Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Adherence to Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting Guidelines. An Observational Study *

Objective: To describe the prescribing trends of antiemetics in chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), assess adherence to American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) guidelines, and evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed antiemetics. Additionally, we also sought to explore barriers that hinder clinical practice guideline (CPG) implementation. Methods: One hundred fifty-five patients between the ages of 18 and 60 who were admitted to the haematology/oncology department/clinic to receive intravenous chemotherapy, either as in-patients or outpatients, were enrolled in a prospective observational study. Relevant patient demographic data, chemotherapy protocols and antiemetics were collected. Chemotherapies were classified according to their emetogenic potential. This information was used to assess whether the antiemetic prescribed matched the emetogenic risk of treatment. The analysis of outcomes was performed using the MASCC antiemetic assessment tool. Key Findings: The results showed that 95% of antiemetic prescription pre-chemotherapy regimens did not adhere to the guidelines. The findings were use of twice the recommended dose of granisetron (87.7%), overuse granisetron (16%) and metoclopramide (62.6%), and underuse dexamethasone (27%) and corticosteroid duplication (7.7%). With respect to post-chemotherapy antiemetic prescriptions, 91% of prescriptions were not adherent to guidelines, with overuse of granisetron (81.9%) and metoclpramide (34.2%) and underuse of dexamethasone (66.5%) being the most frequently reported trends. Conclusion: This study shows a lack of conformity to antiemetic guidelines, resulting mainly in overtreatment. Although vomiting was well-managed, nausea remains under controlled and requires additional medical attention. The lack of knowledge and motivation are considered barriers to CPG implementation.
Building More Explainable Artificial Intelligence With Argumentation

Currently, much of machine learning is opaque, just like a "black box. " However, in order for humans to understand, trust and effectively manage the emerging AI systems, an AI needs to be able to explain its decisions and conclusions. In this paper, I propose an argumentation-based approach to explainable AI, which has the potential to generate more comprehensive explanations than existing approaches.
Web mining techniques for on-line social networks analysis

On-line social networking has become a very popular Web 2.0 application. This paper studies the issues around using web mining techniques for analysis of on-line social networks. Techniques and concepts of web mining and social networks analysis will be introduced and reviewed along with a discussion about how to use web mining techniques for on-line social networks analysis. In addition this paper sets out a process to use web mining for on-line social networks analysis, which can be treated as a general process in this research area. Discussions of the challenges and future research are also included.
Logocentrism and a priori Binary Opposition vis-à-vis Women. Politics in Ethiopian Folktales – A Study of Selected Ethiopian Folktales

Abstract Folktale, especially in its oral form, is the progenitor of any tales told in a society. Hence its impact on the culture of a nation is seminal. Against this backdrop, this paper, in the first place, attempts to examine some of the narrative politics that must have gone into the making of folktales, which at the surface level sport an innocent and pleasing outlook. Secondly, by way of studying a selection of Ethiopian folktales, the paper uncovers the presence of logocentrism and a priori binary opposition being at work in Ethiopian folktales. These two elements attempt to endorse and validate the ‘given’ subservient position of women in society. The paper concludes that apparently innocent folktales with their latent prejudices, when fed to the young in a routine way, can warp their mind with respect to the relationship of women and men. Résumé Le conte populaire, surtout sous sa forme orale, est l'ancêtre de tout récit circulant dans une société donnée. C'est pourquoi son influence sur toute culture nationale est décisive. Sur ce fond, le présent article se propose d'examiner d'abord des aspects de la politique narrative qui a sans doute joué un rôle dans la création des contes populaires, à première vue si innocents et charmants. Deuxièmement, en étudiant un choix de contes éthiopiens, l'article dévoile la présence d'un logocentrisme et d'oppositions binaires existant a priori. A partir de ces deux éléments, on essayera de mettre en évidence la position inférieure de la femme dans la société. La conclusion à en tirer serait que de nourrir la jeunesse de ces contes populaires apparemment innocents mais contenant des préjudices latents peut produire des effets négatifs sur les relations entre les sexes. Zusammenfassung Volkserzählungen, besonders in ihrer mündlichen Form, sind die Vorläufer aller Erzählungen in einer Gesellschaft. Ihr Einfluß auf die Kultur einer Nation ist daher groß. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird zunächst versucht, Aspekte der erzählerischen Politik zu erhellen, die in die Entstehung von Volkserzählungen einfließen, auch wenn diese bei oberflächlicher Betrachtung unschuldig und ansprechend wirken. In zweiter Linie zeigt die Untersuchung ausgewählter äthiopischer Erzählungen deren Logozentrismus sowie binäre Oppositionen, die in ihnen a priori wirksam sind. Auf dieser Grundlage soll der ‚naturgegebenen‘ Unterlegenheit der Frau in der Gesellschaft nachgegangen werden. Zum Schluß ist festzuhalten, daß anscheinend unschuldige, jedoch mit latenten Vorurteilen behaftete Volkserzählungen, die routinemäßig an die Jugend weitergegeben werden, sich negativ auf die Beziehungen zwischen den Geschlechtern auswirken können.
Economic organization of intermodal transport

