Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The influence of peritoneal dialysis and the use of subcutaneous and intraperitoneal insulin on glucose metabolism and serum lipids in type 1 diabetic patients.

BACKGROUND Intraperitoneally administered insulin is regarded as the most physiological replacement therapy, leading to lower peripheral insulin concentrations and equal or better glycaemic control than subcutaneous insulin. This two-part study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of CAPD, as well as the use of subcutaneous vs. intraperitoneal insulin on insulin sensitivity, glycaemic control and serum lipids in type 1 diabetes. METHODS Eleven patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and chronic renal failure participated the studies. Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c), euglycaemic hyperin-sulinaemic clamp, serum lipids, and patient well-being were measured. During CAPD all patients were first treated with subcutaneous insulin and then with intraperitoneal insulin. The metabolic studies were repeated after both treatment periods for at least 3 months. Metabolic studies were performed on six of the patients also before initiation of CAPD. RESULTS HbA1c rose after the initiation of CAPD from 8.85 +/- 0.54% to 9.58 +/- 0.66%, NS) and improved after changing from subcutaneous to intraperitoneally administered insulin (from 9.49 +/- 0.43% to 8.13 +/- 0.39%, P < 0.01). Insulin dose increased by 15% after initiation of CAPD and 128% after switching from subcutaneous to intraperitoneal insulin. Glucose disposal rate enhanced by 39% (P = 0.05) and 14% respectively (P < 0.01). Initiation of CAPD had no significant effects on serum lipids but intraperitoneally administered insulin reduced HDL cholesterol and increased LDL/HDL ratio significantly. CONCLUSIONS Intraperitoneal insulin therapy offers better glycaemic control and insulin sensitivity than subcutaneous insulin. Deterioration of HbA1c after initiation of CAPD while patients remained on subcutaneous insulin may be partly due to absorbed energy from the dialysate. Intraperitoneal insulin therapy seems to have detrimental effects on serum lipids. The clinical significance in modifying the risk of atherosclerosis remains unclear.
An O(log(n)) Fully Dynamic Algorithm for Maximum matching in a tree

In this paper, we have developed a fully-dynamic algorithm for maintaining cardinality of maximum-matching in a tree using the construction of top-trees. The time complexities are as follows: 1. Initialization Time: $O(n(log(n)))$ to build the Top-tree. 2. Update Time: $O(log(n))$ 3. Query Time: O(1) to query the cardinality of maximum-matching and $O(log(n))$ to find if a particular edge is matched.
Association of immunity and tolerance to host H-2 determinants in irradiated F1 hybrid mice reconstituted with bone marrow cells from one parental strain

Semiallogenetic radiation chimeras were prepared by injecting heavily irradiated F1 hybrid mice with bone marrow cells from one parental strain; the bone marrow cells were treated with anti-theta serum and complement to remove T cells and injected in large numbers (2 times 10- 7 cells). The mice survived in excellent health until sacrifice 6 mo later. Thoracic duct cannulation at this stage showed that the mice possessed normal numbers of recirculating lymphocytes. Close to 100% of thoracic duct lymphocytes and lymph node cells were shown to be of donor strain origin. The capacity of lymphocytes from the chimeras to respond to host-type determinants was tested in mixed leukocyte culture and in an assay for cell-mediated lympholysis (CML). Mixed leukocyte reactions (MLR) were measured both in vitro and in vivo; tumor cells and phytohemmaglutinin-stimulated blast cells were used as target cells for measuring CML. While responding normally to third party determinants, cells from the chimeras gave a definite, though reduced MLR when exposed to host-type determinants. However, this proliferative response to host-type determinants, unlike that to third party determinants, was not associated with differentiation into cytotoxic lymphocytes. No evidence could be found that unresponsiveness in this situation was due to blocking serum factors or suppressor T cells. It is argued that the results support the concept that lymphocytes responsive in mixed leukocyte culture have a different specificity to those exerting cell-mediated lympholysis.
Complete characterization of security notions for probabilistic private-key encryption

Understanding the security of encryption methods has been a major area of research in both modern and tradit ional cryptography. We investigate the relation between notions of security for symmetric (private) key encryption. The security goals of both indistinguishabili ty and non-malleabili ty are considered, each under all possible combinations of adaptive or n0n-adaptive chosen-plaintext and chosen-ciphertext attacks. We are thus able to construct a complete hierarchy of private-key security notions indicating equivalences, separations, and incomparabilities. Perhaps the most surprising result, which has no analogue in the public-key setting, is that adaptive access to an encryption oracle does not help the adversary. That is, any scheme which can be broken (in polynomial time) with an adaptive chosen plaintext at tack can be broken (in polynomial time) with a non-adaptive chosen plaintext attack. This holds under all security notions.
Lightweight Memory Checkpointing

