Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Papilledema Secondary to Neurologic Lyme Borreliosis: A Meta-Case Series

Supplemental Digital Content is Available in the Text. Background: Papilledema can be a manifestation of neurologic Lyme borreliosis (LB). The clinical manifestations and progression of these cases have not been comprehensively documented to date. We aimed to describe clinical and diagnostic features and to assess patient outcomes in cases of papilledema secondary to neurologic LB. Methods: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Database from inception to August 2019. We did not restrict our search by study design or by publication date, status, or language. Results: Twenty-eight studies describing 46 cases of papilledema secondary to neurologic LB were included. Common clinical features included cranial neuropathy (68%) and diplopia (61%). Most patients did not recall tick bite (71%) and were afebrile (74%). Brain imaging was normal in 64% cases. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis showed lymphocytic pleocytosis (77%). Initial treatment with intravenous ceftriaxone was given in 52% of cases and resulted in a 100% resolution rate. Concomitant treatment with acetazolamide resulted in favorable outcomes. Conclusions: For patients in endemic regions who describe symptoms suggestive of intracranial hypertension and papilledema, especially accompanied by facial nerve palsy and other cranial nerve palsies, underlying neurologic LB should be considered.
Reconciling Different Truths About Isomorphic Pressure and Distinctive Behavior at European Cooperative Banks: Back to the Future with Raiffeisen's Principles

This article employs a new approach to address a key question in an expanding literature on European cooperative banks: are they still distinctive and sources of social innovation or did they suffer from organizational isomorphism throughout their history? First, we go back to the time when Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888) formulated his principles for the forerunners of many contemporary cooperative banks. Subsequently, we identify areas where major adaptations to the archetypical model of cooperative banks have taken place or are still taking place today. We integrate a detailed explanation of the backgrounds and motivations of these steps with an analysis of isomorphic consequences and loss of distinctiveness that have allegedly emanated from these adjustments. Against the latter common opinion, we place an equally well‐founded dissenting view and formulate recommendations to stay on or return to the cooperative track. Thus, we reconcile conflicting assessments in scientific publications and present a balanced view on the current peculiarity of cooperative banks, substantiated by up‐to‐date figures. With the economic disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak, we argue that, now more than ever, cooperative banks could demonstrate their solidarity, long‐term orientation and local anchoring—namely bringing Raiffeisen's principles back to the future.
The Roles of Perceived Innovativeness in Creating Visitors’ Citizenship Behaviors at an International Game Exhibition

This study examines the extent of game exhibition visitors’ perceptions of innovativeness through service quality and investigates the relationships between innovativeness and visitors’ citizenship behavior, which are the more active behaviors compared with loyalty in game exhibitions. Data were collected from game exhibition visitors participating in Game Show & Trading, All-Round (G-STAR), one of the largest international exhibitions supporting the game industry in South Korea. The results reveal that all three service quality dimensions were important antecedents of innovativeness. The results also verify that innovativeness has positive effects on citizenship behavior toward other visitors and G-STAR, and membership positively moderates the relationship between innovativeness and citizenship behavior toward other visitors. These results suggest that a conceptual model for understanding the dynamic effects of the relationships between service quality, innovativeness, and visitors’ citizenship behavior can be constructed and can contribute to managing sustainable exhibitions in the game industry.
Multiband Filter Design Using Generalized Mapping Functions and Synthesis with Lumped Resonators

In this paper, a new multiband frequency mapping function is proposed to design multiband filter. The presented mapping function is a generalized form of the sequential low pass to band pass (LPtoBP) transformation. The multiband filter design is based on the application of the frequency mapping function on a LP prototype. The synthesis of the resulting multiband filter is obtained by lumped element resonators. Several examples are presented to validate the proposed design approach. A triple band filter implementation and measurement results are presented.
Food Quality: A Comparison of the Proximate Content & Sensory Properties of Some Composite Flour Meals

