Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Making moral decisions when resources are limited – an approach to triage in ICU patients with respiratory failure

In a number of countries around the world there is evidence that the demand for intensive care unit (ICU) resources exceeds supply.1-5 Epidemiological evidence suggests that future demands on intensive care resources will increase, adding to the burden of provision.6 Southern Africa almost certainly faces similar challenges, although there is as yet little published medical literature documenting this.7 When ICU resources are critically constrained, there is an inevitable need to ration the use of ICU beds. This means that while some patients who will potentially benefit from ICU care will be able to receive it, others will not. Assuming an absolute deficiency of ICU resources (available beds and their accompanying manpower requirement, equipment and other resources), the inevitable consequence is that some deserving patients will be denied potentially life-saving ICU care. A critically important decision must therefore be made – which patients will be admitted and which patients will be refused ICU care, and on what basis. A structured process of decision making is vital to maximise consistency and the moral defensibility of these difficult decisions. This paper will describe possible approaches to making these decisions, discuss aspects of triage in patients with respiratory failure, and examine some of the consequences of ICU triage. SAJCC Vol. 21 (1) 2005: pp. 34-44
Innovation Strategy and Business Model For Batik SMEs In East Java Indonesia

In recent years, Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) in Batik industry has significant contribution for the development Indonesian economy. Innovation strategy and business model are the biggest challenges for the SME to increase its business growth. The objective of this research was to analyze the effect of innovation strategy on business model for Batik SMEs in East Java Province, Indonesia. A total of 80 SMEs was selected as the sample. This research employed in depth interview and quantitative method. Keywords— batik, small medium enterprises, innovation strategy, and business model
Seismicity at the northeast edge of the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB) and activation of an undocumented fault: the Peñamiller earthquake sequence of 2010-2011, Querétaro, Mexico

Abstract. The town of Penamiller in the state of Queretaro, Mexico, is located at the northeast border of the seismogenic zone known as the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB), which transects the central part of Mexico with an east–west orientation. In the vicinity of this town, a sequence of small earthquakes occurred during the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011. Seismicity in the continental regimen of central Mexico is not too frequent; however, it is known that there are precedents of large earthquakes (Mw magnitude greater than 6.0) occurring in this zone. Three large earthquakes have occurred in the past 100 yr: the 19 November 1912 (MS = 7.0), the 3 January 1920 (MS = 6.4), and the 29 June 1935 (MS = 6.9) earthquakes. Prior to the instrumental period, the earthquake of 11 February 1875, which took place near the city of Guadalajara, caused widespread damage. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the available seismic information of this region. This will help advance our understanding of the tectonic situation of the central Mexico MVB region. Twenty-four shallow earthquakes of the Penamiller seismic sequence of 2011 were recorded by a temporary accelerograph network installed by the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro (UAQ). The data were analyzed in order to determine the source locations and to estimate the source parameters. The study was carried out through an inversion process and by spectral analysis. The results show that the largest earthquake occurred on 8 February 2011 at 19:53:48.6 UTC, had a moment magnitude Mw = 3.5, and was located at latitude 21.039° and longitude −99.752°, at a depth of 5.6 km. This location is less than 7 km away in a south-east direction from downtown Penamiller. The focal mechanisms are mostly normal faults with small lateral components. These focal mechanisms are consistent with the extensional regimen of the southern extension of the Basin and Range (BR) province. The source area of the largest event was estimated to have a radius of 0.5 km, which corresponds to a normal fault with azimuth of 174° and an almost pure dip slip. Peak ground acceleration (PGA) was close to 100 cm s−2 in the horizontal direction. Shallow earthquakes induced by crustal faulting present a potential seismic risk and hazard within the MVB, considering the population growth. Thus, the necessity to enrich seismic information in this zone is very important since the risk at most urban sites in the region might even be greater than that posed by subduction earthquakes.
Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era: American Teacher Panel Findings from 2015 to 2017

H ow much and how soon should we expect any federal or state education policy to improve student learning? The answer likely depends on the demands that the policy places on those who are expected to implement it and their capacity for change to meet those demands. The Common Core State Standards have been judged by many to be more challenging and ambitious than previous state standards (Porter et al., 2011; Shanahan, 2013; Brown and Kappes, 2012; Schmidt and Houang, 2012). Since the Common Core State Standards were developed and launched by a group of state school chiefs and governors in 2009, nearly all states have voluntarily adopted them. While some states have since made changes to their standards, analyses suggest that most of these states have retained standards closely aligned with key tenets of the Common Core (Korn, Gamboa, and Polikoff, 2016; Achieve, 2017; Norton, Ash, and Ballinger, 2017). Furthermore, most states that never adopted the Common Core State KEY FINDINGS
An Examination of the Relationship between Transformational Leadership Tendencies and Safety Outcomes in Selected Manufacturing Settings

