Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Lipoprotein Associated Coagulation Inhibitor, Factor VII, Antithrombin III, and Monocyte Tissue Factor Following Surgery

Summary Fifteen patients undergoing major surgical procedures were evaluated for lipoprotein associated coagulation inhibitor (LACI) antigen, factor VII (F VII), antithrombin III (AT III), and peripheral blood monocyte tissue factor (TF) activity immediately before surgery and on following days. A peak in monocyte TF activity occurred between the first and fifth days after surgery in 10 of the patients, while LACI, F VII, and AT III levels dropped in a qualitatively parallel manner in 8 of these patients. LACI, F VII, and AT III levels decreased after surgery in two additional patients even though TF activity also decreased after surgery in these patients. In the remaining 3 patients who developed infections during the study, TF activity rose within 2 days of the diagnosis of infection in addition to the postoperative peak. In two of these patients, LACI levels increased dramatically near the end of the study period without concomitant changes in F VII and AT III. Overall, the presurgical TF levels in disrupted monocytes varied 52-fold and the maximal TF activity varied 24-fold among patients. The TF response following surgery is therefore heterogenous in both temporal occurrence and magnitude of the postsurgical peak. The patients also varied considerably in the presurgical levels of monocyte TF activity. A possible association between the level of presurgical TF activity and the magnitude of the postsurgical peak was noted. Thirteen of the patients had malignant disease, and, as a group, had presurgical levels of LACI (83 ± 26; mean ± SD), F VII (124 ± 22) and AT III (111 ± 14) within the normal ranges established with pooled reference plasma and similar values for three normal donors studied over the same period (AT III 121 ± 6, LACI 95 ± 4, and F VII 112 ± 29). No cause-effect relationship could be established between changes in TF activity and changes in the other factors measured. Patient- or therapy-specific variables may determine postoperative variations in LACI, F VII, AT III, and monocyte TF.
COMPARISON OF RESPIRATION, FREE FATTY ACID FORMATION, AND CHANGES IN THE SPECTRUM OF THE SEED OIL DURING THE STORAGE OF COTTONSEED.

The phenomenon referred to as seed deterioration is a comyiplex of a number of different biological and chemical processes. Although a number of these processes have been independently investigated, there is little available information on the relationships existing between them. For example, while it is known that increased moisture content results both in increased lipolytic and respiratory activity, it has not been established whether these two activities are independent manifestations of increased moisture content or whether they are functionally related. For this reason it was of interest to follow lipolytic activity and changes in the seed pigments in those seed samples used for the respiration measurements reported in the preceding publication of this series (7).
Compact small magnetic antennas an efficient technique to reduce dimensions without affecting the efficiency

The use of small radiators is growing in importance for applications related to wireless sensor networks, RFIDs, personal and body communications. In these context, the antenna must be compacted in a very narrow space, and the bandwidth of the signal is typically small. Under these conditions, radiating elements smaller (even much smaller) then the wavelength, appear as the best solution. Thanks to a compact design and a small size, these antennas can be embedded in a narrow space, with extremely limited spatial dimension. On the contrary, small antennas have limited radiating characteristics, with a light efficiency and a high mismatch. The paper introduces a design approach that reduces the overall antenna dimensions by selecting an efficient geometrical shape and embedding the matching circuit inside the antenna. The return loss has a 0.6% bandwidth at −10 dB, larger in comparison to other realizations than can be found in the literature. Although several realizations s have been carried out, two solutions working 900 MHz with simulations and measurements is presented. For their shape, they have been baptized, respectively, Smiley and Hair Antennas.
Collision Detection and Signal Recovery for UHF RFID Systems

