Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A prospective randomized open label comparative study of efficacy and safety of intralesional measles, mumps, rubella vaccine versus 100% trichloroacetic acid application in the treatment of common warts -

Background: Treatment of warts represents a continuing challenge for dermatologists as many of the available therapeutic modalities are associated with unsatisfactory results and high recurrence rates. Several clinical trials have proved the efficacy of intralesional immunotherapy by different antigens including MMR vaccine in the treatment of different types of warts. Methods: Total 150 patients having common warts over hands and feet including palmar and plantar warts were included in the study and were randomly divided into two groups. Group 1 consisted of 87 patients in whom MMR vaccine was given intralesionally in the largest wart whereas in Group 2, 63 patients were applied 100% trichloroacetic acid locally to the warts. These treatments were repeated 2 weekly for total three treatments. Patients were assessed for treatment response monthly for 3 months. Results: A highly significant difference was found in the response rates between the two groups (p 75% improvement and 26.44% patients had complete resolution whereas in TCA group, 11.11 % had >75% improvement and 7.94% patients had complete resolution. In the MMR group, side effects included pain at the injection site 100%, flu like symptoms 1.15 %, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation 1.15% and tenderness 1.15% whereas in the TCA group all patients experienced burning sensation and 2 (3.17%) patients had post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. Conclusion: Intralesional MMR vaccine is an effective treatment for warts without any significant side effects.
Barriers to Key Supplier Management: Is Imitating Key Account Management a relevant solution?

This paper is a piece of work in progress and repor ts on intermediary empirical findings of an on-going survey. The whole survey centers on specif ic organizational aspects of purchasing by concentrating on the implementation of key suppl y management (KSM). Research on KSM is scarce and this particular research aims at building knowledge on this largely overlooked topic. On the basis of 33 in-depth inter views with purchasing managers of multinational companies this paper concentrates on the obstacles that make it difficult for a firm to implement KSM. The paper identifies three m ain obstacles and develops the idea of an asymmetry between purchasing and marketing situatio ns. Key-words: purchasing, key supply management, organization.
Major histocompatibility complex-associated odour preferences and human mate choice: near and far horizons

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a core part of the adaptive immune system. As in other vertebrate taxa, it may also affect human chemical communication via odour-based mate preferences, with greater attraction towards MHC-dissimilar partners. However, despite some well-known findings, the available evidence is equivocal and made complicated by varied approaches to quantifying human mate choice. To address this, we here conduct comprehensive meta-analyses focusing on studies assessing: (i) genomic mate selection, (ii) relationship satisfaction, (iii) odour preference, and (iv) all studies combined. Analysis of genomic studies reveals no association between MHC-dissimilarity and mate choice in actual couples; however, MHC effects appear to be independent of the genomic background. The effect of MHC-dissimilarity on relationship satisfaction was not significant, and we found evidence for publication bias in studies on this area. There was also no significant association between MHC-dissimilarity and odour preferences. Finally, combining effect sizes from all genomic, relationship satisfaction, odour preference and previous mate choice studies into an overall estimate showed no overall significant effect of MHC-similarity on human mate selection. Based on these findings, we make a set of recommendations for future studies, focusing both on aspects that should be implemented immediately and those that lurk on the far horizon. We need larger samples with greater geographical and cultural diversity that control for genome-wide similarity. We also need more focus on mechanisms of MHC-associated odour preferences and on MHC-associated pregnancy loss. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Olfactory communication in humans’.
EFFICACY OF SOME ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AGAINST ROOT ROT WILT DISEASES OF OLIVE TRANSPLANTS AND THEIR GROWTH RESPONSE IN NEW VALLEY GOVERNORATE, EGYPT

Root rot and wilt disease complex were detected during disease survey carried out through two successive seasons (2011 & 2012) in several olive transplants nurseries and new orchards at ElKharga, Baris, Balat, El-Dakhla and El-Farafrah districts of New Valley governorate. Percentage of disease incidence and severity on olive transplants in surveyed districts varied. The highest means either in disease incidence or severity (60.8 and 48.7%, respectively) were recorded at El-Dakhla district followed by ElKharga (52.1 and 43.6%). Fusarium oxysporum was the most frequently isolated fungus at the five locations tested, followed by F. solani and Rhizoctonia solani, while Macrophomina phaseolina was the least one. Efficiency of seven organic compounds and one fungicide, as soil drench treatment, varied in reducing disease incidence and severity under greenhouse conditions. All organic compounds tested reduced the diseases severity than the control. Humic acid, Inicium, Fulvital and Bio-Health compounds gave the highest protection compared to untreated transplants (control). Humic acid, however, was significantly superior than the other, whil EMI was the least. All treatments significantly increased plant height, number of leaf plant , leaf area and fresh & dry weights.
-Parametric eigenproblem in max-algebra

