Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Modeling of Multi-Service Switching Networks With Multicast Connections

This article presents an analytical model of a switching network that can be used in the nodes of a large number of modern multi-service networks. The model of a multi-service three-stage switching network proposed in this article has the advantage of providing the possibility to evaluate the point-to-point blocking probability for multicast connections. The information obtained in this way can then be used both at the stage of the estimation of the capacity of a new network and during the optimisation process of an existing network. In the calculations performed during the investigations, three scenarios for the fan out of multicast connections in the switching network are taken into consideration. The assumption is that the branching of a connection can occur in the first, second and the third stage of the switching network. The model proposed in the article is based on the concept of “effective” availability. The article discusses the methods for the determination of the effective availability parameter for successive connections that belong to a given multicast connection. The results of the analytical modelling are compared with the simulation data for three selected structures of multi-service switching networks to which different mixtures of multi-service BPP traffic are offered. The results of the calculations and the data provided by the simulation experiments validate and confirm high accuracy of the proposed model. This allows the model to be easily applied in practice to different environments to evaluate the capacities of the nodes in multi-service networks.
A Study on Length-Weight Relationship and Condition Factor of Three Important Freshwater Fish Species of Maijan Beel, Dibrugarh, Assam, India

The aim of current investigation is to report the length-weight relationship (LWRs) of three economically important as well as ornamental fish species, namely Channa stewartii, Heteropneustes fossilis and Trichogaster fasciata found in Maijan Beel, Dibrugarh, Assam, India. 148 fish specimens belonging to the families Chanidae, Clariidae and Belontiidae were collected and used for the study. The result reported that the exponent ‘b’ in the LWRs (W=aLb) were ranged between 2.61 and 3.00 showing allometric and isometric pattern of growth. The coefficient of correlation (r) recorded in the range of 0.91 to 0.96 and showed high degree correlation in all the species. The Fulton’s condition factor (K) value was varied for each species from 0.53 to 1.79. These parameters are of great important to evaluate the biology, habitat condition, management of the population dynamics and stock assessment of the fishes.
INVESTIGATION OF DAMAGES TO STAND CAUSED BY SELECTION CUTTING USING SKIDDING SYSTEM IN THE ASALEM- NAV FOREST, IRAN

Tavankar, F. , Bonyad, A.E. , Majnounian, B. 1Assist. Prof., Forest Sciences, khalkhal Branch, Islamic Azad University, KhalkhalIran. 2Assoc. Prof., Forest Sciences, University of Guilan, Natural Resources Faculty, Someh-SareIran. bonyad@guilan.ac. ir 3Prof. , Forest Engineering, University of Tehran, Natural Resources Faculty, KarajIran. bmajnoni@ut.ac. ir Received: June, 2010 Accepted: Jan., 2011
The lncRNAs at X Chromosome Inactivation Center: Not Just a Matter of Sex Dosage Compensation

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) constitute the majority of the transcriptome, as the result of pervasive transcription of the mammalian genome. Different RNA species, such as lncRNAs, miRNAs, circRNA, mRNAs, engage in regulatory networks based on their reciprocal interactions, often in a competitive manner, in a way denominated “competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) networks” (“ceRNET”): miRNAs and other ncRNAs modulate each other, since miRNAs can regulate the expression of lncRNAs, which in turn regulate miRNAs, titrating their availability and thus competing with the binding to other RNA targets. The unbalancing of any network component can derail the entire regulatory circuit acting as a driving force for human diseases, thus assigning “new” functions to “old” molecules. This is the case of XIST, the lncRNA characterized in the early 1990s and well known as the essential molecule for X chromosome inactivation in mammalian females, thus preventing an imbalance of X-linked gene expression between females and males. Currently, literature concerning XIST biology is becoming dominated by miRNA associations and they are also gaining prominence for other lncRNAs produced by the X-inactivation center. This review discusses the available literature to explore possible novel functions related to ceRNA activity of lncRNAs produced by the X-inactivation center, beyond their role in dosage compensation, with prospective implications for emerging gender-biased functions and pathological mechanisms.
Concrete with Partial Substitution of Waste Glass and Recycled Concrete Aggregate

The current practice of concrete is thought to be unsuitable because it consumes large amounts of cement, sand, and aggregate, which causes depletion of natural resources. In this study, a step towards sustainable concrete was made by utilizing recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) as a coarse aggregate. However, researchers show that RCA causes a decrease in the performance of concrete due to porous nature. In this study, waste glass (WG) was used as a filler material that filled the voids between RCA to offset its negative impact on concrete performance. The substitution ratio of WG was 10, 20, or 30% by weight of cement, and RCA was 20, 40, and 60% by weight of coarse aggregate. The slump cone test was used to assess the fresh property, while compressive, split tensile, and punching strength were used to assess the mechanical performance. Test results indicated that the workability of concrete decreased with substitution of WG and RCA while mechanical performance improved up to a certain limit and then decreased due to lack of workability. Furthermore, a statical tool response surface methodology was used to predict various strength properties and optimization of RCA and WG.
Relevance of a Novel Circuit-Level Model of Episodic Memories to Alzheimer’s Disease

