Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Atherosclerotic Plaque Regression and Arterial Reverse Remodelling in Carotid and Femoral Arteries by Statin Use in Primary Prevention Setting: Ultrasound Findings

Atherosclerosis is a generalized process which begins early in childhood (first decade of life) and develops silently and more or less rapidly during adolescence and young adulthood (Stary et al., 1994). Recent investigation using whole body multislice computed tomography in 52 ancient Egyptians mummies (mean age 45.1 ± 9.2 years) from the Middle Kingdom to the Greco-Roman period, a time span of more than 2,000 years, Allam et al. (Allam et al., 2011) showed that atherosclerosis (as in contemporary humans) was more evident and extensive with advancig age, and as common and devastating disease as at present time. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease, which includes coronary artery disease, stroke and peripheral arterial disease, is the most common cause of premature death in the industrialized world thereby constituting an immense public health problem. This disease was formerly considered an inevitable consequence of aging. The Framingham Heart Study, the most important and influential investigation in CV diseases which laid the foundation for preventive medicine and for CV disorders in particular (Greenberg, 2010), enrolled its first patient in 1948. In the following 40 years a large body of scientific evidence from the Framingham cohort and other major epidemiological studies definitely established that multiple CV risks were responsible of the growing CV disease burden, mainly in highincome countries (Mendis 2010). The scientific Framingham Community gave foundation to the risk factor concept providing insights into their prevalence, incidence and prognostic value. Due to variation in prevalence of individual risk factors in different geographic regions specific approaches to CV disease prevention have been implemented in various countries. Accordingly, a WHO survey on CV risk factors in 2002 showed that more than three quarters of the global CV disease burden was attributable to the following 3: tobacco, blood pressure and cholesterol. And the INTERHART case-control study (Yusuf et al., 2004), involving 27,000 subjects from 52 countries representing all inhabited continents, provided
Adaptability Analysis of Common Measurement Matrices for Mechanical Vibration Signal

Ab stract—In this paper, the construction method of common measurement matrices is studied, adaptability of common measurement matrices for mechanical vibration signal is analyzed. Typical measurement matrices are selected from commonly used measurement matrices, Gaussian random measurement matrix and Bernoulli random measurement matrix are chosen from totally random measurement matrices, Circulant measurement matrix and Toeplitz measurement matrix are selected from deterministic matrices, partially random Fourier measurement matrix and Hadamard matrix are chosen from deterministic measurement matrices. The sensing performance of common measurement matrices for mechanical vibration signal is evaluated from the two perspective of reconstruction error and memory space. The simulation results show that two kinds of complete random matrices, Gaussian and Bernoulli matrices, can exactly reconstruct original vibration signal, but they occupy large memory space; deterministic matrices, Circulant and Toeplitz matrices, although need fewer memory space, obtained measurements which do not have information of global vibration signal lead to lower reconstruction results; partially random Fourier matrix is extremely coherent with sparse transforming base of vibration signal, so it has not exact result in the process of reconstructing original vibration signal, the requirement of Exponentiation of 2 seriously restrict its application.
Contributions of dust and biomass burning to aerosols at a Colorado mountain-top site

Abstract. Visible Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (vis-MFRSR) data were collected at Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL), a mountain-top facility in northwest Colorado, from 1999 to 2011 and in 2013. From 2011 to 2014, in situ measurements of aerosol light scattering were also obtained. Using these data sets together, the seasonal impact of dust and biomass burning is considered for the western USA. Analysis indicates that the median contributions to spring and summer aerosol optical depth (AOD) from dust and biomass-burning aerosols across the data set are comparable. The mean AOD is slightly greater in the summer, with significantly more frequent and short-duration high AOD measurements due to biomass-burning episodes than in the spring. The Angstrom exponent showed a significant increase in the summer for both the in situ and vis-MFRSR data, suggesting an increase in combustion aerosols. Spring dust events are less distinguishable in the in situ data than the column measurement, suggesting that a significant amount of dust may be found above the elevation of SPL, 3220 m a.s. l. Twenty-two known case studies of intercontinental dust, regional dust, and biomass-burning events were investigated. These events were found to follow a similar pattern, in both aerosol loading and Angstrom exponent, as the seasonal mean signal in both the vis-MFRSR and ground-based nephelometer. This data set highlights the wide-scale implications of a warmer, drier climate on visibility in the western USA.
A One-Stop Approach to Supporting the Nonacademic Needs of Community College Students: An Evaluation of Single Stop's Impact in North Carolina

