Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of nitrous oxide-oxygen inhalation with scavenging on behavioral and physiological parameters during routine pediatric dental treatment.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of 40% nitrous oxide/60% oxygen inhalation with scavenging on the behavioral and physiological parameters during routine pediatric dental procedures. METHODS Twenty-two subjects, aged 60-116 months, were randomized into a double blind, cross-over study design and administered alternately either 40% nitrous oxide/60% oxygen or 100% oxygen during two sequential restorative appointments. All subjects were monitored continuously for respiratory rate, pulse rate, and hemoglobin oxygen saturation using a combined capnograph and pulse oximeter. The subject's breath sound and behavior were recorded every minute along with vital signs. RESULTS When compared to 100% oxygen inhalation, 40% nitrous oxide/60% oxygen inhalation produced significant reductions in adverse patient behavior, respiratory rate, and pulse rate, but did not affect percent hemoglobin oxygen saturation. Nitrous oxide inhalation had no effect on breath sound revealed by auscultation or on the occurrence of the apnea alarm displayed by the capnograph. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrated that the administration of 40% nitrous oxide/60% oxygen delivered via a scavenging nasal hood significantly improved patient behavior and altered physiological parameters commonly monitored during conscious sedation.
μ-Bromido-dibromido-μ-hydroxido-bis[(4S)-2-halo-6-(4-isopropyl-4,5-dihydrooxazol-2-yl)pyridine]dicopper(II) (halo: Cl/Br = 3:1)

The crystal structure of the title complex, [Cu2Br3(OH)(C11H13Br0.5Cl1.5N2O)2], consists of two (2-halo-6-oxazolinyl)pyridine·CuBr units bridged by a Br atom and a hydroxide group. The CuII atoms are five-coordinate with an (N,N)BrCu(Br)(OH) distorted tetragonal–pyramidal core, and relatively short contacts to the bridging atoms (Cu—μ-OH and Cu—μ-Br). There are two symmetry-independent half-molecules in the asymmetric unit, which differ only in the arrangement of the isopropyl group. The molecules are located on a twofold rotation axes.
The Determinants of Small and Medium Enterprises’ Interest in Using E-Commerce (A Study on Small and Medium Enterprises in Denpasar Bali, Indonesia)

The study aims at examining the effect of relative advantage s , compatibility , and internet security on the interest use of e-commerce. The samples are 70 SMEs in Denpasar (242 respondents specified) selected through simple random technique. The data are collected by means of questionnaire and analyzed by PLS. The analysis shows the effect of internet security on the enterprises’ interest in using e-commerce, but the relative advantages and compatibility do not affect the use of e-commerce. Key words : user interest, e-commerce, SMEs
Context effects in national health surveys: effects of preceding questions on reporting serious difficulty seeing and legal blindness.

The first task that a respondent faces in a survey interview is to arrive at the intended interpretation of the survey question. Although the wording of the question may seem unambiguous, its pragmatic interpretation may nevertheless be ambiguous. People are concerned with this pragmatic meaning of questions rather than with their literal meaning (see Clark and Schober 1991; Grice 1975; Schwarz 1994, 1996, 1999; Suchman and Jordan 1990; Todorov 1997). To arrive at the intended interpretation of a specific question, respondents may rely on different cues in the context. Among the most potent cues in a survey context are the preceding questions (Bishop, Oldendick, and Tuchfarber 1984; Martin, DeMaio, and Campanelli 1990; Strack 1992; Strack, Schwarz, and Wanke 1991; Tourangeau and Rasinski 1988; Tourangeau et al. 1989). The context effects of preceding questions are stronger for general than for specific questions (Schuman and Presser 1981). Presumably, the intended referent of general questions is more susceptible to alternative interpretations and, hence, to context effects. For instance, "Do you have serious difficulty seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses? " can have different interpretations if preceding questions covered medical conditions related to vision than if they covered conditions unrelated to vision. Respondents may be more likely to infer that serious difficulty seeing involves a medical vision condition in the former than in the latter context.
Patents and trademarks : Motivations, antecedents, and value in industrialized and emerging markets

