Autoantibodies to the polymyositis/scleroderma (PM/Scl) complex have been associated with systemic sclerosis and PM/Scl overlap syndrome. The report of Hanke and colleagues in a recent issue of Arthritis Research and Therapy is the first to describe the separate evaluation of anti-PM/Scl-75c and PM/Scl-100 autoantibodies and their relationship to clinical manifestations of systemic sclerosis. S...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an indicator of parasympathetic nervous system-linked cardiac activity, and skin conductance level (SCL), a sympathetic indicator, as moderators of the link between child maltreatment and adolescent aggression. METHOD Participants were 234 maltreated (48.3% male) and 128 (57.8% male) comparison youth aged 9-16...

Clinicians, provider organizations, and researchers need simple and valid measures to monitor mental health treatment outcomes. This article describes development of 6- and 10-item indexes of psychological distress based on the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90). A review of eight factor-analytic studies identified SCL-90 items most indicative of overall distress. Convergent validity of two new inde...

SCL (Sequence Class Library) is a class library written in the C++ programming language. Designed using object-oriented programming principles, SCL consists of classes of objects performing tasks typically needed for analyzing DNA or protein sequences. Among them are very flexible sequence classes, classes accessing databases in various formats, classes managing collections of sequences, as wel...

Polar codes are linear block that can achieve channel capacity at infinite code length. Successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding relies on a set of parallel decoders; it yields good error-correction performance finite length, the cost increased implementation complexity and power consumption. Current efforts in literature focus design-time decoder reduction, while lacking practical run-time ...

Contrastive learning is a promising approach to unsupervised learning, as it inherits the advantages of well-studied deep models without dedicated and complex model design. In this paper, based on bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) long-short term memory (LSTM) neural networks, we propose self-supervised contrastive (SCL) well few-shot (FCL) with data augmentation (U...

In this paper, an improvement for SC list flip (SCL-Flip) decoding is presented polar codes. A novel bit-selection metric critical set (set of information symbols codes being flipped during additional attempts) based on path successive cancellation (SCL) suggested. With the proposed metric, improved SCL scheme special nodes (SN) decoders was developed. This decoder will be denoted by GSCLF. The...