Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CLUB PERFORMANCE DYNAMICS AT ITALIAN REGIONAL LEVEL BRIDA,

CLUB PERFORMANCE DYNAMICS AT ITALIAN REGIONAL LEVEL BRIDA, Juan Gabriel GARRIDo, Nicolas, MUREDDU, Francesco Abstract. This paper analyzes the dynamic economic performance of the Italian regions during the period 1970-2004. The performance is given by the transitions between regimes defined by the level and the growth rates of per capita GDP. Using the concept of economic regime, we introduce a notion of distance between the dynamical paths of the Italian regions. Afterwards, a Minimal Spanning Tree and a Hierarchical Tree are constructed from time series in order to assess the existence of groups of regions sharing similar economic performance. Two main clusters are identified, representing high performance and low performance regions, alongside other two small clusters displaying regions with similar dynamic behaviour. The high performance cluster comprises mainly regions from the north, showing the presence of agglomeration externalities. Turning to the evolution of clusters, we see a similar path until 1975, after which the two groups start to slightly diverge. Studying the evolution of each cluster’s diameter we find substantial convergence within the two groups. Splitting the sample into two periods (1975-1993 and 1994-2005) the hypothesis of two performance clubs is confirmed. The club shift of some regions hints a strong effect on regional economic dynamics of the Italian 1994 crisis. The final analysis of the distance between the two clusters show that in the first period (1975-1993) the distance between the two group was constant, while in the second one (1994-2005) it has increased
N ° 2 ; December 2017 P . 0105 PRIMARY NON-HODGKIN ’ S LYMPHOMA OF THE BREAST : CASE REPORT ON A RARE SITE OF A COMMON DISEASE

Cancer is a global health problem leading among the three main causes of death in the developing world. According to the World Health Organization’s 2010 projection, cancer caused about 7.6 million deaths in 2005, accounting for 13% of death worldwide and it will result in about 84 million deaths by year 2015 [1]. In Cameroon, cancer has been found to be emerging as a public health problem, in near equal proportions to malnutrition and infectious diseases [2]. According to the National Cancer Control Program, the total cancer burden in the country has increased from an incidence of 12.000 in 2004 to 15.000 in 2010 with a prevalence of about 25.000 cases [3]. Breast cancer is the leading cancer in Cameroon accounting for about 30% of all cancers diagnosed in the community [3]. Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is a diverse group of blood cancers derived from lymphocytes that vary significantly in their severity. It resulted in 210,000 deaths globally in 2010 up from 143,000 in 1990 [4]. It is the sixth most common cancer in the United Kingdom (12,800 in 2012) and, the eleventh most common cause of cancer death (4,700 in 2012) [4]. Unlike Hodgkin’s lymphoma which is rare in our community, NHL has seen an upsurge in the past 2 decades, coinciding and exacerbated by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The incidence has increased from 4% in 1985 to 11.9% (third commonest cancer) in 2012[5].
Comparison of the Effectiveness of Platelet-Rich Plasma, Corticosteroid, and Physical Therapy in Subacromial Impingement Syndrome.

Objectives This study aims to investigate and compare the efficacy of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection, corticosteroid injection, and physical therapy in addition to exercise treatment on pain, shoulder functions, and quality of life in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome (SAIS). Patients and methods Ninety patients (37 males, 53 females; mean age 48.99 years; range, 33 to 60 years) who were diagnosed as Stage 2 SAIS were included in the study. Patients were randomized into three groups. PRP injection was administered into the subacromial space of the affected shoulder in group 1, corticosteroid injection was administered in the subacromial joint space in group 2, and 10 sessions of physical therapy were given in group 3 five times weekly including transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, ultrasound, and hot packs. Moreover, an exercise program was administered in all groups. Visual Analog Scale (VAS) was used to determine the resting and moving shoulder pain; while the Shoulder Disability Questionnaire, Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (QuickDASH) questionnaire, and the University of California, Los Angeles Shoulder Rating Scale (UCLA SRS) were used to evaluate the functionality of patients. Quality of life was analyzed using a generic Short Form 36 (SF-36). Results All scores improved in all three groups compared with the period before treatment. Comparison of the groups showed higher scores in group 1 compared to groups 2 and 3 at week eight on QuickDASH, UCLA SRS, VAS at rest and during activity, and SF-36 pain subgroup scores. Conclusion All three treatment modalities were effective in the treatment of SAIS. However, we suggest that the inexpensive and noninvasive methods of physical therapy and exercise should be the first preferred treatment in SAIS owing to causing no adverse events.
Prognostic value of serum C-reactive protein in pancreatic cancer : a meta-analysis

