Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Factor Structure and Convergent Validity of the Aggression Questionnaire in an Offender Population.

The study examined whether the 4-factor structure of the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ; A. Buss & M. Perry, 1992), consisting of Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, Hostility, and Anger, would replicate in an offender population. The AQ and Novaco's Anger Scale (NAS; R. Novaco, 1994) were administered to 200 adult offenders. The results of a confirmatory analysis suggested that the 4-factor model is a poor fit in an offender population. A 2-factor model was suggested: 1 factor combines Physical Aggression and Anger; the other combines Verbal Aggression and Hostility. Evidence of convergent validity of the 2-factor model was provided by high correlations between the AQ and the NAS.
Using rules based Process Mining to discover PLM system processes

Process Mining (PM) is deﬁned by a set of techniques used in Business Process Management that combines computational intelligence and data mining with process analysis and process modeling. The growing interest in PM is based on the ability to discover, monitoring, and improve the processes model. To reach this objective knowledge is extracted from the Event Logs generated by Information Systems, and quality metrics are used to evince the quality of the matching obtained when replaying a process model against the event log. The application of PM to logs extracted from PLM systems is an almost unexplored topic in this research area. Our study enhances the application in the ﬁeld of PLM with the use of business rules to ﬁlter the log, verifying the BRs impact on PM metrics in order to minimize the divergences between modeled processes and executed one and to increase the resulting quality metrics. This helps the business user to identify a line of investigation for explaining occurring misbehavior and propose alleviation/improvement measures. Our approach is ﬁnally validated on data provided by an industrial company, by conﬁrming the impact that controlling the business process characterizations via BR can decrease the gap between the expected modeled process and the executed one.
Type I Almost-Homogeneous Manifolds of Cohomogeneity One - IV

This paper is one of a series in which we generalize our earlier results on the equivalence of existence of Calabi extremal metrics to the geodesic stability for any type I compact complex almost homogeneous manifolds of cohomogeneity one. In this paper, we actually carry all the earlier results to the type I cases. In Part II, we obtained a substantial amount of new Kähler–Einstein manifolds as well as Fano manifolds without Kähler–Einstein metrics. In particular, by applying Theorem 15 therein, we obtained complete results in the Theorems 3 and 4 in that paper. However, we only have partial results in Theorem 5. In this note, we provide a report of recent progress on the Fano manifolds N n , m when n > 15 and N n , m ′ when n > 4 . We provide two pictures for these two classes of manifolds. See Theorems 1 and 2 in the last section. Moreover, we present two conjectures. Once we solve these two conjectures, the question for these two classes of manifolds will be completely solved. By applying our results to the canonical circle bundles, we also obtain Sasakian manifolds with or without Sasakian–Einstein metrics. These also provide open Calabi–Yau manifolds.
1 Chondrocytes co-cultured with Stromal Vascular Fraction of adipose tissue present more intense chondrogenic characteristics than with Adipose Stem Cells Running title : More cartilage from chondrocytes co-cultured with SVF than with ASC

