Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
In vitro localisation and degradation of few-layer MoS2 submicrometric plates in human macrophage-like cells: a label free Raman micro-spectroscopic study

Monitoring the uptake, micro-environment and fate of micro or nano scaled particulate materials in cells is of paramount importance for the emerging fields of toxicology and medicine. Such particulate materials are known to interfere with colorimetric assays and many such assays record only a single end-point. Therefore, there is a need for a label-free, cost effective technique with little or no inference from the particulate materials. Raman micro-spectroscopy was used to simultaneously interrogate the integrity of few-layer MoS2 submicrometric plates in human macrophage-like cells, in vitro, as well as the biochemical characteristics of the local micro-environment in which they are encompassed. Firstly, the degradation profile of MoS2 plates induced by hydrogen peroxidase was established using UV–vis absorption and Raman micro-spectroscopy. Raman micro-spectroscopic maps interrogated all aspects of the cell, including the nucleus, cytoplasm and perinuclear region, and the location/distribution of MoS2 was monitored as a function of time (4, 24 and 72 h). Whereas only pristine MoS2 was detectable after 4 and 72 periods, degradation in vitro was confirmed following a 24 h incubation. Analysis of the MoS2 micro-environments revealed the presence of both phosphatidyl lipidic vesicles and enzymatic regions containing lysozyme, the former being most associated with the MoS2 degradation. There was an increase and saturation of cytosolic neutral lipids detected following a 24 h incubation with MoS2, which reduces following a prolonged incubation of 72 h. This study reveals that macrophage-like cells perform degradation of the material in vitro within lipidic vesicles subsequent to phagocytosis, which manifest as an increase in the production of lipid bodies as a mechanism of defense following exposure to industrial grade MoS2.
Cyber-Forensic Review of Human Footprint and Gait for Personal Identification

—The human footprint is having a unique set of ridges unmatched by any other human being, and therefore it can be used in different identity documents for example birth certiﬁcate, Indian biometric identiﬁcation system AADHAR card, driving license, PAN card, and passport. There are many instances of the crime scene where an accused must walk around and left the footwear impressions as well as barefoot prints and therefore, it is very crucial to recovering the footprints from identifying the criminals. Footprint-based biometric is a considerably newer technique for personal identiﬁcation. Fingerprints, retina, iris and face recognition are the methods most useful for attendance record of the person. This time the world is facing the problem of global terrorism. It is challenging to identify the terrorist because they are living as regular as the citizens do. Their soft target includes the industries of special interests such as defence, silicon and nanotechnology chip manufacturing units, pharmacy sectors. They pretend themselves as religious persons, so temples and other holy places, even in markets is in their targets. These are the places where one can obtain their footprints quickly. The gait itself is sufﬁcient to predict the behaviour of the suspects. The present research is driven to identify the usefulness of footprint and gait as an alternative to personal identiﬁcation.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL GRADUATES’ HARDINESS

The article examines the personal qualities of secondary school graduates that determine their hardiness at their professional self-determination. The modern approaches defining hardiness essence and factors, and peculiarities of its development are analyzed. The factors contributing to the enhancement of an individual’s hardiness in the situation of professional self-determination are considered. Hardiness is understood as a holistic phenomenon of a personality that mediates stress impact on psychological well-being and health. Self-understanding and self-acceptance of secondary school graduates, their life goals, and life meanings, confidence in themselves and their capabilities are important. It is the psychological basis of personal resilience and life senses.
ANALYSIS OF VALUE ADDED INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL TO THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED BANKING COMPANIES IN INDONESIA

This study aims to find out is there any correlation Value Added Intellectual Coefficient to the financial performance of listed banking company in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). In this research, we using a sample of a banking company that listed during period 2009-2016. We using purposive sampling, there for the number of samples is 23 banks, so for 8 years become total 184. The data analysis technique is using regression multivariate. The result is significant positive impact between Value Added Intellectual Coefficient banking companies’ financial performance, but if the Value Added Intellectual Coefficient components such as value-added capital employed, value-added human capital, structural capital value-added are tested one by one, the outcomes are not significantly impacted on financial performance (return on assets, asset turnover, and assets growth). The limitations of this research are not using market measurement, only using financial measurement.
Relationship between Epicardial Fat Accumulation and Left Atrial Reverse Remodeling after Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

