Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
NACHGIEBIGER VERBUND. EINE NAEHERUNGSLOESUNG UND DEREN ANWENDUNGSMOEGLICHKEITEN

FUER KONSTRUKTIONEN MIT NACHGIEBIGEM VERBUND WIRD EIN RECHEN- UND TRAGMODELL VORGESTELLT, DAS IN EINFACHER WEISE DEN EINFLUSS DIESER NACHGIEBIGKEIT AUF DIE SPANNUNGEN IN DER KONSTRUKTION BESCHREIBT. DIESES VERFAHREN HAT GRENZEN. ES SETZT ELASTISCHES VERHALTEN DER BAUSTOFFE VORAUS, ES UNTERSTELLT, DASS DER TRAGANTEIL UEBER BIEGUNG DER DECKSCHICHTEN UND UEBER BIEGUNG DES VERBUNDTEILS KONSTANT IST, DAMIT IST DIE ANWENDUNG AUF STATISCH BESTIMMT GELAGERTE BAUTEILE BEGRENZT. GLEICHWOHL GESTATTET DIESES EINFACHE MODELL DIE DURCHFUEHRUNG VON PARAMETERSTUDIEN, DIE PLANUNG UND KRITISCHE BEWERTUNG VON VERSUCHEN, DIE BESTIMMUNG VON KENNWERTEN AUS VERSUCHEN UND DIE BEMESSUNG VON VIELEN TRAGWERKEN DER PRAXIS. DORT, WO DIE GRENZEN DES VERFAHRENS UEBERSCHRITTEN WERDEN, STEHEN ANDERE, WIRKLICHKEITSNAEHERE, ABER AUCH KOMPLIZIERTERE RECHENVERFAHREN, ZUM BEISPIEL NACH DER SANDWICHTHEORIE ODER UNTER VERWENDUNG FINITER ELEMENTPROGRAMME, ZUR VERFUEGUNG. (A*)
Predictors of Stage of Adoption for Colorectal Cancer Screening Among African American Primary Care Patients

Background: Compared with other racial groups, African Americans have the highest colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality rates coupled with lower screening rates. Objective: Our study examined the predictors of stage of adoption for fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) and colonoscopy among African American primary care patients who were nonadherent to published screening guidelines. Methods: Baseline data (N = 815) in a randomized clinical trial were analyzed. Participants were categorized into precontemplation, contemplation, and preparation stages for FOBT and colonoscopy. Predictor variables were demographics, clinical variables, CRC health beliefs and knowledge, and social support. Hierarchical modeling was to identify significant predictors of stage of adoption. Results: Older, male, Veterans Affairs participants and those with higher perceived self-efficacy, family/friend encouragement, and a provider recommendation had higher odds of being at a more advanced stage of adoption for FOBT. Patients with a history of cancer and higher perceived barriers had higher odds of being at an earlier stage of adoption for FOBT. Predictors of more advanced stage of adoption for colonoscopy included higher perceived benefits, higher perceived self-efficacy, family/friend encouragement, and a provider recommendation for colonoscopy. Higher income (>30 000 vs <15 000) was predictive of earlier stage of adoption for colonoscopy. Conclusions: Enhancing self-efficacy, encouragement from family and friends, and provider recommendations are important components of interventions to promote CRC screening. Implications for Practice: Nurses can use knowledge of the characteristics associated with stage of adoption to educate and motivate their African American primary care patients to complete CRC screening tests.
Stability analysis of sonic horizons in Bose-Einstein condensates

We examine the linear stability of various configurations in Bose-Einstein condensates with steplike sonic horizons. These configurations are chosen in analogy with gravitational systems with a black hole horizon, a white hole horizon, and a combination of both. We discuss the role of different boundary conditions in this stability analysis, paying special attention to their meaning in gravitational terms. We highlight that the stability of a given configuration, not only depends on its specific geometry, but especially on these boundary conditions. Under boundary conditions directly extrapolated from those in standard general relativity, black hole configurations, white hole configurations, and the combination of both into a black hole-white hole configuration are shown to be stable. However, we show that under other (less stringent) boundary conditions, configurations with a single black hole horizon remain stable, whereas white hole and black hole-white hole configurations develop instabilities associated to the presence of the sonic horizons.
Pengaruh customer relationship management (crm) terhadap kinerja perusahaan pada industri perbankan Indonesia

