Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE AFFECT OF FINANCIAL ATITTUDE, LOCUS OF CONTROL AND INCOME ON FINANCIAL BEHAVIOR

This study aims to examine the relationship between locus of control, the financial attitudes and income of workforces whom have worked and lived on Jakarta, Indonesia. The object of this researce is Financial Attitudes, Locus of Control, Financial Behaviour, and Income. The sample consisted of 395 respondents were taken through purposive sampling, the data processed using SmartPLS 3.0. This study found that there are positive effect relationship between locus of control, the financial attitudes and Financial Behavior to financial income.
Open Treatment of Acute Calcaneal Fractures

Displaced intraarticular fractures of the calcaneus require operative intervention to restore the anatomy of the bone, which in turn is the requirement for recovery of subtalar joint mobility. Surgery through a lateral incision, without opening the sheath of the peroneal tendons, and the use of lag screws and a “Y-plate,” must restore not only the respective positions of the “three poles” of the calcaneus but also the respective orientations of the articular surfaces. Stable internal fixation allows early active and passive mobilization of the subtalar and ankle joints. If this is not achieved, the functional outcome will be poor.
Sexual transmission and the natural history of human herpesvirus 8 infection.

BACKGROUND Although human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) has been suspected to be the etiologic agent of Kaposi's sarcoma, little is known about its seroprevalence in the population, its modes of transmission, and its natural history. METHODS The San Francisco Men's Health Study, begun in 1984, is a study of a population-based sample of men in an area with a high incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. We studied all 400 men infected at base line with HIV and a sample of 400 uninfected men. Base-line serum samples were assayed for antibodies to HHV-8 latency-associated nuclear antigen (anti-LANA). In addition to the seroprevalence and risk factors for anti-LANA seropositivity, we analyzed the time to the development of Kaposi's sarcoma. RESULTS Anti-LANA antibodies were found in 223 of 593 men (37.6 percent) who reported any homosexual activity in the previous five years and in none of 195 exclusively heterosexual men. Anti-LANA seropositivity correlated with a history of sexually transmitted diseases and had a linear association with the number of male sexual-intercourse partners. Among the men who were infected with both HIV and HHV-8 at base line, the 10-year probability of Kaposi's sarcoma was 49.6 percent. Base-line anti-LANA seropositivity preceded and was independently associated with subsequent Kaposi's sarcoma, even after adjustment for CD4 cell counts and the number of homosexual partners. CONCLUSIONS The prevalence of HHV-8 infection is high among homosexual men, correlates with the number of homosexual partners, and is temporally and independently associated with Kaposi's sarcoma. These observations are further evidence that HHV-8 has an etiologic role in Kaposi's sarcoma and is sexually transmitted among men.
The Factors Influencing Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the corporate social responsibility disclosure ”CSRD” index and corporate factors, namely, board size, board independence, board meetings, CEO duality, a firm’s size, leverage, profitability and age. This is the first known study in case of Saudi Arabia to use the GRI 4th edition indicators to construct the CSRD index and evaluate Saudi listed firms. The data covers three years from 2012- 2014 and sample of 109 listed firms from 13 sectors in Kingdom Saudi Arabia “KSA”. The results show that profitability and size factor have positive and significant association with CSR disclosure in listed Saudi firms.
The Perceived Usefulness of ESG Indicators by Tunisian Financial Professionals: Exploratory Study for the Construction of a Measurement Scale

This research is part of current research on the use of non-financial information. Its objective is to evaluate the perceived usefulness of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) indicators, proposed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). A questionnaire survey was conducted among a sample of 105 Tunisian financial professionals. The results show levels of perceived usefulness quite different. Thus, corporate governance dimension collects the highest degree of perceived usefulness, followed by environmental and social ones. With regard to the exploratory factor analyzes, the results revealed a scale composed of 53 ESG indicators adapted to the information needs of Tunisian financial professionals.
In vitro influence of ultrasonic stress, removal force preload and thermocycling on the retrievability of implant-retained crowns.

