Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Establishing Centers to Address Treatment Effectiveness in Diverse Ethnic Groups: The MEDTEP Experience

Objective. To investigate racial ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes amenable to improvement through more effective delivery of health care services. Design. The Medical Treatment Effectiveness Program (MEDTEP) Research Centers on Minority Populations were a group of centers in the USA funded to improve the effectiveness of medical diagnosis and treatment to provide technical assistance to ethnic minority health researchers to train new researchers and to disseminate information to help ethnic minority patients and their health care providers. Results. Centers often provided many specific findings related to assessment of the magnitude of disparities in health outcomes and to approaches for eliminating these outcomes. The Centers were able to build community partnerships using an approach now defined as community-based participatory research. Centers changed the culture of their institutions by making them more aware of the need to train diverse investigators and do more to eliminate health disparities. Conclusions. A key to the success of the Centers has been the unification of a cadre of committed investigators dedicated to the mentoring of minority health researchers and to the elimination of ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health. The MEDTEP Centers provide a model but there remains a need for continued work.
Anterior Femoral Stapling

Knee flexion deformity has an adverse effect on stride length and cadence, resulting in an inefficient and often uncomfortable gait. The purpose of this study was to introduce anterior stapling of the distal femur as a method to treat mild to moderate fixed flexion deformity of the knee. The authors undertook stapling in 28 patients (47 knees) with flexion deformities resulting from a variety of underlying conditions, including spina bifida, cerebral palsy, SCIWORA, and skeletal dysplasia. The preoperative clinical evaluation included assessment of hamstring contracture, fixed knee flexion deformity, and gait pattern. The technique is minimally invasive, requires no immobilization, and allows immediate resumption of bracing and physical therapy as needed. Preoperative fixed flexion deformities were typically 10°–25° (maximum 45°), decreasing to 0°–11° after surgery. Except for one patient who extruded a staple within the first postoperative month, there were no complications. The authors conclude that stapling is well tolerated and provides an excellent alternative to osteotomy in the immature patient by allowing gradual correction of fixed flexion deformities via growth manipulation.
DCASE 2016 Acoustic Scene Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks

This workshop paper presents our contribution for the acoustic scene classification (ASC) task proposed for the “detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events” (DCASE) 2016 challenge. We propose the use of a convolutional neural network trained to classify short sequences of audio, represented by their log-mel spectrogram. We also propose a training method that can be used when the system validation performance saturates as the training proceeds. The system is evaluated on the public ASC development dataset provided for the DCASE 2016 challenge. The best accuracy score obtained by our system on a four-fold cross-validation setup is 79.0% which constitutes a 8.8% relative improvement with respect to the baseline system.
Analysis of the Influencing Factors on the Farmers’ Take-up of Greenhouse Agricultural Insurance Cover: A Case Study

The purpose of this study is to analyse the insurance claims and insurance intentions of the farmers who are engaged in greenhouse cultivation and to determine the influencing factors affecting the insurance process. Various methods were used in the study since results obtained from one source were deemed insufficient in explaining the insurance behaviours of farmers. These included a survey, interview, document analysis and a literature review. The survey data was analysed using basic statistics and ANOVA. Findings indicate that that the intention of the farmers to take an greenhouse agricultural insurance coverage is not influenced by factors relating to the experience of previous damages, positivity, reason, and facilitation. However, it is influenced by factors relating to the farmersâ€™ attitude and the obstacles they face. The most prominent influential factors preventing farmers from purchasing agriculture insurance are physical problems (1) derived from insufficient resources, (2) property and deed-title issues in greenhouse areas and (3) the problems regarding damage payments. It is emphasised that insurance-related problems can be solved by a macro-scale agricultural reform and communication between the relative parties. These findings can be used as a tool in policy development by farmers, insurance institutions and related government institutions.
The First Billion Years project: the impact of stellar radiation on the co-evolution of Populations II and III

With the first metal enrichment by Population (Pop) III supernovae (SNe), the formation of the first metal-enriched, Pop II stars becomes possible. In turn, Pop III star formation and early metal enrichment are slowed by the high energy radiation emitted by Pop II stars. Thus, through the SNe and radiation they produce, Populations II and III coevolve in the early Universe, one regulated by the other. We present large (4 Mpc) 3 , high resolution cosmological simulations in which we self-consistently model early metal enrichment and the stellar radiation responsible for the destruction of the coolants (H2 and HD) required for Pop III star formation. We find that the moleculedissociating stellar radiation produced both locally and over cosmological distances reduces the Pop III star formation rate (SFR) at z > 10 by up to an order of magnitude, to a rate per comoving volume of < 10 −4 M⊙ yr −1 Mpc −3 , compared to the case in which this radiation is not included. However, we find that the effect of LW feedback is to enhance the amount of Pop II star formation. We attribute this to the reduced rate at which gas is blown out of dark matter haloes by SNe in the simulation with LW feedback, which results in larger reservoirs for metal-enriched star formation. Even accounting for metal enrichment, molecule-dissociating radiation and the strong suppression of low-mass galaxy formation due to reionization at z < 10, we find that Pop III stars are still formed at a rate of » 10 −5 M⊙ yr −1 Mpc −3 down to z » 6. This suggests that the majority of primordial pair-instability SNe that may be uncovered in future surveys will be found at z < 10. We also find that the molecule-dissociating radiation emitted from Pop II stars may destroy H2 molecules at a high enough rate to suppress gas cooling and allow for the formation of supermassive primordial stars which collapse to form » 10 5 M⊙ black holes.
Investigating influencers of employee engagement in travel agents in Egypt

