Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Motivators and barriers of ethnic groups to engage in arts performance

This paper aims to highlight the behavioural processes of ethnic minority group consumers in relation to arts performance in Australia. Our findings indicate that Chinese, Vietnamese, Italians and Greeks have varying perceptions, practice and experiential decision-making. The major barriers for ethnic audiences to attend arts events were cost and time; a lack of understanding of or exposure to some artforms; language difficulties. Motivating factors for ethnic audiences were events associated with their own ethnic backgrounds; socialising/meeting with friends/people, and familiarity with the art-form. Our research will be critical for future arts marketing and cultural research and contribute to socially inclusive communities where every resident can act as a contributor to build socio-economically strong cities and nations
Modular TRAPP Complexes Regulate Intracellular Protein Trafficking Through Multiple Ypt/Rab GTPases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Ypt/Rab are key regulators of intracellular trafficking in all eukaryotic cells. In yeast, Ypt1 is essential for endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-to-Golgi transport, whereas Ypt31/32 regulate Golgi-to-plasma membrane and endosome-to-Golgi transport. TRAPP is a multisubunit complex that acts as an activator of Ypt/Rab GTPases. Trs85 and Trs130 are two subunits specific for TRAPP III and TRAPP II, respectively. Whereas TRAPP III was shown to acts as a Ypt1 activator, it is still controversial whether TRAPP II acts as a Ypt1 or Ypt31/32 activator. Here, we use GFP-Snc1 as a tool to study transport in Ypt and TRAPP mutant cells. First, we show that expression of GFP-Snc1 in trs85Δ mutant cells results in temperature sensitivity. Second, we suggest that in ypt1ts and trs85Δ, but not in ypt31Δ/32ts and trs130ts mutant cells, GFP-Snc1 accumulates in the ER. Third, we show that overexpression of Ypt1, but not Ypt31/32, can suppress both the growth and GFP-Snc1 accumulation phenotypes of trs85Δ mutant cells. In contrast, overexpression of Ypt31, but not Ypt1, suppresses the growth and GFP-Snc1 transport phenotypes of trs130ts mutant cells. These results provide genetic support for functional grouping of Ypt1 with Trs85-containing TRAPP III and Ypt31/32 with Trs130-containing TRAPP II.
Investor Attention and Macroeconomic News Announcements: Evidence from Stock Index Futures

This paper examines the role of investor attention in scheduled macroeconomic announcements, using intraday data from the Chinese Stock Index futures market. Overall, investor attention, proxied by the Baidu Search Index, is significantly higher in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) than in other macroeconomic news. Consistently, only the CPI announcement has a substantial short‐term impact on the price, liquidity, and volatility of the CSI 300 index futures. In addition, the reactions of futures price to CPI announcements are stronger to bad CPI news, more sensitive in high‐inflation periods, and less pronounced on Fridays, consistent with our investor attention behavior findings. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 36:240–266, 2016
Cumulative impacts of hurricanes on Florida mangrove ecosystems: Sediment deposition, storm surges and vegetation

Hurricanes have shaped the structure of mangrove forests in the Everglades via wind damage, storm surges and sediment deposition. Immediate effects include changes to stem size-frequency distributions and to species relative abundance and density. Long-term impacts to mangroves are poorly understood at present. We examine impacts of Hurricane Wilma on mangroves and compare the results to findings from three previous storms (Labor Day, Donna, Andrew). Surges during Wilma destroyed ≈ 1,250 ha of mangroves and set back recovery that started following Andrew. Data from permanent plots affected by Andrew and Wilma showed no differences among species or between hurricanes for % stem mortality or % basal area lost. Hurricane damage was related to hydro-geomorphic type of forest. Basin mangroves suffered significantly more damage than riverine or island mangroves. The hurricane by forest type interaction was highly significant. Andrew did slightly more damage to island mangroves. Wilma did significantly more damage to basin forests. This is most likely a result of the larger and more spatially extensive storm surge produced by Wilma. Forest damage was not related to amount of sediment deposited. Analyses of reports from Donna and the Labor Day storm indicate that some sites have recovered following catastrophic disturbance. Other sites have been permanently converted into a different ecosystem, namely intertidal mudflats. Our results indicate that mangroves are not in a steady state as has been recently claimed.
Effect of fibroblast growth factor and lipoproteins on the proliferation of endothelial cells derived from bovine adrenal cortex, brain cortex, and corpus luteum capillaries