The medial temporal lobe memory system has long been identified as the brain region showing the first histopathological changes in early Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and the functional decline observed in patients also points to a loss of function in this brain area. Nonetheless, the exact identity of the neurons and networks that undergo deterioration has not been determined so far. A recent study has identified the entorhinal and hippocampal neural circuits responsible for encoding new episodic memories. Using this novel model we describe the elements of the episodic memory network that are especially vulnerable in early AD. We provide a hypothesis of how reduced reelin signaling within such a network can promote AD-related changes. Establishing novel associations and creating a temporal structure for new episodic memories are both affected in AD. Here, we furnish a reasonable explanation for both of these previous observations.
Making Meaning of Women Who Have Late-Term Abortions from the Perspective of Mothers Who Terminated Wanted Pregnancies

ABSTRACT Women who have late-term abortions not only have to cope with losing a child but also the stigma associated with termination. Understanding the ways stigmatizing ideologies are resisted by alternatives has the potential to disrupt meanings that disenfranchise populations. Interested in ideological resistance, we framed this study in relational dialectics theory, which highlights how marginalized discourses resist dominant ones to make meaning of a semantic object. We used RDT’s corresponding method, contrapuntal analysis, which revealed two discourses that competed to illuminate the meanings of women who terminate wanted pregnancies due to health complications (WTHC): the Discourse of Independent Murder (DIM) and the Discourse of Collective Sacrifice (DCS). These discourses interplayed through contractive practices (i.e., disqualification, naturalization, ideal violation), synchronic interplay (i.e., entertaining, countering, negating), and dialogic transformation (i.e., hybridization and aesthetic moment) illustrating a struggle that both reified and resisted the DIM. Theoretical implications and practical applications are discussed.
Consumers' Complaints: Causal attribution and moral emotions in service failures

Purpose: This research investigated consumers’ reactions to service failures, based on Weiner’s attribution theory, by simulating two situations: a teacher that is late to class and a delay in a course registration service.Method: Students at an educational service (n = 388) responded to four versions of scenarios, combining external and internal causes with teacher delay and enrollment problems.Findings: Factor analyzes inductively reflected the theoretical organization of the model: Negative Behavior, Positive Reactions, Internal Attributions, and Negative Emotions. Internal causes led to internal attributions, negative emotions and negative behaviors. Originality: The central role of moral emotions on the attitude towards complaining behavior is discussed, as well as the importance of implementing simple and low-cost managerial measures to improve the quality of care service.
Electrical stimulation-induced speech-related negative motor responses in the lateral frontal cortex.

OBJECTIVE Speech arrest is a common but crucial negative motor response (NMR) recorded during intraoperative brain mapping. However, recent studies have reported nonspeech-specific NMR sites in the ventral precentral gyrus (vPrCG), where stimulation halts both speech and ongoing hand movement. The aim of this study was to investigate the spatial relationship between speech-specific NMR sites and nonspeech-specific NMR sites in the lateral frontal cortex. METHODS In this prospective cohort study, an intraoperative mapping strategy was designed to identify positive motor response (PMR) sites and NMR sites in 33 consecutive patients undergoing awake craniotomy for the treatment of left-sided gliomas. Patients were asked to count, flex their hands, and simultaneously perform these two tasks to map NMRs. Each site was plotted onto a standard atlas and further analyzed. The speech and hand motor arrest sites in the supplementary motor area of 2 patients were resected. The 1- and 3-month postoperative language and motor functions of all patients were assessed. RESULTS A total of 91 PMR sites and 72 NMR sites were identified. NMR and PMR sites were anteroinferiorly and posterosuperiorly distributed in the precentral gyrus, respectively. Three distinct NMR sites were identified: 24 pure speech arrest (speech-specific NMR) sites (33.33%), 7 pure hand motor arrest sites (9.72%), and 41 speech and hand motor arrest (nonspeech-specific NMR) sites (56.94%). Nonspeech-specific NMR sites and speech-specific NMR sites were dorsoventrally distributed in the vPrCG. For language function, 1 of 2 patients in the NMA resection group had language dysfunction at the 1-month follow-up but had recovered by the 3-month follow-up. All patients in the NMA resection group had fine motor dysfunction at the 1- and 3-month follow-ups. CONCLUSIONS The study results demonstrated a functional segmentation of speech-related NMRs in the lateral frontal cortex and that most of the stimulation-induced speech arrest sites are not specific to speech. A better understanding of the spatial distribution of speech-related NMR sites will be helpful in surgical planning and intraoperative mapping and provide in-depth insight into the motor control of speech production.
Institutional Quality and Industrial Growth: A Causality Analysis

