Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Job satisfaction of midwives

هدیکچ تاـمدخ هـیارا یارـب یتـشادهب متـسیس رثؤم یازجا زا یکی ناونع هب اهامام یلغش تیاضر هب هجوت :همدقم . تسا رادروخرب یاهژیو تیمها زا ناکدوک و ناردام ینعی هعماج ریذپبیسآ رشق ود هب ییامام زا هـک اـمام 251 هـنومن مـجح . دـشابیم یـعطقم عون زا یشیامیپ هعلاطم کی شهوژپ نیا :راک شور و داوم SPSS رازــ فامرن زا هدافتسا اب . دوب همانشسرپ تاعلاطا یروآعمج رازبا . دندش باختنا یاهشوخ یریگهنومن قیرط . دیدرگ لیلحت و هیزجت اههداد (نوسریپ یگتسبمه بیرض و یاک روذجم) یطابنتسا و یفیصوت رامآ یریگراکب و و (%62/9) یلغـش هاـگیاج داـعبا رد اـهامام تیرثـکا تیاـضر حطـس هک داد ناشن هعلاطم نیا جیاتن :اههتفای یراذـگتـسایس ،(%69/7) یلغـش تـینما ،(%92/8) اـیازم و قوـقح داـعبا رد و طسوتم (%48/2) ناراکمه اب طابترا یصخـش یـگدـنز اـب طاـبترا و (%48/6) یتـسرپرــ س و تراظن ،(%64/9) راک طیحم طیارش و تیعضو و یتیریدم یراـمآ راداـنعم و تـبثم یگتـسبمه و طاـبترا نآ داــ عبا مامت اب یلغش یلک تیاضر نیب . تسا هدوب نییاپ (%49/8) ناراـکمه اــ ب طابترا دعُب اب و (r=0/87) رتشیب همه زا یتیریدم یراذگتسایس دعُب اب یگتسبمه نیا هک تشاد دوجو تـیعضو ،یـلیصحت کردـم ،نـس یدرــ ف تاصخشم اب یلغش یلک تیاضر حطس نیب . دوب (r=0/547) رتمک همه زا یـلک تیاـضر حطـس نـیب هـک یلاـح رد ،تـشادن دوجو یرامآ رادانعم طابترا یتفایرد قوقح و دنزرف دادعت ،لهأت هـب یدـنمقلاع و یراـک تفیـش ،تـمدخ ماــ جنا لحم ،یمادختسا تیعضو ،تمدخ تاونس ،نکسم تیعضو اب یلغش . دشیم هدید یرامآ رادانعم طابترا (p<0/05) ییامام هفرح ،اـیازم و قوـقح شـیازفا اـب هـک دوـشیم داهنـشیپ نیلوؤــسم هب شهوژپ نیا جیاتن هب هجوت اب :یریگهجیتن یاـهییاناوت زا هدافتـسا نـینچمـه و یتراـظن و یـتیریدم متــسیس حلاصا ،راک طیارش دوبهب ،یلغش تینما یاقترا یاـهماگ ،اـهنآ نییاـپ تیاـضر لـلع نــ یرتهدمع عفر تهج ،دوخ هب طوبرم فیاظو حرش هطیح رد اهامام یاهفرح . دنرادرب یرثؤم و تبثم
Performance and Evaluation of Smartphone Based Wireless Blood Pressure Monitoring System Using Bluetooth

In medical practice, blood pressure is intensively studied parameter and often measured for diagnosis at primary healthcare level. In this paper, the state-of-the-art Bluetooth technology has been used for designing an innovative wireless blood pressure monitoring system to display the systolic and diastolic blood pressure values on Android-based smartphone. A pilot study was undertaken on 12 healthy subjects to validate the performance of developed prototype by comparing with OMRON HEM-7111 and mercury sphygmomanometer. Comparison shows an accuracy of 98.63% and 97.13% with OMRON HEM-7111 and 98.99% and 98% with mercury sphygmomanometer for systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure, respectively. Bias value in Bland-Altman plots gives good level of agreement within 95% confidence limits. The developed prototype device mean and standard deviation of differences is less than 5 and 8 mmHg, respectively, and it fulfills the recommendation criteria as per the requirement of the Association for Advancement of Medical Instruments protocol.
Transactivation of the EGFR by cag+ Helicobacter pylori induces upregulation of the early growth response gene Egr-1 in gastric epithelial cells

