Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
White-coat effect on systemic blood pressure in retired racing Greyhounds.

BACKGROUND Greyhounds are known to have a higher systemic arterial blood pressure (BP) than non-Greyhound dogs. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine whether the high systemic BP was because of the white-coat effect. ANIMALS Twenty-two healthy retired racing Greyhounds (RRG) enrolled in a blood donation program. MATERIALS/METHODS We prospectively measured systemic BP in 3 environments: in the hospital by the investigator (Hosp), in the home by the investigator (H/I), and in the home by the owner (H/O). Five serial measurements of systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressures (SAP, DAP, MAP) as well as heart rate (HR) were measured by an oscillometric method on the distal forelimb and distal hind limb in all 3 environments. RESULTS There was a significant difference for SAP, MAP, and HR between the Hosp and both H/I and H/O (P < .001); there were no significant differences for any of the parameters between the H/I and H/O environments. HR, but not SAP, MAP, or DAP (P < .05) decreased in RRG with multiple hospital visits for blood donation before this study. The hind limb SAP was significantly higher than the forelimb SAP (P < .05). CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE We conclude that the high SAP, MAP, and HR seen in the hospital setting are likely because of a white-coat effect. Furthermore, consideration should be given to defining the parameters of normal BP in RRG according to the environment in which they are obtained.
Defining remission on the Montgomery-Asberg depression rating scale.

OBJECTIVE In antidepressant efficacy trials, it is common to define treatment remission as a score below a cutoff on symptom severity measures. No consensus has emerged regarding an appropriate cutoff for defining remission on the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS). The goal of the present study was to establish an empirically based cutoff on the MADRS for defining remission. METHOD 303 psychiatric outpatients being treated for a DSM-IV major depressive episode were rated on the Standardized Clinical Outcome Rating for Depression, an index of DSM-IV remission status; the MADRS; and the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale. We examined the sensitivity, specificity, and overall classification rate of the MADRS for identifying a broad and narrow interpretation of the DSM-IV definition of remission, as well as the association between the breadth of the definition of remission and psychosocial functioning. RESULTS On the basis of a narrow definition of remission, which requires a complete absence of clinically significant symptoms of depression, the optimal MADRS cutoff was < or = 4. On the basis of a broader definition, the optimal cutoff was < or = 9. Compared with patients scoring 5 through 9 on the MADRS, those who met the narrow definition of remission were rated higher, indicating better functioning, on the GAF and reported significantly less psychosocial impairment (p <.05). CONCLUSION Our results support the use of a low cutoff on the MADRS to define remission. Because the choice of cutoff will impact the percentage of patients who are considered to be in remission and thus impact conclusions about treatment effectiveness, more empirical study should be directed toward this issue.
Women as skilled Labour: a Review of Issues, Challenges and Prospects

As an important sector in the economy of Malaysia, the prolong problem of shortage of local skilled labour which the construction is experiencing may affect the sustainability of the sector and impinge it significant roles. Currently, the industry has to import foreign workers in order to fulfil the demand for manual labour. Although the government has implemented various strategy including attracting new entries among local youth so that they can be trained in construction academies, the problem still occurs. It indicates that there is a need now for a new strategy as an alternative to the present approaches. At this instance, the strategy which has not formally being ap-plied in the construction industry of Malaysia is attraction of local women to become construction skilled labour. This paper presents a review on the issue, challenges and prospect for women to be attracted as skilled labour for the construction industry of Malaysia. This paper suggested that there is potential for Malaysian women to become manual trades workers based on the literature findings that wom-en have the capability and was once a significant skilled labour in the construction industry
Deliberative and implemental mind-sets: Cognitive tuning toward congruous thoughts and information

