Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI VOLUME DEPOSITOMUDHARABAH PADA BANK SYARIAH MANDIRI PERIODE 2007-2012

Perkembangan ekonomi dalam 5 tahun terakhir mengalami penurunan. Hal itu ditandai dengan krisis yang melanda Amerika dan secara tidak langsung berimbas juga terhadap dunia perbankan di Indonesia, yang ditandai dengan naiknya tingkat inflasi dan suku bunga. Hal ini kembali akan menjadi ujian bagi perbankan syariah. Namun dalam kenyataannya, tingkat pertumbuhan deposito pada periode tersebut mengalami perlambatan yang cukup signifikan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji dan menganalisis bagaimana pengaruh tingkat bagi hasil, inflasi, suku bunga Bank Indonesia dan PDB terhadap volume deposito Mudharabah pada Bank Syariah Mandiri. Peneltitian ini termasuk kategori penelitian terapan atau sering disebut applied reserach, dengan sampel Bank Syariah Mandiri. Penelitian ini menggunakan data kuantitatif yaitu data yang diukur dalam suatu skala numerik (angka) dengan periode penelitian yaitu tahun 2007 sampai dengan tahun 2012 dengan menggunakan data triwulan. Variabel independen dari penelitian ini adalah tingkat bagi hasil, inflasi, suku bunga Bank Indonesia dan PDB, sedangkan variabel dependennya adalah volume deposito Mudharabah. Untuk menjelaskan pengaruh variabel tersebut, data yang diperoleh dalam penelitian ini dianalisis menggunakan alat uji regresi linier berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa secara simultan tingkat bagi hasil, inflasi, suku bunga Bank Indonesia dan PDB mempunyai pengaruh terhadap volume deposito Mudharabah. Namun secara parsial faktor yang berpengaruh terhadap volume deposito Mudharabah hanya PDB saja. Sedangkan tingkat bagi hasil, inflasi dan suku bunga Bank Indonesia tidak mempunyai pengaruh terhadap volume deposito Mudharabah. Secara simultan keempat faktor yaitu tingkat bagi hasil, inflasi, suku bunga Bank Indonesia dan PDB dapat berpengaruh terhadap volume deposito Mudharabah pada Bank Syariah Mandiri dengan konstribusi sebesar 59,606%. Secara parsial menyimpulkan bahwa variabel yang berpengaruh signifikan terhadap volume deposito Mudharabah adalah PDB dengan sig. t sebesar 0.000<0.05. Tingkat bagi hasil dengan sig. t sebesar 0.007<0.05, namun karena nialai t tidak sesuai dengan prediksi awal, maka disimpulkan bahwa tingkat bagi hasil tidak berpengaruh terhadap naiknya volume deposito mudharabah. Sedangkan inflasi dengan sig.t sebesar 0.515>0.05, suku bunga Bank Indonesia dengan sig.t sebesar 0.443>0.05 tidak berpengaruh volume deposito Mudharabah. Berdasarkan hasil uji determinasi besarnya nilai Adjusted R Square adalah 0.911, hal ini berarti 91.1% variasi volume deposito Mudharabah dapat dijelaskan oleh variasi dari empat variabel tersebut. Sedangkan sisanya (100% - 91,1% = 8,9%) dijelaskan oleh variabel lain yang tidak dimasukkan dalam model persamaan regresi. Kata kunci : volume deposito Mudharabah, tingkat bagi hasil, inflasi, suku bunga Bank Indonesia dan PDB
Clinical Investigation : Head and Neck Cancer Factors Associated With External and Internal Lymphedema in Patients With Head-and-Neck Cancer

Factors Associated With External and Internal Lymphedema in Patients With Head-and-Neck Cancer Jie Deng, PhD, RN, OCN,* Sheila H. Ridner, PhD, RN,*,y Mary S. Dietrich, PhD,*,y,z Nancy Wells, DNSc, RN,* Kenneth A. Wallston, PhD,* Robert J. Sinard, MD,y Anthony J. Cmelak, MD,y and Barbara A. Murphy, MDy *School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; yVanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee; and zDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Deliberate Self-Harm Among Patients Referring to the Emergency Room in Damghan, Iran

