Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EFFECTIVENESS OF EARLY STRETCHING EXERCISES FOR RANGE OF MOTION IN THE SHOULDER JOINT AND QUALITY OF FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY IN PATIENTS WITH BURNS - A RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL

Background: This study evaluated the effects of an early stretching exercises programme on the range of motion of the shoulder joint and functional recovery in patients with burns.Methods: A randomized controlled study was conducted. Patients from 15 to 55 years of age with a total burn injury surface area (TBSA) of 10% to 45% involving the shoulder joint including axilla were eligible. Participants were randomized into two groups; intervention and a usual care control group, with 110 patients in each group. A standardized protocol was used in the management of intervention group for 14 days. The control group was subjected to usual protocol currently used. The range of Motion (ROM) was measured, and Functional recovery (FR) was assessed with the Quick DASH questionnaire and the Abduction Ladder. Data were obtained before and after the intervention phase and at 3, 6 and 12 months of post-burn period.Results: The mean (SD) age of intervention group and control group were 29.76 [9.81] and 30.31 [9.45] respectively. The mean (SD) TBSA% of intervention group and control group was 26.15[9.45] and 24.60[9.56] respectively. There is a significant beneficial difference (p=<0.0001) in ROM and FR between the intervention group and the control group.Conclusion: This study demonstrated that an early sustained stretching exercise regime significantly improved the ROM and functional recovery of the shoulder joint after a severe burn involving the axilla.
Human Impacts on Marine Biodiversity: Macrobenthos in Bahrain, Arabian Gulf

In recent decades, biological diversity has received increased interest. However, most studies are related to terrestrial systems, and knowledge of marine biodiversity lags behind that of land systems (Ellingsen, 2002). Oceans cover about 70% of the earth, and softsediment habitats cover most of the bottom of marine environments (Snelgrove, 1998). These habitats support a diverse array of macrobenthic communities that play important roles in ecosystem processes such as recycling nutrients, detoxifying pollutants, dispersion and burial, and secondary production (Gray, 1997; Snelgrove, 1997). Additionally, these organisms provide food for humans and are considered an important source of food for fishes and birds (Snelgrove, 1999; Thrush & Dayton, 2002). Human activities are the primary cause of recent changes to marine biological diversity in coastal and subtidal areas. It is therefore important to improve our understanding of both biodiversity in marine sediments and anthropogenic impacts affecting these habitats in order to effectively incorporate conservation measures. The Arabian Gulf is a semi-enclosed sea situated in the subtropical zone and characterized by low precipitation and high aridity. It is a shallow sedimentary basin dominated by soft substrate benthos. The average depth of the Arabian Gulf is 35 m, and whole of its substrate lies within the photic zone. The Kingdom of Bahrain is an archipelago composed of 37 islands located in the Arabian Gulf between latitude 25o 32′ and 26o 20′ north and longitude 50o 20′ and 50o 50′ east (Fig. 1). The total land area of Bahrain is about 762 km2. The length of the coastlines of Bahrain is approximately 126 km and the marine area is estimated to be around 8000 km2. Despite the limited land area of Bahrain, waters around its islands support a range of coastal and marine habitats such as seagrass beds, coral reefs, mangrove swamps, offshore islands, and mud and sand flats. High levels of salinity and surface temperature are the main natural stresses in the Arabian Gulf. Salinities around Bahrain are generally high due to the effects of high temperatures associated with high evaporation rates. Salinities on the west coast are higher than those on the east coast, with average means of 50-57 psu for the west coast and 43-45 psu for the east coast (Price et al., 1985). This variation in the salinity gradients may be attributed to a complex system of water circulation around Bahrain enforced by reduced water exchange,
The Effects of Tipping and Losses on Insider Trading

Despite increased penalties, illegal insider trading continues. The United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports that it has filed more insider trading cases in the last three years than any other three-year period. During that period, the list includes charges against doctors, lawyers, bankers, accountants, a FDA employee, a managing director from the NASDAQ stock market, multiple hedge fund managers, and other financial professionals. It includes employees of well-known firms such as Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, The Galleon Group, Yahoo, and others. In 2013, a KPMG partner was charged with insider trading based on information from an audit client (SEC 2013). The list of illegal insider trading cases is extensive.
Acquisition of Recursive Possessives and Locatives within DPs in Japanese

Recursive structures, where a certain phrasal category is embedded in the same type of category, have attracted increasingly more attention in recent studies of language acquisition within the framework of generative grammar (Chomsky (2007, 2008)). Recursion that is defined as in (1) in traditional phrase structure rules enables one category to appear in the same category, thereby generating structures with two or more phrases of the same type, as in (2) and (3). 1
Association studies in nectarine for various horticultural traits in north-western Himalayas

