Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Globalization of Markets

Globalization means the ability to produce and /or sell goods/services in global markets in open competition with others. Only the fittest will survive in open competition. There exists comprehensive foreign competition with respect to almost every product all over the world. The globalization of markets has vastly increased international competition. While pursuing the strategy of globalization, the firms have to face the challenges of managing human, technological, physical resources in the foreign markets. The globalization of markets and manufacturing has vastly increased international competition.
Patch-Wise Charge Distribution Density for 3 D Model Retrieval

The cornerstone of any 3D retrieval system is a shape descriptor. They have a huge influence over the quality of model matching. This paper presents a novel local 3D shape descriptor based on a fact from electrical physics about the distribution of electrical charge on the surface of a solid. After distributing charge Q on the surface of each model, a number of patches is evenly distributed over the surfaces of each model are extracted and the charge density of each patch is considered as its local descriptor. The bag-of-features framework is leveraged to perform global matching using the local patch descriptors. Experimental results over the SHREC 2011 dataset test the performance of the proposed approach. Beside the robustness of the proposed approach against linear transformation and noise, its retrieval quality is quite comparable to the state-of-the-art approaches participated in the SHREC 2011 contest.
QoS Management in Home Network

A home network could control many devices, all of them working together to keep your home comfortable, entertaining, and safe. Home network includes many appliances and heterogeneity networks, which need to different QoS , so how to realize the aim that guarantee the QoS is very important. This article focuses on QoS management in home network based on a hybrid network architecture. This network architecture and QoS management framework are more generally applicable, and we anticipate they will form the basis for home network independent of the physical medium.
PENURUNAN KECEMASAN DAN KOPING ORANG TUA DALAM MERAWAT ANAK YANG MENGALAMI HOSPITALISASI MELALUI PENERAPAN CARING SWANSON DI RS MARDI WALUYO BLITAR

ABSTRAK Pendahuluan: Hospitalisasi pada anak dapat menimbulkan stress baik pada anak maupun orang tua. Kecemasan pada orang tua menimbulkan suatu mekanisme koping yang nantinya diperlukan dalam mengatasi suatu stress. Salah satu upaya untuk meminimalkan kecemasan dan koping orang tua tersebut dengan mengoptimalkan peran perawat dalam memberikan informasi dan dukungan kepada orang tua melalui penerapan caring. Metode: Penelitian ini menggunakan metode Pre-experimental One Group Pret-Post test Design yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui adanya penurunan kecemasan dan peningkatan koping orang tua pasien anak dengan adanya perilaku caring Swanson. Sampel yang digunakan 14 orang perawat dengan teknik total sampling dan 47 orang tua pasien dengan teknik purposive sampling. Variabel independent penelitian ini adalah perilaku caring perawat sedangkan variable dependentnya kecemasan dan koping orang tua pasien. Responden perawat mendapat perlakuan intervensi berupa sosialisasi dan bimbingan perilaku caring Swanson sedangkan responden orang tua mendapatkan intervensi perilaku caring Swanson oleh perawat ruangan di IRNA Nusa Indah Mardi Waluyo Blitar. Data penelitian ini di olah menggunakan uji Paired t test. Hasil dan analisa: Hasil menunjukkan bahwa nilai p adalah 0,000 (
Gaussian Process Vine Copulas for Multivariate Dependence

Copulas allow to learn marginal distributions separately from the multivariate dependence structure (copula) that links them together into a density function. Vine factorizations ease the learning of high-dimensional copulas by constructing a hierarchy of conditional bivariate copulas. However, to simplify inference, it is common to assume that each of these conditional bivariate copulas is independent from its conditioning variables. In this paper, we relax this assumption by discovering the latent functions that specify the shape of a conditional copula given its conditioning variables. We learn these functions by following a Bayesian approach based on sparse Gaussian processes with expectation propagation for scalable, approximate inference. Experiments on real-world datasets show that, when modeling all conditional dependencies, we obtain better estimates of the underlying copula of the data.
Teachers' Innovations: A Preliminary Look at Sources, Kinds, and Gross Effectiveness of Indigenous Classroom Innovations.

