Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
“Health Is Better Than Wealth”: Controversies of the Marketization of Vital Goods (The Case of the Moscow Dental Market). Summary

This article, based on the examination of the Moscow dental market, focuses on the social construction of market commodities out of vital goods. Through qualitative content analysis of 184 dental clinics’ websites and 25 in-depth interviews with dentists and managers of Moscow commercial clinics, I reconstruct dominant views about the nature of dental services as a commercial product, its social meanings, and parameters of quality. I show that actors categorize their commercial services in terms of medical assistance, professional duty, and qualiﬁcations or skills. An emphasis on personalized care enables clinics to avoid suspicions of a mercenary approach to their patients. The results of my study contradict assumptions about the inevitable dehumanization of medicine through the marketization of healthcare and suggest that, instead of criticizing the expansion of markets within social life, sociologists should look more closely at the practical mechanisms, processes, and conditions of marketization in contemporary society. In Russian, extended summary in English.
Development of a Multi-Agent-Based Simulation System for Air Quality Analysis

The implementation of distributed collaborative intelligence can improve the efficiency of agent-based environmental systems (for environmental networks) in the context of solving emergency situations in real time, such as the critical situation of severe air pollution with an important impact in a given region. In this paper it is presented a distributed multi-agent system for air quality monitoring and analysis (AQDMAS) whose first version was implemented in Zeus, a Java-based toolkit for intelligent agents’ development. The study is focused on the possibilities of the computer network distribution of the software agents. The purpose of the system is to verify the air quality standard fulfilment, and if, in case some exceedances occur, to inform the supervisor in order to take a decision. For this version there were designed seven intelligent agents placed in a local computer network in the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti campus in Romania. The results revealed the effectiveness of the proposed monitoring and analyzing technique and the possibility of autonomous built-in simulation of tracking the air quality evolution with distributed resources.
Knowledge Management Hybrid Strategy with People, Technology and Process Pillars

The importance of knowledge management (KM) contributes organizational competi‐ tiveness, which is widely addressed and became a central topic of management agenda in the last decade. This chapter examines three major KM pillars, including people, process, and technology, for effective KM deployment. Based on a questionnaire‐based survey, the study investigates the perceived importance of three KM pillars that influence organi ‐ zational inclinations of KM strategies and ultimately affect organizational performance. Quantitative findings are sought from 44 key informants in organizations. The results show a hybrid strategy that balances the importance of people, process, and technol‐ ogy pillars brings desirable impact on organizational performance, comparing with the KM strategy inclined to a particular KM pillar. Recommendations of KM endeavors on three KM pillars are provided to suggest the joint efforts from both management and employees.
The Correlation Between the Anxiety and the Amount of the Sweat Gland Secretion in the Patients with Palmar Hyperhidrosis

Hyperhidrosis is also known as polyhidrosis or sudorrhea, which defines as the secretion of the sweat that exceeds the amount necessary for thermoregulation of the body. Palmar hyperhidrosis is excessive sweat secretion and is limited to the area of the palm. Anxiety is associated with feelings of uncertainty and helplessness. This emotional state does not have a specific object. Conditions subjectively experienced and communicated in interpersonal relationships. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between anxiety with the number of sweat glands secretion in patients with palmar hyperhidrosis. This study was an observational study with cross sectional design and analytical approach, conducted at Outpatient Clinic of Dermatology and Venereology Department of Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo Makassar, Hasanuddin University Hospital, and Senior High School in Makassar. This study began in February to April 2016. The number of samples are 40 people who suffered from palmar hyperhidrosis with the largest age distribution that is less than 20 years as many as 26 samples (65.0%). A total of 40 samples (100.0%) do not suffer secondary disorder, experiencing excessive sweating for at least 6 months, lasting at least one week, with bilateral symmetrical distribution, the onset of age 25 or younger and no sweat at night day. Family history of suffering from palmar hyperhidrosis were found in 12 samples (30.0%). There is a daily impact on palmar hyperhidrosis patients as many as 13 samples (32.5%). Students are the most in this study as many as 26 samples (65.0%). The onset of age palmar hyperhidrosis is the most at the age of 13 to 18 years from 21 samples (52.2). The severe palmar hyperhidrosis is the most in this study, there are 16 samples (40.0%). The degrees of moderate anxiety were the most in this study as many as 25 samples (62.5%). In this study, there is a tendency relationship between the degree of anxiety by the number of sweat glands secretion. Norepinephrine associated with severity of palmar hyperhidrosis. The highest level of norepinephrine is in the mild grade of palmar hyperhidrosis. There is a tendency correlation between the score of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety with blood plasma norepinephrine levels.
Effect of fine ceramic recycled aggregate (RA) and mixed fine RA on hardened properties of concrete

