Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of antibiotics for eradication of MRSA-carriage

MRSA are isolates of S.aureus which are not susceptible to the antibiotic Methicillin, which used to be the first line therapy of treating S.aureus infection. Resistance to methicillin implies resistance to all β-lactam antibiotics. The objective of this descriptive retrospective observational study was to understand the outcome of the given treatment for eradication of MRSA carriage, by revealing the percentage of recolonization and eradication, as well as compare the increase of HA and CAMRSA infection during a period of October 2010October 2013. Investigations were made on a total of 105 MRSA positive individuals who have been in contact with the care system within Örebro municipal. It was performed by reading through their medical records and mainly focusing on the site of colonization, outcome effect of the used antibiotics and focusing on the trend of HA and CAMRSA. Both the pharynx and nasal sites were preferable colonization site of MRSA. The antibiotic Dalacin and the nasal salvage, Bactroban nasal, showed a total result of 70% and 100% respectively of eradicating MRSAcarriage. Other comparable antibiotics as Fucidin and Eusaprim showed an eradication result of, 50% and 33% respectively. It was shown that combined treatments, showed a higher incidence of re-colonization. The source of HA-MRSA and CA-MRSA is increasing with the years and there is a threefold increase of HA-MRSA, while double fold increase of CA-MRSA. In conclusion, the preferable colonization site was both the pharynx and nares. Bactroban Nasal and Dalacin showed most promising result for eradication of MRSA carriage in contrast to the rest of the treatments, including combined treatments. The both sources of HAMRSA and CAMRSA showed an increasing trend with years. Further studies that primarily include a greater number of patients would facilitate more accurate results.
Marketing Environment Analysis: Café Facilities Element Effects on Café’s Consumer Behaviour in Selangor, Malaysia

The food service industry has grown rapidly in response to the changing consumer lifestyles. In this regard, the food service industry is highly competitive as the number of new entrants offering inventive food products and services keep on increasing to keep up with the demand for novel food products. Consequently, café operators are focusing on improving their store environment to gain advantage in the competitive industry. Studies have found that store facility can stimulate consumers’ emotions, and in turn, significantly increases positive association with the café environment. Owners are also keen to upgrade their café to become a social space or a co-working space to fulfil consumers’ needs. This study aims to investigate the impact of various café environment factors on consumer behaviour. The sample for this survey consists of patrons of cafes in Selangor who were selected using purposive sampling technique. Data from 320 questionnaires were analysed by using the Partial Least Square technique was used to analyse. It was found that café results indicated that café design and café cleanliness significantly influences consumer behaviour. The findings indicate that café facilities have a significant positive impact on pleasure, which has a direct, positive influence on consumer behaviour. The mediation result confirms that pleasure mediates the relationship between café facilities and consumer behaviour.
THE INFLUENCE CHARACTERISTICS OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM ON MANAGERIAL PERFORMANCE IN STARS HOTELS IN MEDAN CITY

This purpose was to examine and analyze the effect of the influence characteristics of management accounting information systems on managerial performance. This research is in the form of survey research that uses an instrument questionnaire to collect the required data. The research approach used in this study is an associative approach. The population and sample in this study were General Manager, Assitent General Manager, Finance and Accounting Manager of four-star hotels in Medan City. The data analysis technique used is descriptive statistics, simple linear regression analysis techniques, Moderating Regretion Analysis (MRA). Keywords: Management Accounting Information Systems, environmental uncertainty, Managerial Performance
Enabling America: Assessing the Role of Rehabilitation Science and Engineering

The most recent high-profile advocate for Americans with disabilities, actor Christopher Reeve, has highlighted for the public the economic and social costs of disability and the importance of rehabilitation. Enabling America is a major analysis of the field of rehabilitation science and engineering. The book explains how to achieve recognition for this evolving field of study, how to set priorities, and how to improve the organization and administration of the numerous federal research programs in this area. The committee introduces the "enabling-disability process" model, which enhances the concepts of disability and rehabilitation, and reviews what is known and what research priorities are emerging in the areas of: * Pathology and impairment, including differences between children and adults. * Functional limitations--in a person's ability to eat or walk, for example. * Disability as the interaction between a person's pathologies, impairments, and functional limitations and the surrounding physical and social environments. This landmark volume will be of special interest to anyone involved in rehabilitation science and engineering: federal policymakers, rehabilitation practitioners and administrators, researchers, and advocates for persons with disabilities.
The influence of curing conditions on the strength of adhesive joints