Single Stop's College Initiative aims to address the nonacademic needs of college students, connecting them to governmental, community, and institutional resources that can help to overcome financial barriers and other life issues that lead many students to drop out before completing a credential. This report examines the impact of using Single Stop on postsecondary outcomes for students enrolled at four community colleges in North Carolina.
Nanosuspension technologies for delivery of poorly soluble drugs

Poor aqueous solubility of some drug molecules is a major problem in drug formulation. Drug nanosuspensions emerged as one solution to delivering such hydrophobic drugs. Scaling down to nanoparticles enhances drug aqueous solubility and bioavailability by increasing drug surface area that comes into contact with biological media. Nanosuspensions that have attracted particular attention are those sterically stabilised by steric polymers such as polyethylene glycol (PEG) with a typical size range of 10-100 nm. These nanoparticles are capable of accumulating in targeted areas such as cancer tissues and infarct zones with minimal damage to healthy tissues. Nanosuspensions are often prepared by commercially available methods such as high pressure homogenization, media milling, emulsification, and melt emulsification. Solidification and surface modification methods are post-processing techniques used to add particular properties for advanced therapies. In this review, we firstly describe preparation methods for nanosuspensions. Secondly, we highlight typical characterization techniques. Finally, we describe several practical application of applications for drug delivery design and different administration routes such as parenteral, pulmonary, oral, and ocular.
Additional global climate cooling by clouds due to ice crystal complexity

Abstract. Ice crystal submicron structures have a large impact on the optical properties of cirrus clouds and consequently on their radiative effect. Although there is growing evidence that atmospheric ice crystals are rarely pristine, direct in situ observations of the degree of ice crystal complexity are largely missing. Here we show a comprehensive in situ data set of ice crystal complexity coupled with measurements of the cloud angular scattering functions collected during a number of observational airborne campaigns at diverse geographical locations. Our results demonstrate that an overwhelming fraction (between 61 % and 81 %) of atmospheric ice crystals sampled in the different regions contain mesoscopic deformations and, as a consequence, a similar flat and featureless angular scattering function is observed. A comparison between the measurements and a database of optical particle properties showed that severely roughened hexagonal aggregates optimally represent the measurements in the observed angular range. Based on this optical model, a new parameterization of the cloud bulk asymmetry factor was introduced and its effects were tested in a global climate model. The modelling results suggest that, due to ice crystal complexity, ice-containing clouds can induce an additional short-wave cooling effect of −1.12 W m2 on the top-of-the-atmosphere radiative budget that has not yet been considered.
The Relationship between Culture Shock and Sociolinguistic Shock: A Case Study of Non-Persian Speaking Learners

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between culture shock and Persian, as a foreign language, sociolinguistic shock. It has illuminated the experiences of six non-Persian speakers as foreign Persian learners of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran from different countries. In order to achieve culture shock scale, Mumford questionnaire (1998) was used. Then, interviews were established to gather the experiences of these learners in relation to sociolinguistic shocks. Their responses were analyzed using Thematic Analysis (TA). Three themes were identified in the analysis: Felt experience, Cognitive experience, and Linguistics politeness experience. The findings further indicated that the learners" scores of culture shock scale are positively related to their experiences of sociolinguistic shock. The participants obtained higher scores in culture shock questionnaire faced more problems of controlling sociolinguistic shocks in their interactions with Persian native speakers and vice versa. This paper has also highlighted some factors influencing this matter which lead to individual differences on expe- rience of sociolinguistic shock like nationality and religious beliefs.
Review of perspectives applied in the assessment of organic food networks

Value is a key concept for understanding how organic food networks function because values are the foundation of the organic production practice, thus value must be given a significant role in assessing and balancing the effects of organic food networks. At the same time value is a loose concept, widely used and with various meanings in different scientific perspectives, in which ontological difference produces different perceptions of what values are. Assessing organic food networks is thus a complicated process, since the perspective which is chosen has important implications for the analysis and for the outcome of the assessment. This paper reviews five perspectives which predominate in the assessment of food networks, 1) Food Science, 2) Discourse Analysis, 3) Phenomenology, 4) Neoclassical Welfare Economics and 5) ANT. The perspectives are compared with regards to how the food network is assessed, how value is measured and how organic is understood. It is concluded that the perspectives focus analytically on different aspects of the same phenomena and differ in terms of where value is found, but also in the degree of reductionism applied, which factors are included in the analysis and whether or not the analysis focuses on the individual actors or the network as a whole.
School And Its Impact On The Performance And Quality Of Life Of Primary School Teachers

