Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multidrug-Resistant Disseminated Nocardia Farcinica Infection in a Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patient

©2013 Turkish League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved. Bu makalede, hastanemize ateş ve sol bacakta ağrı yakınmalarıyla başvuran 40 yaşında bir kadın olgu sunuldu. Hasta lupus nefrit nedeniyle beş ay boyunca azatioprin ve prednizolon tedavisi almıştı. Nocardia farcinica ile ilişkili yaygın nokardiyoz (nodüler kutanöz lezyon, bakteriyemi, beyin apsesi ve miliyer tüberküloz gibi retikülo nodüler infiltrasyon) tanısı konulan hasta linezolid, netilmisin ve seftriakson ile tedavi edildi. Özellikle merkezi sinir sistemi tutulumu olan ve Nocardia farcinica gibi ilaca karşı yüksek düzeyde dirençli suşların enfeksiyonu durumunda Nocardial enfeksiyonlarının tedavisi zor olmaktadır, olgu bu açıdan önem taşımaktadır.
Discussion Paper Series Competing Sales Channels

We study strategic interactions in markets where firms sell to consumers both directly and via a competitive channel (CC), such as a price comparison website or marketplace, where multiple sellers’ offers are visible at once. We ask how a CC’s size influences market outcomes. A bigger CC means more consumers compare prices, increasing within-channel competition. However, such seemingly pro-competitive developments can raise prices and reduce consumer surplus by weakening betweenchannel competition. We also use the model to study relevant active policy issues including price clauses, integrated ownership structures, and access to consumers’ purchase data. (JEL: D43, D83, L11, M3 ) ∗We are grateful for useful conversations with Mark Armstrong, Dan Bernhardt, Sushil Bikhchandani, Alessandro Bonatti, Jacques Crémer, Anna D’Annunzio, Maarten Janssen, Andrea Mantovani, José Moraga-González, Alexei Parakhonyak, Martin Peitz, Markus Reisinger, Andrew Rhodes, Daniel Sgroi, Sandro Shelegia, Anton Sobolev, and Christopher Wilson; and comments from participants at various conferences and seminars. Taylor is grateful for financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. †Economics Dept. and Nuffield College, University of Oxford. david.ronayne@economics.ox. ac.uk ‡Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. greg.taylor@oii.ox. ac.uk
Phenotypic Association Between Lactose and Other Milk Components in Western US Dairy Herds and Japan

Phenotypic Association Between Lactose and Other Milk Components in Western US Dairy Herds and Japan by Takuji Asami, Master of Science Utah State University, 2018 Major Professor: Dr. Allen Young Department: Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences Lactose in milk has relatively low variation regardless of season, breed, or country. The study of lactose concentration and correlation among other milk components is limited. Furthermore, dairy farmers have limited access to the lactose data and are not familiar with it. This study was conducted to: 1) investigate the phenotypic correlation between lactose and other milk components; and 2) determine the importance of lactose for dairy herds. Monthly DHIA records from Utah (DHIA), Dairy Herd Performance Test (DHTP) records from Ibaraki, Japan, and California herd average data (CHAD) covering 27 states were used to analyze the relationships between milk lactose concentrations and parameters related to milk production. Record spans for each data sets for DHIA, DHTP and CHAD were 7 consecutive years ending August 2017, 12 consecutive years ending August 2017, and 9 consecutive years ending August 2017 respectively. Means for the DHIA records were 187.9 DIM, 34.6 kg/d milk yield, 4.08% lactose, 3.88% fat, 3.15% protein, 8.86% SNF, 14.4 mg/dl MUN, 256,000 SCC, and 2.4 parity. A negative correlation was observed between lactose concentration and parity (r = -0.27).
Expressions of Optimism Bias and "Self" Versus "Other" Perceived Controllability in the Context of Military-Related Risks

