Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
STOICHIOMETRIC Nb3Sn IN FIRST SAMPLES COATED AT CORNELL

A cavity coated with the superconductor Nb3Sn theoretically will be able to reach more than twice the maximum accelerating field of Nb in a cavity under the same operating conditions and will have a much lower BCS surface resistance at a given temperature. The SRF group at Cornell has recently developed facilities to fabricate Nb3Sn on Nb. The first samples have been coated, and several tests have been performed to characterize them. Results presented include SEM images of the surface, anodization tests, a critical temperature measurement, a test for RRR degradation, and stoichiometry measurements using EDS and XPS.
Visualizing Environmental Performance and Financial Performance : An Analysis of Firms in the US Food and Beverage Supply Chain

This research examined the simultaneous environmental-financial performance of firms in the US food and beverage supply chain. Results suggests that firms with higher environmental scores performed better financially than those ranked lower, suggesting that firms in the food and beverage supply chain can excel simultaneously on both environmental and financial initiatives. Findings also suggested that regarding simultaneous sustainability-financial performance, food and beverage suppliers can be classified into four distinct categories: progressive firms or those that excel on green initiatives and perform well financially in a balanced manner; repressive firms or those that perform poorly on both dimensions; aggressive firms, or those that perform admirably financially but poorly on environmental initiatives and; green firms, or those that perform admirably on green initiatives but poorly financially.
On Accounting Identities, Simulation Experiments and Aggregate Production Functions: A Cautionary Tale for (Neoclassical) Growth Theorists.

Comprising specially commissioned essays, the Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of alternative theories of economic growth. It surveys major sub-fields (including classical, Kaleckian, evolutionary, and Kaldorian growth theories) and highlights cutting-edge issues such as the relationship between finance and growth, the interplay of trend and cycle, and the role of aggregate demand in the long run.
THE EFFECT OF SUBLETHAL SHORT-DURATION EXPOSURE OF PARAOXON ON PREGNANCY AND FETUSES IN MICE

A convincing number of epidemiological studies have reported on the exposure to and consequences of organophosphorus compounds (OPCs) in pregnant women. However, there is still a knowledge gap and paucity of systematic literature from animal studies. This study was undertaken with the hypothesis that short-duration sublethal exposure to OPCs can produce maternal and fetal lethal effects as chronic exposure. This study examineses the teratogenicity and embryotoxicity of paraoxon (POX) in mice at a dose that is non-lethal to non-pregnant mothers. Pregnant mice were injected intraperitoneally (i.p.) with paraoxon (50 nmol/mouse) on the 4th and 5th days of gestation, and the effect of the treatment was assessed on day 18 of gestation. This dose was fatal to pregnant mice in 21% of instances as compared to non-pregnant animals in which 0% mortality was detected, even after daily injection of a similar dose for five days. Significant inhibition of red blood cell acetylcholinesterase (RBC-AChE) was observed in pregnant mice as compared to non-pregnant ones; however, no apparent neuronal effect was detected. Of note were fetal weight decrement, pregnancy termination, intrauterine growth retardation and maternal death. We concluded that exposure to even a non-toxic dose might be critical for pregnant mothers, the pregnancy as well as fetuses. In addition, even exposure of short duration can be detrimental and capable of producing profound and fatal effects.
The role of the diatom Cylindrotheca closterium in a mucilage event in the northern Adriatic Sea: coupling with high salinity water intrusions

The temporal and spatial distribution of mucilaginous aggregates, during the mucilage event of 2002 in the northern Adriatic, was studied in relation to waters of different salinity considering the aggregate's age and proportion of Cylindrotheca closterium in its microphytoplankton community. The results showed that this epipelic diatom is a dominating species in the microphytoplankton community of freshly formed aggregates in spite of its negligible abundance in the water column. The appearance and distribution of these aggregates in the water column was associated with water of higher salinity. The same pattern was observed in the summer of 2001, when a shorter and limited mucilage event occurred. These results suggest the importance of oligotrophic high salinity water intrusions from the central Adriatic for a selective accumulation of C. closterium cells. Coupling between the increased number and minimum growth state of C. closterium accumulated cells might result in a hyperproduction of its own mucilage in these accumulation zones formed under the influence of high salinity water intrusions. In contrast, in the upper lower salinity water layers, under the influence of a freshwater input, the phytoplankton community of the freshly formed aggregates was similar to that of the surrounding water.
The Role of Sharing of Accounting Learning Materials in the Use of e-learning in Higher Education

