Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Economic impact assessment of small-scale sporting events using Social Accounting Matrices: an application to the Spanish Football League

ABSTRACT Small-scale sporting events contribute to hosting economies through the expenditures of both sports team activities and sports tourism. Among these sports, football has an increasing importance worldwide, with outstanding competition, such as the Spanish Football League. The goal of this paper was to assess the impact of a team’s promotion on the hosting economy by using linear models based on regionalized Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs). The proposed methodology is applied to the real case of the promotion of the Spanish team Cordoba F.C. over the 2014–2015 season. Estimates are made under two scenarios, conservative and progressive, encompassing different rates of both attendance and average expenditure per spectator and per match. The results highlight that the net expenditures associated with small-scale sporting events benefit the hosting economy, spurring the production of goods and services directly demanded as well as the production of supplier activities.
ISO 9001:2015 – a questionable reform. What should the implementing organisations understand and do?

We have recognised significant problems in understanding and applying the standard ISO 9001:2015. In this general review article, we expound that this situation originates from the standardisation process and its managerial drawbacks. Our research provides insight into the problematic aspects in the standard. The research is based on analysing the standard text, making observations from the initial application period of the standard half a year after its publication, and searching for an explanation for the situation from the problems in the standardisation process. Our aim is to guide organisations in implementing the standard for business advantages in spite of its existing problems, to identify the responsibility of the implementing organisations, and to provoke and encourage them into creative business-specific solutions. We want that our study also provides more understanding about the general international standardisation procedures and in particular of the management system standards, of which ISO 9001 is the most well known. Our main focus is on the practitioners’ viewpoints and the implementation of the standard in the organisations, and the article is based on our own observations and long-term participation on the ISO 9000 standardisation and implementation.
Applicability of Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone Assay During Thyroidectomy

ObjectiveTo evaluate the applicability of intraoperative parathyroid hormone (quick PTH) assay to monitor parathyroid function and to identify clinically significant hypocalcemia compared with postoperative serum calcium monitoring. Summary Background DataClose monitoring of serum calcium levels is a standard of care to identify post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia due to parathyroid insufficiency. MethodsQuick PTH assay was performed before and after thyroidectomy for 100 patients at risk of postoperative hypocalcemia and 20 control patients who underwent unilateral lobectomy. Postoperative serum calcium levels were closely monitored. ResultsControl patients had a normal but 38.9 ± 5.9% (mean ± SEM) decline in quick PTH after thyroidectomy. Eleven of 100 at-risk patients (11%) developed postoperative hypocalcemia. Hypocalcemic patients had significantly lower quick PTH values after thyroidectomy compared with that of normocalcemic patients. Serum calcium was significantly lower in hypocalcemic patients the morning after operation but not early after the operation (within 6 hours). A normal or less than 75% decline in quick PTH after thyroidectomy can accurately identify normocalcemic patients during surgery as compared to more than 24 hours by serum calcium monitoring. ConclusionsThe quick PTH assay can monitor parathyroid function during thyroidectomy and identify patients at risk of clinically significant hypocalcemia much earlier than serum calcium monitoring. It may facilitate early discharge and the use of parathyroid autotransplantation during thyroidectomy.
Tropical rainforests that persisted: inferences from the Quaternary demographic history of eight tree species in the Guiana shield

How Quaternary climatic and geological disturbances influenced the composition of Neotropical forests is hotly debated. Rainfall and temperature changes during and/or immediately after the last glacial maximum (LGM) are thought to have strongly affected the geographical distribution and local abundance of tree species. The paucity of the fossil records in Neotropical forests prevents a direct reconstruction of such processes. To describe community‐level historical trends in forest composition, we turned therefore to inferential methods based on the reconstruction of past demographic changes. In particular, we modelled the history of rainforests in the eastern Guiana Shield over a timescale of several thousand generations, through the application of approximate Bayesian computation and maximum‐likelihood methods to diversity data at nuclear and chloroplast loci in eight species or subspecies of rainforest trees. Depending on the species and on the method applied, we detected population contraction, expansion or stability, with a general trend in favour of stability or expansion, with changes presumably having occurred during or after the LGM. These findings suggest that Guiana Shield rainforests have globally persisted, while expanding, through the Quaternary, but that different species have experienced different demographic events, with a trend towards the increase in frequency of light‐demanding, disturbance‐associated species.
Essays on Contest Design and Contract Design.

