Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SCREENING FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG USE AMONG PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION A person must be an individual that haves a disability, either mental or physical, that results in a substantial barrier to employment to be eligible to receive vocational rehabilitation (VR) services from state funded Division of Rehabilitation Service (DRS) agencies. VR agencies provide comprehensive, coordinated, effective, efficient, and accountable services needed by those individuals who are deemed eligible for services to help them retain employment (Indiana Family and Social Services Association, 2011). There are many functional limitations that prevent persons with disabilities (PWD) from obtaining employment; " Functional limitations are understood to be the impairments in physical, behavioral, or emotional functioning that result directly from disability " (Janikowski, Donnely, & Lawrence, 2007, p 1); however, one limitation that PWD face are alcohol and drug abuse (AODA) barriers. Individuals who experience physical and cognitive disabilities are likely to experience AODA disorders at rates far in excess of the general population (Koch & Abuse and Disability (2010), " Substance use disorders occur more often in persons with disabilities than in the general population; People with disabilities experience a number of risks that increase their chances for substance abuse to adversely impact their lives. These risks include: medication and health problems, societal enabling, a lack of identification of potential problems, and a lack of accessible and appropriate prevention and treatment service ". Additionally, referenced by the Office on Disability, as many as 1.5 million persons with disabilities may need treatment for their substance use disorders 2 (Moore, 2002) and substance abuse prevalence rates increase with specific types of disabilities. Past research on the existence of alcohol and other drug abuse (AODA) is mixed; however, it affects different cultures, genders, people of all ages, and persons with Empirical evidence regarding the prevalence of substance use among people with disabilities has been mixed, with some findings suggesting that substance use is similar or lower among individuals with disabilities than among the general population (Katims,, while other studies indicate a higher prevalence of alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drug use among individuals with disabilities Contributed to the mixed findings are the limited studies that consist of few disability types and having a low amount of studies decrease the opportunity to generalize Although the exact amount of persons with disabilities (PWD) that use substances are uncertain, in 2002 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) suggests that approximately 4.7 million Americans with …
Risk factors and genetic bases : the case of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

4PhD in Philosophy. Full Professor, Departamento de Sociologia e Ciência Política, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Becaria Senior, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior. Florianópolis, Brazil. * ABSTRACT Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is considered to be the most frequent mental disorder in childhood. Although its diagnosis in the most utilized handbook of psychiatry in the world today – the Diagnostic and statistical handbook of mental disorders (DSM-5) – is based on behaviors of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, numerous attempts to describe the biological bases of the disorder can be found, to be used for and also as risk markers. In this paper, we will critically analyze the validity of studies associated with the search for genetic markers of ADHD. First, a characterization of ADHD by the DSM-5 handbook is presented. Subsequently, the link between ADHD, risk factors and genetic markers is developed. Finally, some conclusions are presented which highlight simplifications and omissions that could have significant consequences.
University of Southern Denmark CLL 1 and CLK 1 Exhibit Widespread Tissue Distribution With High and Co-Localized Expression in Secretory Epithelia and Mucosa

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EFFECT OF COMPETITIVE STRATEGY ON PERFORMANCE OF BUS TRANSPORT COMPANIES IN MOMBASA COUNTY, KENYA

The main objective of the study was to assess how Mombasa based bus transport companies’ performance is affected by competitive strategies. Using descriptive cross-sectional survey, data was collected through questionnaires from 122 respondents selected through simple random sampling. Data was analyzed using descriptive ( mean and standard deviation) and inferential (Pearson’s correlation and regression) statistics with the help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences and presented using tables. The level of significance for the various inferential tests was set at alpha = 0.05. Pearson’s correlation test indicated that cost leadership strategy, differentiation strategy, and focus strategy had statistically significant and weak positive correlation with the companies’ performance while innovation strategy had statistically significant and moderate positive correlation with the companies’ performance. Regression analysis suggested that approximately 74.8% of the variability in the companies’ performance was explained by the competitive strategies adopted. In particular, the regression coefficients revealed that cost leadership strategy , differentiation strategy, focus strategy and innovation strategy had statistically significant and positive influence on the companies’ performance. The study concluded that adoption and effective implementation of cost leadership strategy, differentiation strategy, focus strategy and innovation strategy by the companies would contribute to an improvement in performance. The study recommended that the management of the bus transport companies should effectively adopt the different competitive strategies to their unique situations in order to gain high competitive advantage and increased returns. The study also recommended that the directors of the bus transport companies should develop policies that are supportive of the adopted competitive strategy. The study suggested that future studies should pay attention to other factors influencing performance of bus transport companies. The study should also be replicated in other industries in order to compare findings with an aim of generating more knowledge on competitive strategies and also assist companies to adopt effective competitive strategies for their unique situations. Key terms: Competitive Cost Strategy, Differentiation Strategy, Competitive Focus Strategy, Competitive Innovation Strategy, Competitive Strategy, Performance CITATION: Malika, A. O. , & Kising’u, T. M. (2019). Effect of competitive strategy on performance of bus transport companies in Mombasa County, Kenya. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 6 (4), 18 – 34.
Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positions : Can Expanding the Pipeline Increase Parity ? JANUARY 2018

