Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Systemic steroid treatment of rarely seen genitourinary system manifestation in children with Henoch Schonlein purpura: Case report and literature analysis

Henoch-Schönlein Purpura (HSP) is the most commonly seen systemic leukocytoclastic vasculitis in children. Although it frequently presents with skin, joint, and gastrointestinal system involvement, genitourinary system involvement is rarely seen as well. We present a child with HSP-associated penile and scrotum involvement and a literature review was performed. An eight-years-old male patient who underwent five days systemic, five days oral steroid therapy in hospital and had a total recovery from the HSP-associated penile and scrotum involvement that is rarely reported in the literature. Scrotum and penile involvement are rare in patients with HSP; acceptable with a good prognosis. Disease-related genitourinary system involvement may be associated with findings such as penis and scrotum involvement, balanitis, urethritis, hematoma in the bladder wall, epididymo-orchitis and priapism. In the literature, most commonly scrotal edema or only penile involvement is mentioned. However, treatment for HSP is controversial, steroid and analgesic treatment can be applied in patients with HSP and penile/scrotum involvement.
Determination of a Safe Distance for Atomic Hydrogen Depositions in Hot-Wire
Chemical Vapour Deposition by Means of CFD Heat Transfer Simulations

A heat transfer study was conducted, in the framework of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), on a Hot-Wire Chemical Vapour Deposition (HWCVD) reactor chamber to determine a safe deposition distance for atomic hydrogen produced by HWCVD. The objective of this study was to show the feasibility of using heat transfer simulations in determining a safe deposition distance for deposition of this kind. All CFD simulations were set-up and solved within the framework of the CFD packages of OpenFOAM namely; snappyHexMesh for mesh generation, buoyantSimpleFoam and rhoSimpleFoam as the solvers and paraView as the post-processing tool. Using a standard set of deposition parameters for the production of atomic hydrogen by HWCVD, plots of the gas temperature in the deposition region were produced. From these plots, we were able to determine a safe deposition distance in the HWCVD reactor to be in the range between 3 and 4 cm from the filament.
Transmission Expansion Planning Including TCSCs and SFCLs: A MINLP Approach

We propose a transmission expansion planning model that integrates thyristor-controlled series compensators (TCSCs) to enhance line transmission capacity, and superconducting fault current limiters (SFCLs) to control short-circuit levels. The harmonious interplay between TCSCs and SFCLs results in effective and economically attractive optimal expansion plans. This multi-stage planning model translates into a complex mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem, which is hard to solve. To solve it, we propose a successive linearization technique within a Benders’ decomposition scheme that proves effective in finding optimal solutions and efficient in terms of computational burden. We illustrate the methodology proposed using the IEEE 39-bus system.
Entrepreneurship and capital investment: another explanation for the slump in capital investment under deflation

This study investigates the factors behind the slump in capital investment by listed companies in the deflationary Japanese economy. We estimate the investment function using information on the attributes of top managers as well as corporate financial data. We find that in addition to Tobin’s q and cash flow, several manager-attributes significantly affect each listed company’s capital investment. These attributes are the president’s career and age, whether or not he/she is an owner president, and the ratio of director bonuses to the distribution of profits. Compared to small- and medium-sized companies, listed companies have various financing methods. Thus, even during a financial crisis, the financial restrictions on their capital investment would be relatively moderate. Our results suggest that after the collapse of the bubble economy, in addition to the deterioration of companies’ fundamentals, the changes in the stance of top managers in listed companies may have caused a reduction in capital investment in Japan.
Characterization of the Sexual Self- and Cross-Compatibility in Genotypes of Cacao