Background: The prognostic value of pretreatment C-reactive protein in pancreatic carcinoma patients remains controversial. This meta-analysis was performed to evaluate that prognostic value. Purpose: Systemic review and meta-analysis was used to evaluate the prognostic value of C-reactive protein in pancreatic cancer. Methods: PubMed, EMBASE, and CNKI were searched. There were no eligible studies in CNKI. Therefore, PubMed and EMBASE were searched to identify eligible studies reporting the prognostic role of pretreatment C-reactive protein in patients with pancreatic cancer. Statistical analyses were performed using STATA software (Version 12.0; Stata Corporation). Hazard ratio (HR) with its 95% confidence interval (CI) was used to estimate effect size. Results: A total of 9 studies, including 1,084 patients, were identified. Pooled results showed that elevated C-reactive protein levels were associated with poor overall survival (HR: 1.74, 95% CI: 1.49-2.04) in pancreatic cancer and (HR: 1.70, 95% CI: 1.42-2.04) in advanced pancreatic cancer patients. In addition, high C-reactive protein levels tended to be an independent prognostic factor for overall survival in patients with pancreatic cancer (HR: 3.93, 95% CI: 2.356.59). Conclusion: This meta-analysis indicated that elevated C-reactive protein levels were associated with poor outcomes in pancreatic carcinoma patients and may be an independent prognostic indicator for pancreatic cancer.
COGNITIVE APPROACH COPING STYLE AS A FUNCTION OF SEX , RESILIENCE AND NEUROTICISM IN MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS

The present study attempted to explore the effect of Resilience and Neuroticism on Cognitive coping style of Medical professionals. A sample of 160 medical professionals (80 male and 80 female) were taken from 5 government hospitals of Uttarakhand and 4 private hospitals of Uttar Pradesh. The age ranges from 25 to 35 years. Analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. Results indicated that the low neuroticism independent of sex and resilience promotes adoption of cognitive coping more in medical professionals. Male in comparison to female medical professionals independent of neuroticism adopt more cognitive coping style and high resilience independent of neuroticism promotes adoption of cognitive coping style more in medical professionals.
Embolie pulmonaire et formes sibilantes des décompensations de bronchopneumopathie chronique obstructive

