nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of oxidative stress in patients of follicular thyroid cancer and study the therapeutic effect of Resveratrol on oxidative stress in FTC 133 thyroid cancer cell line
Venue: International Journal of Drug Delivery Technology
Year: 2019

The second most common cancer of the Thyroid gland is FollicularThyroid Carcinoma (FTC) second only to papillary carcinoma. Resveratrol, a natural polyphenolic compound that has anti oxidative, anti inflammatory and apoptotic properties, appears to have substantial cardio protection and cancer prevention properties. Furthermore, resveratrol is thought to be responsible for regulating several biological processes, such as metabolism and aging, through the modulation of the mammalian silent information regulator 1 (SIRT1) of the Sirtuins family. The purpose of this study is evaluating erythrocyte malondialdehyde's (MDA) role in the indication of the oxidative status in follicular thyroid carcinoma patients and investigating the therapeutic effect of resveratrol, a potent antioxidant, upon oxidative stress levels in thyroid cancer in vitro.Malondialdehyde was evaluated in erythrocyte of follicular thyroid cancer patients after and before treatment with sodium stibogluconate .Cytotoxicity by MTT assay and intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels was measured after resveratrol treatment on follicular thyroid carcinoma FTC 133 cell line. The results of this study confirmed that150 mM Resveratrol inhibited proliferation of FTC 133 thyroid cancer cell line in vitro by 88% after 72hand treatment with 50 200mM Resveratrol reduced ROS levels.To sum up,considering its mode of action, resveratrol might have an important role providing a source for natural antitumor agents, a fact that would have great therapeutic potential in integrated oncology.
Oxygenotherapie a haut debit en perioperatoire quelles donnees
Year: 2021

Resume Plus de 10 des patients chirurgicaux vont presenter au moins une complication pulmonaire postoperatoire. Plus les patients ont des comorbidites et plus la chirurgie est longue et invasive, plus le risque de complications pulmonaires augmente. L'oxygenotherapie nasale a haut debit (OHD) est un dispositif qui fournit un gaz inspiratoire chauffe et humidifie par une canule nasale a des debits plus eleves que l'oxygenotherapie conventionnelle (jusqu'a 70 L/min) avec une fraction inspiree en oxygene (FiO2) pouvant varier de 21 a 100 Au niveau physiologique, l'OHD ameliore l'oxygenation, augmente les resistances expiratoires (responsable d'un modeste effet Pression Expiratoire Positive (PEP) presente un effet lavage d'espace mort anatomique, ameliore la clairance muco ciliaire et diminue le cout metabolique de la respiration en fournissant un gaz inspiratoire rechauffe et humidifie. L'OHD a ete proposee pour la procedure d'intubation au bloc operatoire. Seule, elle n'est pas aussi efficace que la methode au masque pour la preoxygenation. Elle permet une oxygenation apneique apres la perte de la ventilation spontanee du patient, sans remplacer la ventilation au ballon en cas de desaturation. L'OHD peut etre utilisee pour certaines procedures sans intubation, comme la chirurgie oro pharyngee, l'endoscopie digestive ou l'electroconvulsivotherapie. L'oxygenation apneique est efficace dans ces situations pour prevenir la desaturation. En perioperatoire, l'OHD peut etre utilisee pour la prevention de la detresse respiratoire aigue postoperatoire, notamment chez le patient hypoxemique ne tolerant pas la ventilation non invasive (VNI) ou la pression positive continue (continuous positive airway pressure, CPAP) En cas de survenue d'une detresse respiratoire aigue postoperatoire, une complication chirurgicale devra etre eliminee. La VNI reste aujourd'hui la technique de reference, meme si l'OHD a montre sa non inferiorite apres chirurgie cardiothoracique.
Scientific Advances in the Diagnosis of Emerging and Reemerging Viral Human Pathogens
Venue: Emerging and Reemerging Viral Pathogens
Year: 2020

Despite scientific advances, the diagnosis of infectious diseases is primarily possible through vaccination and later by antibiotics. Emerging and reemerging pathologies are still considered to be dangerous to humanity because of the unique nature of these diseases: it is the encounter between two living organisms that have coexisted for millions of years within the people on the same planet without being previously recognized. These infectious agents, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites, pose no threat to humans. In fact, only a few hundred are able to inflict damage to the human host. In addition, the spectrum of human disease caused by a particular pathogen varies considerably depending on the factors related to the ecological agent, the host, and the infectious agents. Several emerging or reemerging infectious agents are organisms that could be used in biological control. The differentiation of a natural epidemic from a bioterrorian event is based on several epidemiological indices as well as on the molecular characterization of the pathogen(s) involved. The role of pathologists is indeed very important. It is in this context that this chapter aims to discuss the various scientific advances, particularly molecular, in terms of diagnosis of these diseases; the new discoveries in the role of nanotechnologies and nanobiosensors; and also the implication of biomarkers, especially microRNAs (miRNAs) since it was reported that a single miRNA has the ultimate capacity to target multiple genes simultaneously. In a viral infection context, miRNAs have been connected with the interplay between host and pathogen and occupy a major role in the host parasite interaction and pathogenesis. It is in this context that various molecular and nanomethods for the detection of emerging viruses and experimental validation of miRNAs during quelling viruses target transcripts will be discussed in this chapter.
Valorisation of cellulosic sludge by fermentation process VFAs production and phosphorus recovery
Year: 2016

