Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Lifestyle modification strategies for controlling hypertension: How are these strategies recommended by physicians in Iran?

Background: This study aimed to evaluate lifestyle changes and their impact on hypertension control and why and how lifestyle modifications are recommended for patients with hypertension. Four non pharmacological strategies have been recommended by physicians for hypertension control for hypertensive patients in Iran: healthier diet, smoking cessation, physical activity, and weight loss. Methods: Among participants of Iran STEPS Non-communicable Disease Risk Factors Survey (STEPs), 7879 hypertensive patients aged ≥25 years were selected. All statistical analyses were calculated using STATA software version 14. Means, proportions, and multiple binary logistic regression models were used. Two-tailed p values of <0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results: The results of this study showed that about three quarters of people with high blood pressure had been recommended lifestyle strategies by their physician for blood pressure control. Of the participants, 41% reported that they had been recommended only lifestyle modification for their blood pressure (BP), while 35% reported that they were recommended both lifestyle changes and medications as part of their treatment. Healthier diet, 71.9% (70.8-72.9), and smoking cessation, 23.8% (21.4-25.6), were the most and least frequently recommended strategies, respectively. Also, the rates of recommendations on smoking cessation, weight loss, increased physical activity, and healthier diet were more among women, married, and illiterate individuals, respectively. Conclusion: Because of the changes and transitions in the lifestyle and dietary habits in the modern world, policies and training programs should be developed to improve the recommendations on lifestyle modification. Also, educational programs should be developed to increase patient’s acceptance of lifestyle modifications and physical activity.
MAGNETOSHEATN INTERACTION WITH HIGH LATITUDE MAGNETOPAUSE

We present both statistical and two case studies of magnetosheath (MSH) interaction with the high latitude magnetopause (MP) on the basis of Interball-1 and other ISTP spacecraft data. The results of our data analysis strongly indicate that the TBL fluctuations, instead of being random, are phasecoupled and ‘organized’ by the cascades of nonlinear, presumably 3-wave, interactions. The selected coherent wave trains are capable of synchronizing interactions throughout the TBL, somewhat resembling a global TBL resonance. Multiplying the characteristic period of the ‘organizing’ wave mode by the MSH Alfven speed we get 3-4 Re as a proxy for the characteristic scale. This is close to the diameter of the TBL or outer cusp throat and can be attributed to a standing nonlinear wave, trapped in the outer cusp throat. The quasi-coherent structures control the spectral shape and result in non-Gaussian statistical characteristics of the disturbances, that conforms the fluctuation intermittency. We suggest that multi-scale TBL processes play at least a comparable role to those of reconnection remote from the cusp in the solar wind energy transformation and population of the magnetosphere by the MSH plasma. The TBL transforms the MSH flow energy including deceleration and heating of the flow downstream the high latitude cusp. The plasma-plasma interaction over cusp throat operates via reflected waves, which ignite the chaotization of ~ 40% upstream kinetic energy, the sub-Alfvenic flow decay launches the TBL nonlinear cascades along with the jets accelerated downstream up to 3 Alfvenic Mach numbers
Master programme in Economic Growth , Innovation and Spatial Dynamics Competition and Innovation . Evidence in Support of the Non-linear Relationship Palina Sauchanka palina

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between product market competition and innovation in seven European countries for the period 1987-2006. To approximate change in competition level three measures are considered: mark-up level, import penetration and the number of firms on the market. Innovation is measured as R&D intensity. The analysis shows that effect of product market competition on R&D intensity can be described with a non-linear function. Nonlinearity signifies that when competition level is low, an increase in competition rises R&D intensity, while with higher degree of competition on the market an upsurge of competition leads to lower R&D intensity.
PMT Monochromator Injection loop Capillary Chopper Lens LensLens Ar + Laser ColumnReflector PC PC CCD HPLC Spectrograph Lock-in Amplifier Filter Filter Preamplifier

Cervical cancer is the most common malignancy among women. Paptest and Colposcopy the existing screening methods were shown to be prone to false positive / negative results. Detection of tumor markers at very low concentrations could not only enhances the sensitivity and specificity of cancer detection but also amplifies the viability of detection of tumor beforehand. Thus, we have employed High Performance Liquid Chromatography coupled with Laser Induced Fluorescence (HPLCLIF) that can typify proteins at femto/subfemto mole levels. Tissue homogenates were prepared from seven malignant and four controls by 6 strokes with each revolution time of 30 seconds in saline. Principle Components Analysis (PCA) was employed as multivariate statistical tool. PCA is a data reduction technique where large amount of spectral data is described in terms of small number of independent variables called ‘eigenvectors’ and the scaling constants used to reconstruct the spectra are known as ‘scores’. Scores of factors are widely used parameter for classification of tissue types. Our finding indicates PCA of first derivative chromatograms in 1250-2700 seconds region with 5 factors distinguished normal and malignant chromatograms.
Indonesia, Geology

