Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Prognostic Significance of Microvascular Obstruction by Magnetic Resonance Imaging in

Katherine C. Wu, Elias A. Zerhouni, Robert M. Judd, Carlos H. Lugo-Olivieri, Lili A. Barouch, Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Prognostic Significance of Microvascular Obstruction by Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 1998 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation doi: 10.1161/01.CIR. 97.8. 765 1998;97:765-772 Circulation. http://circ.ahajournals. org/content/97/8/765 World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is located on the
Adoption of Mobile Technology for Teaching Preparation in Improving Teaching Quality of Teachers

This study aims to identify the readiness of teachers to use mobile phones for the purpose of teaching preparation. The study also reviewed the level of teachers’ satisfaction when using the mobile technology applications developed for the purpose of teaching and learning in the classroom. This study used the mix method to collect data. A total of 31 teachers were involved in answering the questionnaire and seven teachers were interviewed to obtain supportive data. The findings show that the use of applications on mobile phones can help teachers smoothen the lesson preparation. In addition, the use of mobile technology also gives satisfaction to the teachers in enhancing their knowledge in the field of teaching. However, the technical aspects are still a priority and influence the usability aspects of an educational application. The study also revealed that the end users’ age factor is important because it affects the frequency and usage of mobile technology in developing their skills. In conclusion, the use of mobile technology among teachers is appropriate and facilitates the teaching activities.
A Critical Review of The Anatolian Geology: A Dialectic To Sutures and Evolution Of The Anatolian Tethys and Neotethys

A progressively improving hypothesis of evolution for the Anatolian Tethys and Neotethys will be presented in this paper. The Tethyan, the Western (Bursa-Ýzmir-Antalya zone) and the southern Neotethyan sutures will be substantiated after a discussion on the controversial aspects of the Anatolian geology. The initia- tion of the Tethys in Cambrian is supported on the basis of continous Palaeozoic sedimentation on north-facing Gondwanian and south-facing Eurasian platforms. A thin continental sliver, the Apula-Anatolia, started to rift off northern Gondwana in the Early Triassic coevally with the onset of the northward Tethyan subduction. The mar- ginal ophiolites have obducted onto the Pontian active margin by the Middle Triassic as the consequence of the dextral rotation of Western Pontides. The compressional and dilatational fields have shifted oceanward due to a recess (? ) of the subduction zone. The positive area covering most of the central and northern Sakarya has col- lapsed progressively and has been onlapped peripherically from the Liassic onwards. The Anatolian microconti- nent detached off Africa in the Upper Triassic-Liassic and drifted northward during the Jurassic and the Cretaceous and collided incipiently with the Eurasian margin (Pontides) in the Upper Cretaceous. Unsubducted pockets of ocean floor have closed with consequent syn-collisional magmas in the Paleogene. The Salt Lake pocket, the East Anatolia and the Western Neotethys, the Intra-Gondwanian rift separating the Anatolia from Apulia-Greece, have survived until the Late Miocene.
Consumers' perception of corporate social responsibility in a developing country

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) increasingly receives attention from managers and researchers, especially in the area of consumer perception and response of CSR. However, most of this research was conducted in the context of developed countries. It shows that research on consumer perception towards CSR in developing countries needs to be developed. This paper will examine consumer perception in the developing country of Indonesia. This research produced mixed results, suggesting that CSR is still a concept waiting to be applied in the developing country. Consumers are often unaware and unsupportive towards CSR. This is the opposite finding of consumer perception in developed countries, where most consumers are willing to support CSR launched by corporations. Nevertheless, there is an interesting finding: When consumers have to buy similar products with the same price and quality, CSR could be the determining factor. They would buy from the firm that has a socially responsible reputation.
Assessing Patient-reported Quality of Life Outcomes in Vulva Cancer Patients: A Systematic Literature Review

