Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Reasons for consumer trust in health websites: An approach integrating Website-based factors and Personality-based factors.

This research attempts to shed some light on the mechanism of the e-trust formation associated to a first phase and meeting between partners, based on the service quality delivered by the website and the personal characteristics of Internet users. An application on a health website showed that the website design, the quality and quantity of its content and the confidentiality politics are the main elements that impact positively the trust formation in health website. Moreover, it showed that disposition to trust has a positive and direct impact on the e-trust. In turn, the familiarity and the expertise of the Internet users play moderating roles.
Neurocysticercosis in Nepal: a retrospective clinical analysis

Aim: The prevalence of epilepsy is higher in Nepal. This study was conducted to analyze the clinical manifestations of neurocysticercosis (NCC) among seizure patients admitted to our center. Methods: We retrospectively studied all the NCC patients admitted to Neurology Department, Bir Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal from April 2012 to February 2014. Computer tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (CT/MRI) head, clinical profile, lab investigations and exclusion of other causes were the basis of the NCC diagnosis. Chi-square and Student′s t-test were used for comparison of variables. Results: Out of 131 seizure patients admitted, 21 patients were diagnosed with NCC (mean age: 33.95 ± 16.41; male: 15 (71.4%), female: 6 (28.6%)). Generalized tonic clonic seizure was the most common seizure type in NCC patients (18 patients; 85.7%), two of them had status epilepticus during presentation in Emergency Department. Three patients had focal seizure, one with epilepsia partialis continua. Neuroimaging showed multiple NCC lesions in 8 (38.1%) and a single NCC lesion in 13 (61.9%) patients. Seven of them (33.3%) sought traditional healers before being presented to our center. Eight patients (38.1%) were treated with antiepileptics in local health-post without neuroimaging studies done. Calcified stage of NCC was the most frequent CT/MRI findings (12 patients; 57.1%). Phenytoin was preferred both by physicians and patients due to its low cost. Conclusion: NCC is a common finding among seizure patients in Nepal. Poor economic status, illiteracy and underdeveloped rural society are the major challenges in prevention and treatment of NCC.
Les fondements microéconomiques de la persistance de l'innovation

Cette etude examine la persistance des comportements d’innovation des entreprises industrielles francaises entre 1986 et 1996. Nous trouvons que l’innovation est fortement persistante et que la nature de cette persistance depend de la taille de l’entreprise. Alors que le modele d’apprentissage est pertinent pour les petites entreprises, les grandes entreprises font reposer leurs innovations sur un modele sequentiel d’investissement en recherche ou l’apprentissage n’est pas significatif.
Successfully Striving for Happiness: Socially Engaged Pursuits Predict Increases in Life Satisfaction

Happiness is considered a highly desirable attribute, but whether or not individuals can actively steer their lives toward greater well-being is an open empirical question. In this study, respondents from a representative German sample reported, in text format, ideas for how they could improve their life satisfaction. We investigated which of these ideas predicted changes in life satisfaction 1 year later. Active pursuits per se—as opposed to statements about external circumstances or fortune—were not associated with changes in life satisfaction (n = 1,178). However, in line with our preregistered hypothesis, among individuals who described active pursuits (n = 582), those who described social ideas (e.g., spending more time with friends and family) ended up being more satisfied, and this effect was partly mediated by increased socializing. Our results demonstrate that not all pursuits of happiness are equally successful and corroborate the great importance of social relationships for human well-being.
Assessing NETS • T Performance in Teacher Candidates

Abstract To effectively integrate digital technologies in K–12 schools, teachers must be provided with undergraduate experiences that strongly support these integration resources and strategies. The National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS.T) provide a framework for teacher candidates and inservice teachers to identify their accomplishments in this realm. Using the NETS•T to deliver undergraduate teacher education curriculum, and requiring teacher candidates to document their abilities related to the NETS•T can support meaningful development for the candidates. This study examines the use of the Wayfind Teacher Assessment as a tool for determining the proficiencies of teacher candidates in their final year of preparation in relationship to the NETS•T.
Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Chronic Dialysis Population: A Multicenter Cohort Study

