Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Main geometrical features of horizontal buoyant jet fire and associated radiative fraction

High momentum release of jet fire can be very intense, and the released heat can be very high, depending on the source capacity. One of the key parameters in characterizing the jet fire is the radiative fraction. The previous study has correlated the radiative fraction to the source using a Froude number basis. Nevertheless, the flame mechanism and associated geometrical features gave significant effects on the global radiative heat flux to some extent. Therefore, the characterization of the main geometrical features, particularly on jet flame structures at higher momentum release conditions and its correlation with the radiative fraction, are valuable to be investigated. In this work, propane was used as fuel and released through a 9.8 mm circular nozzle with the exit velocities were set ranging between 27 and 65 m/s. It was found that the liftoff length estimation from this work is in a good agreement with the jet fire release under sub‐atmospheric pressure in a vertical orientation. Furthermore, the flame projected length and height were characterized by momentum‐driven length (L m) and buoyancy‐driven height (L b) by the dimensionless characteristics length (Ʌ). The experimental observations indicate that as the Ʌ ≥ 0.0001, the radiative fraction shows a decreasing trend.
The Role of External Banding Valvuloplasty with the Venocuff in the Treatment of Primary Deep Venous Insufficiency

Objective: Evaluation of the role of external banding valvuloplasty in the treatment of primary deep venous insufficiency. Design: Retrospective analysis of patients subjected to external banding valvuloplasty (EBV) with the Venocuff in relation to the evolution of venous reflux. Setting: Department of Vascular Surgery, Instituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata, Rome, Italy. Patients: Ten patients with signs and symptoms of chronic venous insufficiency. Interventions: Application of a Venocuff to the superficial femoral vein. Main outcome measures: The correction rate of the primary deep venous reflux assessed by venography and colour duplex ultrasound. Results: In a mean follow-up period of 10 months, deep vein reflux was completely abolished in nine patients (90%). Conclusions: The Venocuff is an improvement over the previous techniques, of surgical treatment of primary deep venous insufficiency in reducing the dilated valve bulb to the correct size in a quick, standardized and precise way.
Institutional Investment Strategy and Manager Choice: A Critique

The diversification of public pension funds and educational endowments is explained by a few stock and bond indexes alone. Alternative investments ceased to be diversifiers in the 2000s and have become a significant drag on institutional fund performance. Public pension funds underperformed passive investment by 1.0% a year over a recent decade; the annual shortfall of endowments is 1.6% a year. Given the extent of institutional diversification, the diminished effect of alternatives, and the funds’ prevailing cost structure, institutional investors face the prospect of continuing significant underperformance in the years ahead. There is a better approach to institutional investment strategy and manager choice. TOPICS: Wealth management, retirement, pension funds, private equity Key Findings • Public-market pricing is a much bigger factor in alternative asset markets now than in the past. Alts have ceased to be the diversifiers they once were and have become a significant drag on institutional fund performance. • The cost of institutional investing is 1.0% to 1.7% of asset value annually. Public pension funds underperformed passive investment by approximately 1.0% a year for the 10 years ended June 30, 2018; the shortfall of educational endowments was 1.6% a year. • The author advocates much greater use of passive investment management as a way to bring cost into line with the characteristic diversification of institutional investors.
HOT BATH THERAPY FOR POSTPARTUM MOTHERS: THE ETHNOCARING PRACTICE IN THE MUNA TRIBE, SOUTHEAST SULAWESI, INDONESIA

Background: Postpartum mothers are vulnerable to postpartum fatigue, delivery process fatigue, and role transition. The unknown fatigue can trigger stress and anxiety that will lead to postpartum blues and postpartum depression. The ethnocaring of the Muna tribe has a series of care that can prevent postpartum fatigue, including a hot bath. Objective : To explore the ethnocaring practice on the postpartum care method in the Muna tribe using hot bath and analyze it scientifically. Methods: This study was a qualitative study with an ethnographic approach. The participants were 15 Muna’s indigenous midwives and 4 Muna’s mothers. Snowball sampling was employed to select the samples. The data were collected through in-depth interviews, focus group discussion and participatory observation. The data validity was made by completing the trustworthiness criteria process. Results: The results of the study were described into 3 themes, namely equipment, treatment, and prohibition. The equipment theme describes tools and materials. Conclusion: The ethnocaring therapy of a hot bath in Muna’s postpartum mothers has healthy benefits namely for relaxation, increasing the oxygen uptake, increasing concentration and revitalizing the reproductive organs.
Global extrema of the Delange function, bounds for digital sums and concave functions