IZA DP No. 11263 JANUARY 2018 Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positions: Can Expanding the Pipeline Increase Parity? * Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women as leaders. In this study, we investigate whether and how adding women to a career pipeline can reduce gender gaps in higher-ranking positions over time. Specifically, we examine the effects of women’s local electoral success on subsequent female candidacy at higher levels of government in India from 1977 to 2014. We use close elections won by women contesting state legislature seats to identify the effect of pipeline expansion on later candidacy for the national parliament. The results indicate that for each additional lower-level seat won by a woman, there is a 30 percent increase in the number of female candidates in subsequent national legislature elections. This effect is driven by new candidates and not by career politicians, and women receive a disproportionately favorable increase in the vote share. These effects are strongest in areas with low levels of existing female political participation and empowerment. The findings are consistent with a mechanism in which exposure reduces bias, allowing for updated beliefs about the viability of latent candidates who then run for higher office. JEL Classification: J16, J71, P16
The start of the cell cycle events in plants by the conditions of altered gravity

The leading areas of modern biology space are cell biology under conditions of altered gravity and definition the cellular and molecular mechanisms plants gravisensitive. The most investigations aimed at solving the fundamental problems of cell biology and are in the knowledge of basic metabolic processes in the cell, growth, development and reproduction of plant organisms in microgravity. One of them is research in the field of space biology contribute to a clarification of the fundamental problems of space biology and create the controlled human life-support systems in manned space flight including the biotechnology development. But the create of reliability of forecasting systems in living space flights possible by the base of deep and comprehensive study of the impact factors of space flight on living organisms and their adaptation responses. The obtained literature data of cell cycle events and duration by microgravity are contradictory and diverse, that is does not allow to understand the integrity of the process. In this review it is shown known data of the processes of beginning plant cell cycle events by conditions of altered gravity (real or simulated) for understanding real state of plant cell in the same conditions and for identify future study areas. Introduction
Lower Airway Microbiota and Lung Cancer

Victoria Sanchez-Hellin1, Antonio Galiana1,2, Lucia Zamora-Molina3, Maria J. Soler-Sempere3, Justo Grau-Delgado3, Victor M. Barbera4, Isabel Padilla-Navas3, and Eduardo Garcia-Pachon3,5* 1Section of Microbiology, 2Research Unit, FISABIO, 3Section of Respiratory Medicine, 4Molecular Genetics Unit, Hospital General Universitario de Elche, Elche, Alicante, Spain 5Department of Clinical Medicine, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Alicante, Spain
Photosynthetic responses of Eucalyptus seedlings submitted to chemical and mechanical stimulus

Este trabalho objetivou investigar as respostas fotossintéticas em mudas de híbrido 1528 de Eucalyptus urophylla x Eucalyptus grandis submetidas à aplicação de ácido jasmônico (JA) e ﬂexões caulinares. O experimento foi conduzido em casa de sombra utilizando delineamento inteiramente ao acaso com cinco repetições de 20 mudas, com os seguintes tratamentos: T1: controle, T2: 8,0 μmol de JA e T3: 40 ﬂexões caulinares. A taxa de assimilação líquida de CO2 (A), condutância estomática (gs), concentração interna de CO 2 (Ci), taxa de transpiração da folha (E), efciência do uso de água (WUE), efciência intrínseca do usode água (iWUE) e efciência de carboxilação (Fc) foram mensuradas com o auxílio do IRGA. A dose de JA aplicada nas mudas foi insufciente para alterar as respostas fotossintéticas em relação ao tratamentocontrole. Estímulos mecânicos induzidos através de ﬂexões caulinares em mudas do híbrido 1528 de eucalipto promoveram incremento da capacidade fotossintética máxima e máxima assimilação de CO2. Porém, as mudas apresentaram redução na efciência do uso da água, ou seja, menor efciência fotossintética quando comparado com as mudas submetidas aos demais tratamentos. Mudas do híbrido 1528 de eucalipto submetidas aos estímulos mecânico e ácido jasmônico apresentaram maior respiração sob níveis baixos de ﬂuxo de fótons fotossinteticamente ativos.
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) How awareness changes the relative weights of evidence during human decision-making