Each year about 6 to 8 percent of the U.S. workforce sustains a work related injury of which 3 to 4 percent of the injured population ends up losing time from work due to the severity of the injury (National Safety Council [NSC], 2011). According to the NSC Injury Facts (2011), every 147 minutes in the United States, a worker will be fatally injured, and every six seconds a worker will sustain an injury that is serious enough to require medical treatment. There is a wide variability in safety performance among organizations. Studies have found there is a relationship between transformational leadership and an organization’s safety climate and safety culture (Barling, Loughlin, & Kelloway, 2002; Kelloway, Mullen, & Francis, 2006). Safety climate and leadership studies have centered around cultural aspects of safety rather than examining leadership styles in relation to safety outcomes as determined by Incidence Rates, DART Rates, Severity Rates, and leadership style (Barling et al., 2002; Kelloway et al., 2006). The overall purpose of this study was to investigate the role of managing a manufacturing organization and the impact of the leadership style on the safety of employees. The purpose was to examine a specific leadership style and its relationship with safety outcomes as measured by Incidence Rate and Frequency Rate within a manufacturing organization. Further, the study was to determine if there was an association between a plant manager’s transformational leadership tendencies and the safety outcomes of the associated organization as measured by Incident Rate
Network structures in the furniture industry - the industrial network approach

The aim of the article is to identify the various types of network structures occurring in the furniture industry from the perspective of the industrial network approach, using Poland as an example. The conceptual framework of this article, which comprises the industrial network approach and Actors-Resources-Activities model, together with a secondary sources analysis, is adopted in order to identify the various network structures. Thus a comparison of the identified types of network structures in the furniture industry is developed from the perspective of their actors, resources and activities interdependencies. The main contribution of the article is a proposal to split the two main types of network structures (more formal structures with limited membership fully observable from the outside, e.g. industry clusters and purchasing groups, as well as those which are not fully observable from the outside and are analysed from the perspective of the focal actor) and as a result, to identify and analyse various network structures in the Polish furniture industry.
Gaining Competitive Advantage through Training, its Effect on Business Results and the Role of Firm Strategy: A Study on IT Projects of Punjab Pakistan

In past few years training has become a source of competitive advantage for the firms. Currently there is a general consensus on the importance of training as a tool to help firms in developing sustainable competitive advantage, especially in IT companies where firms need to train their managers on every project to properly execute the task. However the investment of companies in training is still very low. There is also a lack of academic research that can analyze this issue, mainly with the empirical techniques. We propose the study of this variable from two perspectives: The first is to verify its effect on business results and the second is to analyze the existing relationship between training and business strategies. This paper studies empirically the effects of training on business results and the effects of firm strategy in devising resources for the training sessions, which will in turn contribute to enhance the productivity of the organizations and the IT professionals will get the empirical evidences of how the firm strategy helps to contribute in improved training sessions and getting more money from the plans to invest in training. The strategies that are used in this study are Porter’s Strategies, which have been used in many studies before, here we will be analyzing two business strategies: Differentiation and Cost leadership. This study focused on quantitative research methods and postal questionnaire were sent to IT professionals of Punjab. The results obtained from this study show evidence of significant relationships between training and performance of the IT firms, which can contribute to improvement of such projects.
The Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies at z ∼ 0.7 from EBOSS and BOSS Data

We present the first scientific results from the luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) combined with the high-redshift galaxies of the previous BOSS sample. We measure the small- and intermediate-scale clustering from a sample of more than 97,000 galaxies in the redshift range . We interpret these measurements in the framework of the Halo Occupation Distribution. The bias of this sample of LRGs is 2.30 ± 0.03, with a satellite fraction of 13% ± 3% and a mean halo mass of . These results are consistent with expectations, demonstrating that these LRGs will be reliable tracers of large-scale structure at . The galaxy bias implies a scatter of luminosity at fixed halo mass, , of 0.19 dex. Using the clustering of massive galaxies from BOSS CMASS, BOSS LOWZ, and SDSS, we find that is consistent with observations over the full redshift range that these samples cover. The addition of eBOSS to previous surveys allows the investigation of the evolution of massive galaxies over the past ∼7 Gyr.
Interactive comment on “The role of glaciers in stream flow from the Nepal Himalaya” by D. Alford and R. Armstrong

