nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Pain and discomfort during the first week of rapid maxillary expansion (RME) using two different RME appliances: A randomized controlled trial.
Venue: The Angle orthodontist
Year: 2017

To evaluate and compare perceived pain intensity, discomfort, and jaw function impairment during the first week with tooth borne or tooth bone borne rapid maxillary expansion (RME) appliances.  Fifty four patients (28 girls and 26 boys) with a mean age of 9.8 years (SD 1.28 years) were randomized into two groups. Group A received a conventional hyrax appliance and group B a hybrid hyrax appliance anchored on mini implants in the anterior palate. Questionnaires were used to assess pain intensity, discomfort, analgesic consumption, and jaw function impairment on the first and fourth days after RME appliance insertion.  Fifty patients answered both questionnaires. Overall median pain on the first day in treatment was 13.0 (range 0 82) and 3.5 (0 78) for groups A and B, respectively, with no significant differences in pain, discomfort, analgesic consumption, or functional jaw impairment between groups. Overall median pain on the fourth day was 9.0 (0 90) and 2.0 (0 71) for groups A and B, respectively, with no significant differences between groups. There were also no significant differences in pain levels within group A, while group B scored significantly lower concerning pain from molars and incisors and tensions from the jaw on day 4 than on the first day in treatment. There was a significant positive correlation between age and pain and discomfort on the fourth day in treatment. No correlations were found between sex and pain and discomfort, analgesic consumption, and jaw function impairment.  Both tooth borne and tooth bone borne RME were generally well tolerated by the patients during the first week of treatment.
Le diocese de Salerne au Moyen Age: dynamiques historiques et organisation de l'espace
Year: 2015

In the middle ages, particularly between the 10th 14th centuries, the Diocese of Salerno was among the most important ones in southern Italy. Its earliest records date back to the late 5th century and during the 10th it was elevated to archdiocese; so the city of Salerno became the center of a large diocese, among the largest of Southern Italy. Th is essay reconstructs the history of diocese and its public symbols (like the cathedral) demonstrating consistency with that of other Italian dioceses but, at the same time, also highlighting some specifi city resulting from more general historical dynamics of Salerno and the role it played in the southern part of Italy.
Watertight and 2 manifold Surface Meshes Using Dual Contouring with Tetrahedral Decomposition of Grid Cubes
Year: 2016

The Dual Contouring algorithm (DC) is a grid based process used to generate surface meshes from volumetric data. The advantage of DC is that it can reproduce sharp features by inserting vertices anywhere inside the grid cube, as opposed to the Marching Cubes (MC) algorithm that can insert vertices only on the grid edges. However, DC is unable to guarantee 2 manifold and watertight meshes due to the fact that it produces only one vertex for each grid cube. We present a modified Dual Contouring algorithm that is capable of overcoming this limitation. Our method decomposes an ambiguous grid cube into a maximum of twelve tetrahedral cells; we introduce novel polygon generation rules that produce 2 manifold and watertight surface meshes. We have applied our proposed method on realistic data, and a comparison of the results of our proposed method with results from traditional DC shows the effectiveness of our method.
Efectividad de la intervencion fisioterapeutica integral en los trastornos musculoesqueleticos en la provincia de Chimborazo
Year: 2019

El presente trabajo de investigacion se realizo con el proposito de comparar la intervencion fisioterapeutica integral con la intervencion fisioterapeutica tradicional aplicada a lumbago no especifico, gonartrosis, epicondilitis, tenosinovitis de Quervain, tendinitis del tendon de Aquiles y tendinitis rotuliana dentro de la provincia de Chimborazo. Se realizo el estudio de tipo observacional con enfoque cualicuantitativo y corte trasversal en la que participo 1 Unidad de Salud Publica La recoleccion de la informacion se llevo a cabo durante el mes de Julio del ano 2018, durante un periodo de 10 dias en la unidad de salud, posteriormente una vez obtenido los datos se procedio a realizar un analisis estadistico de la informacion, tomando en cuenta que esta investigacion se desarrollo con poca informacion debido al desinteres en la aprobacion o negacion del ingreso del estudiante a las diferentes unidades de salud.
Possibility of Using Selected Rainfall Runoff Models for Determining the Design Hydrograph in Mountainous Catchments: A Case Study in Poland
Year: 2020