textabstractIntellectual property rights (IPRs) play a very important role for innovations. They serve as a mechanism for innovators (e.g., individuals, companies, universities) to protect their intellectual property and enable the holder of the IPR to profit from the innovation. Patents and trademarks constitute the two most important and most frequently utilized IPRs. This thesis contains five empirical studies that address recent research gaps in research on patents and trademarks. With regard to patents, this thesis focuses on patenting in China, which underwent a remarkable and explosive growth recently: Only 15 years ago, Chinese applicants filed 1.9% of the patents they filed in 2014. This is because China is trying to transition itself from an imitation-based to an innovation-based economy. However, even though China is actively and prominently fostering innovation in trying to become a leading innovator, China is still far away from reaching the world’s innovation frontier. In light of this ongoing and still relatively unexplored phenomenon, this thesis addresses several important issues regarding the antecedents of patenting and the value of patents in China that are crucial, but have received little attention so far. In particular, this thesis addresses the more specific topics of university patenting, the impact of acquisitions on innovation performance, and patent value in China. In contrast to research on patenting, research on trademarking is in comparatively early stages. Trademarks are a very important IPR for firms to distinguish themselves from competitors and have been linked positively to the market valuation, survival, and productivity of firms. However, little is known on why firms file trademarks, which is the focus of the final study in this thesis.
The information content of short selling and put option trading: When are they substitutes?

Using January 2005 – June 2007 trading data for all NYSE stocks we identify the informational patterns and impact of exogenous shocks in short sales and option trades upon stock price changes. We find that short sales have more predictive power than put option trades. However, if short selling volume is low put options trading does have predictive power and thus may be a substitute used by informed investors.
ANALISIS PENGARUH CITRA TOKO, CITRA MEREK PRODUK PRIVATE LABEL, DAN NILAI YANG PERSEPSIKAN TERHADAP LOYALITAS PELANGGAN (Studi pada Pelanggan Giant di Kota Malang)

Abstrak : Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari pengaruh citra toko, citra merek produk private label , nilai yang dipersepsikan terhadap loyalitas pelanggan. Penelitian ini juga menguji pengaruh tidak langsung antara citra toko terhadap loyalitas pelanggan dengan citra merek produk private label dan nilai yang dipersepsikan sebagai variabel mediasi. Sampel pada penelitian ini berjumlah 110 pelanggan Giant yang membeli produk private label . Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan purposive sampling . SEM-PLS digunakan untuk menguji hipotesis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa citra toko dan nilai yang dipersepsikan memiliki pengaruh signifikan terhadap loyalitas pelanggan, namun citra merek produk private label tidak memiliki pengaruh signifikan terhadap loyalitas pelanggan. Citra merek produk private label tidak mampu memediasi pengaruh tidak langsung citra toko terhadap loyalitas pelanggan. Nilai yang dipersepsikan mampu memediasi pengaruh tidak langsung citra toko terhadap loyalitas pelanggan serta berperan sebagai mediasi sebagian ( partial mediation ) Kata Kunci: Citra Toko, Citra Merek Produk Private Label, Nilai Yang Dipersepsikan, Loyalitas Pelanggan. Abstract : The purpose of this study was to investigate the direct effect of store image, private label brand image, and perceived value to customer loyalty. This study also investigates the indirect effect mediated by private label brand image and perceived value on these relationship. The samples are 110 Giant customers who buy private label products. Sampling method is used purposive sampling method. Hypotheses testing in this research is used SEM-PLS analysis. The research found that store image and perceived value have a significant influence on customer loyalty, but the private label brand image has not significant effect on customer loyalty. The private label brand image has not a mediating effect on that relationship. The perceived value has a mediating effect on the relationship between store image and custumer loyalty, furthermore perceived value also has partial mediation. Key word : Store image, private label brand image,perceived value, customer loyalty
Negative life events as an account of age-related differences in the genetic aetiology of depression in childhood and adolescence.