Aims: To compare the proximate composition and sensory properties of some composite flour mix meals. This is to show which combination has higher nutritional value and is more palatable for consumption. Study Design: Experimental and observational. Place and Duration of Study: University of Calabar, Calabar - Nigeria. July to September, 2019. Methodology: The samples were purchased from the market, washed, dried, and milled under proper sanitary conditions. The flours were then formulated by weight (1:1) and thoroughly milled together giving 3 composite flour mixes of guinea corn-millet, unripe plantain-cabbage and corn-cassava flour. These were made into meals (pastes) by boiling in hot water using standard procedures. Proximate analysis was carried using standard AOAC methods while the sensory evaluation was done by 20 semi-trained panelists using a 9-point hedonic scale. Statistical analyses of results were carried out using Statistical Package for Social Sciences and significance was accepted at p< 0.05. Results: Unripe plantain-cabbage flour mix had significantly higher content of protein, fat, ash, carbohydrate and consequently calories, while maize-cassava flour mix had the lowest content of fat and calories. The carbohydrate content of the 3 composite flours ranged from 24.23 to 27.45 KCal/100 g with guinea corn-millet flour mix having the least value. All 3 composite flour mixes were observed to be of good nutritional value. Conclusion: Unripe plantain-cabbage flour mix and guinea corn-millet flour mix is recommended as a healthier alternative to excessively starchy swallows of low nutrient quality. Also, maize-cassava flour mix may be useful in the management of diabetes and obesity as it had lower caloric value and fat with good protein content and moderate carbohydrate. Generally, the 3 mixes had good acceptability, hence composite flour formulations made of indigenous foods should be encouraged since the combinations are not only palatable but of better nutrient quality than single flours.
STUDENTS' PERCEPTION OF TEACHER GUIDANCE ON READING LEARNING BASED ON RESULTS OF PISA 2018

The main purpose of this study is to answer the following question; is there any difference between international students' perceptions of teacher guide on learning to read to meet real-life challenges whose country position is above and below the 2018 average Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) score? The data in this study taken from PISA 2018 data that has been released to the public and has been permitted for research and development purposes. The population of this study was 15-year-old students (SMP) throughout the world who were studying in 2018, while the sample was 15-year-old students. PISA test participants was spread in 80 countries. The sample was students who participated in the 2018 PISA test. The data in this study were taken from the students’ test scores and questionnaires that were answered by 612.004 students from 80 countries. Based on the results of the analysis of variants of one path obtained the following results; there is a statistically significant difference (p<0,000) between students’ perceptions of countries below and above the PISA average on the following issues; (1) teacher feedback, (2) improvement of material, and (3) performance improvement in reading, learning to meet real life challenges where the country's position is above and below the average score average PISA 2018, (Sig. 0,000). The conclusion indicates that teachers in countries above the PISA average often provide feedback and provide improved reading material to their students compared to teachers in countries below the PISA average. Teachers in countries below the PISA average provide feedback for performance improvement more often than to teachers in countries above the PISA average. Because the learning dependence of students in countries above the PISA average is higher than students in countries below the PISA average, the frequency of feedback is considered unnecessary.
Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0 integration for Operational Excellence: evidence from Italian manufacturing companies

Abstract This research investigates a possible integration between Lean Six Sigma (LSS) tools and principles and Industry 4.0 technologies. The aim is the development of a new pattern for Operational Excellence through the grounded theory methodology. Data collection involved interviewing Italian manufacturing managers in ten case organisations as well as a direct observation of practices linked to Industry 4.0 and LSS integration at one of the selected case organisations. Results of the study aligns with preliminary literature supporting LSS providing platform to achieve effective outcome from Industry 4.0 application. The integration needs reinvented mapping tools and implies a horizontal integration and a vertical, end-to-end integration. The latter requires the company to reengineer the ERP modules, while in the horizontal integration the real ultimate goal is to reach a complete automatic synchronisation of the processes named Autonomous Process Synchronisation. Moreover, all the data gathered from production processes and offices needs the development of new analytics at all levels. This is amongst first few studies that answers how to achieve integration between LSS and Industry 4.0 technologies and thus have several research and managerial contributions in advancing operational excellence research.
Policy Uncertainty and Accounting Quality

Using data from 19 countries over the 1990–2015 period, we examine how economic policy uncertainty (EPU) affects accounting quality. We find that accounting quality, measured based on Nikolaev’s (2018) model, increases during periods of high policy uncertainty. This relation is confirmed by the negative association between EPU and performance-adjusted discretionary accruals in a multivariate setting, and it extends to various alternative measures of earnings properties. We also find that the positive relation between EPU and accounting quality is more pronounced for government-dependent firms and firms with higher political risk. Additional analyses based on institutional investors’ trading behavior, media freedom, and press circulation suggest that market participants’ attention is a mechanism through which EPU affects accounting quality. Further, we find evidence that high accounting quality can mitigate the negative effects of EPU on corporate investment and valuation.
The diversity of interaction types drives the functioning of ecological communities