Objective: Deliberate self-harm (DHS) is a deviant behavior that has been not completely emphasized in health-related studies in Iran. The current study was conducted to explore the prevalence and reasons associated with the incidence of DSH in patients referring to the emergency room of Baradaran-e Rezaee Hospital in Damghan, Iran. Methods: Fifty-four clients with the mean age of 29.4 (±10.3) years participated in this cross-sectional study in 2010. Firstly, demographics and details of substance use were collected based on items elicited from the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) and a researcher-made questionnaire. Then details of comorbidity and factors associated with the current DHS were collected by a semi-structured interview. Data were analyzed by performing descriptive methods of statistics. Results: Deliberate self-poisoning with using toxic substances such as lead, and poison (44.8%) followed by drug intoxication such as opiate and methamphetamine (35.2%) and body and vessel cutting (20%) were the most prevalent types of DSH. Furthermore, results revealed that comorbidities such as physical illness (38.9%) and psychiatric disorders including depression (31.5%), psychotic symptoms (15%), bipolar disorder (5.6%), stress (5.6%), and anxiety (1.9%) were commonly prevalent. The most frequently reported factors associated with DSH were desires for self-punishing (42%), self-medication for emotional sufferings (33%), experiencing euphoric feelings (24%), and stress (20%), respectively. Conclusion: DSH is one of the critical health and treatment priorities, which are prevalent in emergency rooms of hospitals in Iran. Clients with comorbid diagnosis of DSH, especially drug use warrant specific attention in emergency rooms.
Sedimentology of the lower Serpukhovian (upper Mississippian) Mabou Group in the Cumberland Basin of eastern Canada: tectonic, halokinetic, and climatic implications

The Visean–Serpukhovian transition in Atlantic Canada was marked by a general humidification of the climate as the region drifted towards equatorial latitudes. It also corresponds to a time when ice volume was increasing on Gondwana, which marked the end of Mississippian marine incursions in the region. Glacioeustatic fluctuations of greater magnitude are thought to have increased the response of the regional climate to third-order cyclicity from orbital forcing. In the Cumberland Basin, fluvial grey beds of the lower Serpukhovian Shepody Formation were deposited in sub-humid conditions during highstands, whereas red playa deposits of the same unit were deposited under semi-arid conditions during lowstands. Basin reconstruction suggests that this unit was sourced from the fault-bounded Cobequid and Caledonia highlands and deposited in two separate salt-withdrawal minibasins. This fluvial system was seemingly discharging to the north into the broad lake that deposited the contemporaneous Hastings Formation. A disconformity separates the Shepody Formation from mid-Serpukhovian red beds of the Claremont Formation and is tentatively associated with another increase in ice volume on Gondwana followed by a recrudescence of fault activity and basin subsidence. A prolonged time of aridity, floral crisis, non-deposition, deep weathering and karstification in late Serpukhovian to early Bashkirian times is contemporaneous with abundant glacial deposits in higher latitudes, suggesting that globally low sea levels may have been at play in creating a situation of greater continentality in the study area.
Aftershocks of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake: The First Hour

Within the hour immediately after the 1999 Chi-Chi mainshock, only 40 aftershocks were located by the Taiwan Central Weather Bureau Seismic Network (cwbsn) because of the power outage in more than half of the island and the limited dynamic range of the cwbsn high-gain instruments. Here, by analyzing 20 near- field, on-scale records from the Taiwan Strong-Motion Instrumentation Program (tsmip), we determined a catalog of 296 aftershocks with M L ≥3.4 within the first hour after the Chi-Chi mainshock. Focal mechanisms were also determined for 24 of these aftershocks. The frequency-magnitude relation obtained from the 296 aftershocks indicates that the catalog is complete above magnitude M L 4.3. Most of the aftershocks occurred in a small-slip region of the mainshock immediately to the north of the mainshock epicenter. Spatially, the aftershocks appear to migrate downward from the mainshock hypocenter. Later in the hour, the aftershocks began to concentrate in the fringe area of the main rupture. During the first hour, the b -value as defined by events in the 4.3 M L
Down Regulation of Genes Involved in T Cell Polarity and Motility during the Induction of Heart Allograft Tolerance by Allochimeric MHC I

