Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Extent of Early ST-Segment Elevation Resolution Correlates with Myocardial Salvage Assessed by Tc 99m Sestamibi Scintigraphy in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction after Mechanical or Thrombolytic Reperfusion Therapy

This study prospectively included 243 patients with acute myocardial infarction. The patients were randomized to receive either primary coronary stenting (n=122) or thrombolysis (n=121). The extent of ST-segment resolution correlated significantly with Myocardial-Salvage-Index (MSI=proportion of myocardial salvaged, p=0.008), final infarction size (p<0.001) and 6-month mortality (p=0.03). In patients with complete, partial and no ST-segment resolution, MSI was 0.54 +/- 0.32, 0.39 +/- 0.36 und 0.33 +/- 0.60, respectively (p<0.001); 6-month mortality was 2.4%, 6.2% and 12.8%, respectively (p=0.03). In conclusion, extent of early ST-Segment resolution in surface ECG correlates with myocardial salvage in patients with AMI after reperfusion therapy.
Short-term climate change effects on maize phenological phases in northeast Italy

This study evaluates the response of maize growing cycle length to meteorological variables at regional scale particularly, in the short-term period, considering global climate change. The experiment was carried out in Veneto Region (Northeast Italy) where maize phenological data collected by the regional network from 2005 to 2007 were combined with temperature data to analyse the relationship between BBCH stages and thermal sum. The effects of climatic changes in the near and medium term on maize phenology and on water requirements were also evaluated over a grid of climatic data obtained from different climatic models. The piecewise analysis gave the best fitting between BBCH and Growing Degree Days observed data characterized by two lines with different slopes with BBCH 70 (beginning of fruit development) as changing stage. The angular coefficient of the first line was 2.6 times than the second one (0.028) suggesting that the early stages of the growing cycle are more sensitive to air temperature. The simulation of maize phenology evolution highlights a modest variation at the 2020-time horizon, while an expected reduction of maize growing cycle of about 10 days has been estimated for 2030-time horizon. Long-term phenological observation are desirable to confirm our findings and to improve the strength of dataset.
Study of Weight Loss Parameters Among Sedentary, Overweight Postmenopausal Females Using Different Time Models of Aquafit

Background: Althoughtimemodelsof Aquaﬁtarenecessaryamongclinicalguidelinestoreduceweight,theirimplicationsonthe health of the body are still controversial. Objectives: This study aimed to examine whether diﬀerent time models of Aquaﬁt per se would have beneﬁcial eﬀects on weight loss parameters. Methods: This prospective experimental research was conducted at the Ukrainian Sports Medicine Center (Kyiv, 2017) for 12 weeks. Selectedvolunteersfromsedentary,overweightpostmenopausalfemales(66individuals)wererandomlydividedintotwoexercise programs, containing 33 females per group: moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT, mean age and BMI of 53.5 ± 6.3 years and 28.6 ± 1.2 kg/m 2 , respectively), and high-intensity interval training (HIIT, mean age and BMI of 54.6 ± 5.4 years and 28.7 ± 1.1 kg/m 2 , respectively). Both study groups performed water aerobics with three sessions of 60 minutes a week with similar energy expenditures (1500 kcal per week). Parameters of weight loss, such as body mass, BMI, lipid proﬁle, and circumference of the waist, have been calculated before and after the study. Results: Compared with initial data, all studied parameters in both intervention groups were signiﬁcantly decreased (P < 0.05). Signiﬁcant diﬀerences were only found in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) between MICT and HIIT groups (P < 0.001). As well as, total cholesterol (T-C) to HDL-C ratio in HIIT was increased more than the MICT group (respectively, 0.75 and 0.69; P < 0.001). Conclusions: Weight loss caused by Aquaﬁt results in the decrease of pro-atherogenic lipoproteins (T-C and LDL-C) in both groups of femalesduringthemenopause,whereasafurtherriseof HDL-Cincreasesasacriticalelementof cholesteroltransport,onlywith HIIT.
Serial Flaring in an Active Region: Exploring Why Only One Flare Is Eruptive

