Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of Bilateral Cancer Breast on Prognosis: Synchronous Versus Metachronous Tumors

The risk of bilateral breast cancer has risen recently as a result of increase in life expectancy of breast cancer patients due to improvement in early diagnosis and therapy (Hartman et al., 2007). The incidence of BBC is reported to range from 2 to 12% (Carmichael et al., 2002). There is uncertainty whether developing a contralateral tumour influences the outcome as some studies suggest poor survival while others report similar survival compared to unilateral disease. Women diagnosed with breast cancer are at increased risk of developing contralateral breast tumor, two to six times greater than developing a first breast cancer in general population (Heron et al., 2000). Bilateral breast cancer may be diagnosed in both breasts at the same time (Quan et al., 2008) (synchronous) or may occur after a time interval varying between one year up to 5 years (metachronous) (Kheirelseid et al., 2011). Risk factors for the development of bilateral breast cancer include family history of breast cancer, initial tumor diagnosed at an early age, lobular histology of the first tumor, treatment received for the first tumor, small size and early stage at diagnosis, receptor status and Her-2/neu positive patients (Vuoto et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2013;
Gender Interactions in Team Production: Performance and Punishment∗

This paper reports results from a real-effort experiment in which men and women are paired to form a two-member team and asked to execute a real-effort task. Each member receive an equal share of the team’s output. Workers who perform better than their partner can punish him/her by imposing a fine. We manipulate the teams’ gender composition (man-man, man-woman, and woman-woman) to analyze whether an individual’s performance and sanctioning behavior depends on his/her gender and the gender interaction within the team. The data show that men perform better than women but that women improve their performance if paired with women. Women sanction their partners less frequently than men do, but women are more frequently sanctioned than men. Finally, when sanctioned, women exhibit worse performance, whereas men tend to show improved performance.
Integrated Quality Environmental Management Practices and its Impact on Operational and Environmental Performances in Food Processing SMEs

Sustainability issues and environmental pollution influenced organizations to reduce their environmental burden and more focus on sustainable production, therefore, sustainability is becoming hot debating topic for industries and its stakeholders. Previous studies revealed that Integrated Quality Environment Management (IQEM) provides cost savings, avoid duplication of tasks, improves corporate image and performance, and provide higher customer satisfaction. Food processing industry is growing fast, as the demand for processed foods is increasing from lifestyle and health conscious customers. Besides the advantages of processed food, this industry consumes abundant resources of water, energy, raw material, and considered as one of the sources which pollutes the environment through solid waste and waste water. Based on the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), this study aims to test the impact of the model on the operational and environmental performance of food processing SMEs in Pakistan. A structured questionnaire was employed for data collection from the respondents selected using snowball sampling technique. IBM SPSS version-23 and SmartPLS 3 were used for data analysis. It is believed that, this study will help food manufacturers of Pakistan in improving their operational and environmental performance by practicing the elements of EFQM model.
Knowledge and Attitude of Parents regarding Oral Health of their Children in Kerala, India: A Cross-sectional Study

Background: Oral health is an integral part of general health among infants and children and impacts the quality of life and health outcomes. It is an integral component of preschool health and well-being. Parents are responsible for the oral health of their offspring and can play an important role in preventing oral diseases in children. As the oral health of children depends on the knowledge and awareness of their parents, these aspects are highly important. The aim of the present study was to determine the knowledge and attitude of parents regarding oral health of their children in Kerala.
Orientadora: PROFA. DRA. MARA PATRICIA TRAINA CHACO N MIKAHIL ESTE EXEMPLAR CORRESPONDE À VERSÃO FINAL DA TESE DEFENDIDA PELA ALUNA VALÉRIA BONGANHA, E ORIENTADA PELA PROFA. DRA. MARA PATRICIA TRAINA CHACON MIKAHIL

Introduction: autonomic modifications of cardiovascular control have also been observed in the obesity and aging process, which triggers hi gher cardiometabolic risk. In middleaged obese men, both obesity and aging contribute t o modifications of the autonomic control of the heart. Aim: evaluate the cardiovascular and autonomic responses at r st and during exercise, after concurrent training (CT) in obese men between 40 to 60 years. Methods: twenty-one middle-aged men were randomly assigned i : control group (CG) and CT which performed aerobic and resistance exerc ises in the same session. Training program was performed in three weekly sessions for 24 weeks. Resting auscultatory blood pressure, cardiac autonomic modulation, assessed us ing heart rate variability (HRV) indices; maximal dynamic strength (1-RM test) and c ardiorespiratory test were measured at baseline and after 24 weeks. Results: we found a significant increase in aerobic fitness (VO2 peak, ventilatory threshold, and respiratory compe nsation point: 8.40%, 11.92% e 11.12%, respectively), muscle strength (leg and ben ch press: 28.12% e 18.7%, respectively), significant decrease of resting dias tolic blood pressure (7.1%) and improvement in HRV (RMSSD and SD2: 79.10% e 29.6%, respectively) for CT, independently in body weight and body composition c hanges. There was significant increase in SD2 (58.3%) during low-intensity exerci se and significant decrease in SD2 (48.6%) during high-intensity exercise for CT. Conclusion: CT program proposed in this study (24-wk) were able to improve aerobic fitness, muscle strength and improvement in HRV (parasympathetic indices) at rest and during lo w-intensity exercise, but not in higher intensity in obese men.
Corporate governance and individual sentiment beta

