Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Trends and Flow of foreign direct investment in India

Since the beginning of liberalization FDI flows to India have steadily grown in importance. In this paper we analyze these flows and their relationship with Indian equity market. Foreign capital flows have particularly become prominent after the advent of globalization that has led to widespread implementation of liberalization programmes and financial reforms in various countries across the globe in 1990s. Foreign portfolio inflows through FDIs, in India, are important from the policy perspective, especially when the country has emerged as one of the most attractive investment destinations in Asia. This paper reveals if the FDIs influence the Indian Equity Market. The present study has concentrated on the trends of FDI Flow in India amid 2000–01 to 2013–14 (up to November, 2013). The study additionally highlights nation astute endorsements of FDI inflows to India and the FDI inflows in distinctive division for the period April 2000 to Nov 2013. The study in light of Secondary data which have been gathered through reports of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Industrial Promotion and Policy, Government of India, Reserve Bank of India, and World Investment Report. The study presumes that Mauritius rose as the most predominant wellspring of FDI contributing. It is on account of the India has Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with Mauritius and the majority of the outside nations like to put resources into administration segment.
Frontonasal dysostosis in two successive generations.

Frontonasal dysostosis (also called frontonasal "dysplasia") comprises ocular hypertelorism, median facial cleft affecting nose and/or upper lip, unilateral or bilateral cleft of the alae nasi, anterior cranium bifidum occultum, or a widow's peak. Usually it is a sporadic disorder, although a few familial cases have been reported. We describe a 2-year-old girl with anterior cranium bifidum occultum, lipoma of genu and anterior part of the corpus callosum, and hypertelorism. Her mother had a history of a nasal drip at birth caused by a defect in the cribriform plate and phenotypically, a widow's peak. This observation suggests either autosomal dominant or X-linked dominant inheritance. The family illustrates the importance of identifying mild expression of frontonasal dysostosis before genetic counseling.
Factors associated with the success rate of orthodontic miniscrews placed in the upper and lower posterior buccal region.

OBJECTIVE To determine the success rate and the factors related to the success rate of orthodontic miniscrew implants (OMI) placed at the attached gingiva of the posterior buccal region. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four hundred eighty OMI placed in 209 orthodontic patients were examined retroactively. The sample was divided into young patients (range 10-18 years, N = 108) and adult patients (range 19-64 years, N = 109). The placement site was divided into three interdental areas from the first premolar to the second molar in the maxilla and mandible. According to soft tissue management, the samples were divided into incision and nonincision groups. Chi-square tests and multiple logistic regression analyses were used. RESULTS The overall success rate was 83.8%. Dislodgement of the OMI occurred most frequently in the first 1-2 months, and more than 90% of the failures occurred within the first 4 months. Sex, age, jaw, soft tissue management, and placement side did not show any difference in the success rate. Placement site, however, showed a significant difference in the mandible of adult patients. There was no difference in the success rate in the maxilla. CONCLUSIONS Placement site is one of the important factors for success rate of OMI.
Generational Difference and the Developmental Stake

