Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Political Games Strategy , Persuasion , and Learning

How does salient public information affect voters’ behavior? In a majoritarian voting game with common preferences, rational voters could use public information as an information device (depending on accuracy) or as a coordination device (regardless of accuracy). A simple lab experiment contradicts both hypotheses – subjects tend to follow public information when it is salient, regardless of the information’s accuracy, but fail to use it as a source of coordination. In particular, it matters whether the information is recent – subjects are more likely to follow public information when it is provided closer to the voting decision. These findings are important because the salience of public information is easily manipulable by political actors.
Comparative Evaluation of Ropivacaine versus Levobupivacaine for Postoperative Epidural Analgesia in Geriatric Patients Posted for Orthopedic Surgeries

Background: With increasing life expectancy, improved healthcare and increasing prosperity, the proportion of elderly population is increasing throughout the world. Post-operative pain management among elderly patients is a challenging and daunting task for anaesthesiologists. Altered redistribution kinetics as well as compromised drug clearance capacity render geriatric patients particularly vulnerable to drug-induced complications. Regional anaesthesia is preferred for the older patients because this form of anaesthesia causes the least interference with the metabolic functions.Subjects and Methods:56 elderly patients scheduled for elective orthopaedic lower limb surgery under epidural anaesthesia with continuous post-operative epidural analgesia were enrolled in this prospective randomised study and were randomly allocated to two groups consisting 28 patients each as under: Group I : Epidural analgesia Ropivacaine 0.2% @ 6ml/hr. Group II: Epidural analgesia Levobupivacaine 0.2% @ 6ml/hr. Statistical evaluation: Hemodynamic profiles, Onset of analgesia, extent of sensory and motor block were recorded. To compare the change in a parameter at two different time intervals paired "t" test was used. Block characteristics were analysed using Mann Whitney U test.Results:Both Ropivacaine and levobupivacaine provided excellent analgesic effect, a good hemodynamic stability and complication free infusion. As compared to levobupivacaine, ropivacaine had an early motor block recovery, early achievement of VAS score 0, ability to achieve higher levels of block and finally prolongation of analgesic effect even after the infusion was stopped.Conclusion:As compared to levobupivacaine, ropivacaine seems to be a better option for continuous epidural infusion owing to early motor block recovery and prolonged analgesia after the infusion was stopped.
Youths and their future perspectives: a systematization of experiences

This text was written from a workshop with young people from the city of Novo Hamburgo in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. We problematized the youths and their perspectives of future in an interface of education and work. The study uses the methodology of systematization of experiences to analyze the practices with eight young people in the workshop "Young People in Action" by approaching the themes: future, education and work and thus identify which elements are determinant for creating expectations for the future. The theoretical framework has an important contribution from popular education and sociology. We found that: the school and the family are structural tests that circumscribe the future expectations of young people; the young ones also presented dissonance in their tendencies as to what believe or act and they do not seem to have the habit of making plans about the future. The systematization of experiences showed to be very powerful, since it allows a constant movement of teaching and learning through practice.
TWISTED SYMMETRIES AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS

Symmetry properties are at the basis of integrability. In recent years, it appeared that so-called twisted symmetries are as effective as standard symmetries in many respects (integrating ODEs, finding special solutions to PDEs). Here we discuss how twisted symmetries can be used to detect integrability of Lagrangian systems which are not integrable via standard symmetries.
Characterisation of Thrombocytes in Osteichthyes

Abstract Thrombocytes in vertebrates other than mammals, inter alia in fish, are analogues of platelets in mammals. In Osteichthyes, these cells take part in haemostatic processes, including aggregation and release reactions in cases of blood vessel damage, and in the immune response development as well. This paper discusses the development of thrombocytes in Osteichthyes, taking into account the need to make changes to the concept of grouping progenitor cells as suggested in the literature. The following pages present the morphological and cytochemical properties of thrombocytes as well as their defence functions, and also point out differences between thrombocytes in fish and platelets in mammals. The paper further highlights the level of thrombocytes’ immune activity observed in fish and based on an increased proportion of these cells in response to antigenic stimulation, on morphological shifts towards forms characteristic of dendritic cells after antigenic stimulation and on the presence of surface structures and cytokines released through, inter alia, gene expression of TLR receptors, MHC class II protein-coding genes and pro-inflammatory cytokines. The study also points out the need to recognise thrombocytes in Osteichthyes as specialised immune cells conditioning non-specific immune mechanisms and playing an important role in affecting adaptive immune mechanisms.
Success indicators in accounting 1 in the college of management and information technology (CMIT), Northwest Samar State University (NwSSU), Calbayog City