Denotea ⊕ b = max(a, b), anda ⊗ b = a + b for a, b ∈ R and extend this pair of operations to matrices and vectors in the same way as in conventional linear algebra, that is, if A = (aij ), B = (bij ), C = (cij ) are real matrices or vectors of compatible sizes then C =A⊗B if cij = k aik ⊗bkj for all i, j . The symbol diag (d1, d2, . . . , dn) denotes the matrixD with diagonal elements equal to d1, d2, . , dn and off-diagonal elements equal to −∞. For an arbitrary parameter ∈ R and given square matrices A = (aij ), D = diag(d1, d2, . . . , d ,0, . . . ,0), dj = , 1 j , we study the parametric eigenproblem , i.e. problem of finding all x = (x1( ), x2( ), . , xn( )) and , satisfying A ⊗ x = ⊗ x , whereA = A ⊗ D. We introduce some properties of general -parametric eigenproblemand the O(n3) algorithm which gives all solutions of the 1parametric eigenproblemwith respect to . © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC:primary: 90C27; secondary: 05B35
Investigating Embeddings for Sentiment Analysis in Italian

The present paper compares the performance of both contex-tualized and context-free embeddings used for sentiment analysis tasks in Italian. The selected scenario is a pre-analysis stage when the gross architectural parameters of the pipeline have to be devised, while both small data sets can be used for training the model and experiments have to be performed with reduced computational power. Two pipelines have been set up to this aim: the ﬁrst one makes use of GloVe, which has been suitably trained on the same domain of the task at hand, and a deep neural architecture is used for classiﬁcation. The second model uses a pre-trained BERT for the Italian language to perform the whole task. The result of our study is that a context-free embedding trained on the task domain outperforms the generic contextualized one. The presented models are reported in detail, along with the experimentations on both the SENTIPOLC 2016 data set and a collection of about 100K TripAd-visor reviews.
Quality Evaluation of Aqua Cultured Oreochromis Niloticus Fish Recovered from Motile Aeromonas Septicaemia Disease

Motile aeromonas septicaemia disease (MAS) which caused by Aeromonas hydrophila has been reported to cause serious epizootics with extensive losses in wild and cultured fish so, this study was planned to investigate the effect of motile aeromonas septicaemia disease on the quality parameters of the recovered fishes and if there is any human hazards from eating of such recovered fish. Forty Oreochromis niloticus fish of about 200 – 250 gm 20 healthy (control) and 20 recovered from motile aeromonas septicaemia disease were collected from fish culture and transported to the laboratory with minimum of delay in an ice box. All fish were apparently healthy, free from any clinical abnormalities indicating bacterial diseases. Organolyptic, bacteriological and chemical examination to estimate the freshness rating and the quality parametrs were carried out directly after fish arrival to the laboratory. The mean demerit scores of healthy (control) “Oreochromis niloticus” fish group and recovered fish group were 0.9 ± 0.87 and 2.0 ± 0.82 respectively. The mean aerobic bacterial count of healthy (control) “Oreochromis niloticus” fish group and recovered group were 0.4 X10 ± 0.87 X10 and 2.05 X10 ± 2.46 X10 (cell / g) respectively. The fish muscle (flesh) of healthy (control) 2 2 2 2 “Oreochromis niloticus” fish group were free from Aeromonas hydrophila microorganism while, the investigator found the Aeromonas hydrophila microorganism in 10% of the recovered fish group. The mean values of fat content (%); protein content (%); pH ; total volatile bases-nitrogen (TVB-N) content (mg/100g) and K-values (%) of Healthy (control) fish group were 1.42 ± 0.23, 19.02 ± 1.01, 5.48 ± 0.26, 6.3 ± 0.84 and 12.06 ± 2.05 respectively while, that of recovered fish group were 1.19 ± 0.23, 17.27 ± 1.53, 5.61± 0.26, 6.64 ± 1.30 and 13.1 ± 1.77 respectively. The investigator suggested these results due to the influence of the disease on the fish imunity, body constituents and general appearance.
Exploring in-depth joint pro-environmental behaviors: a multivariate ordered probit approach

As commitment levels to pro-environmental activities are usually coded as ordered categorical variables, we argue that the multivariate ordered probit model is an appropriate tool to account for the effect of common observable and unobservable variables on joint pro-environmental behaviors. However, exploring in-depth joint pro-environmental behaviors using the multivariate ordered probit model requires not only to assess whether some variables are found to be significant, but also to calculate joint probabilities, conditional probabilities and partial effects on these quantities. As an illustration, we explore the joint commitment levels of households to recycling of materials in France. We show that beyond the estimation of the multivariate ordered probit model, much can be learned from the calculation of the aforementioned quantities. (JEL C35, Q53)
Improvement of Urban Environment and Preservation of Cultural Heritage through Experimental Economics by a Modified Contingent Valuation Method (CVM)