Background: Different studies in the past have shown that the risk of cancer development is increased in chronic dialysis patients. However, data concerning the cancer risk in Asian dialysis patients was scarce. More importantly, there was lack of information about the cancer-specific mortality in dialysis patients. Methods: A multicenter retrospective cohort study of 6,254 patients who started either chronic peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis between 1994 and 2014 in 4 renal units in Hong Kong. Patterns of cancer incidence and mortality in our dialysis patients were compared with those of the general population using standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) and standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) respectively. Results: With 14,887 person-years of follow-up, 220 cancers were recorded. The SIR of all cancers was 1.44 (95% CI 1.26-1.65). A trend of an increased SIR was observed in young patients and within the first year of dialysis. Colorectum was the most common site of cancer (20%) while kidney cancer carried the highest risk (SIR 12.28, 95% CI 8.44-17.08). The SMR of all cancers was 0.91 (95% CI 0.72-1.13) and only kidney cancer had higher cancer mortality risk (SMR 4.92, 95% CI 1.80-10.70). SMR was highest in young patients and then decreased with age. Conclusions: The incidence of cancers in our chronic dialysis patients was elevated. Our findings of substantially increased risks in young patients, particularly in relation to kidney cancer, suggest that we can adopt a more individualized approach to cancer screening in chronic dialysis patients.
Could first- and second-trimester biochemical markers for Down syndrome have a role in predicting intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy?

Introduction The aim of this study is to compare first- and second-trimester Down syndrome biochemical screening markers in intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) and normal pregnancies. Material and methods This observational case-control study was conducted at Health Sciences University Zeynep Kamil Maternity and Children’s Health Training and Research Hospital and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Erciyes University Medical Faculty during 2016–2017. The study included 165 patients, and consisted of 62 women who had been diagnosed with ICP (the ICP-diagnosed group) and 103 healthy pregnant women (the control group). First-trimester free β-human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG), pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) and second-trimester total β-hCG, estriol (E3), α-fetoprotein (AFP), and inhibin A levels were compared between the two groups. Results The mean patient age was 28.67 ±5.96 years, with no significant difference between the groups (p > 0.05). Average PAPP-A levels were significantly lower in the ICP-diagnosed group (p < 0.001). When the cut-off value for PAPP-A was taken as ≤ 0.93 multiple of median (MoM), the sensitivity and specificity values for ICP were 73.8% and 56.3%, respectively (95% CI, AUC ± SE: 0.663 ±0.042). Conclusions The decrease in PAPP-A MoM value indicates an increase in the risk of developing ICP, while changes in other markers were not sufficient to predict ICP.
SOBER-MCS: Sociability-Oriented and Battery Efficient Recruitment for Mobile Crowd-Sensing

The Internet of Things (IoT) concept is aiming at being an integral part of the next generation networking services by introducing pervasiveness and ubiquitous interconnectivity of uniquely-identifiable objects. The massive availability of personalized smart devices such as smartphones and wearables enable their penetration into the IoT ecosystem with their built-in sensors, particularly in Mobile Crowd-Sensing (MCS) campaigns. The MCS systems achieve the objectives of the large-scale non-dedicated sensing concept in the IoT if a sufficient number of participants are engaged to the collaborative data acquisition process. Therefore, user recruitment is a key challenge in MCS, which requires effective incentivization of cooperative, truthful and trustworthy users. A grand concern for the participants is the battery drain on the mobile devices. It is a known fact that battery drain in a smartphone is a function of the user activity, which can be modeled under various contexts. With this in mind, we propose a new social activity-aware recruitment policy, namely Sociability-Oriented and Battery-Efficient Recruitment for Mobile Crowd-Sensing (SOBER-MCS). SOBER-MCS uses sociability and the residual power of the participant smartphones as two primary criteria in the selection of participating devices. The former is an indicator of the participant willingness toward sensing campaigns, whereas the latter is used to prioritize personal use over crowd-sensing under critical battery levels. We use sociability profiles that were obtained in our previous work and use those values to simulate the sociability behavior of a large pool of participants in an MCS environment. Through simulations, we show that SOBER-MCS is able to introduce battery savings up to 18.5% while improving user and platform utilities by 12% and 20%, respectively.
Key Factors Predicting Firm's Technological Capability of Malaysian Manufacturing Industry from Technology Transfer Perspective

The current global economy is being transformed into a knowledge-based economy where continuous updating of technology and improving firm’s technological capabilities are of major concern. As technologies capabilities go up, it translates into better performance. Malaysia was on track towards becoming a developing country in strategic industrial sectors such as electrics and electronics, automotive, technology information, and biotechnology. In fact, Malaysia faces daunting challenges to improve its technological capabilities and gear its economy on a path to higher growth, and transition it to a higher level of development. The objectives of this study is to identify the key factors contributing to the development of firm’s technological capabilities and enhancing firm’s technology transfer performance. The result of this study shows that 52% of the selected key factors predicting the firm’s technological capability, and indicates important means for Malaysian manufacturing firms to gain higher performance and competitive advantage.
Sense of calling and career satisfaction of hotel frontline employees: Mediation through knowledge sharing with organizational members

