Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and its Associated Factors Among theEmployees of a Commercial Company in Togo

Introduction The Metabolic Syndrome is a set of clinical and biological signs that indicate a metabolic disorder and predispose to or indicate cardiovascular disease and/or type 2 diabetes [1]. It takes into account the multi factorial nature of cardiovascular risk. Several definitions were proposed without a real consensus. They differ from one another by the recognition thresholds and the priorities given to one or other of the definition criteria. However, Abstract *1Antoine Vikkey Hinson, 1, 2Sedro Kpata, 3Barthélémy Sangah Wognin, 1Rose Mikponhoue, 1Menonli Adjobimey, 1Paul Ayelo,
Relational Victimization 1 Running head: THE EFFECT OF RELATIONAL VICITMIZATION The Effect of Relational Victimization On School-aged Children and Adolescents and Recommended Intervention Programs

This review examines empirical articles from 1996 to 2007 regarding the effect of victimization through relational aggression as defined by Crick and colleagues (1995). Also included are two European studies that evaluated the impact of a related construct (i.e. relational bullying). Researchers investigated the unique contribution of relational victimization beyond other forms of peer maltreatment (i.e. overt victimization, physical victimization). Overall, findings show that the inclusion of relational victimization in the assessment of peer victimization contributes to previous literature regarding adjustment difficulties experienced by school-aged children and adolescents. The review concludes with a summary of school-based prevention and intervention programs recommended to specifically reduce relational aggression. Relational Victimization 3
Reducing Lead-times and Lead-time Variance in Cooperative Distribution Networks

The academic and professional attention to the large synergies hidden in horizontal collaborations is increasing. This study attempts to address the impact of collaborative transport on transportation lead-time and lead-time variability through empirically investigating a group of SMEs involved in a collaborative distribution network. Data was collected for seven pre-cooperation and eight cooperative orders over a period of 14 months. The results of Mann-Whitney U-test show a significant average reduction of 30.8% in the duration of lead times. Lead-time variability was also found to be reduced as the result of changes in the coefficient of variances and the Bartlett's test for homogeneity of variances. Horizontal collaboration in transport could eventually lead to reduced lead times and lower variability of lead time which results in reduced supply chain costs. This can be achieved by means of direct routing and avoiding multi-transshipment routes which reduces the uncertainty and variability by diminishing the number of stages in the transport chain. Thus, effective lead-time management is considered a source of competitive advantage as it can reduce supply chain costs by lowering inventory levels, but is also capable of improving performance and customer service by offering improved product quality service levels.
Semaglutide induces weight loss in subjects with type 2 diabetes regardless of baseline BMI or gastrointestinal adverse events in the SUSTAIN 1 to 5 trials

To assess the effect of baseline body mass index (BMI) and the occurrence of nausea and/or vomiting on weight loss induced by semalgutide, a once‐weekly glucagon‐like peptide 1 analogue for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Semaglutide demonstrated superior reductions in HbA1c and superior weight loss (by 2.3‐6.3 kg) versus different comparators across the SUSTAIN 1 to 5 trials; the contributing factors to weight loss are not established.
Why Students Use Social Networking Sites After Crisis Situations

Communities respond to tragedy by making virtuous use of social networking sites for a variety of purposes. We asked students to describe why they used a social networking site after the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, then evaluated their responses using content analysis. Students went predominately to Facebook (99%). Most (59%) of the 426 students that responded went there because their friends were already there, and to find out if their friends were OK (28%) (and to let them know they were OK). Ideas related to relationships occurred more frequently in the responses than ideas related to the website’s features. However, the ease of use of the website was mentioned often (22%). The results suggest this emergent phenomenon will recur. Author
Difficulty distinguishing essential thrombocythaemia from polycythaemia vera in children with JAK2 V617F‐positive myeloproliferative neoplasms