The preservation of cultural heritage is entailing excessive cost (paid by people through taxation) while is a source of additional income for both, the State and the people, due to tourism. Since the evaluation of this good cannot be in market terms, we apply a modified version of the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), which is frequently used in Experimental Economics, in order to investigate the significance that people put on this good and how much they might be willing to pay for supporting activities concerning the preservation of such antiquities, that also improve the urban environment. For this purpose, we have developed a methodological framework under the form of an algorithmic procedure with 21 activity stages and 4 decision nodes, and proved its functionality by implementing it in the case of the Cononian Walls surrounding the peninsula of Piraeus, the main port of Athens, Greece. The results indicate that people are in favor of overturning the devaluation of the monument, by participating in relevant activities, including financial support. Nevertheless, a part of the interviewees disagrees with any financial contribution, judging that this expenditure should be covered exclusively by the State. All statistical processing of answers, obtained through a properly designed/circulated questionnaire, was carried out by Logit and Probit model regression analysis. Both models gave significant (at 0.05 level) dependence of willingness to pay (WTP) on preferred course of action (i.e., leaving the ruins situation as is, performing only the necessary remediation, proceeding with radical restoration).
Competitive Advantage as Mediating Variable on the Relationship Between Innovation and Business Performance on SMES in Purwokerto Province

This study was aimed to examine the influence of innovation toward business performance and competitive advantage as a mediator. To test the empirical models, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used. Among the software used to assist the analysis in this study were AMOS 21.0, SPSS 16.0 and Microsoft Excel 2007. The sample size of this research was 125 owners-managers of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Purwokerto Province, Indonesia. The result showed that innovation has positive effect on business performance, innovation has positive effects on competitive advantage, competitive advantage has a positive effect on business performance, and competitive advantage doesn’t mediate the influence of innovation to business performance.
MIH SYNDROME: PERCEPTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE OF A SAMPLE OF DENTISTS FROM IASI COUNTY

Molar Incisor Hypomineralisation (MIH) syndrome is considered nowadays to be a clinical problem in many countries. Aim. To determine the level of knowledge and the therapeutic attitudes of a group of dental practitioners concerning MIH syndrome. Material and Methods. The study was carried on a number of 75 questionnaires. To evaluate the statistical association between the results was applied the Pearson correlation test. Results. Around 70% of dental practitioners have dealt with MIH syndrome in their practice, even 64% of the respondents did not know which was the real prevalence of MIH syndrome. 83% of dental practitioners would choose direct reconstructions of the affected teeth with combinations of composite resins, glassionomer cements and modified glassionomer cements. Conclusions. The implementation of continuing medical education programs in the field of reference could contribute to the dissemination of the knowledge and to the correct therapeutic and clinical management of MIH syndrome.
Validation And Analysis of Mannheim Peritonitis Index Scoring In Predicting Outcome in Patients With Perforation Peritonitis – A Prospective Study in Tertiary Care Centre

Background: Despite advances in diagnosis, management and critical care of patients with perforation peritonitis, prognosis remains poor. Early assessment by scoring systems will influence the management and prognosis. Over the years, many prognostic systems have been developed to stratify critical patients into different categories. Some are complex in their application whereas some are not specific for the disease condition. Mannheim peritonitis index (MPI) is one such prognostic system that helps us to estimate the probability of patient survival in cases of perforation peritonitis. Aim of our study is, to confirm the predicative value of MPI and analysis of different parameters among patients with intra-operative diagnosis of perforation peritonitis. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted from May 2014 to April 2015 on 100 patients undergoing surgery for perforation peritonitis. Result: Of the 100 patients, 85 were male and 15 were female. On dividing the patients into two groups based on the MPI score (<26 and ≥26), it was found that there was absence of deaths in patients with scores <26, and increased mortality and morbidity in those with score ≥26 confirmed the predicative value of MPI among patients with perforation peritonitis. Higher mortality rates were associated with presence of age >50, female sex, multiorgan failure, duration of symptoms of more than 24 hours, faecal peritonitis and presence of malignancy. Conclusion: The MPI is one of the simplest scoring systems in use that allows the surgeon to easily determine the outcome risk during initial surgery and probability of patient survival. Also, because of its simplicity of application it can be a very useful tool in countries such as India where there is limitation of resources and lack of ICU facilities.
Improving Sinhala-Tamil Translation through Deep Learning Techniques