The sums are defined by the equality for all positive integers and , where is the sum of digits of the integer written in the system with base . In 1975 Delange generalised Trollope’s formula and proved that , where and is the continuous nowhere differentiable Delange function. We find global extrema of and, using this, obtain a precise bound for the difference . In the case this becomes the bound for binary sums proved by Krüppel in 2008 and also earlier by other authors. We also evaluate the global extrema of some other continuous nowhere differentiable functions. We introduce the natural concave hull of a function and prove a criterion simplifying the evaluation of this hull. Moreover, we introduce the notion of an extreme subargument of a function on a convex set. We show that all points of global maximum of the difference , where the function is strictly concave and some additional conditions hold, are extreme subarguments for . A similar result is obtained for functions of the form . We evaluate the global extrema and find extreme subarguments of the Delange function on the interval . The results in the paper are illustrated by graphs and tables. Bibliography: 16 titles.
A Decadal Climatology of Chemical, Physical, and Optical Properties of Ambient Smoke in the Western and Southeastern United States

Biomass burning is a major source of summertime fine particulate matter in the United States, degrading air quality and affecting human health and climate. Fuels, burn conditions, and fire types vary across the United States, which may impact smoke composition and optical properties. We use the Hazard Mapping System to track smoke plumes for 10 years from 2008 to 2017, focusing on three U.S. regions: Southeast, Pacific West, and Southwest. Combining this geospatial data set with AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) columnar data, and Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network in situ observations, we define “smoke‐influenced days” and derive the properties of smoke aerosol for April through September, encompassing the main fire seasons across the United States. We find in the IMPROVE surface measurement that the elemental carbon fraction of smoke in the Southeast is statistically different from and lower than that in the west, consistent with more‐smoldering prescribed fires in the southeast. We find in the AERONET columnar observations that the mean single scattering albedo of smoke (at 675 nm) is lower in the two western regions (~0.94) compared to the southeast (~0.96), consistent with the differences in composition and fire types, which implies that the compositional differences at the surface may be representative of the column. Higher relative humidity in the southeast and less dust associated with smoke also appear to contribute to the higher smoke single scattering albedo relative to the west. Our results show that smoke properties vary regionally, with implications for models, data assimilation, and remote‐sensing.
Emergence of Colistin Resistant Gram Negative Bacilli, in a Tertiary Care Rural Hospital from Western India

Background: Colistin is one of the last resort of antibiotics used specifically in the treatment of multidrug resistant gram negative bacilli. Though an older class of antibiotic with no use in last four decades, resurgence of colistin use is also causing emergence of colistin resistant gram negative bacilli. Objective: The aim of study was to find prevalence of colistin resistance and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of these colistin resistant strains isolated from different clinical specimens in a tertiary care hospital. Methods: The study included clinical specimens received from wards and Intensive Care Units (ICUs), during January 2015 to December 2015. The specimens were processed by standard method, bacteria were identified by VITEK 2 compact (Biomerieux, France) automation system and antimicrobial susceptibility testing was done with the same system to detect MIC for penicillins, β-lactam/ β-lactamase inhibitor, cephalosporins, carbapenems, aminoglycosides, quinolones, folate inhibitors, glycicyclins and polymixins. Results: Colistin resistance was observed in 9.98% of the clinical isolates. 51.81% of these colistin resistant strains were Pseudomonas spp. Tigecycline (41.50%) showed maximum sensitivity to colistin resistant strains. Conclusion: Colistin resistance (9.98%) found in the study is quite alarming. A restricted and rational use of the colistin is the need of hour. A combination of colistin and tigecycline may be useful to prevent further rise of pan drug resistant bacteria.
Environmental and Economic Concerns in Residents’ Attitudes in Punta del Este (Uruguay)

The objective of this article is to determine the importance of environmental concern on residents’ perceptions and attitudes in the case of the Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation. To relativize the importance of this concern, economic concern was introduced into the model. Punta del Este is located next to the city of Maldonado, capital of the homonymous department, and is the most important sun and beach destination in Uruguay. For this analysis, a sample of 420 residents from the Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation was used. The questionnaire contained several items using a5-point Likert scale and a section including socio-demographic questions. Analysis of the data was carried out through Partial Least Squares (PLS) SEM regression. The results suggest that residents form their attitudes towards tourism based on tourism’s economic benefits and socio-cultural costs. Residents of Punta del Este show concern for the environment but not for the economy. This concern is mainly related to the perception of environmental costs, but the causal relationship could be the opposite.
Utilização do serviço de urgência pediátrica

