Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Relationship between Food Addictive Behavior and Physical Activity in College-Aged Students

Background: Food addiction is believed to play a role in the development of obesity. Acute exercise has been associated with reduced cravings for addictive substances. The purpose of this investigation is to determine if food addictive behavior is influenced by physical activity in college-aged students. Methods: 241 college-aged students (18-24 years of age; 55 male, 186 female) were recruited and completed the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (YFAS) and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form (IPAQ-S). Results: Only 7.9% of participants were diagnosed with moderate (2.5%) or severe (5.4%) food addiction (FA). BMI was higher in participants with food addiction (No FA=24.1±0.3 FA=26.9±1.9, M±SE, p=0.02); however, no differences were found in vigorous (No FA=1851±251 MET-min/week, FA=1920±799 MET-min/week), moderate (No FA=777+107 MET-min/week, FA=869+409 MET-min/week), or walking (No FA=1262±139 MET-min/week, FA=2051+583 MET-min/week) activity. The distribution of participants with Low, Moderate, and High levels of physical activity was similar between No FA and FA. Participants with High (2.10±0.27 symptoms) levels of physical activity displayed more symptoms of food addictive behavior than participants with Moderate (1.41±0.15 symptoms) and Low (1.06±0.27 symptoms) levels (p=0.03). Conclusions: The results of this investigation suggest that high levels of physical activity may be associated with more symptoms of food addiction.
Effect of transurethral split of the prostate using a double-columnar balloon catheter for benign prostatic hyperplasia

AbstractWe aimed to evaluate the long-term therapeutic effect of transurethral split of the prostate (TUSP) with a newly improved double-columnar balloon catheter on patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Total 565 BPH patients (mean age 73.6 years, range 46–94 years) who underwent TUSP surgery between January 2006 and January 2015 were included. Patient's baseline characteristics, prostate size, PSA, preoperative and postoperative maximum urinary flow rate (Qmax), postvoid residual (PVR), international prostate symptoms score (IPSS) and quality of life (QOL) score, perioperative data and postoperative complications were recorded.The mean preoperative prostates size was 48.6 ± 8.2 mL (range 33–230 mL), and the PSA level was 0.8 to 18.6 ng/mL. The mean duration of TUSP procedure from the catheter localization to the split of capsula prostatica was ∼10 minutes. After surgery, the mean Qmax increased from 5.2 ± 1.4 to 12.8 ± 2.2 mL/s (P < 0.001). Patients had improved mean PVR, QOL score, and IPSS after TUSP (76 ± 8 vs 20 ± 8.5 mL, 4.6 ± 0.2 vs 1.4 ± 0.3, and 20.2 ± 4.4 vs 6.6 ± 1.1, respectively, all P < 0.001). Until September 2014, 328 patients were successfully followed up for a long-term period of 38 to 99 months. There was no other case of recurrence with dysuria despite 2 recurrent cases.The TUSP with a double-columnar balloons catheter was a safe and long-term efficient treatment for BPH, with minimal invasion, short operative time, few postoperative complications, and low recurrence rate.
Neoplastic Human Ovaries Vascular Permeability Factor Gene Expression in Normal and Updated

Epithelial ovarian cancer is an aggressive malignancy with a generally poor outcome. To improve survival, novel therapeutic strategies for this disease are needed and require elucidation of the biological events that underlie transformation and tumor growth. Vascular permeability factor (VPF), also known as vascular endothelial growth factor, is a homodimeric glycoprotein that acts on vascular endothelium as a potent permeabilityinducing agent and mitogen. The present study demonstrates for the first time the constitutive gene expression of VPF in normal and neoplastic human ovaries. Abundant levels of VPF have been identified by an immunoassay in the ascites of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (K-T. Yeo et al., Cancer Res., 53: 2912-2918, 1993). We have identified the malignant epithelium as one source of VPF in the ascites. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction has demonstrated the expression of the two secreted isoforms, V P F m and VPF16s, in normal and neoplastic ovaries. Western blotting and an endothelial cell proliferation assay confirmed secretion of a biologically active product. VPF may be an important mediator of ascites formation and tumor metastasis observed in neoplastic conditions of the ovary.
The Uninvited Guest : Patents on Wall Street

