nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
A Reconfigurable Streaming Deep Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator for Internet of Things

Convolutional neural network (CNN) offers significant accuracy in image detection. To implement image detection using CNN in the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, a streaming hardware accelerator is proposed. The proposed accelerator optimizes the energy efficiency by avoiding unnecessary data movement. With unique filter decomposition technique, the accelerator can support arbitrary convolution window size. In addition, max-pooling function can be computed in parallel with convolution by using separate pooling unit, thus achieving throughput improvement. A prototype accelerator was implemented in TSMC 65-nm technology with a core size of 5 mm2. The accelerator can support major CNNs and achieve 152GOPS peak throughput and 434GOPS/W energy efficiency at 350 mW, making it a promising hardware accelerator for intelligent IoT devices.
Long-range wireless sensor networks with transmit-only nodes and software-defined receivers

Wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring and agricultural applications often face long-range requirements at low bit-rates together with large numbers of nodes. This paper presents the design and test of a novel wireless sensor network that combines a large radio range with very low power consumption and cost. Our asymmetric sensor network uses ultralow-cost 40 MHz transmitters and a sensitive software defined radio receiver with multichannel capability. Experimental radio range measurements in two different outdoor environments demonstrate a single-hop range of up to 1.8 km. A theoretical model for radio propagation at 40 MHz in outdoor environments is proposed and validated with the experimental measurements. The reliability and fidelity of network communication over longer time periods is evaluated with a deployment for distributed temperature measurements. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of the transmit-only low-frequency system design approach for future environmental sensor networks. Although there have been several papers proposing the theoretical benefits of this approach, to the best of our knowledge this is the first paper to provide experimental validation of such claims.
Multiple sclerosis after infectious mononucleosis.

Infectious mononucleosis caused by the Epstein-Barr virus has been associated with increased risk of multiple sclerosis. However, little is known about the characteristics of this association.



To assess the significance of sex, age at and time since infectious mononucleosis, and attained age to the risk of developing multiple sclerosis after infectious mononucleosis.



Cohort study using persons tested serologically for infectious mononucleosis at Statens Serum Institut, the Danish Civil Registration System, the Danish National Hospital Discharge Register, and the Danish Multiple Sclerosis Registry.



Statens Serum Institut.



A cohort of 25 234 Danish patients with mononucleosis was followed up for the occurrence of multiple sclerosis beginning on April 1, 1968, or January 1 of the year after the diagnosis of mononucleosis or after a negative Paul-Bunnell test result, respectively, whichever came later and ending on the date of multiple sclerosis diagnosis, death, emigration, or December 31, 1996, whichever came first.



The ratio of observed to expected multiple sclerosis cases in the cohort (standardized incidence ratio).



A total of 104 cases of multiple sclerosis were observed during 556,703 person-years of follow-up, corresponding to a standardized incidence ratio of 2.27 (95% confidence interval, 1.87-2.75). The risk of multiple sclerosis was persistently increased for more than 30 years after infectious mononucleosis and uniformly distributed across all investigated strata of sex and age. The relative risk of multiple sclerosis did not vary by presumed severity of infectious mononucleosis.



The risk of multiple sclerosis is increased in persons with prior infectious mononucleosis, regardless of sex, age, and time since infectious mononucleosis or severity of infection. The risk of multiple sclerosis may be increased soon after infectious mononucleosis and persists for at least 30 years after the infection.
Clinical response to the canakinumab in crohn’s disease related artrhritis

