Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Controversial Issue on Interest of the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN): A Case Study

Education is very important for the development of humankind and economic progress. Nevertheless, not everyone has the opportunity and access to the proper education system. Interest is something that is known to anyone living in a capitalist country. It has become so completely institutionalized and accepted in modern economies that it is almost impossible to conceive that there are some who completely oppose it and refuse any transactions that involve interest. But there are devout Muslims who refuse to deal in interest.This case study tries to explore the controversial issue relating to the loan offered by the PTPTN either it is considered as riba or otherwise. The purpose of this case study is not to show any weaknesses of the named person, but just to provide a basis for discussion.
A Conceptual Study of User Adoption for Military Lifetime Health Record Systems

The Ministry of Defence in Malaysia has realized a lot of information technology venturing into the world of healthcare for armed forces. From time to time, the majority of these successful healthcare systems are increasingly aware of the extent and success of its operations. Along with IT growth, there is a need for excellent technical capability as well as integrated, centralized, comprehensive and intensive health information systems for armed forces in Malaysia. However, given the success rate in the application of transverse health information system is very high, it is significant to identify the user adoption factor to increase the success rate. Thus, this paper attempt to identify user adoption factors among the medical and clinical personnel’s which Malaysian Armed Forces Hospital and Clinics should keep in mind, to ensure the success of health record systems’ implementation. In this article, we propose our proposition for the clinician and medical personnel’s adoption model to answer our research problem.
Fund Characteristics and Performances of Socially Responsible Mutual Funds: Do ESG Ratings Play a Role?

This paper examines the risk-adjusted performance and differential fund flows for socially responsible mutual funds (SRMF). The results show that SRMF rated high on ESG, perform better than lower rated ESG funds during the period of economic crisis. The findings also show that low ESG rated SRMF had higher differential cash-flows than high rated ESG funds except for the period of economic down turn. The findings are of interest to financial advisors, investors, mutual fund managers, and researchers on how SRMF performance responds to periods of economic downturn and expansion
RHIPILIA COPPEJANSII, A NEW CORAL REEF‐ASSOCIATED SPECIES FROM GUAM (BRYOPSIDALES, CHLOROPHYTA) 1

The new species Rhipilia coppejansii is described from Guam. This species, which has the external appearance of a Chlorodesmis species, features tenacula upon microscopical examination, a diagnostic character of Rhipilia. This unique morphology, along with the tufA and rbcL data presented herein, set this species apart from others in the respective genera. Phylogenetic analyses show that the taxon is nested within the Rhipiliaceae. We discuss the diversity and possible adaptation of morphological types in the Udoteaceae and Rhipiliaceae.
Free Radicals in Disease

Partial reduction of molecular oxygen can generate reactive oxygen species (ROS), including the hydrogen peroxide, and the free radicals superoxide and hydroxyl. The formation of ROS is a feature of many degenerative diseases, such as atherosclerosis and neurodegeneration, Organisms contain a battery of defense mechanisms to prevent the formation of ROS, to scavenge them, and to repair the damage they cause. Free radicals are also involved in signal transduction pathways. For example, the free radical nitric oxide is involved in signal transduction in both the cardiovascular and central nervous systems. The interplay between nitric oxide and ROS has been a major focus of recent studies, as nitric oxide is an efficient radical scavenger. However, in some cases, such as in the formation of peroxynitrite from nitric oxide and superoxide, the product is potentially more deleterious that the parent radicals. This review describes the major chemical species involved in oxidative stress and free radical biochemistry, and gives a brief overview of their role in pathological conditions.
The novel p53 isoform “delta p53” is a misfolded protein and does not bind the p21 promoter site

The tumor suppressor p53 can be expressed as different isoforms because of promoter selection and mRNA editing. One isoform, “delta p53” (Δp53), results from what would be an unusual alternative splicing of exons 7/8 of the p53 gene, conserving the reading frame and generating a novel protein with proposed transcriptional activity essential for the intra S‐phase checkpoint. Here, we show that the deletion of the 66 residues that correspond to strand β10 and the C‐terminal helix of the core domain and the interconnecting linker to the tetramerization domain occurring in the Δp53 isoform leads to a misfolded and unstable protein, prone to form soluble aggregates, which does not bind the p21 promoter site. The complex of coexpressed Δp53 and flp53 is soluble in vitro and binds poorly to DNA. Our results provide a structural explanation for the dominant‐negative effect of Δp53 and its lack of transcriptional activity.
Mountain View nurses and job satisfaction

