Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Key Factors Affecting the Stock Price of Enterprises Listed On Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange

In Vietnam, the changing of macroeconomic policies often happens suddenly, this is affecting the psychology of investors, the stock market and the general activities of the economy. Therefore, the objective of the paper is to analyze factors, which are affecting stock price of companies listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE). This paper has an important role for the development of the stock market in order to provide more empirical evidence on this issue. This is also a basis to contribute to regulators, enterprises, investors and researchers to have a more comprehensive view of stock price movements in Vietnam. Besides, the identification of factors affecting stock prices creates the basic information for investors to make the most appropriate and optimal investment decisions. The data collected from the financial statements of 100 companies listed on the HOSE from 2015 to 2018. Based on linear regression results, there were five factors affecting stock price with significance level of 1.0%. Five factors including: Earnings per share, exchange rate, interest rate, gold price and inflation rate. Through the research results, the authors hope the paper will be a valuable reference for investors, managers and companies listed on the HOSE.
Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens

The paper examines factors that support or obstruct the development of urban community garden projects. It combines a systematic scholarly literature review with empirical research from case studies located in New Zealand and Germany. The findings are discussed against the backdrop of placemaking processes: urban community gardens are valuable platforms to observe space-to-place transformations. Following a social-constructionist approach, literature-informed enablers and barriers for the development of urban community gardens are analysed against perceived notions informed by local interviewees with regard to their biophysical and technical, socio-cultural and economic, and political and administrative dimensions. These dimensions are incorporated into a systematic and comprehensive category system. This approach helps observe how the essential biophysical-material base of the projects is overlaid with socio-cultural factors and shaped by governmental or administrative regulations. Perceptual differences become evident and are discussed through the lens of different actors.
Validity and Reliability of Teachers` Evaluation Questionnaires from Students Point of View in Tehran University of Medical Sciences

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: According to the importance of applying proper questionnaires to achieve students` round and comprehensive views about teacher evaluation, this study is conducted to assess the validity and reliability of these questionnaires among the students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in both theoretical and field courses. METHODS: This cross-sectional study (2013) was aimed to validate the questionnaires related to teachers evaluation. In order to ensure face validity, viewpoints of 7 experts were collected. For checking content validity, Lawshe method was applied to estimate CVR and CVI applying 40 faculty members veiwpoints. Reliability was confirmed using split half method on 125 selected students. Chronbach's alpha was applied for each part and Spearman correlation was used for assessment the internal correlation of the whole questionnaire. FINDINGS: Findings showed that each question in both theoretical and field forms has CVR more than 0.29 that considered as the least level of validity, CVI for theoretical form was more than 0.79 as validity record, although the quality of training in practical skills and professional ethics had no acceptable CVI. Moreover, the reliability of both forms were confirmed. CONCLUSION: According to the present findings, validity and reliability of the questionnaires in theoretical courses was confirmed and for field courses it is recommended to apply specific and practical forms considering the type and content of professional education in each group and faculty.
A pre-post study of patient journey modeling as a change management tool to increase clinician acceptance of EHRs.

The purpose of this research was to determine if patient journey process modeling could act as a change management tool to support electronic health record (EHR) adoption, at a tertiary-care mental health centre. This research study was based on a pre/post design, which evaluated the attitudes of clinicians’ pre and post implementation of the EHR. A survey was used to assess the attitudes of various healthcare professionals, such as physicians, nurses and a spectrum of allied health disciplines, at various phases of the planning and implementation process. In addition to the surveys, current and future state PaJMa (patient journey modeling architecture) models representing technology use and process flows of all units were created by observational studies, and served as change management tools. These PaJMa models were then presented as part of an intervention that was held in the form of an educational session to highlight the benefits of technology, and to address the common concerns identified from the initial survey results. The centre for mental health sciences facility was used as the case study to apply the PaJMa model and assess its change management functionality. Since, the organization was moving from paper to electronic based patient charts it was an ideal choice for this research. It was predicted that the attitudes and opinions of clinicians towards the EHR implementation, and EHRs in general, would change and become more positive with increased knowledge and education. This in-turn would increase EHR adoption and hence lead to a successful implementation.
Novel molecular imaging of cardiovascular disease in man

