Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analgesic drug use in patients with coronary artery disease

Introduction. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used in the management of pain in a variety of conditions. Available data clearly indicate, that the use of NSAIDs is associated with a number of adverse effects, especially in patients with cardiovascular disease. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence and frequency of analgesic drug use in patients with coronary heart disease and knowledge about possible interactions of these drugs with conventional cardiac therapy. Material and methods. The study included 183 patients with ischaemic heart disease, hospitalised in the tertiary cardiological centre. Data on the use of analgesics and patients’ knowledge about their safety were collected using self-prepared questionnaire. Information about current medication, accompanying diseases and blood-test results were checked in patients’ medical records. Results. In the examined group, regular use of analgesic drugs (defined as at least three times per week) was reported by 29 subjects (15.8%). The most frequently used analgesics were NSAIDs and paracetamol, with their regular use re ported by 7.0% and 8.8% of the respondents respectively. The majority of patients using NSAIDs were not aware about their possible interactions with antiplatelet therapy and did not consult the use of analgesics with a physician. Only 19.8% of patients admitted, that they received the information about analgesics from their doctor. Conclusions. The regular use of analgesic drugs by 15.8% of patients with coronary artery disease is a significant con -cern. Patients with coronary heart disease should be provided with detailed information and recommendations about safe analgesic therapy and alternatives for NSAIDs. for elective coronary angiography. The majority of patients from the study group had hypertension (n = 141, 77.0%). Diabetes mellitus was present in 64 (35.0%) and hypercholesterolaemia in 109 (59.7%) subjects. There were 28 current smokers (15.3%) and 86 ex-smokers (47.0%) in the population under the study. Ninety-four patients (51.4%) included in the study had a history of previous myocardial infarction and 21 (11.4%) a history of stroke. The majority of patients (n = 121; 66.1%) underwent the percutaneous coronary intervention in the past. Diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (in the history or during current hospitalisation) was established in 75 patients (41.0%).
The cuttable C-related genotype and allele for the E-cadherin 3-UTR Pml I polymorphism are associated with higher susceptibility to endometriosis

Epithelial cadherin (E-cadherin; CDH1) may influence pericellular proteolysis and intracellular signal transduction, which plays an essential part of tumor invasion. In our study we investigated the correlation between CDH1 gene polymorphism and endometriosis in two groups of pre-menopausal Taiwanese women, group 1 (n = 150) consisting of women with severe stage IV endometriosis and group 2 (n = 159) of women with no endometriosis. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to identify the cuttable (C) and uncuttable (T) polymorphism of the CDH1-Pml I gene (rs1801026) located on the 3-untranslated region (3-UTR) of chromosome 16 and compare the genotypes and allelic frequencies of this gene in both groups. We found that the genotype and allele distributions of the CDH1-Pml I C/T polymorphism were significantly different in both groups. In group 1 the CDH1*C frequency was 47.7% and the T frequency 52.3%, while the CC homozygote frequency was 6.7%, the TT homozygote 11.3% and the CT heterozygote 82%. In group 2 the CDH1*C frequency was 17% and the T frequency 83%, while the CC frequency was 0.6%, the TT 66.1% and the CT 33.3%. These data indicate that the CDH1 gene polymorphism may be associated with the development of severe endometriosis and that the CDH1 gene C allele is related to higher susceptibility to endometriosis.
SAND 2013-4766 Unlimited Release Printed June , 2013 Designing Experiments Through Compressed Sensing

In the following paper, we discuss how to design an ensemble of experiments through the use of compressed sensing. Specifically, we show how to conduct a small number of physical experiments and then use compressed sensing to reconstruct a larger set of data. In order to accomplish this, we organize our results into four sections. We begin by extending the theory of compressed sensing to a finite product of Hilbert spaces. Then, we show how these results apply to experiment design. Next, we develop an efficient reconstruction algorithm that allows us to reconstruct experimental data projected onto a finite element basis. Finally, we verify our approach with two computational experiments.
Dynamic capital structure in China: determinants and adjustment speed

This paper examines the determinants and adjustment speed of capital structure by using a dynamic panel data, two-step system GMM estimator with the latest data covering the years 2008-2013 in China. The results present a significant difference in the determinants and adjustment speed of capital structure compared to past studies. The authors find that firms adjust debt ratio towards leverage targets at speeds of 37% per annum, yielding a half-life of 1.52 years. Next, it is found that the profitability is no longer a core determinant of capital structure in Chinese listed firms. In addition, the results point out that the capital structure decision is not only affected by financial variables, but is also significantly influenced by human resource factors.
VARIABILITY AND CORRELATION STUDIES FOR GRAIN PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.)

