Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Do they have a choice?: pupils’ choices at LTCs in the intersection between tradition, values and new demands

ABSTRACT This article investigates the question of making choices at Swedish LTCs. The theoretical framework draws on symbolic interactionism and the concept of inhabited institutions analysing teachers’ meaning-making and interactions between teachers and pupils at the LTCs. Because of changing policies, a tension between new demands and an LTC tradition of activities being voluntary has emerged. When teachers try to make sense of the tension between demands and tradition, choice becomes an important issue and teachers try to balance pupils’ free choices with teacher-led activities. The results show that pupils are often given the opportunity to choose, but even though teachers value pupils’ possibilities to choose, pupils’ choices are limited rather than free. When the teachers try to make sense, of pupils’ choices they oriented towards both traditions and values (choice is important), and towards new demands (choice should be visible). Choices are thus highlighted and made measurable in specific ways in LTC practice.
The bovine lingual tonsil - a specified risk material (SRM).

This paper is supposed to emphasize two issues: (a) A legal item as expressed in European Community regulations concerning bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). (b) A histological item aimed to identify follicula r dendritic cells (FDC) which are – firstly – typical constituents of lymphatic tissue and – seco ndly – are the structural components which make a tonsil become a SRM, since they bind prion p r tein. The first item fits very well to demonstrate th at there is still a great demand for anatomists to contribute to all fields of applied anatomy not only in clinical science, but also in food hygiene. The second item is focussed on the immunohistoc hemical detection of FDC, since the routine structural criteria which have so far been applied do not seem sufficient to define precisely enough what a ‘tonsil’ actually is. By means of immunohistochemistry, tonsillar lym ph nodules ( Noduli lymphatici , often referred to as lymph follicles) were recognized by the presence of FDC which were found up to 30 mm rostral of the most caudal papilla vallata e, t a depth of approx. 4.6 mm (i.e. within the Lamina propria mucosae ).
Managerial Overconfidence and Cost Behavior of R&D Expenditures

This study examines the impact of a CEO’s confidence level on decisions regarding research and development (R&D) expenditures. R&D is an important part of a company’s strategy for achieving long-term sustainable growth. However, due to its discretionary nature, some CEOs choose to reduce R&D costs to enhance short-term performance. In other words, R&D cost behavior may vary depending on CEO characteristics. This study examines whether, in an effort to improve their firm’s future performance, CEOs who are highly overconfident tend not to actively decrease R&D expenditures even when sales decrease. We posit that CEO overconfidence affects the cost behavior of R&D spending that is not related to their personal privileges. A cost behavior model was utilized to verify the relationship between CEOs’ propensity for overconfidence and R&D expenditures. Our findings show that highly overconfident CEOs tend not to take actions to reduce R&D costs even if sales decrease because CEO overconfidence tends to be positively related to R&D. Since R&D represents both costs and long-term investments, policy support for capitalizing R&D costs can be considered as enhancing the sustainability of businesses.
Retaining Millennials: Values-Based Communication Tactics Employers can use to Appeal to a Supposed Risk-Adverse Generation

Millennials are growing within the workforce, but they are becoming difficult to attract and retain for longer than two years at a time. In addition, Millennials have generational-specific values that are different than their predecessors. Identifying and applying these workplace expectations to organizational policies have made it challenging for leaders to appeal to this generation. Millennials desire five aspects from their workplace: work with a purpose, to be their own boss or work for a boss that is a mentor, a collaborative work environment, flexible work schedules, and work-life integration and/or work-life balance. Using a survey research method, this thesis outlines how Millennials appreciate these values in a workplace and, because of this appreciation, employers and recruiters should consider them for attrition and recruitment purposes. This thesis also examines why the assumption that Millennials are job hoppers who would rather work for themselves than an established corporation is unfounded. Finally, this thesis finds that the risk aversion trait Millennials possess affects their potential for decision making regarding their career that this trait can be used by organizations to market communication positions to this generation.
Changing Patterns of Drug Use Among High School Seniors (1976-1995) Who Entered Military Service: Implications for Drug Abuse Prevention

Abstract : Early in the 198O's, the U.S. &med forces adopted "zero tolerance" policies concerning illicit drug use, and later developed policies to discourage tobacco and alcohol abuse. This article examines patterns of drug use among young recruits both before and after enlistment, compaired with age-mates who did not enter the military, and documents historical shifts across the past two decades. These analyses employed longitudinal panel data from 20 nationally representative samples of high school seniors.
Danish scientific investigations in Iran

