Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
INFLUENCE OF THE PRICE MOVEMENTS TO THE ACCURACY WITHIN NUMERICAL PRICE FORECASTING

: The paper is aimed at commodity price forecasting using a numerical solution of the Cauchy initial problem for the 1st order ordinary differential equation. To acquire significant forecasting improvement, the idea of the modification of the initial condition value was realized. By having analysed the forecasting success of determined numerical models, it was found out that commodity price evolution affected the accuracy of the price forecasting. The absolute percentage prognoses errors were usually lower at a stable price increase and when price fluctuation appeared. Therefore, prognoses calculated without changing initial condition value were satisfying. Within significant changes in the price evolution and at a rapid price increase, the prognoses acquired higher absolute percentage errors. That caused replacing the initial condition value by the nearest stock exchange. Consider this strategy, the following calculated prognoses got closer to the forecast stock exchanges and price forecasting became more advantageous with respect to the price course.
Análise da postura e apoio plantar de crianças portadoras de Síndrome de Down consideradas obesas

Objetivo - Os individuos portadores de Sindrome de Down apresentam algumas caracteristicas proprias da sindrome, hiperextensao dos joelhos com pronacao e eversao dos pes, e o aumento do apetite que podera levar alguns individuos a um quadro de obesidade, podendo modificar assim sua postura e o apoio plantar. O objetivo foi analisar o comportamento biomecânico estatico da postura e do apoio plantar de criancas portadoras de Sindrome de Down consideradas obesas pelo indice de massa corporal. Metodo - Foram avaliados 20 individuos,subdivididos em dois grupos: G1 criancas portadoras de Sindrome de Down consideradas obesas e G2 (grupo controle) criancas portadoras de Sindrome de Down consideradas nao obesas. Para avaliacao da postura os individuos foram fotografados nas vistas anterior, lateral direita,lateral esquerda e posterior; para avaliacao da impressao plantar, foi realizada uma fotocopia colorida da face plantar de cada individuo.Resultados - As criancas portadoras de Sindrome de Down consideradas obesas apresentaram maiores alteracoes posturais e do apoio plantar quando comparadas com as eutroficas. Conclusao - O aumento de peso pode influenciar no comportamento biomecânico dessas criancas. Objective - Individuals with Down syndrome have some characteristics of the syndrome, hyperextension of the knee with pronation and eversion of the feet, and increased appetite that may lead some individuals to a framework for obesity and may thereby modify its stance and foot support. The objective was to assess the biomechanical behavior of the static posture and foot support of children with Down syndrome considered obese by body mass index. Method - We studied 20 subjects, divided into two groups: G1 children with Down syndrome as obese and G2 (control group) children with Down syndrome not considered obese. To assess the posture individuals were photographed in the sights before, right side, left side, and later, for assessing it was done a color photocopy of the plantar surface of each individual.Results - Children with Down syndrome considered obese had greater postural changes and foot support when compared with norma lweight. Conclusion - Weight gain may influence the biomechanical behavior of these children.
Diffusion-Weighted MRI at 3 T for the Evaluation of Prostate Cancer

Poster: "ECR 2013 / C-0483 / Diffusion-Weighted MRI at 3 T for the Evaluation of Prostate Cancer " by: "M. Recio1, C. Lopez2, P. Redondo Buil1, S. Nancy1, A. Maldonado1, L. Herraiz Hidalgo3, A. Alvarez Vazquez2, C. Hayoun1, A. Fernandez1; 1Pozuelo de Alarcon/ES, 2Pozuelo de Alarcon, So/ES, 3POZUELO, MADRID/ES"
Influence of Dietary Vanadium Supplementation on Nutrient Utilisation, Growth Performance and Blood Biochemical Parameters in Sahiwal Calves

An experiment was conducted to examine the effect of dietary vanadium supplementation on feed intake, efficiency of nutrient utilization, growth performance, blood biochemical constituents and endocrine status in male Sahiwal calves. The vanadium concentration in some common feed ingredients was also estimated. Twenty male Sahiwal calves were randomly selected and divided on body weight (71±8.06 kg) and age (6±0.82 months) equalization into 4 different groups (n = 5). The treatments were given with 0, 2, 4 and 8 ppm of vanadium in GP-I, GP-II, GP-III and GP-IV, respectively for a duration of hundred and twenty days and subjected to analysis of variance in completely randomized design (CRD). Green fodder and deoiled seed cakes were found rich in vanadium content than grains and by-products. The dietary supplementation of vanadium did not affect the feed intake, digestibility of nutrients, average daily gain and feed efficiency. Plasma glucose level was increased (plessthan0.05) in GP-III and GP-1V without (p>0.05) affecting insulin level . The total protein, AST and ALT were unaffected by V supplementation. GP-IV showed higher (plessthan0.05) IGF-1 levels, whereas GP-III and GP-1V recorded higher (plessthan 0.05) ALP activity in comparison to GP-I (control) and GP-II. The level of triglycerides decreased in a dose dependent way, however, the cholesterol concentration showed a declining (plessthan 0.05) trend with the increasing vanadium concentration in the diet. It may be concluded that the dietary vanadium supplementation elicits the metabolic profile specially glucose and lipid metabolism of growing calves which in turn may have implications on further growth performance.
Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from the Insurance Industry

