Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Brazilian Popular Restaurant Program as an integrated action for food security and health promotion: a user´s profile-oriented approach

The Brazilian Popular Restaurant Program is a food security and nutrition action. O Program targets those who are considered the most vulnerable people, especially regarding socioeconomics and health conditions. The research aimed at assessing the Brazilian Popular Restaurant Program as an integrated action for food security and health based on a user´s profile-oriented approach. A cross-section survey was conducted in 2007 in Palmas-TO, Northern Brazil. Socioeconomic variables, food consumption and health conditions of the popular restaurants’ users were evaluated by questionnaire. Anthropometric measurements (height and weight) were also collected by trained researchers. A total of 600 users of the two units of the Popular Restaurant Programme in Palmas TO, Brazil, participated voluntarily to the study. Socioeconomic data describes that not all users fulfill the financial requirements to benefit from the program. A food pattern of users comprises a low fruit and vegetables consumption. Health and nutritional data indicates a relevant number of the users with monotonous diet and low physical activity level. The results point out that the Program needs to be improved specifically regarding development of health promotion towards the prevention of non-communicable diseases.
Propulsion Theory of Flapping Airfoils: Comparison with Computational Fluid Dynamics

It is shown that the time-dependent aerodynamic forces acting on a flapping airfoil in forward flight are functions of both axial and normal reduced frequencies. The axial reduced frequency is based on the chord length, and the normal reduced frequency is based on the plunging amplitude. Furthermore, the time-dependent aerodynamic forces are related to two Fourier coefficients, which are evaluated here from computational results. Correlation equations for these Fourier coefficients are obtained from a large number of grid- and time-step-resolved inviscid computational-fluid-dynamics solutions, conducted over a range of both axial and normal reduced frequencies. The correlation results can be used to predict the thrust, required power, and propulsive efficiency for airfoils in forward flight with sinusoidal pitching and plunging motion. Within the range of parameters typically encountered in the efficient forward flight of birds, results obtained from the correlation equations match the computational-fluid.
Preoperative iron therapy as treatment of anaemia in patients with colorectal carcinoma; a systematic review

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Antihypertensive medication withdrawal Amphetamines Lead intoxication Interactions with monoamine oxidase inhibitors Autonomic hyperreactivity Guillain-Barré syndrome Acute intermittent porphyria Pregnancy related Preeclampsia Eclampsia Central nervous system disorders Head injury Cerebral infarctio

An elevated blood pressure (BP) reading in the emergency department should be confirmed in more than one anatomic location based on JNC 7 guidelines and reassessed multiple times before and during therapy. Patients with severely (>180/120 mm Hg) or moderately (140–179/90–119 mm Hg) elevated BP suspected of having end-organ damage should undergo appropriate testing to determine if they have hypertensive urgency versus emergency. Absolute BP cutoffs are not as important as the presence or absence of target end-organ damage. In general, patients with hypertensive emergency should have their mean arterial pressure (MAP) reduced by 20% to 25% in the first hour of this diagnosis. Exceptions are patients with ischemic stroke, in whom MAP should be reduced by 15% to 20%, and patients with aortic dissection that requires more aggressive BP reduction. Hypertensive patients with nausea/vomiting, headache, visual complaints, confusion, stupor, papilledema, or seizures may have hypertensive encephalopathy from cerebral edema. BP reduction should be gradual, and cerebral perfusion pressure should not be decreased too rapidly. Patients with evidence of myocardial ischemia attributable to hypertensive emergency should receive nitrates to reduce preload and improve coronary perfusion as well as b-blockers, which can reduce cardiac oxygen demand by lowering heart rate and afterload. b-Blockers should not be given if there is evidence of acute heart failure or an unstable bradyarrhythmia. In pregnant patients with hypertensive emergencies, consider the effects of antihypertensive medications on the fetus.
airborne fungal carcinogens of indoor environments Employing volcanic tuff minerals in interior architecture design to reduce microbial contaminants and

Indoor volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have posed significant risks to human health since people have both shifted to a life spent, for the most part, indoors. Further, changes in materials used in the construction of buildings, furnishings, and tools either leak or encourage the production of VOCs. Whether these enclosed areas are residences, hospitals or workplaces (specifically composting facilities or closed farm buildings for raising livestock), VOCs can rise to levels that threaten people’s health. VOCs can either originate from phenolic and benzene-like compounds in building materials and office furniture or from molds (fungi) growing inside improperly ventilated or sealed buildings. Regardless of the source, exposure to VOCs could lead to significant health concerns from sick-building syndrome, ‘leukemia houses,’ in-hospital fungemia cases or occupation-associated cancer epidemics due to aflatoxicosis. Innovative 21st-century building materials could offer solutions to these challenges. We propose that volcanic materials, clays and minerals (volcanic tuff, modified clay montmorillonite and mineral clinoptilolite), in their original or chemically modified form, could act like synthetic lungs in building walls, breathing and filtering VOCs, and thus limiting human exposure to disease.
Evaluation of rapeseed-mustard cultivars under late sown condition in coastal ecosystem of West Bengal