The purpose of this empirical study is to investigate the association between corporate governance and the individual sentiment beta. The first argument is to examine whether individual sentiment beta is affected by the change of external corporate governance mechanism. The governance proxy is measured with G index constructed by Gompers, Ishii and Metrick (2003). We also follow Glushkow (2006) to estimate the absolute value of sentiment beta for each individual firm by regressing the stock returns on the market sentiment index presented by Baker and Wurgler (2006). The empirical evidence shows that the individual sentiment beta is inversely associated with G index. The evidence from Newey-West standard errors estimation provides the same support for the robustness. It implies that when the antitakeover provisions are less taken by a firm, it signals openness to the market and attracts the merger arbitraging institutions to provide more informative trading. The irrational trading behaviors are also active correspondingly. Therefore, the evidence that the sentiment sensitivities are further affected by the level of G index bridges the theories of Glushkov (2006) and Ferreira and Laux (2007). Furthermore, we tend to examine whether the individual sentiment beta is affected by different level of corporate governance for different criteria of firm characteristics. The data of firms are equally divided into 3 portfolios to examine such association. With the sample of the period of 1990-2005, the sentiment betas of the firms with elder, larger sixe, higher growth and distress opportunities and operating performance increase gradually from the democracy portfolio to the dictatorship portfolio. The empirical results might contribute to the controversies in literatures that how the corporate governance affect stock returns
Handbook of Epilepsy Treatment

Being invited to write an editorial about a book1 I myself authored, is a rather strange experience. I wondered how best to approach the task, and decided, in the 500 or so allotted words, to address what is perhaps the most intriguing question for any author now as we enter the second decade of the age of the internet, namely: ‘Are medical books still required? ’. Copyright © 2011 Wiley Interface Ltd
It’s the Competition – Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization and R&D Investment∗

It is well known that trade liberalization leads to fiercer competition and that competition affects firms’ innovation. In recent trade models with heterogeneous firms, however, better access to foreign markets, rather than increased competition pressure, is most often the reason why firms increase their levels of innovation. This paper proposes a novel framework of process-R&D investment with stochastic outcome based on a heterogeneous-firms model. The papers key result shows that if the R&D returns differ according to the hazard rate stochastic dominance criterion, trade liberalization unambiguously increases firms’ R&D spending. In this case, the fiercer competition that accompanies trade liberalization pushes firms to innovate more in order to remain competitive, implying a more fat-tailed productivity distribution of firms, improved industrial productivity and new welfare gains from trade. ∗I would like to thank Klara Buchner, Tobias Erhardt, Reto Föllmi, Florian Kuhlmey, Maike Lengemann, Ulf Lewrick, Matthias Minke, Lukas Mohler, Cyril Monnet, Georg Nöldeke, Beat Spirig, Rolf Weder and the participants at the Gerzensee Alumni Conference and at the Göttinger Workshop of International Economics for helpful comments and suggestions. In addition, I would like to thank Hermione Miller-Moser for editorial assistance. All errors are mine. †Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel, Peter Merian-Weg 6, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 267 33 00. E-mail: christian.rutzer@unibas.ch.
Severance pay, employment agreement, and managerial short-termism

Managerial short-termism is an important agency conflict. How to address this has been an important issue for companies, regulators, and researchers. In this paper we examine the impact of CEO protection in the form of severance pay and explicit employment agreement. We find that firms with CEO protection from either severance pay or employment agreement are less likely to cut R&D expenditures to avoid earnings decreases. The effect is both statistically and economically significant. We also find that the effect of CEO protection is stronger in cases when CEOs have stronger incentives to engage in myopic behavior, either due to job security concerns or due to short investment horizon of investors, and in cases when alternative contract mechanisms are lacking.
Prevalence of Autoantibodies to Various Tissue Antigens Before and During S2 – Complex Immunotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer Patients

INTRODUCTION: Host immune response may play an important role in the origin and progression of head and neck cancer. Studies in the early 1970 revealed a depressed cell mediated immune response to cutaneaous antigenic stimulus of 2, 4 dinitrochlorobenzen (DNCB) skin testing (26). Various autoantibodies have been identified in the sera of patients with epithelial and hematological malignancies (1,2). Local recurrences and metastatic spread occurred more often among patients with autoantibodies (3). Another physiologic condition associated with increased titers of autoantibodies was aging (4,5).
Heterogeneous Spillovers from SCTs: Evidence from Lesotho