Objectives Vulva cancer (VC) treatment carries a high risk of severe late effects that may have a negative impact on quality of life (QoL). Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly used when evaluating disease- and treatment-specific effects. However, the adequacy of measures used to assess sequelae and QoL in VC remains unclear. The aims of the present study were to evaluate disease- and treatment-related effects as measured by PROMs in VC patients and to identify available VC-specific PROMs. Methods/Materials A systematic literature search from 1990 to 2016 was performed. The inclusion criterion was report of disease- and treatment-related effects in VC patients using PROMs in the assessment. Methodological and reporting quality was in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement. This systematic review was performed as part of phase 1 of the development of a European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer QoL questionnaire for VC patients. Results The search revealed 2299 relevant hits, with 11 articles extracted including a total of 535 women with VC; no randomized controlled trials were identified. The selected studies exhibited great heterogeneity in terms of PROMs use. Twenty-one different instruments assessed QoL. Most of the questionnaires were generic. Different issues (sexuality, lymphedema, body image, urinary and bowel function, vulva-specific symptoms) were reported as potentially important, but the results were not systematically collected. Only one VC-specific questionnaire was identified but did not allow for assessment and reporting on a scale level. Conclusions Vulva cancer treatment is associated with considerable morbidity deteriorating QoL. To date, there is no validated PROM available that provides adequate coverage of VC-related issues. The study confirms the need for a VC-specific QoL instrument with sensitive scales that allows for broad cross-cultural application for use in clinical trials.
KAJIAN DAERAH TERINTRUSI AIR LAUT DI WILAYAH PESISIR KECAMATAN KUTA UTARA, KABUPATEN BADUNG

The total population of District Kuta Utara 2014 recorded 68.422 people with an average population density of 2,021 people/km2 while the number of tourism accommodation facilities (hotels, villas, restaurants) recorded 399 pieces. The rapid of population growth and the development of tourism accommodation facilities require ground water more increasing. Intake of large amounts of ground water potential to cause pollution/ sea water intrusion. This study aims to determine the quality of the groundwater, knowing distribution maps sea water intrusion and to predict the level of sea water intrusion coming years. This research method uses descriptive quantitative method. Furthermore, to determine the quantity and quality of ground water was measured groundwater levels and analysis of the parameters of temperature, total dissolved solid, pH, chloride, hardness and electrical conductivity of the 60 sample wells. Results of analysis of each of the key parameters that can be mapped and known overlay distribution maps sea water intruded area. The observation of the quantity and quality of groundwater in coastal areas of Kuta Utara subdistrict shows the range of the depth of the ground water level between -5.15 meters to -22.16 meters. Results of the analysis of ground water quality of the 60 groundwater samples showed that there has been a decline in the quality of ground water is as much as 14 samples total dissolved solid (TDS) the highest reaches 1,122 mg/ l, the highest electrical conductivity reached 1,677 iMhos / cm and the highest chloride reached 532, 5 mg/l. Distribution maps sea water intruded area shows that in coastal areas troubled district of Kuta Utara indicated seawater intrusion, especially in the area of Petitenget and Batubelig, Kerobokan Kelod Village area of 78.44 Ha. Prediction of sea water intrusion in 2022 was highest in the area of tourism accommodation caused by ground water extraction enough much, kind of gray-brown soil regosol has a rough texture and high permeability characteristics so it is easy to pass groundwater.
Evaluating actual evapotranspiration by means of multi-platform remote sensing data : a case study in Sicily

During the last two decades, the scientific community developed detailed mathematical models for simulating land surface energy fluxes and crop evapotranspiration rates by means of an energy balance approach. These models can be applied in large areas and with a spatial distributed approach using surface brightness temperature and some ancillary data retrieved from satellite/airborne remote sensed imagery. In this paper a district scale application, in combination with multispectral satellite and airborne data has been carried out to test the potential of two different energy balance models to estimate evapotranspiration fluxes from a set of typical Mediterranean crops (wine, olive, citrus). The impact of different spatial resolutions on model-derived fluxes has been investigated in order to understand the roles and the main conceptual differences between the two models which use a single-layer (SEBAL) and a two-layer(TSEB) schematization, respectively. The critical spatial resolution of remote sensed data has been also investigated.
Early Maya Adaptive Patterns: Mid-Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Evidence from Pacific Guatemala

Abstract We summarize what is known about Archaic period occupation of southeastern Mesoamerica and Central America as background for presenting new paleoenvironmental evidence of pre-Early Formative human impacts on the landscape of Pacific coastal Guatemala. Our evidence comes from sediment cores in three locations, all of which are in the mangrove-estuary zone of the lower coast. Pollen and phytoliths from the cores document increased burning, decreased forest cover, the appearance of domesticates, and increased disturbance indicators at various times during the Archaic period, the earliest being around 3500 cal B.C. The available evidence demonstrates that shifting horticulture was an early and widespread adaptation to the southeastern Mesoamerican deciduous tropical forest and constituted the base from which later adaptations, including that of early Maya farmers, differentiated. Early Formative adaptive innovations may have been favored by shifts in return rates from various estuarine and terrestrial resources during a dry and variable interval 2000 and 1500 cal B.C.
Moderating Effect of Bank Size on Relationship between Financial Innovations Adoption and Financial Deepening of Listed Commercial Bank in Kenya

