Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Sexual Education based on Sexual Health Model on the Sexual Function of Women with Infertility

Background: Infertility has deep psychological impacts on the sexual function of women such as a sense of fear, failure, and incompetence. It can also result in reduced sexual desire, unattained orgasm, and other sexual disorders. However, sexual education is assumed to improve the sexual function in these cases. Therefore, we study the effect of sexual education based on Sexual Health Model (SHM) on sexual function disorders in women with infertility. Materials and Methods: A singleblind, randomized controlled trial was conducted on 108 women with infertility (54 intervention group and 54 control group) aged between 18 and 40 years at the Milad Infertility Center of Mashhad in 2016. The intervention comprised three 90-min sessions administered during 1 week. At first, a pretest (Female Sexual Function Index [FSFI]) was completed, and 1 month after the end of the intervention, the posttest (FSFI) was completed. To analyze the data, independent t-test, Mann–Whitney test, and Wilcoxon test were run. Results: The mean (Standard Deviation [SD]) age of women and their spouses was 30.61 (5.42) and 34.42 (5.73)years, respectively. Results of Mann–Whitney test showed that after 1 month of intervention, there was a significant difference between intervention and control groups (Z = −4.87, p < 0.001). Moreover, results of Wilcoxon test showed a significant difference in the sexual function in the intervention group before and after the intervention (Z = 2.81, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Given the positive effects of SHM-based sexual education, this method could be considered as a subset of sexual education materials used for women with infertility suffering from sexual disorders.
The Advanced Practice Nurse as a Member of the Cardiovascular Team

Team-based care is paramount to meet the mission of the American College of Cardiology which is to transform cardiovascular care and improve heart health. Advanced practice registered nurses (APRN) are integral to this team. Although the recent ACC 2015 health policy statement on cardiovascular team-based care address contributions of all members of the team, further information that defines APRNs, their contributions to the cardiovascular team and barriers to practice are needed. Therefore, the purpose of this manuscript is to further explain the role of the APRN as a member of the cardiovascular team with a focus on the certified nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist within the United States.
Workers ' Home Bias and Spatial Wage Gaps ∗ Lessons from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany

Workers' birth-place shapes their labor market prospects: only few nd a job elsewhere, and of those, a large fraction moves back home. Such home bias can have important aggregate e ects if regions di er in their productivity. Moreover, understanding the drivers of the bias is paramount to shape regional policy. In this paper, we use Germany as a laboratory to shed light on the drivers and consequences of home bias. We rst document, using matched employer employee data, that Germans born in the East enjoy large wage gains when moving West, but nonetheless they do so rarely: they mostly climb a local job ladder, which keeps them trapped in lower wage rms. We then build a tractable framework with worker reallocation across rms and space to structurally interpret the evidence. We show that East-born workers value one dollar earned in the West only as much as 74 cents earned in the East. They are also four times more likely to receive a job o er from the East, and are on average less skilled, but their skills are equally valuable in East and West. Counterfactuals show that removing either of the sources of home bias have sharp, but distinct, e ects on aggregate wages and workers' utility. ∗The views and opinions expressed in this work do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. We thank for helpful comments and suggestions Costas Arkolakis, Tarek Hassan, David Lagakos, Giuseppe Moscarini, Michael Peters, Todd Schoellman, Mine Sense, and seminar participants at Arizona State University, Berkeley, Columbia, Johns Hopkins SAIS, Macro-Development Workshop at Cornell Tech Campus, NBER SI 2018 (Macro-Perspectives), NY Fed, NYU Trade Jamboree, Penn State, UBC, UCLA, UCSD, UCR, UPenn, Oslo, and Zurich. †33 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10045, email: sebastian.heise@ny.frb. org. ‡9500 Gilman Drive #0508, La Jolla, CA 92093-0508, email: tporzio@ucsd.edu.
Effect of some adjuvants application on enhancing sulfosulfuron herbicide performance on Phalaris minor- Poaceae

Accepted: 13 Feb. 2015 Nowadays environmental pollution by pesticides application is a major concern for health. Efficiency of many herbicides can be increased by adding adjuvants to the spray solution. Therefore greenhouse study was conducted during 2014 to determine the efficacy of three adjuvants (Citogate, Castor oil and Canola oil) at concentrations of 0.1 and 0.2 (%v/v) with 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 g a.i\ha of sulfosulfuron herbicide on littleseed canary grass. Results showed that the adjuvants enhanced the efficacy of sulfosulfuron in decreasing the dry weights of littleseed canary grass. Performance of herbicide was increased with enhancing its concentrations. Measured ED50 and ED90 concentrations of sulfosulfuron in control were 16.74 and 32.22 g a.i\ha, respectively. Whereas the values for Citogate 0.2 (%v\v), was 5.86 and 13.34 g a.i\ha, respectively. The addition of Citogate and Castor oil had the highest and lowest effect on sulfosulfuron efficacy against Littleseed canary grass. In conclusion, the study revealed that Citogate concentrations had powerful effects on herbicide efficacy followed by Canola oil.
Why Do Some Oil-Rich Countries Perform Better than Others?