OBJECTIVES The main goals of this in vitro study were to evaluate the influence of thermocycling, ultrasonic stress and the removal force preload on the retrievability of cemented implant crowns using a clinical removal device (Coronaflex) and evaluating the tensile strength using a universal testing machine (UTM). METHODS Thirty-six crowns were cast from a Co-Cr alloy for 36 tapered titanium abutments (5° taper, 4.3 mm diameter, 6 mm height, Camlog, Germany). The crowns were cemented with a glass-ionomer (Ketac Cem) or a polycarboxylate (Durelon) cement, followed by 3 days of storage in ionized water without thermocycling or 150 days of storage with 37,500 thermal cycles between 5°C and 55°C. Before removal, the crowns were subjected to ultrasonic stress for 0, 5 or 10 min with a contact pressure of either 50 or 500 g. The Coronaflex was used with a removal force preload of 50 or 400 cN, respectively, applied on the point of loading. Scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) was used to evaluate the impact of the removal on the abutment screws. RESULTS Crowns cemented with the glass-ionomer cement were significantly easier to remove with the Coronaflex or the UTM than crowns cemented with the polycarboxylate cement (P≤0.05). Ultrasonic stress showed no significant impact on the retrievability regardless of the contact pressure or duration applied (P>0.05). No significant differences could be found for both cements when removed with the Coronaflex or the UTM (P>0.05) after thermocycling was applied. A removal force preload of 400 cN resulted in significantly reduced removal attempts in comparison with 50 cN for both cements (P≤0.05). CONCLUSIONS Ultrasound and thermal cycling did not result in reduced cement strength, but to retrieve the crowns, the full impact of a removal instrument has to be applied. Ketac Cem can be used as a "semipermanent" solution, whereas Durelon might serve for permanent cementation. None of the abutment screws showed signs of wear caused by the removal process.
Augment Bone Graft Products Compare Favorably With Autologous Bone Graft in an Ovine Model of Lumbar Interbody Spine Fusion

Study Design. This study was designed to determine whether Augment Bone Graft (Augment, Biomimetic Therapeutics, Inc., Franklin, TN) and Augment Injectable Bone Graft (Augment Injectable, Biomimetic Therapeutics, Inc., Franklin, TN), 2 combination devices comprising recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor-BB and &bgr;-tricalcium phosphate–containing matrices, promote bone bridging in an ovine model of lumbar spine fusion. Autologous bone graft (autograft) was used as a positive control. Objective. The purpose of this study was to determine the ability of Augment products to promote fusion of the L2–L3 and L4–L5 vertebral bodies in an ovine model. Summary of Background Data. In interbody spine fusion, the intervertebral disc is removed and a spacer is inserted for support and to facilitate bone growth. The fusion is commonly enhanced with grafts. Autograft is the “gold standard” but it has limitations including availability and donor-site morbidity. Synthetic graft substitutes eliminate these complications. Augment products are combination devices including recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor-BB, a well-characterized chemotactic, mitogenic, and proangiogenic protein essential in wound and bone healing. Methods. Twenty-two sheep received an uninstrumented, double-level, interbody lumbar spinal fusion procedure using a polyetheretherketone spacer, which was either empty or packed with iliac crest autograft, Augment or Augment Injectable. The same treatment was used at both levels. Animals were 24 weeks after surgery, and fusion was assessed by micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) and histology. Results. Micro-CT and histologic assessment of fusion revealed that empty controls had significantly lower fusion rates. No differences were detected among autografts, Augment, and Augment Injectable–treated specimens. Residual &bgr;-tricalcium phosphate particles embedded in the newly formed bone were visible in Augment- and Augment Injectable–treated specimens. Conclusion. Augment-treated specimens had the highest fusion scores. Treatment with either of the Augment products significantly promoted interbody spine fusion compared with empty spacers and was equivalent to autograft-induced fusion. No adverse events were noted.
Prevalence of Helicobacter pullorum in broiler chickens reared in intensive and extensive farms.