Accounting education in universities a has challenges because are students millennial generations who have social characteristics, how to use information and build different knowledge, and e-learning systems as learning facilities have not been used optimally. The study aims to examine the role of shared accounting material in influencing the use of e-learning in the college environment, using a frame of technology acceptance model modified with the theory of planned behavior. A survey of accounting students at public universities in a city of Indonesia, academic year 2016/2017 that use e-learning, with seven constructs ability of using computer, perception of ease of use, perception of usability, user attitude, intention to behave, share and use of e-learning, with the instrument used a questionnaire in collecting primary data from 196 students majoring in accounting in the even semester as respondents. The results of the analysis using structural equation model partial least squares, showed that the ability to use the computer influence perception of ease of use and perception of usability, perceived ease of use affects user attitudes and usability perceptions, user attitudes affect the intention to behave, and the intention of behaving affect the use of e-learning systems, where as usability perception has no effect on user attitude and intention to behave in frames of technology acceptance. Sharing accounting materials affects user attitudes, behavioral intentions and the use of e-learning, but has no effect on usability perceptions in the frames of planned behavioral theories. The implications of the study that the preparation of teaching materials need to consider accounting material sharing activities for optimal use of e-learning.
The Efficiency of Monopolistic Provision of Public Goods Through Simultaneous Bilateral Bargaining

We examine a monopolistic supplier's decision about a pure public good when he/she must negotiate with beneficiaries of the good. In our model, while the level of the public good is decided unilaterally by the supplier, the cost share of the public good is negotiated between the supplier and beneficiaries. Our bargaining model is built on simultaneous bilateral bargaining and the bargaining power of the supplier is a key factor for the analysis. We show that under some mild conditions, the supplier produces the public good at a Pareto-efficient level in equilibrium if and only if his/her bargaining power is sufficiently weak. In addition, under some reasonable parametric functions, we show that the equilibrium likelihood of the efficient provision of the public good diminishes as the number of beneficiaries increases. We show by a numerical example that the source of the inefficient provision of the public good when the supplier's bargaining power is sufficiently strong may be the excessive supply of the public good.
Capacity and Delay Analysis for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Capacity and delay are tightly related entities in ad hoc and sensor networks. In the past few years, there has been considerable amount of work describing how these entities behave given a set of assumptions. It was shown that the improvement of one is obtained at the expense of the other; that is, there is a trade-off between them. On the other hand, there are other important parameters such as mobility and physical layer properties (e
Temporal accuracy of human cortico-cortical interactions

The precision in space and time of interactions among multiple cortical sites was evaluated by examining repeating precise spatiotemporal patterns of instances in which cortical currents showed brief amplitude undulations. The amplitudes of the cortical current dipoles were estimated by applying a variant of synthetic aperture magnetometry to magnetoencephalographic (MEG) recordings of subjects tapping to metric auditory rhythms of drum beats. Brief amplitude undulations were detected in the currents by template matching at a rate of 2–3 per second. Their timing was treated as point processes, and precise spatiotemporal patterns were searched for. By randomly teetering these point processes within a time window W, we estimated the accuracy of the timing of these brief amplitude undulations and compared the results with those obtained by applying the same analysis to traces composed of random numbers. The results demonstrated that the timing accuracy of patterns was better than 3 ms. Successful classification of two different cognitive processes based on these patterns suggests that at least some of the repeating patterns are specific to a cognitive process.
Litter and soil mycoflora from an abandoned mining area in S. W. Sardinia, Italy

