Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of extremity soft tissue sarcomas at Thailand’s national tertiary referral center [version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]

Background: Due to the heterogeneity of soft tissue sarcomas, conflicting data have been reported regarding treatment outcomes. Moreover, factors such as histologic subtype, treatment compliance, and treatment tolerability may influence outcomes of treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics, prognostic factors, survival outcomes, and outcomes of treatment in patients with extremity soft tissue sarcoma who underwent complete tumor resection at Siriraj Hospital. Methods: Medical records of patients with extremity soft tissue sarcoma underwent total tumor resection at Siriraj Hospital during the January 2007 to December 2016 study period were included. Data collected included demographic data, tumor characteristics, type of surgery, and postsurgical intervention. Regimen, dose, cycle, and treatment compliance data were collected in patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy. Results: A total of 58 patients with a median age of 53.5 years were included. In total, 13 patients received adjuvant chemotherapy. Tumor grade 3 with size >10 cm was a baseline factor found to be a significant predictor of unfavorable disease-free survival (DFS) (p <0.001). Median DFS was 56.2 months in the chemotherapy group and 20.5 months in the non-chemotherapy group (p=0.29). Median OS was 77.2 months in the chemotherapy group and 66.6 months in the nonchemotherapy group (p=0.24). A total of 20% of patients in chemotherapy group developed grade 3-4 hematologic toxicity. Conclusion: Tumor grade 3 >10 cm was the only baseline characteristic found to be a significant predictor of unfavorable DFS in univariate analysis. No conclusive benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in term of DFS and OS. Open Peer Review
CIA_A_268606 1873..1881

1College of Nursing, Konyang University, Daejeon, South Korea; 2College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA Purpose: Older adults experience challenges employing technology in their health-care management due to changes in cognitive and physical functions. This study aimed to investigate the acceptance of technology among older Korean adults with multiple chronic health conditions and examine factors associated with technology acceptance, adopting the senior technology acceptance model (STAM). Patients and Methods: In total, 226 community-dwelling older adults with more than two chronic conditions participated in this study. We conducted a survey that covered demographics, gerontechnology self-efficacy, gerontechnology anxiety, facilitating conditions, self-reported health conditions, cognitive ability, social relationships, attitude toward life and satisfaction, physical functioning, and technology acceptance. Results: Older Korean adults with multiple chronic health conditions scored moderately high for technology acceptance (25.36±5.28). There were significant differences in technology acceptance according to age (r=−0.241), cognitive ability (r=0.225), gerontechnology self-efficacy (r=0.323), and facilitating conditions (r=0.288). Only age and education were significant factors predicting technology acceptance (Adjusted R=0.151, p<0.001). Conclusion: Although older Korean adults with multiple chronic conditions displayed good technology acceptance, their age and education level predicted the level of acceptance. Given that some components of the STAM model have social and cultural relevance, it is necessary to conduct research across various cultures to better understand technology acceptance by older adults.
Chemical composition and antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. Don. essential oil from Bosnia and Herzegovina

In this study, the chemical profiles, antioxidant and antibacterial activity of Helivhrysum italicum essential oils from three plantation fields in Herzegovina were analysed. GC/MS analysis showed that all samples were rich in sesquiterpenes (45.19%-50.07%) and monoterpenes (21.15%-23.21%), followed by oxygenated monoterpenes (9.92%-14.03%). Diketones in the essential oil were detected in quantities ranging 5.72% to 6.67%. The main components in essential oils were γ-curcumene, α-pinene, β-selinene and neril-acetate. All tested essential oils exhibited relatively weak DPPH-scavenging capacity. The antimicrobial activity of the essential oil was assayed by using the disk diffusion method. E. coli was most resistant against all three tested H. italicum essential oils, while moderate inhibitory activity against S. aureus and C. albicans was detected. The L. monocytogenes was the most sensitive where all three tested samples showed inhibitory activity.
Branding Capability, Innovation and Business Performance: Evidence from Small and Medium Enterprises Coffee Cafes in Indonesia

