Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Results for a custom acetabular component for acetabular deficiency.

We report our experience with a triflanged titanium cementless custom-made acetabular implant in the management of complex major acetabular deficiency for revision total hip arthroplasty in 27 patients. The mean follow-up period was 58 months (range, 48-72 months). There were 9 men and 18 women. Clinical assessment was performed using Charnley's modification of the Merle d'Aubigne and Postel scoring system. Radiographic assessment was carried out using the DeLee and Charnley grading system. All patients had improved hip scores at latest examination. Six patients (22%) had complications. Two patients (7.4%) required further revision surgery. This procedure is technically demanding and has a high complication rate. Until better long-term results are shown, this procedure should be restricted to patients for whom a Girdlestone pseudarthrosis is the only surgical alternative.
European Tax Law

This book is intended as a reference book for tax law and EC law pratitioners, tax administrators, academics, the judiciary and tax or Community law policy makers. For students, an abridged student edition textbook is available. The book offers a systematic survey of the tax implications of the EC Treaty and of European integration and of the EC tax harmonization policy, a discussion of the Community tax rules in force, and a discussion of the EC Court's case law in tax matters. Its contents may be divided into six main themes: 1. The far-reaching consequences of the EC Treaty provisions and principles for national tax law, for tax treaties, for national tax procedure and for the national budget, as shown by the case law of the Court of Justice of the EC 2. Community harmonization policy and coordination policy as regards indirect taxes and direct taxes, including soft law 3. Community law in force on indirect taxes (Value Added Tax, Community Customs Code, Excises and Energy Taxation, Capital Duty); 4. Community law in force on direct taxes (Parent-Subsidiary Directive, Merger Directive, Interest and Royalties Directive, Transfer Pricing Arbitration Convention, Savings Interest Directive) 5. Tax aspects of the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG), the European Company (SE) and the European Cooperative Society (SCE) 6. Administrative Assistance between the member States in the assessment and the recovery of tax claims.
An Aggregator Tool for Extraction and Collection of Data from Web Pages

In this thesis we describe the Aggregator Tool, an application that combines data extraction from the web sources with aggregation services to allow users to create flexible personalized information aggregations. This tool can be used for a variety of applications such as building customized "portals" for tracking market information and news, monitoring an aggregation of prices for a particular item of interest from various on-line retailers, or managing personal finance portfolio, such as bank and investment statements that are available online, conveniently from one set of web pages. The Aggregator Tool provides an easy-to-use graphical interface that requires no programming skills from the users. Once an aggregation application is built, it can be accessed from any browser. Users only need to remember their Aggregator Tool login information to view the aggregated data that is extracted instantaneously from multiple web sources. The Aggregator Tool uses a client-server model. The client is implemented as a Java Applet. The modular design of the tool means individual components such as web wrapping heuristics or different post-aggregation templates can be easily extended or added in the future. Thesis Supervisor: Michael D. Siegel Title: Principal Research Scientist Thesis Supervisor: Stuart E. Madnick Title: Professor
Generation of Light from Free Electrons

Experiments with the interaction of a rectangular cross- section beam of electrons which is brought into contact with a metallic diffraction grat e ng produce light variable in wavelength throughout the visible spectrum. Con tinuous variation of the beam thickness shows that light is produced by electrons hundreds of wavelengths from the grating, if the side of the beam near the grating is in contact with it. The results can be accounted for by periodic accelerations of the electrons passing over the surface of the grating. These accelerations are caused by electrostatic forces which in turn are due to the average spacecharge of sheets of elec trons reflected from the grating surface, so that in their space- charge structure the periodicity of the grating rulings is preserved.
A CNN based functional zone classification method for aerial images