The saprotrophic mycoflora from the leaf litter of five plant species col1ccted at a heavy metal pol1uted site and at a control site, is compared. The composition of the fungal community recorded in tbe soil col1ected at the pol1uted site is reported. Data show a large presence of the genus Penieilliltm, with the prevailing species P. roscopurpurcum and P. westiinfiii. On Pista eia lentiseus leaves, col1ected at the pol1uted site, a massive presence of Circinotrichum maculiforme has been recorded, suggesting that it could be adapted to grow at high meta l concentratioI1s.
LEGS 122 AND 123 , NORTHWESTERN AUSTRALIAN MARGIN — A STRATIGRAPHIC AND PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SUMMARY

The northwestern Australian margin between Exmouth and Scott plateaus is the oldest passive margin of Australia and forms part of the Permian to Cretaceous "Westralian Superbasin" (Yeates et al., 1986). The Exmouth Plateau is a rifted, thinned, and deeply subsided section of continental crust, covered by more than 8 km of Paleozoic to Mesozoic sediments (Exon and Willcox, 1978). The Exmouth Plateau, about the size of Germany, has water depths of about 2000 to 3000 m and steep escarpments dropping to the adjacent Argo Abyssal Plain, more than 5500 m deep, and to the Gascoyne Abyssal Plain, at about 4000 to more than 5000 m depth. To the east, the plateau has separated from the Northwest Australian Shelf by the downwarped Kangaroo Trough. To the north, west, and south, the plateau is bounded by old oceanic crust underlying the Argo, Gascoyne, and Cuvier abyssal plains, respectively (Fig. 1). The ocean/continent boundary forms (1) a rifted margin east of the Argo Abyssal Plain and west of the Exmouth Plateau, (2) a transform margin south of the Exmouth Plateau toward the Cuvier Abyssal Plain, and (3) a transform margin with short rifted margin segments at the northern Exmouth Plateau toward the Argo Abyssal Plain (Exon et al., 1982). Leg 122 scientists drilled six sites (up to 1000 m deep) in two areas of the Exmouth Plateau that penetrated about 3.5 km of sediment, including 2.4 km of Mesozoic rocks. During Leg 123, two sites were drilled to basement: one deep site (765) in the Argo Abyssal Plain having a total penetration of 1197 m, including 271 m of oceanic basement, and one site (766) at the boundary between the Gascoyne Abyssal Plain and twestern Exmouth Plateau (527 m total depth), that bottomed in a basaltic sill. The Wombat Plateau (northern Exmouth Plateau) Sites 759 through 761, 764, and the Argo Abyssal Plain Site 765 form one major continental margin to deep-ocean basin transect; the second continent to ocean transect consists of the central Exmouth Plateau Sites 762 and 763, together with Site 766 in the easternmost Gascoyne Abyssal Plain (Figs. 1, 2). A principal objective for drilling during Legs 122 and 123 was the early evolution of the margin to ocean strata, prior to and during onset of seafloor spreading. The principal accomplishments toward this objective are summarized below, starting with the extensive drilling on the sedimentstarved outermost continental margin horst, the Wombat Plateau.
Vitamin D Deficiency Predicts Prostate Biopsy Outcomes

Purpose: The association between vitamin D and prostate biopsy outcomes has not been evaluated. We examine serum vitamin D levels with prostate biopsy results in men with an abnormal prostate-specific antigen and/or digital rectal examination. Experimental Design: Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OH D) was obtained from 667 men, ages 40 to 79 years, prospectively enrolled from Chicago urology clinics undergoing first prostate biopsy. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the associations between 25-OH D status and incident prostate cancer, Gleason score, and tumor stage. Results: Among European American (EA) men, there was an association of 25-OH D <12 ng/mL with higher Gleason score ≥ 4+4 [OR, 3.66; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.41–9.50; P = 0.008] and tumor stage [stage ≥ cT2b vs. ≤ cT2a, OR, 2.42 (1.14–5.10); P = 0.008]. In African American (AA) men, we find increased odds of prostate cancer diagnosis on biopsy with 25-OH D < 20 ng/mL [OR, 2.43 (1.20–4.94); P = 0.01]. AA men demonstrated an association between 25-OH D < 12 ng/mL and Gleason ≥ 4+4 [OR, 4.89 (1.59–15.07); P = 0.006]. There was an association with tumor stage ≥ cT2b vs. ≤ cT2a [OR, 4.22 (1.52–11.74); P = 0.003]. Conclusions: In AA men, vitamin D deficiency was associated with increased odds of prostate cancer diagnosis on biopsy. In both EA and AA men, severe deficiency was positively associated with higher Gleason grade and tumor stage. Clin Cancer Res; 20(9); 2289–99. ©2014 AACR.
Role of 3&bgr;-Hydroxysteroid-&Dgr;24 Reductase in Mediating Antiinflammatory Effects of High-Density Lipoproteins in Endothelial Cells