The aim of the study was to analyze the possibility of using selected rainfall runoff models to determine the design hydrograph and the related peak flow in a mountainous catchment. The basis for the study was the observed series of hydrometeorological data for the Grajcarek catchment area (Poland) for the years 1981 2014. The analysis was carried out in the following stages: verification of hydrometeorological data; determination of the design rainfall; and determination of runoff hydrographs with the following rainfall runoff models: Snyder, NRCS UH, and EBA4SUB. The conducted research allowed the conclusion that the EBA4SUB model may be an alternative to other models in determining the design hydrograph in ungauged mountainous catchments. This is evidenced by the lower values of relative errors in the estimation of peak flows with an assumed frequency for the EBA4SUB model, as compared to Snyder and NRCS UH.
The Relationship between War Trauma, PTSD, Anxiety and Depression among Adolescents in the Gaza Strip
Year: 2019

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between war trauma and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) anxiety and depression problems among secondary school students in Gaza Strip.  The study sample consisted of 408 randomly selected secondary school students (204 boys and 204 girls) Adolescents were interviewed using sociodemographic questionnaire, Gaza Traumatic Events Checklist, Birleson Self Rating Depression Scale, and Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale.  The results showed that the most common reported traumatic experiences by adolescents were watching mutilated bodies in TV (93.1% hearing shelling of the area by artillery (92.4% hearing the loud voice of drones (90.4% forced to leave you home with family members due to shelling (67.6% and Inhalation of bad smells due to bombardment (67.6% Mean traumatic events were 10. There were statistically significant differences toward boys. Our results showed that 25.5% showed partial PTSD and 16.4% of children showed full criteria of PTSD. PTSD was more in children with family monthly income less than 1700 NIS. Using cut off point of the scale, 92 of children reported anxiety (22.2% There were statistically significantly differences in anxiety in favour of girls. Anxiety was more in children from poor families (monthly income less than 1700 NIS) Using cut off point of the scale, 139 of children reported depression (34.1% Depression was more in children from poor families (monthly income less than 1700 NIS) The results showed that there was significant correlation between total traumatic events reported by children and total PTSD, re experiencing, avoidance and arousal. There was statistical correlation between anxiety and depression, anxiety and PTSD and there was statistical significant correlation between PTSD and depression.
A History of Qualia
Year: 2020

The philosophers' concept of qualia is an artifact of bad theorizing, and in particular, of failing to appreciate the distinction between the intentional object of a belief (for instance) and the cause(s) of that belief. Qualia, like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, have a history but that does not make them real. The cause of a hallucination, for instance, may not resemble the intentional object hallucinated at all, and the representation in the brain is not rendered in special subjective properties (qualia)
Star fruit flavored Citrus changshan huyou fruit vinegar beverage and preparation process thereof
Year: 2015

The present invention discloses a star fruit flavored Citrus changshan huyou fruit vinegar beverage. The beverage is characterized in that the beverage is made from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 180 200 parts of Citrus changshan huyou pulp, 40 50 parts of glutinous rice, 38 46 parts of star fruits,12 16 parts of rambutans, 5 8 parts of rhizoma rehmanniae, 7 9 parts of rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae,10 14 parts of coconut juice and8 10 parts of royal jelly. The beverage is rich in nutrition and sweet and sour and refreshing in taste, and has proper flavors of the star fruits and the Citrus changshan huyou fruit vinegar, the addition of rhizoma rehmanniae and rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae and other raw materials provide health care effects in clearing heat to coolblood, nourishing yin and generating body fluid, invigorating spleen and replenishing qi, and eliminating dampness and alleviating water retention, and can improve the technological content and levelof the Citrus changshan huyou processing industry, and a product in line with the healthy eating concept is obtained. The beverage provides a new way for effective utilization of Citrus changshan huyou resources, and the economic and social benefits of the Citrus changshan huyou industry are improved.
Effectiveness of ICT based intimate partner violence interventions: a systematic review
Venue: BMC Public Health
Year: 2020

