Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its individual components in Brazilian college students.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To identify the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its individual components in a population of college students at a public higher education institution in Fortaleza, Brazil. BACKGROUND Scientific evidence has demonstrated the ascent of the metabolic syndrome in the young population. DESIGN Cross-sectional study of 702 Brazilian college students between January-July 2011. METHODS Socio-demographic indicators, life habits and the components of the metabolic syndrome were assessed. anova statistical tests were used to associate gender with the metabolic syndrome components, and the chi-square test to associate the number of metabolic syndrome components with gender and body mass index. RESULTS High fasting venous glucose, triglyceride, total cholesterol and LDL-C levels were found in 12·3, 23·0, 9·7 and 5·9% of the sample, respectively. The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome amounted to 1·7%. Nevertheless, 30·4% of students manifested at least one and 12·4% at least two individual components. The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome was higher in men (58·3%) and in people who were overweight (33·3%) and obese (41·7%). It is important to implement public health policies to reduce college students' vulnerability to the metabolic syndrome. CONCLUSIONS Most college students who displayed ≥3 metabolic syndrome components were men and already indicated being overweight and/or obesity. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE It is important that nurses assess the frequency of metabolic syndrome in college students as a predictor of cardiovascular health.
The Adriatic region: An independent microplate within the Africa‐Eurasia collision zone

We use GPS measurements and block modeling to investigate the present‐day deformation of the Adriatic region, whose kinematics within the Nubia‐Eurasia plate boundary zone is not well constrained and remains controversial. Block modeling allows us to compute rigid‐plate angular velocities while accounting for elastic strain accumulation along block‐bounding faults. Results suggest that the Adriatic is a microplate (Adria) and that the southern boundary with the Nubia plate and the Aegean domain may be located along the Apulia Escarpment and the Kefallinia fault. Geodetic data alone cannot discriminate between a single block (AP) or a two blocks (GDAP) description of Adria, but the GDAP model predicts boundary slip rates that are in better agreement with observations from previous studies.
Sentiment Analysis for Mental Well-being Using NLP

: Several nations around the world seriously undervalue the importance of mental health. We require creative strategies to raise awareness of the value of mental health in nations like India where it is stigmatized. The foundation of this paper is the principles of NLP and data collection. Users will be able to download a software, which collects data from their browser history in the background and produces a report. The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) and data collection are the methodologies employed in this study. The user's browsing information is gathered and stored. The NLTK, which can evaluate the sentiment of the provided data, is used to process this data. This paper talks about text recognition and text analysis, and NLTK is based on Python and has both. India has a very high ratio of suicides to psychiatrists, which is approximately a factor of 300. This research will provide a solution for many people suffering from mental problems. The number of suicides and several other mental issues decreases as more people receive the assistance they require.
Patient Deception in Health Care: Physical Therapy Education, Beliefs, and Attitudes

A good professional-patient relationship is important to clinical practice, which may be compromised by deception. Deception research in physical therapy is scant. The current study investigated how the topic of patient deception is addressed in Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) educational curriculum, explore DPT students’ beliefs about deception and attitudes toward patient deception, and examine the effects of a pedagogical intervention on DPT students’ beliefs about deception and attitudes toward patient deception. The first objective was pursued by a descriptive survey sent to 217 DPT programs in the US. The second and third objectives were achieved by one-group pretest-posttest design provided to 17 DPT students before and after an educational workshop. Most DPT programs minimally include the topic of patient deception within their curriculum. DPT students held several inaccurate beliefs about the indicators of deception and negative attitudes toward patients who lied. After the educational intervention, students’ inaccurate beliefs were corrected and negative attitudes were reduced. Patient deception seems to be an under-addressed topic in current physical therapy education. An education workshop improved students’ beliefs about deception and attitudes toward to patient deception. Implications of deception research and theory in the applied practice of physical therapy are discussed.
Discussion Papers In Economics And Business

We incorporate naive agents with a non-unitary discounting rate into a cash-in-advance (CIA) model. Through this extension, we obtain the following results. First, we show that there exists an equilibrium in which the CIA constraint does not bind when individuals discount their utilities from future consumption lower than their utilities from future leisure time. It is important to note that this non-binding equilibrium exists even if the nominal interest rate takes a positive value. Second, we demonstrate that increases in the money supply growth rate decreases the individuals’ saving rate in the equilibrium in which the CIA constraint does not bind. Third, we exhibit that when the equilibrium where the CIA constraint does not bind exists, the welfare level of this equilibrium can be higher than that of the equilibrium in which the CIA constraint binds. Moreover, we deduce that the Friedman rule cannot be optimal in the equilibrium in which the CIA constraint binds and present the result that the optimal level of the optimal nominal interest rate is aﬀected by the diﬀerence of the discount rates.
Evaluation of the validity of the questionnaire of psychosocial risk factors and evaluation of the organizational environment proposed by NOM-035-STPS-2018

