Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hepatoportal Sclerosis in patient with Systemic Sclerosis and Sjögren’s Syndrome: a rare association

We present the case of a 51 years-old woman who was referred to our Liver Unit for suspected dysmetabolic liver disease. She had a previous diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis and Sjögren’s Syndrome and had altered hepatic enzymes with a positive anti-Nuclear Antibodies centromeric pattern, anti-Cardiolipin Antibodies and anti b2 Glycoprotein I Antibodies. Despite complete liver assessment and disease staging was negative, the clinical course was complicated by the development of anemia, due to esophageal varices bleeding associated with worsening splenomegaly. Liver biopsy was key for reaching the diagnosis as it showed portal tracts with fibrous expansion, ductular proliferation and focal lympho-granulocytic infiltrate, reduced caliber of portal vessels, hypoplastic portal tracts, focal herniation, aberrant microvasculature and positive endothelial CD34 staining. Having ruled out any other cause of portal hypertension such as cirrhosis, blood diseases, occlusion of the hepatic and portal veins, etc., we finally concluded that the portal hypertension was due to hepatoportal sclerosis associated with Systemic Sclerosis and Sjögren’s Syndrome. Keywords: Idiopathic Non-Cirrhotic Portal Hypertension (INCPH; Hepatoportal Sclerosis (HPS); Systemic sclerosis (SSc); Sjögren’s Syndrome (SS).
In vitro efficacy of fungicides against Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. melongenae causing eggplant wilt

Brinjal is commonly known as Eggplant (Solanum melongena Linn.) It is belongs to the family Solanaceae. Brinjal is a widely grown vegetable crop in Asian countries, probably a native of South Asia. Brinjal is growing throughout the India covering an area of 668.72 thousand ha with production of 123.99 thousand tonnes and productivity of 18.53 M. tonnes / ha. In Maharashtra, the area, production and productivity of Brinjal were 221.40 thousand ha, 433.28 thousand tonnes and 19.68 M. tones / ha, respectively during 2016-17 (Horticultural statistics at a glance, 2017). Fusarium species are the most important plant pathogens in the world and highly variable because of their genetic makeup and changes in environment in which they grow causing morphological changes [17]. Fusarium wilt of eggplant caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melongenae is an economically important soil borne disease limiting eggplant production worldwide. This pathogen was initially reported in Japan [15] and next in China [30]. F.oxysporum f.sp. melongenae is a soil borne fungal wilt pathogen which induces vascular disease in eggplant causing heavy yield losses in Asian countries [11, 12]. This disease also occurs both in greenhouse and open field cultivations [2, 25, 28]. Fusarium oxysporum and its various formae speciales characterized by the following symptoms: vascular wilt, yellows, corm rot, root rot, and damping-off. [1]; [24]. Due to prolonged survival in soil as a saprophyte and as resistant structures, Fusarium oxysporum was difficult to control [15] ; [7] ; [10]. The main objective of presented study was to evaluate the possibility of controlling Fusarium wilt of eggplant with the use of fungicides under in vitro conditions.
The Effect of Outside Temperature on Criminal Court Sentencing Decisions

Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics), who found strong effects of temperature on judges' decisions in immigration cases, drawing on 207,000 cases. We apply similar methods to analyse 2.8 million criminal court cases in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1994 to 2019. Most of the estimates are precise zeros. We conclude that outcomes of criminal court cases (which are far more prevalent globally than immigration cases) are not influenced by fluctuations in temperature, an unsurprising but reassuring result.
Who Bites the Hook? Investigating Employees' Susceptibility to Phishing: A Randomized Field Experiment

Phishing is a major threat to organizational information security, with the employee being a critical link in the security chain. Understanding why employees fall for phish is therefore crucial in order to design effective countermeasures. In this article, we investigate how (1) employees’ social networking site (SNS) use and (2) message involvement affects their susceptibility to phishing attacks. SNS use has been found to strongly influence users’ information processing, exacerbating proneness to heuristic decision-making, and hence making them easy prey for criminals’ influence techniques. We present a model to investigate the moderating role of SNS use in the relationship between message involvement and employees’ phishing susceptibility. In collaboration with IT-Seal, an information security training company specialized in phishing simulations, we conduct a randomized field experiment with 240 organizational employees and find that phishing messages employing message involvement (i.e., pretending to be of high relevance to the recipient) yield higher phishing success, and that employees’ SNS use moderates this effect. By revealing SNS users as a high-risk group for phishing attempts, our research hence provides helpful insights for information security practitioners.
Equity Volatility Term Premia

