Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
La industria de producción televisiva independiente en el País Vasco: retos y perspectivas ante la transición digital

espanolEste articulo analiza la estructura de la industria vasca de produccion independiente para television. Por un lado, se detallan y caracterizan sus actores y, por otro, se trazan las redes de aprovisionamiento que existen con sus clientes, las cadenas de television. Asimismo, se estudia tambien la demanda de estas y, especialmente, el papel que juega en el conjunto del sistema el operador publico Euskal Telebista. En este contexto, el rol publico tambien se extiende a las politicas de apoyo al audiovisual como industria, centradas en la �clusterizacion� de esta actividad economica. EnglishTThis article analyzes the structure of the Basque independent TV production industry. First, the main producers are identified and characterized and then the supply networks with the broadcasters are drawn. Besides, the demand for this kind of production is studied and especially the role played by the regional public service broadcaster Euskal Telebista. In this context, the intervention carried out by the regional government can also be found in the industrial policies for the audiovisual sector, centred in the clusterization of this economic activity. EuskaraArtikulu honek Euskal Herriko telebista-ekoizpengitza independentea aztertzen du. Alde batetik, aktoreen ezaugarriak eta xehetasunak ematen dira eta, bestetik, haien bezeroak diren telebista kateekin dituzten hornitze sareak marrazten dira. Halaber, azken hauen eskaera aztertzen da eta, bereiziki, sistemaren baitan Euskal Telebista eragile publikoak duen papera. Testuinguru honetan, rol publikoa ikusentzunezkoari industria bezala eskaintzen zaion sustapen- politikara hedatzen da, jarduera ekonomiko honen �clusterizazioan� zentratuta.
Association between cardiorespiratory fitness and low back pain is anxiety-dependent: A prospective cohort study among adults and older adults

ABSTRACT To investigate the relationship between low back pain and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) among participants with and without self-report anxiety. Participants were 13,080 individuals (86.6% men; 44.7 ± 9.3 years). CRF was quantified as maximal treadmill test duration and was grouped for analysis as low (lowest 20% of treadmill test duration), moderate (middle 40%), and high (upper 40%). Cox regression analysis was used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) between low back pain and CRF according to the presence/absence of self-report anxiety. During an average of 5.7 ± 5.1 years of follow-up, 2,965 cases of low back pain were identified. Participants with self-report anxiety and low CRF had 3.7 times (HR: 3.7; 95%CI: 1.7–8.2) more risk for having low back pain when compared with participants with self-report anxiety and high CRF. Additionally, among participants with self-reported anxiety, moderate CRF was associated with an 70% greater risk of having low back pain than those with high CRF (HR: 1.7; 95%CI: 1.1–3.2). For participants without self-reported anxiety, no association was found between the risk of having low back pain and CRF. According to the results identified in the present study, participants with self-reported anxiety who had low and moderate CRF had higher risks of low back pain than those with high CRF.
Global uncertainty shocks and external monetary vulnerability. What determines cross-country heterogeneity?

The paper empirically investigates cross-country heterogeneity in vulnerability to global uncertainty shocks. Based on vector autoregressions, we create an index of external monetary vulnerability for 36 countries using estimated impulse responses of interest rate diﬀerentials, exchange rates, and foreign exchange reserves. Four main determinants of a country’s score in the external vulnerability index are investigated: dominance in the international monetary and ﬁnancial system, exposure to ﬁckle capital ﬂows, volatile macroﬁnancial histories, and macroeconomic fundamentals. Our results suggest that history and exposure matter most for a country’s external vulnerability. In particular, frequent currency and sovereign default crises, and exposure to non-bank foreign investors and portfolio debt increase the sensitivity to a global uncertainty shock. By contrast, macroeconomic fundamentals such as public debt appear less relevant.
A Comparative Study between Conventional and Recent Anticoagulant Therapies in Atrial Fibrillation