Memory check pointing is a pivotal technique in systems reliability, with applications ranging from crash recovery to replay debugging. Unfortunately, many traditional memory check pointing use-cases require high-frequency checkpoints, something for which existing application-level solutions are not well-suited. The problem is that they incur either substantial run-time performance overhead, or poor memory usage guarantees. As a result, their application in practice is hampered. This paper presents Lightweight Memory Check pointing (LMC), a new user-level memory check pointing technique that combines low performance overhead with strong memory usage guarantees for high check pointing frequencies. To this end, LMC relies on compiler-based instrumentation to shadow the entire memory address space of the running program and incrementally checkpoint modified memory bytes in a LMC-maintained shadow state. Our evaluation on popular server applications demonstrates the viability of our approach in practice, confirming that LMC imposes low performance overhead with strictly bounded memory usage at runtime.
Constraints for Seiberg-Witten basic classes of glued manifolds

We use rudiments of the Seiberg-Witten gluing theory for trivial circle bundles over a Riemann surface to relate de Seiberg-Witten basic classes of two $4$-manifolds containing Riemann surfaces of the same genus and self-intersection zero with those of the $4$-manifold resulting as a connected sum along the surface. We study examples in which this is enough to describe completely the basic classes.
‘Doing mindful colouring’: just a leisure activity or something more?

ABSTRACT Adult colouring books have become vastly popular in recent years, and have been successfully rebranded as a therapeutic tool for improving health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to construct an authentic insider representation of the women’s lived experiences of ‘doing colouring’. This study adopted a qualitative interview strategy and reported on the narratives of 15 women’s experiences of mindfulness colouring books. Doing colouring can achieve a distinctive form of mindfulness with therapeutic qualities. This process increased the capacity for concentration, awareness and regulation for the enhancement of spirituality and self-care practice. Spiritual meanings were attached to doing colouring, specifically spirituality as connectedness to oneself with perceived inner peace and calmness derived from the mindful meditative experience. Doing mindful colouring was identified as ‘taking time’ to practice self-reflection, self-awareness and self-care to promote physical, emotional and social wellbeing. The meanings and practices of mindfulness were examined to provide an explanatory framework for understanding doing colouring to achieve health benefits. This research contributes to the emerging literature on mindfulness colouring books, thus advancing our understanding of the diverse benefits contributing to the practitioners’ sense of wellbeing.
The Effect of User Adaptation on the Effective Use of Enterprise Systems

Most of the cost of information system implementation projects is attributable to the post-adaptation phase. Thus, an effective use of the implemented system is necessary to justify the expense. It has been theorized that user adaptation can help to increase the level of effective use of a system. Changes to an enterprise system or to the individual’s tasks with an enterprise system are likely to trigger user adaptation. Yet the effect of user adaptation on effective use of an enterprise system is still widely unknown. We conducted a longitudinal case study to explore the phenomenon and develop a research model to measure the effect of user adaptation on the effective use of an enterprise system. The extension of the nomological network of the concept of effective use by an integration of the effect of user adaptation will be the main contribution of our research.
The Harmful Impact of the TAAS System of Testing in Texas: Beneath the Accountability Rhetoric.

The Harmful Impact of the TAAS System of Testing in Texas: Beneaththe Accountability RhetoricbyLinda McNeilDepartment of Education and Center for EducationRice UniversityHouston, TexasandAngela ValenzuelaDepartment of Curriculum and Instructionand the Center for Mexican American StudiesUniversity of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas
Organizational commitment components and job performance: Mediating role of job satisfaction

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of organizational commitment components on overall job satisfaction and job performance. This study proposes that organizational commitment components have a considerable effect on overall job satisfaction and job performance. It also posits that organizational commitment components influence job performance through overall job satisfaction. The relationships between variables in this study were analyzed by using factor analysis, reliability tests, descriptive statistics, and correlation and regression analyses. A total of 437 useful surveys were collected from employees who are working in furniture manufacturing firms in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study results indicate that “affective” and “normative commitments” have effects on overall job satisfaction. Overall job satisfaction and “affective commitment” affect employees’ job performance. Overall job satisfaction mediates the relationship between “normative” and “affective commitment” and job performance. The study suggests that companies which manufacture furniture in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina can improve employees’ job performance by influencing their job satisfaction.
Endotoxin-Induced Structural Transformations in Liquid Crystalline Droplets

