Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Study on Students' Intake of Street Foods and Their Perception toward Hygiene Status of Street Foods and Microbiological Analysis

We investigated the intake trends of street foods for middle school, high school and colleges students through the survey study. In addition, the factors affecting the students' consumption of street foods and their perception toward hygiene status of street vendor were studied. The levels of total aerobic bacteria, coliform groups and enterobacteriaceae in Kimbab, eomuk, and eomuk-kukmul were counted using 3M petrifilms. More than ninety seven % of the respondents had experienced street foods. All the respondents ate street foods 1 to 5 times a month. Forty percent of the respondent stated that 'good taste' and 'time-saving convenience' were their reason for eating the street foods. Their favorite foods were ddokbokgi and various fried foods. All the students responded that frying oil, drinking water, and soy sauce as well as the street vendors' attire and their cooking tools in street vendor were unsanitary. Forty percent of the respondents ranked frying oil as the most unsanitary substance. Eighty percent of the respondents responded that an enforcement of hygiene should be imposed on the street foods vendor. There were significant differences (p/g and contamination levels of enterobacteriaceae or coliform in Kimbab exceeded more than 10/g, which did not satisfy the microbiological standards. In conclusion, although the respondents thought that the sanitation of street foods was poor, most of them want the street food vendor to be maintained with better hygiene condition. This indicated that the regulation for safe street foods should be enforced and educational information about the preparation and serving for safe street foods should be provided to street food vendor.
Food preferences and taboos during ante-natal period among the tribal women of north coastal Andhra Pradesh.

This is an attempt to examine the food preferences and restrictions practiced by the tribal women of Srikakulam district of north coastal Andhra Pradesh. They have the deep rooted beliefs about the food preferences and restrictions. The study reveals the respondents opinion about the preferential and non-preferential food items and also tried to explain the loss of valuable nutrients during antenatal period on the name of food taboos. Due to these traditional beliefs they are suffering from protein-energy malnutrition and other deficiencies which lead to health complications both to the mother and infants. The present results were discussed in the light of other published data carried out on different tribal and non-tribal populations from India.
Evaluation of heavy metals in the soils of Karaikudi Town in India

The Central Electro-Chemical Research Institute in India has a department that specializes in the design of both lead and nickel-chromium batteries. However, the laboratories activities have brought soils contamination of this department. This work involves assessing the presence of heavy metals such as lead, nickel and chromium in contaminated soils in the Center through the single and sequential extraction methods. Three samples were taken notably: the witness sample S1, which made it possible to determine the optimum parameters extraction (pH and concentrations of the extractant solutions) and then S2 and S3 which constitute the contaminated soils. Among the three extractants used for simple extraction (EDTA, CaCl2.2H2O and CH3COONH4), the results show that EDTA extracts fairly high contents of Pb (77.63 ± 0.41 mg/kg), of Ni (67.37 ± 0.36 mg/kg) and Cr (60.22 ± 0.32 mg/kg). These contents constitute the bioavailable fraction of the three heavy metals and represent 69 to 84% of their total contents. The total contents contaminated soils are determined at 111.38 ± 0.59 mg/kg for lead, 79.95 ± 0.42 mg/kg for nickel and 74.47 ± 0.39 mg/kg for chromium. Compared with AFNOR standard NF U 44-041, the lead and nickel contents are higher. Moreover, the sequential extraction shows a large margin of the mobile and mobilizable fraction of all the metals studied in the contaminated soil samples. These results allow saying that there are risks of environmental pollution in the contaminated soils of the Central Electro-Chemical Research Institute. Key words: Heavy metals, single extraction, sequential extraction, speciation, pollution.
Roadway piezoelectric energy harvester design considering electrical and mechanical performances

Piezoelectric energy harvesting is an efficient technique among energy scavenging methods employed in asphalt pavements. Several designs are reported in the literature; however, what is less discussed is how to design the harvester. In this paper, a fixed volume of piezoelectric material is considered, and various design parameters are discussed in order to achieve an improved design. The main objective is to enhance the harvester performance, considering electrical and mechanical aspects, simultaneously. The output power, the level of induced stress on the piezoelectric material, the endurance limit, and the coupling effect of the device with the pavement are considered. As a case study, the finite element model of a piezoelectric harvester is developed and validated with the experimental results. A parametric study is then carried out in order to improve both the electrical and mechanical characteristics of the device. Various parameters, such as piezoelectric disks cross-section, piezoelectric material, as well as the disks aspect ratio are considered. The proposed structures are compared with similar ones reported in the literature and show higher output powers of 3 − 5.8 times. A case study is presented to show the signal conditioning process of the harvested power for practical applications. Improvements in various aspects of the device performance, while considering the economic aspects, i.e., the amount of consumed piezoelectric material, show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Intercultural communication in health care. Non-Swedish physicians in Sweden