There is drama in the continuing succession of one generation by another. This drama begins with the differences in behavior and attitudes exhibited by emerging generations; it develops with the reaction of older generations to these innovations; and it reaches a climax with the changes in configuration of culture which result. And then the drama begins anew, with yet another cast of actors. In today’s society, something new seems to have been added to the drama: a sense of urgency, of concern that the magnitude of differences between age groups has outstripped the continuity of plot that holds culture together. One wonders about those differences. What causes significant behavioral contrasts between generations? Why do such differences seem so stridently obvious today? Are they, perhaps, more apparent than real? What accounts for the anxiety surrounding generational differences? What explains the contrasting responses of youth and their elders to the manifestation of such differences; why are they welcomed by youth, and perceived with dismay or indignation by parents? A growing number of analyses have contributed much to understanding the causes of dissimilarity between generations in behavior (see, for example, Cain, 1967, 1970; Elkind, 1970; Neugarten, 1970; Thomas, 1971; Troll, 1970; Hill, 1970.) However, social scientists have not been as successful in identifying those factors affecting the quality of interactions and the element of threat in intergenerational interchanges. Perhaps prior analyses have focused too little on the issue of attribution-the perceptions generational actors have of each other, and the bases for these perceptions. The purpose of this paper is to examine some critical factors which may determine perceptions across generations, under the central assumption that cross-generational perceptions are just as determinative of the quality of intergenerational relations as are the actual differences in philosophy, attitude, and action between cohorts. Our argument is as follows: the perceptions one generation has of another in interaction are related less to the state of the perceived than to the state of the perceiver. We will suggest that the individual’s personal history, his position in society, and his state of development substantially color his perceptions and expectations of the other generations. Further, we will argue that cross-generation perceptions of their mutual interaction are often based on two processes: the fear o f loss mythology (“If I don’t watch out, I’m going to lose. . .”) and the developmental stake mythologv (“If the
Thrombolysis in a case of lateral medullary syndrome: CT angiographic findings

Objective: To describe the clinical features, MRI findings, and the pathogenesis of the pure midbrain infarction. Methods: Forty patients with infarcts limited to the midbrain were studied. MRI and angiography (mostly MR angiography) were performed in all patients. Results: Clinical manifestations included gait ataxia in 27 (68%) patients, dysarthria in 22 (55%), limb ataxia in 20 (50%), sensory symptoms in 17 (43%), third nerve palsy in 14 (35%), definitive limb weakness (≤IV/V) in nine (23%), and internuclear ophthalmoplegia in five (13%). According to MRI findings, the lesions were categorized into four groups. The anteromedial group (n = 18) was characterized by oculomotor disturbances (89%), ataxia (89%, bilateral in 17%), and sensory changes (39%) usually restricted to the perioral and hand areas. Lesions restricted to the subcortical area (n = 10) were usually related to small vessel disease (SVD) (78%), whereas those involving the medial surface (n = 8) were caused by large vessel disease (LVD) (78%). The anterolateral group (n = 11) was characterized by ataxia (70%) and definitive hemiparesis (30%) usually caused by LVD (82%). The combined group (n = 6) had frequent oculomotor disturbances (83%), definitive hemiparesis (67%), and ataxia (50%) and was usually associated with LVD (67%). The lateral group (n = 2) was characterized by prominent sensory symptoms. The prognosis was generally good except for one patient with a bilateral lesion. Conclusion: Clinical-radiologic correlation study yields four distinct subgroups: anteromedial, anterolateral, combined, and lateral. Large vessel disease and small vessel disease are usual pathogenic mechanisms, whereas cardiogenic embolism is rare.
Dental provider practices and perceptions regarding adolescent vaccination

OBJECTIVE To assess dental providers' clinical practices and perceptions regarding adolescent vaccinations. METHODS We surveyed 234 dental providers in an integrated health care setting in Portland, Oregon, in March-April 2015. We assessed participants' knowledge of adolescent vaccines, barriers to recommending vaccines, and their perceived role in the promotion of vaccination and preventive medical care. RESULTS Over 80 percent of respondents correctly identified influenza, tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis, and human papillomavirus as vaccinations recommended for adolescents; 60 percent correctly identified meningococcal conjugate. Forty-four percent of providers reported previously discussing vaccination with their adolescent patients. Lack of knowledge (66 percent), uncertainty about whether patients would accept recommendations (62 percent), and lack of time (61 percent) were commonly reported barriers. While few providers expressed personal concerns about the safety (13 percent) and effectiveness (10 percent) of adolescent vaccines, most believed parents had concerns about safety (70 percent) and effectiveness (60 percent). Although 80 percent endorsed the premise that providers should discuss preventive medical care with their patients, only 54 percent said they should discuss vaccinations specifically. CONCLUSIONS Dental providers reported several barriers to recommending vaccines. While comfortable with discussing preventive medical care in general, providers are less comfortable making vaccine recommendations to their patients. Vaccine recommendations are not a traditional practice among dental providers and may require additional education and communication tools.
United We Stand? African Americans, Self-Interest, and Immigration Reform

