Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone-Secreting Esthesioneuroblastoma with Ectopic Cushing's Syndrome

Esthesioneuroblastoma as a source of ectopic Cushing's syndrome is rare, and to the best of our knowledge, only 20 cases have been reported worldwide. A 46-year-old healthy man visited a local clinic for general weakness and hyposmia, and underwent examination with serial endocrinological workup and brain imaging. 68Gallium-DOTA-TOC positron emission tomography scan was helpful where diagnosis of sellar MRI and inferior petrosal sinus sampling were discordant. Combined transcranial and endoscopic endonasal approach surgery was performed, and a diagnosis of esthesioneuroblastoma was given.
Models of livestock production and conservation of animal genetic resources in the sustainable development system of rural Libya

In extensive pastoral systems, domestic animals are reared under extremely unfavorable agro-ecological conditions in Libya, from the early Neolithic to the Bronze Age, more than 8,000 years ago. As a result of free grazing, which in many cases exceeded the biomass production capacity as well as the dynamics of plant cover renewal, grassland vegetation has undergone major changes. Excessive grazing in the largest area has caused great damage not only to grasslands, but to other ecosystems in Libyan territory. The emergence of desertification in Libya is one consequence of this grassland resource management. Recent research over the last few decades, however, also points to the useful dimension of livestock farming for the environment, if managed properly. Index TermsAnimals,agroecological,biomass,grasslands,environment,Libya.
Exporting Behavior of Firms: How Do Multinationals Change International Trade?

This paper analyzes a firm’s decision to enter and exit foreign markets through exporting. Employing firm-level data from the Czech Republic, results suggest that entry sunk costs are significant and substantial, although no significant differences are found between sunk costs incurred by domestic and foreign-owned firms. Exchange rate level is an important factor influencing participation in export, though firms with a foreign owner are twice less responsive to exchange rate changes than are domestic private and domestic state firms. Higher volatility of exchange rate significantly decreases the probability of future exporting for firms with a foreign owner. In the search for spillovers, the results are mixed. Proximity to an exporting firm (either in geographic or sectoral terms) has, surprisingly, a negative effect on the decision of a firm to export in four specifications and a positive effect in one specification. JEL classification: C23, F23, D21
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE MARKETING IN BIOMASS ENERGY POWER , THAILAND

The objective of this study investigate factors have influenced on corporate social responsibility or CSR on sustainable marketing in biomass energy industry in north of Thailand. There were examined aspects of underlying factors of CSR that influences to sustainable marketing. SAHACOGEN green Lamphun Company is only one company in upper north of Thailand that approved the operation license for producing electricity by biomass electricity by Thai government. The data was collected in Wieng-Yong and Pasak districts, Lamphun province One thousand questionnaires were returned and analyzed. As the characteristic of electricity power plant is negative image and doubtfully as a cause of pollution, effecting to local community and environment. The conflict has been happened since the factory’s establishment in 2011.The study found, local people realizes to social responsibility of the company is underlined by three dimensions; (1) community development such as the company need to established education institute, supporting the livestock in local area, and sponsor free meal for local children; (2) environment impact that measured by operations of company must be non-pollution, the company undertakes to prevent any waste of resources and company maintains bio-diversity of local area; and (3) pollution control that measured as the company takes efforts to reduce carbon emissions using carbon emission system control within the company limitation. Those are improve the marketing of the company in order to decreased the conflict and leading to sustainable business among stakeholders in the future.
Lifting Motivation Level of English Learners in Saudi Arabia

Teaching processes differ across place, and generation. Language teaching, in particular, has more differences as a result of different teaching contexts. Teaching English as a second language in a native English-speaking country is not the same as teaching English as a foreign language in a non-native English-speaking country. English teaching in Saudi Arabia encounters many difficulties. One of the huge issues that faced the teachers of English is the learners’ low motivation that depends on their psychological, social, and attitudinal states. Motivation is a result of the intersection of many factors such as personality, socialization, behavior, school context, and interaction. This paper aims at creating a supportive environment for both teachers and students to succeed in this context. It is twofold. The first part, which leads to the second, displays the importance of motivation in language learning and teaching. The second explains how to lift motivation levels between learners in Saudi Arabia by suggesting some steps to raise the motivation level in the Saudi context.
Responsible tourism in Europe and accommodation: a new challenge