The analysis revealed significant differences among the genotypes for all the 10 quality traits indicating that sufficient variability is present in the material involved in the study.The high PCV was recorded for grain L/B ratio (17.54%, 34.21% and 8.64%) and gelatinization temperature (27.70%, 31.79% and 17.92%) in land races, new plant types and japonicas, respectively. High heritability (broad sense) along with high genetic advance as per cent of mean was observed for L/B ratio (34.60, 69.92 and 16.39) and gelatinization temperature (41.91, 62.26 and 28.13), respectively for land races, new plant types and japonicas. Grain length showed significant positive correlation with L/B ratio (0.851, 0.956) and grain elongation (0.832, 0.934) in land races and new plant types,while significant positive correlation with L/B ratio (0.748) 1000-grain weight (0.437) and amylose content (0.322)in japonica. Grain width showed significant positive correlations with 1000-grain weight (0.416) and protein content (0.448) in land races; with grain thickness (0.889, 0.563) and 1000-grain weight (0.331, 0.326) in newplant types and japonicas. Highest average iron content(15.44 μg/g) was estimated in new plant types, while zinc content was highest in land races (7.06 μg/g). This indicated that grain length, grain width and gelatinization temperature can be used for the improvement in grain quality in rice.
A trophic characterization of intertidal consumers on Chilean rocky shores

In the last 50 years, the trophic role of consumers has become a main research topic in the ecology of Chilean rocky shores, and in other regions. Several studies have typified species of echinoderms, crustaceans and mollusks as the most important herbivores and carnivores of intertidal assemblages. Unfortunately, little is known about the diet and behavior of many consumers, making difficult addressing key issues related to the importance of omnivory, intra- and inter-specific competition, or individual specialization. The goal of this paper is to fill some gaps in the available information and provide researchers with an exhaustive dietary analysis and relevant ecological descriptors for a suite of 30 consumer species distributed along the southeastern Pacific coast. Our data integrate information collected through seasonal samplings conducted between 2004 and 2007 at 4 localities distributed over 1,000 km of coast in northern Chile. Based on laboratory and field work analysis, we present: (a) a consumer-resource matrix obtained from high-resolution analyses of gut contents of 6,377 individuals, including 222 prey items (80% identified at species or genus level); (b) estimates of the density, body size (length and weight), diet width (at individual and species levels), and within-individual diversity of consumer species; (c) an nMDS ordination of the compositional similarity of consumers' diets, and information on the relative importance and occurrence frequency of the most common preys of each consumer. Based on the high frequency of omnivory and the high diet overlap among consumers, we discuss their potential for competition and the role of individual specialization in shaping their generalist character, highlighting the need to reappraise their behavior and ecological effects in the intertidal community.
STOCK MARKET REACTION TO NATIONAL SPORTING SUCCESS : CASE OF BORSA ISTANBUL

The aim of this study is to investigate whether the sporting success of Turkish national football team affects Borsa Istanbul (BIST) stock index returns. The link between the results of football matches and stock returns has been investigated by many researchers, and the findings of some of these studies revealed a relationship between them. In this study, the effects of Turkish national football team’s match results on BIST100 index returns are investigated by using GARCH analysis. The analysis covers all the football matches played by Turkish national football team between 04.01. 1988-25.05. 2011. According to the findings, the wins of the national team are not affecting the BIST-100 index return, whereas the failures (losses and draws) have a negative effect. Anahtar Kelimeler: Behavioural finance, Sporting success, stock market returns, GARCH analysis
Static Performance of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Walls with Peripheral Soil–Cement Mixtures

Recently, much effort has been devoted to improving the performance of geosynthetic reinforced walls under various stress conditions. In this research, the effect of using cemented mixed soil as a backfill material is studied on the static response of geosynthetic reinforced soil (GRS) walls. For this, numerical models based on a finite-difference code are made according to one of the Royal Military College’s (RMC) full scale test walls with a segmental facing. Different arrangements of soil reinforcement are considered in the presence of cemented sandy soil and sandy soil alone. In the cement-treated approach, each reinforcement layer is surrounded by a 30 cm cemented sand soil. The results show that using cement-treated sandy soil decreases the maximum deformation of the wall by as much as 75% compared with the case where untreated sandy soil is used. Moreover, by using cemented soil around reinforcements, the reinforcement forces reduce considerably. Therefore, increasing the number of reinforcement layers in the backfill will decrease the face wall deformation as well as the reinforcement forces, which are not cost-effective in many situations. It is also suggested that using the cement-treated technique can be an efficient cost-saving method compared with common GRS walls.
Bank Ownership, Market Structure and Risk