In our present report, we evaluated seven rapeseed mustard cultivars at coastal saline zone of West Bengal, India under rice-mustard sequence in a triplicated randomized block design for 14 traits to study their performance under late sown (2nd December) condition. The cultivars were sown at 30 cm A— 10 cm spacing during winter of 2013âˆ’14 and 2014âˆ’15. The soil was clay in texture and had the following key properties for the 0âˆ’30 cm layer: pH 5.84, electrical conductivity (EC) 1.55 dS/m, available nitrogen (N) 155.24 kg/ha, available phosphorus (P) 105.76 kg/ha, available potassium (K) 365.86 kg/ha and available B 2.63 kg/ha. Among the seven cultivars, Kranti produced significantly (pâ‰¤0.05) higher seed yield (1.33 t/ha) closely followed by the hybrids PAC-409 (1.23 t/ha) and Pusa Bold (1.21 t/ha). Seed yield showed significant (pâ‰¤0.05) positive correlation with all the independent variables (plant height, R2=0.88; dry matter, R2=0.42; days to 50 % flowering, R2=0.27; number of siliqua/plant, R2=0.38; seeds/siliqua, R2=0.48; except number of fertile plants/m2, R2=-0.06; number of secondary branches/plant, R2=-0.97 and length of siliqua, R2=-0.07). However, number of secondary branches/plant had significant (pâ‰¤0.05) and negative correlation with seed yield of mustard (R2=-0.97). Plant height revealed the highest degree of correlation (R2=0.88) with seed yield followed by siliqua per main branch (R2=0.77), days to harvest (R2=0.75) and 1000-seed weight (R2=0.52). The results indicated that selection of suitable rapeseed mustard cultivars based on these traits would be more effective in improving seed yield in mustard.
Injuries in the Knee : A Population-Based Cohort Study The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on the Choice of Treatment for Patients With Cruciate Ligament

http://ajs.sagepub. com/content/early/2016/11/10/0363546516672651 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0363546516672651 published online November 11, 2016 Am J Sports Med Felländer-Tsai Richard Nordenvall, Alejandro I. Marcano, Johanna Adami, Mårten Palme, Ville M. Mattila, Shahram Bahmanyar and Li Injuries in the Knee: A Population-Based Cohort Study The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on the Choice of Treatment for Patients With Cruciate Ligament
Managing Organizational Change in Nigeria Manufacturing Enterprises:Lessons from the Unilever Nigeria Pic

The study examines the level of acceptance of organizational change among workers and identifies factors that may impede the effective implementation of change among the manufacturing companies in Nigeria engaging the unilever Nigeria Plc as a case study. Utilizing data collected from a randomly selected sample of 720 senior/management staff and junior/non-managerial staff, regression analysis was performed to identify the determinants of acceptance of change among employees at the Unilever Nigeria Pic, Lagos, Nigeria. The results show some levels of employee acceptance of innovations and reveal that of the two categories of employees analyzed, non-managerial staff were more amenable to change. This study suggests that a more participative approach to the management of change process must be put in place to guarantee the acceptance of change in the manufacturing organizations in Nigeria
Evidences of a contractional pattern along the northern rim of the Hyblean Plateau (Sicily, Italy) from GPS data

In this paper we present the main results inferred from GPS data collected between 1998.00 and 2009.78 along the northern rim of the Hyblean Plateau from 9 continuous and 23 survey-mode sites. From a geological point of view, this area is of great interest because 1) it represents an important piece of the collision front between Nubia and Eurasia 2) it is very close to the biggest European volcano Mount Etna and 3) it has been hit by strong earthquakes in the past (1169 and 1693) that struggled the cities of Catania, Siracusa and Ragusa provoking tens of thousands of casualties. We have found that the ground deformation pattern clearly defines an area of prevailing contraction along the northern rim of the Hyblean Plateau with a maximum negative strain-rate of about 0. 14µstrain/yr in agreement with both geological and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data. In addition, a transition to extensional regime is acting toward the central sector of the plateau. The velocity field referred to the Eurasian frame indicates that a large part of the plateau is dominated by a 5.4mm/yr northward motion.
Title Hypoadiponectinemia As an Independent Predictor for the Progression of Carotid Atherosclerosis : A 5-Year Prospective Study