The paper considers in detail strategic changes occurring in the organizational context of intermodal transportation and discusses the application of economic approaches (primarily transaction-cost economics) for assessing the effectiveness of the appropriate governance structure in organizing the intermodal transport economic system. The paper reviews the developments in intermodal transportation, particularly in the context of logistics and supply chain management, and recognizes the trend for the formation of one-stop shopping megacarriers spurred by deregulation and market requirements. This culminates in the need to consider how companies should organize the economic governance of the intermodal transport system. The main governance structures include market (subcontracting) or hierarchy (internal organization). The transaction-cost economics approach is reviewed and applied at a conceptual level to provide the core basis upon which the assessment of the optimal governance structure in intermodal transport can be based. The review of the core economic principles indicates that the governance structure in intermodal transport is dependent on transaction costs, production costs and strategic considerations that a particular structure might entail and the policy implications thereof. The potential for empirical research in the application of the transaction-cost economics approach to intermodal transport is discussed and detailed direction for further empirical research is provided as well as discussion of policy implications particularly with respect to competition and antitrust.
Residual Encoder Decoder Network and Adaptive Prior for Face Parsing

Face Parsing assigns every pixel in a facial image with a semantic label, which could be applied in various applications including face recognition, facial beautification, affective computing and animation. While lots of progress have been made in this field, current state-of-the-art methods still fail to extract real effective feature and restore accurate score map, especially for those facial parts which have large variations of deformation and fairly similar appearance, e.g. mouth, eyes and thin eyebrows. In this paper, we propose a novel pixel-wise face parsing method called Residual Encoder Decoder Network (RED-Net), which combines a feature-rich encoder-decoder framework with adaptive prior mechanism. Our encoder-decoder framework extracts feature with ResNet and decodes the feature by elaborately fusing the residual architectures in to deconvolution. This framework learns more effective feature comparing to that learnt by decoding with interpolation or classic deconvolution operations. To overcome the appearance ambiguity between facial parts, an adaptive prior mechanism is proposed in term of the decoder prediction confidence, allowing refining the final result. The experimental results on two public datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-arts significantly, achieving improvements of F-measure from 0.854 to 0.905 on Helen dataset, and pixel accuracy from 95.12% to 97.59% on the LFW dataset. In particular, convincing qualitative examples show that our method parses eye, eyebrow, and lip regins more accurately.
Design of Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller for air heater temperature control

Air heater temperature control systems generally deal with many uncertainties from their environment as well as uncertainties from the sensor measurement. Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) has many advantages in handling uncertainties. This research implemented PI-like type-2 FLC for air heater temperature control. The input variables of the type-2 FLC are error and change of error, while its output is change of control signal. The control strategy was mapped into 4 rules in the fuzzy rule base. The experiments was conducted using LabVIEW and NI USB 6009 as acquisition device for controlling the air heater mini plant. The performance of this type-2 FLC was evaluated and compared to type-1 FLC. The experiments were conducted in order to record the step responses, the responses in handling the disturbances, and the responses to set point changes. Based on these experiments, the type-2 FLC performed better step response than type-1 FLC as well as in handling the disturbances and set point changes.
Large fluctuations of shallow seas in low‐lying Southeast Asia driven by mantle flow