Additional Supporting Information may be found in the online version of this article: Figure S1. Quantification of CHOP and TNFRSF10B expression in rectum biopsies following ONC201 treatment. Figure S2. CD8 staining in rectum biopsies following ONC201 treatment. Figure S3. CD56 staining in rectum biopsies following ONC201 treatment. Figure S4. Granzyme B staining in rectum biopsies following ONC201 treatment.
Fast Algorithm of Truncated Burrows-Wheeler Transform Coding for Data Compression of Sensors

Lots of sensors in the IoT (Internet of things) may generate massive data, which will challenge the limited sensor storage and network bandwidth. So the study of big data compression is very useful in the field of sensors. In practice, BWT (Burrows-Wheeler transform) can gain good compression results for some kinds of data, but the traditional BWT algorithms are neither concise nor fast enough for the hardware of sensors, which will limit the BWT block size in a very small and incompetent scale. To solve this problem, this paper presents a fast algorithm of truncated BWT named “CZ-BWT algorithm” and implements it in the shareware named “ComZip. ” CZ-BWT supports the BWT block up to 2 GB (or larger) and uses the bucket sort. It is very fast with the time complexity O(N) and fits the big data compression. The experiment results indicate that ComZip with the CZ-BWT filter is obviously faster than bzip2, and it can obtain better compression ratio than bzip2 and p7zip in some conditions. In addition, CZ-BWT is more concise than current BWT with SA (suffix array) sorts and fits the hardware BWT implementation of sensors.
Towards automatic patient selection for chemotherapy in colorectal cancer trials

A key factor in the prognosis of colorectal cancer, and its response to chemoradiotherapy, is the ratio of cancer cells to surrounding tissue (the so called tumour:stroma ratio). Currently tumour:stroma ratio is calculated manually, by examining H&E stained slides and counting the proportion of area of each. Virtual slides facilitate this analysis by allowing pathologists to annotate areas of tumour on a given digital slide image, and in-house developed stereometry tools mark random, systematic points on the slide, known as spots. These spots are examined and classified by the pathologist. Typical analyses require a pathologist to score at least 300 spots per tumour. This is a time consuming (10- 60 minutes per case) and laborious task for the pathologist and automating this process is highly desirable. Using an existing dataset of expert-classified spots from one colorectal cancer clinical trial, an automated tumour:stroma detection algorithm has been trained and validated. Each spot is extracted as an image patch, and then processed for feature extraction, identifying colour, texture, stain intensity and object characteristics. These features are used as training data for a random forest classification algorithm, and validated against unseen image patches. This process was repeated for multiple patch sizes. Over 82,000 such patches have been used, and results show an accuracy of 79%, depending on image patch size. A second study examining contextual requirements for pathologist scoring was conducted and indicates that further analysis of structures within each image patch is required in order to improve algorithm accuracy.
Quantifying the Role of Permafrost Distribution in Groundwater and Surface Water Interactions Using a Three-Dimensional Hydrological Model

ABSTRACT This study uses a three-dimensional groundwater flow model to investigate groundwater dynamics and groundwater—surface water (GW-SW) interactions considering the effects of permafrost distribution for the Tanana Flats Basin in interior Alaska. The Parameter ESTimation (PEST) code is used to calibrate the model with observed stream discharge data. A 36-year MODLFOW-USG regional simulation shows the following. (1) Permafrost impedes groundwater movement in all directions and through taliks provides a major pathway to connect the groundwater and surface water systems. More than 80% of the vertical groundwater flow occurs within the permafrost-free zones. (2) Permafrost holds a significant amount of water that cannot be easily released through groundwater movements; however, water above the permafrost table has much higher renewal rates than deep groundwater. (3) Groundwater upwelling supports the base flow for the Tanana River and its tributaries throughout the year and feeds water to the wetland ecosystems at the Tanana Flats through unfrozen zones. Stream leakage is also highly correlated with stream discharge. Our study suggests that cold regional hydrological cycle studies should consider the effects of permafrost distribution under future warming conditions. This study provides a robust three-dimensional hydrological modeling tool that can be applied for the regions underlain with either continuous or discontinuous permafrost.
Processing privacy information and decision-making for smartphone apps among young German smartphone users