A 4 years old girl was admitted because of right hip pain. When she was 1 year old was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and taken sulfasalazine and corticosteroid. She had septic arthritis in her right hip one year ago. On admission, we have found pain and limitation in right hip. Also she was growth retardation. In her laboratory findings, acute phase reactants were elevated (white blood cells :20 500 /mm3, Thrombocyte : 596 000/ mm3, ESH:120 mm/h, CRP 50,2 mg/L). She had also anemia (Hemoglobine : 8 gr/dl). We found ANA and HLA B27 were negative. We detected arthritis in right hip joint and bilateral sacroiliac joints in her MRI. Glucocorticoids and methotrexate (MTX) was started effectively; however, the patient did not reach complete remission. Therefore etanercept was added her therapy. We found homozygote MEFV mutation (M694V/M694V) and cholchine was added in her therapy. After one year, a severe arthritis flare occurred, with an aggressive polyarticular course. In consideration of the lack of control obtained through the etanercept administration. We then decided to switch from etanercept to infliximab), which was administered at 7 dose. Despite this therapy, symptoms and laboratory findings did not regress. We started canakinumab (2mg/kg/month) therapy. Her arthritis was recovery on canacinumab in 3 months.
Risk management in clinical practice. Part 5. Ethical considerations for dental enhancement procedures

After the demise of the Industrial Age, we currently live in an 'Information Age' fuelled mainly by the Internet, with an ever-increasing medically and dentally literate population. The media has played its role by reporting scientific advances, as well as securitising medical and dental practices. Reality television such as 'Extreme makeovers' has also raised public awareness of body enhancements, with a greater number of people seeking such procedures. To satiate this growing demand, the dental industry has flourished by introducing novel cosmetic products such as bleaching kits, tooth coloured filling materials and a variety of dental ceramics. In addition, one only has to browse through a dental journal to notice innumerable courses and lectures on techniques for providing cosmetic dentistry. The incessant public interest, combined with unrelenting marketing by companies is gradually shifting the balance of dental care from a healing to an enhancement profession. The purpose of this article is to endeavour to answer questions such as, What is aesthetic or cosmetic dentistry? Why do patients seek cosmetic dentistry? Are enhancement procedures a part of dental practice? What, if any, ethical guidelines and constraints apply to elective enhancement procedures? What is the role of the dentist in providing or encouraging this type of 'therapy'? What treatment modalities are available for aesthetic dental treatment?
Dimensional hierarchies: implementation in data warehouse logical scheme design

Hierarchies represent substantial part of the multidimensional view of data based on exploring measures of facts for business or non-business domain along various dimensions. In data warehousing and on-line analytical processing they provide for examining data at different levels of detail. Several types of hierarchies have been presented with issues concerning dependencies and summarizability of data along the levels. Design mechanism for implementation of dimensional hierarchies in datawarehouse logical scheme has been proposed. Algorithms for enforcing dependencies on dimensional hierarchies for achieving correct summarizability of data have been developed. An implementation of the algorithms as procedures in logical scheme's metadata has been presented.
Intelligent mobile satellite antenna tracking system design

This research applied both the traditional and the fuzzy control methods for mobile satellite antenna tracking system design. The antenna tracking and the stabilization loops were designed firstly according to the bandwidth and phase margin requirements. However, the performance would be degraded if the tracking loop gain is reduced due to parameter variation. On the other hand a PD type of fuzzy controller was also applied for tracking loop design. It can be seen that the system performance obtained by the fuzzy controller was better for low antenna tracking gain. Thus this research proposed an adaptive law by taking either traditional or fuzzy controllers for antenna tracking system depending on the tracking loop gain, then the tracking gain parameter variation effect can be reduced.
Online Semi-Supervised Learning with Deep Hybrid Boltzmann Machines and Denoising Autoencoders

Two novel deep hybrid architectures, the Deep Hybrid Boltzmann Machine and the Deep Hybrid Denoising Auto-encoder, are proposed for handling semisupervised learning problems. The models combine experts that model relevant distributions at different levels of abstraction to improve overall predictive performance on discriminative tasks. Theoretical motivations and algorithms for joint learning for each are presented. We apply the new models to the domain of datastreams in work towards life-long learning. The proposed architectures show improved performance compared to a pseudo-labeled, drop-out rectifier network.
Appendiceal abscess: immediate operation or percutaneous drainage?

