Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bugis Pagatan : Migration , Adaptation and Identity

The Bugis people, specifically the Wajo is one of the tribes in the archipelago which plays an important role in world trade, shipping and handicraft industries. The role was motivated by their spirit as tough sailors and their adaptability to the new lands they settled in. The impact of global economics has influenced the value and product quality in competitive industry. Many craft business with imported raw materials fall into bankruptcy. However, some craft industries are still able to survive in the middle of an economic crisis. One of these is Tenun Pagatan. This paper describes one of the Bugis’ trace technologies in Tanah Bumbu area in South Kalimantan, synonymous with Tenun Pagatan. Tenun Pagatan was brought with the arrival of Bugis who wandered from their native South Sulawesi in 1750. The traditional methods of producing Tenun Pagatan are still used to this day. Bugis in this region are also able to maintain the tradition of the Tenun whilst adopting motifs, colors and traditional customs of local communities.
Vitamin D supplementation decreased body weight and body mass index of Iranian type-2 diabetic patients : A randomised clinical trial study

Introduction: Vitamin D as a common deficient micronutrient possibly plays an important role in body weight management. The aim of this study was to assess possible effects of vitamin D supplementation on anthropometric parameters of type-2 diabetic patients. Methods: Participants of this randomised controlled trial were 28 type-2 diabetic patients who received 4000 IU/day vitamin D and 30 patients who received placebo for two months. All patients were selected from the Iranian Diabetes Association (IDA), Tehran, Iran. Weight, height, body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference and waist to hip ratio (WHR) were determined before and after the intervention. Dietary information was obtained using a 3-day food record. Results: Results showed a significant decrease in bodyweight (from 75.73±3.09 kg to 74.63±3.04 kg, p = 0.002), BMI (from 27.94±0.92 kg/m2 to 27.544±0.90 kg/m2, p = 0.001); waist circumference (from 92.56±2.33 cm to 91.05±2.27 cm, p = 0.004); and hip circumference (from 104.19±1.88 cm to 102.35±1.88 cm, p = 0.029) in the vitamin D group. Food record analysis showed that the percent of total calorie intake from dietary carbohydrates increased (from 50.40±1.38% to 53.14±1.53%, p = 0.023) and from fat, it decreased (from 38.43±1.30% to 35.22±1.49%, p = 0.011) significantly in the vitamin D group at the end of the intervention. Conclusion: Supplementation with vitamin D seems to include beneficial effects on bodyweight management in type-2 diabetic patients. However, the percentage of total calorie intake from each macronutrient should be considered.
Gender, declension and stem-final consonants: An experimental study of gender agreement in Russian

Every adult native speaker of Russian knows that kon’ is masculine and lan’ is feminine, although 3rd declension nouns present some difficulties in the first and second language acquisition. However, will the fact that these nouns are less frequent than masculine nouns ending in a consonant or feminine nouns ending in -a/ja play a role for online subject-predicate agreement processing? Or will subject-predicate agreement processing be more problematic with subjects of a certain gender? Finally, some final consonants are more characteristic for feminine gender, while the others for masculine gender. Are speakers sensitive to this? We present two experiments addressing these questions. We found that all three factors play a role, but for different tasks (online agreement processing or determining the gender of a novel word) and at different processing stages.
A study of weight loss maintenance using email support.

Background Weight loss maintenance is a crucial element of effective weight management. Professional face to face contact is known to be beneficial but costly in terms of manpower in supporting weight maintenance. In the USA, the use of the internet to maintain contact and motivation with clients has been explored. This study seeks to investigate the benefits to weight maintenance of dietetic support via email with a group of successful weight loss patients from a National Health Service Dietetic Clinic. The principal aim: Assess whether the effects of dietetic support through the medium of email on weight loss maintenance in individuals who have been successful in weight loss are beneficial. The specific objectives are: • To compare over a six month period, in individuals who have achieved similar weight loss, whether maintenance of weight loss differs in individuals who have access to dietetic support via email compared to those who do not. • To identify by means of a questionnaire which factors either encourage or inhibit self-management of weight maintenance (consumption of breakfast, amount of fruit and vegetables eaten, eating a low fat diet, frequency of self monitoring of body weight, undertaking regular exercise) in participants who have successfully completed an NHS weight loss programme. • To conduct interviews to assess the personal experience of using a remote communication method (email) between participant and professional. The apriori hypothesis to be tested: That in patients who were obese and have achieved a weight loss of >5% of their initial body weight, there will be a significant difference in weight loss maintenance in those who, following the weight loss period, have maintained contact with a dietitian through email compared to those who have no contact. Method Fifty-five patients who had lost ~5 % body weight were assigned to either an intervention group (weekly email messages and monthly personal email message) or a standard care control group. After 6 months the level of weight maintenance, dieting and exercise behaviours, were recorded in both groups and analysed using parametric or non parametric tests. Results A significant number of participants in the intervention group maintained a clinically beneficial percentage weight loss (p = 0.05) however, there was no statistical
Black Hole Entropy and 2 D Conformal Field Theory-Towards Quantum Gravity