Progress in child mortality reduction and education attainment varies widely among oil-rich countries. This paper investigates the causes of this variation using an empirical model that departs from the available literature in allowing for explicit measurement of the impact of initial levels of child mortality and education attainment. The results show that the following four variables are statistically significant and robust across various specifications: public spending on health and education, economic growth rates, caloric sufficiency, and initial levels of child mortality and education attainment. Further analysis was conducted to determine the economic significance of these factors by examining the contribution of each to the fitted growth rates (as a deviation from the sample mean) of child mortality and secondary school enrollment for 14 oil-rich developing countries. The analysis reveals some interesting patterns. First, initial conditions dominate the results for education attainment: the initial level of secondary school enrollment in 1980 is the dominant factor in explaining subsequent improvements in 10 of the 14 oil-rich developing countries for which calculations could be performed. Second, policy factors worked in different ways in different countries. A high degree of caloric sufficiency enabled countries in the Middle East and North Africa to reduce child mortality faster, while low levels of caloric sufficiency prevented African oil-rich countries, such as Angola and the Republic of Congo, from making progress. Third, levels of public spending were not economically critical for gains in school enrollment, although they were important in a few country cases for improvements in child mortality rates.
Managing Through Contracts: The Employment Effects of Compulsory Competitive Tendering in Australian Local Government

This article brings new evidence to bear on the employment and human resource effects of competitive tendering and contracting. Drawing on a database of over two hundred workplace agreements, the article examines the impact of compulsory competitive tendering on employees’ pay and employment arrangements in the Australian local government sector. The findings are contextualised in the light of evidence on the outcomes of a similar contracting regime in Britain.
Comparative analysis of plyometric training program and dynamic stretching on vertical jump and agility in male collegiate basketball player.

The purpose of the study was to compare, analyze the individual and combined effect of plyometric training program and dynamic stretching on vertical jump and agility. The subjects included 45, healthy male collegiate basketball players between the ages of 1825. All subjects were tested in the vertical jump and agility using the Sergeant Jump test and T-test respectively prior to starting the dynamic stretching and plyometric training program. The subjects then completed a four week plyometric training program and were retested. Univariate ANOVA was conducted to analyze the change scores (post – pre) in the independent variables by group (plyometric, dynamic stretching and combined) with pre scores as covariates. The Univariate ANOVA revealed a significant group effect for Sergeant Jump test F = 12.95, P = 0.000 for Dynamic stretching group, F = 12.55, P = 0.000 for Plyometric training group and F = 15.11, P = 0.000 for combined group. The combined group reveled, maximum increase in the height when compared with the pretest scores. For the TTest agility scores a significant group effect was found F = 2.00, P = 0.043 for Plyometric training group, F = 9.14, P = 0.000 for combined group while dynamic stretching group F = 2.11, P = 0.088 reveled non significant results. The findings suggested that two days of plyometric training a week in combination with dynamic stretching for four weeks is sufficient enough to show improvements in vertical jump height and agility. The results also suggest that two days of plyometric training and dynamic stretching are equally effective in improving vertical jump height. In contrast dynamic stretching two days a week for four weeks was not sufficient enough to show improvements in agility while plyometric training was sufficient.
Moments given regimes in Markov-switching VAR models

We contribute to the theoretical understanding of Markov-switching Vector AutoRegressive (MS VAR) processes by making available conditional moments given regimes — i.e. moments conditional on any state or sequence of states — up to the fourth order. These conditional moments have several utilities. They summarize the series level, variation and co-movements given the current state, hence enhancing model interpretation. They allow generalizing existing results about third and fourth order unconditional moments to the multivariate case. These moments can also be used to build a finite mixture of gaussian distributions that carefully approximates the marginal distribution of the MS VAR process either unconditionally or for a given regime. Our results also apply to the closely related MS state space models where some further applications are discussed.
Selection and Optimization of Most Suitable Path Loss Prediction Model for Suburban City in Nigeria Using Spline Interpolation