Indonesia is a geologically complex region situated at the southeastern edge of the Eurasian continent. It is bordered by tectonically active zones characterized by intense seismicity and volcanism resulting from subduction. Western Indonesia is largely underlain by continental crust, but in eastern Indonesia there is more arc and ophiolitic crust, and several young ocean basins. The Indonesian archipelago formed over the past 300 million years by reassembly of fragments rifted from the Gondwana supercontinent that arrived at the Eurasian subduction margin. The present-day geology of Indonesia is broadly the result of Cenozoic subduction and collision at this margin.
In Vitro Regeneration , Flowering and Seed Formation from Leaf Explants of Scoparia dulcis L .

This study describes an efficient protocol for the induction of in vitro flowering and fruiting of Scoparia dulcis L. (family Scrophulariaceae), a multipurpose folk medicinal plant. Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with kinetin (KIN; 13.93 μM) and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA; 1.14 μM) is optimal for the formation of multiple shoots (20.00 ± 1.67), which induced floral buds (13 ± 0.43). The regenerated plantlets developed flowers and fruits within 40-45 and 50-55 days, respectively. In vitro floral development was asynchronous. The morphology of the in vitro developed floral organs was almost similar to that of the parent plant. The flowers produced in vitro developed ripe fruits with viable seeds. Our finding has important implications in understanding the influence of physiological factors and the molecular basis of floral organ formation in this valuable medicinal plant. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gene Expression during Transition from Dormancy to Sprouting in Potato Tubers

This article reviews the knowledge on the genetic regulation during transition from dormancy to sprouting in potato tuber, to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying the physiological and cellular changes driving this complex developmental process. Extensive studies on gene expression were carried out with different tools: differential display, cDNA-AFLP, subtractive libraries, microarrays, quantitative Real Time PCR and proteomic analysis. A high proportion of sequences upor down-regulated at the end of dormancy are still unknown or match with proteins in databases that have not yet been characterised. Other sequences encode genes involved in hormone metabolism and response, or are transcriptional factors, ribosomal and carrier proteins, or putative regulators of cell growth and division. At the end of dormancy, when the tuber enters in a source condition, a general decrease of synthesis of storage proteins and enzymes involved in biosynthetic metabolism has been observed, as well as modifications in the pattern of proteins associated to membranes. Studies conducted on transgenic plants suggest that phosphate and sucrose levels may play a crucial role in the sink-to-source transition during sprout growth, as well as the reactive oxygen species. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mixture of Expert / Imitator Networks for Large-scale Semi-supervised Learning

The current success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in an increasingly broad range of tasks involving artificial intelligence strongly depends on the quality and quantity of labeled training data. In general, the scarcity of labeled data, which is often observed in many natural language processing tasks, is one of the most important issues to be addressed. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a promising approach to overcoming this issue by incorporating a large amount of unlabeled data. In this paper, we propose a novel scalable method of SSL for text classification tasks. The unique property of our method, Mixture of Expert/Imitator Networks, is that imitator networks learn to “imitate” the estimated label distribution of the expert network over the unlabeled data, which potentially contributes a set of features for the classification. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed method consistently improves the performance of several types of baseline DNNs. We also demonstrate that our method has the more data, better performance property with promising scalability to the amount of unlabeled data.
Automated ontology matching in the architecture, engineering and construction domain - a case study

The ontology-based modelling of the built environment is deemed promising to successfully integrate disparate knowledge silos and has gained significant attraction in industry and academia. This interest has led to a proliferating number of ontologies and the manual definition of schema level alignments among them is a tedious task. Hence, this paper explores the possibilities of automated ontology matching methods in this regard. This work compares manually created and automatically generated alignments of six domain ontologies to the building topology ontology. The initial findings of this case study indicate that current state of the art ontology matching tools are in principle capable of detecting automatically correct alignments and that their is a strong need to define domain specific benchmarks.
Access to modern energy : a review of barriers , drivers and impacts

Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as a fundamental challenge for development. Despite strong praise for action and the deployment of large-scale electrification programs and improved cookstove (ICS) distribution campaigns, few studies have shed light on the barriers to, the enablers of and the impacts of access to energy on development outcomes, using rigorous methodologies. This paper reviews this recent strand of research, trying to fill these gaps. The authors focus on the demand-side and household perspective. Their main outcomes of interest are electricity connection and ICS adoption The authors are grateful to Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, Nadia von Jacobi, Emanuela Colombo, Shonali Pachauri and all participants in the international workshop ‘Energy Poverty and Energy Access: Global Challenges and Goals’ on 10 July 2014 at FEEM for their helpful comments and suggestions. The authors thank the associate editor and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, which helped to improve the manuscript. Jacopo Bonan and Stefano Pareglio acknowledge the support of the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, Laboratorio Expo. Jacopo Bonan and Massimo Tavoni acknowledge financial support from the European Research 341 Council under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant 342 Agreement No. 336155 Project COBHAM ‘The role of consumer behaviour and heterogeneity in the integrated assessment of energy and climate policies’. use, available at https://www.cambridge. org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X17000201 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge. org/core. IP address: 54.70. 40.11, on 11 Jul 2019 at 20:08:35, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of 492 Jacopo Bonan et al. for the analysis of barriers, time allocation, labor market outcomes and welfare for the impact analysis. They provide evidence of significant wellbeing impacts of electrification and mixed evidence for cookstoves.
Empirical study Adolescents ’ autonomous functioning and implicit theories of ability as predictors of their school achievement and week-to-week study regulation and well-being

Research on students’ motivation has mainly focused on interpersonal differences rather than on the ongoing, intrapersonal dynamics that forge students’ everyday life. In this five-month longitudinal (diary) study, we recruited a sample of 179 high school students from Greece (35.8% males; Mage = 16.27; SD = 1.02) to investigate through multilevel analyses the ongoing dynamics of students’ motivation. We did so by examining the relation between autonomous functioning and aspects of study regulation (namely, study efforts and procrastination) and well-being (namely, subjective vitality and depressive feelings). After controlling for perceived competence, we found week-to-week autonomous functioning to relate positively to study efforts and subjective vitality and negatively to procrastination and depressive feelings. Interestingly, implicit theories of ability the degree to which one believes that ability is fixed or amenable were found to moderate the week-to-week relations of autonomous functioning to study efforts and homework procrastination. In particular, autonomous functioning co-varied positively to study efforts and negatively to homework procrastination only among students who believed that ability is malleable. Also, beliefs that ability is fixed predicted poorer grades, lower mean levels of study efforts, and higher homework procrastination. The results underscore the necessity of taking a more dynamic view when studying motivational phenomena and the importance of jointly considering the implicit theory framework and self-determination theory. 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The Phusor®-type LANR Cathode is a Metamaterial Creating Deuteron Flux for Excess Power Gain

The spiral Phusor®-type LANR cathode, with open helical geometry in a high electrical impedance solution, creates a unique electric field distribution. This results in both deuteron loading flux from the solution and an intra-palladium deuteron flux at equilibrium. The stereoconstellation of the LANR electrode augments material factors, and make a LANR ‘metamaterial’. The intra-electrode palladium flux may produce and drive some of the desired LANR reactions. Index Terms lattice assisted nuclear reactions; LANR; LENR; palladium; deuterium; Phusor®-type LANR cathode; deuteron loading; metamaterial 1.1 Metamaterials and LANR Defy Expectations Metamaterials [1-24] and hydrogen-loaded Group VIII alloys that exhibit “lattice assisted nuclear reactions” (LANR) [25-42] have surprising, physical characteristics that defy earlier expectations, yet each produce solid, indelible experimental results. Their precisely engineered materials and structures have characteristic behavior far beyond what is normally expected, making previously-”impossible” effects such as negative refractive index [1,2] and electromagnetic cloaking [3] occur. Similarly, reports of excess energy and nuclear reactions from solid state LANR [25-42] were initially felt to be impossible, but growing experimental evidence suggests otherwise. Active LANR devices produce helium-4 [25,26,35,46], tritium [31,27,28,33] as nuclear ash, very small amounts of emissions [29,30], and hundreds of thousands of joules of 'excess heat' per day [37,41,39]. This paper reports that both effects are secondary to the stereoconstellation used. In LANR, we report a unique E-field distribution can be generated to provide intra-palladium deuteron flux, linked to successful LANR results. Figure 1. Electric field distributions for wire-wire and wire-Phusor®-type system
HIGH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS – GENERATION , ERROR CHARACTERIZATION AND ASSIMILATION