The Sundaland continental promontory, as the core of Southeast Asia, is one of the lowest lying continental regions, with half of the continental area presently inundated by a shallow sea. The role of mantle convection in driving long‐wavelength topography and vertical motion of the lithosphere in this region has often been ignored when interpreting regional stratigraphy, including a widespread Late Cretaceous‐Eocene unconformity, despite a consensus that Southeast Asia is presently situated over a large‐amplitude dynamic topography low resulting from long‐term post‐Pangea subduction. We use forward numerical models to link mantle flow with surface tectonics and compare predicted trends of dynamic topography with eustasy and regional paleogeography to determine the influence of mantle convection on regional basin histories. A Late Cretaceous collision of Gondwana‐derived terranes with Sundaland choked the active margin, leading to slab breakoff and a ∼10–15 Myr‐long subduction hiatus. A subduction hiatus likely resulted in several hundred meters of dynamic uplift and emergence of Sundaland between ∼80 and 60 Ma and may explain the absence of a Late Cretaceous‐Eocene sedimentary record. Renewed subduction from ∼60 Ma reinitiated dynamic subsidence of Sundaland, leading to submergence from ∼40 Ma despite falling long‐term global sea levels. Our results highlight a complete “down‐up‐down” dynamic topography cycle experienced by Sundaland, with transient dynamic topography manifesting as a major regional unconformity in sedimentary basins.
A Note on the Evaluation of Cancellable Operating Leases

The paper provides a brief review of the analysis of pure financial leases. The second part solves the problem of evaluating the cancellable operating leases by using the Cox, Ross and Rubinstein binomial option pricing method. From the lessor's point of view a cancellable operating lease is equivalent to a pure financial lease minus an American put option with a (non-stochastic) declining exercise price. The expected rate of return on a cancellable lease is shown to be higher than the rate on a pure financial lease.
Depression and C-Reactive Protein: Population-Based Health 2000 Study

Objective: To test whether depression is independently associated with elevated levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) in a large nationwide population-based sample. Methods: Depression and CRP were assessed in 6005 Finns aged >30 years, as part of the ongoing population-based Health 2000 Study. Depression was determined by responses to the Beck’s Depression Inventory (BDI-21) and by Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). Results: Higher scores on BDI-21 were related to higher CRP levels (&bgr; = 0.12, p < .001) in men and (&bgr; = 0.08, p < .001) in women. In men, but not in women, this relationship persisted after adjustment for a number of other known risk factors. In men, the more recent dysthymic disorder or at least moderate depressive episode defined using CIDI was related to elevated CRP levels (&bgr; = 0.06, p = .006). Conclusions: Depressive symptoms may be partly responsible for inflammatory processes, and inflammatory processes may induce depressive symptoms in men. CRP = C-reactive protein; LDL = low-density lipoprotein; HDL = high-density lipoprotein; CHD = cardiovascular heart disease.
Martingale Methods in Financial Modelling

Spot and Futures Markets. - An Introduction to Financial Derivatives. - Discrete-time Security Markets. - Benchmark Models in Continuous Time. - Foreign Market Derivatives. - American Options. - Exotic Options. - Volatility Risk. - Continuous-time Security Markets. - Fixed-income Markets. - Interest Rates and Related Contracts. - Short-Term Rate Models. - Models of Instantaneous Forward Rates. - Market LIBOR Models. - Alternative Market Models. - Cross-currency Derivatives.
A SoC with 3.9mW 3Mbps UHF transmitter and 240μW MCU for capsule endoscope with bidirectional communication