Essays on Contest Design and Contract Design by Jiang Jiang Co-Chairs: Yan Chen, Yusufcan Masatlioglu This dissertation is broadly on the topic of behavioral economics and mechanism design, using lab experiments to study two settings: contest design and contract design. The first chapter studies how designers of two-stage elimination contests should allocate prizes and reveal interim performance information to achieve desired outcomes. To investigate the interactive effect of prize allocation and interim information revelation, I design a two-stage contest experiment with different combinations of these two instruments. While my theoretical model predicts a positive effect of awarding a single prize on effort regardless of information structure, I find this effect in the lab only when interim information is revealed. Moreover, revealing information motivates effort only under a single prize. These findings are consistent with a framework that ties together the intuitions of how these two instruments work on contestants: information on others’ performance allows contestants to estimate their own probabilities of achieving different ranks, and hence increases their sensitivity to changes in the prize allocation that affects the ranks they are likely to reach. Given this interplay of prize and information, my findings suggest that contest designers should take into
In vitro characteristics of human fetal cells obtained from chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis

In vitro characteristics of human fetal cells have been investigated after chorionic villus sampling at the first trimester and amniocentesis at the second trimester of pregnancy. Light microscopy revealed heterogeneous morphology of cell types in both the chorionic villus culture and the amniotic fluid cultures. Based on the experiments performed, chorionic villus cells are more sensitive to pronase, trypsin, and versene during subculture and have a higher DNA content per single cell and release more [125I]‐Beta‐human chorionic gonadotropin into culture medium than those found in amniotic fluid cells. The practical applications of this study are discussed.
Quantification of line tracking solutions for automotive applications

Unlike line tracking in automotive painting applications, line tracking for automotive general assembly applications requires position tracking in order to perform assembly operations to a required assembly tolerance. Line tracking quantification experiments have been conducted for a total of 16 test cases for two line tracking scenarios with three types of line tracking solutions: encoder based tracking, encoder plus static vision based tracking, and the analog sensor-based tracking for general assembly robotic automation. This paper presents the quantification results and identifies two key performance drivers fro line tracking for automotive assembly applications.
Proteomic identification of all plastid-specific ribosomal proteins in higher plant chloroplast 30S ribosomal subunit.

Six ribosomal proteins are specific to higher plant chloroplast ribosomes [Subramanian, A.R. (1993) Trends Biochem. Sci.18, 177-180]. Three of them have been fully characterized [Yamaguchi, K. , von Knoblauch, K. & Subramanian, A. R. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 28455-28465; Yamaguchi, K. & Subramanian, A. R. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 28466-28482]. The remaining three plastid-specific ribosomal proteins (PSRPs), all on the small subunit, have now been characterized (2D PAGE, HPLC, N-terminal/internal peptide sequencing, electrospray ionization MS, cloning/ sequencing of precursor cDNAs). PSRP-3 exists in two forms (alpha/beta, N-terminus free and blocked by post-translational modification), whereas PSRP-2 and PSRP-4 appear, from MS data, to be unmodified. PSRP-2 contains two RNA-binding domains which occur in mRNA processing/stabilizing proteins (e.g. U1A snRNP, poly(A)-binding proteins), suggesting a possible role for it in the recruiting of stored chloroplast mRNAs for active protein synthesis. PSRP-3 is the higher plant orthologue of a hypothetical protein (ycf65 gene product), first reported in the chloroplast genome of a red alga. The ycf65 gene is absent from the chloroplast genomes of higher plants. Therefore, we suggest that Psrp-3/ycf65, encoding an evolutionarily conserved chloroplast ribosomal protein, represents an example of organelle-to-nucleus gene transfer in chloroplast evolution. PSRP-4 shows strong homology with Thx, a small basic ribosomal protein of Thermus thermophilus 30S subunit (with a specific structural role in the subunit crystallographic structure), but its orthologues are absent from Escherichia coli and the photosynthetic bacterium Synechocystis. We would therefore suggest that PSRP-4 is an example of gene capture (via horizontal gene transfer) during chloro-ribosome emergence. Orthologues of all six PSRPs are identifiable in the complete genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana and in the higher plant expressed sequence tag database. All six PSRPs are nucleus-encoded. The cytosolic precursors of PSRP-2, PSRP-3, and PSRP-4 have average targeting peptides (62, 58, and 54 residues long), and the mature proteins are of 196, 121, and 47 residues length (molar masses, 21.7, 13.8 and 5.2 kDa), respectively. Functions of the PSRPs as active participants in translational regulation, the key feature of chloroplast protein synthesis, are discussed and a model is proposed.
Método de desambiguación léxica basado en el recurso léxico Dominios Relevantes

