Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Wheat flour dough Alveograph characteristics predicted by Mixolab regression models.

BACKGROUND In Romania, the Alveograph is the most used device to evaluate the rheological properties of wheat flour dough, but lately the Mixolab device has begun to play an important role in the breadmaking industry. These two instruments are based on different principles but there are some correlations that can be found between the parameters determined by the Mixolab and the rheological properties of wheat dough measured with the Alveograph. RESULTS Statistical analysis on 80 wheat flour samples using the backward stepwise multiple regression method showed that Mixolab values using the ‘Chopin S’ protocol (40 samples) and ‘Chopin + ’ protocol (40 samples) can be used to elaborate predictive models for estimating the value of the rheological properties of wheat dough: baking strength (W), dough tenacity (P) and extensibility (L). The correlation analysis confirmed significant findings (P < 0.05 and P < 0.01) between the parameters of wheat dough studied by the Mixolab and its rheological properties measured with the Alveograph. CONCLUSION A number of six predictive linear equations were obtained. Linear regression models gave multiple regression coefficients with R²(adjusted) > 0.70 for P, R²(adjusted) > 0.70 for W and R²(adjusted) > 0.38 for L, at a 95% confidence interval.
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics

Measuring the relative likelihood of fatal crash involvement for different types of drivers would seem to require information on both the number of fatal crashes by driver type and the fraction of drivers on the road falling into each category. In this paper, however, we present a methodology for measuring fatal crash likelihood that relies solely on fatal crash data. The key to our identification strategy is the hidden richness inherent to two-car crashes. Crashes involving two drinking drivers are proportional to the square of the number of drinking drivers on the road; crashes with one drinking and one sober driver increase linearly in the number of drinking drivers. Imposing a limited set of assumptions (e.g. independence across crashes, equal mixing on the roads), we are able to estimate both the likelihood of causing a fatal crash and the fraction of drivers of each type on the road. Our estimates suggest that drivers with alcohol in their blood are at least eight times more likely to cause a fatal crash; legally drunk drivers pose a risk at least 15 times greater than sober drivers. Males, young drivers, and drivers with bad past driving records are all more dangerous, but the impact of these other factors is far less than that of alcohol.
Why not comply with information security? An empirical approach for the causes of non-compliance

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the negative casual relationships between organizational security factors (security systems, security education, and security visibility) and individual non-compliance causes (work impediment, security system anxiety, and non-compliance behaviors of peers), which have negative influences on compliance intention. Design/methodology/approach Based on literature review, the authors propose a research model together with hypotheses. The survey questionnaires were developed to collect data, which then validated the measurement model. The authors collected 415 responses from employees at manufacturing and service firms that had already implemented security policies. The hypothesized relationships were tested using the structural equation model approach with AMOS 18.0. Findings Survey results validate that work impediment, security system anxiety, and non-compliance peer behaviors are the causes of employee non-compliance. In addition, the authors found that security systems, security education, and security visibility decrease instances of non-compliance. Research limitations/implications Organizations should establish a mixture of security investment in their systems, education, and visibility in order to effectively reduce employees’ non-compliance. In addition, organizations should recognize the importance of minimizing the particular causes of employees’ non-compliance to positively increase intentions to comply with information security. Originality/value An important issue in information security management is employee compliance. Understanding the reasons behind employees’ non-compliance is a critical issue. This paper investigates empirically why employees do not comply, and how organizations can induce employees to comply by a mixture of investments in security systems, education, and visibility.
Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Angiography and Exposure to Iodinated Contrast Media