BACKGROUND Many twin studies have reported that the genetic aetiology of depression differs according to age, with genetic influences being more important for adolescents than younger children. We sought to examine whether this age-related increase in the relative importance of genetic factors is due to an increase in gene-environment correlation specifically involving negative life events. METHOD Questionnaires were sent to the families of a population-based sample of twins aged between 8 and 17 years. Parents of all the twins and adolescents aged 11 and over were asked to complete the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (Costello & Angold, 1988) and a modified version of the Life Events Checklist (Johnson & McCutcheon, 1980). Responses were obtained from 1468 families and data were analysed using genetic model fitting. Bivariate analysis of 1) negative life events and 2) behaviour-dependent life events and depression symptoms was undertaken separately for children (aged 8 to 10 years) and adolescents (aged 11 to 17 years). Differences in genetic and environmental parameters across age groups were tested. RESULTS Adolescence was associated with a greater number of behaviour-dependent life events. Genetic covariation of negative life events and depression was greater for adolescents than for children. CONCLUSIONS Bivariate model fitting was consistent with the greater heritability of depression seen in adolescence being due to an increase in gene-environment correlation involving negative life events. However, the effects of genes associated specifically with maturation in adolescence, the possibility of 'person' effects and the role of other environmental factors also need to be considered.
"One Size Fits All": An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?

Top five data challenges for the next decade p. 12 IC tag based traceability : system and solutions p. 13 Effective computation of biased quantiles over data streams p. 20 Range-efficient computation of F[subscript 0] over massive data streams p. 32 A unified framework for monitoring data streams in real time p. 44 Corpus-based schema matching p. 57 Schema matching using duplicates p. 69 Representing and querying data transformations p. 81 Bypass caching : making scientific databases good network citizens p. 94 Asymmetric batch incremental view maintenance p. 106 Adaptive caching for continuous queries p. 118 Snapshot queries : towards data-centric sensor networks p. 131 Exploiting correlated attributes in acquisitional query processing p. 143 Data triage : an adaptive architecture for load shedding in TelegraphCQ p. 155 Energy-efficient data organization and query processing in sensor networks p. 157 AutoLag : automatic discovery of lag correlations in stream data p. 159 Adaptive processing of top-k queries in XML p. 162 Progressive distributed top-k retrieval in peer-to-peer networks p. 174 Reverse nearest neighbors in large graphs p. 186 Optimizing access cost for top-k queries over Web sources : a unified cost-based approach p. 188 Efficient processing of skyline queries with partially-ordered domains p. 190 A framework for high-accuracy privacy-preserving mining p. 193 Top-down specialization for information and privacy preservation p. 205 Data privacy through optimal k-anonymization p. 217 A comparative evaluation of transparent scaling techniques for dynamic content servers p. 230 SemCast : semantic multicast for content-based data dissemination p. 242 A distributed quadtree index for peer-to-peer settings p. 254 Adlib : a self-tuning index for dynamic peer-to-peer systems p. 256 DUP : dynamic-tree based update propagation in peer-to-peer networks p. 258 Vectorizing and querying large XML repositories p. 261 IMAX : incremental maintenance of schema-based XML statistics p. 273 BOXes : efficient maintenance of order-based labeling for dynamic XML data p. 285 Efficient inverted lists and query algorithms for structured value ranking in update-intensive relational databases p. 298 Compressing bitmap indices by data reorganization p. 310 Dynamic load management for distributed continuous query systems p. 322 Practical data management techniques for vehicle tracking data p. 326 Filter based directory replication and caching p. 326 On discovery of extremely low-dimensional clusters using semi-supervised projected clustering p. 329
Improving laboratory monitoring at initiation of drug therapy in ambulatory care: a randomized trial.