We thank Prof. Pelto for his comments on our paper "The role of glaciers in stream flow from the Nepal Himalaya". However, either we failed to communicate our purpose in writing this paper, or Prof. Pelto did not understand our purpose, as described in the text. At the time the studies described in this summary paper were undertaken, it was conventional wisdom, largely unchallenged by glaciologists or hydrologists , that the glaciers of the Himalaya could be gone as early as 2035, and, at that time, the major rivers of Asia would become intermittent streams. The credibility of this forecast was obviously of considerable interest to water resources planners and managers for south Asia. We were asked to evaluate this rather gloomy forecast. Our results are the basis of a report, now being prepared for publication (Alford, et.al, 2009). The paper under
A Study of Self-repair Markers in Conversation by Chinese English Learners

The present study examines the differences in the use of three self-repair markers well, I mean and maybe between native speakers and Chinese English learners. The corpora of BNC (British National Corpus) and SECCL (Spoken English Corpus of Chinese Learners) are employed in the study. The research results indicate, that the Chinese English learners underuse well and I mean, but overuse maybe, compared with native speakers. The detailed analysis, supported by statistical tests, proves the role of “Pragmatic Fossilization” as an element to consider in second language learning and teaching.
Participation in science and technology: young people’s achievement‐related choices in late‐modern societies

Young people’s participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is a matter of international concern. Studies and careers that require physical sciences and advanced mathematics are most affected by the problem and women in particular are under‐represented in many STEM fields. This article views international research about young people’s relationships to, and participation in, STEM subjects and careers through the lens of an expectancy‐value model of achievement‐related choices. In addition it draws on sociological theories of late‐modernity and identity, which situate decision‐making in a cultural context. The article examines how these frameworks are useful in explaining the decisions of young people – and young women in particular – about participating in STEM and proposes possible strategies for removing barriers to participation.
Conditional p53 Deletion Promotes Adult Neurogenesis and Improves the Acquisition and Clearance of Contextual Fear Memory

We crossed Nestin-CreER mice and p53 flox mice to produce mice with heterozygous or homozygous p53 deletion in a tamoxifen (TAM)-dependent manner (named iKO-p53 and iKOp53 mice, respectively). Result showed that dividing Ki-67 cells and immature DCX neurons in the dentate gyrus were increased in iKO-p53 and iKO-p53 mice 4 weeks after the TAM injection. To study the retrograde effect of p53 deletion on behaviors, mice received TAM after the training in the CFC and was tested 4 week later. iKO-p53 mice displayed degraded contextual fear memory. To study the anterograde effect of p53 deletion on behaviors, mice received TAM 8 weeks before the training in the CFC and was tested o1 day after the training. Results showed a trend of increased contextual fear memory. Therefore the result provide evidence that increased adult neurogenesis is associated with improved acquisition and clearance of hippocampus-dependent contextual fear memory.
Cardiac Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET) with Metastasis at Presentation

Primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) are rare tumors and PNET of cardiac origin are extremely rare, with only 6 cases reported since 1996. Cardiac PNET cases have been associated with poor prognosis with extensive metastasis at presentation, and warrant aggressive treatment. We present a 19-year-old male patient who presented with headache and falls; workup demonstrated cerebellar lesions which were resected and noted to be metastatic PNET, and his preoperative transthoracic echocardiography showed an irregular cardiac mass protruding into the interventricular septum which was later identified as the primary malignant mass. Despite the mass being of the cardiac primary origin, he did not have cardiac symptoms until 15 months after his initial symptoms.
In vitro Evaluation of Fungicides, Botanicals and Bioagents against Peziotrichum corticolum causing Black Banded Disease of Mango

Mango (Mangifera indica L.) commonly known as “king of fruits”, is one of the world’s most important and esteemed fruit (Basha et al., 2010). It is in high demand because of its strong aroma, delicious taste and high nutritive value. It occupies an area of 2.51 mha having annual production of 18.43 mt with the productivity of 7.3 t/ha in India and contributes 20.7 % production share of major fruit crops in India. In Karnataka, the area under mango cultivation is 1.80 lakh ha with a production of 1.75 mt and productivity is 9.7 t/ha (National Horticultural Database, 2014). Mango suffers from a number of diseases, because of diverse production conditions and the vast area grown. Some diseases take heavy toll on the crop and limit the production and productivity (Mamta and Singh, 2015).
Interactive effects of irradiance and water availability on the photosynthetic performance of Picea sitchensis seedlings: implications for seedling establishment under different management practices