A 75-year-old female patient with a history of chronic kidney disease stage IV, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension and dyslipidemia presented to an outside hospital with a 3-day history of substernal chest pain that radiated to her jaw and the left side of her back. An electrocardiogram showed a slight ST elevation in the anterior leads, so she was subsequently transferred to our hospital. Before transfer, she received ticagrelor, aspirin and heparin. Her medications before the transfer included losartan, hydrochlorothiazide, simvastatin, acetylsalicylic acid and insulin. On admission to our hospital, she was awake and alert, with a blood pressure of 160/77, a heart rate of 82, and an oxygen saturation of 97% on room air. She was found to have a serum creatinine of 1.96 (baseline 1.9–2.5 over the past year) that correlated with an eGFR of 25 ml/min. Her sodium and potassium concentrations were 138 mEq/l and 4.2 mEq/l respectively. Her troponin I was 1.6. The diagnosis of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction prompted the initiation of an emergent cardiac catheterization. She underwent revascularization with drug-eluting stents. During the procedure, 100 ml of low osmolar contrast (Isovue 370, Bracco Diagnostics Inc., Princeton, NJ) was used. She was stable post-procedure. A nephrology consult was requested to help manage a potential contrast-induced acute kidney injury. Post catheterization, the patient appeared to be slightly volume overloaded with bibasilar rales and bilateral 2+ lower extremity edema. She received 1 dose of intravenous furosemide post-procedure and produced more than 1 L of urine output. The patient was otherwise stable hemodynamically, with a minimal supplemental oxygen requirement. Losartan and hydrochlorothiazide were held. Eighteen hours after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), her serum creatinine was 2.24 mg/dl; it had increased to 3.34mg/dl at 42 hours. Her urine output decreased from 2900 ml in the first day of admission to 300 ml in the next day. Furosemide 40 mg oral 2 times daily was started on day 2 of admission, but the patient had no increase in urine output. Her weight was stable. Her serum creatinine peaked at 65 hours post-PCI at 3.36 mg/ dl (Figure 1). Clinically, the patient was hemodynamically stable. The patient was discharged on the same day on a low-sodium diet. A follow-up serum creatinine 4 days later was 2.56 mg/dl. From Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT. Address for correspondence: Richard Solomon, MD, Director, Division of Nephrology, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT, 05401. Email: richard.solomon@vtmednet.org. Disclosures: Dr. Solomon is a consultant/advisor to Bracco Diagnostics, Inc., PLC Med, Inc., and MDSci Inc. He receives honoraria from Guerbet and research grants from REATA Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, MDSci, Inc., and Medtronic.
Liver volume variation in patients with virus-induced cirrhosis: findings on MDCT.

OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to establish a standard liver volume formula and explore the correlation between hepatic lobe variations in patients with virus-induced cirrhosis and the severity of disease by measuring the volume of the whole liver, the left lateral segment, and the caudate lobe using 16-MDCT. MATERIALS AND METHODS The volume and per-body surface area (BSA) volume of the whole liver, the left lateral segment, and the caudate lobe were calculated in 113 patients with normal livers and 101 patients with virus-induced cirrhosis who underwent volume CT. The proportion of the left lateral segment volume and the proportion of the caudate lobe volume to the total liver volume, the volume index, and the volume change ratio were also calculated, and these data were grouped by Child-Pugh classification and compared. The standard liver volume formula was constructed from body weight and body height or from BSA. RESULTS There was a positive correlation between liver volume (LV) and body height, body weight (BW) [LV (cm3) = 12.90 x BW (kg) + 437.91], and BSA [LV (cm3) = 882.08 x BSA (m2) - 308.12]. The total mean +/- standard error (SE) liver volume of the control group was 1,222.76 +/- 216.96 cm3. The mean volumes of the whole liver and of the left lateral segment were 798.01 +/- 203.64 and 213.04 +/- 74.84 cm3, respectively, for Child-Pugh class C patients, which was significantly smaller than those values for Child-Pugh class A and B patients (p < 0.05). The mean volume of the caudate lobe was 36.83 +/- 22.11 cm3 for Child-Pugh class A patients, which is significantly larger than those values for Child-Pugh class B and C patients (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION CT-measured liver volume and standard liver volume formulas were helpful in evaluating liver volume variations. Enlargement of the left lateral segment was absolute in Child-Pugh class A and B patients, but was relative in Child-Pugh class C patients; enlargement of the caudate lobe was absolute in Child-Pugh class A patients, but was relative in Child-Pugh class B and C patients.
The Economic Consequences of Disclosure Regulation: Evidence from Online Disclosure of Corporate Governance Practices in U.S. and Canadian Markets

Following numerous accounting and financial scandals, there has been a trend on the part of regulatory bodies to encourage wider disclosure of corporate governance practices (CGP). In USA, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) requires public disclosure, via corporate investor relations websites, of specific information relating to governance practices. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved corporate governance rules require companies with listed securities on the New York Stock Exchange to disclose corporate governance practices on their websites (NYSE, 2003). In contrast, the use of the Internet to disclose CGP is still voluntary in Canada. The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) requires listed companies to comply or explain with the corporate governance practices' (SCGP) guidelines only in the annual report or in the proxy circular. In this unique setting, I provide evidence that online disclosure of corporate governance practices differs between the United States (U.S.) and Canada, two otherwise similar business environments with different legal regimes. I find that the extent of corporate governance practices disclosures is higher in the U.S relative Canada suggesting that regulation force firms to maintain a higher level of transparency. Further, I find that the association between the extent of disclosure of governance practices on corporate website and stock liquidity is more significant in the US market. These findings are consistent with the externalities justifications of disclosure regulation. This study contributes to the debate on the economic consequences of disclosure regulation.
Sequestosome 1/p62 links familial ALS mutant SOD1 to LC3 via an ubiquitin‐independent mechanism

