Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Life Satisfaction and Health-Related Factors among Older Adults Living in Geriatric Home : A Correlational Study

Background:Population aging is happening in most of the world's metropolitan cities, and the proportion of elderly adults is predicted to increase significantly in the coming decades. This rapid growth of elderly populations became a challenge in front of the health care system to deliver a high quality of health care services. The aim of this study was to describe the levels of satisfaction, and explore the health-related factors that influencing life satisfaction amongst older adults living in geriatric home.Methods: Quantitative research was employed in this study, where a descriptive design used to describe the levels of life satisfactionof older adults and while correlational design used to investigate the association between life satisfaction and healthrelated factors among older adults living in geriatric homes in Cairo,Egypt. Using a tested instruments, onehundard fifty clients were chosen randomly from three different geriatric home settings as a type of residential care that provide twenty-four hours primary health care from 1st July,2017 to the end of October,2017. Tools: Six tools were used to collect pertinent data: I. Socio-demographic characteristics, II. Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS),III.Self-Rated Health (SRH), IV. Rosenberg Self-EsteemScale (SES), V. Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (ADL), VI.Lawton of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Scale.Results:Two-third of the participants were male (65.3%). A strong positive association between low lifesatisfaction level andpoor self-rated and presence of the chronic illness (p = .001 & r = .270 ; p = .004 & r = .235); also poor self -esteem and functional status were modestly associated with lower life satisfaction(p = .005 & r = .230 ; p = .013 & r = .201) respectively. The results found a statistical association between the duration of stay in the geriatric home and lower life satisfaction (p = .003 & r = .975). In addition, there is an association between life-satisfaction levels and family support and the older who are keeping in touch with their family members as well as the presence of social support (p= .059 & r =.402; p = .044 & r = 0.589; p= .042 & r= .116) respectively. The life satisfaction lost the significance associatedwith age, gender, level of education and type of referral.Conclusion and Recommendations:Poor self-rated health and chronic illness have a greater impact on life satisfaction ,whereas low self-esteem and dependent older adults were strongly related to lower life satisfaction. Also, this result indicates that low family support , low social support and the duration of stay in the geriatric homewere hardly related to low life satisfaction at old age . These factors need to be deliberated in the care of these people to improve or maintain their life satisfaction.
Long Term Patient Centered Outcomes Following Treatment with Oral Appliance Therapy
 for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Study Objectives: This study assessed the long-term general and condition-specific quality of life (QOL) and perceived occlusal and functional changes of individuals with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) who had oral appliance therapy (OAT) delivery 2 years ago or longer. Methods: Three validated (Calgary Sleep Apnea Quality of Life Index for OSA symptoms, Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form for general QOL, Problems with Occlusion and Function for functional and occlusal changes) and one custom questionnaire were mailed to 139 identified patients from the UNC Adams School of Dentistry Dental Sleep Clinic who met the inclusion criteria of a polysomnography diagnosis of OSA, age 18-60 years at time of OAT delivery and previous delivery of OAT 2 years ago or longer for management of OSA. Results: Twenty-six percent of the 139 eligible patients (n=36) returned questionnaires. Of these, 31 patients, 58% male, returned completed questionnaires. Fifty-eight percent continued to use OAT for an average of 4.9 years (standard deviation=1.78). There were no statistically significant average differences between individuals who did or did not wear oral appliances in regard to Problems With Occlusion and Function or Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form subscores (p >0.15). For the Calgary Sleep Apnea Quality of Life Index, those who wore an oral appliance reported a better perception of general health than those who discontinued OAT (p=0.02) Those who did not wear an oral appliance reported significantly greater problems with side effects from current treatment for OSA than did those who continued to use OAT (p= 0.01). Conclusions: Those who continued to use OAT reported QOL benefits associated with this type of therapy for managing OSA. Longterm OAT adherence is a function of patients’ perceptions of both the conferred benefits of treatment and the unfavorable treatmentinduced side effects.
EFL Teachers’ Practices and the Learners Perception Towards the Use of Amharic in English Classes at Secondary Schools of Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia

The use of learners’ first language in EFL classrooms has long received attention in the literature. Despite, the focus has often been on its implementations as well as advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately, less research has been conducted regarding students’ perceptions on its use. Hence, the purpose of the study was exploring EFL teachers’ practices and learners’ perceptions about use of Amharic in English language classrooms at four selected secondary schools at Wolaita zone, Ethiopia. To achieve the intended objectives, the researcher employed descriptive research design with mixed methods of data collections. Totally, 178 students and three English language teachers were direct participants of the study as sources of data. The results obtained through questionnaire, interview and classroom observation were analyzed by using mixed methods of data analysis. It was found out that Most of the EFL teachers used Amharic for different purposes while teaching English. Based on findings of the study, it was concluded that Amharic is commonly used by EFL teachers in classes because most of their students felt more comfortable while using Amharic in actual classroom teaching-learning process.
Comparison of stress in implant-supported monolithic zirconia fixed partial dentures between canine guidance and group function occlusal patterns: A finite element analysis

Background. Monolithic zirconia is an emerging material for crowns and bridges. The possibility of full digital design has made it an attractive alternative material for implant-supported prostheses. A proper design is vital in the success of such a prosthesis like any other. This study, in the shortage of scientific evidence, has tried to assess the stress distribution of occlusal forces inside the implant-prosthesis system of a 3-unit bridge made of monolithic zirconia. Methods. A 3-unit monolithic zirconia bridge supported by two implant fixtures placed on the teeth #13 and #15 was digitalized. It was converted to a mesh of 59000 nodes and 34000 elements. Five types of occlusal forces (one as vertical centric, two at 15º and 30º simulating canine pattern of lateral movement, and two at 15º and 30º simulating group function pattern) were applied. The stress distribution among all the components of the implant-bridge system was assessed using Ansys Workbench 14 software and finite element analysis. Results. The maximum stress was between 286 and 546 MPa, which were found in either the fixture‒abutment screw area or in the upper part of the pontic connector between the canine and first premolar. The maximum pressure increased with an increase in the angle of occlusal force. Significantly higher stress was recorded in the group function occlusal pattern. Conclusion. Monolithic zirconia can be promising in designing bridges in the canine‒premolar area. However, proper design is necessary with more attention to the connectors and types of occlusal forces.
IN VITRO MULTIPLICATION OF CLINACANTHUS NUTANS ( BURM . F ) LINDAU .-A MEDICINAL PLANT

The objective of this study was to develop a rapid system for generation of the important thai medicinal plant, Clinacanthus nutans from nodal explant. Single nodal explants were inoculated on basal MS medium containing 3% (W/V) sucrose, supplemented with different concentration and combinations of 6benzyl aminopurine (BAP), Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and indole -3 butyreric acid (IBA) for direct plant regeneration. Maximum number of shoots was observed on the medium containing 0.5 mg/L BAP after four weeks of culture. Regenerated shoots were separated and rooted on same half strength MS medium of supplemented with 1.5 mg/L alone for three weeks. Rooted plantlets were planted in sterile soil mix and gradually acclimatized to the green house environmental conditions. Hardened plantlets were maintained in the green house for the field transplantation.
MANAGEMENT OF FRAGILITY FRACTURE IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE

*Correspondence to: Ionela Pașcanu MD, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Dept. of Endocrinology, 38 Gh. Marinescu, Târgu Mureș, 540139, Romania, E-mail: iopascanu@gmail.com Abstract Fragility fractures are more common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), a growing public health issue, than in general population. The key issue in management of fragility fracture in CKD patients is determining whether fractures have occurred as a result of qualitative abnormalities (consequences of renal osteodystrophy or CKD-mineral and bone disorder), a reduced bone mineral density (osteoporosis) or a combination of both. In CKD patients bone histomorphometry is the gold standard for evaluating bone quality and strength, but the routine use of this method is not practical. Fracture risk can be assessed in this population by DEXA (Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry), but biochemical markers, like intact PTH and bone-specific alkaline phosphatase may be helpful. The new and emerging high resolution imaging tools need more studies for a correct evaluation of their utility in predicting fracture risk. Pharmacological therapies for fragility fracture based on current understanding of the metabolic disturbances in CKD will be reviewed. Antiresorptive and anabolic agents used in the treatment of osteoporosis are discussed with special focus on CKD population.
Reevaluation of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions to the Standard Model predictions of the muon g − 2 and α ( m 2 Z ) using newest hadronic cross-section data

We reevaluate the hadronic vacuum polarisation contributions to the muon magnetic anomaly and to the running of the electromagnetic coupling constant at the Z-boson mass. We include newest e+e− → hadrons cross-section data (among others) from the BABAR and VEPP-2000 experiments. For the muon (g− 2)/2 we find for the lowest-order hadronic contribution (693.1± 3.4) · 10−10, improving the precision of our previous evaluation by 21%. The full Standard Model prediction differs by 3. 5σ from the experimental value. The five-quark hadronic contribution to α(mZ) is evaluated to be (276.0± 0.9) · 10−4.
Modeling Hierarchical Syntactic Structures in Morphological Processing

Sentences are represented as hierarchical syntactic structures, which have been successfully modeled in sentence processing. In contrast, despite the theoretical agreement on hierarchical syntactic structures within words, words have been argued to be computationally less complex than sentences and implemented by finite-state models as linear strings of morphemes, and even the psychological reality of morphemes has been denied. In this paper, extending the computational models employed in sentence processing to morphological processing, we performed a computational simulation experiment where, given incremental surprisal as a linking hypothesis, five computational models with different representational assumptions were evaluated against human reaction times in visual lexical decision experiments available from the English Lexicon Project (ELP), a “shared task” in the morphological processing literature. The simulation experiment demonstrated that (i) “amorphous” models without morpheme units underperformed relative to “morphous” models, (ii) a computational model with hierarchical syntactic structures, Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar (PCFG), most accurately explained human reaction times, and (iii) this performance was achieved on top of surface frequency effects. These results strongly suggest that morphological processing tracks morphemes incrementally from left to right and parses them into hierarchical syntactic structures, contrary to “amorphous” and finite-state models of morphological processing.
Seasonal Variations of CO 2 , CH 4 , N 2 O and CO in the Mid-Troposphere over the Western North Pacific Observed Using a C-130 H Cargo Aircraft

Seasonal variations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), and nitrous oxide (N2O), in the mid-troposphere over the western North Pacific, are investigated using air samples collected onboard a C-130H aircraft. These samples were obtained between Atsugi Base (35.45°N, 139.45°E) and Minamitorishima (MNM; 24.28°N, 153.98°E), once a month, from September 2010 to September 2012. Increasing trends of CO2 and N2O and large variability of CH 4 and CO (at approximately 6 km) have been found. During summer, concentrations of CH4 and CO were found to increase with height over MNM. High concentrations of CH4 were persistently observed in the mid-troposphere throughout the observation period. The average enhancement ratios of CH4 to CO above background levels (∆CH4/∆CO) were 0.47 and 1.2 ppb/ppb for winter–spring and summer– fall, respectively. The results suggested that the high CH4 concentrations originated primarily from fossil fuel combustions in winter–spring, while there could be an additional contribution from increased biogenic sources during summer–fall. Because a surface station in MNM rarely observed the summer–fall high CH4 concentration values in the mid-troposphere, the aircraft measurements could provide a powerful constraint on the CH4 emission estimates for Asia, in addition to that provided by the surface measurements. This aircraft measurement program is regularly conducted for the long-term monitoring of the greenhouse gases in the mid-troposphere, and it has a significant role for filling the data gap of the existing measurement network.
Agglomeration and Endogenous Absorptive Capacities : Hotelling Revisited by Caroline Hussler

