Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of VCAM-1 and sPCAM-1 as biomarkers for the detection of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with Hepatitis C virus

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Early diagnosis of HCC remains a challenge and diagnosis is usually achieved by biomarkers, but up to date, there is not a perfect single biomarker for this tumor. The diagnostic and predictive abilities of the biomarkers are limited by the heterogeneous nature of the HCC and to improve the predicatively and sensitivity, combinations of biomarkers, or a panel of biomarker combinations and clinical parameters as well as laboratory test results, might be required The objective of the present study was to assess a combination of biomarkers that is reliable in the diagnose and the prognosis of HCV-related HCC. For this purpose, a group of biomarkers including two novel ones; the vascular adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) and soluble platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule 1(sPECAM-1) were measured in Egyptian patients with chronic HCV and HCC. The ROC analyses were applied to evaluate the specificity and sensitivity of the biomarkers and come up with a recommendation for the employment of these markers to predict early development of hepatitis C to hepatocellular carcinoma. In the present study, 120 individuals from the National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, enrolled during the period from September 2014 to March 2017, were divided into four major groups; the control group which comprised 20 individuals.HCV group comprising 50 patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 4, HCC group comprising 25 patients with HCC without HCV, and finally the HCC+HCV group comprising 25 patients with proven chronic hepatitis C genotype 4 and hepatocellular carcinoma. All the study patients were subjected to laboratory investigations which included liver functions, oxidative stress, LDH, AFP, IL-10, IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α, IFN-γ, Caspase-3, MCP-1, VCAM-1 and sPECAM-1, to predict early development of hepatitis C to hepatocellular carcinoma. The results suggested that there were significant differences in most of the liver functions, LDH, oxidative stress, IL-8, TNF-α, MCP-1 and AFP between healthy individuals and the groups with the disease forms. There were no significant correlations between serum IL-6, IL-10, INF-γ, VCAM-1, sPECAM-1 and caspase-3 with HCV or HCC. The ROC curve analyses revealed that sPECAM-1 and sVCAM-1 were not sensitive biomarkers for HCC. AFP levels were highly specific, but insufficiently sensitive to detect HCC. Serum PECAM and serum VCAM were not sensitive indicators for HCC diagnosis because of their low discriminative power between groups. Consequently, they were passive with respect to their predictive power in the progression of HCV-related HCC development. In conclusion, relying on a single marker for the diagnosis of HCC is not possible by employing the nowadays widely used markers in diagnostic practice.
Review the Role of Components of Psychological Capital on Organizational Entrepreneurship

Today, the effective managers have realized that efficient use of capital and achieving socioeconomic unique competitive advantage is possible in the light of psychological capital, and to recognize and foster the positive aspects of employee behavior. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between the structural components of psychological capital with creativity and entrepreneurship. The study population consisted of 435 employees of Bushehr city traffic police that is determined using Cochran formula; the sample size became 332 people. In addition to collecting data, a questionnaire and to analyze the data, Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling (SEM) were used. The results of structural equation modeling show that hope and efficacy, resiliency has a direct relationship with creativity. As well as self-efficacy, hope, resiliency and optimism have a direct and significant relationship with creativity and entrepreneurship. Moreover creativity is a partial mediator of the relationship between optimism and self-efficacy to corporate entrepreneurship. In other words, hope and self-efficacy are effective through creative influence on
ADSORPTIVE REMOVAL OF CHROMIUM FROM SIMULATED INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER USING KAOLIN-BASED ADSORBENT

In this study, an adsorbent was developed for the treatment of industrial wastewater using the kaolin sourced from Bauchi, Nigeria. The derived adsorbent was employed in the removal of chromium metal from simulated industrial wastewater. Some batch adsorption experiments were conducted for the treatment of wastewater after which the effects of pH, adsorbent dosage, contact time and initial concentration on adsorption were investigated. The finding from the studies indicated that kaolinite clay is a promising adsorbent for the removal of chromium from wastewater due to its high adsorption capacity. The adsorption process was found to be strongly dependent on the pH of the metal solution and the maximum chromium adsorption was observed at pH 6. In the assessment of concentration effects, 99.77% was found to be the highest removal efficiency. Relatively, required adsorbent dose of 0.20 g. The contact time for effective chromium removal was 30 min.
Corporate Governance and Bank Performance after the Financial Crisis: Note on the Walker Review