Over a four hour period between 2014 June 12–13 a series of three flares were observed within AR 12087. This sequence of flares started with a non-eruptive M-class flare, followed by a non-eruptive C-class flare, and finally ended with a second C-class flare that had an associated filament eruption. In this paper we combine spectroscopic analysis of Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer observations of the Si iv line during the three flares along with a series of nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) extrapolations in order to investigate the conditions that lead the final flare to be eruptive. From this analysis it is found to be unlikely that the eruption was triggered by either kink instability or by tether-cutting reconnection, allowing the flux rope to rise into a region where it would be susceptible to the torus instability. The NLFFF modeling does, however, suggest that the overlying magnetic field has a fan-spine topology, raising the possibility that breakout reconnection occurring during the first two flares weakened the overlying field, allowing the flux rope to erupt in the subsequent third flare.
Generalized impulse response function as a perturbation of a global solution to DSGE models

In the conventional perturbation approach for solving DSGE models, the dynamics of the deviation of solutions from the steady state after a shock hitting an economy represents an impulse response function (IRF). A method to construct the IRF as a deviation from a deterministic global solution is proposed. The approach detects asymmetric reactions of an economy to shocks in different initial conditions. For example, in an economic downturn a negative shock might affect the economy more severely than in normal economic conditions. The method allows for constructing the IRF for highly nonlinear DSGE models.
LESBI, GAY, BISEKSUAL, DAN TRANSGENDER DALAM BINGKAI KAJIAN MEDIA DAN KOMUNIKASI: SEBUAH KAJIAN LITERATUR SISTEMATIS

LGBT merupakan isu yang tidak saja mendapatkan perhatian masyarakat, media dan pemerintah, tetapi juga kalangan akademisi. Penelitian ini membahas bagaimana perkembangan kajian LGBT dalam perspektif ilmiah, khususnya Ilmu Media dan Komunikasi, di Indonesia. Metode kajian literatur sistematik (Ridley, 2012) digunakan dengan menganalisis 17 artikel ilmiah yang diekstraksi datanya dengan melihat fokus penelitian, metode pengumpulan data, serta temuan yang menonjol terkait topik LGBT. Hasilnya adalah pembingkaian media terhadap isu LGBT serta metode pengumpulan dan analisis data terhadap artikel berita masih mendominasi. Pro dan kontra LGBT serta kontra terhadap LGBT merupakan dua sintesis isu LGBT yang dominan. Hal ini mengindikasikan bahwa isu LGBT secara kritis belum populer di kalangan cendekia Indonesia.
Culture in Interdependent Critical Infrastructure

This paper examines the presence and role of culture in the transportation, power, and communication industry. These are tightly connected infrastructure systems and therefore when one system fails, it often cascades to the others. These cascading risks are partly due to the number of components, internal and external, necessary for a fully functioning system. People interact with these systems daily, both those who work with them and everyday user. Through mixed methods, this study tests whether a cohesive work culture is present in these systems. With free-list interviews and cultural consensus analysis the authors identify system halting disturbances both within each system and throughout all industries. How much participants agree on the frequency and importance of these problems measures the industry culture. The authors found agreement within each industryâÂÂs sample on major system failures. Amount of time an individual has worked the industry positively correlates to the frequency of training. Further application of this research is how industry culture affects information dissemination, decision-making, and protocol adherence.
Design Method for RF Energy Harvesting Rectifiers

This brief presents a methodology to design RF energy harvesting rectifiers that produce a system with higher efficiency when compared to traditionally optimized circuits. The proposed methodology uses a dual-perspective approach, exploiting the designer’s knowledge of the rectifier’s operation, as a qualitative evaluation, and the precise results obtained by SPICE simulation as quantitative computation of the system’s response. The compromises considered by the mathematical steady state models in the existing literature limit their practical use for manual calculations. Instead, nonlinear steady state simulation methods, such as harmonic balance, provide a much better design tool. The proposed method improves the efficiency of rectifiers by up to 27% with respect to arbitrary initial conditions.
Prevalence and antibiotic sensitivity pattern of pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from respiratory samples, pus samples and body fluids in a tertiary care hospital, Kashmir