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W Fourth Quarter 2003 U p until a few years ago, State Street Bank was just another big bank in Boston. But in 1998 the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals used a patent case filed by the bank to transform the law concerning what is patentable. Since then, the bank’s name has been irrevocably linked to a landmark case. Like Linda Brown of Brown v. Board of Education fame or Ernesto Miranda, who lent his name to the famous Miranda warning (“You have the right to remain silent . . .”), State Street Bank will be forever associated with a major inflection point in U.S. law. For many in the financial services industries— banking, investment banking, stock brokerage firms, and the like—State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. was a bolt from the blue. How could patents apply to something as amorphous as the design of a new mutual fund system? Light bulbs, telegraphs, integrated circuits, foolish gadgets like self-tipping hats, maybe, but how could financial products be patentable? 1 As my young son might put it, what’s up with that? And more to the point, regardless of where these new patents came from, how would they affect the financial world? Would they help or hurt the financial services industries in the long run? And had anyone thought this all through before making State Street Bank a household name outside Wall Street and Boston? This paper tackles some of these issues. My primary goal is to review what we know about innovation in the financial services industries and to try to discuss intelligently the effect patents will have. But first, as a service to those who might still wonder how these questions got on the agenda, I will try to explain how the patent system got to State Street Bank in the first place. There are two strands to the story: (1) the subversive effects of computer software and (2) the growing fascination with intellectual property generally. I consider each in turn.
Probing the Magnetic Field with Molecular Ion Spectra

Observations of the effect of the magnetic field on its environment are usually achieved with techniques that rely on its interaction with the spin of the particles under study. Because of the relative weakness of this effect, extraction of the field characteristics proves to be a most challenging task. We take a totally different approach to the problem and show that the manifestation of the magnetic field can be directly observed by means of a comparison of the spectra of molecular ions with those of neutral molecules. This takes advantage of the strong cyclotron interaction between the ions and the field, but requires the presence of flows or turbulent motion in the gas. We compare our theory to data obtained on the OMC-1, OMC-2, OMC-3, and DR 21(OH) molecular clouds.
Identification and Functional Expression of a Glutamate- and Avermectin-Gated Chloride Channel from Caligus rogercresseyi, a Southern Hemisphere Sea Louse Affecting Farmed Fish

Parasitic sea lice represent a major sanitary threat to marine salmonid aquaculture, an industry accounting for 7% of world fish production. Caligus rogercresseyi is the principal sea louse species infesting farmed salmon and trout in the southern hemisphere. Most effective control of Caligus has been obtained with macrocyclic lactones (MLs) ivermectin and emamectin. These drugs target glutamate-gated chloride channels (GluCl) and act as irreversible non-competitive agonists causing neuronal inhibition, paralysis and death of the parasite. Here we report the cloning of a full-length CrGluClα receptor from Caligus rogercresseyi. Expression in Xenopus oocytes and electrophysiological assays show that CrGluClα is activated by glutamate and mediates chloride currents blocked by the ligand-gated anion channel inhibitor picrotoxin. Both ivermectin and emamectin activate CrGluClα in the absence of glutamate. The effects are irreversible and occur with an EC50 value of around 200 nM, being cooperative (nH = 2) for ivermectin but not for emamectin. Using the three-dimensional structure of a GluClα from Caenorabditis elegans, the only available for any eukaryotic ligand-gated anion channel, we have constructed a homology model for CrGluClα. Docking and molecular dynamics calculations reveal the way in which ivermectin and emamectin interact with CrGluClα. Both drugs intercalate between transmembrane domains M1 and M3 of neighbouring subunits of a pentameric structure. The structure displays three H-bonds involved in this interaction, but despite similarity in structure only of two these are conserved from the C. elegans crystal binding site. Our data strongly suggest that CrGluClα is an important target for avermectins used in the treatment of sea louse infestation in farmed salmonids and open the way for ascertaining a possible mechanism of increasing resistance to MLs in aquaculture industry. Molecular modeling could help in the design of new, more efficient drugs whilst functional expression of the receptor allows a first stage of testing of their efficacy.
Unusual clinical course of trichinellosis with relapse