BACKGROUND The importance of laboratory monitoring for drugs is reflected in product labeling and published guidelines, but monitoring recommendations are followed inconsistently. Opportunity exists to improve monitoring, with the potential to decrease therapy complications. METHODS The objective of this randomized trial was to determine whether computerized alerts were effective at increasing the percentage of ambulatory patients with laboratory monitoring at initiation of drug therapy. Physicians and pharmacists teamed up to develop organization-specific guidelines for monitoring selected drugs. In collaboration with physicians, pharmacists were alerted to missing laboratory test results, ordered missing tests, reminded patients to obtain tests, assessed test completion, reviewed test results, and managed abnormal results. Eligible individuals included patients with therapy initiated for any of 15 drugs among 400,000 health plan members. RESULTS In the intervention group, 79.1% (n = 4076; 95% confidence interval [CI], 78.0%-80.2%) of dispensings were monitored compared with 70.2% (n = 3522; 95% CI, 68.9%-71.5%) in the usual-care group (P < .001). For example, 78.6% of amiodarone (95% CI, 73.1%-83.5%) dispensing was monitored in the intervention group vs 51.4% (95% CI, 44.4%-58.4%) in the group receiving usual care (P < .001). CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates the effectiveness of a computerized tool plus collaboration among health care professionals at increasing the percentage of patients receiving laboratory monitoring at initiation of therapy. Coupling data available from information systems with the knowledge and skills of physicians and pharmacists can result in improved patient monitoring.
Morphoanatomy of the flower of Syagrus inajai (SPRUCE) Becc. (Arecaceae- Arecoideae- Attaleinae), Amazon.

The occurrence of Syagrus inajai (Spruce) Becc. , popularly known as pupunha palm, among other names, has been registered in the Guianas and in the North of Brazil in areas of terra firme (non-flooding) and gallery forests. In order to characterize the inflorescence and further knowledge of this family, a morphoanatomical study was carried out of the palm S. inajai in a green area of the Campus of the Federal University of Amazonas--UFAM, Manaus, Amazonas. The inflorescences are branched to one order, pedunculate, and interfoliar, measuring 62-82 cm in length, with woody bracts with longitudinal grooves on the external surface, and flowers in triads. The number of flowers to each inflorescence varies from 5,904 to 17,316 for staminate flowers, and from 180 to 3,528 for pistillate flowers. Staminate flowers with six anthers and one vascular bundle each; three-lobed pistillodium, vascularized pistillodium. Its pistillate flowers have six staminodia joined to form a circle, syncarpic, tricarpellary, trilocular gynoecium, one ovule to each locule, synascidiate in the ovary, and plicated above. Tripartite stigma, apical and sessile, with epidermis composed of elongated papillary cells, pattern of epidermis that is maintained throughout the stylar canal. Bitegmented, anatrope, pachychalazal ovule.
Chronic Leishmania donovani Infection Promotes Bystander CD8+-T-Cell Expansion and Heterologous Immunity

ABSTRACT It has been proposed that long-lived memory T cells generated by vaccination or infection reside within a memory compartment that has a finite size. Consequently, in a variety of acute infection models interclonal competition has been shown to lead to attrition of preexisting memory CD8+ T cells. Contrary to expectations, therefore, we found that chronic Leishmania donovani infection of Listeria-immune mice results in heightened protection against subsequent Listeria challenge. This protection was associated with bystander expansion of Listeria-specific CD8+ T cells and a bias in these cells toward a central memory T-cell phenotype with an enhanced capacity for gamma interferon production. We propose that splenomegaly, which is characteristic of visceral leishmaniasis and other tropical infections, may help promote heterologous immunity by resetting the size of the memory compartment during chronic infection.
Height, surface firmness, and visual reference effects on balance control

Objectives—To investigate the effects of height, surface firmness, and visual reference on standing balance in construction workers. Design—Controlled laboratory study with balanced repeated measures. Participants—Twenty four construction workers. Setting—Test subjects performed standing tasks at ground level as well as at 3 m and 9 m high balconies on firm or deformable surfaces with close visual references included or excluded from their visual field. Methods—Standing balance was determined from center of pressure as measured by a force platform. Dependent variables were root mean square of sway in medial-lateral and anterior-posterior directions, area of sway, and velocity of sway. Results—Heights without close visual references significantly increased all sway parameters. The effect of height in conditions without close visual references increased dramatically on deformable surfaces. Conclusions—Elevated work environments and deformable work surfaces negatively affect balance and may be associated with increased risk of fall incidents. Appropriate close visual references increase the ability to maintain balance.
Learning classifier systems for decision making in continuous-valued domains