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to determine the effect of selected curing conditions on the mechanical properties of the cured adhesive compounds and adhesive joints made with these adhesives. Four different two-component epoxy adhesive compounds were investigated in the study. All of them were based on Epidian 53 epoxy resin and were prepared using four types of curing agents: polyamide, two amines and Mannich base. The aforementioned adhesives were used to fabricate single-lap joints of C45 steel and produce samples of the cured adhesive compounds. Four different curing methods were employed in the study: (i) samples were cured in room conditions; (ii) samples were cured for 7 days in room conditions and then for 7 days in a climate test chamber; (iii) samples were seasoned for 4 days in room conditions and then for 7 days in a climate test chamber; (iv) samples were cured for 7 days in a climate test chamber. It has been found that 3 out of 4 adhesive compounds examined in the study show the highest tensile strength when not cured in room conditions (curing variant IV). Therefore, it may be claimed that high-temperature curing has a positive effect on the strength of adhesive compounds.
Zombie Firms and Debt Accumulation: A Theoretical Framework and Chinese Experience

In recent years, as China has grappled with rising debt and broad economic restructure, the prevalence of zombie firms has become a critical problem. This paper provides a theoretical framework illustrating the rationale behind the occurrence of zombie firms from the perspective of banks. We develop differential equations to model a bank's expectation and the ex ante estimate that underlies its decision to refinance an insolvent borrower. An optimistic expectation is essential in zombie lending and is intrinsic to the countercyclical pattern of zombie firms. Our model also predicts that debt can build up to an unsustainable level if recovery of profitability is sluggish or the initial debt burden is too high. Examining the Chinese experience of zombie firms over 2007–2017, this paper highlights two findings. First, the share of zombie firms among Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share listed companies demonstrates a countercyclical pattern. Second, the positive correlation between zombie share and debt accumulation across manufacturing sectors sheds light on the link between zombie firms and the rising corporate debt in China. To deal with the “zombie” problem, the government should carefully weigh its policies to avoid further distortions because the occurrence of zombie firms may be inevitable and impossible to eliminate.
Implications and challenges to using data mining in educational research in the Canadian context

Les etablissements canadiens d'enseignement superieur jouent un role majeur sur la scene internationale dans l'education des generations futures et dans la formation de leaders dans divers domaines a travers le monde. Au cours de la derniere decennie, les universites canadiennes ont connu un afflux d'etudiants internationaux, qui contribuent plus de 3,5 milliards de dollars a l'economie canadienne (Belanger & Madgett 2008, p. 195). La recherche dans les institutions canadiennes d'enseignement postsecondaire est en plein essor, en particulier en matiere d'education (CRSH, 2011) - pour l'annee academique 2010-2011, parmi les 12 domaines de recherche, le financement total du CRSH pour les projets portant sur l'education, au quatrieme rang, s'elevait a plus de 27 millions de dollars. Toutes ces variables placent l'enseignement superieur canadien dans une position strategique et de premier plan dans plusieurs domaines de recherche en education. On peut imaginer la richesse des informations sur les tendances dans l'enseignement superieur qui pourrait etre revelee si la masse de donnees generee par les universites canadiennes etait systematiquement analysee et traitee en utilisant des techniques telle que l'exploration de donnees. Cependant, on ne peut guere obtenir grand chose a partir des informations accumulees sur une base quotidienne, etant donne que l'avancement de la recherche a exploration de donnees, qui serait l'outil ultime pour en apprendre davantage sur les tendances et les changements dans les institutions canadiennes, est souvent freinee par un entreposage de donnees insuffisant, ainsi que par les reglementations sur la protection des renseignements personnels, la confidentialite et le droit d'auteur. Dans cet article, nous engageons une discussion et une analyse critiques de l'interface entre la recherche a exploration de donnees dans l'enseignement superieur et les implications juridiques d'un tel outil.
Clarifying absorptive capacity and dynamic capabilities dilemma in high dynamic market IT SMEs

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate absorptive capacity and dynamic capabilities dilemma in high dynamic market IT small medium enterprises (SMEs). Absorptive capacity and dynamic capabilities have a conflict in theoretical stance. Those in favor of dynamic capabilities regard absorptive capacity as a part of dynamic capabilities, and there are many arguments regarding treating absorptive capacity as a part of dynamic capabilities. One major deficit of dynamic capabilities is that it requires adjusting the firm’s dynamic resources when responding to change, requiring some investment and time. Thus, dynamic capabilities then have a problem in instantaneously responding to a highly dynamic market. With the requirement to adjust organizational resources, absorptive capacity, as a part of dynamic capabilities, cannot have direct impact on a firm’s performance. Design/methodology/approach To show that absorptive capacity, by itself, can have a direct impact on a firm’s performance in a highly dynamic market, quantifiable variables are identified to measure the level of effort in developing absorptive capacity. The relationships between the absorptive capacity development effort and the firm’s financial performance is then explored and evaluated. Findings It is confirmed that absorptive capacity in a high dynamic market such as IT SMEs have direct and positive impact to the firm’s financial performance, without having to configure its resource to interact with changes. Originality/value The study discusses the paradoxical dilemma of the role of absorptive capacity under the light of dynamic capability. The finding indicates that in high dynamic market when the spontaneous respond to market change is crucial to firm's survival, absorptive capacity can direly deliver the result to leverage the firm's performance without having to reconfigure its resources as indicated in the theoretical stance of dynamic capability.
Comparative Study on Analysis and Design of Flat Slabs with Conventional Slabs

