nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Pediatric keratoconus: a review of the literature
Venue: International Ophthalmology
Year: 2017

PurposeTo describe the epidemiology and prevalence, rates of progression, difference between adult and pediatric populations, and therapeutic approaches to pediatric keratoconus from documented literature.MethodsA literature search was done on PubMed using key words including pediatric keratoconus, children with keratoconus, adult keratoconus, penetrating keratoplasty, corneal cross linking and intracorneal ring segments. The literature was reviewed and reported to explore the key epidemiological differences between the pediatric and adult population with regards to presentation and treatment options.ResultsPediatric keratoconus is more aggressive than adult keratoconus, which has been explained by structural differences in the cornea between both populations. High rates of progression were documented in pediatric populations. While corneal collagen cross linking, intracorneal ring segments and penetrating keratoplasties have been used as therapies in the pediatric population, the literature overwhelmingly shows higher rates of failure and progression despite these measures as compared to adults.ConclusionPediatric keratoconus is more aggressive than adult keratoconus, and current therapies used in adults may not be sufficient for the pediatric population.
Review of Deep Learning Based Personalized Learning Recommendation
Year: 2020

Online learning has become a significant way for learners to acquire knowledge, which enables anybody to learn anywhere and anytime. However, how to choose appropriate content for learning is an interesting issue, especially when one faces massive online learning resources. With this regard, deep learning based personalized learning resources recommendation has become an effective approach to handle this problem. In this paper, deep learning based personalized learning recommendation technology in the field of education is thoroughly analyzed, and some limitations of recent studies as well as future works, then, are reported and predicted respectively. The study would provide suggestions for future research on deep learning based personalized learning recommendations.
Title Prevalence and associated factors of anemia among non pregnant women of reproductive age in Bangladesh Multilevel logistic regression analysis
Year: 2014

Date: January 19, 2015  We resubmitted the manuscript of our paper "Prevalence and associated factors of anemia among non pregnant women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: Multilevel logistic regression analysis"  to your Journal. According to your recommendation, language and grammar of our manuscript have been checked by a native English speaker. One of our Co author wanted to put his name as Aik Saw instead of Saw Aik, we already put in revised manuscript. We hope our manuscript will be considered for publication. Please ask me if you find any problem in our manuscript. We are waiting for your positive response.
PENGARUH KONSUMSI BUAH PISANG RAJA, MINUM AIR MINERAL DAN JALAN JALAN PAGI TERHADAP KEJADIAN KONSTIPASI PADA IBU HAMIL TRIMESTER III DI BPS SUNARSIH YUDHAWATI
Year: 2017

Peningkatan progesteron dapat mengakibatkan konstipasi pada ibu ibu yang sedang hamil. Perut yang membesar dapat menyebabkan tekanan pada rahim serta tekanan pada sistem kerja usus besar dan halus. Selain itu, penekanan rectum mengakibatkan jalannya feses tidak maksimal, asupan serat kurang, mengkonsumsi zat besi dalam jumlah besar, dan kurang olah raga. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengetahui pengaruh makan pisang raja, minum air mineral, dan jalan jalan pagi terhadap terjadinya konstipasi pada ibu hamil. Metode penelitian menggunakan pendekatan eksperimental dengan memberi perlakuan, menyebarkan kuesioner, interview, dan observasi. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian populasi dengan tehnik analisa data menggunakan uji T. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya pengaruh signifikan antara mengkonsumsi pisang raja terhadap terjadinya konstipasi. Terdapat pengaruh antara minum air mineral terhadap terjadinya konstipasi. Terdapat pengaruh signifikan antara jalan jalan pagi dengan terjadinya konstipasi. Sementara pengaruh yang paling dominan dari tiga variabel yang diteliti yaitu mengkonsumsi pisang raja
Mechanism of Action (MoA) Prediction Kaggle Competition
Year: 2020

Drugs research is rapidly evolving and latest progress is partially thanks to the introduction of Machine Learning tools. A variety of machine learning methods such as naive Bayesian, support vector machine and, more recently, deep neural networks are demonstrating their usefulness in drug discovery and development. The aim of this paper is to propose various Machine Learning algorithms in order to predict the biological activity of a molecule, which is referred to as mechanismof action, or MoA for short. The model selection has been carried out through a online public competition that elected the best performing models for the given dataset. We describe here the models, based on the Neural Network framework, that we utilized and implemented during the challenge and that made us achieve the top 2% of the final leaderboard, with a position of 72 over 4373 teams.
Two approaches to longitudinal qualitative analyses in rehabilitation and disability research
Venue: Disability and rehabilitation
Year: 2019