This paper estimates the term-structure of volatility risk premia for the stock market. Realized variance term premia are increasing in systematic risk and predict variance swap returns. Implied volatility term premia are decreasing in risk initially, but then increase at a lag, predicting VIX futures returns. By modeling the logarithm of realized variance, the paper derives a closed-form relationship between the prices of variance swaps and VIX futures. The model provides accurate pricing and highlights periods of dislocation between the index options and VIX futures markets. Term premia account for a significant fraction of the variation in long-maturity claims.
Psychological Aspects in Cardiovascular Patients

Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are frequently associated with psychological difficulties, which often aggravate the somatic symptomatology. Broken heart syndrome is a type of cardiac disease with a strong psychosomatic component. Objectives: 1) The analysis of the effect of age and gender on the level of depression in cardiovascular patients. 2) The analysis of two case studies of patients with broken heart syndrome, with emphasis on the psychopathological tendencies and the stress factors (acute and chronic). Methods: The paper has two components – a quantitative and a qualitative one. For the quantitative part, the study involved 160 cardiovascular patients, hospitalized at the time. The research design is a cross-sectional one, with two independent variables and one dependent variable, and the statistical procedures included descriptive statistics and factorial ANOVA analysis with two factors. The second part of the paper consists of two case studies, of patients with broken heart syndrome, who have been assessed by means of clinical observation, clinical interview and psychometric instruments. Results: The multivariate statistical measurement revealed a significant effect on the depression level concerning gender, an insignificant effect concerning the age variable and a significant effect of both factors when they are included together in the analysis. The qualitative analysis of the case studies indicates the pre-existence of psychopathological tendencies, acute stress factors (recent significant losses) and chronic stress factors in the personal history of the patients. Conclusions: Women suffering from cardiovascular diseases, especially those under the age of 65, are more prone to experience high depression levels and sometimes psychological factors can even enable a heart disease, as in broken heart syndrome, which sustains the need for psychological support in cardiovascular pathology.
International Time Series Momentum

Moskowitz, Ooi, and Pedersen (2012, JFE) document the anomaly of times series momentum. The objective of this study is to investigate if the anomaly is robust. By analyzing an entirely independent sample covering continental Europe, this research finds that not only time series momentum exists in the region, but also their correlations are very low, only half of those of contemporaneous market movements. Thus, time series momentum is more instrumental for diversification than markets are. Further, this type of momentum exhibits a compelling seasonality of higher returns in January than in the remainder of the year.
Geranylgeraniol increased mineralization in osteoblasts treated with low concentration of alendronate: A preliminary study

Correspondence author: Somying Patntirapong Faculty of Dentistry, Thammasat University, Rangsit campus 99 Moo 18 Pahonyothin Rd., Klong Luang, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand E-mail address: p_somying@hotmail.com; fax number: 02-926-9999 ext. 7174 Received : 29 March 2020 Accepted : 29 June 2020 Geranylgeraniol increased mineralization in osteoblasts treated with low concentration of alendronate: A preliminary study
Assessing Supply Chain Competitive Position In Medium Size Manufacturing Companies

This paper identifies the practices which influence the supply chain related competitive position in medium size manufacturing companies through an empirical survey. A regression model to assess the competitive position is developed by considering competitive position as a dependent variable and set of supply chain practices as independent variables. Also, the influence of these practices on supply chain performance measures is identified. Responses were obtained from the owners and senior management employees through a mail survey. It is found that competitive position related to supply chain is influenced by eight practices out of which inventory management and operational efficiency play a significant role. Similarly, six out of eight performance measures got significantly influenced due to these practices. Outcomes of this study would help the medium size manufacturing companies to focus more on the identified supply chain practices leading to competition position and achieve better performance outcomes towards their sustainability.
The Influence of Demographic Factors on Investment Decisions in Indonesia in the Pandemic Time Covid-19

Investment growth in Indonesia is increasing. This can be seen in the increase in the number of investment instruments available in the market. People are starting to become aware of the need for investment. They began to make investment a necessity that must be met. Demographic factors as a reflection of investor characteristics that are often of concern in influencing investment decisions are age, gender, education, income, occupation, marital status and investment experience. The analysis in this research is validity test, reliability test, frequency descriptive analysis, crosstab analysis and chi square test. The results of this study indicate demographic factors that have an influence on investment decisions are age and education. Meanwhile, gender, income, occupation, marital status and investment experience show that the results have no influence on investment decisions.
Determinants of Private Consumption in Vietnam: A Study in Provincial Level