This study aimed to examine expressions of optimism bias and perceived controllability specifically regarding risks often associated with military service. Optimism bias refers to people’s tendency to believe they are less susceptible to experiencing negative life events compared to others. Previous studies show high levels of optimism bias are associated with strong perceptions of personal controllability. Optimism bias is a significant aspect of health promotion research particularly in the field of general occupational health and safety (OHS). However, optimism bias has never been investigated in the military OHS domain. Given the number of risks associated with military occupations, examination of optimism bias in the context of military OHS can provide useful information to enhance current military OHS risk prevention measures. We analyzed data from 145 non-military college students. They were randomly assigned to make risk judgments based on one of two deployment vignettes (first person and third person). Results of the study confirmed previous findings indicating perceived controllability was associated with optimism bias, but only for specific deployment-related events (i.e., experiencing relationship distress during deployment and alcohol use as a means to cope with combat stress post deployment). Results further revealed a main effect of point of view for two of the four studied variables in terms of optimism bias and three of four variables in terms of perceived controllability, though the direction of findings was not always as predicted. Whether participants had a caregiver in the military did not impact either optimism bias or perceived controllability, nor did point of view and having a caregiver in the military interact to affect either optimism bias or perceived controllability for any of the four variables. Implications to practice of health protective behaviors as well as directions for future research are discussed. Index Words: Optimism Bias, Unrealistic Optimism, Perceived Controllability, Military, Occupational Health and Safety, Risk Judgment, Health Protective Behaviors EXPRESSIONS OF OPTIMISM BIAS AND “SELF” VERSUS “OTHER” PERCEIVED CONTROLLABILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF MILITARY-RELATED RISKS by LAUREN C. LACHICA-MUSCHETT B.S., Troy University, 2011 M.S., Georgia Southern University, 2017 A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
Mood States are Not Associated with BMI in Mentally Healthy Adults

The relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and mental health has been widely investigated, and recent evidence has shown that overweight and obese individuals may be more vulnerable to the development of anxiety and mood disorders than individuals of a normal weight. This article examines the association between BMI and mood states of mentally healthy adults. BMI and Brunel Mood Scale (BRUMS) scores, and other demographic information, was collected from healthy adults over a six month period (N = 1621). When age was controlled, only a small but significant negative correlation between BMI and Depression in men was found, which stands in contrasts to previous studies. This may be due to the sample of mentally healthy adults with less incidence of severe obesity due to their military background. Further, African samples may have different expressions for non-clinical distress than industrialised countries which may lead to skewed results. The findings suggests that measures of transient mood states, like the BRUMS, may not be particularly useful in investigating relationships between mental health constructs and anthropometric measures, like BMI.
Exploring the Multicultural Competence of School Counselors

The purpose of this study was to explore the self-perceived multicultural competence of school counselors. Forty-one school counselors out of the 510 school counselors who were current members of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) completed both survey instruments: a demographic survey and the Multicultural Counseling Knowledge and Awareness Scale (MCKAS). The results of the study indicated that one of eight demographic variables demonstrated significance in relation to multicultural competence. Recommendations for future research included using a larger, ethnically diverse sample; including all school counselors in the state of Virginia; developing a survey instrument that included more aspects of multiculturalism than race/ethnicity; and including a third assessment tool to examine the relationship between demographic variables, multicultural competence, and additional variables.
Determining the Origin of the Coffee Berry Borer Invasion of Hawaii

ABSTRACT The coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), was first discovered in coffee farms on the Big Island of Hawaii in 2010, after over 200 yr of borer-free coffee production. Because there are multiple pathways by which H. hampei could have entered Hawaii from >50 coffee-producing nations that harbor the pest, determining the invasion route requires genetic analyses. A previous study identified 27 H. hampei cytochrome c oxidase subunit I haplotypes from around the world using phylogenetic analyses to identify putative species. We sequenced cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from specimens collected in Hawaii and conducted phylogenetic and haplotype network analyses to trace the route of invasion. We conducted a network analysis to trace the most likely pathway that H. hampei could have taken to Hawaii and a phylogenetic analysis to assess clade support for broader groupings in the network analysis that are unlikely to have recently hybridized. The Hawaiian haplotype was identical to a haplotype from six Latin American countries, and our network analysis suggests the most likely route of invasion was from Kenya to Uganda to Latin America to Hawaii. Most coffee shipments from Latin America are fumigated, arrive on Oahu, and are processed before being shipped to other islands. Therefore, it is likely that H. hampei was accidentally transported to the Big Island by farm workers or other travelers from Latin America who carried borer-infested seeds in their clothing or luggage, or else by small quantities of illegally imported beans, although improper fumigation of shipments from Latin America remains a possibility.
Assessing the Impact of Financial Aids to Firms: Causal Inference in the presence of Interference

We consider policy evaluations when SUTVA is violated because of the presence of interference among units. We propose to explicitly model interactions as a function of units characteristics. Our approach is applied to the evaluation of a policy implemented in Tuscany (a region in Italy) on small handicraft firms. Results show that the benefits from the policy are reduced when treated firms are subject to high levels of interference. Moreover, the average causal effect is slightly underestimated when interference is ignored. These findings point to the importance of considering possible interference among units when evaluating and planning policy interventions.
Correlations between Impulsivity and Technical Performance in Handball Female Athletes