Primary sludge from municipal wastewater is a potential source for valorisation of cellulosic matter. A possible way to obtain cellulosic sludge is enhanced primary separation using fine mesh sieves. This work investigates volatile fatty acids (VFAs) production and phosphorus (PO4 P) release from the fermentation of cellulosic sludge at two pH conditions (8 and uncontrolled pH) and at constant temperature of 37 oC. Also, the recovery of the released phosphorus by struvite crystallisation was studied. Preliminary results indicated that the cellulosic sludge fermentation liquid (SFL) could be a suitable source of VFAs and PO4 P, in which it is possible to recover PO4 P by struvite crystallisation and then it could be used as carbon source for other biological processes.
Hearing handicap perception and hearing alterations in individuals with Parkinson's disease
Year: 2018

Mailing address: Maysa Bastos Rabelo Instituto de Ciencias da Saude, Departamento de Fonoaudiologia Av. Reitor Miguel Calmon, s/n. Campus do Canela CEP: 40110 902 Salvador, Bahia, Brasil E mail: maysa_bastos@yahoo.com.br  to investigate the relationship between the perception of self reported hearing impairment and the handicap with peripheral and central hearing alterations, in individuals with Parkinson's disease.  individuals with Parkinson's disease were seen and evaluated at a reference outpatient clinic for the treatment of movement disorders, between April and August 2015. All of them underwent basic audiological evaluation and hearing processing tests. The hearing handicap assessment was performed using the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly. As for the analysis of the relationship between hearing handicap perception and audiological, clinical and demographic variables, individuals were considered with or without perception, according to their score.  thirty three individuals, mostly males, with a mean age of 63.7 years, took part in the study. There was a high frequency (n 31) of peripheral or central hearing alterations in the study population. However, only 14 reported some difficulty in hearing, eight not presenting hearing handicap perception, two having mild moderate perception and four showing a significant perception.  the perceptions of hearing difficulties and the handicap are not related to audiological alterations in individuals presented with Parkinson's disease.
Gangster, victim or both? The interdiscursive construction of sameness and difference in self presentations.
Venue: The British journal of sociology
Year: 2009

The paper conceptualizes two contradictory discourses, both used by ethnic minority drug dealers in a street drug market in Oslo, Norway. Oppression discourse includes personal narratives of unemployment, racism and psycho social problems, often combined with stories about the government and city council being unwilling to help. Drug dealers use the discourse to justify drug dealing and violence, both for themselves and in meetings with welfare organizations. Gangster discourse, on the other hand, includes a series of personal narratives emphasizing how hard, smart, and sexually alluring the young men are. Drug dealers use this discourse to gain self respect and respect from others, and it dominates interactions on the street. An important argument in this paper is that the discursive practice of criminals inspires theoretical perspectives on criminal practice. Oppression and gangster discourses have inspired, respectively, neutralization and subculture theory. When the same people use both discourses, however, the picture becomes more complicated. The 'bilingual' discursive practice of the street drug dealers reflects the ambivalent role of the researcher, and a Scandinavian institutional and social context where street drug dealers have extensive contact with a welfare state apparatus. The paper still suggests that similar interdiscursivity may have been sacrificed in previous research to produce more coherent theoretical frameworks.
Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District Level Analysis
Year: 2017

On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyse vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum vote. Instead, we find that fundamental characteristics of the voting population were key drivers of the Vote Leave share, in particular their education profiles, their historical dependence on manufacturing employment as well as low income and high unemployment. At the much finer level of wards within cities, we find that areas with deprivation in terms of education, income and employment were more likely to vote Leave. Our results indicate that a higher turnout of younger voters, who were more likely to vote Remain, would not have overturned the referendum result.
Design 3D printing cementitious materials via Fuller Thompson theory and Marson Percy model
Year: 2018

