Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Head to Shoulder Interval in 92 Cases Normal Birth with Good Baby Condition by Two Step Shoulder Delivery Method

Purpose of investigation: Observation of natural process of head to shoulder interval by waiting for at least one contraction (two-step method) after head delivered in normal birth. Method: From 1st to the end of mar. In 2015 at Haikou maternal and child hospital in China, women in vaginal delivery meet the criteria were recorded by video from head crown to shoulder and to body delivered. 92 cases normal vaginal birth with normal baby condition were recorded, video tapes were transfer to computer then replayed and observed. Interval of head crown to head delivery and head to shoulder delivery, babies' activities during birth were recorded from video at same time. Result: 1. The mean time of head to shoulder interval by waiting for a contraction is (71.043 ± 61.015) sec, mean+2Std. =193.073sec, 95% CI (15.65-229.15) sec. 2. 55.43 % (51/92) percent interval of head to shoulder were less than 60 sec, 39.1% (36/92) were over 60sec and less than 190 sec. 5.4 %( 5/92) over 190 sec. 3. 71.734% (66/92) shoulders were emerged from perineum, 15.217% (14/92) transversely, 13.04% (12/92) emerged from under pubic. 4. 22 % percent babies breathed before shoulder delivery, some after, some did not cry at all, but had normal heartbeat and breath Patten. Conclusion: 1. Head to shoulder delivery interval is longer than 60 sec by two step method of shoulder delivery. The majority shoulders emerged from perineum rather from under pubic. 96.73% (89/92) cases shoulders were delivered at the first contraction after head delivered, only 3.27% (3/92) cases had delivered by twice contractions. 2. Babies activities during delivery of shoulder included breath, making faces, sucking, bubble from noses and mouth, and the color of the face, all those signs indicated the normal live birth.
Star formation quenching in simulated group and cluster galaxies: when, how, and why?

Star formation is observed to be suppressed in group and cluster galaxies compared to the field. To gain insight into the quenching process, we have analysed ~2000 galaxies formed in the GIMIC suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The time of quenching varies from ~2 Gyr before accretion (first crossing of r200,c) to >4 Gyr after, depending on satellite and host mass. Once begun, quenching is rapid (>~ 500 Myr) in low-mass galaxies (M* < 10^10 M_Sun), but significantly more protracted for more massive satellites. The simulations predict a substantial role of outflows driven by ram pressure -- but not tidal forces -- in removing the star-forming interstellar matter (ISM) from satellite galaxies, especially dwarfs (M* ~ 10^9 M_Sun) where they account for nearly two thirds of ISM loss in both groups and clusters. Immediately before quenching is complete, this fraction rises to ~80% even for Milky Way analogues (M* ~ 10^10.5 M_Sun) in groups (M_host ~ 10^13.5 M_Sun). We show that (i) ISM stripping was significantly more effective at early times than at z = 0; (ii) approximately half the gas is stripped from `galactic fountains' and half directly from the star forming disk; (iii) galaxies undergoing stripping experience ram pressure up to ~100 times the average at a given group/cluster-centric radius, because they are preferentially located in overdense ICM regions. Remarkably, stripping causes at most half the loss of the extended gas haloes surrounding our simulated satellites. These results contrast sharply with the current picture of strangulation -- removal of the ISM through star formation after stripping of the hot halo -- being the dominant mechanism quenching group and cluster satellites.
Antioxidant activity, total phenolic compounds and flavonoids of mangoes coming from biodynamic, organic and conventional cultivations in three maturation stages

Purpose – Phenolic compounds, including flavonoids, are nutritionally important for their antioxidant activities and protective functions against disease risk caused by oxidative stress. These compounds are primarily found in fruits, and mangoes are an important source. This paper aims to address these issues.Design/methodology/approach – In this work, the antioxidant activities of mangoes cultivated in three different ways were evaluated by their ability to capture free radicals using the DPPH radical.Findings – The results showed that the biodynamic mangoes had highest antioxidant activity in mature‐green and ripe fruits, while for those of organic origin the antioxidant activity was highest in unripe fruits. The organic mangoes also showed highest values of phenolic compounds at all maturation stages. The mangoes from conventional crops had lower values for all parameters evaluated in this study than the organically and biodynamically cultivated fruits.Originality/value – This work brings an important .
A 2500 deg2 CMB Lensing Map from Combined South Pole Telescope and Planck Data