The p62/sequestosome 1 protein has been identified as a component of pathological protein inclusions in neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). P62 has also been implicated in autophagy, a process of mass degradation of intracellular proteins and organelles. Autophagy is a critical pathway for degrading misfolded and/or damaged proteins, including the copper‐zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) mutants linked to familial ALS. We previously reported that p62 interacted with ALS mutants of SOD1 and that the ubiquitin‐association domain of p62 was dispensable for the interaction. In this study, we identified two distinct regions of p62 that were essential to its binding to mutant SOD1: the N‐terminal Phox and Bem1 (PB1) domain (residues 1–104) and a separate internal region (residues 178–224) termed here as SOD1 mutant interaction region (SMIR). The PB1 domain is required for appropriate oligomeric status of p62 and the SMIR is the actual region interacting with mutant SOD1. Within the SMIR, the conserved W184, H190 and positively charged R183, R186, K187, and K189 residues are critical to the p62–mutant SOD1 interaction as substitution of these residues with alanine resulted in significantly abolished binding. In addition, SMIR and the p62 sequence responsible for the interaction with LC3, a protein essential for autophagy activation, are independent of each other. In cells lacking p62, the existence of mutant SOD1 in acidic autolysosomes decreased, suggesting that p62 can function as an adaptor between mutant SOD1 and the autophagy machinery. This study provides a novel molecular mechanism by which mutant SOD1 can be recognized by p62 in an ubiquitin‐independent fashion and targeted for the autophagy–lysosome degradation pathway.
Landscape genetics of an endangered lemur (Propithecus tattersalli) within its entire fragmented range

Habitat fragmentation may strongly reduce individuals’ dispersal among resource patches and hence influence population distribution and persistence. We studied the impact of landscape heterogeneity on the dispersal of the golden‐crowned sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli), an endangered social lemur species living in a restricted and highly fragmented landscape. We combined spatial analysis and population genetics methods to describe population units and identify the environmental factors which best predict the rates and patterns of genetic differentiation within and between populations. We used non‐invasive methods to genotype 230 individuals at 13 microsatellites in all the main forest fragments of its entire distribution area. Our analyses suggest that the Manankolana River and geographical distance are the primary structuring factors, while a national road crossing the region does not seem to impede gene flow. Altogether, our results are in agreement with a limited influence of forest habitat connectivity on gene flow patterns (except for North of the species’ range), suggesting that dispersal is still possible today among most forest patches for this species. Within forest patches, we find that dispersal is mainly among neighbouring social groups, hence confirming previous behavioural observations.
Personal profile of the beneficiaries of KVKs.

The development of agriculture is an integral part of economic development of country. Generally, development of agriculture requires resources, well approachable system which collects the technical message from the research station and disseminates to grass root level and should work to eliminate the constraints. In these views government of India had launched various agricultural developmental projects, programme and schemes. In that the KVK, one of the important organization which works at the district level. KVK is the training centre which knows how to transfer the technologies to grass root level; how to act as source and compile feedback for technology refinement and help to buildup the confidence in the farming community. It was observed that the KVKs are playing key role in technology transfer and success of those technologies. The present investigation was conducted in adopted villages of KVKs Vyara and Ambeti of Gujarat in the year 2010-11. An ex-post facto design was adopted for this study. Total 200 respondents were selected from 10 adopted villages. The study stated that, by and large majority beneficiaries of KVKs were in middle age groups, primary level of education, small land holding, annual income between Rs. 50,001 to Rs. 1,00,000, medium family size, membership in one organization, frequently assessed the information, medium level of farming experience, medium level of innovativeness, medium level of knowledge about recommended agricultural practices, medium level of adoption about recommended agricultural practices, favourable attitude towards KVK activities, medium level of modernization and medium decision making ability.
Predicting Foreign Bank Exits? A Logit and Probit Regression Approach

This paper describes the trends in foreign bank ownership across the world and presents, for the first time, empirical evidence on the causes of multinational banks’ withdrawal from other countries. Using maximum likelihood estimation techniques and data on 81 closed foreign bank subsidiaries across 37 countries during 1999-2006, we show that problems encountered by the subsidiaries were not the main cause of divestment by the parent banks. Based on data for the parent banks of the closed subsidiaries, our results show that those banks reported significant financial weakness one year prior to the closing of the international operation. We therefore assume that a multinational bank’s decision to close a subsidiary in another nation is caused by problems in the home country rather than by weak performance of the subsidiary.
Vasovagal Fainting: A Diphasic Response