Mountain View Nurses and Job Satisfaction By Ursula S. Moser Dr. Susan Kowalski, Thesis Committee Chair Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator Sehool of Nursing University of Nevada, Las Vegas The purpose of this study was to assess the level of nurses’ job satisfaction in one hospital in Las Vegas, NV. Guided by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory, the study used the Mueller/McCloskey Satisfaction Seale to measure overall job satisfaction and its components. Results indicated that the nurses (N = 52) were less than satisfied. The mean total job satisfaction score was 3.6 ± . 64 (possible range 1-5). Satisfaction with co­ workers reflected the highest subscale mean (4.1 ± .60) of factors contributing to job satisfaction (possible range 1-5). Nurses educated outside of the United States were significantly more satisfied in their jobs (M= 3.9 ± .43) than nurses educated in the United States (M= 3.4 ± .65). No significant differences in job satisfaction were found between age groups or between nurses working in specialty units and nurses working in medical/surgical units.
Failures in Clinical Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Infection with Daptomycin Are Associated with Alterations in Surface Charge, Membrane Phospholipid Asymmetry, and Drug Binding

ABSTRACT Increasingly frequent reports have described the in vivo loss of daptomycin susceptibility in association with clinical treatment failures. The mechanism(s) of daptomycin resistance is not well understood. We studied an isogenic set of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the bloodstream of a daptomycin-treated patient with recalcitrant endocarditis in which serial strains exhibited decreasing susceptibility to daptomycin. Since daptomycin is a membrane-targeting lipopeptide, we compared a number of membrane parameters in the initial blood isolate (parental) with those in subsequent daptomycin-resistant strains obtained during treatment. In comparison to the parental strain, resistant isolates demonstrated (i) enhanced membrane fluidity, (ii) increased translocation of the positively charged phospholipid lysyl-phosphotidylglycerol to the outer membrane leaflet, (iii) increased net positive surface charge (P < 0.05 versus the parental strain), (iv) reduced susceptibility to daptomycin-induced depolarization, permeabilization, and autolysis (P < 0.05 versus the parental strain), (v) significantly lower surface binding of daptomycin (P < 0.05 versus the parental strain), and (vi) increased cross-resistance to the cationic antimicrobial host defense peptides human neutrophil peptide 1 (hNP-1) and thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein 1 (tPMP-1). These data link distinct changes in membrane structure and function with in vivo development of daptomycin resistance in S. aureus. Moreover, the cross-resistance to hNP-1 and tPMP-1 may also impact the capacity of these daptomycin-resistant organisms to be cleared from sites of infection, particularly endovascular foci.
Patient-centered Coordination in Healthcare Service Networks - Measuring and Improving Inter-organizational Information Flow

This thesis investigates the idea of a coordination service that improves the information flow between independent stakeholders along the patient care pathway. Based on identified requirements regarding process, ICT-structure, and legal constraints, a stroke-specific coordination service was developed, validated, implemented, and evaluated. A randomized controlled trial showed improved patients' HRQoL and competences, positive cost-benefit ratio, and acceptance by the involved stakeholders.
An Automatic Coding System with a Three-Grade Confidence Level Corresponding to the National/International Occupation and Industry Standard - Open to the Public on the Web

We develop a new automatic coding system with a three-grade confidence level corresponding to each of the national/international standard code sets for answers to open-ended questions regarding to respondentâs occupation and industry in social surveys including a national census. The âoccupation and industry codingâ is a necessary task for statistical processing. However, this task requires a great deal of labor and time-consuming. In addition, inconsistent results occur if the coders are not experts of coding. In formal research, various automatic coding systems have been developed, which are incomplete and generally unfriendly to a non-developer user. Our new system assigns three candidate codes to an answer for coders by SVMs (Support Vector Machines), and attaches a three-grade confidence level to the first-ranked predicted code by using classification scores to support a manual check of the results. The system is now open to the public through the Website of the Social Science Japan Data Archive (SSJDA). After the submitted data file which followed the specified format is approved, the users can obtain files of codes for up to four kinds with a three-grade confidence level. In this paper, we describe our system and evaluate it.
« C’est un problème neurologique ou psychiatrique ? » Ethnologie de la stimulation cérébrale profonde appliquée au trouble obsessionnel compulsif. Thèse pour l'obtention du doctorat d’ethnologie et d’anthropologie sociale, sous la direction d’Alain Ehrenberg, Université Paris Descartes, juillet 2009