This thesis describes and analyzes intercultural communication between non-Swedish physicians and their Swedish patients, as well as communication between non-Swedish physicians and Swedish medical personnel. The focus is on the impact of cultural differences and the use of Swedish as a foreign language by physicians. In addition, the effects of gender and power in physician-patient and physician-colleague communication were investigated. The thesis is based on a combination of data collection methods (interviews, questionnaires, recordings of naturally occurring medical consultations and staff meetings, and observations) and data analysis (qualitative and quantitative). The goal was to get as complete a picture as possible of intercultural communication in Swedish health care. The thesis presents a general analysis of communication between non-Swedish physicians and their Swedish patients. This analysis includes the views of non-Swedish physicians, Swedish patients and Swedish personnel about communication, an outline of common problems and how the participants solve them, and an overview of the positive aspects of communication. A particular focus of the thesis is the comparative analysis of some aspects of information seeking (analysis of questions used by the non-Swedish and Swedish physicians and their patients in medical consultations), information giving (use of the pronoun man [‘one’] by the Swedish and non-Swedish physicians while providing information to their patients), and acknowledgment and checking (use of repetitions and reformulations for feedback purposes). In addition, an overall comparative analysis of intercultural and Swedish medical consultations was done. Differences and similarities between male and female Swedish and non-Swedish physicians and male and female Swedish patients and personnel are discussed. The power relationship in intercultural medical consultations in which the physician is “weaker” and the patient “stronger” in terms of language competence was analyzed. Furthermore, by comparing “intercultural” communication (between the non-Swedish physicians and Swedish patients) to “monocultural” communication (between Swedish physicians and Swedish patients), some insight into Swedish culture and communication patterns was gained. The work concludes with some ideas for teaching and training developed on the basis of the findings of the thesis.
IS THE DESIRE OF FUTURE M&A INVOLVEMENT PRICED IN A FIRM ITS IPO?

This paper applies the ex-ante valuation uncertainty theory to investigate whether post-IPO M&A activity could be a factor of uncertainty that can explain deviations in IPO underpricing. Consistent with previous IPO literature, I document that a substantial number of IPO firms engage in subsequent company transactions on the buy or sell side. In my observations, acquirers have on average higher underpricing than non-acquiring companies. Including multiple factors in a regression model provides a different perspective on the level of underpricing in my observations. The multivariate results suggests that the first-day returns is only significantly influenced by the acquisition characteristic for firms that acquire within one year after their IPO. Firms that belong in other categories of M&A activity do not indicate to affect the level of underpricing. An inversed relationship between IPO underpricing and subsequent M&A activity described in previous literature provides only little explanation for the insignificant regression coefficients.
The impact of a controlled 10-week pistachio feeding crossover trial on blood lipids and measures of adiposity

TITLE: The impact of a controlled 10-week pistachio feeding crossover trial on blood lipids and measures of adiposity AUTHOR: iv ABSTRACT The impact of a controlled 10-week pistachio feeding crossover trial on blood lipids and measures of adiposity Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States and has negative impacts at both the individual-and population-level through reduced quality of life, economic burden, and strain on the healthcare system. Dietary modifications, such as pistachio consumption, may help prevent CVD and two of its leading risk factors: dyslipidemia and overweight/obesity. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of pistachio consumption (20% daily energy need) on measures of adiposity and blood lipids in healthy young adult females. This study utilized 10-week crossover feeding trials at California (CP-P). Participants (n=48, mean age 21 ± 0.51 years) served as their own controls. Mean body mass index (BMI) was 21.9 ± 2.32 kg/m 2 and mean total cholesterol (TC) was 155.0 ± 27.7 mg/dL. Pistachio diet participants consumed 20% of their daily energy needs of pistachios each day, whereas control diet participants maintained their usual diet without consuming nuts. The two diet treatments were separated by a 15-week washout period during which all participants resumed their usual diets. No significant differences were found between diet treatments for triacylglycerols (TAG) (p=0.6), TC (p=0.5), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) (p=0.4), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) (p=0.9), TC/HDL-C (p=0.7), body weight (p=0.8), BMI (p=0.9), waist circumference (WC) (p=0.4), or total body fat percentage (p=0.9). Likewise, no significant differences were found during the pistachio treatment or during the control treatment for any measured variable. Strengths of this study were the crossover design, utilization of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) for precise body composition measurements, and the use of individually measured bags of pistachios to help with compliance. Limitations of the study included the relatively small sample size and short intervention period. Pistachio supplementation was not associated with significant changes in measures of adiposity or the lipid profile. Longer interventions with more participants are needed to test the long-term effects of pistachio consumption with greater power to detect differences. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Market Reactions Following Corporate Governance Rating Changes: Evidence from the Istanbul Stock Exchange