An ultra-low-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) for wireless capsule endoscopes has been implemented, providing bidirectional communication between the capsule and the external data logger. The SoC is composed of a programmable UHF band transceiver with 3Mbps MSK transmitting and 64kbps OOK receiving, a 1.2V MCU with a dedicated image compressor, multiple on-chip voltage regulators, and etc. The SoC can work with a power supply down to 2.5V. The 3Mbps transmitter working at 400MHz band consumes only 3.9mW power, and the MCU draws only 200μΑ current from 1.2V supply. Fabricated in 0. 18μm CMOS, the SoC occupies a die area of 13.3mm2 including the I/O pads. A capsule endoscope prototype has been developed using this SoC plus an image sensor. With this SoC, the capsule endoscope can capture 512∗512 gastrointestinal images with a frame rate of up to 3 fps.
A review of HIV testing policies and procedures for pregnant women in public maternity units of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

HIV/AIDS is considered one of the major public health issues in Brazil, with 120,399 notified AIDS cases by 1998 (Aristedes Barbosa et al., 1998). Rio Grande do Sul (RS) reports the highest HIV prevalence in women in the country (Louireiro et al ., 1998) and local serosurveillance studies note an increase in HIV prevalence in pregnancy from 2.6% in 1996 (Buchalter et al., 1996) to 3.3% in 1997 (Ferreira & Valente, 1997). As a result, the Ministry of Health has recommended that all pregnant women are offered an HIV test. This study reviewed HIV testing policies and procedures, reported by obstetric staff in public health care centres in Porto Alegre. The beliefs and practices of obstetric health care professionals towards HIV testing and prevention for pregnant women were also examined, given the crucial role of obstetric staff in the implementation of successful antenatal HIV testing procedures. In total, 106 (69.3%) of eligible obstetric health care professionals responded to a postal questionnaire during April and June 1998. Eighty-six (83.5%) of respondents reported a policy of universal offer of HIV testing. A few reported selective offer (n = 9, 8.7%) and eight (7.8%) reported a policy of testing on request only. When selection was operational, respondents reported aiming at women who disclosed intravenous drug use (88.9%), women whose partner had a history of injecting drugs (77.8%), recipients of blood products prior to 1985 (66.7%), women who reported one or more sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) (88.9%) and women whose current or previous partner ever had sex with a man (77.8%). Respondents reported that consent for an HIV test was acquired 'verbally' by the majority (n = 90, 88.2%), whilst ten (9.8%) acquired consent in writing. Two (2.0%) reported that woman's consent for an HIV test was not asked for. Units with universal antenatal HIV testing policy were significantly more likely to have had pregnant women test HIV-positive compared with non-universal policy units (U = 13.500, p = 0.050). It appears that whilst the majority of the public health centres were offering an HIV test to all pregnant women in Porto Alegre by 1998, a lack of structured auditing of the actual uptake of HIV testing by pregnant women still remains. Local HIV testing strategy would greatly benefit from such data.
Proteomic identification of radiation response markers in mouse intestine and brain

Increasing efforts are being made to develop more sensitive and faster molecular methodologies at the genomic and proteomic levels for the identification of protein markers after exposure to ionizing radiation (IR). However, few specific protein markers, especially organ‐specific markers, have been identified. In this study, we analyzed altered protein expressions in various tissues, namely, brain, lung, spleen, and intestine, from 1 Gy‐irradiated mice by employing 2‐DE analysis. MALDI‐TOF MS and peptide mapping identified 25 proteins that showed greater than twofold expressional changes. In order to confirm significant differences between control and IR‐treated samples, ten identified proteins with available commercial antibodies were selected for immunoblotting. Of these, only five showed protein expression patterns that were similar to 2‐DE data. These were heat shock protein 5 (HSP 5), HSP 90 kDa β, HSP 1, transaldolase 1 (TA1), and phosphoglycerate kinase 1 (PGK1). In particular, PGK1 was specifically upregulated in mouse intestine, and TA1 was specifically downregulated in brain by irradiation. TA1 expression was unaltered in other tissues. Based on these data, we suggest that TA1 and PGK1 can be considered as candidate tissue‐specific protein markers of IR exposure.
Can High-Frequency Traders Game Futures?