Helicobacter pylori, in particular cag+ strains, have been shown to enhance gastric epithelial cell proliferation in vivo , an effect that likely contributes to gastric carcinogenesis. Egr-1 is a crucial regulator of cell growth, differentiation and survival, which are known to play a role in carcinogenesis and cancer progression. The aims of this study were to: 1) examine whether H. pylori could upregulate Egr-1 in gastric epithelial cell lines; 2) determine whether there was a differential response to infection with different strains; 3) examine the role of the cag pathogenicity island in this process and 4) elucidate the molecular mechanisms leading to Egr-1 upregulation. In this study, we show that infection of AGS cells with cag+ H. pylori resulted in a rapid (1-2 hours), but transient increase in Egr-1 mRNA and protein levels, whereas co-culture with cag-isolates did not elicit this response. Furthermore, two independent cagE- isogenic mutants of H. pylori also demonstrated an impaired ability to upregulate Egr-1. Upregulation of Egr-1 protein was inhibited by the ERK1/2 inhibitor PD98059 and overexpression of dominant negative MEK1 downregulated Egr-1 luciferase reporter gene activity. Treatment of AGS cells with EGFR kinase inhibitors PD153035 and AG1478 resulted in a reduction in H. pylori -mediated Egr-1 upregulation, demonstrating that EGFR transactivation plays a role in this early cellular process. Our findings show that cag+ H. pylori cause rapid induction of Egr-1 in gastric epithelial cells, which may contribute to H. pylori -mediated pathogenesis.
Participative Planning and Governance for Sustainable Tourism

Abstract Advocates of sustainable tourism development often indicate that the participation of destination communities in decision-making is important for sustainability. This paper indicates some of the ways in which research on local participation in tourism planning has furthered our understanding of governance for sustainable tourism. A number of suggestions are made concerning a future direction for research on participative planning and more generally on governance for sustainable tourism in destinations. It is argued that we should examine participative planning critically and also that we should see it fully as a reflection of our times and of contemporary economic, social and ideological circumstances. It is also suggested that we should devote more research attention to the broad range of contexts and activities of tourism governance. Finally, it is contended that the adoption of holistic and critical frameworks may benefit research in this field. One such framework is also outlined briefly.
Accounting Conservatism And Ownership Concentration: Evidence From Malaysia

Evidence showed that conservative accounting acts as a governance mechanism to reduce agency conflict. Also, evidence documented the adverse effect of concentrated ownership on financial reporting and firm performance. This study finds that both inside and outside substantial shareholders encourage lower degrees of conservatism. Control variables that significantly influenced asymmetric timeliness measure of conservatism are board independence, board tenure, board size, auditor and market to book ratio. As for accrual-based measure of conservatism, only profitability is found significant. The findings imply that accounting conservatism is not an effective governance tool if it is under the control of the substantial shareholders.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Reputation

Identifying tools for improving financial performance and other dimensions of competitiveness has become increasingly important in our current turbulent global economy. Many studies have shown that corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities can be used as a tool to improve financial performance. Based on a review of this work, Vilanova et al. (2009) develop a recent model of how CSR affects financial performance and other dimensions of competitiveness. Specifically, they posit that CSR positively affects reputation which then improves performance. The purpose of our study is to empirically examine Vilanova et al.’s (2009) hypothesized positive association between CSR and corporate reputation. We use a sample of highly reputable firms from Fortune’s 2006 Most Admired Companies list along with a sample of matched firms in our empirical analyses. Our analyses consistently support the positive relationship between CSR and reputation in Vilanova et al.’s (2009) developed model relating CSR and dimensions of performance competitiveness.
Spread Slotted ALOHA Techniques for Mobile and Personal Satellite Communication Systems

The objective is to develop a general theoretical framework for a class of spread slotted ALOHA (SSA) systems. The contributions include: modeling of a generalized spread slotted ALOHA (SSA) system; derivation of computationally efficient closed form expressions for the SSA system throughput and delay taking into account receiver complexity; and presentation of numerical results to validate the derivation as well as to substantiate the superior performance of the proposed scheme. The results demonstrate that SSA schemes offer significant improvements in terms of throughput, delay, and network stability against excessive loading at very acceptable levels of receiver implementation complexities. Also, SSA is found to be highly robust to errors in the time of arrivals and eliminates the need for a guard time. >
Therapeutic Vaccination with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)-DNA+IL-12 or IL-15 Induces Distinct CD8 Memory Subsets in SIV-Infected Macaques1