Path loss is an attenuation of Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) signal between Base Transceiver Station (BTS) and Mobile Station (MS). Path loss helps network engineers in planning, designing and implementing telecommunication networks. This work examines the applicability of Hata, COST 231, ECC – 33, Ericsson and SUI models in a medium city (Mubi) in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Root mean square error (RMSE) between the measured and the predicted losses (output of the models) is obtained as 7.632dB, 14.736dB, 10.593dB, 0.639dB and 23.491dB respectively. Ericsson model is found to have the least RMSE. Therefore, it is selected as the best fit model and modified. Furthermore, the modified model is optimized to recover missing or to eliminate unwanted information in the radio path using spline interpolation. The optimized model can be employed for the deployment of network resources in suburban areas of Nigeria, especially in Mubi town in Adamawa State, in order to significantly enhance GSM signal QoS. It is recommended that fuzzy logic and spline interpolation techniques may be integrated and employed to further minimize the error obtained in this work.
MAXIMALLY LOCALIZED STATES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS WITH A MODIFIED COMMUTATION RELATION TO ALL ORDERS

We construct the states of maximal localization taking into account a modification of the commutation relation between position and momentum operators to all orders of the minimum length parameter. To first-order, the algebra we use reproduces the one proposed by Kempf, Mangano and Mann. It is emphasized that a minimal length acts as a natural regulator for the theory, thus eliminating the otherwise ever appearing infinities. So, we use our results to calculate the first correction to the Casimir effect due to the minimal length. We also discuss some of the physical consequences of the existence of a minimal length, culminating in a proposal to reformulate the very concept of "position measurement. "
Fossil midge larvae (Diptera: Chironomidae) as quantitative indicators of late-winter hypolimnetic oxygen in southern Finland: a calibration model, case studies and potentialities

We examined the relationship between fossil chironomid assemblages and environmental variables in 30 lakes in southern Finland with particular attention to hypolimnetic oxygen. Ordination techniques (DCA, CCAs) and Monte Carlo permutation tests were used to identify the most important parameters controlling the chironomid distributions. Based on the λ 1 :λ 2 ratios of the variables, the greatest potential for quantitative inferences was with hypolimnetic oxygen (λ 1 :λ 2 = 0.767). Therefore, inference models for past late-winter hypolimnetic oxygen were developed using weighted-averaging partial least squares (WA-PLS) techniques. The best model used one WA-PLS component, with a cross-validated coefficient of determination (r 2 jack ) of 0.72 and a root-mean-squared error of prediction (RMSEP) of 2.351 mg l ―1 . The model was tested on two short-core sediment sequences. The results indicated that quantitative estimations of hypolimnetic oxygen changes provide a useful tool for palaeolimnology and lake management in assessments of lake ecosystems, and in restoration projects in southern Finland.
Economic Growth among a Network of Industries

Which industries contribute the most to aggregate economic growth, when taking into account not only each industry’s own value added, but also technological spillovers across industries? To shed light on this question, I develop a model of economic growth in which technological spillovers induce a network structure among industries. As an endogenous result of the model, the more similar that two industries’ production functions are to each other, the greater the technological spillovers between them, i.e., the stronger the link between the two industries in the network. An industry contributes more to aggregate growth when the industry has a more central position in the network. The closed-economy version of the model is tested using data on growth in each industry in the US from 1960 to 2005, while the openeconomy version of the model is tested using data on bilateral, industry-specic trade ows among 72 countries, from 1962 to 2000; I nd that the model explains relative growth in each industry and changing patterns of trade over this period better than the null model with no network eects.
Coalition Governments and Party Competition: Political Communication Strategies of Coalition Parties*

Coalition parties have to reconcile two competing logics: they need to demonstrate unity to govern together, but also have to emphasize their own profile to succeed in elections. We argue that the electoral cycle explains whether unity or differentiation prevails. While differentiation dominates at the beginning and the end of the legislative term in close proximity to elections, compromise dominates the middle of the term when coalition governments focus on enacting a common policy agenda. To test our theoretical claims, we draw on an innovative quantitative text analysis of more than 21,000 press releases published by coalition parties from 2000 until 2010.
Urinary retention discriminates multiple system atrophy from Parkinson's disease

physiological networks involved in involuntary movement. In general, tics may remit spontaneously in the natural course of GTS. Three-quarters of patients with GTS will have diminished tics by early adulthood. However, dramatic improvements are usually unlikely in refractory cases, even during adulthood. Thus, DBS may accelerate this natural course of remission. Indication for DBS must consider the possibility of natural remission in the future and that DBS must be continued in the long term once initiated. Our experiences suggest that DBS is a temporary but not necessarily lifelong treatment option for some patients with severe GTS. DBS may be terminated if improvement of the patient’s symptoms is sustained.
Involvement of extracellular vesicles in the macrophage-tumor cell communication in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Background Exosomes are cell-derived vesicles that mediate cellular communication in health and multiple diseases, including cancer. However, its role in head and neck cancer has been poorly defined. Here, we investigated the relevance of exosomes in the signaling between larynx cancer cells and macrophages. Methods Exosomes from THP1 macrophages and BICR18 cells (a larynx squamous cell carcinoma cell line) were purified and their role in the cancer cell migration, macrophage phenotype and immunosuppressive activity was evaluated. The activation of STAT3 signal transduction in macrophages in response to exosomes obtained from cancer cells was also evaluated. Results Macrophages foster the cancer cell migration and this effect is mediated by exosome signaling. On the other hand, exosomes also induce the expression of IL-10 in macrophages and PD-L1 in cancer cells, thus resulting in the promotion of an immunosuppressive environment. Moreover, we observed that the effects induced in cancer cells are mediated by the exosome-depending activation of STAT-3 signal transduction pathway. Conclusions Our study indicates that exosomes released by both macrophages and cancer cells plays a critical role in tumor progression in larynx cancer and might be a potential target for therapeutic intervention in head and neck cancer.
Calculations of flow-induced orientation distributions for analysis of linear dichroism spectroscopy

