Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Gaia-ESO Survey: A globular cluster escapee in the Galactic halo

A small fraction of the halo field is made up of stars that share the light element (Z <= 13) anomalies characteristic of second generation globular cluster (GC) stars. The ejected stars shed light on the formation of the Galactic halo by tracing the dynamical history of the clusters, which are believed to have once been more massive. Some of these ejected stars are expected to show strong Al enhancement at the expense of shortage of Mg, but until now no such star has been found. We search for outliers in the Mg and Al abundances of the few hundreds of halo field stars observed in the first eighteen months of the Gaia-ESO public spectroscopic survey. One halo star at the base of the red giant branch, here referred to as 22593757-4648029 is found to have [Mg/Fe] = -0.36 +/- 0.04 and [Al/Fe] = 0.99 +/- 0.08, which is compatible with the most extreme ratios detected in GCs so far. We compare the orbit of 22593757-4648029 to GCs of similar metallicity and find it unlikely that this star has been tidally stripped with low ejection velocity from any of the clusters. However, both chemical and kinematic arguments render it plausible that the star has been ejected at high velocity from the anomalous GC omega Centauri within the last few billion years. We cannot rule out other progenitor GCs, because some may have disrupted fully, and the abundance and orbital data are inadequate for many of those that are still intact.
Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in Male Breast Cancer: Results From a Bicentric Population.

PURPOSE We aim to assess the diagnostic and prognostic values of 18Ffluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) in a small population with male breast cancer (MBC). MATERIALS AND METHODS From May 2005 to Jul 2013, we retrospectively reinterpreted 31 FDG PET/CT scans of 25 men (mean age: 67 years; range: 51-81 years) with a proven breast cancer diagnosis, from two Italian centers. In the majority of patients, an invasive ductal cancer was present (68%). PET/CT scan was performed for initial staging in 5 (16%), restaging in 18 (58%), restaging for the increase of tumor markers in 4 (13%), response to therapy in 2 (6%) and during follow-up in 2 cases (6%). The prognostic impact of PET/CT in this male breast cancer population was assessed by using Kaplan-Meier analysis. RESULTS Nuclear medicine imaging was negative in 10 subjects while it resulted positive in the residual 15 patients (60%). At initial staging, in four out of five cases, PET/CT showed a significant uptake in the primary cancer and of those three had also a loco-regional lymphatic and distant metastatic involvement. In restaging setting, PET/CT was more accurate than conventional imaging for detection of distant metastases, resolving two false-positive findings. Finally, a positive PET/CT scan was demonstrated to be prognostically unfavorable as compared to a negative exam. CONCLUSIONS MBC is a rare tumor with similar biological and metabolic characteristics of female breast cancer. FDG PET/CT seems to be useful, particularly in the restaging setting, to delineate the correct therapeutic approach and to predict the prognosis.
GPL - "Viral" License or "Viral" Contract

Version 3 of the GPL, the most widely used free software license, has been publicly debated since January 2006 and its second draft is already available. Among the most discussed novelties belong Digital Rights Management and Patent Retaliation clauses. However, there are still a few legal issues which are less talked about, yet not properly resolved both in Europe and overseas. While in the United States GPL is considered by some a unilateral software license, pursuant to many national regulations outside U.S., including those of Czech republic and Slovakia, GPL is a contract. Such a fairly unimportant difference may lead to interesting legal questions regarding validity and enforceability of GPL around the globe.
THE EFFECT OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS TO AUDIT DELAY AND TIMELINESS (Empirical Study From Real Estate, and Property Company In Indonesia)

