Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Regenerative potential of corneal endothelium from patients with fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy

La dystrophie corneenne endotheliale de Fuchs (FECD, pour l’abreviation du terme anglais « Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy ») est une maladie de l'endothelium corneen. Sa pathogenese est mal connue. Aucun traitement medical n’est efficace. Le seul traitement existant est chirurgical et consiste dans le remplacement de l’endothelium pathologique par un endothelium sain provenant de cornees de la Banque des yeux. Le traitement chirurgical, en revanche, comporte 10% de rejet immunologique. Des modeles experimentaux sont donc necessaires afin de mieux comprendre cette maladie ainsi que pour le developpement de traitements alternatifs. Le but general de cette these est de developper un modele experimental de la FECD en utilisant le genie tissulaire. Ceci a ete realise en trois etapes. 1) Tout d'abord, l'endothelium corneen a ete reconstruit par genie tissulaire en utilisant des cellules endotheliales en culture, provenant de patients atteints de FECD. Ce modele a ensuite ete caracterise in vitro. Brievement, les cellules endotheliales corneennes FECD ont ete isolees a partir de membranes de Descemet prelevees lors de greffes de cornee. Les cellules au deuxieme ou troisieme passages ont ensuite ete ensemencees sur une cornee humaine prealablement decellularisee. Suivant 2 semaines de culture, les endothelia corneens reconstruits FECD (n = 6) ont ete evalues a l'aide d'histologie, de microscopie electronique a transmission et d’immunomarquages de differentes proteines. Les endothelia corneens reconstruits FECD ont forme une monocouche de cellules polygonales bien adherees a la membrane de Descemet. Les immunomarquages ont demontre la presence des proteines importantes pour la fonctionnalite de l’endothelium corneen telles que Na+-K+/ATPase α1 et Na+/HCO3-, ainsi qu’une expression faible et uniforme de la proteine clusterine. 2) Deux techniques chirurgicales (DSAEK ; pour « Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty » et la keratoplastie penetrante) ont ete comparees pour la transplantation corneenne dans le modele animal felin. Les parametres compares incluaient les defis chirurgicaux et les resultats cliniques. La technique « DSAEK » a ete difficile a effectuer dans le modele felin. Une formation rapide de fibrine a ete observee dans tous les cas DSAEK (n = 5). 3) Finalement, la fonctionnalite in vivo des endothelia corneens reconstruits FECD a ete evaluee (n = 7). Les evaluations in vivo comprenaient la transparence, la pachymetrie et la tomographie par coherence optique. Les evaluations post-mortem incluaient la morphometrie des cellules endotheliales, la microscopie electronique a transmission et des immunomarquage de proteines liees a la fonctionnalite. Apres la transplantation, la pachymetrie a progressivement diminue et la transparence a progressivement augmente. Sept jours apres la transplantation, 6 des 7 greffes etaient claires. La microscopie electronique a transmission a montre la presence de materiel fibrillaire sous-endothelial dans toutes les greffes d’endothelia reconstruits FECD. Les…
An investigation into the effect of examiner-training on the inter-examiner reliability of the palpation of myofascial trigger points

Background: Myofascial pain is a disorder, characterized by the presence of trigger points (MTrP). It is recognised by unique features which include a tender point in a taut band of muscle, a local twitch response (LTR), a characteristic referred pain pattern, and the reproduction of the patient’s usual pain upon examination. A debate exists as to the precise diagnostic criteria used in identifying trigger points. This has hampered the standardized assessment and treatment of Myofascial Pain Syndrome and has led to contradictory findings being reported by various authors due to the lack of a reliable diagnostic tool. Objectives: The first objective was to determine the inter-examiner reliability of palpation of MTrPs in the trapezius and gluteus medius muscles. The second objective was to determine whether training and standardization in palpation techniques would improve inter-examiner reliability of palpation of MTrPs. Methods: This study was designed as a quantitative pre and post intervention interexaminer reliability study. Three examiners (one qualified Chiropractor, one senior chiropractic intern from the CDC and the researcher) were used to examine sixty patients (thirty symptomatic and thirty asymptomatic) for MTrPs. This study was conducted in two phases. During the myofascial examination of patients examiners were required to determine whether a MTrP was present or absent, differentiate whether the MTrP was active or latent and determine the presence or absence of the five characteristics of MTrP (tender point in a taut band of muscle, a local twitch response (LTR), a pain characteristic referred pain pattern, the reproduction of the patient’s usual pain and a jump sign) however, in phase one the researchers were blinded to the characteristics being investigated. Subsequent to phase one, examiners had to attend two, one hour discussion sessions to reduce individual variation in the application of palpation techniques. Results: Inter-examiner reliability was assessed using Fleiss Kappa statistic, percentage agreement and confidence intervals. The results show that three examiners are able to attain acceptable agreement in the palpation of MTrPs, since the features (described above) were shown to improve considerably in phase two after the training session in which standardization of techniques was emphasized. Conclusion: This study provides preliminary evidence that MTrP palpation is reliable and therefore, useful diagnostic tool in the identification of MTrPs and the diagnosis of Myofascial Pain Syndrome.
SPAC IPOs Chapter Final version

Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are a special type of public companies currently available to investors in finan ci l markets. As an investment vehicle, modern SPACs are traced back to 18-th cent ury England where blank checks were first mentioned as blind pools during t he infamous South Sea Bubble. In the United States, the Security and Exch ange Commission classifies SPAC as a blank check company. This chapter reviews the academic and financial literatures about SPACs, describes their institutional characteristics and analyses their market performance since Initial Pub lic Offering (IPO). The sole purpose of SPACs is to use the proceeds to finance future acquisition.
Cuidados de enfermagem na prevenção da insuficiência renal provocada por contraste após cateterismo

The purpose of this study was to identify the nursing scientific production on acute renal failure caused by post-catheterism iodized cardiac contrast, from 2002 to 2007, by analyzing its practical application. A critical analysis was further performed of the selected scientific production outlining nursing care. This study is a literature review of nursing articles, found through computerized search. Out of the 47 articles found, ten were selected because they met the inclusion criteria. After the analysis of the articles, we checked the importance of the nurse’s performance in the prevention of acute renal failure caused by contrasts. In addition, we noted the best nursing practices for prevention of acute renal failure caused by contrasts.
Liquidity and Performance of Nigerian Banks

This study empirically investigated the interrelationship between liquidity and corporate performance of banks in Nigeria with the use of annual data from 1984 to 2014. The work utilized Cash Reserve Ratio, Liquidity Ratio and Loan-to-Deposit Ratio as proxies for liquidity; and Return on Shareholders’ funds as the proxy for performance and applied finometric analyses that include Ordinary Least Square Regression, Johanson Cointegration, Granger Causality test and Error Correction Model. Empirical results indicate a significant negative short-run relationship between Cash Reserve Ratio and corporate performance as well as a positive relationship between Loan-toDeposit Ratio and Liquidity Ratio on one hand and corporate performance on the other albeit significantly and insignificantly respectively. Also, Cash Reserve Ratio and Liquidity Ratio are statistically significant enough to influence Return on Shareholders’ Fund in the long run, while the Loan-to-Deposit Ratio exhibits complacency in instigating Performance in deposit money banks in Nigeria; a position corroborated by the Causality results, implying that other factors could be responsible for banks’ performance such as industry structure and government policies or regulations. Consequently, it is recommended that regulators such as the Central Bank of Nigeria may need to deliberately reconsider banks’ capital reserves ratio as negative relationship found in this study points towards that direction in order to increase the corporate performance of banks, banks should avoid excess liquid assets, banks should fully utilize the loan to deposit ratio by increasing marketing effort.
20th Biennial International Congress: New Trends in Tourism and Hotel Management, Opatija (Croatia), 06–08.05.2010 PROFESSIONAL TOURIST GUIDING: THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERPRETATION FOR TOURIST EXPERIENCES

In today's international tourism it may happen that, without the role of mediators, existing destination resources remain either unavailable to visitors or not properly understood and valued by them. Interpretation of the local heritage, living culture, values and cultural identity in general is the key component of the contemporary guide's role. Tourist guides are front-line professionals who, unlike any other tourism players establish a close, intense and influencing contact with visitors at the same time protecting interests of sustainable tourism. They are often called “tourism ambassadors“ of their destinations. Nevertheless, their profession is commonly perceived as an ancillary, repetitive and mass tourism activity, although it can be a very effective tool in the construction of tourist experiences.
A neural architecture to learn image-text joint embedding