Five nectarine cultivars were evaluated at the Model Farm, Directorate of Research, Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP) during 2014-16 with the objective to study the association between yield and its dependent variables. Highly significant and positive phenotypic and genotypic correlations of yield were found with tree spread, tree volume, and fruit length and fruit weight. Maximum positive direct effect cited towards yield were contributed by fruit weight, tree spread, stone length, flower intensity, stone weight, total soluble solids, number of days from full bloom to maturity, pulp to stone ratio, tree height, duration of flowering, fruit set and trunk girth.
Contingent valuation and choice experiment of citizens' willingness to pay for forest conservation in southern Finland

Environmental quality has a direct effect on citizens’ welfare. To quantify this effect, the four articles of this thesis analyse Finnish citizens’ willingness to pay (WTP) for increased forest conservation using the contingent valuation (CV) and choice experiment (CE) methods. These methods are based on neo-classical welfare economics augmented with the choice process framework originating from psychology and behavioural economics. Using the CV method, we analyse how WTP is affected by respondents’ uncertainty, by the share of nonrespondents and by the considerably high share of “yes” responses at the highest proposed costs to households. The CE data are used to study the effects of different conservation programme characteristics on WTP. The results show that Finnish citizens support increased forest conservation. The median WTP in the contingent valuation was 72 EUR, i.e. 50% of respondents supported increased conservation if the costs per household did not exceed 72 EUR. The mean WTP estimates were sensitive to modelling assumptions and assumptions concerning the nonrespondent preferences. This emphasises the need for careful sensitivity analyses when results are used for welfare measurement and policy planning. Respondents’ choices in the valuation questions were affected by the household costs of conservation and other socioeconomic characteristics. The results suggest that the choices in valuation tasks are affected by economic and psychological factors. The study gives important insights into the choice behaviour and lower and upper bound estimates of WTP. These estimates are somewhat lower than those in comparable earlier Finnish studies. In CV, respondents seemed insensitive to programme size while the extent of the proposed project had a significant effect on the choices in CE.
When grammars differ : Spanish-Basque bilinguals processing word order

Event-related potential studies on second language processing reveal that L1/L2 differences are due either to proficiency, age of acquisition or grammatical differences between L1 and L2 (Kotz, 2009). However, the relative impact of these and other factors in second language processing is still not well understood. Here we present evidence from behavioral and ERP experiments on Basque sentence word order processing by L1Spanish– L2Basque early bilinguals (Age of Aquisition= 3 years) with very high proficiency in their L2. Results reveal that these L2 speakers have a preference towards canonical Subject– Object–Verb word order, which they processed faster and with greater ease than noncanonical Object–Subject–Verb. This result converges with the processing preferences shown by natives and reported in Erdocia, Laka, Mestres-Missé & Rodríguez-Fornells (2009). However, electrophysiological measures associated to canonical (SOV) and noncanonical (OSV) sentences revealed a different pattern in the non-natives, as compared to that reported previously for natives. The non-native group elicited a P600 component that native group did not show when comparing S and O at sentence’s second position. This pattern of results suggests that, despite high proficiency, non-native language processing recruits neural resources that are different from those employed in native languages.
Multi-objective Weighted Sum Approach Model Reduction by Routh-Pade Approximation using Harmony Search

A new weighted-sum multiobjective approach is investigated for order reduction based on Routh--Pade approximation, in which the harmony search algorithm is used to optimize the reduced-order model's parameters. In this method, apart from minimizing the errors between a set of subsequent time moments/Markov parameters of the system and those of the model, the error between the singular values of the reduced-order system and those of the original system is minimized. The Routh criterion is applied for specifying the stability conditions. The stability condition is then considered as a constraint in the optimization problem. To present the ability of the proposed method, 3 test systems are reduced. The results obtained show that the proposed approach performs well.
Finance and Growth: Evidence from South Asia

The article examines the empirical relationship between financial development and economic growth for five South Asian countries over the time period 1990–2015, using both panel model approach and time series analysis. We employ multiple proxies for financial development, namely, foreign direct investment, total debt service, gross domestic savings, domestic credit to private sector by banks, and domestic credit provided by financial sector to test the relationship. The panel model approach results indicate that there is an overall positive association between finance and growth for South Asia through the FDI and savings channels. The country-specific analyses suggest that the growth effects of financial channels are most pronounced in Sri Lanka, whereas, on the other hand, financial development plays no role in the Indian growth process in the short run. Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan lie somewhere in between this spectrum with every country exhibiting unique growth paths which highlights the heterogeneity of the region.
Branching pattern of aortic arch in the white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) Ramescência do arco aortico no gambá-de-orelha-branca (Didelphis albiventris)