Helicobacter pullorum infections are underestimated due to phenotypic similarities between the genera Helicobacter and Campylobacter. The aim of this work was to estimate the Helicobacter pullorum prevalence in 209 caecum contents collected from Italian broilers reared in 33 intensive and 9 extensive farms by using a Steele-McDermott membrane filter method modified. The isolate identifications were confirmed by a PCR assay based on 16S rRNA, followed by a RFLP-PCR to discriminate between H. pullorum and H. canadensis. Prevalences of Helicobacter pullorum intensive and extensive positive farms were 96.9 and 66.7%, respectively. Overall, 78.47% of the caecum samples were positive. In particular, the percentage of positive caecum collected from broilers reared in intensive farms was statistically significative higher than that detected in extensive farms (84.14 vs 57.7%). All strains isolated using the procedure set up in this work were classified as Helicobacter pullorum by PCR. In conclusion, in Italian broilers H. pullorum has an estimated prevalence of 78.47% and the percentage of positive samples among broilers reared in intensive farms might be higher than that of broilers reared in extensive farms. The isolation protocol used in this study was more sensitive that those published in previous paper. Moreover, it seems highly specific. In fact all isolates collected on presumptive positive samples were identified as H. pullorum by PCR and RFLP-PCR. This study was financed within the European Project FOOD-CT-200X-007076 named POULTRYFLORGUT (www.poultryflorgut.org). ________________________________________________________________________________
Analysis of Low Power 6 T SRAM Using 45 nm Technology

In this paper we designed SRAM to provide an interface with CPU and to substitute DRAMs in systems that require very low power consumption. Low power SRAM design is critical since it takes a large fraction of total power and die area in high performance CPUs. A SRAM cell must come across the necessities for the operation in Nano ranges. The scaling of CMOS technology has important effects on SRAM cell – random fluctuation of electrical characteristics and substantial leakage current. The random variation of electrical possessions causes the SRAM cell to have huge mismatch in transistor threshold voltage. Thus, the static noise margin (Read Margin) and the write margin are degraded dramatically. The SRAM cell inclines to be unsteady and the low power supply operation becomes hard to achieve. Keywords—SRAM; Cadence; Virtuoso; Noise Margin; 45 nm technology
Rac(g)e Against the Machine? Social Incentives When Humans Meet Robots

Because work is most often performed in a social context, social incentives are key to understand incentive setting in firms. We assess the strength of social incentives, which critically depend on the extent of social preferences and social pressure at work, by assessing the difference in human performance when people complete a sequential task with either other humans or robots. We find evidence that, despite maintaining monetary incentives intact, humans who work with robots underperform those who work with other humans, especially under team pay. The lack of altruism toward robots and the lack of social pressure exerted by robots are key to explain this negative effect under team pay. Under piece rate, the lack of envy toward robots plays a crucial role. Regardless of the payment scheme, our findings show that social incentives are powerful. Accounting for the weakening of social incentives when assessing the cost-efficiency of replacing humans with robots is thus critical.
Calcium speciation and exchange between blood and extrapallial fluid of the quahog Mercenaria mercenaria (L.).