Implementasi Good Corporate Governance (GCG) yang menekankan pentingnya transparansi dan akuntabilitas publik dalam pelaksanaan audit sehingga dalam proses audit membutuhkan jangka waktu yang cukup lama agar menghasilkan kualitas opini yang baik. Informasi keuangan lebih banyak memiliki nilai bagi pengguna laporan keuangan bila disajikan tepat waktu. Terdapat beberapa faktor yang menyebabkan meningkatnya waktu pengauditan (Audit Delay) yang menyebabkan penundaan kelayakan pelaporan keuangan (Timeliness). Peneliti melihat adanya faktor internal dan eksternal perusahaan yang mempengaruhi lamanya waktu pengauditan dan ketepatan waktu pelaporan keuangan. Populasi dan Sampel penelitian ini yaitu pada perusahaan yang menerbitkan Laporan Keuangan di Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) tahun 2012-2014. Tekhnik Analsis yang digunakan adalah menggunakan uji statistika Regresi Berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa faktor Internal saja yang mempengaruhi secara signifikan Audit Delay yaitu Profitabilitas, Solvabilitas dan Ukuran Perusahaan, sedangkan untuk variabel Timeliness, faktor yang mempengaruhi secara signifikan yaitu Tingkat Profitabilitas, Solvablitas dan Ukuran Kantor Akuntan Publik. Penelitian ini diharapkan mampu memberikan penambahan pandangan untuk literatur Penundaan Audit dan Ketepatan Pelaporan Keuangan. Keyword : Faktor Internal, Faktor Eksternal, Audit Delay, Timeliness
Deaths and cardiovascular injuries due to device-assisted implantable cardioverter–defibrillator and pacemaker lead extraction

Aims An estimated 10 000–15 000 pacemaker and implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) leads are extracted annually worldwide using specialized tools that disrupt encapsulating fibrous tissue. Additional information is needed regarding the safety of the devices that have been approved for lead extraction. The aim of this study was to determine whether complications due to device-assisted lead extraction might be more hazardous than published data suggest, and whether procedural safety precautions are effective. Methods and results We searched the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Manufacturers and User Defined Experience (MAUDE) database from 1995 to 2008 using the search terms ‘lead extraction and death’ and ‘lead extraction and injury’. Additional product specific searches were performed for the terms ‘death’ and ‘injury’. Between 1995 and 2008, 57 deaths and 48 serious cardiovascular injuries associated with device-assisted lead extraction were reported to the FDA. Owing to underreporting, the FDA database does not contain all adverse events that occurred during this period. Of the 105 events, 27 deaths and 13 injuries occurred in 2007–2008. During these 2 years, 23 deaths were linked with excimer laser or mechanical dilator sheath extractions. The majority of deaths and injuries involved ICD leads, and most were caused by lacerations of the right atrium, superior vena cava, or innominate vein. Overall, 62 patients underwent emergency surgical repair of myocardial perforations and venous lacerations and 35 (56%) survived. Conclusion These findings suggest that device-assisted lead extraction is a high-risk procedure and that serious complications including death may not be mitigated by emergency surgery. However, skilled standby cardiothoracic surgery is essential when performing pacemaker and ICD lead extractions. Although the incidence of these complications is unknown, the results of our study imply that device-assisted lead extractions should be performed by highly qualified physicians and their teams in specialized centres.
Knowledge and Perceptions of a Plant-Based Diet Among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes and High Food Security Living in Rural Appalachian Ohio

3 Dedication . 5 Acknowledgments . 6 List of Tables . 12 List of Figures . 13 Chapter 1: Introduction . 14 Overview of Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease . 14 Diabetes and Related Dietary Outcomes . 16 Plant-Based Diets, Dietary Quality, and Health . 18 Theoretical Foundations . 19 Statement of Problem and Significance . 21 Research Questions . 21 Limitations and Delimitations . 22 Definition of Terms . 23 Audit trail . 23 Body mass index (BMI) . 23 Cardiovascular disease . 23 Chronic disease . 23 Confirmability . 23 Content analysis . 23
Minutiae Based Fingerprint Matching for Identification and Verification