Data from the Japanese geostationary satellite MTSAT -1R (and at times MTSAT-2) have been received at the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) satellite groundstation at Crib Point, Victoria. Calibrated and navigated sequential radiance data have been subsequently used to calculate high density Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs). These AMVs have been generated almost continuously throughout the day using sequential images separated by 15minutes, 30 minutes or an hour. The winds have been calculated using infrared (11 μm), (high resolution) visible (0.5 μm) and water vapour absorption (6.7 μm) band images. The AMVs have been error characterized with error characteristics including the correlated error, the length scale of the correlated error, the Expected Error and Quality Indicator being estimated. These AMV data are important for operational NWP, research and particularly for severe weather forecasting, including tropical cyclone track forecasting. The data have been used in real time data assimilation experiments and their benefit to the operational LAPS (Limited Area Prediction System) regional Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) system at the BoM has been documented. The near continuous generation of winds has also been taken advantage of using 4D-VAR and their utility for regional forecasting has also been recorded. Their utility for tropical cyclone prediction has already been demonstrated in a number of studies. In recent studies using the Australian Community Climate Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS), which is the Bureau of Meteorology’s new operational NWP system, locally generated high spatial and temporal resolution (hourly) AMVs from MTSAT-1R have been used with 4D-VAR (four dimensional variational assimilation) and their beneficial impact , in the region and with tropical cyclone track prediction, has been recorded.
Dynam of the U Goodn

Using the quarterly data of the United Kingdom (UK) for the period from 1975Q1 to 2016Q1, the paper analyses the dynamic and the asymmetric responses of inequality to the real gross domestic product (GDP) (income) volatility. For this purpose, we consider the bivariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity-in-mean (GARCH-M) Structural Vector Autoregressive (VAR) based models to examine the related relationship. Applying this method to the different measures of both incomeand consumption inequality (i.e. the measures of the Gini, the standard deviation, and the 90-10 percentile differential), we find that income volatility has an increasing effect on inequality. Not only the real GDP volatility significantly increases inequality, but also its effect is asymmetric. In other words, inequality differently responds to the positive and the negative income growth volatility shocks. Moreover, the volatility in the GDP-inequality equation tends to amplify the positive dynamic response of inequality to a positive income shock, while diminishing the response of inequality to a negative income shock. The implications of these findings are also drawn.
Tax Avoidance - Are Banks Any Different?

While the public has noticed the need for the detection of potential tax loopholes and demand further improvement in the taxation of banks, there is scarce empirical evidence of whether banks' degree of tax avoidance actually differs from that of non-banks. We try to close this gap by investigating U.S. banks' tax avoidance behavior for a sample period from 2004 to 2016. To anchor banks' tax avoidance, we use annual Cash ETRs and GAAP ETRs and compare them to the tax avoidance behavior of non-banks. As there are various channels of tax avoidance, we account for differences in several areas such as corporate fundamentals, the degree of multinationality and regulatory scrutiny. We provide cautious evidence that banks have significantly larger Cash ETRs than non-banks. Via the use of quantile regression we find evidence that the assocation between banks and ETRs is not constant over the whole tax avoidance distribution, but shows a positive association for lower parts of the tax avoidance distribution and a negative association for higher parts. In line with recent research, we provide some evidence that the difference in Cash ETRs between banks and non-banks is more pronounced for worse-capitalized, than for better-capitalized banks.
The Strategic Development of Museums : A System Dynamics Approach

Based on a review of existing literature in management and economics of arts and culture and on an extensive case study – the metropolitan museum district in Turin – this paper’s objective is to show that museum growth is problematic in the long term through a system dynamics model. The classical loop – investments, growth, profitability, investment – encounters difficulties when dealing with public goods, characterized by high interconnections among museums and stakeholders within the same territory. The model simulation shows the structural characteristics of this sector that determines problems in term of survival; it can thus be understood as blending management and economic perspectives. Therefore, the search for sustainability should be addressed in controlling museum growth with a long time perspective and in supporting and developing new forms of cooperation among those organizations to decrease the “cost of growth. ”
Study of Spectrum of Small Bowel Perforations – Management and Evaluation of Outcomes

Gastrointestinal perforation has been a surgical problem since time immemorial. Perforation is said to occur once a pathology extends through the full thickness of hollow viscus leading to peritoneal contamination with intra luminal contents. In India, gastro duodenal perforation is the one of the commonest sites followed by enteric, appendicular, perforations. But the relative incidence of various types of perforations, the site, aetiological factors show a wide geographical variation. The aim of this study is to evaluate the current pattern of perforations, study various aetiological factors, management and overall mortality and morbidity with contributing factors. In my present study, total number of patients was 50, out of them 39 were male and 11 were female. Maximum patients were in between 41 to 50 years of age. Sex did not alter any surgical outcome in small bowel perforation. Old age patients have higher mortality rate. Most of the patients presented with diffuse pain abdomen, and fever, and clinical signs of peritonitis. Among the various operative procedures, we have employed, ileostomy had a significant higher rate of post-operative complications, However stoma can be considered as this a lifesaving procedure in a hemodynamically unstable patient. Choice of operation remains controversial. The exact procedure should be individualised and employed as per patients pre-operative condition, intra operative findings and patients overall hemodynamic condition.