Contents. - pt. I Lepidopteren aus Iran, von W. Forster. The sea snakes of Iranian gulf and the gulf of Oman, by Helge Volsoe. Marine Algae from the Iranian gulf, by F. Borgesen. - pt. II On some Iranian freshwater Hirudinea, by S.A. Boisen Bennike. Contributions to the ornithology of Iran, by Knud Paludan. Echinoderms from the Iranian gulf, by Th. Mortensen. Crinoidea, by Torsten Gislen. The holothurians of the Iranian gulf, by S.G. Heding. Zur biologie und morphologie von Anisops persica Lindberg im vergleich mit Buenoa Kirk. und Notomecta L. , by E.W. Kaiser. Studies on the egg masses and larval development of Gastropoda from the Iranian gulf, by Gunnar Thorson. - pt. III. Fishes of the Iranian gulf, by H. Blegvad, assisted by B. Loppenthin.
Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns

Investing relies on expectations, and revisions in expectations trigger changes in stock prices. Accurately measuring expectations, therefore, is the key to improving stock selection. Expectations investing requires (1) the development of a conceptual framework, (2) a clear understanding of valuation, including cash flow, the cost of capital, and the forecast horizon, and (3) accurate estimations of price-implied expectations and expectations gaps.
A Lexi-ontological Resource for Consumer Healthcare: The Italian Consumer Medical Vocabulary

In the era of Consumer Health Informatics, healthcare consumers and patients play an active role because they increasingly explore health related information sources on their own, and they become more responsible for their personal healthcare, trying to find information on the web, consulting decision-support healthcare systems, trying to interpret clinical notes or test results provided by their physician, or filling in parts of their own Personal Health Record (PHR). In spite of the advances in Healthcare Informatics for answering consumer needs, it is still difficult for laypersons who do not have a good level of healthcare literacy to find, understand, and act on health information, due to the communication gap which still persists between consumer and professional language (in terms of lexicon, semantics, and explanation). Significant effort has been devoted to promote access to and the integration of medical information, and many standard terminologies have been developed for this aim, some of which have been formalized into ontologies. Many of these terminological resources are used in healthcare information systems, but one of the most important problems is that these types of terminologies have been developed according to the physicians’perspective, and thus cannot provide sufficient support when integrated into consumer-oriented applications, such as Electronic Health Records, Personal Health Records, etc. This highlights the need for intermediate consumer-understandable terminologies or ontologies being integrated with more technical ones in order to support communication between patient-applications and those designed for experts. The aim of this thesis is to develop a lexical-ontological resource for consumer-oriented healthcare applications which is based on the construction of a Consumer-oriented Medical Vocabulary for Italian, able to reflect the different ways consumers and patients express and think about health topics, helping to bridge the vocabulary gap, integrated with standard medical terminologies/ontologies used by professionals in the general practice for representing the process of care, by means of Semantic Web technologies, in order to have a coherent semantic medical resource useful both for professionals and for consumers. The feasibility of this consumer-oriented resource and of the Integration Framework has been tested by its application to an Italian Personal Health Record in order to help consumers and patients in the process of querying healthcare information, and easily describe their problems, complaints and clinical history.
An Econometric Analysis of U.S. Crop Yield and Cropland Acreage: Implications for the Impact of Climate Change

A SIGNIFICANTLY REVISED/UPDATED AND EDITED VERSION OF THIS PAPER WAS PUBLISHED AS: Citation: Miao, Ruiqing, Madhu Khanna and Haixiao Huang. “Responsiveness of Crop Yield and Acreage to Prices and Climate. ” American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2015) doi: 10.1093/ajae/aav025 Abstract: We investigate the effect of crop price and climate variables on rainfed corn and soybean yields and acreage in the United States using a large panel dataset for the 1977–2007 period. Instrumental variables are used to control for endogeneity of prices in yield and acreage regressions, while allowing for spatially auto-correlated errors. We find that an increase in corn price has a statistically significant positive impact on corn yield, but the effect of soybean price on soybean yields is not statistically significant. The estimated price elasticities of corn yield and acreage are 0.23 and 0.45, respectively. Of the increase in corn supply caused by an increase in corn price, we find that 33.8% is due to price-induced yield enhancement and 66.2% is due to price-induced acreage expansion. We also find that the impact of climate change on corn production ranges from −7% to −41% and on soybean ranges from −8% to −45%, depending on the climate change scenarios, time horizon, and global climate models used to predict climate change. We show that the aggregate net impact of omitting price variables is an overestimation of the effect of climate change on corn yield by up to 9% and on soybean yield by up to 15%. Link: http://ajae.oxfordjournals. org/cgi/content/full/aav025? ijkey=zG02pRCa3l4NP kt&keytype=ref
Cooperative Localization and Navigation for Multiple UUVs

Research on cooperative navigation and localization of multi-UUVs is an important topic to solve the navigation problem in Middle-Depth-Zone. An algorithm based on acoustic signal one-way- travel-time (Time-Of-Flight, TOF) for multi-UUVs was presented. In the Leader-Fellow structure, the master UUV is equipped with high precision navigation system, and the slaver UUV is equipped with low precision navigation system. They all are equipped with acoustic device to measure relative location. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) was designed, which fused the proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensors. The research results prove that the navigation accuracy has been improved effectively by using cooperative navigation and localization method.
The Online Marketing Strategies of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) and South Africa Tourism (SAT): A Comparative Study