Spectroscopic techniques involving flow-oriented samples and polarised light, such as linear dichroism (LD), are becoming in- creasingly useful to probe biomacromolecular assemblies. However, the magnitude of the signal and in some cases the shape of the spectrum are dependent on the distribution of the orientations of the molecules in the sample. Despite great progress in the modelling of dilute and semi-dilute suspension mechanics, these theories have had remarkably little impact on the community practising LD. We perform calculations with a model combining Brownian effects and rotations in a steady shear flow of a dilute suspension of rigid, rodlike particles. We calculate the time-dependent probability density functions for the orientation distri- butions of three biomolecular assemblies: M13 bacteriophage, DNA molecules of well-defined length, and FtsZ protofilaments. Our calculations allow us to compute directly (rather than infer from experiment) the LD orientation parameter, S, for such assemblies. The results from the model are consistent with experiment for M13 bacteriophage and allow us to estimate S empir- ically for reasonably short DNA molecules. In analysing the particle size distribution for the process of FtsZ polymerisation, we find that results from the model aid our understanding of the process.
Bond Strength of Denture Teeth to Heat-Cured, CAD-CAM and 3D Printed Denture Acrylics.

PURPOSE To establish the fracture toughness (K1C ) and flexural bond strength of commercially available denture teeth to heat cured, CAD-CAM and 3D printed denture-based resins (DBRs). MATERIALS AND METHODS Three types of DBRs (Heat cure, CAD-milled and 3D printed) and four different types of commercial denture teeth (Unfilled PMMA, double cross-linked PMMA, PMMA with nanofillers and 3D printed resin teeth) were investigated. DBR and epoxy embedded denture teeth (n = 30 per group) specimen beams (25 × 4 × 3 mm) were fabricated. The testing ends of all the specimens were surface treated, bonded and processed according to manufacturer's instructions. Twenty specimens were thermal cycled to simulate the effects of 6 and 12 months intraorally. A 4-point bend test, using the chevron-notched beam method was done and K1C (MPa ·m1/2 ) and flexure bond strength (MPa) were calculated. All specimens were analysed for the mode of failure under the light microscope and selected specimens under scanning electron microscope. Results were statistically analysed using ANOVA (SPSS Ver 24). RESULTS The mean K1C was the highest for the teeth bonded to the heat-cured DBR group (1.09 ±0.24), followed by CAD-CAM (0.43 ±0.05) and 3D printed groups (0.17 ±0.01). Differences were statistically significant (p<0.01). Within each group, aging showed statistically significantly lower values but no statistical significance between the mean K1C and flexural bond strength (p = 0.36). The dominant mode of failure was cohesive in the CAD-CAM groups and adhesive in the heat-cured and 3D printed groups. CONCLUSION Teeth bonded to heat-cured DBRs produced the highest K1C . The bond strength decreased significantly with aging. Teeth bonded to CAD-CAM and 3D printed DBRs showed significantly lower bond strength, with no significant influence of aging. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
The Impact of Livestock Grazing on Soil Characteristics in Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Livestock grazing is an anthropogenic disturbance on the soil properties in montane forests of the northern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. It was determined the effect of livestock grazing on SOC, N, CEC, SAS, SFD and P in the montane forest. Forty plots were randomly established for collection of soil samples. Data showed livestock grazing decreased the accumulation of SOC and consequently negatively affected the natural pattern of N, P, SFD, CEC and SAS. An opposing pattern of available soil phosphorus was interpreted that the nutrient pool retained in plant tissues particularly in the long-lived trees, which were absent in heavily grazed area. The observed positive correlation between SOC with TN and CEC implies the livestock grazing impacts on the former negatively affected the later soil parameters. Low fungal density in degraded parts of the montane forest indicates that they are sensitive to the current land use change. Based on the observation from this study, it can be regarded that excessive livestock grazing has a long-term negative ramification for soil conservation in montane forest. An important decision has to be sought off with regard to the conservation management of soil characteristics of the montane forest in Kilimanjaro Mountain.