This preliminary study was conducted to examine indigenous classroom innovation, defined as any instructional, curricular, or other change a teacher reported making in the current year or in recent years. Such innovations were described in interviews with 11 teachers in three diverse schools settings, who either created the innovations or introduced them into their classrooms. Sixty-one innovations were described and have been categorized as follows: (1) instructional (a new way of presenting or activating curricular content); (2) curricular (emphasizes some new substantive skill or content); (3) governance (new classroom or group management techniques); (4) relational (change to affect socio-emotional or work relations); (5) motivational, emotional, attentional (any new activity designed to energize learning); and (6) imposed (new curricular, instructional, or other approach that has come down from above by policy). Sources of innovative ideas, their educational impact, effective innovations, and dimensions of the qualities of innovation are presented. Narrative descriptions of innovations from five teachers considered particularly effective are included. (LL) *********************************************************************** AvpruuucLions supplies Dy LUI(b are the nest tnat can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** 00 C? TEACHERS' INNOVATIONS: A PRELIMINARY LOOK AT SOURCES, KINDS, AND GROSS EFFECTIVENESS OF INDIGENOUS CLASSROOM INNOVATIONS
Study of GALS based FPGA Architecture Using CAD Tool

Globally asynchronous and locally synchronous (GALS) paradigm is to partition a system design in decoupled clock-independent modules. GALS design eliminates the issue of using global clock and decrease area overhead when compared to such a globally asynchronous design methodology. Routing delays dominate other delays in current FPGA designs. We have proposed a novel Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS) FPGA architecture called the GAPLA to deal with this problem. In the GAPLA architecture, the FPGA area is divided into locally synchronous blocks and the communications between them arc through asynchronous I/O interfaces. Automatic design flow is developed for the GAPLA architecture. Starting from behavioral description, a design is partitioned into smaller modules and fit to GAPLA synchronous blocks. The asynchronous communications between modules are then synthesized. The CAD flow is parameterized in modeling the GAPLA architecture. By manipulating the parameters, we could study different factors of the designed GAPLA architecture. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of our architecture.
Sonic hedgehog promotes generation and maintenance of human forebrain Olig2 progenitors

Function of oligodendrocytes (OLs), myelin forming cells in the CNS, is disrupted in demyelinating diseases such as periventricular leukomalacia or multiple sclerosis. It is, thus, important to better understand factors that can affect generation or differentiation of human OLs. In rodents, Sonic hedgehog (Shh) is influencing expression of Olig2, a helix-loop-helix transcription factor required for development of OLs. In humans, Olig2 is present in cortical progenitors at midgestation, however the role of Shh in the specification of human OLs, including Olig2 positive (Olig2+) progenitors, is not fully understood. Here we studied in vitro effects of Shh signaling on proliferation and specification of human cortical Olig2+ progenitors at midgestation. First, we established that the spatial pattern of Olig2 expression in the human developing CNS, described on cryosections, was preserved in mixed and enriched radial glia cell (RGC) cultures. Next, we demonstrated that in vitro treatment with Shh induced an increase in the number of Olig2+ progenitors. Shh treatment increased the density of early oligodendrocyte progenitors (OPCs) at the expense of RGC, while the number of late OPCs, did not change. However, inhibition of endogenous Shh with cyclopamine did not reduce the density of Olig2+ cells, implying the presence of an additional Shh-independent mechanism for OLs generation in vitro. These results suggest that the primary role of Shh signaling in the human dorsal oligodendrogenesis is the expansion and specification of multipotent radial glia progenitors into Olig2+ early OPCs. These results obtained in vitro are relevant to understand primary myelination during CNS development, as well as remyelination in demyelinating diseases.
Development of soil pH and lime requirement maps using on-the-go soil sensors.

Since conventional sampling and laboratory soil analysis do not provide a cost effective capability to obtain georeferenced measurements with adequate frequency, different onthe-go sensing techniques have been attempted. One such recently commercialized sensing system combines mapping of soil electrical conductivity and pH. The concept of direct measurement of soil pH has allowed for a substantial increase in measurement density. In this publication, the analysis of variable rate lime prescription maps is discussed. Liming rates generated from on-the-go measurements can result in improved prediction of liming requirement compared to the conventional 1 ha grid sampling (RMSE = 1354 versus 2506 kg/ha).
Analyzing Production Process Performance through Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

Nature-inspired computational techniques are nowadays being developed for and employed in various application domains. Evolutionary algorithms, known as general and robust optimizers, have recently been extended to deal with multiobjective optimization where search for the best among candidate solutions is performed not according to one, but multiple, usually conflicting objectives. In this paper we show how evolutionary multiobjective optimization can be used in parameter tuning and performance analysis of a metallurgical production process where several empirical criteria are applied to ensure the process safety and product quality. The paper introduces the concept of multiobjective optimization and the applied algorithm, describes the considered task of process parameter tuning and the performed numerical experiments, and discusses the obtained results. In contrast to single-objective optimization, the multiobjective approach enables a much better insight into the process performance.
A Non Membrane-Targeted Human Soluble CD59 Attenuates Choroidal Neovascularization in a Model of Age Related Macular Degeneration