Calcium and small organic molecules (e.g., tyrosine, MW 181 Da) introduced into the extrapallial fluid (EPF) of the quahog Mercenaria mercenaria exhibit rapid fluxes across the outer mantle epithelium and are distributed throughout the circulatory system within 3 h. Larger molecules (e.g., bovine serum albumin, MW 66,000 Da) are less readily exchanged between EPF and blood. The protein compositions of blood plasma and EPF are different, with at least seven protein bands expressed more prominently in the EPF. Equilibrium dialysis experiments reveal that Ca2+ constitutes only 2% of the total Ca in plasma; most of the Ca (85%) is bound to macromolecules, and the remaining 13% is present as dialyzable low molecular weight moieties. This distribution cannot be explained by speciation of inorganic Ca alone, since the MINTEQA2 equilibrium speciation model predicts that 79%-86% of the Ca should be present as Ca2+, with the remainder as CaSO4 (20%-13%). However, inclusion of a weakly Ca-binding organic molecule (log10 Ka approximately 2 M-1) into MINTEQA2 could fully reconcile modeling with experimental measurements. Results suggest that calcium transport in blood plasma and EPF is mediated by a suite of proteins and small organic ligands with a low affinity for Ca.
Xanthophylls increased HDLC level and nuclear factor PPAR&ggr;, RXR&ggr; and RAR&agr; expression in hens and chicks

This study was designed to investigate effects of xanthophylls on serum lipid profile (triglyceride, TG; cholesterol, CHO; high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, HDLC; and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDLC) and nuclear factor (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, PPARγ; PPAR gamma coactivator 1 alpha, PGC1α; retinoid X receptor gamma, RXRγ; and retinoic acid receptor alpha, RARα) gene expression of breeding hens and chicks. In experiment 1, 432 hens were divided into three groups and fed diets supplemented with 0 (as control group), 20 or 40 mg/kg xanthophylls. Blood was sampled at 7, 14, 21, 28 and 35 days of trial. Liver, duodenum, jejunum and ileum were sampled at 35 days of trial. Results showed that serum HDLC level of hens was increased after dietary 40 mg/kg xanthophyll addition for 21, 28 and 35 days, while serum TG, CHO and LDLC were not affected. Xanthophyll addition also increased PPARγ expression in jejunum, RXRγ expression in duodenum and jejunum, and RARα expression in liver and duodenum. Experiment 2 was a 2 × 2 factorial design. Male chicks hatched from 0 or 40 mg/kg xanthophyll diet of hens were fed diet containing either 0 or 40 mg/kg xanthophylls. Liver, duodenum, jejunum and ileum were sampled at 0, 7, 14 and 21 days after hatching. Blood samples were also collected at 21 days. Results showed that in ovo xanthophylls elevated PPARγ in duodenum and jejunum, and RXRγ and RARα in liver of chicks mainly within 1 week after hatching, while dietary xanthophylls increased serum HDLC level and PPARγ and RXRγ in liver from 2 weeks onwards. In conclusion, our research suggested xanthophylls can regulate serum lipid profile and nuclear factor expression in hens and chicks.
Quorum sensing and policing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa social cheaters

Significance Cooperation is subject to social cheating. Cheats benefit from the activity of cooperators and gain a fitness advantage. One way higher organisms prevent infiltration by cheats is policing: Cooperators penalize cheats at some cost to themselves. Cooperating groups of bacteria are susceptible to social cheating, but little is known about bacterial policing. We have built on an understanding a quorum-sensing regulated cooperative activity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa to show that quorum sensing control of and resistance to cyanide production serves as a cheater policing mechanism. Understanding how bacteria cooperate and how they control social cheats has evolutionary implications, provides important insights about ways to control bacterial populations, and has ramifications with respect to synthetic system design. The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic human pathogen that uses a quorum sensing signal cascade to activate expression of dozens of genes when sufficient population densities have been reached. Quorum sensing controls production of several key virulence factors, including secreted proteases such as elastase. Cooperating groups of bacteria growing on protein are susceptible to social cheating by quorum-sensing defective mutants. A possible way to restrict cheater emergence is by policing where cooperators produce costly goods to sanction or punish cheats. The P. aeruginosa LasR-LasI quorum sensing system controls genes including those encoding proteases and also those encoding a second quorum-sensing system, the RhlR-RhlI system, which controls numerous genes including those for cyanide production. By using RhlR quorum sensing mutants and cyanide synthesis mutants, we show that cyanide production is costly and cyanide-producing cooperators use cyanide to punish LasR-null social cheaters. Cooperators are less susceptible to cyanide than are LasR mutants. These experiments demonstrate policing in P. aeruginosa, provide a mechanistic understanding of policing, and show policing involves the cascade organization of the two quorum sensing systems in this bacterium.
Consumers’ Factors on eWOM Diffusion in Social Networking Services (SNS)