Study 1 established either deliberative mind-set by having Ss contemplate personal change decision or implemental mind-set by having Ss plan execution of intended personal project. Ss were subsequently requested to continue beginnings of 3 fairy tales, each describing a main character with a decisional conflict. Analysis revealed that deliberative mind-set Ss ascribed more deliberative and less implementational efforts to main characters than implemental mind-set Ss. In Study 2, Ss were asked to choose between different test materials. Either before or after making their decision, Ss were given information on deliberative and implementational thoughts unrelated to their task at hand. When asked to recall these thoughts, predecisional Ss recalled more deliberative and less implementational thoughts, whereas for postdecisional Ss the reverse was true. These findings suggest that deliberative and implemental mind-sets tune thought production and information processing. A course of action may be conceived rather narrowly as extending from its initiation (starting point) to its termination (end point). Alternatively, one may adopt a broader perspective that embraces the motivational origins of an action as the actual starting point and the individual's evaluative thoughts about the achieved action outcome as the final end point. In the present article, we take this broader perspective and segment the course of action into four distinct, sequential phases (Heckhausen, 1986). The first segment is the predecisional phase, where potential action goals entailed by a person's many wants and wishes are deliberated. When a decision to pursue one of these goals is made, a transition to the postdecisional (preactional) phase takes place, where the individual becomes concerned with implementing the chosen goal. However, this phase ends and the actional phase starts when actions geared toward achieving the chosen goal are initiated. Once these actions have resulted in a particular outcome, the postactional phase is entered and the individual proceeds to evaluate the achieved outcome. We postulate that each of these phases is accompanied by a distinct mind-set (Gollwitzer, 1990). Following the lead of the WUrzburg School (Kiilpe, 1904; Marbe, 1901; Watt, 1905; for reviews, see Boring, 1950, pp. 401-406; Gibson, 1941; and Humphrey, 1951, pp. 30-131), we assume that the characteristics of each of these mind-sets are determined by the unique qualities of the different tasks to be solved within each phase. That is, the different mind-sets tailor a person's cognitive appa
Anencephaly: A 3 Years Study

Background: Anencephaly is a neural tube defect which is due to the defective closure of cranial neuropore. It is associated with other systemic anomalies in most of the cases. This study was undertaken to determine the incidence of anencephaly among congenital malformations at autopsy, associated systemic anomalies, maternal age and sex of the fetus.
Thymidylate Synthase and Folyl-Polyglutamate Synthase Are Not Clinically Useful Markers of Response to Pemetrexed in Patients with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Purpose: Thymidylate synthase (TS) is a potential predictor of outcome after pemetrexed (Pem) in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), and assays measuring TS levels are commercially marketed. The goal of this study was to further evaluate the value of TS and to study another potential biomarker of response, the enzyme, folyl-polyglutamate synthase (FPGS), which activates Pem intracellularly. Methods: Levels of TS and FPGS were semi-quantitatively determined immunohistochemically using H-scores on tissue samples from 85 MPM patients receiving Pem as primary therapy. H-score was correlated with radiographic disease control rate (DCR), time to progression (TTP) and overall survival (OS). In addition, expression levels of TS and FPGS in MPM cell lines were determined using immunoblotting and correlated with their sensitivity to Pem-induced cell death. Results: H-scores from patients with disease control versus progressive disease showed extensive overlap. There were no significant correlations of DCR, TTP, or OS to either TS levels (p = 0.73, 0.93, and 0.59, respectively), FPGS levels (p = 0.95, 0.77, and 0.43, respectively) or the ratio of FPGS/TS using the median scores of each test as cutoffs. There was no correlation between TS or FPGS expression and chemosensitivity of mesothelioma cells to Pem in vitro. Conclusions: Although previous retrospective data suggest that TS and FPGS expression might be potential markers of Pem efficacy in MPM, our data indicate these markers lack sufficient predictive value in individual patients and should not be used to guide therapeutic decisions in the absence of prospective studies.
Etiologic fractions for physical work load, sports and overweight in the occurrence of coxarthrosis.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of physical work load, sports, and overweight on the incidence of coxarthrosis. METHODS A case-referent study was made of 239 male recipients of a hip prosthesis and 302 men randomly selected from the general population. Information was obtained by means of an interview and questionnaire. Exposures to physical work load and sports were measured as the cumulative number of hours of exposure up to 49 years of age. Overweight was measured as the estimated body mass index at 30 or 40 years of age. RESULTS The etiologic fraction related to the three risk factors was 40% for physical work load, 55% for sports, and 15% for overweight. Various measures of physical work load were considered, but they all proved to be correlated. CONCLUSIONS Approximately 80% of the idiopathic coxarthrosis was explained by the presence of the three risk factors.
Analysis of Household Socio-Economic and Rice Farming Performance: Findings from Malang District