In this paper, we present a novel high-throughput anti-collision algorithm for passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems. Our algorithm utilizes signal recovery techniques of collided tag signals to both recover tag communications and obtain an accurate count of all tags in the field. Passive UHF RFID systems are used for long-range passive communications for applications including supply chain management and electronic tolling. Anti-collision algorithms are used to ensure successful RFID tag communications due to the likelihood of multiple tags being in the field and attempting to communicate simultaneously. The limited on-tag functionality necessitates the use of simple anti-collision algorithms such as a dynamic frame slotted Aloha (DFSA) algorithm. With our novel collision detection and signal recovery anti-collision algorithm, the RFID reader can retrieve multiple valid communications from each collided slot in a DFSA-based anti-collision protocol, while our algorithm allocates an optimal number of slots resulting in more collided but recoverable slots and fewer empty slots. Our algorithm achieves a nearly 100% throughput improvement with an expected throughput of 0.85 compared with an expected throughput of 0.426 for a standard DFSA algorithm. The reader receiver with the proposed algorithm is implemented in a field-programmable gate array and the whole reader system is verified using the communication tests with commercial tags. According to the synthesized results in an SMIC 0.13- $\mu \text{m}$ CMOS technology, the collision detection and signal recovery module consumes about 135k GE.Note to Practitioners—Signal recovery methods are capable of extracting information from collided signals. In this paper, we introduce and analyze a signal recovery method based on the voltage histogram of the received signal. Both the original signals and the number of collided signals are recovered. The information of tags is used by our novel algorithm to increase the system throughput in DFSA-based anti-collision algorithms. The recovered signals allow our algorithm to directly obtain the tag identifier. By determining the number of collided signals, our algorithm is able to calculate an accurate estimate of the total number of tags in the reader’s field. With signal recovery and an accurate tag count, our algorithm is able to reduce the total number of slots needed to identify all tags, thereby increasing the throughput. We present a novel frame length optimization method that increases throughout by shrinking the number of slots, thereby intentionally causing collisions and reducing the total number of empty slots. In addition, we present a hardware implementation of our novel method that is suitable for integration into RFID readers. When the signal strengths of the tags in collision in the in-phase or quadrature path are not close to each other, the performance of our method is much better than that of the traditional method in which the collision signal is treated as ineffective and ignored.
A QUANTITATIVE MICROIONTOPHORETIC ANALYSIS OF THE RESPONSES OF CENTRAL NEURONES TO NORADRENALINE: INTERACTIONS WITH COBALT, MANGANESE, VERAPAMIL AND DICHLOROISOPRENALINE

1 A new experimental procedure has been devised for the study of pharmacological antagonism in the central nervous system using automated microiontophoresis to deliver pulses of agonists and computer‐generated histograms to quantify the neuronal response. The system allows study of potential antagonists having direct depressant effects and also of neurones with irregular or slow discharge rates. 2 The histogram analysis reveals the necessity for regular, periodic delivery of agonists during the assessment of agonist‐antagonist interactions. Without regular repetitive delivery, many agonists, such as noradrenaline, exhibit an apparent but artifactual decrease in inhibitory potency after an interruption of agonist pulses. Examples of this phenomenon are shown, using cerebellar Punkinje cells and cerebral cortical neurones in rats anaesthetized with halothane. 3 Preliminary results with these computer‐generated drug response histograms revealed manganese, cobalt, and verapamil to be generally ineffective as antagonists of noradrenaline, despite their direct depressant effects. 4 Conversely, dichloroisoprenaline (DCI), a β‐adrenoceptor antagonist, was effective in blocking noradrenaline‐induced depressions of firing in the cerebral cortex at doses which caused over 50% decrease in spontaneous discharge.
Opposite Regulation of Type II and III Receptors for Immunoglobulin G in Mouse Glomerular Mesangial Cells and in the Induction of Anti-glomerular Basement Membrane (GBM) Nephritis*

We examined the capacity of mouse glomerular mesangial cells (MC) to express and function through two different low affinity FcγRs, the activating FcγRIII and the inhibitory FcγRII. Immunohistochemistry identified FcγRII as the prominent FcγR in the kidney, and low levels of FcγRIIb2-specific mRNA were also detected in primary cultures of growth-arrested MC. Activation by tumor necrosis factor-α/interleukin-1β induced substantial FcγRII expression in proliferating MC. Importantly, however, stimulation with interferon-γ (IFN-γ)/lipopolysaccharide or IFN-γ alone resulted in a complete down-regulation of FcγRII, which was accompanied by a strong increase in FcRγ chain mRNA and a surface appearance of FcγRIII. Activating FcγRIII triggered mRNA synthesis for monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), MCP-5, cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant, and RANTES, whereas FcγRIII-deficient MC failed to respond to immune complex (IC) activation as shown by impaired production of MCP-1 mRNA/protein. In a passive model of acute anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) nephritis, induction of FcγRIII and suppression of FcγRII occurred in kidney tissues. Blockade of FcγRII, when induced selectively in the kidney, resulted in enhanced inflammation. Taken together, our results define a novel regulatory pathway with opposite regulation of FcγRII (suppressed) and FcγRIII (induced) by IFN-γ on MCsin vitro and anti-GBM IgG in vivo. Herein is provided the first evidence that glomerular FcγRII plays an important immunoregulatory role in the initiation of IC glomerulonephritis.
Conducting an IPO with an SEO in mind: Evidence from China

This paper examines empirically the effect of initial public offering (IPO) issuance on seasoned equity offering (SEO) decisions and incentives. The evidence from China indicates that specific IPO characteristics, including corporate governance issues, determine the size and timing of an SEO. The magnitude of the influence of the IPO on a subsequent SEO is sensitive to the amount of time between these events. We find that companies with higher growth perspectives and a high debt ratio are likely to conduct an SEO within the first year following the IPO. Further, our findings suggest that state ownership is associated with strong SEO activity.
A broader spectrum of Sjogren's syndrome and its pathogenetic implications.