Knowledge of the aortic arch main and collateral branches is important because these arteries supply vital organs found in the head, neck, thoracic cavity and forelimbs of domestic and wild animals. This study aimed to contribute to the anatomical knowledge in opossums and collaborate with veterinary medical and surgical clinics. Thus, the anatomy of aortic arch was described in eighteen opossums. The results indicated that the aortic arch gives off the brachiocephalic trunk and the left subclavian artery in all animals studied. The branching pattern of the aortic arch is similar to that reported in the guinea pig, chinchilla, paca, raccoon, nutria, red squirrel, and ocelot. The brachiocephalic trunk showed as collateral branches, the right subclavian artery and the bicarotid trunk, that originated in the right and left common carotid arteries (77.7%). Bicarotid trunk was absent in four animals (22.2%). The right and left subclavian arteries originated in the vertebral artery, costocervical trunk, internal thoracic artery, and superficial cervical artery. Collateral branches of the subclavian artery showed similarities to that observed in other wild animals such as paca, ocelot and rock cavy.
EFFECTS OF MYOFASCIAL RELEASE THERAPY ON PAIN RELATED DISABILITY , QUALITY OF SLEEP AND DEPRESSION IN OLDER ADULTS WITH CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN

Low back pain was experienced by 50% of older adults that has threatened to quality of life. The economic cost of low back pain is more in older adults. Various literatures found that there is strong relationships exist between the low back pain and the psychosocial factors like sleep disturbances, depression, mood sway and chronic illness. Studies has found that depression is one of the commonest psychological problem faced by older adults which relates to other factors like pain, sleep disturbances ect. Physiotherapy has been shown very effective in the management of chronic low back pain. Various approaches in physiotherapy play a major role in rehabilitation of patients with chronic low back pain. This study estimates to find out the effect of myofascial release therapy on pain related disability, quality of sleep and depression in older adults with chronic low back pain. Study is a single group pre test and post test design. 37 Patients with chronic low back pain were selected from a community setup. Selected subjects were undergone 6 weeks of myofascial release therapy along with moist heat therapy. At the end the outcome measured are pain related disability using pain disability index, Quality of sleep using Insomnia severity index and depression using beck depression inventory. The paired ‘t’ test was used to find out the differences between variables. The result showed that there was a significant improvement in the pre test and post test variables. The beck depression inventory was 21.3 (p<0.05%), and the pain disability index was 24.9 (p<0.05%). The study concludes that the myofascial release therapy is very effective in reducing the pain related disability, quality of sleep and depression on older adults with chronic low back pain.
An analysis of anti poaching techniques in Africa: A case of rhino poaching

In the last decade the African continent has been facing a number of incidences on Rhino Poaching and we may be heading to Rhino extinction. A number of strategies have been tried and tested to protect the rhinos in Africa. Based on previous strategies to protect rhinos very little has been achieved in combating rhino poaching. Using extensive literature review this study investigates whether the current conservation methods are still useful in addressing poaching. Literature reveals that most methods have failed to protect rhinos. Therefore, forensic tests, shoot to kill policy and new strategies maybe the only way to avoid rhino extinction.
BOARD STRUCTURE, OWNERSHIP CONCENTRATION AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE: ITALIAN EVIDENCE

How to cite this paper: Scafarto, V. , Ricci, F. , Della Corte, G. , & De Luca, P. (2017). Board structure, ownership concentration and corporate performance: Italian evidence. Ownership & Control, This paper investigates the interplay between board-level governance characteristics, ownership concentration and firm performance in the Italian corporate landscape, which is characterized by high ( though varying ) degrees of ownership concentration. The empirical setting of this study is the Italian stock market and specifically a sample of non-financial firms included in FTSE MIB and mid-cap index of Milan stock exchange, spanning a five-year time period from 2011 up to 2015. We regressed an accounting proxy for firm performance, namely the return-on-asset (ROA) ratio, on several board-level governance variables and specifically board size, board independence, CEO-chairman duality and audit committee (ACD) full independence. In doing so, we also controlled for the impact of different levels of ownership concentration by partitioning the sample into firms with lower and-higher-than-median values of ownership concentration (OC). The empirical results indicate that board characteristics differently impact performance in firms with lower levels of OC compared to firms with higher OC. Specifically, in lower-OC firms, board independence and AC full independence have a negative impact, whereas CEO duality (either alone or interacted with board independence) has a positive impact on performance. Conversely, higher-OC firms benefit from a large board size and are negatively affected by AC independence, while the remaining variables are not significant. The key insight to be gained from our evidence is that the individual and interaction effects of board-level mechanisms may be contingent on the presence of other governance mechanisms (in this instance, the degree of ownership concentration). As such, this research adds to the existing literature questioning the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to corporate boards. In terms of practical implications, our findings support the notion that firms might consider the potential interaction and substitution effects between governance mechanisms and structure boards accordingly.
The CHADS 2 Score Predicts Ischemic Stroke in the Absence of Atrial Fibrillation Among Patients with Coronary Heart Disease : Data from the Heart and Soul Study

