Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ABO Blood Groups and Achilles Tendon Rupture in the Grampian Region of Scotland

ObjectiveTo test whether the association between blood groups and Achilles tendon rupture (ATR) reported in some Scandinavian countries and in Hungary was present in our region. MethodsWe studied 78 patients treated at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary from 1990 to 1996, and compared their distribution of ABO blood groups with that found in 24,501 blood donors typed at the Blood Transfusion Centre during the same period. ResultsOverall, 47 of 78 (60%) of patients with an Achilles tendon rupture belonged to blood group O, compared with 51% of the population as a whole. Only 22 (28%) of the Achilles tendon rupture patients belonged to blood group A, whereas 35% of the general population were members of this group (NS). The A/O ratio was 0.47 for the tendon rupture patients, compared with 0.68 for the general population (NS). ConclusionsWe could not demonstrate any significant association between the proportions of ABO blood groups and ATR in the Grampian Region of Scotland. The findings in other studies could be due to peculiarities in the distribution of the ABO groups in genetically segregated populations.
Operational and quality outcomes of a mobile acute care for the elderly service.

BACKGROUND The traditional acute care for the elderly (ACE) unit has demonstrated improved functional outcomes without increased costs or changes in length of stay (LOS). It is, however, limited in scope to patients cared for on a fixed geographical unit. OBJECTIVE To compare operational and quality outcomes for patients cared for on a mobile ACE (MACE) service to those cared for on a unit-based ACE service and matched controls on other general medical services. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study with propensity-score matching. SETTING An urban academic medical center. PATIENTS A total of 8094 hospitalized adults >64 years old admitted to an ACE, MACE, and general medical services from July 2006 to June 2009. INTERVENTION An interdisciplinary MACE service com- posed of a geriatrician-hospitalist, fellow, nurse coordinator, and social worker. MEASUREMENTS LOS, total cost, 7- and 30-day readmission rates, and in-hospital mortality. RESULTS Mean LOS and total cost were significantly lower for patients in the MACE service compared with the ACE unit service (5.8 vs 7.9 days, P < 0.001, and $10,315 vs $13,187, P = 0.002) and compared with propensity-score matched controls during the second year of operation (5.6 vs 7.2 days, P < 0.001, and $10,693 vs $15,636, P < 0.001). In-hospital mortality and 7- and 30-day readmission rates were similar in all groups. CONCLUSIONS A mobile ACE service may result in reduced LOS and lower costs with no change in in-hospital mortality or 7- or 30-day readmission rates when compared with standard medical service and a traditional unit-based ACE service.
Determinates of Accounting Software Choice: An Empirical Approach

The purpose of this paper is to examine the primary determinants of commercial accounting packages acquisition specifically amongst non-financial quoted companies, in Nigeria. The study analyses accounting software deployment decision using a sample of 178 participants across 5 industries listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. A logistic regression model was performed in order to determine which of the factors has the greatest influence. The authors found factors such as operational, commercial, strategic, technical and security considerations as primary determinants of accounting software deployment. In addition, the study also revealed that all companies surveyed have implemented at least one type of commercial accounting package. Special purpose and generalized systems were however found to be most common applications across surveyed firms. This study is the first of its kind in Nigeria to examine the determinants of accounting software deployment with particular reference to quoted companies in the non-financial firms.
Energy Optimization of Memory Intensive Parallel

Energy consumption is an important concern in modern multicore processors. The energy consumed by a multicore processor during the execution of an application can be minimized by tuning the hardware state utilizing knobs such as frequency, voltage etc. The existing theoretical work on energy minimization using Global DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling), despite being thorough, ignores the time and the energy consumed by the CPU on memory accesses and the dynamic energy consumed by the idle cores. This article presents an analytical energy-performance model for parallel workloads that accounts for the time and the energy consumed by the CPU chip on memory accesses in addition to the time and energy consumed by the CPU on CPU instructions. In addition, the model we present also accounts for the dynamic energy consumed by the idle cores. The existing work on global DVFS for parallel workloads shows that using a single frequency for the entire duration of a parallel application is not energy optimal and that varying the frequency according to the changes in the parallelism of the workload can save energy. We present an analytical framework around our energy-performance model to predict the operating frequencies (that depend upon the amount of parallelism) for global DVFS that minimize the overall CPU energy consumption. We show how the optimal frequencies in our model differ from the optimal frequencies in a model that does not account for memory accesses. We further show how the memory intensity of an application affects the optimal frequencies. ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-2138-9. DOI: 10.1145/1235
Clinician perceptions of wound biofilm