ABSTRACT While privacy behaviour is generally equated with self-disclosure, other forms of behaviour that potentially infringe an individual’s privacy, such as downloading an app, are being neglected by research. We seek to fill this gap by modelling app decision-making within a dual-process model of the attitude–behaviour relationship and the role of privacy attitudes in two kinds of information processing: (1) spontaneous, heuristic processes that rely on automated attitude activation and (2) elaborate, cognitive processes that rely on behavioural intentions to guide behaviour. We used a quasi-experimental design to investigate app decision-making processes for N = 89 participants in N = 254 decision-making cases. Participants were asked to provide information on their actions after downloading three apps on their smartphones over a 2-week period. We could identify two distinct types of information processing and found support for attitude activation and, to a lesser degree, intentions as requirements for the influence of privacy attitudes on app decision-making.
Effect of Clove Powder and Modified Atmosphere Packaging on Storage Quality of Chicken Meat Caruncles During Ambient Storage ( 35 ± 2 o C ) Conditions

Chicken meat caruncles were prepared by utilizing 65% spent hen meat. Treated samples were added with 0.2% clove powder as natural preservative. These were packaged aerobically as well as under modified atmosphere conditions using 50:50 CO 2 /N 2 gas mixture and stored at 35±2C and 70% RH for a storage period of 60 days. The physico-chemical and microbiological qualities were assessed on 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 days. At beginning of the storage, modified atmosphere packaged control and treated samples showed significantly lower (P<0.05) pH than aerobic samples but there was no significant difference between variants at the end of storage period. Free fatty acid (%) value was significantly lower (P<0.05) in modified atmosphere packaged control and treated samples than aerobic counterparts (day 40). Clove treated both aerobic and modified atmosphere packaged samples showed significantly lower (P<0.05) peroxide value than their control counterparts. Standard plate count was found to be significantly lower (P<0.05) in treated aerobic and treated modified atmosphere packaged samples than their control counterparts throughout the storage period except day 20. Coliform count, S. aureus and yeast and mold count were not detected in any of the test sample throughout the storage. The present study showed that 0.2% clove powder and modified atmosphere packaging showed synergistic effect in terms of free fatty acid value but independent inhibitory action on peroxide value and standard plate count.
Momentum Effect, Value Effect, Risk Premium and Predictability of Stock Returns – A Study on Indian Market

Efficient market hypothesis (EMH), one of the central pillars of modern financial theories, often fails to explain the ? financial anomalies? One fatal challenge of EMH probably comes from the theoretical assumption of ? rational man? According to EMH, the fully rational investor may change his demand for financial assets on the basis of available information. According to EMH, at any given point of time, the stock price should reflect all the available information, and predictability of stock returns should be impossible. However, the literature shows ample evidence of abnormal returns related to firm and market specific attributes. In financial literature, these variations are often termed as ? financial anomalies? Within the framework of behavioural finance, there are research results that contain evidence on predictability of future stock market returns based on financial anomalies (Stanivuk et al., 2012). Value effect and momentum effect are the two prominent financial anomalies (Ho, 2012). This paper explores the predictability of Indian stock market returns using multiple discriminant analysis. Our result shows that the risk premium, momentum and value effect may have significant power for predicting the Indian stock market returns. The validity test of the model also corroborates the impact of financial anomalies over predictability of stock returns.
A Certification Model for Regulatory Arbitrage: Will Regulatory Arbitrage Persist under Basel III?

