Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
utcomes and Complications With Off-Label Use f Drug-Eluting Stents esults From the STENT ( Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of ew Therapies ) Group

ethods The STENT (Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of New Therapies) Registry is the largest ulticenter U.S. registry evaluating outcomes of DES. Off-label indications included ostial, left main, ong, bifurcation, and in-stent restenotic lesions, saphenous vein grafts, chronic total occlusions, mall or large vessels, multilesion or multivessel percutaneous coronary interventions, and STegment elevation myocardial infarction. Outcomes were adjusted using Cox proportional hazards egression and propensity analyses.
Situated or ubiquitous? A segmentation of mobile e-shoppers

Extensive wireless internet access via mobile phones, netbooks and tablet computers has eliminated most barriers to ubiquitous consumption. But both practitioners and researchers lack understanding of how availability of wireless internet has translated into flexibility of consumers' internet shopping patterns as well as their receptivity to mobile advertising. Reports show that nations where internet users are more flexible across locations and devices use more media and mobile web for shopping related purposes. In this paper, we identify four segments of consumers that range from "domestically rooted" who prefer to shop from private spaces to "flying spenders" who shop across multiple contexts based on their sensitivity to four critical dimensions of the shopping context: place, time, social context and perceived control. These segments differ significantly in the amount of time and money spent online and their readiness to respond to mobile-based advertisements and promotions.
Bone chip‐induced rhinosinusitis

This case report describes both the pathophysiology and management of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Specifically, we report a case of chronic maxillary rhinosinusitis with a free‐floating maxillary sinus calcification (bone chip). After obtaining the computed tomography scan, the patient underwent endoscopic sinus surgery, with removal of the uncinate, enlargement of the diseased natural ostium of the maxillary sinus, and removal of the diseased bone chip. This eliminated the nidus for infection, ultimately restoring mucociliary flow. Laryngoscope, 2009
Contagiousness in Information Systems

Players’ higher order beliefs can have a strong impact on possible equilibria in games of incomplete information. For example, higher order uncertainty can leave a game with only one equilibrium. This paper examines how this type of “infection,” in which higher order uncertainty makes most of the type space play a specific action, is related to properties of the information system. We show that whether infection occurs depends on if there is a set of types that sufficiently cohesive and sufficiently large that can stop the infection. We find that a type of uniformity across an information system makes it more susceptible to contagion. We also find bounds on how large of an impact a small probability event can have on an information system.
Chronic Effects of Moniliformin in Broilers and Turkeys Fed Dietary Treatments to Market Age

SUMMARY. Floor pen studies were conducted, with broilers from 1 to 7 wk of age and with turkeys from 1 to 14 wk of age, to evaluate the chronic effects of moniliformin (M). Fusarium fujikuroi (M-1214) culture material was added to typical corn-soybean basal diets to supply 0, 25, or 50 mg M/kg diet (broilers) or 0, 12.5, 25, 37.5, or 50 mg M/kg diet (turkeys). Compared with controls, chicks fed diets containing 50 mg M/kg consumed more feed, had lower body weight gain, were less efficient in converting feed to body weight gain, and had increased relative heart and proventriculus weights. Chicks fed the diet containing 50 mg M/kg also had significantly higher mortality and decreased mean corpuscular volumes compared with controls. Broilers fed 25 and 50 mg M/kg also had increased serum gamma glutamyltransferase activities. Feed intake, body weight gain, and feed conversion of turkeys fed dietary M were not affected. At 6 and 14 wk, turkeys fed 25, 37.5, or 50 mg M/kg diet had increased (P < 0.05) relative heart weights when compared with controls. At week 14, turkeys fed diets containing 37.5 or 50 mg M/kg also had increased (P < 0.05) relative liver weights compared with turkeys fed 0, 12.5, or 25 mg M/kg diet. Lesions, observed only in the hearts of broilers and turkeys fed 50 mg M/kg, were loss of cardiomyocyte cross striations, increased cardiomyocyte nuclear size, and an increased number of cardiomyocyte mitotic figures (turkeys only). Results indicate that ≥37.5 mg M/kg is hepatoxic and ≥25 mg M/kg is cardiotoxic to turkeys and 50 mg M/kg diet is toxic to broilers fed to market age.
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Gene Polymorphism in Children with Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome

