuine plane Couette flow by replacing no slip boundary conditions at the walls with effective stress free conditions constraining the interior part of the flow only. In so doing, they are able to collect relevant information on the laminar turbulent patterning. The approach is then adapted to plane Poiseuille and pipe flow, giving to it a more universal value. Taking advantage of the stress free conditions, they derive reduced models efficient at capturing the laminar turbulent coexistence. Such models would be useful to interpret recent findings in the large aspect ratio limit.
An authentication scheme with identity based cryptography for M2M security in cyber physical systems
Venue: Secur. Commun. Networks

The Internet has made the world smaller while there is still a gap between the cyber world and our physical world. In the future cyber physical system (CPS) all objects in cyber world and physical world would be connected, and the concepts of cyber world and physical world will no longer exist. The speed of information transmitting and processing will be faster, the abilities of controlling facilities and handling events will be more powerful, and our lives will be better. In the CPS, machine to machine (M2M) communication is in charge of data collecting and transmitting, which utilizes both wireless and wired systems to monitor physical or environmental conditions and exchange the information among different systems without direct human intervention. As a part of CPS, M2M communication is considerably important while being fragile at the same time because M2M communication still faces lots of security threats that are not only from outside but also from inside. In traditional M2M communication, the M2M service provider (MSP) is always assumed to be trusted. However, the MSP could be compromised in real world. In that case, the previous security solutions would fail because the most confidential materials are kept in the MSP by the conventional solutions. How to protect the entire system from the compromised MSP is one important problem the paper intends to solve. In addition, the communication bandwidth and energy resource for the M2M devices are precious. Another issue the paper is addressing is the design of efficient security schemes being able to save both energy and communication bandwidth. In this paper, an authentication scheme applying authenticated identity based cryptography without key escrow mechanism has been proposed. In the proposed scheme, only partial secrets instead of full secrets are stored in the MSP, which could prevent the compromised MSP from endangering the whole system. The authenticated encryption property of the proposed scheme could leave out the work of signature generation, transmission, and verification so as to save the computation and communication resource of the whole system. The security analysis with Burrows Abadi Needham logic (BAN Logic) and Simple Promela Interpreter (SPIN) shows that the proposed scheme is well designed and could withstand Man in the Middle attacks, impersonation attacks, replay attacks, DoS attacks, and compromised attacks.
Cryptography Based on Correlated Data: Foundations and Practice

Correlated data can be very useful in cryptography. For instance, if a uniformly random key is available to Alice and Bob, it can be used as an one time pad to transmit a message with perfect security. With more elaborate forms of correlated data, the parties can achieve even more complex cryptographic tasks, such as secure multiparty computation. This thesis explores (from both a theoretical and a practical point of view) the topic of cryptography based on correlated data. The first part considers physical assumptions that can be used to obtain simple forms of correlated data suitable for cryptographic purposes. We aim at constructing two important cryptographic primitives, namely commitments and oblivious transfer, and investigate the question of their existence as well as the theoretical limits of how efficiently the underlying resources can be used to construct them. For example, the existence of noisy channels between the parties allows unconditionally secure realizations of both primitives. As it turns out that noisy channels are valuable resources for cryptography, it becomes important to understand the optimal way in which these noisy channels can be used for implementing cryptographic tasks. Therefore, commitment and oblivious transfer capacities have been studied in the literature, which capture respectively the optimal way in which commitment and oblivious transfer can be realized using noisy channels. These capacities are cryptographic equivalents of Shannon's definition of channel capacity for the task of transmitting messages reliably over noisy channels. In the thesis we will further investigate the commitment and oblivious transfer capacity of some important channels. Another example is the so called bounded storage model, in which it is assumed that the parties have limited storage capacity (an assumption orthogonal to the restrictions on computational power that are normally made in cryptography based on complexity theory) In this model there is a public random source available to the parties during an initial transmission phase, but since the parties only have bounded storage they can only store parts of this random source and therefore they end up with correlated data that can be used subsequently to implement cryptographic primitives. It is known that both commitment and oblivious transfer can be implemented in the bounded storage model without errors. We present the first secure protocols for commitment and oblivious transfer in the more realistic bounded storage model with errors, in which the public random sources available to the parties are not exactly the same, but instead are only required to have a small
Cardiomyocyte differentiation from mouse embryonic stem cells using a simple and defined protocol
Venue: Developmental dynamics an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent cells with the ability to differentiate to any cell type of the resident organism. In recent years, significant advances have been made in using these cells to obtain large numbers of cardiomyocyte (CM) like cells for scientific research and clinical application. A vast number of protocols have emerged describing differentiation methods without the use of animal serum or extracts restrictive for use in a human clinical setting. These techniques follow a complicated procedure, which although successful, show a relatively varied yield among cell batches.  We have designed a three step differentiation protocol using defined reagents and a monolayer culture without feeder cells, avoiding embryoid body formation and multiple trypsin treatment, in which beating foci appeared as early as day 6 in in vitro differentiating conditions. Our results show a high yield of CM reaching approximately 60% of the differentiated cells after 13 days in vitro.  We provide a fast, simple, reliable and reproducible protocol for inducing murine ES cells toward a CM like phenotype comparable to available high yield protocols, without the use of intermediate trypsinization/passage steps. Developmental Dynamics 245:157 165, 2016.
Video games in adolescence and emotional functioning: Emotion regulation, emotion intensity, emotion expression, and alexithymia
Venue: Comput. Hum. Behav.