Purpose To demonstrate the relationship between epicardial fat accumulation and left atrial reverse remodeling by cardiac multi-detector CT (MDCT) after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF). Materials and Methods Seventy-six patients underwent cardiac MDCT before and after catheter ablation of AF. Left atrial volume (LAV) and epicardial fat volume (EFV) were measured. LAV and EFV before and after catheter ablation of AF were respectively compared and the change percentages (CPs) were evaluated. Results The LAV after catheter ablation of AF was significantly less than the baseline LAV (107.5 ± 50.2 mL vs. 144.9 ± 62.6 mL, p < 0.001). The EFV after catheter ablation of AF was significantly greater than the baseline EFV (105.0 ± 35.6 mL vs. 90.1 ± 31.9 mL, p < 0.001). Mean CPs of LAV and EFV were -23.3% ± 20.8% and 15.9% ± 20.9%, respectively. There was a significantly negative relationship between the CPs of LAV and EFV (R = -0.53, p < 0.001). Conclusion Catheter ablation of AF may result in a reduction in LAV and an increase in EFV. Left atrial reverse remodeling with a reduction in LAV may be associated with epicardial fat accumulation in patients who undergo catheter ablation of AF.
Human Resources Practices and Job Satisfaction in Banking Sector of Bangladesh: A Path Analysis

Financial sector of Bangladesh is playing a fundamental role in the economic development of any of the country like Bangladesh. But, mostly the employees of this sector are not left attended about the satisfaction of their job. That’s why, this paper aims at finding the present job satisfaction factors of the employees’ of bank for the sake of the steady development of the economy of Bangladesh and suggesting the regulatory authorities to progress their satisfaction level. A total number of 220 employees from bank of Bangladesh were randomly selected as sample for this study. A structured questionnaire has been used to conduct the study. For analyzing demographic information SPSS software has been used. Also, for analyzing data multivariate analysis techniques such as Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) has been used to identify influential factors for the job satisfaction of the bank employees by using SmartPLS software. This study reveals that performance appraisal, salary & benefits have significant influence on the job satisfaction of banking employees in Bangladesh.
Invasion of the Botnet Snatchers: A Case Study in Applied Malware Cyberdeception

In this paper, we provide the initial steps towards a botnet deception mechanism, which we call 2face. 2face provides deception capabilities in both directions – upward, to the command and control (CnC) server, and downward, towards the botnet nodes – to provide administrators with the tools they need to discover and eradicate an infestation within their network without alerting the botnet owner that they have been discovered. The key to 2face is a set of mechanisms for rapidly reverse engineering the protocols used within a botnet. The resulting protocol descriptions can then be used with the 2face network deception tool to generate high-quality deceptive messaging, against the attacker. As context for our work, we show how 2face can be used to help reverse engineer and then generate deceptive traffic for the Mirai protocol. We also discuss how this work could be extended to address future threats.
Does a Smile Open All Doors? Understanding the Impact of Appearance Disclosure on Accommodation Sharing Platforms

Online photographs govern an individual’s choices across a variety of contexts. In sharing arrangements, facial appearance has been shown to affect the desire to collaborate, interest to explore a listing, and even willingness to pay for a stay. Because of the ubiquity of online images and their influence on social attitudes, it seems crucial to be able to control these aspects. The present study examines the effect of different photographic self-disclosures on the provider’s perceptions and willingness to accept a potential cosharer. The findings from our experiment in the accommodation-sharing context suggest social attraction mediates the effect of photographic selfdisclosures on willingness to host. Implications of the results for IS research and practitioners are discussed.
Variational Objectives for Markovian Dynamics with Backward Simulation

Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) and Variational Inference (VI) are two families of approximate inference algorithms for Bayesian latent variable models. A body of recent work has focused on constructing a variational family of ﬁltered distributions using SMC. Inspired by this work, we introduce Particle Smoothing Variational Objectives (SVO), a novel backward simulation technique and variational objective constructed from a smoothed approximate posterior. Our method sub-samples auxiliary random variables to en-hance the support of the proposal distribution and increase particle diversity. We demonstrate our approach on three benchmark latent nonlinear dynamical systems tasks. SVO consistently outperforms ﬁltered objectives when given fewer Monte Carlo samples.
Effects of Pausinystalia Yohimbe Methanol Root Extract on Some Cardiovascular and Hematological Variables in Wistar Rats

Plants have been a major source of medicine and have been largely considered to alter the range of blood pressure and parameters. The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of Pausinystalia yohimbe on blood pressure and haematological factors in normotensive male wistar rats. The rats were randomly divided into four groups of nine rats each. The control group received 1 mL/kg distilled water while the three treatment groups received 25 mg/kg, 50 mg/kg and 100 mg/kg of the extract respectively, and the blood pressure was measured three hours thereafter. After the study period, blood samples were taken from experimental rats, and haematological factors were determined using digital cell counter. Administration of the extract, caused a dose-dependent fall in blood pressure and heart rate, and appeared to increase leucocyte (WBC and lymphocytes) and erythrocyte parameters (RBC, HCT and Hgb) when compared with the control group. While thrombocyte parameters (PLT and Pct) were decreased. The findings demonstrated that acute hypotensive and antitarchycardiac effect of the extract may be due to direct effect of the metabolites on cardiac-vascular smooth muscle, and that Pausinystalia yohimbe does not cause any significant undesirable alterations in haematological factors in wistar rats. It also enhances white blood cell concentration and lymphocytes which probably stimulate the immune defence mechanism.
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON ANTECEDENTS OF CONSUMPTION VALUES: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF SOCIAL CLASS