We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing map produced from a linear combination of South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck temperature data. The 150 GHz temperature data from the 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ survey is combined with the Planck 143 GHz data in harmonic space to obtain a temperature map that has a broader ℓ coverage and less noise than either individual map. Using a quadratic estimator technique on this combined temperature map, we produce a map of the gravitational lensing potential projected along the line of sight. We measure the auto-spectrum of the lensing potential , and compare it to the theoretical prediction for a ΛCDM cosmology consistent with the Planck 2015 data set, finding a best-fit amplitude of . The null hypothesis of no lensing is rejected at a significance of 24σ. One important use of such a lensing potential map is in cross-correlations with other dark matter tracers. We demonstrate this cross-correlation in practice by calculating the cross-spectrum, , between the SPT+Planck lensing map and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) galaxies. We fit to a power law of the form with a, L0, and b fixed, and find , which is marginally lower, but in good agreement with , the best-fit amplitude for the cross-correlation of Planck-2015 CMB lensing and WISE galaxies over ∼67% of the sky. The lensing potential map presented here will be used for cross-correlation studies with the Dark Energy Survey, whose footprint nearly completely covers the SPT 2500 deg2 field.
Auxiliary elements of mammalian pre-mRNAs polyadenylation signals

Polyadenylation is one of the levels at which eukaryotic gene expression is regulated. The auxiliary elements of mammalian polyadenylation (poly(A)) signals are known to influence positively or negatively the efficiency of З'-end processing. In this paper, we surveyed the literature on auxiliary elements of mammalian poly(A) signals. We also compiled the database of human poly(A) signals and searched it for auxiliary elements. This database contains 244 pre-mRNA sequences covering the cleavage region. Literature data and our database screen demonstrated that auxiliary elements, particularly, sequences binding Ul snRNP-specific Ul A protein, are widely presented in cellular pre-mRNAs. Besides, we analyzed our database for the availability of the polynucleotide sequences with a potential to form G-quadruplexes or i-motifs which we consider as possible auxiliary elements. Based on published experimental findings on formation of quadruplexes, the schematic structures of possible quadruplexes are proposed for several human pre-mRNAs. The structures of putative quadruplexes are also represented for G-rich auxiliary downstream element of SV40 L poly(A) signal
Selecting hotel staff: why best practice doesn't always work

This paper considers the nature of “best practice” recruitment and selection in the hotel sector. Data from a sample of Scottish hotels indicate a reliance on informal methods, particularly in smaller hotels. In larger and chain hotels, structured procedures, including references, application forms and panel interviews, are evident, but, here too, these methods seem inadequate for dealing with recruitment and quality problems, especially in meeting temporary staffing needs. Case study evidence contrasts two alternative strategies: a successful holistic strategy based on management of social processes important for selection, and a more conventional bureaucratic strategy. Each strategy depends on a complex interrelationship between business and labour market considerations, the ownership and management structure of the hotel, and the tenure and experience of those responsible for selection. This evidence indicates that, for the hotel industry, the holistic strategy is an alternative to conventional notions
The Value of Crowdsourcing: Can Users Really Compete with Professionals in Generating New Product Ideas?

Generating ideas for new products used to be the exclusive domain of marketers, engineers, and/or designers. Users have only recently been recognized as an alternative source of new product ideas. Whereas some have attributed great potential to outsourcing idea generation to the “crowd” of users (“crowdsourcing”), others have clearly been more skeptical. The authors join this debate by presenting a real-world comparison of ideas actually generated by a firm’s professionals with those generated by users in the course of an idea generation contest. Both professionals and users provided ideas to solve an effective and relevant problem in the consumer goods market for baby products. Executives from the underlying company evaluated all ideas (blind to their source) in terms of key quality dimensions, including novelty, customer benefit, and feasibility. The study reveals that the crowdsourcing process generated user ideas that score significantly higher in terms of novelty and customer benefit, and somewhat lower in terms of feasibility. However, the average values for feasibility – in sharp contrast to novelty and customer benefit – tended to be relatively high overall, meaning that feasibility did not constitute a narrow bottleneck in this study. Even more interestingly, it is found that user ideas are placed more frequently than expected among the very best in terms of novelty and customer benefit. These findings, which are quite counterintuitive from the perspective of classic new product development (NPD) literature, suggest that, at least under certain conditions, crowdsourcing might constitute a promising method to gather user ideas which can complement those of a firm’s professionals at the idea generation stage in NPD.
THE ROLE OF GOAL SETTING IN METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS AS A SELF-REGULATORY BEHAVIOR IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Metacognition, an awareness of one’s own cognitive processes in learning, is a crucial component of self-regulatory behavior that facilitates successful language learning. Therefore, the current study sought to find out the role of different types of goals in participants’ metacognitive awareness. A total of 118 university students enrolled in an English Language Teaching program at a major state university voluntarily participated in the study. Data were gathered using Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) and Goals Inventory. Findings of descriptive statistics revealed that 48.3% of the participants had high, 28% had moderate, and 23.7% had low metacognitive awareness. Besides, significant correlation was found between mastery goals and metacognitive awareness, supporting the findings of the previous studies. These results revealed the importance of goal setting in metacognition and can be useful for practitioners to include goal orientation to the curriculum by emphasizing the necessity of learner engagement, agency, and self-regulation for successful language learning process.
Antibacterial activity of Punica granatum peel extract