In wound care today, biofilm is a subject area of great interest and debate. There is an increasing awareness that biofilm exists in the majority of non‐healing wounds, and that it is implicated in both recalcitrance and infection. Together with the presence of devitalised host tissue, biofilm is recognised as a component of the wound environment that requires removal to enable wound progression. However, uncertainty exists among wound care practitioners regarding confirmation of the presence of biofilm, and how best to remove biofilm from a non‐healing wound. While recent efforts have been taken to assist practitioners in signs and symptoms of wound biofilm, continuing research is required to characterise and confirm wound biofilm. This research was conducted as part of a market research process to better understand the knowledge levels, experiences, clinical awareness and impact of biofilm in wound care, which was undertaken across the USA and Europe. While knowledge levels and experiences vary from country to country, certain wound characteristics were consistently associated with the presence of biofilm.
Brain-Behavior Relations: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Review

This paper reviewed the transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) applications for brain-behavior relations. Along with rapid-rate TMS, coils designed for focal stimulation and image-guided targeting of stimulation to desired cortical structures, neuronal processes can now be disrupted even in relatively well-defined cortical areas. Delivering two sequential pulses to the primary motor cortex(MI) allowed the exploration of inhibition and facilitation within the motor pathways. Function brain imaging was combined with TMS for access of extent and loci of local and remote TMS-induced brain effects. Reflecting changes in cerebral blood flow and oxygenation, 15O-H2O or 18F-FDG positron emission tomography, 99 mTc ethylcysteinate dimer single photon emission tomography, blood-oxygenation-level dependent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and near infrared spectroscopy showed bilateral cortical activity as well as activation of subcortical structures and the cerebellum. The introduction of TMS-compatible EEG allowed one to measure the instant and direct neuronal effects of TMS (Figure 6); bilateral activation patterns, similar to functional imaging, were exhibited in source images derived from the EEG. Intriguing examples of the use of TMS/EEG technique in studying corticocortical connectivity are already available in the literature. TMS shows a great promise for future clinical applications. Presently, the key topics in TMS research include altered cortical excitability in neurological diseases, functional relevance of cortical areas in cognitive task performance, and treatment of psychiatric diseases. To date, however, there are not enough data to establish TMS studies as part of clinical diagnostics or therapy in any neurological or psychiatric disease. Recently, patterned types of stimulation have been introduced, each still under scrutiny, to define its efficacy in research and clinical settings as well as its potential hazards. The last decade has seen a rapid increase in the applications of TMS to study cognition, brain-behavior relations, and the pathophysiology of various neurologic and psychiatric disorders. In addition, evidence has accumulated that demonstrated that TMS provides a valuable tool for interventional neurophysiology applications, modulating brain activity in a specific, distributed, corticosubcortical network. Finally, recent evidences have shown that multiple muscle recordings allow to probe dynamic properties of the multiple representations at the cortical levels to orchestrate the best movement performance(Figure 7).
Near‐Earth heliospheric magnetic field intensity since 1750: 1. Sunspot and geomagnetic reconstructions

We present two separate time series of the near‐Earth heliospheric magnetic field strength (B) based on geomagnetic data and sunspot number (SSN). The geomagnetic‐based B series from 1845 to 2013 is a weighted composite of two series that employ the interdiurnal variability index; this series is highly correlated with in situ spacecraft measurements of B (correlation coefficient, r = 0.94; mean square error, MSE = 0.16 nT2). The SSN‐based estimate of B, from 1750 to 2013, is a weighted composite of eight time series derived from two separate reconstruction methods applied to four different SSN time series, allowing determination of the uncertainty from both the underlying sunspot records and the B reconstruction methods. The SSN‐based composite is highly correlated with direct spacecraft measurements of B and with the composite geomagnetic B time series from 1845 to 2013 (r = 0.91; MSE = 0.24 nT2), demonstrating that B can accurately reconstructed by both geomagnetic and sunspot‐based methods. The composite sunspot and geomagnetic B time series, with uncertainties, are provided as supporting information .
Identification of a novel, sodium-dependent, reduced glutathione transporter in the rat lens epithelium.