This paper presents a model of a banking industry with heterogeneous banks that delivers predictions on the relationship between banks' risk of failure, market structure, bank ownership, and banks' screening and bankruptcy costs. These predictions are explored empirically using a panel of individual banks data and ownership information including more than 10,000 bank-year observations for 133 non-industrialized countries during the 1993-2004 period. Four main results obtain. First, the positive and significant relationship between bank concentration and bank risk of failure found in Boyd, De Nicolo and Al Jalal (2006) is stronger when bank ownership is taken into account, and it is strongest when state-owned banks have sizeable market shares. Second, conditional on country and firm specific characteristics, the risk profiles of foreign (state-owned) banks are significantly higher than (not significantly different from) those of private domestic banks. Third, private domestic banks do take on more risk as a result of larger market shares of both state-owned and foreign banks. Fourth, the model rationalizes this evidence if both state-owned and foreign banks have either larger screening and/or lower bankruptcy costs than private domestic banks, banks' differences in market shares, screening or bankruptcy costs are not too large, and loan markets are sufficiently segmented across banks of different ownership.
How Good Are FOMC Forecasts

The purpose of the paper is to answer the following two questions regarding the performance of the influential Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve System, in comparison with the forecasts contained in the "Greenbooks" of the professional staff of the Board of Governors: (i) Does the FOMC have expertise? (ii) Can the FOMC forecast better than the staff? The FOMC forecasts that are analyzed in practice are non-replicable forecasts. In order to evaluate such forecasts, this paper develops a model to generate replicable FOMC forecasts, and compares the staff forecasts, non-replicable FOMC forecasts, and replicable FOMC forecasts, considers optimal forecasts and efficient estimation methods, and presents a direct test of FOMC expertise on non-replicable FOMC forecasts. The empirical analysis of Romer and Romer (2008) is re-examined to evaluate whether their criticisms of the FOMC's forecasting performance should be accepted unreservedly, or might be open to alternative interpretations.
Improving Global Outcomes ( KDIGO ) Kidney disease in the setting of HIV infection : conclusions from a Kidney Disease : Controversies Conference

Controversies Conference Charles R. Swanepoel, Mohamed G. Atta, Vivette D. D’Agati, Michelle M. Estrella, Agnes B. Fogo, Saraladevi Naicker, Frank A. Post, Nicola Wearne, Cheryl A. Winkler, Michael Cheung, David C. Wheeler, Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer and Christina M. Wyatt; for Conference Participants Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; Department of Medicine, San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; Basic Research Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health and Leidos Biomedical Research, Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland, USA; KDIGO, Brussels, Belgium; University College London, London, UK; Selzman Institute for Kidney Health, Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; and Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
Allometric relationships between stem variables and leaf area in planted Eucalyptus nitens and naturally regenerating Acacia dealbata

Allometric relationships between stem variables and leaf area were determined for plantation Eucalyptus nitens (Deane et Maiden) Maiden and competing Acacia dealbata Link in 8-year-old and 4-year-old stands. Both cross-sectional area and sapwood area were considered at crown break and breast height. Whilst all four stem variables could be used to calculate tree leaf area adequately, proximity of the stem measurement to crown break was found to be more important than the choice of sapwood area or cross-sectional area in determining the closeness of the derived allometric relationship. When the relationship between sapwood area at crown break and leaf area was used, a single equation was suitable for predictive purposes across treatments for each species.
Preparation of GF/Wollastonite Reinforced Epoxy Hybrid Composite: Mechanical Properties

Performance of injection moulded short wollastonite fibre and chopped glass fibre reinforced hybrid epoxy composites was studied. The results showed that hybridisation of glass fibre and wollastonite was in congruence to epoxy glass fibre composite system. Effect of fibre length, fibre orientation in matrix and analysis and fracture surface was undertaken. The mechanical properties of injection moulded, chopped glass fibre/wollastonite/epoxy hybrid composites were investigated by considering the effect of hybridisation by these two fillers. It was observed that the tensile, flexural, and impact properties of the filled epoxy were higher than those of unfilled epoxy. The effect of filler on epoxy matrix subjected to the tensile strength and modulus was studied and compared with the rule of mixture. The actual results are marginally low as compared with the values obtained by the rule of hybrid mixtures (RoHM).
Markovian Nash equilibrium in financial markets with asymmetric information and related forward–backward systems

