Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Identifying Twitter influencer profiles for health promotion in Saudi Arabia

New media platforms, such as Twitter, provide the ideal opportunity to positively influence the health of large audiences. Saudi Arabia has one of the highest number of Twitter users of any country, some of whom are very influential in setting agendas and contributing to the dissemination of ideas. Those opinion leaders, both individuals and organizations, influential in the new media environment have the potential to raise awareness of health issues, advocate for health and potentially instigate change at a social level. To realize the potential of the new media platforms for public health, the function of opinion leaders is key. This study aims to identify and profile the most influential Twitter accounts in Saudi Arabia. Multiple measures, including: number of followers and four influence scores, were used to evaluate Twitter accounts. The data were then filtered and analysed using ratio and percentage calculations to identify the most influential users. In total, 99 Saudi Twitter accounts were classified, resulting in the identification of 25 religious men/women, 16 traditional media, 14 sports related, 10 new media, 6 political, 6 company and 4 health accounts. The methods used to identify the key influential Saudi accounts can be applied to inform profile development of Twitter users in other countries.
Liquidity Preference as Behavior towards Risk

One of basic functional relationships in the Keynesian model of the economy is the liquidity preference schedule, an inverse relationship between the demand for cash balances and the rate of interest. This aggregative function must be derived from some assumptions regarding the behavior of the decision-making units of the economy, and those assumptions are the concern of this paper.
Different Anti-Candida Activities of Two Human Lactoferrin-Derived Peptides, Lfpep and Kaliocin-1

ABSTRACT The synthetic peptides Lfpep and kaliocin-1 include the sequences from positions 18 to 40 and 153 to 183 of human lactoferrin, respectively. Lfpep is a cationic peptide with bactericidal and giardicidal effects, whereas kaliocin-1 is a novel bactericidal peptide that corresponds to a highly homologous sequence present in the transferrin family of proteins. Both peptides presented fungicidal activity against Candida spp. , including fluconazole- and amphotericin B-resistant clinical isolates. Lfpep exhibited higher antifungal activity (8- to 30-fold) and salt resistance than kaliocin-1. The killing activity of Lfpep was mediated by its permeabilizing activity on Candida albicans cells, whereas kaliocin-1 was unable to disrupt the cytoplasmic membrane, as indicated by its inability to allow permeation of propidium iodide and the small amount of K+ released. The amino acid sequence of kaliocin-1 includes the “multidimensional antimicrobial signature” conserved in disulfide-containing antimicrobial peptides and a striking similarity to brevinin-1Sa, an antimicrobial peptide from frog skin secretions, exhibiting a “Rana box”-like sequence. These features may be of interest in the design of new antifungals.
Positive surgical margins and local recurrence after simple enucleation and standard partial nephrectomy for malignant renal tumors: systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis of prevalence.

INTRODUCTION The definition of the safest width of healthy renal margin to achieve oncological efficacy and therefore of the safest resection technique (RT) during partial nephrectomy (PN) continues to be widely debated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of positive surgical margins (PSM), loco-regional recurrence (LRR) and renal recurrence (RER) rates after simple enucleation (SE) and standard partial nephrectomy (SPN) for malignant renal tumors. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A systematic review of the English-language literature was performed through August 2016 using the Medline, Web of Science and Embase databases according to the PRISMA criteria. A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed in those studies that defined the exact anatomical location of recurrence after PN. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS Overall, 33 studies involving 11,282 patients were selected for quantitative analysis. At a median follow-up of 43 (SE) and 52 (SPN) months, the pooled estimates of the prevalence of PSMs, LRR and RER were 2.7% (95% CI: 1.5-4.6%, P<0.001) and 0.4% (95% CI: 0.1-2.2%, P=0.018), 2.0% (95% CI: 1.4-2.8%, P<0.001) and 0.9% (95% CI: 0.5-1,7%, P=0.04), 1.5% (95% CI: 0.9-2.3%, P=0.001) and 0.9% (95% CI: 0.5-1,7%, P=0.40) in patients undergoing SPN and SE, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Our systematic analysis and meta-analysis demonstrates that SE is noninferior to SPN regarding PSM, LRR and RER rates in patients undergoing PN for malignant renal tumors. Further studies using standardized reporting tools are needed to evaluate the role of resection techniques for oncologic outcomes after PN.
Preroughening transitions in crystal surfaces and valence-bond phases in quantum spin chains.