This study investigates the market reaction to the increases and decreases in corporate governance ratings of public firms quoted at the Borsa Istanbul, as well as the market reaction to the increases and decreases in the scores for the subcomponents of the total ratings. The findings suggest that investors react negatively to the announcements of decreases in the overall corporate governance ratings and the scores for the four subcomponents. On the other hand, the findings surprisingly suggest that investors also react negatively to the announcements of increases in the overall corporate governance ratings and the scores for the subcomponents of these ratings. These findings contradict the expectation that investors would value improvements in governance ratings highly based on the assumption that increases in these ratings would imply improved corporate governance that would lead to decreased agency costs and therefore, increased firm value. The findings are robust to various econometric specifications and tests.
Admission to acute hospitals for injuries as a result of road traffic collisions in Ireland, 2005-2009

The World Health Organization (WHO) cites that as many as 50 million people are injured or disabled in road traffic collisions (RTCs) each year. The Road Safety Authority (RSA) reported in 2008 that while road deaths were at the lowest level since records began in 1959; there was an increase in reported injury collisions in 2008. Internationally, statistics on injuries resulting from RTCs are under-estimated in many countries. The RSA acknowledges that this is also true for Ireland, despite increased efforts by An Garda Siochana to report on these injuries. To date, no other sources of data, for example, hospital attendances or insurance data have been published to provide information on the level of injuries. Consequently, the aims of this study were: i. To profile and analyse trends in inpatient care in acute hospitals in Ireland for road traffic injuries for the years 2005-2009, ii. To compare these data with data published by the RSA for 2005-2009 and, iii. To profile trends in the ratio of hospitalised road users to fatally injured road users, 2005-2009, and iv. To calculate the associated hospital costs for the years 2005-2008.
The Effects of Non-Big 4 Mergers on Audit Efficiency and Audit Market Competition

Regulators and economists are often concerned with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) because of their potential to reduce competition by decreasing the number of suppliers and consolidating market share. However, Stigler (1955) points out that in certain situations, mergers may increase competition even when they raise concentration and reduce an already small number of suppliers. This situation may arise when smaller firms are relatively inefficient and can only reasonably compete with larger rivals by merging. In this study, I examine whether mergers between small and midsize accounting firms influence audit market competition by increasing the number of firms that can efficiently compete for public clients. Using a proprietary dataset provided by the PCAOB, I find evidence that in-market mergers (involving auditors that operate in the same geographic market) generate efficiencies that are reflected in a post- merger reduction in audit hours but not audit quality. Mergers benefit clients because cost-savings are passed on to clients in the form of lower prices rather than captured as economic rents. In contrast, I find no evidence of efficiencies resulting from out-of-market mergers, suggesting that it may be difficult to create synergies when auditors do not have overlapping operations. Collectively, these findings suggest that in-market mergers create efficiencies and bring new aggressive competition to the U.S. public- company audit market.
Internet Auctions

Internet auctions are common in nearly all consumer categories. Hence, it is not surprising that a great deal of research has emerged on the topic in recent years. New design and format considerations and a wealth of available data from various platforms provide new questions and promising research opportunities for marketing researchers. This monograph begins with the introduction of the basic settings, concepts, and processes that are the building blocks of auction research. It then focuses on the transition from pre-Internet auction research to more recent topics. Special attention is given to research opportunities as well as to experimental methods that can provide both laboratory and field data to answer important questions. The survey reviews recent empirical and theoretical works on Internet auctions with a focus on Internet auction design, formats, and features that are currently debated in the marketing literature. Some of these issues are extensions of general auction topics, but the findings can be quite different in Internet environments. We touch on new design features that are particularly relevant to Internet auctions such as feedback ratings, buy-it-now options, and different closing rules. We also look at strategic and behavioral models that are shaping marketing research on Internet auctions. Particular emphasis is given to behaviors that are relevant in offline environments but take on new meanings and forms in Internet auction environments.
The effect of nano-silica material and alkali resistant glass fibre on the OGFC asphalt mixture

