Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
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1Department of Nursing, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; 2School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan; 3Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, TaoyuanCity, Taiwan; 4Traumatological Division, Department of Orthopedics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City, Taiwan; 5Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City, Taiwan; 6Department of Long-TermCare, College of Health Technology, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan Purpose: This study explored the consistency between preferences for end-of-life care for elderly hospitalized patients and their primary caregivers and predictors of consistency. Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional correlational study recruited 100 dyads of elderly hospitalized patients and their primary caregivers from a medical center in Central Taiwan. A structural questionnaire about preferences for seven end-of-life medical treatment options involved cardiopulmonary resuscitation, intravenous therapy, nasogastric tube feeding, intensive care unit, blood transfusion, tracheotomy, and hemodialysis. Results: The consistency was 42.28% for preferences of end-of-life medical care between patients and caregivers. The Kappa values for seven life-sustaining medical treatments ranged from 0.001 to 0.155. Logistic regression showed that the predictors of consistency for preferences of treatment were: a patient with a signed living will (odds ratio [OR] = 6.20, p<0.01) and a male family caregiver (OR= 0.23, p<0.01) for cardiopulmonary resuscitation; a patient who visited relatives in the intensive care unit (OR= 2.94, p< 0.05) and a spouse caregiver (OR= 3.07, p< 0.05) for nasogastric tube feeding; a spouse caregiver (OR=3.12, p<0.05) and a caregiver who visited the intensive care unit (OR= 5.50, p<0.01) for tracheotomy; and a spouse caregiver (OR= 2.76, p<0.05) and a caregiver who visited the intensive care unit (OR= 4.42, p<0.05) for hemodialysis. Conclusion: End-of-life medical treatment preferences were inconsistent between patients and family caregivers, which might be influenced by Asian culture, the nature of the relationship and individual experiences. Implementation of advance care planning that respects the patient’s autonomy and preferences about end-of-life care is recommended.
Heat Shock – Induced Fluctuations in Clock and Light Signaling Enhance Phytochrome B – Mediated Arabidopsis Deetiolation

Moderately warm constant ambient temperatures tend to oppose light signals in the control of plant architecture. By contrast, here we show that brief heat shocks enhance the inhibition of hypocotyl growth induced by light perceived by phytochrome B in deetiolating Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings. In darkness, daily heat shocks transiently increased the expression of PSEUDO-RESPONSE REGULATOR7 ( PRR7 ) and PRR9 and markedly enhanced the amplitude of the rhythms of LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL ( LHY ) and CIRCADIAN CLOCK ASSOCIATED1 ( CCA1 ) expression. In turn, these rhythms gated the hypocotyl response to red light, in part by changing the expression of PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR4 ( PIF4 ) and PIF5 . After light exposure, heat shocks also reduced the nuclear abundance of CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1 (COP1) and increased the abundance of its target ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL5 (HY5). The synergism between light and heat shocks was de ﬁ cient in the prr7 prr9 , lhy cca1 , pif4 pif5 , cop1 , and hy5 mutants. The evening element (binding site of LHY and CCA1) and G-box promoter motifs (binding site of PIFs and HY5) were overrepresented among genes with expression controlled by both heat shock and red light. The heat shocks experienced by buried seedlings approaching the surface of the soil prepare the seedlings for the impending exposure to light by rhythmically lowering LHY , CCA1 , PIF4 , and PIF5 expression and by enhancing HY5 stability.
EFFECT OF EXPOSURE TO SOOT ON TROPONIN I AND LIPID PROFILE LEVELS

Exposure to soot, to some extent can lead to cardiovascular disease. This study was undertaken to determine serum Troponin I and lipid profile levels of cooks exposed to soot. 50 subjects (cooks) exposed to soot (test group) and 50 people not exposed to soot were recruited. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics committee of Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University and informed consents of the subjects were obtained. Troponin I was assayed using Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Total Cholesterol levels were determined using cholesterol enzymatic end-point method, Low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C)levels were determined using clearance method while Spectrophotometric and Enzymatic Methods were employed for the High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (HDL-C) and Triglyceride while the BMI (Body mass index) was calculated using weight (kg)/height 2 (m 2 ). The results showed that the mean values of the serum troponin I level of cooks exposed to soot (test group) was significantly higher when compared with the control (4.29 ± 3.01) (P<0.05). The mean values of total cholesterol, LDL-C, Triglycerides and the BMI (10.29±3.37), (3.37±1.36), (1.43±0.52), (26.53±4.98) respectively were significantly higher in test group when compared with the control (8.92±6.11), (0.98±0.69), (0.95±0.51), (22.62±5.58) (p<0.05) while there was no significant decrease in HDL-C level in test group (2.74±0.68) when compared with the control (3.03±0.73) (p>0.05). This study showed an increased level of Troponin I, total cholesterol, Triglycerides, low density lipoprotein cholesterol and reduced level of High Density Lipoprotein among cooks exposed to soot, this suggests a predisposition to cardiovascular disorder.
CHARACTERISATION AND DEACTIVATION STUDIES OF A COKE INDUCED DEACTIVATED CATALYST