L'Embolie pulmonaire (EP) pose un probleme diagnostique important chez les patients porteurs d'une bronchopneumopathie chronique obstructive (BPCO). En effet, l'EP aggrave un etat respiratoire precaire de ces patients fragiles. De plus, les symptomes rencontres dans ces deux pathologies sont communs : dyspnee, sibilances, douleur pleurale, hemoptysie, palpitations, signes d'insuffisance cardiaque droite. A travers deux etudes, l'une retrospective, l'autre prospective, nous avons etudie l'incidence de l'EP lors de d'episodes de decompensation respiratoire sibilante des patients BPCO. L'etude retrospective menee sur 2 ans a porte sur 50 patients BACO en decompensation respiratoire sibilante non infectieuse. Dans cette population, 10 patients sur 50 (20 %) avaient une EP documentee. Aucun facteur predictif n'a pu etre mis en evidence. L'etude prospective menee sur une annee s'adressait aussi aux patients BPCO en decompensation respiratoire sibilante non infectieuse et exigeait de plus un dosage sanguin positif pour les les D-dimeres. Dans ce cas, les patients beneficiaient d'une echographie doppler des membres inferieurs et d'un angioscanner dans les 24 heures suivant leur admission. Dans ce travail, 9 patients sur 31 (29 %) avaient une EP documentee. Six de ces 9 patients etaient porteurs d'une thrombose veineuse profonde (TV). Les deux groupes de patients etaient alors compares sur l'ensemble de leurs donnees cliniques et paracliniques. Deux facteurs predictifs d'EP ont ete individualises: l'existence d'une TVP et une variation de la PaO, plus importante entre l'etat de base et le bronchospasme chez les patients avec EP (ΔPaO 2 > a 22mmHg). Nous concluons que l'EP est une etiologie frequente (de 20 a .? (J %) des decompensations respiratoires sibilantes des patients BPCO. Face a des râles sibilants inexpliques chez ces patients, il convient de realiser systematiquement un angioscanner thoracique pour eliminer une EP lorsque les D-dimeres sont positifs.
- 1The Impact of Mass Media Sentiments on Returns and Volatility in Asset Markets Evidence from Algorithmic Content Analysis

This dissertation investigates the effect of financial news on the decision-making and expectations of individual investors as evidenced by stock market volatility and returns. It is positioned in the juncture between investors, markets and mass media. The efficient market hypothesis is juxtaposed with the notion of performativity. It is argued that financial news, like economic theory, affects reality rather than simply describes what exists. Financial news is argued to be performative if the media disseminating information meet certain conditions regarding its material availability, circulation and authority. It is concluded that if the examined media meet these conditions, the message they transmit becomes a reality through the collective actions of individual investors. Performing an algorithmic content analysis of more than 7000 financial news articles, the study utilises the resulting daily mass media sentiment indicators to estimate realised volatility, implied volatility and returns of the S&P500 and FTSE100 stock indices. It is argued that should markets be completely efficient, using mass media sentiment indicators would not improve the capability to predict markets the following day. The empirical data demonstrates that markets are not completely efficient. Mass media sentiment indicators improve the estimate of realised volatility in the stock market when paired up with a lagged value of realised volatility. Furthermore, mass media sentiment indicators possibly predict returns and implied volatility, but due to problems in statistical inference, further analysis is needed. It is concluded that the mass media plays an important role in disseminating information, predictions and sentiments about the market, consequently affecting the collective decisions and expectations of individual investors.
A low-power and high-speed dynamic PLA circuit configuration for single-clock CMOS

Certain logic functions such as the control units of VLSI processors are difficult to implement by random logic. Since the programmable logic arrays (PLAs) can implement almost any Boolean function, they have become popular devices in the realization of both combinational and sequential circuits. We present a low-power high-speed complementary-metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit implementation of NOR-NOR PLA using a single-phased clock. Buffering static NAND gates are inserted between the NOR planes to erase the racing problem and shorten the duration of glitches such that the dynamic power is reduced in addition to the low static power dissipation, no ground switch, no charge sharing, and zero offset.
The Last Hundred Years Dendroecology of Scots Pine ( Pinus sylvestris L . ) on a Baltic Bog in Northern Poland : Human Impact and Hydrological Changes

The study was aimed at determining age of the trees growing on the cupola of the Stàýki raised bog, at elucidating anthropogenic influences on the water level in the bog, and at exploring effects of climatic factors on the Scots pine tree-ring growth. Samples were collected, with Presslers bores, from 22 Scots pines and from a single downy birch. Tree-ring widths, measured to 0.01 mm, were used to compile  based on the classic dating methods  143-year-long (1862-2004) ST chronologies. The mean annual ring growth was found to amount to 0.87 mm. The chronologies obtained served as a basis with which to analyse signature years and response functions. Dendroclimatological analyses produced no unequivocal and statistically significant results: the signature years and response function analyses failed to identify a dominant factor and to indicate unambiguously a period during which the weather components studied exerted a decisive effect. Because of that, no climatic reconstructions were carried out. The ring growth of the trees examined was found to be primarily affected by changes in the water level, related mainly to anthropogenic activities. The bog evolution (drying-out and Scots pine invasion) was reconstructed with this assumption in mind. A mass appearance of trees on the bog was dated in the last decade of the 19th century. It was assumed to be triggered by draining operations carried out to lower the water level so that peat could be cut. As a result, conditions amenable for the bog surface to be colonised by Scots pine seedlings were created. The data obtained are important from the standpoint of raised bog conservation; they demonstrate that pine forests growing on raised bogs are not always the final stage of succession, but provide evidence of disturbed bog hydrology and serve as an indicator of a perturbed bog ecosystem.
Profitability of Short Run Contrarian Strategy : Evidence from Hong Kong Stock Exchange