The current research aimed to explore the secondary metabolites and antibacterial activity of extracts prepared from peel part of Punica granatum L. , family Punicaceae. The extract was prepared in different solvents including water, methanol, ethanol, petroleum ether and ethyl acetate. The antibacterial activity was examined against one gram positive ( Staphylococcus aureus ) and two gram negative ( Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ) ATCC bacterial strains on the basis of zone of inhibition using agar well diffusion assay. Results revealed that maximum number of the phytochemical molecules were existing in methanolic, ethanolic and ethyl acetate, while minimum number of molecules were found in aqueous solvent. P. granatum exhibits significantly high activity against both gram negative and gram positive bacteria.
Debt Covenants and Accounting Conservatism

Using a sample of over 5,000 debt issues, I test whether firms with more extensive use of covenants in their public debt contracts exhibit timelier recognition of economic losses in accounting earnings. Covenants govern the transfer of decision-making and control rights from shareholders to bondholders when a company approaches financial distress and thereby limit managers’ abilities to expropriate bondholder wealth. Covenants are expected to constrain managerial opportunism, however, only if the accounting system recognizes economic losses in earnings in a timely fashion. Thus, the demand for timely loss recognition should increase with a contract’s reliance on covenants. Consistent with this conjecture, I find evidence that reliance on covenants in public debt contracts is positively associated with the degree of timely loss recognition. I also find evidence that the presence of prior private debt mitigates this relationship.
A simulated driving test of Wilde's risk homeostasis theory

Risk Homeostasis Theory is one of the few models of driver behavior that can account for fluctuations in the population traffic accident loss. In essence, the theory predicts that reductions in the overall net gain associated with risky alternatives will be effective in reducing the total population accident cost, while restrictions on specific risky behaviors, such as speeding or seatbelt wearing, will not. The challenge that this view presents to the established ideology of traffic legislators has precipitated a good deal of scientific study. Unfortunately, research investigations have been plagued with a variety of problems including poor experimental control, inadequate data, misinterpretations of the theory's main postulates, and experimental tasks with poor ecological validity. The present research addresses a number of these problems with the use of an interactive driving simulator. Thirteen male and eleven female subjects drove in four ten-minute sessions. In each session, subjects were fined for exceeding either a high or low speed limit, and were penalized either fifty cents or two dollars for causing an accident. Subjects received all four combinations of the two bi-level factors. If Risk Homeostasis Theory is correct, drivers would be expected to cause a greater number of accidents in the low versus high accident cost condition, but would be expected to show similar accident involvement in the two speed limit conditions. Results were consistent with these expectations. Some conclusions are drawn regarding the implications of these findings for future tests of the theory and for traffic legislation in general.
Different Teaching Methods: A Panacea for Effective Curriculum Implementation in the Classroom

The paper focused on the teaching methods as a panacea for effective curriculum implementation in the classroom in Nigeria. Teaching methods denote various strategies that the teacher uses to deliver his/her subject matter to the students in the classroom based on the instructional objectives to bring about learning. Teaching methods aids learning and help to communicate ideas and skills to the students. There are several teaching methods to use in the classrooms, it is left for the teacher to use the ones most appropriate for the lesson. These methods if properly used will enhance teaching and learning and bring about desired changes in the students. While the teacher’s task is to ensure that learning is effective, one major way to achieve this is the use of appropriate teaching methods. This paper examines the concept of teaching, the teacher, learning, and discussed various teaching methods that can be used in the classrooms. The paper further discussed curriculum implementation and its implication for teaching methods and proffered the way forward for an effective use of teaching methods for better results in the classroom teaching and learning process.
Rice bran replacement in clarias gariepinus fingerlings dietswith pleurotus florida stalk

The effect of replacement of ricebran by mushroom stalk (Pleurotus florida), an agriculture waste on growth performance of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) fingerlings was investigated for 42 days. Three isonitrogenous (32% crude protein) experimental diets containing 100% (Diet 1), 50% (Diet 2) and 0% (Diet 3) mushroom meal were formulated. Each diet was randomly allocated to triplicate groups of fingerlings in experimental tanks, with each tank stocking 12 fishes. The fishes were fed twice daily to apparent satiation for 6 weeks. Good survival rates were obtained from fish fed with Diet 1 (94%) and Diet 3 (94%). There was no significant differences in body weight gain (BWG), specific growth rate (SGR) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) among all diets (p>0.05). The fish fed with Diet 1 showed the best BWG, SGR, FCR and PER compared with Diet 2 and Diet 3. An economic evaluation indicated that Diet 1 gave the lowest production cost at RM2.03/kg followed by Diet 2 and Diet 3 at RM2.18/kg and RM2.38/kg, respectively. This study showed that the best diet was Diet 1 with 100% replacement of rice bran with mushroom stalks costing RM2.03/kg, the cheapest among the three diets.
Strategic groups structure, positioning of the firm and performance: A review of literature