The objective of this study is to announce the impact that the school has on the performance and quality of life of primary school teachers. The sample that participated on the work was selected from a probability sampling of 218 teachers. The exposed results are the product of a quantitative, transversal, correlational and comparative study; these results are from the data analysis using the Pearson coefficient and t test independent by groups. In those results significant differences between the teachers that are working on quality schools, from those who don't were found. They have an increased level of internal motivation, job satisfaction, rest, spirituality. It is concluding that the quality school ́s teachers have a better performance and quality of life.
Learning to Reason with Third-Order Tensor Products

We combine Recurrent Neural Networks with Tensor Product Representations to learn combinatorial representations of sequential data. This improves symbolic interpretation and systematic generalisation. Our architecture is trained end-to-end through gradient descent on a variety of simple natural language reasoning tasks, significantly outperforming the latest state-of-the-art models in single-task and all-tasks settings. We also augment a subset of the data such that training and test data exhibit large systematic differences and show that our approach generalises better than the previous state-of-the-art.
2 ERP ADOPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS – THE CHALLENGE

The adoption and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is a challenging and expensive task that not only requires rigorous efforts but also demands to have a detailed analysis of such factors that are critical to the adoption or implementation of ERP systems. Many efforts have been made to identify such influential factors for ERP; however, they are not filtered comprehensively in terms of the different perspectives. This paper focuses on the ERP critical success factors from five different perspectives such as: stakeholders; process; technology; organisation; and project. Results from the literature review are presented and 19 such factors are identified that are imperative for a successful ERP implementation, which are listed in order of their importance. Considering these factors can realize several benefits such as reducing costs and saving time or extra effort.
How Well Do We Understand Sovereign Debt Crisis? Evidence from Latin America

In recent years, the number of theoretical models on sovereign default exploded. I take a step back and investigate how good our current theoretical understanding of real world sovereign debt crisis really is. This is done by deriving implications that are hard wired into our models and comparing the evolution of nearly 20 sovereign debt crises in Latin America with them. I find that the available models capture aspects of virtually all crises, yet there are only a few crisis that are fully consistent with the available models.
Integration of Common Factors and Specific Ingredients

This chapter presents the theoretical framework and research evidence of the contextual model, which integrates common factors and specific ingredients in psychotherapy. In working with clients, the specific ingredients and common factors of various therapy approaches are not mutually exclusive but work together to make psychotherapy effective. The benefits of psychotherapy accrue through three pathways: the real relationship, expectations created through explanation for distress and a cogent treatment plan, and the specific actions enacted in treatment. It is suggested that the outcome of psychotherapy can be improved by the deliberate practice of particular skills that characterize effective therapists. The chapter concludes with case examples, diversity considerations, and future directions.
Bluesaver: Smart Phones Energy Saving

: Wi-Fi ultimately has two extremes: silent power consumption and valuable fixer, or could hear a pin drop latency and an arm and a leg power consumption. Wi-Fi Power Save Mode saves desire by capital and labor added latency for petty power consumption. Minimal latency but maximum power, on the other member of the working class, is consumed mutually WiFi Active Mode. While probe has ahead of its time in mitigating these extremes, certain types of join traffic one as perpetual bitrate streaming make the held a candle to unavoidable. We encourage Bluesaver, which provides peaceful latency and reticent energy by maintaining a Bluetooth and WiFi relationship simultaneously. Bluesaver is designed at the MAC coat and is suited to opportunistically enlist the roughly efficient connection for packets interim still assuring all right already latency. We implement Bluesaver on an Android contact and Access Point and prove that we can amass more than 25% energy everywhere existing solutions and retrieve the art of all of a sudden adapting to changes in absorb traffic.
Asymptotic formulas for coefficients of Kac–Wakimoto Characters

Abstract We study the coefficients of Kac and Wakimoto's character formulas for the affine Lie superalgebras sℓ(n+1|1)∧. The coefficients of these characters are the weight multiplicities of irreducible modules of the Lie superalgebras, and their asymptotic study begins with Kac and Peterson's earlier use of modular forms to understand the coefficients of characters for affine Lie algebras. In the affine Lie superalgebra setting, the characters are products of weakly holomorphic modular forms and Appell-type sums, which have recently been studied using developments in the theory of mock modular forms and harmonic Maass forms. Using our previously developed extension of the Circle Method for products of mock modular forms along with the Saddle Point Method, we find asymptotic series expansions for the coefficients of the characters with polynomial error.
Mirrlees meets Laibson: Optimal Income Taxation with Bounded Rationality

