Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Successful Continuation of Peritoneal Dialysis after " Sweet "

A 44-year-old woman with end-stage renal disease presented with dyspnea on exertion and a vague chest pain about two weeks after commencing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) four months ago. A chest x-ray revealed massive unilateral right-sided pleural effusion. Laboratory analysis of the effusion revealed low protein and lactate dehydrogenase but elevated glucose levels were consistent with transudate and pleuroperitoneal leakage. Pleural glucose concentration was much higher than patients’ serum glucose concentration, which was suggestive of "sweet" hydrothorax because of this high glucose concentration. It is advisable to keep this condition in mind among the differenttial diagnoses of hydrothorax in patients on CAPD.
The Effect of Profitability and Asset Structure on Capital Structure , Dividend Policy and Corporate Value : Study on Manufacturing Companies Listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange Year 2008-2012

The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze the effect of profitability and asset structure on capital structure, dividend policy and corporate value on manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange. The sample is 33 companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange during the five-year observation period, namely from 2008 to 2012. The data collection technique is using historical data in financial reports officially published on the website of the Indonesian Stock Exchange. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis and Generalized Structural Component Analysis (GSCA). The result shows that profitability has a significant effect on capital structure, capital structure has a significant effect on profitability, profitability has a significant effect on corporate value, dividend policy has a significant effect on profitability, asset structure has a significant effect on capital structure, capital structure has a significant effect on asset structure, asset structure has a significant effect on corporate value, asset structure has no significant effect on dividend policy, dividend policy has a significant effect on asset structure, profitability has a significant effect on dividend policy, capital structure has no significant effect on dividend policy, dividend policy has a significant effect on capital structure, capital structure has a significant effect on corporate value, and dividend policy has a significant effect on corporate value.
ELECTRA : A LEAD COOLED REACTOR FOR TRAINING AND EDUCATION

ELECTRA-FCC (European Lead Cooled Training Reactor – Fuel Cycle Centre) consists of a 0.5 MW fast reactor with (Pu, Zr)N fuel, cooled by natural convection of liquid lead, a facility for separation of spent LWR fuel and a fuel fabrication facility. The center is intended to function as a training facility in support of MYRRHA and ALFRED reactors. It will permit to carry out highly innovative research on fast reactor dynamics and fuel cycle processes. In the paper, the technological choices are discussed and activities on qualifying materials and fuels for ELECTRA are reviewed.
Warming Changed Soil Respiration Dynamics of Alpine Meadow Ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau

Alpine meadow system underlain by permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau contains vast soil organic carbon and is sensitive to global warming. However, the dynamics of annual soil respiration (Rs) under long-term warming and the determined factors are still not very clear. Using open-top chambers (OTC), we assessed the effects of two-year experimental warming on the soil CO2 emission and the Q10 value (temperature sensitivity coefficient) under different warming magnitudes. Our study showed that the soil CO2 efflux rate in the warmed plots were 1.22 and 2.32 times higher compared to that of controlled plots. However, the Q10 value decreased by 45.06% and 50.34% respectively as the warming magnitude increased. These results suggested that soil moisture decreasing under global warming would enhance soil CO2 emission and lower the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rate of the alpine meadow ecosystem in the permafrost region on the Tibetan Plateau. Thus, it is necessary to take into account the combined effect of ground surface warming and soil moisture decrease on the Rs in order to comprehensively evaluate the carbon emissions of the alpine meadow ecosystem, especially in short and medium terms.
Remote Sensing of Pasture Degradation Processes in Southern Pará : Woody Encroachment Trajectories from Landsat TM and ETM + Data ( 1984-2012 ) ✩

Encroachment of woody vegetation is contributing to decreased productivity on managed grasslands in the Brazilian Amazon. Secondary succession on pastures has previously been shown to vary over time, whereas the duration of land-use and intensity of the prevalent management schemes steer the rates of regrowth. It is hypothesized, that the relationship between pasture age and the prevalence of woody vegetation is non-stationary, due to changing political and economic frameworks which direct towards more or less intensive management schemes. Remote sensing offers large potential to monitor trajectories of pasture vegetation structure to better understand vegetation-age relationships in a regional context. In the present study, annual time-series of Landsat-based dry-season metrics were generated to explore spectral-temporal behavior of grass-dominated and wood-encroached pastures. Two metrics were selected and subsequently employed to investigate the regional relationship between pasture age and woody vegetation cover. Trajectories of pastures established in varying years were compared to assess whether the age-vegetation relationship is temporally variant. Coincidences with changes in policies, widely supporting the observed trajectory changes, were discussed. The main findings of this study suggest a decline in woody vegetation cover until pasture ages of eight years, which is followed by stable and low fractions. Trajectories of vegetation cover changed with varying year of pasture establishment, suggesting the timing of forest conversion to be a determinant of the properties of pasture trajectories. Two main periods of management regimes are suggested using this approach, whereas a period of a gradual transition from extensive towards increasingly intensive land-uses between 1988 and 1995 was followed by a period of continuously intensive management schemes with increased sensitivity to effects of global market dynamics.
Effect Of Manufacturing Tolerance In Flow Past A Compressor Blade