&NA; Vasovagal (vasodepressor) fainting was studied in three different situations: in persons donating blood, in persons having a simple venipuncture, and in patients undergoing pneumoencephalography. Ten faints were observed in the first situation, 7 in the second and 6 in the third. In all instances, the faint itself, characterized by low blood pressure and bradycardia, was the second phase of a diphasic response; the first phase was characterized by rapid or rising heart rate, and by rising blood pressure, especially diastolic. The data are compatible with the view that the first (hyperdynamic) phase is a reflection of anxiety, while the second phase begins with the sudden cessation of anxiety. It is suggested that physiologically the faint reflects the action of reflex mechanisms activated by the first phase, and then left suddenly unopposed. The other psychobiological interpretations exhibit inconsistencies because they fail to recognize the diphasic nature of this response. Fainting and dying resemble each other closely, and there is reason to think that some vasovagal faints are fatal. Cardiac asystole is not rare in faints and is often associated with convulsions. Apnea was observed in 2 of our subjects. Disturbances of cardiac rhythm, including A. V. nodal rhythm, interference dissociation, and asystole (in 1 instance for 18 sec.) were observed. Generalized convulsions were seen on four occasions, always in association with asystole.
Internal key factors in export performance

Purpose – This is the first part of two papers which examine the Italian and Spanish textile‐clothing sector The purpose of this paper is to analyse the key factors in the international performance of textile manufacturing companies.Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a comparative study of the main factors that have affected the export performance of the Spanish and Italian businesses. A wide range of factors has been studied, such as size, dispersion of sales and export experience. In order to compare Spanish and Italian cases, the empirical study used a standardized questionnaire for collecting data. The cases analysed were respective geographical zones with a great tradition in textile‐clothing industry in their country, Catalonian (in the Spanish case) and Lombardian business (in the Italian case). Findings – It was found that international experience is the main factor in the export performance for both cases but the investment in R&D and the export experience have been the keys for expl.
Néel transition and sublattice magnetization of pure and doped La2CuO4.

We have measured the sublattice magnetization of stoichiometric La{sub 2}CuO{sub 4} ({ital T}{sub {ital N}}=325 K) and La{sub 2}Cu{sub 0.95}Zn{sub 0.05}O{sub 4} ({ital T}{sub {ital N}}=157 K). We discuss the data for La{sub 2}CuO{sub 4} and other lamellar copper oxides in terms of the quantum Heisenberg model including weak {ital XY} anisotropy and interlayer coupling. Spin-wave theory and a generalized Schwinger-boson mean-field theory are used to predict the ordered moment as a function of temperature without adjustable parameters. We also discuss the influence of different dopants on the Neel temperature and sublattice magnetization.
Thyroid functions in pre-eclampsia and its correlation with maternal age, parity, severity of blood pressure and serum albumin.

Maternal thyroid function was investigated in 32 pre-eclamptic women and 10 normal pregnant women in their third trimester. Serum total tri-iodothyronine (TT3) and total thyroxine (TT4) were decreased significantly (P < 0.001) and TSH was increased significantly (P < .001) in pre-eclampsia as compared to normal pregnancy. There was no influence of parity and maternal age on thyroid functions. TT3 and TT4 decreased significantly (P < .001) with increase of serum albumin, while there was no correlation of TT4 with serum albumin.
Performance of collaborative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio in the presence of gaussian channel estimation errors

The performance of collaborative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio in a lognormal shadowing and Rayleigh fading channel is investigated. Unlike previous works that assume perfect knowledge of the average channel signal-to-noise ratio, this paper considers the realistic case where estimation of the average channel signal-to-noise ratio has error. Furthermore, while previous works have designed and examined estimators based on assuming that the channel samples used in the average signal-to-noise ratio estimators are noiseless, the present work assumes that the channel samples are noisy, as is the case in practical systems. Numerical results show that the probability of missed opportunity decreases as the estimation error decreases, as expected. Perhaps unexpectedly, the results also show that in the presence of noise, there exists a threshold phenomenon for the noise level. Below a particular threshold, the probability of missed opportunity increases as the noise level increases. Yet above this threshold, the probability of missed opportunity decreases as the noise level increases.
Why Do Firms Train? Empirical Evidence on the First Labor Market Outcomes of Graduated Apprentices

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Our Paper contributes to the ongoing debate as to why firms are willing to invest in such training even though many apprentices will leave the training firm soon after completion of the apprenticeship. A particular advantage over previous empirical studies is that we use German register data, the IAB Employment Sample, which gives us a large sample size, and which gives us detailed information on occupations. We find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have (1) higher wages and (2) longer first-job durations than apprentices leaving the training firm. These results support theories according to which firms use the apprenticeship system to select and retain the more able apprentices, thereby recouping the costs of investing in skills that are portable in principle.
Animal Welfare and Meat Science

Animal welfare and the meat market livestock presentation and welfare before slaughter solving livestock handling problems in slaughter plants physiology of stress, distress, stunning and slaughter muscle structure, exercise and metabolism post-mortem muscle metabolism and meat quality cattle sheep pigs poultry fish processed meats stunning and slaughter stunning and meat quality caring for animals and for quality.