This paper fills a gap in the existent literature on the determinants associated with the likelihood of being involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by insurance firms. We investigate firm factors for both becoming a target or becoming an acquirer using a detailed database of the Spanish insurance industry over the period 2000-2012. The period encompasses the years of the global wave of M&As in the 2000s and the recent financial crisis. Results indicate that value-enhancing strategies have been the main motivations for M&As, since the increase of performance in terms of scale and allocative efficiency are principal reasons to be involved as acquirers and insurers are more likely to be targets if they are less profitable and have higher premium growth rates. We also find that insurer ownership type matters to be involved in M&As and this finding does not necessarily have to be explained by managerial entrenchment arguments. Results also show variations among different ownership types concerning the influence of the product diversification determinant on the probability to become acquirers.
Helminthiasis: A Systematic Review of the Immune Interactions Present in Individuals Coinfected with HIV and/or Tuberculosis

Additional information available at the end of the chapter Abstract Helminth infections are highly endemic in parts of the world where the two killer epidemics caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( M.tb ) and the human immunodefi‐ ciency virus (HIV) intersect. Sub-Saharan Africa is hardest hit by this epidemiological overlap. Consequently, several studies have investigated the immunological outcomes of helminth coinfection with either HIV or M.tb , to elucidate the central hypothesis that chronic infection with helminths exacerbates the course of HIV and tuberculosis disease. However, there is no conclusive evidence to confirm whether helminth-induced immunity modulates HIV- and TB‐specific immune responses and their pathogenesis or vice versa. The present chapter summarizes the epidemiology, clinical course, and immune interactions during helminths and HIV/TB coinfections and undertakes a systematic review of the existing literature published from Africa on this subject. The aim was to determine if chronic helminthiasis has a negative impact on HIV and TB infections. A PubMed search was undertaken with no language and time restrictions. Search terms used included a varied combination of “Helminth coinfection and immunity and TB coinfection or TB immunity and HIV coinfection or HIV immunity and Africa. ” Names of individual species were also permutated in the search terms. Reviews and bibliographies of selected articles were screened to identify additional relevant articles or studies. Of the total 1021 articles retrieved, 47 were relevant with 31 helminth and HIV coinfection and reversed by deworming, while some studies found no benefit of antihelminthic treatment. More studies particularly in Southern Africa are needed to increase the much sought evidence of the impact of deworming among HIV-infected individuals as this seems the most feasible, cost‐effective intervention with little or no serious adverse effects. Lastly, with the expansion of ART and increased access to HIV treatment, the effects of helminths on vaccines, TB, and antiretroviral treatments efficacy also need serious consideration, in light of the suggestive evidence of possible immunologic failure due to helminth coinfection.
Leptin, Adiponectin and Cognition in Middle-aged HIV-infected and Uninfected Women. The Brooklyn Women’s Interagency HIV Study

Context: Case-control study of women with and without HIV infection. Objective: To explore the association of cognition and the adipokines, leptin and adiponectin (total; high molecular weight, HMW), in women with (HIV+) and without HIV (HIV-) infection. Design: Cross-sectional analyses of adipokines and cognition using linear regression models of log-transformed adipokines, and Trails A, Trails B, Stroop interference time, Stroop word recall, Stroop color naming and reading, and Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) with consideration for age, HIV infection status, education, CD4 count, diabetes, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and race/ethnicity. Setting: Brooklyn, NY. Participants: 354 participants (247 HIV+, 107 HIV-), in the Brooklyn Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), average age 38.9 years, with measured levels of leptin and adiponectin (total and high molecular weight, HMW). Main Outcome Measure: Cognition Results: Higher levels of leptin were positively associated with worse cognition on the basis of Trails A completion time and SDMT score. Among at risk HIV- women, leptin was associated with worse performance on Trails B. No associations were observed for total or HMW adiponectin. Conclusion: Blood adipokine levels were measured to provide mechanistic insights regarding the association of adipose with cognitive function. These data suggest that higher levels of leptin, consistent with more adipose tissue, are associated with worse cognitive function in middle age. Monitoring leptin over time and with increasing age in relation to cognition and dementia, may lend insights to the role of adipose tissue in successful body and brain aging among women with HIV infection.
Students’ perception of internship programme in accounting