This paper compares results from simulations and experiments to evaluate the impact of social cash transfers on local incomes, including heterogeneous spillovers to both beneficiaries and nonbeneficiaries. Using data from a randomized experiment of Lesotho’s Child Grants Programme (CGP) we find that, within treatment clusters, incomes increased in households eligible for cash transfers and also in those that did not receive the transfers. We estimate an average treatment effect on the treated local economy and decompose it into impacts on recipients and non-recipients. The findings reveal that impacts on the two household groups are heterogeneous across income sources, and quantile treatment effects reveal that they are heterogeneous across income distributions. To our knowledge, this is the first study to corroborate ex-ante simulations of income spillovers from development projects using experimental data, and the first time social cash transfer spillovers of any kind have been experimentally identified outside Latin America. Both simulation and experimental findings indicate that Lesotho’s CGP stimulated real economic growth in treated village clusters. JEL Codes: I38, O12, C21, D50
DETECTION OF CASP-5 GENE AS INFLAMMATORY FACTOR IN IRAQI PATIENTS WITH PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA INFECTIONS

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is define as one of an aerobic Gram-negative bacteria that considered as one of most problematic nosocomial emerged pathogens. This study was performed on 50 isolates and blood patients. Definitive diagnosis of positive P. aeruginosa isolates based on the characteristic examination, the phenotypic of colonies and microscopic morphology which grown in media also biochemical tests for diagnosis of isolates Fifty isolates identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the percentage of isolates according to clinical sources were 19(38%) from burn, 12 (24%) from urine,3(6%) from ear swabs,10(20%) from sputum and 6(12%) from wounds. The diagnosis was conducted and confirmed by using API20E the result of it is 47(94%). The results showed isolates a different ability to resist antibiotics. Amoxicillinclavulanic acid, Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and Erythromycin were the effectiveness antibiotic against P. aeruginosa 100%. The ability of biofilm formation as a virulence factor, Micro-titer plate method (MTP) was used, results revealed that (46) isolates (92%) of P. aeruginosa have the ability to form biofilm by MTP method. Genotypic detection was done by conventional PCR for 16SrDNA gene by using specific primer (pa-ss) 50(100%) to detect the virulence gene (Flic gene) which is virulence factor gene in p. aeruginosa responsible for activation of caspase-1enzyme, the result showed 45(90%) positive. all the blood sample the results were positive %100 . Sequencing for 20 casp-5 PCR product to detect variations in gene of Iraqi population and the results showed 20 sample from 20 have a genetic variation, heterozygous nucleotide.
Effects of Pre-Workout Supplements on Power Maintenance in Lower Body and Upper Body Tasks

Recently, the use of pre-workout supplements has become popular. Research has shown their ability to increase performance for single bouts but little exists showing their ability to maintain this increase in performance over multiple bouts. Purpose: To investigate the effects of supplements on power production and the maintenance of upper and lower body tasks. Methods: Twenty-three males (22.9 ± 3.6 years, 175.6 ± 6.5 cm, 86.9 ± 15.1 kg, 19.1 ± 8.4 BF% mean ± standard deviation (SD)) were familiarized with the testing protocols and maximal bench press performances were attained (109.1 ± 34.0 kg). Utilizing a double-blind crossover design, subjects completed three trials of five countermovement vertical jumps before and after a high-intensity cycle sprint protocol, which consisted of ten maximal 5 s cycle ergometer sprints utilizing 7.5% of the subject’s body weight as resistance, with 55 s of recovery between each sprint. Subjects ingested in a randomized order a commercially available pre-workout supplement (SUP), placebo + 300 mg caffeine (CAF), or a placebo (PLA). Peak power (PP), mean power (MP), and minimum power (MNP) were recorded for each sprint. Subjects performed a velocity bench press test utilizing 80% of their predetermined one repetition maximum (1RM) for 10 sets of 3 repetitions for maximal speed, with one-minute rests between sets. Maximal velocity from each set was recorded. For analysis, bike sprint and bench press data were normalized to the placebo trial. Results: Cycle sprint testing showed no significant differences through the testing sessions. In the bench press, the peak velocity was higher with both the SUP and CAF treatments compared to the placebo group (1.09 ± 0.17 SUP, 1.10 ± 0.16 CAF, and 1 ± 0 PLA, p < 0.05) and the supplement group was higher than the PLA for mean velocity (1.11 ± 0.18 SUP and 1 ± 0 PLA, p < 0.05). Vertical jump performance and lactate levels were not significantly different (RMANOVA showed no significant differences from any treatments). Conclusions: Supplementation with a pre-workout supplement or placebo with caffeine showed positive benefits in performance in bench press velocity.
Toward a Cognitive Processing Model of MELAB Reading Test Item Performance