Background: Hypoadiponectinemia predicts the development of diabetes and hypertension, both being potent atherosclerotic risk factors. Whether adiponectin predicts the progression of early atherosclerosis remains unclear. In this 5-year prospective study, we examined the relationship between serum adiponectin and carotid intima media thickness (CIMT), a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis. Methods: A total of 265 subjects from the population-based Hong Kong Cardiovascular Risk Factor Prevalence Study, with no known cardiovascular disease, underwent CIMT measurement at baseline and at 5 years. Results: In all, 129 men and 136 women, aged 54.6 – 12.3 years, were studied. Median CIMT at baseline was 0.63 mm (interquartile range 0.52–0.73 mm) and increased to 0.67 mm (0.56–0.78 mm) after 5 years (P < 0.001). CIMT increment correlated with baseline adiponectin, age, and smoking (all P < 0.05) and baseline CIMT (P < 0.001), but not with sex, fasting glucose, lipid profiles, hypertension, or diabetes. In multiple linear regression analysis, baseline serum adiponectin level was an independent predictor of CIMT increment b (standardized beta) = 0.17, P = 0.015], after adjusting for age, smoking, baseline CIMT, hypertension, body mass index, fasting glucose, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides. Conclusion: Hypoadiponectinemia predicted CIMT progression, independent of known predictive factors such as age, smoking, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension.
Are civil servants paid too much? - A distributional analysis of the public-private wage gap in Switzerland

This study investigates the public-private sector wage gap in Switzerland with a special focus on distributional aspects. Using data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey the study finds that the wage structure differs between the sectors. The public sector guarantees a higher base salary while the private sector rewards education and experience more. This is consistent with the more compressed wage distribution in the public sector. The wage gap and its unexplained part are falling over the range of wages. At the low end of wages public sector workers a paid an unexplained premium. At high wages differences in characteristics explain more than the raw wage gap, suggesting that there is an unexplained premium for working in the private sector.
Participation in urban interventions. Meaning-effects and urban citizenship in Milan Zone 4

The urban interventions aimed at promoting the right to the city increasingly take events as their main repertoire of action, thus feeding a process of eventification of space which is particularly controversial with respect to neoliberal urbanism. The growing field of events studies, indeed, illustrates how the variety of minor events crowding contemporary cities may engender social inclusion, yet at the price of producing new forms of social exclusion or, similarly, can challenge neoliberal urbanism as far as they becomes complicit in its reproduction. Are such ambiguous outcomes inevitable? Where do they come from? How do they unfold? In order to address similar questions, the paper focuses on the bottom-up participation and meaning-effects of events included within a complex urban intervention, aimed at promoting the right to the city in a Milan, rapidly changing, wide urban area. An ethnographic outlook at two events taken as case-studies allows to specify the territorializaton processes through which they unfold, thus showing how the temporality of urban interventions matter as condition allowing to practice the right to the contemporary city.
Rhetorical Structures and Linguistic Features of English Abstracts in Thai Rajabhat University Journals

Abstracts are an essential part of research articles (RAs) because they are the readers’ first encounter in their search for relevant literature. Writing an effective abstract in English which can “sell” the article to a wider circle of readers is therefore important to novice writers, especially multilingual ones. Based on the corpus of 584 English abstracts of Thai empirical RAs published by six Rajabhat (teacher-training) university journals which are indexed in the Thai-journal citation index center (TCI), this study aims to explore not only their rhetorical structures but also the grammatical and interactional metadiscourse features. The results show that there were three types of abstracts (Informative, Indicative and Combinatory) and the absence of certain moves in a large number of abstracts of each type. Moreover, this abstract corpus had a few instances of move embedding, a complete absence of move cycles and the existence of abstracts with several paragraphs. Regarding the linguistic features, there was a prominent presence of active voice, future tense and the sparing use of interactional meta-discourse devices across the moves. These findings tend to indicate a need for journal editors and novice writers, especially those from non-English backgrounds to be informed about the characteristics of good RA abstracts in English (i.e., rhetorically and linguistically) and an increased amount of form-based instruction in academic courses to address the linguistic deficiencies of new multilingual writers. Keywords: abstracts; Thai writers; Thai university journals; rhetorical structures; linguistic features
The ancient giant clam shells from Balabok Rockshelter, Philippines as potential recorders of environmental changes: a diagenesis assessment and sclerochronology study

The study explores the preservation state of ancient giant clams excavated from the Balobok Rockshelter Archaeological Site, Philippines. The Hippopus hippopus and Tridacna maxima are from the cultural layer of Early Occupational Phase (8760 +/130 BP) and Later Occupational Phase (5140 +/100 BP), respectively. The research presents the mineral composition, microstructure characteristics and microgrowth patterns of the Tridacnidae shells. Both species were subjected to Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). These two methods aim to recognize its mineralogy and microstructure of the studies material. Only the H. hippopus was analyzed through sclerochronological method to understand its growth patterns. The results of the analyses imparted a record on the diagenesis alteration of the Tridacnidae shells. Both shells are still aragonite; however, altered prismatic and crossed-lamellar microstructure can be observed, which is not favorable for geochemical study. On the other hand, sclerochronology study on H. hippopus determines the age and internal growth changes of the shell, which is approximately one year and started to development in the last quarter. This concludes that sclerochronology is feasible because of the shell’s preserved inner growth increments. However, larger (older) shells should be selected for study to obtain palaeoenvironmental information.
A Tool to Build Up-To-Date Gene Annotations for Affymetrix Microarrays