Age related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of blindness amongst the elderly. Approximately 10% of AMD patients suffer from an advanced form of AMD characterized by choroidal neovascularization (CNV). Recent evidence implicates a significant role for complement in the pathogenesis of AMD. Activation of complement terminates in the incorporation of the membrane attack complex (MAC) in biological membranes and subsequent cell lysis. Elevated levels of MAC have been documented on choroidal blood vessels and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) of AMD patients. CD59 is a naturally occurring membrane bound inhibitor of MAC formation. Previously we have shown that membrane bound human CD59 delivered to the RPE cells of mice via an adenovirus vector can protect those cells from human complement mediated lysis ex vivo. However, application of those observations to choroidal blood vessels are limited because protection from MAC- mediated lysis was restricted only to the cells originally transduced by the vector. Here we demonstrate that subretinal delivery of an adenovirus vector expressing a transgene for a soluble non-membrane binding form of human CD59 can attenuate the formation of laser-induced choroidal neovascularization and murine MAC formation in mice even when the region of vector delivery is distal to the site of laser induced CNV. Furthermore, this same recombinant transgene delivered to the intravitreal space of mice by an adeno-associated virus vector (AAV) can also attenuate laser-induced CNV. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a non-membrane targeting CD59 having biological potency in any animal model of disease in vivo. We propose that the above approaches warrant further exploration as potential approaches for alleviating complement mediated damage to ocular tissues in AMD.
Examining Student Satisfaction with the Student Services Center at a Local Community College

5 Introduction 6 Review of Literature 6 How Services Are Developed 8 Student Affairs Models 12 Available Services 14 Students As Customers 19 Student Needs 21 Method 27 Participants 27 Instrumentation 27 Procedures 28 Results 29 Exceeding Expectations 30 Relationships 31 Examining Student Satisfaction 5 Consistency of Experience of Services Across Campuses 34 Knowledge and Demeanor of Faculty/Staff 35 Discussion 37 Limitations of the Study 38 Program Recommendations 38 Improving Retention 39 Addressing Staff Knowledge and Demeanor 39 Office of Multiculturalism 40 Future Research 40 Conclusion 41 References 43 Appendix A (Focus Group Questions) 46 Appendix B (Student Services Customer Satisfaction Survey) 48 Appendix C (Survey Responses) 50 Appendix D (Consent Form & Permission to Tape) 53 Examining Student Satisfaction 6
ESSAYS ON THE VALUE OF A FIRM'S ECO- FRIENDLINESS IN THE FINANCIAL ASSET MARKET

OF DISSERTATION ESSAYS ON THE VALUE OF A FIRM’S ECO-FRIENDLINESS IN THE FINANCIAL ASSET MARKET This dissertation presents three different closely related topics on the value of ecofriendliness in the financial market. The first essay attempts to estimate hedonic stock price model to find a contemporaneous relationship between stock return and firms’ environmental performance and recover the value of investor’s willingness to pay of ecofriendliness. This study follows stock and environmental performances of the 500 largest US firms from 2009 to 2012. The firms’ environmental data come from the Newsweek Green Ranking, both aggregate measures: green ranking (GR) and green score (GS), and disaggregate measures: environmental impact score (EIS), green policy and performance score (GPS), reputation survey score (RSS), and environmental disclosure score (EDS). The results show a non-linear relationship between environmental variables and stock return, i.e. upside down bowl shape or increasing in decreasing rate. That means for low green ranking firms the marginal effect is positive while for high green ranking firms the marginal effect is negative. The investor’s willingness to pay (WTP) for a greener stock for firms in the lowest 25 green ranking, on average, is 0.0096% higher stock price The second essays attempt to determine if a firm’s environmental performance affects future systematic risk. Systematic risk measures an individual stock’s volatility relative to the market price. This study also uses the Newsweek Green Ranking’s environmental variables. The results show significant evidence of a non-linear relationship between green variables and systematic (market) risk, but the shape is not unanimous for all environmental variables. The shape of the relationship for green ranking (GR), for example, is U-shape. This means that for the firms in the bottom rank, improving rank will lower systematic (market) risk, and for the firms in the top rank improving rank will increase systematic (market) risk. On average the marginal effect for the firms in the bottom and top 25 firms are -0.2% and 0.09% respectively. The third essay is the effect of a firm’s environmental performances on a firm’s idiosyncratic risk. Idiosyncratic risk measures an individual stock’s volatility independent from the market price. This study also uses the Newsweek Green Ranking’s environmental variables. The results show significant non-linear relationships between environmental variables and idiosyncratic risk, even though there is no unanimous shape among the environmental variables. In the case of green ranking, for example, it has U-shape; for the firms in the bottom rank, improving green ranking will lower idiosyncratic risk and for firm in the top green ranking, improving green ranking will increase idiosyncratic risk. On average the marginal effect for firm in bottom and top 25 firms are -0.4% and 0.2% respectively.
Spatial Approximation between Secretin Residue Five and the Third Extracellular Loop of Its Receptor Provides New Insight into the Molecular Basis of Natural Agonist Binding