Intimate Partner Violence is a "global pandemic" Meanwhile, information and communication technologies (ICT) such as the internet, mobile phones, and smartphones, are spreading worldwide, including in low and middle income countries. We reviewed the available evidence on the use of ICT based interventions to address intimate partner violence (IPV) evaluating the effectiveness, acceptability, and suitability of ICT for addressing different aspects of the problem (e.g. awareness, screening, prevention, treatment, mental health) We conducted a systematic review, following PRISMA guidelines, using the following databases: PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science. Key search terms included women, violence, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, information, communication technology, ICT, technology, email, mobile, phone, digital, ehealth, web, computer, online, and computerized. Only articles written in English were included. Twenty five studies addressing screening and disclosure, IPV prevention, ICT suitability, support and women's mental health were identified. The evidence reviewed suggests that ICT based interventions were effective mainly in screening, disclosure, and prevention. However, there is a lack of homogeneity among the studies' outcome measurements and the sample sizes, the control groups used (if any) the type of interventions, and the study recruitment space. Questions addressing safety, equity, and the unintended consequences of the use of ICT in IPV programming are virtually non existent. There is a clear need to develop women centered ICT design when programming for IPV. Our study showed only one study that formally addressed software usability. The need for more research to address safety, equity, and the unintended consequences of the use of ICT in IPV programming is paramount. Studies addressing long term effects are also needed.
Rural landscape planning through spatial modelling and image processing of historical maps
Year: 2015

Rural land has been affected over the years by profound, complex and difficult to understand transformations due to natural events, human intervention and changes in natural cycles. Nowadays, the analysis of rural land as well as the environment and landscape is made easier and more complete through the use of powerful and reliable tools; many changes can be considered to be models of territorial development that may prove useful in the appropriate planning of interventions in a rural area. In this paper the land use changes in a rural area located in Southern Italy were analysed by comparing some historical cartographic supports produced by the Italian Geographic Military Institute at different periods over about 160 years with modern maps, in order to evaluate the morphological and vegetation variations of agro forestry land. The results in terms of landscape modification of the study area show significant changes: the agricultural and forestry land has been affected by deep transformations. Land use and morphological changes at four time steps were conducted through the implementation of digital terrain models, which were enriched by draping land cover pictures over them; these finally enabled an evaluation in a scenic way of the morphological and vegetation variations of the agro forestry landscape, allowing a virtual jump back to periods when digital aerial photography was not yet possible. Multitemporal analysis with the support of GIS techniques has great potential for assessing and monitoring landscape diversity and typical changes of vegetation and for planning sound interventions in landscape structures.
Clinical encounters with children in the Trump era
Venue: Journal of Child Psychotherapy
Year: 2019