: Fingerprints play distinguishing role in biometrics. They give unique identification to the individual. They are permanent and non changing character pattern. The fingerprint recognition consists of retrieving specific fingerprints from database. The characteristics or features of a fingerprint are extracted and used in identification process. In this paper, a minutiae based algorithm is discussed briefly for voting system. Proposed system aims implements a voting system using minutiae based algorithm with low FRR Rate. It is done by comparing a fingerprint against another fingerprint. For this multiple features are used for better matching accuracy. This approach mainly uses sample fingerprint images for extraction of minutiae points and then performing fingerprint matching. Our paper involves image enhancement, feature extraction and minutiae matching. It finally results matched fingerprint after real minutiae calculation.
The record of impact processes on the early Earth: A review of the first 2.5 billion years

Collisions and impact processes have been important throughout the history of the solar system, including that of the Earth. Small bodies in the early solar system, the planetesimals, grew through collisions, ultimately forming the planets. The Earth started growing ca. 4.56 Ga in this way. Its early history was dominated by violent impacts and collisions, of which we only have circumstantial evidence. The Earth was still growing and had reached ~70%–80% of its present mass when at ca. 4.5 Ga a Marssized protoplanet collided with Earth, leading to the formation of the moon—at least according to the currently most popular hypothesis of lunar origin. After its formation, the moon was subjected to intense post-accretionary bombardment between ca. 4.5 and 3.9 Ga. In addition, there is convincing evidence that the Moon experienced an interval of intense bombardment with a maximum at ca. 3.85 ± 0.05 Ga; subsequent mare plains as old as 3.7 or 3.8 Ga are preserved. It is evident that if a late heavy bombardment occurred on the Moon, the Earth must have been subjected to an impact flux at least as intense as that recorded on the Moon. The consequences for the Earth must have been devastating, although the exact consequences are the subject of debate (total remelting of the crust versus minimal effects on possibly emerging life forms). So far, no unequivocal record of a late heavy bombardment on the early Earth has been found. The earliest rocks on Earth date back to slightly after the end of the heavy bombardment, although there are relict zircons that have ages of up to 4.4 Ga (in which, however, no impact-characteristic shock features were found so far). In terms of evidence for impact on Earth, the first solid evidence exists in the form of various spherule layers found in South Africa and Australia with ages between ca. 3.4 and 2.5 Ga; these layers represent several (the exact number is still unknown) largescale impact events. The oldest documented (and preserved) impact craters on Earth have ages of 2.02 and 1.86 Ga. Thus, the impact record for more than half of the geological history of the Earth is incomplete and not well preserved, and we mostly have only indirect evidence regarding the impact record and its effects during the first 2.5 b.y. of Earth history.
Precise Facet Temperature Distribution of High- Power Laser Diodes: Unpumped Window Effect

A thermoreflectance technique is used to evaluate the temperature variations at the output facet of high-power GaAs-based laser diodes emitting at 980 nm. Two kinds of diodes with different unpumped windows (UPWs) are studied to determine the influence of UPW length on the temperature variation. We show that in the vicinity of the active region, where a catastrophic optical damage is most susceptible to occur, the short UPW diode heats much more (up to 40%) than the long UPW one.
The impact of dividend announcements on share price and trading volume: empirical evidence from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stock market response to dividend announcements in high growth emerging markets of Gulf countries. ,The sample includes 1,092 dividend announcements from 299 listed firms over the period 2010-2015. ,In the environment where there is an absence of capital gain and income tax, the authors find some evidence for the stock price reaction that partly supports the signaling hypothesis. The findings show that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) market is inefficient because of the leakage information before the announcement in bad news, and the delay of share price adjustment in good news. In addition, the authors report significant trading volume (TV) reaction in all the three announcements clusters, where dividends increase, decrease, and are constant, lending support to the hypothesis that the dividend change announcements have an impact on the TV response due to different investors’ preferences. ,This is the first empirical paper on market reaction in share price and TV around dividend announcement using data for the majority of GCC countries.
Integrated Vehicle Dynamics Control —state-of-the art review