General relativity, despite providing an elegant and very satisfactory classical description of the gravitational interaction, has left us with several conceptual physical issues. One of them is related to the existence of black hole solutions, and the fact that these seem to be naturally endowed, through the laws of black hole mechanics, with a macroscopic entropy equal to the quarter of the area of their event horizon. It has therefore since then been a challenge for candidates to a quantum theory of gravity to reproduce, from first-principles, this entropy by a counting of microstates. In this thesis we give a review of one such proposal known as the Kerr/CFT correspondence. We also extend the hidden conformal symmetry approach to the case of the five dimensional boosted black string. Furthermore, we conjecture the existence of hidden conformal symmetry in D-dimensional boosted black strings. Finally we make a rather raw calculation on the supersymmetric black ring case where we show that admits a hidden conformal symmetry and compute the microscopic entropy.
From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms

Social norms, usually persistent, can change quickly when new public information arrives, such as a surprising election outcome. People may become more inclined to express views or take actions previously perceived as stigmatized and may judge others less negatively for doing so. We examine this possibility using two experiments. We first show via revealed preference experiments that Donald Trump’s rise in popularity and eventual victory increased individuals’ willingness to publicly express xenophobic views. We then show that individuals are sanctioned less negatively if they publicly expressed a xenophobic view in an environment where that view is more popular. (JEL D72, D85, Z13)
Oxidative stress and power in patients post-kidney transplantation : a cross study

The kidneys perform vital functions of our body and they endocrine function, metabolism and excretion. With the development of chronic kidney disease, these functions are compromised requiring that substitutive treatments are incorporated. Kidney transplantation is presented as the potential cure for end-stage Chronic Kidney Disease, providing lower morbidity and improved quality of life for individuals. This study evaluated the dietary intake and nutritional status of the patient post transplanted kidney and its relationship with oxidative stress and oxidative defense. This was a cross-sectional study, quantitative, analytical with 12 patients of both genders, age 25 to 80 who had undergone renal transplantation more than one year. Data were processed with the help of the SPSS statistical package (versão18.0, Chicago, IL, USA). The descriptive analysis this presented as mean, standard deviation, relative and absolute frequency. For quantitative variables was performed the Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test, and for parametric we used the t test (Student) and for non-parametric U test (Mann Whitney) to compare the averages. In the qualitative variables, we used the chi-square test and Fisher's exact Pearson. To correlate parametric variables we used the Pearson test and nonparametric Spearman test. we obtained 11 (91,7) individuals of the sample with high blood pressure and nutritional status of overweight 27,70±5,19 kg/m2 and high waist circumference 98,37±14,75 cm. The consumption of NSAIDs for females was significant (p = 0,022). The consumption of foods such as banana, bergamot, papaya, tomato, salsa, milk and coffee prevailed in the questionnaire with food intake of one or more times a day. Malondialdehyde levels were associated with significant when antioxidant enzymes and not as significant portions of the vitamins (A, C, D, E). The non-verification of GPx levels were characterized as a limiter of this study. it is noticeable that the power directly influences the antioxidant defense system of the body in tandem with the antioxidant enzymes CAT, SOD and GPx. Significant levels of malondialdehyde have stronger relationship with the antioxidant enzymes than with food; however, there are dietary factors nutrients that serve as cofactors in the process of antioxidant defense. Thus, the post patient's food renal transplant must meet the principles of healthy eating, with minimal processed foods with a view to fresh food, in order to limit the impacts of everyday life, their grievances and drugs on health, thereby minimizing the metabolic stress.
The Portals 3.0 Message Passing Interface Revision 1.0

This report presents a specification for the Portals 3.0 message passing interface. Portals 3.0 is intended to allow scalable, high-performance network communication between nodes of a parallel computing system. Specifically, it is designed to support a parallel computing platform composed of clusters of commodity workstations connected by a commodity system area network fabric. In addition, Portals 3.0 is well suited to massively parallel processing and embedded systems. Portals 3.0 represents an adoption of the data movement layer developed for massively parallel processing platforms, such as the 4500-node Intel TeraFLOPS machine.
Mapping ecosystem services for marine spatial planning : Recreation opportunities in Sub-Antarctic Chile

