Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Calorie Deficiency in Children on Chronic Hemodialysis and Some Effects of Calorie Supplements

Uremic children, including those on chronic hemodialysis, often exhibit mild lassitude, are wasted, and do not grow well. The absolute volumes of the total body water and extracellular fluid compartments of children compared with adults are small, necessitating strict dietary limitations of protein, sodium potassium and water. Observed cell mass is low and extracellular volume is high, confirming clinical impression of wasting and salt retention. Food record analyses of 10 children on hemodialysis 3 times weekly indicate that within the dietary restrictions calorie intakes were approximately 50% of ideal in the 5 small children (< 110 cm in height and < 6 years old), and 70% of ideal in the 5 larger children (> 125 cm and > 10 years old). Daily calorie supplements of from 40–55% of ideal intake were taken by 3 of the small children and 2 of the larger children, increasing their total calorie intake to 75–95% ideal. The heights of 9 of the children were measured monthly for no less than 4 months, and growth velocity computed from this Growth velocity was compared to the 50th percentiles of growth increments in normal children of the same age and was expressed as a fraction of normal growth velocity for the period of observation. The 5 children given calorie supplements all grew at 0.9–1.7 of normal and the 4 non-supplemented children grew at 0.1–0.4 of normal. Protein intakes were all above recommended. These findings provide tentative evidence that calorie deficiency may be a factor in uremic growth failure, and that in the absence of other complications, some growth is possible when high density calorie supplements are provided.
DNS of flow and heat transfer characteristics of multiple impinging jets

Multiple impinging jet (MIJ) is widely used for cooling of industrial applications such as electric device, blades of gas turbine, hot steel and so on, since it possesses high performance of heat transfer rate and is easier to implement into various systems. Thus, in order to improve the heat transfer performance, it is indispensable to elucidate the detail of flow phenomenon. In the present study, in order to analyze the flow and heat transfer characteristics formed by the interaction of MIJ, we conduct the DNS (direct numerical simulation) of 13 and 19 round impinging jets and investigate the influence of interference between jets. From the instantaneous velocity distribution, it is observed that each jet impinges the impingement wall and diffuses in the radial direction in both multiple jets. From the time-averaged velocity and Nusselt number distribution, it is confirmed that flow phenomena such as up-wash flow due to the interaction between jets are generated and that the Nusselt number shows a high value at the impinging points and decreases toward the outside of the calculation region. In addition the heat transfer performance decreases in the interaction region between the jets.
Financial Literacy and Work Engagement as Mediating Variable to Bank Agent's Performance

This study aims to analyze the direct effects of financial literacy and work engagement on agent’s performance in the implementation of branchless banking strategy. It also aims to analyze the indirect effect of financial literacy on agent's performance if work engagement becomes a mediating variable. This research model is exploratory research with a survey method and purposive sampling technique. The data obtained from primary data sources using questionnaires to 85 active agents in Palembang, Indonesia. It was analyzed by using path analysis through Structured Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) technique. The result shows that the level of financial literacy and work engagement positively affect agent's performance directly, but financial literacy has negative effect on work engagement and on agent's performance indirectly. It shows that without the feeling of being engaged to the bank, it will weaken the influence of agent's financial literacy on agent’s performance. Therefore, it is advisable for banks to keep and maintain the agent's work engagement, which in turn will affect the performance of agents.
Proceedings of the 5 th International Conference on Accounting Studies ( ICAS 2018 ) 16-17 October 2018 , Penang , Malaysia The Perspective of Corporate Governance Reformation from the Lens of Institutional Theory

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to address the importance of examining the link between corporate governance and foreign equity investment through the right theoretical lens. The paper focuses on the discussion of corporate governance reformation in Malaysia that gradually converged towards Anglo-American model at the pinnacle of Asian financial crisis 1997/1998. By embracing institutional theory, the actions taken by majority of organizations in Malaysia in the aftermath of the crisis are justified and the reactions of foreign investors towards the corporate governance recuperation in Malaysia’s institutional corporate setting are explained. This paper also provides in depth explanation of the applied theory, which under the scope of neo-institutional theory that accentuated on legitimacy. Besides, this paper claims the relevant use of this theory with the subject discussed, thus argues the significant importance of theoretical aspects of the institutional context to the study of governance change and institutional dynamic setting in emerging country like Malaysia. In summary, the use of apt lens of theory to justify the reactions and actions taken by the actors is imperative as an essence to convey a period of momentous changes in the storyline of the governance change from the perspective of the foreign investors.
Importance of Wellness Concepts in the Hotel Industry: Perspectives from the Millennials