The ceramic industry is well known for producing large amounts of rejected ceramic waste. During the construction and demolition waste crushing process, a large amount of fine recycled aggregates (FRA) are usually produced. However, little research work has been carried out employing those types of aggregates in recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) production. In this research work, mixed and ceramic FRA in partial replacement of 10, 20, 35 and 50% of natural fine aggregates were used in order to verify their applicability in RAC manufacturing. All the concretes were produced to have the same workability. The physical, mechanical and durability properties of the RAC were determined and compared with the results obtained for conventional concrete. The results showed that an increase in the percentages of FRA used in the concrete production led to a decrease in density and an increase in water absorption. The mechanical and durability properties of all the concretes produced with fine ceramic recycled aggregat.
Ultrastructural Study of Elaeis guineensis (Oil Palm) Leaf and Antimicrobial Activity of its Methanol Extract against Staphylococcus Aureus

Purpose: To evaluate the antimicrobial activity of the methanol extract of Elaeis guineensis leaf against Staphylococcus aureus and to determine the effect of extract treatment on the microstructure of the microbe Methods: The antimicrobial activity of the methanol leaf extract of the plant against S. aureus was examined using disc diffusion and broth dilution methods. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were carried out to determine the major alterations in the microstructure of S. aureus after treatment with the extract. Results: The extract showed a good antimicrobial activity against S. aureus with a minimum inhibition concentration (MIC) of 6.25 mg/mL and for Chloramphenicol was 30.00 µg/mL. The main changes observed under SEM and TEM were structural disorganization of the cell membrane which occurred after 12 h and total collapse of the cell 36 h after exposure to the extract. Conclusion: We concluded that the methanolic extract of E. guineensis leaf exhibited good antimicrobial activity against S. aureus and this is supported by SEM and TEM.
Hydrothermal alteration in the core of the Yaxcopoil‐1 borehole, Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico

Abstract Petrographic, electron microprobe, and Raman spectrometric analyses of Yaxcopoil‐1 core samples from the Chicxulub crater indicate that the impact generated a hydrothermal system. Relative textural and vein crosscutting relations and systematic distribution of alteration products reveal a progression of the hydrothermal event in space and time and provide constraints on the nature of the fluids. The earliest calcite, halite, and gaylussite suggest that the impactite sequence was initially permeated by a low temperature saline brine. Subsequent development of a higher temperature hydrothermal regime is indicated by thermal metamorphic diopside‐hedenbergite (Aeg3Fs18‐33En32‐11Wo47‐53) after primary augite and widespread Na‐K for Ca metasomatic alkali exchange in plagioclase. Hydrothermal sphene, apatite, magnetite + (bornite), as well as early calcite (combined 3 to 8 vol%) were introduced with metasomatic feldspar. A lower temperature regime characterized by smectite after probable primary glass, secondary chlorite, and other pre‐existing mafic minerals, as well as very abundant calcite veins and open‐space fillings, extensively overprinted the early hydrothermal stage. The composition of early and late hydrothermal minerals show that the solution was chlorine‐rich (Cl/F >10) and that its Fe/Mg ratio and oxidation state increased substantially (4 to 5 logfO2 units) as temperature decreased through time. The most altered zone in the impactite sequence occurs 30 m above the impact melt. The lack of mineralogical zoning about the impact melt and convective modeling constraints suggest that this unit was too thin at Yaxcopoil‐1 to provide the necessary heat to drive fluids and implies that the hydrothermal system resulted from the combined effects of a pre‐existing saline brine and heat that traveled to the Yaxcopoil‐1 site from adjacent areas where the melt sheet was thicker. Limonite after iron oxides is more common toward the top of the sequence and suggests that the impactite section was subjected to weathering before deposition of the Tertiary marine cover. In addition, scarce latest anatase stringers, chalcopyrite, and barite in vugs, francolite after apatite, and recrystallized halite are the likely products of limited post‐hydrothermal ambient‐temperature diagenesis, or ocean and/or meteoric water circulation.
Improving Earnings per Share: An Illusory Motive in Stock Repurchases