This study aims to examine empiricallly the effect of implementing customer relationship management on firm performance of banking companies in Indonesia. The variable in this study is customer relationship management (CRM) as an independent variable and firm performance as the dependent variable. This study uses secondary data are annual report of banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014 2016. Data analysis techniques used to answer the hypothesis are multiple regression analysis using SPSS version 21. The results show that there is no effect of customer relationship management on firm performance. This happens because banks are companies whose main strength is service, so maintaining good relations with customers is a must for the company.
Keeping clock accuracy on a master clock failure in substation network

Substation automation requires 4 µs accuracy and high availability of the clock synchronization mechanism. The clock synchronization protocol IEEE1588 satisfies the accuracy requirement under normal operation, but a failure on a grandmaster clock causes a large time error on the slave due to transient response by feedback loop. The failure may also trigger another failure on another grandmaster clock since IEEE1588 defines communication among them. We propose a new network architecture that utilizes IEEE802.1Q VLAN so that all grandmaster clocks can be in hot stand-by. The slave can simultaneously synchronize to and can switch between them without time error. Our proposal can also limit the impact of the failure on the other grandmaster clocks. We also describe the internal design of the slave, which consists of software of redundant feedback loops and a single oscillator. The experimental results show that the slave can keep time error under 70ns while a grandmaster clock is disconnected and the slave switches to another grandmaster clock.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS , MAN , AND CYBERNETICS — PART A : SYSTEMS AND HUMANS

A contract is a mechanism to realize the performance improvement of a supply-chain system or to achieve the perfect coordination of a supply-chain channel. This paper deals with the coordination issue of a selling channel for a short-life-cycle product. First, a new type of contract combining the return policy with markdown money according to the practice under which some companies sell their products with different marketing policies in different selling periods is designed. This case is illustrated using a stochastic dynamic-programming model. Then, the necessary condition to achieve channel coordination with this combined contract is derived; and given the scheme to allocate the coordination profit, the generalized method to find the optimal contract parameters is developed. Lastly, with analysis and simulations, it can be concluded that the supply-chain coordination with the single contract in literatures for two-period selling depends on the demand distribution and the cost structure of a system, but the combined contract that was designed depends only on the cost structure of a system. It can further be concluded that the combined contract can ensure channel coordination and arbitrarily allocate coordination profit, and that the combined contract is generalized with several classical contracts as its special examples. Furthermore, the supplier will become the active initiator of the combined contract under the high-risk setting because the combined contract can strengthen his status in the channel system and improve his performance.
Discrimination prosodique et représentation du lexique : application aux emplois des connecteurs discursifs

Dans le cadre d’une semantique linguistique reposant sur la distinction signification/sens et partant du principe que le sens se construit en discours, nos recherches ont pour objectif de rendre compte de la diversite des emplois d’un signe dans une perspective integrant la prosodie, afin de definir un processus de discrimination prosodique des differents sens d’une meme unite tels qu'ils peuvent etre decrits sur la base de corpus oraux authentiques. Elles portent sur un ensemble d’objets empiriques, de enfin a quelques ou oui en passant par disons, mais principalement sur des connecteurs discursifs. Apres avoir mis au jour des correlations forme prosodique/sens au niveau du lexique, et en prenant en compte le caractere gradable de la langue ainsi que la notion d’argumentation dans la langue, nous proposons un nouveau format de representation semantique distinguant, sur la base de nos resultats, deux niveaux de sens que sont l’interpretation-type et l’emploi-type, ce dernier presentant la particularite de comporter un commentaire exprime par la prosodie, commentaire qui porte sur le rapport a la situation et/ou a l'enonciation. L’integration d’un niveau de sens supplementaire constitue l’originalite de ce nouveau format et presente l’avantage de reduire les phenomenes de surgeneralisations observables dans les caracterisations semantiques des emplois. Nous presentons ensuite la facon dont nos resultats pourraient etre integres a une perspective lexicographique, et dont ils pourraient permettre d'obtenir a la fois une plus grande coherence et une plus grande exhaustivite des articles d’une entree de dictionnaire, et une prise en compte systematique de la prosodie des emplois.
The Impact of Radical Prostatectomy on the Survival of Patients with Carcinosarcoma of the Prostate

Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of radical prostatectomy on carcinosarcoma of the prostate. Methods: Patients diagnosed with carcinosarcoma of the prostate from 1977 through 2007 were identified in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. Outcomes were examined with Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Cox models. The association between clinical and demographic characteristics and survival of carcinosarcoma of the prostate was examined. Results: A total of fifty-four cases of histology confirmed carcinosarcoma of the prostate were identified. Median age of the patients was 74 years (range 28 - 94). Of the patients with a known tumor stage, all but one patient had a locally advanced or distant stage; all of the patients with known histology grade had poorly or undifferentiated histology. Twenty (37%) patients underwent transurethral resection only and Fourteen (25.9%) patients underwent radical prostatectomy. Eight (14%) patients received radiation therapy in combination with surgery. The median cancer specific survival was 16 months (95% CI 0 - 32 months). 1-, 3-, and 5- year cancer specific survival rate were 55.1%, 32.3% and 21.1%. In a multivariate analysis, radical prostatectomy was found to be a significant prognostic factor for cancer-specific survival. Conclusions: Carcinosarcoma of the prostate commonly occurs in older patients and associated with aggressive disease and poor prognosis. Radical prostatectomy is the only treatment modality that significantly improves survival. Emphasis on early diagnosis and detection and multimodality therapy of this disease is needed to improve the outcome for patients with this malignancy.
Social Support and Long-Term Survivors of AIDS

A naturalistic study design using ethnographic interviews was employed to elicit data about the phenomenon of being a long-term survivor of AIDS from 14 men and 6 women. Data were generated through multiple intensive open-ended interviews, demographic data sheets, and self-reported CD4 counts. Data were analyzed using latent and manifest content analysis techniques and the method of constant comparison. One of the dimensions that emerged from the data was "being in relation to others, " the complex set of interpersonal relationships that have been renegotiated to maintain the reconstructed life. Specific ways of being in relation to others included dealing with one's family, renegotiating the friendship group, helping others with HIV: and developing a relationship with a higher power The results of this study have implications for counseling people with HIV disease, and for nursing actions to enhance social support in this vulnerable group.
Microdysgenesis in surgical specimens from patients with epilepsy: occurrence and clinical correlations

Malformations of cortical development are commonly associated with epilepsy. In the first 139 consecutive patients in the Göteborg epilepsy surgery series, parenchymal malformations were found in 56.1% of the children and in 23.1% of the adults. Microdysgenesis (MDG), which was the most common parenchymal malformation, was found in 35.1% of the children and in 16.7% of the adults. The aim of this study was to identify clinical characteristics of patients with MDG. Mental retardation was found to be significantly more common in patients with major parenchymal malformations and in patients with MDG compared with patients without parenchymal malformations. Patients with major parenchymal malformations as well as patients with MDG also had a significantly earlier onset of seizures than patients without parenchymal malformations, also when adjusting for mental retardation. Patients with MDG were in these clinical aspects shown to closely resemble patients with major malformations. These findings suggest that MDG is a pathoanatomical entity of clinical relevance, with implications both in mental retardation and in epileptogenesis.
Field Trials of New Antimalarials in West Africa

It is not possible to calculate accurately the number of cases of M. canis ringworm excluded from school in one year, but the figure must be high. Apart from the -question of contagion, with which I have dealt, there can be no objection to these children being in school, because no subjective illness is produced in ringworm. The risk of child-to-child contagion is slight anyway, and it is virtually impossible if simple precautions are taken.
'Everything is everywhere, but, the environment selects'; what did Baas Becking and Beijerinck really say?