ABSTRACT Millennials taking more responsibilities for their health and improvement of their substantial and spiritual well-being is the reason behind the prosperous demand for wellness concepts in the hotel industry. This study aims to evaluate the importance of wellness concept and attributes of Millennials hotel guests. Results indicated that intellectual wellness is perceived to be an important wellness concept while female shows higher level of agreement on spiritual wellness. Natural remedies and mind therapy are valued as important hotel amenities. Implications and limitations are discussed in the paper.
The Sentinel-1 radar mission: status and performance

The ESA Sentinels constitute the first series of operational satellites responding to the Earth Observation needs of the EU-ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme. The GMES space component relies on existing and planned space assets as well as on new complementary developments by ESA. This paper describes the Sentinel-1 mission, an imaging synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation at C-band. It provides an overview of the mission requirements, its applications and the technical concept for the system.
Point of Care strategy for rapid diagnosis of novel A/H1N1 influenza virus.

In late June 2009, we implemented for public hospitals of Marseille Point Of Care strategy for rapid diagnosis of novel A/H1N1 influenza virus. During two months, we have tested more than 900 specimens in both Point Of Care laboratories. We believe that implementation of Point of Care strategy for the largest number of suspects cases may improve quality of patients care and our knowledge of the epidemiology of the pandemic.
Taiwanese Protective Social Workers Meeting Elected Representatives: Perspectives of Protective Social Workers

Abstract As no empirical research in Taiwan has investigated elected representatives’ interventions in protective social work, this research explores protective social workers’ experiences of elected representatives’ involvement in protective cases. Quantitative and qualitative research was conducted with 313 Taiwanese protective social workers. Data were collected with an anonymous open-ended questionnaire from both public and private sectors. Findings revealed that elected representatives become comprehensively involved in some protective cases, stressing protective social workers to the point of burnout and resignation. However, no effective methods to limit or stop political interruption exist. Therefore, this study proposes that central and local governments should pay more attention to this phenomenon by restricting interference and arranging training and seminars for both protective social workers and elected representatives. In the near future, quantitative or qualitative studies should be conducted using a larger population and face-to-face interviews to acquire an in-depth understanding of the representation of the perspectives of protective social workers.
Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability

This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills promoting more environmental regulation and control in the year after the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The change in legislative agenda is persistent over time, and it is associated with an electoral penalty in the following elections. The response is mainly promoted by representatives in safe districts, those with more experience, and those with strong pro-environment records. Our evidence thus reveals that natural disasters may trigger a permanent change in politicians' beliefs, but only those with a sufficient electoral strength or with strong ideologies are willing to engage in promoting policies with short-run costs and long-run benefits.
Is There a Trump Effect? An Experiment on Political Polarization and Audience Costs

Does President Trump face domestic costs for foreign policy inconsistency? Will co-partisans and opposition-partisans equally punish Donald Trump for issuing flippant international threats and backing down? While the president said he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” without losing voters, the literature consistently shows that individuals, regardless of partisanship, disapprove of leaders who jeopardize the country’s reputation for credibility and resolve. Given the atypical nature of the Trump presidency, and the severe partisan polarization surrounding it, we investigate whether the logic of audience costs still applies in the Trump era. Using a unique experiment fielded during the 2016 presidential transition, we show that Republicans and Democrats impose equal audience costs on President Trump. And by varying the leader’s identity, between Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and “The President,” we demonstrate that the public adheres to a non-partisan logic in punishing leaders who renege on threats. Yet we also find Presidents Trump and Obama can reduce the magnitude of audience costs by justifying backing down as being “in America’s interest. ” Even Democrats, despite their doubts of Donald Trump’s credibility, accept such justifications. Our findings encourage further exploration of partisan cues, leader-level attributes, and leader-level reputations.
A high efficiency resonant switched capacitor converter with continuous conversion ratio

A resonant switched capacitor converter with high efficiency over a wide and continuous conversion ratio is introduced. The efficiency of the topology depends primarily on the conduction losses and is decoupled, to a large extent, from the voltage conversion ratio. This is an advantage over classical switched capacitor converters in which the efficiency is strongly related to the conversion ratio. The operation principle applies three zero current switching (ZCS) states to charge, discharge and balance the remaining charge of the flying capacitor. This results in a Gyrator-behaved voltage-dependent current source with a wide voltage conversion ratio (smaller as well as greater than unity) as well as bidirectional power flow capabilities. The analytical expressions for conversion ratio and expected efficiency are provided and validated by simulation and experiments. The experimental verification of the converter demonstrates peak efficiency of 96%, and above 90% efficiency over a wide range of voltage gains and loading conditions. In addition, the system was found to be highly efficient at the extreme cases of both light and heavy loads.
I/O-Efficient Generation of Massive Graphs Following the LFR Benchmark