Cacao is a tree crop of high economic importance and the subject of several studies aiming the genetic improvement of the species with the incorporation of characteristics that are agronomically important to create superior genotypes. In this context, this study aimed to characterize 22 genotypes of cacao for sexual compatibility, which is a trait that is strongly associated with yield. Additionally, we identify genotypes incompatible with clone TSH-1188 through controlled intercrosses, due to the great importance of this clone in cocoa breeding. Fifteen genotypes were characterized as self-incompatible and other seven as self-compatible, considering the retention index (20%) of self-pollinated flowers. Nine genotypes were characterized for the first time: CCN-16, COCA-3310, COCA-3370/5, EB-1017, IMC-119, IMC-97, LCTEEN-37A, NA-45, and UF-612. Cacao genotypes showed flower retention index ranging from 0.0% to 55.1% after 15 days of self-pollinations. The number of retained flowers varied after self-pollination of cacao genotypes at 1, 5 and 15 days after pollination. CCN-51, Catongo, CCN-10 and P-4B, were the genotypes with minor losses of flowers after 15 days of pollination, while IMC-119 and TSH-516 had 100% of loss of flowers between 1 and 5 days after pollination. Moreover, the flower retention index 15 days after cross-pollination with TSH-1188 ranged from 0.0% to 87.5% among the tested genotypes. The results of cross-pollinations identified two genotypes that are incompatibles, EB-1017 and IMC-119. This result is important for future allelic studies of incompatibility in cacao, because it might indicate that these genotypes share the same self-incompatibility allele(s). We conclude, therefore, that this study enable the characterization of this working collection of cocoa germplasm for sexual compatibility and this information is important for subsequent crosses between cacao genotypes.
The Modern Day Cure without the Side Effects of Traditional Treatments

Leuzea carthamoides DC. (synonym: Rhaponticum carthamoides) is a rare and threatened plant of unique properties. It contains biostimulators, phytoecdysteroids, and takes a prominent position among other adaptogens by its ability to prevent many diseases and efficiently cure a great number of pathologies. Pharmpreparations and food components from Leuzea are used as antidepressants and immunostimulators, concentrators of psychical energy, physical and sexual strength, anti-shock, pain and wound-healing remedies. The preparations cause an anabolic effect in vertebrates by stimulating the protein biosynthesis in muscle tissues. The preparations of Leuzea do not have any age or seasonal restrictions. Their safety and the absence of side effects have stood a test of usage in East medicine. Moreover, they are excellently combinable with classical drugs. Till recent time, their inaccessibility for most people lied in absence of a cultivated source of raw materials. At present, there are technologies contributing to stable ecdysteroid biosynthesis in an artificial cenosis; problems with loosing highly active fractions during crop selection and treatment are solved. New highly active pharmpreparations have been developed (daily doses 0.510.0 mcg/kg biomass or 10-12 • • • 10-11 M, if20-hydroxyecdysone).
Using Real-World Event Notifications to Reduce Operational Cost in Virtual Networks

In this paper we propose a comprehensive technique to reduce the operational expenses (OPEX) of virtual network systems, which comprises the cost of using resources, the cost of requesting the underlying infrastructure to make changes to the allocated resources, and the cost of dropping network traffic and hence disrupting the service. We demonstrate that it is feasible to reduce OPEX by optimizing resource assignation without relying on thresholds, neither for determining the amount of resources to be assigned nor to assess the correct operation of the control system. Instead, our proposal relies solely on the context definition (day of week, time of day, current resource amount, etc.) and the events reported by external detectors. Finally, we quantify the benefit of considering such events when taking management decisions and how they are useful to step further towards the optimum assignation of Virtual Network Function (VNF) instances to accomplish the demands of the overall system.
Productive consequences of fasting neonatal chicks of different genetic constitutions for growing