Urban functional zones refer to areas (or regions) of a city which provide specific urban functions for peoples who lived in the city. The spatial layout of buildings in functional zone show a specific pattern, e.g. residual areas usually have similar builds and the positions of which are highly organized. In this paper, we show that it is possible to identify urban functional zones from a remote sensed imagery. To this end, a convolutional neural networks (CNN) based functional zone classification method is proposed. The method mainly consists of three steps. Firstly, the aerial imagery of the city is partitioned into disjoint regions by road network. Then, each region is further divided into patches and is fed to a fully connected CNN. The output of which is considered as distributions of this patches on the five previously defined functional zones. Finally, we take a vote strategy to identify the function zone of this region. We test our method on a collection of Google Earth images over Shenyang, Beijing, etc. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Poisson–Lie sigma models on Drinfel’d double

Poisson sigma models represent an interesting use of Poisson manifolds for the construction of a classical field theory. Their definition in the language of fibre bundles is shown and the corresponding field equations are derived using a coordinate independent variational principle. The elegant form of equations of motion for so called Poisson-Lie groups is derived. Construction of the Poisson-Lie group corresponding to a given Lie bialgebra is widely known only for coboundary Lie bialgebras. Using the adjoint representation of Lie group and Drinfel’d double we show that Poisson-Lie group can be constructed for general Lie bialgebra.
HIV/AIDS Social Marketing & Behavioural Change among Youths in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria

The purpose of this study was to investigate into the issue of HIV/AIDS prevalence and behaviour change among youth in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State using the descriptive survey design and a sample size of 280 respondents on whom questionnaires were administered. Relevant literature was reviewed and with the use of Pearson coefficient (r), the result showed a strong relationship between social marketing and behaviour change among youths in the study area. It went further to recommend on the need to strengthen social marketing as a working strategy if the rampaging social menace of HIV/AIDS must be prevented among youths. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014. v3n4p115
An Empirical Investigation of Incentive Plan with Relative Performance Measure: Evidence from China's Listed State-Owned Enterprises

This paper investigates the usefulness of relative performance evaluation (RPE) for the incentive scheme in an undeveloped economy lacking market-based competition. In a sample of China’s listed state-owned enterprises (SOEs) during 2001-2005, 41% of the Chairmen of the Board or CEOs who left the office have been promoted, by definition, based on the RPE. By regression, the findings show that the likelihood of promotion is significantly positively associated with preceding RPE. The promotion incentive with RPE relates positively to the post- firm performance and outperforms other incentives by almost 7% based on three-year post- Tobin’s q. But the relation only persists significantly in the region where the market is less developed and competitive, namely, with the lower number of firms listed in the stock market, less stock market capitalization, or higher regional Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI). These results imply that RPE plays a critical incentive role in a less competitive market environment.
Managing increased part‐time: does part‐time work imply part‐time commitment?

Puts the focus on the possible relations between part‐time work and organisational commitment. An empirical study, using data from ten Norwegian institutions caring for the elderly, concludes that part‐time work has both direct and indirect effects on different types of commitment. First, and contrary to what was expected, it seems as though affective commitment decreases as the hours worked approach that of a full‐time job. Second, part‐time arrangements have an indirect effect on several types of commitment through the degree of participation in the organisation’s decision processes. Part‐time workers participate less, and seem to exhibit less affective, and higher continuance commitment. Effects of these findings on outcomes, such as plans to leave the organisation, the voicing of criticism, loyalty to the organisation, and withdrawal and apathy among workers, are discussed. Implications for human resource management are also discussed.
Effects of corporate governance reform on the quality of internal controls: Evidence from Japan

This study examines Japanese corporations that disclose significantdeficiencies (SDs) in internal controls and analyses whether replacing the chief executive (CEO), enhancing the independence of boards of directors, and upgrading the financial expertise of corporate boards are followed by a remediation of SDs. This study demonstrates that Japanese companies which report SDs are more likely to replace their CEOs and to increase the independence of their board of directors. In addition, it finds that replacing CEOs and increasing the boardâ€™s independence are unrelated to remediating SDs. However, upgrading the boardâ€™s accounting expertise correlates positively with remediation of SDs.
The Interpersonal Worlds of Bullies

