Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The development of a comprehensive, institution-based patient risk evaluation program: II. Validity and reliability of questionnaire data.

The accuracy of historical information derived from self-administered questionnaires must be confirmed. We report the results of studies conducted to assess the reliability and validity of data collected from a comprehensive cancer risk factor questionnaire developed at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. A comparison of the basic demographic data of a randomly selected sample of 80 respondents and 70 nonrespondents revealed no fundamental ethnic or socioeconomic differences. We verified self-reported past illnesses, surgical procedures, and cancers by reviewing 72 patient charts, using stringent diagnostic criteria for verification. We noted substantial agreement between self-reported and documented illnesses and operations. With the exception of nine patients who misclassified metastatic disease, the verification of primary cancers was excellent. We determined reliability by interviewing 50 of these patients by telephone. Questions with a dichotomous outcome (e.g., smoking status) were reliably answered; however, those requiring quantification (e.g., amount of alcohol consumed) were less accurately reported on interview. While we recognize the limitations of self-administered questionnaires, we believe this program will develop into a comprehensive, standardized, easily accessible patient risk factor data base.
Does Cap-and-Trade Enable Collusion?

Carbon Taxes and Cap-and-Trade are the two leading approaches for pollution regulation. Proponents of Taxes have argued that Cap-and-Trade could facilitate collusion among firms via the trading mechanism, leading to suboptimal welfare outcomes. We examine this claim using a rigorous yet rich model of production and pollution under competition that allows for the possibility of collusion among firms via trading. ***** DRAFT ONLY. PLEASE DO NOT CIRCULATE WITHOUT PERMISSION. COMMENTS WELCOME *****
Uptake and utilization of dissolved glycine by Aurelia aurita scyphistomae: temperature effects on the uptake process; nutritional role of dissolved amino acids.

During the last decade there has been a considerable renewal of interest in the uptake of dissolved organic matter (especially amino acids) by marine in vertebrates. Among the goals of these investigations is the elucidation of the importance of dissolved free amino acids to the nutrition of these animals (for recent reviews and bibliographies, see : Johannes, Coward and Webb, 1969; Stephens, 1972 ; Dixit, 1973 ; Schlichter, 1973) . Most experiments attempting to demonstrate a nutritive role of these substances have utilized well fed animals presumably having high levels of metabolic substrates, although a priori, it is in the starved animal that one might expect a significant supplemental nutritional contribution by dissolved compounds. There appears to be very little direct evidence supporting the hypothesis that dissolved amino acids (at environmentally realistic concentrations) are in fact an energy source for marine invertebrates. Stephens ( 1967) has pointed out that not all of the assimilated material is necessarily oxidized. but that it may also exert a sparing effect on a variety of metabolic pathways and on growth and re productive processes. This implies that there need not necessarily be a net uptake of these compounds for them to be nutritionally significant. In the absence of data regarding the total flux of amino acids, an alternative course of investigation is to make qualitative and quantitative comparisons of biochemical, physiological and developmental processes among fed, starved and starved/amino acid-exposed animals. It is this approach that has been taken in the present study of Aurelia aitrita polyps (scyphistomae) using dissolved glycine. The uptake of dissolved free amino acids generally follows Michaelis-Menten kinetics, and while this does not necessarily imply that the uptake process is enzyme-mediated, the calculation of the kinetic constant K@permits comparisons of the affinities of the amino acid uptake systems among different groups of ani mals. To date, the K@values reported for marine invertebrates have been dis cussed almost exclusively in terms of the animals' adaptations to the concentra tions of dissolved free amino acids in their respective habitats (Southward and Southward, 1972a, 1972b; Stephens, 1972), although an additional consideration has been demonstrated by Dixit (1973), who found ontogenetic differences in K@for glycine uptake by a sea urchin. In view of the known influence of tem perature on enzyme kinetics in poikilotherms (Hochachka and Somero, 1973), the investigation of the possibility of an analogous effect of temperature on the kinetics of amino acid uptake is clearly indicated.
A systematic review of instruments for the assessment of faecal incontinence for community‐dwelling older persons

Review Question/Objective What tools are the most appropriate for the assessment of faecal incontinence in older adults living in the community? Inclusion Criteria Types of Participants This review will consider patients over the age of 65 years who live in the community (i.e., they do not live in a residential aged care facility). Types of Interventions/phenomena of interest Interventions of interest are current tools being used to assess faecal incontinence in community-dwelling older adults. Types of Outcomes Outcome measures of interest include measures of reliability (e.g., inter-rater reliability, test-retest reliability, internal consistency) and validity (discriminant and convergent validity, consistency of factor structure) for tools designed to assess faecal incontinence symptom severity and faecal incontinence quality of life. Measures of sensitivity (proportion of people who really have the condition who are detected as such by the test) and specificity (the proportion of people without the condition who are detected as such by the test) of tools will also be included.
Joint optimization of multicast and unicast flows in elastic optical networks