Background: Atrial ﬁbrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, occurring in 1-2% of the general population. With an aging population, its prevalence is estimated to increase two-fold in the next 50 years . The prevalence of AF increases remarkably with age, being 0.5% at 40-50 years of age and 5-15% at 80 years of age. Men are more often affected than women. Objective: This study was aimed to evaluate and compare the healthcare effect and safety of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) patients using novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) with patients using warfarin. Patients and Methods: This study included a total of 124 patients with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation on their anticoagulation drug, attending at Department of Cardiology, Zagazig University Hospitals, and Cardiology Clinic, Ministry of Civil Aviation, during the period from 2015 to 2016. Patients were divided into two groups NOACs, group I and warfarin, group II. Results: revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between both groups regarding hemorrhagic complications. The rate of occurrence of hemorrhage among the warfarin group was 8.3% per year compared to 3.3% of the NOACs group. Results revealed also that there was a statistically significant difference between both groups regarding thrombotic complications. The rate of thrombosis among the warfarin group was 25% per year
Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico

Abstract A total of 115 additions and corrections are listed and discussed for the check list of the Noctuoidea of North America north of Mexico published in 2010. Thirty-two of these are changes in authorship and/or date of publication or spelling. Taxonomic changes are 33 new or revised synonymies, three new combinations, and six revisions in status from synonymy to valid species.
The Chemistry of Fluorine-bearing Molecules in Diffuse and Dense Interstellar Gas Clouds

We present a theoretical investigation of the chemistry of fluorine-bearing molecules in diffuse and dense interstellar gas clouds, combining recent estimates for the rates of relevant chemical reactions with a self-consistent model for the physical and chemical conditions within gas clouds that are exposed to the interstellar ultraviolet radiation field. The chemistry of interstellar fluorine is qualitatively different from that of any other element, because unlike the neutral atoms of any other element found in diffuse or dense molecular clouds, atomic fluorine undergoes an exothermic reaction with molecular hydrogen. Over a wide range of conditions attained within interstellar gas clouds, the product of that reaction, hydrogen fluoride, is predicted to be the dominant gas-phase reservoir of interstellar fluorine nuclei. Fluorine is the heavy element that shows the greatest tendency toward molecule formation; in diffuse clouds of small extinction, the predicted HF abundance can even exceed that of CO, even though the gas-phase fluorine abundance is 4 orders of magnitude smaller than that of carbon. Our model predicts HF column densities of ~1013 cm-2 in dark clouds and column densities as large as 1011 cm-2 in diffuse interstellar gas clouds with total visual extinctions as small as 0.1 mag. Such diffuse clouds will be detectable by means of absorption-line spectroscopy of the J = 1-0 transition at 243.2 μm using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) and the Herschel Space Observatory (HSO). The CF+ ion is predicted to be the second most abundant fluorine-bearing molecule, with typical column densities a factor of ~102 below those of HF; with its lowest two rotational transitions in the millimeter-wave spectral region, CF+ may be detectable from ground-based observatories. HF absorption in quasar spectra is a potential probe of molecular gas at high redshift, providing a possible bridge between the UV/optical observations capable of probing H2 in low column density systems and the radio/millimeter-wavelength observations that probe intervening molecular clouds of high extinction and large molecular fraction; at redshifts beyond ~0.3, HF is potentially detectable from ground-based submillimeter observatories in several atmospheric transmission windows.
Proceedings of Olkc 2007 – " Learning Fusion " Knowledgeable Practice: Capturing the Contextual Use of Knowledge as a Strategic Resource