DNA vaccination is an invaluable approach for immune therapy in that it lacks vector interference and thus permits repeated vaccination boosts. However, by themselves, DNA-based vaccines are typically poor inducers of Ag-specific immunity in humans and non-human primates. Cytokines, such as IL-12 and IL-15, have been shown to be potent adjuvants for the induction and maintenance of cellular immune responses, in particular during HIV infection. In this study, we examined the ability of therapeutic vaccination with SIV-DNA+IL-12 or IL-15 as molecular adjuvants to improve DNA vaccine potency and to enhance memory immune responses in SIV-infected macaques. Our results demonstrate that incorporating IL-12 into the vaccine induces SIV-specific CD8 effector memory T cell (TEM) functional responses and enhances the capacity of IFN-γ-producing CD8 TEM cells to produce TNF. Lower levels of PD-1 were expressed on T cells acquiring dual function upon vaccination as compared with mono-functional CD8 TEM cells. Finally, a boost with SIV-DNA+IL-15 triggered most T cell memory subsets in macaques primed with either DNA-SIV or placebo but only CD8 TEM in macaques primed with SIV-DNA+IL-12. These results indicate that plasmid IL-12 and IL-15 cytokines represent a significant addition to enhance the ability of therapeutic DNA vaccines to induce better immunity.
Achieving smooth asymptotics for the prices of European options in binomial trees

A new binomial approximation to the Black–Scholes model is introduced. It is shown that, for digital options and vanilla European call and put options, a complete asymptotic expansion of the error in powers of n −1 exists. This is the first binomial tree for which an asymptotic expansion has been shown to exist.
New aspects of hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Purpose of review Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) represents a complex pulmonary disorder of varying intensity and clinical presentation, which is characterized by a diffuse Tc1 immune response of lung parenchyma and airways in patients previously sensitized to one of more than 300 etiologic agents that may favor the HP reaction. This review describes recent data that have clarified some of the events that govern the development of the hypersensitivity reaction following exposure to the causative agents involved in this disease. Recent findings A number of recent data clearly demonstrate that several cytokines and chemokines, which are secreted at sites of disease activity, participate in the pulmonary inflammatory responses taking place in the lung of patients with HP. Summary The past few years have seen outstanding advances in the understanding of immunologic and molecular events involved in the pathogenesis of HP. It is possible that these data could allow the discovery of therapeutic targets in individuals chronically exposed to HP antigens and evolving towards pulmonary fibrosis.
Strategies of cooperation: managing alliances, networks, and joint ventures

Introduction PART I. THE NATURE OF COOPERATION 1. Perspectives on Cooperative Strategy 2. Trust and Cooperation 3. Motives for Cooperative Strategy PART II. ESTABLISHING COOPERATION 4. Partner and Form Selection 5. Networks and the Virtual Corporation 6. Negotiation and Valuation PART III. MANAGING COOPERATION 7. General Management in Alliances 8. Control 9. Human-Resource Management 10. Cooperation Strategy in Emerging Economics PART IV. THE MATURING RELATIONSHIP 11. Organizational Learning 12. The Evolving Alliance Conclusion: Now and in the Future
Prevalence and associations of recent physical intimate partner violence among women attending an Australian sexual health clinic