Bovine adrenal and brain cortex and corpus luteum‐derived capillary endothelial cells have been established in culture, taking advantage of their ability to proliferate at clonal density when maintained on extracellular matrix (ECM) coated dishes in the presence of serum supplemented medium. All three cell types formed at confluency a monolayer of small, tightly packed, contact inhibited cells that express factor VIII related antigen. Their proliferative response to basic and acidic FGF when cells were maintained on plastic and exposed to serum supplemented medium was similar to that previously reported for endothelial cells derived from large vessels, with acidic FGF being 30‐fold less potent than basic FGF. Their requirement for high density lipoproteins and transferrin in order to proliferate actively when maintained on ECM‐coated dishes and exposed to serum‐free conditions was also similar to that previously reported for endothelial cells derived from large vessels. Heparin strongly reduced the proliferative response of capillary endothelial cells to either basic or acidic FGF, as well as their response to serum alone, regardless of whether cells were maintained on plastic or on ECM‐coated dishes. The present data indicate that bovine endothelial cells derived from large or small vessels are indistinguishable in so far as their response to growth factors, plasma factors, and substrata are concerned.
‘Growing Sideways in Argentine Cinema: Lucía Puenzo’s XXY and Julia Solomonoff’s El último verano de la boyita’.

This article examines an understudied aspect of recent Argentine filmmaking: the focus on queer and intersex childhood and adolescence in XXY (2007) and El ultimo verano de la boyita/The last summer of La Boyita (2009), analysing them in the light of recent theory on queer childhoods, especially the notion that queer children carve out spaces of resistance to heteronormative models of development through ‘sideways movements’, involving the animal. In XXY’s utopian politics, the intersex body is figured as a locus of embodied becoming; in El ultimo verano, the child’s becoming-animal is the site of strategic, subversive reinscriptions of human–animal connections and their relationship to gender. Both films pair intersex characters with a queer double who models a desiring gaze on the intersexual and in El ultimo verano this is – in both aesthetic and political terms – a child’s gaze. Lastly, the article suggests that echoes of an older film, De eso no se habla/I don’t want to talk about it, can be identifi.
Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 is primarily epithelial and is developmentally regulated in the mouse lung

Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) 2 is a carboxypeptidase that shares 42% amino acid homology with ACE. Little is known about the regulation or pattern of expression of ACE2 in the mouse lung, including its definitive cellular distribution or developmental changes. Based on Northern blot and RT‐PCR data, we report two distinct transcripts of ACE2 in the mouse lung and kidney and describe a 5′ exon 1a previously unidentified in the mouse. Western blots show multiple isoforms of ACE2, with predominance of a 75–80 kDa protein in the mouse lung versus a 120 kDa form in the mouse kidney. Immunohistochemistry localizes ACE2 protein to Clara cells, type II cells, and endothelium and smooth muscle of small and medium vessels in the mouse lung. ACE2 mRNA levels peak at embryonic day 18.5 in the mouse lung, and immunostaining demonstrates protein primarily in the bronchiolar epithelium at that developmental time point. In murine cell lines ACE2 is strongly expressed in the Clara cell line mtCC, as opposed to the low mRNA expression detected in E10 (type I‐like alveolar epithelial cell line), MLE‐15 (type II alveolar epithelial cell line), MFLM‐4 (fetal pulmonary vasculature cell line), and BUMPT‐7 (renal proximal tubule cell line). In summary, murine pulmonary ACE2 appears to be primarily epithelial, is developmentally regulated, and has two transcripts that include a previously undescribed exon. J. Cell. Biochem. 101:1278–1291, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Synthesis and X-Ray Diffraction Analyses of Calcium Hydroxide Nanoparticles in Aqueous Suspension