The study was designed to evaluate the productive consequences of fasting neonatal chicks obtained from strains genetically divergent for growing. Four hundred eight chicks from three strains, 160 from breeders selected for high growth rate and excellent feed conversion ratio (Cobb 500), 160 from breeders not selected for fast growth (JA57), and 160 from a white egg layer strain (Hy-Line W98) were allotted in a 3 (strain) x 2 (fasting period - 8 and 36h after hatching) factorial arrangement with 5 replicates of 16 chicks each. Immediately after hatching, all chicks had similar (P>0.05) relative yolk sac weights (14.13%, 14.50%, and 15.49% for Hy-Line, Cobb, and JA57, respectively). The yolk sac retractions were proportionally higher for Cobb and JA57 chicks up to 144 h (6 days) after placement, but were not influenced by 36h of feed fasting. At 7 and 14 days of age only Cobb chicks had their body weight and weight gain significantly (P<0.05) depressed by 36h feed fasting after hatching. Results indicate that broiler chicks with intense initial growth rates (Cobb 500) need an outstanding nutritional supply, either from exogenous (feed) or endogenous (residual yolk) sources, to achieve a final weight compatible with their genetic constitution. For slow-growing chicks (Hy-Line), nutritional supplementation via yolk sac seems to be more important than exogenous supply (feed) of nutrients during the neonatal period.
An Exploratory Study of the Knowledge, Perceptions, Confidence Levels, and Practices of Oral Implantology

Background: The All-On-4 (AO4) oral implant process positively impacts oral health related quality of life for edentulous individuals. The purpose of this study was to identify the knowledge level, perceptions, confidence levels, and self-reported practices of oral professionals regarding AO4. Methods: A convenience sample of 324 dentists and 237 dental hygienists licensed in the state of Oregon were invited to participate in a self-administered electronic questionnaire. Data were analyzed using frequencies, percentages, and chi-square test. Results: The study yielded a 15.33% response rate. Forty-nine respondents were dentists (15.17%) and 35 were dental hygienists (15.56%). Most dentists were male. Most dental hygienists were female. The majority of respondents indicated practicing in the dental field for over 30 years with minimal completion of specialty education. Few respondents indicated completing a case or participating in maintenance therapy for AO4. The majority of respondents felt their AO4 professional training did not prepare them to offer AO4 to patients. The majority of participants (65.6% of dentists and 83.3% of dental hygienists) indicated a need for further AO4 training. Confidence levels were disproportionate to the knowledge level, education, and experience of the participants. Conclusion: Success rates for complex implant therapies can be attained if knowledge and clinical expertise of providers are congruent. Supplemental studies designed to compare the content of complex oral implant education received to the clinical expertise of the provider would aid in determination of the potential for restructure, elimination, or addition of AO4 to continuing education and/or containment to advanced education.
Standard-Setting as Educational Re-form

This paper is an inquiry into standard setting as educational reform, stimulated by the emergence of projects and initiatives engaged in during the development of new standards. The publication is organized into five sections. The first section provides a brief discussion of the idea of a standard together with a definition that indicates the generally pragmatic cast of the paper. Section 2 describes and compares three models of educational reform--the systemic reform model, the professional model, and the reform network model. Each of these employs standard setting as a central and distinctive element. The third section contains a discussion of cross-cutting issues implicated in these models, focusing on normative and conceptual concerns in and the political dimensions and dynamics in standard setting. Section 4 presents a set of strategic approaches and scenarios through which various standard setting initiatives might be joined, thereby providing the firm, consistent guidance sought by policymakers. Section 5 offers some concluding observations that step outside the pragmatic frame to raise alternative perspectives on standard setting. An appendix provides Comer's nine components; guiding principles of the accelerated schools model; and nine common principles of the coalition of essential schools. (Approximately 125 references.)
Patient in hypothermia - diagnostic and treatment problems in fire department