Partly replacement of chondrocytes by stem cells has been proposed to improve the performance of autologous chondrocytes implantation (ACI). Our previous studies showed that the increased cartilage production in pellet co-cultures of chondrocytes and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is due to a trophic role of the MSC by stimulating chondrocyte proliferation and matrix production rather than MSCs actively undergoing chondrogenic differentiation. The aim of this study is to compare the trophic effects of stromal vascular fraction cells (SVF) and in vitro expanded adipose stem cells (ASC). SVF and culture expanded ASCs (n =9) were co-cultured with primary human chondrocytes in pellets. By glycosaminoglycan (GAG) and DNA assays, we showed that co-culture pellets of SVF and chondrocytes have more GAG deposition than that of ASC and chondrocytes. Results of Short Tandem Repeats analysis indicated that the increase in the chondrocytes proportion in the co-culture pellets is more pronounced in the SVF co-culture group than in the ASC co-culture group. Using flow cytometry and microarray, we demonstrated that SVF and ASC have different characteristics in cell surface markers and gene expression profile. SVF is more heterogeneous than ASC, while ASC is more enriched in cells from the mesenchymal lineage than SVF. By subcutaneous implantation into nude mice, we showed that constructs of SVF and chondrocytes are better in depositing cartilage matrix than the mixture of ASC and chondrocytes. Taken together, SVF is better than ASCs in terms of forming cartilage matrix in pellet co-culture and in co-implantation models omitting the need for prior cell expansion. Our study suggests that the SVF in combination with primary human chondrocytes may be a good cell combination for one stage cartilage repair. Page 3 of 50 T is su e E ng in ee ri ng P ar t A C ho nd ro cy te s co -c ul tu re d w ith S tr om al V as cu la r Fr ac tio n of a di po se ti ss ue p re se nt m or e in te ns e ch on dr og en ic c ha ra ct er is tic s th an w ith A di po se S te m C el ls ( do i: 10 .1 08 9/ te n. T E A .2 01 5. 02 69 ) T hi s ar tic le h as b ee n pe er -r ev ie w ed a nd a cc ep te d fo r pu bl ic at io n, b ut h as y et to u nd er go c op ye di tin g an d pr oo f co rr ec tio n. T he f in al p ub lis he d ve rs io n m ay d if fe r fr om th is p ro of .
Initial Diagnostic Dilemma with 3 Neuro-Ophthalmic Cases Seen at University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

Aim: The aim is to present three patients with neuro-ophthalmic symptoms and signs who initially presented a diagnostic dilemma. Two later turned out to be retroviral positive. Presentation of Cases: CASE 1 was a 35 yo female nurse assistant who first presented with aone month history of deep-seated pain in the right eye, right side of face and headache with sudden onset diminished vision in the right eye. She was initially diagnosed with optic neuritis but this was followed 7 months later with panuveitis and bullous RD. Patient was not hypertensive or diabetic and was retroviral (RV) negative. Even though she presented a diagnostic dilemma, a tentative diagnosis of recurrent idiopathic neuro-retinitis is entertained on account of the clinical features and normal investigations. CASE 2 was a 32yo female who presented on account of sudden onset binocular horizontal diplopia of 2 weeks duration. She later developed dizziness and paraesthesia of the left side of her body and examination revealed bilateral torsional nystagmus. The patient was HIV positive with a CD4=39 cells/μl. The third Case was a 17yo student initially Case Series Pedro-Egbe et al.; OR, 9(4): 1-6, 2018; Article no.OR. 46255 2 diagnosed with Bell’s palsy but later developed transient visual loss. He was found to be HIV positive with a CD4 + = 768 cells/μl. Conclusion: These 3 cases bring to the fore the importance of entertaining a high index of suspicion in managing unusual cases that present to the ophthalmologist; and in all cases to rule-out HIV/AIDS since it has its highest prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa. That way, early intervention can be instituted and this would ultimately reduce morbidity and mortality from the disease.
Sensitivity of the KM 3 NeT / ARCA neutrino telescope to point-like neutrino sources KM 3

KM3NeT will be a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ARCA detector, to be installed at the Capo Passero site (Italy), is optimised for the detection of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic origin. Thanks to its geographical location on the Northern hemisphere, KM3NeT/ARCA can observe upgoing neutrinos from most of the Galactic Plane, including the Galactic Centre. Given its effective area and excellent pointing resolution, KM3NeT/ARCA will measure or significantly constrain the neutrino flux from potential astrophysical neutrino sources. At the same time, it will test flux predictions based on gamma-ray measurements and the assumption that the gamma-ray flux is of hadronic origin. Assuming this scenario, discovery potential and sensitivity to a selected list of Galactic sources and to generic point sources with an E−2 spectrum are presented. These spectra are assumed to be time independent. The results indicate that an observation with 3σ significance is possible in about six years of operation for the most intense sources, such as Supernovae Remnants RX J1713.7-3946 and Vela Jr. If no signal will be found during this time, the fraction of the gamma-ray flux coming from hadronic processes can be constrained to be below 50% for these two objects.
Malnutrition (subjective global assessment) scores and serum albumin levels, but not body mass index values, at initiation of dialysis are independent predictors of mortality: a 10-year clinical cohort study.