The research study investigates the causal links between institutional quality and industrial output growth in Nigeria for the periods 1996:Q1-2018:Q4. Institutional quality was delineated into three i.e. economic institution (government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption), financial institution (contract intensive money, lending rate, and financial deepening), and political institution (voice and accountability, and political stability and absence of violence). The study computed the Granger causality test using both the VECM and the Toda and Yamamoto [1] and Dolado and Lutkepohl [2] (TYDL) augmented VAR procedure. The causality result in the short run showed that none of the institutional quality variables have a causal effect on industrial output growth but the feedback was reported. In the long run, a bi-causal relationship was reported from government effectiveness, control of corruption, financial deepening, and voice and accountability to industrial growth, whereas, a one-way directional relation was found running from industrial growth to regulatory quality and political stability & absence of violence. Thus, there is a need for the government to intensify efforts towards improving the extent people can challenge her power and authority because these play significant roles in the development level of Nigerian industries.
The Impact of Advertising Creative Strategy on Advertising Elasticity

This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the impact of advertising creative strategy (ACS) on advertising elasticity, founded on an integrative framework that distinguishes between the function (content) and form (execution) of an advertising creative. The authors evaluate function using a three-dimensional representation of content (experience, affect, cognition), whereas the representation of form accounts for both executional elements and the use of creative templates. The distinction between function and form allows for the investigation of potential synergies between content and execution, previously unaccounted for in the literature. The ACS framework also facilitates the calculation of composite metrics that capture holistic aspects of the creative strategy, such as focus (i.e., the extent of the emphasis on a specific content dimension) and variation (i.e., changes in content and execution over time). The empirical application focuses on a dynamic linear model analysis of 2,251 television advertising creatives from 91 brands in 16 consumer packaged goods categories. The findings show that for function, experiential content has the greatest effect on elasticity, followed by cognitive and affective content. Function and form produce synergies that advertisers can leverage to increase returns. Finally, focus, variation, and the use of templates increase advertising elasticity.
Efficacy of Local Methylprednisolone Injection for Treatment of de Quervain’s Tenosynovitis

Objectives: The objective of this study was to find out the efficacy of local steroid injection for treatment of de Quervain’s disease. Study design: Descriptive retrospective Place and duration of study: The study was conducted at department of orthopedic and spine surgery, Hayatabad medical complex Peshawar and Khyber medical centre dabgari garden Peshawar from January 2007 to December 2019. Patients and methods: We evaluated our data of patients with diagnosis of de Quervain’s tenosynovitis from 2007 till 2019. Patients with complete demographic data and who received local steroid injection and had at least 3 months follow up were included in the study. The findings were analyzed for the effectiveness of local steroid injection. The response to injection was considered effective when the patient was symptom free and did not need surgery. Local injection of 80mg methylprednisole was injected into the first dorsal compartment of the wrists. The injection was repeated if first dose was not effective at 4 th or 8 th week with patients consent. The outcome was checked for relief of symptoms or otherwise at 4, 8 and 12 th weeks. Results: Complete record of 270 patients was available. Females were 238 and 32 were males in a ratio of 1:7.4. The average age was 39 years ( range 24-71). Out of these 26 patients follow up was not complete. 180 patients needed one, 49 two and 15 patients three injections. Out of 244 patients 70 (28.6%) patients did not improve and needed surgical intervention. The remaining 174 ( 71.4%) had complete relief of pain. 4 patients had hypo pigmentation of the wrist area. 28 patients had exaggerated pain for 2-3 days before the injection was effective. Conclusion: local steroid injection is safe and effective method for treatment of de Quervain tenosynovitis.
Challenges of Entrepreneurship E-Education: Evidence from a Developing Country

