Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Metastatic Cervical Lymphadenopathy in Najaf City: Clinico-Pathological Analysis

Background: Cervical lymphadenopathy (LAP) is a common problem facing doctors. Most run a benign course. It is the job of these doctors to differentiate it from tuberculosis and metastatic lymphadenopathy. Different types of biopsies can be used to reach diagnosis including FNAC, incisional and excisional biopsies. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe the clinic-pathological patterns of metastatic cervical LAP in Al-Najaf city. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out for a period of one year from Jan 1, 2013 to Jan 1, 2014 in the general surgery and otolaryngology departments of Al-Sadar Medical City and surgical department of Kufa university-Faculty of medicine. The data was collected by using a predesigned form including information as age, gender, level of lymph node involvement, and other clinical features. Results: Among the total 60 patients included in the study, 28 patients were males and 32 were females. Their age ranging from 20 to 68 y with a mean age equals to 53.6 y. The highest age group was the sixth decade with 32 (53.3%) patients. A known primary site was discovered in 93.3% of the patients. The highest primary site malignancy was that of the larynx with 35.7% of total patients with known primary tumors. 38.3% of the patients had N3 stage at the time of presentation. Conclusion: Inflammatory neck disease is very common in our country, one should not forget the possibility of metastatic carcinoma in an adult presenting with a rapidly growing, hard, non-tender, lateral neck mass. Early diagnosis is paramount as any delay will eliminate the best opportunity for effective treatment with curative intent.
Personality Factors, Ideology, And Sensitivity To Change

This study examined the potential for a predictive relationship between political conservatism and change detection. Research on the visual system has revealed a general tendency to overlook changes in a stationary scene when two versions are displayed alternately with a masking slide, known as the flicker paradigm. We examined whether political conservatism and various related measures predicted whether and how quickly changes were detected during a flicker paradigm task. Measures of interest were conservatism as measured by the Social and Economic Conservatism scale, openness as measured by the short form of the Big Five Inventory, authoritarianism as measured by the Right-Wing Authoritarianism scale, political party, and a single bipolar conservatism scale. Despite predictions that greater conservatism and authoritarianism would shorten response latencies, analysis of a sample collected online indicated that authoritarianism appeared to lengthen the time to identify change, while social conservatism showed the expected relationship. This pattern failed to appear in a student sample. Openness and other forms of conservatism did not demonstrate reliable significant predictive relationships with response latencies. The finding that highly correlated factors (social conservatism, authoritarianism) predicted response latencies in opposing directions, combined with the failure to replicate that pattern in a student sample, indicates that the relationship between conservatism and response latencies may be more complicated than initially thought.
Feasibility of joint 1D velocity model and event location inversion by the Neighbourhood algorithm

Using a set of synthetic P‐ and S‐wave onsets, computed in a 1D medium model from sources that mimic a distribution of microseismic events induced by hydrofrac treatment to a monitoring geophone array(s), we test the possibility to invert back jointly the model and events location. We use the Neighbourhood algorithm for data inversion to account for non‐linear effects of velocity model and grid search for event location. The velocity model used is composed of homogeneous layers, derived from sonic logging. Results for the case of one and two monitoring wells are compared. These results show that the velocity model can be obtained in the case of two monitoring wells, if they have optimal relative position. The use of one monitoring well fails due to the trade‐off between the velocity model and event locations.
A LOW-PROFILE AND BROADBAND CONICAL ANTENNA

A novel electric small conical antenna working on a very broad band, 0.47-6 GHz, with the height of only 60 mm, is presented. A capacitive ring on the top of the cone and three oblique shorted lines are used to expand the work band. By changing the width of the ring and the slope of the oblique line, the impedance of the antenna matches 50-ohm feed line commendably. Simulation and experiment results demonstrate that this antenna provides very broad band and low-profile characters, which exhibits a 12.8 : 1 impedance bandwidth with voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) below 2 : 1 (the impedance bandwidth is 11.9 : 1 with the VSWR below 1.5 : 1) and with the height only 0.094 wavelength associated to the lowest frequency.
Photodestruction of Relevant Interstellar Molecules in Ice Mixtures