Internship is an important part of a study program for accounting undergraduates in all universities in Sri Lanka. This research explores the students’ perception of their experience in Internship training before and after engaging the training. A questionnaire was given to 107 fourth-year accounting undergraduates in the University of Kelaniya, who had introduced internship training for its undergraduates. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results show that the accounting students had moderate levels of perception on all the categories, except future career, which showed a low level of perception. This meant that they believed that internship training had not given them the confidence that they will be able to obtain the future career they want in accounting profession. Another interesting finding of the research, through a correlation analysis shows that the longer the duration of internship training, the higher the readiness and future career development among the accounting undergraduates.
Three-dimensional anatomy of mesophyll cells in rice leaf tissue by serial section light microscopy

ABSTRACT 2D sections of rice (Oryza sativa L.) mesophyll cells are complex and the cell interior contains a large volume of chloroplasts. Furthermore, the structure of chloroplasts changes in response to salt stress. In this study, we used a 3D reconstruction method based on serial section light microscopy to analyze a wide range of structures in leaf tissues and compared the intracellular structure of mesophyll cells of rice under normal and salt-treated conditions. The 3D reconstructed models revealed that mesophyll cells appeared as ellipsoid discs with several lobes around the cell periphery, with the volumes showing no significant difference between control and salt-treated plants. The chloroplast structure in the whole mesophyll cell was altered under salt stress, showing a reduced coverage area, whereas their volumes did not differ between treatments. These findings suggest that 3D reconstruction based on serial light micrographs can reveal the morphology of cells and chloroplasts in plant tissue. Graphical abstract
PENGARUH PEMBIAYAAN MUDHARABAH DAN MUSYARAKAH TERHADAP TINGKAT PROFITABILITAS PADA BANK BNI SYARIAH TAHUN 2015 - 2017

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui Pengaruh Pembiayaan Mudharabah Dan Musyarakah Terhadap Profitabilitas Bank BNI Syariah Tahun 2015 – 2017. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif. Dari hasil penelitian Pembiayaan Mudharabah dan Musyarakah berpengaruh signifikan terhadap tingkat profitabilitas (ROA) secara simultan, pembiayaan mudharabah berpengaruh signifikan terhadap profitabilitas (ROA) secara simultan serta pembiayaan musyarakah dan mudharabah berpengaruh signifikan terhadap profitabilitas (ROA) secara parsial. Dari tabel uji t yang telah dilakukan pada tabel Mudharabah diketahui bahwa nilai p-value < α (0.001) < (0.05) artinya 0.000 lebih kecil daripada 0.05 yang berarti signifikan. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa variabel mudharabah mempunyai pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap ROA.Dari tabel uji t yang telah dilakukan pada tabel musyarakah diketahui bahwa nilai p-value < α (0.000) < (0.05) artinya 0.080 lebih kecil daripada 0.05 yang berarti signifikan. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa variabel musyarakah mempunyai pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap ROA. Kata kunci : Pembiayaan Mudharabah, Pembiayaan Musyarakah dan Profitabilitas
Towards a Natural Language-based Dialog Model as an Assistant Tool for Dementia Therapy

Reminiscence therapy is a treatment of dementia that mitigates the unstable psychological states of a person with dementia, through conversations between patient and caregiver that evoke past experiences focusing on the patient’s long-term memory. It is recommended that a person with dementia receive this type of therapy constantly. In this work, we propose the design of a dialog model that generates personalized conversations between a conversational system and patients with Alzheimer’s disease, with the aim to assist their caregivers in providing this type of therapy. The proposed model will be capable of getting a semantic interpretation about what the user is saying, identifying the type of dialog, also it will use information from the patient’s life history and lifestyle to generate the conversations. During the dialog between the system and the patient, the model searches for relevant information related to the patient’s history through the use of ontologies to enrich and develop a further conversation.
Joining the party: Incentives and motivations of members and registered sympathizers in contemporary multi-speed membership parties

Many parties have updated their recruitment strategies and offer softer routes for joining their ranks. In some parties, registered sympathizers are given virtually the same rights as traditional members with substantially lower costs. This begs the question, why would somebody take the further step of joining such parties as full members rather than sympathizers? This article analyzes this question by using membership surveys from three left-wing Spanish parties. As such, it explores the usefulness of the general incentives model (GIM) for explaining the decisions of these two groups of affiliates. We find that full members and sympathizers differ in the motives they have to join the party and in their evaluations of the diverse types of incentives included in the GIM. Candidate selection incentives seem particularly important for sympathizers, whereas selective outcome incentives, selective process benefits, collective outcome benefits and altruistic motivations play a more significant role for members.
Distinct petrographic responses to basin reorganization across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in the southwestern Barents Sea