Conflicting evidence exists regarding the optimal treatment for abscess complicating acute appendicitis. The objective of this study is to compare immediate appendectomy (IMM APP) versus expectant management (EXP MAN) including percutaneous drainage with or without interval appendectomy to treat periappendiceal abscess. One hundred four patients with acute appendicitis complicated by periappendiceal abscess were identified. We compared 36 patients who underwent IMM APP with 68 patients who underwent EXP MAN. Outcome measures included morbidity and length of hospital stay. The groups were similar with regard to age (30.6 +/- 12.3 vs. 34.8 +/- 13.5 years), gender (61% vs. 62% males), admission WBC count (17.5 +/- 5.1 x 10(3) vs. 17.0 +/- 4.8 x 10(3) cells/dL), and admission temperature (37.9 +/- 1.2 vs. 37.8 +/- 0.9 degrees F). IMM APP patients had a higher rate of complications than EXP MAN patients at initial hospitalization (58% vs. 15%, P < 0.001) and for all hospitalizations (67% vs. 24%, P < 0.001). The IMM APP group also had a longer initial (14.8 +/- 16.1 vs. 9.0 +/- 4.8 days, P = 0.01) and overall hospital stay (15.3 +/- 16.2 vs. 10.7 +/- 5.4 days, P = 0.04). We conclude that percutaneous drainage and interval appendectomy is preferable to immediate appendectomy for treatment of appendiceal abscess because it leads to a lower complication rate and a shorter hospital stay.
Genetic variation in microRNA genes and prostate cancer risk in North Indian population

Recent evidence indicates the involvement of microRNAs (miRNAs), in cell growth control, differentiation, and apoptosis, thus playing a role in tumorigenesis. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located at miRNA-binding sites (miRNA-binding SNPs) are likely to affect the expression of the miRNA target and may contribute to the susceptibility of humans to common diseases. We genotyped SNPs hsa-mir196a2 (rs11614913), hsa-mir146a (rs2910164), and hsa-mir499 (rs3746444) in a case–control study including 159 prostate cancer patients and 230 matched controls. Patients with heterozygous genotype in hsa-mir196a2 and hsa-mir499, showed significant risk for developing prostate cancer (P = 0.01; OR = 1.70 and P ≤ 0.001; OR = 2.27, respectively). Similarly, the variant allele carrier was also associated with prostate cancer, (P = 0.01; OR = 1.66 and P ≤ 0.001; OR = 1.97, respectively) whereas, hsa-mir146a revealed no association in prostate cancer. None of the miRNA polymorphisms were associated with Gleason grade and bone metastasis. This is the first study on Indian population substantially presenting that individual as well as combined genotypes of miRNA-related variants may be used to predict the risk of prostate cancer and may be useful for identifying patients at high risk.
MQT, an Approach for Run-Time Query Translation: From EOL to SQL

Managing models requires extracting information from them and modifying them, and this is performed through queries. Queries can be executed at the model or at the persistence-level. Both are complementary but while model-level queries are closer to modelling engineers, persistence-level queries are specific to the persistence technology and leverage its capabilities. This paper presents MQT, an approach that translates EOL (model-level queries) to SQL (persistence-level queries) at runtime. Runtime translation provides several benefits: (i) queries are executed only when the information is required; (ii) context and metamodel information is used to get more performant translated queries; and (iii) supports translating query programs using variables and dependant queries. Translation process used by MQT is described through two examples and we also evaluate performance of the approach.
Average Torque Improvement of Interior Permanent-Magnet Machine Using Third Harmonic in Rotor Shape

A rotor shaping technique with optimal third harmonic is presented to enhance the average torque of interior permanent-magnet (IPM) machines in this paper. The optimal value of third harmonic injected into the rotor outer surface shape has been derived and further confirmed by both finite-element analyses and experiments. The impact of the optimal third harmonic to the rotor shape on the electromagnetic performance, including harmonics in the back electromotive forces, cogging torque, average torque, and torque ripple, is investigated. It is demonstrated that without any modification of the costly rare earth permanent magnet employed for the inverse-cosine-shaped rotor, the average torque of the machine of an inverse cosine injected with an optimal third-harmonic-shaped rotor can be improved by 6%. Simultaneously, the torque ripple remains almost unchanged, and the saliency ratio is also improved, further boosting the average torque. Finally, the machines with both conventional and optimal third harmonic rotors are prototyped and tested to validate the analysis.
A New Algorithmic Decision for Catergorical Syllogisms via Caroll's Diagrams