Despite commercial entities amplifying financial innovation there is need for empirical inquiry on their contributions towards economic development through financial inclusion and deepening. Financial deepening is the capacity of financial institutions to enhance access to its services. Financial innovations have reduced turnaround time for banking services such as withdrawals, deposit and loan approval process. Despite this documented evidence its contribution to economic development through financial deepening is barren empirical ground. Hence, this paper investigated the relationship between financial innovations adoption and financial deepening of listed commercial banks in Kenya. The study was anchored on technology acceptance model. Expo facto research design was adopted, census of 12 listed commercials was considered for five years. A significant relationship between financial banking innovations and financial deepening was reported. Also, there was significant moderating effect of bank size on the relationship between financial innovations adoption and financial deepening of listed commercial banks. <br><br>
How Gender and the Work Environment Influence the Job Satisfaction of Public Secondary School Teachers in the Central Region of Botswana

This study’s main focus was to investigate how gender and the work environment influence the job satisfaction of public secondary school teachers in the Central region of Botswana. Maslow’s theory of needs was used for the study. This study used quantitative analysis and targeted a population of 680 teachers from ten public secondary schools in the Central Region of Botswana. The sample of the study consisted of thirty-two percent of the targeted population which involved 213 teacher respondents. The participants were randomly selected from both junior and senior secondary schools in the region. A questionnaire was used during the data collection process and the validity and reliability of the instrument were established before the questionnaire was administered to the sampled participants. The efficiency of the questionnaire was pre-tested by 20 teacher respondents who were not part of the study sample. The data were presented using descriptive statistics, One Way Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA) and independent sample t-tests tables. The descriptive statistics used were calculated using the Statistical Packages of Social Scientists (SPSS). The findings of the study showed a strong link between gender, the work environment and teacher’s job satisfaction. In the study, public secondary school male teachers had greater job satisfaction than their female counterparts. The study further revealed that males were satisfied with promotion than female teachers. The study made some recommendations that the school management should practice and ensure gender equality amongst teachers towards promotions for high posts.
A Dynamic Analysis of Human Welfare in a Warming Planet

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have caused atmospheric concentrations with no precedents in the last half a million years, inducing serious uncertainties about future climates and their effects on human welfare. Recent climate science supports the view that the climate stabilization will require very low GHG emissions in the future. We ask: Is a path of low emissions compatible with sustainable levels of human welfare? With steady growth in human quality of life? Addressing these questions requires both defining welfare criteria and empirically estimating the possible paths of the economy. We specify and calibrate a dynamic model with four intertemporal links: education, physical capital, knowledge and the environment. In line with Nordhaus (2008a) and with the Stern Review (2007), we assume that GHG emissions allow increased production, while a higher stock of atmospheric carbon decreases production. Our index of human welfare, which we call quality of life (QuoL), emphasizes education, knowledge, and the environment, affected by greenhouse gas emissions, in addition to consumption and leisure. Thus, we avoid a Consumptionist Fallacy – that welfare depends only on commodity consumption and perhaps leisure. We reject discounted utilitarianism as a normative criterion, and consider two alternatives. The first is an intergenerational maximin criterion, which maximizes the quality of life of the first generation subject to maintaining at least that level for all successive generations. The second is human development optimization, that seeks the maximization of the QuoL of the first generation subject to achieving a given, constant rate of growth in all subsequent generations. Hence, our analysis focuses on a human notion of sustainability, as opposed to the conventional “green” sustainability, limited to keeping the quality of the environment constant. Because our dynamic optimization programs defy explicit analytical solutions, our approach has been computational. As a benchmark, we consider a simple model with physical and human capital, for which we prove a turnpike theorem. We then devise a computational algorithm inspired by the turnpike property to construct feasible, although not necessarily optimal, paths in the more complex and realistic model. Our analysis indicates that, with GHG emission paths entailing very low emissions in the future, positive rates of growth in QuoL are possible while the first generation experiences a QuoL higher than the historical reference level. We also observe a tradeoff between the quality of life of the first generation and the rate of growth in the quality of life. Yet Generation 1’s sacrifice for the sake of a higher growth rate appears to be small. The paths that we compute involve investments in knowledge at noticeably higher levels than in the past.
The Environmental Assessment Process – learning nexus: a Manitoba case study