This study analyses whether board independence and expertise in banks have increased and whether banks’ board term duration has shifted to annual basis following the recommendations of Walker (2009). This study employed the two-step system generalised method of moments estimation method to analyse the relationship between these changes and bank performance. Findings provide empirical evidence that by adapting the recommendations in the Walker Report related to the increase in percentage of outside directors with financial expertise, electing a chairperson with financial expertise and a shift in the board member re-election term to annual basis enhances bank performance. Lastly, this study demonstrates that an increase in board independence and expertise and a shift in the board re-election term to annual basis are particularly relevant for small banks (as measured by total assets). These findings are robust to the alternative bank performance measure using Tobin’s Q. JEL Classsification: G21, G32
Projects and innovation in humanitarian emergency response: insights from a case study of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)

This paper explores the relationship between projects and innovation in humanitarian emergency response. This is an area that has to date received little attention from either project management or innovation scholars. Despite this lack of academic interest, the fields of humanitarian policy and practice have in recent years increasingly adopted the language of innovation and project management to describe and give shape to their activities (Betts & Bloom, 2014; Curlee & Fleischer, 2005; Fitz-Gerald, Molinaro, & Neal, 2001; Obrecht & Warner, 2016; Whitehead, 2015). This discursive shift has largely been driven by a growing recognition of the severe challenges facing humanitarian aid. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA, 2017b), the number of people affected by natural disasters in 2016 was 204 million, with 65.6 million forcibly displaced by violence and conflict. Of these, 130.5 million were judged to be in need of humanitarian aid, with the total rising again in 2017 to 135.7 million (OCHA, 2017a). In the last 10 years, the number of people targeted for assistance has more than trebled, from 31 million to 95 million (OCHA, 2017a). Funding has also increased dramatically over the same period, but the gap between requirements, as assessed by Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) for different regions and countries, and funding received has increased fourfold (OCHA, 2017a).
An Overview of Fall Prevention Strategies Among Adult Patients in Hospital Settings

Falls present a major challenge for health care systems: they correlate with poor patient outcomes, extend the length of hospitalization, and increase overall medical expenditure. According to existing literature, risk factors for the occurrence of falls include the male gender, urinary incontinence, muscle weakness, agitation or confusion, and dementia. Studies have shown that the combined practice of identifying risk factors and implementing appropriate fall prevention interventions leads to a reduction in the incidence of falls among hospital patients. As the largest group of health professionals committed to providing high-quality care, nurses play an important role in preventing falls among patient populations. In order to prevent falls and maintain patient safety, it is important to identify the most effective strategies for fall prevention. This study presents an overview of previously published strategies and intervention practices on fall prevention in hospital settings around the world. The most common interventions include fall risk assessment, environment/equipment modifications, patient education/family education on fall prevention interventions, staff education on fall reporting and fall prevention, fall risk alerts, medication management, physical fitness of patients, assistance with transfer and toileting and effective team communication and leadership. Ultimately, it is incumbent upon nurses, other health-care professionals and the entire hospital system to develop effective strategies in order to prevent falls among hospitalised patients.
Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Rigid and Deformable Surfaces from Videos

An inmportant part of Computer Vision research has been dedicated to shape recovery of static 3D objects. While excellent results are achieved in these areas, majority of the methods still assume static scenes and rigid objects, and rarely explore temporal information. However, the world surrounding us is highly dynamic, and in many situations objects deform over time. This temporal information is a richer and denser source of information and has not yet been extensively exploited. Our objective within this thesis is to change this and extensively explore spatio-temporal information in order to recover 3D shapes of rigid and deformable objects. Therefore, we refer to this area as spatio-temporal or four dimensional modeling (4D modeling). We investigated two scenarios of shape recovery of deformable surfaces and several solutions have been proposed. We started with the monocular video sequences where we first developed generic deformation model for smooth nonrigid 3-D surface deformations. This model was not physical based and was just approximating physical behavior of the model surfaces, such as extensibility and smooth bending. Further we used a real physics-based model, which is used in structural mechanics to recover deformations from beam like structures from monocular videos. In both previous approaches we assumed that the camera is static and the surface deforms. In a further work we relaxed this assumption and investigated possibility of simultaneous recovery of camera motion and surface deformation. Next, we investigated modeling and tracking of deformable shapes that evolve over time in multi-camera setups. Multiple camera setups have large spatial overlap, but temporal information has rarely been exploited to its full extend. Therefore, we explicitly exploited this temporal information, and developed a patch-based framework for deforming reference surface models, so that these models can be fitted to independent multi-view reconstructions. We explicitly model uncertainty of the measured data and provide a robust numerical framework for surface deformation. This work is unique in the sense that it is first to capture and track deformations of multiple objects, handle signcant amount of noise in input reconstructions and handle moderate topology changes using only mesh surfaces. Final piece of work relates to the static scenes and moving camera where the objective was realtime 3D reconstruction. By contrast to standard multi-view stereo approaches that use spatial overlap of cameras we have developed real-time probabilistic fusion method, which fuses a number of previously computed disparity maps to improve the disparity computation in the current reference view. In addition to this work that used temporal information we also investigated unorganized photo collections and developed several algorithms for clustering images and organizing them for better navigation, 3D reconstruction and canonical view selection.
The Role of Customer Relationship Management on Customer Value and Service Quality in Improving Customer Satisfaction