E-learning has been applied in education systems in many universities and is accepted by students in the world especially by graduate students. One of the educational fields presented in e-learning systems is entrepreneurship. Increasing demand for entrepreneurship education in Iran, especially from entrepreneurs, governmental managers and private sector, who cannot leave their job on one hand and the growth of information technology in higher education in Iran on the other hand, has made the University of Tehran (UT) offer virtual learning as a new way for entrepreneurship education. This research aims to find out the drivers and barriers of e-education at the Faculty of Entrepreneurship at the UT. Moreover, authors detected the role of students, professors, curriculum, teaching methods, ICT infrastructures, staff and other factors in the process of e-education development at the Faculty of Entrepreneurship. The samples of the research were chosen between two groups, i.e. students and professors. Sixty-five questionnaires were filled out by e-learning students were evaluated. The scale was developed to identify students' perception about driver and barrier factors of e-education based on different groups of factors. In addition, 10 deep interviews with e-education professors were conducted. Findings of the research suggested that there are three existing groups of driver and barrier factors of e-education at the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, based on a system approach, as follows: (i) Input factors (students, professors, curriculum, ICT infrastructures, Staffs and Budget), (ii) Process factors (teaching methods, cultural and structural factors at university), and (iii) Environmental factors.
A descriptive study of welfare and mental health issues among health-related sciences undergraduate students at the Medical University of Gdansk

Purpose and methods: We surveyed a large sample of health-related sciences undergraduate students at the Medical University of Gdańsk (MUG), Poland in a pilot study to assess self-reported somatic/mental health-related issues, measure the level of burnout using Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI), the presence of depressive symptoms with Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (PHQ-9) and assess the problematic alcohol intake (CAGE questionnaire). Additionally, stress coping mechanisms were investigated. Results: A total of 864 students participated in the survey. The mean total OLBI and PHQ-9 scores equalled 43.3 ± 2.7 and 11.3±5.8 points, respectively. The CAGE questionnaire was positive in 21.6% of students. Three most prevalent stress coping mechanisms included TV binge-watching, binge-eating and cigarette chain smoking (51.0%, 45.0% and 28.0% respectively). Conclusions: Future studies are required to confirm the obtained results, assess, and monitor trends and set-up interventions to improve the welfare of health-related science MUG students.
Negative Creeping Discharge along Aerial Insulated Wire in Wet Condition

Aerial insulated wires are supported by postinsulators and binding wires on reinforced concrete poles. When a lightning flash strikes near by the wires, an overvoltage due to the indirect lightning surge is induced in the conductive wire core. A creeping discharge can develop along the wire surface from the free end of the binding wire through the postinsulator and reinforced concrete pole if flashover occurs at the postinsulator, and this also leads to wire damage such as melting or snapping. This can occur under either rainy or thunderstorm conditions. In this case, it indicates that the wire surface is stressed by lightning impulses under wet condition. Consequently, it is important to prevent wire damage and to clarify the characteristics of creeping discharges along the wire surface under dry and wet conditions. In previous investigations, we observed the characteristics of creeping discharges along wire surfaces under dry conditions. In this investigation, we examined creeping discharges under both impulse voltages with various wave front durations and wet conditions on the wire surface. These voltages were applied to the conductive wire core as inductive lightning surges. The duration and phenomena of negative creeping discharges developing along the wire surface were measured using a still camera with an image intensifier. We report the characteristics of the development of negative creeping discharges along wire surfaces under wet condition.
The Prevalence of BDSM in Finland and the Association between BDSM Interest and Personality Traits

ABSTRACT According to previous research, interest in BDSM (Bondage-Discipline, Dominance-Submission and Sadomasochism) activities is high in several European countries and various BDSM practices are not uncommon. There is a limited amount of research on the personalities of BDSM practitioners, but in previous research practitioners have been found to have better overall well-being and to be more educated than the general population. The current study explored the prevalence of BDSM interest and practice in a Finnish sample (n = 8,137, age range 18–60, M = 30.14, SD = 8.08) and investigated the association between BDSM interest and personality measured with the six-factor personality measure HEXACO. A total of 38% of the sample was interested in BDSM sex and non-heterosexual individuals displayed almost twice as much interest and at most 83% more participation in BDSM than heterosexual individuals. Younger participants (18–28 years old) displayed almost three times as much interest than older participants. There were some associations between BDSM interest and personality factors, but the effect sizes of these associations were modest. The study shows that BDSM interest is quite common among the Finnish population.
MILLENNIAL MOTIVATION IN MAXIMIZING P2P LENDING IN SMEs FINANCING

Fintech is known as one of the most important innovations unity in financial industry that is growing rapidly and increase financial inclusion, especially the expansion of access to capital for SMEs. However, research related to this is still limited. This research tries to extend TAM model in financial context by adding external variables such as financial knowledge and financial risk tolerance as driving factor millennials to invest in Fintech P2P lending. This research uses quantitative research using primary data and uses Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS- SEM) to analysis the data that has been collected. The result indicates that millennial investment intentions are influenced by perceived usefulness, and risk averse. Findings in this research proves that the users who tend to avoid risks and uncertainties can be encouraged to invest in P2P lending. In the term of technology factor, users who believe that the features in the application of P2P lending is useful and beneficial will encourage users to invest.