Background The allochimeric MHC class I molecule [α1h1/u]-RT1.Aa that contains donor-type (Wistar Furth, WF; RT1u) epitopes displayed on recipient-type (ACI, RT1a) administered in conjunction with sub-therapeutic dose of cyclosporine (CsA) induces indefinite survival of heterotopic cardiac allografts in rat model. In vascularized transplantation models, the spleen contributes to graft rejection by generating alloantigen reactive T cells. The immune response in allograft rejection involves a cascade of molecular events leading to the formation of immunological synapses between T cells and the antigen-presenting cells. Methodology/Principal Findings To elucidate the molecular pathways involved in the immunosuppressive function of allochimeric molecule we performed microarray and quantitative RTPCR analyses of gene expression profile of splenic T cells from untreated, CsA treated, and allochimeric molecule + subtherapeutic dose of CsA treated animals at day 1, 3 and 7 of post transplantation. Allochimeric molecule treatment caused down regulation of genes involved in actin filament polymerization (RhoA and Rac1), cell adhesion (Catna1, Vcam and CD9), vacuolar transport (RhoB, Cln8 and ATP6v1b2), and MAPK pathway (Spred1 and Dusp6) involved in tubulin cytoskeleton reorganization and interaction between actin and microtubule cytoskeleton. All these genes are involved in T cell polarity and motility, i.e., their ability to move, scan and to form functional immunological synapse with antigen presenting cells (APCs). Conclusions These results indicate that the immunosuppressive function of allochimeric molecule may depend on the impairment of T cells' movement and scanning ability, and possibly also the formation of immunological synapse. We believe that these novel findings may have important clinical implications for organ transplantation.
Formulation and in vitro evaluation of a PEGylated microscopic lipospheres delivery system for ceftriaxone sodium

The aim of this study was to formulate and evaluate in vitro, ceftriaxone sodium lipospheres dispersions for oral administration. Ceftriaxone sodium lipospheres were prepared by melt-emulsification using 30%w/w Phospholipon® 90H in Softisan® 154 as the lipid matrix containing increasing quantities of PEG 4000 (10, 20, 30, and 40%w/w). Characterization based on particle size, particle morphology, encapsulation efficiency, loading capacity and pH were carried out on the lipospheres. Microbiological studies of the ceftriaxone sodium-loaded lipospheres were performed using Escherichia coli as the model organism. In vitro permeation of ceftriaxone sodium from the lipospheres through artificial membrane (0.22 μm pore size) was carried out using Franz cell and simulated intestinal fluid (SIF) without pancreatin as acceptor medium. Photomicrographs revealed spherical particles within a micrometer range with minimal growth after 1 month (Maximum size = 64.76 ± 3.81 μm). Microbiological studies indicated that lipospheres formulated with 20%w/w of PEG 4000 containing 2%w/w or 3%w/w of ceftriaxone sodium gave significantly (p < 0.05) higher inhibition zone diameter than those with 30%w/w or 40%w/w of PEG 4000. The result also indicated that lipospheres with 10%w/w PEG 4000 resulted in significantly higher encapsulation efficiency (p < 0.05) while those with 30%w/w gave the least, while the loading capacity values ranged from 3.22 mg of ceftriaxone sodium/100 mg of lipid to 6.36 mg of ceftriaxone sodium/100 mg of lipid. Permeation coefficient values varied and ranged from 8.55 × 10−7 cm/s to 2.08 × 10−6 cm/s depending on the concentration of PEG 4000. The result of this study gave insight that the issue of ceftriaxone stability in oral formulation could be adequately addressed by tactical engineering of lipid drug delivery systems such as lipospheres.
Do Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors Differ By Rural Classification in Women Who Enroll in a Weight Loss Intervention?