DOI: 10.15448/1980-6108.2017. 1.24919Aims: The excess demand for pediatric emergency services has caused much concern among health professionals and hospital administrators. The aim of this study was to assess the utilization of a pediatric emergency department and to determine whether its use was injudicious. Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional analysis of all emergency cases treated throughout 2012 in a general hospital located in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, Portugal. The data were obtained from the hospital’s computer information system. Each patient was submitted at admission to the Manchester triage system adapted for Portugal, and the episodes were categorized into immediate, very urgent, urgent, standard, non-urgent, and not classified. All those episodes classified as standard and non-urgent were denoted as unjustified urgent episodes. The data were collected anonymously and analyzed by the IBM SPSS Statistics software using the chi-square test and one-way ANOVA at a 5% significance level (p<0.05). Results: We analyzed 37,099 pediatric emergency department episodes, of which 19,478 patients were male (53%), the median age was 4 years (interquartile range of 1-9 years), and 78.4% were up to 10 years old. Of all the episodes, 21,177 (57.1%) were classified as standard and 15,470 (41.6%) as urgent or very urgent. Of these patients, 27,294 (73.6%) used the emergency department during the week and 28,679 (77.3%) between 10 a.m. and 12 a.m. It was found that in 90.8% of very urgent, 97.1% of urgent, and 99.4% of standard episodes, patients were discharged without the need for hospitalization. Conclusions: More than half of the children who used the pediatric emergency department had standard or non-urgent needs, and almost all of them were discharged with follow-up recommendations by the attending physician. Most of the episodes occurred during opening hours of primary healthcare centers.
Parenting Style, Parental Feeding Practices and Children’s Nutritional Status in Authoritative Parenting Style Model: A Structural Equation Modeling

Background: The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has posed some challenges in many countries. There is a relationship between parenting styles, parental feeding practices, and children’s nutritional status. Objectives: This study aimed to apply Authoritative Parenting style Model in children’s nutritional status. Methods: This research was a cross-sectional study conducted on 1000 parents selected by random cluster sampling. Parents who had primary school children aged 7 8 years in Bojnord, Iran, completed questionnaires related to the constructs of the model in 2016. Structural Equation Model Model (SEM) analysis was used to test the fit of the model. CMIN/DF, GFI, IFI, CFI, PGFI, PNFI, and RMSEA indices were employed to check the goodness-of-fit. Results: Correctly completed questionnaires were collected from 294 dyads of parents. The mean age was 36.26 years (SD = ±5.38) in fathers and 32.96 years (SD =±4.88) in mothers. 232 mothers (80.5 %) were housewives and only 99 of them (34.4%) had university education. Most fathers were employee (115, 40%) or self-employed (111, 38.5%) and 120 of them (41.7%) had university education. The values of goodness-of-fit were obtained for CMIN/DF = 4.6, GFI = 0.91, CFI = 0.93, IFI = 0.92, PGFI = 0.68, PNFI = 0.77, and RMSEA = 0.07. Nutritional knowledge and attitude directly affected authoritative parenting style (β = 0.21, P < 0.001) and parental feeding practices (β = 0.33, P < 0.001) and indirectly affected children’s nutritional status (β = 0.01). The authoritative parenting style construct had a direct effect on feeding practices of parents (β = 0.54, P < 0.001) and an indirect effect on children’s nutritional status (β = 0.01). The feeding practices of parents construct also affected the children’s nutritional status directly (β = 0.02, P < 0.05). Conclusions: This study indicated that the use of this model in the children’s nutritional status can result in positive outcomes, and this model can make interventions more effective in this regard.
Does Benefit Corporation Status Matter to Investors? An Exploratory Study of Investor Perceptions and Decisions

We investigate whether the disclosure of a firm’s decision to organize as a benefit corporation (BC) rather than a traditional C corporation (CC) influences investors. We survey 136 investors and 57 MBA students and find that they expect BCs to attain higher future corporate social responsibility (CSR) than CCs even when both have equal CSR ratings. Approximately one third of our sample prefers to invest in BCs when CCs have greater financial returns, indicating a willingness by some investors to sacrifice personal financial gain for social good. Our results suggest that investors weight the information contained in BC disclosures as reliable and value-relevant in their investment decisions. We extend the CSR disclosure literature by indicating how investors weight this new type of CSR information, which may affect how BCs fare as publicly traded companies.
Effective Quarantine and Recovery Scheme Against Advanced Persistent Threat