LFR is a popular benchmark graph generator used to evaluate community detection algorithms. We present EM-LFR, the first external memory algorithm able to generate massive complex networks following the LFR benchmark. Its most expensive component is the generation of random graphs with prescribed degree sequences which can be divided into two steps: the graphs are first materialized deterministically using the Havel-Hakimi algorithm, and then randomized. Our main contributions are EM-HH and EM-ES, two I/O-efficient external memory algorithms for these two steps. We also propose EM-CM/ES, an alternative sampling scheme using the Configuration Model and rewiring steps to obtain a random simple graph. In an experimental evaluation, we demonstrate their performance; our implementation is able to handle graphs with more than 37 billion edges on a single machine, is competitive with a massively parallel distributed algorithm, and is faster than a state-of-the-art internal memory implementation even on instances fitting in main memory. EM-LFR’s implementation is capable of generating large graph instances orders of magnitude faster than the original implementation. We give evidence that both implementations yield graphs with matching properties by applying clustering algorithms to generated instances. Similarly, we analyze the evolution of graph properties as EM-ES is executed on networks obtained with EM-CM/ES and find that the alternative approach can accelerate the sampling process.
Fluazifop Toxicity to Quackgrass (Agropyron repens) as Influenced by Some Application Factors and Site of Application

The phytotoxicity of the butyl ester of fluazifop to quackgrass was enhanced by the addition of a nonionic surfactant and an oil additive either alone or in mixture to the spray solution. The enhancement caused by the surfactant was consistently greater than that caused by the oil additive. A higher level of quackgrass control was achieved at the carrier volumes of 100, 200, or 400 L/ha, than at 800 L/ha. Quackgrass growth inhibition was greater following application of small herbicide droplets which averaged 0.25 μl compared to larger herbicide droplets at each herbicide application rate. When droplet concentration was varied and different doses of the herbicides applied to plants, no significant differences were noted at the highest dose. However, at intermediate dose treatments, the least concentrated droplets (2.5 μg/μl) were most phytotoxic. Herbicide droplets placed at basal areas of leaves were more phytotoxic than when placed at lamina apices and middle areas. This effect was most pronounced on adaxial rather than abaxial surfaces. In general, application of droplets to younger leaves resulted in greater phytotoxicity than treatment of older leaves.
How the Kuroshio Current Delivers Nutrients to Sunlit Layers on the Continental Shelves With Aid of Near‐Inertial Waves and Turbulence

The Kuroshio Current carries a large amount of nutrients in dark subsurface layer along the southern coast of Japan. However, due to lack of sufficient multidisciplinary high‐resolution observations, it has been unclear whether and how the subsurface nutrients are injected to sunlit layers on the continental shelf. In this study, using a state‐of‐the‐art tow‐yo microstructure profiler and nitrate measurements, we show that the Kuroshio flowing on the shelfbreak induces very strong turbulent dissipation rate ∼O(10−7W·kg−1) and diffusivity ∼O(10−3 m2·s−1) over an across frontal scale of 20–30 km. This strong turbulence could provide a diffusive nitrate flux to euphotic zone of >O(1 mmol N·m−2·day−1). As the Kuroshio steadily runs on the continental shelves along the path, the nutrient injection found in this study is a very important supply for biological production on the continental margin along the southern coast of Japan.
Engaging online students through peer-comparison progress dashboards

Purpose Students studying exclusively online face the challenge of gauging their progress in relation to that of their disparate peers. The purpose of this paper is to describe the creation of a student progress “dashboard” in an online Masters programme, and the perceived effectiveness of the tool for engaging students. Design/methodology/approach Tableau® visualisation software was used to create a dashboard displaying cohort comparison data comprising metrics relating to the continuous assessment components of the Masters programme. An anonymous questionnaire gauged students’ perceptions of the dashboard. Findings Feedback from students (n=137) suggests the dashboard improved their motivation, incentivising change in study behaviours, and sense of belonging to an online community of learners. It also acted as a conversation catalyst between staff and students, whereby students more readily engaged in dialogue with their personal tutor. Practical implications Distance learners are more likely to feel isolated and can become demotivated, which contributes to typically higher levels of withdrawal from online programmes vs those delivered on-campus. Tutors may consider communicating progress data as dashboards to enable online students to monitor their academic progress alongside that of their peers, as a motivational tool in an otherwise disparate group of learners, and to reduce feelings of isolation by reminding distance learners that they are part of a larger online community. Originality/value This paper shares student and tutor perspectives on the use of dashboards to increase online students’ motivation, and examines whether the benefits of a peer-comparison dashboard are reserved for high-achieving students.
Estrogenicity of Styrene Oligomers: Response to Ohno et al.