Based on anecdotal evidence, regulatory arbitrage was a major catalyst of the recent financial crisis. However, regulatory arbitrage is both theoretically and empirically not yet adequately explored. This article develops a theoretical model of regulatory arbitrage. The model is based on a set up where regulatory risk weights act as a certification of the riskiness of a bank’s opaque balance sheet. When regulatory risk weights are misspecified, regulatory arbitrage for the (informed) banks exists. The authors empirically demonstrate that regulatory arbitrage opportunities between the trading business and the loan business existed under the Basel I and Basel II framework and are likely to subsist under the Basel III regime. Their analysis is based on the so-called asset correlation parameter that plays a crucial role for capital requirements under Basel II and Basel III.
A Model for Remote Depth Estimation of Buried Radioactive Wastes Using CdZnTe Detector

This paper presents the results of an attenuation model for remote depth estimation of buried radioactive wastes using a Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detector. Previous research using an organic liquid scintillator detector system showed that the model is able to estimate the depth of a 329-kBq Cs-137 radioactive source buried up to 12 cm in sand with an average count rate of 100 cps. The results presented in this paper showed that the use of the CZT detector extended the maximum detectable depth of the same radioactive source to 18 cm in sand with a significantly lower average count rate of 14 cps. Furthermore, the model also successfully estimated the depth of a 9-kBq Co-60 source buried up to 3 cm in sand. This confirms that this remote depth estimation method can be used with other radionuclides and wastes with very low activity. Finally, the paper proposes a performance parameter for evaluating radiation detection systems that implement this remote depth estimation method.
Characteristics and prognosis of malignant external otitis with facial paralysis.

OBJECTIVE To compare the characteristics and prognosis of patients with malignant (necrotizing) external otitis (MEO) with and without facial nerve palsy in today's era of third-generation antibiotics. DESIGN Comparative retrospective case series. SETTING Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, a tertiary care medical center. PATIENTS Forty-eight patients with MEO diagnosed and treated from 1990 to 2004. Eight had facial paralysis and 40 had normal facial nerve function. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Clinical, laboratory, and imaging findings and survival. RESULTS There was no statistically significant difference between patients with and without facial nerve involvement in terms of age, comorbidities, duration of complaints, physical findings, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and bone scan findings. Computed tomography indicated a more progressive disease in patients with facial nerve involvement. However, no statistically significant between-group difference was found in overall survival. CONCLUSION Although facial nerve involvement is a sign of progression of MEO, it does not, by itself, worsen prognosis.
Investor Sentiment, Limited Arbitrage and the Cash Holding Effects

We examine the investor sentiment and limits-to-arbitrage explanations for the positive cross-sectional relation between cash holdings and future stock returns. Consistent with the investor sentiment hypothesis, we find that the cash holding effect is significant when sentiment is low, and it is insignificant when sentiment is high. In addition, the cash holding effect is strong among stocks with high transaction costs, high short selling costs, and large idiosyncratic volatility, indicating that arbitrage on the cash holding effect is costly and risky. In line with the limits-to-arbitrage hypothesis, high costs and risk prevent rational investors from exploiting the cash holding effect.
Inclusive Labor Markets as a Solution of Long Term Unemployment in Slovakia

Unemployment of each country influences its performance and is deeply connected to work productivity, inflation and living standard of population. Inflation and unemployment are phenomena, to which modern economy pays higher attention. The proof of their significance is also the fact that they have become the main areas, to which focuses the economical policy. Longterm and the highest rate of unemployment in Slovakia is concentrated in southern districts of Central and Eastern Slovakia. Concentration of high rate of unemployment in some regions causes that traditional tools for solution of this problem are not effective anymore. To new tools for solution of unemployment problem belongs also the concept of inclusive market as a market, of which objective is to provide work opportunities for persons belonging to the category of long-term unemployed. The aim of this paper is to point to long-term unemployment in Slovakia through inclusive labor markets on the basis of theoretical starting points. In the article there is an analysis of unemployment in Slovakia and its comparison with V4 countries. Methodology towards the goal are the analytical and comparative methods. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016. v7n2p194
Heat shock protein peptide complex-96 vaccination for newly diagnosed glioblastoma: a phase I, single-arm trial.