Improving earnings per share (EPS) has been widely cited by financial managers to justify stock repurchases (Hribar et al., 2006). Other things equal, repurchasing stocks reduces the number of shares outstanding and boosts EPS. In practice, financial analysts and other market participants are closely monitoring and efficiently reacting to financial reports. If investors react to the boosted EPS around repurchase announcements, the positive correlation between the market reaction and the changes in EPS should then be observed. In this note, we find that, in Taiwan, investors do not react to the boosted EPS. EPS is calculated as the ratio of the earnings available to the number of common shares outstanding. Even if the number of common shares outstanding falls following repurchases, claims that this boosts EPS may not be warranted (Hribar et al., 2006). For example, US firms might decrease their EPS if too much annual earnings are used for repurchasing. To isolate the impact on the numerator, we use a Taiwanese sample of firms that, under regulation, are required to repurchase outstanding shares using retained earnings. This special regulatory requirement makes it possible to improve EPS following repurchases and intuitively leads us to examine whether investors react to the boosted EPS. First we identify whether the EPS has been improved in Taiwan around the repurchase announcements. Next, we modify the regression model in Zhang (2002)
OLSHANSKI SPHERICAL FUNCTIONS FOR INFINITE DIMENSIONAL MOTION GROUPS OF FIXED RANK

Consider the Gelfand pairs (Gp,Kp) := (Mp,q ⋊ Up,Up) associ- ated with motion groups over the fields F = R,C,H with pq and fixed q as well as the inductive limit p ! 1, the Olshanski spherical pair (G1,K1). We classify all Olshanski spherical functions of (G1,K1) as functions on the coneq of positive semidefinite q × q-matrices and show that they appear as (locally) uniform limits of spherical functions of (Gp,Kp) as p ! 1. The latter are given by Bessel functions onq. Moreover, we determine all posi- tive definite Olshanski spherical functions and discuss related positive integral representations for matrix Bessel functions. We also extend the results to the pairs (Mp,q ⋊ (Up × Uq),(Up × Uq)) which are related to the Cartan motion groups of non-compact Grassmannians. Here Dunkl-Bessel functions of type B (for finite p) and of type A (for p ! 1) appear as spherical functions.
Geographical distribution of a specific mitochondrial haplotype of Zymoseptoria tritici.