This paper presents the effect of manufacturing tolerance on performance and stability boundaries of a transonic fan using a RANS simulation. The effect of tip gap and stagger angle was analysed through a series of single passage and double passage simulation; based on which an optimal arrangement was proposed for random tip gap and random stagger angle in case of a whole annulus rotor. All simulations were carried out using NASA rotor 67 as a test case and AU3D an in-house CFD solver. Results illustrate that the stagger angle mainly affects efficiency and hence its circumferential variation must be as smooth as possible. Furthermore, the tip gap affects the stability boundaries, pressure ratio and efficiency. Hence its optimal configuration mandates that the blades be configured in a zigzag arrangement around the annulus i.e. larger tip gap between two smaller ones.
EFFECTS OF ENJOYMENT AND BOREDOM ON STUDENTS ‟ INTEREST IN MATHEMATICS AND VICE VERSA

Enjoyment, boredom, and interest are important for students‘ learning. To clarify the interplay between these affective variables, data from an interventional study of 119 ninth graders were analysed. Interest was assessed before and after, and emotions (enjoyment and boredom) were assessed during the five-lesson teaching unit. The results showed that (1) students who enjoyed their lessons were less bored than students who did not enjoy their lessons (2) enjoyment, but not boredom, during a teaching unit depended on students‘ initial interest in mathematics, and (3) students‘ initial interest and enjoyment during the teaching unit predicted their interest at posttest, but boredom did not influence students‘ interest at posttest.
BIT – Building Impulse Toolkit: a novel digital toolkit for productive, healthy and resource efficient buildings

This paper presents the “Building Impulse Toolkit” (BIT), a novel array of digital sensors and methodologies for the transient and holistic tracking of occupant response in the built environment. BIT aims to enable the dynamic monitoring of occupant comfort, productivity and well-being in order to inform responsive and predictive control strategies. Further, to assess user experience in order to facilitate the design and operation of future resource-efficient and occupant-centred buildings. This paper describes the preliminary results and limitations of this novel toolkit and, subsequently, discusses the future research and development required.
Chapter 1 Fish Cognition and Behaviour

The field of animal cognition is the modern approach to understanding the mental capabilities of animals. The theories are largely an extension of early comparative psychology with a strong influence of behavioural ecology and ethology. Cognition has been variously defined in the literature. Some researchers confine cognition to higher order mental functions including awareness, reasoning and consciousness. However, a more general definition of cognition also includes perception, attention, memory formation and executive functions related to information processing such as learning and problem solving. The study of animal cognition has been largely confined to birds and mammals, particularly non-human primates. This bias in the literature is in part due to the approach taken in the 1950s when cognitive psychologists began to compare known human mental processes with other closely related species. This bias was reinforced by an underlying misconception that learning played little or no role in the development of behaviour in reptiles and fishes. Throughout scientific history fishes have largely been viewed as automatons. Their behaviour was thought to be almost exclusively controlled by unlearned predispositions. Ethologists characterised their behaviour as a series of fixed action patterns released on exposure to appropriate environmental cues (sign stimuli). Whilst there is no doubt that fishes are the most ancient form of vertebrates, they are only ‘primitive’ in the sense that they have been on earth for in excess of 500 million years and that all other vertebrates evolved from some common fish-like ancestor (around 360 million years ago). However, it is important to note that fishes have not been stuck in an evolutionary quagmire during this time. Their form and function have not remained stagnant over the ages. On the contrary, within this time frame they have diversified immensely to the point where there are more species of fish than all other vertebrates combined (currently over 32,000 described species) occupying nearly every imaginable aquatic niche. The erroneous view that both behavioural and neural sophistications are associated in a linear progression from fishes through reptiles and birds to mammals is largely due to a heady mix of outdated and unscientific thinking. Aristotle’s concept of Scala naturae
Asset Pricing with Ambiguous Signals : An Experimental Study ∗