This paper presents a new WSD method, based in Magnini and Strapparava's idea of using WordNet Domains in WSD. Our approach, exploits information contained in glosses of WorNet Domains and introduces a new lexical resource "Relevant Domains". The new method developed is based in this new lexical resource and has been tested with the test data for the English all-words task in SENSEVAL-2.
The Paradox of Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Novel Approaches to Treatment

Abstract: Breast cancer that lacks expression of estrogen/progesterone receptors and overexpression of the human epidermal growth factor receptor2 (HER2), i.e. triple‐negative breast cancer (TNBC), is not amenable to current targeted therapies and carries a poor prognosis. This review discusses the natural history of TNBC and published literature in the relevant treatment landscape, with a focus on newer therapies. Compared with other subtypes of breast cancer, TN tumors have higher response rates to neoadjuvant chemotherapy; however, this advantage is not clearly translated into the metastatic setting and has not improved these patients’ overall survival. Numerous cytotoxic and targeted strategies have demonstrated efficacy or are under investigation. Strategies showing promise in this difficult‐to‐treat group of patients include cytotoxic therapy with platinum‐containing agents, ixabepilone, and novel targeted approaches such as poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase inhibitors.
A study of surnames in China through isonymy.

The isonymy structure of 1.28 billion people registered in China's National Citizen Identity Information System was studied at the provincial, prefectural, and county administrative division levels. The isonymy was 0.026 for China as a whole. The average value of isonymy was 0.033 for the 30 provinces, 0.035 for the 334 prefectures, and 0.040 for the 2811 counties. The isonymy in China was much higher than in other countries. This finding may be partly explained by the low number of surnames in the Chinese language. Two regional features can be identified from the geographic distributions of isonymy. One feature is that the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River had the lowest values of isonymy at both the provincial and county levels. The second feature is that most counties with the highest values of isonymy were distributed in the provinces with high proportions of ethnic minorities. According to the dendrogram of surname distances, several clusters could be identified. Most provinces in a cluster were conterminous with one another. The one exception could be explained by demic migration called "braving the journey to the northeast of China. " Isolation by distance could be detected because the correlation coefficients between Nei's distance and the geographic distances at the provincial, prefectural, and county levels were 0.64, 0.43, and 0.37, respectively. Human behaviors in Chinese history that may have caused these results have been discussed, including cultural origin, migration, residential patterns, and ethnic distribution.
Sustainability in coastal tourism development: an example from Denmark

Denmark’s coastlines have been protected from tourism development and construction for more than 80 years. In 2014, the Danish politicians opened up for softer regulation of the coastlines and invited proposals for tourism development projects within the hitherto protected coastal zone. The call explicitly requested nominations for sustainable tourism projects. A comparison between academic sustainability discourse and the approved projects suggests that tourism actors do not address sustainable tourism development as a holistic concept. Long-term perspectives are largely absent, whereas economic benefits are emphasized. Key findings also indicate weak political leadership in the envisaged transfer towards sustainable tourism development.
Secondary sex ratio in relation to exposures to polychlorinated biphenyls, dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene and methylmercury

ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to assess the potential impact of maternal exposures to polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene (DDE) and methylmercury on the secondary sex ratios (the ratio of male to female live births) over a span of 23 years. The study includes prospective data from three Faroese birth cohorts, with a total of 2,152 healthy mother–child dyads recruited between 1986 and 2009. The Faroe Islands is a subarctic fishing community, where pilot whale meat and blubber are part of the traditional marine diet. Exposures were measured in maternal hair, serum or umbilical cord blood. Confounder adjusted logistic regression models were used to assess the associations between maternal exposures and the secondary sex ratio. A doubling in ΣPCB, p,p’-DDE and mercury concentrations were associated with increased odds by 8% (95% CI = 0–16%), 7% (95% CI = 0–14%) and 9% (95% CI = 2–17%), respectively, of giving birth to a boy. In conclusion, maternal exposure to ΣPCB, DDE and methylmercury was associated with a slightly increased secondary sex ratio. The impact of paternal exposures could not be taken into account and deserves attention.
Indoor positioning system based on visible light using location code

In this paper, location estimation algorithm was researched for location based service. In order to mitigate interference, location code was sent by using time division multiplexing. Surface equation can be made by using signal feature distribution. We present experimental results that demonstrate the feasibility of proposed system to estimate local position with a high accuracy.
Increasing Chances for Hispanic Selection and Participation in the C-Suite