Severity of disease caused by the fungus Zymoseptoria tritici throughout world cereal growing regions has elicited much debate on the potential evolutionary mechanism conferring high adaptability of the pathogen to diverse climate conditions and different wheat hosts (Triticum durum and T. aestivum). Specific mitochondrial DNA sequence was used to investigate geographic distribution of the type 4 haplotype (mtRFLP4) within 1363 isolates of Z. tritici originating from 21 countries. The mtRFLP4 haplotype was detected from both durum and bread wheat hosts with greater frequency on durum wheat. The distribution of mtRFLP4 was limited to populations sampled from the Mediterranean and the Red Sea region. Greater frequencies of mtRFLP4 were found in Tunisia (87%) and Algeria (60%). The haplotype was absent within European, Australian, North and South American populations except Argentina. While alternative hypotheses such as climatic adaptation could not be ruled out, it is postulated that mtRFLP4 originated in North Africa (e.g. Tunisia or Algeria) as an adaptation to durum wheat as the prevailing cereal crop. The specialized haplotype has subsequently spread as indicated by lower frequency of occurrence in the surrounding Mediterranean countries and on bread wheat hosts.
New Strategy Control of Bidirectional Quazi Z Source Inverter with Batteries and Supercapacitors Energy Storage in Grid Connected Photovoltaic System

In this paper, a control of bidirectional Quasi-Z-Source Inverter (qZSI) with energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors) for photovoltaic power generation systems is presented. The quasi-Z-source inverter (qZSI) provides an alternative for the conventional two stages DC-DC/DC-AC photovoltaic (PV) based inverter system. The batteries and supercapacitors are used for compensate the necessitate power occurred in internal or external system parameters circumstances. The main objective of this study is to propose a suitable active and reactive power control for injecting or recovering the power between the electrical grid and PV system (batteries). For adjust the problem of rapid variation of climatic and the power grid conditions, the supercapacitors are controlled with buck-boost converter. Many simulation results obtained using MATLAB/SIMULINK in different rigorous situations show the performance of the proposed system.
THE CHALLENGES OF DISABILITY IN PAKISTAN: LISTENING TO THE VOICES OF MOTHERS

This study was conducted with the aim to explore the experiences of mothers in dealing with children having disabilities in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Through random sampling method 154 mothers of physically handicapped children studying in pre-schools and primary schools were selected as respondents. The main instrument used for data collection was researcher administered questionnaire. The data highlights that the disability of the children had been unexpected for all the mothers who participated in this research. The mothers reported to have been shocked (56%) and apprehended about the future of the children (41%). Some of the emotional problems encountered by the mothers included feelings of confusion and depression. The majority of the respondents had taken measures to treat the disability with the help of experienced professionals (51%) and by using therapeutic therapy (05%). The data demonstrates that measures taken by mothers to facilitate their children included seeking help from internet and engaging with support groups and friends.
Geometric morphometric comparison of trout barb, Capoeta trutta (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in the Tigris River basin

A total of 136 specimens of trout barb, Capoeta trutta (Heckel, 1843) from eight rivers of the Tigris Basin were caught by seine net to compare their shape using geometric morphometrics. After anesthesia, using 1% clove oil solution, the specimens were fixed in 10% buffered formalin and transferred to the Ichthyology Museum of Isfahan University of Technology for further studies. The left sides of the specimens were photographed using a copy-stand equipped with a digital camera. To extract body shape data, 13 homologous landmark-points were digitized using tpsDig2 software. After GPA superimposing, the landmark data, were analyzed using Principal Components Analysis (PCA), Canonical Variate Analysis (CVA) and Cluster Analysis (CA) to explore the patterns of variation in their body shape. All multivariate analyses were computed using PAST software. The consensus configuration of populations was visualized using the wireframe graphs in MorphoJ to compare their shape difference. The PCA, CVA and CA showed differences among the populations, especially, between Konjancham and other populations. This result showed that geometric morphometric methods could separate trout barb populations of the Tigris River Basin from each other to a great extent. Potential factors contributing to the observed variations include differences in physicochemical parameters of rivers and geographic distance among the populations. However, for more details, molecular studies are needed.
On the conjugacy problem in braid groups: Garside theory and subsurfaces