A complex and dynamic environment where impulsivity probably interferes in the human behavior is the sport context. The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the possible relationship between impulsivity and technical performance in handball athletes. Eleven junior female athletes on a handball team were submitted to a neuropsychological assessment of impulsivity using Conner’s CPT-II and the Iowa Gambling Task. In 11 matches, participants’ handball performance was analyzed. We adopted the resampling statistical approach to correlate the measures of technical performance with the neuropsychological measures. IGT net score was posi- tively correlated with technical faults. Omission errors on the CPT-II were positively correlated with the number of fouls suffered, the number of fouls committed, and the number of offensive fouls. Commission errors on the CPT-II were negatively correlated with rebounds with defense ball possession. Our results support the idea of relationships between impulsivity and technical performance in specific match situations.
The Risk-Adjusted Performance of Alternative Investment Funds and UCITS: A Comparative Analysis

This study evaluates the performance of a selection of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), and Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Funds (UCITS) which followed a global geographic focus strategy during the period 2010-2016. These two fund structures are governed by different regulatory frameworks, which have evolved and re-shaped over the years. Various yardsticks are employed to evaluate the risk-adjusted performance of the sampled funds, and Monte-Carlo simulations are used to gauge the possible out-of-sample returns. Most of the sampled funds underperformed the benchmark index in terms of their Sharpe and Treynor ratios. Whilst UCITS registered a better overall performance, AIFs outperformed UCITS towards the end of the sample period. This suggests that investors should not assume that one fund structure is inherently superior to the other, since the relative performance may vary over time.
The Professional Peer Membership of School Counselors and the Resources Used Within Their Decision-Making

Abstract The purpose of this study was to describe the demographic identity of a national sample of professional school counselors who were members of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), understand the manner in which they conceptualized their professional peer membership, and explore what sources they use to make professional and ethical decisions. Consistent with previous research, the majority of participants were white woman, across all four regions in the sample; however, when compared to previous studies, there were a slightly higher percentage of non-white school counselors. Results suggest that there is still a significant gap between the demographics of school counselors and the students they serve. The results of this study indicate that professional school counselors hold a wide range of opinions concerning who they view are their professional peers. There were also significant differences on what resources participants’ used to make professional and ethical decisions. Implications and future directions for research are discussed.
Variation of the REDOX Status in Patients with Primary Autism after Antioxidant Therapy

Oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathophysiology of autism. This research was carried out to know if the indicators of oxidative stress improved after a diet and antioxidant treatment in patients with primary autism. We studied 40 cases with primary autism treated at the Clinical Genetics National Reference Service in Juan Manuel Márquez Pediatric Hospital and Mayabeque Neurodevelopment Consultation during October 2014 to June 2016. Markers of oxidative damage and antioxidant defense were determined. Patients with altered oxidative stress were treated with diet and antioxidant therapy and the response to treatment was re-evaluated over time. A high percentage of patients improved the results of protein oxidation products (p <0,001), and total peroxide values post-therapy. However malonylaldehyde results remained elevate after treatment. No significant results were found for the antioxidant defense markers. The results of this research suggest that the use of antioxidant therapy associated with the established diet would be adequate.
GENE POLYMORPHISM AS A RISK FACTOR FOR ISCHEMIC CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE

Stroke is among the most common causes of mortality and morbidity in industrial countries. It primarily affects elderly people, but about 20% of strokes occur before the age of 65. Intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhages account for only 15 % of all strokes whereas the other 85 % are caused by cerebral ischemia and can be distinguished according to the cause, clinical syndrome or the arterial distribution. Besides well-documented conventional risk factors hypertension, cigarette smoking and diabetes mellitus, genetic factors influence the risk of stroke. The genetic etiology of ischemic stroke is polygenic and genetic factors may act either by predisposing to conventional risk factors, by modulating the effects of such conventional risk factors on the end organs, or by direct independent effect on stroke risk. The candidate »stroke risk« genes may be conveniently divided in five groups, affecting (i) lipid metabolism, (ii) the renin-angiotensin system, (iii) haemostasis, (iv) nitric oxide production and (v) homocysteine metabolism (1).
Diversity and Distribution of Spiders in Southwestern Nigeria