17 Abbreviations . 21 Chapter 1. Imaging of atherosclerosis and aneurysmal disease . 23 Overview . 24 1.1. Pathology of atherosclerotic disease: initiation and progression . 26 1.2. Stages of plaque progression . 28 1.2.1. The link between inflammation and calcification in atherosclerosis: 1.2.2. Inflammation dependent calcification paradigm . 32 The vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque: what exactly defines a high-risk 1.2.3. plaque? 36 Abdominal aortic aneurysms . 40 1.3. Aneurysmal disease and atherosclerosis . 41 1.3. 1. Inflammation and aneurysmal disease . 44 1.3. 2. Novel imaging modalities to identify high risk atherosclerotic and 1.4. aneurysmal disease . 46 Positron emission tomography imaging . 48 1.5. 18FFluorodeoxyglucose . 50 1.5. 1. 18F-Fluoride . 53 1.5. 2. Alternative novel tracers . 59 1.5. 3. Magnetic resonance imaging . 61 1.6. Ultrasmall superparamagnetic particles of iron oxide enhanced mri . 63 1.6. 1. USPIO in aneurysmal disease . 65 1.6. 2. Coronary calcium and computed tomography coronary angiography . 66 1.7. Intravascular ultrasound imaging . 68 1.8. Aims and hypothesis . 70 1.9. Chapter 2. Methods . 73 Overview . 74 2.1. Patient population . 75 2.2. Novel Molecular Imaging of Cardiovascular Disease in Man 6 Patients with coronary and carotid atherosclerosis . 75 2.2.1. Patients with atherosclerosis and aneurysmal disease . 77 2.2.2. Positron emission tomography computed tomography imaging . 78 2.3. Reproducibility of PET-CT imaging . 82 2.3. 1. Computed tomography . 83 2.4. Intra-vascular ultrasound . 84 2.5. Histological analysis . 86 2.6. Rationale for immunohistochemistry of carotid atheroma . 86 2.6. 1. Carotid atheroma . 88 2.6. 2. Ex-vivo 18F-Fluoride PET . 89 2.6. 3. Magnetic resonance Imaging . 91 2.7. Image registration and analysis . 92 2.7. 1. Statistical Analysis . 94 2.8. Chapter 3. 18F-Fluoride positron emission tomography identifies ruptured and high-risk coronary atherosclerotic plaques . 97 Summary . 98 3.
Short text semantic feature extension and classification based on LDA

To solve the problem of feature sparseness of short texts, we studied the application of LDA Topic Model on feature extension and classification of short texts. Training LDA on external long texts related to short texts, and achieving the inference and extension of short texts’ topics based on LDA solves the feature sparseness of short texts and improves the accuracy of classification effectively. Latent semantic information in LDA can also effectively improve the interpretability of short texts.
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (5p15.33, 6p22.1 and 15q25.1), Smoking and Lung Cancer Survival

Background: Genome-wide studies of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) reported associations between chromosomal regions (5p15.33, 6p22.1 and 15q25.1) and lung cancer susceptibility. However, there are few published studies of the relationship between SNPs at these chromosomal regions and survival of lung cancer. Method: Six hundred and eleven lung cancer patients were followed up with a median duration of 11 years. Nine SNPs were genotyped using TaqMan assay. Cox proportional hazards regression model was employed to investigate their association with lung cancer survival. We also explored potential interactions of selected SNPs' with smoking on survival. Results: Overall, a total of 406 deaths occurred during the follow-up period. In survival analysis, only rs4324798 on chromosome 6p22.1 was associated with survival of lung cancer in dominant model (aHR: 1.51, 95%CI=1.11, 2.07). The association was also observed in non-small cell lung cancer (aHR: 1.56, 95%CI=1.09, 2.23) and large cell lung cancer (aHR: 4.15, 95%CI=1.63, 10.52). Association of AG+AA of rs4324798 and lung cancer survival was found among smokers (aHR: 1.5, 95%CI: 1.1, 2.1), but not among nonsmokers (aHR: 3.5, 95%CI: 0.4, 29.4). Conclusion: We observed an association of rs4324798(6p22.1) with survival of lung cancer patients. The association remained among NSCLC and LCC histological subtypes, and smokers, although small numbers in some strata suggest caution in the interpretation of these findings.
Prescribing an Annual Plan for the Competitive Surf Athlete: Optimal Methods and Barriers to Implementation