The study attempted to find out the success indicators in Accounting 1 of students in the College of Management and Information Technology (CMIT), Northwest Samar State University (NwSSU) with the end view of proposing an enrichment program in Accounting 1. It utilized the descriptive-correlational method with a set of research instrument for students and teachers distributed to the respective respondents. Several factors were discussed in this study, namely: age, sex, parents‘ monthly income, IQ, average grade in Mathematics, average grade in English, home environment, self-esteem, attitude towards Accounting, or teachers‘ teaching competence, such as: instructional skills, communication skills, management skills, guidance skills, evaluation skills, and socio-personal skills. The data were analyzed using frequency and percentage, mean, standard deviation, pearson r, and stepwise multiple regression analysis to determine the best success indicators in Accounting 1. Taking all the different variables, the research stressed that the average grade in English and Math came out as the best success indicators in the performance in Accounting 1.
revista.economiaypolitica.ucuenca.edu.ecUniversidad Determinantes de la innovación: el rol de las economías de aglomeración

: Innovation is an important driver of productivity and economic growth. en, how innovation emerges or how it can be reinforced is a relevant question to tackle, especially in developing economies. e main aim of this study is to identify the determinants of innovation with special emphasis on the agglomeration externalities. e employed data is obtained from the National Survey of Science, Technology and Innovation Activities (ACTI), corresponding to the periods 2009-2011 and 2012-2014. Using a pooled data of 8,025 ﬁrms, discrete choice models are estimated for diﬀerent choices of ﬁrms: general innovation, product, process, organizational and marketing innovation. e results show that what matters for innovation is the presence of other innovative ﬁrms rather than the concentration of ﬁrms in general. e agglomeration externalities derived from diversity predominate over those derived from specialization. e most relevant individual factors that drive innovation are the investment in R&D and the qualiﬁed workers.
Presumptive Meanings: The theory of generalized conversational implicature

From the Publisher: When we speak, we mean more than we say. In this book Stephen C. Levinson explains some general processes that underlie presumptions in communication. This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades. Levinson outlines a theory of presumptive meanings, or preferred interpretations, governing the use of language, building on the idea of implicature developed by the philosopher H. P. Grice. Some of the indirect information carried by speech is presumed by default because it is carried by general principles, rather than inferred from specific assumptions about intention and context. Levinson examines this class of general pragmatic inferences in detail, showing how they apply to a wide range of linguistic constructions. This approach has radical consequences for how we think about language and communication.
Protein Kinase C Inhibitors Attenuate Protective Effect of High Glucose against Hypoxic Injury in H 9 c 2 Cardiac Cells

demonstrated the cardioprotective effect of diabetic heart against ischemic injury, suggesting a contribution of a high level of plasma glucose to the cardioprotection. In our preliminary report [2], we provided a demonstration about the cardioprotective effect of high glucose in vitro on hypoxic injury by using a cultured cardiac cell system. Protein kinase C (PKC) has been considered to mediate ischemic preconditioning; PKC activators such as phorbol esters or synthetic diacylglycerol analogues mimic the cardioprotection afforded by ischemic preconditioning, and various PKC inhibitors attenuate the effect of preconditioning on infarct size, contractile dysfunction, and arrhythmias during reperfusion [3]. It has been reported that the activity of PKC is increased in hyperglycemic rat heart and various cardiovascular cells cultured in high glucose condition [4, 5]. We previously suggested that the activation of PKC associated with hyperglycemia may play a role in the cardioprotection from the results that PKC inhibitors abolished the cardioprotective effect of diabetic heart against ischemic injury [1]. In the present study, we investigated the role of PKC in high-glucose–induced cardioprotection in vitro by examining whether the pharmacological inhibition of PKC can block the cardioprotective effect. We also tested whether exogenous activation of PKC can mimic the cardioprotection. H9c2 cardiac myocytes were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (Rockville, MD). H9c2 cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) containing 5.5 mM glucose supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum before experiment; cells were then further maintained for 48 h in DMEM containing low glucose (5.5 mM), high glucose (22 mM), or mannitol (16.5 mM) with low glucose. For PKC activation, myocytes were stimulated with a PKC activator, 4b-phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA, 10 nM) or 1,2-dioctanoyl-sn-glycerol (DOG, 100 mM), in 5.5 mM glucose–containing DMEM for 30 min and 8 h, respectively, before hypoxia. A PKC inhibitor, chelerythrine (Chel, 3 mM) or staurosporine (Stau, 10 nM), was added to the medium 1 h before hypoxia. The concentrations and durations of drug treatment were chosen on the basis of preliminary studies (data not shown). For hypoxic challenges, H9c2 myocytes were transferred into an anaerobic chamber (Forma Scientific) maintained at 37°C with a humidified atmosphere of 5% CO2, 10% H2, and 85% N2, as described earlier [6]. In the anaerobic chamber, a culture medium was replaced with serum-free, glucose-free DMEM saturated with N2 gas for 1 h before use. Normoxic incubation of myocytes in serum-free DMEM was conducted in a water-jacked incubator gassed with 95% air and 5% CO2 at 37°C. Overall cell injury was assessed by measuring the activity of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) released into the medium
Variabilidade da frequência cardíaca em neonatos prematuros e de termo