Alongside the growth of the immigrant population has been a corresponding backlash by citizens who increasingly support restrictive immigration policies aimed at undocumented immigrants. Much of what we know about this backlash is based on data from White Americans. Are African Americans among the growing segment of anti-immigrant supporters? Employing data from the 2006 Pew Center “America’s Immigration Quandary Survey,” I uncover that African Americans support restrictive immigration policies, and that class membership alongside subjective and objective measures of self-interest influence these policy stances. These findings challenge prior assertions that self-interest does little to account for American public opinion, demonstrating that on the issue of immigration reform that self-interest matters for African Americans.
Vulnerability to depression: A moderated mediation model of the roles of child maltreatment, peer victimization, and serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region genetic variation among children from low socioeconomic status backgrounds

Abstract Child maltreatment, peer victimization, and a polymorphism of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) were examined as predictors of depressive symptomatology. Children (M age = 11.26, SD = 1.65), including 156 maltreated and 145 nonmaltreated children from comparable low socioeconomic backgrounds, provided DNA samples and self-reports of relational peer victimization, overt peer victimization, and depressive symptoms. Path analysis showed that relational and overt victimization mediated the association between child maltreatment and depressive symptoms. Bootstrapping procedures were used to test moderated mediation and demonstrated that genotype moderated the indirect effects of relational and overt victimization on child depressive symptoms, such that victimized children with the long/long variation were at an increased risk for depressive symptoms compared to victimized children carrying a short allele. Results highlight the utility of examining process models that incorporate biological and psychological factors contributing to the development of depressive symptomatology and provide direction toward understanding and promoting resilience among high-risk youth from a multiple levels of analysis approach.
Contribution of Polymorphisms in ankA, gltA, and groESL in Defining Genetic Variants of Anaplasma phagocytophilum

ABSTRACT Analysis of several nucleotide polymorphisms in polymorphic genes (ankA, gltA, and groESL) from 16S rRNA gene-based genetic variants of Anaplasma phagocytophilum from dogs in the western United States defined at least two sets of multigene polymorphisms to further characterize these variants. The multigene polymorphism approach holds promise for development of a genotyping scheme for this important pathogen.
Effect of a Long-lasting Multidisciplinary Program on Disability and Fear-Avoidance Behaviors in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Objective:To evaluate the effect on disability, kinesiophobia, pain, and the quality of life of a long-lasting multidisciplinary program based on cognitive-behavioral therapy and targeted against fear-avoidance beliefs in patients with chronic low back pain. Methods:Study design: parallel-group, randomized, superiority controlled study. Ninety patients were randomly assigned to a multidisciplinary program consisting of cognitive-behavior therapy and exercise training (experimental group, 45 patients) or exercise training alone (control group, 45 patients). Before treatment (T1), 5 weeks later (instructive phase, T2), and 12 (posttreatment analysis, T3) and 24 months after the end of the instructive phase (1-year follow-up, T4), all of the patients completed a booklet containing the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire Scale (primary outcome), the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia, a pain numerical rating scale, and the Short-Form Health Survey. A linear mixed model for repeated measures was used to analyze each outcome measure, and the reliable change index/clinically significant change method was used to assess the clinical significance of the changes. Results:The linear mixed model analysis showed a remarkable group, time, and interaction effect for group * time in all of the primary and secondary outcomes (P always <0.001). The majority of the patients in the experimental group achieved a reliable and clinically significant improvement, whereas the majority of those in the control group experienced no change. Conclusions:The long-lasting multidisciplinary program was superior to the exercise program in reducing disability, fear-avoidance beliefs and pain, and enhancing the quality of life of patients with chronic low back pain. The effects were clinically tangible and lasted for at least 1 year after the intervention ended.
Metalloproteinase‐9 deficiency protects against hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury

Leukocyte transmigration across endothelial and extracellular matrix protein barriers is dependent on adhesion and focal matrix degradation events. In the present study we investigated the role of metalloproteinase‐9 (MMP‐9/gelatinase B) in liver ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury using MMP‐9‐deficient (MMP‐9−/−) animals and mice treated with a specific anti‐MMP‐9 neutralizing antibody or with a broad gelatinase inhibitor for both MMP‐9 and metalloproteinase‐2 (MMP‐2/gelatinase A). Compared to wild‐type mice, MMP‐9−/− mice and mice treated with an anti‐MMP‐9 antibody showed significantly reduced liver damage. In contrast, mice treated with a broad gelatinase inhibitor showed rather inferior protection against I/R injury and were characterized by persistent ongoing liver inflammation, suggesting that MMP‐2 and MMP‐9 may have distinct roles in this type of injury. MMP‐9 was mostly detected in Ly‐6G and macrophage antigen–1 leukocytes adherent to the vessel walls and infiltrating the damaged livers of wild‐type mice after liver I/R injury. Leukocyte traffic and cytokine expression were markedly impaired in livers of MMP‐9−/− animals and in livers of mice treated with anti‐MMP‐9 antibody after I/R injury; however, initiation of the endothelial adhesion cascades was similar in both MMP‐9−/− and control livers. We also showed that MMP‐9‐specific inhibition disrupted neutrophil migration across fibronectin in transwell filters and depressed myeloperoxidase (MPO) activation in vitro. Conclusion: These results support critical functions for MMP‐9 in leukocyte recruitment and activation leading to liver damage. Moreover, they provide the rationale for identifying inhibitors to specifically target MMP‐9 in vivo as a potential therapeutic approach in liver I/R injury. (HEPATOLOGY 2007.)
Assessment of internal orbital reconstructions for pure blowout fractures: cranial bone grafts versus titanium mesh.

PURPOSE To assess the adequacy of internal orbital reconstruction in pure blowout fractures using either cranial bone grafts or titanium mesh implants. PATIENTS AND METHODS The preoperative and postoperative true coronal computed tomography (CT) scans of 58 patients with unilateral pure orbital blowout fractures were included in the study. Demographic data and measurements of the pretreatment size of the defects were tabulated. The accuracy of reconstruction was assessed subjectively by 1 surgeon by scoring the position of the implant/graft, repositioning of orbital soft tissues, and assessment of orbital volume using the uninjured side for comparison. The cross-sectional area of the anterior, middle, and posterior regions of the reconstructed defect was statistically compared with the same locations on the uninjured orbits by scanning the CT scans and calculating the number of pixels within the selected CT slices. A comparison of the accuracy of reconstructions for those reconstructed with cranial bone graft and those with titanium mesh was statistically performed using parametric (for subjective analyses) and nonparametric tests (for cross-sectional area data). RESULTS Thirty-eight cases were classified as fractures of the orbital floor, 4 as isolated medial wall fractures, and 16 as combined floor/medial wall fractures. There was a statistically significant difference in the surgeon's subjective ratings of adequacy of reconstructions between titanium mesh and bone-grafted groups. Orbits reconstructed with titanium mesh were more accurate than those reconstructed with bone (P <.001). Overall, there was no significant difference in cross-sectional areas between the reconstructed and uninjured orbits in the middle and posterior regions of the defects, but the anterior region showed significantly smaller cross-sectional areas in the reconstructed orbits (P <.001). CONCLUSIONS Although there was great individual variability and both materials could be successfully used, the orbits reconstructed with titanium mesh showed better overall reconstructions than those reconstructed with bone grafts.
Semantic Multi-view Stereo: Jointly Estimating Objects and Voxels