Video game users represent 40% of the French population and adolescents are the primary users. Yet excessive playing of video games has become a problem in modern society and is manifesting itself in treatment centers for adolescents. Before attempting to gain insight into this problematic use, we must understand video gaming itself and its implications for the gamer. The aim of this research is to propose an understanding of video game playing based on some dimensions of emotional functioning such as emotion regulation, emotion intensity, emotion expression, and alexithymia. A total of 159 adolescents took part in the study. Regular gamers regulated their emotions more than irregular gamers did. They also felt their emotions more intensely. But regular gamers expressed their emotions less than irregular gamers did. Finally, the regular gamers' alexithymia level was higher than the irregular gamers' level. Especially, they had more difficulty being emotionally reactive. The avatar's evolution in the virtual environment may help mediate adolescents' problematic emotional experiences to give them meaning and enable their appropriation. As such, video games may act as a medium for projecting and experiencing one's emotional life by staging the emotional self, thereby explaining the engagement of adolescents in video gaming. An understanding of video game playing based on dimensions of emotional functioning.Understanding of gamers' implications precedes understanding of problematic use.Potential applications for care centers.Potential applications for an educational approach.
Active loop closing based on laser data in indoor environment
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA)

In Artificial Intelligence, Loop Closing is a key issue of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) that helps SLAM work efficiently and robustly. To solve the problem of the quantity of scene matching increasing linearly with time when loop closing in SLAM for mobile robots, a laser range finder based method is proposed for classifying the geometric scene and determining the set of similar frames for indoor corridor environment. Firstly, based on the turning function, a new line segment extraction method is designed to swiftly obtain the segment feature of scenes. Secondly, the set of basically similar frames is constructed according to scene entropy, scan area and close scan area. Finally, the method describing geometric scenes with the sequences of turning angle is proposed based on the turning angle histogram. By using Longest Common Subsequence matching and Hu moment based contour matching, the compact set of similar frames and the best matched frames of query frame are found. The experiment proves that the compact set and the best matched frames can be obtained efficiently and accurately, and based on that, the quantity of scene matching could be greatly reduced.
Robust world centric stereo EKF localization with active loop closing for AUVs
Venue: Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis

Visual localization is a crucial task in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) and it is usually complicated by the extreme irregularity of the natural aquatic environments, or by unfavorable water conditions. Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) approaches are widely used in land and represent the most precise techniques for localization, but applied underwater, they are still an open and ongoing challenge. This paper presents a general approach to visual 3D pose based SLAM based on Extended Kalman Filters (EKF) This approach has a general design being applicable to any vehicle with up to 6 Degrees of freedom, so, it is particularly suitable for AUV. It uses only visual data coming from a stereo camera, all orientations involved in the system are represented in the quaternion space in order to avoid the gimbal lock singularities, and the sparsity of the covariance matrix is guaranteed during the whole trajectory since the state vector only includes the vehicle global pose. The vehicle pose is continuously predicted by means of a stereo visual odometer, and eventually corrected with the pose constraints given by a particularization of the Perspective N Point problem (PNP)  applied to the registration of images that most likely close a loop. Experimental results show the important pose corrections given by the SLAM approach with respect to a ground truth, compared with the evident trajectory errors present in the visual odometer estimates.
Centrally Assisted Collaborative Telecare for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression Among Military Personnel Attending Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Venue: JAMA internal medicine

