Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Successful Treatment of Chronic Hand Eczema with Oral 9-cis-Retinoic Acid

Background: 9-cis-Retinoic acid (9-cis-RA) has a particular pattern of binding and activating retinoid receptors. Treatment of chronic hand eczema is often refractory to conventional treatment. Objective: Evaluation of oral 9-cis-RA therapy in chronic hand eczema in a pilot study. Methods: Thirty-eight patients with refractory chronic hand eczema were treated in an exploratory open-label study with oral 9-cis-RA. Results: Twenty-one (55%) showed a very good response, 13 (34%) a good response, 2 (5.5%) a moderate response and 2 (5.5%) no response. Side effects were mild. Conclusion: 9-cis-RA is a valuable drug when given at low doses to patients with chronic hand eczema.
The Role of Shared Vision in the Effect of Perceived Code of Ethics on Corporate Reputation Management: A Study in the Banking Sector

Avoiding the pitfalls of unethical behaviour and establishing an ethical climate within the firm requires an ethical infrastructure. A code of ethics is increasingly a critical component of a firm’s ethical infrastructure that managers can employ (McKinney, Emerson, and Neubert, 2010: 507). Besides, the relevant literature points out that reputation of the company must be purposefully managed so that it becomes the best possible source of sustainable competitive advantage and potential for increasing corporate value (Wiedmann and Buxel, 2005: 146). The primary aim of this empirical study is to reveal the relationship among ethical codes (EC), corporate reputation management (CRM) and shared vision (SV). For this purpose, data were gathered from employees working in both state and private banks in Aksaray province. The participants of the study are 76 bank employees from 13 out of 30 bank branches located in the city centre. The findings of the study revealed that there is a strong relationship among all the variables. The hierarchical regression analysis showed that although SV has a positive and meaningful effect on corporate reputation, it does not moderate the relationship between EC International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences 2017, Vol. 6, No. 4 ISSN: 2226-3624 92 www.hrmars. com and CRM. Findings are discussed and implications for future research are also presented in the study.
Long Upper Pouch in Esophageal Atresia: A Rare Variant

The earliest clinical sign of esophageal atresia (EA) is excessive salivation and the diagnosis is made by failure to pass an infant feeding tube (IFT) into the stomach. The diagnostic errors may occur due to presence of an unusually long upper pouch, when the IFT seems to pass into the stomach. We describe one such case and review the relevant literature.
Efferent Targets of Osseous CGRP‐Immunoreactive Nerve Fiber Before and After Bone Destruction in Adjuvant Arthritic Rat: An Ultramorphological Study on Their Terminal‐Target Relations

We report the ultramorphological characterization of the terminal‐target relation of sensory peptidergic nerve fibers in healthy and diseased osseous tissues. Bone tissue sections were immunoelectronmicroscopically investigated for calcitonin gene‐related peptide (CGRP), a neuropeptide widely distributed in sensory peptidergic fibers. Ultramorphological relation of the osseous CGRP‐immunoreactive (ir) nerve terminals and their target cells was comparatively analyzed using healthy, arthritic, and postarthritic bone specimens from control and adjuvant‐induced arthritic rats. Terminal‐like profiles of the osseous CGRP‐ir axons were evidenced in direct contact with the metaphyseal osteoblasts and osteoclasts of the control animals. Terminal‐like profiles were also noted in the vicinity of the periosteal lining cells. Nonterminal‐like profiles did not make intimate spatial relation to the cells/structures surrounding the nerve. Osseous CGRP‐ir terminals and axons, which are either uncovered or thinly ensheathed by the supportive tissues, were extensively degenerated in adjuvant‐induced infiltration, whereas larger fibers were relatively resistant. Numerous CGRP‐ir axons with distinctive features reinnervated the postarthritic, ossifying periosteum. CGRP‐ir axons appeared to reinnervate the eroded surface of metaphyseal bone and cartilage as early as the recruited osteoblasts resume osteogenesis in the postarthritic metaphysis. The observed terminal‐target relations in the healthy and diseased bone tissues give an ultramorphological basis for the putative trophic, modulatory actions of CGRP innervation of the bone cells.
A case‐mix‐adjusted comparison of early oncological outcomes of open and robotic prostatectomy performed by experienced high volume surgeons