The steam reforming process is a widely accepted and economically favorable technique, for the cheap production of hydrogen or synthesis gas. However, the major challenge in its implementation is the stability, activity and longevity of the catalyst. Because of its endothermicity, high temperatures (>800 K) are employed. This also requires a stable and active catalyst with strong resilience to coking. This research was dedicated to investigate the possible contribution of coking towards catalyst deactivation. The aim was to study the impact of steam-carbon ratio on the catalyst deactivation under various pretreatment conditions. The reactor was operated in the fluidised bed mode to improve transport characteristics. To enhance the catalyst activity, a Co-NiO/ 6-Ah03 bimetallic catalyst was employed in this research. Experimental observations revealed the reaction rate was maximum for the lower steam to carbon ratios. However, the reaction rate dropped very sharply nearly to zero for steamcarbon ratio of 0.3. This can be attributed to the fact that at low steam-to-carbon ratios catalyst deactivates very rapidly and hence the reaction rate drops almost exponentially as a function of time-on-stream. Catalyst characterisation studies revealed that for the bimetallic catalyst employed in this research the 'best' reduction temperature was between 923 K and 1023 K. The mild loss in surface area with decreasing steam-carbon ratio may be attributed to pore blocking rather than sintering. The combined Temperature Programmed Reduction and Oxidation analyses were conducted to determine the catalyst II rejuvenation process and the loss of metallic sites, the results showed the catalyst becoming oxidised after each run and hence the loss of metallic sites was negligible.
(2010) IMPACT OF CDS ON THE US BOND MARKET. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)

The need to study the impact of credit default swaps on bond markets was borne from a desire to add to the debate which has been raging recently with regards to the role played by credit default swaps in the recent global financial and economic crisis. There have been widespread claims that CDS and the bond market are related and impact on each other. This paper analyses CDS and bond spread for a sample of US firms and finds support for those claims. I evaluate the impact that CDS and some firm specific variables have on bond spreads. Employing time series and panel models, I find that for 21 corporate and financial US firms, CDS and bond spreads are co integrated and CDS has a strong positive effect on bonds. The impact differs across both the corporate and financial issuers. I also find a small positive impact of earnings on spreads for a sample of 20 out of the 21 US firms. There is also strong evidence that during the second part of the global financial crisis, the firms experienced a large shock. This evidence was not present in the initial stage of the crisis.
Population Structure and Eigenanalysis The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters

Current methods for inferring population structure from genetic data do not provide formal significance tests for population differentiation. We discuss an approach to studying population structure (principal components analysis) that was first applied to genetic data by Cavalli-Sforza and colleagues. We place the method on a solid statistical footing, using results from modern statistics to develop formal significance tests. We also uncover a general ‘‘ phase change ’’ phenomenon about the ability to detect structure in genetic data, which emerges from the statistical theory we use, and has an important implication for the ability to discover structure in genetic data: for a fixed but large dataset size, divergence between two populations (as measured, for example, by a statistic like F ST ) below a threshold is essentially undetectable, but a little above threshold, detection will be easy. This means that we can predict the dataset size needed to detect structure.
abdominal on in a systematic and

Obesity has been widely regarded as a public health concern because of its adverse impact on individuals’ health. Systematic reviews have been published in examining the effect of obesity on depression, but with major emphasis on general obesity as measured by the body mass index. Despite stronger effect of abdominal obesity on individuals’ physical health outcomes, to our best knowledge, no systematic review was undertaken with regard to the relationship between abdominal obesity and depression. This paper reports the results of a systematic review and meta ‐ analysis of cross ‐ sectional studies examining the relationship between abdominal obesity and depression in a general population. Multiple electronic databases were searched until the end of September 2009. 15 articles were systematically reviewed and meta ‐ analyzed. The analysis showed that the odds ratio of having depression for individuals with abdominal obesity was 1.38 (95%CI, 1.22 ‐ 1.57), as compared to those who are not obese. Furthermore, it was found that this relationship did not vary with potential confounders including gender, age, measurement of depression and abdominal obesity, and study quality. Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Database of Abstract of Reviews of Effects. Searches were conducted using keywords that included central adiposity, abdominal obesity, visceral obesity, adiposity, WC, WHR, metabolic syndrome, syndrome X, body fat distribution, affective disorder, depression, psychiatric disorder, mood, psychological distress, mental health and combinations of these. No limitations were included in the search strategy. Relevant review articles were hand searched to maximize the number of potentially eligible studies. The current review was limited to observational studies (cross ‐ sectional & prospective) that measured the direct association between abdominal obesity on depression. Studies reporting the relationship between weight gain and depression were not included in this review. Experimental studies were excluded, as were commentaries and narrative reviews without statistical results. Studies examining the relationship between abdominal obesity and depression in a cohort limited to those with a specific disease (e.g. hypertension) or in an adolescent population were excluded. No inclusion criteria were specified regarding the measurement of abdominal obesity and depression; instead, the difference in effect size relating to the
Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm to find the Most Relevant Slides in MRI for Parkinson’s Disease