This paper studies an optimal taxation problem in a dynamic economy inhabited by individuals who differ in productivity (as in Kocherlakota, 2006) and in the short-term discount factor. We determine incentive compatible Pareto optimal allocations in a multidimensional screening model where individuals have to report truthfully their types. Moreover, we characterize the optimal non linear tax on capital and labor income that implements such allocations in a competitive equilibrium. Two forms of bounded rationality are considered: in the first one, some individuals discount future payoffs at a higher rate than others (myopia). In this application, the planner respects consumers' sovereignty, and maximizes a Paretian social welfare function. In the second application, some individuals are time inconsistent: they systematically change future plans and regret ex-post for the lack of commitment power. We show that the marginal tax on capital income implementing the optimal allocation consists of several elements, which combine incentive compatibility and bounded rationality considerations. The resulting optimal tax is a decreasing function of both the fraction of short-sighted individuals and the intensity of myopia/hyperbolic discounting. Our results are not driven by the paternalistic behavior of the planner, but by the incentive/self control problem and the necessity of providing the right incentive to high productive, far-sighted individuals. However, when the planner would like to push hyperbolic individuals toward the right consumption/saving path, we show that the optimal marginal tax includes also a paternalistic component that further decrease the optimal tax compared to the case with only exponential agents.
Capital as an Origin of Wage Inequality

Does capital-embodied technological change play an important role in shaping labor market outcomes? This paper addresses this question by examining how labor mar- ket imperfections—modeled as search/matching frictions—interact with the diusion of new equipment to determine wage inequality and unemployment. Since imper- fect matching implies that some workers are paired with more appropriate equipment than are others, capital-embodied technological change becomes an origin of inequality. We demonstrate analytically how both technology growth and institutional variables aect labor market outcomes. We then go on to apply our framework to study the U.S./U.K.-Europe comparison: can labor market institutions explain why a higher rate of technological change was associated with increased wage inequality in the U.S. and in the U.K. and no change in the unemployment rate, whereas continental Europe experienced a large increase in the unemployment rate but no increase in inequality?
Postural and Load Distribution Asymmetries in Preschoolers Assimetrias Postural e de Distribuição de Carga em Pré-escolares

The aim of the study was to investigate the postural and load distribution symmetries in preschool children. The sample consisted of 67 preschool children with a median age of 54.00 ± 5.06 months. Postural parameters such as the horizontal alignment of the head, the acromion and Antero Superior Iliac Spines (ASIS), the angles between the acromial and ASIS, frontal, Q, knee and ankle and horizontal asymmetry of the scapula in relation to T3 were evaluated by photogrammetry. The baropodometry was used to identify the distribution of plantar pressure, while the medial arch of the foot was analyzed by photographic image. The median, standard deviation and the symmetry ratio were calculated for each parameter considered symmetry values greater than 90%. The Pearson’s or Spearman’s correlation were used between the parameters analyzed. There was asymmetric for postural and load distribution parameters for both genders and a null correlation between the symmetry of the surface and foot morphology and negative weak correlation significant between of the load foot and the front angle of the lower limb symmetries. The presence of asymmetries, postural and/or of load distribution, observed in early childhood suggest the importance of monitoring the postural and foot load parameters in the long term, preventing future postural
ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF ORGANISATION MISSION THROUGH APPROPRIATE IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIES

The study examines accomplishments of organization mission through appropriate implementation of strategies with a major focus on mission statements of two multi-national companies in Nigeria. Resource-based theory and competence-based theory were adopted as theoretical framework for the study. This study benefited immensely from the established concept of business strategies comprising of differentiation strategy, overall cost leadership strategy and focus strategy. Data for this research were obtained from both primary and secondary sources. The primary data were obtained through questionnaire. Two-stage probability and non-probability sampling techniques was adopted using two multinational companies which were selected on purpose from the list of manufacturing companies in Nigeria. In the second stage, a simple random sampling procedure was employed to draw respondents randomly from the organizations. Qualified participants were those who have spent more than two years in the choice companies. Overall, 291 respondents were involved in the ratio of 47: 50 between the two organizations contrary to 50:50 ratio initially planned. The data analysis procedures employed were, univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyses. In this study, two hypotheses were formulated. The results showed that overall cost leadership strategy affects product/service quality and employees’ satisfaction. In addition, differentiation strategy affects employees’ satisfaction but the significance of its effect on process improvement could not be ascertained. However, the effect of focus strategy on customer service and community development could not be established. In other words, there are variations in the effectiveness of these business strategies depending on the component of the mission that the organization is set to achieve. The study recommends that there is need for thorough environmental scanning in order to select the appropriate business strategy to be adopted in accomplishing the specific aspect of the organization mission.