Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Determinantes psicológicos, clínicos y sociales del diagnóstico temprano del cáncer de mama en Bogotá, Colombia

Introduccion: diferentes determinantes del diagnostico tardio del cancer de mama han sido descritos (psicologicos, socio-demograficos, clinicos, de los servicios de salud). El diagnostico temprano del cancer de mama se relaciona con la supervivencia y la calidad de vida. El objetivo de este trabajo fue conocer los determinantes de la oportunidad del diagnostico de cancer de mama en Bogota.Metodologia: Se diseno un estudio de casos y controles pareado por estrato social. Se incluyeron 102 mujeres. Se definio como evento el cancer de mama en estadio avanzado. Se analizaron la funcionalidad familiar, las redes de soporte social, las caracteristicas de la personalidad y la afiliacion al sistema. Se utilizaron cuestionarios cerrados, la prueba de Wartegg y entrevistas sobre aspectos clinicos y de personalidad.Resultados: El tiempo de aparicion de sintomas y entre la primera consulta y la toma de la biopsia fue mayor en casos que en controles. Las unicas variables asociados al diagnostico en estadio tardio son la filiacion al sistema y la dificultad para establecer relaciones sociales y afectivas. El riesgo de diagnostico en estadio avanzado es 7,8 veces mayor en mujeres sin aseguramiento. La mayoria de mujeres no perciben los sintomas con adecuado nivel de riesgo (masa no dolorosa). Conclusiones: No estar asegurada es un factor de riesgo para tener un diagnostico tardio de cancer de mama. Es necesario mejorar la oportunidad de la consulta y la biopsia. Se debe mejorar el tipo de informacion y educacion respecto a la sintomatologia mamaria. Introduction: Various determinants of breast cancer early detection have been described (psychological, socio-demographic, clinical, health systems). Early detection of breast cancer is crucial to improve survival rates and quality of life. This paper analyzes determinants of breast cancer early detection in women form Bogota, Colombia. Methodology: A case-control study matched by socio economical strata was conducted. 102 women were included. Cases were breast cancer stages III and IV, and controls breast cancer stages I and II. Family function (APGAR), personality (Wartegg test), social support, and helath system variables were analyzed. Results: The time between symptoms onset, the first visit, and the biopsy were longer among cases. The only variables associated to early diagnosis were the type of affiliation to the health system and the difficulty to establish social and emotional relations. Women ithout health insurance have 7.8 greater chance to have a diagnosis in stages III and IV. Most of the women do not realize the presence of symptoms or do not link them with breast cancer (painless tumor). Conclusions: The lack of insurance is the major cause of late diagnosis of breast cancer. It is necessary to improve timeliness between the first medical attention and the biopsy. It is necessary to design better information and education strategies for women in relation to mammary symptoms.
Derived Demand for Cattle Feeding Inputs

Derived demand relationships among four weight categories of feeder cattle entering Texas feedlots and their feed consumed are examined using a generalized McFadden dual cost function. Results demonstrate systematic differences in demand relationships among different weight categories. Positive cross-price elasticities among the three heaviest weight categories are consistent with input substitution among weight categories and consistent with objective functions associated with optimal placement weight. Anomalies in the form of negative cross-price elasticities between weight categories provide evidence for an alternative objective function associated with longer term feeding of light-weight feeder cattle. Results also demonstrate seasonality differences across weight categories.
Challenging Indifference to Extreme Poverty: Considering Southern Perspectives on Global Citizenship and Change

Canadian universities are expanding opportunities for students to travel, study, volunteer and work abroad for academic credit, especially in regions of the global south often called “developing countries. ” It is widely assumed that exposure to extreme poverty through short-term placements overseas will make young Canadians and other Northerners into “global citizens” who would by definition be incapable of indifference to the lack of freedom that accompanies extreme poverty. This paper asks whether it is warranted for Northerners to attain a claim to global citizenship via this mechanism, especially in light of the burdens falling upon Southern organizations that host young people from Canada and elsewhere.
A Hybrid Approach to Textual Entailment Recognition

