Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Preliminary communication PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS OF MEAT INDUSTRY IN SERBIA 1 UDC 061 . 5 : 637 . 5 ( 497 . 11 )

In this paper, profitability analysis of meat processing industry in Serbia was carried out for the period 2011-2015. Meat processing industry is one of the profitable sectors in the Republic of Serbia, with an average rate of ROA of 5.29. Even though companies in meat processing industry achieve positive net income, profitability is below referent value. In order to investigate which internal factors have a significant influence on the profitability of meat processing industry, a panel data regression was realized. The results show that companies with high liquidity ratio and growth in sales achieve better ROA. On the other hand, high debt ratio negatively influences the level of ROA. Furthermore, the results show that the size of the company, fixed assets ratio and rate of investment, do not have much influence on the profitability of meat processing industry.
Posttraumatic stress disorder among cancer patients—Findings from a large and representative interview‐based study in Germany

In order to optimize psycho‐oncologic care for patients with severe stressor‐related symptomatology, we aimed to provide (a) valid and generalizable prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in oncological patients and (b) the percentage of PTSD cases elicited by cancer‐related events.
Empirical Analysis of the Customer Loyalty Problem in the International Logistics Market

In this study the focus was on comprehending the vital factors that affect the loyalty of international logistics service provider (ILSP) customers, with the aim of providing recommendations for sustainable operations. Empirical analysis was performed to explore the customer loyalty problem in the international logistics market. Data for analysis was collected by questionnaire survey directed at customers of an ILSP headquartered in Taiwan, with branches located around the world. The customer loyalty problem was first tackled by developing a conceptual framework. The structural equation modeling method was then used to do the empirical analysis. Causal hypotheses regarding the loyalty of customers for ILSPs were established based on their special attributes and related research results reported in the literature. Empirical analysis results of this study show that service quality, customer satisfaction and switching cost are all critical to customer loyalty. Of these, customer satisfaction and switching cost both have a positive relationship with customer loyalty; service quality has a positive influence with customer satisfaction, as well as an indirect positive influence with customer loyalty; there is a positive relationship between customer satisfaction and switching cost. Research and managerial implications for practical operations are also discussed. Key-Words: Customer loyalty, International logistics market, Logistics service provider, NVO
Lattice speci fi c heat for the RMIn 5 ( R 1⁄4 Gd , La , Y ; M 1⁄4 Co , Rh ) compounds : Non-magnetic contribution subtraction

We analyze theoretically a common experimental process used to obtain the magnetic contribution to the specific heat of a given magnetic material. In the procedure, the specific heat of a non-magnetic analog is measured and used to subtract the non-magnetic contributions, which are generally dominated by the lattice degrees of freedom in a wide range of temperatures. We calculate the lattice contribution to the specific heat for the magnetic compounds GdMIn5 (M1⁄4Co, Rh) and for the non-magnetic YMIn5 and LaMIn5 (M1⁄4Co, Rh), using density functional theory based methods. We find that the best non-magnetic analog for the subtraction depends on the magnetic material and on the range of temperatures. While the phonon specific heat contribution of YRhIn5 is an excellent approximation to the one of GdCoIn5 in the full temperature range, for GdRhIn5 we find a better agreement with LaCoIn5, in both cases, as a result of an optimum compensation effect between masses and volumes. We present measurements of the specific heat of the compounds GdMIn5 (M1⁄4Co, Rh) up to room temperature where it surpasses the value expected from the Dulong–Petit law. We obtain a good agreement between theory and experiment when we include anharmonic effects in the calculations. & 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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The national treatment principle (NTP) is a centerpiece to many trade-related international law treaties. It states that foreigners and locals must be treated equally, and its violation may lead to retaliation measures by affected countries. The NTP also applies to international patent law. Yet, business and policy circles have voiced concerns about violation of the NTP at the Chinese patent office, although no empirical evidence exists to assert this claim. Using data on about half a million patent applications filed in China we find no, or only weak, evidence of anti-foreign bias in the issuance of patents overall. However, foreign applications in technology fields that are of strategic importance to China are five to six percentage points less likely to be granted a patent than local applications.
Strategies to minimize medication errors in emergency units: an integrative review.