Chassis control systems have evolved dramatically over the past two decades and their impacts on vehicle dynamics can be usefully separated into the three directions, i.e. lateral, longitudinal and vertical directions. Accordingly, the state survey of chassis control systems can be reviewed in following sub-system areas, i.e. steering, driveline/braking and suspension. The developments within each of these areas have progressed at different rates and each has had different impacts on improving vehicle behavior in relation to safety, ride, handling dynamics or economy. However, the biggest challenge is in the whole chassis integration of these sub-systems to avoid their interventions and thus to improve overall vehicle dynamics performance. Hence, a hot research topic, named integrated vehicle dynamics control (IVDC) or integrated chassis control, arose. Based on the published literatures in the recent twenty years, this paper presents a comprehensive state of the art survey on IVDC. First, the roadmap and methodologies of IVDC are reviewed, and then the control strategies of coordination between the subsystems are summarized. At present, integration technique between steering and braking/traction has been most concerned, and is being researched and developed intensively both in academic and industrial aspects. It can be expected that once X-by-Wire technology and actuator hardware are further developed, more potential benefits of IVDC can be obtained.
Adverse Events in Cancer Genetic Testing: Medical, Ethical, Legal, and Financial Implications

AbstractCancer genetic counseling and testing are now integral services in progressive cancer care. There has been much debate over whether these services should be delivered by providers with specialized training in genetics or by all clinicians. Adverse outcomes resulting from cancer genetic counseling and testing performed by clinicians without specialization in genetics have been reported, but formal documentation is sparse. In this review, we present a series of national cases illustrating major patterns of errors in cancer genetic counseling and testing and the resulting impact on medical liability, health care costs, and the patients and their families.
Internal jugular valves: competent or incompetent?

he fact that internal jugular veins have valves has been known since the 16th century (11, and T descriptions have long been included in major anatomy textbooks (2,3). Despite this, we believe that most anesthesiologists are unaware of the existence of these valves. This lack of awareness is not easily explained. Although obscure thus far, controversy continues concerning the significance and function of the internal jugular venous valves. One point of view holds that internal jugular valves are normally weak or incompetent, and therefore have little or no important function in humans (4-6). There is now growing evidence (7-10) that these valves do indeed usually exist, and that they are functional in most patients. Three separate studies (&lo), including that of Imai et al. in this issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia (lo), independently report that these valves exist in nearly everyone. Internal jugular valves are situated superior to the jugular bulb and have a variable surface anatomy. They can be located in positions ranging from directly posterior to the clavicular head to 3 cm further inferior and 3 cm further lateral. Most of these valves are bicuspid and semilunar, with the rest tricuspid. Imai et al. (10) and Dressler and McKinney (9) report that, in vitro, internal jugular valves can be competent up to static pressures of 100 mm Hg. Fisher et al. (8) found that almost all patients with normal central venous pressure (CVP) had competent internal jugular valves, but that approximately two-thirds of patients with chronically increased CVP had incompetent right internal jugular valves with the left valve still competent. Using a pulsatile pressure model, they reported that, in dogs, the valves remained competent to pressures of 65 mm Hg. In vim, the internal jugular valves were shown to remain competent despite intrathoracic pressures of over 100 mm Hg during coughing and Valsalva maneuvers @,lo). Pulsed Doppler ultrasound demonstrated forward blood flow with the competent internal jugular valve open, and no back flow with the
A historical harvested energy assigning mechanism for multi-hop multi-relay energy harvesting wireless sensor networks