Accidental hypothermia occurs when, as a result of environmental factors, the central body temperature drops below 35° C. Deep hypothermia is a life-threatening condition, but it is one of the reversible causes of cardiac arrest. At a temperature of 30-280 C, the oxygen demand is 50% normal, at 250 C only 33%, and below 100 C 4-11%. Heart, liver and brain have more requirements in this respect, and the kidneys need most oxygen [1]. In the Deep Hypothermia Treatment Center in Krakow, a system of rapid implementation of extracorporeal circulation (ECMO) was developed, obtaining favorable therapeutic results in non-traumatic patients [2]. The patient in hypothermia accounts for a significant percentage of all intervention services of the emergency services. The analysis of death cards issued in 2009-2012 in Poland showed that exposure to excessive natural cold was the initial cause of death in 1,836 people [3]. Early identification of victims in hypothermia, established algorithm of action and coordination of activities leading to the use of extracorporeal heating techniques can contribute to improved prognosis.
An Investigation of a Conventional Water Treatment Plant in Reducing Dissolved Organic Matter and Trihalomethane Formation Potential from a Tropical River Water Source

The characteristics and composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and trihalomethane (THM) generation during water treatment are important for producing safe drinking water. However, little information is available on this topic within the context of Indonesia. This study aimed to investigate the efficiency of a conventional drinking water treatment plant (WTP) in removing DOM and chloroform forming potential (CHCl 3 FP), and evaluate surrogate parameters for CHCl 3 FP. Samples were taken during the rainy season and the dry season from raw water, after secondary treatment and after the rapid sand filter. DOM was characterized based on the A 254 , A 355 , SUVA, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and fluorescence DOM (FDOM) parameters. The composition of the DOM was identified using the peak picking method. Overall, from raw to finished water, the WTP performed better in the rainy season with 55.96% reduction of DOC and 63.45% reduction of A 355 as compared to the dry season with 53.27% reduction of DOC and 24.18% reduction of A 355 . The overall removal of humic and tryptophan compounds during the rainy season was 33.33% and 37.50%, respectively. In the dry season, humic compounds were reduced by 18.80%, while tryptophan increased threefold. A 355 can serve as a surrogate parameter for CHCl 3 FP in raw water and water after secondary treatment, containing more humic-like compounds than tryptophan-like compounds.
GETALP : Propagation of a Lesk Measure through an Ant Colony Algorithm

This article presents the GETALP system for the participation to SemEval-2013 Task 12, based on an adaptation of the Lesk measure propagated through an Ant Colony Algorithm, that yielded good results on the corpus of Semeval 2007 Task 7 (WordNet 2.1) as well as the trial data for Task 12 SemEval 2013 (BabelNet 1.0). We approach the parameter estimation to our algorithm from two perspectives: edogenous estimation where we maximised the sum the local Lesk scores; exogenous estimation where we maximised the F1 score on trial data. We proposed three runs of out system, exogenous estimation with BabelNet 1.1.1 synset id annotations, endogenous estimation with BabelNet 1.1.1 synset id annotations and endogenous estimation with WordNet 3.1 sense keys. A bug in our implementation led to incorrect results and here, we present an amended version thereof. Our system arrived third on this task and a more fine grained analysis of our results reveals that the algorithms performs best on general domain texts with as little named entities as possible. The presence of many named entities leads the performance of the system to plummet greatly.
Do I win, does the company win, or do we both win? Moderate traits of the Dark Triad and profit maximization

ABSTRACT This article analyzes the relationship between the maximization of personal and company gains and the moderate traits of the Dark Triad. The relevance of choosing this topic lies in investigating the attitude of executives who exhibit characteristics of a moderate intensity between the strong and weak traits. It is proven that the vision and charisma of narcissistic individuals, the strategy and tactics of Machiavellian individuals, and the creativity and good strategic thinking of psychopathic individuals are differentiating characteristics that enhance successful and integrative leadership and that are far from the more accentuated and opportunistic attitudes related to the strong traits, whose practices involve dishonest actions for personal gain. This evidence creates the possibility for strengthening the research in the accounting area, especially on the behavioral approach, in order to promote its interface with psychology and clarify how personality, values, and experiences influence managers’ choices when conducting business and how workers and companies are impacted by these decisions. The study is empirical-theoretical and involves 263 managers, adopting a survey as its data collection strategy and applying a self-reporting type questionnaire. The data analysis approaches included descriptive statistics, correlations, tests of means, and logistic regressions. In this study, managers with moderate psychopathic traits showed a lower tendency to maximize profit by manipulating results. An opposite tendency was revealed for those with moderate Machiavellian traits. The combined effect of the three Dark Triad traits was significant and positive, revealing opportunistic profit maximization. These findings contribute to future studies that aim to systematically analyze moderate levels of the triad and corroborate the findings that have revealed the common characteristics of manipulation, callousness, and dishonesty when investigating the interactive effect between the traits in question.
Making Work More Equal: A New Labour Market Segmentation Approach