BACKGROUND: Several studies have demonstrated the importance of the autonomic nervous system through sympathetic and parasympathetic components in the management of the interaction between different parts of the body. These studies have applied linear and nonlinear techniques (Chaos Theory) for assessment in different situations, illnesses and age groups, using the heart rate variability (HRV). OBJECTIVE: To apply knowledge of linear and nonlinear dynamics in the assessment of preterm neonates (PTN), analyzing their HRV and comparing with healthy term neonates (NT). METHODS: Forty-eight premature neonates with different gestational ages had their heart rates assessed with the aid of a Polar Advanced S810i and HRV obtained by recording RR intervals. HRV was analyzed according to time (SDNN, RMSSD, SD1/SD2), frequency (VLF, LF, HF and LF/HF) and chaos (TAU and its standardization [TAU(n)], Lyapunov Exponent and Enthropy). PTN were compared with a group of 78 healthy NT with no perinatal events using Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test. RESULTS: We detected a statistically significant difference between groups for all variables, both in time, frequency and chaos. CONCLUSION: Preterm Neonates have a less complex heart rate variability behavior than term neonates, which was evident in time, frequency and chaos. The study of heart rate variability in this group can be considered another tool in the evaluation of autonomic maturation and hence the progression to normality.
The Prediction of Two-Phase Turbulence

A closed-loop analysis of phase distribution is presented. This analysis is based on the use of a two-fluid model. It is shown that the treatment of the turbulence distribution in the continuous phase is crucial if accurate predictions are to be made. A K-ƒÃ model is used to model turbulence in this study. Finally, recommendations are made as to how the state-of-the-art can be advanced.
New approaches for zearalenone analysis

In the present study an analytical method for the determination of the mycotoxin zearalenone was developed by coupling alternative extraction techniques (MAE; PLE) and highly sophisticated detection technique, such as LC-MS. A part from providing higher recoveries, this permits to reduce the time required for the extraction, to automate the process and to reduce the use of organic solvent. By taking adequate precautions, which allows to overcome the matrix effect, it is possible to analyse raw extract directly into LC-MS avoiding losses of the target analyte during the clean-up step.
Twin-Fluid Atomized Spray Combustion of Straight Vegetable Oil at Elevated Pressures

The effect of the chamber pressure on combustion of a twin-fluid-atomized spray of straight vegetable oil (VO) in a swirl stabilized combustion system is experimentally studied. A system with high pressure capabilities was developed, and flame and emissions characteristics of VO are investigated at elevated pressures up to about 5 bars, different heat release rates (HRRs), and atomizing air to liquid ratios (ALR) by mass. An image analysis technique was developed to infer flame and soot characteristics from visual images acquired by a digital camera. An increase in the ALR resulted in improved combustion of VO, characterized by blue flames, lower CO and NOx emissions, and minimal soot formation. For a given fuel flow rate, an increase in the chamber pressure resulted in smaller volume flames with lower CO levels but higher NOx emissions. Compared to diesel, as pressure increased, straight VO flames produced lower NOx and more voluminous flames characterized by distributed combustion with less soot formation. Overall, straight VO could be atomized and combusted at elevated pressures using the twin-fluid atomizer of the present study, and the resulting VO flames exhibited less sensitivity to chamber pressure variations.
A decision Fusion method for land cover classification using Multi-sensor data

In recent years, decision fusion techniques have been widely applied in many studies to combine information from different sensor data to achieve higher accuracy in information extraction than that could be achieved by the use of single sensor data alone. So far, most of the decision fusion techniques developed for the remote sensing applications have the drawback of assuming conditional independence between the classification results and integrates only two sensor data. The proposed Multi-sensor Fusion of Correlated Probabilities (MFCP) algorithm is rooted in the Baye's theorem and is the extended version of the Fusion of Correlated Probabilities (FCP) method by accounting for the cross conditional dependence between three multi-sensor information sources. At first, this dependence (or correlation) structure is efficiently formulated from the binary classification results of SVM by considering three sensor data and then finally used as weighting parameters in the proposed novel MFCP based fusion method. The proposed MFCP based fusion method is assessed in the multi-sensor land cover classification over the Beijing area. The data sets used consisted of two optical data sets (i.e., Landsat TM and CBERS) and one multi-temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data set. We evaluated and validated our proposed methodology by comparing it with four existing fusion methods, i.e., Max rule based decision fusion method, Consensus theory based decision fusion method, SVM based decision fusion method and Tau model based decision fusion method. To further validate the effectiveness of the proposed MFCP based fusion method, we performed a significance test for kappa's between different fusion results. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed MFCP based fusion method outperformed all the compared fusion methods that do not take into account the cross conditional dependence between classifications, in terms of overall accuracy, kappa and class wise accuracies.
Comparisonof the Sensitivities of Human, Canine, and Murine Hematopoietic PrecursorCells to Adriamycin and N-Trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate1