The task of textual entailment recognition is to determine whether a text entails a hypothesis. This paper proposes a hybrid technique to identify the entailment relation between texts and hypothesis. This technique includes an approach based on lexical similarities and an approach based on the classifier of support vector machine. The approach based on lexical similarities is to use the similarities between a set of words within a text and a set of words within a hypothesis. The approach based on the classifier means to treat this task as a classification problem. We propose two kinds of classification features which include features based on semantic roles, and ones based on dependency relations and WordNet. We use our hybrid technique to integrate the two sets of experimental results by the lexical similarities-based approach and the SVM classifier-based approach. The experimental results demonstrate that our technique is effective to solve the problem of textual entailment recognition.
The TANAMI Multiwavelength Program: Dynamic spectral energy distributions of southern blazars⋆

We thank the referee for helpful comments. We thank S. Cutini for her useful comments. We thank S. Markoff for helpful discussions. We thank J. Perkins, L. Baldini, and S. Digel for carefully reading the manuscript. We thank M. Buxton for her help with the SMARTS data. We acknowledge support and partial funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant WI 1860-10/1 (TANAMI) and GRK 1147, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt grants 50 OR 1311 and 50 OR 1103, and the Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP). This research was funded in part by NASA through Fermi Guest Investigator grants NNH09ZDA001N, NH10ZDA001N, NNH12ZDA001N, and NNH13ZDA001N-FERMI. This research was supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities through a contract with NASA. E.R. was partially supported by the Spanish MINECO project AYA2012-38491-C02-01 and by the Generalitat Valenciana project PROMETEO II/2014/057. We thank J. E. Davis for the development of the slxfig module that was used to prepare the figures in this work. We thank T. Johnson for the Fermi/LAT SED scripts, which were used to calculate the Fermi/LAT spectra. This research has made use of a collection of ISIS scripts provided by the Dr. Karl Remeis-Observatory, Bamberg, Germany at http://www.sternwarte. uni-erlangen.de/isis/. The Long Baseline Array and Australia Telescope Compact Array are part of the Australia Telescope National Facility, which is funded by the Commonwealth of Australia for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO. This paper has made use of up-to-date SMARTS optical/near-infrared light curves that are available at www.astro. yale.edu/smarts/glast/home.php. The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K.A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales in France
Atmospheric nanoparticle observations in the low free troposphere during upward orographic flows at Izaña Mountain Observatory

Abstract. This study investigates the processes and conditions favouring the formation of nanoparticles (diameter 0.7 cases) was higher in autumn and winter (~15 cm−3 ppt−1 as average) than in summer (2–8 cm−3 ppt−1). These field observations suggest that elevated mounts that reaches the free troposphere may act as source regions for new particles.
All in the family: wealth, inequality and charitable bequests in Victoria

Stratification of society and the creation and perpetuation of inequality has long provided a focus for sociological investigation. There is consequently a substantial body of research in areas of social, cultural and human capital and how each contributes to and sustains inequality. There is however a relative dearth of research into the extent to which inequality is perpetuated by way of the transfer of wealth through the family and inheritance. This paper provides benchmark data on understanding the influence of family on estate distributions and the extent to which the intergenerational transfer of wealth gives rise to wealth holders acting to redistribute portions of their estates to charitable causes. The paper examines data from 2006 Victorian probate files with recorded asset values in excess of $1.4 million, to assess transmission decisions by wealthy individuals. The results indicate that the estates of wealthy Victorians are distributed overwhelmingly to direct family members.
The 2 nd International Conference on Strategic Innovative Marketing Investigating Social Networks in M-Commerce

The rapidly evolving and expanding technology of smartphones and social networks has been widely adopted and used. In this dynamic and highly interactive mobile environment, where vendors can reach customers anytime anywhere, social networks emerge as a powerful tool for mobile commerce. This paper aims to investigate Social Networks Systems (SNS) in the mobile setting and their use in mobile commerce. Our objective is to facilitate the understanding of customers’ perceptions of m-commerce and the use of SNSs and explore the potential of SNSs for m-commerce purposes. The paper presents an exploratory qualitative study about the use of smartphones and SNS, in the context of mobile commerce. Our qualitative results show that trust and ease of use are important factors for m-commerce and SNSs adoption and use. Business opportunities enabled by SNSs for m-commerce and how these can be leveraged in this promising mobile context are also discussed. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of The 2nd International Conference on Strategic Innovative Marketing.
Review and evaluation of lantana biocontrol programs.