OBJECTIVE To assess the strategies used by the Nursing team to minimize medication errors in emergency units. METHOD Integrative literature review in the PubMed, BDenf, Cochrane and LILACS databases. Timeless research, without language limitation, performed by peers. Articles published in full that answered the guiding question were included in research. RESULTS Educational strategies (conducting campaigns, elaborating explanatory manuals, creating a multidisciplinary committee involved in the prevention and reduction of adverse drug events); organizational (meetings, Deviance positive, creation of protocols and changes in the work process) and new technologies (implementation of prescription by computerized system, introduction of the unit doses and of the bar code in the administration of medicines) were evidenced in the studies with the purpose of minimizing medication errors in an emergency unit. CONCLUSION The strategies identified were effective in minimizing medication errors in emergency units.
1 Feature-driven Mediator Synthesis : Supporting Collaborative Security in the Internet of Things

As the number, complexity, and heterogeneity of connected devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) increase, so does our need to secure these devices, the environment in which they operate, and the assets they manage or control. Collaborative security exploits the capabilities of these connected devices and opportunistically composes them in order to protect assets from potential harm. By dynamically composing these capabilities, collaborative security implements the security controls that satisfy both security and non-security requirements. However, this dynamic composition is often hampered by the heterogeneity of the devices available in the environment and the diversity of their behaviours. In this paper we present a systematic, tool-supported approach for collaborative security where the analysis of requirements drives the opportunistic composition of capabilities in order to realise the appropriate security control in the operating environment. This opportunistic composition is supported through a combination of feature modelling and mediator synthesis. We use features and transition systems to represent and reason about capabilities and requirements. We formulate the selection of the optimal set of features to implement adequate security control as a multi-objective constrained optimisation problem and use constraint programming to solve it efficiently. The selected features are then used to scope the behaviours of the capabilities and thereby restrict the state space for synthesising the appropriate mediator. The synthesised mediator coordinates the behaviours of the capabilities to satisfy the behaviour specified by the security control. Our approach ensures that the implemented security controls are the optimal ones given the capabilities available in the operating environment. We demonstrate the validity of our approach by implementing a Feature-driven medIation for Collaborative Security (FICS) tool and applying it to a collaborative robots case study.
High Ergonomic Risk of Computer Work Postures Among Iranian Hospital Staff : Evidence From a Cross-Sectional Study

Background and Objectives: Endometrial hyperplasia (EH) is an abnormal overgrowth of endometrium that may lead to endometrial cancer, especially when accompanied by atypia. The treatment of EH is challenging, and previous studies report conflicting results. Metformin (dimethyl biguanide) is an anti-diabetic and insulin sensitizer agent, which is supposed to have antiproliferative and anticancer effects and the potential to decrease cell growth in endometrium. While some studies have evaluated the anticancer effect of metformin, studies on its potential effect on endometrial hyperplasia are rare. To address this gap, in this comparative trial study, we evaluate the effect of additive metformin to progesterone in patients with EH. Methods: In this clinical trial, 64 women with EH were randomized in two groups. The progesterone-alone group received progesterone 20 mg daily (14 days/month, from the 14th menstrual day) based on the type of hyperplasia, and the progesterone-metformin group received metformin 1000 mg/day for 3 months in addition to progesterone. Duration of bleeding, hyperplasia, body mass index (BMI), and blood sugar (BS) of the patients were then compared between the two groups. Findings: NA mean age of 44.5 years, mean BMI of 29 kg/m2 and mean duration of bleeding of 8 days were calculated for the study sample. There was no significant difference in age, BMI, gravidity, bleeding duration, and duration of disease at baseline between the two groups. While all patients in the progesterone-metformin group showed bleeding and hyperplasia improvement, only 69% of the progesterone-alone patients showed such an improvement, with the difference between the two groups being significant (P = 0.001). Although the difference between two groups in the post treatment endometrial thickness was not significant (P = 0.55), post treatment BMI in the progesterone-metformin group was significantly lower than in the progesterone-alone group (P = 0.01). In addition, the BS reduction in the progesterone-metformin group was significantly larger than that in the progesterone-alone group (P = 0.001). Conclusions: Our results indicated that administration of progesterone 20 mg/day plus metformin 1000 mg/day can significantly decrease bleeding duration, hyperplasia, BMI and BS in women with EH.
University of Dundee A novel marker , ARM 58 , confers antimony resistance to Leishmania spp