Dense 3D reconstruction from RGB images is a highly ill-posed problem due to occlusions, textureless or reflective surfaces, as well as other challenges. We propose object-level shape priors to address these ambiguities. Towards this goal, we formulate a probabilistic model that integrates multi-view image evidence with 3D shape information from multiple objects. Inference in this model yields a dense 3D reconstruction of the scene as well as the existence and precise 3D pose of the objects in it. Our approach is able to recover fine details not captured in the input shapes while defaulting to the input models in occluded regions where image evidence is weak. Due to its probabilistic nature, the approach is able to cope with the approximate geometry of the 3D models as well as input shapes that are not present in the scene. We evaluate the approach quantitatively on several challenging indoor and outdoor datasets.
Socio-Economic Determinants of Child Labour

There may be two main reasons causing Child Labour. The first one is poverty and the second one is lack of education. In case of third world counties, it may be apparent that poverty may be the only reasons for Child Labour. But Iftikar Ahamed (1999) has actually concluded that Child Labour is foremost associated with inequality and lack of education in society.The present study has been taken up in Howrah District of West Bengal with survey of children working in ‘Zari’ industry (Golden Thread embroidery). The paper tries to find out the economic and socio-cultural determinants of Child Labour, attempts to establish a direct quantitative link between Child Labour and particular variables like income, poverty, education, demographic, structural, etc. Multivariate analysis is used to identify the effects of different factors on Child Labour. The empirical study reveals that Child Labour is determined by a number of socio-economic factors and is not necessarily associated only with poverty. It has thus policy implications for curbing Child Labour.
System-in-package integrated antennas in industrial and prospective packages for MMW applications

During past years, various research teams have been implied in the development of 60 GHz chipset solutions, using both BiCMOS and advanced CMOS technologies. But for the 60 GHz market to flourish not only low cost RFICs are required, low cost antennas and packages are also key points. In order to address these issues, we review in this paper achievable antenna performance discussing possible integration schemes at industrial level, describing industrial substrate solutions for MMW large volume consumer applications, antenna design optimization and 3D on wafer characterization. HR SOI CMOS integrated antennas and High Temperature Co-fired Ceramics (HTCC) substrate based antennas are described with measured gain values of 3.7 dBi and 5.8 dBi at 60 GHz, respectively.
Immunolocalization of Spetex-1 at the Connecting Piece in Spermatozoa of the Musk Shrew (Suncus murinus)

Spetex-1, which has been isolated by differential display and rat cDNA library screening as a haploid spermatid-specific gene, encodes a protein with two coiled-coil motifs that locates at both the segmented column in the connecting piece and outer dense fibers-affiliated satellite fibrils in rat sperm flagella. Orthologs of Spetex-1 are identified in many animal species, including human, chimpanzee, macaque, cow, dog, African clawed frog, green spotted puffer, and zebrafish. In this study, we used RT-PCR in combination with 5′ and 3′ RACE (Rapid Amplification of cDNA End) technique to isolate Spetex-1 ortholog of the musk shrew (Suneus murinus), which yielded a full-length Suncus Spetex-1 gene containing an open reading frame of 1,908 base pairs encoding a protein of 636 amino acids with the predicted molecular mass of 72,348 Da. Suncus Spetex-1 has two coiled-coil motifs at 118–184 and 242–276 amino acid residues, which is a characteristic shared by mammalian Spetex-1 proteins. To examine the subcellular localization of Spetex-1 in Suncus spermatozoa, we produced the anti-Suncus Spetex-1 antibody and carried out immunocytochemistry. In spite of that the primary structure of Suncus Spetex-1 is basically similar to that of rat and mouse Spetex-1, confocal laser scanning microscopy and immunoelectron microscopy revealed that Spetex-1 was restricted to the segmented column and capitulum in the connecting piece of Suncus spermatozoa and was not detected in other parts of flagella, suggesting a diversity of Spetex-1 localization in mammalian spermatozoa.