ABSTRACT Employee engagement (EE) is a relatively recent concept, with revealed organizational interests, yet, little is studied about its antecedents and consequences in the tourism field. This paper investigates the main drivers of EE in Egyptian travel agents and explores its influences on their performance. Using a questionnaire, the collected data were analysed by structural equation modelling. The findings indicated that work environment, rewarding and recognition, learning and development and leadership are the key drivers of EE, which has a significant relationship with travel agents’ performance. This study provides valuable contributions for tourism authorities in Egypt by providing insight into how EE is predicted. It also adds to the few studies that have explored EE in the tourism industry.
Efficacy and toxicity of compassionate ibrutinib use in relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia in Poland: analysis of the Polish Adult Leukemia Group (PALG)

El_ zbieta Iskierka-Ja_ zd_ zewska, Marek Hus, Krzysztof Giannopoulos, El_ zbieta Mądro, Jadwiga Hołojda, Magdalena Piotrowska, Jan M. Zaucha, Weronika Piszczek, Agnieszka Szeremet, Małgorzata Wojciechowska, Paweł Steckiewicz, Wanda Knopi nska-Posłuszny, Marek Osowiecki, Joanna Drozd-Sokołowska, Beata Kumiega, Sławomira Kyrcz-Krzemie n, Janusz Hałka, Marek Dudzi nski, Paulina Wieszczy, Tadeusz Robak, Krzysztof Warzocha and Krzysztof Jamroziak Department of Hematology, Medical University of Lodz, Copernicus Memorial Hospital, Lodz, Poland; Department of Haematooncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland; Experimental Hematooncology Department, Medical University of Lublin & Hematology Department, St. John's Cancer Center, Lublin, Poland; Department of Hematology, Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Hematology, Specialist District Hospital, Legnica, Poland; Department of Hematology, Cracow University Hospital, Cracow, Poland; Department of Oncological Propaedeutics, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland & Gdynia Oncology Center, Gdynia, Poland; Department of Hematology, Copernicus Hospital, Torun, Poland; Department of Hematology, Blood Neoplasms and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland; Department of Hematology, Specialist District Hospital, Olsztyn, Poland; Department of Hematology, Holycross Cancer Center, Kielce, Poland; Department of Hematology, Independent Public Health Care of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs with the Oncology Centre, Olsztyn, Poland; Department of Lymphoid Malignancies, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Institute and Oncology Centre, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Hematology, Oncology and Internal Diseases, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Haematooncology, Oncology Centre of the Podkarpackie Province, Brzozow, Poland; Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Silesian Medical University Hospital SPSKM, Katowice, Poland; Department of Hematology, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Hematology, Specialist District Hospital, Rzeszow, Poland; Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Oncology, Medical Center for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland
Social inclusion of landless farmers in extension services in delta state, Nigeria: implications for agricultural development

Abstract This study considered the level of inclusion of landless farmers in extension services in Delta State, Nigeria. A sample size of 355 landless farmers who were randomly selected formed the respondents used for this study. The results show that they had a mean age of 45 years and were mostly females who were also mostly married with little level of formal education as their highest level of formal education was secondary education. They had a mean household size of 7 persons and average farming experience of 11.5 years with mean farm size of 2 ha and very many of them did not subscribe to farmer’s groups. They were mostly (70.70%) indigenes of the communities where they resided. Their level of social inclusion in agricultural extension benefits was poor (inclusion index = 0.45). They had an average crop output of 9000kg annually. Their level of social inclusion in agricultural extension services influenced their level of outputs. Their level of social inclusion was significantly influenced by their socioeconomic attributes of age, gender, marital status, and level of formal education, household size, farming experiences, group membership and indigene status. It was concluded that the landless farmers were socially excluded from agricultural extension services. It is recommended that extension agents should change their attitudes towards this class of farmers; and extension agents should persuasively convince the farmers to subscribe to membership of their relevant farmers’ groups
In vitro Free Radical Scavenging and Brine Shrimp Lethality Bioassay of Aqueous Extract of Ficus racemosa Seed