Calcium hydroxide nanoparticles in aqueous suspensions (also called nanolime) were successfully employed in Cultural Heritage conservation thanks to the ability of favoring readhesion of the pictorial layer on original carbonatic substrates or allowing to a better superficial cohesion and protection of treated stones. In this work, we have synthesized nanolime particles in aqueous suspension by two different methods. The produced particles were characterized in the laboratory, in terms of structural and morphological features, by means of X-Ray diffraction powder (XRD) and by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), respectively. Nanoparticles were crystalline, regularly shaped, hexagonally plated and with side dimensions generally ranging from 300 nm to 30 nm or less. Crystal structure of nanolime particles directly in the aqueous suspension, has been also analyzed by synchrotron diffraction from X-ray synchrotron radiation (SR-XRD); data have been analyzed by means of the Rietveld method and we have investigated the structure of Ca(OH)2 particles in suspension in terms of cell parameters, atomic coordinates, bond lengths and angles.
High shopping frequency of Vietnamese consumers: theory and measurement

Almost all Vietnamese consumers shop at least five or six times a week or everyday or more. We formulated a basic model of the optimal level of shopping frequency. Hanoi consumer survey data has been analysed using the binary choice Probit model to measure factors that influence the major characteristics related to the high-shopping frequency patterns of Vietnamese consumers. The results consolidate the validity of the basic model and show that freshness, convenience (distance), gender and the presence of children in the household had a significant effect on the frequency of shopping. In contrast, factors such as owning a refrigerator as well as income did not have a significant effect in shaping consumer shopping behaviour.
Demand, supply and willingness-to-pay for extension services in an emerging-market setting

Although it may be wholly inappropriate to generalize, the most important resource available to a subsistence household is the total amount of time that its members have available to spend in productive enterprises. In this context, services that minimize the time that it takes to perform productive activities are valuable to the household. Consequently the household is willing to relinquish quantities of other resources in exchange for quantities of the time-saving service. These simple observations motivate a search for the values that subsistence households place on time-saving services. This search is especially important when it is realized that extension services promote productivity, enhance the surplus-generating potential of the household and can, as a consequence, promote immersion into markets that are currently constrained by thinness and instability. In this capacity, extension visitation has the potential to overcome one of the principal impediments to economic development, namely lack of density of market participation. In this article, we consider this issue in the context of a rich data set on milk-market participation by small-holder dairy producers in the Ethiopian highlands.
Regulation of Sex Differences in Progesterone Receptor Expression in the Medial Preoptic Nucleus of Postnatal Rats

The medial preoptic nucleus (MPN) of the rat, an excellent model for understanding the mechanisms involved in sexual differentiation, is highly sensitive to gonadal hormones during both pre‐ and post‐natal life. Progesterone receptor (PR) expression is sexually dimorphic in the prenatal MPN. Males have significantly higher levels of PR‐immunoreactivity (PRir) than females from approximately embryonic day 19 through at least the day of birth, suggesting that PR may play a role in sexual differentiation. Because the MPN is still sensitive to steroid hormones postnatally, the present study investigated PR expression in the MPN of males and females after birth using immunocytochemistry. Results indicate that a sex difference in PR expression persists until at least postnatal day (P) 28. However, females begin to express PR around P10. Because oestradiol regulates PR expression in the adult brain, this study also examined the influence of gonadal hormones on PR expression in the neonatal male and female MPN. Castration on the day of birth significantly reduced levels of PRir in the MPN by 24 h following surgery. Ovariectomy on P4, before the onset of ovarian steroidogenesis, prevented the induction of PR expression in the female MPN, observed in controls by P13. In both sexes, the presence of PRir in the MPN is dependent on gonadal hormone exposure. These findings suggest that differences in steroid secretion by the neonatal male and female gonads are responsible for producing sex differences in the level of PR expression in the postnatal MPN.
Development of a sensitive assay for the measurement of antibodies against heat shock protein binding protein 1 (HspBP1): Increased levels of anti‐HspBP1 IgG are prevalent in HIV infected subjects