Protozoa of the Leishmania genus cause a variety of disease forms that rank at the top of the list of neglected tropical diseases. Anti-leishmanial drugs based on pentavalent antimony have been the mainstay of therapy for over 60 years and resistance against them is increasingly encountered in the field. The biochemical basis for this is poorly understood and likely diverse. No stringent correlation between genetic markers and antimony resistance has so far been shown, prompting us to use a functional cloning approach to identify markers of resistance. Using gene libraries derived from drug-resistant and drugsensitive Leishmania braziliensis clinical isolates in a functional cloning strategy, we repeatedly selected one gene locus located on chromosome 20 whose amplification confers increased antimony (III) resistance in vitro to an otherwise sensitive L. braziliensis clone. The gene responsible for the effect encodes a previously hypothetical protein that we dubbed LbrARM58. It comprises four repeats of a domain of unknown function, DUF1935, one of them harbouring a potential trans-membrane domain. The gene is so far unique to the Leishmania genus, while a structurally related gene without antimony resistance functionality is also found in Trypanosoma spp. Overexpression of LbrARM58 also confers antimony resistance to promastigotes and intracellular amastigotes of the related species Leishmania infantum, indicating a conserved function in Old World and New World Leishmania species. Our results also show that in spite of their RNAi system, L. braziliensis promastigotes can serve as acceptor cells for episomally propagated cosmid libraries, at least for the initial stages of functional cloning efforts. 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.
Diurnal Variation in Flow and Vascular Density of Capillary Plexuses of Retina , Choroid and Optic Nerve Head in Healthy Eye by Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography

Purpose: To evaluate the diurnal variation in quantitative parameters of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in healthy subjects. Methods: This observational case series was done in normal healthy volunteer (34 eyes from 17 subjects). OCTA of macula (3×3mm and 8×8mm image scan) and optic nerve head (4.5×4.5mm image scan) was done for each participant. Flow and vascular density of macula and optic nerve head in different capillary plexuses were evaluated. Results: The mean age of subjects was 27 years with the range of 24 to 32 years. Significant diurnal fluctuation was observed in choriocapillaris flow under the macular area with the maximum and minimum amount at 8 am and 2 pm respectively. Vascular density of deep capillary plexus also showed significant diurnal variation. Significant diurnal variation was detected in vascular density of peripapillary with the peak at 2 pm and least amount at 8 am. Conclusions: Presence of significant diurnal variation in choriocapillaris flow, vascular density of deep capillary plexus and vascular density of peripapillary area is important in interpretation of OCTA. This may reminds clinicians to perform OCTA at the same time of day to avoid normal diurnal variations and mistakes in interpretation of tests.
Mineralogical and major oxide characterization of Panyam clays , North-Central Nigeria

Received 6 March, 2019; Accepted 26 April, 2019 Clay minerals are form over long periods of time, through weathering as a result of gradual chemical breakdown of rocks rich in feldspar. The extent of weathering is determined by many factors. Most common constituent mineral of clays is often one of the members of the mica mineral group. They include illite, sericite, muscovite, and biotite. Others are kaolinite, smectite, mixed-layer clays and chlorite. This paper characterizes eight clay samples from Panyam, North-Central Nigeria. The characterization is based on their mineralogy and major oxide chemistry. This is aimed at determining the extent of weathering and/or maturity and origin or source of the clay materials. Compositional mineralogical and oxide analysis was performed using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) respectively. The X-ray data revealed that the primary constituents of the rocks such as feldspars, biotite and other minerals have been altered to Illite and kaolinite. Nesbitt and Young weathering trend model was used for characterizing the samples using their major oxides; four samples classified as muscovite, two as kaolinite and two as illite. From the Nesbitt and Young model, it was discovered that all samples had a granitic origin with a slower rate of weathering.
Psychosocial adjustment after induced abortion and its explanatory factors among adolescent and adult women

Objective: To compare the depressive symptoms and quality of life (QoL) among adolescents (<20 years) and adult women who have had an abortion and to explore individual, social, relational and decision-making explanatory factors for (mal)adjustment in each group. Background: International findings are not consistent regarding the presence of negative psychosocial outcomes after abortion or about the explanatory factors for occurrence among adolescents and adult women. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 177 adolescents (65.1%) and 95 adult women (34.9%) who underwent abortion were recruited. Data on individual, social, relational and decision-making characteristics, depressive symptoms (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale) and QoL (EUROHIS-QOL-8) were collected through self-report questionnaires at 16 healthcare services that provide abortion. Results: Although adolescents are not at greater risk of maladjustment than adult women, abortion may be an emotionally significant event for both age groups. Regarding adolescents, feelings of being pressured into abortion and lower satisfaction with the abortion decision were significantly associated with depressive symptoms and lower QoL. Lower support from the mother was also associated with lower QoL. With regard to adult women, lower satisfaction with the abortion decision was significantly associated with depressive symptoms. None of variables was significantly associated with QoL. Conclusion: Our results suggest that adolescents are not at greater risk of psychosocial maladjustment than are adult women. Factors from different ecological contexts and specific factors depending on age group should be considered in preventive interventions for (mal)adjustment after abortion.
1 FACTOR CONTENT AND INTERMEDIATE TRADE : WHAT MATTERS FOR POLICY ?