91 can affect investment and future development. As a result of that, the requyrement to understand private consumption is essential to policy makers. Moreover, questions have been posed that which factors influence the private consumption level and how those factors can make a change to consumption. This paper will evaluate the determinants of private consumption of 63 provinces in Vietnam from 2005 to 2011 in order to answer question that which determinants have significantly influence on provincial average private consumption in Vietnam and estimate the marginal effect of determinants. Those determinants are the GDP, the private consumption in last period, the CPI, the public spending, the employment in the service sectors, and trend variable. This paper will apply regression methods in econometrics to attain regression parameters of the model which indicate the impact of determinant on consumption. This paper is organized as follows: Section 1 is the introduction and literature review. Section 2 shows the general model. Section 3 explains the variables and data descriptions. Section 4 estimates model and tests hypotheses. Section 5 is the interpretation of results. Section 6 is group’s conclusion. 1.2. Review of Literature Being the main contribution to GDP, private consumption plays a central role in economics studies. There are many theories and empirical studies discussing about the determinants of consumption expenditure. The theory of Keynesian consumer behavior suggests that Determinants of Private Consumption in Vietnam: A Study in Provincial Level
Effectiveness of Stress Management and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Psychological Capital among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Background and Aim: Type 2 diabetes is a chronic and complex disease. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of stress management and acceptance and commitment therapy on psychological capital in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test, and follow-up design with a control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all patients with type 2 diabetes referred to Milad Hospital in Tehran in 2019. In order to form three groups using the purposive sampling method, 90 patients were selected first by convenience sampling method, and then 30 patients were randomly grouped in the first experimental group and 30 in the second experimental group, and 30 in the control group. Follow-up phase was performed on all three groups three months after the post-test. The research instrument was The Lotans Psychological Capital Questionnaire (2007). Data were analyzed using a mixed analysis of variance by Spss.22. Results: The results showed that stress management and acceptance and commitment therapy had a significant effect on psychological capital components in patients with type 2 diabetes compared to the control group (p <0.00). Also, the mean scores of post-test and follow-up of hope component in the acceptance and commitment group increased more than the stress management group (p <0.00). Conclusion: It can be concluded that stress management and acceptance and commitment therapy were effective in psychological capital in patients with type 2 diabetes. Acceptance and commitment therapy was more effective than stress management on the hope component.
A Comparison of Doxorubicin-Resistant Colon Cancer LoVo and Leukemia HL60 Cells: Common Features, Different Underlying Mechanisms

Chemoresistance causes cancer relapse and metastasis, thus remaining the major obstacle to cancer therapy. While some light has been shed on the underlying mechanisms, it is clear that chemoresistance is a multifaceted problem strictly interconnected with the high heterogeneity of neoplastic cells. We utilized two different human cell lines, i.e., LoVo colon cancer and promyelocytic leukemia HL60 cells sensitive and resistant to doxorubicin (DXR), largely used as a chemotherapeutic and frequently leading to chemoresistance. LoVo and HL60 resistant cells accumulate less reactive oxygen species by differently modulating the levels of some pro- and antioxidant proteins. Moreover, the content of intracellular magnesium, known to contribute to protect cells from oxidative stress, is increased in DXR-resistant LoVo through the upregulation of MagT1 and in DXR-resistant HL60 because of the overexpression of TRPM7. In addition, while no major differences in mitochondrial mass are observed in resistant HL60 and LoVo cells, fragmented mitochondria due to increased fission and decreased fusion are detected only in resistant LoVo cells. We conclude that DXR-resistant cells evolve adaptive mechanisms to survive DXR cytotoxicity by activating different molecular pathways.
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) effects on growth and nutritional performance of Mentha arvensis L. at various levels of rock phosphate amendments

Present research work was performed to know the effects of AMF (Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi) inoculation on biomass and growth performance of Mentha arvensis L. and different concentration of rock phosphate amendments were applied in association with AMF or without AMF such as RP0 (without phosphate) RP1 (0.05g), RP2 (0.105g) and RP3 (0.157g). Inoculum used was soil based and obtained from Agave plants with large number VAM spores i.e. Glomus aggregatum, Glomus fasciculatum and Acaulospora mellea were most prominent. The mycorrhizal plants showed improved growth significantly regarding root length, shoot length, number of leaves, fresh weight and dry weight as compared to non-mycorrhizal plants at low level of rock phosphate. In contradiction differences between mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal plants diminished at high levels. Similarly, nutritional analysis showed enhancement in crude fiber, protein and fat in mycorrhizal plants, however carbohydrate content was reduced in mycorrhizal plants. Mycorrhizal fungi enhanced the absorption of nutrients such as phosphate which is non-mobile and leads to enhanced plant growth. Overall mycorrhizal group shows better performance as compared to non-mycorrhizal group at various level of rock phosphate.
The Effect of Ownership Structure and Intellectual Capital on Firm Value with Firm Performance as an Intervening Variable

