Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Comparative Analysis of Lifetime Medical Conditions and Infectious Diseases by Sexual Identity, Attraction, and Concordance: Results from a National U.S. Survey

BACKGROUND. There have been relatively few studies of potential disparities in the prevalence/risk for health conditions or infectious diseases other than HIV/AIDs and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among sexual minority men (e.g., men who self-identify as gay or bisexual or who have sex with other men). The recent addition of sexual orientation questions to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and other general population surveys now allows for health-related research using national surveys that identify participant sexual orientation.OBJECTIVES. We sought to: compare the prevalences/odds of having ten medical conditions/infectious diseases for sexual majority and sexual minority men and assess for differences associated with sexual identity, sexual attraction, and the degree of concordance between identity and attraction.METHOD. Data from 18,718 adult (18 and over) male participants in the 2015 NSDUH survey were analyzed using bivariate and multivariable logistic regression models to assess for differences in the prevalence/adjusted odds of seven medical conditions (asthma, heart condition, hypertension, diabetes, chronic bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney disease, cancer of any kind) and three infectious diseases (hepatitis B or C; STIs, and HIV/AIDS). Multivariable models adjusted for demographics, substance abuse/dependence, and mental illness.RESULTS. Except for HIV/AIDS, there were no significant associations between sexual identity and any medical condition in the multivariable models nor were there any significant associations with sexual attraction or concordance.CONCLUSION. The findings diverge from prior studies that used non-national samples and which found modest health differences for gay and bisexual men for some conditions other than HIV or STIs. The divergent findings highlight the importance of having nationally representative data for health research related to sexual minorities.
Bad Corporate Governance: When Incentive-Based Compensation Identifies Dangerous CEOs

Inherited corporate governance characteristics largely determine the ownership structure in Danish banks. Bad characteristics, including severe restrictions on shareholder rights, are associated with dispersed ownership. Banks with dispersed ownership take more risk and perform much worse than banks with a large individual shareholder. CEOs in banks with dispersed ownership are powerful, but only half of the CEOs in the sample studied decided to extract rents using incentive-based compensation – and only these banks took more risks and performed much worse than other banks. Given that these banks took more risk already before the introduction of incentive-based compensation, the use thereof is found to be an indicator of unfortunate traits of the CEO, which cannot be identified by other observable characteristics of the CEO.
Effect of porosity and water saturation on the mechanical properties and P-wave velocity of calcarenite rocks used in the construction of historical monuments of Rabat (Morocco)

The objective of this paper is to study the effect of porosity and water saturation on the mechanical and acoustical behavior of isotropic porous materials of a solid matrix containing dry, saturated and partially saturated spherical pores, using a homogenization technique based on the Mori-Tanaka model. The mechanical properties of calcarenite rocks are determined from P-wave velocity measurements. The comparisons between the predictions of Mori-Tanaka model and experimental results are discussed and analyzed.
Detection of H. Pylori infection on dyspepsia patients with IgA H. Pylori antibody

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) has a big role in the relapse and pathogenesis of the upper gastrointestinal disease. Dyspepsia is characterized by uncomfortable feeling at the upper gastrointestinal area. IgA H. pylori antibody was in two-thirds of H. pylori infected patients, but about 7.2% of IgA H. Pylori antibody became the only positive result of the test between the two serology test (IgG and IgA). A cross-sectional study was conducted in 38 patients with dyspepsia. The IgA antibody test for H. pylori in the serum of dyspepsia patient conducted through the ELISA test. The hemoglobin levels, leukocytes, platelets number, and H. pylori infection via IgA antibody test on ulcer and non-ulcer dyspepsia patient had no significant difference. There was a relation between the number of platelets in the infected H. pylori patients compared to the non-infected patients. H. pylori infection in the ulcer and non-ulcer dyspepsia patient with serology method was 18%. H. pylori infection number on ulcer dyspepsia was not higher than the non-ulcer dyspepsia, all ulcer dyspepsia patients who were with H. pylori found with a lesion on the antrum.
Measuring labour earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa

This paper investigates the validity of household survey data published by Statistics South Africa since 1993 and later integrated into the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS). A series of statistical adjustments are proposed, compared, and applied to primary data with the purpose of generating time-comparable, unbiased estimates, and accurate standard errors of labour earnings inequality coefficients.
Cost Uncertainty in Experimental Emissions Markets and Price Control

In this paper, we use experimental emissions trading markets to investigate the effects of two types of instruments for dealing with the negative effects of price risk, that results from the potential shocks that could affect production costs. As per the results obtained, the first mechanism that allows banking and borrowing permits from one period to another, yields some important benefits in terms of the reduction of price volatility, price dispersion and it significantly increases market liquidity, leading to overall flatter price series. The second instrument, besides allowing for permit transfer, also considers an adjustable supply of permits, such that besides managing to stabilize the price path, it also creates more significant results in terms of settling it around a desired target price level.
Risk Factors Related to Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Background:Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is a one in the major risk factor of pregnancy. GDM is defined as any degree of glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. The world-wide 425 million people are suffering from diabetes and 1 in 6 birth is affected by GDM. In Bangladesh prevalence of GDM was 9.7% according to WHO criteria. Objectives: The aim of this study wasto identify the risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus in Bangladesh. Methods:A descriptive exploratory study design was used, 60 GDM and 60 Non-GDM mother were included by using convenient sampling. Data was collected by face to face interview through structure questionnaire that consists of socio demographic, pregnancy related and life style related characteristics. Results:The mean age of the GDM participants 27.82 (±4.91) was higher than non-GDM participants 25.25 (±4.63). There was significantly difference between GDM and nonGDM group which include heard GDM (13.46, p=.00), history of GDM (5.88, p= .01), family history of DM (10.84, p=.00, history of abortion (11.3, p=.00), history of macrosomic baby (6.17, p= .01) and history of polyhydramnios (6.31, p= .01). Intake of fatty food (9.85, p= .00), exercise (3.68, p= .005), and family smoke (11.36, p=.00) also had significantly factors of GDM than non-GDM. Conclusion:The study finding revealed that there was a more modifiable risk factors among GDM than nonGDM mother. This study will provide information about risk factors that can help to nurse midwife in early screening and disseminate information to increase awareness about risk factors among pregnant mother.
Efficacy of Herbal bioenhancer and Antibiotic therapy in Clinical Mastitis of Goats (Capra hircus)

The present research project entitled “EFFICACY OF HERBAL BIOENHANCER AND ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY IN CLINICAL MASTITIS OF GOATS (CAPRA HIRCUS)” was undertaken to record occurrence, Clinico milk alterations, efficacy of different diagnostic tests and evaluate therapeutic efficacy of antibiotic with herbal bioenhancer Embelia ribes and enrofloxacin inj. against clinical mastitis in goats. Among 722 goats screened 86 showed elevated somatic cell count and gross abnormalities into udder and milk. Amongst 86 mastitic goats, 80 were selected and randomly divided into 4 different groups of twenty each (n=20). The mastitic goats of group – I, group – II, group – III and group – IV (n=20) were subjected to Enrofloxacin 10%, Enrofloxacin 10% and 20% aqueous extract of Embelia ribes seeds, Enrofloxacin 20% and Enrofloxacin 20% and 20% aqueous extract of Embelia ribes seeds respectively for therapeutic evaluation. The overall occurrence of clinical mastitis was (11.91%) with higher rate in 2-3 years (15.00%) and 3-4 years (8.27%) age group. The goats were found more susceptible to mastitis in early lactation (0 to 60 days) phase, particularly in their first and second lactations. The left quarter affection was more prevalent. The comparative efficacy of bacteriology culture, somatic cell count (SCC), MCMT, milk pH and chloride test was 100%, 100%, 94.91%, 80.50% and 69.49% in detection of mastitis in goats. Staphylococcus spp. Streptococci spp. E.coli, Corynebacterium spp. and Pseudomonas spp. were the major isolates recovered from caprine mastitic milk sample. The clinical mastitic goats had udder swollen, hot and painful with discoloration of milk, presence of flakes and fibrin clots. The inflammatory reaction of udder tissue was associated with systemic changes as indicated by moderate (p<0.05) increase in rectal temperature (F), heart rate (no./min), respiration rate (no./min) and decrease in rumen motility (no./3min). Enrofloxacin 10% and Enrofloxacin 20% with and without herbal bioenhancer Embelia ribes extract indicated prominent synergistic bactericidal activity in Enrofloxacin 10% along with Embelia ribes extract therapy. The average period (days) required for clinical recovery in Group-I, Group-II, Group-III and Group-IV after enrofloxacin 10%, enrofloxacin 10% and Embelia ribes extract, enrofloxacin 20%, enrofloxacin 20% and Embelia ribes extract was 5.25±0.16, 4.45±0.29, 5.75±0.28 and 4.85±0.05 days respectively. Based on the present clinico-therapeutic studies it could be concluded that enrofloxacin @ 5mg/kg B.W. IM and Embelia ribes extract 100 mg/kg B.W orally bid, till recovery, therapeutic regimen was highly efficacious in the treatment of mastitis in goats.
Incidence of corporate tax credit on profits, wages and employment: the case of France