Cementitious materials for 3D printing have special requirements for rheological properties, which are significantly affected by many factors, including sand gradation and packing fraction. Fuller Thompson theory and Marson Percy model are classic approaches for sand gradation and packing fraction optimization, respectively. This paper attempts to apply Fuller Thompson theory and Marson Percy model in designing cementitious materials for 3D Cementitious Materials Printing (3DCMP) Various gradation methods adopted in this study were Fuller Thompson gradation (mixture A) uniform gradations (mixture B and C) gap gradations (mixture D and E) Besides these mixtures with special gradation approaches, one mixture using natural river sand (mixture F) was prepared as well. Rheological properties were characterized by static/dynamic yield stress and plastic viscosity in Bingham Plastic model. Buildability was examined by printing a column with 10 cm inner diameter via a gantry printer. Rheological test results indicate that mixture A designed by continuous gradation possesses the highest static/dynamic yield stress and lowest plastic viscosity. During printing test for buildability, mixture A can easily reach up to 40 layers without notable deformation, while all other mixtures deformed noticeably and fell down before the 35th layer. Finally, a large scale printing was carried out with mixture A and a structure with the height of 80 cm was printed successfully without notable deformation. Density, compressive strength and flexural strength of printed filaments were also characterized. Mechanical performance test results illustrate mixture A has the highest density and appropriate compressive strength, and a relative high flexural strength at different curing ages. These results indicate that Fuller Thompson theory and Marson Percy model can serve as a reasonable guide for material rheology design for 3DCMP.
Social Media's Role in Romantic Partners' Retroactive Jealousy: Social Comparison, Uncertainty, and Information Seeking
Year: 2018

Social media often have a dark side in romantic relationships. Affordances such as persistence, association, and visibility can promote romantic jealousy and the salience of relationship threats, including ex partners. Retroactive jealousy occurs when a person feels upset about their partner's romantic history even though ex partners are not actively interfering in the current relationship. Interviews (N 36) probed how participants felt social networking sites (SNSs) promoted and mitigated retroactive romantic jealousy. Furthermore, we examined the consequences of these experiences. Participants indicated that SNSs lead to retroactive jealousy via social comparison, digital remnants, and relational uncertainty. In addition, participants used SNSs to gather information or monitor their partners. These information seeking activities allowed them to disparage a romantic partner's exes; avoid direct, interactive information seeking about exes; and digitally fact check information the partner disclosed. Some participants reframed information about the ex relationship or actively avoided SNSs to reduce retroactive jealousy. Although SNSs may be used in an attempt to mitigate retroactive jealousy, our findings suggest this strategy may backfire in some cases.
A Public Domain Dataset for Human Activity Recognition in Free Living Conditions
Venue: 2019 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence Computing, Advanced Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing Communications, Cloud Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI)
Year: 2019

In Human Activity Recognition (HAR) supervised Machine Learning methods are predominantly used, making availability of datasets a major issue for research in the field. In particular, the majority of available datasets are collected under controlled conditions. Consequently, models trained under similar circumstances, generally exhibit a significant decrease in recognition accuracy when they are moved to final deployment in the wild, within unconstrained settings. This paper presents a new dataset for HAR, collected in free living and unconstrained conditions. 10 subjects were recruited for the purpose of data collection. Data was recorded over a 6 week period using a smartphone app, and a wristband activity monitor. During the first and last week of observation, participants also wore an ActivPAL" activity logger. The data collected have been partially self labeled by participants, by means of the mobile app provided for data collection. The dataset collected can be used to evaluate HAR algorithm and models in real world unconstrained settings. Together with the description of the dataset, this work presents some preliminary results, obtained cross validating a model trained on the publicly available Extrasensory dataset, and testing its performance on our newly collected dataset. Results obtained highlighted high cross subject variability when testing on new subjects, with a balanced accuracy varying between 53.33% and 90.01% with an average balanced accuracy of 71.73%
Efficient and Secure Ciphertext Policy Attribute Based Encryption Without Pairing for Cloud Assisted Smart Grid
Venue: IEEE Access
Year: 2020

Cloud assisted smart grid has been broadly deployed to improve the economics, efficiency, sustainability, and reliability of electricity services. The new revolution of technology will also bring new challenges to data security, particularly data confidentiality. As a promising encryption method for supporting fine grained access control, attribute based encryption (ABE) is widely given attention by the academia and industry. However, most existing schemes suffer from the efficiency problem limiting its deployment for the cloud assisted smart grid, especially for resource limited users. To address this problem, this paper proposes two efficient pairing free ciphertext policy attribute based schemes that eliminate the computation intensive bilinear pairing operation. The basic scheme only uses some simple scalar multiplications based on elliptic curves, and the enhanced scheme provides an important usability feature, namely the users and attributes revocation. The security of the proposed schemes is reduced to the elliptic curve decisional Diffie Hellman problem. Finally, the performance analysis and extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed schemes are suitable for the cloud assisted smart grid.
What Is the Value of Extrinsic Olive Oil Cues in Emerging Markets? Empirical Evidence from the U.S. E Commerce Retail Market
Year: 2016