Pseudomonas aeruginosa has established itself as an important pathogen because of its ability to survive the hostile environments and causing life threatening infections. This gram negative bacillus has acquired resistance to different classes of antimicrobials thereby increasing the morbidity and mortality. In the present study we aim to analyze the rate of isolation of this opportunistic pathogen from various body fluids as well as respiratory and pus samples and the antimicrobial resistance profile of all these isolates. Standard microbiological techniques were used for its isolation, culture and identification followed by the antimicrobial sensitivity testing using disk diffusion method. Of the 3530 samples received over a two year period, the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was detected in 71 samples (9.16%). A higher resistance was observed for ceftriaxone, ceftazidime and ciprofloxacin but a considerable number of isolates were sensitive to carbapenems. Most of the isolates were sensitive to polymyxin B. Keywords: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Multidrug resistant (MDR), Extensively drug resistant (XDR), Outpatient department (OPD), Inpatient department (IPD).
Communication and resilience: introduction to the Journal of Applied Communication Research special issue

ABSTRACT This special issue of the Journal of Applied Communication Research is focused on communication and resilience. The issue contains seven articles that consider communicative aspects of individual, family, organizational, community, and national resilience. Included articles examine: resilience and relational load among families of dual earning couples; parental emotion coaching and adolescent resilience in families of harmful and non-harmful alcohol use; communication resilience processes among cancer patients and their partners; storied resilience experiences of women political leaders in China; local emergency planning communities (LEPCs) organizing for disaster resilience; identity renegotiation and reconstruction in online spaces on the website Reddit; and disaster lesson remembering and forgetting in two communities. These articles provide a snapshot of the current state of communication and resilience research, with all contributions using theoretical perspectives to guide the investigation of communication and resilience in varied contexts. In each article, practical implications and next steps for research are identified and discussed.
Effects of static stretching and neurodynamic mobilization on hamstring flexibility in elderly population- A randomized clinical trial

Background: Muscle tightness may be a common impact of aging caused because of cross-linking of fibers. The joints become stiffer and less flexible as we tend to age. The cartilage could begin to rub along and wear away with time. Hamstring muscle is one of the common muscle found to be tight in an individual and is the potential cause for low back issues altering the lumbopelvic rhythm in them. Various studies have compared numerous techniques to see which technique is best for increasing joint range of motion (ROM). However, there are limited studies comparing the results of static stretching and neurodynamic mobilization on hamstring flexibility in elderly. Methods: 20 subjects aged 65-75 years with hamstring tightness were randomly allocated to two groups. Group A (n=10) received static stretching and Group B (n=10) received neurodynamic mobilization. Both the groups received 10 sessions of treatment, 5 consecutive days for 2 weeks. Passive Knee Extension (PKE) and Passive Straight Leg Raise (PSLR) measurements were measured before and after 2 weeks of intervention. Static stretching was given for 60 seconds and neural mobilization was given in form of sliders. Results: Independent sample t-test was employed in order to verify within group analysis that showed significant improvement in hamstring flexibility after 2 weeks of intervention. Comparison between the group was done using paired t test that demonstrated non-significant differences (level of significance is p<0.05) in improvement score of PKE (0.06) and PSLR (0.40). Conclusion: Static stretching and neurodynamic mobilization both were equally effective in improving the hamstring flexibility in elderly subjects.
Tangible Rewards or Intangible Rewards - Which Play Most Significant Role in Increasing Job-Hopping Behavior in Generation Y Employees in Pakistan?

Job hopping in the modern world is one of the major challenges that can be perceived in the current workforce market in Generation Y. The determination of this exploration is to scrutinize among tangible or intangible rewards, which plays most significant role in increasing job-hopping behavior in Generation Y employees in Pakistan. Tangible rewards were factored in 1. Market Competitive Pay, 2. Monetary Benefits and 3. Performance Incentives, whereas intangible rewards include 1. Quality of Work, 2. Work Life Balance, 3. Inspiration & Values, 4. Organization Environment and 5. Future Growth & Opportunity. The data was collected by means of close ended likert scale based questionnaire from 201 employees who belong to different industries in Pakistan. Confirmatory factor analysis & Structured Equation Modelling were used for the examination. The study found that job hopping is optimistically associated with intangible rewards in Gen Y employees & negatively associated with tangible rewards. This research provides insight to employers which factors must be considered while developing strategies for employees’ compensation and retention in order to retain their competent employees and minimize job hopping behavior in Generation Y employees.
A simple theory for the modulation of tropical instability waves by ENSO and the annual cycle