Cette these d’ethnologie et anthropologie sociale porte sur l’application experimentale d’une technique neurochirurgicale – la stimulation cerebrale profonde – a un trouble psychiatrique – le trouble obsessionnel compulsif (TOC) – dans un centre de recherche clinique en neurosciences parisien. Son objectif est double : tout d’abord saisir les consequences des pratiques et savoirs neuroscientifiques sur la definition des troubles mentaux, sur la psychiatrie et sur le vecu des malades ; puis d.
Path Integral Description of Light Transport in Tissue a

The early photons that arrive at a collector through a large thickness of tissue have potential for imaging internal organ structure, function, and status with improved image resolution relative to late arriving photons which have been diffusely scattered. Imaging algorithms require a theory to calculate early photon arrival for comparison with experimental data. The path integral description of light transport describes the movement of photons as particles undergoing collisions in a scattering medium based on the Brownian motion formalism of Feynman and Hibbs (unconstrained path) which applies the principle of least action. Including the additional constraint that photons have a constant velocity of c yields paths that conserve the speed of light (constrained path). This paper outlines the basic derivation of the path integral method and compares the constrained and unconstrained paths.
Particle Swarm Optimization Assisted by Gaussian Processes for Multimodal Function Optimization

In many real-world optimization problems, the location of multiple optima is often required in a search space. In order to evaluate the solution, thousands of fitness function evaluations are involved that is a time consuming or expensive processes. Therefore, standard Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) meets a special challenge for a very large number of problem function evaluations. Applying models as a surrogate of the real fitness function is proved effective way to address this challenge. This study proposes a model assisted PSO, which uses a Gaussian Process (GP) approximation model. In this algorithm, the training datasets for establishing a GP are generated by the first two generations particle information. Once the GP model is obtained, the function value is evaluated using trained GP model instead of real function evaluation, so that the total number of function evaluation is clearly reduced. In order to improve the predictive capacity of GP, the training datasets are dynamically renewed through sorting datasets and replacing the worst dataset during iterative process. Numerical results from simulations on several 20 dimensional complex multimodal functions are presented. Furthermore, a comparison of the new algorithm with the standard PSO is also made. Results show that the new algorithm is much more efficient than standard PSO. Keywords-particle swarm optimization; surrogate; gaussian process; multimodal function optimization
Devolution of Health Services, Fiscal Decentralization, and Antenatal Care in the Philippines

Despite the long tradition of decentralization in health care worldwide, there remains limited evidence on its impact on health outcomes. This paper investigates how the expansion of local government incomes in the Philippines influences household demand for healthcare under a decentralized setting. Using a natural experiment, we find that greater transfers from the national government to local governments do not necessarily lead to greater demand for antenatal care services among pregnant women. This may be a consequence of local public spending on health services not responding to greater national transfers. Local government income from locally generated sources, on the other hand, is consistently positively associated with greater antenatal care demand. We also document some evidence of inter-jurisdictional spillovers in healthcare, which may potentially limit the effectiveness of decentralized healthcare service delivery.
Object-Oriented Program Tracing and Visualization

Conventional program analysis and presentation techniques are insufficient when dealing with object oriented concepts, but tool developers have nevertheless found a way to obtain and visualize OO traces. The approach presented combines static information with actual execution information to produce views that summarize the relevant computation. In developing this approach, the authors focused on reducing the search space for extracting dynamic program information and on creating visualizations that may improve a programmer's understanding of object behaviour in real world OO systems. They applied the research prototype, Program Explorer, to a real project outside IBM. Although Program Explorer was originally designed for C++, a version for IBM's System Object Model (SOM) has demonstrated that the concepts are applicable to OO languages in general.
Supporting open innovation with the use of a balanced scorecard approach: a study on deep smarts and effective knowledge transfer to SMEs

Abstract This study aims to develop the theory of knowledge management and organizational performance within a small and medium enterprise (SME) context using action research (AR) involving a higher education institution (HEI) and an SME. The vehicle for the knowledge exchange was Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), the United Kingdom’s primary mechanism for delivering government funded knowledge transfer to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). KTPs facilitate knowledge exchange from HEIs to SMEs via the recruitment of a graduate plus an academic supervisor from the partnering HEI. The AR study was an award-winning KTP and the project deliverable included the implementation of a balanced scorecard for the SME to improve organizational performance. The transfer of knowledge was subsequently fed-back into the university in order to develop a performance framework for measuring the effectiveness of KTP research within the HEI in order to share knowledge and improve effective for other KTP projects.
Slip Effect Study of 4:1 Contraction Flow for Oldroyd-B Model