L'impact de la disponibilite en eau sur la performance photosynthetique de jeunes plants de Picea sitchensis, âges de 3 ans d'origine commerciale sous conditions ensoleillees et ombragees fut evalue pour comprendre physiologiquement les facteurs controlant la performance des plants dans les conditions conventionnelles et de couvert forestier continu (continuous cover forestry, CCF). Les diminutions de la photosynthese en reponse aux deficits hydriques sous conditions de plein ensoleillement et d'ombre etaient accompagnees de reductions des conductivites stomatique (G s ) et mesophyllienne (G m ) et d'une augmentation de la proportion d'electrons consommes par les activites non-photosynthetiques. Apres rehydratation, la photosynthese chez les plants soumis aux hautes intensites lumineuses restait limitee jusqu'a 6 jours a cause de l'importante activite photorespiratoire et des dommages subits par le PSII. En conditions inondees, les plantules cultivees sous ensoleillement et a l'ombre presenterent de moindres reductions de leur photosynthese qui etaient associees a des modifications de G s et G m , mais sans changement des parametres de la fluorescence chlorophyllienne. Nous en concluons que la performance des plants est plus sensible aux deficits hydriques lies a la pratique culturale ou aux conditions environnementales dans les sites ensoleilles typiques des latitudes temperees et peut donc etre ameliore par l'emploi de systemes CCF.
Polychaete diversity at tropical Atlantic deep-sea sites: environmental effects

This study assesses how differences in nutrient flux and bottom currents affect the diversity and trophic structure of deep-sea polychaete communities from the tropical northeast Atlantic at 20 degrees to 21 degrees N latitude. Faunal assemblages were studied from 3 sets of USNEL box cores (0.25 m(2)) taken at depths of 1700, 3100 and 4600 m. In terms of primary productivity, the cores were taken beneath water which is eutrophic, mesotrophic and oligotrophic, respectively. Total polychaete abundance, abundance of dominant species, and faunal similarity and diversity were compared among the 3 sites. Polychaete abundance decreased with increasing depth. Community structure reflected environmental characteristics as well as the influence of coastal upwelling. Polychaete diversity showed a parabolic distribution, with depth peaking at about 2000 m. Species richness observed at the eutrophic site was generally higher than observed at other deep-sea regions of comparable depth at temperate latitudes. This points to regional variation in processes contributing to diversity patterns of deep fauna. We suggest that the diversity pattern observed results from non-equilibrial interactions between production and disturbance in the form of current energy and bioturbation. Diversity patterns observed in the EUMELI sites seem best explained by the intermediate productivity theory. The rate of production encountered at the eutrophic site may overcome much of the impact of physical and biological disturbances, favouring a diverse species assemblage.
Group cognitive intervention targeted to the strengthening of executive functions in children at social risk

Abstract The present study set out to evaluate the effectiveness of a group cognitive intervention aimed at promoting executive functions in children at social risk. The quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design included a control group. The sample was made up of 178 children (52% boys), aged 6-10. The children were evaluated by means of a battery of neuropsychological EF tests and a teacher-rated behavioral EF scale. The intervention program included 30 group cognitive stimulation sessions that increased in difficulty and were embedded into school curricula. Trained children performed better in terms of cognitive flexibility, planning, metacognition and inhibitory control, as compared to their baseline values and to children in the control group. This study provides new evidence of the effectiveness of cognitive interventions for children and of children's capability to transfer cognitive improvements to daily school activities.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LOGISTICS PERFORMANCE AND MODERATING EFFECT OF FIRM SIZE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM EAST COAST REGION OF MALAYSIA

Information Technology (IT) is universally accepted as one of efficiency boosters. Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) around the world involve in IT implementation with the purpose to increase their service efficiency in catering business demands, especially for LSPs which operate in the areas of heavy trade activities. The activities create congestion which lead to deficient of LSPs performance and increase delivery time and total costs. However, the review of literature reveals that IT implementation met with productivity paradox. Thus, in order to examine how IT implementation influences the performance of LSPs in East Coast Malaysia, 81 LSP firms in the region were involved in this study. This study also investigated the moderating effect of LSP sizes on their performance. The findings reveal that IT implementation significantly influenced LSPs’ performance, but it happened vice versa for the moderator investigation. This study has bridged the literature gaps of IT adoption in such that it offers empirical evidence and new insights on the significant moderating effect of firm size in the relationships between IT implementation and logistics firm performance using Malaysian samples.Keywords: Information Technology, logistics service providers, performance, firm size, Malaysia.Cite as: Mohd Zawawi, N.F. & Abd Wahab, S. (2018). Information technology, logistics performance and moderating effect of firm size: Empirical evidence from east coast region of Malaysia. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 3(1), 87-102. http://dx.doi. org/10.24200/jonus.vol3iss1pp87-102
ALMA observations of the η Corvi debris disc: inward scattering of CO-rich exocomets by a chain of 3-30 M ⊕ planets?

ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada) and NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan) and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO and NAOJ. MCW, LM, AB and QK acknowledge the support of the European Union through ERC grant number 279973. LM also acknowledges support by STFC through a graduate studentship. The work of OP is supported by the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. GMK is supported by the Royal Society as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.