In this project, we explore the task of measuring semantic similarity between visual data and text data. We build two-branch neural networks for learning the similarity and train and validate on Flickr30K and MSCOCO datasets for image-sentence retrieval task i.e given an input image, the goal is to ﬁnd the best matching sentences from a database. We conduct numerical investigations to quantify and understand the impact of several components of the proposed architecture on the image-sentence retrieval task.
Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias, also called my-side bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less attention to information that contradicts it. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series), and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations). Illusory correlation can be called “connecting too many dots” and “connecting dots that don’t connect”.
Relationship in Casual Dining Restaurants: The Mediating Effects of Relationship Quality and Moderating Effects of Gender International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management Purpose: The study examines the mediating effects of relationship quality (RQ) on the relationship between six antece

Originality: The study extends existing models of RQ in the hospitality and tourism literature by confirming that RQ is best modeled as a second-order construct consisting of three firstorder dimensions: trust, satisfaction and commitment. The study also demonstrates that RQ mediates the relationship between the antecedents of RQ and loyalty. Finally, this research confirms the moderating effects of gender on the hypothesized relationships.
The Role of L1 Transfer in the Acquisition of Lexical-Functional Categories by Persian Speaking Learners of English

This research project attempts to study the initial state of English acquisition by Persian learners of English. The learning hypotheses proposed for the initial state of second language acquisition i.e. Minimal trees (Vainikka and Young–Schoton, 1994), Full access/Full transfer (Schwartz and Sproues,1994), and the Weak Parametric Transfer (Valueless Features) hypothesis (Eubank 1993/94, 1996), the study attempts to show which of three viewpoints is generalizable and applicable to foreign language acquisition. For this purpose 300 subjects out of 450 were selected and based on a Oxford Quick Placement Test, they were divided into 3 levels of proficiency, i.e. elementary, intermediate and advanced groups. The subjects were supposed to retell a part of a film. The data analyzed via SPSS.9 software showed that the acquisition of all categories such as noun categories and verb categories except one category (copula "be") were consistent with Minimal trees view Point. Copula "be" category was consistent with both Minimal trees and Full access/Full transfer viewpoints. In short, Minimal trees viewpoint more convincingly gave an account for the initial state of English as a foreign language.
Dividend Policy Ratios and Firm Performance: a case study of Selected Hotels and Restaurants in Sri Lanka

Dividend policy is one of the most complex aspects in finance. The reality is that dividend policy is more commonly an instrument of wealth distribution than it is an instrument of wealth creation. The study of firm performance determinants is a central question for strategic management. In this study, an attempt has been made to analyze the Dividend policy Ratios and Firm Performance during 2008 to 2012 (05 years) financial year of Selected Hotels & Restaurants in Sri Lanka. For the purpose of this study, the data was extracted from the annual reports of sample companies. Correlation and multiple regression analysis are used for analysis. The results revealed that dividend policy ratios has a great impact on all firm performance ratios except return on investment (ROI) and return on equity (ROE). Further EPS, P/E and PB are significantly correlated with ROA 5 percent level of significance. At the same time P/E is significantly correlated with ROE at 5 percent level of significance. Finally EPS and PB are significantly correlated with ROE at 1 percent level of significance.
FeBABE analysis of MotA binding to DNA

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Investment Horizon and Price Reaction to Analyst Earnings Forecast Revision

This paper shows that investment horizon contributes to the stock price reaction associated with analyst earnings forecast revisions. By using share-weighted portfolio turnover levels of mutual fund shareholders of the stock as a measure of investment horizon of the stock’s shareholders, we find that investors with short horizon show stronger and more immediate response than for stocks held mainly by long-term investors three days around the three-day window of analyst forecast revision, while those with long-term horizon show slower and gradual reaction and generate more intense post-forecast-revision drift. The results remain robust even after analyst coverage, divergence in opinion, firm size, book-to-market, and momentum are controlled for. Moreover, difference in post-forecast-revision drift between long-term and short-term investors is robust regardless of the information uncertainty level.
Moderating Effect of Auditors’ Specialization and Earnings Management: The Case of Tunisia