Ecological communities are undeniably diverse, both in terms of the species that compose them as well as the type of interactions that link species to each other. Despite this long-recognition of the coexistence of multiple interaction types in nature, little is known about the consequences of this diversity for community functioning. In the ongoing context of global change and increasing species extinction rates, it seems crucial to improve our understanding of the drivers of the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem functioning. Here, using a multispecies dynamical model of ecological communities including various interaction types (e.g. competition for space, predator interference, recruitment facilitation), we studied the role of the presence and the intensity of these interactions for species diversity, community functioning (biomass and production) and the relationship between diversity and functioning. Taken jointly, the diverse interactions have significant effects on species diversity, whose amplitude and sign depend on the type of interactions involved and their relative abundance. They however consistently increase the slope of the relationship between diversity and functioning, suggesting that species losses might have stronger effects on community functioning than expected when ignoring the diversity of interaction types and focusing on feeding interactions only.
Working Paper 20/040 - Test Scores and Educational Opportunities: Panel Evidence from Five Developing Countries

Whether better test scores can increase college attendance among poor students in lowand middle-income countries remains an open question. Using data from five long-running panels in Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam, we show that (a) at age 22 there are substantial gaps in years of schooling by socioeconomic status but, (b) conditioning on test scores at the end of primary school eliminates only between 15--50% of these gaps. An exclusive focus on test score improvements in primary schools or earlier will not equalize access to post-secondary education for the poor in these five countries. Test Scores and Educational Opportunities: Panel Evidence from Five Developing Countries Jishnu Das Georgetown University Abhijeet Singh Stockholm School of Economics Andres Yi Chang HDCEO, World Bank This is one of a series of working papers from “RISE”—the large-scale education systems research programme supported by funding from the UnitedKingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), theAustralian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Programme is managed and implemented through a partnership between OxfordPolicy Management and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. Please cite this paper as: Das, J., Singh, A. , and Yi Chang, A. 2020. Test Scores and Educational Opportunities: Panel Evidence from Five Developing Countries. RISE Working Paper Series. 20/040. https://doi.org/10.35489/BSG-RISE-WP_2020/040 Use and dissemination of this working paper is encouraged; however, reproduced copies may not be used for commercial purposes. Further usage is permitted under the terms of the Creative Commons License. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in RISE Working Papers are entirely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the RISE Programme, our funders, or the authors’ respective organisations. Copyright for RISE Working Papers remains with the author(s). Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) www.riseprogramme.org information@riseprogramme.org
Speech language therapy services for children in Small Island Developing States – the situation in the Maldives

ABSTRACT Speech-language therapists (SLT) support people with communication difficulties to exercise their right to communicate. Yet, children in Majority world countries face great obstacles to accessing these services. Vulnerable countries within the Majority world, such as Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face complex challenges due to particular environmental, social and economic vulnerabilities. Access to services is unlikely to improve in underserved communities unless service delivery approaches take the context into consideration. This preliminary study used mixed methods to explore environmental, social and economic conditions affecting equitable access to SLT services for children in one SIDS, the Maldives. Forty publicly available online documents were analyzed, and online surveys were conducted with 107 teachers and 73 parents of children with communication difficulties to examine the conditions that affect equitable access to SLT services in the Maldives. This data revealed three major characteristics of the Maldivian context: (1) Barriers related to geography, dispersed population and transport, (2) Inadequacy of current services to meet needs, and (3) Significant need to minimize costs.
Spatial attention follows category-based attention during naturalistic visual search: evidence from MEG decoding