Although relatively unknown within the field of rehabilitation, qualitative longitudinal research is ideal for rehabilitation and disability research that aims to understand health related challenges over time. We describe the strengths and challenges of longitudinal qualitative research using two concrete examples.  Qualitative longitudinal research often involves in depth interviews of participants on multiple occasions over time. Analytic approaches are complex, summarizing data both cross sectionally and longitudinally. We present two detailed analytic approaches used in research with people living with HIV in Zambia and Canada.  Our experiences provide three recommendations. First, development of the initial analytic coding framework should include both inductive and deductive approaches. Second, given the large quantity of data generated through longitudinal qualitative research, it is important to proactively develop strategies for data analysis and management. Third, as retention of participants is challenging over time, we recommend the use of a consistent interviewer over the duration of the study to promote a trusting relationship.  Longitudinal qualitative research has much to offer researchers and can provide clinicians with insights on the challenges of living with chronic and episodic disability. The flexibility in analytic approaches allows for diverse strategies to best address the rehabilitation and disability research questions and allow for insights into living with disability over time.
Development and initial evaluation of the Clinical Information Systems Success Model (CISSM)
Venue: Int. J. Medical Informatics
Year: 2013

Most clinical information systems (CIS) today are technically sound, but the number of successful implementations of these systems is low. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a theoretically based integrated CIS Success Model (CISSM) from the nurse perspective.  Model predictors of CIS success were taken from existing research on information systems acceptance, user satisfaction, use intention, user behavior and perceptions, as well as clinical research. Data collected online from 234 registered nurses in four hospitals were used to test the model. Each nurse had used the Cerner Power Chart Admission Health Profile for at least 3 months.  Psychometric testing and factor analysis of the 23 item CISSM instrument established its construct validity and reliability. Initial analysis showed nurses' satisfaction with and dependency on CIS use predicted their perceived CIS use Net Benefit. Further analysis identified Social Influence and Facilitating Conditions as other predictors of CIS user Net Benefit. The level of hospital CIS integration may account for the role of CIS Use Dependency in the success of CIS.  Based on our experience, CISSM provides a formative as well as summative tool for evaluating CIS success from the nurse's perspective.
Corticosterone administration and dietary glucose supplementation enhance fat accumulation in broiler chickens
Venue: British poultry science
Year: 2008

1. The effects of exogenous corticosterone administration and glucose supplementation on energy intake, lipid metabolism and fat deposition of broiler chickens were investigated. 2. A total of 144 three d old male chickens were randomly assigned to one of the following 4 treatments for 7 d: a low energy diet (10*9 MJ ME/kg, 200 g/kg CP) with or without corticosterone (30 mg/kg diet) and drinking water supplemented with glucose (80 g/l) or saccharine (2 g/l, control) 3. Body weight (BW) gain and breast and thigh muscle yields body mass) were all significantly decreased by corticosterone treatment. The relative cumulative feed intake (RCFI) and relative ME intake (RMEI) rather than the feed (FI) or ME intake (MEI) were increased by corticosterone administration. Both feed efficiency (FE) and caloric efficiency (CE) were decreased by corticosterone administration. Corticosterone administration had no obvious effect on water consumption. 4. Glucose supplementation had no influence on BW gain and breast and thigh muscle yield (as of body mass) FI or RCFI was decreased while MEI or RMEI was increased by glucose supplementation. FE was improved by glucose treatment, whereas CE was reduced. 5. Liver weight and abdominal, cervical and thigh fat deposits were all significantly increased by either corticosterone or glucose treatment. 6. Plasma concentrations of glucose, urate, triglyceride, non esterified fatty acids (NEFA) very low density lipoprotein and insulin were all significantly increased by corticosterone treatment. Glucose supplementation had no obvious influence on any of the measured plasma parameters except for NEFA, which were significantly increased. 7. Lipoprotein lipase activities in either cervical or abdominal adipose tissues, rather than in thigh fat tissue, were significantly elevated by either glucose or corticosterone treatment.
A Comparison Study on the Characteristics of Nanofibrils Isolated from Fibers and Parenchyma Cells in Bamboo
Venue: Materials
Year: 2020

In this study, bamboo fibers and parenchyma cells were separated by a physical water medium method. To compare the characteristics of nanofibrils from these two types of cells, lignocellulose nanofibrils (LCNFs) and cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) were prepared by different processes. Atomic force microscopy analysis revealed that both fibers and parenchyma cells can be separated into individual fibrils after grinding three times. However, LCNFs had a diameter of 20 40 nm, which was larger than that of CNFs (10 20 nm) Additionally, the films prepared from LCNFs had lower tensile strength, but higher hydrophobicity compared with those from CNFs. X ray diffraction analysis and tensile test of the films showed that the nanofibrils isolated from fibers and parenchyma cells had similar crystallinity and mechanical properties. This study shows a promising application of bamboo parenchyma cells, which are usually discarded as waste in the processing of bamboo products, in the preparation of nanofibers.
Research on Raman Enhancement of Surface Materials Based on Biological Sensors
Year: 2016