A central theme of the literature on strategic groups is that group membership affects performance. The basic premise of strategic groups and their main interest is in fact that performance can be attributed to strategic groups and not only to the idiosyncratic character of the individual firm. The aim of this paper is therefore to characterize and synthesize studies that examined the relationship between strategic groups, considered from the economic or cognitive perspectives, and performance. We notice that these studies have often yielded conflicting results. We will focus specifically on the relationship between the positioning of the firm, the strategic group and performance, a link that has hitherto been little studied in the literature. In other words, is there for the firm an optimal positioning in relation to strategic groups in its industry? The few empirical studies focusing on this relationship, emphasizing a cognitive approach, were able to show that firms moderately differentiated with respect to their belonging strategic group are more successful.
Evaluation of recombinant human platelet derived growth factor-bb, beta-tricalcium phosphate with collagen membrane in the treatment of gingival recession

Background: Use of latest periodontal regenerative therapies is a boon in periodontal plastic surgery field. Aims: To evaluate the clinical outcome of rhPDGF-BB with beta tricalcium phosphate (GEM 21S®) and a collagen membrane in the treatment of recession defects using coronally advanced flap. Materials and Methods: A total of fourteen sites from seven subjects were selected and divided into two groups and postoperatively and healing was evaluated at 1 st , 3 rd and 6 th months, with recession depth as the primary outcome measure. Results: This study revealed a favorable tissue response to GEM 21S® and collagen membrane. Conclusion: In conclusion on clinical and aesthetic point of view recombinant human platelet derived growth factor-bb, beta-tricalcium phosphate with collagen membrane showed an excellent plastic surgery results for gingiva.
Governance Through Threat: Does Short Selling Improve Internal Governance?

We explore the relationship between internal governance and the disciplining mechanisms created by the threat of short selling (i.e. “short-selling potential”). We argue that the presence of short selling increases the cost of agency problems for shareholders and incentivizes them to improve internal governance. Our stock-level tests across 23 developed countries during 2003-2009 confirm that the threat of short selling significantly enhances the quality of internal governance. This effect is stronger for financially constrained firms and more pronounced in countries with weak institutional environments. The governance impact of short selling leads to an improvement in firms’ operating performance.
Examining the Causal Linkages among Domestic Investment, FDI, Trade, Interest Rate and Economic Growth in ASEAN-5 Countries

The aim of this study is to empirically analyse the linkages among domestic investment, foreign direct investment (FDI), trade, interest rate and economic growth in the ASEAN-5 regions in the period 1970-2012. The Johansen-Juselius cointegration approach is applied to examine the long-run relationship and the Granger causality approach is applied to evaluate the causal linkages among the variables. The results confirm the existence of long-term causal links between domestic investment and FDI for the ASEAN-5. This means that collaboration of domestic and foreign investors is essential as the development of domestic firms contributes to further participation by multinational investors. We also reveal that domestic investment and FDI are growth enhancing and their impact is felt in both short- and long-run in the majority of the ASEAN-5 markets, indicating that these three variables are interrelated since they could be attracted to the growing economies. Thus, economic policies that aim at improving and promoting both local and foreign enterprises are indeed necessary in stimulating economic growth in the ASEAN-5 nations.
Title Testing the Rank of a SubMatrix of Cointegration with a Deterministic Trend

In this paper we consider the test of the rank of the sub-matrix of β, the cointegrating matrix, when the process has a deterministic linear trend. We review the problem of the testing procedure proposed by Kurozumi (2003) and give the alternative test statistic that is asymptotically chi-square distributed. We also propose the test of the rank of the sub-matrix of β⊥, the orthogonal matrix to β. Monte Carlo simulations show that our tests proposed in this paper work fairly well in finite samples even when the tests proposed by Kurozumi (2003) perform poorly. ∗This research was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology under Grants-in-Aid No. 14203003.
Large-scale simulations of load-adaptive bone remodeling in human vertebrae from native osteoporotic to augmented bone

Computational models are gaining importance not only for basic science, but also for the analysis of clinical interventions and to support clinicians prior to intervention. Vertebroplasty has been used to stabilize compression fractures in the spine for years, yet there are still diverging ideas on the ideal deposition location, volume, and augmentation material. In particular, little is known about the long-term effects of the intervention on the surrounding biological tissue. This review aims to investigate computational efforts made in the field of vertebroplasty from the augmentation procedure to strength prediction and long-term in silico bone biology in augmented human vertebrae. While there is ample work on simulating the augmentation procedure and strength prediction, simulations predicting long-term effects are lacking. Recent developments in bone remodelling simulations have the potential to show adaptation to cement augmentation and, thus, close this gap.