The sensitivities of leukocyte-committed stem cells of human, dog, and mouse bone marrow to an 18-hr exposure to Adriamycin (ADA) and N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-1 4valerate (AD32) were compared using the agar diffusion chamber assay. The survival of in situ mouse marrow stem cells following the drugs was also measured. The in vivo doses required to produce 37% survival of hematopoietic precursor cells for human, dog, mouse, and in situ mouse marrow stem cells for ADA were 9.5, 3.5, 8, and 8 mg/kg, respectively, while those for AD32 were 22, 17, 37, and 40 mg/kg. Mouse bone marrow cellularity was reduced to 50% by drug doses producing 3 and 7% stem cell survival. AD32 given i.p. to mice was less effective than i.v. drug in producing marrow stem cell death, reduction of marrow cellularity, or acute lethality. Although more AD32 than ADA was required to kill marrow stem cells from each species and canine marrow stem cells were the most sensitive to either drug, human stem cells were relatively more sensitive to AD32 than were mouse stem cells. The reverse was true for ADR. Granulo cytopenia may be an important limiting toxicity in the clinical use of AD32.
Parametric study of heat transfer enhancement using impingement of multiple air jets / Niranjan Murthy, V. Krishnan and A. Chennakesava Reddy

The problem of cooling of electronic components has become a subject of special interest in recent years due to the increasing capacity and rapidly decreasing size of electronic components. Direct contact cooling using multiple jet impingement is considered as the most effective method. The heat transfer problem is complex and better understanding of the jet impingement method is essential for proper application of this method for electronic cooling. Investigations were carried out using electrically heated test plate. Heat flux in the range of 25 to 200 W/cm2, which is a typical requirement for cooling high power electronic components was dissipated using 0.25 mm and 0.5 mm diameter air jets arranged in 7 x 7 array with a pitch of 3 mm. Tests were performed in the Reynolds number range of 1200 to 4500. Results show significant increase in heat transfer co-efficient with increase in heat flux.
Study on variable pitch strategy in H-type wind turbine considering effect of small angle of attack

Variable-pitch (VP) technology is an effective approach to upgrade the aerodynamics of the blade of an H-type vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT). At present, most of the research efforts are focused on the performance improvement of the azimuth angle owing to the large angle of attack (AoA). On the blade circular path of an H-type VAWT, there are two azimuth positions where torques are negative, and the performance is the poorest. The vicinity zones of the two azimuths also have low performance and greatly weaken the overall productivity of VAWT. In this paper, we propose a new technology that, unlike the traditional VP-technology, focuses mainly on the aerodynamics improvement of the azimuth position with small AoA. The purpose of this novel approach is to widen the band of azimuth positions with high performance and eventually enhance the power efficiency of the overall VAWT. The performance of the new VP-VAWT is predicted using the Double Multiple Streamtubes model and Prandtl's mathematics to evaluate .
Simulated Asian-Australian monsoon with a spectral element atmospheric general circulation model

A low-top version of SEMANS (Spectral Element Model with Atmospheric Near Space resolved) has been used to carry out numerical simulation on characteristics of AsianAustralian Monsoon (A-AM) in the work. The simulation results are validated with ERAInterim reanalysis dataset and precipitation data from satellite remote sensing. It’s shown that the model can reproduce the major climatic features of A-AM with stronger easterly in the tropical Eastern Pacific, and a weaker northerly component in the Northern Hemisphere.The simulated precipitation rate is larger and the double ITCZ (Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone) in the tropical Eastern Pacific in the northern spring is not reproduced. A due to the absence of variation longer than a year in the bottom boundary conditions, the model cannot reproduce the relationships between the monsoon indexes and the surface air temperature in the broad area near the equator.
Self-Control and Self-Regulated Learning on Students Self-Control dan Self-Regulated Learning pada Siswa

Article history: Students who are active in non-academic activities can get different academic scores from students who do not participate in student organizations. This study examines the relationship between self-control and self-regulated learning of students who are members of the Student Organization of the University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto-Indonesia. This study uses quantitative methods. The sample of this research is 88 students who follow the Student Organization. Sample selection using probability sampling technique by taking 14% of the total population. Data were collected using an online questionnaire, and namely, google Forms. The instrument used is a scale of self-control and self-regulated learning. The data analysis technique uses the product-moment method from Karl Pearson. This study indicates a positive and significant relationship between self-control and self-regulated learning in students participating in Student Organizations; the correlation value of r is 0.689 at p = 0.000 (p < 0.01).