Aims: To investigate the genetic polymorphism of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) insertion/deletion (I/D) in children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS), as well as its relationship with patient’s clinical response to steroid therapy. Methods: Fifty-nine patients with INS were recruited and divided into 2 groups according to their clinical response to steroids: steroid-sensitive (SS) with 19 patients and non-SS with 40 patients, which was further divided into steroid-dependent (SD) and steroid-resistant (SR) groups with 35 and 5 patients, respectively. Seventy-nine children without previous renal diseases and negative proteinuria were enrolled as a control group. The genotypes for ACE I/D polymorphism, including DD, ID, and II, were analyzed. Results: The distribution of ACE DD, ID, and II genotypes in INS patients were 52.5, 10.2 and 37.3%, respectively; the corresponding numbers for the control group were 2.5, 25.3 and 72.2%, respectively. Patients with INS had a significantly higher percentage of DD genotype (p <0.001) than the control group. This higher incidence of the DD genotype was observed in both the SS and non-SS groups. A higher percentage of the DD genotype in the non-SS group and in the SD group as compared to the SS group (both p < 0.05) was also noted. Conclusion: Our data shows that INS is associated with a higher incidence of the DD genotype, especially in non-SS patients. This finding suggests that the DD genotype may be a risk factor for INS and play a role in the clinical response to steroids.
The Impact of Internal Control Systems on Financial Performance: The Case of Health Institutions in Upper West Region of Ghana

The significance of upholding effective internal control system in organizations have been persistently and immensely emphasized, due to its positive effects on financial performance. Efficient internal control enables the prevention and detection of fraudulent activities in the institution. In line with this, persistent efforts by policy makers to pursue policies that would improve internal control system in the ministry of health have yielded abysmal results with regards to financial performance in health institutions in the Upper West Region of Ghana. This study sought to determine the impact of internal control variables on financial performance among five health institutions in the region using an ordered logistic regression model for a sample of fifty (50) respondents. We found a positive relationship between internal controls and financial performance. But only three of the control variables remained significant with pvalues less than 5%. It is recommended that the governing body of the institutions, possibly supported by the audit reports implementation committee (ARIC), ensure that the appropriate internal control systems recommended by the auditors in health institutions are monitored periodically.
Risk factors for endothelial cell loss post-keratoplasty.

PURPOSE Transplant survival following penetrating keratoplasty is determined to a large extent by the course of endothelial cell density loss. Different influencing factors such as organ culture conditions, surgical trauma, exchange between donor and recipient cells, cell ageing and immune reactions can contribute to endothelial cell loss. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of endothelial cell loss in our patients and to detect dependencies on donor-and recipient-related factors. METHODS Using non-contact specular microscopy, endothelial cell counts were obtained every 6 months from 293 consecutive patients who underwent keratoplasty in our institution between 1996 and 2000. Follow-up time was 36 months. RESULTS In comparison with the density of donor endothelial cells, the mean endothelial cell loss of patients was 28.8% after 6 months, 39.8% after 12 months and 49% after 24 months. Donor age and initial cell density did not have a significant influence on the course of endothelial cell loss. The lowest rate of endothelial cell loss was associated with patients diagnosed with keratoconus. Conversely, those with preoperative glaucoma had a significantly increased rate of endothelial cell loss (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS This study shows that preoperative glaucoma is a major risk factor for increased endothelial cell loss following keratoplasty.
Immunoblot analysis of the humoral immune response to Leishmania donovani infantum polypeptides in human visceral leishmaniasis