This thesis investigates Learning Classifier System architectures for decision making in continuous-valued domains. The information contained in continuous-valued domains is not always conveniently expressed using the ternary representation typically used by Learning Classifier Systems and an interval-based representation is a natural choice. Two intervalbased representations recently proposed are analysed, together with their associated operators. Evidence of considerable representational and operator bias is found. A new interval-based representation is proposed that is more straightforward than the previous ones and its bias is analysed. Learning Classifier Systems are compared for online environments that consist of real-valued states and which require every action made by the agent to count towards its performance. Two Learning Classifier System architectures are considered, XCS and ZCS. An interval representation is used for the rule conditions and a roulette wheel is used for action selection. The performance of these two Learning Classifier System architectures is investigated on a set of abstract environments with both deterministic and stochastic reward functions. Although XCS clearly delivers superior performance in the deterministic environments tested, the simple ZCS architecture is found to be robust and able to equal or exceed the performance of XCS in the stochastic environments tested, especially those with more demanding characteristics. Aspects of the algorithm and parameter set of ZCS are studied on problems with real-valued states and a Boolean action space. Increased performance is found to result from the use of an update algorithm based on that of NewBoole, an earlier strength-based Learning Classifier System. A new operator, specialize, is introduced and found to be effective in combatting over general classifiers. The modified algorithm and parameter set is tested on several variants of three real-valued test problems. The resulting Learning Classifier System is applied to simulated Foreign Exchange trading using an experimental setup and data previously presented in the literature. Results show that a simple Learning Classifier System is able to achieve a positive excess return in simulated trading.
CYTOCHEMICAL DETERMINATION OF HETEROZYGOUS GLUCOSE‐6‐PHOS‐PHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY IN ERYTHROCYTES

The development of a sensitive and specific cytochemical assay for the detection of heterozygous forms of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency has been reported previously (Van Noorden & Vogels, 198 5). A combination of very mild fixation of the cells with 0.02 5% glutaraldehyde in the presence of NADP+ for protection of the active site of the enzyme (Van Noorden et al, 1982), the use of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) in the incubation medium in order to reduce diffusion, the use of 1-methoxyphenazine rnethosulphate (1-
An acute syndrome with psychiatric symptoms and EEG abnormalities

Four patients with abrupt onset of psychosis had prominent periodic EEG abnormalities with diffuse sharp waves. Other laboratory studies, including CSF and CT, were normal. The EEG abnormalities disappeared within 1 to 7 days. Clinical improvement was complete and commenced after the EEG showed improvement. The cause remains obscure, but it seems to be a transient organic disturbance of cerebral function that must be distinguished from primary psychiatric disorders.
Bilateral hippocampal stimulation for intractable temporal lobe epilepsy: Impact on seizures and memory

The effect of continuous electrical stimulation of the hippocampus bilaterally on seizures and memory was assessed in two subjects with seizures from both mesial temporal lobes who were not candidates for resective epilepsy surgery. A double blind, randomized, controlled, cross‐over trial design was utilized. Two electrodes with four contacts each were implanted along the axis of the hippocampus bilaterally. Simultaneous stimulation of all electrodes contacts was either on or off during each 3‐month interval. Seizure frequency decreased by 33% in the two patients during stimulation and remained lower by 25% for the 3 months after stimulation was turned off before returning to baseline (p < 0.01). No consistent change in objective or subjective measures of memory occurred. No other adverse effects occurred. Seizure frequency is reduced both during and for a period after bilateral hippocampal stimulation, but the overall impact in this study is not as robust as has been previously reported.