This paper exploits a far-reaching French reform as well as a very rich set of administrative data to evaluate the impact of a corporate tax credit aimed at reducing labor costs on several outcomes: employment, profit and wages. The effects of the Competitiveness and Employment Tax Credit (CETC), a refundable tax credit based on the wagebill, introduced in France in 2013, are estimated thanks to double (and triple) difference methodologies, instrumented by the intensity of the intention to treat, thanks to data at the firm and individual levels on the period 2010-2014. Our results show that this relatively large tax break about 17 billion euros per year does not succeed in boosting employment in the first two years after being set. We do not see neither clear-cut positive impact on corporate profits. However, wages seem to have increased significantly in more intensively treated firms, particularly those of white-collar employees. If these results cast doubts about the effectiveness of such tax credits, they give new quasi-experimental evidence about the importance of rent sharing in the labor market.
Seasonal Prevalence of Oestrus ovis in Awassi Sheep of North of West Bank (Palestine)

This study was done to investigate the prevalence of Oestrus ovis of Awassi sheep herds in the northern region of West Bank (Palestine). A slaughterhouse survey was performed from March 2006 to February 2007; a total of 335 Awassi heads were examined. Oestrus ovis were found in 181 sheep out of 335 (53. %). The highest rates (P<.05) of infection were in the months of June, July, August and October (77, 80, 82, and 73%, for these months, respectively). The mean percent of larvae (L) in infected sheep heads was 46 with L1, 30 with L2 and 23 with L3. O.Ovis infestation is wide spread in the studied area. Measures must be applied continuously in order to decrease the incidence of the infestation on local herds. Key words: Awassi sheep, Oestrus ovis, prevalence, West Bank.
Counselling and public education: master of social work practicum at Christian Counselling Services

i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . ii DEDICATION . iv TABLE OF CONTENTS . v INTRODUCTION . 1 Learning Objectives . 2 SOCIAL AND PERSONAL LOCATION . 4 PLACEMENT EXPERIENCES . 6 Counselling with Children – Two Children’s Stories . 9 A client’s story – My Three Worries . 9 A client’s story – The Dog With a Penis Nose. 13 Counselling Adults . 15 A client’s story One Couple’s Struggle with Addiction . 15 Children, Adolescents and Sexually Explicit Internet Material – Public Education . 20 What is Sexually Explicit Internet Material? 20 LITERATURE REVIEW . 26 Is SEIM Really a Problem? 27 Historical Perspective and Today’s Reality . 28 How are Children and Adolescents Exposed to SEIM? 34 Unintentional/Unwanted Exposure . 35 Wanted/Intentional Exposure . 37 What is the Appeal of SEIM? 38 Parental Involvement . 39 Effects of SEIM on Children and Adolescents . 41 FROM LITERATURE REVIEW TO PRESENTATIONS . 45 “The Pornography Plague – Children, Adolescents & Sexually Explicit Internet Material” . 47 “The Pornography Plague – What You Need to Know” . 47 “The Pornography Plague”. 48 CONCLUSION . 48 REFERENCES . 52 COUNSELLING AND PUBLIC EDUCATION vi APPENDIX 1 Star Phoenix Article.re: CCS “The Pornography Plague” presentation.61 APPENDIX 2 CBC Online Article: Pornography, kids and sex education. 62 APPENDIX 3 – CCS “The Pornography Plague” advertising poster . 65 APPENDIX 4 – CCS “The Pornography Plague” hand-out. 66
SMAI-JCM SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics Prony’s method on the sphere