The purpose of this study was to compare the online marketing strategies of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) and South Africa Tourism (SAT). The study sought to establish the online marketing strategies adopted by ZTA and SAT especially coming from the background that most National Tourism Organisations in Africa lack interactive web facilities and have limited knowledge on the significance of information communication technology in tourism marketing. The fact that tourism has been branded the fastest growing industry in the world but in Zimbabwe it’s not like that while just across the Limpopo river in South Africa tourism is steadily developing prompted the researcher to compare the ZTA and SAT online marketing strategies. The objectives were to compare the online marketing strategies and to determine the effectiveness of ZTA and SAT’s online marketing strategies. The researcher adopted comparative design as a way of drawing lessons useful to both ZTA and SAT. Information relevant to this study was drawn from a thorough analysis of the organisations websites, and social media networks. The researcher also reviewed literature in order to expose what other authors say about the online marketing strategies. Data in this study was gathered using netnography. A modified website evaluation model was used to evaluate website as proposed by (Li and Wang 2010). Information dimension, Communication dimension, Transaction dimension, Relationship dimension and Technical merit dimension (ICTRT) were investigated. Information was also obtained by visiting the organisation social networks. The researcher used a qualitative approach to gain an in-depth understanding of why ZTA and SAT chose the various online marketing strategies to market their destinations. Data for this research was then presented using tables from the ICTRT dimensions. From the results it was found that both ZTA and SAT use online marketing strategies but SAT had an improved edge in the social networks since it had more platforms.
Environmental Governance Urban: Public Participation and Sustainable Development

Environmental protection and management are carried out based on the principle of state responsibility, sustainability and sustainability, harmony and balance, integration, benefits, prudence, justice, ecoregion, biodiversity, participatory, local wisdom, good governance, and regional autonomy. The purpose of the research is to find out how much influence obtained between the variables of participation in sustainable development and indicators on these variables in environmental management in urban areas. The study was conducted in Makassar City in 2017-2018 with questionnaires and interviews as instruments to obtain primary data. The number of samples used was 200 respondents. With variables consisting of participation and sustainable development, then the indicator includes of (1) Thought Contribution; (2) Contributions of Funds; (3) Energy Contributions and (4) Contributions of Facilities for participation variables and (1) Culture - Ecology Interface; (2) Culture - Economy Interface; and (3) Economy - Ecology Interface for sustainable development. The analysis used is Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and to manage primary data with CFA, the help of IBM AMOS 23 Software used. The results of the study show that community participation in the development of business entities and waste banks is to encourage public involvement to the lowest level. To support environmental sustainability at the local level this, form of participation. From such things that make a significant influence between community participation in the development of environmental sustainability.
Insights into the cardiovascular complications of a novel mouse model of Diabetes Mellitus: a mechanistic view

Heart failure (HF) is one of the commonest complications of Diabetes Mellitus(DM) with the prevalence of DM reported at around 30% in many pivotal heartfailure studies. However the pathophysiological mechanisms that contribute toHF development in diabetes are poorly understood. To investigate this we useda novel human relevant mouse model of DM (GENA348) in which there is apoint mutation in the glucokinase (Gck) gene, the glucose sensor whichregulates insulin secretion. A mutation in the same gene is known to underlieMaturity Onset Diabetes of the Young Type 2 (MODY 2) in humans. The mutantmice developed significant hyperglycaemia with normal insulin levels due to thealtered glucose sensing. We examined the molecular mechanisms thatcontribute to the HF phenotype in DM.Mean random blood glucose was found to be increased in the GENA348 mutant(HO) mice compared to wild type (WT) littermates (WT 6.9�0.3mmol/L vs HO20.6�0.8mmol/L, P<0.001). Serial echocardiography was performed, at 3, 6 and12 months. No significant changes in echocardiographic parameters wereobserved at 3 months, although by 6 months development of significant cardiachypertrophy in HO mice was observed characterised by a 20% increase in thediastolic posterior wall thickness (dPW). At 12 months of age left ventriculardilatation was also evident. Systolic function was preserved although significantdiastolic dysfunction was evident at 6 and 12 months. Histological stainingillustrated significant cellular hypertrophy with real time PCR data demonstratinga relative 150% increase in the hypertrophic marker BNP. Hypertrophicpathways were examined through western blot analysis revealing an agedependent increase in Akt phosphorylation (6 months-140%, 12 months-460%). Serum levels of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and expression oftheir receptors RAGE were also elevated. In vitro cellular experiments alsorevealed AGEs directly activate Akt through phosphorylation and increaselevels of the receptor RAGE. AGE induced phosphorylation of Akt is inhibited inthe presence of wortmannin, suggesting a PI3K dependent signallingmechanism. Wortmannin blocked the development of cardiac hypertrophy inthe diabetic mice.In conclusion we demonstrate that the human relevant GENA348 mouse modelof diabetes develops a progressive cardiac phenotype including cardiachypertrophy, LV dilatation and diastolic dysfunction similar to the clinicalmanifestations of diabetic cardiomyopathy. We propose a novel RAGE/PI3K/Aktpathway that for the first time provides insight into the molecular mechanismsthat underlie the development of HF. Moreover, we show raised glucose aloneis able to cause cardiotoxicity independently of insulin.
Guia de vigilância em saúde