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of branding capability on innovation-mediated business performance. This paper also examines the hypothesized influence on Small and Medium Enterprises engaged in food and beverages in the form of coffee cafes serving Indonesian coffee originating from Indonesia. Design / methodology / approach This study was use 150 coffee café in the former of Besuki Residency, East Java Indonesia as a sample and Path analysis method for examining/analyzing the effect of each variable. Findings The results of this study indicated that the direct effect of branding capability on the businesses performance of small and medium enterprises coffee café was significant, as well as the indirect effect of the effect of branding capability on the business performance of small and medium enterprises coffee cafes through innovation is was also significant. Originality / value – This paper has proven empirically, that innovation in small and medium enterprises is positively related with branding capabilities and business performance. These findings are important to complement and support the previous research, that innovation in small and medium enterprises has contributed to improving branding capabilities and business performance, especially in facing the new normal era today. If small and medium enterprises want to survive and be more advanced, they need a high ability to innovate to improve their branding capabilities and business performance. the next novelty is still rarely found research with the same object as this research. Keywords—branding capability, innovation, business performance, small and medium enterprises
Job Satisfaction and Leadership Potential among College Teachers of Khordha District in Odisha

The present study was designed to explore the level of job satisfaction and leadership potential among the college teachers of Khordha district in Odisha and to compare them with respect to their gender and length of teaching experience. The study further intended to find out the nature and extent of relationship between job satisfaction and leadership potential of the college teachers. Survey method was adopted for conducting the present investigation. The sample of the present study was consisted of 100 college teachers working in government as well as non-government aided +3 (degree) colleges of Khordha district. Job Satisfaction Scale developed by Singh and Sharma (2005) and Leadership Potential Inventory (LPI) developed and standardised by Panda & Kar (2015) were administered for collection of data. Mean, Standard Deviation (SD), t-ratios and r (product moment co-efficient of correlation) were computed for analysis of data. The findings of the study were; (i) the college teachers possessed significant job satisfaction, (ii) there was no significant difference between male and female college teachers with respect to their job satisfaction, (iii) the college teachers having 10 years and above teaching experience exhibited significantly more job satisfaction than the college teachers having below 10 years teaching experience, (iv) the college teachers possessed significant leadership potential, (v) the male and female college teachers differed significantly in leadership potential, (vi) the college teachers having 10 years & above teaching experience exhibited significantly more leadership potential than the college teachers having below 10 years teaching experience and (vii) There was significant and positive correlation between job satisfaction and leadership potential among college teachers.
UC Secure Private Branching Program and Decision Tree Evaluation

Branching program (BP) is a DAG-based non-uniform computational model for L/poly class. It has been widely used in formal verification, logic synthesis, and data analysis. As a special BP, a decision tree is a popular machine learning classifier for its effectiveness and simplicity. In this work, we propose a UC-secure efficient 3-party computation platform for outsourced branching program and/or decision tree evaluation. We construct a constant-round protocol and a linear-round protocol. In particular, the overall (online + offline) communication cost of our linear-round protocol is <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$O(d(\ell + \log m+\log n))$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mi>O</mml:mi><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>d</mml:mi><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>ℓ</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mo form="prefix">log</mml:mo><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mo form="prefix">log</mml:mo><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mo>)</mml:mo><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="zhang-ieq1-3202916.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> and its round complexity is <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2d-1$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mi>d</mml:mi><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="zhang-ieq2-3202916.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi>m</mml:mi></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="zhang-ieq3-3202916.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is the DAG size, <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi>n</mml:mi></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="zhang-ieq4-3202916.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is the number of features, <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi>ℓ</mml:mi></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="zhang-ieq5-3202916.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is the feature length, and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$d$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi>d</mml:mi></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="zhang-ieq6-3202916.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> is the longest path length. To enable efficient oblivious hopping among the DAG nodes, we propose a lightweight 1-out-of-<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$N$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi>N</mml:mi></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="zhang-ieq7-3202916.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> shared OT protocol with logarithmic communication in both online and offline phase. This partial result may be of independent interest to some other cryptographic protocols. Our benchmark shows, compared with the state-of-the-arts, the proposed constant-round protocol is up to 10X faster in the WAN setting, while the proposed linear-round protocol is up to 15X faster in the LAN setting.
DETECTION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES AMONG ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS ISOLATED FROM DIFFERENT SITES OF INFECTION IN HILLA CITY