would have been more convincing if it had addressed more explicitly the problems that are unavoidable in a study such as this one. Most notably, there is an unevenness in the quality of fieldwork across countries. For example, in the Netherlands (a country of approximately 17 million people), the study drew upon surveys conducted at demonstrations in five distinct cities (Amsterdam, Haarlem, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht). However, in the United Kingdom (a country of approximately 67 million people), the study only had access to surveys in one city (London). This limitation certainly does not invalidate the results overall, but calling attention to it would help to make sense of anomalies that are evident in the findings. As a case in point, the authors observe on page 32 that the British are among the least willing to attend demonstrations. Yet the study’s design excluded demonstrations in Scotland (a region of the United Kingdom), which was actively building a movement for independence and facing sectarian conflict between Catholics and Protestants during the timeframe of the study. A more geographically diverse design might have yielded a different result on this point (among others) by reflecting the variation embedded in British subnational politics. The authors deserve credit for addressing the links between individual-level participation in social movements and political institutions, especially parties and elections (the focus of Chapter 4). However, the question arises as to whether these links can be evaluated reasonably by using only evidence collected through individual-level surveys. This analysis might have been augmented by matching survey data with organizational data on labor unions, associations, and political parties obtained through interviews, social media, and archival research. For example, content analysis of party platforms might have been combined with survey data on membership in political parties. Or tweets about a protest might have been compared with event-level survey averages. Such approaches might have opened pathways for multi-level analysis of the evidence, potentially deepening the extent to which it captures historical and cultural variations among countries. These criticisms notwithstanding, Street Citizens sheds considerable new light on the nature of protest and protesters, and it does so in a way that is rigorously comparative across space and time. As the authors point out, protest is one of the most accessible ways for people to raise their voices when they have significant concerns that they wish to bring to powerholders. They use protest in part to demonstrate solidarity with other people with whom they identify closely. Since protest is a flexible tool that can be applied in a wide variety of contexts by different types of groups, it is valuable to improve accuracy in understanding the motivations of protesters and the mechanisms through which they are mobilized. Street Citizens accomplishes this goal unambiguously. As such, it is a must-read for serious scholars of social movements and grassroots democracy.
Impact of LED Color Temperatures on Perception Luminance in the Interior Zone of a Tunnel considering Fog Transmittance

LEDs are widely applied in highways and tunnels for their long life, low light attenuation, and being environment friendly in recent years. The influence of correlated color temperature (CCT) of LED on lighting safety has attracted people’s attention as the demand increased. In this paper, a calculation model of perception luminance of human eye considering mesopic vision and fog concentration was proposed. The influence of different CCTs on perception luminance of human eye under different levels of fog concentration and luminance was calculated and analyzed. The CCT of LED employed in the interior zone of a tunnel was selected based on the highest perception luminance in mesopic vision. Seven kinds of LEDs with different CCTs (3000–6500K) were applied in the experimental system with adjustable fog concentrations. The results showed that the main factors affecting visual perception are luminance and fog concentration. Higher luminance or lower fog concentration provides drivers with higher perception luminance. In contrast, although CCT has a less effect on perception luminance, LEDs with higher CCT (about 6500K) can provide higher perception luminance considering fog in mesopic vision. This paper provides technical support for tunnel lighting and guaranteeing traffic safety.