UV photodestruction of some interstellar molecules is studied in different kinds of ices. CH4, CH3OH, NH3, CO2, CO, and HNCO are photolyzed as pure ices, or mixed with water or molecular nitrogen, at about 10 K. The destruction cross sections of these molecules are estimated for use in photochemical models of interstellar ices. We show that the destruction rate depends on the ice in which the studied compound is embedded.
MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES AND EVALUATIONS METHODS FOR THE EXTRACTION AND ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF MICROSTRUCTURED SURFACES

The paper describes an approach how to measure function-oriented with appropriate measurement technology and evaluation methods. At first important features of the surface, which have a large influence on the functional behaviour, are determined based on a physical-mathematical model of the function. Then – adapted to the measuring task – it is described how to measure these features starting with the selection of suitable measurement procedures (optical/tactile, 2D/3D, multi-scale data fusion). Moreover, the evaluation of the measurement values is also crucial. Automated evaluation procedures based on segmentation techniques and autocorrelation methods were presented using examples of microstructures for the improvement of sliding and ink transfer for printing machines. These procedures allow extracting important functional properties of the measured 3D surface and their quantitative evaluation.
Core Training: Stabilizing the Confusion

summary Confusion exists regarding what the core musculature is, how it is evaluated, how it is trained, and how it is applied to functional performance. The core musculature is divided into 2 systems, local (stabilization) and global (movement), with distinction between core-strength, core-stability, and functional exercises.
Generic Skills for Hospitality Management: A Comparative Study of Management Expectations and Student Perceptions

Tertiary providers of hospitality management degree programs must fulfil the needs of student, industry and academic stakeholder groups. The students attracted to this type of program tend to be motivated primarily by the anticipated vocational outcomes. As a result, hospitality management curriculum needs to meet both industry and student expectations by delivering the skill sets needed in the workplace and the institutional demands for academic rigour. This article reports on research that aimed to compare hospitality managers' expectations of graduate skills with student perceptions of the skills that hospitality managers valued. In contrast to previous research on this topic, this study adopted a generic skills framework and managers rated skills associated with interpersonal, problem-solving, and self-management skill domains as most important. Although students tended to rate conceptual and analytical skills more highly than did managers, overall their perceptions of the skills that hospitality managers valued when recruiting graduates were realistic. The results of this, and similar studies, can contribute to curriculum design and the internal and external communications strategies adopted by faculty offering hospitality management programs.
Using Hypnosis to Develop and Test Models of Psychopathology

We illustrate some of the unique ways in which hypnotic suggestions can be used to develop and test models of psychopathology. In particular, a study of hypnotic hallucinations is described, focusing on its value for probing the underlying nature of hallucinations, including their neural underpinnings. We discuss how this work led us to view OCD behavior as having qualities in some ways opposite to those of hallucinations, an insight which subsequently led to the development of a new theory of OCD, which is briefly reviewed. Finally, an experimental test of the plausibility of this theory using appropriate hypnotic suggestions is described.
ICOLD 14th International Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams

The Janneh dam is a 162-meter high Roller Compacted Concrete arch-gravity dam under construction in the Nahr Ibrahim Valley of Lebanon. The impounded reservoir will supply water, irrigate agricultural areas and generate hydropower [1]. The dam will serve the Northern areas of Greater Beirut Mount Lebanon [2]. The project site is located in highseismicity region. The Peak Ground Accelerations are 0.37g and 0.51g respectively for OBE and SEE. Under favorable conditions (shape of the valley, strength of the bedrock, availability of construction materials), the construction of an arch-gravity dam is a more and more interesting alternative. The construction stages are simulated in ABAQUS environment in order to perform both linear and non-linear analyses.
How to Understand the Problem of Moral Luck

1. Acts of negligence which do not lead to bad results do not appear to be morally on a par with otherwise identical instances of negligence which cause significant harm to others. The same is true with regard to similar cases in which we at least seem to make our moral assessment of agents dependent on factors which are not, or not entirely, up to them. A much-discussed example is the case of reckless driving. If a reckless driver, in addition to and as a consequence of his driving recklessly, hits a child, this can hardly be denied to be a morally significant matter. Plausibly, however, whether a child crosses the road right in front of the driver is something beyond his control. Bernard Williams, in his paper “Moral Luck” (Williams 1976), and Thomas Nagel, in his reply to Williams which was published under the same title (Nagel 1976), have both famously argued that these and similar moral phenomena are philosophically significant. Following Nagel, many see them as giving rise to what has come to be called the problem of moral luck. According to the by now canonical way of putting this problem, there is a tension between the control principle, i.e. the claim that
Porcine Uterine and Placental Extracellular Matrix Molecules Throughout Pregnancy