Human decisions are based on accumulating evidence over time for different options. Here we ask a simple question: How is the accumulation of evidence affected by the level of awareness of the information? We examined the influence of awareness on decision-making using combined behavioral methods and magneto-encephalography (MEG). Participants were required to make decisions by accumulating evidence over a series of visually presented arrow stimuli whose visibility was modulated by masking. Behavioral results showed that participants could accumulate evidence under both high and low visibility. However, a top-down strategic modulation of the flow of incoming evidence was only present for stimuli with high visibility: once enough evidence had been accrued, participants strategically reduced the impact of new incoming stimuli. Also, decision-making speed and confidence were strongly modulated by the strength of the evidence for high-visible but not low-visible evidence, even though direct priming effects were identical for both types of stimuli. Neural recordings revealed that, while initial perceptual processing was independent of visibility, there was stronger top-down amplification for stimuli with high visibility than low visibility. Furthermore, neural markers of evidence accumulation over occipito-parietal cortex showed a strategic bias only for highly visible sensory information, speeding up processing and reducing neural computations related to the decision process. Our results indicate that the level of awareness of information changes decision-making: while accumulation of evidence already exists under low visibility conditions, high visibility allows evidence to be accumulated up to a higher level, leading to important strategical top-down changes in decision-making. Our results therefore suggest a potential role of awareness in deploying flexible strategies for biasing information acquisition in line with one’s expectations and goals. the or difficult to (low Behavioral and neural recordings show that evidence accumulation changed from a linear to a non-linear integration strategy with increasing stimulus visibility. In particular, the impact of later evidence was reduced when more evidence had been accrued, but only for highly visible information. By contrast, barely perceptible arrows contributed equally to a decision because participants needed to continue to accumulate evidence in order to make an accurate decision. These results suggest that consciousness may play a role in decision-making by biasing the accumulation of new evidence.
Delphi: A Cryptographic Inference Service for Neural Networks

Many companies provide neural network prediction services to users for a wide range of applications. However, current prediction systems compromise one party’s privacy: either the user has to send sensitive inputs to the service provider for classiﬁcation, or the service provider must store its proprietary neural networks on the user’s device. The former harms the personal privacy of the user, while the latter reveals the service provider’s proprietary model. We design, implement, and evaluate D ELPHI , a secure prediction system that allows two parties to execute neural network inference without revealing either party’s data. D ELPHI approaches the problem by simultaneously co-designing cryptography and machine learning. We ﬁrst design a hybrid cryptographic protocol that improves upon the communication and computation costs over prior work. Second, we develop a planner that automatically generates neural network architecture conﬁgurations that navigate the performance-accuracy trade-offs of our hybrid protocol. Together, these techniques allow us to achieve a 22 × improvement in online prediction latency compared to the state-of-the-art prior work.
MAXIMAL DIVISIBLE SUBGROUPS IN MODULAR GROUP ALGEBRAS OF TORSION ABELIAN GROUPS OVER CERTAIN COMMUTATIVE RINGS

We give the isomorphism description of the maximal divisible subgroup of the group of normalized units in commutative group algebras formed by certain torsion abelian groups over special decomposable or indecomposable rings with prime characteristic. This extends recent results of ours (Rad. Mat., 2004) and (Bull. Georgian Nat. Acad. Sci. Math., 2006) as well as a result due to Kuneva (Compt. rend. Acad. bulg. Sci., 2006). Mathematics Subject Classification 2000: 16U60, 20K20, 20K21.
Reconciling Architecture and Agility : What Matters ?

A key feature of agile software development is its prioritisation of responding to changing requirements over planning ahead. If an agile development team spends too much time planning and designing architecture then responding to change will be extremely costly, while not doing enough architectural design puts the project at risk of failure. The team must therefore find a balance. This Grounded Theory research has identified four contexts that can affect that balance: unstable requirements, early value, team experience and non agile environments. Agile teams can address these contexts through the use of one or more of five strategies: use modern vendor frameworks, do no up-front planning, plan for options, address technical challenges, and do a full up-front design. System complexity is also a strong factor in how much architecture effort is required; size does not have a direct impact.
Evaluation Analysis of Seasonal GPV Meteorological Data with SSR Mode S Surveillance Data