Using the immunoblot technique, we have compared the reactions of Leishmania donovani infantum polypeptides with the immunoglobulin G of human sera from patients with parasitologically proven L. d. infantum infection, with suspected visceral leishmaniasis, and with other leishmaniases, protozoiases, helminthiases, and fungal or bacterial diseases. A 94-kDa component reacted with all L. d. infantum-infected sera and with 75% of sera from patients with clinical and serological but no parasitological diagnoses. No reaction was observed with sera from patients in the other disease groups or with control sera. Studies of eight different isolates, subspecies, and species of the genus Leishmania demonstrated that the 94-kDa component was expressed in all strains examined.
What Really Happens inside the Boardroom and how it may Shed Light on Corporate Success and Failure

For the last two decades or more, agency theory has provided the dominant guiding framework for the research of governance. Despite the results of this effort being described as “remarkably inconsistent not only with the theory but with each other” (Daily, Dalton and Rajagopalan, 2003, p. 152) there have been few attempts to offer alternate paradigms for research. The result of this limitation is that several academics and commentators have had cause to publicly acknowledge that we actually know little about governance. Our understanding of the relationship between governance and subsequent organisational performance is at best haphazard, at worst, little more than an assumption. One attempt at breaking this stalemate concerns venturing into the ‘black box’ (LeBlanc and Schwartz, 2004), an activity that requires a different battery of research skills including a range of qualitative research methods, direct observation of practice, oral histories, case studies, interventions, action research and the analysis of decision-making. Few of these practices sit comfortably within the normal science (Kuhn, 1970) practices of much governance research conducted to date. The aim of this paper is to discuss the attributes of such black box research, identify various approaches to its conduct and to present a brief summary of interim results from a range of research activities in progress in New Zealand. The primary aim of the research ‘agenda’ informing these activities is firstly, to determine how a relationship between governance and subsequent organisational performance may operate given the complexities of such an approach and to identify whether specific attributes (either governance architecture or board capabilities) actually influence organisational outcomes. Results to date offer a tentative glimpse at what may be effective governance. In time, they may seriously challenge the relevance of much current research and what is increasingly being promoted by various agencies and accepted by practitioners as best practice.
Evaluation of HPLC and MEKC methods for the analysis of lipopeptide antibiotic iturin A produced by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens

Two methods, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and micellar elec- trokinetic chromatography (MEKC), for analysis of multicomponent lipopeptide antibiotic iturin A are described. After conducting a series of optimizations, the HPLC separation of iturin A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, and A8 isomers were achieved by a NPS RP-C18 column with an isocratic elution of acetonitrile/10 mM ammonium acetate (40:60, v/v), and flow rate of 1 mL/min. On the other hand, the MEKC separation achieved at 25 °C using an applied voltage of 20 kV, and back- ground electrolyte consisting of 20 mM boric acid buffer (pH 8.72) with 50 mM sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and 10% (v/v) acetonitrile. The calibration curve was linear to 20-200 µg/mL and 50-500 µg/mL for HPLC and MEKC with R 2 = 0.9954 and R 2 = 0.9967, respectively. The detec- tion limits of iturin A from the strain B128 cultivation medium were in the 2.5-7.0 µg/mL and 5.0-13.0 µg/mL ranges, and the reproducibility of within-day assay was 98.1 and 98.7%, for HPLC and MEKC, respectively (a UV detector was applied in the both cases). Both methods were selective, robust, and specific, allowing reliable quantification of iturin A, and could be useful for clinical and biomedical investigations of related antibiotics.
There's No "I" in "Team": Lessons from Athletics on Community Building

This study explores how athletics meets the challenges associated with creating a community out of difference and how its processes can serve as a model for higher education. Based on interviews with athletes, coaches, and athletic administrators from five NCAA division I institutions, this study reports traits that facilitate community-building: team members share a common goal; they engage in intense, frequent interaction; they share adversity; they have a common enemy; and they recognize that each individual has something important to contribute.
Routine early CT‐scan is cost saving after minor head injury