This study aims to examine and analyse the effect of ownership structure and intellectual capital on firm value with the firm’s performance as an intervening variable. The research sample was taken from the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2016; it consisted of 302 firms that fulfilled the requirements of this research. Data were analysed by using the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis method with the SmartPLS 6.0 program. This study found empirical evidence that: (1) ownership structure can increase firm value, the implication being that the structures of foreign ownership, managerial ownership and institutional ownership have been able to directly increase the firm value; (2) intellectual capital is able to increase firm value, meaning that the Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC TM) can directly increase firm value; (3) ownership structure can improve firm performance, showing that foreign ownership structures, managerial ownership and institutional ownership can improve firm performance; (4) intellectual capital can improve firm performance, demonstrating that the Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAICTM) has been able to motivate firm performance; (5) firm performance can increase firm value, indicating that firm performance that is proxied by ROA and ROE can be improved; 6) firm performance fully mediates the effect of ownership structure on firm value; and (7) firm performance fully mediates the effect of intellectual capital on firm value.
A visual model for prognostic estimation in patients with primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of small intestine and colon: analysis of 1,613 cases from the SEER database

Background Treatment modalities for primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of Small intestine and colon (PIC-DLBCL) have changed significantly during the past decades. However, limited information on the trends of clinical outcome of PIC-DLBCL patients has been reported, and the influence of marital status and medical insurance on prognosis is ignored. Methods This was a retrospective analysis the survival of PIC-DLBCL patients using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database between 2002 and 2016. The patients were divided into the training and validation cohort. In the training cohort, univariate and multivariable Cox regression analysis, Log-rank test and the Kaplan-Meier method were used to find out the independent prognostic factors, from which the visual prognostic model (nomogram and graphical web page) was established. C-index and calibration plots were used to evaluate the prediction accuracy of the model. In the validation cohort, both Decision curve analysis (DCA) and Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was performed to compare the model with the International Prognostic Index (IPI) scoring model which is universally used to estimate prognosis of PIC-DLBCL. Results A total of 1,613 patients were collected, and the 5-year overall survival of all cases was 64.5%. Age at diagnosis (HR =2.58, 95% CI: 2.29–2.91), Ann Arbo stage (HR =1.34, 95% CI: 1.24–1.44), Divorced or Separated (HR=1.21, 95% CI: 1.06–1.38), Uninsured (HR =1.32, 95% CI: 1.19–1.45) and Primary colon (HR =1.23, 95% CI: 1.08–1.40) were associated with prognosis and were used to build up the visual model (nomogram and graphical web page). Both DCA and ROC curve showed that the model had better authentication capability than the IPI scoring model (AUC 0.820 vs. 0.714). The calibration plots showed that the model could accurately predict patient prognosis. Conclusions The visual model could output individual estimate prognosis simply and correctly, including marital status and medical insurance for the first time. Consideration of both medical and social factors, this study provided a new way to explore the improving prognosis of PIC-DLBCL.
Comparison between osseodensification burs and osteotome technique for closed sinus lift in partially edentulous maxilla

Dental implants are considered the first choice to replace lost or non-restorable teeth. However, the posterior maxilla remains a challenge in its management because of the quality of bone in the posterior maxilla. Osseodensification (OD) concept has been proposed in the literature to improve primary implant stability, which is an important aspect of osseointegration. Densah bur is novel drills specially designed to enhance a bone density by Osseodensification, which in turn increases primary stability.This present study was conducted to assess crestal sinus floor elevation by osteotome in comparison to densah bur in the posterior atrophic maxilla. This was a randomized controlled clinical trial conducted on 20 patients to evaluate available crestal bone height loss, implant stability after implant placement in healed posterior maxillary alveolar ridge, whole bone height, Schneiderian membrane trauma, and post-operative complication. All crestal sinus floor elevations were performed for 20 patients with at least 5mm residual bone height. 10 randomly selected patients received osteotome sinus elevation (group 1), and 10 received osseodensification sinus elevation (group 2), were recalled 2 days after the operation, then after four-month until the prosthetic Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology ISSN: 1007-6735 Volume 23, Issue 5, May 2021 Page-392 D.O. I 10.51201/JUSST/21/05164 http://doi.org/10.51201/JUSST/21/05164 phase. The clinical assessment involved the assessment of postoperative sequelae including edema, pain and postoperative healing. The evaluation involved clinically and radiographically. Periapical radiographs and orthopantogram took for every patient immediately at the time of fixture insertion and after 4 months postoperatively to evaluate crestal bone height loss. While implant stability was obtained by using, ratchet and periotest device immediately after implant insertion and 4 months postoperatively at the time of implant exposure. keywords: osseodensification burs ; osteotome technique ; closed sinus lift ; partially edentulous maxilla