ABSTRACTAS THE SPORT OF SURFING CONTINUES TO GAIN SUPPORT, THE NEED FOR A SOUND STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING PROGRAM IS PARAMOUNT. WITH A SEASON LASTING UPWARD OF 8 MONTHS AND TRAVELING ALL OVER THE WORLD, PROGRAMMING FOR THE SPORT OF SURFING QUICKLY BECOMES A CHALLENGE. THEREFORE, THE AIM OF THIS ARTI
A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Sex Differences in Morbidity and Mortality of Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Among African Children.

Context Although biological sex influences Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections (ALRIs) morbidity and mortality patterns in children living in sub-Saharan Africa, the exact mechanism about the effect is unknown. Objective We assessed the quality and strength of evidence on the association of sex with incidence, etiology, and outcomes of ALRI in African children. Data Sources Study Selection and Data Extraction We systematically searched electronic databases for publications from 1971-2016 in PubMed, African Journals Online, and Google scholar for ALRI literature in the African children. We used (pneumonia OR bronchiolitis OR "community-acquired pneumonia" OR CAP OR "hospital-acquired pneumonia" OR "nosocomial pneumonia" OR "ventilator-acquired pneumonia" OR "lung abscess" OR "pleural effusion" OR "empyema thoracis") AND (sex OR gender) AND (Africa OR Sub-Saharan) as search terms. We included the published peer-reviewed journal articles reporting on incidence, etiology, and case fatality. We summarized the findings using narrative and meta-analysis methods. Results We included 14 studies with sex-related data; the median (IQR) number of reported pneumonia cases was 148 (87-770) and 114 (56-599) for male and female patients, respectively. Only two studies reported a sex-specific incidence. The odds of sex were in favor of male sex, and the chances of identification of Respiratory Syncytia Virus (RSV) were significantly lower in males than in females (OR=0.60; 95% CI: 0.42, 0.86). Estimates from 9 studies showed that the death rate for males was significantly higher than for females (OR=1.26; 95% CI=1.20-1.33). Conclusions Sex-disaggregated data on incidence, etiology, and case fatality of pneumonia are scarcely reported in studies published in Africa. However, males appear to die more often than females, and females more likely to have RSV infection.
Convergent Validity of a Physical Activity Questionnaire against Objectively Measured Physical Activity in Adults: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

Background: Traditionally, a self-reported questionnaire has been a cost-effective method of gathering information about physical activity (PA). An objective measurement, such as the use of a pedometer, can be used to validate the findings of a PA questionnaire in a large population. Objective: The study objective was to determine the convergent validity of a PA questionnaire against objectively measured PA in adults obtained with the use of a pedometer. Methods: Data from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (YFS) were collected from 1853 participants aged 30 - 45 years. The participants completed a self-reported questionnaire that included items on leisure time, commuting and habitual PA. PA was expressed as leisure-time physical activity index (PAI) and metabolic equivalent hours/week (METh/wk). The participants wore a pedometer for seven consecutive days and used it to record their total daily and aerobic steps. Results: There was a low to moderate association between the self-reported questionnaire and pedometer measurements regarding both total steps and aerobic steps taken during leisure time and commuting PA. An association was not observed between pedometer data and habitual PA. Of the individual items in the questionnaire, questions that described the frequency of PA and the duration of vigorous PA correlated the most strongly with the pedometer values obtained for total and aerobic steps (r = 0.28 - 0.44, p ≤ 0.010). Conclusions: These findings suggest that the YFS PA questionnaire showed acceptable convergent validity in assessing, in particular, exercise-type PA in an adult population.
Schwannoma of the Ulnar Nerve at Distal Humerus: A Case Report