Significant hospital resources are invested in early detection of intracranial complications after minor head injuries (MHI). This study focuses on economic aspects of MHI management. 88 MHI patients underwent routine early CT‐scan and at least 24 h in‐hospital observation. The cost of this management was calculated, and compared to estimated costs of three alternative management protocols. CT‐scans demonstrated intracranial lesions in eight (9%) patients, but none required neurosurgical intervention. The expense of our management was Norwegian kroner (NOK) 576136. An alternative management protocol including routine early CT‐scan and discharge of patients with normal CT‐findings, Glasgow coma score 2 14 and no neurological deficits, was found to be safe, and estimated to reduce costs with 43% to NOK 326669. It is concluded that routine early CT‐scan is the most reliable and cost saving management procedure after MHI.
Predictive value of C-reactive protein level and pregnancy rate in intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycle

Objective The aim was to determine the possible relation between the maternal serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level and outcome of controlled ovarian stimulation and pregnancy rate in patients undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Background Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation is apparently a key factor in the success of IVF embryo transfer. CRP is a sensitive marker in the inflammatory process rises following hormonal stimulation and does not have diurnal alterations but administration of exogenous estrogen increases its level. Materials and methods This prospective cohort study was conducted at the outpatient clinic in a Private Infertility Unit, Menoufia, Egypt, from November 2018 to August 2019. This study included 100 infertile patients who were candidates for IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection and fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Full history was taken. Participants underwent CRP measuring at three times, at the day of beginning of ovarian stimulation, ovum pickup, and the day of transfer. Two groups were identified for those who get pregnant and those who did not get pregnant. Results Patients whose CRP level decreased on transfer day (19 cases) 14 got pregnant (73.7%), whereas only five failed to get pregnant (26.3%). Patients whose CRP level increased on transfer day (81 cases) 52 got pregnant (64%), whereas 29 failed to get pregnant (36%). Conclusion Ovulation induction is an inflammatory process leading to increased levels of CRP but with different patterns. These patterns of changes failed to be used as markers of successful outcome of IVF treatment.
A single fission yeast mitotic cyclin B p34cdc2 kinase promotes both S‐phase and mitosis in the absence of G1 cyclins.

Deletion of the fission yeast mitotic B‐type cyclin gene cdc13 causes cells to undergo successive rounds of DNA replication. We have used a strain which expresses cdc13 conditionally to investigate re‐replication. Activity of Start genes cdc2 and cdc10 is necessary and p34cdc2 kinase is active in re‐replicating cells. We tested to see whether other cyclins were required for re‐replication using cdc13delta. Further deletion of cig1 and puc1 had no effect, but deletion of cig2/cyc17 caused a severe delay in re‐replication. Deletion of cig1 and cig2/cyc17 together abolished re‐replication completely and cells arrested in G1. This, and analysis of the temperature sensitive cdc13–117 mutant, suggests that cdc13 can effectively substitute for the G1 cyclin activity of cig2/cyc17. We have characterized p56cdc13 activity and find evidence that in the absence of G1 cyclins, S‐phase is delayed until the mitotic p34cdc2‐p56cdc13 kinase is sufficiently active. These data suggest that a single oscillation of p34cdc2 kinase activity provided by a single B‐type cyclin can promote ordered progression into both DNA replication and mitosis, and that the level of cyclin‐dependent kinase activity may act as a master regulator dictating whether cells undergo S‐phase or mitosis.
Five symmetrically substituted 2-aryl-3-benzyl-1,3-thiazolidin-4-ones: supramolecular structures in zero, one and two dimensions.