Olive oil consumption in the United States has more than tripled over the past two decades and imports have grown considerably, in particular from Mediterranean countries. This is due to the spread of the Mediterranean diet and increasing consumer awareness about the health benefits of olive oil. We investigated the role of the main extrinsic quality cues (size of container, product category, organic certification, geographical indications, country of origin, and brand) in affecting the price of olive oil sold in the U.S. e commerce retail market. Using data from amazon.com, the leading e retailer in the United States, a hedonic price model was estimated. Results show that all the considered extrinsic quality cues have a significant impact on the price of olive oil, with interesting implications for both practitioners and policy makers.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF AN ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING PROGRAM BASED ON PUPIL ENTERPRISES IN PORTUGAL
Year: 2016

Promoting creativity and entrepreneurship has been identified as being essential for the development of countries; therefore, it is crucial to implement entrepreneurship educational training projects. Based on this assumption, the Entrepreneurship in the School Program was design and implemented with 281 students and 7 teachers. The results of its development show that participation in this program successfully developed the participants' creativity, so it was considered appropriate to examine the activity of each pupil enterprise more closely. Through this analysis we found that all the pupil enterprises achieved the project's objectives and some progressed even further. In fact, due to their dynamism and proactivity, some pupil enterprises carried out strategies that allowed them to maximize their profit margin. The total profit obtained by the pupil enterprises was about EUR3,400, of which EUR739.90 were achieved by a single company. On the other hand, the pupil enterprises spent about EUR10,000 on products from their 39 local suppliers.
Multiply primed rolling circle amplification of human papillomavirus using sequence specific primers.
Venue: Virology
Year: 2012

Multiply primed rolling circle amplification (RCA) is a suitable technique for amplification of circular templates and has been used to identify novel human papillomaviruses (HPV) In this study we develop an efficient RCA for whole genome amplification of HPV using HPV specific primers in clinical samples and establish a protocol for whole genome sequencing using the Sanger method. Amplification of cloned HPV genomes by RCA was compared using specific primers against random hexamers. Using HPV specific primers increased the effectiveness on average 15.2 times and the enrichment of HPV relative to human gDNA on average 62.2 times, as compared to using random hexamer. RCA products were sequenced without need for cloning, even when using low input amounts. The technique was successfully used on 4 patient samples from FTA cards, to generate whole HPV genome sequences. Degenerated HPV specific primers for RCA produce DNA of sufficient quality and quantity suitable for sequencing and other potential downstream analyses.
Technology transfer offices as promoters of technology, innovation and regional development in mexico
Year: 2020

The main objective of this research work was to analyze the importance of a Technology Transfer Office (TTO) as an innovation promoter in regional development in Mexico.  An analysis bibliographic was used, application of surveys and generation of indexes. In 2014, a survey was applied to 131 TTOs to measure their impacts.  To perform this analysis, we used a self generated indicator, an index that measures the degree of specialization by geographic region and economic sector, using indicators of regional agglomeration as a basis. The agglomeration model generated was composed of national patent applications, international patents, utility models, industrial designs, and trade secrets.  The results by geographical area in Mexico, were the Northwest, specializing in aquaculture, fisheries, aeronautics and agriculture; the Northeast, in biotechnology, chemistry and metallurgy mechanics; the Center, in automobile, energy, and software; the West, in aerospace, automobile, chemistry and metallurgy mechanics; the Southeast, in food industry, construction, and mining. Theoretical/methodological contributions: We found that the specialization of the TTOs among the various productive sectors in Mexico has contributed to the highest rates of growth in patent registration in the Latin American region.  Although contributions generated in protecting intellectual property at international level are still insufficient, we believe we are on the right track. At least Mexico started to generate the innovation ecosystem that other countries began four decades ago.
Pseudo Conditional Regularization for Inverse Mapping of GANs
Venue: IEEE Access
Year: 2020

Inverse mapping of the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) which projects data to latent space have been recently introduced, and it is shown that the inverse mapping models trained by the bidirectional adversarial learning can enable novel and practical operations including interpolation between real data. However, existing techniques still do not ensure the consistent mapping between the data and their latent representation so that the models are hardly converged throughout training steps. Our discussion begins with empirical investigations on the inconsistency issue of the prior techniques, and we further propose a novel adversarial learning method, Pseudo Conditional Bidirectional GAN (PC BiGAN) for training the inverse mapping of GANs with a high degree of consistency and similarity awareness. Our models are specifically guided by the pseudo conditions defined by the proximity relationship among data in unsupervised learned feature space. We demonstrate that our novel bidirectional adversarial learning frameworks improve the performance in sample reconstruction, generation, and interpolation.