A general shift towards higher mineralogical and textural maturity changes the reservoir character across the Triassic–Jurassic transition in the southwestern Barents Sea basin (SWBSB), largely affecting the hydrocarbon prospectivity in the region. Petrographic and geochronological provenance data presented in this paper suggest that the shift from mineralogically immature to mature sandstones initiated during the deposition of the Norian–Rhaetian Fruholmen Formation, and varies with basin location. Strong contrasts between the Fruholmen Formation and underlying formations are associated with proximity to the rejuvenated Caledonian and Fennoscandian hinterlands and are mainly restricted to the southern basin margins. In the basin interior, subtle petrographic variations between the Fruholmen Formation and older Triassic sandstones reflect a distal position relative to the southern hinterland. The long‐lived misconception of a regional compositional contrast in the Arctic at the turn of the Norian can be attributed to higher sampling frequency associated with hydrocarbon exploration activity along the southern basin margins, and masking by increased annual precipitation and subsequent reworking during the Jurassic. Geothermal signatures and rearrangement of ferric clay material across the Carnian–Norian transition support a recycled origin for the Fruholmen Formation in the basin interior. As the closest tectonically active region at the time, the Novaya Zemlya fold‐and‐thrust belt represents the best provenance candidate for polycyclic components in Norian–Rhaetian strata. In addition to recycling in the hinterland during the Late Triassic, local erosion of exposed intrabasinal highs and platforms at the Triassic–Jurassic transition represents a second process where thermodynamically unstable mineral components originally sourced from the Uralides may be removed. Textural and mineralogical modification may also have occurred in marginal‐marine depositional environments during periods with elevated sea level. Mature sediment supply from the rejuvenated hinterland in the south, multiple cycles of reworking and gradual accumulation of polycyclic grains have likely led to the extreme compositional maturity registered in the Tubåen, Nordmela and Stø formations in the SWBSB. It is likely that increased annual precipitation since the latest Carnian had an amplifying effect on sandstone maturation across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary, but we consider the effect to be inferior compared to provenance shifts and reworking. Findings from this study are important for understanding compositional and textural maturity enhancement processes in siliciclastic sedimentary basins.
Improve uniformity for an indoor visible light communication system

Visible light communication (VLC) is an alternative technology to the radio frequency (RF) for different applications in the indoor and outdoor environments, it could be utilized for illumination and communication simultaneously, and it offers several advantages over contemporary RF technologies such as low power consumption, free license, large bandwidth, and being friendly to the environment. In this paper, an indoor VLC system uniformity improvement in terms of high received power, signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR), and bit rate, with RMS delay spread reduction, is proposed. It features a novel model that utilizes a 13‐optical attocells configuration on the ceiling. Moreover, proposed model was evaluated at different semi‐angle at half power. The average received power and SNR were improved to 2.85 dBm and 75.5 dB, while achieved received power and SNR levels at the center of the room were 4.92 dBm and 79.5 dB, respectively. A minimum average RMS delay spread of 0.4749 nanoseconds is obtained, while the highest average bit rate calculated is 211 Mb/s. The proposed model provides a better communication quality and meets illumination standards requirements.
Creating collaborative digital stories to promote community
 awareness

The study presented in this paper explores the impact that a geographically situated digital storytelling project has on community awareness and engagement. A mixed method, exploratory case study approach was adopted for this study. Data was collected during in-class and fieldwork observations, with self-assessment surveys, open-ended questionnaires, and post-project individual debriefing sessions. Eightythree first year undergraduate students at a rural Japanese university participated in the project. Seventy-nine (n=79) participants completed optional and anonymous self-assessment surveys and questionnaires. The results showed that participants’ community awareness increased significantly after completing the project. Results also indicated that participants believed there was a strong likelihood that they would engage with the local community more in the future. Regarding L2 learning outcomes, data from the self-assessment surveys showed that students believed their English language ability improved alongside an increase in their motivation to study English.
Clinical and Metabolic Effects of two Periodontal Therapeutic Modalities in Diabetic Patients with Residual Pockets

Objective: To evaluate the metabolic control and compare the clinical effects between non-surgical and surgical therapies on periodontal treatment of residual pockets of type 2 diabetic patients. Material and Methods: 352 periodontal sites in 16 type 2 diabetic subjects with residual pockets of similar depths were randomly selected, whose contralateral quadrants were divided into G1 and G2 undergoing surgical and non-surgical therapy, respectively, and evaluated 3 and 6 months after the first intervention. The data were analyzed by Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) version 20.0, using descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Fisher's exact test was used to verify differences between means obtained in the clinical parameters between G1 and G2. The significance level adopted was 5%. Results: The mean Hb1Ac values of patients were significantly reduced and the mean PD and CIL values were reduced in G1 with no significant difference when compared to G2. Conclusion: Periodontal treatment was effective in metabolic control of type 2 diabetic patients and that both therapies, surgical and non-surgical, behaved similarly when compared.