Abstract This paper provides a review of lantana (Lantana camara L.) biological control programs worldwide. Tables on the origins of the agents introduced for the biocontrol of lantana, are presented, including references to the biology and/or host-tests for each species. Establishment and control rates of the introduced agents and cases leading to partial control of lantana are discussed. From the review, feeding groups and species contributing to control were identified. Leaf-, flower-, and fruit-feeding species were the most successful feeding groups, and the leaf-mining chrysomelid, Uroplata girardi Pic, was the most successful control agent. The main factor preventing establishment was the number of individuals released, while cultivar preferences, parasitism and predation, and climate reduced control. The implication of these results for lantana biocontrol programs is discussed, and future research requirements are identified.
Teachers’ accuracy in identifying ADHD status and their intended classroom management strategies for students with and without ADHD: a vignette study in South-Korea and Germany

results Within a culture, 68.20% of Korean and 48.90% of German teachers were able to correctly identify attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) status. Teachers in both countries intend to use emotional support the most, followed by proactive strategies. Across cultures, a significant difference was found between Korean and German teachers with regard to their accuracy in identifying students’ ADHD status. Korean teachers showed higher accuracy than German teachers. Significant differences between the two countries were also observed regarding teachers’ intentions of using corrective and proactive strategies. Korean teachers use more corrective strategies, and German teachers use more proactive strategies. Regarding emotional support, no significant differences were found between Korean and German teachers.
The rise in the sales of counterfeit brands: The case of Turkish consumers

Counterfeiting activity is a worldwide phenomenon rapidly increasing in every country. Accounting for about 7% of global trade, counterfeit brands resemble the genuine goods but are typically of lower quality in terms of performance, reliability or durability. The size of the counterfeit brands market in Turkey is reported to be around 3 billion dollars. The prevalence of counterfeit manufacturing, the wide availability and the increase in the sales of counterfeits in the Turkish market make it imperative to address the nature of the demand. This research investigates the rapid increase in the sales of counterfeit brands in Turkey and attempts to identify the major factors that motivate consumers to purchase these brands. A field study has been conducted at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, the oldest and largest covered bazaar in the world. A judgment sample of 385 young adult, urban Turkish consumers, between the ages of 18 - 35, were approached face-to-face and surveys were completed. The results are reported according to the objectives of the research. The multi-regression analysis points to prestige, brand popularity, wide availability and low price as the four main motivator factors for consumers purchasing counterfeits. In addition, respondents are examined in terms of how they view both their own and other consumers, use of counterfeit brands. Key words: Counterfeit brands, purchasing decision, consumer motivation, brand prestige.
Prevalence of Hereditary Von Willebrand Disease among Saudi Students

Background: Von Willebrand disease (vWD) is the most common inherited bleeding disorder, with a prevalence ranging between 0.7-1.6%, globally. Materials and methods: Our study was conducted between January 2014 and February 2016 on adolescents in Riyadh, trained interviewers surveyed had contacted 2,000 university students between 17 to 22 years, using the standardized questionnaire based on Molecular and Clinical Markers for the Diagnosis and Management of Type 1 von Willebrand disease (MCMDM1-VWD). All blood samples were tested for complete blood count (CBC), prothrombin time (PT), Partial thromboplastin time (PTT), and platelet function analyzer (PFA-100). Samples had abnormal result of PTT and/or PFA100 were tested for Factor VIII (FVIII) Activity, von Willebrand factor (vWF): antigen, vWF: activity. Results: Out of these students 730 (36.5%), had reported bleeding symptoms, 326(44.6%) had agreed to give blood samples, 116 (35.5%) samples had prolonged PTT ( >41 sec), 39 (11.9%) had prolonged PFA -100 epinephrine (EPI), 48 (14.7%) had prolonged PFA-100, adenosine diphosphate (ADP), and 72 (22.0%) had abnormal results in both PTT and PFA-100. Out of 275 samples tested for vWF (Ag and activity) and FVIII ,13 (3.9%) had low levels or impaired function of vWF and 5 (1.6%) had low FVIII levels. After correlation with ABO blood group, only 5 (1.6%) cases were confirmed for vWD. the prevalence of vWD among Saudi Adolescents in the selected student population. was 1.5%. Conclusion: This is initial results of the epidemiological survey of bleeding disorders in Arab ethnicity. We are continuing to survey more areas in the country and increase the sample size of this survey.
Experience and beliefs of technology users at an Australian university: Keys to maximising e-learning potential