A series of recent academic as well as practitioner oriented ideas and movements have sought to view knowledge as the key strategic resource that leads to sustained competitive advantage. All these movements, however, implicitly assume that firms differ in the ways they understand, create, access, and use knowledge as a resource. In this paper, I present a two stage mixed-methods study explore the roots of these elemental differences in the socio-cognitive schemas, " executive knowledge schemes " , of top managers of firms competing in a single mature industry-the U.S. Metalcasting Industry. I find that senior executives of incumbent firms, show remarkable variation in their interpretations of knowledge, especially in its strategic context and these differences not only influence their scanning behaviors, but also how their firm's adapt and regenerate knowledge. My research serves to expand the current theoretical frameworks of the resource based and knowledge based views of competitive advantage by clarifying the role of executive leadership in the definition, interpretation, and firm level application of knowledge as a strategic resource. 1 INTRODUCTION Since its earliest formulations, the Knowledge Based View of competitive advantage (KBV) has viewed firms as superior mechanisms of knowledge " application " (Grant, 1996). Little work, however, has followed that has tried to identify the micro-level practices and social processes which undergird the application of knowledge in organizations. Scholars in the KBV tradition have sought to operationalize in terms of patents, managerial education levels etc. (see Smith, Collins, & Clark, 2005) or best practices and their objective characteristics such as tacitness, complexity etc. Although these conceptions of knowledge have advanced my understanding of competitive advantage, this study addresses an apparent lack of my understanding of the social processes by which knowledge becomes a competitive resource. In this study, I develop and empirically measure the concept of knowledgeable practice, which I define as the ability of the firm to reflect upon, apply, and adapt knowledge through the activities of its members. The concept emerged from a larger two-stage study of a single, mature industry in the U.S. (the metalcasting industry) spanning over a period of two years. A primary motivation for adopting this design is a recent call to utilize more in-depth investigations of the actual sources of competitive advantage rather than depending solely (or even mainly) on secondary sources of data (Rouse & Daellenbach, 1999). Research aimed at discerning how some firms manage to create …
a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, comparison study of the efficacy and safety of tigecycline to imipenem/cilastatin to treat complicated intra-abdominal infections in hospitalized subjects in China

15.2%, 0.5%]). Nausea, drug ineffectiveness, postoperative wound infection, vomiting, and pyrexia were the most common adverse events in tigecycline-treated subjects; pyrexia, nausea, vomiting, and increased alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase levels were most common in imipenem/cilastatin-treated subjects; none were unanticipated. Conclusion: Tigecycline was non-inferior to imipenem/cilastatin in treating hospitalized adult patients with cIAI. Superiority of tigecycline over imipenem/cilastatin or imipenem/cilastatin over tigecycline could not be demonstrated. Safety was consistent with the known profile for
a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, comparison study of the efficacy and safety of tigecycline to imipenem/cilastatin to treat complicated intra-abdominal infections in hospitalized subjects in China

the efficacy treating 0.5%]). Nausea, drug ineffectiveness, postoperative wound infection, vomiting, and pyrexia were the most common adverse events in tigecycline-treated subjects; pyrexia, nausea, vomiting, and increased alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase levels were most common in imipenem/cilastatin-treated subjects; none were unanticipated. Conclusion: Tigecycline was non-inferior to imipenem/cilastatin in treating hospitalized adult patients with cIAI. Superiority of tigecycline over imipenem/cilastatin or imipenem/cilastatin over tigecycline could not be demonstrated. Safety was consistent with the known profile for tigecycline. peritonitis, or surgical wound infection during the study; presumed: repeat microbiological data were not obtained for a subject with a clinical response of failure. superinfection emergence of a new pathogen during therapy, at the site of infection with emergence or worsening of clinical signs and symptoms of infection. indeterminate subjects who were lost to follow-up (failure to have an assigned clinical response); or who died within 2 days after the first dose of investigational product for any reason; or who died after 2 days but prior to the TOC assessment because of non-infection-related reasons (as judged by the investigator); or no baseline pathogens identified.
Psychometric evaluation of the Polish version of the Adherence to Refills and Medications Scale (ARMS) in adults with hypertension