- The aim of this paper is to study the potential use of an intelligent/automatic classification system for Parkinson’s Disease (PD), using magnetic resonance images (MRI). For feature extraction of MRI Discrete Wavelet Transform has been used, followed by minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance critérium (mRMR) for feature selection and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for feature reduction. We then applied Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification and Genetic Algorithms (GA) for optimization. To discover which slices and regions of the MRI are the most relevant in the brain for identification of Parkinson’s Disease region, optimization was carried out using a multi-objetive genetic algorithm. The slices obtained in this optimization process were consistent with those recommended by medical experts. The methodology presented outperformed most of the research available in the bibliography, achieving accuracies of 95% in classification of subjects. This suggests that the proposed workflow and its application could help in the investigation of Parkinson’s disease and aid in the research of other neurodegenerative diseases, improving their diagnostic accuracy and identifying the most relevant regions of the brain associated with each disease.
Multi-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis to Evaluate Inclusive-Based Elementary Schools in Indonesia

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate inclusive-based elementary schools in Indonesia by measuring the technical efficiency of these schools. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to obtain the efficiency scores where there were two popular models; CRS and VRS model. As many as 38 primary schools in Central Jakarta in Indonesia in the period 2014/2015 were determined as decision making units (DMUs) with six inputs and four outputs. The results revealed that CRS (constant returns to scale) model produced as many as 9 schools with efficient performances while VRS (variable returns to scale) model produced as many as 25 schools that performed efficiently whereas there were 12 schools (31.58 percent) had the efficiency scores below the average scores for both CRS and VRS models. Further, the average scores of CRS and VRS models were 0.819 and 0.869, respectively. Overall, elementary schools which implemented inclusive education in Central Jakarta are suggested to improve their performances.
The Relationship between Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management Processes A Case Study: The Roads and Urban Development Organization of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari

With the beginning of the knowledge era, the Organizations' knowledge assets have been considered widely as a main key for the ability to create and maintain the competitive advantage and continuous growth. The suitable organizational culture can be very important for knowledge management. Therefore in line with the primary conduct of knowledge managementthe organizations need to recognize and obtain information on the dominant culture in their enterprise and the degree of organizational culture compatibility with knowledge managementactivities. The main objective of the researchis to analyze the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management processes. This research was performed in the form of organizational culture and knowledge management literature, which resulted in obtaining a conceptual model of the research. In this organizational culture research, the competitive values framework model (the clan culture, the adhocracy culture, the market culture, and the hierarchical culture) was used and in knowledge management processes, the knowledge management cycle (knowledge creation, knowledge capture, knowledge organization, knowledge storage, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge application) was used. This research is descriptive-survey in objective, application, and nature respects. The statistical community of this research was the official employee of The Roads and Urban Development Organization in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province in 2010-2011. The data gathering instrument was questionnaire. To measure the organizational culture and knowledge management processes the assessment in strument for organizational culture of Cameron and Quinn(2006) and the knowledge management assessment in strument of Lawson (2003) were used respectively, and their validity was confirmed by Cronbach's Alpha with 0.886 and 0.889 ratios respectively, and the number of statistical sample was determined 65 people. The descriptive tests, One-sample t-test, Friedman, and Pearson's correlation tests were used to analyze the data and the examination of the hypothesis. The research findings say that its hypotheses were confirmed and the relation between the organizational culture and knowledge management processes is meaningful. The amount of knowledge creation, knowledge capture, knowledge storage, and knowledge dissemination processes were average and the knowledge organization and knowledge application processes were below the average. The dominant culture in the organization is hierarchical but the corresponding organizational culture with the knowledge management processes is the adhocracy culture; therefore, the successful performance of knowledge management programs depends on the reinforcement of knowledge management processes and emphasizes the adhocracy culture in the organization.
A model-based analysis of foliar NO x deposition