Optical fiber sensing technology has been shown to advantage in physical testing. In terms of chemical content and biomass detection, its specificity and flexibility cannot meet the demand of the rapid development of biology, chemistry, due to the material, structure and process of bondage. At the same time, along with the progress of nanometer materials preparation and testing technology, nanotechnology applications become mature in the field of biochemical. This paper introduces the development status of fiber optic sensor and the Raman spectra of metal nanoparticles. The various cases of Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscope were mainly introduced in the paper, compared with sample under different conditions. By observing the surface morphology and composition of samples, and understanding the generation mechanism of samples, analyzing the effect of a variety of experimental conditions on the generated samples, the optimization of conditions was selected.
Selenium status is associated with colorectal cancer risk in the European prospective investigation of cancer and nutrition cohort
Venue: International journal of cancer
Year: 2015

Suboptimal intakes of the micronutrient selenium (Se) are found in many parts of Europe. Low Se status may contribute to colorectal cancer (CRC) development. We assessed Se status by measuring serum levels of Se and Selenoprotein P (SePP) and examined the association with CRC risk in a nested case control design (966 CRC cases; 966 matched controls) within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Se was measured by total reflection X ray fluorescence and SePP by immunoluminometric sandwich assay. Multivariable incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using conditional logistic regression. Respective mean Se and SePP levels were 84.0 mg/L and 4.3 mg/L in cases and 85.6 mg/L and 4.4 mg/L in controls. Higher Se concentrations were associated with a non significant lower CRC risk (IRR 0.92, 95% CI: 0.82 1.03 per 25 mg/L increase) However, sub group analyses by sex showed a statistically significant association for women (ptrend 0.032; per 25 mg/L Se increase, IRR 0.83, 95% CI: 0.70 0.97) but not for men. Higher SePP concentrations were inversely associated with CRC risk (ptrend 0.009; per 0.806 mg/L increase, IRR 0.89, 95% CI: 0.82 0.98) with the association more apparent in women (ptrend 0.004; IRR 0.82, 95% CI: 0.72 0.94 per 0.806 mg/L increase) than men (ptrend 0.485; IRR 0.98, 95% CI: 0.86 1.12 per 0.806 mg/L increase) The findings indicate that Se status is suboptimal in many Europeans and suggest an inverse association between CRC risk and higher serum Se status, which is more evident in women.
Trivariate copulas for characterisation of droughts
Year: 2008

Australian agriculture is at serious risk from drought, and water resource infrastructure and management can mitigate the effects. The consequences of droughts depend on their intensity, duration and severity. These variables are correlated and the dependence structure is here described by copulas. Copulas are multivariate uniform distributions which allow for the dependence structure to be modelled independently of the marginal distributions. Trivariate Gaussian and Gumbel copulas are fitted to the data from a rainfall district in NSW. We assess the goodness of fit of the data to the different forms using several criteria. The data are best described by a Gumbel copula and three parameter Weibull marginal distributions.
Biologic therapy for Behcet's uveitis: a systematic review
Venue: British Journal of Ophthalmology
Year: 2019

Biologics are increasingly used in management of Behcet's Disease (BD) including ocular BD, but the evidence base is limited, mostly from studies of uveitis and BD manifestations.  To review the evidence base for biologics in the treatment of ocular BD.  Systematic literature search was made using exploded key words Behcet's, ocular, biologics in MEDLINE, Cochrane library, Database of Abstracts Reviews and Effects, Clinical Trials.gov, Science Direct and Google Scholar. There was no limitation on region, language or date (Search updated 16th October 2018) Literature retrieval was restricted to randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of biologics.  Of 237 papers retrieved, eight met the inclusion criteria. RCTs on interferon alpha 2a (INF a 2a) adalimumab, secukinumab, gevokizumab, rituximab and daclizumab were retrieved (two for adalimumab and gevokizumab) The outcome measures were not met for secukinumab, daclizumab and gevokizumab. Rituximab and INF a 2a showed promising preliminary results but sufficiently powered RCTs are needed to provide adequate evidence of efficacy. The RCTs on adalimumab did not evaluate efficacy for BD uveitis specifically, hence are of limited value for this review.  Some biologics show promise in treating BD uveitis, but more RCTs are needed for firm conclusions about efficacy. A phase IV study or, registry of adalimumab could provide data on its efficacy in BD uveitis compared to other forms.
Military Innovation Under Authoritarian Government the Case of Russian Special Operations Forces
Year: 2015