have spectac-ularly increased in frequency in recent years in environ-mental microbiology and are sometimes also quoted intheoretical ecology publications. This citation has beenused as the question-raising starting point for studies ofprokaryotic and protist biodiversity and their biogeograph-ical patterns (Garcia-Pichel
MALADMINISTRATION IN CORRUPTION CASE: A STUDY OF LIMITATION ON THE CRIMINAL ACTION

This study aims to determine the boundaries between implementing a government agency (bestuurhandeling) that harms quality state finances as maladministration or is a criminal act of corruption. Normative juridical research methods. The results of the study show that not all companies are carried out by public officials who are financial sources of corruption. In determining the boundaries between acts of maladministration and acts of the body or government officials must avoid discretionary actions that contain legal ribbons such as: fraud (deception), manipulation, misdirection (misrepresentation), concealment of facts, breach of trust, subterfuge (subfunction), or circumvention of regulations (illegal violations).
Broadband True-Time-Delay Microwave Lenses Based on Miniaturized Element Frequency Selective Surfaces

We present a new technique for designing low-profile, ultrawideband, true-time-delay (TTD) equivalent microwave lenses. Such a lens is composed of numerous spatial time-delay units (TDUs) distributed over a planar surface. Each spatial TDU is the unit cell of an appropriately designed miniaturized-element frequency selective surface and provides a frequency-independent time delay within the frequency band of interest. Two TTD lens prototypes with focal length to aperture dimension (f/D) ratios of 1 and 1.6 are designed, fabricated, and experimentally characterized at X-band. The 3-dB gain bandwidths of these lenses are respectively 7.5-11.6 and 7.8-11.5 GHz. Each fabricated lens has an overall thickness of 4.76 mm, which corresponds to ~ 0. 150λ0, where λ0 is the free-space wavelength at the center frequency of operation. Each lens uses spatial TDUs with physical dimensions of 6 × 6 mm2, or ~ 0. 19λ0 × 0. 19λ0. Both lenses have a system fidelity factor close to 1, when excited with a broadband pulse. Furthermore, due to their true-time-delay equivalent behavior, the fabricated lenses do not suffer from chromatic aberration within their operational bands. When used in a beam-scanning antenna system, each lens demonstrates an excellent scanning performance in a field of view of ± 60°.
Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome following Methylphenidate Administration

A nine‐year‐old boy with clinically typical ‘minimal brain dysfunction’ developed Tourette's syndrome eight weeks after the start of therapy with methylphenidate. Although methylphenidate was discontinued, the symptoms persisted. Treatment with haloperidol was effective. It is suggested that methylphenidate stimulated an increase in dopamine turnover and brought about the onset of Tourette's syndrome in a vulnerable patient.
Interleukin‐18 secretion and Th1‐like cytokine responses in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells under the influence of the toll‐like receptor‐5 ligand flagellin

Flagellin is the major protein component of the flagella from motile bacteria and was identified as the ligand for toll‐like receptor (TLR)‐5. Whereas its effects on epithelial cells have been studied in detail, activation of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) by flagellin is characterized only partially. By using the recombinant protein of Salmonella muenchen we confirm the proinflammatory nature of flagellin as detected by nuclear factor‐κB activation and interleukin (IL)‐8 production. Aim of the current study was to elucidate in PBMC effects of flagellin on IL‐18 and Th1‐like cytokine responses. We report that flagellin in pathophysiologically relevant concentrations augmented release of mature IL‐18 by THP‐1 monocytes, PBMC, and whole blood stimulated with nigericin or by ATP‐mediated P2X7 purinergic receptor activation. Further key functions of the IL‐18/IL‐12/interferon‐γ (IFNγ) pathway were upregulated by flagellin. Flagellin synergized with IL‐12 for production of IFN‐γ and augmented secretion of interferon‐inducible protein‐10, a CXC‐chemokine that is key to the generation of Th1‐type responses. In contrast, neither IL‐18‐binding protein nor IL‐4 was affected. Taken together, the present data demonstrate for the first time that flagellin at concentrations that are detectable in the blood compartment during sepsis efficiently enhances the IL‐18/IL‐12/IFNγ pathway and thus Th1‐like cytokine responses in PBMC.
Increased oxidative stress alters nucleosides metabolite levels in sickle cell anemia