In this paper, we deal with a calculus system SLCD (Syllogistic Logic with Carroll Diagrams), which gives a formal approach to logical reasoning with diagrams, for representations of the fundamental Aristotelian categorical propositions and show that they are closed under the syllogistic criterion of inference which is the deletion of middle term. Therefore, it is implemented to let the formalism comprise synchronically bilateral and trilateral diagrammatical appearance and a naive algorithmic nature. And also, there is no need specific knowledge or exclusive ability to understand as well as to use it. Consequently, we give an effective algorithm used to determine whether a syllogistic reasoning valid or not by using SLCD.
Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the urinary bladder: a clinicopathologic study of 13 cases

Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELCA) of the urinary bladder is a rare variant of bladder cancer characterized by a malignant epithelial component densely infiltrated by lymphoid cells. It is characterized by indistinct cytoplasmic borders and a syncytial growth pattern. These neoplasms deserve recognition and attention, chiefly because they may be responsive to chemotherapy. We report on the clinicopathologic features of 13 cases of LELCA recorded since 1981. The chief complaint in all 13 patients was hematuria. Their ages ranged from 58 years to 82 years. All tumors were muscle invasive. A significant lymphocytic reaction was present in all of these tumors. There were three pure LELCA and six predominant LELCA with a concurrent transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). The remainder four cases had a focal LELCA component admixed with TCC. Immunohistochemistry showed LELCA to be reactive against epithelial membrane antigen and several cytokeratins (CKs; AE1/AE3, AE1, AE3, CK7, and CK8). CK20 and CD44v6 stained focally. The lymphocytic component was composed of a mixture of T and B cells intermingled with some dendritic cells and histiocytes. Latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) immunostaining and in situ hybridization for Epstein-Barr virus were negative in all 13 cases. DNA ploidy of these tumors gave DNA histograms with diploid peaks (n=7) or non-diploid peaks (aneuploid or tetraploid; n=6). All patients with pure and 66% with predominant LELCA were alive, while all patients having focal LELCA died of disease. Our data suggest that pure and predominant LELCA of the bladder appear to be morphologically and clinically different from other bladder (undifferentiated and poorly differentiated conventional TCC) carcinomas and should be recognized as separate clinicopathological variants of TCC with heavy lymphocytic reaction relevant in patient management.
A 6th order zero capacitor spread 1MHz – 10MHz tunable CMOS active-RC low pass filter with fast tuning scheme

A 6th order fully differential CMOS active-RC inverse-Chebyshev low pass filter with zero capacitor spread is presented in this paper. It provides inverse-Chebyshev response with tunable cutoff frequency from 1MHz to 10MHz by regulating a resistor array. Transmission zero capacitors are replaced by resistors to eliminate the large capacitor spread also in order to reduce the area and mismatch. Modified bandwidth extended op-amp with push-pull output stage is employed to meet the power consumption and bandwidth requirements. A fast tuning circuit using successive approximation register (SAR) controller is adopted to compensate the process voltage temperatue (PVT) variations by tuning a capacitor array. Implemented in 0.13um CMOS technology, the filter draws 6.3mA from a 1.5V power supply. Simulation results show that the inband input-referred noise is 60nV/sqrt(Hz), inband 1dB gain compression point is larger than 13dBm and inband total harmonic distortion (THD) is less than −80dB with 2V differential peak-peak (2Vppd) input signal.
Equivariant Verlinde formula from fivebranes and vortices