A total of 120 samples were collected from sewage water and patients suffering from urinary tract infections and diarrhea were admitted in the public health laboratory center in AL-Hilla city and Al-Hilla Surgical Teaching Hospital, during a period of three months from September 2020 to November 2020. All sample were subjected to aerobic culturing on different media and it was out of the total 120 samples, 100(83.33%) samples showed positive bacterial culture. No growth was seen in other 20(16.66%). Among (100) positive culture were culturing on chromogenic ager medium (selective media), 27(22.5%) isolates show positive was identified as E. faecalis while 73(77.5%) isolates related to other types of bacteria. The 27 isolates were recorded related to E. faecalis was collected from the following site, out of 50 specimens of urine, 14(51.85%) isolated were positive culture for E. faecalis, 40 specimens of stool, 10(37.03%) isolated were positive culture for this bacteria and out of 30 specimens of sewage water, only 3(11.12%) isolates were related to this bacteria. In addition, identification of E. faecalis depends mainly on the cultural, biochemical characteristics and also microscopic patterns. However, DNA was extracted from all suspected isolates that identified, conventional PCR was carried out using these DNA samples for the amplification of specific 16SrRNA primer; after that gel electrophoresis showed that, all these 27(100%) isolates were produced the specific 143bp DNA fragment when compared with allelic ladder. All the identified of E. faecalis isolates by specific 16SrRNA primer that isolated from urine, fecal, and sewage water samples were subjected to in vitro antibiotic resistant test by modified Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method. Highest rate of resistant is seen to almost antibiotics used, the high rate of antibiotic resistance were related to Vancomycin in all isolates (100%), Ciprofloxacin, Penicillin and Tetracycline in 26(96.29%) isolates of each one, followed by Gentamycin in 23(85.18%) isolates, 19(70.37%) isolates were resistance to Erythromycin, 18(66.66%) isolates were resistance to Chloramphenicol and 16(59.25%) isolates were resistance to Imipenim, while all isolates were sensitive to Nitrofurantoin (100%). Molecular detection of antibiotic resistance genes was done for 27 isolates that previously detected as E. faecalis by specific PCR primer. The results showed that 11(40.74%) isolates were gave positive results for tetracycline gene (tetM gene) by the presence of 657bp bands when compared with allelic ladder, 25(92.59%) isolates were gave positive results for this antibiotic Vancomycin gene (vanA gene) by the presence of 732bp bands when compared with allelic ladder, in addition, molecular detection of erythromycin gene (ermA gene) was carried out by using a specific PCR primer were done by comparison with allelic ladder which gave a 420bp, it was found that, this gene was not found in all E. faecalis.
Tracking Barrier Island Response to Early Holocene Sea-level Rise: High Resolution Study of Estuarine Sediments in the Trinity River Paleovalley

Understanding how barrier islands respond to factors such as variations in sediment supply, relative sea-level rise, and accommodation is valuable for preparing coastal communities for future impacts of climate change. Increasingly, the underlying antecedent topography has been observed to have a significant control on the evolution of the barrier island system by providing increased elevation, decreased accommodation, and sediment supply for the barrier to rework and anchor upon. However, less attention has been focused on how back barrier sediments respond to this decreased accommodation, and how this may affect barrier island evolution. Additionally, the control in which the geometry of the underlying valley itself has on the initiation of barrier islands is poorly understood. Here we examine the stratigraphic framework of the Trinity River incised valley, offshore Galveston, Texas in order to investigate the role of antecedent topography in the evolution of an ancient barrier island system. We present high-resolution imaging of the Trinity incised valley fill using over 1200 km2 of 3D seismic, <700 km of 2D envelope and full waveform chirp data, along with 2 piston cores, 4 gravity cores, 1 platform boring, with associated grain size, foraminiferal, and radiocarbon data. We find that the geometry and elevation of the underlying antecedent topography plays a central role in the evolution of the barrier island system, promoting both initiation and stabilization. This study provides a methodology to investigate the evolution of a relict barrier island system where little to none of the barrier is preserved. With this methodology, we revise the established Holocene paleoshoreline model for the Trinity incised valley.
Self-Torque in Ferromagnetic using ST-FMR and Harmonic Measurements