ABSTRACT Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the markers of oxidative stress, myeloperoxidase (MPO), acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and xanthine oxidase (XO) activities as well as the levels of nucleotide metabolites in sickle cell anemia (SCA) patients. Methods: Fifteen SCA treated patients and 30 health subjects (control group) were selected. The markers of oxidative stress (levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), plasma proteins, carbonyl content, lipid peroxidation (TBARS), total thiols (T-SH), glutathione and catalase activity), MPO, AChE and XO activities as well as the levels of nucleotide metabolites were measured in SCA patients. Results: ROS, thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) and T-SH levels as well as the activities of catalase and MPO were significantly increased while glutathione level was reduced in SCA patients. Furthermore, a significant (P < 0.001) increase in hypoxanthine level was demonstrated in SCA patients. However, the serum levels for xanthine (P < 0.01) and uric acid (P < 0.001) were decreased in SCA patients. A significant (P < 0.001) decrease in XO activity was detected in SCA patients. Discussion: The altered parameters in SCA patients suggest that the generation and impairment of oxidative stress in this disease as well as antioxidant markers are contributory factors towards cellular redox homeostasis and alteration of purine metabolites.
Latency variation of auditory N1m responses to vocal and nonvocal sounds

To investigate the temporal aspect of timbre processing, we recorded auditory-evoked neuromagnetic responses to periodic complex sounds, which were matched in all acoustic parameters except for two fundamental frequencies (F0s) and 12 spectral envelopes of vocal and nonvocal categories. Only for nonvocal sounds, a significant difference in N1m latency for F0 was detected in both hemispheres. A significant difference among stimuli was detected in both hemispheres for vocal and linear sounds, whereas only in the right hemisphere for instrumental sounds. Moreover, the results of paired comparison among F0s revealed that not only the vocal sounds but also some of the nonvocal sounds were F0-independent. This latency independence may be attributed to the relatively high power in the higher frequency spectrum.
Evaluation of a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of serum immunoglobulin G response to human herpesvirus 6

A rapid (60-min) commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of immunoglobulin G (IgG) class antibodies to human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) was evaluated. The specificity of the ELISA for HHV-6 was confirmed by absorption studies, with the reactivities of HHV-6-positive sera being unaffected by other herpesviruses (cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus, and varicella-zoster virus) or the HSB2 cell line used to culture HHV-6. HHV-6 IgG antibody levels in a panel of 502 serum samples were determined by ELISA and an indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA). Results obtained by the two methods were in close agreement, suggesting that the ELISA provides a suitable test method for the determination of HHV-6 IgG antibodies in a routine clinical laboratory. Both tests were positive in 398 cases (79%), and both were negative in 71 cases (14%), with a different result obtained by IFA and ELISA in only 33 cases (7%). Furthermore, absorption of sera with HHV-6 prior to assay revealed that the majority of these results were false positive (n = 8) or false negative (n = 23) in the IFA (true positives or negatives in the ELISA). Subsequently, the ELISA showed a sensitivity of 99.76% and a specificity of 98.75%. HHV-6-specific IgG levels were also determined in paired serum samples collected from 49 donors--14 with exanthem subitum (ES), 15 with ES which was complicated with central nervous system involvement, and 20 undergoing bone marrow transplantation--in whom HHV-6 infection had been demonstrated by virus isolation and/or PCR. All patients with ES or central nervous system complications showed an increase in HHV-6-specific IgG, indicating that this ELISA may be a useful aid in the diagnosis of these conditions. Furthermore, 14 of 20 patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation showed an increase in HHV-6-specific IgG levels, possibly reflecting a reactivation of HHV-6 in these patients.