Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
NEUROSONOLOGY OF EMBOLI DETECTION AND MONITORING

Cerebral embolism is the leading cause of ischemic stroke. Detection of microembolic signals [MES] in cerebral circulation is uniquely attained by several transcranial Doppler techniques, and can not be obtained with any other available imaging modality. Albeit no uniform picture has emerged from the studies, presence and amount of MES can identify a high-risk status in the setting of potential arterial or cardiac sources of cerebral embolism. Real-time MES monitoring during vascular procedures with high cerebral embolism risk seems also promising. The potential of MES detection in improvement of patient care is usually acknowledged, even though several aspects remain yet to be scientifically established. We herein review theory, technique and clinical potential of the neurosonological emboli detection, and try to add to understanding of the journal readership about the recent development on this subject.
A triadic approach to assessment centre’s construct validity; The effect of categorising dimensions into a feeling, thinking, power taxonomy

textabstractThis study examined the influence on construct validity of implementing the triad Feeling, Thinking and Power as a taxonomy for behavioural dimensions in assessment centre (AC) exercises. A sample of 1.567 job applicants participated in an AC specifically developed according to this taxonomy. Each exercise tapped three dimensions, one dimension from each cluster of the taxonomy. Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the multitrait-multimethod matrix showed evidence for construct validity. Thus the ratings matched the a priori triadic grouping to a good extent. Practical implications are discussed.
Some Species of Lamiaceae-Comparative Anatomical Studies

Phytotomy (anatomy) is the general term for the study of the internal structure of plants. In this study, anatomical structures of the stem and leaf of taxa viz., Orthosiphon rubicundus Benth. , Ocimum basilicum Linn. , Leucas cephalotes Spreng. , and Coleus forskohlii Briq. , belonging to the Lamiaceaewere examined and compared. The studied taxa show some differences and similarities in the stem and leaf shape and structure. Arrangement of epidermis, trichomes, cortex, endodermis, pericycle, vascular bundles types and the presence of collenchyma, palisade and spongy parenchyma layer in the leaf blade. A Macromorphological and micromorphological detail of different parts of the plant body provides information of taxonomical significance.
What Can the Collective Action Problem Tell Us about the Recurrence of Civil War and the Long-term Stability of a Country?

This study attempts to explain why some countries experience multiple civil wars while others who have experienced a civil war build long-term stability from the rubble of conflict. The explanation of why civil war recurs focuses on the collective action problem, centering on the rebel leaders' ability to solve the Rebel's Dilemma. I further argue that once the Rebel's Dilemma has been solved once it is much easier for rebel leaders to solve it again and again. The empirical finds suggest that the political situation resulting from the first war plays a strong role in the solutions to the collective action problem and thus the long-term stability following a civil war. Namely, the level of democracy, partition and third party enforcement of the peace all affect the ability of the rebel leaders to solve the collective action problem and the likelihood of another civil war.
In ovo antiviral potency of the leaf constituents of Tanzanian Toussaintia species against Infectious Bursal Disease Virus and Newcastle Disease Virus

The chemical constituents of Toussantia orientalis and T. patriciae (Annonaceae) leaf extracts were evaluated for their antiviral activities in ovo against Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) and Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV). The nine-day-old embryonated eggs in a set of five were used for testing through the allantoic route inoculation assay for each tested compound and controls. For NDV assay, the allantoic fluids from the specimens were further harvested to determine viral contagion. The tested compounds exhibited potency with varying levels of significance at a screening concentration of 360 µg/ml against the two viral strains. Embryos infected with IBDV survived, grew to normal size with complete organ formation and had mean weights comparable to those of the uninfected ones when treated with the aminocinnamoyl tetraketides 1, 2, and 4, glucosylflavonoid 7 from T. orientalis and ursolic acid derivatives 9 and 10 from T. patriciae demonstrating high efficacy against IBDV. The compounds also exhibited antiviral activity against NDV, showing viral titre reduction ranging from 1:16 - 1:256 in the haemagglutination test, with compound 11 having the lowest titre value (1:16) followed by compound 7 (1:32). The compounds that exhibited significant antiviral efficacy could be considered potential leads for the development of antiviral agents. Keywords : Aminocinnamoyl tetraketides, ursolic acids, Toussaintia orientalis, Toussaintia patriciae, Annonaceae.
Disorders in a Large Cohort of Chinese ( Taiwanese ) Patients Maintained by Long-Term Hemodialysis