The present work was accomplished to explore the free radical scavenging and cytotoxic potential of the freeze-dried aqueous extract of Ficus racemosa seed using 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), and brine shrimp lethality bioassay method. In both methods, F. racemosa showed a significant activity. In case of free radical scavenging activity, it showed a potent radical scavenging activity with IC 50 value of 22.10 μg/ml. The cytotoxic activity of the extract was moderate having LC50 value of 4.04 μg/ml.
Clinicopathological Features of Inflammatory Lesions of the Lateral Canthal Subconjunctival Area

Purpose: To investigate the clinical and histopathological features of inflammatory lesions of the lateral canthal subconjunctival area. Methods: This is a retrospective case series of 12 patients with inflammatory subconjunctival masses in the lateral canthal area. All patients included in this study were treated at Seoul National University Hospital or Seoul National University Bundang Hospital between 2006 and 2012. Clinical data were obtained from the medical records. Histopathologic findings were thoroughly reviewed. Results: There was a woman predominance in the study group (10:2), and the median age at presentation was 39 years (range 33–70). Common symptoms included conjunctival injection, sticky discharge, and pain or discomfort. Histopathologically, all lesions originated from ductules of the lacrimal gland. Two cases showed cysts containing clear fluid with mild inflammation. One case showed lacrimal ductulitis without cyst formation. Nine cases showed lacrimal ductal cysts with varying periductal inflammation, and the contents were pinkish, amorphous materials in 7 cases. Embedded cilia were found in 8 cases. Conclusions: Inflammatory lesions of the lateral canthal subconjunctival area all originated from lacrimal gland ductules, showing a variable histopathologic spectrum of inflammation and cyst formation. Cilia impaction was a very frequently observed finding.
Successful Wine Cooperatives: Field Reports from Cooperative Managers in Austria, Italy, and Germany

Austria has a quite small cooperative sector, only about 10 to 15% of all Austrian wine is produced by wine cooperatives. The first wine cooperative was established in 1882 (Eisenstadt-Ruster-Weinproduzentenverein). An intense wave of cooperative establishment took place in Austria and Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, lasting through the 1960s, that was due to the unfortunate general socio-economic situation of vintners.
Drug reactions and errors in administration on a medical ward.

THE diagnosis and treatment of disease in¬ volves many potential hazards, among which are intoxication by, and adverse reactions to, drugs.13 In 1959 increasing awareness of these drug-related hazards led to the coining of a new term: "diseases of medical progress". 4 During his pharmacology course the previous year, the senior author (B.CH.) became interested in drug adverse reactions and designed the follow¬ ing prospective survey of the risks of administra¬ tion of drugs on a general medical ward.
Relationship Marketing: Past, Present and Future

Purpose: In a time when relationships have become recognized as an integral part of contemporary marketing theory and practice, what role can the sub-discipline of relationship marketing play? The aim with this special issue is to critically assess the state of relationship marketing and call for new ideas to take the field forward. Design/methodology/approach: We had an open call for papers with an original perspective and advanced thinking on relationship marketing, resulting in 50 originally submitted manuscripts that were subjected to double-blind review. Of these, this issue presents five articles. In addition, we invited well-renowned thought leaders who have contributed to theory development within relationship marketing. This issue starts with their four thoughtful, forward-orientated contributions. Findings: Several thought-provoking reflections and research findings are presented that urge relationship marketing researchers to explore novel avenues for the future of this area. A prominent way forward may be looking for a common ground in relationship marketing thinking, assessing the extent to which the different literature streams add to marketing research and when they do not, and testing/deploying the learnings in new settings. Research limitations/implications: This special issue does not address all areas of relationship marketing research. Potential areas for future relationship marketing research are identified. Originality/value: To assess existent knowledge of relationship marketing is needed to take the field forward.
Artificial Intelligence: Financial Trading and Neurology of Decision

The present article is conceptual research as a documented importance of artificial intelligence as a transformational approach to the financial sector based on technological innovations as platforms in the development of the financial sector through the full introduction of the electronic market for algorithmic trading and highfrequency trading. Artificial neural networks (neurons configured to perform certain tasks) are biologically inspired simulations to perform certain tasks such as clustering, classification, sample recognition. Neural networks cover all aspects of financial and investment decision making. Research shows a strong role of artificial intelligence in making financial decisions in the real world: looking at neurological decision making as a difference in response frequencies ranging from real to hypothetical environment, pointing to the difficulties people have to imitate financial decisions in real situations when asked under hypothetical circumstances. Artificial Intelligence is an interdisciplinary area that traces the transformational aspects of the financial global sector.
Social Entrepreneurship: Case Study in Unilever Food Solutions’ Trusted Hands Food Safety Online Training Program