The 70 kDa heat shock protein (Hsp70) is generally considered to be an intracellular protein, however, there is evidence that Hsp70 can be found in the extracellular environment. Hsp70 and antibodies against Hsp70 have been reported in human serum. Recent evidence has shown that Hsp70 antibodies are elevated in HIV infected individuals. This study reports on the antibody levels against a co‐chaperone, HspBP1, that regulates Hsp70 activity. We have developed a solid‐phase enzyme linked assay for the determination of anti‐HspBP1 IgG antibodies. We report here that HspBP1 antibodies are present in human serum and the levels are elevated approximately twofold in HIV infected patients. There was no correlation between HspBP1 antibody levels and clinical parameters nor was there a relation between anti‐Hsp70 levels and anti‐HspBP1 levels. The presence of HspBP1 antibodies in human serum suggests that the protein may also be present in the serum. The increased level of HspBP1 antibodies in HIV infected individuals suggests a relationship directly to the virus or indirectly to secondary consequences of HIV infection. J. Med. Virol. 76:464–469, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Outcome in Children With Significantly Abnormal Cerebral Blood Flow Detected by Doppler Ultrasonography: Focus on the Survivors

Background and Purpose. The Doppler waveform patterns of loss of diastolic flow, appearance of retrograde diastolic flow, or no detectable flow in the cerebral arteries suggest significantly abnormal cerebral blood flow (CBF). A retrospective study was performed to show that significantly abnormal CBF alone, without clinical criteria, is not necessarily specific to brain death in the young pediatric population. Patients and Methods. Forty‐seven pediatric patients, from newborn to 4 years of age, were found to have significantly abnormal CBF, including 7 patients with loss of diastolic flow, 28 with retrograde diastolic flow, and 23 with no detectable cerebral flow on serial Doppler sonographic examinations. Their clinical data and sonographic results were collected and analyzed. Results. Forty‐two patients died, a few of whom had only transient improvement of cerebral flow. All of the patients with no detectable cerebral flow expired. Five patients survived with or without sequelae. Their underlying conditions that caused increased intracranial pressure were treated by medical and/or surgical intervention, and diastolic reversal of CBF corrected within 1 day in all 5. Conclusions. Although no detectable flow is a lethal sign, pediatric patients with loss or reversal of diastolic flow may survive with prompt and effective treatment. Using Doppler ultrasound to diagnose cerebral circulatory arrest should be done with caution in pediatric patients.
Do We Really Need to Throw Away Conventional Tools of Economic Analysis? A Comment on “Neo-liberalism and the City: Or the Failure of Market Fundamentalism”

Mike Berry makes a forceful case for the deficiencies of orthodox neo-classical economic thought and their role in the global financial crisis (GFC). Of course, many would fundamentally disagree with his perspective and the most extreme might even suggest that the GFC was simply a temporary blip – admittedly longerlasting and deeper than most – but economies will in due course return to trend growth. Those of this persuasion have tended to entrench their intellectual position, rather than seeing this as an opportunity to re-examine their basic standpoint and engage in open debate. Even those economists who adopt a more eclectic, or New Keynesian, stance and argue the case for the existence of widespread market failure and the need for government corrective intervention do not necessarily see the need to throw away all their standard tools of analysis. Instead, a more pluralist approach to economic policy analysis might be required. Different models are required for different purposes or policy problems. In some instances, neo-classical models may be reasonable approximations, but not in others. Arguably, the problem lies in an attempt to apply the same models and prescriptions in all circumstances. This is particularly the case in the study of cities. The neo-classical residential location model, with its extensions, remains the basic work horse of urban economics and continues to yield valuable insights, but it cannot do everything. For example, it is, arguably, not best designed to study the dynamics of urban growth. Three important issues to which Mike Berry refers may also be better treated using different models. These are: (i) path dependence; (ii) increasing returns and (iii) networks and city self-organization. I will say a little more on each of these and suggest that, at
Tracing the selection bias in roll call votes: party group cohesion in the European Parliament