Bacterial lipid A was detected by its interactions with defects in droplet-confined liquid crystals. The ordering of liquid crystals (LCs) is known to be influenced by surfaces and contaminants. Here, we report that picogram per milliliter concentrations of endotoxin in water trigger ordering transitions in micrometer-size LC droplets. The ordering transitions, which occur at surface concentrations of endotoxin that are less than 10−5 Langmuir, are not due to adsorbate-induced changes in the interfacial energy of the LC. The sensitivity of the LC to endotoxin was measured to change by six orders of magnitude with the geometry of the LC (droplet versus slab), supporting the hypothesis that interactions of endotoxin with topological defects in the LC mediate the response of the droplets. The LC ordering transitions depend strongly on glycophospholipid structure and provide new designs for responsive soft matter.
Political participation in France and Germany

The main objective of this volume is to answer the question of how France and Germany can be situated in the world of participatory political communities. It sets the historical, theoretical and institutional framework for the comparative empirical analysis of the forms, patterns, trends and determinants of citizen participation in France and Germany. It starts with an outline of the participatory traditions of the two respective countries. Thereafter, it turns to the theoretical foundations of empirical research regarding the role of political participation in modern democracies, and gives an overview as to how the perception of political participation has changed over the years. Furthermore the forms of conventional participation, particularly with regard to electoral participation, and unconventional participation like protest and other new forms of citizen involvement are analysed in detail. Following the new approaches in participation research, social participation is not only supposed to correlate with political participation, but is a specific form of civic engagement for itself. Therefore this aspect is included in the analyses. The volume does not only discuss national trends and patterns but also local ones because elementary differences can be noticed here, depending amongst others on the level of centralisation of the state structure.
Communication, Risk and Efficiency in Games

This paper looks at simple games with one round of pre-play communication followed by a simultaneous move, complete information game. In these games the {\em curb} concept distinguishes among efficient equilibria according to their risk. The paper contains two major results. First, if only one of the players can talk, and that player's favorite outcome is a strict equilibrium in the underlying game, then, for a given size of the message space the corresponding payoffs will be the only curb equilibrium payoffs in the communication game, provided the communicating player's risk at that equilibrium is sufficiently low. Second, suppose that communicating players have a slight preference for strategies where messages communicate only their intent to play according to their preferred equilibrium. Then the curb concept distinguishes multi-sided from one-sided communication. Modifying payoffs in this way does not affect the results with one-sided communication. However with two-sided communication, and a unique strict common interest equilibrium in the underlying game, only the payoffs of that equilibrium are curb equilibrium payoffs in the communication game.
Economics and Management of Competitive Strategy

This book provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to management strategy that is based on economics. A basic introductory strategy text that integrates economic analysis with management strategy, it takes into account global competition and high-tech (Internet) developments, and recognizes that companies today can no longer expect to sustain competitive advantage but must rely on innovation (of products, processes, and transactions). Although many of the principles are illustrated with numerical examples, the text does not require a background course in economics or mathematics, and does not contain technical graphs or equations. Thus, the book is suitable for undergraduate managerial economics and strategy courses, as well as for introductory MBA courses in business strategy and as a companion to case studies.
SUPPORTED BY UNIGESTION “ Comparing Asset Pricing Models

A Bayesian asset-pricing test is derived that is easily computed in closed-form from the standard F-statistic. Given a set of candidate traded factors, we develop a related test procedure that permits an analysis of model comparison, i.e., the computation of model probabilities for the collection of all possible pricing models that are based on subsets of the given factors. We find that the recent models of Hou, Xue and Zhang (2015a,b) and Fama and French (2015a,b) are both dominated by five and six-factor models that include a momentum factor, along with value and profitability factors that are updated monthly. Thus, although the standard value factor is redundant, a version that incorporates more timely price information is not. 1 Barillas and Shanken are from Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Shanken is also from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Corresponding author: Jay Shanken, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 1300 Clifton Road, Atlanta, Georgia, 30322, USA; telephone: (404)727-4772; fax: (404)727-5238. E-mail: jay.shanken@emory.edu. Thanks to Amit Goyal, Lubos Pastor, Tim Simin, Rex Thompson, Pietro Veronesi and seminar participants at the Northern Finance Association meeting, Southern Methodist University, the Universities of Geneva, Luxembourg and Lausanne and Imperial College.
Social Influence on Knowledge Worker's Adoption of Innovative Information Technology

User perceptions toward information technology (IT) are crucial to its successful implementation. The purpose of our study is to improve the understanding of the impact of social influences on different types of users' perceptions and adoption of IT. To do this, the study refines and expands the operationalization of the social influence construct to include four components: subjective norm, image, visibility, and voluntariness. This is used to examine influences by type of user (knowledge worker versus university student) and IT (innovative versus mature). The key finding is that when knowledge workers consider adopting innovative IT they are sensitive to general perceptions of its usefulness. The results have implications for management enquiry and practice.
Potential-Well Distortion, Microwave Instability, and Their Effects with Colliding Beams at KEKB