Background: Disorders of sleep behavior and sleep-related breathing disorders are common in hemodialysis atients. Most such evidence is based on studies involving small numbers of patients. Methods: We undertook a arge multicenter analysis of sleep behavior in more than 700 Taiwanese patients on maintenance hemodialysis herapy for 6 months to 20-plus years by using self-administered questionnaires: the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality ndex, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, and Berlin Questionnaire for risk for sleep apnea, validated for the general opulation. Patients also completed a questionnaire to assess symptoms related to restless legs and periodic limb ovements (PLMs). Sleep behavior was analyzed in relation to demographic and dialysis-related parameters rovided by the participating dialysis centers. Results: Sleep disturbance was very common in this cohort, with roblems of insomnia (66.6%) exceeding those related to daytime sleepiness (17.8%). Sleep disturbances were ssociated with restless legs syndrome (RLS)/PLM and a high risk for sleep apnea, determined by using the Berlin uestionnaire. Older age increased the odds of daytime sleepiness, but not insomnia. Lower dialysis dose single-pool Kt/V) increased the likelihood of daytime sleepiness and was associated with greater rates for RLS/PLM nd risk for sleep apnea. Use of antihypertensive medications (a probable surrogate for more severe hypertension) as associated strongly with high risk for sleep apnea. Smoking was associated with RLS/PLM and risk for sleep pnea, whereas consumption of stimulant beverages (coffee and tea) had contrary effects on RLS/PLM and risk for leep apnea and were not implicated in measures of insomnia or daytime sleepiness. A greater likelihood of nsomnia for greater hemoglobin levels and greater likelihood of daytime sleepiness for patients administered itamin D analogues were not explained by the available data. Conclusion: Sleep disorders and sleep-related reathing disorders are common in hemodialysis patients. Greater attention in the care of dialysis patients needs to e directed to the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders. Am J Kidney Dis 48:277-284. 2006 by the National Kidney Foundation, Inc.
The Application of Activity Based Costing System and Company's Financial Performance "A Case study of" A" Manufacturing Company"

In today’s business competitive manufacturing environment, direct labour costs have become insignificant portion of total product costs of products or services. Direct labour was being no longer a suitable base for assigning overhead to products or services. Therefore, traditional costing systems which allocate overhead by using a single cost driver with an allocation base of direct labour, or any single allocation base may seriously distort product costs. This will lead to bad management decisions which prevent better business performance. Instead, activity-based costing (ABC) is a new costing system which allocate overhead based on multiple cost drivers, hence improves the accuracy of product costs, and gives better opportunities for performance improvement. The problem of this study indicated that a majority of manufacturing companies still using the same traditional costing systems which provide inaccurate product cost; and ABC system is not being applied by many companies yet. Thus, the study aimed to examine the relationship between application of ABC system and financial performance. Archive costs data of one manufacturing company (“A” Company) were used to apply ABC system based on (Cooper’s two –stages model). The results showed that the application of ABC system in "A" Company determined products costs more accurately; reduces cost; and increases the profit of many products than existing costing system. 2013 ةیداصتقلاا مولعلا ةلجم يملعلا ثحبلا ةدامع وینوی Vol 14 (01) 19 In addition, ABC system provides detailed information on activities costs and related cost drivers which will affect positively on company “A” performance as awhole.
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS ’ GERONTOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE Submitted

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Cross‐Industry Product Diversification and Contagion in Risk and Return: The Case of Bank‐Insurance and Insurance‐Bank Takeovers

We investigate the impact of domestic/international bancassurance deals on the risk-return profiles of announcing and nonannouncing banks and insurers within a GARCH model. Bank-insurance deals produce intra- and interindustry contagion in both risk and return, with larger deals producing greater contagion. Bidder banks and peers experience positive abnormal returns, with the effects on insurer peers being stronger than those on bank peers. Insurance-bank deals produce insignificant excess returns for bidder and peer insurers and positive valuations for peer banks. Following the deal, the bank bidders' idiosyncratic (systematic) risk falls (increases), while insurance bidders exhibit a lower systematic risk and maintain their idiosyncratic risk.
Contemporary Issues in Nigeria : Social Scientific

Inroduction Conceptualizing Subsidy and Fuel Subsidy Deregulation as an ingredient of subsidy removal Concept and Components of. deregulation Importance of Oil to the Nigerian State Factors Responsible for Oil Subsidy in Nigeria Government Position on Deregulation and Removal of Oil Subsidy The experience and benefits of deregulation SociaEconomic Implication of Fuel Subsidy Removal Conclusion and Recommendations
A deep Parkes HI survey of the Sculptor group and filament: HI mass function and environment

