Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Abdominal tuberculosis with an acute abdomen: our clinical experience.

INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis is an important cause of morbidity in India. Abdominal Tuberculosis is a great mimicker and is difficult to diagnose. This prospective observational study is based on those patients who were diagnosed to be suffering from Abdominal Tuberculosis only after they presented with an acute abdomen. This study aims to document the nature of different types of acute presentation in Abdominal Tuberculosis according to involved sites and surgical pathology. The study also discusses the indications and extent of surgical intervention. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy new cases of Abdominal Tuberculosis (out of 718 cases of acute abdomen) were diagnosed and treated over a period of three years in the surgical ward of Calcutta National Medical College. Macroscopic appearance of abdominal tissues during surgery suggested the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The diagnosis was confirmed by histopathology and tissue culture. All patients were subsequently treated with a full course of antitubercular drugs (ATD). RESULTS The clinical presentations of acute abdomen included acute intestinal obstruction, perforative peritonitis and acute appendicitis etc. Terminal ileum and ileocaecal region were predominantly involved. The most common pathology was intestinal stricture with or without perforation. Most of the patients (approx 78.5%) required emergency surgery as a therapeutic intervention. A two-stage procedure was preferred in peritonitis and sepsis. Most of the remaining patients (12.8%) required surgery after initial conservative treatment for the first few days. Undiagnosed Abdominal Tuberculosis represents a notable percentage (10%) of patients who present with an acute abdomen as a surgical emergency. CONCLUSION Abdominal Tuberculosis is very difficult to diagnose and diagnosis is often delayed till an acute abdomen is presented with. Almost all patients needed surgical intervention. Irrespective of surgery, all patients of abdominal tuberculosis require a full ATD.
High Imbalance Sex Ratio Enhanced Entrepreneurship andDevelopment

Indian experience is becoming relatively surplus of men in the pre-marital age cohort. The existing literature focuses only on its negative aspects. The provide evidence that imbalance in sex ratio may stimulate economic growth by inducing private sector development. First, growth of private firm, an important engine of economic growth, are likely to emerged where sex ratio imbalances is high. We find that an increase in the sex ratio by 5 basis points, holding other variable constant, would raise the economic growth rate by 6.10 percentage points per annum. Second, household with a female head had more own account of firm and female household industry.
Evaluation of the Social Impact Bond Trailblazers in Health and Social Care

Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a new mechanism for delivering public services. This article reviews the emerging SIB literature in high-income settings. It identifies three distinct narratives: a public sector reform narrative; a financial sector reform narrative; and a cautionary narrative. These are analyzed relative to three themes: public versus private values; outcomes contracting; and risk allocation. The first two narratives are complementary and offer a ‘win-win’ portrayal of SIBs. The third narrative challenges this dominant commentary by highlighting potential risks. There is limited empirical evidence on active SIBs to support these narratives. SIBs may have the potential to align public and private interests while improving outcomes for people affected by entrenched social problems, but this is yet to be established and appears less probable than the third more cautionary narrative. More empirical research is needed to consider the potential risks, drawbacks, benefits and alternatives of SIBs in different settings.
Why hotel guests go mobile? Examining motives of business and leisure travelers

ABSTRACT Employing the extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this paper aims to examine two groups of hotel guests—business travelers and leisure travelers’ different motives of using mobile technology in facilitating hotel services during their stay at a hotel. The survey sample is 683 consumers who had the experience of a hotel stay in the last three months, and structural equation modeling was performed. Traditional TAM factors—perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are identified as effective factors in influencing both business and leisure travelers to adopt mobile technology in their hotel stays. However, business travelers are more influenced by reliability and privacy factors of the technology than are the leisure counterparts when deciding to use mobile hotel apps. Leisure travelers are more influenced by “fun” features of the mobile technology and if they are innovative in the nature, they tend to use mobile apps for hotel services.
An Open-Source, Extensible Software Suite for CVD Process Simulation

Chemical vapor deposition processes involve a complex interplay of chemistry and transport, both in the vapor and on the surface. Arriving at a mechanistic understanding usually requires both experimental process diagnostics and numerical simulation. Just as appropriate tools (gas chromatographs, lasers, spectrometers) are required for diagnostics, suitable numerical tools are needed for simulation, including ones to compute chemical equilibrium, simulate stirred reactors or reacting flow problems with surface chemistry, carry out reaction path analysis, among others. To be most effective, these software tools should be open-source, so that their internal workings can be examined if necessary (as can be done with hardware), should be extensible, and should have easy-to-use interfaces.
Crisis communication. Lessons from 9/11.