Research has yet to examine the social influences of parents, peers, and partners on bullying. This study explored the impact of social relationships on bullies, victims, bully/victims, and uninvolved participants. A sample of 370 college-age participants was asked about bullying, family environment, friends’ illegal behavior, and conflict resolution tactics in romantic relationships. Results indicated controls came from more secure and engaged families. Bully/victims reported friends engaging in more illegal behaviors than victims and uninvolved participants. Bullies and bully/victims reported more psychological coercion from their romantic partner. A logistic regression revealed peer illegal behaviors, psychological aggression, physical assault, and sexual coercion in romantic relationships best predicted bullies from non-bullies (67.3%). Based on these results, the interpersonal world of those involved with bullying significantly impacts behaviors.
Target detection - Distributed radar sensor network (RSN) vs. MIMO-RSN

There has been an increasing investigation in distributed radar sensor network (RSN) and MIMO-RSN, including waveform design, antenna strategy and spacetime coding, etc. However, distributed-RSN and MIMO-RSN are more like two parallel paths other than one research field in current literature. In this paper, we address the comparison between distributed-RSN and MIMO-RSN for target detection. We first establish the wireless statistic channel model for them. Unlike the conventional models that assume the received signals are static plus a Gaussian random for simplicity and clarity, we believe it's more genuine to model the received signals as random variables due to the uncertainty of channels. Choosing selection combination (SC) as a combining method of distributed-RSN, we get the receiver operation characteristic (ROC) evaluation of these two types through simulations. A comparative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of them shows that target detection performance of distributed-RSN is better than that of MIMO-RSN when signal to noise ratio (SNR) is small and the probability of false alarm (Pfa) is lower. As both SNR and Pfa increase, the probability of target detection (Pd) of MIMO-RSN exceeds that of distributed-RSN.
The impact of organizational trust on innovativeness at the Tehran oil refinery company

Innovation and innovativeness have become critical issues in sustaining competitive advantage, especially in large and mature organizations. Firms can not survive without being able continuously to renew and innovate. Despite the lack of researches on the role of trust in organizational innovativeness, many studies support the assumption that high levels of trust have a positive effect on the effectiveness and quality of organizational knowledge sharing and innovativeness. Hence, this paper aims to analyze the effects of the dimensions of organizational trust on organizational innovativeness in Tehran Oil Refinery Company (TORC). Quantitative analysis is based on a survey of 15 organizational units and 210 respondents within TORC. Research findings imply that the impersonal form in particular, namely institutional trust, has an important role in determining organizational innovativeness. Key words: Organizational trust, innovativeness, lateral trust, vertical trust, institutional trust.
D-dimer and factor VIIa in atrial fibrillation – prognostic values for cardiovascular events and effects of anticoagulation therapy

Summary Coagulation markers may improve monitoring the risk of stroke and bleeding in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) during anticoagulant treatment. We examined baseline levels of D-dimer and their association with stroke, cardiovascular death and major bleeding in 6,202 AF patients randomised to dabigatran or warfarin in the RE-LY trial. The effects of treatment on serial levels of D-dimer and coagulation factor (F) VIIa in 2,567 patients were also analysed. Baseline D-dimer levels were related to the rate of stroke/systemic embolism (SEE) with 0.64 % in the lowest quartile (Q1, as reference) (D-dimer < 298 μg/l), 1.38 % Q2 (D-dimer 298–473 μg/l), 1.71 % Q3 (D-dimer 474–822 μg/l) and 2.00 % in Q4 (D-dimer > 822 μg/l) (p=0.0007). Similar associations were shown for cardiovascular death and major bleeding. Addition of baseline D-dimer to established clinical risk factors improved prediction of stroke/SEE, cardiovascular death and major bleeding (C-index increased from 0.66 to 0.68, 0.71 to 0.73 and 0.66 to 0.67, respectively). Dabigatran provided a greater reduction of D-dimer levels than warfarin regardless of baseline anticoagulant treatment. Ontreatment levels of FVIIa were markedly reduced by warfarin (median 12.1–13.8 mU/ml) but significantly higher with dabigatran (median 39.4–49.0 mU/ml) at all-time points. Dabigatran is associated with greater reduction in D-dimer without the pronounced reduction of FVIIa seen with warfarin. These different effects on the coagulation system might explain the better efficacy and less intracranial bleeding observed with dabigatran compared with warfarin. Clinical Trial Registration: NCT00262600 (www.clinicaltrials.gov). Supplementary Material to this article is available online at www.thrombosis-online.com.
The Shared Service Centre: Change, Governance and Strategy