This paper develops a new methodology for studying continuous-time Nash equilibrium in a financial market with asymmetrically informed agents. This approach allows us to lift the restriction of risk neutrality imposed on market makers by the current literature. It turns out that, when the market makers are risk averse, the optimal strategies of the agents are solutions of a forward-backward system of partial and stochastic differential equations. In particular, the price set by the market makers solves a nonstandard "quadratic" backward stochastic differential equation. The main result of the paper is the existence of a Markovian solution to this forward-backward system on an arbitrary time interval, which is obtained via a fixed-point argument on the space of absolutely continuous distribution functions. Moreover, the equilibrium obtained in this paper is able to explain several stylized facts which are not captured by the current asymmetric information models.
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a Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA b Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA c Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L7 d Institut für Entwicklungsund Molekularbiologie der Tiere (EMT), Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
MAGNETIC MINERALOGY OF BASALTS FROM LEG 49

The Curie temperatures and thermomagnetic behavior of the whole rocks, as well as the titanium content and microscopic features of titanomagnetite contained in the rocks, were studied on the same samples used for shipboard determinations of paleomagnetic properties. At least one (usually much more than one) sample was available from each lithologic unit of the basement rocks. A particular aim of the studies was to find any intersite variations of magnetochemical properties, such as variations with distance parallel to and perpendicular to the northern Mid-Atlantic and Reykjanes ridges. We also looked for variations with depth in the holes, such as might be caused by differences in magmatic differentiation or hydrothermal alteration. The major ferromagnetic phases, which are presumably responsible for the natural remanent magnetization and the marine magnetic anomalies, were carefully identified. The findings of the thermochemical magnetic study are correlated with rock magnetic and paleomagnetism results in the final chapter.
Making a Living in African Cities: The Role of Home-based Enterprises in Accra and Pretoria

As formal sector employment becomes an increasingly remote prospect for many Africans, the importance of informal income-generating activities which operate from the home are being recognized. This paper compares and contrasts home-based enterprises (HBEs) in low-income settlements in Accra and Pretoria. It analyses which types of enterprises operate, their contribution to household livelihoods, and the limits to growth that they face. It is shown how in both cities HBEs are widespread, provide an important place of work especially for women, and contribute significantly to household income. Despite these similarities, the HBEs are operating in differing circumstances with the fear of violence and property crime being a prominent aspect of South African HBEs whilst being negligible in Ghana.
Tertiary Treatment of Biologically Treated Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) Using UF Membrane System: Effect of MWCO and Transmembrane Pressure

This study evaluate the performance of ultrafiltration UF membrane system in the treatment of biologically treated palm oil mill effluent (POME) by varying the effects of transmembrane pressure and using different molecular weight cut-off (MWCO). Flat sheet polyethersulfone (PES) ultrafiltration membrane of molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) 1 kDa and 5 kDa were used in this study. Biologically treated POME was subjected to physical pretreatment processes, consisting of coagulation and adsorption to remove total suspended solids. Transmembrane pressure was varied between 0.5 bar to 1.5 bar and the performance of these membrane systems were assessed in terms of reduction of chemical oxygen demand (COD), color and turbidity in POME. Pretreatment processes which consist of coagulation and adsorption showed remarkable results in reducing COD, color and turbidity up to 92.8 %, 99.3 % and 99.9 % respectively. At transmembrane pressure 0.5 bar, more reduction in COD, colour and turbidity were observed. The smallest MWCO of the membrane at transmembrane pressure 0.5 bar gave a better reduction of pollutants from the pretreated POME. The increasing transmembrane pressure leads to a corresponding increase in permeate flux which starts to level off at higher transmembrane pressures. The application of membrane separation technology to treat biologically treated POME has improved the quality of the final effluent discharged. The UF membrane plays very important role in reducing pollutants present in biologically treated POME.
MICROPHONICS MEASUREMENTS IN A CW-DRIVEN TESLA-TYPE CAVITY ∗

Superconducting cavities with a high quality factor exhibit a very low bandwidth in their resonant frequency, which makes their operation very sensitive to mechanical oscillations. In CW mode of operation, as it is intended for the BESSY-FEL Linac, microphonics are therefore the dominant error source for field stability. In order to compensate the detuning, it is necessary to properly characterize amplitude and frequency with respect to all involved mechanical and electrical components. Such measurements have been performed at the HoBiCaT test facility at BESSY and will be described in detail.