Background The Sydney Sexual Health Centre in Australia uses a proforma tool to screen all new female clients for recent physical intimate partner violence (IPV). This study describes the prevalence and associations of recent physical IPV among women attending a sexual health clinic. Method The clinic database was used to identify all first visits by women reporting recent physical IPV between September 2003 and September 2007. Women reporting, and the next two age-matched women not reporting, recent physical IPV were compared regarding clinical, demographic and behavioural variables. Results 5519 (92%) of 6013 women attending were screened and 313 (5.7%) reported recent physical IPV. Recent physical IPV was not associated with current acute sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Women reporting IPV were more likely to report current sex work (AOR 1.75, 95% CI 1.23 to 2.48), a past STI (AOR 1.58, 95% CI 1.05 to 2.39) and a prior induced (AOR 1.64, 95% CI 1.18 to 2.27) or spontaneous (AOR 1.90, 95% CI 1.08 to 3.33) abortion. They were less likely to be in a current relationship (AOR 0.73, 95% CI 0.54 to 0.98) and consistently used condoms (AOR 0.67, 95% CI 0.48 to 0.94). Conclusion Women reporting recent physical IPV at a sexual health clinic were not more likely to have a current STI. The association of IPV with sex work, prior STIs and lower condom use suggests sexual health clinics would be appropriate venues to screen women for intimate partner violence.
flaB‐Polymerase Chain Reaction (flaB‐PCR) and Its Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) Analysis Are an Efficient Tool for Detection and Identification of Leptospira Spp.

For establishment of a rapid‐identification method of Leptospira species, aflaB gene of Leptospira was investigated and the following results were obtained. 1) HaeIII‐ or HindIII‐restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products (793 bp) of flaB gene was effectual for the classification of species of Leptospira. 2) Twenty cells of Leptospira in 1 ml of coagulated blood and 100 cells of Leptospira in 1 ml of anti‐coagulated blood could be detected by flaB‐PCR. These results suggested that PCR‐RFLP based on the flaB gene was an efficient tool for rapid detection and identification of species of infected Leptospira from clinical specimens.
THE DETERMINANTS OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF QUOTED BANKS IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF SELECTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS (DMBs)(2001 - 2010)

This paper tried to examine the major determinants of the financial performance of Deposit Money Banks quoted in the Nigeria Stock exchange from year 2001 to 2010 using three Banks, the First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Plc, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc and Zenith Bank Plc as case study. The study used the regression analysis method and established that; asset quality, capital adequacy and employee motivation apart from profits are key success factors in the financial performance of Banks. It recommend among others that banks should reward employees adequately, get listed in the Stock Exchange and the regulatory authorities should closely monitor the operations of Banks through various on-site and off-site examinations.
Determinants in Introduction of Outside Directors in Korean Companies

Corporate governance is one of the major topics in strategic management, however the majority of research on this subject is limited to analysis of governance mechanism impact on management. This paper intends to analyze other various factors that influence the governance mechanism. Specific focus is placed on identifying factors that affect the introduction of outside directors to Korean companies in the post-currency crisis era. Three areas, which are generally regarded as major sources of competitive advantages of a firm, are taken into consideration in order to determine these factors: managerial, environmental and internal resources. In turn, we continue our examination of seven variables derived from these three areas. Introduction effectiveness of outside directors is measured by three factors, such as independence, information and compensation. Empirical tests from 110 Korean manufacturing companies, reveals that effective introduction of outside directors in Korean companies after the currency crisis has a positive relationship with firm size and debt ratio, a negative relationship with the ownership rate of large shareholders and mixed result with past performance.
Patient Activation in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Background: Recent data suggest that patient activation, or having the knowledge, skills, and confidence to engage and manage one's own health, favorably impacts patient behaviors and health outcomes. However, the role of activation in patients with heart failure is unknown. Objectives: The aims of this study are to measure the level of activation of patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) and to determine whether activation is associated with in-hospital and early postdischarge outcomes. Methods: We prospectively recruited Southeastern Minnesota residents hospitalized at Mayo Clinic hospitals with ADHF from January 2014 to July 2015. Activation was measured using the Patient Activation Measure questionnaire. Results: Among the 302 patients enrolled, the mean age was 77.3 years, 57.3% were men, and 46.8% had preserved ejection fraction. The median (25th–75th percentile) length of stay was 4 (3–7) days. In total, 7 (2.3%) patients died before discharge. Most survivors were discharged to home (73.6%) or skilled nursing facilities (23.7%). The number of patients in each activation level from highest to lowest was 9 (3.0%), 121 (40.1%), 122 (40.4%), and 50 (16.6%). Patients with lower activation were older, were less educated, had lower patient satisfaction, and had worse health literacy. They were more often discharged to skilled nursing facilities and had higher 30-day mortality, although 30-day readmission did not differ by activation. Conclusions: Patients hospitalized with ADHF with lower activation are less satisfied, have worse health literacy, more often require skilled care, and are at increased risk for early postdischarge mortality. Activation can be easily measured and may help clinicians identify high-risk patients.
The Impact of Banking-Relationship on Lines-of-Credit Pricing: Evidence from a Survey Data of a Tunisian Bank Credit Portfolio