This paper investigates the profitability of short run contrarian strategy in Hong Kong Stock Exchange covering a time horizon from 2000 to 2009. I report significant positive contrarian profits with 4—, 6— and 8—week formation period. The profits decrease as either formation period or holding period lengthens. When controlled for bid-ask spread, most of those profits diminish. Past winner stocks are prone to behave reversely and generate negative returns across the whole sampling period. This paper also finds that for smallest 30% stocks, 4—week formation strategy shows the strongest profitability regardless the existence of bid-ask spread. Hong Kong stock market is concluded to be in weak form efficiency.
Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase and Rab5 GTPase Inversely Regulate the Smad Anchor for Receptor Activation (SARA) Protein Independently of Transforming Growth Factor-β1

Background: SARA promotes an epithelial cell phenotype, whereas its down-regulation is permissive for EMT. Results: PI3K inhibition decreases SARA protein expression, likely through alterations in Rab5-containing endosomes. Conclusion: PI3K signaling supports an epithelial phenotype. Significance: PI3K has complex effects in fibrogenesis. Our data suggest an antifibrotic action of PI3K that involves maintaining SARA expression. SARA has been shown to be a regulator of epithelial cell phenotype, with reduced expression during TGF-β1-mediated epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Examination of the pathways that might play a role in regulating SARA expression identified phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway inhibition as sufficient to reduce SARA expression. The mechanism of PI3K inhibition-mediated SARA down-regulation differs from that induced by TGF-β1 in that, unlike TGF-β1, PI3K-dependent depletion of SARA was apparent within 6 h and did not occur at the mRNA or promoter level but was blocked by inhibition of proteasome-mediated degradation. This effect was independent of Akt activity because neither reducing nor enhancing Akt activity modulated the expression of SARA. Therefore, this is likely a direct effect of p85α action, and co-immunoprecipitation of SARA and p85α confirmed that these proteins interact. Both SARA and PI3K have been shown to be associated with endosomes, and either LY294002 or p85α knockdown enlarged SARA-containing endocytic vesicles. Inhibition of clathrin-mediated endocytosis blocked SARA down-regulation, and a localization-deficient mutant SARA was protected against down-regulation. As inhibiting PI3K can activate the endosomal fusion-regulatory small GTPase Rab5, we expressed GTPase-deficient Rab5 and observed endosomal enlargement and reduced SARA protein expression, similar to that seen with PI3K inhibition. Importantly, either interference with PI3K via LY294002 or p85α knockdown, or constitutive activity of the Rab5 pathway, enhanced the expression of smooth muscle α-actin. Together, these data suggest that although TGF-β1 can induce epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition through reduction in SARA expression, SARA is also basally regulated by its interaction with PI3K.
Hygienic quality of bovine raw milk samples from Oulmes local breeds in Morocco

