Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Detecting the process of blood coagulation and clot formation with high frequency ultrasound

High frequency ultrasounds, up to 50 MHz, were applied to assess changes of blood properties during coagulating and clotting. Experiments were performed using calcium chloride solution to induce the blood coagulation (BC) and clot formation (CF) in porcine whole blood of various hematocrits ranged from 25 to 55 %. The ultrasonic signals backscattered from the whole blood were digitized at a 500 MHz sampling frequency and collected for 30 minutes at one A-line per second temporal resolution. The corresponding M-mode images and integrated backscatters acquired from four transducers of different frequencies were processed to characterize blood properties. Two parameters, denoted as Sr and tc respectively in response to the rate of change and duration between the onset of blood coagulation and the end of clot formation, were derived from the integrated backscatter as a function of time to further evaluate the sensitivity and accuracy for measurements. Results showed that backscattered signals acquired from different frequencies and their relative analysis may be applied to effectively detect the process of BC and CF. In particular, measurements using high frequency ultrasound tended to exhibits a better sensitivity to detect the coagulation, with larger average Sr and shorter tc respectively corresponding to 0.23 dB/sec and 756 seconds measured from a hematocrit of 35 % using a 50 MHz transducer. The discrepancy between results of tc measured by different frequencies may be readily associated with the resultant size of the resolution cell of the transducer and the pulse duration. Both ultrasonic M-mode image and integrated backscatter in this study were validated to monitor the process of BC and CF and specifically with those quantitative parameters, Sr and tc. It enables a potential to further apply high frequency ultrasounds for early detecting BC and CF in clinical diagnoses.
DeteRmInatIon oF SenSoRy peRCeptIon anD motoR ReSponSe thReSholDS In DIFFeRent phaSeS oF the menStRual CyCle

objective: to identify the variation of sensory perception and motor response in the different phases of the menstrual cycle. method: thirty women aged 18 to 40 years old (23.7 ± 3.60), with body mass index between 18.5 and 25kg/m2 (21.15 ± 2.32) and menstrual cycle of 21-35 days, participated in this study. a pulse generator was used, with pulsed electric current frequency of 50hz and variable phases of 20 (l20), 50 (l50), 100 (l100), 300 (l300), 500 (l500), 1000 (l1000) and 3000μs (l3000). the threshold of sensory perception (tSp) was identified as the first sensation of increased current intensity and the threshold of motor response (tmR) as the minimum muscle contraction detected. Five collections were done, at each of the following phases: phase 1menstrual (p1), phase 2follicular (p2), phase 3ovulatory (p3), phase 4luteal (p4) and phase 5premenstrual (p5). the data analysis consisted of the Friedman test followed by the Rank test, carried out in the BioStat 4.0® software, with a significance level of 5%. Results: the tSp was lower in p5 than in the other menstrual phases, for the l20, l300, l500, l1000 and l3000 currents. For the tmR, there was difference in the l20, l50, l500 and l1000 currents between p5 and all other phases; in the l100 current, between p1 and p5; and in the l300 and l3000 currents for p1, p2 and p3 versus p5. Conclusions: the thresholds of sensory perception and motor response varied systematically through the phases of the menstrual cycle, thus influencing motor-sensory behavior.
Managing logistical supply chain drivers: A predictor of small township retailers’ odds of survival

Orientation: Formal independent small Sowetan retail businesses operate under challenging economic conditions that impede their ability to survive. However, the management of the logistical supply chain drivers can increase these small retailers’ odds of survival.Research purpose: To investigate whether the management of the logistical supply chain drivers can serve as a predictor of formal independent small Sowetan retail businesses’ odds of survival.Motivation for the study: Assisting formal independent small Sowetan retail businesses to integrate with local and formal supply chains, as well as increasing their odds of survival amidst the difficult economic conditions under which they operate.Research design, approach and method: A quantitative survey was conducted among 650 formal independent small Sowetan businesses, of which the responses of 556 retailers were analysed. Two binary logistic regression models were developed to determine whether the management of the logistical supply chain drivers could predict the small retailers’ odds of survival.Main findings: The results of two binary logistic regression models showed that the management of the three logistical supply chain drivers influences the odds of formal independent small Sowetan retail businesses surviving for 5 years or longer, as well as their odds of growing their annual income.Practical/managerial implications: Assisting policymakers when designing developmental initiatives for townships.Contribution/value-add: This study strives to assist formal independent small Sowetan retail businesses operating within a developing country to manage their logistical supply chain drivers to increase their odds of survival and contribute to the economic development of their country.
Interactions, convergences and interrelationships between Lean Accounting and Strategic Cost Management: a study in the Lean Production context