This paper proposes a theoretical model of spatial duopoly, where the location, on the one hand, and the absorptive capacity of firms as function of their internal R&D investment, on the other hand, endogenously determine the maximum level of knowledge spillovers firms might absorb. Our goal is to test whether this new modelling of spillovers affects the traditional outcomes in terms of firms location choices . We solve a three-stage game, where firms choose their geographical location, prior to their level of internal R&D expenditures, and finally compete in prices. We found that, at the optimum, firms choose the same level of internal R&D and set the same price, independently of their location. Moreover, firms locate symmetrically and tends to agglomerate in the center of the market as the transportation costs increase, knowledge spillovers being in that case maximum.
Exports and Firm Productivity in Ethiopian Manufacturing Firms

This study examines productivity and exporting dynamics by using unbalanced long panel dataset in the period 2000-11 for Ethiopian export-oriented three two-digit medium and large manufacturing firms. Our results indicate the presence of evidences of both self-selection and learning-by-exporting. The results are robust with different productivity measures and across various specifications. By going beyond the previous literature, this study reveals that export participation has a statistically insignificant impact on technical efficiency and scale change components of total factor productivity (TFP) change. Last but not least, it is imperative that, designing policies orienting exporting firms towards reducing poor production practice by better using the available technological know-how and improvement in the production environment is necessary to be more beneficiary from export participation.
Clear Sky Radiance (CSR) product derived from Himawari-8 data

The Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC) has developed a Clear Sky Radiance (CSR) product using data from Himawari-8’s Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI). The product, which has been supplied to operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) centers since 7 July 2015, provides data on area-averaged brightness temperatures for clear pixels. Cloudy pixels can be regarded as clear when the contribution of cloud top emission to the total radiance is negligible (e.g., in cases of low cloud for water vapor bands). In CSR calculation, such cloudy pixels are regarded as clear in addition to regular clear pixels. Accordingly, clear pixel ratios differ for each AHI band because atmospheric transmittance depends on the band. CSR is determined for each 16 x 16 infrared pixel segment, which corresponds to a resolution of 32 x 32 km 2 at the sub-satellite point. The product will be assimilated into NWP models.
AlpacaTag: An Active Learning-based Crowd Annotation Framework for Sequence Tagging

We introduce an open-source web-based data annotation framework (AlpacaTag) for sequence tagging tasks such as named-entity recognition (NER). The distinctive advantages of AlpacaTag are three-fold. 1) Active intelligent recommendation: dynamically suggesting annotations and sampling the most informative unlabeled instances with a back-end active learned model; 2) Automatic crowd consolidation: enhancing real-time inter-annotator agreement by merging inconsistent labels from multiple annotators; 3) Real-time model deployment: users can deploy their models in downstream systems while new annotations are being made. AlpacaTag is a comprehensive solution for sequence labeling tasks, ranging from rapid tagging with recommendations powered by active learning and auto-consolidation of crowd annotations to real-time model deployment.
Nutritional and therapeutic compounds of the edible dried mushroom Psathyrella tuberculata and prevention of the arterial hypertension