PURPOSE To determine whether glutathione (GSH) transporter(s) other than the previously identified rat canalicular GSH transporter (RcGshT) is present in the lens. METHODS Poly (A) +RNA isolated from rat and guinea pig lens cortex and epithelium was injected into Xenopus laevis oocytes. The effect of sodium removal was determined by measuring cell-associated radioactivity in lenticular epithelium or cortex mRNA injected oocytes (pretreated with acivicin to inhibit gamma glutamyltranspeptidase) after 1 hour of incubation in NaCl medium or choline chloride (Na(+)-free) medium containing tracer GSH (plus unlabeled GSH). The effect of 2 mM bromosulfophthalein-GSH (BSP-GSH) on GSH uptake in the lens epithelium and cortex in NaCl medium at two GSH concentrations also was determined. The molecular form of uptake of GSH in lens epithelial mRNA-injected oocytes was examined by high-performance liquid chromatography. Western blot analysis was performed to study the presence of RcGshT in the cortex and epithelium. RESULTS Oocytes injected with mRNA from rat and guinea pig lens epithelium and cortex compartments expressed GSH transport. High-performance liquid chromatography confirmed that epithelial uptake was as intact GSH under conditions of inhibition of GSH synthesis with dl-buthionine sulfoximine. The mean GSH uptake (nmol/oocyte per hour) in epithelial mRNA-injected oocytes was significantly reduced (P < 0.01, n = 4 oocyte preparations) under Na(+)-free conditions compared to NaCl medium at 0.05 mM and 2 mM GSH in the medium. Uptake in cortical mRNA-injected oocytes was unaffected by Na+ removal. Lens epithelial uptake exhibited a strong inhibition by BSP-GSH at 0.05 mM (55%) and 2 mM (64%), whereas cortical uptake was unaffected by BSP-GSH. Western blot analysis identified RcGshT in the cortical and epithelial regions. CONCLUSIONS Results from the current study provide strong evidence for the presence of a hitherto unreported Na(+)-dependent, BSP-GSH inhibitable GSH transporter in the lens epithelium, which may mediate concentrative, basolateral uptake of aqueous GSH consistent with in situ eye perfusion studies. The Na(+)-independent, BSP-GSH insensitive RcGshT may function as an apical GSH effluxer in lens epithelium and in mediating concentration gradient driven inward GSH movement by uptake-efflux in the lens cortex.
AWSC: An approach to Web service classification based on machine learning techniques

A Web service is a Web accessible software that can be published, located and invoked by using standard Web protocols. Automatically determining the category of a Web service, from several pre-defined categories, is an important problem with many applications such as service discovery, semantic annotation and service matching. This paper describes AWSC (Automatic Web Service Classification), an automatic classifier of Web service descriptions. AWSC exploits the connections between the category of a Web service and the information commonly found in standard descriptions. In addition, AWSC bridges different styles for describing services by combining text mining and machine learning techniques. Experimental evaluations show that this combination helps our classification system at improving its precision. In addition, we report an experimental comparison of AWSC with a related work.
FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI AUDIT DELAY PADA PERUSAHAAN MANUFAKTUR YANG GO PUBLIK DI BEI

"> This study aims to examine empirically the effect of firm size, solvency, profitability, and the quality of public accounting firms (KAP) to the audit delay on manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange. This study focuses on companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The data used are secondary data, the audited financial statements of 47 companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2009-2012. To test the hypothesis, performed multiple regression analysis that begins classic assumption test including normality, linearity, multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation. The data used has met all the classical assumptions. Partial test results show that the variable size and variable quality of the public accounting firm (KAP) that affect audit delay, while variable solvency and profitability variable does not affect the audit delay. Keywords : audit delay, KAP, company’s size, profitability, solvency
Adherence to rehabilitative programmes by patients living with neurological conditions : a South African context

The number of people living with disabilities is increasing. Good adherence to rehabilitative programmes is critical for optimal health and health systems in developing countries are under pressure to meet multiple health needs. Overworked practitioners assume that if the patients fail to show up for their appointments they have lost interest. The purpose of the study was to explore reasons for the poor adherence of patients with neurological disorders at rehabilitative services. This study used a phenomenological approach and purposive sampling. One-on-one interviews with patients booked to receive therapy at a South African public sector hospital and who failed to attend therapy were done (n=12). For triangulation purposes interviews were conducted with patients who had never missed sessions (n=5). A total of eight of the participants from both groups said that they had not accepted their condition. All five dimensions of adherence described in the literature were found. The participants gave very positive feedback on the rehabilitative programmes received at the hospital, but said circumstances beyond their control had caused them to miss a session. These included fear of losing jobs, unavailability of transport, and perception of poor services at primary health care clinics when down referred. The reasons for adherence or lack of it are not easily established. Contributing factors however were noted in this study. Information obtained from the study will assist health professionals to understand the patients’ context and can inform rehabilitation programmes to support adherence. Keywords: Adherence, rehabilitation, stroke, physiotherapy, quality
Corporate Social Responsibility and Profitability-Cost of Debt as the Mediator