ABSTRACT The main objective of this study is to improve the physical and mechanical properties of open-graded friction courses (OGFCs). Therefore, the combination of nano-silica (NS) material and alkali resistant (AR) glass fibre was used as additives. The effects of these materials were evaluated on the OGFC mixtures by laboratory tests including draindown, cantabro abrasion test, porosity, permeability, slip resistance, indirect tensile strength (ITS), moisture susceptibility (TSR) and dynamic creep tests. Draindown tests were conducted on different mixtures including 4% NS by weight of the asphalt binder, 0.1% and 0.2% AR-glass fibre by weight of the mix and 5.5% and 6.5% asphalt binders by weight of mix. The results showed that the combination of 4% NS material, 0.2% AR-glass fibre and 5.5% asphalt binder is suitable and reduces the draindown significantly. The test results showed that, while the use of this compound in OGFC led to a reduction of porosity by only about 12%, cohesion resistance, slip resistance, wet and dry ITS and rutting resistance of OGFC were increased by about 50%, 16%, 30% and 50%, respectively. Also, due to the relatively similar effects of this combination on the wet and dry ITS, the percentage of TSR increased by a very small amount (about 3%).
ANALISIS DETERMINAN FINANCIAL STATEMENT FRAUD DENGAN PERSPEKTIF FRAUD PENTAGON (Studi Empiris pada Perusahaan Manufaktur yang Terdaftar di BEI Tahun 2013-2017)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh bukti empiris tentang pengaruh determinan fraud pada fraud pentagon yaitu pressure yang terdiri dari financial stability, external pressure, dan financial target; opportunity yang terdiri dari ineffective monitoring, dan nature of industry; rationalization; competence; serta arrogance terhadap financial statement fraud pada perusahaan manufaktur yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia pada tahun 2013-2017. Sampel penelitian yang digunakan adalah sebanyak 103 perusahaan yang diperoleh dengan menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Analisis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis regresi linear berganda. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa financial stability yang diproksikan dengan rasio perubahan aset (ACHANGE), external pressure yang diproksikan dengan rasio leverage (LEV); opportunity yang terdiri dari ineffective monitoring yang diproksikan dengan rasio dewan komisaris independen (BDOUT), dan nature of industry yang diproksikan dengan rasio perubahan piutang (RECEIVABLE); competence yang diproksikan dengan change in director (DCHANGE); serta arrogance yang diproksikan dengan politisi CEO (POLCEO) dan frequent number of CEO’s picture (CEOPICT) terhadap financial statement fraud. tidak berpengaruh terhadap financial statement fraud. Sedangkan financial target yang diproksikan dengan return on assets (ROA) berpengaruh signifikan dengan arah negatif terhadap financial statement fraud, dan rationalization yang diproksikan dengan change in auditor (AUDCHANGE) berpengaruh positif terhadap financial statement frau
Rehabilitation Nursing for the Neurological Patient

We may not be able to make you love reading, but rehabilitation nursing for the neurological patient will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.
Do Monetary Policy Announcements Shift Household Expectations?

We use a decade of daily survey data from Gallup to study how monetary policy influences households' beliefs about economic conditions. We first document that public confidence in the state of the economy reacts instantaneously to certain types of macroeconomic news. Next, we show that surprises to the Federal Funds target rate are among the news that have statistically significant and instantaneous effects on economic confidence. Specifically, we find that a surprise increase in the target rate robustly leads to an immediate decline in household confidence, at odds with previous findings that suggest consumers are largely inattentive to economic developments. Monetary policy news about forward guidance and asset purchases does not have similarly clear and robust immediate effects on household beliefs. We document heterogeneity across demographics in the responsiveness of macroeconomic beliefs to aggregate news, and we relate our findings to existing evidence on informational rigidities.
Alzheimer's disease : a compendium of current theories

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing alzheimers disease a compendium of current theories as the reading material.