The load imbalance of sensor node is a severe problem for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In this paper, we firstly propose a Multi-hop Multi-relay Network Model (MMNM) with Relaying Head (RH) to balance the load among sensor nodes. And the emergence of energy harvesting techniques brings us the Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EH-WSNs). Due to the indeterminacy of energy that can be harvested in ambient environment, study on energy management mechanism to achieve energy neutral is significant. We proposed a novel Sensor Nodes Pair (SNP) policy dividing all the sensor nodes into two groups GSN and GSN'. With the function rotation of GSN and GSN', we achieve continuous data transmission avoiding time delay. Also a Historical Harvested Energy Assigning Mechanism (H-HEAM) is proposed to ensure the energy neutral constrains and perpetual network operation. Extensive simulation results verify that our MMNM and H-HEAM are indeed able to improve the network overall performance on throughput, energy utilization efficiency and time delay.
Experimental realization of a decentralized active disturbance rejection controller for a coupled tank system

This paper presents design and real-time implementation of a decentralized active disturbance rejection controller (ADRC) for liquid level regulation of a coupled tank system. To obtain a suitable feasible model of the coupled tank system, in this work system identification approach is employed. Further, based on the identified model, a decoupler has been designed to reduce the coupling effects between input and output. To validate the performance of the controller approach, a real-time experimentation is pursued on the coupled tank system. From the simulation and experimental results, it is found that the ADRC control approach requires less control action to maintain the desired level in both the tanks and also more robust as compared to the other similar reported work in literature.
Peri‐operative care in restrictive respiratory disease

A total of 139 of 473 severely disabled, mainly ventilator‐dependent patients required some form of surgery. Such patients require surgery more frequently than normal individuals, both because of their disability and because even minor unrelated disorders superimposed on permanent disability cause greater handicap. We report the peri‐operative management and postoperative complications of 142 operations on 83 patients between 1982 and 1987. A simple inhalational anaesthetic technique was used; opioids and muscle relaxants were seldom given. Negative pressure ventilation was employed in the postoperative period when appropriate, and was combined with vigorous chest physiotherapy. There were three peri‐operative deaths, but the overall death rate in the patients who underwent surgery was no greater throughout the study period than in those who did not require surgery. We believe that an aggressive surgical approach is appropriate in severely disabled, ventilator‐dependent patients.
Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Cytotoxicity Activities of Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. Leaves Ethanolic Extract

Abstract The antioxidant activity was evaluated from the ability to chelate iron, reducing property, scavenging DPPH radical and nitric oxide. The A. farnesiana ethanolic extract responded to all the antioxidant assays in concentrations dependent manner. Evaluated by broth microdilution assay, the extract exhibited MIC value at 0.8 mg/ml against Bacillus subtilis and MIC value at 2.5 mg/ml against Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The absence of cytoxicity was observed from the brine shrimp lethality test. The quantification of total phenolic content by Folin-Ciocalteu reagent resulting 209.78 ± 3.21 mg gallic acid/g ethanolic extract of A. farnesiana leaves. Analysis of the extract by both HPLC-PDA and LC/MS have tentatively identified flavonoid galloylglycoside and flavonoid glycosides from the extract. It was plausible that the preparation method of the extract influenced the consituents of the extract, and that later contributed to the exhibited antioxidant and antibacterial activities. Quercetin deoxyhexoside was tentatively identified as the major consituent of the extract. Bioassay guided isolation is suggested as future research to study the biological activities and elucidate the chemical structure of flavonoids involved.
CRATER: A Crowd Sensing Application to Estimate Road Conditions

We developed a crowd sensing application to estimate road conditions (CRATER). CRATER is a smartphone application that opportunistically measures acceleration when it finds itself on the road in order to map and measure the locations of potholes and speedbumps. It does not require input from users, but can report detected potholes and speedbumps to a cloud-hosted application engine, which stores partially processed data received from smartphones of participating users and jointly processes it to obtain a better estimate of road conditions. The information is published in map form on the web. This map allows both citizens and municipal authorities to localize potholes, road segments in need of repair, and imbalances in infrastructure maintenance efforts across cities. Road tests demonstrate that CRATER succeeds in correctly detecting roughly 90% of potholes and 95% of speedbumps, while generating false alarms only about 10% and 5% of the time, respectively.