In daily life, attention is often directed to high-level object attributes, such as when we look out for cars before crossing a road. Previous work used MEG decoding to investigate the influence of such category-based attention on the time course of object category representations. Attended object categories were more strongly represented than unattended categories from 180 ms after scene onset. In the present study, we used a similar approach to determine when, relative to this category-level modulation, attention is spatially focused on the target. Participants completed two tasks. In the first, they detected cars and people at varying locations in photographs of real-world scenes. In the second, they detected a cross that appeared at salient locations in an array of lines. Multivariate classifiers were trained on data of the artificial salience experiment and tested on data of the naturalistic visual search experiment. Results showed that the location of both target and distracter objects could be accurately decoded shortly after scene onset (50 ms). However, the emergence of spatial attentional selection - reflected in better decoding of target location than distracter location - emerged only later in time (240 ms). Target presence itself (irrespective of location and category) could be decoded from 180 ms after stimulus onset. Combined with earlier work, these results indicate that naturalistic category search operates through an initial spatially-global modulation of category processing that then guides attention to the location of the target.
Comparing competitive balance between genders in team sports

ABSTRACT Research question: Interest in women’s team sports has increased over time. However, there is still little research comparing competitive balance between genders in the bigger sports leagues. Against this background the main research question is whether there are systematic differences in competitive balance between the genders among the bigger sports leagues. Research methods: The analysis involves football (soccer), handball and basketball leagues for the period 2007/08–2016/17 (14 leagues and 135 observations) and is based on quantitative methods. Competitive balance is a multidimensional concept, and this paper separately measures win dispersion, performance persistence and prize (here: championship winner) concentration. Results and findings: In football (soccer), win dispersion is strongly significantly weaker for women’s leagues compared to their respective men’s leagues, while the results for the other dimensions are mixed. Generally, the level of competitive balance seems weak in women’s football (soccer) and in handball. For the latter, there is little difference in competitive balance between the genders. In basketball, the strong significant results for performance persistence suggest that the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is more balanced than the NBA. Implications: The level of competitive balance in women’s football in Europe looks weak, also compared to the women’s football in North America. If this leads to competitive balance problems (i.e. lower attendance, ceteris paribus) among women’s football in Europe, governing bodies should consider traditional regulations to promote equalization of sporting quality and/or to adjust the framework of the game to better fit women’s physiques.
Estimation of Heterosis in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under Contrasting Water Regimes

Manipulation of heterosis is considered to be a vital approach to enhance the yield potential of wheat and is as accepted to be a safe strategy to overcome barriers in wheat yield. Twelve diverse Pakistani wheat genotypes were crossed to obtain a series of crosses to estimate the level of heterosis and heterobeltiosis among F1 hybrids along with their parents under two contrasting environments: normal irrigation and water stress (withholding 50% water). Estimates revealed a significant relationship between the mean performance of F1 hybrids and their parents under water stress regime only. The presence of significant heterosis for grain yield was also accompanied by heterosis for yield components, particularly length-based traits such as plant height, peduncle length and spike length. The cross Pasban90 × Sehar-06 was an elite cultivar and showed significant heterobeltiosis. The study suggests that the obtained hybrids surpassed their better parents’ effects, indicative of commercial heterosis, and are thus candidates for the commercial production of hybrid wheat. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Secondary School Students’ Cognitive Structure and Misconception in Respiration Topic

Purpose of the study: This study aims to explore the cognitive structures and identify the misconceptions experienced by secondary school students in the respiration topic. Methodology: This study is a qualitative study. The instruments used for data collection were the Word Association Test (WAT) and the Questionnaire of Writing Sentence (QWS). The data obtained were in word form. The breakpoint technique was used to analyze the data for WAT while the data for QWS were analyzed by category. Purposive sampling was applied in this study. A total of 23 forms four students comprising 12 boys and 11 girls participated in this study. Main Findings: The result showed that the students’ cognitive structures in the respiration topic were incomplete. The students were unable to form a comprehensive relationship for the given keywords, and there were also weak or incorrect associations. The misconceptions that had been identified are largely related to the keywords about cell respiration, anaerobic respiration, and breathing mechanism. Applications of this study: This study provides insights into the students’ cognitive structures and misconceptions about respiration. Thus, it will be useful for teachers in planning their teaching strategies so that they can improve the students’ cognitive structures as well as avoid misconceptions. Novelty: Most of the previous studies only focused on the identification of misconceptions without further investigation into the students’ cognitive structures, especially on the respiration topic. Thus, this study investigates the cognitive structures and misconceptions specifically among secondary school students who have learned respiration in biology.