Background—We sought to evaluate the prognostic performance of the CHADS2 score for prediction of ischemic stroke/TIA in subjects with coronary heart disease (CHD) without atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods—In 916 non-anticoagulated outpatients with stable CHD and no AF by baseline electrocardiogram, we calculated CHADS2 scores (congestive heart failure, hypertension, age ≥ 75, diabetes (1 point each), and prior stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) (2 points)). The primary outcome was time to ischemic stroke or TIA over a mean follow-up of 6.4 ± 2.3 years. Results—Over 5821 person-years of follow-up, 40 subjects suffered an ischemic stroke/TIA (rate 0.69 per 100 person-years, 95% CI 0.50-0.94). Compared to subjects with low (0-1) CHADS2 scores, those with intermediate (2-3) and high (4-6) CHADS2 scores had an increased rate of stroke/TIA, even after adjustment for age, tobacco, antiplatelet therapy, statins, and angiotensin inhibitors (CHADS2 score 2-3: HR 2.4, 95% CI 1.1-5.3, p=0.03, CHADS2 score 4-6: HR 4.0, 95% CI 1.5-10.6, p=0.006). Model discrimination (c-statistic = 0.65) was comparable to CHADS2 model fit in published AF-only cohorts. Conclusions—The CHADS2 score predicts ischemic stroke/TIA in subjects with stable CHD and no baseline AF. The event rate in non-AF subjects with high CHADS2 scores (5-6) was comparable to published rates in AF patients with moderate CHADS2 scores (1-2), a population known to derive benefit from stroke prevention therapies. These findings should inform efforts to determine whether stroke prevention therapies or screening for silent AF may benefit subjects with stable CHD and high CHADS2 scores.
Pre- and Post-1997/98 Westerly Wind Events and Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue Warming*

Abstract Westerly wind events (WWEs) in the western equatorial Pacific have previously been shown to cause significant warming of sea surface temperature (SST) in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Observational statistics compiled during and prior to the large El Nino event of 1997/98 link WWEs to substantial (up to 3°C) warming in the eastern Pacific cold tongue region. Since 1998, however, relatively little WWE-related cold tongue warming has been observed, and warm equatorial Pacific SST anomalies (SSTAs) have tended to be trapped near the date line rather than extending to the American coast as in a classical El Nino–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) composite. Here, the relationship between WWEs and cold tongue warming is revisited using in situ and operational forecast winds and in situ and satellite-based SST. Significant differences are found in the basin-scale zonal wind anomalies associated with WWEs that occurred before and after 1997/98. Although the post-1997/98 composite WWE westerly anomalies are v.
TIME–FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF ACOUSTIC EMISSION PULSES GENERATED BY PARTIAL DISCHARGES

The subject matter of this paper refers to the improvement of the acoustic emission (AE) method when used for detection, measurement and location of partial discharges (PDs) in oil insulation systems of power appliances. The detailed subject matter refers to the issues connected with the application of modern methods of digital processing of signals obtained during technical high-power measurements. The paper presents the results of measurements and time-frequency analyses of the AE pulses of PDs in oil in the multipointplane system. The AE pulses measured were subject to the discrete and continuous wavelet transform and the STFT (Short Time Fourier Transform) analysis.
HIP-2018-18 / TH Holographic QCD in the Veneziano limit and neutron stars

We use the holographic V-QCD models to analyse the physics of dense QCD and neutron stars. Accommodating lattice results for thermodynamics of QCD enables us to make generic predictions for the Equation of State (EoS) of the quark matter phase in the cold and dense regime. We demonstrate that the resulting pressure in V-QCD matches well with a family of neutron-star-matter EoSs that interpolate between state-of-the-art theoretical results for low and high density QCD. After implementing the astrophysical constraints, i.e., the largest known neutron star mass and the recent LIGO/Virgo results for the tidal deformability, we analyse the phase transition between the baryonic and quark matter phases. We find that the baryon density nB at the transition is at least 2.9 times the nuclear saturation density ns. The transition is of strongly first order at low and intermediate densities, i.e., for nB/ns . 7.5. ∗niko.jokela@helsinki.fi †m.o. jarvinen@uu.nl ‡jere.remes@helsinki.fi 1 ar X iv :1 80 9. 07 77 0v 3 [ he pph ] 1 9 M ar 2 01 9