The special forces of the General Staff's Main Intelligence Directorate were reduced in number, the organization's institutional autonomy and rationale were changed, and an entirely new Special Operations Command was established in March 2013. This article seeks to assess the nature, scope and purpose of these changes, and to explain them by drawing on scholarship on military innovation. In particular, the article looks at military innovation in the context of a non democratic political regime.
Embedding Attention and Residual Network for Accurate Salient Object Detection
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Year: 2020

Salient object detection is usually used as a preprocessing step to facilitate a variety of subsequent applications which should take little time cost. With the quick development of deep learning recently, profound progresses have been made to achieve a new state of the art performance. However, the learned features of the existing deep learning based methods are not accurate enough thus leading to unsatisfactory detection in complex scenes, such as low contrast or very similar between salient object and background region and multiple (small) salient objects with diverse characteristics. In addition, some post processing techniques are usually needed for refinement, which is time consuming. To address these issues, this paper presents an efficient fully convolutional salient object detection network. Specifically, we first introduce a visual attention mechanism to guide feature learning in side output layers. In detail, attention weight is employed in a top down manner which can bridge high level semantic information to help shallow layers better locate salient objects and also filter out noisy response in the background region. Second, we propose a residual refinement network to fuse the learned multilevel features gradually. Not to simply add or concatenate them step by step as previous works, we introduce a second order term into element wise addition to learn stage wise residual features for refinement. Such a second order term not only benefits efficient gradient propagation but also increases network nonlinearity. Extensive experiments on seven standard benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves consistently superior performance and performs well on small salient object detection in comparison with the very recent state of the arts, especially in the metric of structure measure.
Towards a Culture of Creativity: Reflections on Europe's Strive for Excellence in Research and Innovation
Venue: European Review
Year: 2015

In recent years, the notion of 'excellence' and its interconnectedness with research, development and innovations has become extremely popular across Europe. At regional and national as well as at the EU level, various initiatives have been taken to strengthen the science base, and to establish centres, or clusters of outstanding achievements. Researchers, universities, and funding agencies will have to work their way towards a culture of creativity, which needs a leap of faith based on the high trust principles of governance and accountability, and which provides more space for risk taking and thorough rethinking of common wisdom in order to achieve real breakthroughs at the frontiers of knowledge.
Computer Vision ECCV 2014 Workshops
Venue: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Year: 2014

Over the last few years, researchers from the computer vision and image processing community have joined other research groups in searching for the bases of aesthetic judgment of paintings and photographs. One of the most important issues, which has hampered research in the case of paintings compared to photographs, is the lack of subjective datasets available for public use. This issue has not only been mentioned in different publications, but was also widely discussed at different conferences and workshops. In the current work, we perform a subjective test on a recently released dataset of aesthetic paintings. The subjective test not only collects scores based on the subjective aesthetic quality, but also on other properties that have been linked to aesthetic judgment.
Efficient Removal of Arsenic Using Zinc Oxide Nanocrystal Decorated Regenerated Microfibrillated Cellulose Scaffolds
Venue: ACS Sustainable Chemistry Engineering
Year: 2019

Regenerated microfibrillated cellulose (R MFC) fibers were prepared successfully by a combined dissolution and regeneration approach using phosphoric acid/ethanol treatment on jute cellulose. The prepared R MFC fibers possessed high surface area (10.74 m2/g) good aspect ratio (L/D 30) and excellent thermal stability (Tmax 352 degC) In addition, the fibers exhibited 3.84 wt of phosphate groups (PO42 with a z potential of 8.4 mV and low crystallinity index (CI) of 47.5% These R MFC fibers were in the cellulose II polymorph, confirmed by 13C CPMAS NMR and WAXD measurements, and they were effective to anchor the growth of ZnO nanocrystals. WAXD and TEM examinations on the imbedded ZnO nanocrystals indicated that they possessed the hexagonal wurtzite crystal structure and could assemble into a flower like morphology in the R MFC scaffold. A R MFC composite containing 41 wt of ZnO nanocrystals was found to be very efficient to remove arsenic (As(V) ions from water with the maximum capacity of 4,42.
PLANIFICATION STRATEGIQUE ET PERFORMANCE ORGANISATIONNELLE DES PME MAROCAINES
Year: 2018

Generalement, les PME sont caracterisees par l'absence d'une strategie formelle et planifiee preferant se fier plutot a l'intuition et reagir au fur et a mesure aux changements de leur environnement. Cependant, de nombreuses etudes defendent l'importance de la planification strategique et sa contribution incontournable dans la mise en pratique effective des strategies envisagees ainsi que l'amelioration de la performance des entreprises, et ce malgre les resultats issus d'autres etudes reclamant le contraire. L'objectif de cette recherche est de verifier l'existence ou non de relation entre la planification strategique et la performance organisationnelle des entreprises en se basant sur un echantillon de 60 PME marocaines