We present the results of a deep survey of the nearby Sculptor group and the associated Sculptor filament taken with the Parkes 64-m radio telescope in the 21-cm emission line of neutral hydrogen. We detect 31 HI sources in the Sculptor group/filament, eight of which are new HI detections. We derive a slope of the HI mass function along the Sculptor filament of alpha = -1.10(-0.11)(+0.20), which is significantly flatter than the global mass function and consistent with the flat slopes previously found in other low-density group environments. Some physical process, such as star formation, photoionization or ram-pressure stripping, must therefore be responsible for removing neutral gas predominantly from low-mass galaxies. All of our HI detections have a confirmed or tentative optical counterpart and are likely associated with luminous rather than 'dark' galaxies. Despite a column density sensitivity of about 4 x 10(17) cm(-2), we do not find any traces of extragalactic gas or tidal streams, suggesting that the Sculptor filament is, at the current time, a relatively quiescent environment that has not seen any recent major interactions or mergers.
Leadership, Social Capital, Access to Information and Community Empowerment To Address Health Issues

The community empowerment problem in health issue is the poor ability of identifying health problem and of solving health problem. The objective of research study was to analyze the most influential determinants relating to the community empowerment in health issue. The research method was the combination of quantitative and qualitative method. The quantitative research was a survey one with path analysis, while the qualitative one employed case study. The target of research was the midwives in Village Health Post and Village Health Forum in 30 villages in Karanganyar Regency of Central Java Province Indonesia . The results of this study include that the determinant relating to community empowerment in health issue was divided into input, process, and output. The input determinant consisted of internal and external community ones. Internal community determinant included: physical, economic (natural) and social-cultural (leadership, mutual cooperation, initiation, innovation) resources. Meanwhile, the external community determinant involved access to information (TV, internet, newspaper), and health personnel’s and facilitator’s role. The internal community determinant most dominantly relating to community empowerment in health issue was leadership and social capital. Meanwhile the external one most dominantly relating to community empowerment in health issue was access to information. The community empowerment process in health issue encompassed the process of using and utilizing efficiently the resource within the community as well as facilitation process and resource support from outside community. The output of community empowerment constituted the community’s forcefulness including the ability of identifying and of solving local health problems.
EPIC 201585823, a rare triple-mode RR Lyrae star discovered in K2 mission data

We have discovered a new, rare triple-mode RR Lyr star, EPIC 201585823, in the Kepler K2 mission Campaign 1 data. This star pulsates primarily in the fundamental and first-overtone radial modes, and, in addition, a third non-radial mode. The ratio of the period of the non-radial mode to that of the first-overtone radial mode, 0.616 285, is remarkably similar to that seen in 11 other triple-mode RR Lyr stars, and in 260 RRc stars observed in the Galactic bulge. This systematic character promises new constraints on RR Lyr star models. We detected subharmonics of the non-radial mode frequency, which are a signature of period doubling of this oscillation; we note that this phenomenon is ubiquitous in RRc and RRd stars observed from space, and from ground with sufficient precision. The non-radial mode and subharmonic frequencies are not constant in frequency or in amplitude. The amplitude spectrum of EPIC 201585823 is dominated by many combination frequencies among the three interacting pulsation mode frequencies. Inspection of the phase relationships of the combination frequencies in a phasor plot explains the ‘upward’ shape of the light curve. We also found that raw data with custom masks encompassing all pixels with significant signal for the star, but without correction for pointing changes, is best for frequency analysis of this star, and, by implication, other RR Lyr stars observed by the K2 mission. We compare several pipeline reductions of the K2 mission data for this star.
Copy I 3-D Object Pose Determination Using Complex F " I

This report describes a new method based on the Extended Gaussian Image (EGI) which can be used to determine the pose of a 3-D object. In this scheme, the weight associated with each outward surface normal is a complex weight. The normal distance of the surface from the predefined origin is encoded as the phase of the weight while the magnitude of the weight is the visible area of the surface. This approach decouples the orientation and translation determination into two distinct least-squares problems. Experiments involving synthetic data of two polyhedral and two smooth objects indicate the feasibility of this method. The best results axe 4.7% and 1.5% (total distance error) for the polyhedral and smooth objects respectively. The figures are quoted in terms of percentages of the maximum allowable displacement. Experiments using real range data for the two smooth objects yield good results, with total translation errors as low as 2.6%. , . Chapter
The emergence of sub-syllabic representations q