Nowadays, multicasting is increasingly popular, due to the ability to provision in efficient way such desirable services like streaming, IP television, software distribution, etc. At the same time, the research in the field of optical networks concentrates on the very promising elastic optical networks (EONs) approach. In this paper, we focus on the joint optimization of multicast and unicast flows in EONs. We propose to model multicast flows in EONs using pre-generated candidate trees. We present two new ILP models and a heuristic method, dedicated to solve the optimization problem with joint multicast and unicast flows. We report results of the numerical experiments carried out to compare proposed ILP models and the heuristic method as well as to evaluate potential benefits of multicasting in EONs. We show that the proposed modeling approach and heuristic method are highly elastic in terms of their applicability to different network scenarios, whilst multicasting can bring significant spectrum savings compared to unicasting.
Effect of dietary calcium concentrations in low non-phytate phosphorus diets containing phytase on growth performance, bone mineralization, litter quality, and footpad dermatitis incidence in growing broiler chickens

Objective An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary Ca concentrations in low non-phytate phosphorus (NPP) diets containing phytase on growth performance, bone mineralization, litter quality, and footpad dermatitis (FPD) incidence in growing broiler chickens. Methods A total of 1,800 21-day-old Ross 308 growing broiler chickens were allotted to 1 of 6 dietary treatments with 6 replicated cages. Six diets were formulated to provide increasing Ca concentrations of 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, or 9.0 g/kg in diets. The concentrations of NPP in all diets were maintained at 3.0 g/kg, and phytase was supplemented to all diets at the level of 1,000 fytase units (FTU)/kg. At the end of the 14-d feeding trial, birds were euthanized for tibia sampling, and litter samples were collected from 3 areas in the cage. The FPD incidence was measured based on a 6-point scoring system. Results Dietary Ca concentrations had no effect on growth performance of growing broiler chickens. However, a tendency (linear, p = 0.05) for decreased feed efficiency was observed as dietary Ca concentrations were increased. The concentrations of Ca and P in the tibia of broiler chickens increased (linear and quadratic, p<0.01) with increasing Ca concentrations in low NPP diets containing phytase. Litter pH, moisture, and N contents were not affected by increasing Ca concentrations in low NPP diets containing phytase. However, a tendency (quadratic, p = 0.10) for increased FPD incidence with increasing dietary Ca concentrations was observed. Conclusion Dietary Ca concentrations from 4.0 to 9.0 g/kg in low NPP diets containing phytase have little effects on growth performance of growing broiler chickens. However, Ca and P concentrations in the tibia are decreased if dietary Ca concentrations are less than 5.0 g/kg. The FPD incidence for growing broiler chickens may be decreased if less than 9.0 g/kg of Ca is included in diets.
On-line scheduling of imprecise computations to minimize error

Three algorithms for scheduling preemptive, imprecise tasks on a processor to minimize the total error are described. Each imprecise task consists of a mandatory task followed by an optional task. Some of the tasks are online; they arrive after the processor begins execution. The algorithms assume that when each new online task arrives, its mandatory task and the portions of all the mandatory tasks yet to be completed at the time can be feasibly scheduled to be computed by their deadlines. The algorithms produce for such tasks feasible schedules whose total errors are as small as possible. The three algorithms are designed for three types of task systems: (1) when every task is online and is ready upon its arrival; (2) when every task is online and is ready upon arrival but there are also offline tasks with arbitrary ready times; and (3) when online tasks have arbitrary ready times. Their running times are O(n log n), O(n log n), and O(n log/sup 2/ n), respectively. <<ETX>>
Computing Implicit Entities and Events with GETARUNS

In this paper we will focus on the notion of “implicit” or lexically unexpressed linguistic elements that are nonetheless necessary for a complete semantic interpretation of a text. We referred to “entities” and “events” because the recovery of the implicit material may affect all the modules of a system for semantic processing, from the grammatically guided components to the inferential and reasoning ones. Reference to the system GETARUNS offers one possible implementation of the algorithms and procedures needed to cope with the problem and allows to deal with all the spectrum of phenomena. The paper will address at first the following three types of “implicit” entities and events: the grammatical ones, as suggested by a linguistic theories like LFG or similar generative theories; the semantic ones suggested in the FrameNet project, i.e. CNI, DNI, INI; the pragmatic ones: here we will present a theory and an implementation for the recovery of implicit entities and events of (non-) standard implicatures. In particular we will show how the use of commonsense knowledge may fruitfully contribute in finding relevant implied meanings. Last Implicit Entity only touched on, though for lack of space, by the paper is the Subject of Point of View which is computed by Semantic Informational Structure and contributes the intended entity from whose point of view is expressed a given subjective statement.
Penerapan Good Corporate Governance : Manfaat Dan Tantangan Serta Kesempatan Bagi Perusahaan Publik Di Indonesia