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between sense of calling and career satisfaction of hotel frontline employees and to analyze the mediation role of knowledge sharing with organizational members given the rapidly growing academic interest in the meaning of work. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a survey of 357 frontline employees in 12 super-deluxe hotels in Korea, this study performed confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis to test the hypothesis of causal relationships in the research model. Findings – Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT), this study shows that sense of calling has a positive and significant effect on the career satisfaction of hotel frontline employees and that the relationship was mediated by active participation in knowledge sharing with supervisors and coworkers. Practical implications – The research result highlights the significance of service providers’ calling orientation on career satisfaction and t.
Exemplary Online Educators: Creating a Community of Inquiry

Within most disciplines there are those who are recognized as being exceptionally competent practitioners. These people are sometimes called exceptional or exemplary. In the educational realm, students remember these individuals at the teachers who most positively influenced their learning. The commonality of these exemplary practitioners is that they do their work in a remarkable way and their teaching strategies and interpersonal interactions are regarded by their students as highly successful.
Dynamic conic hedging for competitiveness

The paper provides a new hedging methodology permitting systematic hedging choices with wide applications. Dynamic concave bid price, and convex ask price functionals from the recent literature are employed to construct new hedging strategies termed dynamic conic hedging. The primary focus of these strategies is to adopt positions maximizing a nonlinear conditional expectation expressed recursively as a concave current bid price for the one step ahead risk held or minimizing the convex current ask price for the risk promised. Risk management and hedging then have a new market value enhancing perspective different from the classical forms of risk mitigation, local variance minimization, or even expected utility maximization.
Regional blood flow after serial normovolemic exchange transfusion with HBOC-201 (Hemopure) in anesthetized swine.

BACKGROUND This study determined individual organ blood flows and global hemodynamic, oxygen delivery and consumption parameters after normovolemic exchange transfusions with the hemoglobin based oxygen carrier (HBOC)-201 in a lightly anesthetized swine model. METHODS The exchange transfusions were performed as a stepped reduction in blood volume to attain volume exchanges of 10%, 30%, and 50% with a 1:1 replacement with HBOC-201 (n = 8) or oncotically matched 5.9% human serum albumin (HSA, n = 8). Four additional animals served as time controls. RESULTS There was no change in the regional blood flows in 8 of 9 organs (brain, heart, kidney, liver, pancreas, gall bladder, small intestines, large intestines, and skeletal muscle) after HBOC-201 compared with controls; only skeletal muscle blood flow decreased. In contrast, with HSA, blood flow increased 150% to 200% of baseline in all organs except muscle where blood flow was unchanged. HBOC-201 effectively restored oxygen delivery after these exchanges. The mean arterial pressure increases in the HBOC-201 group were within 15% to 20% of baseline during the initial 10% exchange and similar to controls during subsequent exchanges. Although peak pulmonary arterial pressure increases in the HBOC-201 group were 10 mm Hg to 15 mm Hg above baseline, cardiac index was unchanged. There were no differences in global oxygen consumption, consistent with unchanged regional blood flow and suggests intact physiologic coupling of oxygen delivery and consumption that was unimpaired by local vasoconstriction. This is in contrast to significant changes of increased cardiac index, decreased arterial pressure, decreased oxygen content, and increased oxygen extraction ratio to maintain normal oxygen consumption in the HSA group. CONCLUSION Although the use of HBOC-201 caused alterations in systemic (minimal) and pulmonary (modest) pressures, these changes had no consequence on regional organ blood flow.
CAPM Beta and the UK Stock Returns

The study examines the relationship between systematic risk and returns of stocks listed on the London Stock Exchange. Using monthly stock data of 100 randomly selected stocks from January 1996 to December 2013 collected from DataStream 5.0, monthly closing values of the FTSE All Share Index as proxy for the market portfolio, yield on 3-month UK Treasury Bill rate as the risk-free interest rate, the study tests the explanatory power of CAPM Beta in explaining the variations in returns of stocks listed on the equity market. The empirical results from the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) cross-sectional regression analysis of the Capital Asset Pricing Model show that Beta the only explanatory variable in the model offered insignificant explanation to variations in stock returns over the entire sample period and for all the four sub-periods formed in the study, indicating that stock returns in the UK equity market are not significantly sensitive to the systematic (market) risk.
Anticarcinogenic and antimicrobial activity effects of the ellagic acid extract

