Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Working Paper Series Family , Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality

Correlations between the earnings of siblings reflect shared family and community background, but evidence is mixed on the relative magnitudes of these influences. We estimate long run earnings correlations between brothers, school mates and teenage neighbors jointly in a unified framework. Using administrative data on the Danish population we find that: (1) family is by far the most relevant factor that shapes long-term earnings; (2) the contribution of neighborhood and school quality on long-term earnings is overestimated if the family component is ignored, and becomes negligible and not significantly different from zero by age 30; and (3) the importance of family declines over the life-cycle.
Asynchronous Online Learning: Perceptions and Experiences of Nontraditional Adult Emergency Services Students

This study used hermeneutic phenomenology, a qualitative methodology, to explore and interpret the lived experience of nontraditional emergency services students in an asynchronous online learning environment. This understanding was achieved through rigorous analysis of in-depth, semistructured interviews and journal entries of four nontraditional adult students enrolled in an online baccalaureate degree program. The research question for this study was: How do nontraditional adult undergraduate students experience asynchronous online instruction? Results revealed that student experiences fell into two overarching themes, each with related subthemes. The two identified themes and subthemes are: (a) Flexible Learning, with the subthemes of convenience, self-directedness/self-discipline, and reflectivity and (b) Theme II: Conflict of Values: A Paradox of Learning, with the subthemes of communication/socialization between students, student/instructor interaction, and the students’ paradigmatic shifting and conflicted beliefs on learning. Introduction Van Manen (1990) argued that the prescribed method for human science, in contrast to natural science, involved description, interpretations, and self-reflective or critical analysis. In other words, humans explain nature, but they must understand human life. This work investigated and interpreted the human experience of the nontraditional online emergency services learner. The goal of this study was to better understand the lived experiences, perceptions, and
Acta Polytechnica

Suitable automorphisms together with a complete classification of representations of some algebras can be used to generate some sets of orthogonal polynomials “at no cost”. This is also the case for the nonstandard Klimyk-Gavrilik deformation U ′ q(so3), which is connected to q-Racah polynomials.
DVR Controlling by a Novel Method Based on Adaline Neural Network to Modifying power quality (voltage and THD) of load

Having electricity with high quality is one of the more important aims in electrical systems. Disturbances in distribution systems can change voltage waveform. There are some methods to prepare high power quality for sensitive loads. In this research, we use “Dynamic Voltage Restorer” to compensate the harmful effects of disturbances on voltage. Since power systems fundamentally have complicated dynamic behavior especially during faults; adaline neural network self-tuning controller which is a powerful adaptive controller has been used. In order to improve the performance of this controller from point of view of power quality’s indices such as flash and sensitive load voltage THD, a new structure is proposed for this controller with fuzzification method. The simulation results indicate better operation of system in case of using proposed controller. Voltage sag and harmonic in faulty conditions improve by this controller. According to simulation results, it works better than both classical PI controller and conventional Adaline NN controller.
Psychiatric morbidity and cognitive representations of illness in chronic daily headache

Objectives: We studied patients with chronic daily headache (CDH) attending a headache clinic. Our hypothesis was that patients with anxiety or depression would have poorer functional status and differing cognitive representations of illness than would those without psychiatric morbidity. Methods: The sample consisted of 144 consecutive new patients. Patients underwent a semistructured interview and completed a prospective headache diary, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and other health-related questionnaires. Results: Sixty patients (42%) were probable cases of anxiety or depression on the basis of their HADS score. These 0022-3999/04/$ – see front matter D 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores. 2004.04. 371 * Corresponding author. Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, P.O. Box 50, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom. Tel. : +44 0207 848 0700; fax: +44 0207 848 0650. E-mail address: l.page@iop.kcl. ac.uk (L.A. Page). HADS-positive cases had longer, more severe headaches, were more worried about them, were more functionally impaired and believed that their illness would last longer. Principal components analysis revealed that the HADS-positive cases believed that psychological factors play a role in their headaches. Conclusions: Psychological morbidity is high amongst CDH patients who attend specialist clinics. In addition to identifying those with high levels of psychological distress, the HADS can be used to predict those likely to have worse headaches and poorer functional ability. D 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Title Is hypercholesterolaemia common among Hong Kong Chinese ?