Recent work in the trade literature has shown the importance of intermediate trade flows and the pivotal role of production networks in trade patterns. There have even been suggestions that trends underlying these phenomone (ie improved information technology and offshoring) have made the concept of Comparative Advantage irrelevant for trade policy. They argue that trade patterns are no longer matters of resource endowments and factor content, rather trade relies on well placed policies and technology transfer to leapfrog the development process. This paper addresses the question: to what extent is factor content still reflected in trade patterns? We contend that while trends reflect the process of production fragmentation the fundmeantal role of factor content is still very evident in trade patterns. This is still shown when we account for intermediate trade in our analysis. However, the forces of production fragmentation and offshoring are evident. Trade patterns are now just as reliant on the cost of moving goods and tasks, as they are on the particular endowment structure of an economy.
Seasonal and spatial patterns of primary production in a high-latitude fjord affected by Greenland Ice Sheet run-off Holding

1 Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, bldg. 1540, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. 2 Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark. 3 Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark. 4 Greenland Climate Research Centre, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Kivioq 2, 3900 Nuuk, Greenland 10 5 Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research and Utrecht University, Yerseke, The Netherlands
Assessment of Stripped Asphalt Pavement

Many miles of pavement that are stripped need to be restored to a serviceable condition, but there is no accepted procedure to determine whether the pavement should be removed during the rehabilitation process. This paper describes an attempt to develop a methodology that employs a quantitative test to evaluate pavement layers. The indirect tensile test was used under various testing conditions to develop a deterioration curve for stripped pavement layers based on data from three field projects. The procedure will be valuable because it will make possible the evaluation of individual layers of asphalt; for in situ strength tests, however, such as those provided by deflection devices, that employ dynamic field measurements, the asphalt layers are evaluated as a whole. Criteria defining minimum strengths necessitating removal are suggested. It is realized that these criteria may have to be changed as experience with the evaluation procedure is gained.
Final Year Allied Health Profession, Midwifery and Nursing Students’ Attitudes Towards Interprofessional Education

Evaluation of pre-qualifying interprofessional education (IPE) programmes is important in exploring its effectiveness. The University of the West of England Interprofessional Questionnaire (UWE IPQ) has been rigorously validated, yet few studies using this tool have been published. We aimed to explore the attitudes of final year allied health profession (AHP), midwifery and nursing students towards IPE in this study. Differences between students’ attitudes towards IPE according to gender, undergraduate programmes, academic background and experience were also explored. A total of 103 participants, AHP (n = 10), midwifery (n = 19) and nursing (n = 74) students took part in the study. This study design used a cross-sectional questionnaire survey, and was conducted within the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton. The validated UWE IPQ was administered to a volunteer sample of final year AHP, nursing and midwifery students in June 2010. Findings revealed that majority of the students rated their communication and teamwork skills (76.7%), interprofessional learning (74.8%) and interprofessional relationships (92.2%) positively, but they held negative attitudes towards interprofessional interactions (69.9%). Significant differences were found between participants’ attitudes towards interprofessional learning in relation to undergraduate programmes (p = 0.01) and prior working experience in health and social care (p = 0.03). IPE has shaped the students’ views regarding their collaborative learning and teamwork. Therefore, introducing IPE initiative from the beginning of the pre-qualifying stage at universities would motivate them to become interprofessional collaborative-ready professionals.
A Defense of Analogy Inference

Accounts of analogical inference are usually categorized into four broad groups: abductive, deductive, inductive and sui generis. The purpose of this paper is to defend a sui generis model of analogical inference. It focuses on the sui generis account, as developed by Juthe [2005, 2009, 2015, 2016] and Botting’s [2017] criticism of it. This paper uses the pragmadialectical theory of argumentation as the methodological framework for analyzing and reconstructing argumentation. The paper has two main points. First, that Juthe’s arguments against a deductive interpretation of prima facie analogy argumentation remain unaffected by Botting’s criticism, which means that many of the reasons against deductive reformulation of analogy argumentation still stand. The additional argument, which Botting himself brings up, that a deductive interpretation cannot account for the cumulative effect of analogies, just provides further reason to reject deductivism. The second main point of this paper is that an inductive interpretation of analogical inference also fails. There are constitutional differences between inductive and analogical inference that cannot be bridged. The result is a firm defense of the sui generis view of analogical inference.