This article reports on a survey of more than 2,300 students and 250 staff members conducted at the University of Tasmania as part of a wider review of e-learning practice, demand and capacity which aims to improve planning, decision-making and the quality of the online experience of students and staff. Data was collected on access to technology, technology usage patterns, and experiences with technology at university. Respondents were also asked for comments on their experiences. Results from the quantitative component are in line with findings from similar recent surveys:high penetration of laptops, wide access to broadband Internet at home, and usage patterns concentrated strongly around common web activities. Differences in usage profiles of some applications can be explained by the difference in lifestyles of students and staff. The two cohorts also exhibit different attitudes towards technologyas a result of their different relationship with it in the context of their use of it atuniversity. Many indicated pathways and solutions to imbalances in demand and supply are straightforward and pragmatic. Support of teaching staff is considered crucially important to advancing broader and more effective use of technology at the university.
Massive toxoplasma abortions in a dairy sheep flock and therapeutic approach with different doses of sulfadimidine

In a 500 head dairy sheep flock in Northern Greece, massive abortions (60%) were observed at 110-130 days of gestation. Attempts were made to treat the abortions with oxytetracyclin L.A. 20% but they were not successful. Toxoplasmosis was confirmed by laboratory examination of blood sera of ewes, aborted fetuses, and fetal brain samples. The remaining 200 pregnant sheep were divided in 2 groups of 100 ewes each. Animals of Group 1 were treated with 20 mg/kg b.w. sulfadimidine every other day 4 times, while the animals in Group 2 received 33 mg/kg b.w. sulfadimidine every other day 4 times via i.m. route. Considerable reductions in abortions were observed. The treatments were more effective in Group 2. Lactation started in both groups after treatment and satisfactory milk was produced.
The impact of medium chemistry to flowing liquid closed immersion ablation of bisphenol A polycarbonate.

Equipment has been developed to enable KrF excimer laser ablation machining of a bisphenol A polycarbonate sample under closed thick film flowing liquid immersion. The liquid medium is easily changeable, offering the possibility of chemical modification of the material etching mechanism. Previous work using a medium of filtered tap water has proven the ability of this equipment to control debris; however, this medium had the simultaneous consequence of modifying the primary ablation characteristics from those achieved in ambient air. De-ionized (DI) water is a chemically similar medium that displays contrasting electrostatic properties and was used in this work with the intention of modifying the adhesion mechanisms active. Use of DI water resulted in close agreement of ablation characteristics observed using filtered tap water. Etch rate and threshold displayed a marginal loss in machining efficiency by magnitudes of 11.7% and 4.3% respectively when using DI water for immersion of laser ablation compared to filtered water. This loss is proposed to be caused by increased colloidal grouping of small debris particles to form medium sized items that more completely attenuate the laser beam. As with filtered water, the etch efficiency was also found to be flow velocity dependent due to changing fluid flow-plume interaction states. The mode of debris control afforded by the use of DI water as a laser ablation immersion medium was similar to that of filtered water. But, the volume of debris deposited was significantly greater and was deposited in closer proximity to the feature. Electrostatic insulation by DI water allows greater attraction of particles to the surface due to the suppression of Yukawa forces. Moreover, the action of colloidal aggregation of particles caused DI water to deposit a proportionally large volume of medium sized debris when compared to the proportional population of medium sized debris deposited by filtered water. This work demonstrates that choice of medium offers the immersed laser ablation user control of ablation characteristics without modification of laser parameters.
‘Dead people don’t claim’: A psychopolitical autopsy of UK austerity suicides

One of the symptoms of post financial crisis austerity in the UK has been an increase in the numbers of suicides, especially by people who have experienced welfare reform. This article develops and utilises an analytic framework of psychopolitical autopsy to explore media coverage of ‘austerity suicide’ and to take seriously the psychic life of austerity (internalisation, shame, anxiety), embedding it in a context of social dis-ease. Drawing on three distinct yet interrelated areas of literature (the politics of affect and psychosocial dynamics of welfare, post and anti-colonial psychopolitics, and critical suicidology), the article aims to better understand how austerity ‘kills’. Key findings include understanding austerity suicides as embedded within an affective economy of the anxiety caused by punitive welfare retrenchment, the stigmatisation of being a recipient of benefits, and the internalisation of market logic that assigns value through ‘productivity’ and conceptualises welfare entitlement as economic ‘burden’. The significance of this approach lies in its ability to widen analytic framing of suicide from an individual and psychocentric focus, to illuminate culpability of government reforms while still retaining the complexity of suicide, and thus to provide relevant policy insights about welfare reform.