There is an emerging research and conceptual literature on the impact of the 2016 United States election of Donald Trump on the psychoanalytic psychotherapy process; however, the focus of this growing body of literature has been primarily with adults. Issues related to the election of Donald Trump, and the current political climate, also continue to arise in clinical encounters with children. These moments highlight the complexities of intersectionality, intersubjectivity, power dynamics, and self disclosure. This article describes several clinical scenarios with American youth reports from the front lines of a new political reality drawn from the perspectives of trainees learning psychodynamic therapy, a private practitioner conducting an assessment for a young asylum seeker, and a school psychologist working in a private school for children with learning disabilities. We consider the fears and preoccupations that arise among children and their caregivers and the feelings that are provoked in the clinician, both in response to their clients and to the election itself. Traditional psychoanalytic paradigms of limiting self disclosure and maintaining the therapeutic frame are challenged by the intensely personal nature of contemporary politics. This paper explores a contemporary phenomenon the tension between therapeutic attending to internal experience and symbolisation, repression, and integration, while also considering a harsh, political external reality through the lens of centuries of psychoanalytic work conducted in the face of war, trauma, and oppression. Children and adolescents who present for treatment or other forms of clinical intervention require a flexible therapeutic approach that acknowledges their unique position in history and the ways in which their distress is exacerbated by real and perceived political threats.
Elementary Bounds On Mixing Times for Decomposable Markov Chains
Year: 2015

Many finite state reversible Markov chains can be naturally decomposed into "projection" and "restriction" chains. In this paper we provide bounds on the total variation mixing times of the original chain in terms of the mixing properties of these related chains. This paper is in the tradition of existing bounds on Poincare and log Sobolev constants of Markov chains in terms of similar decompositions [JSTV04, MR02, MR06, MY09] Our proofs are simple, relying largely on recent results relating hitting and mixing times of reversible Markov chains [PS13, Oli12] We describe situations in which our results give substantially better bounds than those obtained by applying existing decomposition results and provide examples for illustration.
Absence of Andreev bound states in b PdBi 2 probed by point contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy
Year: 2016

We report point contact spectroscopic studies on high quality single crystalline \ensuremath{\beta}\text{\ensuremath{ \mathrm{PdBi}}_{2} with a superconducting {T}_{c}=5.2\phantom{\rule{0.28em}{0ex}\mathrm{K} Our measurements show a typical double peak structure in the voltage biased junction conductance at low temperatures, probably excluding the existence of topological Andreev bound states. The conductance curves can be well fitted with the standard Blonder Tinkham Klapwijk model for $s$ wave superconductors, yielding a superconducting gap \mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}_{0}\ensuremath{\simeq}0.92\phantom{\rule{0.28em}{0ex}\mathrm{meV} with $2{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}_{0}{k}_{B}{T}_{c}\ensuremath{\sim}4.1$ Our results strongly suggest that \ensuremath{\beta}\text{\ensuremath{ \mathrm{PdBi}}_{2} is a conventional intermediate coupling $s$ wave superconductor.
Investigating the Relationship between Work Life Balance and Motivation of the Employees Evidences from the Local Government of Jakarta Suhendro Oktosatrio
Year: 2018

This paper examines the relationship between work life balance and employees' motivation in the public sector of Jakarta, Indonesia. Through motivational theories and work lifebalance theories, the conceptual framework is developed to explore research variables. This is a descriptive research following qualitative inductive method. The total sample size for this research is 86 respondents working in the local government of Jakarta. Data was gathered through self administered survey questionnaire. Findings revealed that personal life significantly affect the work. Majority of the respondents prefer flexible work and operating from home. Interestingly, females are more eager to work from home in comparison to males. Furthermore, the findings revealed that females in contrast to males are much more organized in managing professional commitment and personal life agendas. Additionally, all employees seek taking holiday in contrast to extra money or bonus. Lastly, working for longer hours is the most de motivating job attribute.
Adaptive backstepping based tracking control of a class of uncertain switched nonlinear systems
Venue: Autom.
Year: 2018

In this paper, we propose two adaptive control schemes to solve the output tracking control problem of a class of uncertain switched nonlinear systems. The first is a robust scheme constructed based on common Lyapunov function method, aiming to achieve the insensitivity of closed loop system to parameter switches by estimating the bound on switching parameters. It is analyzed that the system stability under arbitrary switching is established with such a scheme, but the control input required may be relatively large since the estimate of the bound on switching parameters is utilized. To avoid this, we further propose a direct adaptive control scheme by estimating the switching parameters directly, and derive a dwell time condition for parameter switches based on an extended multiple Lyapunov functions method newly developed, such that the global boundedness of all the closed loop signals and the convergence of tracking error to a residual around zero are ensured. The effectiveness of the proposed control schemes is illustrated through simulation studies.
Economic Load Dispatch with Emission and Line Constraints using Biogeography Based Optimization Technique
Venue: 2020 International Conference on Intelligent Engineering and Management (ICIEM)
Year: 2020