PURPOSE If clinicians and researchers are aware of specific cardiovascular risks associated with women's rural status, whether it be large or small/isolated rural areas, it may help in developing more relevant rural resources. The purpose of this study was to examine whether there were differences in modifiable cardiovascular risk factors of overweight and obese rural women living in large or small/isolated rural areas. SAMPLE This secondary analysis examined baseline cross-sectional data from the "Web-based Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance Intervention for Older Rural Women" clinical trial. Analysis included data from 299 rural Midwestern women, ages 40-69 years with a baseline body mass index of 28-45 kg/m2, who provided rural classification data and were randomized into groups. METHODS Demographic and biomarker baseline data were used. Chi-square and independent t-tests were used for data analyses. FINDINGS There are no significant differences found in overweight and obese women with cardiovascular risk factors when compared to rural classification, with one exception. Total cholesterol was associated with rural classification (p=0.047), where women living in large rural areas were more likely to have elevated total cholesterol levels (≥240 mg/dL) compared to women living in small/isolated areas (18.5% vs. 10.0%, respectively). Demographic characteristics such as age and education demonstrated no significant differences by rural classification; however, the majority of women in this study were of high socioeconomic status. CONCLUSIONS Although this secondary analysis found that rural women have similar cardiovascular risk factors and demographic characteristics, this study highlights the need for clinicians to carefully consider the rural community characteristics for primary prevention.
Nanotechnology, Science and Applications Dovepress a Role of Zno Nanoparticle Electrostatic Properties in Cancer Cell Cytotoxicity

you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms Abstract: ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) have previously been shown to exhibit selective cytotoxicity against certain types of cancerous cells suggesting their potential use in biomedical applications. In this study, we investigate the effect of surface modification of ZnO NPs on their cytotoxicity to both cancerous and primary T cells. Our results show that polyacrylic acid capping produces negatively charged ZnO NPs that are significantly more toxic compared to uncapped positively charged NPs of identical size and composition. In contrast, the greatest selectivity against cancerous cells relative to normal cells is observed with cationic NPs. In addition, differences in NP cytotoxicity inversely correlate with NP hydrodynamic size, propensity for aggregation, and dissolution profiles. The generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) was also observed in the toxicity mechanism with anionic NPs generating higher levels of mitochondrial superoxide without appreciably affecting glutathione levels. Additional experiments evaluated the combined effects of charged ZnO NPs and nontoxic cationic or anionic CeO 2 NPs. Results show that the CeO 2 NPs offer protective effects against cytotoxicity from anionic ZnO NPs via antioxidant properties. Altogether, study data indicate that surface modification of NPs and resulting changes in their surface charge affect the level of intracellular ROS production, which can be ameliorated by the CeO 2 ROS scavenger, suggesting that ROS generation is a dominant mechanism of ZnO NP cytotoxicity. These findings demonstrate the importance of surface electrostatic properties for controlling NP toxicity and illustrate an approach for engineering NPs with desired proper­ ties for potential use in biological applications.
Thyroid hormone metabolism in poultry.

Thyroid hormone (TH) receptors preferentially bind 3.5,3'-triiodothyronine (T3). Therefore the metabolism of thyroxine (T4) secreted by the thyroid gland in peripheral tissues, resulting in the production and degradation of receptor-active T3, plays a major role in thyroid function. The most important metabolic pathway for THs is deiodination. Another important pathway is sulfation, which is a reversible pathway that has been shown to interact with TH deiodination efficiency. The enzymes catalysing TH deiodination consist of three types. Type 1 deiodinase (D1) catalyses both outer ring (ORD) and inner ring deiodinalion (IRD). Type II deiodinase (D2) only catalyses ORD while type III (D3) only catalyses IRD. The three chicken deiodinase cDNAs have been cloned recently. These enzymes all belong to the family of selenoproteins. Ontogenetic studies show that the availability of deiodinases is regulated in a tissue specific and developmental stage dependent way. Characteristic for the chicken is the presence of very high levels off, inactivating D3 enzyme in the embryonic liver. Hepatic D3 is subject to acute regulation in a number of situations. Both growth hormone and glucocorticoid injection rapidly decrease hepatic D3 levels, hereby increasing plasma T3 without affecting hepatic D1 levels. The inhibition of D3 seems to be regulated mainly at the level of D3 gene transcription. The effect of growth hormone on D3 expression persists throughout life, while glucocorticoids start to inhibit hepatic D1 expression in posthatch chickens. Food restriction in growing chickens increases hepatic D3 levels. This contributes to the decrease in plasma T3 necessary to reduce energy loss. Refeeding restores hepatic D3 and plasma T3 to control levels within a few hours. It can be concluded that the tissue and time dependent regulation of the balance between TH activating and inactivating enzymes plays an essential role in the control of local T3 availability and hence in TH activity.
A Multi-Leader Multi-Follower Stackelberg Game for Resource Management in LTE Unlicensed