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between demographic, clinical, lifestyle, and nutritional parameters at the start of dialysis and mortality, including the combined effects on nutritional parameters, which were seldom investigated in the literature. DESIGN Ten-year retrospective clinical cohort study. SETTING Dialysis unit of a metropolitan tertiary teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia. SUBJECTS Incident dialysis patients (n = 167; hemodialysis, 57.5%; male, 61.7%; age, 65.3 ± 13.6 years; diabetic, 24.5%) who commenced on a planned dialysis program. METHODS Associations were examined between all-cause mortality and baseline demographics, including age and gender; clinical and lifestyle characteristics, including glomerular filtration rate, smoking habits, presence of comorbidities (e.g., coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus, and peripheral vascular disease); and nutritional parameters, including body mass index (BMI), serum albumin (s-albumin) levels, and subjective global assessment score (SGA). Associations with combination values for malnutrition, s-albumin (<3.3 vs. ≥3.3 g/dL), and BMI (<26 vs. ≥26 kg/m(2)) were also examined. RESULTS Median survival was 54.2 months (interquartile range, 23 to 83), and 52.1% of patients were malnourished (SGA score B and C) at the start of dialysis. Advanced age (classified as >65 years, P < .0001), presence of peripheral vascular disease (P < .0001), reduced s-albumin levels (P = .01), and malnutrition scores (P = .02) independently predicted mortality. Being overweight and obese (BMI: ≥26 kg/m(2)) did not show any advantage on survival (P = .73). Being malnourished and overweight (or obese) was associated with a 3-fold increase in mortality risk (adjusted hazard ratio [HR], 2.96; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.12 to 7.33; P = .02) compared with being well nourished with a BMI <26 kg/m(2) (referent). Compared with being well nourished (SGA = A), being malnourished with normal or low s-albumin was associated with higher risk (HR, 2.06; 95% CI, 1.06 to 4.00; P = .03 and HR, 2.86; 95% CI, 1.65 to 4.94; P < .0001, respectively). There was no statistical difference between mortality risks through any combination of s-albumin and BMI values (P = .54). CONCLUSION Malnutrition and reduced s-albumin levels were found to be independent predictors of mortality, whereas being overweight and obese did not show protective effects.
of Birmingham A resistive ACHINOS multi-anode structure with DLC coating for spherical proportional counters

: The spherical proportional counter is a gaseous detector used in a variety of applications, including direct dark matter and neutrino-less double beta decay searches. The ACHINOS multi-anode structure is a read-out technology that overcomes the limitations of single-anode read-out structures for large-size detectors and operation under high pressure. A resistive ACHINOS is presented, where the 3D printed central component is coated in a Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) layer. The production and testing of the structure, in terms of stability and resolution, is described
The Use and Economic Impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Sudan