This research aims at drawing attention on how responsible tourism can be an important factor in empowering tourism as a social force, and in particular for what concerns hospitality facilities. The sector of hospitality today represents a valuable business in tourism. Many tourists travel as individuals, using online booking to select an accommodation facility and make a reservation. Responsible tourism is a new way of thinking tourism where each stakeholder, whether local communities, tourists or tour operators, is equally important. Furthermore there is an analysis of the social, environmental and economic dimensions relative to the journey to a particular destination. Responsible tourism started by helping local communities living in destinations where the tourist impact was very heavy, however today the scope has changed, it has taken on a global approach and it is possible to think in terms of responsible tourism for each destination; in fact all kinds of tourism can be more responsible. In Europe responsible tour operators have started to look into responsible accommodation facilities and a number of online booking websites dedicated to responsible accommodation is now available. This paper focuses on this topic, comparing responsible tourism concepts. It analyses the possible links between responsible tourism approaches and hospitality today. We should ask ourselves: what does “responsible accommodation” mean? What are the main characteristics of responsible online booking?
Morphological and Functional Outcomes after Intravitreal Dexamethasone Injection for Macular Edema in Patients with Central Vein Occlusion at 48-Week Follow-Up

Purpose The purpose of the study was to assess the efficacy of intravitreal dexamethasone implant (IDI: Ozurdex®) injection in eyes with macular edema due to retinal vein occlusion. Material and Method. A retrospective, nonrandomized study was conducted in patients with macular edema (ME) due to retinal vein occlusion (RVO) who undertook intravitreal Ozurdex® as first-line treatment. We performed a complete ocular exam including macular OCT. Results The mean BCVA (logMar) improved from 0.420. 42 ± 0.23 logMar at baseline to 0.21 ± 0.23 logMar at 48 weeks in the BRVO group and from 0.72 ± 0.16 logMar at baseline to 0.31 ± 0.23 logMar at 48 weeks in the CRVO group. In both groups, CFT values decreased significantly compared to baseline (p < 0.0001 at each timepoint). Reinjection for recurrent macular edema after 18 weeks was indicated in five eyes (41.67%) in the BRVO group and in six eyes (25%) in the CRVO group. Cataract developed in two eyes (16.67%) in the BRVO group and in one eye (4.17%) in the CRVO group. The IOP was higher than 25 mmHg in two cases in the BRVO group (16.66%) and in three cases (8.33%) in the CRVO group. Conclusion Ozurdex® injected intravitreally significantly improved the mean CFT and BCVA in eyes with macular edema due to retinal vein occlusion.
Effect of down step on High-Low Tones in Chinese

In this study, the downstep principle in Chinese tone production is analyzed, and it is found that downstep exists for high (H) tones. They always drop to a lower scale compared to the forgoing ones. The degree of the first downstep is always larger than the following ones, but there are no differences in the degrees of downsteps for the later HL sequences. The speaker does not only raise the initial H tone when there are more downsteps, but also depress the final H tone.
Anti-inflammatory effects of alcohol extract from Saussurea medusa Maxim against lipopolysaccharides-induced acute lung injury mice

Supported by the International Cooperative Projects of Qinghai province (2017-HZ-811), Innovation platform for the development and construction of special project of Key Laboratory of Tibetan Medicine Research of Qinghai Province (No.2017-ZJ-Y11), Fund for Young Scholars of Pingdingshan University (PXYQNJJ2017009), 2017 Annual Teaching Reform Research Project of Pingdingshan University (2017-JY33) and 2017 Henan Medica l Educa t ion Research Pro jec t (Wjlx2017202).
N T ] 2 5 Fe b 20 20 A NOTE ON ASYMPTOTICALLY GOOD EXTENSIONS IN WHICH INFINITELY MANY PRIMES SPLIT COMPLETELY by