The study of diversity and distribution of spiders was carried out at Obafemi Awolowo University, Southwestern Nigeria, in wet and dry seasons between October 2012 and April 2014. Spiders were collected from five different sampling sites in the study area: cultivated land, open field, hill area, house dwelling and aquatic habitat. We found 1824 individuals belonging to 19 different spider families in the study area. 9 families of spiders were present in the hill habitat; 12 families of spiders were present in the open field habitat; 6 families of spiders were present in house habitat; 9 families of spider were present in aquatic habitat. All the 19 families of spiders were present in cultivated habitat. Therefore, cultivated habitat hosted the largest number of spider families in the area of study while house dwellers hosted the least number of spider families. Spiders are evenly distributed among the five habitats in this study and the fifth habitat, teaching and research farm representing cultivated area has the highest distribution of spider species. All the species recorded in Southwestern Nigeria were found in this habitat. In conclusion, 19 different spider families are recorded in Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, during this study. These have enriched the collection of spider in Natural History Museum, Obafemi Awolowo University, Southwestern Nigeria.
Constructing differentiated educational materials using semantic annotation for sustainable education in IoT Environments

Recently, Internet of Things (IoT) technology has become a hot trend and is used in a wide variety of fields. For instance, in education, this technology contributes to improving learning efficiency in the class by enabling learners to interact with physical devices and providing appropriate learning content based on this interaction. Such interaction data can be collected through the physical devices to define personal data. In the meanwhile, multimedia contents in this environment usually have a wide variety of formats and standards, making it difficult for computers to understand their meaning and reuse them. This could be a serious obstacle to the effective use or sustainable management of educational contents in IoT-based educational systems. In order to solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a semantic annotation scheme for sustainable computing in the IoT environment. More specifically, we first show how to collect appropriate multimedia contents and interaction data. Next, we calculate the readability of learning materials and define the user readability level to provide appropriate contents to the learners. Finally, we describe our semantic annotation scheme and show how to annotate collected data using our scheme. We implement a prototype system and show that our scheme can achieve efficient management of various learning materials in the IoT-based educational system.
A Microwave Metamaterial Inspired Sensor for Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring

In this paper, a microwave sensor based on an ar- tificial transmission line is proposed for non-invasive blood glucosemonitoring. Acorrespondingnumericalmodelofthe sensorimplementedinmicrostriptechnologyiscreatedinthe commercial full-wave numerical simulation tool COMSOL Multiphysics and virtually tested by means of numerical sim- ulations. Blood-glucose solution models with various blood glucose concentrations are used as a model of a biological tissue under test. Furthermore, a possible methodology for performing non-invasive tests is proposed. Sensitivity of the sensor developed here is compared to a sensor based on a section of a conventional microstrip transmission line of the same length and width.
Improved Representation of Tropical Pacific Ocean–Atmosphere Dynamics in an Intermediate Complexity Climate Model

A new anomaly coupling technique is introduced into a coarse-resolution dynamic climate model [the Liege Ocean Carbon Heteronomous model (LOCH)–Vegetation Continuous Description model (VECODE)–Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity Climate deBilt (ECBILT)–Coupled Large-Scale Ice–Ocean model (CLIO)–Antarctic andGreenland Ice SheetModel (AGISM) ensemble (LOVECLIM)], improving themodel’s representation of eastern equatorial Pacific surface temperature variability. The anomaly coupling amplifies the surface diabatic atmospheric forcing within a Gaussian-shaped patch applied in the tropical Pacific Ocean. It is implemented with an improved predictive cloud scheme based on empirical relationships between cloud cover and key state variables. Results are presented from a perturbed physics ensemble systematically varying the parameters controlling the anomaly coupling patch size, location, and amplitude. The model’s optimal parameter combination is chosen through calibration against the observed power spectrum of monthly-mean surface temperature anomalies in the Ni~no-3 region. The calibrated model exhibits substantial improvement in equatorial Pacific interannual surface temperature variability and robustly reproduces El Ni~no–SouthernOscillation (ENSO)-like variability. The authors diagnose some of the key atmospheric and oceanic feedbacks in themodel important for simulating ENSO-like variability, such as the positive Bjerknes feedback and the negative heat flux feedback, and analyze the recharge–discharge of the equatorial Pacific ocean heat content. They findLOVECLIM robustly captures important ocean dynamics related to thermocline adjustment and equatorial Kelvin waves. The calibrated model demonstrates some improvement in simulating atmospheric feedbacks, but the coupling between ocean and atmosphere is relatively weak. Because of the tractability of LOVECLIM and its consequent utility in exploring long-term climate variability and large ensemble perturbed physics experiments, improved representation of tropical Pacific ocean–atmosphere dynamics in the model may more readily allow for the investigation of the role of tropical Pacific ocean–atmosphere dynamics in past climate changes.