This paper discusses the use, economic importance and impact of the use of ICT in public and private Sudanese universities. We explain that the use of ICT has grown, despite many obstacles in Sudan. Different from the Sudanese literature, a novel element in our analysis is that we use new primary data from an ICT university survey undertaken in Sudan in 2009. We provide a new contribution and fill a significant gap in the Sudanese literature by examining from demand perspective and from the public-private perspective, the status, pattern, structure and determinants of demand for ICT and the economic impacts of ICT use: the potential opportunities and challenges that ICT is expected to create and role of ICT in facilitating production, creation and transfer of knowledge in public and private Sudanese universities. Our results verify the hypotheses that the use of ICT, mainly Internet, facilitates connections, networks and communication within knowledge institutions in Sudan and with regional and international institutions. The use of ICT also enhances collaboration between Sudanese universities and regional and international universities and integration of Sudanese universities into the system of global knowledge production. Our findings support the hypothesis that the use of ICT enhances access, production and dissemination of knowledge in Sudanese universities. Finally, our findings support the hypothesis that the use of ICT introduces the 'creative-destruction' effect by providing opportunities for transformation and knowledge production, but simultaneously also creates hazards to transformation and knowledge production in knowledge institutions in public and private universities in Sudan: the positive transformation is building connections and organisational changes, whilst the negative transformation is building disconnections for those who do not share the knowledge and do not know how to use ICT. We find that the most important advantages related to the use of Internet for facilitating connections and transformation and enhancing the production, creation and transfer of knowledge include: increasing digital knowledge for academics and researchers through information that was earlier not available or accessible; rapid quantitative (in number) and qualitative (efficiency and speed) increase in transferring available information; development of a new model for disseminating and distributing electronic information, where the information has moved towards the user; increased creation and transfer of knowledge; and increased free access to electronic publications for academic purposes. Our findings indicate that the top problem related to the use of Internet is the lack of, or inadequate, regular budget for university libraries to pay for access to scientific and technical information and have licenses or subscriptions to international journals. We recommend further efforts to be made to facilitate the use of ICT for enhancing knowledge and hence economic development in Sudan.
Large array of microphones for the automatic recognition of acoustic sources in urban environment

Characterising the urban sonic environment is usually achieved by measuring energetic indicators such as the average A-weighted level (LAeq) or the day-evening-night Level(Lden). The European 2002/49/EC directive compels large cities to set up noise maps and implement action plans aimed at reducing the citizens’ exposition to excessive noise. Yet the diagnosis step of the process requires the sonic environment to be quantiﬁed and the soundscape concept suggests that the nature of sound sources is central in this description. Furthermore, the nature of sources on noise annoyance have been considered homogeneous for city dwellers in some previous studies. Therefore, our work focuses on the nature of sound sources in urban areas and their automatic assignment to given perceptual categories. This is done using very large microphone array processing and video tracking to extract individual passing-by vehicles audio signal from a scene involving multiple vehicles. These moving source signals feed a categorisation process consisting in a supervised machine learning algorithm (Support Vector Machine). The paper presents a benchmark experiment that allowed to gather reference signals out of trafﬁc for different passing-by vehicle types (heavy vehicle, utility truck, personal car, motorcycle, .) and driving condition (constant speed, acceleration, deceleration). These signals are used as training samples for the machine learning algorithm so that the categorisation process allows to characterize the vehicle on perceptual categories (combining both vehicle types and driving conditions). Another experiment led in situ is also analysed. The automatic recognition robustness is discussed and improved by adding the in situ extracted signals to the training samples.
Forecasting Growth Of Third Party Funds

This research discusses the alternatives for forecasting method of third party funds (TPF) growth as a complement of forecast produced by BAMBI–Banking Model of Bank Indonesia using several methods: holt winter additive exponential smoothing, ARIMA, multivariate regression, and forecast on expectations of the banking sector contained in qualitative survey. The estimation is followed by three types of combined forecasts to increase accuracy and predictive power of the model. The result analysis shows the model offered can describe the behavior of TPF growth. Market players’ expectations in qualitative survey in the Indonesian Banking Survey are also proven to have forecast potential of TPF growth. Based on the combined forecast conducted, the weighted average of combined forecast using regression approach produces the best result. Not only compared to individual forecast, but also to other combined forecast methods. TPF growth in Q4-2015 is expected at 11.19% with probability of 95% would be within confidence interval (8.19%, 14.18%), while for Q4-2016 is predicted at 14.97% with probability of 95% would be within interval (11.98%, 17.7%).
The Costs and Benefits of Performance Fees in Mutual Funds

Funds with performance fees have annual risk-adjusted returns of 0.50% below other funds, a result mostly due to funds without a stochastic benchmark against which performance is measured and funds with a benchmark that is easy to beat. This is not due to unobservable differences in fund manager quality. Performance fee funds charge total expenses, including the performance fee, that are substantially higher than those of other funds. They are not more volatile than other funds, however. Our results indicate that investors should pay particular attention to the benchmarks employed to compute whether performance fees are paid.
ROOTING POTENTIAL OF ILEX PARAGUARIENSIS CUTTINGS OF TWO POPULATIONS OF SOUTHERN BRAZIL IN TWO ROOTING ENVIRONMENTS