We study complex Chern-Simons theory on a Seifert manifold M3 by embedding it into string theory. We show that complex Chern-Simons theory on M3 is equivalent to a topologically twisted supersymmetric theory and its partition function can be naturally regularized by turning on a mass parameter. We find that the dimensional reduction of this theory to 2d gives the low energy dynamics of vortices in four-dimensional gauge theory, the fact apparently overlooked in the vortex literature. We also generalize the relations between 1) the Verlinde algebra, 2) quantum cohomology of the Grassmannian, 3) Chern-Simons theory on Σ × S1 and 4) index of a spinc Dirac operator on the moduli space of flat connections to a new set of relations between 1) the “equivariant Verlinde algebra” for a complex group, 2) the equivariant quantum K-theory of vortex moduli spaces, 3) complex Chern-Simons theory on Σ × S1 and 4) the equivariant index of a spinc Dirac operator on the moduli space of Higgs bundles. CALT-TH-2014-171 ar X iv :1 50 1. 01 31 0v 1 [ he pth ] 6 J an 2 01 5
Parkinson's disease dementia: convergence of α-synuclein, tau and amyloid-β pathologies

Dementia is increasingly being recognized in cases of Parkinson's disease (PD); such cases are termed PD dementia (PDD). The spread of fibrillar α-synuclein (α-syn) pathology from the brainstem to limbic and neocortical structures seems to be the strongest neuropathological correlate of emerging dementia in PD. In addition, up to 50% of patients with PDD also develop sufficient numbers of amyloid-β plaques and tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles for a secondary diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, and these pathologies may act synergistically with α-syn pathology to confer a worse prognosis. An understanding of the relationships between these three distinct pathologies and their resultant clinical phenotypes is crucial for the development of effective disease-modifying treatments for PD and PDD.
Narcissism and consumer behaviour: a review and preliminary findings

We review the literature on the relation between narcissism and consumer behavior. Consumer behavior is sometimes guided by self-related motives (e.g., self-enhancement) rather than by rational economic considerations. Narcissism is a case in point. This personality trait reflects a self-centered, self-aggrandizing, dominant, and manipulative orientation. Narcissists are characterized by exhibitionism and vanity, and they see themselves as superior and entitled. To validate their grandiose self-image, narcissists purchase high-prestige products (i.e., luxurious, exclusive, flashy), show greater interest in the symbolic than utilitarian value of products, and distinguish themselves positively from others via their materialistic possessions. Our review lays the foundation for a novel methodological approach in which we explore how narcissism influences eye movement behavior during consumer decision-making. We conclude with a description of our experimental paradigm and report preliminary results. Our findings will provide insight into the mechanisms underlying narcissists' conspicuous purchases. They will also likely have implications for theories of personality, consumer behavior, marketing, advertising, and visual cognition.
Fascial Disorders: Implications for Treatment.

In the past 15 years, multiple articles have appeared that target fascia as an important component of treatment in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. To better understand the possible actions of fascial treatments, there is a need to clarify the definition of fascia and how it interacts with various other structures: muscles, nerves, vessels, organs. Fascia is a tissue that occurs throughout the body. However, different kinds of fascia exist. In this narrative review, we demonstrate that symptoms related to dysfunction of the lymphatic system, superficial vein system, and thermoregulation are closely related to dysfunction involving superficial fascia. Dysfunction involving alterations in mechanical coordination, proprioception, balance, myofascial pain, and cramps are more related to deep fascia and the epimysium. Superficial fascia is obviously more superficial than the other types and contains more elastic tissue. Consequently, effective treatment can probably be achieved with light massage or with treatment modalities that use large surfaces that spread the friction in the first layers of the subcutis. The deep fasciae and the epymisium require treatment that generates enough pressure to reach the surface of muscles. For this reason, the use of small surface tools and manual deep friction with the knuckles or elbows are indicated. Due to different anatomical locations and to the qualities of the fascial tissue, it is important to recognize that different modalities of approach have to be taken into consideration when considering treatment options.