For men at significant risk of dying from untreated prostate cancer within reasonably estimated remaining life spans, which technique offers the best disease-free survival: open radical prostatectomy (RP) or robot-assisted RP (RARP)? The practice patterns in many countries suggest RARP, but many concerns have been raised about the RARP technique for high-risk disease, including positive surgical margin rates, adequate lymph node dissections (LNDs), and the learning curve. In this issue of the BJUI, Silberstein et al. [1] provide a convincing study, short of a randomised trial, that suggests that in experienced hands both techniques can be effective, and that surgeon experience had a stronger effect than technique. In contrast to large population-based studies [2], this study sought to take the learning curve and low-volume surgeon variables out of the equation by restricting the inclusion criteria to four high-volume surgeons from a single centre. The follow-up is short (one year), and may underestimate the true biochemical relapse rates, and needs follow-up study, but for now offers no difference in relapse rates nor pathological staging outcomes.
Activity identification using body-mounted sensors—a review of classification techniques

With the advent of miniaturized sensing technology, which can be body-worn, it is now possible to collect and store data on different aspects of human movement under the conditions of free living. This technology has the potential to be used in automated activity profiling systems which produce a continuous record of activity patterns over extended periods of time. Such activity profiling systems are dependent on classification algorithms which can effectively interpret body-worn sensor data and identify different activities. This article reviews the different techniques which have been used to classify normal activities and/or identify falls from body-worn sensor data. The review is structured according to the different analytical techniques and illustrates the variety of approaches which have previously been applied in this field. Although significant progress has been made in this important area, there is still significant scope for further work, particularly in the application of advanced classification techniques to problems involving many different activities.
Contact behavior in vacuum under capacitive switching duty

According to the relevant IEC standards vacuum circuit-breakers have to meet various needs, e.g. the interruption capability, making operations, and dielectric strength. Besides the interruption of short-circuit currents, switching of capacitive currents causes high stress of the circuit-breaker. Switching of capacitor banks, overhead lines, or cables leads to very small currents in comparison with short circuit currents. After current interruption the circuit-breaker must withstand twice the peak value of the system voltage. Furthermore, restrikes can lead to voltage multiplication. This conjunction of relatively small breaking currents with high voltage stress must be considered in detail. This work introduces a test arrangement for combined tests of making operation, current interruption, and dielectric stress of a vacuum gap under capacitive switching condition. A test vessel permits investigations of various contact materials and designs. It is connected to a synthetic test circuit which provides the appropriate test currents and capacitive voltage. During the test sequence the contacts are stressed by inrush-currents up to 4.5 kA peak, followed by a breaking operation at 500 A peak and a subsequent capacitive voltage up to 50 kV peak. Both the appearance of pre-ignitions at contact closing and the behavior under capacitive voltage stress after breaking are indications of the contact surface conditions.
Why Do Mutual Funds Hold Lottery Stocks?

Abstract We provide evidence regarding mutual funds’ motivation to hold lottery stocks. Funds with higher managerial ownership invest less in lottery stocks, suggesting that managers themselves do not prefer such stocks. The evidence instead supports that managers cater to fund investors’ preference for such stocks. In particular, funds with more lottery holdings attract larger flows after portfolio disclosure compared with their peers, and poorly performing funds tend to engage in risk shifting by increasing their lottery holdings toward year-ends. Funds’ aggregate holdings of lottery stocks contribute to their overpricing.
Non-Operative Management of Liver Trauma