This article describes a simple test to assess the feasibility of highfrequency “pump-and-dump” arbitrage. Using the tick data for Eurex Eurobund futures for the 2009–2010 period, the article shows practical implementation of the test. The Eurobund futures data do not support the feasibility of high-frequency pump and dump. The data instead show that Eurobund futures are resilient to large trade sizes, a welcome feature for large institutional investors concerned about the quality of execution of their orders in the presence of high-frequency traders.
GEMiCCL: mining genotype and expression data of cancer cell lines with elaborate visualization

Abstract Cancer cell lines are essential components for biomedical research. However, proper choice of cell lines for experimental purposes is often difficult because genotype and/or expression data are missing or scattered in diverse resources. Here, we report Gene Expression and Mutations in Cancer Cell Lines (GEMiCCL), an online database of human cancer cell lines that provides genotype and expression information. We have collected mutation, gene expression and copy number variation (CNV) data from three representative databases on cell lines—Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia , Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer and NCI60. In total, GEMiCCL includes 1406 cell lines from 185 cancer types and 29 tissues. Gene expression, mutation and CNV information are available for 1304, 1334 and 1365 cell lines, respectively. We removed batch effects due to different microarray platforms using the ComBat software and re-processed the entire gene expression and SNP chip data. Cell line names and clinical information were standardized using Cellosaurus from ExPASy. Our user interface supports cell line search, gene search, browsing for specific molecular characteristics and complex queries-based on Boolean logic rules. We also implemented many interactive features and user-friendly visualizations. Providing molecular characteristics and clinical information, we believe that GEMiCCL would be a valuable resource for biomedical research for functional or screening studies. Database URL: GEMiCCL is available at https://www.kobic. kr/GEMICCL/
Factors Affecting Financial Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions

Millions of people in developing countries have been given access to formal financial services through microfinance programs. Nevertheless, millions of potential clients still remain un-served and the demand for financial services far exceeds the currently available supply. Given significant capital constraints, expansion of microfinance programs remains a formidable challenge facing the microfinance industry. Moreover, it is observed that microfinance organizations have had various degrees of sustainability. One such sustainability is the financial sustainability. Financial sustainability has been defined by various researchers differently. As such there is no clear cut definition of the word financial sustainability. The MIX Market and various other agencies like ACCION, Women’s World Banking etc. have attempted to define the term financial sustainability in their own limited way. Therefore this paper attempts to find out the factors which affect the financial sustainability and thereafter propose a more comprehensive and representative model for financial sustainability and create an index to observe the financial performance of microfinance sector. The financial data of microfinance institutions from India and Bangladesh suggests that the capital/ asset ratio, operating expenses/loan portfolio and portfolio at risk> 30 days are the main factors which affect the sustainability of microfinance institutions. Keywords: Microfinance, Financial Sustainability, Portfolio at Risk>30 days, Capital to Asset ratio, Operating expenses to Loan portfolio
Future of Economic Growth for South Korea

More than 80 percent of US growth between 1950 and 1993 can be attributed to transition dynamics (increases in R&D intensity and educational attainment), with less than 20 percent of growth deriving from population growth. Similarly, growth accounting shows that 80 percent of economic growth in Korea can be attributed to transition dynamics. However, the specific factors that have moved Korea far from its steady state are significantly different from the factors that have done so for the USA. In addition to the growth rates of the two countries, we also analyzed the (steady-state) level of output per worker to determine where the Korean economy is headed relative to the USA. In 1960, Korea was characterized as poor (0.111) relative to its own steady state (0.765), and incomes were at 11.1 percent of those in the USA. Since then, however, Korea has been growing more rapidly than the USA. In our analysis, we also consider the extreme case where total factor productivity levels converge completely. Interestingly, in this case, the USA and Korea exhibit unconditional convergence similar to what is generally observed in the OECD. As the economy approaches the steady-state income level, however, the growth rate of output per capita will decline.