SSR (Secondary Surveillance Radar) is used in air traffic control to identify aircraft and determine their positions. SSR Mode S with EHS (Enhanced Surveillance) capability also downlinks DAPs (Downlink Aircraft Parameters) which are intended to enable more accurate ground-based surveillance and trajectory estimation than conventional SSR Mode A/C. However, DAPs has not been positively adopted by current air traffic management systems in Japan because of the limited number of equipped aircraft. In this paper, static air temperature and wind speed are calculated from DAPs data and statistically compared with NWP (Numerical Weather Prediction) GPV (Grid Point Value) data released by the JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) using RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error). The results show that RMSE increases with the prediction time of the NWP GPV data. The estimation error due to the minimum resolution of DAPs parameters and the effects of aircraft turning maneuvers upon static air temperature and wind speed are also analyzed. The estimation errors due to DAPs resolution are approximately 1.0[K] in static temperature and 0.35 [m/s] in wind speed. Keywords-Surveillance; SSR Mode S; Meteorological Data
A DATA CAPTURE FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF SUBSURFACE UTILITY INFORMATION

Abstract. To plan, develop, and manage underground space and make informed decisions leading to desirable outcomes, planners, land administrators, and engineers need to make sense of the underground. A reliable digital twin of the underground – a realistic, digital representation of the physical world below the surface – is required. Utilities, consisting of the pipes, ducts, cables, manholes and other assets that provide electricity, gas, water, sewerage, and telecommunication services, make up a significant portion of the shallow layers of the subsurface. A lack of reliable information on subsurface utilities may potentially lead to poor decisions leading to undesirable outcomes, lengthy and costly planning and land administration processes, and lengthy, costly, and hazardous development processes. The advent of mobile 3D ground penetrating radar technology offers the promise of non-destructive mapping of existing subsurface utilities in a large area in a relatively short amount of time and could potentially be used to improve the reliability of available information. In this work, a small number of cases studies are described at evaluating the feasibility of a large area mapping approach for subsurface utilities. Based on the results of the studies, a data capture framework for the gradual improvement of the quality of information on existing subsurface utilities is proposed.
Sea Level Rise Exposure and Municipal Bond Yields

Municipal bond markets began pricing sea-level rise (SLR) exposure risk in 2013, coinciding with upward revisions to worst-case SLR projections and accompanying uncertainty around these projections. The effect is larger for long-maturity bonds and not solely driven by near-term flood risk. We use a structural model of credit risk to quantify the implied economic impact and distinguish between the effects of underlying asset values and of uncertainty. The SLR exposure premium exhibits a trend different from house prices and is unaffected by house price controls. Together, our results highlight the importance of climate uncertainty in driving municipal bond prices.
Effect of weed management on weeds and grain yield of haricot bean

Weeds are one of the major constraints limiting haricot bean productivity and production. Field experiments were conducted on the effect of weed managements on weeds and grain yield of haricot bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) at Melkassa Agricultural Research Center from 2011 - 2013. The objective was to determine the effect of weed managements, varieties and their interaction on weeds and grain yield. The experiment was laid out split plot arrangement using randomized complete block design with three replications. Treatments were s-metolachlor at the rate of 0.96 kg ha-1, glyphosate at the rate of 1.08 kg ha-1, integration of each herbicide with hand-weeding at 45 days after sowing, twice hand-weeding at 25 and 45 day after sowing and un-weeded check. Nicandra physalodes, Xanthium strumarium and Argemone ochroleuca were the dominant weed species. Weed density and dry matter weight were significantly influenced by weed managements. The highest (129.50 m-2) and the lowest (69.50 m-2) weed density were recorded from weedy check and integration of s-metolachlor at the rate of 0.96 kg ha-1 and hand-weeding. Comparison of weed managements showed that the lowest (114.72 gm-2) weed dry matter was recorded from application of s-metolachlor with hand-weeding at 45 days after sowing while the highest (349.50 gm-2) weed dry matter was obtained from weedy check. The highest (67.17%) weed control efficiency was obtained from integrated use of s-metolachlor with supplementary hand-weeding. The effect of variety, weed managements and their interaction showed significant difference (p<0.05) on yield components and grain yield. The highest yield components and grain yield were obtained from smetolachlorplus hand-weeding while the lowest grain yield was obtained from weedy check. The relationship between weed dry matter and grain yield showed significant negative correlation. Interaction effects of years, variety and managements showed non-significant (p < 0.05) difference for all parameters. The effect due to varieties and the nteraction of variety and management did not show significant difference on weed density and dry matter though yield components and grain yield were significantly affected. This might be due to similar plant architecture or leaf canopy closure but difference in yielding potential of the test varieties. Hence, similar weed control practices can be recommended for both varieties.