Objective—The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability of high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) to upregulate genes with the potential to protect against inflammation in endothelial cells. Methods and Results—Human coronary artery endothelial cells (HCAECs) were exposed to reconstituted HDLs (rHDLs) for 16 hours before being activated with tumor necrosis factor-&agr; (TNF-&agr;) for 5 hours. rHDLs decreased vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) promoter activity by 75% (P<0.05), via the nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-&kgr;B) binding site. rHDLs suppressed the canonical NF-&kgr;B pathway and decreased many NF-&kgr;B target genes. Suppression of NF-&kgr;B and VCAM-1 expression by rHDLs or native HDLs was dependent on an increase in 3&bgr;-hydroxysteroid-&Dgr;24 reductase (DHCR24) levels (P<0.05). The effect of HDLs on DHCR24 is dependent on SR-BI but not ABCAI or ABCGI. Silencing DHCR24 expression increased NF-&kgr;B (1.2-fold, P<0.05), VCAM-1 (30-fold, P<0.05), and NF-&kgr;B p50 (4-fold, P<0.05) and p65 subunits (150-fold, P<0.05). TNF-&agr; activation of siDHCR24-treated cells increased expression of VCAM-1 (550-fold, P<0.001) and NF-&kgr;B (9-fold, P<0.001) that could no longer be suppressed by rHDLs. Conclusions—Results suggest that antiinflammatory effects of rHDLs are mediated partly through an upregulation of DHCR24. These findings raise the possibility of considering DHCR24 as a target for therapeutic modulation.
Low HIV testing among single male migrants reporting sex with a female sex worker, Maharashtra, India

Most parts of India have a high level of circular migration, with people migrating to urban areas for work whilst maintaining contacts with their family members in their villages. In India, an estimated 40% of the 2.1 million people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) do not know that they are infected. The aim of the paper is to describe and present the factors associated with HIV testing and counseling among the single male migrants in Maharashtra, India. This study covers 4,595 single in-migrants. Information was collected using a Structured Interview Schedule covering demographic, socioeconomic profile, sexual history, knowledge, behaviour, and HIV testing. Of the total migrants, 1,814 (52%) reported having had sex with female sex worker (FSW) in the last year. Of these migrants, 80% have not had HIV testing ever. However, there has been no HIV testing in 89% of the migrants who had sex with people other than sex workers. As compared to younger migrants (≤24 years), older migrants were less likely not to test for HIV. Awareness of HIV testing and counseling services and exposure to an HIV prevention intervention program were significant. HIV prevention campaigns and counseling and testing strategies must take into consideration that migrants come from various parts of the country and have different linguistic, social and cultural backgrounds.
Isoniazid Preventive Therapy: Level of Adherence and Its Determinant Factors among HIV Positive Patients in Adama Hospital Medical College, Oromia, Ethiopia, 2016