SummaryDuring an outbreak of trichinellosis in Eastern Slovakia in 2008, 16 people were hospitalized, including 10 patients having specific anti-Trichinella antibodies. The disease relapse was seen in a 68-year-old woman two weeks after her discharge from hospital, where she was treated with albendazole and prednisone for 10 days. Clinical symptoms of trichinellosis, eosinophilia, elevated CRP and LDH levels were observed again with recorded elevation of aminotransferase levels during the relapse. Herein we discuss a potential cause of unusual relapse of trichinellosis with liver damage in a female patient with type II diabetes mellitus.
Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Differences in Job Context and Work-Activity Preferences

Military leaders have increasingly expressed concern in response to the lack of demographic diversity within certain military occupations (e.g., women and African Americans being underrepresented in aircrew positions), as well as to recent United States Secretary of Defense instructions to open all military jobs to women that had previously been closed to them. Although a lack of demographic diversity in certain military occupations may be the result of recruiters steering recruits to specific occupations, the lack of demographic diversity may alternatively reflect preexisting differences in the types of job contexts and work activities in which recruits from different demographic groups are most likely to be interested. To evaluate demographic differences in recruits’ own work interests, we evaluated how interest in 12 general Job-Context factors and 28 specific work activities distinguished entry-level jobs by gender, race, and ethnicity in a sample of recent United States Air Force enlistees (N = 1,018). Results showed significant Realistic–Social-factor differences (i.e., interest in things vs. people) in Job-Context and Work-Activity factors most attractive to men versus women (Prediger, 1982). Differences were also found among racial/ethnic minorities and their Caucasian counterparts. Implications for military service and recruiter strategies to increase demographic diversity in occupations in which women and minorities are currently underrepresented are discussed.
Feed-Restriction Programs for Growing Heifers

Over the last 40 years, heifergrowing programs have undergone various phases and encountered various issues. At one time, heifers were the forgotten animal on a dairy, often banished to the proverbial “back 40” acres. They had access to only poor pasture or poor quality forages. Then in the 1970s and 1980s, corn silage became popular for feeding to dairy cows, and to heifers. Too often corn silage was available free choice to heifers, which resulted in their fattening even if protein supplementation was adequate and grass or other hay was also available. In a classic study, Jahn and Chandler (1976) showed that with high fiber/low quality forage, there was a practical limit to how much protein could compensate for this low quality/high fiber forage. Stobo et al. (1966) found that with younger calves, increasing forage level had a double negative effect in that average daily gain (ADG) was decreased as forage level increased from 4 to 61% while gut fill also increased distorting true body growth. As increasing emphasis was placed on growing and harvesting higher quality forages for dairy cows, these forages were often fed to heifers too. At the same time, increasing emphasis was placed on higher genetic merit for cows. Consequently, intake of heifers increased with genetic merit too. And with higher quality forage, heifers could now get fat when fed virtually forage only diets. Some producers then began to seek and use some poorer quality roughage to reduce dietary energy concentration and to thereby limit energy intake when diets were fed free choice to heifers. That led to others seeking another approach to feeding heifers—limiting their intake, which is the subject of this paper.
European Conference on Information Systems ( ECIS ) 2008 Osborne Revisited : Is There No Such Thing as a Bad Idea ? The Effects of Electronic Junk on Computer-Mediated Idea Generation Performance

Conventional thought in idea generation suggests that there is no such thing as a bad idea. This paper challenges this assumption, arguing that task-irrelevant comments (electronic junk) can significantly influence the performance of computer-mediated idea generation groups. While the results of a controlled laboratory experiment using a group simulator show that electronic junk can create a downward spiral, leading to the creation of even more task-irrelevant comments, the results also support the hypothesis of an inverted-u-shaped relationship between the amount of junk comments and ideation performance, suggesting that moderate amounts of junk comments can aid performance, whereas large amounts of junk comments can be detrimental to performance. Further, the results show that members of groups producing no junk comments perceive their individual performances to be lower than members of groups with moderate or high amounts of junk comments. The implications of these results on the design of human-computer interfaces are discussed and avenues for future research are suggested.
Does Well‐Being Impact Individuals’ Risky Decisions and Susceptibility to Cognitive Bias?