29 doi: 10.32622/ijrat.77201946  Abstract— Flat Slabs are highly adaptable elements widely used in construction, providing minimum depth, fast construction. In flat slabs, the beams used in conventional slabs are no more and the slab is made to rest directly over the columns. A drop panel or a column head is provided in case of higher loads to reduce the load intensity. Flat slabs are particularly suitable for areas where, for acoustic or fire reasons, tops of partitions need to be sealed to the slab soffit. This study concerns mainly the comparison of conventional and flat slab with and without slab drops by comparing the quantity of steel and bending moment in slabs of various spans 20 x 20m, 40 x 40m, 60 x 60m. Each slab is sub divided into different panels of sizes 5x5m, 10x10m, 15x15m.
Knowledge and Attitude of Sasang Constitution Investigators on the Sasang Constitution Clinical Study in Korea

1. Introduction This study aims to survey knowledge and attitude of Sasang constitution investigators on the Sasang constitution clinical study. 2. Methods We have made up list of 24 Sasang constitution investigators who have conducted Sasang constitution clinical study before. The study has been surveyed for 20 investigators who has been experiencing clinical study bye-mail or interview. 3. Results 1) The recognition degree on clinical study for sasang constitutional investigators was relatively lower than that for non-oriental investigators. 2) Most investigators have difficulty in designing a Protocol and they thought Protocol is most important in clinical study. 3) The investigators has stressed the need of diagnosis guideline on Sasang Constitution in performing clinical study. 4. Conclusions Special course of clinical study for sasang constitutional investigators should be prepared to activate Sasang constitution clinical study. This course may set up the guideline of sasang constitution clinical study and designing protocol. Also it is urgent to develop constitution diagnosis guideline for clinical study.
Railway Fastener Defects Detection Using Gaussian Mixture Deformable Part Model

This paper addressed the problem of detecting the completely missing and partly missing railway fasteners in the collected images. A Gaussian mixture deformable part model (GMDPM) algorithm was proposed using histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) features. The fastener template was divided into four parts considering the shape of the fastener, and seed points were uniformly sampled along the fastener’s shape contour. The part and the seed point deformation were defined to fit the deformation of the fastener. Each seed point template in the part model was solved iteratively by using Gaussian mixture model (GMM) with an expectation-maximization algorithm. The results reveal that the proposed method achieves good performance, especially when the illumination difference is large and the fastener is partially occluded or has slight shape deformation.
High-Speed Melt Spinning of Polylactide/Poly(Butyleneterephthalate) Bicomponent Fibers: Mechanism of Fiber Structure Development and Dyeing Behavior

Abstract Bicomponent fibers consisting of polylactide (PLA) as the sheath and poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT) as the core were produced by high-speed spinning to obtain materials suitable for medical clothing. The higher-order structure of the PLA fiber component appeared to exhibit simple, alternately stacked, uniaxially oriented amorphous and crystalline regions. Therefore, fairly large tanδ peaks were observed for single-component PLA fibers, even when the orientation-induced crystallization was achieved by high-speed spinning. By conjugating PLA with PBT, although limited mutual interference with the crystallization of each component occurred, both the PLA (Mw = 170,000, L-lactide content = 98.7%) and PBT (intrinsic viscosity = 0.835-0.865 dL/g) could crystallize on a high-speed spinning line, and the proposed formation of a shish-kebab-like structure in the PBT component enhanced the thermal stability of the bicomponent fibers, particularly resulting in shrink-proof properties. The bicomponent fibers developed herein could be deeply dyed at 98 °C, with results comparable to those of industrial polyester, and peeling of the PLA skin layer was rarely observed, even when the dyed fibers were flattened by a rubbing force.
Bringing Augmented Reality for learning in dentistry