The sheer enormity of last year's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon gave new meaning to the term "crisis management. " Suddenly, companies near Ground Zero, as well as those more than a thousand miles away, needed a plan. Because the disasters disrupted established channels not only between businesses and customers but between businesses and employees, internal crisis-communications strategies that could be quickly implemented became a key responsibility of top management. Without these strategies, employees' trauma and confusion might have immobilized their firms and set their customers adrift. In this article, executives from a range of industries talk about how their companies, including Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer Funds, American Airlines, Verizon, the New York Times, Dell, and Starbucks, went about restoring operations and morale. From his interviews with these individuals, author and management professor Paul Argenti was able to distill a number of lessons, each of which, he says, may "serve as guideposts for any company facing a crisis that undermines its employees' composure, confidence, or concentration. " His advice to senior executives includes: Maintain high levels of visibility, so that employees are certain of top management's command of the situation and concern; establish contingency communication channels and work sites; strive to keep employees focused on the business itself, because a sense of usefulness enhances morale and good morale enhances usefulness; and ensure that employees have absorbed the firm's values, which will guide them as they cope with the unpredictable. The most forward-thinking leaders realize that managing a crisis-communications program requires the same dedication and resources they give to other dimensions of their business. More important, they realize that their employees always come first.
Urban design empowerment through ICT-based platforms in Europe

ABSTRACT The use of ICT-based participation tools in urban design has come into prominence in the last decade. A plethora of technology-enabled participatory tools, techniques, and applications have been developed to facilitate the participation of citizens as well as other stakeholders. This study specifically focuses on ICT-based participation platforms that aim to serve as forums to respond to social and spatial needs. Many studies have reported that the use of these participatory platforms has led to positive outcomes. However, their potentials and limits for facilitating different levels of design empowerment (Senbel and Church, 2011. Design Empowerment. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 31(4), 423–437. ) remain unknown. In this context, the aims of this study are: (1) to determine how these platforms empower and restrict citizens’ engagement by analysing a variety of ICT-based participation platforms in Europe, and (2) to determine the factors that can facilitate better participation practices. This research analyses 25 ICT-based participation platforms that go beyond one-sided information exchange. They were chosen out of a database of 106 platforms. These were evaluated according to their objectives, the design action phases in which they are designated to be used, their desired levels of design empowerment and their functionalities. The findings indicate that a majority of these platforms (76%) focused on two particular objectives: problem identification and feedback collection. Only three platforms (12%) enabled users to create their own plans and visions, since empowering citizens to design independently is a challenging task. Many of the platforms aimed at higher levels of design empowerment but failed to provide the required functionalities users need. 40% of the platforms did not have any tools for citizens to track whether their ideas, plans, and projects were implemented or not. In conclusion, we discuss the implications of these findings and identify the key factors for better design practices for ICT-based civic participation platforms.
Fake News, Investor Attention, and Market Reaction

Does fake news in financial markets attract more investor attention and have a significant impact on stock prices? The authors use the SEC crackdown of stock promotion schemes in April 2017 to examine investor attention and the stock price reaction to fake news articles. Using data from Seeking Alpha, the authors find that fake news stories generate significantly more attention than a control sample of legitimate articles. The authors find no evidence that article commenters can detect fake news, and they find that Seeking Alpha editors have only modest ability to detect fake news. However, the authors implement several well-known machine learning algorithms based on linguistic characteristics and show that machine learning algorithms can successfully identify fake news. In addition, the stock market appears to price fake news correctly. While abnormal trading volume increases around the release of fake news, the increase is less than that observed for legitimate news. The stock price reaction to fake news is discounted when compared with legitimate news articles.
The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion

The complex relations between Hebrew Bible interpretation and the discipline of the Philosophy of Religion were last discussed in detail a decade ago (Gericke 2012). In the years that followed, the associated literature was seen as samples of a recent return to philosophy of religion as auxiliary discourse, albeit one that had yet to obtain a clear research profile (Schmid 2019). Shortly thereafter, evidence of a variety of philosophical approaches to the HB/OT as a distinct emergent current was provided (Keefer 2022). The original contribution of this article and its objective is to supplement and compliment the related research by way of an update on the relations between the Bible and Philosophy with special attention to Philosophy of Religion.
A Competitiveness Analysis of Economic Sector in Tuban Regency, East Java