The success of Ilex paraguariensis cutting can be affected by the population of origin, as well as the genotype and the rooting environment. Therefore, the objective of this search was to test the vegetative propagation of I. paraguariensis cuttings from two populations and their genotypes inserted in two rooting environments. The populations tested were from Três Barras (TB) and Urupema (UR), both from Santa Catarina state
E V ect of time from onset to coming under care on fatality of patients with acute myocardial infarction: e V ect of resuscitation and thrombolytic treatment

Objective —To examine the relation be-tween time from onset of symptoms and coming under ambulance and hospital care on fatality in patients with evolving acute myocardial infarction, and on the proportions who survive because of resuscitation and thrombolytic treatment. Design —Prospective community and hospital study over two years. Delay was measured from the onset of symptoms to arrival at hospital, and from the onset to coming under care from ambulance personnel. Setting —Four general hospitals serving three United Kingdom health districts. Patients —2213 patients under 75 years of age, 111 of whom had been successfully resuscitated from out of hospital cardiac arrest. Interventions —Resuscitation from cardiac arrest; thrombolytic treatment. Main outcome measures —30 day fatality and lives saved by the two forms of treatment.
CAMBRIDGE WORKING PAPERS IN ECONOMICS A Dynamic Network of Arbitrage Characteristics

We propose an asset pricing factor model constructed with semi-parametric characteristics-based mispricing and factor loading functions. This model captures common movements of stock excess returns and includes a two-layer network of arbitrage returns interconnected by security-specific characteristics. We approximate the unknown functions by B-splines where the number of B-splines coefficients is diverging. We estimate this model and test the existence of the mispricing function by a power enhanced hypothesis test. The enhanced test solves the low power problem caused by diverging B-spline coefficients. Meanwhile, the strengthened power approaches to one asymptotically. And the dynamic networks are explored through Hierarchical K-Means Clusterings from detected mispricing functions. We apply our methodology to CRSP monthly data for the US stock market with one-year rolling windows during 1967-2017. This empirical study shows the presence of mispricing functions in certain time blocks and a dynamic network structure of arbitrage returns through groups of some characteristics. Reference Details CWPE 2060 Published 29 June 2020 Updated 24 November 2020
Role of digestive protease enzymes and related genes in adaptation to host plant in the polyphagous pest, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) Running head: The effect of digestive physiology on adaptation to host plants in S. frugiperda

The evolutionary success of phytophagous insects depends on their ability and efficiency in exploiting plants as a source of energy for survival. Herbivorous insects largely depend on the efficiency, flexibility and diversity of their digestive physiology and sophistication of their detoxification system to use chemically diverse host plants as a food source. The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), is a polyphagous pest of many commercially important crops. To increase understanding of the capability of this insect pest toward adaptation to host plant mechanisms, we evaluated the impact of primary (corn) and alternate (rice, after 11th generation) host plants on the gut digestive enzymatic activity and expression profile of related genes. Results indicated that the total protease and class-specific trypsin and chymotrypsin-like protease activity of S. frugiperda was significantly different on different host plant treatments. The profile of class-specific protease inhibition greatly differed in the midgut of S. frugiperda larvae treatments compared to the treatments without inhibitors. Similarly, the single and cumulative enzyme specific inhibitors, TLCK, TPCK and E-64, significantly increased the larval mortality and reduced the larval growth/mass on different plant treatments. Furthermore, the results of quantitative RT-PCR revealed an increase in transcription of two trypsin and one chymotrypsin gene, suggesting its role in host plant adaptation. Knockdown of two SfTry-3, SfTry-7 and one Sfchym-9 gene significantly reduced the mRNA expression levels of the trypsin genes. This related to an increased mortality observed in treatments compared to the dsRED control. This result indicates possible role of the S. frugiperda gut digestive enzymes and related genes in host plant adaptation.