— Let p be a prime number, and let K be a number field. For p “ 2, assume moreover K totally imaginary. In this note we prove the existence of asymptotically good extensions L{K of cohomological dimension 2 in which infinitely many primes split completely. Our result is inspired by a recent work of Hajir, Maire, and Ramakrishna [7]. Let K be a number field, and let L{K be an infinite unramified extension. Denote by SL{K the set of prime ideals of K that split completely in L{K. In [8] Ihara proved that ÿ pPSL{K logNppq Nppq ă 8, and raised the following interesting question: are there L{K for which SL{K is infinite ? This question was recently answered in the positive by Hajir, Maire, and Ramakrishna in [7]. In fact, infinite unramified extensions L{K are some special cases of infinite extensions for which the root discriminants rdF :“ |DiscF| 1{rF:Qs are bounded, where the number fields F vary in L{K, and DiscF is the discriminant of F. Such extensions are called asymptotically good, and it is now well-known that in such extensions the inequality of Ihara involving SL{K still holds (see for example [16], or [13] for the study of such extensions). Pro-p extensions of number fields with restricted ramification allow us to exhibit asymptotically good extensions. Let p be a prime number, and let S be a finite set of prime ideals of K coprime to p (more precisely each p P S is such that |OK{p| ” 1pmod pq); the set S is called tame. Let KS the maximal pro-p extension of K unramified outside S, put GS “ GalpKS{Kq. In KS{K the root discriminants are bounded by some constant depending on the discriminant of K and the norm of the places of S (see for example [6, Lemma 5]). Moreover thanks to Golod-Shafarevich criterion, it is well-known that KS{K is infinite when |S| is large as compared to rK : Qs (see for example [14, Chapter X, §10, Theorem 10.10.1]), and then asymptotically good. E.g. for p ą 2, QS{Q is infinite when |S| ě 4. In [7] the authors showed that when S is large, there exist infinite subextension 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. — 11R37, 11R29.
Playing the Repair Game: Disruption Management and Robust Plans

An important insufﬁciency of modern industrial plans is their lack of robustness. Disruptions prevent companies from operating as planned before and induce high costs for trouble shooting. The main reason for the severe impact of disruptions stems from the fact that planners do traditionally consider deterministic input data to be available at planning time. In practice, however, there are often only distributions over the possible input data available. The Repair Game is a formalization of a planning task, which brings two branches of computer science — game tree search and logistic planning optimization with OR tools — together. Playing it performs disruption management and generates robust plans with the help of game tree search. We present the game deﬁnition and a detailed motivation. Experimental results are encouraging and indicate that our new method can signiﬁcantly reduce disruption costs. Our method outperformed the traditional one by means of simulations.
SYNTHESIS OF A SOUND FIELD INCLUDING VIRTUAL SCATTERING OBJECTS IN WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS

In this study, wave field synthesis is used to reproduce a virtual sound field where virtual objects interact with the sound field. These objects do not emit acoustic waves by themselves, but cause reflections and scattering for a given incoming wave. In such a non-freefield scenario, the sound field can be represented as a superposition of the incident field and the scattered field. As proposed by the equivalent source method, a virtual scattering object can be added to a virtual auditory scene by synthesizing a directional sound source and driving it with the source signal of the incident field. The wave field synthesis driving function for the equivalent source is derived by (i) decomposing the scattered field into spherical harmonics up to a finite order, (ii) taking the directional gradient of the sound field at each secondary source position, (iii) and applying a spatial window function to ensure the correct propagation direction within the listening area. The focus of this paper is the creation of the acoustic shadow caused by the destructive interference of the incident and scattered fields. The influence of spatial aliasing artifacts and amplitude errors on the spatial structure of the synthesized sound field are examined by numerical simulations.
Infl uence of Group Membership, Moral Values and Belief in a Just World in Blaming the Victim