This study has the aim to identify the sectors that have the competitiveness and the base sector in the regional economy. This study uses secondary data in the form of time series of Gross Regional Domestic Product (PDRB) Tuban District East Java Province from 2010-2016. This research uses quantitative research method. Data collection method used is documentation method then analyzed using Location Quotient method, Shift Share, Typology Klassen. The result of analytical analysis with Location Quotient method shows that the sectors included in the basic sector in Tuban Regency are agriculture, forestry and fishery sector, mining and quarrying sector, processing industry sector, electricity and gas procurement sector, water supply sector, waste processing, and recycling and construction sectors. The result of analysis by using Shift Share and Typology Klassen method shows that the sectors included in fast growing, competitive, advanced and fast growing sector in Tuban Regency are mining and quarrying sector.
A Balancing Act: What Software Practitioners Have to Say about Technical Debt

An interview study involving 35 practitioners from a variety of domains aimed to characterize technical debt at the ground level to find out how software practitioners perceive it. The study also aimed to understand the context in which technical debt occurs, including its causes, symptoms, and effects. In addition, the study focused on how practitioners currently deal with technical debt. This analysis paints a picture of a large, complex balancing act of various short- and long-term concerns. The Web Extra gives the interview questions used by Erin Lim, Nitin Taksande, and Carolyn Seaman.
Cell-autonomous adiposity through increased cell surface GLUT4 due to ankyrin-B deficiency

Significance Calorie intake exceeding energy requirements is the chief culprit in the obesity epidemic affecting the United States and other countries. However, genetic factors may also contribute to the etiology of obesity. This study demonstrates that ankyrin-B (AnkB) deficiency in adipose tissue (AT) causes cell-autonomous adiposity, rendering mice more susceptible to becoming obese with age or when fed a high-fat diet and causing other metabolic complications. Loss of AnkB in AT increases glucose uptake and lipogenesis as a result of deficient clathrin-mediated GLUT4 endocytosis. We also show that AnkB mutations present in millions of Americans cause similar cellular metabolic impairments. Obesity typically is linked to caloric imbalance as a result of overnutrition. Here we propose a cell-autonomous mechanism for adiposity as a result of persistent cell surface glucose transporter type 4 (GLUT4) in adipocytes resulting from impaired function of ankyrin-B (AnkB) in coupling GLUT4 to clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Adipose tissue-specific AnkB-KO mice develop obesity and progressive pancreatic islet dysfunction with age or high-fat diet (HFD). AnkB-deficient adipocytes exhibit increased lipid accumulation associated with increased glucose uptake and impaired endocytosis of GLUT4. AnkB binds directly to GLUT4 and clathrin and promotes their association in adipocytes. AnkB variants that fail to restore normal lipid accumulation and GLUT4 localization in adipocytes are present in 1.3% of European Americans and 8.4% of African Americans, and are candidates to contribute to obesity susceptibility in humans.
Subjective parameters markedly limit the referral of transplantation candidates to liver transplant centres

Equality of access to organ transplantation is a mandatory public health requirement. Referral from a local to a university hospital and then registration on the national waiting list are the two key steps enabling access to liver transplantation (LT). Although the latter procedure is well defined using the Model for End‐stage Liver Disease score that improves equality of access, the former is mostly reliant on the practices of referring physicians. The aim of this study was to clarify the factors determining this initial step.
Phospholipids of Fusobacterium spp.

The aim of this study was to analyse individual polar lipid analogues, within each lipid family present, of fusobacteria using fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB‐MS). Polar lipid extracts were prepared, washed and dried. Samples, dispersed in a matrix ofm‐nitrobenzyl alcohol, were analysed by negative ion FAB‐MS using xenon as the reagent gas. Major anion peaks observed in the low mass region of mass/charge (m/z), 211, 221, 225, 227, 239, 241, 249, 251, 253, 255, 273, 277, 279, 281, 289 and 291, were consistent with the presence of C13:1, C14:3, C14:1, C14:0, C15:1, C15:0, C16:3, C16:2, C16:1, C16:0, unknown, C18:3, C18:2, C18:1, unknown and C19:3 carboxylate anions. In the high mass region, major anion peaks observed with m/z 644, 646, 648, 660, 662, 672, 673, 674, 686, 688, 689, 690, 698, 700, 701, 703, 714, 716, 717 and 719 were consistent with the presence of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) (29:2), PE (29:1), PE (29:0), PE (30:1), PE (30:0), PE (31:2), first isotope of PE (31:2), PE (31:1), PE (32:2), PE (32:1), first isotope peak of PE (32:1), PE (30:0), PE (33:3), PE (33:2), phosphatidylglycerol (PG) (31:3), PG (31:2), PE (34:2), PE (34:1), PG (32:2) and PG (32:1). We conclude that FAB‐MS can provide data on individual analogues of PE and PG from Fusobacterium spp. not readily obtained by other means. Furthermore, the phospholipid profile is diagnostic for the genus.
Pediatric Drug Disposition and Pharmacokinetics Examining Small Intestinal Transit Time as a Function of Age : Is There Evidence to Support Age-Dependent Differences among Children ? s