One of the current phenomena in rice farming is increasing the interest of villagers working as overseas laborers as well as less incentives for farmers to encourage increased farming. The purpose of this study is to analyze the farming and socio-economic performance of paddy farmer households in Malang Regency as one of rice production centers in East Java. This research is conducted by survey method, primary data collected through interviews and through Focus Group Discussion (FGD). Analytical methods used are descriptive analysis, household income analysis, farming and marketing chains. The result of the analysis shows that rice farmers in Malang Regency, in terms of average per capita income and land tenure are small/poor farmers, having double income pattern; most of their education is low and their age is old. Rice farming in Malang Regency five times planting in two year and monoculture; rice productivity level is relatively high but still below its potential, but rice farming is still profitable. The marketing chain relatively short where most of the crops very narrow consumed and rest are sold in the form of rice. Other farmers, most of the crops are sold in grain to the traders and the rice millers.
The Meaning of Human Resource Management for HR Managers: A Metaphor Analysis

In this study, it is aimed to determine how HR managers conceptualize HRM through metaphors in Turkey. For this purpose it is revealed the metaphors that human resource managers use with regard to human resource management and HRM functions on magazine interviews. Qualitative research methodology was conducted in this study. Interviews (103) that were conducted with HR managers of successful local and international firms published in “HRdergi” (HRmagazine) in 2004-2013 were examined by using metaphor analysis. This study determines HR managers’ mental schemes, perspectives and visions related to HRM by metaphors in Turkey. As a result of the study, HR managers used metaphors about HRM and nature of HRM, HRM functions and practices, transformation of HRM, staffing, HR development, behavioural processes in HRM, human/employee and new generation employees. They emphasize the importance of HRM for organizations as “heart” “right arm”, “bridge” and “mother”. It is also determined that HR managers use metaphors like “having a seat in the executive board” and that HRM have to have a voice in management as other departments.
Assessing Therapeutic Tourism and Hotels Marketing Using the Video-Sharing Websites in Egypt

Social media is considered new potential wave in the online business marketing. Tourism and hospitality marketers are beginning to drive the use of social media as a new tool in their marketing plan to stretch out to customers. YouTube is a popular video-sharing site and considered one of the most important social media sites that can be used in tourism and hotels marketing to keep up with incremental changes in the information technology applications. This paper aimed to explore the advantages of using YouTube in tourism marketing in general and therapeutic tourism and hotels in particular based in Egypt. The research problem is that there is no any governmental YouTube Channel in Egypt to market the therapeutic tourism and hotels. Two phases of data collection methods were employed in this research: first, using the online content analysis of the available YouTube videos and channels; second, using questionnaire strategy targeted the Egyptian experts in the marketing field. The research implications that can be inferred from this research are twofold: first, this paper highlighted a new social media tool in E-marketing using YouTube for academics; second, it will help practitioners to depend on the developed strategy to use YouTube in marketing the Egyptian therapeutic tourism and hotels. Finally, this study recommends the need for further research to develop a conceptual framework using a mixed methods research to widen the roles for which social media can be utilized for the Egyptian marketers.
Modeling Psychologists’ Ethical Intention

At the core of all therapeutic and medical practice lies ethics. By applying an expanded Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior formulation, the present investigation tested a model for explaining psychologists’ intention to behave ethically. In the pretest, dual relationships and money conflicts were seen as the most prevalent dilemmas. A total of 395 clinical psychologists filled out questionnaires containing either a dual relationship dilemma describing a scenario where a psychologist was asked to treat a son of a colleague or a money-focused dilemma where he or she was asked to treat a patient unable to pay for the service. Results obtained from applying the expanded Ajzen’s model to each dilemma, generally, supported the study hypotheses. In particular, attitudes were seen as the most important predictor in both dilemmas followed by a morality component, defined here as the commitment of the psychologist to the patient included here as an additional predictor in the model. The expanded model provided a better understanding of ethical intention. Practical implications were also discussed.
Endoscopic Ultrasound and Upper Gastrointestinal Disorders

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) plays a vital role in management of upper gastrointestinal disorders, particularly cancer of the esophagus, pancreas, stomach, lung (via transesophageal mediastinal staging), and bile duct. Endoscopic ultrasound has also been valuable in detection of early chronic pancreatitis (CP). In cancer of the esophagus, the primary role of EUS is to determine whether disease is localized (T1–2, N0) and appropriate for surgery, locally advanced (T3–4, N1, M1a) (which may benefit from chemoradiation with or without surgery), or metastatic. Pancreatic and bile duct cancers are more complex given the controversy over portal vein resection. In centers that resect tumors invading the portal venous system, the role of EUS is limited to tissue confirmation or identification of metastases to the liver or distant lymph nodes. In centers that do not resect the portal vein invasion, EUS plays an important role in local staging. In lung cancer, EUS is emerging as an accurate, nonsurgical alternative to staging the mediastinum through EUS fine-needle aspiration. Endoscopic ultrasound has an important role in diagnosing CP because of its high degree of sensitivity. This has also led to controversy over whether EUS can overdiagnose CP. For these reasons, we recommend the use of a high threshold for EUS and that CP be diagnosed in conjunction with other standard tests (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, pancreatic function tests).
The impacts of project scale, scope and risk allocation on financial returns for clients and contractors in Energy Performance Contracts – a stochastic modelling analysis