Abstract Motivated by a recent active period of Tropical Instability Waves (TIWs) that followed the extreme 2015/2016 El Niño, we developed a stochastically forced linear model for TIWs with its damping rate modulated by the annual cycle and El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The model’s analytical and numerical solutions capture relatively well the observed Pacific TIWs amplitude variability dominated by annual and ENSO timescales. In particular, our model reproduces the seasonal increase in TIWs variance during summers and falls and the nonlinear relationship with the ENSO phase characterised by a suppression, respectively increase of TIW activity during El Niño, respectively La Niña. A substantial fraction of TIWs amplitude modulation emerges from the deterministic nonlinear interaction between ENSO and the annual cycle. This simple mathematical formulation allows capturing the nonlinear rectifications of TIWs activity onto the annual cycle and ENSO through, for instance, TIWs-induced ocean heat transport. Moreover, our approach serves as a general theoretical framework to quantify the deterministic variability in the covariance of climate transients owing to the combined modulation of the annual cycle and ENSO.
Improving Melatonin Delivery Within the Eye

Melatonin is a neurohormone synthesized in the pineal gland as well as in other organs and it plays an important role in many ocular functions, as it is synthesized in numerous eye structures. Melatonin can reduce the intraocular pressure and to serves as an antioxidant preventing against free radicals, hence cataract formation as well as retinal damage due to glaucoma, among other functions. Ocular pharmacology is a challenging field giving the difficulties of drug delivery inside the eye due to its low bioavailability. In this sense, the present brief commentary is summarizing the latest advances in non-invasive ocular drug delivery focused on the effect of melatonin in different ocular diseases.
Organizational Learning and Effectiveness: The Case of Pakistani HEIs

Higher education is considered to be the lifeline of the development of any nation. These institutions are not only engaged in disseminating knowledge but are also engaged in shaping human capital for todays knowledge-based economy. These higher learning institutions need to focus on their effectiveness if they want to be learning organizations. The present study focuses on organizational learning for attaining effectiveness. The sample of the study consists of 350 academic staff members of public sector HEIs belonging to Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province of Pakistan. Multiple regression analysis was performed on the data set. The overall results showed a significant direct effect of organizational learning upon organizational effectiveness. The results are significant for the top management.
A Millimeter-Wave Reconfigurable On-Chip Coupler With Tunable Power-Dividing Ratios in 0.13- $\mu$ m BiCMOS Technology

This paper presents a millimeter-wave (mm-wave) on-chip coupler with tunable power dividing ratios and constant phase response. Composed by two coupled lines, two capacitors and two series-connected varactors, the proposed tunable coupler offers broadband frequency responses for 5G applications. Theoretical analysis for wideband operation is provided. For demonstration, a millimeter-wave tunable coupler is implemented in a standard 0.13- $\mu \text{m}$ SiGe (Bi) CMOS technology and measured through an on-wafer probing system. From 24 to 38 GHz, the proposed tunable coupler shows a power-dividing ratio ranged from 0 to 6.5 dB, while maintaining an in-band return loss of better than 10 dB and output isolation of 20 dB, simultaneously. The phase imbalance is better than ±2.5° with a measured insertion loss of 1.3 dB across the entire tuning range. To the authors’ best knowledge, this is the first time that an on-chip coupler with tunable power-dividing ratios is reported operating at mm-wave bands for, particularly, 5G applications.
Telling Stories-Giving Reasons: Narrative Ethics revisited