In the last years we have witnessed significant technological advances on the mobile devices. They are become increasingly indispensable in our lives. The Augmented Reality (AR) concept can be considered a bridge between real and digital in our lives. The system which we propose in this master thesis intends to provide a better understanding of dental anatomy, using a friendly and intuitive interface based on AR. This master thesis is the result of collaboration between the University Institute of Control Systems and Industrial Computing, better known as the ai2 Institute, and Folguera Vicent Dental Prosthesis School. We present in this master thesis, for the first time, a mobile and AR system which has been developed for learning dentistry and has been tested with students. A case study helps us to demonstrate the contribution of our system to the educational environment, increasing the motivation and understanding levels of the users. The research outlined in this master thesis uses qualitative assessment methods, assembled around a series of five questionnaires. The obtained results are very promising. From the data analysis, we can see that ARDental is easy to use and the acceptance among students is high. This method opens new opportunities for learning, students can study anytime, anywhere, not just in the classroom.
Lyotropic Liquid Crystals from Colloidal Suspensions of Graphene Oxide

Lyotropic liquid crystals from colloidal particles have been known for more than a century, but have attracted a revived interest over the last few years. This is due to the developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology, where the liquid crystal order can be exploited to orient and reorient the anisotropic colloids, thus enabling, increasing and switching the preferential properties of the nanoparticles. In particular, carbon-based colloids like carbon nanotubes and graphene/graphene–oxide have increasingly been studied with respect to their lyotropic liquid crystalline properties over the recent years. We critically review aspects of lyotropic graphene oxide liquid crystal with respect to properties and behavior which seem to be generally established, but also discuss those effects that are largely unfamiliar so far, or as of yet of controversial experimental or theoretical outcome.
Pharmacogenetics in the Era of Next Generation Sequencing

Pharmacogenetics is the study of the effects of each individual genome on drug response. Information about genetic testing is now part of drug label as for abacavir, warfarin, clopidogrel, irinotecan, maraviroc, cetuximab, imatinib [1,2]. At present a wide range of drugs are employed for treating pathological conditions and chronic disorders, like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc. Ideally a drug is delivered so that it achieves a blood concentration that is within the therapeutic range: a too low drug concentration is ineffective, while one that is too high can be toxic. None of the drugs known to date proved to be 100% effective in every patient: the same dose of a given medicine may cause no response in some individuals, may produce the right therapeutic response in others, and may give rise to adverse responses in another part of them. These changes in the response may result from clinical differences between individuals (for example age or the presence of other pathological conditions), from diagnostic uncertainty, and from environmental factors. Besides, genetics has been proven to modulate in a significant way inter-patients variation in drug reaction. Genes are sequences of DNA that contain information determining the amino acid sequence of proteins, which participate in every cellular process, including drug response. Polymorphisms are DNA variations that occur at a frequency of 1% or greater, while DNA mutations occur less frequently than 1%: this definition is merely statistical and it does not reflect the functional role of both kind of genetic variants. In both cases in fact, if the DNA carries a sequence variation (a mutation or a polymorphism), the proteins may not be expressed properly, or not function correctly, or not reach the appropriate site of action. Regarding pharmacogenetics, individual genetic variations in enzymes of drug metabolizing enzymes, transporters, receptors, ion channels, target enzymes and signal transduction pathways, may lead to inadequate therapeutic responses. For example the genetic information of genes CYP2C9 (encoding a member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes, which catalyze many reactions involved in drug metabolism and synthesis of cholesterol, steroids and other lipids) and VKORC1 (encoding the enzyme which activates vitamin K) can assist in selection of the starting dose of warfarin [3] an anticoagulant which acts by inhibiting vitaminK-dependent coagulation factors. In particular, warfarin interferes with VKORC1enzyme, and DNA variants in CYP2C9 are related to differences in the drug’s clearance. The VKORC1 G1639A polymorphism is associated with lower dose requirements and increased bleeding risk, as well as inferior initial warfarin doses have been associated with the CYP2C9*2 and CYP2C9*3 variants [46]. Algorithms for genetics-based dosing have been developed and are available online (Online calculator for initiation of warfarin dosing based on pharmacogenetic algorithms, www.WarfarinDosing.org) [7]. The history of pharmacogenetics starts in 1957 when Arno
Optical fiber SERS probe achieved by colloidal photonic crystal and gold nano-particles

This work presents a metal-dielectric colloidal crystal (MDCC) structures used as the sensing layer of an optical fiber SERS probe working in optrode configuration. The MDCC permits to combine localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of noble metallic nanoparticles and photonic bandgap (PBG) of colloidal type photonic crystals (PhCs); while MDCCs received attention to develop enhanced SERS substrates, the integration with optical fiber technology still represents open challenges. The present paper reports recent results about MDCCs fabricated directly onto fiber optic tip surface by successive depositions of PS-based Colloidal Crystal and Au-NanoParticles. Our goal is the fabrication of miniaturized fiber optic devices for SERS sensing applications. For the sensing test, the fiber probes were immersed in a 100μM aqueous solution of Rhodamine (R6G). Then, preliminary SERS results were retrieved by a Labspec Aramis confocal Raman spectrometer.