The liver is one of the commonest intra-abdominal organs injured worldwide in blunt and penetrating trauma and its management has evolved significantly in the last 30 years. Mandatory laparotomy has been replaced by an acceptance that for most blunt hepatic trauma, a selective non-operative approach is safe and effective with a failure rate ie the need to proceed to delayed laparotomy of approximately 10%. There is a markedly lower rate of complications in those that are managed non-operatively. Adjuncts to this conservative regimen such as angioembolisation and delayed laparoscopy to treat biliary peritonitis increase the chances of avoiding laparotomy. This belief in non-operative management has also been transferred to some degree to penetrating liver trauma, where there is a gradual accumulation of evidence to support this non-operative approach in a carefully selected group of patients. This article examines the evidence supporting the selective non-operative management of both blunt and penetrating liver trauma and describes the outcomes and complications.
The Effects of Dietary Acetylsalicylic Acid on Heat Stress Infertility of Broiler Breeder Males

An attempt was made at improving fertility of male broiler breeders exposed to elevated ambient temperatures. Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA, aspirin) is a potent antipyretic drug that has been shown to lower the body temperature of heat stressed chickens. Because deviation in body temperature above normal is negatively correlated with fertility, the objective of the present study was to determine if ASA would lower rectal temperature of heat stressed male broiler breeders and improve fertility. Thirty six Arbor Acres roosters were divided equally among three controlled temperature rooms and caged individually. Half of the males in each room were fed . 15% ASA, while the other half of the birds received the control (C) diet. Males were fed the C and ASA diets beginning 1 wk prior to heat stress treatment. After this pretreatment period, the temperature in all three controlled temperature rooms was increased to 29 C. Following one wk at 29 C, roo m o o temperature was increased further to 32 C for 3 wk. Once every wk of the experiment, 120 hens were o inseminated with 50 million sperm from either ASA or C fed males. Dietary ASA did not lower the body temperature of the heat stressed roosters. Males fed ASA consumed less feed than males fed the C diet. In general, semen characteristics, such as semen volume, sperm concentration, and percentage of dead sperm produced, were unaffected by dietary treatment. However, addition of ASA to the heat stressed male's diet resulted in a linear decrease in fertility over Weeks 2 through 4 of the experiment and a greater reduction in fertility over days postinsemination than that obtained for males receiving the C diet. In vivo sperm-egg penetration was similar whether hens were inseminated with semen from C or ASA fed males. In conclusion, . 15% ASA in the male's diet does not decrease body temperature when roosters are exposed to elevated ambient temperatures. In addition, 0.15% dietary ASA appears to be detrimental to fertility of heat stressed broiler breeder males.
Social and Emotional Adjustment of Mildly Retarded Children and Adolescents: Critical Review

This paper reviews research data concerned with social and emotional adjustment characteristics of mildly retarded children and adolescents. Contrary to a number of statements appearing in various texts and review articles, little is known concerning the type and frequency of occurrence of behavior adjustment problems among the mildly retarded. In addition, there is no suitable evidence to indicate that the adjustment level of special class children is superior to that of retarded children attending regular grades.
Enhancement Performance of a 64-Slice Triple Rule-Out Protocol vs 16-Slice and 10-Slice Multidetector CT-Angiography Protocols for Evaluation of Aortic and Pulmonary Vasculature

Objective: To compare the enhancement of the pulmonary and aortic vasculature between a biphasic injection 64-slice, a single-phase injection 16-slice, and a single-phase injection 10-slice multidetector computed tomographic (CT) angiography (CTA) protocols. Methods: With institutional review board approval and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance, 50 patients (16 men, 34 women; mean age, 51.5 years; range, 30-75 years) with atypical chest pain from the emergency department were scanned using a triple rule-out protocol on a 64-slice CT scanner. Pulmonary enhancement was compared with 50 patients (21 men, 29 women; mean age, 65.6 years; range, 38-90 years) imaged with a single-phase 16-slice pulmonary angiography protocol. Aortic enhancement was compared with 24 patients (12 men, 12 women; mean age, 66.1; range, 34-92 years) who were imaged with a 16-slice aortic dissection CTA protocol and to 25 patients (15 men, 10 women; mean age, 50.8 years; range, 20-83 years) imaged with a 10-slice aortic dissection CTA protocol. A 2-tailed Student t test or sign test was used to assess significant differences from a vascular attenuation cutoff value of 250 Hounsfield units (HU). Results: Individual mean pulmonary arterial and aortic attenuation values were statistically significantly less than 250 HU for the 16- and 10-slice protocols and statistically significantly more than 250 HU for the 64-slice protocols (P < 0.05). Mean pooled pulmonary attenuation values were more than 250 HU in 18% (9/50) of the 16-slice and in 93% (39/42) of the 64-slice protocols. Mean pooled aortic attenuation values were more than 250 HU in 18.4% (9/49) of the 10- and 16- and in 100% (42/42) of the 64-slice protocols. Conclusions: The triple rule-out 64-slice biphasic injection breath hold CTA protocol provides significantly higher attenuation of aortic and pulmonary vasculature compared with our current 10- and 16-slice protocols.
Technology Adoption , Risk , and Intrahousehold Bargaining in Subsistence Agriculture