This present study seeks to uncover personal factors of social networking services (SNS) users’ on eWOM diffusion in SNS through review of previous studies. This paper also aims to build a conceptual theory based on these findings and create a path for further studies and empirical research in the future. Literature from technology acceptance fields and social sciences were examined on eWOM diffusion via four levels of self-factors in individuals. The issues of level of trust, personal eWom experience, and self-efficacy are discussed in the prediction of eWOM, while different personalities are predicted to have different outcomes in eWOM diffusion. The insights of personal factors influence in eWOM would enhance consumers’ ability to understand further how to navigate positive and negative perspectives of personal factors and act to use this discovery to assist own decision making. Keywords: eWOM, SNS, self-efficacy, eWOM experience trust, personality.
Statistical model for ring oscillator phase noise variability accounting for within-die process variation

Phase noise is one of the most restricted specifications in oscillators, especially ring oscillators. Phase noise will exhibit large fluctuations around its nominal value due to the increased process variation with technology scaling. These fluctuations will cause some fabricated ring oscillators not to meet the phase noise constraint and, hence, result in yield loss. This yield loss is expected to become worse especially for sub-90-nm technology nodes. In this paper, an analytical model for the phase noise variability in ring oscillators is proposed. The proposed model has been verified using Monte Carlo SPICE simulations for an industrial 65-nm CMOS technology and is found in good agreement. The model shows that for the commonly used differential-pair-based ring oscillators, the main contribution in phase noise variability comes from the differential pair tail transistor. It also shows that the phase noise variability is reduced as the supply voltage increases. These results can be used to mitigate the phase noise variability and improve the yield through proper sizing of the tail transistor or higher supply voltage.
The perceptual preferences in learning among dental students in clinical subjects.

INTRODUCTION VARK is a questionnaire which was developed by Neil Fleming (www.vark.learn.com), who was a teacher and an educator in New Zealand, with respect to the perceptual preferences in learning. V stands for Visual- the students learn best from pictures, graphs and diagrams. A stand for Aural - the students learn best from spoken words, lectures and discussions. R stands for Reading - the students learn best from reading and writing texts. K stands for Kinesthetic - the students learn best when they move their bodies and manipulate things with their own hands. AIM The aim of the recent study was to investigate the learning styles among the dental students in our clinical set up. METHOD The VARK-questionnaire contains 13 multiple-choice- questions with four possibilities to select an answer. Each possibility represents one of the four modes of perception. But, one can select more than one answer for each question, which is necessary for the identification of the poly modal modes of perception and learning. This is also a psychometric problem when an attempt is being made to state a measure of the reliability of the questionnaire. The VARK-questionnaire was distributed among 100 students and we received filled forms from only 70 students. This sample size represented a 70% response rate from the students in the class and it was markedly above the level which was required to make conclusions about the student preferences for receiving and processing information. The students spent about 10 minutes in an ordinary lesson to fill in the questionnaire. The students' register numbers and names were used in the study and no blinding was practised. We analyzed their learning styles with their performances in the university exams. STUDY DESIGN This was a questionnaire based clinical study. RESULTS The responses from the students in our University where classified into the multi-modal (VARK), tri-modal (VRK, VAK, VAR, ARK), bi-modal (VR, VA, VK, RK) and the uni-modal (V, A, R.K) categories. The results showed that the subjects had a higher preference for multimodal learning. CONCLUSION With our preliminary data, we conclude that the students in our clinical set up preferred a multimodal and a more of kinesthetic method of learning. To meet their needs, variations in the teaching, learning and the examination must be implemented. If not, the students with a high kinesthetic preference for perception and learning may be at the losing end.