This study was conducted to determine the nutritional and therapeutic compounds of the dried mushroom Psathyrella tuberculata of N'douci region, in order to preventing the arterial hypertension. To achieve this goal, a physicochemical characterization was performed. The main nutritional outcomes namely the concentrations in protein, fat, total carbohydrate, that are respectively of 42.67 ± 0.29%, 3.99 ± 0.29% and 23.69 ± 1.80%, show that this species of fungus is a good food to preserve the health of the heart and of the blood vessels. This study has permitted to identify and quantify certain therapeutic compounds such as the antioxidants factors: polyphenols, tannins, flavonoids and vitamin C, whose respective concentrations are 117.18± 0,15 mg/100g of dry matter, 77.11±7,27 mg/100g of dry matter , 6.85±0,25 mg /100g of dry matter and 5.62±0,88 mg/100g of dry matter. The antioxidant activity rate is of 47.86 ± 0.16%. The essential minerals such as potassium, magnesium, calcium, and sodium, have respective concentrations of 785.04 ± 17.64 mg/100g dry matter, 179, 54 ± 11, 01 mg/100g of dry matter, 104,41 ± 1.67 mg/100g of dry matter and 5.78 ± 1.37 mg/100 g of dry matter. These results allow us to say that the regular consumption of the species Psathyrella tuberculata could prevent the arterial hypertension. The determination of the ratio potassium/sodium (141.80 ± 38.58) and magnesium / calcium (1.72 ± 0.11) shows that the species Psathyrella tuberculata could be a protective food of cardiovascular diseases.
N o 2013-04 Conditional Betas and Investor Uncertainty

We derive theoretical expressions for market betas from a rational expectation equilibrium model where the representative investor does not observe if the economy is in a recession or an expansion. Market betas in this economy are time-varying and related to investor uncertainty about the state of the economy. The dynamics of betas will also vary across assets according to the assets' cashow structure. In a calibration exercise, we show that value and growth rms have cashow structures that imply an opposing beta dynamics that goes in the direction of solving the value premium puzzle. During high uncertainty periods, value betas are higher while growth betas are lower. We estimate conditional betas empirically using proxies for investor uncertainty and show support of the model's prediction about the dynamics of growth and value betas.
Our Beer ” : Ethnographic Brands in Postsocialist

Although Georgia is known for its wines, industrial production of beer far outstrips industrial wine production for local markets: wine consumption occurs in ritual contexts in which new wine, typically purchased from peasant producers, is preferred; bottled, aged wines are primarily for exports. Beer, therefore, is a key area in which industrial production for indigenous consumers has been elaborated. Such goods are packaged and presented as being both ecologically “pure” and following “traditional” methods, often referencing “ethnographic” materials about traditional life in brand images, even as they proclaim their reliance on Western technologies. [
Supplementary Materials : “ Confidence Intervals for Sparse Penalized Regression with Random Designs ” A Basics in variational inequalities and the normal manifold

The inner product of any element in TS(x) and any element in the normal cone NS(x) is nonpositive. Consider a problem of minimizing a objective function F : R → R over a closed and convex feasible set S. The well-known first-order necessary condition is that, if x∗ ∈ S is a local solution to this minimization problem and F is differentiable at x∗, then the following variational inequality holds for x∗: 0 ∈ ∇F (x∗) +NS(x).
Chemical characteristics, aerobic stability, and microbiological counts in corn silage re-ensiled with bacterial inoculant

Abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of re-ensiling and bacterial inoculation on the quality of corn silage. The experiment was carried out in a 2x2 factorial design with or without inoculant (association of Lactobacillus plantarum and Propionibacterium acidipropionici), and with re-ensiling after 36 hours of aerobic exposure or only ensiling of the whole plant of 'BRS 1055' corn. The fermentative quality, nutritional parameters, dry matter losses, aerobic stability, and microbiological counts of silages were evaluated. Re-ensiling caused an increase of pH and in acetic acid and propionic acid concentrations, as well as in the dry matter (DM), crude protein, neutral detergent fiber, and neutral detergent fiber crude protein contents. Conversely, there was a reduction in the nonfiber carbohydrates concentration and in in vitro dry matter digestibility for the re-ensiled material. All changes were explained by the higher-effluent production and DM loss of re-ensiled material that was subjected to two compactions. Microbiology was not altered by the treatments. The use of inoculant altered ash content, but it did not influence other parameters. In contrast, re-ensiling after 36 hours of aerobic exposure caused a reduction in the nutritive value of corn silage and accentuated the DM losses.