Advanced persistent threat (APT) for cyber espionage poses a great threat to modern organizations. In order to mitigate the impact of APT on an organization, all the compromised systems in the organization must be quarantined and recovered in a timely and effective way. This article focuses on the problem of customizing a dynamic quarantine and recovery (QAR) scheme for an organization so that the APT impact is minimized. Based on a novel node-level epidemic model characterizing the effect of the QAR scheme on the expected state of the underlying network, we estimate the expected impact of APT under a QAR scheme. On this basis, we model the original problem as an optimal control problem. By use of optimal control theory, we derive the optimality system for the optimal control problem and thereby introduce the concept of normal potential optimal (NPO) control. Next, through comparative experiments, we find that the NPO control outperforms a set of heuristic controls. Hence, the QAR scheme associated with the NPO control is satisfactory in terms of the effectiveness of defending against APT. Finally, we examine the effect of some factors on the expected APT impact under the NPO control. This article would be helpful to the defense against APT for cyber espionage.
Presentation of depression: Its relationship with stigma and sociodemographic variables in a tertiary care centre

Introduction: Symptomatology of any illness is not only the expression of a pathological process in an individual, but depends upon many factors, such as environment, socio- demographic and cultural back ground and the same thing is also applicable for depression. There are plenty of studies worldwide to support the fact that depressive patients predominantly present with somatic symptoms. Many authors pointed out the influence of culture behind this fact. But the very few highlighted an important explanatory feature of this process with substantial practical and clinical significance – that is, the role of stigma. Aims and Objectives: To identify interrelation between chief presenting complains of depressive disorder with level of stigma associated, with reference to patient’s socio economic and demographic back ground. Materials and Methods: Sixty adult patients attending psychiatry OPD for first time with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) has been selected. Semi structured proforma for socio-demographic and clinical variables, Hamilton depression rating scale, distress questionnaire and stigma scale from the selected portion of Eplanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC) were used. Results: Near about half of the patients reported pains or other somatic symptoms most frequently as the most troubling symptom whereas fewer than 20% patients reported sadness as most troubling. Somatic complaints were experienced as less stigmatizing compared to sadness; the difference in mean stigma scores were statistically significant. Stigma scores were positively correlated with depression severity. Family history of psychiatric illness was experienced as more stigmatizing along with unmarried status. Conclusion: Majority of patients with major depression reported somatic complaints as most troubling which may hinder early recognition. As stigma is positively related with depression severity it may acts as barrier to help seeking. Socio-demographic variables are unrelated
Total therapy (TT) for myeloma (MM)—10% cure rate with TT1 suggested by >10yr continuous complete remission (CCR): Bortezomib in TT3 overcomes poor-risk associated with T(4;14) and DelTP53 in TT2

8516 Background: The introduction of transplants in the 1980’s and novel agents in the 1990’s has markedly improved MM survival. TT trials applied all active treatment ingredients up-front with the objective to maximize long-term disease control. As novel agent combinations are increasingly being applied at the exclusion of transplants, it appears useful to establish a historical framework of long-term outcomes with our TT approach introduced in 1989. Methods: An update is provided of overall survival (OS), event-free survival (EFS), CR rates and CR durations for TT1 (n=231; phase II, interferon maintenance), TT2 (n=668; phase III, ± thalidomide, post-transplant consolidation) and TT3 (n=303; phase II, added bortezomib and thalidomide throughout). Results: Stringently defined CR increased significantly from 40% in TT1 to 50% in TT2 to 60% in TT3. Median CR duration increased from 2.5yr in TT1 (16 in CCR beyond 10yr) to 5.0yr in TT2; the 3-yr estimate in TT3 is 90%. Median EFS and OS were 2.6yr and 5.7yr f.
Exploring patient participation in reducing health-care-related safety risks

Patients’ rights have been formulated in a number of documents and guidelines from various international bodies. Laws and declarations on patients’ rights do not automatically make health care safer, but can help to empower patients. Empowered patients are in a better position to manage their own health and health care and to participate in efforts to improve safety. The report presents an overview of legal aspects influencing patient safety and describes examples of patient involvement. It highlights the need to strengthen a continuum of information between various levels of care, including patient experiences, health literacy and engagement. The work is expected to contribute to the wider process of evidence collation aimed at finding efficient ways to build realistic and informed expectations of health care, while encouraging patients to be vigilant and knowledgeable to ensure maximum safety standards. Recommendations are formulated with respect to the macro, meso and micro levels of health service delivery.