Garside-theoretical solutions to the conjugacy problem in braid groups depend on the determination of a characteristic subset of the conjugacy class of any given braid, e.g. the sliding circuit set. It is conjectured that, among rigid braids with a fixed number of strands, the size of this set is bounded by a polynomial in the length of the braids. In this paper we suggest a more precise bound: for rigid braids with $N$ strands and of length $L$, the sliding circuit set should have at most $C\cdot L^{N-2}$ elements, for some constant $C$. We construct a family of braids which realise this potential worst case. Our example braids suggest that having a large sliding circuit set is a geometric property of braids, as our examples have multiple subsurfaces with large subsurface projection; thus they are "almost reducible" in multiple ways, and act on the curve graph with small translation distance.
Isoinertial technology for rehabilitation and prevention of muscle injuries of soccer players: literature review

Introduction: Soccer is the sport with the highest risk of muscle injury for players. Eccentric exercise is fundamental for reducing injury rates and isoinertial technology devices cause an increase in eccentric demands after a concentric contraction. Objective: To identify the use of isoinertial technology in the fields of physical activity and sports for rehabilitation and prevention of muscle injuries reported in scientific literature. Materials and methods: A search of scientific papers in PubMed, Google Scholar, EMBASE and Science Direct data base was performed by using the following MeSH medical terms and search equations: [isoinertial AND technology AND flywheels] and [free weight AND sport AND humans AND soccer]. Results: 23 references, classified into three approaches, were selected: isoinertial technology for rehabilitation, fitness and injury prevention. The use of this technology is fundamental due to the increase of the eccentric demand in muscle groups. Conclusions: Isoinertial technology is a useful tool for treating and preventing injuries, as well as for the development of physical qualities. However, it is necessary to work on protocols that allow unifying its usage parameters so that it can be included in prevention programs.
Energy Use in Existing Dwellings: An Ethnographic Study of Energy Use Patterns in the Domestic Sector in Ireland

Energy efficiency research in dwellings has traditionally focused on technical matters, implying increased fabric insulation standards and using energy efficient appliances reduces energy consumption. However this research has been shown to have limitations in the form of the impact of policy and new technologies. As a result there is now widespread recognition of the importance for researchers to engage a broader approach of non-technical research of energy use such as occupant behavior. Monitoring of energy use down to a single appliance is now possible and relatively inexpensive. This paper presents the results of an ethnographic study, supported by monitoring, of energy use patterns for six dwellings with a diverse occupant demographic in Ireland. The study supported by monitoring found that occupant sex, age and behavior predominantly affected energy use followed by the presence of technology rather than the building fabric itself. Energy use in older technically less efficient dwellings with older occupants was found to be substantially less than that of the younger occupants in supposed more energy efficient houses. When given feedback, occupants were dispassionate when presented information in terms of energy units (kWh) but absorbed information straightforwardly once the same information was expressed in monetary terms. From the research it is clear that technology and modern living has had a transformational effect on the way we use energy which pose many problems for the future. Ethnographical research is a long established discipline in the field of social science but its importance is just burgeoning in relation to understand energy use patterns in buildings. Thus, in addition to the results the paper presents the lessons learned during the process and proposes a framework for future ethnographical research of energy use in dwellings.
Depression, anxiety and stress among incarcerated female offenders

Incarcerated female offenders have poorer mental health states compared to the general population. The present study set out to determine the levels of depression, anxiety and stress experienced by imprisoned female offenders. Through survey methods, quantitative data was obtained from 64 female offenders incarcerated at a correctional centre in Gauteng, South Africa. The questionnaire consisted of a biographical section and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale. The majority of respondents reported normal to moderate levels of depression (69.8%), anxiety (68.3%) and stress (74.2%). Nearly one in three respondents showed severe to extremely severe levels of depression (30.2%) and anxiety (31.8%). Unemployment prior to incarceration, having used illegal substances in the past, previous conviction and the duration of the prison sentence showed a significant correlation (p<0.05) with depression, anxiety and stress. It appears that some situations in prison promote anxiety since more than half of respondents (57.8%) identified with the statement “I found myself in situations that made me so stressed that I was most relieved when they ended”. The greater part of respondents had relatively high levels of education which could in part explain the results of the survey.