This paper explores how ambiguous signals and ambiguity aversion influence individuals’ expectations and the pricing of assets in experimental financial markets. Epstein and Schneider (2008) suggest that when faced with such ambiguous information, ambiguity-averse investors maximize expected utility under a worst-case belief as in Gilboa and Schmeidler (1989) about the quality of the ambiguous signal. In line with the theory, we find that subjects’ degree of ambiguity aversion is positively correlated with their expectations about the variance of ambiguous signals. These signals matter for the determination of asset prices. We find that price volatility is significantly larger under ambiguous signals. Our findings provide evidence in support of the idea that ambiguous information and ambiguity aversion may be a source of mispricing and excess volatility in financial markets.
EVALUATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND TISSUE OXYGEN SATURATION OF THE TISSUES OVERLYING THE GREATER TROCHANTER

Pressure ulcers are localized areas of tissue damages in skin and/or underlying tissues resulted from prolonged unrelieved external loading. Localized ischemia and ischemiareperfusion injuries are postulated to be two of the main etiological factors for pressure ulcers (1 4). Various attempts have been made by researchers to investigate the tissue oxygenation changes under compression. Bader (5) showed that under repetitive loading, transcutanous oxygen tension (TcPO2) level measured at compression site will vary according to tissue viability. Li (6, 7) used spectral analysis to examine the blood flowmotions measured from reflectance spectrometry and laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF). He demonstrated that there were increased endothelial-related metabolic and decreased myogenic activities in post compression reactive hyperemia period. However, due to the limited penetration power of the instrumentations, the measurements obtained were mainly from the skin layer. Recently, there are increased concerns in pressure ulcers originated from deep tissues. To elucidate the causation of deep tissue injuries, new techniques are required to examine tissue oxygenation at deep tissue under the loading site.
Empirical Option Weights for Multiple-Choice Items : Interactions with Item Properties and Testing Design

In scoring of a multiple-choice test, the number of correct answers does not use all information available from item responses. Scoring such tests by applying empirically determined weights to the chosen options should provide more information on examinees’ knowledge and consequently produce more valid test scores. However, existing empirical evidence on this topic does not clearly support option weighting. To overcome the limitations of the previous studies, we performed a simulation study where we manipulated the instruction to examinees, discrimination structure of distractors, test length, and sample size. We compared validity and internal consistency of number-correct scores, corrected-for-guessing scores, two variants of correlation-weighted scores and homogeneity analysis scores. The results suggest that in certain conditions the correlation-weighted scores are notably more valid than the number-correct scores. On the other hand, homogeneity analysis cannot be recommended as a scoring method. The relative performance of scoring methods strongly depends on the instructions and on distractors’ properties, and only to a lesser extent on sample size and test length.
diAGnoSiS And tHeRAPeUtiC ConSideRAtionS oF UteRine inFeCtionS in dAiRY CAttLe

From an animal health-well being, welfare, and performance perspective, the postpartum period is comprised of an early window where acute health and cow survival is an issue with the development of septic metritis. subsequently, sustained presence of endometritis is likely to be contributing to sub-fertility in lactating dairy cows with an overall herd pregnancy rate of approximately 16%. The challenge is to integrate on commercial dairies preventive medicine programs with reproductive management to improve herd fertility. Cows affected by periparturient disorders such as hypocalcemia, dystocia, and retained fetal membranes are more likely to contract uterine infections than cows that calve normally are. Thus, appropriate management of the transition period is critical in the prevention of uterine infections at the herd level. in addition, a postpartum program to monitor health to provide treatment to cows in the early stages of disease should be implemented.
The social cost of leaded gasoline: Evidence from regulatory exemptions

Leaded gasoline is still widely used in the United States for aviation and automotive racing. Exploiting regulatory exemptions and a novel quasi-experiment, we find that leaded gasoline increases ambient lead concentrations, elevated blood lead rates, and elderly mortality. The estimated effects indicate the social cost of a gram of lead added to gasoline is over $1,100. Our results are the first causal estimates linking adult mortality to leaded gasoline, highlight the historic value of banning on-road leaded gasoline, demonstrate the costs of continued regulatory exemptions, and provide policy-relevant cost estimates of lead emissions at the lowest ambient levels to date.
Determinants of Mobile Applications Acceptance for English Language Learning in Universiti Utara Malaysia