Recently, cultural transformation has resulted in changing consumption values. Lack of the deeper explanations regarding the antecedents of consumption values is the motivation of this study. The study aims to explain the effects of global consumer culture, individualism, collectivism and materialism as antecedents, on consumption values of consumer. A partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and multi-group analysis was applied to test the hypotheses suggested in the structural model. The results indicate that materialism partially mediates the relationship between global consumer culture and consumption values and, the relationship between collectivism and consumption values. Materialism full mediates the relationship between individualism and consumption values. The results reveal that there are no differences the direction and power of the structural model paths between middle-class group and other-class group except for indirect effects.
A k -anonymous location privacy protection method of dummy based on approximate matching

: In order to improve the eﬃciency of dummy generation and the query service quality in the k -anonymous location privacy protection method of dummy, and to solve the problem of that the preprocessing is complex and the geographic semantic features are not fully considered in dummy location generation, a k -anonymous location privacy protection method of dummy based on approximate matching is proposed. Firstly, the area is divided into several square grids, and the coordinates of each location are converted to Morton code. Then, through the approximate matching between the Morton codes of diﬀerent locations, a candidate set of dummies is generated, and the locations in it are non adjacent to each other and distributed in diﬀerent grids. Finally, by matching approximately geographic names information of locations, the semantic similarity between any two locations in the candidate set is obtained, and k (cid:0) 1 locations with the minimum semantic similarity are selected as dummies. Experimental results show that the method can ensure the physical dispersion and semantic diversity, and can improve the eﬃciency of dummy generation. At the same time, the balance between privacy protection security and query service quality is achieved.
Running head: EQ/SQ and social information processing Empathizers and systemizers process social information differently

*Corresponding author: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Phone number: +358 440424281, E-mail: tapani.riekki@helsinki.fi, fax: +358 0294129542 a Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki Helsinki. P.O. Box 9, 00014 Finland. Annika Svedholm-Häkkinen: annika.svedholm@helsinki, +358-2941 29404 Marjaana Lindeman: marjaana.lindeman@helsinki.fi, +358-2941 29402
Integrating consumers into brand personality measurement

In selecting this entry as the 2012 winner, the judges commended the author on submitting a well-written and interesting paper based on empirical data grounded in a review of existing literature in this field of research. The topic was felt to be a timely one given the increasing emphasis on global attitudes to brands, especially in emerging markets, and the paper provides readers with intriguing cross-cultural findings. In arriving at their decision, the judges also recognised the challenge faced by the author in addressing a complex research theme within the word limit imposed on entrants.
ABERRANT MODULATION OF BRAIN OSCILLATORY ACTIVITY AND ATTENTIONAL IMPAIRMENT IN ADHD

Electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) are non-invasive neuroimaging techniques that have been used extensively to study various resting state and cognitive processes in the brain. The purpose of this review is to highlight a number of recent studies that have investigated the alpha band (8–12 Hz) oscillatory activity present in MEG and EEG, to provide new insights into the maladaptive network activity underlying attentional impairments in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Studies reviewed demonstrate that event-related decrease in alpha is attenuated during visual selective attention, primarily in ADHD inattentive type, and is often significantly associated with accuracy and reaction time during task performance. Furthermore, aberrant modulation of alpha activity has been reported across development and may have abnormal or atypical lateralization patterns. Modulations in the alpha band thus represent a robust, relatively unexplored putative biomarker of attentional impairment in ADHD, a strong prospect for future studies aimed at examining underlying neural mechanisms and treatment response among individuals with ADHD. Potential limitations of its use as a diagnostic biomarker and directions for future research are discussed. regions that include frontal pole, inferior frontal gyrus, post-central sulcus, and, in posterior cortex, intraparietal sulcus and lateral/superior occipital regions. The connectivity also included thalamus (not shown). The data thus support the thalamus-mediated and direct frontal models. Overlays in this image are regression parameters, with threshold at z>2.0, p<0.05 (whole-brain corrected for multiple comparisons using Gaussian random field theory) and mapped to the PALS atlas of human cortex, PFC=prefrontal cortex, PPC=posterior parietal cortex, Th=thalamus, Occ=occipital cortex, iPS=intraparietal sulcus, iFG=inferior frontal gyrus, FP=frontal pole, FEF=frontal eye fields, SLF=superior longitudinal fasiculus.
Coronary Artery Heart Disease Prediction: A Comparative Study of Computational Intelligence Techniques