There is growing concern that coronary heart disease (CHD) is becoming more common and that hypercholesterolaemia may be an important problem among Hong Kong Chinese. This study aims at finding out the prevalence of hypercholesterolaemia among adult patients in general practice. 1113 Chinese patients aged 21 to 60 attending a Government general outpatient clinic were randomly sampled. The demographic data and information on other CHD risk factors were obtained from each participant. All participants had their cholesterol measured by the Reflotron. The reflotron cholesterol results were validated and calibrated against laboratory results. The survey showed 10% of the sample had blood cholesterol > 6.2mmol/l, and 32% had borderline hypercholesterolaemia between 5.2 to 6.2mmol/l. Less than 1% of the people had cholesterol levels above 7.8mmol/l. Age had the most significant effect on cholesterol level especially in females after 40. One in four females over 50 had blood cholesterol levels > 6.2mmol/l. Twentyone percent of the sample had > 2 other CHD risk factors, over half of them had cholesterol >5.2mmol/l. The main problem among Hong Kong Chinese is borderline hypercholesterolaemia which is most significant in people with additional CHD risk factors. Cholesterol screening will be more costeffective if directed to people known to have other CHD risk factors but may not be worthwhile for the low risk group.
Asymmetry and Financial Dollarization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Financial dollarization in Sub-Saharan Africa is the most persistent compared to other regions of the world. This study complements the existing scant literature on dollarization in Africa by assessing the role of information sharing offices (public credit registries and private credit bureaus) on financial dollarization in 26 countries of SSA for the period 2001-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Generalised Method of Moments (GMM). The findings show that information sharing offices (which are designed to reduce information asymmetry) in the banking industry are a deterrent to dollarization. Policy implications are discussed. JEL Classification: E31; E41; G20; O16;O55
Hacia una educación consciente a través de la detección fisiológica de emociones (Towards an Emo-aware Education Through Physiological Emotion Detection)

During the different educative processes in the high school or university, a student feels different emotions. For instance, physiological stress has mostly experimented during exam periods, when there is academic overload, in new topics or learning too focused on memorization. Additionally, the stress has been associated with chronic diseases (e.g., heart diseases, faults in the immune system, anxiety or headaches). In line with these notions, in this paper, we introduce the idea of measuring emotions in order to empower the educative processes by providing relevant emotional information of all stakeholders involved in the educational task. This kind of information is highly useful for analyzing new educational methodologies or for evaluating the current educational approaches (educational institutions), and for students because it will allow a possible optimization in their teaching-learning process. Regarding the results, we present a preliminary experiment to evaluate the emotion detector, which obtained an accuracy of 79.17%.
PULMONARY ARTERIAL PRESSURE AS AN INDICATOR FOR HIGH ALTITUDE DISEASE IN CATTLE : BREED DIFFERENCES AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH GROWTH PERFORMANCE Submitted

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . iv CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . 1 CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE . 4 SECTION 1: ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES AND THE GENETIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO ADAPTABILITY . 5 1.1 General Environmental Challenges Affecting Cattle . 5 1.2 Genotype by Environment Interaction . 7 SECTION 2: HIGH ALTITUDE DISEASE: ETIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND CLINICAL PHENOTYPE . 8 2.1 Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension . 9 2.2 Pulmonary Hypertension Manifested in the Disease . 13 2.3 Pulmonary Arterial Pressure: Scores, Genetics, and Influences . 21 SECTION 3: GROWTH TRAITS . 29 3.1 Influences on Cattle Growth Performance . 29 3.2 Statistical Estimates of Growth Traits . 32 3.3 Correlation Between Growth and HAD Susceptibility . 37 LITERATURE CITED . 40 CHAPTER 3: FACTORS INFLUENCING PULMONARY ARTERIAL PRESSURE IN CATTLE: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE SAN JUAN BASIN RESEARCH CENTER 4-CORNERS BULL TESTS . 51 SUMMARY . 5
Exendin-4 attenuates high glucose-induced endothelial progenitor cells dysfunction through the PI 3K / Akt / eNOS pathway

Background: Recent studies have demonstrated that exendin-4 have beneficial effects on endothelial function and postnatal neovascularization following vascular injury in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), but the mechanisms underlying these effects remain to be elucidated. Hence, we hypothesized that exendin-4 might restore the impaired functional activities of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) after ischemia in DM patients to play a beneficial role. Methods: EPCs were respectively incubated with normal glucose (5 mM) or high glucose (25 mM) environment for 3 days, followed by treatment with exendin-4 for 24 hours. Cell proliferation, migration, tube formation and nitric oxide (NO) production were examined in vitro. The protein levels of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS), phospho-eNOS (p-eNOS), Akt, phospho-Akt (p-Akt) and PI3K were analyzed using Western-blot. Results: High glucose reduced EPC functional activities, including cell proliferation, migration and tube formation. Additionally, Akt/ eNOS activity and NO production were downregulated in high glucose-stimulated EPCs. Administration of exendin-4 ameliorated high glucose-induced EPC dysfunction. The GLP-1 receptor (GLP-1R) antagonist exendin (9-39), PI3K inhibitor LY-294002 and eNOS inhibitor L-NAME could attenuate the effect of exendin-4. Meanwhile, exendin-4 increased the phosphorylation of Akt/eNOS and secretion of NO in high glucose-treated EPCs, which could be blocked by PI3K inhibitor (LY294002). Conclusions: Our results suggested that exendin-4 could attenuate high glucose -induced EPCs dysfunction. This effect might be mediated through the PI3-K/Akt/eNOS pathway.
Role of Annonamuricata ( L . ) in Oxidative Stress and Metabolic Variations in Diabetic and Gamma-irradiated Rats