Genome-wide expression profiling and genotyping is widely applied in functional genomics research, ranging from stem cell studies to cancer, in drug response studies, and in clinical diagnostics. The Affymetrix GeneChip microarrays represent the most popular platform for such assays. Nevertheless, due to rapid and continuous improvement of the knowledge about the genome, the definition of many of the genes and transcripts change, and new genes are discovered. Thus the original probe information is out-dated for a number of Affymetrix platforms, and needs to be re-defined. It has been demonstrated, that accurate probe set definition improves both coverage of the gene expression analysis and its statistical power. Therefore we developed a method that incorporates the most recent genome annotations into the annotation of the microarray probe sets, using tools from the next generation sequencing. Additionally our method allows to quickly build project specific gene annotation models, as well as for comparison of microarray to RNAseq data.
Bridging Social Distance in Inter-Cultural Negotiations: 'You' and the Bi-Cultural Negotiator

In this study of Korean and U.S. negotiators, we demonstrate limits on the presumption that inter-cultural negotiations are doomed to generate low joint gains. In a laboratory study with 45 bi-cultural Korean students and 47 mono-cultural American students, we created a total of 16 U.S.-U.S., 15 Korean-Korean, and 15 U.S.-Korean dyads. We audio-recorded their negotiation conversations and analyzed the content of the negotiation transcripts. We focused on the use of pronouns and coded how they were used and the impact this use had on the outcomes of the intra- and inter-cultural negotiations. Results show that inter-cultural dyads generate higher joint gains than Korean or U.S. intra-cultural dyads. The explanation based on social awareness and social distance theorizing shows that inter-cultural negotiators, one of whom is bi-cultural, who use language, especially the pronoun “you” to close social distance, achieve higher joint gains than intra-cultural negotiators who do not. We conclude that the language people use in social interaction, especially pronouns, is an indicator of social awareness and signals attempts to close social distance. This research demonstrates that the way negotiators use language predicts their economic outcomes.
Multi-Objective Differential Evolution ( MODE ) for Optimization of Supply Chain Planning and Management

Many problems in the engineering domain involve more than one objective to be optimized simultaneously. The optimal solution to a multi-objective function results in a set of equally good solutions (Pareto optimal set), rather than a unique solution. Several entities are present in a typical supply chain problem. Each of these entities has its individual objectives. When all the objectives of supply chain are combined they work towards a common goal of increasing the profitability of an organization. The supply chain model is thus multi-objective in nature which involves several conflicting objectives. A three-stage supply chain problem (involving a network of supplier, plant and customer zones) is solved using Multi-Objective Differential Evolution (MODE) algorithm in this work. Three cases of objective functions are considered in this study. Pareto optimal solutions are obtained for each case. The results are compared with those reported using NSGA-II in the literature.
Mix formulations: An alternative option for management of gram pod borer, helicoverpa armigera H. and pod fly, Melanagromyza obtusa M. in pigeon pea

A field trial was conducted during kharif season, 2011 at Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, (BCKV) Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India to study the effect of some insecticides and their mix formulations against pigeon pea pod borer and pod fly. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design (RBD) with three replications for each treatment. Insecticides viz. novaluron 10 EC, indoxacarb 14.5SC, emamectin benzoate 5SG, lambda-cyhalothrin 5EC, thiamethoxam 25WG, fipronil 5SC, novaluron 5.25+indoxacarb 4.5SC, novaluron 5.25+fipronil 4SC and indoxacarb 14.5SC+thiamethoxam 25WG were sprayed twice at 15 days interval. The mean number of pod borer larvae and pod fly maggots per plant and their damage were observed randomly from five plants at before and 5, 10 and 15 days after each spray. Mixed formulation of novaluron 5.25+indoxacarb 4.5SC @ 80 g a.i./ha and novaluron 5.25+fipronil 4SC @ 80 g a.i./ha, were found to be the most effective with cent percent reduction of Helicoverpa larval population whereas in case of pod fly, novaluron+fipronil @ 80 g a.i./ha and fipronil @ 50 g a.i./ha were the best with 72.5% reduction of pod fly population for each treatment. The highest yield was also recorded in novaluron+fipronil @ 80 g a.i./ha treated plot (18.6 q/ha) followed by novaluron+indoxacarb and fipronil treated plot with 16.4 and 16.2 q/ha, respectively while in control plot it was only 7.5q/ha.