Foliar deposition of NO 2 removes a large fraction of the global soil-emitted NO x . Understanding the mechanisms of NO x foliar loss is important for constraining surface ozone, NO x mixing ratios, and assessing the impacts of nitrogen inputs to ecosystems. We have constructed a 1D multi-box model with representations of chemistry and vertical transport to evaluate the impact of leaf-level processes on canopy-scale concentrations, lifetimes, and canopy fluxes of NO x . Our model is able to closely replicate 10 canopy fluxes and above-canopy NO x daytime mixing ratios observed during two field campaigns, one in a western Sierra Nevada pine forest (BEARPEX-2009) and the other a northern Michigan mixed hardwood forest (UMBS-2012). We present a conceptual argument for the importance of NO 2 dry deposition and demonstrate that NO 2 deposition can provide a mechanistic explanation for the canopy reduction of NO x . We show that foliar deposition can explain observations suggesting as much as ~60% of soil-emitted NO x is removed within forest canopies. Stomatal conductances greater than 0.1 cm s -1 result 15 in modelled canopy reduction factors in the range of those used in global models, reconciling inferences of canopy NO x reduction with leaf-level deposition processes. We show that incorporating parameterizations for vapor pressure deficit and soil water potential has a substantial impact on predicted NO 2 deposition in our model, with the percent of soil NO x removed within one canopy increasing by ~15% in wet conditions compared to dry conditions. NO 2 foliar deposition was also found to have a significant impact on ozone and nitrogen budgets under both high and low NO x conditions. parts of South Africa). The dominant effect of stomatal opening on NO 2 deposition causes an important time of day and seasonal behaviour that should be extensively explored with observations of NO x fluxes and concurrent models to confirm the role of deposition in a wider range of environs and more the conceptual model 20 proposed
C ytoskeleton assembly at endothelial cell – cell contacts is regulated by (cid:2) II-spectrin – VASP complexes

II-spectrin as such a VASP-interacting protein. (cid:2) II-Spectrin binds to the VASP triple GP 5 -motif via its SH3 domain. cAMP-dependent protein kinase – mediated VASP phosphorylation at Ser157 inhibits (cid:2) II-spectrin – VASP binding. VASP is dephosphorylated upon formation of cell – cell contacts and in conﬂ uent, but not in sparse cells, (cid:2) II-spectrin colocalizes with nonphosphorylated VASP at cell – cell junctions. Ectopic expression of the (cid:2) II-spectrin SH3 domain at cell – cell contacts translocates VASP, initiates cortical actin cytoskeleton formation, stabilizes cell – cell contacts, and decreases endothelial permeability. Conversely, the permeability of VASP-deﬁ cient endothelial cells (ECs) and microvessels of VASP-null mice increases. Reconstitution of VASP-deﬁ cient ECs rescues barrier function, whereas (cid:2) II-spectrin binding-deﬁ cient VASP mutants fail to restore elevated permeability. We propose that (cid:2) II-spectrin – VASP complexes regulate cortical actin cytoskeleton assembly with implications for vascular permeability.
En Fusions Effekt på Organisationskulturen

This bachelor thesis aims to explain the area of how a merger can affect a corporate culture. In order to do this, the corporate culture needs to be explored to found a basis for the analysis of the merger effects. We have chosen to work with Fläkt Woodsas they took part of a merger in 2002 where the Swedish-British company was founded. The work was carried out with a qualitative approach, in the form of a case study. We performed six in depth interviews, with managers and managers’ assistants at Fläkt Woodssites in Enköping, Jönköping and Växjö. In order to uncover the paradigm, and thus understand the underlying assumptions of the culture, we used the Cultural Web. To further explain the effects of the merger, an application of the Results of Cultural Integration (RCI)-model was performed. To support the analysis we used theories on the cultural integration process as well as on how to support the integration process through three instruments. The results of our investigations of the cultural paradigm, which we hold as representative for the corporate culture, pointed toward an atmosphere which comprised positivism, democracy, focus on the future and safety. The merger affected the corporate culture by starting off an ongoing transformation process. This is visible as Växjö, Jönköping and Enköping are currently in different phases in the process. Växjö cooperate the most with the British unit situated in Colchester and thus experiences the culture as more unified than Enköping does where no interaction with England takes place. The site in Jönköping has reached an intermediate stage as they are partly clinging on to their own culture but at the same time, through the increasing interaction with Woods, are exposed to new aspects of the corporate culture. We believe that the corporate culture of Fläkt Woodswill continually change until the sites are more in tune with each other. The transformation towards a new Fläkt Woodsculture will not stop until Enköping and Jönköping have reached the stage that Växjö is currently in, and thus start to embrace the new culture to a larger extent. However, as the owner of Fläkt Woods, Compass Holdings, has not put any pressure on the top management to consciously work with the issues of corporate culture, the integration process will take longer than if the matter was of higher priority.