In recent years, an interest in the phytochemistry of plant has been sparked. The genus Annona belonging to the Custard Apple family, Annonaceae, is widespread in the tropical regions of the world and includes the species Annonamuricata (Linn). The phytochemical analysis conducted on A.muricatadried and powdered leaves revealed the presence of flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, saponins and reducing sugars. Mineral analysis showed the presence of potassium (363.05mg/kg), calcium (11,183.50mg/kg), sodium (694.86mg/kg), magnesium (9,619mg/kg), iron (139.50mg/kg), zinc (8.34mg/kg), manganese (8.25mg/kg), chromium (3.75mg/kg), copper (14.25mg/kg) and cadmium (5.49mg/kg) (Usunomena and Paulinus, 2015).
Classification of the Slovenian News Texts

This paper deals with automatic two class document-level sentiment classification. We retrieved textual documents with political, business, economic, and financial content from five Slovenian web media. By annotating a sample of 10,427 documents we obtained a labelled corpus in the Slovenian language. Five classifiers were evaluated on this corpus: Näıve Bayes Multinomial, Support Vector Machines, Random Forest, k-Nearest Neighbour and Näıve Bayes, out of which the first three were used also in the assessment of the pre-processing options. Among the selected classifiers Näıve Bayes Multinomial outperforms the Näıve Bayes, k-Nearest Neighbour, Random Forest, and Support Vector Machines classifier in terms of classification accuracy. The best selection of pre-processing options achieves more than 95% classification accuracy with Näıve Bayes Multinomial and more than 85% with Support Vector Machines and Random Forest classifier.
Comparative Proximate Analysis of Cinnamon And Lemongrass for its Nutritive Value Syedda

A study was conducted to evaluate the nutritive value of cinnamon and lemon grass based tea. The standard procedures of AACC, 2000 were followed to analyze the proximate composition. The caloric value was calculated from crude protein, crude fat, crude fiber, moisture and ash content. The results revealed that cinnamon contained ash (2.9%), moisture (5.6%), crude fat (4.4%), crude fiber (35%), crude protein (4%) and nitrogen free extract (249kcal/100gms). While lemongrass contained ash (5.3%), moisture (10.12), crude fat (0.52%), crude fiber (19.2%), crude protein (1.86%) and nitrogen free extract (63%). This study concluded that the tested cinnamon contained highest amount of fiber and lowest amount of ash. Similarly, the tested lemongrass contained highest amount of fiber and lowest amount of crude fat. The study was conducted to identify nutritive value of cinnamon and lemongrass and make the nutritionally acceptable and medicinally valuable.
Dietary fatty acids and adipose tissue inflammation at the crossroad between obesity and colorectal cancer

Excess adiposity, a worldwide-growing pathological condition, is now recognized as a main risk factor for most chronic diseases including colorectal cancer (CRC). Obese subjects show an increased cancer incidence with obesity representing an important indicator of survival, prognosis, recurrence and response to therapy. A lowgrade chronic inflammation of metabolically active tissues including the adipose tissue (AT), defined as metainflammation, is a main feature of obesity. Fatty acids (FA), the main AT components, are important modulators of inflammation, and the type of FA stored in AT critically affects tissue functions. Their profile within AT mirrors FA dietary intake but also depends on a metabolic control. Obesity, changes in the habitual diet, weight loss or pathological conditions like CRC influence FA profile of AT pointing to these molecules as important actors in AT dysfunction and meta-inflammation, that characterize metabolic diseases and may favor cancer development. Worth of note, diet is receiving growing attention as a main determinant in cancer prevention due to its capacity to modulate immune response and inflammation. Alterations in the balance between different families of FA may contribute to generate a pro-inflammatory profile with deleterious effects on metabolic and immune homeostasis at both local and systemic levels. This review focuses on FA as regulators of human AT inflammation discussing the role of obesity-, diet-, and weight loss-associated changes in FA profile in this process. The relevance of FA composition of AT in linking diet, obesity and CRC will be also reviewed. Page 2 of 12 Conti et al . J Cancer Metastasis Treat 2019;5:64 I http://dx.doi. org/10.20517/2394-4722.2019. 015
Causes of divorce in long-term monogamous bird species

ed from Black et al., 1996. A long-term monogamous pair bond means increasing coordination and cooperation between pair members, longer parental investment of both parents and less costs in general for both pair members, since they do not have to search for a new partner (Black, 1996). The search for a new partner brings costs like possible injury, predation or even failing to find a suitable mate and thus missing the breeding season. An example of this last is found in Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis): Barnacle Geese take 3-9 months to select a new mate, which means they risk missing a breeding season by searching a new mate (Black et al., 1996).
CNN-Based Adversarial Embedding for Image Steganography