We show that disordered flat phases in crystal surfaces are equivalent to valence-bond-type phases in integer and half-integer spin quantum chains. In the quantum spin representation the disordered flat phase represents a fluid-type phase with long-range antiferromagnetic spin order. This order is stabilized dynamically by the hopping of the particles and short-range spin-exchange interactions. The mass of N\'eel solitons is finite. Numerical finite-size-scaling results confirm this. We identify the order parameter of the valence-bond phase. The Haldane conjecture suggests a fundamental difference between half-integer and integer antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin chains. We find that disordered flat phases are realized in both cases, have exactly the same type of long-range antiferromagnetic spin order, and are stabilized by exactly the same mechanism. They differ only in the mathematical formulation of broken symmetry in the spin representation. We suggest experimental methods of observing disordered flat phases in crystal surfaces.
Conceptualising the ‘Visual Essay’ as a Way of Generating and Imparting Sociological Insight: Issues, Formats and Realisations

This article discusses and exemplifies a more visual and expressive way of constructing and presenting sociological insight. It seeks to articulate the specific demands, traits and potentials of the ‘visual essay’ as a societal and sociological practice and format. In particular it provides some observations, propositions and arguments that may further help to clarify what the visual sociological essay, as an unorthodox scholarly product, might entail and what place it should acquire in broader scholarly discourse. This theoretical discussion is accompanied by excerpts of concrete visual essays of both scholarly and non-scholarly origin. These examples help to show some of the basic strengths of this format which attempts to play out the synergy of the distinct forms of expression that are combined: images, words, layout and design, adding up to a scientifically informed statement.
Effect of Bacterial Content and Somatic Cell Count on Sheep Milk Quality in Kosovo

The main objective of this study was to analyze the effect of bacterial content (CFU) and somatic cell count (SCC) in milk quality in sheep (Ovis aries) farms according to the existing standards for fresh milk quality in Kosovo. A total of 2256 milk test day records from 379 Bardhoka (BAR), Sharri sheep (SHA), Kosovo sheep (KOS) and Balusha (BAL) ewes in eight herds across the country were collected and analyzed through a period April-October 2010. The general linear model and Duncan’s test were used to analyze the effect of different variables on presence of CFU and SCC in fresh milk. The effect of all variables was considered as a fixed. The overall results show that farm (P 0422), respectively, had a significant effect on presence of SCC. For CFU farm (P 0422) and breed (P 1211.17 to 6425.76 CFU/mL and 846.07 to 2043.15 SCC/mL milk, respectively. Although the rate of fresh milk contamination with SCC tends to be relatively low compare with CFU, by all means both variables should not be underestimated bearing in mind that a high rate of them on fresh milk are negatively correlated with farmer’s profit, consumer food safety and overall animal health.
Behavioral sensitization to amphetamine is not accompanied by changes in glutamate receptor surface expression in the rat nucleus accumbens

We examined whether behavioral sensitization to amphetamine is associated with redistribution of glutamate receptors (GluR) in the rat nucleus accumbens (NAc) or dorsolateral striatum (DLSTR). Following repeated amphetamine treatment and 21 days of withdrawal, surface and intracellular levels of α‐amino‐3‐hydroxy‐5‐methylisoxazole‐4‐propionate (AMPA) or NMDA receptor subunits were determined using a protein cross‐linking assay. In contrast to our previous results in cocaine‐sensitized rats, we did not observe redistribution of GluR1 or GluR2 to the cell surface in the NAc after amphetamine withdrawal, although a small increase in total GluR1 was found in the shell subregion. Nor did we observe activation of signaling pathways associated with cocaine‐induced AMPA receptor trafficking or changes in NMDA receptor subunits. No significant changes were observed in the DLSTR. We also investigated the effect of administering a challenge injection of amphetamine to amphetamine‐sensitized rats 24 h prior to biochemical analysis based on prior studies showing that cocaine challenge decreases AMPA receptor surface expression in the NAc of cocaine‐sensitized rats. GluR1 and GluR2 were not significantly altered in either NAc or DLSTR, although a modest effect on GluR3 cannot be ruled out. Our results suggest that glutamate transmission in the NAc is dramatically different in rats sensitized to amphetamine versus cocaine.
A DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH ON TURKISH LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES’ INDEPENDENT AUDIT CHARACTERISTICS