Background: Tuberculosis is an airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (M.TB). Mycobacterium bacilli in the body will get destroyed or presented to white blood cell that could trigger immune response and ultimately establishes latent tuberculosis infection. Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) hinders the development of active TB in patients with latent TB infection. All HIV positive patients without contraindications are eligible for IPT. Methods: A facility based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the level of adherence to IPT and its determinant factors among HIV positive patients at Adama Hospital Medical College ART clinic. One hundred sixty eight patients who were ≥ 18 years of age and who took IPT at least for two months were consecutively interviewed. SPSS version 21 was used for data entry, cleaning and analysis. Descriptive and analytic statistics were utilized. Crude and adjusted odds ratio (COR & AOR respectively) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was used to interpret the findings. Result: A total of 168 respondents were included in the study. The seven day self-reported adherence rate was 68.5%. The average number of doses missed in the past seven days prior to the study was 0.8 doses per day. Forgetfulness (59%, N=49), being away from home (25.3%, N=21) & being busy (15.7%, N=13) were the most common reasons for ever missing pills since the start isoniazid. Abdominal side effects [AOR 3.76 (1.38, 10.26)], unclear information from health care providers [AOR 3.59 (1.63, 7.93)], not using memory aiding tools for dose schedule [AOR, 2.15 (1.03,4.49)] and perceived lack of confidentiality [AOR 7.01 (2.71,18.12)] were the factors associated with the poor adherence of IPT. Conclusion: IPT adherence rate is poor. Clear and targeted health education should be given by service providers. Medication side effects should be addressed promptly.
Industry - and firm-specific factors of innovation novelty

This article investigates the underlying factors that might shape the firm’s choices with respect to degrees of innovation novelty. Using a sample of 2983 firms observed under the Portuguese Community Innovation Survey, we assess the relative relevance of a set of firm- and industry-specific factors in explaining firms’ choices about incremental or radical innovation. The results indicate that both the firm’s idiosyncratic historical factors giving rise to heterogeneous R&D capabilities and the industry context have power to shape the firm’s innovation choices, even though firm-specific factors appear to be more powerful. The estimated impacts on firm’s innovation novelty are, nonetheless, significantly moderated by the type of firm and industry.
Stability of rings around a triaxial primary (Research Note)

Aims. Generally, the oblateness of a planet or moon is what causes rings to settle into its equatorial plane. However, the recent suggestion that a ring system might exist (or have existed) about Rhea, a moon whose shape includes a strong prolate component pointed toward Saturn, raises the question of whether rings around a triaxial primary can be stable. We study the role of prolateness in the behavior of rings around Rhea and extend our results to similar problems such as possible rings around exoplanets. Methods. Using a Hamiltonian approach, we point out that the dynamical behavior of ring particles is governed by three di erent time scales: the orbital period of the particles, the rotation period of the primary, and the precession period of the particles’ orbital plane. In the case of Rhea, two of these are well separated from the third, allowing us to average the Hamiltonian twice. To study the case of slow rotation of the primary, we also carry out numerical simulations of a thin disk of particles undergoing secular e ects and damping. Results. In the case of Rhea, the averaging reduces the Hamiltonian to an oblate potential, under which rings would be stable only in the equatorial plane. This is not the case for Iapetus; rather, it is the lack of a prolate component to its shape that allows Iapetus to host rings. Plausible exoplanets should mostly be in the same regime as Rhea, though other outcomes are possible. The numerical simulations indicate that, even when the double averaging is irrelevant, rings settle in the equatorial plane on an approximately constant time scale.
Phillips Curve and Price-Change Distribution under Declining Trend Inflation

The relationship between the price-setting behaviors at the micro level and the inflation dynamics at the macro level is an underexplored research area. In this paper, we first document that (i) a remarkable shift in cross-sectional price-change distributions at the micro level and (ii) a flattening of Phillips curve at the macro level were simultaneously observed in Japan, from the high-inflation periods until the mid-1990s to the low-inflation periods afterward. We, then, empirically show that the menu-cost hypothesis fits the price-setting behavior in Japan and construct a multi-sector general equilibrium model with a higher menu cost in the services sector based on our empirical findings. The quantitative exercise using the model indicates that the above observations at the micro and macro level in Japan can be consistently replicated within a unified model under the declining average inflation and the increasing share of services in output.