We report a case of a female patient that presented in our outpatient department with notable muscle weakness in her right arm during the last year. Careful clinical examination revealed a palpable mass on the medial side of the right distal humerus with positive tinel sign and paresthesias along the ulnar side of her forearm. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a soft-tissue mass with 3.8 X 2.4 cm size possibly emerging from the right ulnar nerve just proximal to the elbow joint. Excisional biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of a rare type of ulnar’s nerve schwannoma. Histologically the mass consisted of typical Antoni A areas with no signs of axon differentiation, whereas the immune histo chemistry examination revealed Schwann cell origin. Fourteen months post-operatively the patient has no motor weakness or paraesthesias and is very satisfied with the outcome.
Transforming IWM for ISM: how water authorities can lead the way to achieve integrated sustainable development

Water Authorities have long been powerful drivers of global, national and local innovation for economic development, environmental enhancement and societal wellbeing. Accordingly, they have a critical role in progressing sustainable development. In this paper, we discuss the opportunities and challenges in breaking down the siloes of resource management sectors (including water, energy, waste, food, public health and others) to deliver innovative solutions to resource management in an integrated “whole of system” capacity. We provide a framework for Integrated Sustainable Management (ISM) and discuss how Water Authorities can lead this transition through embedding Sustainable Development Goals in IWM strategies and operations.
Interference Suppression and Energy Efficiency Improvement With Massive MIMO and Relay Selection in Cognitive Two-Way Relay Networks

We analyze a relay assisted wireless communication link between two underlay massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) terminals. Specifically, an amplify and forwarding (AF) two-way relay is optimally selected to maximize the sum rate and to keep the interference on the primary user (PU) below an interference threshold. We first obtain asymptotic signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) values for two scenarios: (1) the relays and the two end nodes use transmit power scaling and (2) only the end nodes use transmit power scaling. For these two cases, we derive optimal power allocations subject to the PU interference constraints. With these optimal power allocations, we analyze how relay selection impacts the outage, the sum rate, and the energy efficiency of the network. For the first scenario, the outage can be reduced to zero with appropriate power allocation and the relay selection can be done offline. For the second scenario, outage will depend on the instantaneous channel state between the relays and the PU. Furthermore, for a realistic power consumption model, we analyze the energy efficiency and show that relay selection will increase it.
Best practice guidelines for cetacean tagging

Animal-borne electronic instruments (tags) are valuable tools for collecting information on cetacean physiology, behaviour and ecology, and forenhancing conservation and management policies for cetacean populations. Tags allow researchers to track the movement patterns, habitat use andother aspects of the behaviour of animals that are otherwise difficult to observe. They can even be used to monitor the physiology of a taggedanimal within its changing environment. Such tags are ideal for identifying and predicting responses to anthropogenic threats, thus facilitating thedevelopment of robust mitigation measures. With the increasing need for data best provided by tagging and the increasing availability of tags, suchresearch is becoming more common. Tagging can, however, pose risks to the health and welfare of cetaceans and to personnel involved in taggingoperations. Here we provide ‘best practice’ recommendations for cetacean tag design, deployment and follow-up assessment of tagged individuals,compiled by biologists and veterinarians with significant experience in cetacean tagging. This paper is intended to serve as a resource to assist tagusers, veterinarians, ethics committees and regulatory agency staff in the implementation of high standards of practice, and to promote the trainingof specialists in this area. Standardised terminology for describing tag design and illustrations of tag types and attachment sites are provided, alongwith protocols for tag testing and deployment (both remote and through capture-release), including training of operators. The recommendationsemphasise the importance of ensuring that tagging is ethically and scientifically justified for a particular project and that tagging only be used toaddress bona fide research or conservation questions that are best addressed with tagging, as supported by an exploration of alternative methods.Recommendations are provided for minimising effects on individual animals (e.g. through careful selection of the individual, tag design and implantsterilisation) and for improving knowledge of tagging effects on cetaceans through increased post-tagging monitoring.
Enhanced Distributed Energy Efficient Clustering Protocol