at high concentrations at which test com? pounds were precipitated, cells indicated an abnormal response in the luciferase activity of control plasmids and in morphology (data not shown). To construct a stable assay sys? tem, we used HeLa cells transfected with an hERa expression plasmid derived from nor? mal human liver ERa. In this assay system, styrene dimers and trimers did not show any increase in E2-dependent luciferase tran? scription activity. These results agreed with the result of the ER binding assay. We presume that styrene dimers and trimers had no binding affinity to ER and they did not affect E2-dependent transcription. As a result, in our comparison of three ER binding assays using estrogenic and nonestrogenic compounds, it appeared that Method RI and Method A were useful for evaluating binding affinity for the ER, but Method B, similar to the method of Ohyama et al. (10), tended to indicate false-positives in high concentrations in which test chemicals were insoluble; this reduced the specificity of ER to E2. Based on our present results and previous reports (2-7), we found no endocrine-disrupting activities in styrene dimers and trimers eluted from polystyrene-containing instant noodle containers.
Chromatographic Techniques in the Research Area of Lithium Ion Batteries: Current State-of-the-Art

Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are widely used in numerous application areas, including portable consumer electronics, medicine, grid storage, electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles. One major challenge during operation and storage is the degradation of the cell constituents, which is called aging. This phenomenon drastically reduces both storage lifetime and cycle lifetime. Due to numerous aging effects, originating from both the individual LIB cell constituents as well as their interactions, a wide variety of instruments and methods are necessary for aging investigations. In particular, chromatographic methods are frequently applied for the analysis of the typically used liquid non-aqueous battery electrolytes based on organic solvents or ionic liquids. Moreover, chromatographic methods have also been recently used to investigate the composition of electrode materials. In this review, we will give an overview of the current state of chromatographic methods in the context of LIB cell research.
Variación de compuestos fenólicos totales, flavonoides y taninos en Vanilla planifolia jacks. ex Andrews de la Huasteca Hidalguense, México

* Autor responsable v Author for correspondence. Recibido: octubre, 2016. Aprobado: abril, 2017. Publicado como ARTÍCULO en Agrociencia 52: 55-66. 2018. 1Estrategias para el Desarrollo Agrícola Regional. Campus Puebla. Colegio de Postgraduados. 72760. Cholula, Puebla. (gdlandrade@hotmail.com, adah@colpos.mx*, behc@colpos.mx, lauracaso2004@yahoo.com). 2Fruticultura. Campus Montecillo. Colegio de Postgraduados. 56230. Montecillo, Estado de México. (larevalo@colpos.mx).
Operation of a medium-voltage drive under faulty conditions

This work presents a method for operating cascaded multilevel inverters when one or more power cells are damaged. The method is based on the use of additional switches in the power circuit to bypass the faulty cell. To control the cells, the angle of phase shifting in the carrier signals is modified according to the number of operating cells, to minimize the load voltage distortion, when the inverter operates in failure mode. The reference signals of the PWM modulators are also modified to increase the output voltage. Simulation and experimental results show the effectiveness of this method, which significantly increases the reliability of the drive.
Tribological performances of graphite–MoS2 coating at various high temperatures

The tribological performances of the graphite–MoS2 coating deposited on the disc specimen, whose material is GCr15 steel, are experimentally investigated under high temperatures. Effects of graphite content, applied load, rotational speed and test temperature on the coefficient of friction and wear scar width of the coating are evaluated. The graphite–MoS2 coating with 20 wt% graphite addition exhibits the relatively small coefficient of friction and wear scar width at 200 ℃. At or beyond 400 ℃, the coating's lubricating effect is severely deteriorated with the testing time. At 200 ℃, there exists a critical applied load of 10 N and a critical rotational speed of 1250 rpm beyond which the MoS2 coating with 20 wt% graphite content is worn through and brings out a large coefficient of friction. The test results indicate that adding 20 wt% to 33 wt% graphite to MoS2 coating leads to an obvious reduction of the coefficient of friction and wear scar width for the coating at 200 ℃.
Stability analysis and stabilization of systems presenting nested saturations

This paper addresses the problems of stability analysis and stabilization of systems presenting nested saturations. In the analysis problem the objective is the determination of estimates of the basin of attraction of the system. Considering the stabilization problem, the goal is to design a set of gains in order to enlarge the basin of attraction of the system. Based on the modelling of the closed-loop system as a linear system with dead-zone nested nonlinearities and the use of a modified sector condition, LMI stability conditions are formulated. Based on this condition, convex optimization problems are proposed to determine solution for both problems.