Your invitation to deliver the 1960 Heberden Oration is a great honour which I cherish especially because of the profound respect my colleagues of the American Rheumatism Association and I have for the major contributions that the members of the Heberden Society have made toward a better understanding of the rheumatic diseases. The nature of the studies I wish to report in this lecture conforms rather obediently to the counsel given by the eminent biochemist, Professor A. Neuberger (1960), who terminated the preceding Heberden Oration "by expressing the belief that a study . particularly of the immunological reactions observed, may be more helpful to an understanding of connective tissue diseases than elucidation of collagen metabolism, important and interesting enough though this is to the biochemist and general biologist".
Work climate, work values and professional commitment as predictors of job satisfaction in nurses.

AIM To investigate the effect of some psychosocial variables on nurses' job satisfaction. BACKGROUND Nurses' job satisfaction is one of the most important factors in determining individuals' intention to stay or leave a health-care organisation. Literature shows a predictive role of work climate, professional commitment and work values on job satisfaction, but their conjoint effect has rarely been considered. METHODS A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was adopted. Participants were hospital nurses and data were collected in 2011. RESULTS Professional commitment and work climate positively predicted nurses' job satisfaction. The effect of intrinsic vs. extrinsic work value orientation on job satisfaction was completely mediated by professional commitment. CONCLUSIONS Nurses' job satisfaction is influenced by both contextual and personal variables, in particular work climate and professional commitment. According to a more recent theoretical framework, work climate, work values and professional commitment interact with each other in determining nurses' job satisfaction. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT Nursing management must be careful to keep the context of work tuned to individuals' attitude and vice versa. Improving the work climate can have a positive effect on job satisfaction, but its effect may be enhanced by favouring strong professional commitment and by promoting intrinsic more than extrinsic work values.
Security strategies in wireless sensor networks

This thesis explores security issues in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and network-layer countermeasures to threats involving routing metrics. Before WSNs can mature to the point of being integrated into daily infrastructure, it is vital that the sensor network technologies involved become sufficiently mature and robust against malicious attack to be trustworthy. Although cryptographic approaches and dedicated security modules are vital, it is important to employ defence in depth via a suite of approaches. A productive approach is to integrate security awareness into the network-layer delivery mechanisms, such as multihop routing or longer-range physical layer approaches. An ideal approach would be workable within realistic channel conditions, impose no complexity for additional control packets or sentry packets, while being fully distributed and scalable. A novel routing protocol is presented (disturbance-based routing) which attempts to avoid wormholes via their static and dynamic topology properties. Simulation results demonstrate its avoidance performance advantages in a variety of topologies. A reputation-based routing approach is introduced, drawing insights from reinforcement learning, which retains routing decisions from an earlier stabilisation phase. Results again demonstrate favourable avoidance properties at a reduced energy cost. Distributed beamforming is explored at the system level, with an architecture provided allowing it to support data delivery in a predominantly multihop routing topology. The vulnerability of beamforming data transmission to jamming attacks is considered analytically and via simulation, and contrasted with multihop routing. A cross-layer approach (physical reputation-based routing) which feeds physical-layer information into the reputation-based routing algorithm is presented, permitting candidate routes that make use of the best beamforming relays to be discovered. Finally, consideration is given to further work on how cognitive security can save energy by allowing nodes to develop a more efficient awareness of their threat environment.
Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America's Corporate Boards

In My View Jay W. Lorsch is senior associate dean and director of research at the Harvard Business School. A long time researcher on organizational behavior, he has written numerous articles and fifteen books, one of which, Organization and Environment, with Paul R. Lawrence, was a landmark work on the organizational characteristics that led to effective performance. His most recent research, a study of American corporate governance, has produced a new book-the subject of this interview. In it Lorsch argues that many boards of directors now lack the power and sense of common purpose to effectively fulfill their roles as overseers of the companies they serve. In the current competitive environment from abroad, leveraged buyouts, and corporate restructuring, directors are being forced to consider a much more active role in the management of a company than in the past, sometimes bringing them directly into conflict with the chief executive officer. The study revealed that in 85 percent of United States public companies, the chairman and CEO are one and the same. Directors, Lorsch concludes, are no match for the power of the chairman/CEO. In Pawns or Potentates, Lorsch offers controversial solutions to begin to rectify the inbalance of power. He argues that directors should have the responsibility-and be given the power-to prevent fires, rather than just putting them out.
Outcome prediction in tumour therapy based on Dempster-Shafer theory