Recently, plant-derived compounds have been attracted increasable attention as alternative cancer remedies to enhance cancer prevention and healing, and as efficient antimicrobials, because of their low toxicity, low cost and fewer side effects. Ellagic acid (EA) is a natural phenolic constituent; previous studies have reported its antitumor properties when used in in vitro models. In this study, we have investigated the activity of a low concentration of EA against four different human cancer cell lines (SK-N-SH, Caov-3, SW-1088 and BxPC-3) which are very hard in the treatment and there is no available data about EA influence on them. Additionally, the effect of EA has assessed against (H. Pylori (Helicobacter pylori), P.aeruginosa (Pseudomonas aeruginosa), A. tumefaciens: Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Rhizobium radiobacter) and E. herbicola: Enterobacter agglomerans (Erwiniaherbicola) and two are Gram-positive bacterium S. aureus (Staphylococcus aureus) and C. acnes (Cutibacterium acnes)) strains which are resistant to the antibiotics. The results suggest that EA may have a potential role as an adjunct therapy for neuroblastoma, ovarian, pancreatic and astrocytoma cancers, in addition to its activity as an antimicrobial agent as it has been proved in this study against H. pylori, P.aeruginosa, A. tumefaciens, E. herbicola, S. aureus and C. acnes strains.
Ground-level ozone: Evidence of increasing serial dependence in the extremes

As exposure to successive episodes of high ground-level ozone concentrations can result in larger changes in respiratory function than occasional exposure buffered by lengthy recovery periods, the analysis of extreme values in a series of ozone concentrations requires careful consideration of not only the levels of the extremes, but of any dependence appearing in the extremes of the series. Increased dependence represents increased health risks and it is thus important to detect any changes in the temporal dependence of extreme values. In this paper, we establish the first test for a changepoint in the extremal dependence of a stationary time series. The test is flexible, easy to use, and can be extended along several lines. The asymptotic distributions of our estimators and our test are established. A large simulation study verifies the good finite sample properties. The test allows us to show that there has been a significant increase in the serial dependence of the extreme levels of ground-level ozone concentrations in Bloomsbury (UK) in recent years. ∗The first author acknowledges the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2016-04114 and the Fondation HEC. The authors wish to thank the Associate Editor and two anonymous referees for helpful comments that improved the paper. The authors thank Carlo Gaetan for providing code. †Corresponding author. Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal; 3000, chemin de la Côte-SainteCatherine, Montréal (Québec) Canada H3T 2A7. Email: debbie.dupuis@hec.ca. ‡Department of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Finance and Econometrics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Gemelli 1, 20123 Milano, Italy. Email: luca.trapin@gmail.com
The Effect of Road Traffic on Residential Property Values: A Literature Review and Hedonic Pricing Study

Part 1 of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973 is outlined and the current compensation procedures are described. The concepts underlying the economist's understanding of the property market are explained. The analytical approaches that can be used by researchers to investigate the impact of changes in environmental amenities on prices and values are outlined and details are given of the hedonic price technique. Empirical applications of the hedonic price technique are reported (validation of noise, vibration pollution and air pollution) and the results from the hedonic pricing study used to calculate the impact of road noise on property prices are presented. Ways in which the current compensation procedures can be altered are described.
Contributions Emotional Intelligence on Cognitive Learning Result of Biology of Senior High School Students in Medan, Indonesia

Emotional intelligence is one of the factors affecting the success of students’ learning results. Students having high emotional intelligence will be able to overcome the problems faced in school and in society. This research aims at investigating the correlation between emotional intelligence (EQ) and students’ cognitive learning results of Biology and comparing the contribution of each indicator of EQ on the Biology cognitive learning results. This research was a correlational research. The samples in this research were 232 students of class X selected randomly from 7 schools. The results of this research show that there is a correlation between EQ and Biology cognitive learning results. EQ has a contribution on the learning results as much as 5.2%. The contribution of EQ indicator such as identifying self emotion was 0.01%, managing emotions was 0.05%, motivating ownselves was 0.60%, recognizing emotions in others was of 0.33%, keeping relationship was 4.25%. The information related to the correlation between EQ and biology learning results, as well as the contributions of each indicator related can be advantageous information for teachers to develop the students’ EQ through the implementation of appropriate information learning strategies.
Why Do 'Schwarzeneggers' Raise Taxes? The Popularity of Governors and State Tax Policy

How does the political popularity of a sitting governor affect that incumbent’s tax policy choices? In this paper, I discuss whether, and by what degree, a governor’s popularity affects his or her tax policies between 1970 and 2010. The results show that high levels of popularity may induce governors to act contrary to the interests of independent voters. I find that popular Democratic governors have more incentives to increase corporate taxes, while popular Republican governors are likely to raise sales taxes. Further analysis suggests that popular term-limited governors are more likely to increase total taxes than their counterparts who are eligible for reelection. In addition to explaining the role of popularity in incumbents’ policy choices, these findings improve our understanding of the interaction between voters’ behavior and political attitudes of public officials in representative democracy.