Spin-orbit torque in heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures with broken spatial inversion symmetry provides an efficient mechanism for manipulating magnetization using a charge current. We report the presence of a spin torque in a single ferromagnetic. According to the fitting results of ST-FMR and Harmonic measurements, it is clear the spin orbit torque that should come from the SHE and anomalous spin orbit torque of FM induced σz with σy spin current. However, there still remains a main problem to further clarify about the original of non-equilibrium spin accumulation between bottom Cu/FM interface and top FM/Cu interface. Summary of Research: Figure 1: FM thickness dependence of HFL0. When a charge current passes through a ferromagnet (FM) due to the imbalance in electron density of states at the Fermi level and scattering asymmetry between spin-up and spin-down electrons, it becomes polarized, thereby generating a net spin current flowing in the charge current direction. In addition to longitudinal charge and spin currents, transverse charge and spin currents are also generated by the anomalous Hall effect (AHE), leading to charge and spin accumulation at the side surfaces or edges at steady state. So far, the study of AHE has mainly been focused on charge accumulation because it can be detected directly as a voltage signal, and very little attention has been devoted to the spin accumulation. Recently, several groups have attempted to exploit the AHE-induced spin accumulation and related spin torque (ST) for magnetization switching applications in FM/nonmagnet (NM)/FM trilayers which, compared to spin-orbit torque (SOT) generated by the spin Hall effect (SHE), offers the possibility of controlling the spin polarization direction by manipulating the magnetization direction of one of the FM layers. However, there still remains a main problem to further clarify about the original of non-equilibrium spin accumulation between bottom Cu/FM interface and top FM/Cu interface. We fabricated a series of Hall bar devices. We will discuss the spin torque, and the HFL0 values of all samples are shown on Figure 1. We get similar results with the ST-FMR results. The field-like torque in Cu/Py/ Cu is opposite with MgO/Py/MgO, and the Ir/Py/Ir fall in between Cu/Py/Cu and MgO/Py/MgO. The torque in Cu/CoFeB/Cu have the same signal with Cu/Py/Cu. And the torque efficiency increases with increasing the FM thickness. All of these results mean the σy from the bulk effect. The possible mechanism is bulk SHE or the anomalous spin orbit torque.
Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Many Decisions: An Application to Merger and Product Variety

This paper presents a method for estimating discrete games based on bounds of conditional choice probabilities. The method does not require solving the game and is scalable to models with many firms and many discrete decisions. We apply the method to study merger effects on firm entry and product variety in the retail craft beer market in California. We simulate an acquisition of multiple craft breweries by a large brewery and find that the acquisition would induce firm entry and product entry by non-merging firms. However, these changes are insufficient to offset the negative welfare effects resulting from the higher prices and decreased product offerings by the merging firms. JEL: D43, L13, L41, L66
Channel characterization in the 5.8GHz band in a suburban area

Based on signal measurements carried out in the 5.8 GHz band, which is reserved for unlicensed WiMAX in Brazil, this paper evaluates narrowband and wideband characteristics on the suburban area of Tangua city in Rio de Janeiro State. Fading statistics, coverage and adjusted prediction model such as Hata-COST 231, SUI and UFPA were used in order to find the model that best fits the measurement data before ultimately determining that the UFPA model proved to be the best one. Temporal dispersion is studied through the delay spread and coherence band calculated from the power delay profiles obtained in the sounded channel.
Influence of CLA addition in non-ruminant diets on lipid index values

In monogastric animals, tissue fatty acid profile directly reflects the fatty acid profile present in the animal’s diet. Inadequate ratio of fatty acids in food can lead to negative effects on human health. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a group of isomers of linoleic acid (C18:2), and its most interesting role is in the prevention of tumors, atherosclerosis and diabetes. CLA is found in ruminant meat and milk, and since pigs and poultry do not have the ability to synthesize CLA, it is possible to add them to animal feed with biotechnological solutions. The scientific public imposes modern parameters for determining the nutritional value of fatty acids, in which the AI – index of atherogenicity, TI – index of thrombogenicity and H/H - hypocholesterolemic/hypercholesterolemic ratio are distinguished. The aim of this study was to determine the effect CLA addition to the diet of non-ruminants on the lipid indices of certain categories of meat, from the aspect of consumer health needs. A significant influence of the correction of feed’s fatty acid composition on the lipid indices in food of animal origin was determined.
Can Warm Absorbers Be Driven by Ultra-fast Outflows?

Warm absorbers (WAs) located approximately in the region of 1–1000 pc are common phenomena in many active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The driving mechanism of WAs is still under debate. Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) that are launched very close to the central black hole are also frequently observed in AGNs. When UFOs move outward, they collide with the interstellar medium (ISM) gas. In this paper, we study the possibility that WAs can be generated by the interaction between ISM gas and the UFOs. We find that under some ISM gas conditions, WAs can be generated. However, the covering factor of WAs is much smaller than that given by observations. This indicates that other mechanisms should also be at work. We also find that the properties of the WAs mainly depend on the density of the ISM injected into the computational domain from the outer radial boundary (1000 pc). The higher the density of the ISM is, the higher the mass flux and kinetic power of the WAs will be. The kinetic power of the UFO-driven WAs is much less than 1% of the bolometric luminosity of the host AGNs. Therefore, the UFO-driven WAs might not contribute sufficient feedback to the host galaxy.