Outcome prediction plays a vital role in cancer treatment. It can help to update and optimize the treatment planning. In this paper, we aim to find discriminant features from both PET images and clinical characteristics, so as to predict the outcome of a treatment to adapt the therapy. As both information sources are imprecise, we propose a novel feature selection method based on Dempster-Shafer theory to tackle this problem. Then, a specific objective function with spar-sity constraint is developed to search for a feature subset that leads to increasing prediction performance and decreasing data imprecision simultaneously. Our approach was applied to two real data sets concerning to lung tumour et esophageal tumour, showing good performance.
Relevance and Sufficiency of Pre-Reporting: Transition of Finnish Small and Medium-Sized Listed Companies to IFRS

This study focuses on the implementation and valuation impacts of mandatory transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), using samples of Finnish first-time IFRS users. The Finnish data is used since prior research findings suggest large differences between Finnish accounting standards (FAS) and IFRS. The relevance of firms' IFRS pre-reporting (pre-reporting is recommended by the Committee of European Securities Regulators, CESR) is evaluated by studying the association between the amount of disclosed IFRS-related information during the implementation phase and the impact of IFRS on certain accounting figures in the reconciliation report. Sufficiency of pre-reporting is studied by the stock market responses around the release of the reconciliation report. Our results show that, on average, IFRS adoption significantly increases reported earnings and total assets of companies. However, IFRS pre-reporting seems to be somewhat associated with IFRS impacts on company equity and assets, but not with reported earnings. Finally, we did not find evidence of stock market impacts in the vicinity of the release of the reconciliation report. Our main conclusion is that companies have supplied enough relevant information to the market about IFRS impacts before the release of the reconciliation report. However, since IFRS pre-reporting is usually quite descriptive and without strong connection to changes in accounting figures, investors may have sufficient means to interpret financial statements prepared in accordance with FAS. Thus, the transition to IFRS from FAS in Finland has been quite transparent without causing any major surprises.
Which Way Do Foreign Branches Sway? Evidence from the Recent UK Domestic Credit Cycle

Foreign bank branches have a significant presence in the United Kingdom’s financial sector, more so than in any other major advanced economy. A lot of their business activities are with non-residents but they are also important sources of credit for UK financial and non-financial companies. During the recent crisis, the growth in credit to UK borrowers from foreign branches fell sharply and by much more than from UK-incorporated banks. Using a combination of aggregate and individual bank-level data, this paper explores why foreign branches’ UK lending was much more cyclical. Both demand and supply factors appear to have been important. The domestic loan book of foreign branches was more concentrated on cyclical sectors than that of UK-incorporated banks. But it was also the case that their lending to most domestic sectors increased more rapidly in the run-up to the crisis and fell more subsequently. Foreign branches were also more reliant on fickle forms of funding, especially from abroad. Going forward, it is important the Financial Policy Committee and Prudential Regulation Authority closely monitor the risks that foreign branches, particularly large ones, may pose to UK financial stability and to the broader economy.
How do triers of fact infer the accuracy of eyewitness identifications? Using memory for peripheral detail can be misleading.

Eyewitnesses (n = 107) to a staged theft made identifications from a photo spread and then responded to 11 questions that measured their memory for peripheral details (e.g., how many pictures were in the room where the theft occurred? ). Results indicated that witnesses who accurately identified the thief (n = 57) averaged fewer correct answers on the peripheral details test than did eyewitnesses who identified an innocent person (n = 32). The remaining witnesses (n = 18) made no identification. Cross-examinations of willing eyewitnesses who made an identification (47 accurate and 24 inaccurate) were conducted using a method that either scrutinized and documented the witnesses' memory for the peripheral details or did not. Subjects in the role of jurors (n = 96) viewed cross-examinations and indicated their belief that the witness had properly identified the thief versus an innocent person. The cross-examination that scrutinized and documented the witnesses' memory for trivial details lowered subjects' belief of the eyewitnesses' identification accuracy (from 72.9% to 47.9%). This discrediting effect was stronger for accurate eyewitnesses (75.0%-37.5%), however, than it was for inaccurate eyewitnesses (70.8%-58.3%). It is argued that subjects assumed a positive correlation between accuracy in identifying the thief and memory for peripheral details, which led to more discrediting of the witnesses who should have been believed than it did of the witnesses who should have not been believed.
Analysis of the Demand of Dark Tourism: A Case Study in Córdoba (Spain)

Abstract Visiting places where death is present, either due to a natural tragedy, war, the Holocaust, etc., or because there is the presence of a non-visible entity or paranormal phenomenon, is increasingly more accepted in modern times. It has become a kind of tourism that has grown in demand, though it remains a minority. The city of Cordoba, in the south of Spain, is swarming with houses and places where legends have endured over centuries as a consequence of the coexistence of three cultures – Jewish, Christian and Arab. In turn, popular culture considers these places as having a characteristic “charm” due to the phenomena that happen there. This work analyses the profile of dark tourism tourists, particularly in two sub-segments - that of ghosts and of cemeteries - as well as the existing offer. The aim is to design and improve a quality tourist product that is adapted to the requirements of the demand.