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the auditors’ specialization and loan loss provision over the period 2001-2011. Specifically, this paper examined the auditors’ specialization impact on earnings management via discretionary provision. This study emphasizes the researching significance the interaction effect of the auditors’ specialization and earnings before loan loss provisions on the discretionary provision. Multivariate regressions are employed to test the effect of auditors’ specialization on discretionary provisions as a proxy for earnings management. The results indicate that the relationship between loan loss provisions and earnings is positive, suggesting that managers use the loan loss provision to smooth earnings; this relationship is moderated by the auditors’ specialization, which provides evidence that the auditors’ specialization mitigates income smoothing. In addition, further analysis indicates that the discretionary provision can be understated to artificially manage earnings upwards; the moderating effect provides evidence that auditors’ specialization reduces the discretionary provision. This study contributes to the literature on specialist auditors and its impact on earnings management among Tunisian banks by introducing the moderating effect that reduces the discretionary provision.
Molar incisor hypomineralization: Prevalence and defect characteristics in Indian schoolchildren

Objectives: To report the prevalence and clinical features of molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH) in 8-12-year-old Indian schoolchildren. Study Design: A cross-sectional survey including a random sample of 1,240 schoolchildren aged 8-12 years from Gautam Budh Nagar was conducted. The examination was performed by a single, well-trained calibrated examiner in wet conditions using an artificial light source. The diagnostic criteria were set as per the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD) 2003 criteria. Restorative treatment needs (RTN) owing to MIH were calculated as the number of affected subjects with post-eruptive breakdown (PEB), quantitative loss of tooth substance, or caries owing to MIH. The descriptive data were expressed as mean ± SD and/or n (%). For data analysis, the t-test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test were used. Results: A prevalence of 10.48% (130/1240) was reported, with RTNs in 42.31% (55/130). Buccal surfaces were the most commonly affected surfaces (P < 0.001), while white opacity was the commonest lesion (P < 0.001). Both the arches were equally affected (P = 0.212), with mandibular first permanent molars (FPMs) being the most frequently affected type of teeth (P = 0.001). Conclusion: The present study reported a prevalence of 10.48% with RTNs in 42.31% of the affected subjects. Further studies mapping the prevalence from various other geographical areas of India are required.
Aspectos clínicos e características do leite em ovelhas com mastite induzida experimentalmente com Staphylococcus aureus

The objective was to study the clinical aspects and the physical-chemical characteristics of the milk in sheep with mastitis experimentally induced with Staphylococcus aureus. For such, were used 10 Santa Ines primiparity ewes, weighing 30 kg, clinically healthy and housed in a stall. After establishing the normality patterns for the studied variables, the animals were inoculated into one teat of the udder with an inoculum of 1.0x104ufc/ml of S. aureus, while the other gland served as control. The clinical observations were accomplished in intervals of 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84, 96, 108, 120, 132, 168, 180, 288 and 336 hours after the inoculation of the agent (PI). All the animals presented clinical systemic manifestations, and in the inoculated glands with more intensity from 24 hours on after the inoculation. There were significant alterations (P<0.05) in the production and physical-chemical composition of the milk in relation to the controls, with reduction of volume and fat. The pH, the chlorates and CCS reached very high indexes, accompanied by the CMT test reaction. The bacteriological exam revealed the presence of S. aureus during the phase of infection. After the treatment of the sheep 36 hours PI, one animal came to death 48h PI, and the others showed clinical recovery; however there was no physiologic re-establishment of the inoculated udders which lost their function.
Control of Flowfield upfront of Compression Ramp by Q-DC Electric Discharge

Flow control effects of a Q-DC electric discharge on the flowfield over a 15-degree compression ramp was studied in a Mach-2 supersonic wind tunnel. The flow structure modified by Q-DC plasma filaments generated upstream of the ramp was visualized using the schlieren method with a high-speed camera at 20,000 frames per second. Oscillatory behavior was observed in the images and corresponding Kulite pressure on the ramp surface and behind the electrodes. High-speed images were analyzed in the frequency domain by employing the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) method to find characteristic frequencies that took place in the shock wave oscillation potentially causing mechanical vibrations in aircraft structure. A 1.2-kHz oscillation was identified as a shock wave oscillatory mode occurring at the plasma-induced shock wave. A corresponding FFT peak around 1.2kHz was also found in the pressure measured behind electrodes, but not at the ramp, meaning that this shock wave oscillation is less possible to cause mechanical resonance to flaps downstream of the plasma zone within the frequency range explored in this work.