It is known that the capacity of the cellular network can be significantly improved when cellular operators are allowed to access the unlicensed spectrum. Nevertheless, when multiple operators serve their user equipments (UEs) in the same unlicensed spectrum, the inter-operator interference management becomes a challenging task. In this paper, we develop a multi-operator multi-UE Stackelberg game to analyze the interaction between multiple operators and the UEs subscribed to the services of the operators in unlicensed spectrum. In this game, to avoid intolerable interference to the Wi-Fi access point (WAP), each operator sets an interference penalty price for each UE that causes interference to the WAP, and the UEs can choose their sub-bands and determine the optimal transmit power in the chosen sub-bands of the unlicensed spectrum. Accordingly, the operators can predict the possible actions of the UEs and hence set the optimal prices to maximize its revenue earned from UEs. Furthermore, we consider two possible scenarios for the interaction of operators in the unlicensed spectrum. In the first scenario, referred to as the non-cooperative scenario, the operators cannot coordinate with each other in the unlicensed spectrum. A sub-gradient approach is applied for each operator to decide its best-response action based on the possible behaviors of others. In the second scenario, referred to as the cooperative scenario, all operators can coordinate with each other to serve UEs and control the UEs’ interference in the unlicensed spectrum. Simulation results have been presented to verify the performance improvement that can be achieved by our proposed schemes.
TRADE AND ECONOMIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE*

when large-scale political systems (states) began to emerge. The period covered fallswithin what has been termed the Iron Agein Southern and Eastern Africa,atechnological term which is generally used to describe a culture systemcharacterized not only by the use of iron for various purposes but also bythe building ofsemi-permanent villages, the making ofsimilarly decoratedceramic vessels, at least before
Polymorphonuclear leukocyte migration through human amnion membrane

A new in vitro model has been developed for studying migration of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) through living native cellular and matrix barriers. Human amnion membrane consists of a single layer of epithelium bound to a continuous basement membrane interfacing an avascular collagenous stroma. Living amnion was placed in plastic chambers with separate compartments on each side of the membrane. PMN were introduced on the epithelial side of the amnion, and a Millipore filter (Millipore Corp., Bedford, Mass.) was placed against the stromal side. In response to N-formylmethionyl-leucyl- phenylanlanine (FMLP) chemoattractant, PMN penetrated the full thickness of the amnion and were collected and counted on the filter. The rate of PMN traversal of the amnion was dependent on the concentration of FMLP (optimal at 10(-8)M) as well as the slope of the FMLP gradient across the amnion. The route of PMN migration was studied by transmission electron microscopy. PMN first attached to the epithelial surface, then infiltrated between intercellular junctions. PMN migrated around or through tight junction and hemidesmosome attachments. The PMN then penetrated the basement membrane and migrated through the dense collagenous stroma. The present amnion migration system has characteristics of the in vivo inflammatory state not described in any previous method for monitoring PMN migration in vitro. Prior methods have not used native epithelium, whole basement membrane, or collagenous stroma. PMN penetration of these barriers occurs in the normal inflammatory response and probably involves biochemical mechanisms not required for simple migration through the pores of an artificial filter. The amnion system can be useful for future biochemical and morphological studies of PMN penetration of these barriers and possible repair processes that may follow.