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the instrument Identification of Psychosocial Risk Factors and Evaluation of the Organizational Environment (GRIII), proposed in 2018 by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (STPS) in NOM-035-STPS-2018, in a company in northern Mexico. Construct validity was considered with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), Structural Equation Modeling
Straw Return Decomposition Characteristics and Effects on Soil Nutrients and Maize Yield

Straw return benefits soil nutrient circulation and avoids the environmental pollution caused by incineration. The straw return effect is determined by many factors, such as the returning mode and tillage method. To find the most suitable straw return mode in the hilly areas of south China, we conducted experiments with preceding maize straw in Nanchong (Sichuan Province, China) for three years. Five treatments were tested: (A) rotary tillage without straw return (RT), (B) crushed straw return with rotary tillage (CRT), (C) crushed straw return without rotary tillage (CSR), (D) whole straw return with rotary tillage (WRT), and (E) whole straw return without rotary tillage (WSR). The results indicated that CRT had the fastest decomposition rate, followed by CSR. Moreover, CRT had the fastest nutrient release rates for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, as well as the highest maize yield (6.62% higher than RT). CRT increased the content of organic matter, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and total potassium in the soil, as well as improved the soil pH. Furthermore, the numbers of bacteria, Actinomycetes, and fungi in the soil under CRT, CSR, and WSR treatments were higher than those under the other two treatments. This study has important reference value for exploring the most favourable straw return method for improving farmland fertility.
Local Mass Media Operations, Problems And Products In Disasters

From September 1985 through August 1988 the Disaster Research Center (DRC) at the University of Delaware undertook a study of local mass media response to community disasters. A total of 15 new field studies were undertaken for this research, fourteen in the United States and one in Canada (and for certain purposes comparable data from two earlier studies were also used). The research had a number of specific topical goals, namely the following. First, we conducted a survey of all local media outlets in those communities in which DRC carried out field work for this study. The purpose of the survey was to document the involvement of the local radio, television and newspaper organizations in local community disasters. We were interested in establishing the degree and kind of participation in the response that the local mass communication system would show in disasters in their own areas.
Simultaneous Bayesian inversion for effective anisotropic parameters and microseismic event locations: a physical modelling study

To account for anisotropy caused by the presence of a set of aligned vertical fractures in a ﬁnely horizontally layered background medium, we present an inversion procedure to simultaneously estimate microseismic event locations and the parameters of an orthorhombic (ORT) anisotropic medium property model. The procedure employs Bayesian inference via Markov-chain Monte Carlo (McMC) sampling with parallel tempering, and principal component diminishing adaptation, to ensure efﬁcient sampling of the parameter space. This approach provides a nonlinear uncertainty quantiﬁcation, by approximating the posterior probability density with an ensemble of model-parameter sets for effective anisotropic parameters, microseismic event locations and horizontal locations of perforation shots. The noise standard deviation is also treated as an extra unknown in the inversion. To investigate the effects of model simpliﬁcation, e.g., neglect of horizontal-layering induced vertical transverse isotropy (VTI), we also consider a simpler, horizontal transverse isotropic (HTI), parametrization. The inversion is carried out for simulated data and data from a seismic physical laboratory model. Results suggest that, for ﬁeld microseismic data processing, neglect of VTI signal caused by horizontal layering in fractured reservoirs may lead to systematic errors in microseismic event locations. Synthetic experiments further demonstrate that the acquisition geometry signiﬁcantly impacts the resolution of event origin times, event depths, and effective velocity parameters. In addition, resolving these parameters requires an aperture size which may not be practical for ﬁeld monitoring. Finally, we demonstrate that precise perforation-shot timing information and the incorporation of a vertical downhole array into the small-aperture surface array both reduce the requirement for large array apertures.
New Ultrasound Gynecological Reporting Data System (GIRADS) and Ovarian Reporting Data System (ORADS) for Distinguishing Adnexal Masses