Article history: Received 1 October 2018 Received in revised form 24 October 2018 Accepted 25 October 2018 Available online 5 December 2018 The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of UUM students’ experiences in using mobile applications for English language learning (MAELL) and to investigate factors affecting the students’ intention to MAELL, gender and academic major differences in acceptance of mobile applications for English language learning, as well as barriers to using MAELL. A quantitative method was used to analyze data collected from 675 participants in Malaysia. The result indicated that Mobile applications have already become a necessity for UUM students and the majority of them (82.5 %) had previous experience using MAELL. Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence, Facilitating Conditions, and self-management of learning were all significant factors that affect students’ intention to use MAELL. Gender and academic major differences in acceptance of MAELL were also examined. Additionally, barriers to using MAELL were discussed in terms of English language learning issues. Finally, this study discusses implications, limitations, and proposed areas for future study. This study adds to the knowledge of how to use smartphones for language learning and provides useful insights on the acceptance of MAELL.
Managements ’ Leadership Style and Early Childhood Education ( ECE ) Teachers ’ Attitude to Work in Offa Local Government Area , Kwara State , Nigeria

The study investigated managements’ leadership style and ECE teachers’ attitude to work in Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria. Causal-comparative design of the correlation type was adopted. The population comprised all teachers in preschool and lower primary schools in Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 200 teachers from 20 schools selected. Two self-developed instruments used for data collection were “Managements’ Leadership Styles Rating Scale” and “Teachers’ Attitude to Work Scale” with reliability coefficient of 0.81 and 0.73 respectively. The data collected were analyzed with descriptive statistics, T-test and Analysis of Variance. Leadership style had significant influence on teachers’ attitude to work and democratic leadership style produced better attitude to work among teachers. Therefore, it was recommended that school managers should employ appropriate leadership style to encourage better work attitude and excellent performance among their teachers. Also, they should regularly receive more leadership training to update their knowledge on leadership for improved management and relationship with the teachers.
Analysis of heat capacity and Mössbauer data for LuZnSn 2 compound Kazimierz Łą tka

Recently, new ternary intermetallic compounds RZnSn2 (R = Y, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Lu) were synthesized and it was shown that they crystallize in the tetragonal HfCuSi2 structure type [1]. These compounds belong to the rich family of R(A)-T-X (R − rare earth or A − actinide element, T − d metal, X − p element) ternary intermetallics [2–21], which present a variety of crystal and magnetic structures and a plethora of interesting physical properties, including complex magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, and intermediate valence. Magnetic susceptibility and heat capacity results show that LuZnSn2 compound does not undergo any magnetic phase transition down to 1.9 K [1, 22], and therefore this compound is an ideal reference material for the estimation of magnetic contributions to heat capacity of magnetically ordered isostructural compounds. The aim of this work is to present and discuss a new analysis of heat capacity data [22] obtained for LuZnSn2 with the help of an extended Debye model that fi ts experimental data in whole range of temperatures in contrast to the results obtained earlier [22] where simple Debye model was used. Additionally, the results of preliminary Mössbauer investigation made with 119Sn source will be reported and discussed for the compound under study. Analysis of heat capacity and Mössbauer data for LuZnSn2 compound Kazimierz Łątka, Janusz Przewoźnik, Jan Żukrowski, Yuriy Verbovytskyy, Antonio Pereira Gonçalves
Towards and Integrative Framework

In a context of increasing concern with environmental factors, hotels show a tendency to respond with some passivity to eco-innovation. This article intends to present an integrative perspective of the dimensions that influence the adoption of eco-innovation, starting from the external dimension, which incorporates the context and drivers of eco-innovation. The internal dimension is divided into two levels: ordinary and dynamic
Consensus Analyst Target Prices: Information Content and Implications for Investors

Consensus analyst target prices are widely available online at no cost to investors. In this paper we examine how the amount of dispersion in the individual target prices comprising the consensus affects the predictive relationship between the consensus target price and future returns. We find some evidence that when dispersion is low, returns predicted by consensus target prices are more positively associated with realized future returns. However, we document a strong negative association between predicted and realized returns for stocks with high target price dispersion. Further analyses suggest that this effect of dispersion reflects distortions from analysts being slow to update price targets after bad news. As a stock performs poorly and some analysts are slow to update their target prices, dispersion increases and the consensus target price becomes too high. This has important implications for the informativeness of the consensus analyst target price. Finally, we show that the negative correlation between consensus-based predicted returns and future realized returns for high-dispersion stocks exists mainly for stocks with high retail interest, suggesting that unsophisticated investors are misled by inflated target prices available freely online.