Milk composition and safety are essential factors for both commercial and human health reasons. Here we characterized the microbiological quality of raw cow milk collected in the Oulmes region (Middle Atlas, Morocco). Forty milk samples were collected during autumn 2013, winter 2014, and spring 2014.Microbiological analysis showed that the mean mesophilic aerobic flora count was 15.7x10 2 CFU/ml and the mean total coliform count ranged from 5.5x10 2 to 22.3x10 2 CFU/ml; therefore, approximately 5% of samples were contaminated by fecal coliforms. Staphylococcus was absent in autumn samples. 50.5% of analyzed samples contained lactic acid bacteria while 20% contained yeasts and molds. Salmonella spp. , Listeria monocytogenes, and anaerobic sulfite reducing bacteria were absent in all analyzed samples.
Excess Smoothness of Consumption , Consumption Insurance , and Correlated Income Shocks

In the literature, econometricians typically assume that household income is the sum of a random walk permanent component and a transitory component, with uncorrelated permanent and transitory shocks. I relax this assumption, and explore the effects of correlated income shocks on consumption insurance against permanent and transitory shocks, and consumption smoothness using a life-cycle model with self-insurance calibrated to U.S. data. The models with negatively correlated income shocks result into smoother consumption, and upward-biased estimates of the insurance against transitory income shocks. While the model with negatively correlated shocks fits well the sensitivity of consumption to current income shocks observed in U.S. data, it falls short of explaining the sensitivity of consumption to income shocks cumulated over a longer horizon.
LSANet: Feature Learning on Point Sets by Local Spatial Aware Layer

Directly learning features from the point cloud has become an active research direction in 3D understanding. Existing learning-based methods usually construct local regions from the point cloud and extract the corresponding features. However, most of these processes do not adequately take the spatial distribution of the point cloud into account, limiting the ability to perceive fine-grained patterns. We design a novel Local Spatial Aware (LSA) layer, which can learn to generate Spatial Distribution Weights (SDWs) hierarchically based on the spatial relationship in local region for spatial independent operations, to establish the relationship between these operations and spatial distribution, thus capturing the local geometric structure sensitively.We further propose the LSANet, which is based on LSA layer, aggregating the spatial information with associated features in each layer of the network better in network design.The experiments show that our LSANet can achieve on par or better performance than the state-of-the-art methods when evaluating on the challenging benchmark datasets. For example, our LSANet can achieve 93.2% accuracy on ModelNet40 dataset using only 1024 points, significantly higher than other methods under the same conditions. The source code is available at this https URL.
Integrated bio-, magnetostratigraphy and magnetic susceptibility of Upper Berriasian hemipelagic carbonates in the West Balkan Mts

1Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, Rakowiecka 4, 00-975 Warszawa, Poland, jacek.grabowski@pgi.gov. pol, katarzyna.sobien@pgi.gov. pl 2Sofia University, Faculty of Geology and Geography, 12, Tsar Osvoboditel Blbd. , 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria, mivanov@gea.unisofia.bg, idakieva@gea.uni-sofia.bg 3Geological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev St., Bl. 24, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria, dariaiv@yahoo.com, lakova@geology.bas. bg, silviya_p@geology.bas. bg, stoykova@geology.bas. bg 4Institute of Geology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republik, v.v. i. , Rozvojová 269, 165 000 Praha 6, Czech Republik, schnabl@gli.cas. cz
Graph approach for optimal design of transfer machine with rotary table

A line balancing problem for transfer machines with rotary tables is considered. This type of machine is used in mass production. A part is sequentially machined on m working positions and is moved from one position to the next using a rotary table. The operations are grouped into blocks, where the operations of the same block are simultaneously performed by one piece of equipment with several tools (a multi-spindle head). All multi-spindle heads of a machine are simultaneously activated. Therefore, all operations of the machine are executed in parallel on m parts mounted on the rotary table. The line balancing problem consists of partitioning the set of all operations into sub-sets in order to minimize the number of working positions and the total number of spindle heads while satisfying all the constraints (precedence, compatibility for spindle heads, etc.). The method proposed in this paper is based on transforming this line balancing problem into a search for a constrained shortest path. An algorithm for simultaneously generating a graph and finding a constrained shortest path is developed. Some dominance rules for reducing the graph size are provided. An industrial example is presented in detail and experimental results on other industrial instances are reported.