Background: Adnexal masses are considered common gynaecologic clinical problems. Most lesions are benign necessitating conservative management and follow-up. Ovarian cancer is considered the most lethal gynaecological cancer in women. Annually, it is responsible for an estimated 152,000 deaths, and 239,000 new cases are recorded worldwide. In Egypt, it accounts for 4.1% of all cancers affecting women, considering it one of the most common diagnosed cancers among the Egyptian females [. Typically, ovarian cancer presents at late stage when its 5-year survival rate is less than 30%. GI-RADS classification system for adnexal masses, in which GI-RADS 1 was considered definitely benign, GI-RADS 2 very probably benign, GI-RADS 3 probably benign, GI-RADS 4 probably malignant, and GI-RADS 5 very probably malignant. Findings suggestive of malignancy included thick papillary projections, thick septa, solid areas with/without ascites and vascularization within solid areas, papillary projections or central area of a solid tumour on colour or power Doppler assessment as defined according to the International Ovarian Tumour Analysis criteria(IOTA).
Ecological operation for Three Gorges Reservoir

The traditional operation of the Three Gorges Reservoir has mainly focused on water for flood control, power generation, navigation, water supply, and recreation, and given less attention to the negative impacts of reservoir operation on the river ecosystem. In order to reduce the negative influence of reservoir operation, ecological operation of the reservoir should be studied with a focus on maintaining a healthy river ecosystem. This study considered ecological operation targets, including maintaining the river environmental flow and protecting the spawning and reproduction of the Chinese sturgeon and four major Chinese carps. Using flow data from 1900 to 2006 at the Yichang gauging station as the control station data for the Yangtze River, the minimal and optimal river environmental flows were analyzed, and eco-hydrological targets for the Chinese sturgeon and four major Chinese carps in the Yangtze River were calculated. This paper proposes a reservoir ecological operation model, which comprehensively considers flood control, power generation, navigation, and the ecological environment. Three typical periods, wet, normal, and dry years, were selected, and the particle swarm optimization algorithm was used to analyze the model. The results show that ecological operation modes have different effects on the economic benefit of the hydropower station, and the reservoir ecological operation model can simulate the flood pulse for the requirements of spawning of the Chinese sturgeon and four major Chinese carps. According to the results, by adopting a suitable re-operation scheme, the hydropower benefit of the reservoir will not decrease dramatically while the ecological demand is met. The results provide a reference for designing reasonable operation schemes for the Three Gorges Reservoir.
The impact of information systems vulnerability announcements on firms' market value

With the increasing deployment of IT systems, information systems vulnerabilities have led to a severe negative impact on firms and businesses. This paper aims to examine the impact of information system vulnerability announcements on the market value of Chinese firms. Using the collected security incidents in Chinese firms from 2015 to 2021, we study how characteristics of enterprises and vulnerabilities affect enterprises’ market value through event study and regression analysis. In particular, we find that state-owned enterprises suffer larger negative effects than other types of firms. This study also provides companies and managers with insights in decision-making and recommendations from a managerial perspective.
English Neologisms in Modern Times

The study on neologisms or the new words created in a language has been gaining strength lately and has been getting the attention of linguists. It is obvious that neologisms produce a feeling of curiosity since they frequently appear in the vocabulary of speakers quite suddenly. For this reason, researchers have tried to explain how they are created and have also tried to classify them into different categories, even though they do not always coincide in their approach. While there is a general awareness of the meaning of neologisms that we use daily, researchers have investigated the reasons for their emergence, the preference that speakers show among competing forms of these new words and how they develop. The main aim of this paper is to understand neologisms in English and in the second place to discuss their role in the classroom of English as a foreign language briefly. In order to do so, based on previous research on the topic, I have classified neologisms into four main categories of neologisms: those that are newly coined terms, when the new word is a word that already exists in the language but with some changes in its form, when the new word has the same form but has undergone some non-formal changes, such as a change in its meaning or grammatical category, and finally when the new word has a foreign source (i.e. has been adopted from another language). Next, I will show that many modern neologisms have emerged in different areas as a consequence of a number of specific factors and circumstances such as the development of technology and science, new situations like Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, neologisms can also be found in news and advertising. I will propose that neologisms in these areas have spread quickly especially due to the Internet, websites and social media which have become the ideal channels for their spread. In the last part of this paper, I will discuss neologisms in EFL and I will argue that it is important to incorporate neologisms in the EFL lessons because they are part of the English culture and language and therefore EFL students should know them too.
AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)