Legislative politics scholars rely heavily on roll call vote (RCV) data. However, it has been claimed that strategic motives behind RCV requests lead to overestimating party group cohesion and, thus, biased findings on legislative behaviour. To explore this claim, we distinguish between two types of bias, a ‘behavioural bias’ and a ‘selection bias’. A recent rule change in the European Parliament, making RCVs mandatory on all final legislative votes, presents the unique opportunity to evaluate the latter. We compare party group cohesion in requested and mandatory RCVs by examining final legislative votes before and after the rule adoption using amendment RCVs (which still need to be requested) as a benchmark. The analysis shows that group cohesion is higher whenever RCVs are not just requested on some but mandatory on all votes. Hence, there is indeed a ‘selection bias’ in RCV data. Yet, somewhat contrary to former claims, relying on requested RCVs leads to underestimation of the cohesion party groups would have had were all votes automatically roll called. We argue that this is mainly because requests occur on more contentious votes.
A CMOS QFG ECG amplifier with baseline stabilization

The suitability of the recently proposed Quasi-Floating Gate (QFG) technique for processing physiological signals, and specially to stabilize baseline wandering in a simple and efficient manner, is addressed. As an example of the usefulness of these techniques in biomedical signal processing, an ECG preamplifier is designed, fabricated in a 0. 5μm CMOS process, and tested. Measurement results confirm the validity of this approach.
Family history as a predictor of hospitalization for hypertension in Sweden

Objective: Hypertension clusters in families. However, no nationwide study has investigated the family history as a predictor of hospitalization for hypertension, which was the purpose of this study. Research design and methods: The study is a nationwide follow-up study. Swedish Multigeneration Register data for individuals aged 0–76 years were linked to Hospital Discharge Register data for 1964–2008. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) were calculated for individuals whose relatives were hospitalized with a main diagnosis of hypertension compared with those whose relatives were not. Results: The total number of patients hospitalized with hypertension was 37 686. The familial SIR was 2.18 for individuals with one affected sibling, 44.83 for individuals with two affected siblings and 57.18 for individuals with three or more affected siblings. The SIR was 1.95 for parents with one affected child, 3.73 for parents with two affected children and 9.22 for parents with three or more affected children. The familial SIR among offspring was 1.84 for those with one affected parent and 3.62 for those with two affected parents. The familial risk for hospitalization with hypertension among offspring aged less than 30 years was 2.50 and 1.57 in those aged more than 60 years. Familial risks were similar for men and women. Spouses had low overall familial risks (SIR = 1.2). Conclusion: Hospitalization for hypertension clusters in families. Very high risks were observed in families with multiple affected siblings, though the parent–offspring transmission was lower, suggesting the segregation of recessive or interacting susceptibility genes. The low familial risk in spouses suggests a minor nongenetic contribution.
Strategic Management Planning in Consulting Engineering

ABSTRACTOver the last decade, the process of strategic management planning has received increasing recognition and acceptance among consulting engineering firms. Many papers and professional articles have appeared dealing with client development, marketing and public relations strategy, diversification, and global business strategy. In part, this interest was sparked by the back-to-back economic recessions that began in the 1980s and by a realization that a consulting engineering firm needs a well-defined scope for human resource training and development. In addition, vision and mission and objectives statements alone do not meet such a need; additional decision-making rules are required if the firm and its professional resources are to grow profitably. Developing and preparing such decision rules has been broadly defined as strategic management planning. This article investigates strategic planning among the United States' top 500 consulting engineering firms as classified by Engineering News Record. Fro.
Factors associated with acute kidney injury or failure in children undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass: a case‐controlled study

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious complication that occurs commonly following cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in infants and children. Underlying risk factors for AKI remain unclear, given changes in CPB practices during recent years. This retrospective, case–control study examined the relationships between patient, perioperative factors, AKI, and kidney failure in children who underwent CPB.