The ecosystem services approach has increasingly emerged as a core requirement of ecosystem-based management of the marine space. In this context, explicit quantification and mapping of ecosystem services is considered key. This research proposes a methodological framework that combines Geographic Information Systems and participatory techniques to map the ecosystem service of recreation opportunities, provided by coastal and marine ecosystems. Attributes selected to represent the ecosystem service were scenic beauty, unique natural resources, accessibility, cultural sites and tourism use aptitude. High values of the indicator concentrated on areas that combined the presence of unique marine fauna (e.g. Southern Elephant Seal, Mirounga leonina), terrestrial and marine routs, and areas of high scenic beauty, associated to the presence of glaciers. These areas corresponded to the southern part of Almirantazgo Sound, the northern part of Navarino Island on the coast of the Beagle Channel, and to areas surrounding Wulaia fishermen's cove. Zones showing highest values of the indicator 81–100) comprised 0.89% of the study area and a small proportion of them coincided with areas of aptitude for aquaculture, which represents potential use conflicts, as long as aquaculture concessions remain operative. In turn, the areas of lowest values 0–20) were located offshore in open sea, and comprised 0.49% of the study area. Overall, the methodology demonstrated the capacity to identify potential recreation areas to inform regional decision making regarding marine use planning.
International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing 2015 ( ICRTC-2015 ) Comparative Study of Skin Color Detection and Segmentation in HSV and YCbCr Color Space

This paper presented a comparative study of human skin color detection HSV and YCbCr color space. Skin color detection is the process of separation between skin and non-skin pixels. It is difficult to develop uniform method for the segmentation or detection of human skin detection because the color tone of human skin is drastically varied for people from one region to another. Literature survey shows that there is a variety of color space is applied for the skin color detection. RGB color space is not preferred for color based detection and color analysis because of mixing of color (chrominance) and intensity (luminance) information and its non uniform characteristics. Luminance and Hue based approaches discriminate color and intensity information even under uneven illumination conditions. Experimental result shows the efficiency of YCbCr color space for the segmentation and detection of skin color in color images. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of organizing committee of the 3rd International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing 2015 (ICRTC-2015).
Focus On Male breast cancer – how to treat?

Treatment principles of breast cancer in males are derived from studies performed among females, while the low incidence in males has so far precluded such studies. The therapy recommendations for males therefore lack the solid evidence, frequently present for females with breast cancer. The primary breast cancer diagnosis in males is not infrequently in stage III/IV and at higher age, thereby requiring multiprofessional and multimodal management including preoperative therapy and adjuvant therapies based on the tumour’s biological characteristics and the clinical circumstances. The majority of male breast cancer tumours are oes-trogen-receptor positive and adjuvant/neoadjuvant tamoxifen is therefore recommended, surgery is frequently radical mastectomy and adjuvant radiotherapy should likely be used on wider indications. Chemotherapy should be considered both in the adjuvant and metastatic setting for receptor-negative cancers and for patients with biologically aggressive disease. Trastuzumab should be offered to patients with Her-2/neu-positive disease, while the use of aromatase inhibitors is more uncertain due to differences in the hormonal environment in males.
TAX AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NAMIBIA

This study empirically examined the relationship between taxation and economic growth in Namibia. Time series techniques such as unit root, cointegration, impulse response functions and variance decomposition were used within the vector autogression framework. The study utilized quarterly data for the period 2001 to 2015. The results of the unit root test revealed a combination of order of integration. The cointegration test showed no existence of long-run relationship among the variables. Therefore, the long-run analysis could not be conducted, but only the short-run analysis. The results of the impulse response functions revealed an immediate negative effect on economic growth resulting from shocks in tax. Moreover, the forecast error variance decomposition revealed that tax is responsible for moderate fluctuation in economic growth in Namibia.
PAPER Special Section on Advanced Log Processing and Office Information Systems Predicting Changes in Cognitive Performance Using Heart Rate Variability

In this paper, we propose a low-invasive framework to predict changes in cognitive performance using only heart rate variability (HRV). Although a lot of studies have tried to estimate cognitive performance using multiple vital data or electroencephalogram data, these methods are invasive for users because they force users to attach a lot of sensor units or electrodes to their bodies. To address this problem, we proposed a method to estimate cognitive performance using only HRV, which can be measured with as few as two electrodes. However, this can’t prevent loss of worker productivity because the workers’ productivity had already decreased even if their current cognitive performance had been estimated as being at a low level. In this paper, we propose a framework to predict changes in cognitive performance in the near future. We obtained three principal contributions in this paper: (1) An experiment with 45 healthy male participants clarified that changes in cognitive performance caused by mental workload can be predicted using only HRV. (2) The proposed framework, which includes a support vector machine and principal component analysis, predicts changes in cognitive performance caused by mental workload with 84.4 % accuracy. (3) Significant differences were found in some HRV features for test participants, depending on whether or not their cognitive performance changes had been predicted accurately. These results lead us to conclude that the framework has the potential to help both workers and managerial personnel predict what their performances will be in the near future. This will make it possible to proactively suggest rest periods or changes in work duties to prevent losses in productivity caused by decreases of cognitive work performance. key words: prediction, cognitive performance, heart rate variability, worker management
IMPACT OF SMOKING ON ANTIPLATELET EFFECTS OF ASPIRIN