Steganographic schemes are commonly designed in a way to preserve image statistics or steganalytic features. Since most of the state-of-the-art steganalytic methods employ a machine learning (ML)-based classifier, it is reasonable to consider countering steganalysis by trying to fool the ML classifiers. However, simply applying perturbations on stego images as adversarial examples may lead to the failure of data extraction and introduce unexpected artifacts detectable by other classifiers. In this paper, we present a steganographic scheme with a novel operation called adversarial embedding (ADV-EMB), which achieves the goal of hiding a stego message while at the same time fooling a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based steganalyzer. The proposed method works under the conventional framework of distortion minimization. In particular, ADV-EMB adjusts the costs of image elements modifications according to the gradients back propagated from the target CNN steganalyzer. Therefore, modification direction has a higher probability to be the same as the inverse sign of the gradient. In this way, the so-called adversarial stego images are generated. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed steganographic scheme achieves better security performance against the target adversary-unaware steganalyzer by increasing its missed detection rate. In addition, it deteriorates the performance of other adversary-aware steganalyzers, opening the way to a new class of modern steganographic schemes capable of overcoming powerful CNN-based steganalysis.
Pro-Environmental Behaviour : Situational Barriers and Concern for the Good at Stake

von Borgstede, C. , & Biel, A. Pro-environmental behavior: Situational barriers and concern for the good at stake. Göteborg Psychological Reports, 2002, 32, No. 1. With the aim of investigating factors affecting willingness to act environmentally friendly in a social dilemma framework, a survey was undertaken among 1000 employees at Göteborg University. Saliency of personal norms and social norms were measured as well as level of behavioural difficulty, environmental citizenship and expectation about others’ behaviour. It was hypothesised that these factors would be important determinants of environmentally friendly behaviour. Furthermore, situational barriers were expected to affect willingness to act for the collective. Results showed that respondents co-operated more frequently in situations with fewer obstacles to overcome. Also, as hypothesised, more colleagues were expected to co-operate under easy rather than difficult conditions. Both social and personal norms were stronger in situations were co-operation called for less of a sacrifice. Finally, environmental citizenship had an effect only in situations were cooperation was harder to establish.
Determinants of Capital Structure : An Application on BIST Transportation Index

This study examines the determinants of capital structure decisions for the firms operating in the transportation industry in Turkey. Firms listed on Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange Transportation Index have been analyzed using panel data analysis for the period of 2002-2013. According to the findings “Tangibility” and “Size” are significantly and positively associated with long-term financing decisions, supporting trade-off theory. Additionally, results show the significant effects of corporate governance practices, specifically board size, board independence and institutional ownership on capital structure decisions.
Fluid Limits for Multiclass Many-Server Queues with General Reneging Distributions and Head-of-the-Line Scheduling

We describe a fluid model with time-varying input that approximates a multiclass many-server queue with general reneging distribution and multiple customer classes (specifically, the multiclass G/GI/N+GI queue). The system dynamics depend on the policy, which is a rule for determining when to serve a given customer class. The class of admissible control policies are those that are head-of-the-line (HL) and nonanticipating. For a sequence of many-server queues operating under admissible HL control policies and satisfying some mild asymptotic conditions, we establish a tightness result for the sequence of fluid scaled queue state descriptors and associated processes and show that limit points of such sequences are fluid model solutions almost surely. The tightness result together with the characterization of distributional limit points as fluid model solutions almost surely provides a foundation for the analysis of particular HL control policies of interest. We leverage these results to analyze a set of admissible HL control policies that we introduce, called weighted random buffer selection (WRBS), and an associated WRBS fluid model that allows multiple classes to be partially served in the fluid limit (which is in contrast to previously analyzed static priority policies).
The outcomes of user interactions with retail websites : Semantics and nomenclature

Hundreds of studies have attempted to define, measure, or otherwise explain how website visitors think, feel, and behave during and after visits to transaction-oriented business-toconsumer retail websites. This article reviews the predominant endpoints described in the peerreviewed literature over the past decade for user-website interactions with e-tail websites. Results suggest that although scores of user-website interaction outcomes have been reported in the peer-reviewed literature, most of those endpoints represent one of ten high-level user-website interaction outcomes (confirmation/disconfirmation, trust, perceived risk, engagement, purchase intentions, actual purchase behavior, satisfaction, repeat website visit intention or behavior, repeat purchase intention or behavior) either directly or indirectly. This article provides a new information technology systems-based taxonomy for relevant outcomes to define website outcomes, identifies their common characteristics, and summarizes the relationships so far reported in the peer-reviewed literature.