The purpose of this research is to determine the influence of CRM on Customer Value and Service Quality in improving Customer Satisfaction. This research focuses on banking industry, where customer serve as the research sample. The data in this research using primary and secondary at once. By using Likert scale questionnaire the respondent obtained as much as 360 respondent. The analytical tool used in this research is Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with Path Analysis for testing hyphotheses. Based on the testing that has been done of the obtained result of the goodness of fit is good, so that all hyphotheses can be accepted. This indicates that a good Customer Relationship Management will increase Customer Value and Service Quality are good also. While they will increase the level of satisfaction felt by customer. So, we can say the that Customer Satisfaction will improve while Customer Value and Service Quality increasing by Customer Relationship Management.
The Trend of Voluntary Carbon Disclosure Practices in Malaysia: Substantive or Symbolic?

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the trend of voluntary carbon disclosure (henceforth referred to as VCD) practices in Malaysia. It also intended to examine whether the pattern VCD practices are substantive or symbolic. Design/methodology/approach: A content analysis of annual reports was used to examine the quality of VCD against a checklist developed by Abd Rahman et al. (2019). The study sample comprised 1,675 annual reports of companies listed on Bursa Malaysia over a period of seven years from 2010 to 2016. Data were then analysed using the Friedman and Wilcoxon signedrank tests. Findings: Findings show that the quality of VCD, both substantive and symbolic disclosure practices, had significantly increased during the study period. Moreover, current VCD practices are largely substantive in nature and is intended to reflect accountability. Research limitations/implications: The results can be merely interpreted only across the target samples, which covers a study period of seven years. Practical implications: Findings draw the attention of the manager to specific aspects of VCD that require improvement and provide an empirical basis for policy makers and regulators when developing future VCD regulatory guidelines. Originality/value: This study provides insights into the journey of VCD practices in Malaysia and contributes to the corpus of contemporary literature by examining substantive and symbolic disclosures in the context of developing countries.
What Is Love? Exploring the Meaning of Brand Love and its Role in Determining Brand Loyalty

This paper measures brand love of smartphones in a specific cultural context. It assesses and compares the effects of brand love and satisfaction on brand loyalty and positive word-of-mouth. The authors use a qualitative approach to select and adapt a measurement scale of the brand love construct for Germany. They use a quantitative study to evaluate the relationships between brand love, satisfaction, brand loyalty and positive word-of-mouth for the case of smartphone brands. Brand love measurement needs to be adapted to the German context. Brand love has a higher impact than satisfaction on brand loyalty and positive word-of-mouth for smartphones. Brand love partly mediates the relationship between satisfaction and brand loyalty as well as positive word-of-mouth. The brand love construct has been tested in a specific cultural context, in this case, Germany. Scale development efforts have to be dedicated to the verification and/or adaptation of the construct to other cultural environments like Latin America. Practitioners should include the measurement of brand love in addition to satisfaction in order to predict brand loyalty. The adaptation of the brand love construct to a specific cultural context has been ignored in previous literature. The comparison of the direct effects of brand love and satisfaction as well as the indirect effects of brand love have been neglected so far.
Salivary and Serum Ferritin Levels: Is There a Correlation?