This study investigated the relationship between the victim’s group membership and secondary victimization she suff ers, moderated by Moral Values and Belief in a Just World (BJW). The victim of the ingroup was blamed more for the sexual violence she suff ered (Study 1, N = 250). In turn, that relationship was moderated by binding values (Study 2, N = 117) and by BJW (Study 3, N = 258). Together, the results suggest that the victim blaming is greater when she belongs to the ingroup; and that this relationship is predicted by high adherence to binding values and low adherence to BJW. This research contributes to the extent that it demonstrates that the relationship between adherence to binding values and victim derogation does not occur exclusively at the cognitive level, as information processing in which high adherence to these values would produce greater secondary victimization regardless of group membership of the victim. Additionally, it highlights the importance of considering the psychosocial processes underlying violence against women in order to promote more eff ective discussions and actions.
AROUND VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS FOR A CLASS OF SUPERLINEAR SECOND ORDER ELLIPTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

In this article we review some recent results of the existence of solution for nonlinear elliptic equations in R having the form −F (Du,∇u) + |u|u = f(x) in IR , where F is a positively homogeneous function of degree d > 0, s > d and f is a given function. In the analysis of this problem one rises some questions about which is the most suitable notion of solutions for its study. Various types of solutions are discussed and open questions are stated.
Scaling concurrent queues by using HTM to profit from failed atomic operations

Queues are fundamental concurrent data structures, but despite years of research, even the state-of-the-art queues scale poorly. This poor scalability occurs because of contended atomic read-modify-write (RMW) operations. This paper makes a first step towards designing a scalable linearizable queue. We leverage hardware transactional memory (HTM) to design TxCAS, a scalable compare-and-set (CAS) primitive---despite HTM being targeted mainly at uncontended scenarios. Leveraging TxCAS's scalability requires a queue design that does not blindly retry failed CASs. We thus apply TxCAS to the baskets queue, which steers enqueuers whose CAS fails into dedicated basket data structures. Coupled with a new, scalable basket algorithm, we obtain SBQ, the scalable baskets queue. At high concurrency levels, SBQ outperforms the fastest queue today by 1.6X on a producer-only workload.
IQN Routing: Integrating Quality and Novelty for Web Search.

We consider a collaboration of peers autonomously crawling the Web. A pivotal issue when designing a peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search engine in this environment is query routing : selecting a small sub-set of (a potentially very large number of relevant) peers to contact to satisfy a keyword query. Existing approaches for query routing work well on disjoint data sets. However, naturally, the peers’ data collections often highly overlap, as popular documents are highly crawled. Techniques for estimating the cardinality of the overlap between sets, designed for and incorporated into information retrieval engines are very much lacking. In this paper we present a comprehensive evaluation of appropriate overlap estimators, showing how they can be incorporated into an eﬃcient, iterative approach to query routing, coined Integrated Quality Novelty (IQN) . We propose to further enhance our approach using histograms, combining overlap estimation with the available score/ranking information. Finally, we conduct a performance evaluation in MINERVA, our prototype P2P Web search engine.
Effect of Farm Woodland Grazing on Water- shed Values in the Southern Appalachian Mountains