Resumo: O objetivo do artigo é identificar o uso de práticas da contabilidade enxuta (CE) no alinhamento com a gestão estratégica de custos (GEC) em empresas do segmento de bens industriais que adotam a produção enxuta. Trata-se de estudo multicaso realizado no 2o semestre de 2013. Os dados foram obtidos por meio de entrevistas, análise documental e observações in loco. A análise dos dados ocorreu qualitativa e comparativamente entre as empresas. Os principais resultados indicam que as empresas seguem utilizando os métodos tradicionais de custeio. Isso ocorre pois acreditam que métodos mais sofisticados não levam a uma maior precisão das informações, contrariando o enfatizado pela literatura. Da mesma forma, o uso de outras práticas da CE, tais como fluxo de valor e gerenciamento visual, são pouco utilizadas. Observou-se que a CE é uma filosofia convergente com a GEC. Algumas práticas se mostram alinhadas, tais como custo da qualidade, análise de custo logístico, análise de custo kaizen, análise da cadeia de valor, ABM (Gestão Baseada em Atividade – do inglês Activity Based Management) e BSC (Balanced Scorecard). Constatou-se que as práticas da contabilidade enxuta não interferem desfavoravelmente no uso de práticas da GEC. Enfim, as empresas mostram-se mais aderentes às práticas de produção enxuta do que propriamente à contabilidade enxuta, evidenciando uma carência em relação à literatura que trata do tema. Palavras-chave: Manufatura enxuta; Contabilidade enxuta; Gestão estratégica de custo. Abstract: This article aimed to identify the lean accounting (LA) practices aligned with the strategic cost management (SCM) in companies of the industrial goods sector that work with lean production. It is a study of multiple cases accomplished in the second half of 2013. Data were collected through interviews, document analysis and observations in loco. Data analysis was given in a qualitative and a comparative way among companies. The main findings indicate that the surveyed companies continue to use traditional costing methods because they don’t believe that more sophisticated methods will lead to a greater accuracy of information, contrary to the emphasized by the literature. In the same way, others LA practices, as value stream and visual management are less applied. It was observed that LA is a philosophy convergent with SCM. Some practices are shown to be aligned, as the quality cost, logistics cost analysis, kaizen cost analysis, value chain analysis, ABM (Activity Based Management) and BSC (Balanced Scorecard). We found that the practices of lean accounting do not unfavorably affect the use of SCM practices. Finally, companies are shown to joining lean production practices more than lean accounting itself, evidencing a gap in the literature on the subject.
Is it Just Luring Reported Profit? The Case of European Patent Boxes

Patent box regimes have become increasingly popular as an instrument to attract taxable income from intellectual property (IP). This paper assesses the quantitative impact of patent box regimes on profit shifting by multinational enterprises (MNEs). We proxy the ability to access the tax benefit of the patent box by historical IP ownership. On average, affiliates belonging to MNEs with historical IP ownership report, after the introduction of a patent box, 8.5 percent higher profit compared to their counterparts with no IP ownership. Patent boxes do not only lure reported profit. The pre-tax profit change is a net effect and thus also accounts for reversed internal debt shifting out of the country and productivity changes. The overall behavioral adjustments might lower corporate tax revenues. Further, the design of the patent box and the existence of a tax haven affiliate within an MNE turn out to be critical for the amount of profits shifted.
Non-pharmacological therapies for postpartum analgesia: a systematic review

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Abdominal and pelvic pain is a prevalent condition among women in the immediate postpartum period. Non-pharmacological therapies are of great importance for the treatment of this condition since they do not cause systemic side effects, such as drowsiness, irritability, and changes in the composition of breast milk. This article aims to identify and evaluate the efficacy of non-pharmacological analgesic therapies used in the immediate puerperium in abdominal-pelvic pain. CONTENTS: Searches were carried out in the main databases from September to October 2017 using the following descriptors “treatment” AND “pain” AND “postpartum”; “Treatment” AND “pain” AND “postpartum” AND “analgesics” AND “non-pharmacological”. Controlled and randomized clinical trials published between January 2007 and August 2017, in Portuguese, English, and Spanish were included. Of the 1737 studies found in the databases, 42 were selected by the title. According to the eligibility criteria, 13 studies were included. The total sample size of the studies ranged from 21 to 266. In the intervention groups, the sample ranged from 11 to 126 women who underwent cryotherapy, transcutaneous electrical stimulation, LASER, acupuncture and ear acupressure. CONCLUSION: Interventional practices such as transcutaneous electrical nervous stimulation and cryotherapy presented significant data relevant to the reduction of abdominal and pelvic pain. The techniques of acupuncture and ear acupressure still present inconclusive data. Despite the relief of perineal pain, laser therapy showed no statistically significant effect on pain relief when compared to the placebo group.
Paying for Banking Services: What Determines the Fees?