Economic load dispatch is the economic loading of different generating units for variable load conditions of any power system. Emission contributions of conventional thermal power plants plays major role in the overall air pollution. The total emissions need to satisfy the allowable limits of the emission. This paper proposes the load scheduling for combined economic emission and load dispatch (CEELD) problems. In this paper, Biogeography Based optimization (BBO) technique is employed to estimate the fuel cost and emission of all the generating units. The aim of this paper is to minimize the fuel cost and emission of all the units for a given load. Result obtained by BBO are compared with the results obtained by different other optimization techniques such as genetic algorithm (GA) particle swarm optimization (PSO) evolutionary programming (EP) and differential evolution (DE) with respect to total fuel cost, solution time and convergence criteria. The proposed BBO technique is employed on a standard IEEE 30 bus 6 generator power system to obtain the CEELD solution. The BBO algorithm is carried out in MATLAB environment. The solutions obtained by BBO technique are quite encouraging.
Crystalline silicon surface passivation by thermal ALD deposited Al doped ZnO thin films
Year: 2017

The evidence of good quality silicon surface passivation using thermal ALD deposited Al doped zinc oxide (AZO) thin films is demonstrated. AZO films are prepared by introducing aluminium precursor in between zinc and oxygen precursors during the deposition. The formation of AZO is confirmed by ellipsometry, XRD and Hall measurements. Effective minority carrier lifetime (teff) greater than 1.5ms at intermediate bulk injection levels is realized for symmetrically passivated p type silicon surfaces under optimised annealing conditions of temperature and time in hydrogen ambient. The best results are realised at 450degC annealing for >15min. Such a layer may lead to implied open circuit voltage gain of 80mV.
Enlightenment of Wang Yangming "Three way" Mind to Undergraduate Moral Education
Year: 2012

There are three ways in undergraduate moral education of Wang Yangming mind.The first way starts from "negative approach"(remove evil),in which the rational approach to moral development is "to go out of distracting thoughts remove evil conscience"(from negative to positive).The second starts from the "positive approach"(conscience),in which the rational approach to moral development is "conscience teaching for good"(from positive to positive).And the Third starts from the "combined approach"(unity of knowledge and practice),in which the moral rational approach to training is the "conscience knowledge practice "(from knowledge to practice).In the three structures,the "go out of distracting thoughts" is a start,"conscience" is the goal,and "to conscience" is a way.Wang Yangming's "practice" is the inner world,but it does not mean practice physically,but moral training to prevent "knowledge not to practice".Unity inside and outside,practice inspection,integrity are keys to prevent "knowledge not to practice"
Social Exclusion and Austerity Policies in England: The Role of Sports in a New Area of Social Polarisation and Inequality?
Year: 2015

Poverty still counts as the core of social exclusion from sport and many other domains of people's lives. In the first part of this paper, we shortly describe the recent poverty trends in England, and identify groups that are more at risk of being poor and socially excluded. We then focus on the relationship between poverty, social exclusion and leisure/sports participation, and describe a case study that addresses young people's social exclusion through the use of sports (i.e. Positive Futures) Although further analysis is warranted, it would seem that growing structural inequalities (including sport participation) with their concomitant effects on health and quality of life are further widened and deepened by the policy measures taken by the Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition in the UK. In addition, within a climate of austerity, sport based social inclusion schemes are likely to become wholly inadequate in the face of exclusionary forces such schemes envision to combat.