CURRENT PRACTICE on the average mountain farm in the southern Appalachians is to fence the farm woodland in with the pasture. The aggregate area of grazed woodland, though not as great as in the days of open range, is still large—representing 20 to 25 percent of the land area for many mountain counties. What are the effects of this woodland grazing on timber, vegetation, soil, and water in the region? Obviously, woodland grazing does affect these forest resources as shown by the bare soil and the absence of ground vegetation and litter under hardwood stands where cattle haAe congregated. Grazed woodlots showing bare soil can commonly be seen adjacent to the highways of the southern mountain region. However, very little accurate data and no results of long term watershed studies have been available to give a more precise estimate of the effect of woodland grazing on soil porosity, permeability, and indirectly upon stream flow. Actually, there has been considerable difference of opinion as to the magnitude of increased storm runoff caused by woodland grazing, and as to what extent it causes turbidity in formerly clear streams. The purpose of the present report is to describe changes that have taken place on an experimental watershed under controlled conditions of seasonal grazing by cattle within a hardwood forest typical of the southern Appalachian Mountains. The experimental watershed study was set up in 1940 at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in the mountains of western North Carolina. This 5.700-acre laboratory is located in the highest rainfall area in the eastern United States. It contains 36 small drainages with continuous stream flow, each available as an experimental unit and operated to measure the effects of land use on stream flow. A 145-aere unit watershed was set aside for the grazing study. About fifty storms of %-inch or more take place each year and these are well distributed throughout all seasons. The soils on the grazing area are relatively deep and permeable, but water tables are sufficiently close to the surface to be observed in shallow wells. The growing season extends from April 15 to October 15, with a mean temperature of 65 degrees F. Hardwood trees are the dominant vegetation, with pine present on ridges that were repeatedly burned 40 to 75 years ago. No fires have occurred in over 40 years, and cattle had not grazed on this watershed
Real-Time HIL Emulation for a Segmented-Rotor Switched Reluctance Motor Using a New Magnetic Equivalent Circuit

This article presents a new magnetic equivalent circuit (MEC) for a real-time emulation of a 16/10 segmented-rotor switched reluctance motor (SSRM) based on the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) configuration. The proposed real-time MEC contains the reluctances of slot leakage, air gap, and iron core of the SSRM. To speed up the emulation, a ten-by-ten matrix system is developed for the MEC. A new algorithm is proposed to solve the matrix system to reduce the computation time. To carry out the experiment, the HIL is employed in this article. It can provide a precise and real-time condition for the application of the new method. In the test bench, the field-programmable gate array provides an operating platform to realize the real-time emulation of the MEC model. As verified, the proposed real-time MEC model benefits the real-time emulation and the performance evaluation of the SSRM. The proposed method can be applied to other switched reluctance motors as an efficient way to verify their real-time characteristics with high accuracy and low emulation cost.
Impact of Operations Management Practices On Firm Performance: An Empirical Analysis at Vietnam’s Mechanical Firms

This paper examines the impact of Operations Management (OM) practices on firm performance in Vietnam’s mechanical enterprises, since OM practices, such as Just-in-time (JIT), quality management (QM) and infrastructures practices are seen as procedures or solutions to improve the efficiency of manufacturing firms. All questions were answered using a 5-point Likert scale. The data collected was analyzed using SPSS 20.0. The statistical methods used are descriptive statistics, reliability analysis and regression analysis for hypothesis testing. The findings present, firstly, the extent of operations management practices implemented in Vietnam’s mechanical enterprises is fairly high; secondly, the impact of these practices on firm performance was positive. Equipment layout and supplier quality management are positively and significantly related to financial performance; whereas equipment layout, JIT delivery by supplier, Kanban, cleanliness and organization, and information and feedback are positively and significantly related to non-financial performance. This result suggests to mechanical enterprises in Vietnam that they should employ these practices to maintain and improve performance as well as to gain competitive advantages.
A Meta-model for Roles: Introducing Sessions

Role is a widespread concept, it is used in many areas like MAS, DB, Programming Languages, Organizations, Security and OO modeling. Unfortunately, it seems that the literature is not actually able to give a uniform deﬁnition of roles, there exist several approaches that model roles in many diﬀerent (and opposite) ways. Our aim is to build a formal framework through which we can describe diﬀerent deﬁnitions appeared in the literature or implemented in computer systems. In particular we give a new role’s foundation introducing sessions , which are a formal instrument to talk about role’s states and we show how sessions may be useful to model relationships.