Leveraging unique data from four villages in Southern Ghana (Goldstein and Udry, 1999), we present and test a theoretical model where agents in a two-person agricultural household make individual portfolio allocations while looking forward to an intrahousehold bargaining process. The specific context is that of subsistence agriculture where individuals within households farm separate plots but also share resources. Still, our model allows connections to other contexts approaching the question of portfolio choice in general and can be extended as such. Motivated by empirical findings that unequal access to household resources by individual members impedes investment, we show how an institution of gender bias determines allocations between spouses and feeds back onto investment strategies, ultimately affecting policy efficacy and welfare outcomes over time. In doing so, we portray the household as a simultaneous site of cooperation and conflict and offer a theoretical framework that reflects various aspects of gender inequality in this setting. Specifically, as individuals have separate spheres of influence over the household asset base they adopt heterogeneous portfolio strategies and have relatedly different means of coping with negative economic shocks. In this way, individual risk management strategies diverge from that of the a representative agent and affect prospects for growth in a risky environment. As agent expectations over the returns from bargaining alter their investment strategies, and asset choices affect one’s position at the bargaining table, household members are consequently linked over time, placing the institution of gender at the center of the household’s technology adoption problem. Individuals exercise agency in maximizing their own objectives yet this agency is necessarily bounded by the social institution determining resource shares. In the end, egalitarian households are more able to adopt risky technologies and realize gains from related policies. While gender equality is obviously an end in itself, we ultimately show that it is also a relevant means for the complementary end of economic development.
Comparison of cytotoxic properties of neonatal and adult neutrophils and monocytes and enhancement by cytokines.

We studied cytotoxic capabilities of newborn polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and monocytes and their enhancement by cytokines and antibodies. Umbilical cord PMNs were assessed for their ability to kill various target cells spontaneously, after activation with phorbol myristate acetate, in the presence of antiserum (antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity), and in the presence of dually specific antibody (heteroantibody-mediated cytotoxicity). Target cells included the K562 cell line (natural killer cell target), chicken erythrocytes (CRBCs), and herpes simplex virus-infected CEM cell lines. Newborn PMNs were equivalent to adult PMNs in their cytotoxic capacity in several cytotoxicity assays. Neither adult nor newborn PMNs lyse tumor cell targets (i.e., K562 cells) spontaneously, but both lyse K562 cells following activation with phorbol myristate acetate. Both adult and newborn PMNs lyse CRBCs and herpes simplex virus-infected CEM cells in antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity assays, and this lysis could be enhanced by the cytokines granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and gamma interferon. PMN heteroantibody-mediated cytotoxicity, resulting from the use of an antibody with dual specificity to CRBCs and immunoglobulin G FcRII, was greater in newborn PMNs than in adult PMNs; however, monocyte heteroantibody-mediated cytotoxicity, resulting from the use of an antibody to CRBCs and monocyte immunoglobulin G FcRI, was lower in newborn monocytes than in adult monocytes. The percentage, but not the density, of PMNs expressing FcRII was significantly reduced in newborn PMNs compared with that in adult PMNs, while the percentages and densities of FcRI expression were equivalent in newborn and adult monocytes. We conclude that the cytotoxic capability in term newborn PMNs is equivalent to that in adult PMNs, that the activity of newborn PMNs can be enhanced by antibody and/or cytokines, and that PMNs can contribute to the newborn's ability to kill virus-infected cells.
Associations between physical activity and postpartum depressive symptoms.