This study examines two issues related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the firm's cost of debt as, proxied by credit ratings. First, we investigate whether CSR has a positive effect on credit ratings and therefore reduces the cost of debt. Second, we consider the credit ratings as the mediator between CSR and the firm's profitability. The mediator here means that, given the presence of credit ratings, the impacts of CSR on the firm's performance will be lower than in those cases where credit ratings are not considered in the regression analysis. By employing companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) during 2005~2009, our results show that CSR firms tend to have higher creditworthiness and therefore a lower cost of debt. In addition, after controlling for credit ratings, the impact of CSR on the firm's profitability is reduced, thereby showing that credit ratings serve as the mediator between CSR and performance.
Heat-activated liposomal MR contrast agent: initial in vivo results in rabbit liver and kidney.

PURPOSE To evaluate by using in vivo magnetic resonance (MR) imaging the functionality of a liposomal paramagnetic contrast agent with T1 relaxivity that rapidly and markedly increases at temperatures above the gel-to-liquid crystalline phase transition temperature (T(c)) of the liposome membrane. MATERIALS AND METHODS Liposomal gadolinium diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid bis(methylamide) was injected intravenously at a dose of 0.4 or 1.2 mL (containing 10 or 30 micromol of gadolinium, respectively) per kilogram of body weight shortly before the application of focused ultrasound in liver (seven rabbits) or kidney (three rabbits). VX2 tumors had been implanted in liver in four of the rabbits. Eighteen locations in liver (13 in normal tissue, five in tumor) and 12 locations in kidney were sonicated. MR thermometry was performed during sonications. Signal intensity enhancement was evaluated on T1-weighted images acquired after the tissue cooled, and enhanced zones were compared with isotherms at T(c) of the liposome membrane (approximately 57 degrees C) by using Bland-Altman analysis. In liver, enhanced zones also were compared with areas of histologically verified thermal damage. The threshold temperature of enhancement at T1-weighted imaging was verified by monitoring the signal intensity increase after 10 sonications at varied powers in two locations in normal liver tissue. RESULTS Persistent enhancement was observed on T1-weighted images at all sonicated liver locations. In liver, enhanced zones on T1-weighted images were contiguous both with 57 degrees C isotherms (25 measurements; mean difference +/- SD, 0.4 mm +/- 1.2) and with histologically verified areas of necrosis (seven measurements; mean difference +/- SD, 0.1 mm +/- 0.9). The threshold temperature of enhancement at T1-weighted imaging in normal liver was 53 degrees -57 degrees C. In kidney, enhanced zones on T1-weighted images did not match the isotherms. CONCLUSION The liposomal contrast agent was effective at in vivo MR thermometry in liver but not in kidney.
Transforming celebrities through social media: the role of authenticity and emotional attachment

Purpose Social media platforms are changing the way consumers and celebrities engage. This research aims to better understand how and why consumers use social media to engage with celebrities, and identify the potential antecedents and outcomes, which may result from these online connections. Design/methodology/approach Both qualitative (two focus groups) and quantitative (survey) methods were used to explore consumer engagement with celebrities on social media. A structural model from the survey data was developed and analyzed. Findings Textual analysis of the focus groups revealed that consumers follow celebrities on social media to obtain career and personal information about the celebrity. Further, authenticity and emotional attachment were identified as favorable aspects of following celebrities on social media. An empirical study confirmed that the constructs of authenticity and emotional attachment positively influence the outcomes of word-of-mouth and purchase likelihood. Research limitations/implications The study was limited by the self-identification of a favorite celebrity and social media site. Future research should include empirical testing of specific celebrities featured on a specific social media site and the development of the constructs identified in the focus groups. Practical implications This research sheds light on the antecedents and outcomes associated with consumer–celebrity engagement on social media. The implications for marketers and advertisers include a better understanding of how celebrities transform themselves and engage with consumers on social media. Originality/value This paper fulfills an identified need to study authenticity and emotional attachment as they relate to celebrities and consumers’ engagements on social media.