ABSTRACT Diseases is an unusual circumstance that affects single or more parts of a human’s body. Because of lifestyle and patrimonial, different kinds of disease are increasing day by day. Among all those diseases, heart disease turns out to be the most common disease and the impact of this ailment is dangerous than all other diseases. In this paper, we compared a number of computational intelligence techniques for the prediction of coronary artery heart disease. Seven computational intelligence techniques named as Logistic Regression (LR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Deep Neural Network (DNN), Decision Tree (DT), Naïve Bayes (NB), Random Forest (RF), and K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN) were applied and a comparative study was drawn. The performance of each technique was evaluated using Statlog and Cleveland heart disease dataset which are retrieved from the UCI machine learning repository database with several evaluation techniques. From the study, it can be carried out that the highest accuracy of 98.15% obtained by deep neural network with sensitivity and precision 98.67% and 98.01% respectively. The outcomes of the study were compared with the outcomes of the state of the art focusing on heart disease prediction that outperforms the previous study.
A Geographical Overview of the Suez Canal Freight Flows: an Impact on the Mediterranean Sea and the Genoa port

The Suez Canal, that connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea across the Isthmus of Suez, is one of the world’s most critical waterways. Today it represents a strategic world’s choke point. Maritime choke points are a major issue today in the global economy and in shipments of goods, particularly oil and container.This paper, using the typical approach of the transport geography, aims to highlight the geo-political and geo-economic relevance of the Suez Canal starting from its construction until its recent expansion. In particular, the paper considers the canal’s impact on the Mediterranean’s new centrality in global seaborne trade.Main freight flows crossing the Suez Canal northbound/southbound underline the importance of the Northern Mediterranean and Italian ports that perform gateway functions.The main goal of the paper is to describe, as Panaro suggested (2015), how the new infrastructure of the Suez Canal is extremely important for the Northern Italy gateway ports in particular focusing on the Genoa port (which is the target of a significant share of traffic coming from/directed to Suez).
Soliton crystal 50G Hz micro-comb for Q-band microwave frequency conversion

We report a broadband microwave frequency converter based on a coherent Kerr optical micro-comb generated by an integrated micro-ring resonator. The coherent micro-comb displays features that are consistent with soliton crystal dynamics with an FSR of 48.9-GHz. We use this to demonstrate a high-performance millimeter-wave local oscillator at 48.9-GHz in the Q-band for microwave frequency conversion. We experimentally verify the microwave performance up to 40 GHz, achieving a ratio of −6.8 dB between output RF power and IF power and a spurious suppression ratio of > 43.5 dB. The experimental results show good agreement with theory and verify the effectiveness of microwave frequency converters based on coherent optical micro-combs, with the ability to achieve reduced size, complexity, and potential cost.
Towards A Framework For Categorisation Of Project Stakeholders

Purpose of research The purpose of this research is to develop a framework for categorisation of project stakeholders that contains meaningful, practically relevant categories that will support project management researchers and practitioners. Project stakeholders are the main reason for complexity in projects and further research into this area is necessary given the stubbornly high project failure rates. Proposed Methodology The proposed methodological framework is based on an interpretivist philosophy using grounded theory-building within a systems thinking framework. Expected findings This research will lead to the development of a framework that allows the categorisation of internal/external project stakeholders in relation to stakeholders to be informed and to be consulted. Contribution to knowledge/originality Furthering the project management body of knowledge and practice through building theoretical and practical understanding of project stakeholders. Research limitations The stakeholders’ categorisation exercise may lead to oversimplification of findings since projects are multifaceted social environments.
The Role of Monoclonal Antibody Targeted Therapy in Uterine Sarcomas

The uterine sarcoma is one of the type of neoplasm that affects the abdominopelvine organs. The behaviour of this hystopathological type of cellular line is very aggresive both to the primer organ and also to the nearby organs and to the main filter� organs like the liver and lung, where it develops metastasis. The treatment of this disease is multidisciplinary and it uses many therapeutic strategies depending on staging and the other comorbidities of the pacient. We will present the case of an 81 year old female known with the diagnosis of relapse tumoral abdominopelvin sarcoma developed one year after total hysterectomy surgery with bilateral anexetomie for the uterine sarcoma. Also we will discuss about a series of characteristics of the treatment plan observed at different similar cases. We will evaluate the latest drug lines used in oncology treatment, we will discuss about the therapeutic indications and in the end we will draw conclusions about the therapeutic indications of each case.