Microwave instability in the low energy ring of KEKB was studied using a broadband impedance model. The model gave excellent descriptions of longitudinal dynamics for both positive and negative momentum compactions. Moreover, it predicted that the threshold of microwave instability was a factor of 2 lower than the machine nominal operating bunch current. The prediction was confirmed by a measurement using the Belle detector. Furthermore, we integrated the longitudinal wakefield into the beam-beam simulation and applied it to study the combined effects in KEKB. As a result, the beam-beam simulation became truly three dimensional with emittance growth in all three dimensions simultaneously as the beam currents increase. In addition, an observed mystery of asymmetry in the horizontal scan could also be explained by our simulations.
Towards robust network design using integer linear programming techniques

Traffic in communication networks fluctuates heavily over time. Thus, to avoid capacity bottlenecks, operators highly overestimate the traffic volume during network planning. In this paper we consider telecommunication network design under traffic uncertainty, adapting the robust optimization approach of [11]. We present three different mathematical formulations for this problem, provide valid inequalities, study the computational implications, and evaluate the realized robustness.
Fingerprint Image Enhancement Using Directional Morphological Filter

Fingerprint images quality enhancement is a topic phase to ensure good performance in an automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS) based on minutiae matching. In this paper a new fingerprint enhancement algorithm based on morphological filter is introduced. The algorithm is based on three steps: directional decomposition, morphological filter and composition. The performance of the proposed approach has been evaluated on two sets of images: the first one is DB3 database from Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC) and the second one is self collected using an optical scanner
International Conference on Information Systems ( ICIS ) 2009 Studying the Role of Human Nature in Technology Acceptance

Humans are complex, evolved, social and cognitive beings. Thus, understanding their behavior is a complex task that requires a comprehensive theoretical repertoire. In this paper, we study the role of human nature in technology acceptance. We come to understand that by expanding our theoretical ontology and blending theories of evolutionary psychology, social, and cognitive psychology into a single frame, we gain a more comprehensive view that helps to better explain what drives humans to form reactions toward technology and to exhibit various usage behaviors. We situate the study in four different hospital settings using a case study method. By examining acceptance of mobile information technology (MICT) amongst nurses, we find that human nature in form of four drives has a bearing on technology acceptance and use in a manner that has not been adequately addressed in traditional IS literature.
Non-Coherent UWB Communication in the Presence of Multiple Narrowband Interferers

There has been an emerging interest in non-coherent ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) communications, particularly for low-data rate applications because of its low-complexity and low-power consumption. However, the presence of narrowband (NB) interference severely degrades the communication performance since the energy of the interfering signals is also collected by the receiver. In this paper, we compare the performance of two non-coherent UWB receiver structures - the autocorrelation receiver (AcR) and the energy detection receiver (EDR) - in terms of the bit error probability (BEP). The AcR is based on the transmitted reference signaling with binary pulse amplitude modulation, while the EDR is based on the binary pulse position modulation. We analyze the BEPs for these two non-coherent systems in a multipath fading channel, both in the absence and presence of NB interference. We consider two cases: a) single NB interferer, where the interfering node is located at a fixed distance from the receiver, and b) multiple NB interferers, where the interfering nodes with the same carrier frequency are scattered according to a spatial Poisson process. Our framework is simple enough to enable a tractable analysis and provide insights that are of value in the design of practical UWB systems subject to interference.
Methylation and Expression of Immune and Inflammatory Genes in the Offspring of Bariatric Bypass Surgery Patients

Background. Maternal obesity, excess weight gain and overnutrition during pregnancy increase risks of obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease in the offspring. Maternal biliopancreatic diversion is an effective treatment for severe obesity and is beneficial for offspring born after maternal surgery (AMS). These offspring exhibit lower severe obesity prevalence and improved cardiometabolic risk factors including inflammatory marker compared to siblings born before maternal surgery (BMS). Objective. To assess relationships between maternal bariatric surgery and the methylation/expression of genes involved in the immune and inflammatory pathways. Methods. A differential gene methylation analysis was conducted in a sibling cohort of 25 BMS and 25 AMS offspring from 20 mothers. Following differential gene expression analysis (23 BMS and 23 AMS), pathway analysis was conducted. Correlations between gene methylation/expression and circulating inflammatory markers were computed. Results. Five immune and inflammatory pathways with significant overrepresentation of both differential gene methylation and expression were identified. In the IL-8 pathway, gene methylation correlated with both gene expression and plasma C-reactive protein levels. Conclusion. These results suggest that improvements in cardiometabolic risk markers in AMS compared to BMS offspring may be mediated through differential methylation of genes involved in immune and inflammatory pathways.