We analyze a unique dataset to test an empirical model of retail bank fee determinants in five Central European countries. Due to the data structure we can cope with heterogeneity and cross-subsidization by employing a representative fee index instead of using variables associated with individual fees. We find support for the Structure-Conduct-Performance hypothesis about the effect of industry concentration, the importance of differences in reliance on cashless payments, and differences in the labor intensity and technology level of bank operations. We also show that cross-country differences in retail bank fees can be explained by fundamental economic factors.
Chapter Fourteen. The Role Of Syllable Structure: The Case Of Russian-Speaking Children With SLI

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects language acquisition, while nonverbal IQ is within a normal range, and no neurological, sensory or physical impairments directly affect the use of spoken language. Two theories are most relevant for the study presented in this chapter. The chapter reports the study that tests the hypothesis of Marshall et al. regarding the role of syllable structure representation in SLI phonological impairment. The study shows that both phonological memory and syllable complexity play a role in determining children's ability to remember pseudo-words. The chapter explores whether syllable complexity crucially relies on sonority, a factor that has not been adequately considered in previous studies. The study was conducted with monolingual Russian-speaking children. The results reveal several suggestive patterns with respect to cluster simplification. Both TD children and children with SLI use the same strategy in simplification of onset clusters. Keywords: Russian-speaking children; Specific Language Impairment (SLI); syllable structure
The case of Canadian health care

Professions now operate in a more critical modern Western societal context. This has typically led to a major political challenge by the state to the self-regulation of such groups. It is argued, though, that the reasons for this are more complex than a knee-jerk reaction to the growing number of emerging professional scandals. Accordingly, tools are provided from a neo-Weberian perspective to analyse changes in state-profession relations — bringing state actors to the fore in a novel way. Their application is illustrated mainly through a case study of Canadian health profession regulation.
Efficiency of personalized content distribution

Services like telecommunication, messaging, radio/television broadcast, and Web browsing are increasingly using the same Internet Protocol (IP)-based transport technology. Converged IP next-generation networks (NGNs) will enable easier blending and personalization of those services. For popular content, technologies like caching, broadcasting, and multicasting aim to increase network efficiency but also introduce extra complexity and bandwidth overhead. Additionally, the sheer amount of available content and the increasing flexibility for the end user to request content at any time from any place make it increasingly difficult to determine content popularity in order to predict the efficiency of using content distribution techniques. This paper describes a model for wireless networks to use network characteristics and a prediction of the popularity distribution to calculate the optimal combination of unicast and broadcast techniques when offering a number of media channels to the end user. Furthermore, an approach is described to optimize personalized content distribution efficiency in converged IP NGN networks utilizing efficiency calculations with this model.
Early gastrointestinal complications of stem cell transplant - results of prospective study at IRCH, AIIMS, India.

BACKGROUND The study was conducted with the purpose of finding clinical profile of early gastrointestinal complications of stem cell transplant at this center. METHODS 70 consecutive subjects, who were subject to bone marrow transplant from October 2002 to September 2004, were prospectively studied. The gastrointestinal complications were followed in first 100 days of transplant and recorded in a pre-determined format. RESULTS Study population comprised of 23 allo-transplant (with 3-non-myelablative procedures) and 47 auto-transplant subjects. Gastrointestinal complications included: nausea and vomiting in 19 (82.60%), mucositis- 20 (86.95%), diarrhea- 15 (65.21%), veno-occlusive disease (VOD) - 3 (13.04%) and acute pancreatitis- 1 (4.34%) in allo-transplant group. Nausea and vomiting occurred 36 (76.59%), mucositis- 46 (97.88%) diarrhea- 39 (82.98%), VOD- 5 (10.64%) in auto- transplant subjects. Acute graft versus host disease (AGVHD) involved gut in 3 and liver in 1 case of allo-BMT-group.
Brief intervention applied to college students screened positive for at-risk alcohol consumption

Autor de correspondência: Wanda Cristina Sawicki E-mail: sawicki@unifesp.br / sawicki163@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5354-5667 * Artigo extraído da tese de doutorado “Qualidade de vida de graduandos de enfermagem e sua relação com o consumo de bebidas alcoólicas intervenção breve para prevenção do consumo excessivo de álcool” apresentada à Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 1 Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. Intervenção breve aplicada a universitários consumidores de risco de bebidas alcoólicas*
Pupil Dilation and Cognitive Reflection as Predictors of Performance on the Iowa Gambling Task