Corporate governance is still at the top of the agenda for Indonesia and Asian corpo- rations. The issue of corporate governance arises since economic crisis in Indonesia and Asian countries. Country factors can play a key role in setting the framework for corporate governance practices at the individual company level. Given that corpo- rate governance matters regardless of the particular system - the legal and economic framework conditions - investors have shown growing interest in a global bench- mark of good behavior. There persists the belief that good corporate governance can help create shareholders value and ensuring that enterprizes only responsibility to society is to maximize profits without breaking the law, hence the role of corpo- rate governance is to provide appropriate corporate control. This article elaborated about implementation good corporate governance ; benefits, obstacles, challenge and opportunity for Indonesia corporations. Keywords: Good Corporate Governance
Fast pulsed generator based on PCSS for killing pathogen in blood

A fast pulsed power generator using for killing pathogen in blood has been designed and tested. The set can generate a pulse with voltage of 20 kV, pulse width of ~9.0 ns on a matched load of ~5 Ω. It was a Blumlein structure and has a single GaAs photoconductive switch. The laser using for trigger the switch was 1.0 mJ and the maximum switch operate current is about 8.0 kA. A dummy solid load which is five ohm was used to verify the set. Different samples include Escherichia coli and erythrocyte has been tested at different electric field from 40 kV/cm to 80 kV/cm. The impedance of different sample has been calculated by comparing the output voltage at same bias voltage. The impact of the high electric field for killing pathogen has also been discussed briefly.
A monolithic 2.45 GHz, 0.56 W power amplifier with 45% PAE at 2.4 V in standard 25 GHz f/sub T/ Si-bipolar

A monolithic radio frequency power amplifier for 2-2.6 GHz has been realized in a standard 25 GHz-f/sub T/ Si-bipolar production technology. The balanced two-stage push-pull power amplifier uses two on-chip transformers as input-balun and for interstage matching and operates at supply voltages as low as 1 V. A new type of microstrip line balun acts as output matching network. At 1 V, 2.4 V, 3 V supply voltages output powers of 19 dBm, 27.5 dBm, 29.1 dBm are achieved at 2.45 GHz. The respective power added efficiency is 38%, 45%, 46%. The small-signal gain is 35 dB.
Does Real Estate Fund in Thailand Provide Diversification Benefits for Stock Investment?

The real estate investment has been an alternative investment as a diversifier for traditional invest- ment like the stock market. Previous studies have shown the diversification benefits of real estate investment for stock portfolios. This paper aims to examine whether and to what extent real estate funds can provide diversification benefits to investors. The information of stock returns and real estate funds in Thailand was gathered for the period during 2007 and 2015. The results show that there is no diversification benefit in terms of hedge or safe haven from real estate funds in Thailand. However, the average beta of real estate funds is relatively low and the risk-return performance of real estate funds remains attrac- tive to be included in the portfolio.
Comparing DXA and Air Displacement Plethysmography to Assess Body Composition of Male Collegiate Hockey Players

Abstract Delisle-Houde, P, Reid, RER, Insogna, JA, Prokop, NW, Buchan, TA, Fontaine, SL, and Andersen, RE. Comparing DXA and air-displacement-plethysmography to assess body composition of male collegiate hockey players. J Strength Cond Res 33(2): 474–478, 2019—Accurate assessment of body composition is an important consideration for athletes because it is a health/performance variable. However, little is known about the variability in values obtained across different assessment methods for specific athlete populations. The purpose of this study was to compare 2 common laboratory methods that assess body composition: air displacement plethysmography (BOD POD) and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Twenty-nine male collegiate hockey players, (Age = 24.07 ± 1.49, BMI = 26.5 ± 2.74) participated in this study. All participants underwent back-to-back BOD POD and DXA evaluations. Paired t-tests and Bland–Altman analyses were performed to compare differences in fat mass, fat percentage, and fat-free mass between methods. Average fat percentage reported by the DXA and BOD POD was 15.34 ± 3.53 and 11.66 ± 4.82 respectively, resulting in a bias score of 3.78 ± 2.33 kg (t(28) = 8.71, p ⩽ 0.001). Average fat mass reported by the DXA and BOD POD was 13.42 ± 3.59 and 10.15 ± 4.54 kg respectively, resulting in a bias score of 3.27 ± 1.92 kg (t(28) = 9.18, p ⩽ 0.001). Average fat-free mass reported by the DXA and BOD POD was 73.31 ± 5.30 and 76.25 ± 5.74 kg respectively, resulting in a bias score of −2.93 ± 2.06 kg (t(28) = −7.66, p ⩽ 0.001). Our findings can help make more insightful comparisons between studies that use different body composition methodologies among athletic populations.
Cost–benefit analysis for energy storage exploitation in distribution systems