This article explores the relation between individual well‐being, risky decision‐making, susceptibility to cognitive biases and investor beliefs about investing. A survey of one hundred and two individuals revealed that those with higher satisfaction with life are more prone to taking risks. In a loss frame, participants who were most likely to take a gamble had higher levels of psychological, social and overall well‐being. Lower levels of satisfaction with life were found to impact the susceptibility of the reflection effect cognitive bias. In addition to this, well‐being was found to be associated with investment beliefs, particularly those concerning diversification, the need to be alert and active, and the risk/return trade‐off.
ARSENIC METHYLATION AND BLADDER CANCER RISK IN CASE-CONTROL STUDIES FROM ARGENTINA AND THE UNITED STATES

Objective: We sought to assess whether the metabolism of arsenic impacts a person's susceptibility to bladder cancer. Methods: Urinary methylation products were measured in subjects from Argentina (114 cases and 114 controls) and the United States (23 cases and 49 controls). Results: In Argentina, the adjusted odds ratio (OR) for subjects with a high proportion of ingested arsenic excreted as monomethylarsonate (%MMA) was 2.17 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.02–4.63) in smokers and 0.48 (95% CI = 0.17–1.33) in nonsmokers. In the United States, the adjusted ORs for high %MMA in subjects with arsenic intakes less than and greater than 100 &mgr;g/d were 1.20 (95% CI = 0.27–5.38) and 2.70 (95% CI = 0.39–18.6). Conclusions: Overall, these results are consistent with data from Taiwan suggesting that some individuals who excrete a higher proportion of ingested arsenic as MMA are more susceptible to arsenic-related cancer.
Slow decay in linear thermoelasticity

Energy estimates show that linearized thermo-elasticity deenes a contraction semi-group on a Hilbert space. We show that under a geometric condition this contraction is not strict, or, more precisely, the norm of the semi group is 1 for all t 0. Convex domains always satisfy the geometric condition. 2. introduction Let R n be a bounded domain with smooth boundary ? We consider the problem @ 2 tt u ? u ? (+)r(ru) + r = 0 in R + c p @ t ? + @ t ru = 0 in R + (2.1) where u is a time dependent deformation vector eld, is the normalized temperature, , , and c p are positive constants, 2 + > 0 (the density, and are Lame's constants and c p is the speciic heat), is the coupling constant between pressure waves and heat, r(ru) = grad divu, and u denotes the component wise Laplacian. This system is complemented by initial conditions and the boundary condition
All the Conditions of Effective Foreign Aid

The conclusion that foreign aid will promote economic growth only when allocated towards good policy regimes has been the subject of considerable debate. Aid effectiveness researchers have variously sought to falsify this result or to find other individual conditions of aid effectiveness. However, economic theory suggests that any factor which influences the expected returns to investment may influence the effect of aid on growth even when aid is partly diverted to consumption. To investigate this hypothesis, i? ½alli? ½ of the hypothesized conditions of aid effectiveness are individually tested in a cross-country growth specification. From these tests the most significant and robust individual interactions are simultaneously modeled, thereby deriving multiple conditions of aid effectiveness. The paper concludes that aid is more effective in economies experiencing economic shocks or recovering from war, and less effective in countries which are geographically disadvantaged or at war. We also find a previously unidentified condition of aid ineffectiveness: the inflow of foreign direct investment. This finding renews a justified interest in the policy-aid-growth nexus, insofar as domestic policy determines the distribution of aid and FDI flows, which appear to act as substitutes in the growth process.
A Behavioral Model of Managerial Perspectives Regarding Technology Acceptance in Building Energy Management Systems