The amino terminus of class II G protein-coupled receptors plays an important role in ligand binding and receptor activation. Understanding of the conformation of the amino-terminal domain of these receptors has been substantially advanced with the solution of nuclear magnetic resonance and crystal structures of this region of receptors for corticotrophin-releasing factor, pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide, and gastric inhibitory polypeptide. However, the orientation of the amino terminus relative to the receptor core and how the receptor gets activated upon ligand binding remain unclear. In this work, we have used photoaffinity labeling to identify a critical spatial approximation between residue five of secretin and a residue within the proposed third extracellular loop of the secretin receptor. This was achieved by purification, deglycosylation, cyanogen bromide cleavage, and sequencing of labeled wild-type and mutant secretin receptors. This constraint has been used to refine our evolving molecular model of secretin docked at the intact receptor, which for the first time includes refined helical bundle and loop regions and reflects a peptide-binding groove within the receptor amino terminus that directs the amino terminus of the peptide toward the receptor body. This model is fully consistent with the endogenous agonist mechanism for class II G protein-coupled receptor activation, where ligand binding promotes the interaction of a portion of the receptor amino terminus with the receptor body to activate it.
Capital Structure of Firms in an Emerging Market: An Empirical Inquiry

We investigate several possible determinants of firms' capital structure in the emer ging market of Egypt. Our sample comprises 43 firms in 13 different industries over the 1997-2000 period. The empirical results suggest that non-debt tax shelters are a primary determinant of long-term leverage, while the unlevered tax rate is the key fac tor explaining short-term leverage. Other conventional determinants of capital struc ture like market/book value ratio and capital gains (losses) from changes in the firms' stock prices fail to produce any significant explanatory power for either longor short term leverages.
Pubertal development in ICSI children.

BACKGROUND To date, information on the pubertal development of adolescents born after ICSI is scarce, since the very first cohort is only now reaching young adulthood. In this study, pubertal development at the age of 14 was characterized in a longitudinally followed cohort of ICSI-conceived teenagers and compared with that of a spontaneously conceived (SC) control group. METHODS Pubertal development was assessed by Tanner staging (breast, genital and pubic hair development) and age at menarche in 217 singleton ICSI-conceived children (116 boys, 101 girls) and 223 SC peers (115 boys, 108 girls). ICSI teenagers were part of a previously published cohort followed since birth; controls were a cross-sectional sample recruited from schools. Differences in pubertal development between ICSI and SC children were analyzed with logistic regression of current status data. RESULTS Mean age at menarche was similar in ICSI and SC girls (13.1 ± 1.2 versus 13.1 ± 1.4 years; P = 0.8). Breast developmental at the age of 14 years was less advanced in ICSI females compared with SC females, even after adjustment for demographic (age, BMI), genetic (maternal age at menarche), social (maternal educational level) and early life factors (birthweight, gestational age and maternal parity) [odds ratio (OR) 0.5; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.3-0.8]. After adjustment, genital development in the 14-year-old boys was comparable in the ICSI and SC groups (OR 1.1; 95% CI 0.7-1.8), pubic hair development was comparable in the ICSI and SC groups, for both males (OR 0.9; 95% CI 0.7-1.6) and females (OR 0.7; 95% CI 0.4-1.3). CONCLUSIONS We found that pubertal development, characterized by menarche, genital development in males and pubic hair development in males and females, was comparable in the ICSI and SC groups. Breast developmental was less advanced in ICSI females compared with SC peers, even after adjustment for known potential confounders. In order to confirm that progression through subsequent stages of pubertal development occurs on a timely basis in ICSI teenagers, long-term follow-up studies up to adulthood are required.
Recent advances in treatment of aplastic anemia

Recent advances in the treatment of aplastic anemia (AA) made most of patients to expect to achieve a long-term survival. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) from HLA-matched sibling donor (MSD-SCT) is a preferred first-line treatment option for younger patients with severe or very severe AA, whereas immunosuppressive treatment (IST) is an alternative option for others. Horse anti-thymocyte globuline (ATG) with cyclosporin A (CsA) had been a standard IST regimen with acceptable response rate. Recently, horse ATG had been not available and replaced with rabbit ATG in most countries. Subsequently, recent comparative studies showed that the outcomes of patients who received rabbit ATG/CsA were similar or inferior compared to those who received horse ATG/CsA. Therefore, further studies to improve the outcomes of IST, including additional eltrombopag, are necessary. On the other hand, the upper age limit of patients who are able to receive MSD-SCT as first-line treatment is a current issue because of favorable outcomes of MSD-SCT of older patients using fludarabine-based conditioning. In addition, further studies to improve the outcomes of patients who receive allogeneic SCT from alternative donors are needed. In this review, current issues and the newly emerging trends that may improve their outcomes in near futures will be discussed focusing the management of patients with AA.