Risky decisions involve cognitive and emotional factors. As the primary test for the Somatic Marker Hypothesis (SMH), the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) examines these factors. Skin conductance shows anticipatory physiological responses on the IGT supporting SMH. Pupil dilation offers an alternative physiological marker. Predictive effects of anticipatory pupillary responses to positive and negative decks on IGT performance were examined in an extended IGT. The extended Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) examined the relationship between reflective thinking and IGT performance. Data demonstrated correlations between reflective thinking and performance from the second block onwards and that task learning continued into the additional blocks performance was not optimized even in the final block. Regression analysis showed both anticipatory pupil dilation for disadvantageous and advantageous decks, and reflective thinking were strong predictors of IGT performance. While both emotional and reflective processes are implicated in IGT performance, analytic cognition is more important than traditionally acknowledged.
Emergency and Growth of Passionfruit Following Different Seeding Dates and Stimulant Use, in Subtropical Autumn and Winter

The yellow passionfruit (Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa) is well adapted to tropical temperatures. Under subtropical conditions, winter temperatures limit its growth. Some treatments with biostimulants promote germination and seedling initial growth. The objective of this work was to evaluate emergency and growth of passionfruit seedlings under different seeding dates and seed treatments. Two stimulants were tested: gibberellic acid (GA) 1000 mg L-1 in water soaking and a stimulant (ST) composed of 90 mg L-1 kinetin, 50 mg L-1 gibberellic acid and 50 mg L-1 indolbutiric acid (IBA) applied without dilution (4 mL kg-1). Seeding dates were May 2, May 22, June 11 and July 2 for 2013 and 2014. Emergency in the ST treatment was similar to the control but was reduced by GA treatment. GA increased the time needed for the seeds to emerge. Seedling growth evaluated on September 15, in two years, was not significantly modified by any stimulant. Seeding dates did not influence emergency percentage, but in the two latest dates the emergence was slower. The later the sowing dates, the smaller the seedling growth, and the models fitted to the response were different according to the characteristics evaluated and the year.
Stalk yield and nutrients accumulation of sugarcane varieties in three crop cycles

Sugarcane nutritional requirement knowledge has great importance for an adequate crop management, since allows the selection of efficient varieties in the use of nutrients, contributing to a better use of fertilizers and reduction of production costs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the stalks yield and the accumulation of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sulfur (S), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu) and manganese (Mn) of aerial biomass of four sugarcane varieties, RB867515, RB92579, SP813250 and VAT90212 during the plant-cane, first and second regrowth cycles. The experimental design was a randomized block with four treatments and five replicates. The cane was harvested due to maturity in the three crop cycles. The stalks yield and the nutrient accumulation of the aerial part of the varieties were evaluated. The stems yield presented were 126, 102 and 86 t ha-1 for plant-cane, first and second regrowth, respectively. Plant-cane macronutrients accumulation average presented the following decreasing order: K > N > Ca > Mg > S > P, for regrowth the observed sequence was K > N > Ca > S > Mg > P. The varieties presented high productive potential, and similar nutrients accumulation in the three cycles.
FOR ILLICIT DRUG USERS : A REVIEW

Drug use-related disorders indicate a public health problem in many countries. Despite the high number of users in Brazil, there are gaps in the offering of specialized treatment for drug users. Web-based or computer-assisted interventions can facilitate access to interventions, but no research about this resource and its use with this specific population could be found in Brazil. To analyze, through an exploratory study, five randomized controlled clinical trials and two pilot trials for computer-delivered therapeutic interventions for illicit substance users. We included papers published between January 2014 and October2014 and were available on the PubMed, PsychInfo, Scielo and Lilacs databases. The computer-delivered interventions were directed towards adult cannabis, cocaine, opioids and benzodiazepine users that were undergoing treatment in a clinic or through the internet. Some interventions had a mediator or were self-guided, and most were brief interventions, based on cognitive behavioral therapy. The results indicate that this method of treatment is a promising alternative or complement to existing interventions for illicit drug users. Some of the observed indicators were a reduction of drug consumption compared to the control group, positive ratings of the computer-delivered sessions and positive therapeutic alliance scores.
Xanthones from Hypericum laricifolium Juss., and their antiproliferative activity against HEP3B cells

We describe here the isolation of 6 xanthones and one phenyl-γ-pyrone, together with 3-epibetulinic and quercetine from the aerial parts of Hypericum laricifolium Juss. (Hypericaceae), collected in Peru. Isolated compounds have been evaluated against proliferation of human hepatocellular carcinoma Hep3B cells. The most active compound was xanthone 3, with an inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 12 μM.