The dramatic growth of SNS has created a myriad of information privacy. To achieve our objective, first, this study estimates the monetary value of information privacy by using the CVM. Second, it is estimated how the monetary value of information privacy would change according to demographic information, SNS usage cycle information, the Characteristics of SNS users, and the SNS features. As a result, sensitive SNS users for information privacy have following characteristics: 30s, higher education, less Monthly Expenditure or far more monthly expenditure, lower SNS use ability, more number of followers, little event experiences, shorter SNS experience, higher account open limit level and privacy invasion experiences. Also, the total WTA mean is $28/number. The monetary value of information privacy according to SNS features have the following characteristics. Those who use private SNS, the value of Profile, Location information, and the purpose of Sharing and Friendship are more important.
Primary Bone Tumors: Epidemiologic Comparison of 9200 Patients Treated at Beijing Ji Shui Tan Hospital, Beijing, China, With 10 165 Patients at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

CONTEXT Although primary bone tumors are extremely rare, the literature suggests that there are variations in the epidemiologic characteristics in different populations. The most frequently cited epidemiologic characteristics of primary bone tumors are derived from a large US series (Mayo Clinic), with no comparable study thus far performed in China. OBJECTIVE To identify any potential epidemiologic differences between Chinese patients and a US series of patients. DESIGN We performed a comparison study between 9200 patients treated at Beijing Ji Shui Tan Hospital (JST) and 10 165 patients treated at Mayo Clinic (MC), Rochester Minnesota. Detailed epidemiologic features were analyzed. RESULTS We found that giant cell tumor and osteosarcoma have significantly higher incidences in the JST than the MC patients (P < .001). However, JST patients had a significantly lower incidence of Ewing sarcoma, chordoma, fibrosarcoma, myeloma, and malignant lymphoma (P < .001). For most benign and malignant bone tumors, the Chinese cohort had a more distinct male predominance than the US cohort. Malignant bone tumors had a monomodal age distribution in the JST patient group, with a bimodal age distribution in the MC cohort. Also, there were was a predilection for tumors of the femur and tibia among the JST patients (P < .001). CONCLUSIONS Our data confirm that epidemiologic variations of primary bone tumors exist in different populations. Factors that may contribute to these observed differences are proposed and discussed.
Use of Structural Equation Modeling to improve the Plastic Waste Management of a Brazilian capital

This paper aims to use Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to suggest improvements for increasing the performance of plastic waste management in Salvador, the third most populated Brazilian city, in a country that keeps open dumps as the destination of most of the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). To achieve the objective, it was necessary a literature review of successful cases from countries and an analysis of the local market. The data collection concerns plastics recycling and profiles of waste management companies. There was also: elaboration and delivery of a survey to the academic and professional public; analysis via software of the data collected; and suggestions regarding plastics recycling rate, market maturity of this kind of waste, and socioeconomic and infrastructural aspects for optimized reverse logistics performance (effectiveness with efficiency). Thus, it must achieve more profitability in reducing waste in inadequate spots and feeding socio-environmental entrepreneurship for the benefit of the Circular Economy. The coefficients of determination, outer loadings, outer weights, collinearity statistics, and bootstrapping values were measured. They suggested that the model is regular for recommending improvements.
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The Pearson correlation coefficient is a commonly used measure of correlation, but it has limitations as it only measures the linear relationship between two numerical variables. In 2007, Székely et al. [SRB07] introduced the distance correlation, which measures all types of dependencies between random vectors X and Y in arbitrary dimensions, not just the linear ones. In this thesis, we propose a filter method that utilizes distance correlation as a criterion for feature selection in Random Forest regression. We conduct extensive simulation studies to evaluate its performance compared to existing methods under various data settings, in terms of the prediction mean squared error. The results show that our proposed method is competitive with existing methods and outperforms all other methods in high-dimensional ( p ≥ 300 ) nonlinearly related data sets. The applicability of the proposed method is also illustrated by two real data applications.
Mixed-Spin-P ﬁelds of Fermat polynomials

This is the ﬁrst part of the project toward an eﬀective algorithm to evaluate all genera Gromov-Witten invariants of quintic Calabi-Yau threefolds. In this paper, we introduce the notion of Mixed-Spin-P ﬁelds, construct their moduli spaces, and construct the virtual cycles of these moduli spaces