BACKGROUND Heat shock protein peptide complex-96 (HSPPC-96) triggers adaptive and innate antitumor immune responses. The safety and efficacy of HSPPC-96 vaccination was examined in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). METHODS In this open-label, single-arm, phase I study, adult patients were vaccinated with HSPPC-96 in combination with the standard treatment for newly diagnosed GBM after surgical resection. Primary endpoints were frequency of adverse events and progression-free survival (PFS) at 6 months. Secondary endpoints included overall survival (OS), PFS, and tumor-specific immune response (TSIR). RESULTS A total of 20 patients with newly diagnosed GBM were enrolled from September 2013 to February 2015. No grade 3 or 4 vaccine-related adverse events were noted. After a median follow-up of 42.3 months, PFS was 89.5% (95% CI, 66.9%-98.7%) at 6 months, median PFS was 11.0 months (95% CI, 8.2-13.8), and median OS was 31.4 months (95% CI, 14.9-47.9). TSIR was significantly increased by 2.3-fold (95% CI, 1.7-3.2) after vaccination. Median OS for patients with high TSIR after vaccination was >40.5 months (95% CI, incalculable) as compared with 14.6 months (95% CI, 7.0-22.2) for patients with low TSIR after vaccination (hazard ratio, 0.25; 95% CI, 0.071-0.90; P = 0.034). A multivariate Cox regression model revealed TSIR after vaccination as a primary independent predicator for survival. CONCLUSION The HSPPC-96 vaccination, combined with the standard therapy, is a safe and effective strategy for treatment of newly diagnosed GBM patients. TSIR after vaccination would be a good indicator predicting the vaccine efficacy. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02122822. FUNDING National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2014BAI04B01, 2014BAI04B02), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (7164253), Beijing Talents Fund (2014000021469G257), and Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee (JSGG20170413151359491).
The Relationship among Parental Involvement, Socioeconomic Status, and Mathematics Achievement in Jordan

The purpose of this study is to examine relationships between combinations of socioeconomic status (SES) of students’ families, the students’ parents’ involvement (PI) levels, and students’ mathematical achievement (SMA) in Jordan. A three sections instrument was distributed to parents/guardians of students in order to collect demographic information, socioeconomic status, parental involvement levels, and mathematics achievement. The sample consisted of parents of male and female students in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades; 93 male students (61.2%), and 58 female students (38.2%). The study revealed no relationship between socioeconomic status and parental involvement in Jordan, positive relationship between parental involvement at home (PIH) and students’ mathematics achievement (SMA), a positive relationship between parental involvement at school (PISC) and students’ mathematics achievement (SMA), and a positive relationship between family income and SMA, and parents’ education level and SMA, while no relationship was found between parents’ employment status and SMA. The findings suggested a number of recommendations for further research and practice, specifically with regard to curriculum development and the design of parent-school communication programs.
International Group Heterogeneity and Students’ Business Project Achievement

In business higher education, group project work plays an essential role. The purpose of the present study is to explore the relationship between the group heterogeneity of students’ business project groups and their academic achievements at both group and individual levels. The sample consists of 536 freshmen from an International Business School in a Dutch University. The research has revealed that students’ academic performances are positively correlated with their achievement in group projects at both individual and group levels. However, the group ethnic heterogeneity is negatively related with students’ project scores. The findings may enable education practitioners to gain more insights into students’ project work and manage students’ group work more effectively.
Five‐year experience using sirolimus‐based, calcineurin inhibitor‐free immunosuppression in pediatric renal transplantation

Hymes LC, Warshaw BL. Five‐year experience using sirolimus‐based, calcineurin inhibitor‐free immunosuppression in pediatric renal transplantation. Pediatr Transplantation 2011: 15: 437–441. © 2011 John Wiley & Sons A/S.