This research explores opportunities for learning arising from a recent Manitoba EA. The Wuskwatim generation station and transmission lines projects involve the construction of a low head dam and three 230 kV transmission line segments. The EA process included multiple opportunities for public participation, including scoping meetings and 32 days of hearings. Primary data collection relied on participant observation, semi-structured interviews with EA participants, and a review of documentation generated during the EA. Assessment participants identified a range of learning outcomes, which revealed a number of strengths and weaknesses associated with the EA. Four of these aspects necessitate consideration for EAs. Information must be managed to allow for access, without overwhelming participants. Procedural uncertainty negatively impacts communicative learning outcomes. Access to financial resources by participants is necessary, but not sufficient for ensuring access to alternative perspectives. These findings suggest that although the EA of the Wuskwatim projects was able to better engage the public, additional procedural changes would strengthen the review process and positively impact the learning outcomes of
Platelet-Targeted Delivery of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells to the Ischemic Heart Restores Cardiac Function after Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

One of the major hurdles in intravenous regenerative cell therapy is the low homing efficiency to the area where these cells are needed. To increase cell homing toward areas of myocardial damage, we developed a bispecific tandem single-chain antibody (Tand-scFvSca-1+GPIIb/IIIa) that binds with high affinity to activated platelets via the activated glycoprotein (GP)IIb/IIIa receptor, and to a subset of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) which express the stem cell antigen-1 (Sca-1) receptor. Methods: The Tand-scFvSca-1+GPIIb/IIIa was engineered, characterized and tested in a mouse model of ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury applying left coronary artery occlusion for 60 min. Fluorescence cell tracking, cell infiltration studies, echocardiographic and histological analyses were performed. Results: Treatment of mice undergoing myocardial infarction with targeted-PBMCs led to successful cell delivery to the ischemic-reperfused myocardium, followed by a significant decrease in infiltration of inflammatory cells. Homing of targeted-PBMCs as shown by fluorescence cell tracking ultimately decreased fibrosis, increased capillary density, and restored cardiac function 4 weeks after ischemia-reperfusion injury. Conclusion: Tand-scFvSca-1+GPIIb/IIIa is a promising candidate to enhance therapeutic cell delivery in order to promote myocardial regeneration and thereby preventing heart failure.
Impact of Incision of Gravel‐bed Rivers on Ground Beetle Assemblages

The impact of river incision induced by channelization and gravel mining on the structure of ground beetle assemblages in riparian habitats was investigated on three montane rivers in southern Poland. Ground beetles were collected on three benches of different elevation in 11 incised and 14 vertically stable cross sections of the rivers. In total, 5821 individuals representing 106 species were collected. The effect of river incision on the diversity and abundance of ground beetles depended on bench height. Only on the lowest bench, inundated about once per year on average, species richness of the assemblages was significantly reduced in incised river cross sections. On this bench, the abundance of the specialists of exposed riverine sediments, i.e. small and medium‐sized predators with high dispersal power and spring breeding strategy, was highly negatively affected by river incision. On the highest bench, large, brachypterous species with spring and autumn breeding strategy, typical of undisturbed habitats, were more abundant in incised cross sections. As this bench is practically not subjected to flooding even in vertically stable cross sections, these species probably benefited from the occurrence of riparian forest along most incised river sections, whereas the riparian areas along vertically stable sections are subjected to higher agricultural pressure. This study shows that in the mountain region where high precipitation helps to maintain moisture of the riparian habitats, river incision has a negative impact only on the specialists of exposed riverine sediments. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Land suitability classification of a desert area in Egypt for some crops using microleis program.

3 Abstract: Desert reclamation for agricultural production is one of the priorities to compensate for the loss of agricultural land and to minimize food supply shortage in Egypt. Wadi El-Rayan Depression is one of the reclamation projects the Egyptian government has initiated. Since cultivation started at Wadi El-Rayan Depression, several problems have arisen in the project area including soil salinity, drought, water logging and expansion of the water bodies. This region is a world heritage site and has been selected to be a protected area. Thus, optimum use of the resources in the region needs to be thoroughly evaluated. Based on the interpretation of satellite image with the dominant geomorphic units, 65 soil profiles represented by 138 soil samples were characterized in Wadi El-Rayan Depression. A Web-based program, MicroLEIS, was used to compare the soil characteristics and quality needed for 12 different types of crops. The Web-based soil evaluation system indicated that the soils of the study area are not suitable for the selected crops due to one or more limiting factors. However, there are some exceptional cases where the soils were either suitable or marginally suitable. Unnecessary agricultural expansion may harm or damage the study area. Alternatively, continuing to improve tourism activities is a better land use for natural resource protection and economical development in Wadi El-Rayan Depression.