In a variety of experimental paradigms speakers do not treat all sub-syllabic sequences equally. In languages like English, participants tend to group vowels and codas together to the exclusion of onsets (i.e., /bet/=/b/-/et/). Three possible accounts of these patterns are examined. A hierarchical account attributes these results to the presence of categorical sub-syllabic divisions (e.g., onset /b/ vs. rime /et/). In contrast, a non-hierarchical account attributes these findings to the strength with which particular consonants and vowels co-occur (e.g., the relative frequency of /be/ vs. /et/). A third emergentist alternative is articulated, where speakers’ knowledge is sensitive not just to the frequency with which particular segments co-occur but also to the general patterns of association within a language. These accounts are contrasted by examining sub-syllabic patterns in two languages: Korean and English. A statistical study shows distinctions in the general patterns of sub-syllabic associations in Korean and English. Consistent with the emergentist perspective, results of short-term memory experiments reveal that Korean and English speakers are sensitive not only to these general patterns but also to the strength with which particular segment sequences are associated. The implications of these results for theories of sub-syllabic patterns in languages are discussed. 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
To Be or Have Not Been: Learning Language Tenses through Drama.

Much of the research regarding the effectiveness of drama as a teaching tool is evaluated using qualitative analysis. This collaborative action study applied quantitative research techniques to assess the usefulness of drama as a teaching tool. The aim was to discover what happens to children's understanding of verb tense when taught using drama methods versus traditional methods. The pupils assessed were all native Italian speakers and attended a private international school in Milan, Italy. Two classes from the same year group received instruction in the differing methods over a three week period. They were examined pre and post instruction and an analysis of the results is provided below. Data were collected and analysed using a two-tailed t-test for two independent samples with equal variance to examine whether either method was more effective. The researcher's hypothesis was that there would be no significant difference between the two methods. The results of the study concluded that teaching language tenses through drama was more effective than using traditional methods. The proposed null hypothesis was rejected. Background The school used in this study is a privately owned K-9 international school in Milan, Italy. It follows the UK National Curriculum and has also achieved the status of "Scuola Parita", an equivalency term meaning it is recognised as fulfilling Italian national curriculum requirements. This bilingual, dual curriculum school has grown from its first class of 13 children in 1996 to over 600 students in 2008. Approximately 80% of the pupils are native Italian speakers with both parents being of Italian nationality. The remaining 20% are of mixed ethnicity but are mainly children whose parents/guardians (one or both) are native English speakers. The socioeconomic status of the families attending the school is uppermiddle class. Importance of the study The researcher was asked by the directors of the school to develop the drama program within the school. The aim of this program was twofold; to raise literacy standards in line with requirements outlined by the UK Department for Education and Skills (2007) in terms of spoken and written English and to promote drama for the inherent educational benefits the study of the subject provides. However, for the purposes of this paper, the researcher wished to provide evidence of the impact of drama on developing language skills. At present, much of the research on the effectiveness of drama in education focuses on the concept that "drama in education…is seen as a way of teaching and learning, rather than a conventional school subject with definite knowledge to be acquired or skills to be
Is the Link between Reforms and Growth Spurious? A Comment

Rzonca and Cizkowicz (2003) notice that by construction the reform indicators are bound from the above, and the resulting time series characteristics of these variables render estimates of coefficients in growth regressions spurious. We illustrate this issue further, applying econometric tests. Our main conclusions are the following: (i) joint use of contemporaneous and lagged values of reform indicators may lead to spurious results, (ii) this is more likely in estimations based on longer time windows, which include 'post transition' years. Nevertheless, the existing empirical evidence is sufficient to demonstrate: (iii) a positive link between the reforms and economic growth, and (iv) a lag between the reforms implementation and the positive response in economic growth.
Individual Differences in Early Language Learning: A Study of English Learners of French

The present longitudinal study examines the interaction of learner variables (gender, motivation, self-efficacy, and first language literacy) and their influence on second language learning outcomes. The study follows English learners of French from Year 5 in primary school (aged 9–10) to the first year in secondary school (Year 7; aged 11–12). Language outcomes were measured by two oral production tasks, a sentence repetition task and a photo description task, both of which were administered at three time points. Longitudinal data on learner attitudes and motivation were collected via questionnaires. Teacher assessment data for general first language literacy attainment were also provided. The results show a great deal of variation in learner attitudes and outcomes and that there is a complex relationship between first language literacy, self-efficacy, gender, and attainment. For example, in general, girls held more positive attitudes to boys and were more successful. However, the inclusion of first language ability, which explained 29–39 per cent of variation, shows that gender differences in attitudes and outcomes are likely mediated by first language literacy and prior learning experience.