Eigenvalue analysis based methods are well suited for the reconstruction of finitely supported measures from their moments up to a certain degree. We give a precise description when Prony’s method succeeds in terms of an interpolation condition. In particular, this allows for the unique reconstruction of a measure from its trigonometric moments whenever its support is separated and also for the reconstruction of a measure on the unit sphere from its moments with respect to spherical harmonics. Both results hold in arbitrary dimensions and also yield a certificate for popular semidefinite relaxations of these reconstruction problems in the nonnegative case. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 65T40, 42C15, 30E05, 65F30.
Improved Diagnosis of Pancreatic Diseases with Various Novel Serum Biomarkers in Nepal

Pancreatic cancer is a distressing disease with a miserable prospects and early recognition remains a challenge due to ubiquitous symptomatic presentation, deep anatomical location, and aggressive etiology. Pancreatic cancer is currently fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and on the whole 5-year survival has been accounted to be less than 5% (Greenlee et al., 2000). In 2010, an estimated newly diagnosed cases of pancreatic cancer were 43,140 in USA and amazingly 36,800 cases perishes from the disease(Randall et al., 2011). The process of pancreatic carcinogenesis is a multifactorial phenomenon (Shrikhande et al., 2009). The most widely used and best validated tumor marker for adenocarcinoma of pancreas
The internal structure of person portmanteaus

Person portmanteaus are markers which bundle the expression of person for subject and object of a verbal predicate into a single morphological unit. Although person portmanteaus implement a radically simple alternative to more familiar strategies of cross-referencing verbal arguments, they are cross-linguistically highly marked, and tend to be restricted to very specific combinations of subject and object. Person portmanteaus may therefore be regarded as a type of argument encoding sui generis as well as a litmus test for general properties of argument encoding in head-marking languages. An important though somewhat paradox property of person portmanteaus is that they are not necessarily unanalyzable. Many such markers can be understood synchronically and/or diachronically as non-portmanteaus, either because they are formed by concatenation from two different person formatives, or because they are identical in form to non-portmanteau person markers. Based on these observations, this project addresses the following closely related questions: 1) Are there systematic restrictions on the location of portmanteaus in paradigms? 2) To which extent are portmanteaus analyzable? 3) What is the formal representation of portmanteaus? 4) What is the extent and distribution of portmanteau microvariation within groups of closely related languages? 5) How do portmanteaus develop historically (and how do they disappear)? To answer these questions, we combine methods from typology, formal morphology, and historical reconstruction. Apart from constructing a cross-linguistic typological database for person portmanteaus to extract general properties, we focus on the behavior of portmanteaus in three small-scale language families (Nilotic, Iroquoian, and Uralic). For these languages we will provide in-depth formal analyses of the relevant person portmanteaus, investigate the range of microvariation in the families, and attempt to reconstruct the diachronic development of person portmanteaus on the background of the overall pronominal cross-referencing systems (based on the available descriptive literature). From the innovative combination of different methodologies to microvariation data, we expect a better understanding of person portmanteaus, and more generally of syncretism in cross-referencing systems for verbal arguments.
Effect of prenap coffee on daytime sleepiness in university students