— The numerical simulation of the slip effect via vicoelastic fluid for 4:1 contraction problem is investigated with regard to kinematic behaviors of streamlines and stress tensor by models of the Navier-Stokes and Oldroyd-B equations. Two-dimensional spatial reference system of incompressible creeping flow with and without slip velocity is determined and the finite element method of a semi-implicit Taylor-Galerkin pressure-correction is applied to compute the problem of this Cartesian coordinate system including the schemes of velocity gradient recovery method and the streamline-Upwind / Petrov-Galerkin procedure. The slip effect at channel wall is added to calculate after each time step in order to intend the alteration of flow path. The result of stress values and the vortices are reduced by the optimum slip coefficient of 0.1 with near the outcome of analytical solution.
Removal of erythrocytes from the circulation.

Labeling erythrocytes with radioactive chromium (Cr51) has made possible study of the fate of normal and diseased erythrocytes.1The ability of the spleen to sequester red blood cells has been demonstrated in numerous pathological states, the most prominent of which are hereditary spherocytosis, certain autoimmune hemolytic anemias, cirrhosis of the liver, and Gaucher's disease. In an effort to determine why some red cells are destroyed in the spleen while others are not, Harris, McAlister, and Prankerd studied the sites of destruction of red cells with both induced and naturally occurring abnormalities.2Spherocytes produced by heating red cells for 15 minutes at 50 C and red cells whose surface lipids had been reduced by alumina were selectively sequestered in the spleen after injection. Red cells in which metabolism had been inhibited by incubation in sodium arsenate were destroyed in areas other than the spleen. An extensive series of
Cognitive Functioning in Depersonalization Disorder

Depersonalization disorder (DPD) is a dissociative disorder characterized by a subjective sense of unreality and detachment, and has been associated with deficits in perception and short-term memory. In this study, 21 DPD and 17 healthy comparison participants free of psychiatric disorders were administered a comprehensive neuropsychologic battery. The groups did not differ in full-scale, verbal, and performance IQ (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale), in working memory (Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test), or in selective attention (Digit Span with Distracters). The DPD group performed significantly worse on immediate visual and verbal recall (Wechsler Memory Scale, Revised), but not on delayed recall. Dissociation severity was significantly correlated with processing slowness and distractibility. We conclude that DPD is associated with cognitive disruptions in early perceptual and attentional processes.
Diagnostic Value of Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Pelvic Abscesses

Objective The objective of this study was to prospectively assess the added value of gadolinium-enhanced and diffusion-weighted (DWI) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to pelvic T2-weighted MRI for diagnosis of deep pelvic abscesses. Methods Twenty-nine patients with suspected abscess and a control group of 43 patients underwent T2-weighted, gadolinium-enhanced, T1-weighted and DWI magnetic resonance sequences. Three readers (R1, R2, R3) scored likelihood of abscess on standard MRI, standard MRI + gadolinium, and standard MRI + DWI. Results Twenty-nine patients had 36 abscesses. On standard MRI, R1 achieved area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) of 0.97, sensitivity 92%, and specificity 100%. For R2, these figures were 0.87, 81%, and 100%, and for R3, these were 0.85, 83%, and 79%. After gadolinium, R2 improved AUC to 0.97 (P = 0.005), and R3 to 0.95 (P = 0.006). Standard MRI + DWI yielded improved AUC for all readers (P = 0.15, 0.001, and 0.001 for R1, R2, R3, respectively). Conclusions Addition of gadolinium or DWI to T2-weighted MRI improves performances for the diagnosis of deep pelvic abscess. Diffusion-weighted imaging may replace gadolinium.
The territorial capital of urban functional areas as a challenge for regional development policy: An outline of the concept

Objective: In this article Urban Functional Areas (UFAs) and their essence of matter and leading qualities are considered through the prism of theoretical concepts such as transaction costs, the concept of territorial capital and the space of flows with connection to the network economy. Research Design & Methods: Each theoretical concept prompts its own group of intervention instruments in the processes of territorial development. On this basis the authors focus on explanation of the possibility of public intervention in the functioning and development of urban functional areas. Contribution / Value Added: This article has a theoretical character but formulates general basis for elaboration of integrated development policy on the level of local self-government co-operation. Finding and recommendations: The authors show that the territorial authorities and enterprises in Urban Functional Areas should integrate their development policies around the "new quality resource" in the form of territorial capital. The territorial capital in UFAs of modern economies becomes the most important source of building long-lasting competitive advantages for businesses. (original abstract)