: Energy storage devices are valuable components of the future smart distribution systems, thanks to their ability to increase the flexibility of the overall system and provide a wide range of services to the distribution system operators and customers. However, their costs are still high and they still need economic incentives for their development. These incentives cannot be given to any project but only to those that demonstrate their effectiveness. This evaluation is not easy because it depends on the rate of the energy storage system device, its location on the network, and the kind of services provided. The study proposes a hybrid methodology, based on the combination of a multi-objective optimisation and a cost – benefit analysis in order to build a simple look-up table that easily allows identifying those project proposals that can be considered convenient a priori.
Computer As Confidant: Digital Investment Advice and the Fiduciary Standard

Digital investment advisers are the fastest growing segment of financial technology (fintech) and are disrupting traditional investment advisory delivery models. The computer-led investment advisory service model may be growing particularly quickly due to a confluence of social and political factors. Politicians and regulators have increasingly focused on the standards of care applicable to investment advice providers. Fewer Americans are ready for retirement and many lack access to affordable investment advice. At the same time, comfort with digital platforms have increased, with some preferring electronic interaction over human interaction. Claiming that they can democratize retirement service by providing advice meeting a fiduciary standard at a fraction of the traditional pricing model, robo-advisers hope to capitalize on these social movements and argue that they provide a solution: conflict-free advice to investors with portfolios of all sizes. Though they have voluntarily subjected themselves to the requirements of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (1940 Act), questions remain as to how robo-advisers will meet the fiduciary standard required by such registration. The essay recommends a two-pronged approach for the regulation of robo-advisers in the near term. First, existing regulatory tools such as examination, enforcement, and disclosure should be deployed to robustly explore the sufficiency and malleability of their existing parameters before crafting any new regulatory schemes. Second, the disclosure device should be studied to determine whether the intended beneficiary of the disclosure, retail consumers, comprehend the information being disclosed to them and whether changes to the format, delivery, and/or content of disclosures would better protect consumer investors.
Hybrid Integration With Efficient Ball Lens-Based Optical Coupling for Compact WDM Transmitters

A photonic integration platform is presented that allows easy manipulation and alignment of a ball lens doublet for efficient coupling between different optical components. The alignment and fixing of the lenses are automated, accurate, and highly scalable for compact parallel optical assemblies. To demonstrate this approach, we built a 4 × 25-Gb/s compact wavelength-division multiplexed transmitter with low coupling losses of ~2 dB between lasers and a planar lightwave circuit multiplexing filter.
Distributed multi-sensor network for real time monitoring of illumination states for a reconfigurable solar photovoltaic array

In a solar photovoltaic (SPV) array [mxn] the solar modules are connected in series and parallel to achieve desired power output. The SPV array performance depends on different parameters such as incident insolation, temperature, array layout, shading etc. Shading due to cloud cover results in Non-Uniform Illumination (NUI STATES- BRIGHT, GREY and DARK). Mismatch in currents and voltages of the modules due to change in one or more parameters leads to loss in output power. Hence real time monitoring of current (I, di/dt) for each solar module and bypass diode in the SPV array is necessary. In addition temperature sensors are required to monitor open-circuit voltage (Voc) fluctuations. Previously, we have demonstrated optimization of an SPV array in BRIGHT and DARK state [1]. However in field testing we have observed an intermediate GREY state as well. The power output can be depressed in a string having multiple state modules in series. In this paper we have proposed a reconfiguration strategy whereby modules are categorized into BRIGHT, GREY, and DARK illumination states. Based on this strategy it has been demonstrated that a reconfigured SPV array will yield maximum power at the highest operating voltage.
BRAND AWARENESS AND BRAND IMAGE OF DECISION MAKING ON UNIVERSITY

Universities are currently facing many challenges as institutions of higher education providers, espe-cially in obtaining numbers of students. The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of brand awareness on brand image, the effect of brand image on perceived value, the effect of perceived value on satisfaction, the effect of brand image on satisfaction, the effect of satisfaction on loyalty. Data collection methods are obtained from 200 samples of students in Jambi (primary data) with an analysis of Structural Equation Model Lisrel 8.80. The findings of this research are four hypothesis take positive and significant effect where Satisfaction has the most effect. However, it did not find any influence of brand image on satisfaction.
Optimized mismatch shaping for an RF-DAC based OFDM transmitter

This work presents an element selection logic (ESL) for a radio frequency digital to analog converter (RF-DAC) based multistandard transmitter in 65 nm CMOS. After introducing the transmitter system and the basics of mismatch shaping, the ESL is applied to an OFDM transmitter. The design is optimized with respect to the signal properties and synthesis is done for the mentioned CMOS technology. Simulation results show a significant improvement of the signal quality in the desired band.