This study develops and tests a model of cognitive processes hypothesized to underlie MELAB reading item performance. The analyses were performed using the reading section on two MELAB forms using a three-pronged procedure: (1) reviewing theoretical models of L2 reading processes and constructs of L2 reading ability, (2) analyzing cognitive demands of the MELAB reading items and collecting verbal reports of the cognitive processes actually used by examinees when correctly answering the items, and (3) examining the relationship between the proposed cognitive processes and empirical indicators of item difficulty using a cognitively based measurement model, the tree-based regression (TBR). While the results were inconsistent across forms, the processes of drawing inferences and evaluating alternative options accounted for a significant amount of the variance in MELAB reading item difficulty on the two forms. Results of this study inform the construct validation of the MELAB reading and item construction, and lay a foundation for the MELAB reading as a diagnostic measure.
Oxidative degradation of a novel AMP/AEP blend designed for CO2 capture based on partial oxy-combustion technology

capture based on partial oxy-combustion technology F. Vegaa, M. Canoa, A. Sannab, J. M. Infantesa, M. M. Maroto-Valerc, B. Navarretea aChemical and Environmental Engineering Department, School of Engineering, University of Seville, C/ Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n 41092 Sevilla, Spain, Phone: 954481397, fvega1@us.es bInstitute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering (IMPEE), School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, HeriotWatt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK cResearch Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS), School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK Abstract Solvent degradation and volatile compound emissions are two of the major concerns about the deployment of carbon capture technologies based on chemical absorption. In this context, partial oxy-combustion might reduce the solvent degradation due to the use of a higher CO2 concentrated flue gas. This work evaluates the oxidative degradation of a novel AMP/AEP blend, namely POS #1, under partial oxy-combustion conditions. The effects of temperature and flue gas composition were evaluated in terms of solvent loss, degradation rates, NH3 emissions and degradation products. The experiments were set at temperatures up to 70 ̊C and two levels of O2 concentration – 3%v/v and 6%v/v. The CO2 concentration of the flue gas ranged between 15%v/v and 60%v/v CO2.
Performance of Selected Funding Schemes Used in Delivering Educational Buildings in Nigeria

In recent times, poor project funding has become a major characteristic of projects executed within the education sector in Nigeria. This is largely as a result of the deteriorated economic situation within the country. Considering the need for proper utilisation of the merger available funds, assessing the performance of projects executed within the sector was deemed crucial. This paper presents the findings of an assessment of cost and time performance of projects delivered using government subvention, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, and Internally Generated Revenue. A study of selected projects delivered through these funding schemes was carried out, and a pro forma was used to harness cost and time data on the selected projects. A questionnaire survey was also conducted to ascertain the measures for improving the performance of educational buildings. Percentage, paired samples t-test, mean score, and KruskalWallis H-Test were employed in analysing the data gathered. Findings revealed good cost performance for the three assessed funding options and poor time performance in all three cases. To improve performance, prompt payment for executed jobs, allowance for price fluctuations, the involvement of clients and construction professionals at an early stage, providing clear project brief and thorough detail design, are important.
Direct Numerical Simulation of the Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interaction (SWBLI)

The aim of this paper is the direct numerical simulation of the shock wave boundary layer interaction (SWBLI). For these interactions, the separation bubble bubble, as well as the subsequent re ected shock wave, are known to oscillate in a low-frequency streamwise motion. The origin of those oscillations, however still unclear, has been related either to the shedding of vortices in 24 Congrès Français de Mécanique Brest, 26 au 30 Août 2019 the mixing layer downstream of the separation, or to the turbulent structures in the incoming boundary layer. An in-house parallel (MPI) Finite-Volume DNS/LES solver base on a high order nite volume scheme with shock capturing procedure is used to study this phenomenon. As a rst step, by simulating the interaction between a laminar boundary layer and an incident shock wave, we suppress the suspected in uence of the large turbulent structures of the boundary layer on the SWBLI unsteadiness. In this con guration, no unsteadiness of the SWBLI has been observed. Only the unsteadiness of the reattachement point have been observed. This result tends to suggest the importance of the turbulent structures of the incoming boundary layer in the low frequency oscillations of the SWBLI system. A Synthetic Eddy Method that we adapted to compressible ow, have been developed to achieve this objective without prohibitive additional computational costs. The Synthetic Eddy Method is used to perform the DNS of a shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction. This simulation allowed to observe the unsteadiness of the reattachement point but also of the separation point. The unsteadiness of the the whole SWBLI system has then been reproduced in this simulation. Mots clefs : Direct numerical simulation ; turbulent ows ; compressible ows ; shock wave boundary layer interaction ; synthetic turbulent inlet conditions