The author, based on empirical research, consulting experience and theoretical considerations, reflects on experiences of corporations with shared service centres. This article focuses on three aspects which so far have received too little attention: the proper type of change process, the governance issues with respect to shared service centres, and implications for corporate strategy. Virtual all large firms work with one or multiple shared service centres. Various sources suggest that costs savings achieved through shared services centres range between 20% 50%. Despite this and other benefits the concept still doesn’t sit easy, neither with business management, nor with executives. This article argues that this is due to a wrong conceptual definition of shared service centre. This article explains what shared service centres really are, what its consequences are for the internal governance, change management and strategy. From this follows what the real critical success factors are for working with shared service centres.
Methotrexate induces poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase‐dependent, caspase 3‐independent apoptosis in subsets of proliferating CD4+ T cells

The mechanism of action of methotrexate (MTX) in autoimmune diseases (AID) is unclear. A pro‐apoptotic effect has been demonstrated in mitogen‐stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), but studies employing conventional antigens have disputed a pro‐apoptotic effect. CD4+ T helper (Th) cells play a significant role in most AID. We therefore examined directly, by flow cytometry, the uptake of MTX by the T helper (Th) cells stimulated for 6 days with Candida albicans (CA) or tetanus toxoid (TT), and its consequences with respect to induction of apoptosis. While none of the resting Th cells took up MTX, nearly all the dividing Th cells did, and this abrogated further cell division. Among dividing Th cells, MTX induced an approximately sixfold increase over baseline levels in the proportion of apoptotic cells. This proportion could be reverted to baseline by the addition of folic acid. Exposure of CA‐stimulated PBMC to MTX significantly increased their level of cleaved poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase (PARP), and a similar tendency was observed in TT‐stimulated cells. Unlike CA and TT, the mitogen phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) induced proliferation of both CD4– and CD4+ T cells, and induced apoptosis in both undivided and divided Th cells. PHA‐induced apoptosis involved activation of caspase‐3 and the anti‐apoptotic protein Bcl‐2 in addition to PARP cleavage, suggesting that PHA induces apoptosis via different pathways than CA and TT. We suggest that the latter are more representative of stimulation with self‐antigens in AID, and that a pro‐apoptotic effect of MTX on self‐antigen‐stimulated Th cells contributes to the effect of MTX in the treatment of AID.
A method of style discrimination of oil painting based on 3D range data

We conducted an experiment about "Kansei", which is sensibility of each person. Our goal was to extract an artist's style in the oil painting. A style is determined by color skill and other key elements. Our methods paid particular attention to the characteristics of touch, one of the skills. Texture of the oil painting is very different from watercolor painting because paints harden, and it becomes a ruggedness that can easily be seen by the human eye. We supposed that a touch could be determined with in the local mean curvature and the Gaussian curvature extracted from the range image of the oil painting. In this paper we proposed a style discrimination method using these curvatures, and reported on the experiment result.
Delayed blood reoxygenation following maximum voluntary contraction.