The Building Energy Management System (BEMS), a well-known system that has been implemented in some energy corporations, has become attractive to many companies seeking to better monitor their energy consumption efficiency. This study investigated the external factors that influence acceptance of the BEMS from managerial perspectives. An extended model based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was created to evaluate the implementation of the BEMS in the manufacturing industries. A structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was used to analyze the model by adopting compatibility, features, technology complexity, and perceived risk as the external variables, and integrating the five dimensions of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude, user satisfaction, and behavioral intention. The analysis results indicated that the external factors positively influenced users’ behavioral intention to use the BEMS through expected satisfaction, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness. Suggestions for BEMS developers are provided as well.
Contribution Calcium , Dairy Foods , and Risk of Incident and Fatal Prostate Cancer The NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study

Calcium and dairy foods in relation to prostate cancer were examined in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) Diet and Health Study (1995/1996–2001). Diet was assessed with a food frequency questionnaire at baseline. Multivariate relative risks and 95% confidence intervals were estimated by Cox regression. During up to 6 years of follow-up (n 1⁄4 293,888), the authors identified 10,180 total prostate cancer cases (8,754 nonadvanced, 1,426 advanced, and 178 fatal cases). Total and supplemental calcium were unrelated to total and nonadvanced prostate cancer. However, a statistically nonsignificant positive association with total calcium was observed for advanced ( 2,000 vs. 500–<750 mg/day: relative risk (RR)1⁄4 1.25, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.91, 1.71; ptrend1⁄4 0.06) and fatal ( 1,000 vs. 500–<750 mg/day: RR1⁄4 1.39, 95% CI: 0.92, 2.09; ptrend 1⁄4 0.10) prostate cancer. Skim milk, but not other dairy foods, was associated with increased risk of advanced prostate cancer ( 2 vs. zero servings/day: RR 1⁄4 1.23, 95% CI: 0.99, 1.54; ptrend 1⁄4 0.01). In contrast, calcium from nondairy foods was associated with lower risk of nonadvanced prostate cancer ( 600 vs.<250 mg/day: RR1⁄4 0.82, 95%CI: 0.68, 0.99; ptrend1⁄4 0.04). Although the authors cannot definitively rule out a weak association for aggressive prostate cancer, their findings do not provide strong support for the hypothesis that calcium and dairy foods increase prostate cancer risk.
Economic Diversification in Resource Rich Countries

Developing countries as a whole have been remarkably successful in diversifying their economies and their export structures. This process of diversification has taken many forms. The most prominent change has been the shift towards industry. In the 1960’s, some 80% of developing country exports were primary commodities; today, almost 80% are industrial products. This massive transformation in export structure has been associated with the rise of major industrial power-houses; China most prominently, but also countries such as Korea, India, Brazil, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Mexico. Most of these new industrial powers were previously primary-based economies. Today they are deeply integrated into global production networks across a wide range of sectors, participating in rapidly-growing South-South trade, and in most cases rapidly upgrading the sophistication of their export mix.
Intellectual Property Rights and the International Transfer of Technology: Setting out an Agenda for Empirical Research in Developing Countries

The possibility of this virtual “free lunch” has kindled interest in technology transfer. Inevitably, issues of IPR protection have come to the fore.1 There is a large body of literature on the subject, too large to even attempt to review and classify here. My objective therefore is to suggest fruitful areas for empirical research in developing countries on the relationship between IPRs and technology transfer.
0 70 20 58 v 1 1 6 Fe b 20 07 Inequalities for quantum Fisher information

In the paper [16] Luo proved an inequality relating the Wigner-Yanase information and the SLD-information. In this paper we prove that Luo’s inequality is a particular case of a general inequality which holds for any regular quantum Fisher information. Moreover we show that this general inequality is a consequence of the Kubo-Ando inequality that states that any matrix mean is bigger than the harmonic mean and smaller than the arithmetic mean. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 62B10, 94A17; Secondary 46L30, 46L60.