Members of corporate boards tend to be viewed as the penultimate panel of experts within the business community. There have been few attempts to delineate the specific domains of competencies that characterize business experts (Sternberg, 1998; Wagner, 1986, 1990, 2000). Further few studies have explored both the formal and the tacit knowledge components that Hispanics bring to the C-Suite and to the corporate governance table. This study takes a step toward exploring the business knowledge domains that characterize corporate boards and their members by exploring the competencies of executive Hispanics who are members of a corporate board and those who are seeking corporate board appointments. Data analyses using two-tailed t-tests revealed that corporate board members and non-corporate board members evaluated their competencies differently in two domains, namely, possession of knowledge of a specific industry or organization Patricia Denise Lopez, PhD Alliant International University
Sound Technologies, Sound Bodies: Medical Implants with Ultrasonic Links

Implantable medical devices (IMDs) and the concept of integrating electronics with the human body have been intriguing curiosities in medicine for many decades-slowly finding their way into mainstream medicine for several very specific conditions but not quite making it beyond "last resort" treatments. From the reality of today's cardiac pacemakers and deep-brain stimulation devices to the dream of sensor motes roaming around one's bloodstream (as described by researchers and writers like Isaac Asimov in his adaptation of Fantastic Voyage), the marriage of electronics and the human body has provided endless fascination for both science and science fiction alike. There is an abundance of potential applications, from electroceuticals to brain computer interfaces, and with advances in closed-loop systems and recent insights on neuromodulation, these devices are projected to make a huge impact on patient care for everything from neurological conditions all the way to diabetes and arthritis. In this article, we provided an overview of current systems and focused on power delivery with ultrasonic links. We demonstrated devices and systems that can provide high stimulation powers at depth as well as bidirectional communication links, all powered with soundwaves and packaged in millimeter-sized dimensions. With further improvements in the functional capabilities of these platform technologies and with demonstrations of closed-loop operation, we may be ever closer to practical and widespread deployment of this technology for a variety of healthcare applications.
Successful resolution of dermatophyte mycetoma following terbinafine treatment in two cats

Abstract Microsporum canis sensitive to itraconazole and terbinafine was isolated from two cats presented with generalized dermatophytosis and dermatophyte mycetoma. Itraconazole therapy was withdrawn through lack of efficacy in one cat (a Persian) and unacceptable adverse effects in the other (a Maine Coon). Both cats achieved clinical and mycological cure after 12–14 weeks therapy with 26–31 mg kg−1 terbinafine every 24 h per os (PO). Clinical signs in the Maine Coon resolved completely after 7 weeks treatment. Four weeks of therapy with additional weekly washes with a 2% chlorhexidine/2% miconazole shampoo following clipping produced a 98% reduction in the Persian cat's mycetoma, which was then surgically excised. Recurrent generalized dermatophytosis in the Persian cat has been managed with pulse therapy with 26 mg kg−1 terbinafine every 24 h PO for 1 week in every month. No underlying conditions predisposing to dermatophytosis were found in either cat despite extensive investigation. Terbinafine administration was associated with mild to moderate lethargy in the Persian cat, but no other adverse effects or changes in blood parameters were seen. To the best of the authors’ knowledge this is the first report of a dermatophyte mycetoma in a Maine Coon and of successful resolution of this condition in cats following terbinafine therapy.
Healthy life years in old age: Swedish development 1980–2010 according to different health indicators

Aims: To investigate the development of healthy life expectancy from 65 years (HLE65) in Sweden in the period 1980 and 2010 by using two different health indicators: self-rated health and the global activity limitation indicator (GALI). Methods: Sources of data for the HLE computations were Swedish national mortality statistics and the nationwide Swedish Survey of Living Conditions (SSLC), which have been conducted biennially by Statistics Sweden since 1974. We used the Sullivan method for calculations of HLE. A decomposition into mortality and disability effect has been made in accordance with the method devised by Nusselder. Results: Life expectancy at age 65 (LE65) increased by 3.1 years for women and 4.0 years for men from 1980/85 to 2006/11. Regardless of which health measure investigated – self-rated health or GALI – HLE65 increased between the periods 1980/85 to 2006/2011 more rapidly than LE65 and as a consequence the years with bad self-rated health and years with activity limitations decreased. These increases as well as the decreases were significant (p<0.05). Conclusions: The Swedish LE65 and HLE65 development, as judged by the SSLC study, are compatible with the postponement hypothesis and there is even a clear tendency for compression. Thus, the years with bad self-rated health and years with activity limitations are postponed to a higher age and the number of those years have decreased. From this respect, the Swedish development looks positive. The need of old age care in 2010 would have been much higher if it had been expansion – not postponement – of bad self-rated health and years with activity limitations during the time period.