Analitik dusunme ve isletme bilimleri bilgisi gereklilikleri sebebiyle, muhasebe bilimi kas gucunden ziyade kuvvetli bir beyine ihtiyac duyar. Ayrica, musteri cesitliligi, onlarin endustri ve isletmeye ozel uzmanlik gereksinimleri nedeniyle, denetci kendi basina faaliyetini yurutemez ve meslegini devam ettirebilmek icin ekibe ihtiyac duyar. Bir diger taraftan, musteri isletme denetci veya denetim firmasi ile calismayi tercih etmeyebilir ve denetciyi veya denetim firmasini degistirebilir. Bu degiskenleri goz onune calisma ulkemizde halka acik uretim isletmelerinin denetim karakteristigini ortaya icin hazirlanmistir.Bu calisma 2005 ile 2015 yillari arasinda 1.668 sirket-yil orneklemini kullanarak, Borsa Istanbul'a kote uretim sirketlerinin denetim karakteristigini ortaya koymaya calismaktadir. Deskriptif istatistik kullanarak denetim gorusu, denetim sirketi turu, sorumlu ortak bas denetci cinsiyeti, denetim sirketi ve sorumlu ortak bas denetci rotasyonlari sunulmustur. Ayrica degiskenlerarasi analizler ile "denetim gorusu ve denetim sirketi", "denetim sirketi ve denetci cinsiyeti" ve "denetci cinsiyeti ve denetim gorusu" aralarindaki iliski ortaya konmustur. Bu calisma denetim sektorunun gelismekte oldugu ulkemize iliskin detayli bir perspektif sunarak muhasebe literaturune katki saglamaktadir.
Fulminant meningococcemia. Heparin therapy and survival rate.

AbstractDuring the 27-month period from January 1968 to March 1970 402 cases of meningococcal infection were admitted to the Pediatric Clinic of the Infectious Diseases Hospital of Thessaloniki. 25 patients (6.2%) had the characteristics of fulminant meningococcemia. A significant increase in the incidence of the fulminant form of the disease from 2.3% in 1968 to 8.8% in 1969 and 9.7% in the first trimester of 1970 was observed. The increased incidence coincided with predominance of meningococcal strains belonging to serotype B. In spite of a significant male preponderance in meningococcal infection the incidence of fulminant meningococcemia in our series was higher among females. 10 of the 25 patients with fulminant meningococcemia died (40%). Death was due to irreversible shock in all cases. A group of 12 randomly selected patients was treated with heparin; the remaining 13 patients served as controls. No significant difference in survival rate between the two groups was observed. Therapeutic methods in.
Long-Term Analysis of Chronic Broca's Aphasia: An Illustrative Single Case

In this article, a longitudinal case study of a client (whose initials are TH) with chronic Broca's aphasia is presented. The language data encompass test and therapy data over a 7-year period, during which TH's language performance and verbal communicative behavior have improved and continue to improve. A carryover from oral to written sentence production and to verbal communication in everyday life has been observed. The long-term provision of therapy has not only lead to improved verbal communication skills, but has also enhanced his quality of life. The case study discussed in this article demonstrates the value of long-term treatment and research on the evolution of language deficits across time. This approach provides a window for examining the dynamic processes of language recovery--the quantitative and qualitative changes that can be achieved when language therapy is provided long term in the chronic phase. Long-term analysis of the manner in which language functions respond to therapeutic intervention also provides detailed basic information required for a realistic characterization of the spectrum of language deficits for each symptom complex and/or aphasia type, not only for a single test time. This will lead to a better understanding of the recovery process and to development of therapy protocols in better accordance with the deficits at a particular point in the recovery process.
Effect of energy trapping on performance of QCM

Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) vibrating in a thickness shear mode is widely used for biosensing. Since its peripheral is sealed air or liquid tight to form a sample space, a reduction of displacement at peripheral is important in order to keep its Q value and hence its sensitivity high. A popular technique is a trapping of vibration energy in the center portion of QCM. It is realized in the thickness shear mode by making the resonant frequency of the center portion lower than the resonant frequency of the peripheral. When an operating frequency is below 10 MHz, its major surfaces are usually contoured in either plano-convex, convex-convex or bevel shape. When an operating frequency is much higher, simple mass loading by electrodes in the center portion on flat surfaces is good enough to cause energy trapping. Energy trapping, however, reduces an effective area for sensing and hence an overall sensitivity of QCM. A good design of QCM calls for a balance between two factors based on an analysis of effect of energy trapping on performance of QCM. Previous analysis based on equivalent circuit of contoured vibrators with free major surfaces is extended to include effects of mechanical loading on major surfaces due to medium to be sensed into account. A new equivalent circuit with four ports is developed for small section of a vibrator. Two ports correspond to upper and lower surfaces of the vibrator and are terminated by mechanical impedance of attached media to be sensed. Another two ports, left and right, are for connection with neighboring sections. Parameters of an equivalent circuit depend on thickness or mass loading of a section. A large number of sections with gradually varying thickness or mass loading are connected in tandem to approximate a profile of the vibrator. An application of the compensation theorem to the overall equivalent circuit shows the sensor sensitivity is proportional to the integral of square of displacement amplitude. Resonant frequencies, distribution of displacement and reduction factor of sensitivity of plano-convex vibrators are calculated as functions of width vs. thickness ratio and width vs. radius of curvature
ISCT based adaptive power management strategy for grid connected hybrid microgrid during GTC faults with reduced sensor requirement

This paper proposes an adaptive power management strategy with reduced sensor requirement for grid connected hybrid microgrid system under faulty conditions which occur in grid tied converters. Generally parallel combination of grid tied converters (GTCs) are used as an interface between microgrid and grid, which are responsible for power transfer among renewable energy sources (RES), hybrid energy storage system (HESS), grid and loads. Hence they are very essential parts of microgrid systems but easily prone to faults due to semiconductor switch failures. This in turn effects the operation and reliability of microgrid. To overcome these drawbacks a new power management algorithm is proposed which takes into account converter faults, renewable power availability and state of charge limits of HESS to effectively manage power between different sources and sinks. In this work instantaneous symmetrical component theory (ISCT) is used for power sharing and limiting among grid tied converters, without measuring GTCs powers using control parameters. Apart from ensuring stable microgrid operation, power quality aspects such as harmonic mitigation, reactive power support and unity power factor are achieved. The effectiveness of the proposed system and algorithm is tested and validated using MATLAB based simulink environment.
Interleukin-6 Stimulates Insulin Secretion in HIT-T 15 Cells

lnterleukin-6 (IL-6) is one of the cytokines produced by various cells including macrophages. It involves the control of multiple cell functions. It is well known that interleukin-113 inhibits insulin secretion, perhaps via nitric oxide and! or cyclooxygenase dependent mechanism (Southern, Schulster and Green 1990; Shimizu, Uehara, Saw, Shimomura, Mon and Kobayashi 1992). IL-6 is also supposed to directly modulate insulin secretion. However, there are few reports about the IL-6 effects on pancreatic insulin secretion, and its mechanism remains to be established.
Cerebral atrophy in Parkinson's disease patients with visual hallucinations