PURPOSES To characterize the total hemoglobin concentration ([THb]) and oxyhemoglobin saturation (%HbO2) time courses after brief dorsiflexion maximal voluntary contractions (MVC) and to determine whether these responses varied by gender. METHODS Eighteen healthy, moderately physically active subjects (nine male) lay supine and performed two or more 3-s dorsiflexion MVC. [THb] and %HbO2 were measured continuously in the tibialis anterior muscle using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). The data from 0 to 150 s postcontraction were analyzed using single- and multicomponent exponential models. RESULTS The mean (standard error) precontraction [THb] and %HbO2 values were 78.5 (7.3) microM and 65.0 (0.8) %, respectively, and decreased during the contraction. After the contraction, [THb] grew exponentially, characterized by amplitude (A), 8.7 (1.3) microM; time delay (TD), 0.2 (0.2) s, and time constant (tau), 5.9 (0.6) s. Fifteen subjects had a secondary decay phase characterized by A, 1.9 (0.7) microM; TD, 59.2 (6.4) s; and tau, 12.4 (2.3) s. Eight subjects experienced an initial decay in %HbO2, characterized by A, 1.8 (0.8) %; TD, 0.0 (0) s; and tau, 4.2 (0.3) s. Then, %HbO2 grew exponentially, being characterized by A, 7.9 (0.9) %; TD, 10.1 (1.0) s; and tau, 9.7 (2.0) s. Finally, in 16 subjects, there was a secondary decay phase, characterized by A, 2.6 (0.4) %; TD, 54.4 (7.5) s; and tau, 18.9 (2.6) s. There were no gender differences in any kinetic parameter. CONCLUSIONS There are three phases to the post-MVC oxygen supply-demand coupling: 1) rising oxygen demand relative to supply; 2) rising oxygen supply relative to demand; and 3) restoration of precontraction oxygen supply-demand matching. These processes are unaffected by gender.
VDR‐dependent regulation of mast cell maturation mediated by 1,25‐dihydroxyvitamin D3

1,25‐Dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3] is a secosteroid hormone that regulates bone metabolism, controls calcium homeostasis, and possesses immunomodulatory properties. We show here that 1,25(OH)2D3 contributes to the regulation of development and function of mast cells, which play a critical role in several inflammatory disorders. 1,25(OH)2D3 promotes apoptosis and inhibits maturation of mouse bone marrow‐derived mast cell precursors. Dose‐dependent inhibition of mast cell differentiation by 1,25(OH)2D3 is observed at discrete, intermediate stages of mast cell development, identified by expression of c‐kit, FcεRI, and IL‐3 receptor‐α chain, and depends on the expression of the vitamin D receptor (VDR). It is important that mast cell progenitors obtained from VDR‐ablated mice undergo an accelerated maturation in vitro and give rise to more responsive mast cells than wild‐type. Furthermore, histological analysis of mast cell density in peripheral tissues reveals a moderate increase in the number of mast cells in the skin of VDR‐deficient mice compared with wild‐type animals. These data support the hypothesis of a physiological role of 1,25(OH)2D3 in mast cell development and suggest novel, therapeutic uses of 1,25(OH)2D3 analogs.
Asset Relief Measures in the EU: Overview and Issues

This paper gives an overview of (impaired) asset relief measures in the EU in the context of the financial crisis that started in July 2007. We define asset relief, discuss the relative merits of the different asset relief approaches (from both the state and the beneficiary bank's perspective) and elaborate on the design and policy concerns with respect to the implementation of asset relief. We summarise the principles and valuation concepts of the European Commission's main guidance paper with respect to asset relief. Finally, we empirically review the actual and individual asset relief measures that have been implemented since the start of the crisis and summarise their mean features (covered assets, overall structure, relative sizes of loss tranches borne by the banks and the state respectively, remuneration, etc.). In conclusion and looking forward, Member States should coordinate and benchmark their asset relief approaches more, based on what we have learned from actual experience so far, in order to foster EU comparability and best practises.