Today WSN are highly approached technology that used to interact several sensor nodes corresponding to at least common application. The WSN is affected by the problem of energy dissipation of the sensor node that collects and report the specific data to application monitoring node. The main reason to develop WSN network is to maximize the lifetime of the batteries that are constrained by the nodes during transmission. The clustering mechanism is the best and most efficient one to resolve the issue with the requirement of energy in WSN. In clustering the network is divided into smaller clusters and each cluster includes one cluster head and members. It is very much useful for reducing the energy dissipation and enhancing the lifetime of the network. In this paper we propose new clustering protocol Enhanced DEEC (distributed Energy Efficient Clustering) along with priority queue to balance the energy in the WSN network and prolonging the lifetime of the network. The simulation results revealed the performance of the proposed technique is better than existing protocol DEEC. Result improvement of 20% is observed through the proposed mechanism. Proposed system uses DEEC along with priority queue to save from packet drop. The dropped packet first of all stirred within the priority queue from where it is fetched and given to next cluster head having sufficient energy for transmission. In addition distance between the nodes and cluster head is also considered to reduce the energy consumption during transmission of packets. Energy consumed during overall packet transmission, packet drop ratio, number of packets transmitted to the base station and cluster head are considered parameters. In addition nodes becoming dead at various intervals or rounds are also obtained through the proposed simulation.
Aproximación a la discriminación racial en Cali: ¿se asignan salarios por color de piel?

En este documento se estudian las desigualdades salariales que se presentan entre individuos con diferente color de piel en Cali, Colombia. Se pretende identificar si estas desigualdades se deben a que personas de diferente color de piel son sistematicamente distintas en caracteristicas observables como el nivel educativo y el tipo de trabajo, o si se debe a factores no observables, entre los cuales podria estar la discriminacion racial en el ambito laboral. Se utilizan datos de la Encuesta de Empleo y Calidad de Vida (EECV) realizada en Cali en 2013 y se aplican dos metodologias de descomposicion de la brecha salarial: una parametrica propuesta por Blinder (1973) y Oaxaca (1973), y otra no parametrica propuesta por Nopo (2008). Los resultados muestran que hay una diferencia significativa entre el salario devengado por individuos de color de piel clara, intermedia y oscura, siempre a favor del tono de comparacion mas claro. En cuanto a la descomposicion de la brecha salarial, los resultados mas consistentes son los de la comparacion entre claros y oscuros, ya que en las dos metodologias se evidencia que la parte de la brecha que no se puede explicar por caracteristicas observables es significativa y, aproximadamente, 22 % de la brecha total. Este ultimo hallazgo evidencia una posible existencia de discriminacion salarial hacia las personas por su color de piel en Cali. ****** This article studies the wage inequalities between individuals with different skin color in Cali, Colombia. The aim is to identify if these inequalities are due to people being systematically different in observable characteristics, such as educational attainment and type of work (explained gap), or if it is due to unobservable factors, among which could be racial discrimination in the labor market (unexplained gap). To do so, I employ data from the Survey on Employment and Quality of Life carried out in Cali in 2013, along with two methodologies for decomposition of the wage gap. The first is a parametric method proposed by Blinder (1973) and Oaxaca (1973), and the second is a non-parametric proposal by Nopo (2008). The results show that there is a significant difference between the wage earned by individuals with light, intermediate and dark skin color, in favor of those with lighter skin in the three comparisons. Regarding the decomposition of the wage gap, the most consistent results are those of the comparison between light and dark skin color, since in both methodologies there is evidence that the part of the unexplained gap is significant and approximately 22% of the total gap. This finding shows a possible existence of wage discrimination towards people because of their skin color in Cali.