It is often difficult for members of the US military to access high quality care for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.  To determine effectiveness of a centrally assisted collaborative telecare (CACT) intervention for PTSD and depression in military primary care.  The STEPS UP study (Stepped Enhancement of PTSD Services Using Primary Care) is a randomized trial comparing CACT with usual integrated mental health care for PTSD or depression. Patients, mostly men in their 20s, were enrolled from 18 primary care clinics at 6 military installations from February 2012 to August 2013 with 12 month follow up completed in October 2014.  Randomization was to CACT (n 332) or usual care (n 334) The CACT patients received 12 months of stepped psychosocial and pharmacologic treatment with nurse telecare management of caseloads, symptoms, and treatment.  Primary outcomes were severity scores on the PTSD Diagnostic Scale (PDS; scored 0 51) and Symptom Checklist depression items (SCL 20; scored 0 4) Secondary outcomes were somatic symptoms, pain severity, health related function, and mental health service use.  Of 666 patients, 81% were male and the mean (SD) age was 31.1 (7.7) years. The CACT and usual care patients had similar baseline mean (SD) PDS PTSD (29.4 [9.4] vs 28.9 [8.9] and SCL 20 depression (2.1 [0.6] vs 2.0 [0.7] scores. Compared with usual care, CACT patients reported significantly greater mean (SE) 12 month decrease in PDS PTSD scores 6.07 [0.68] vs 3.54 [0.72] and SCL 20 depression scores 0.56 [0.05] vs 0.31 [0.05] In the CACT group, significantly more participants had 50% improvement at 12 months compared with usual care for both PTSD (73 [25% vs 49 [17% relative risk, 1.6 [95% CI, 1.1 2.4] and depression (86 [30% vs 59 [21% relative risk, 1.7 [95% CI, 1.1 2.4] with a number needed to treat for a 50% improvement of 12.5 (95% CI, 6.9 71.9) and 11.1 (95% CI, 6.2 50.5) respectively. The CACT patients had significant improvements in somatic symptoms (difference between mean 12 month Patient Health Questionnaire 15 changes, 1.37 [95% CI, 2.26 to 0.47] and mental health related functioning (difference between mean 12 month Short Form 12 Mental Component Summary changes, 3.17 [95% CI, 0.91 to 5.42] as well as increases in telephone health contacts and appropriate medication use.  Central assistance for collaborative telecare with stepped psychosocial management modestly improved outcomes of PTSD and depression among military personnel attending primary care.
A Randomized Trial of Collaborative Care for Perinatal Depression in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Women: The Impact of Comorbid Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
Venue: The Journal of clinical psychiatry

The comorbidity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with antenatal depression poses increased risks for postpartum depression and may delay or diminish response to evidence based depression care. In a secondary analysis of an 18 month study of collaborative care for perinatal depression, the authors hypothesized that pregnant, depressed, socioeconomically disadvantaged women with comorbid PTSD would show more improvement in the MOMCare intervention providing Brief Interpersonal Psychotherapy and/or antidepressants, compared to intensive public health Maternity Support Services (MSS Plus)  A multisite randomized controlled trial with blinded outcome assessment was conducted in the Seattle King County Public Health System, July 2009 January 2014. Pregnant women were recruited who met criteria for a probable diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD) on the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 and/or dysthymia on the MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview (5.0.0) The primary outcome was depression severity at 3 6 12 and 18 month follow ups; secondary outcomes included functional improvement, PTSD severity, depression response and remission, and quality of depression care.  Sixty five percent of the sample of 164 met criteria for probable comorbid PTSD. The treatment effect was significantly associated with PTSD status in a group by PTSD severity interaction, controlling for baseline depression severity (Wald kh21 4.52, P .03) Over the 18 month follow up, those with comorbid PTSD in MOMCare (n 48) versus MSS Plus (n 58) showed greater improvement in depression severity (Wald kh21 8.51, P .004) PTSD severity (Wald kh21 5.55, P .02) and functioning (Wald kh21 4.40, P .04) higher rates of depression response (Wald kh21 4.13, P .04) and remission (Wald kh21 5.17, P .02) and increased use of mental health services (Wald kh21 39.87, P .0001) and antidepressant medication (Wald kh21 8.07, P .005) Participants without comorbid PTSD in MOMCare (n 33) and MSS Plus (n 25) showed equivalent improvement on these outcomes.  Collaborative depression care had a greater impact on perinatal depressive outcomes for socioeconomically disadvantaged women with comorbid PTSD than for those without PTSD. Findings suggest that a stepped care treatment model for high risk pregnant women with both MDD and PTSD could be integrated into public health systems in the United States.
A Study of Film Title Translation From the Perspective of Peter Newmark's Communicative Translation Theory

Film is a popular art form, and it is a useful tool of intercultural communication. As the brand of a film, film title can help audiences have a better understanding of the content of the film. A good translated film title should not only achieve its commercial value, but also can bring audiences to aesthetic experiences when they watching the film. Hence, the film title translation is so important. This thesis tries to use Peter Newmark's communicative translation theory to study the methods of film title translation. In communicative translation, the translators should try to produce the same effect on the target readers as is produced by the original text on the source readers. The author put forward that, when use communicative translation theory to guide the film title translation, the translators must follow three criteria: a) the translation should be target language oriented; b) the translation should be aesthetic; c) the translation should be consistent with the content of the film.