Background: Daytime sleepiness impairs academic performance in college students. Napping is a counter to daytime sleepiness, but often causes sleep inertia on waking up. Caffeine absorption from beverages peaks 30 minutes after their ingestion presenting a window of opportunity to have a short nap such that the time of waking up is in synchrony with onset of action of caffeine; thereby abolishing post-nap inertia and achieving synergistic mitigation of fatigue. Objective of this study to assess effect of nap, coffee, ‘coffee and nap’ and ‘wakeful break without coffee’ on daytime sleepiness using Psychomotor Vigilance Tests (PVTs) and Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS) score. Methods: After Institutional Review Board clearance, 10 subjects (aged 19-21 years) were selected using their Epworth Sleepiness Scale score (ESS >5) and called to the study site 8 times on different days to be exposed to these four conditions twice only coffee (standardized), only nap (30min), coffee immediately followed by 30min nap, wakeful break (30min) without coffee or nap. Pre and post scores were recorded for electronic PVT (Reaction Time and Motor Responsiveness) and KSS for each attempt. Results: Test outcome was associated with intervention used (p=0.00001). ‘Nap only’ group was associated with deterioration in outcomes (p=0.00001), accounting for highest percentage (41%) of all deteriorated test outcomes. ‘Coffee only’ group was associated with improvement in test scores (p=0.00001), responsible for highest share (38.8%) of all improved test outcomes. ‘Nap only’ and ‘Coffee-nap’ group showed improvement in 11.67% and 21.67% of outcomes respectively. Conclusions: Pre-nap coffee is a proactive counter-measure to post nap sleep inertia.
Adversarial Bandits Policy for Crawling Commercial Web Content

The rapid growth of commercial web content has driven the development of shopping search services to help users find product offers. Due to the dynamic nature of commercial content, an effective recrawl policy is a key component in a shopping search service; it ensures that users have access to the up-to-date product details. Most of the existing strategies either relied on simple heuristics, or overlooked the resource budgets. To address this, Azar et al. [5] recently proposed an optimization strategy LambdaCrawl aiming to maximize content freshness within a given resource budget. In this paper, we demonstrate that the effectiveness of LambdaCrawl is governed in large part by how well future content change rate can be estimated. By adopting the state-of-the-art deep learning models for change rate prediction, we obtain a substantial increase of content freshness over the common LambdaCrawl implementation with change rate estimated from the past history. Moreover, we demonstrate that while LambdaCrawl is a significant advancement upon existing recrawl strategies, it can be further improved upon by a unified multi-strategy recrawl policy. To this end, we adopt the K-armed adversarial bandits algorithm that can provably optimize the overall freshness by combining multiple strategies. Empirical results over a large-scale production dataset confirm its superiority to LambdaCrawl, especially under tight resource budgets.
The high efficacy of luliconazole against environmental and otomycosis Aspergillus flavus strains

Background and Objectives: Luliconazole is currently confirmed for the topical therapy of dermatophytosis. Moreover, it is found that luliconazole has in vitro activity against some molds and yeast species. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of luliconazole in comparison to routine used antifungals on clinical and environmental isolates of Aspergillus flavus. Materials and Methods: Thirty eight isolates of A. flavus (18 environmental and 20 clinical isolates) were detected based on morphological and microscopic features and also PCR-sequencing of β-tubulin ribosomal DNA gene. All the isolates were tested against luliconazole, voriconazole, amphotericin B and caspofungin. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), MIC50, MIC90 and MIC Geometric (GM) were calculated using CLSI M38-A2 protocol for both environmental and clinical isolates. Results: Luliconazole with extremely low MIC range, 0.00049–0.00781 μg/mL and MICGM 0.00288 μg/mL showed very strong activity against both clinical and environmental A. flavus isolates. Moreover, voriconazole inhibited 100% of isolates at defined epidemiological cutoff values (ECV ≤ 2 μg/ml). 50% and 27.8% of clinical and environmental isolates of A. flavus, were resistant to caspofungin, respectively. Whereas, all the isolates were found to be resistant to amphotericin B. Conclusion: The analysis of our data clearly indicated that luliconazole (with MICGM 0.00244 μg/ml for clinical and 0.00336 μg/ml for environmental isolates) had the highest in vitro activity against A. flavus strains.