With a projected annual value of £1bn, the UK energy performance contracting market has the potential to unlock a large number of energy efficiency projects by reducing risk of investing in energy efficiency upgrades in industry applications and in buildings. However, market development to date has been slow and little analysis has been undertaken to understand the characteristics of successful projects. A better understanding of the impact of project scale, scope and risk allocation on outcomes for building owners and their contracting partners, known as Energy Service Companies (ESCOs), would enable investment programmes to be targeted more effectively. This study uses probabilistic energy modelling of hypothetical case studies in the UK schools sector to assess the scale of possible energy savings from a range of retrofit measures. Samples from these distributions of energy savings are used as inputs to an economic model which allows the impact of different approaches to measurement and verification of the energy savings to be explored, along with the impact of energy price assumptions, project scale and scope and different guarantee mechanisms. The case study projects are based on hypothetical school buildings and combine 3 different scales of project with 2 different groups of retrofit measures. Despite evidence from previous work that transaction costs are critical to financial outcomes of projects there is an absence of data on the scale of transaction costs in the current literature. This study uses semi-structured interviews with building owners and ESCOs to elicit transaction cost information for the case study projects which form another set of inputs to the economic model. Global sensitivity analysis is used to screen for non-influential parameters in the energy model (modified Morris method), enabling a significant reduction in computational burden. Global sensitivity analysis is also used with the economic model to rank inputs in order of their influence on financial outcomes for clients and ESCOs, providing insight into the areas of uncertainty which have the largest impact. The results of this study suggest that • not all of these projects are well-suited to this form of procurement. In particular, cases with a small number of energy conservation measures perform less well than those with a more diverse set of measures • more effective monitoring methods are needed, but crucially, these must be focused on the collection of data which facilitates the allocation of responsibilities between the parties. • steps to increase market competition must take an holistic view of transaction costs to avoid reducing market testing of costs in competition which will result in increasing policing and enforcement costs • bundling smaller projects together cannot reduce risks for the ESCO unless there is a mechanism for balancing returns between individual projects.
Electrical and Mechanical Sensor-Based Mass Flow Rate Measurement System: A Comparative Approach

Gas-Solid flow finds its application in various industries such as chemical and food processes, pharmaceuticals, automobile and power generation. The precise measurement and real-time monitoring of the flow process have garnered a lot of attraction in the modern industrial era. The effective utilization, with high efficiency, of the resources have compelled the researchers to investigate Gas-Solid flow monitoring and measurement process for the last two decades. Efforts are extended to design instruments for flow pattern visualization and quantification of mass flow rate. Generally, volumetric flow concentration and velocity profile of the solid particles are required to find the mass flow rate (MRF) in the case of non-invasive measurement techniques. This paper proposes a novel non-invasive mass flow rate measurement system for solid particles where electrical and mechanical sensors are simultaneously used to compensate each other’s associated drawbacks. The solid particles are allowed to slide along an insulated inclined channel under the effect of gravity. The velocity profile and volumetric flow concentration are calculated using electrical sensors. Furthermore, load cell serves as a second sensor to calculate the mass flow rate. The experimental results from both the sensors are compared to investigate the accuracy and relative errors of both the sensors under different conditions.
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems ( PACIS ) 2015 Counting Customers in Mobile Business – The Case of Free to Play

In recent years mobile games have become a major part of the mobile market since gaming apps generate a major amount of the platforms revenue. Whilst different business models have been used free to play seems one of the most promising to monetize games in the mobile market. Yet, this new concept of monetizing digital content has not obtained much attention of researchers. One research gap is the prediction of users purchasing behavior, as it is a major challenge for practitioners as well as for researchers and of vital importance for managing marketing expenses and designing game mechanics. In this paper we use an existing prediction model for purchasing behavior to analyze its applicability in the mobile market. We use two data sets from free to play games to train and test this well-known model. We can show that existing models, even though they are designed for the same type of customer relationship, struggle with the case of free to play. We show detailed information on the model performance and conclude that because of the unique purchasing behavior in free to play models should be redesigned or the process of application should be more structured.