The social entrepreneurship is important in meso (organizational) and macro (policy- making) levels. This paper focuses on a case study in Turkey. “Trusted Hands Food Safety Online Training Program” by Unilever Food Solutions is examined as an example of social entrepreneurship. It is aimed to support food safety awareness in the industry to create and certificate the chefs. Unilever Food Solutions has received the Food Security Special Award, a project developed and implemented by the Food Safety Association. In the first year, 5000 chefs in Turkey intended to complete the education of this field and to have a certificate. It started with the support of professional associations. The sustain ability and private sector involvement plays an essential role in this case, which is such an important issue such as health and hygiene. researches “Food Safety” training of Unilever Food Solutions. An independent company conducted the Turkey Chief Survey, and 80% of the chiefs identified as the most impor tant need Food Safety training. The “Trustworthy Hands” Food Safety Training Program is prepared online in order to reach all kitchen teams throughout Turkey. The project aims to complete 5000 chief trainings in the first year. It is planned to have a food safety certificate by participating in trainings of 30,000 chiefs in 3 years.
Detection of Toxigenicity by a Probe for the Microcystin Synthetase A Gene (mcyA) of the Cyanobacterial Genus Microcystis: Comparison of Toxicities with 16S rRNA and Phycocyanin Operon (Phycocyanin Intergenic Spacer) Phylogenies

ABSTRACT The relationship between toxigenicity and phylogeny within the cyanobacterial genus Microcystis is unclear. To investigate this issue, we have designed PCR primers for theN-methyltransferase (NMT) domain of the microcystin synthetase gene mcyA and have probed 37Microcystis sp. cultures as well as several field samples. The NMT region was present in all 18 laboratory strains that gave positive reactions in the protein phosphatase inhibition assay for microcystin but was absent in 17 nontoxic strains. Two other nontoxic strains, one of which had previously been reported to produce microcystin, possessed the NMT region. Detection of NMT-specific DNA in field samples corresponded to periods of toxicity as assessed by protein phosphatase inhibition. The Microcystis strains formed a monophyletic cluster based on 16S rRNA gene sequences but comprised two groups with respect to phycocyanin intergenic spacer (PC-IGS) sequences. Toxic and nontoxic strains appeared to be erratically distributed within the PC-IGS and 16S rRNA trees. Sequence analysis of the NMT domain revealed two coherent groups. The genomic region immediately downstream of the mcyABC cluster in all 20 NMT-positive strains contained an open reading frame of unknown function (uma1) at a conserved distance frommcyC. All nontoxic strains also containeduma1, which is not cotranscribed withmcyABC. The consistent linkage of mcyC touma1 suggests that mcyC has not been frequently transferred into nontoxic strains via any mechanism involving insertion at random chromosomal locations. These results are discussed with respect to various mechanisms that could explain the patchy distribution of toxigenicity among the variousMicrocystis clades.
The rate and kinetics of molecular response to donor leucocyte transfusions in chronic myeloid leukaemia patients treated for relapse after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

We have assessed the molecular response of 30 consecutive patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) treated for relapse after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) by donor leucocyte transfusions (DLT). Response was evaluated by qualitative nested and quantitative competitive RT‐PCR for BCR‐ABL mRNA at various time intervals before and after DLT. The probability of attaining molecular remission at 2 years was 61% (95% CI 42–78%). Disease state at the time of DLT was significantly associated with response: molecular remission was achieved for 9/10 (90%) patients treated early (cytogenetic or molecular relapse) compared to only 8/20 (40%) patients treated late (haematological relapse; P=0.009). The Kaplan–Meier estimates of molecular remission at 2 years post DLT for patients treated in early or late relapse were 86.6% and 47.3% respectively (P=0.004). The median time interval from DLT to molecular remission was 11.0 months (range 2.5–32). Molecular remissions were durable for most (15/17) patients (median follow‐up 21.2 months; range 0–55). Two patterns of molecular response were found: a very rapid decline after an initial lag phase or a more gradual decline over a period of several months. We conclude that molecular monitoring is a sensitive indicator of response to DLT; different kinetics of molecular response may reflect disease heterogeneity or differences in the mode of action of DLT.
Detailing the Phonetic Environment: A Sociophonetic Study of the London Bengali Community

The present study investigated variability in the production of English by London Bengali adults who speak the Sylheti dialect of Bengali. Speakers had been resident in London for differing lengths of time. They were recorded producing /l/, /r/ and the eleven monophthongal vowels in English. Phonetically trained listeners rated speakers' productions of /l/ and /r/ in terms of manner and place. F1 and F2 formant frequency values, and duration were measured for all monophthongal vowels. The results demonstrated that older speakers (first-generation immigrants) tended to use Sylhetilike variants when speaking English, whilst second-generation speakers tended to use native English-like variants. These findings will be used to inform studies of the role of phonetic input in child language acquisition from the London Bengali community.