The small intestine represents the region where the majority of drug and nutrient absorption transpires. Among adults, small intestinal transit kinetics is well delineated; however, the applicability of these values toward children remains unclear. This article serves toexamine the relationship between age and mean small intestinal transit time (SITT) based on the available literature. In addition, the influence of alterations in intestinal transit time was explored among children using a model-based approach. Primary literature sources depicting SITT from children to adults were ascertained via the PubMed database. Data were limited to subjects without pathologies that could influence intestinal motility. Random-effect meta-regression models with between-study variability were employed to assess the influence of age on SITT. Three separatemodels with age as a linear or higher-order (i.e., secondand third-order polynomial) regressor were implemented to assess for the potential of both linear and curvilinear relationships. Examination of the influence of altered intestinal transit kinetics on the absorption of a sustained release theophylline preparation was explored among children between 8 and 14 years using physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling. Age was not found to be a significant modulator of small intestinal transit within either the linear or higher-order polynomial meta-regression models. PBPK simulations indicated a lack of influence of variations in SITT on the absorption of theophylline from the examined sustained release formulation in older children. Based on the current literature, there is no evidence to suggest that mean SITT differs between children and adults.
Home Advantage: Comparison between the Major European Football Leagues

In all professional team sports, the team playing at home derives an advantage, so, the home advantage is an important factor to consider in the competition sport. The home advantage concept is represented by the consistency that the teams win more than 50% of the matches at home. The aim of this study is to analyze the importance of playing at home for the final outcome of the games, making an analysis and comparison of this variable among the top 10 European national football leagues in the 2015-2016 season, totaling 3,223 analyzed games. The data were obtained through a Soccerstats site. To quantify the home advantage, the recovery methodology percentage of points was used. According to the results found, all leagues analyzed showed advantage for teams that have played at home, with a percentage of point gains above 50%. The average percentage found in this study for the home advantage was 58.25±2.95% of the total points accumulated. However, this study presents a slightly lower index compared with similar studies. This may suggest a reduction of that variable over time. Thus, it can be concluded that playing at home in the major European leagues also brings an advantage to the final outcome of the game. Possible factors contributing to this phenomenon are presented.
Analysis of Factors that Influence Taxpayers Compliance in Fulfilling their Taxation Obligations: Study of Small Medium Entrepreneur (SMEs) Taxpayers Based on eCommerce in the Bandung Area

This study aims to determine what factors that can affect taxpayer compliance SMEs based e-Commercein Bandung. This research uses taxpayer awareness, moral obligation and quality of tax service asfactors. A questionnaire was used as research instruments in data collection. Respondents of weresampled in this research are e-Commerce business actor who using online marketplace. Multiple linearregression with SPSS program version 23 is used for data analysis. The results of this study concludedthat taxpayer awareness, moral obligations, and the quality of tax service simultaneously influencedsignificantly to taxpayer compliance. Then the test partially produces the taxpayer awareness and thequality of tax service have a positive and significant effect on taxpayer compliance, while the moralobligation hasn’t a positive and significant effect on taxpayer compliance.
What Is the Value of Wild Bee Pollination for Wild Blueberries and Cranberries, and Who Values It?

Pollinator conservation efforts and growing interest in wild bee pollination have increased markedly in the last decade, making it increasingly important to have clear and practical estimates of the value of pollinators to agriculture. We used agricultural statistics, socio-economic producer surveys, and agronomic field research data to estimate traditional pollination value metrics and create novel approaches to the valuation of the ecosystem services provided by wild pollinators. Using two regionally important United States (USA) crops—Maine wild blueberry and Massachusetts cranberry—as models, we present the perceived values of wild bee pollinators from the perspectives of both consumers and producers. The net income attributable to wild bees was similar for wild blueberry ($613/ha) and cranberry ($689/ha). Marginal profit from incrementally adding more hives per ha was greater from stocking a third/fourth hive for cranberry ($6206/ha) than stocking a ninth/10th hive for wild blueberry ($556/ha), given the greater initial responsiveness of yield, revenue, and profit using rented honey bee hives in cranberry compared with wild blueberry. Both crops’ producers were willing to annually invest only $140–188/ha in wild pollination enhancements on their farms, justifying government financial support. Consumers are willing to pay ≈6.7 times more to support wild bees than producers, which indicates a potential source for market-based subsidies for invertebrate conservation.