There are no direction-specific inter­actions between the mol­ecules of 3-(2-methoxy­benz­yl)-2-(2-methoxy­phen­yl)-1,3-thia­zolidin-4-one, C18H19NO3S, (I); the mol­ecules of 3-(4-nitro­benz­yl)-2-(4-nitro­phen­yl)-1,3-thia­zolidin-4-one, C16H13N3O5S, (II), are linked by four independent C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds into complex chains of fused rings. In 3-(4-methoxy­benz­yl)-2-(4-methoxy­phen­yl)-1,3-thia­zolidin-4-one, (III), isomeric with (I), the mol­ecules are linked into sheets by a combination of C—H⋯O and C—H⋯π(arene) hydrogen bonds, while in 3-(2-nitro­benz­yl)-2-(2-nitro­phen­yl)-1,3-thia­zolidin-4-one, (IV), isomeric with (II), the sheets are built from three independent C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and one C—H⋯π(arene) hydrogen bond, and reinforced by an aromatic π–π stacking inter­action. In 3-(2-fluoro­benz­yl)-2-(2-fluoro­phen­yl)-1,3-thia­zolidin-4-one, C16H13F2NOS, (V), where the 2-aryl ring exhibits orientational disorder, the mol­ecules are linked into sheets by a combination of C—H⋯O and C—H⋯π(arene) hydrogen bonds, and the sheets are linked in pairs, forming bilayers, by an aromatic π–π stacking inter­action.
CORPORATION TAX ON PRIVATE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS: IMPLICATIONS ON ACCESS AND QUALITY

Globally, governments are responsible for ensuring access and quality education. As a result, the Uganda government with support from development partners introduced universal education at both primary and secondary level of education with aim to achieve the Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals currently known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The introduction of the programmes led to increase in access at all levels of education with quality in questions. Private schools also mushroomed due to meet stakeholders demand for access and quality. However in 2014/2015 national budget, the government introduced corporation tax on private primary and secondary schools. Some stakeholders reacted that taxes are likely to have unforeseen consequences in regard to overall access and quality of education services. The purpose of this study therefore is to establish the effect of corporate tax on primary and secondary schools access and quality of education. The study adopted a qualitative interpretive approach and a case study design. Data was collected using interview guides and focus group discussions. Field research was conducted in three district of Kampala, Jinja and Wakiso in Uganda for a period of three months. Documentary review was done mainly from national databases and reports managed by the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES). All interviews were recorded and transcripts transcribed verbatim, continually coded and then repeatedly analysed both chronologically and thematically in order to isolate the key issues pertaining to the research question. Findings indicate that taxes influenced increase in school fees, increased dropout rate and improved the teacher student ratio since teachers had fewer children to attend to which is good for teacher learner contact. In conclusion, the paper posits that corporate tax compounds inequality to access and also affects quality of education particularly to rural and vulnerable population.
Operating Efficiency and its Effect from Innovative Teaching through Digital Mobile e-Learning for Public and Private High Schools

The goal of this research is to evaluate the innovative teaching to affect school efficiency through using digital mobile e-learning of high school in Taiwan. Based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Tobit regression model (TRM). The empirical results of this research indicate the following results: (1) Importing digital mobile e-learning can really enhance the efficiency of school management. (2) School size, teacher-student ratio, School High-Vocational attribute, especially the numbers of technical teachers in teaching or consulting about digital mobile e-learning knowledge and numbers of Tablet PC (proxy for digital mobile e-learning) to affect efficiency of school management. Therefore, in order to increase students learning effectiveness in school, it is necessary to first add school size, Tablet PC numbers and technical teachers. However, total equipment expenses associated with tablet PC has a small negative influence on school management efficiency due to the increasing costs for furnishing the related internet and network equipment or device facilitate for teaching and learning among teachers and students by digital mobile e-learning. The results of this research can also be the reference for educational authorities when formulating policies and regulations for promoting digital mobile e-learning.
Sedentary versus active leisure activities and their relationship with sleeping habits and body mass index in children of 9 and 10 years of age

A random sample of 291 9- and 10-year-old schoolchildren from Asturias (Spain) was taken. Using path analysis, a model was tested in which bedtime, the number of hours spent sleeping and leisure activities were the independent variables and the body mass index was the dependent variable. The results show that sedentary and active leisure time and hours spent sleeping are predictors of the body mass index in children. Those children who go to bed late and who use that extra time to watch the television or play with the computer tend to have a greater body mass index, while those children who go to bed earlier and have spent more time reading or playing in the park or at home have a lower body mass index. Encouraging active leisure activities can have an extremely positive effect on their body mass index.