Background: Only 50%–75% of chronically ill patients take their medication as prescribed. The patient is found to adhere to treatment correctly and optimally if they accomplish 80% or more of the treatment plan. A questionnaire titled the Adherence to Refills and Medications Scale (ARMS) has been used in studies involving various populations and proved to be a simple instrument for measuring adherence, with good psychometric properties. Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a Polish version of the ARMS (ARMS-P), an instrument that identifies levels of adherence in the hypertensive population, and evaluate its psychometric properties. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 279 patients, including 166 females (mean age 66.5 years), hospitalized between September 2016 and March 2017 in the Department of Internal Medicine, Occupational Diseases, and Hypertension of Wrocław Medical University, Poland. The 12-item ARMS was translated from English into Polish. The 12 items included in the final questionnaire comprise two subscales: adherence to taking medications (eight items) and adherence to refilling prescriptions (four items). Results: Patients in the good-adherence group were younger ( P = 0.017; P = 0.048), more likely to be professionally active ( P = 0.041), better educated ( P = 0.037), and more likely to have normal blood pressure ( P  0.001). They also measured their blood pressure more often ( P  0.001), and took fewer pills in a day ( P  0.001). Adherent patients were also more likely to take their medication on their own ( P = 0.016) and read information leaflets on the medication ( P  0.001). The study demonstrated that the ARMS-P questionnaire has good psychometric properties that enable its use for assessing adherence in chronically ill patients, including in particular, patients with hypertension. Conclusion: The psychometric properties of the questionnaire are satisfactory (reliability measured by means of Cronbach’s α ). The ARMS-P questionnaire proved to be suitable for use in the Polish population. The use of this screening tool for the assessment of adherence to treatment is recommended in this
Digitalizing multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD with a smartphone application: an international observational pilot study

Background: Concerning COPD, pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has a positive effect on disease progression and mortality, is cost-effective, and is a part of recommendations of international guidelines. Only a minority of patients profit from conventional PR due to a lack of resources, physicians’ guideline adherence, or patients’ motivation. Novel digital therapies like Kaia COPD, a smartphone application that digitizes PR in COPD, are promising solutions to fill this void. Methods: Kaia COPD provides a digital version of PR and is certified as a class-I medical device in the European Union. We investigated anonymized data from users of the Kaia COPD app on in-app retention and the change in health-related quality of life (COPD assessment test and Chronic Respiratory Disease Questionnaire [CRQ]) during a period of 20 exercise days with the app. Results: Of 349 app downloads, 56 users fulfilled inclusion criteria and 34 (61%) had finished day 20 at the time of analysis and were included. Users took 33 ± 11 days to complete the 20-day core program. Users finishing the program reduced their COPD assessment test scores (mean 2.5 units from 21.6 ± 7.7 to 19.1 ± 8.4 units, P = 0.008). In finishers, there was a statistically significant effect above the minimum clinically important threshold of the CRQ score on the domains of fatigue, mastery, and emotional function. There was a statistically significant but not clinically relevant effect on the domain of dyspnea of CRQ. Conclusion: Digitalizing PR with a smartphone app is feasible and accepted by selected patients. The app leads to short-term improvement of health-related quality of life in patients completing a 20-day core program. Due to its observational character, this study has several methodological limitations and was intended to show the feasibility and to extrapolate effect sizes for planned prospective randomized-controlled trials to confirm these findings.
Four Decades of Space-Borne Radio Sounding