BACKGROUND Postpartum women are at increased risk for developing depression, which can contribute to the ill health of the mother and her family. Previous research indicates that mothers who are physically active during leisure experience lower levels of postpartum depressive symptoms than do inactive mothers. The objective of this investigation was to examine the associations between total and domain-specific moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and depressive symptoms postpartum. METHODS Data were obtained from 550 women who participated in the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition (PIN) Postpartum Study, a prospective cohort of mothers who delivered liveborn infants from October 2002 to December 2005 in North Carolina. Three-month postpartum MVPA was investigated as a predictor of 12-month postpartum depressive symptoms. RESULTS Those who participated in MVPA had two times the odds of developing elevated depressive symptoms at 12 months postpartum than those with no MVPA (odds ratio [OR] 2.00, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.71-6.75). Different associations were suggested when examining domain-specific MVPA. Those participating in adult and child care and indoor household MVPA at 3 months postpartum had more than double the odds of developing elevated depressive symptoms at 12 months postpartum (OR 2.66, 95% CI 1.03, 8.11 and OR 2.72, 95% CI 0.96-10.18, respectively). Work MVPA conferred a doubling of the odds (OR 1.95, 95% CI 0.46-7.13), but recreational and outdoor household MVPA showed no associations with depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Associations between MVPA and depressive symptoms differed by domain among postpartum women. Future studies of postpartum depressive symptoms should explore reasons for differences in physical activity by domain.
Epidemiologic Observations on Diarrhea Developing in U.S. and Mexican Students Living in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Background: A previous study suggested that U.S. students who lived in Mexico for 1 year had a risk of diarrhea intermediate between the rate for newly arrived U.S. students and Mexican students; however, the study was not controlled for changes of risky behavior over time. Methods: An analysis of acute diarrhea occurring among U.S. and Mexican student groups living in Guadalajara, Mexico was conducted to explore the association of diarrhea developing during selected 28-day periods with length of residence, season, and risk factors such as locations of food consumption, consumption of tap water, unsafe ice, alcohol, and antibiotics. Results: Compared to U.S. and Mexican student groups, newly arrived U.S. college students in July had the highest rate of diarrhea (55%), highest enteropathogen isolation rate (46%), and most consumption of alcohol and antibiotics; they also ate most frequently at restaurants and in Mexican family homes. Compared to a 34% rate of diarrhea among newly arrived U.S. medical students in August, the rate was only 6% among established medical students in January. This drop in attack rate was attended by less tap water and unsafe ice consumption by established students in January compared to the habits of newly arrived students in January or August when risky behavior was otherwise similar among these groups. The role of tap water and unsafe ice in the acquisition of wintertime diarrhea is further supported by the relatively high 29% rate of diarrhea among U.S. medical students newly arrived in January, who also consumed more tap water and ice than established students in January. Enterotoxigenic E. coli disease was observed only during the summer months; whereas, Campylobacter jejuni disease and disease associated with no detected pathogen were more common in winter. Conclusions: These data imply that wintertime diarrhea in Guadalajara is more likely than summertime diarrhea to be waterborne and to be caused by agents such as viruses or previously unrecognized enteropathogens that were not assessed in this study. Among Mexican students who had the highest frequency of tap water consumption and eating from vendors, the low rates of diarrhea in summer (3%) and winter (5%) imply that they enjoy a substantial degree of immunity. Further study will be necessary to understand the role that immunity (or its loss during summer vacation back in the United States) might play in additionally accounting for observed differences in attack rates between newly arrived students and those who had lived for a period of time in Mexico. (J Travel Med 2:6-10, 1995)