Jochen Schmidt* Received: 02/03/2019 | Accepted: 05/04/2019 The paper attempts to give a systematic survey of different strands and intentions of “narrative ethics” both in philosophy and in theology and proposes how to develop narrative ethics in the future. This proposal features three different dimensions of the term “moral vision,”, i.e. morally substantial ideas that are embedded in traditions (Moral Vision 1), the appropriation of these ideas by particular historical cultures or individuals (Moral Vision 2) and moral perception channeled by Moral Vision 2 (Moral Vision 3). Narrative ethics, the paper argues, can describe how (religious) traditions can inspire moral thinking and learning without falling prey to traditionalism. Theological ethics is about forming an ethical culture in which we remind each other of the stories that continue to inspire us and in which we tell each other of our moral world-view and commitments, our strong feelings about the good and the bad which are based in our individual and common lives and not derived from grammatical rules or ultimate principles. * Dr. theol. , Professor of Systematic Theology, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, Institute for Protestant Theology, University of Paderborn, Germany ׀ jochen.schmidt@upb.de 🞕 Schmidt, J. (2019). Telling stories giving reasons Narrative ethics revisited. The Journal of Philosophical-Theological Research, 21(81), 89-102. doi: 10.22091/jptr.2019. 4084.2064.
New opposition cuttlefish optimizer based two‐step approach for optimal design of fractional order proportional integral derivative controller for time delay systems

In this article, an optimal design of the fractional order proportional integral derivative (FOPID) controller for time delay system is proposed. The proposed optimal design is the combined performance of both the cuttlefish optimizer (CFO) and Opposition‐based learning (OBL) scheme called CFOBL scheme. The proposed CFOBL uses the concept of opposition based population initialization and opposition based position updating to improve its searching behavior, computational speed and convergence profile in the basic CFO. In FOPID controller, apart from the three tuning parameters (GP, GI, and GD) there are two additional tuning parameters that are λ and μ. Here, CFOBL is used to tune the three controller parameters and also to find the optimal values of λ and μ. The uniqueness of the proposed technique is to reduce the FOPID controller's fault in the higher order time delay scheme by the aid of the controller's increase limits. The objective of the proposed technique is chosen by considering the set point parameters and the accomplished parameters from the time delay system. The proposed technique is used to avoid high‐order delays and reliability constraints such as small overruns, time resolution and fixed condition defects. This technique is performed on the MATLAB/Simulink platform and the results are compared with different existing techniques such as Ziegler‐Nichols (ZN) tuning method, curve fitting (CF) technique, Wang technique, and regression technique.
КЛИНИЧЕСКИ ЗНАЧИМЫЕ МИНОРНЫЕ АНТИГЕНЫ ГИСТОСОВМЕСТИМОСТИ ДЛЯ РОССИЙСКИХ ПАЦИЕНТОВ, ПОЛУЧАЮЩИХ ТРАНСПЛАНТАЦИЮ СТВОЛОВЫХ КЛЕТОК КРОВИ

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from healthy donors is used for blood cancer treatment. Alloreactive graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is one of the post-transplant detrimental side effects, and the main reason for GVHD after HSCT fully matched for human leukocyte peptide antigens (HLA) presented by HLA molecules on cell surface. These polymorphic peptides, minor histocompatibility antigens (MiHA), arise from any genes, including those expressed at hematopoietic tissues. The latter may lead to the s.c. graft-versus-leukemia effect (GvL), thus preventing relapse of a malignancy. A*02:01 is one of the most frequent HLA alleles for European part of Russia. We assessed frequencies for 20 MiHA-encoded genetic polymorphisms, presented via A*02:01 allele, for plausible bone marrow donors, or hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) from the Donor Registry at Russian National Research Center for Hematology, we have also determined a number of immunogenic mismatches for these 20 MiHA in real donor – recipient pairs. A total of 608 potential donors, 90 donors and 92 recipients were genotyped. Using public data, we have shown that frequencies for MiHA coding genes are most close to appropriate frequencies among the European population. We have calculated probability of MiHA-specific alloimmune response after HSCT: there are chances of 33 and 75% for three or more immunogenic mismatches (IM) for related and unrelated HSCTs, respectively. Real frequencies for immune mismatch in 20 related and 20 unrelated donor – recipient pairs are in accordance with estimated theoretical probabilities. As based on the calculated frequencies, we suggest the LB-NDC80- 1P/A, LB-CCL4- 1T, and HA-1 MiHA to be the most promising minor antigens for targeted cell therapies of hematopoietic tissue malignancies. The data obtained could be used for planning allo-HSCTs in Russian patients.