http://www.pps. org.pk/PJP/14-3/Mudassar.pdf 3 ORIGINAL ARTICLE IMPACT OF SMOKING ON ANTI-PLATELET EFFECTS OF ASPIRIN Mudassar Noor, Usman Nawaz*, Saleem Ahmad Khan**, Akbar Waheed, Chaudhry Altaf Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Army Medical College, National University of Medical Science, Rawalpindi, *Pak International Medical College, Peshawar, **Pathology, Army Medical College, National University of Medical Science, Rawalpindi, Department of Hematology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, National University of Medical Science, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
LKB 1 regulates JAK 2 / STAT 3 pathways involved in apoptosis of prostate cancer PC-3 cells

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of LKB1 on apoptosis of prostate cancer cells, examining its mechanisms. Methods: Prostate cancer PC-3 cells were transfected with LKB1 overexpression vectors (PC-3-LBK1 overexpression group) and negative controls (PC-3-vector group). Normal human prostate cells were used as control A group and untreated PC-3 cells were used as control B group. Relative expression levels of LKB1 genes were detected by quantitative real-time-PCR. Western blotting was conducted to detect relative protein expression levels of JAK2, STAT3, phosphorylated JAK2 (p-JAK2), and phosphorylated STAT3 (p-STAT3). Flow cytometry was conducted to detect apoptosis. Spearman’s analysis was used to explore the correlation between relative expression levels of LKB1 genes and p-JAK2 and p-STAT3 proteins in PC-3 cells. Results: After PC-3 cells were transfected into LKB1 overexpression vectors, relative expression levels of LKB1 genes, LKB1 proteins, and p-JAK2 and p-STAT3 proteins in the PC-3-LBK1 overexpression group were significantly higher than those in the PC-3-vector group (P<0.05). An increase in LKB1 gene expression levels promoted PC-3 cell proliferation. Cell viability in the PC-3-vector group and PC-3-LBK1 overexpression group increased continuously over time (P<0.05). Cell viability in the PC-3-LBK1 overexpression group was lower than that in the PC-3-vector group. (P<0.05). An increase in LKB1 gene expression levels decreased apoptosis rates of PC-3 cells in the PC-3-vector group, normal human prostate cells group, and PC-3 cells group. Spearman’s correlation analysis showed that LKB1, p-JAK2 (r=0.984, P<0.001), and p-STAT3 (r=0.988, P<0.001) were positively related. Conclusion: LKB1 may promote apoptosis of prostate cancer cells by activating JAK2/STAT3 signal pathways and inhibiting cancer, making this protein a potential target for treatment of prostate cancer.
Application of SimulationX – based Simulation Technique to the Design of Opening Area for a Valve Plate of Swash Plate Type Piston Pump

Hydraulic system is a device that converts energy into fluid energy and mechanical energy when a closed space, which is formed by the static pressure of a fluid, moves or changes. Of these hydraulic systems, swash plate type piston pump, as shown in Fig.1, is the most important and basic component composing the hydraulic system. In this paper, we will investigate the design factors of opening area in order to consider the kinematic stability of the valve plate (main component of swash plate type piston pump), conducting an analysis of the reduction effects of pressure pulsation and flow ripple depending on design factors using SimulationX (Germany), hydraulic analysis program. Further we will perform a structure analysis to confirm the kinematic stability of the valve plate in swash plate type piston pump. Finally, this paper will analyse the effects of pulsation of 1-step V notch type and 2-step V type notch and 2-step U type notch, which were not discussed in Jang et al. [6] for finding out the effects of pulsation reduction.
Attitudes toward counterfeit products and counterfeit purchase intention in non-deceptive counterfeiting : role of conspicuous consumption , integrity and personal gratification

The purpose of this research is to study the effects of conspicuous consumption, integrity and personal gratification, on consumers’ attitude and behavioral intentions toward counterfeits. To examine the relationship between dependent and independent variables research hypotheses were proposed. 300 questionnaires were distributed to respondent as a test sample and 276 questionnaires were found to be usable in data analysis. Collected data were tested using SPSS and Amos software programs. The findings indicated that conspicuous consumption has significant effect on attitude toward counterfeit products (ATCP) and the, integrity has negative significant effect on it. Besides personal gratification has significant effect on consumers' attitude toward counterfeit products. On the other hand, the findings state that attitudes toward counterfeit products, has significant effect on purchase intention. This study may have some limitation due to population, sample size, number of studied variables and some other factors. Some cautions should be considered in generalization of the results, considering the limitations of the research, just like other researches. Future research can identify those factors that influence attitude toward buying counterfeit products and not considered in this study.