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is currently the most promising approach for machine translation. But still, due to the data hungry nature of NMT, many of the low resourced language pairs struggle to apply NMT and generate intelligible translations. Additionally, when the language pair is morphologically rich and also when the corpora is multi-domain, the lack of a large parallel corpus becomes a signiﬁcant barrier. This is because morphologically rich languages inherently have a large vocabulary, and inducing a model for such a large vocabulary requires much more example parallel sentences to learn from. In this research, we investigated translating from and into both a morphologically rich and a low resourced language pair, Sinhala and Tamil, exploring the suitability of diﬀerent techniques proposed in the literature in the context of Sinhala and Tamil. Through the course of our experiments, we gained a statistically signiﬁcant improvement of approximately 11 BLEU points for Tamil to Sinhala translation and an improvement of 7 BLEU points for Sinhala to Tamil translation over our baseline systems. In this process we also designed a new language-independent technique that performs well when even the amount of monolingual sentences are limited and could support the translation of one direction on the translation of the other direction, given two languages.
Model-Independent Measurement of the e+e– ! HZ Cross Section at a Future e+e– Linear Collider using Hadronic Z Decays

A future e+e collider, such as the ILC or CLIC, would allow the Higgs sector to be probed with a precision significantly beyond that achievable at the High-Luminosity LHC. A central part of the Higgs programme at an e+e collider is the model-independent determination of the absolute Higgs couplings to fermions and to gauge bosons. Here the measurement of the e+e ! HZ Higgsstrahlung cross section, using the recoil mass technique, sets the absolute scale for all Higgs coupling measurements. Previous studies have considered s(e+e ! HZ) with Z ! `+` , where `= e, μ. In this paper it is shown for the first time that a near modelindependent recoil mass technique can be extended to the hadronic decays of the Z boson. Because the branching ratio for Z ! qq is approximately ten times greater than for Z ! `+` , this method is statistically more powerful than using the leptonic decays. For an integrated luminosity of 500 fb 1 at a centre-of-mass energy of p s = 350GeV at CLIC, s(e+e ! HZ) can be measured to ±1.8% using the hadronic recoil mass technique. A similar precision is found for the ILC operating at p s = 350GeV. The centre-of-mass dependence of this measurement technique is discussed, arguing for the initial operation of a future linear collider at just above the top-pair production threshold.
The Limits of EU Enlargement Linked to Citizens’ Perceptions of Past and Future Enlargements

While the Eastern enlargement of the EU was met with favorable public attitudes in member states at the time, today, the potential membership of countries in the Western Balkans, and even more so Turkey, meets strong public opposition. The review of public attitudes provides inconclusive explanations for the shift to negative public opinion trends since 2004/2007, motivating us to seek understanding through a discursive approach studying citizens’ views. This paper summarizes the results of six bottom-up, Q method discourse studies in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYROM). The comparison of 21 discourses from these six countries reveals the existence of groups of narratives that support enlargement, but also groups that oppose it. Analyzing the arguments within and across narratives, the paper outlines the limitations and opportunities for EU enlargement, stemming from the way European citizens/voters have perceived the process so far and how they envision it in the future. The identified discourses are more optimistic about future enlargements than mass surveys suggest. Nevertheless, the results clearly point to the lack of deliberation and communication on enlargement as a major problem of previous and current enlargement rounds. The real danger for future enlargement does not stem from negative opinions per se. Rather, enlargement process nowadays is at risk due to the absence of a bridging discourse that echoes across societies and elites and is rooted in common European values and ideals. The paper’s policy recommendations emphasize that deliberation, consultation, and communication leading to a balanced public and political domestic debate are required at early stages of the process. The Limits of EU Enlargement Linked to Citizens’ Perceptions of Past and Future Enlargements
ENHANCED GRAVITY RECOVERY OF BASE METAL AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS

Mineral separation by exploiting the differences in mineral or metal specific gravities (sg) has been used since antiquity. In the modern era, this is most commonly seen in the recovery of gold by the use of centrifugal concentrators and the separation of coal (low sg) from waste rock (high sg) using heavy media cyclones and jigs. Other metals, notably oxides of tin and tungsten, are successfully recovered using some combination of jigs, spirals and shaking tables. However, many conventional gravity separation systems are limited to fairly coarse (>1 mm) to medium (>100 micron) particle separations due to the limitations of the gravitational separation forces in conventional equipment. Many of the high specific gravity minerals of interest are friable (e.g. cassiterite, wolframite, etc.) and excessive fines are generated in the grinding/comminution circuits which cannot be recovered with conventional equipment and may be lost directly to the tailings stream. Recent developments in centrifugal gravity separation equipment specifically designed for fine or ultra-fine particle separation and recovery have resulted in heavy mineral particle recoveries as fine as 10-20 microns. Ongoing research work has also identified the benefit of closed-circuit, multi-stage gravity recovery circuits using some combination of centrifugal concentrators and conventional equipment (tables, spirals, flotation, etc.) which can substantially increase overall plant recovery and final concentrate grade. This paper will provide details of the evolution of non-fluidized bed gravity concentrators for high sg mineral recoveries, correlate laboratory scale development work with plant results to confirm scale-up, and show how recent flowsheet developments have contributed to significantly improved plant performance.