1 General Dentist, Student Research Committee, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, Dental Caries Prevention Research Center, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran 3 Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran 4 Assistant Professor of Community Medicine, Metabolic Disease Research Center, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
HOW DO BANGLADESHI INVESTORS TAKE DECISIONS? AN ETHNOGRAPHIC DECISION TREE MODEL OF STOCK SELECTION

The study explores the decision making process of Bangladeshi stock market investors. We interview 31 investors currently holding stock portfolio in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) to understand their choices and decision making process. Based on the findings, we develop an Ethnographic Decision Tree Model (EDTM) of Stock Selection. We find that a stock usually comes to an investor’s attention through news/ rumors or suggestions received from family/ friends/ broker or on the basis of past experience. Information use often depends on trust and the necessity to act on it immediately. In an active search process, ‘filter’ criteria are used to reduce the choice set of stocks for further evaluation. The nature of evaluation depends on whether investors look to invest for the long or the short term. Finally, stock selection depends on whether investors perceive the stock to be undervalued and whether the stock fits her/ his investment strategy. We also find that collective intelligence affects an individual’s investment decision and trustworthiness of the information source is a key factor in determining her/ his investment behavior.
Kinetics of Polymerization of Dimer Fatty Acids with Ethylenediamine After 90% Conversion

Today, hot melt adhesives are used in a variety of manufacturing processes, including bookbinding, product assembly and box and carton heat sealing. Understanding the kinetics of the process is of great importance. In this work, the kinetics for the polymerization of dimer fatty acids and ethylenediamine after 90% conversion were investigated. The rate equation used was based on a third order expression after 90% conversion. The reaction temperature was in the range 435-475 K. The parameters of the rate equations were determined using non-linear regression analysis. Comparison of the model predictions with the experimental data showed that the approach was useful for predicting the polymerization kinetics. The frequency factor and the activation energy for the forward rate constant after 90% conversion were 93 339.62 kg.mol -1 ). min -1 and 53.40 kJ.mol -1 , respectively. The reverse rate constant was almost zero.
Effect of chelated zinc fertilizer on growth parameters of maize crop

Maize is a high nutrient demanding and zinc responsive crop. A Field study was conducted at farmer’s field, Pavali village of Viruthunagar district during 2019-2020 to evaluate the effect of chelated zinc fertilizer on growth parameters of maize (Zea mays L.). The experiment was laid out as randomized block design with five replication. The results showed that plant height (192.5 cm), leaf length (80.4 cm), leaf breadth (9.82 cm), no. of leaves (13.2) and leaf area index (5.28) responded positively towards soil and foliar application of chelated Zn Formulation @ 7.5 kg ha-1 with 0.5% as foliar spray at 30 & 45 DAS (T8) than absolute control.
Heterosis for yield and grain quality parameters in basmati rice (Oryza sativa L.)

In the present study, heterobeltiosis and standard heterosis were estimated on 36 F1s obtained through half-diallel mating design for yield and quality traits. For yield per plant trait, seven out of 36 hybrids recorded standard heterosis of more than 100 per cent. CSR-30 x HUBR10-9 (160.09 per cent) recorded the highest significant positive standard heterosis over yield check Pusa Basmati-1. For quality traits, hybrid Pusa Basmati-1121 X Pusa Basmati-1509 performed well, as it exhibited a significant desirable standard heterosis for kernel length, kernel length after cooking, kernel breadth after cooking, and length/breadth ratio. Other hybrids that performed well for quality traits were Pusa Basmati-1 X Pusa Basmati-1121, Type-3 X Pusa Basmati-1121, Type-3 X Pusa Basmati-1509 and Taraori Basmati X Pusa Basmati-1121. 17 hybrids were found to have the desired intermediate range of amylose content (20-25 per cent) and 22 hybrids showed a desirable range of 4-7 for alkali spreading value, based on per se performance.
Employees’ Organizational Commitment in Technical Education Institutes: An Empirical Investigation

Efforts made by the top managements to improve employee commitment are very challenging in technical education institutes as the human resource management interference face unusually completely developed competing commitments. In technical education institutions faculty members describe institute represented by principals and their actions as another body to their own clubs and the organization. Faculty members’ first loyalties are to their colleagues; Principals lean to be considered as a kind of secluded and regulating others with its own preferences. Faculty members who sense refutation about principals will not embrace human resource management action such as improved communication in the desired approach. On the other hand, faculty members more confident about principals may incline to view human resource management leadership more favorably, but often in terms of being better equipped to put in belief their own values rather than expanding direct commitment to the organization as such.