A review is given of the 38 rocket, satellite, and planetary payloads dedicated to ionospheric/magnetospheric radio sounding since 1961. Between 1961 and 1995, eleven sounding-rocket payloads from four countries evolved from proof-of-concept flights to sophisticated instruments. Some involved dual payloads, with the sounder transmitter on one and the sounder receiver on the other. The rocket sounders addressed specific space-plasma-wave questions, and provided improved measurements of ionospheric electron-density (N(sub e)) field-aligned irregularities (FAI). Four countries launched 12 ionospheric topside-sounder satellites between 1962 and 1994, and an ionospheric sounder was placed on the Mir Space Station in 1998. Eleven magnetospheric radio sounders, most of the relaxation type, were launched from 1977 to 2000. The relaxation sounders used low-power transmitters, designed to stimulate plasma resonances for accurate local Ne determinations. The latest magnetospheric sounder designed for remote sensing incorporated long antennas and digital signal processing techniques to overcome the challenges posed by low Ne values and large propagation distances. Three radio sounders from three countries were included on payloads to extraterrestrial destinations from 1990 to 2003. The scientific accomplishments of space-borne radio sounders included (1) a wealth of global N(sub e) information on the topside ionosphere and magnetosphere, based on vertical and magnetic-field-aligned N(sub e) profiles; (2) accurate in-situ N(sub e) values, even under low-density conditions; and (3) fundamental advances in our understanding of the excitation and propagation of plasma waves, which have even led to the prediction of a new plasma-wave mode.
The Association of Matrix Metalloproteinase-3 Gene-1612 5 A / 6 A Polymorphism with Susceptibility to Coronary Artery Stenosis in an Iranian Population

Matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP3) is key member of the MMP family, and is known to be present in coronary atherosclerotic. Several studies have demonstrated that MMP-3 5A/6A polymorphism modify each transcriptional activity in allele specific manner. We hypothesized that this polymorphism may play a role as risk factor for development of coronary stenosis. The aim of our study was to estimate MMP-3 (5A/6A) gene polymorphism on interindividual variability in risk for coronary stenosis in an Iranian population.DNA was extracted from white blood cells and genotypes were obtained from coronary stenosis cases (n=95) and controls (n=100) by PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and restriction fragment length polymorphism techniques. Significant differences between cases and controls were observed for MMP3 genotype frequencies (X=199.305, p< 0.001); the 6A allele was less frequently seen in the control group, compared to the disease group (85.79 vs. 78%, 6A/6A+5A/6A vs. 5A/5A, P≤0.001). These data imply the involvement of -1612 5A/6A polymorphism in coronary stenosis, and suggest that probably the 6A/6A MMP-3 genotype is a genetic susceptibility factor for coronary stenosis. Keywords—Coronary artery stenosis, matrix metalloproteinase-3, polymorphism, polymerase chain reaction.
Seismic hazard analysis results for the Lower Rhine Graben and the importance of paleoseismic data

Abstract Seismic hazard in low seismicity areas of Europe has traditionally been considered insignificant. However, in the light of the recently conducted paleoseismic studies along the Rhine Graben, a revision is required. Previously applied standard probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) methods, using Poissonian approach for the earthquake occurrence, can now be substituted by renewal models where fault parameters such as the maximum magnitude, recurrence interval and the elapsed time since the last occurrence of a large earthquake, can be utilized. In this study, the application and the influence of the available paleoseismic data in the Lower Rhine Graben to seismic hazard analysis is demonstrated. The resulting hazard maps, when compared to the standard PSHA using Poissonian approach, indicate a more precise geographical distribution of the estimated seismic hazard levels. The influence of the paleoseismic data seem to be less important for return periods less than a 1000 years. Among the different input models, the highest values reach to 170 cm/sec2 for a 1000 year return period using a combination of Poissonian and renewal models.
Structure and dynamical behavior of non-normal networks

We show that many real-world networks are non-normal, with important consequences for their stability and dynamical behavior. We analyze a collection of empirical networks in a wide spectrum of disciplines and show that strong non-normality is ubiquitous in network science. Dynamical processes evolving on non-normal networks exhibit a peculiar behavior, as initial small disturbances may undergo a transient phase and be strongly amplified in linearly stable systems. In addition, eigenvalues may become extremely sensible to noise and have a diminished physical meaning. We identify structural properties of networks that are associated with non-normality and propose simple models to generate networks with a tunable level of non-normality. We also show the potential use of a variety of metrics capturing different aspects of non-normality and propose their potential use in the context of the stability of complex ecosystems.