Although visual hallucinations (VH) are relatively frequent in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, their neural substrates are only known from neuropathological and functional magnetic resonance studies. The aim of this study was to investigate possible structural brain changes on MRI in non‐demented PD patients with VH using voxel‐based morphometry. Eighteen PD patients with VH were compared to 20 patients with PD without VH and 21 healthy controls. Compared with both controls and the non‐hallucinating PD group, PD patients with VH had grey matter volume reductions in the lingual gyrus and superior parietal lobe. Structural changes in these areas involved in higher visual processing may be important in understanding the VH and visual deficits in PD patients.
Chronicle of an early demise, surname extinction in the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries

ABSTRACT It has been amply demonstrated that individuals' reproductive capability is the key explanatory phenomenon for understanding onomastic disappearance during the early modern period. This article analyzes the evolution and consequences of surname extinction in a specific population: Catalonia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this article two aspects are examined. First, the observed disappearance of surnames is estimated through historical data collected in the Llibres d'Esposalles (Marriage Books) from 1481 to 1600 at Barcelona Cathedral. Second, the estimated natural extinction of those surnames registered in 1481 is forecast by applying a statistical branching process.
Boomerang: A Metadata-Free Architecture for Control Flow Delivery

Contemporary server workloads feature massive instruction footprints stemming from deep, layered software stacks. The active instruction working set of the entire stack can easily reach into megabytes, resulting in frequent front-end stalls due to instruction cache misses and pipeline flushes due to branch target buffer (BTB) misses. While a number of techniques have been proposed to address these problems, every one of them requires dedicated metadata structures, translating into significant storage and complexity costs. In this paper, we ask the question whether it is possible to achieve high-performance control flow delivery without the metadata costs of prior techniques. We revisit a previously proposed approach of branch-predictor-directed prefetching, which leverages just the branch predictor and BTB to discover and prefetch the missing instruction cache blocks by exploring the program control flow ahead of the core front-end. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we find that this approach can be effective in covering instruction cache misses in modern CMPs with long LLC access latencies and multi-MB server binaries. Our first contribution lies in explaining the reasons for the efficacy of branch-predictor-directed prefetching. Our second contribution is in Boomerang, a metadata-free architecture for control flow delivery. Boomerang leverages a branch-predictor-directed prefetcher to discover and prefill not only the instruction cache blocks, but also the missing BTB entries. Crucially, we demonstrate that the additional hardware cost required to identify and fill BTB misses is negligible. Our experimental evaluation shows that Boomerang matches the performance of the state-of-the-art control flow delivery scheme without the latter's high metadata and complexity overheads.
Isolation and molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Humans and 1 Cattle in Namwala district , Zambia 2 3

24 Introduction 25 Zambia, with a human population of 13 million people, is ranked among the world’s top ten 26 countries with a high burden of human tuberculosis (TB). Although M. tuberculosis, the 27 causative agent of TB in humans, is considered primarily a human pathogen it has been reported 28 in a wide range of domestic and wild animals, often living in close prolonged contact with 29
MECHANISM OF CIRCULATORY RESPONSES TO SYSTEMIC HYPOXIA IN THE ANESTHETIZED DOG.

The possibility that mechanisms secondary to the increased ventilation may contribute significantly to the circulatory responses to systemic hypoxia was explored in anesthetized dogs. In 14 spontaneously breathing dogs systemic hypoxia induced by breathing 7.5% oxygen in nitrogen increased cardiac output, heart rate, mean arterial blood pressure, and femoral arterial flow, and decreased systemic and hindlimb vascular resistances. In 14 dogs whose ventilation was kept constant by means of a respirator pump and intravenous decamethonium, systemic hypoxia did not change cardiac output, femoral arterial flow, or limb vascular resistance; it significantly decreased heart rate and significantly increased systemic vascular resistance. In seven spontaneously breathing dogs arterial blood pCO 2 was maintained at the resting level during systemic hypoxia. The increase in heart rate was significantly less pronounced but the other circulatory findings were not different from those found during hypocapnic hypoxia. Thus, mechanisms secondary to increased ventilation contribute significantly to the circulatory responses to systemic hypoxia. Hypocapnia accounts partly for the increased heart rate, but not for the other circulatory responses.