O Guia de Vigilância em Saude (GVS), editado pela Secretaria de Vigilância em Saude do Ministerio da Saude (SVS), em sua 2a edicao eletronica, se alinha aos novos desafios e estrategias de vigilância, prevencao e controle das doencas e agravos de importância de Saude Publica. Esta edicao atualiza as recomendacoes relacionadas as acoes de vigilância em saude, em conformidade aos dispositivos da Portaria no 204, de 17 de fevereiro de 2016, que define a Lista Nacional de Notificacao Compulsoria de Doencas, Agravos e Eventos de Saude Publica, e da Portaria no 1.984, de 12 de setembro de 2014, que define a lista nacional das doencas e agravos que devem ser monitorados por meio da estrategia de vigilância em unidades sentinelas. A publicacao do GVS visa disseminar os procedimentos relativos aos fluxos, prazos, instrumentos, definicoes de casos suspeitos e confirmados, funcionamento dos sistemas de informacao em saude, condutas, medidas de controle e demais diretrizes tecnicas para operacionalizacao do Sistema Nacional de Vigilância em Saude, levando em consideracao o conhecimento cientifico disponivel.
Culturally-appropriate, family- and community-based physical activity and healthy eating Intervention for african-american middle school-aged girls: A feasibility pilot

Recommended Citation Barr-Anderson, Daheia J.; Adams-Wynn, Alexis W. ; Alhassan, Sofiya; and Whitt-Glover, Melicia C. (2014) "Culturally-appropriate, familyand community-based physical activity and healthy eating Intervention for african-american middle school-aged girls: A feasibility pilot," Journal of Adolescent and Family Health: Vol. 6 : Iss. 2 , Article 6. Available at: https://scholar.utc. edu/jafh/vol6/iss2/6
Validation of a FFQ (Food Frequency Questionaire) for older people

Nutrition data for older adults is an area that has few studies mainly in Brazil. Due to the importance to know the behavior of this age group, the aim of this study was to develop and validate a frequency food questionnaire (FFQ) for older people in Brazil. It was considered a sample of 73 subjects from the city of Avaré, São Paulo, Brazil, and it was applied three 24-hour recalls and a FFQ developed for adults. Data from the three 24-hour recalls were transformed in nutrient intake as well as the data from FFQ. Statistical analysis was performed in order to get correlations between data from the mean of three 24-hour recalls and FFQ for some nutrients. It was found high correlations among them, concluding that the FFQ is valid to get nutrient intakes for older people.
A Framework for Customisable Schema Evolution in Object-Oriented Databases

This paper describes an evolution framework supporting customisation of the schema evolution and instance adaptation approaches in an object database management system. The framework is implemented as an integral part of an interpreter for a language with a versioned type system and employs concepts from objectoriented frameworks and aspect-oriented programming to support flexible changes. Some example customisations currently implemented with the framework are also described.
Experimental Study on Seismic Behavior of Masonry Walls Strengthened by Reinforced Mortar Cross Strips

Due to the poor seismic performance, strengthening of masonry structures is always a significant problem worthy to study. It has been proven that the bearing capacity of existing masonry buildings can be enhanced greatly with efficient strengthening measures. An experimental program was conducted to investigate seismic performance of un-reinforced masonry (URM) walls strengthened b,y reinforced mortar (RM) cross strips. Eleven walls were tested under horizontal low-cyclic load, simultaneously with a vertical constant load on the top face. Three URM walls were tested as reference. The other eight walls were externally strengthened with 40 and 60 mm thick of RM cross strips on one or both faces. Test results showed that externally strengthening with RM cross strips was an efficient way to enhance the seismic performance of URM walls. The failure modes were divided into shear failure and shear-compression failure. All the tested walls did not collapse until the test ended, while many diagonal cracks and few vertical cracks appeared on mortar strips. After strengthening, the shear capacity of the strengthened walls increased by at least 38.2%, and the reinforcement ratio was noted to be the key factor to influence the shear capacity with positive correlation. Besides, RM cross strips did improve deformation capacity greatly.