In this paper, we empirically test the impact of the long-term banking relationship factors and those of risk on lines-of-credits pricing by using a sample extracted from a large Tunisian bank credit portfolio. We, thus, find out that only the opaqueness factors such as size negatively affect the credits prices. However, we also show that the borrower risk indicators seem to be neglected by our test bank. The latter gives more weight to the strength of the long-term relationship mainly its status as a main bank to lower prices. Still, the duration used as a proxy of banking relationship indicates that our bank should profit from the private information inaccessible to other lenders. So, we suggest the possibility of informational holdup. In addition, the guarantee-testing results do in fact support the thesis which maintains that there might be incentives to borrowers, rather than tools of borrower signal quality. We conclude that collateral is used as complement to loans price. Finally the introduction of control factors, such as the sector, in the model demonstrates that our bank considers the risk of work area in its pricing process. Hence, companies that are involved in activities of services benefit from lower rates.
The Neurophysiology of Auditory Perception: From Single Units to Evoked Potentials

Evoked electric potential and magnetic field studies have the immense benefit that they can be conducted in awake, behaving humans and can be directly correlated with aspects of perception. As such, they are powerful objective indicators of perceptual properties. However, given a set of evoked potential and/or evoked field waveforms and their source locations, obtained for an exhaustive set of stimuli and stimulus contrasts, is it possible to determine blindly, i.e. predict, what the stimuli or stimulus contrasts were? If this can be done with some success, then a useful amount of information resides in scalp-recorded activity for, e.g., the study of auditory speech processing. In this review, we compare neural representations based on single-unit and evoked response activity for vowels and consonant-vowel phonemes with distinctions in formant glides and voice onset time. We conclude that temporal aspects of evoked responses can track some of the dominant response features present in single-unit activity. However, N1 morphology does not reliably predict phonetic identification of stimuli varying in voice onset time, and the reported appearance of a double-peak onset response in aggregate recordings from the auditory cortex does not indicate a cortical correlate of the perception of voicelessness. This suggests that temporal aspects of single-unit population activity are likely not inclusive enough for representation of categorical perception boundaries. In contrast to population activity based on single-unit recording, the ability to accurately localize the sources of scalp-evoked activity is one of the bottlenecks in obtaining an accessible neurophysiological substrate of perception. Attaining this is one of the requisites to arrive at the prospect of blind determination of stimuli on the basis of evoked responses. At the current sophistication level of recording and analysis, evoked responses remain in the realm of extremely sensitive objective indicators of stimulus change or stimulus differences. As such, they are signs of perceptual activity, but not comprehensive representations thereof.
A 4-M Pixel High Dynamic Range, Low-Noise CMOS Image Sensor With Low-Power Counting ADC

In this paper, we present a 4-Mpixel high dynamic range (DR), low dark noise CMOS image sensor. The pixel design is based on a 4-T PPD structure, with one dedicated High Dynamic Range transistor added in serial with the reset transistor for changing the conversion factor during readout to enhance the DR. A low-power ramp counting Analog to Digital Convertor array is implemented to suppress the structure noise and decrease the power consumption. Measurement results show that when the sensor is operated at a full speed of 47 fps, DR of 87 dB, and dark noise of less than 2e− can be achieved. Also the proposed low-power counting method has a dramatic reduction in the current consumed by the column counters during the ADC operation compared with previous documented methods.
International Transmission of Business Cycles Between Ireland and its Trading Partners

This paper examines patterns and factors underlying the international transmission of business cycles between Ireland and its trading partners over the period 1980-2007. We estimate a model of simultaneous equations using a panel of cross-country annual data where trade integration, sectoral specialisation and financial integration are considered endogenous. Our results suggest that deeper trade and financial integration had strong direct positive effects on the synchronisation of Irish business cycles with its trading partners. Sectoral specialisation and national competitiveness differentials were sources of cyclical divergence. Sectoral specialisation had however an indirect positive effect on business cycle synchronisation via its positive effect on trade and financial integration. The adoption of the euro has led to more synchronised business cycles between Ireland and its euro area trading partners.