Las moleculas que constituyen la matriz extracelular son importantes en varias funciones relacionadas con el soporte del tejido y la interaccion celula-celula, celula-matriz extracelular. Entre las macromoleculas que constituyen la matriz mencionada se encuentra la osteopontina, el fibrinogeno y el colageno. Este estudio se realizo para analizar el rol de la osteopontina, el fibrinogeno y el colageno en la interface utero-placentaria durante la gestacion porcina normal. Tejidos uterinos y la placentarios de hembras porcinas cruzadas de 30 (n = 5), 60 (n = 5), 70 (n = 5) y 114 (a termino, n = 5) dias de gestacion fueron utilizados. El analisis macroscopico de los embriones/fetos nos permitio determinar la edad gestacional por medio de la longitud craneo-rabadilla. Tinciones de Hematoxilina-Eosina y Tricromico de Masson con microscopia de luz se utilizo para estructurar el analisis de cada periodo de tiempo seleccionado de la gestacion. Un estudio espacial y temporal de la osteopontina y el fibrinogeno se realizo mediante tecnicas de inmunohistoquimica. La determinacion de fibras colagenas se llevo a cabo a traves de la tecnica Picrosirius rojo por microscopia de polarizacion. Los resultados se expresaron como semi-cuantitativos. La expresion de osteopontina se observo en los primeros periodos de gestacion, principalmente en las vellosidades del utero y la placenta, epitelio de las glandulas endometriales e histotrofos. El fibrinogeno se expresa abundantemente en mesenquima fetal en todos los periodos analizados y en los vasos fetales y maternos el dia 70. Una expresion negativa de fibras colagenas se observo en las vellosidades, sin embargo, un aumento de expresion de las fibras gruesas durante la gestacion se detecto en el estroma uterino y el miometrio. Estos resultados confirman la importancia de la osteopontina, fibrinogeno y colageno en el soporte de las estructuras del utero y placenta, asi como el mantenimiento adecuado durante la gestacion.
Viral and Bacterial Diseases in Broiler Chicken Farms at the Area of Banyumas District

Abstract. Efforts to control viral and bacterial diseases in poultry broiler should always be done by various efforts. Maintenance of strict management, implementation and administration of vaccines and bio security program are some efforts that are often done by farmers in order to eliminate viral and bacterial diseases. The purpose of this study was to determine the type of pathogenic viruses and bacteria that often infect broiler chickens and how to make efforts to control the broiler chicken farms in the subdistricts of Kedungbanteng and Baturraden, district of Banyumas. The research method was survey on broiler chicken farmers in the areas of Baturraden and Kedungbanteng of Banyumas district. Gradual cluster sampling was used in this study. 11 broiler chicken farms with various breeds were involved. The current study found that types of bacterial disease that infected broiler chicken farms in the subdistricts of Kedungbanteng and Baturraden were Chronic Respiratory Disease (CRD) and Colibacilosis, whereas viral diseases that infected were the Infectious Bursal Disease (IBD/Gumboro) and New Castle Disease (ND), although the prevalence rate was low. The efforts to control the main virus diseases, IBD and ND, succeeded in pressing the two diseases sould be implemented. Key Words: viral disease, bacterial disease, broiler chicken farm S Hastuti and E Yuwono/Animal Production 13(3):198-206 (2011)
Value mapping for sustainable business thinking

Pressures on business to operate sustainably are increasing. This requires companies to adopt a systemic approach that seeks to integrate consideration of the three dimensions of sustainability – social, environmental, and economic – in a manner that generates shared value creation for all stakeholders including the environment and society. This is referred to as sustainable business thinking. The business model concept offers a framework for system-level innovation for sustainability and provides the conceptual linkage with the activities of the firm such as design, production, supply chains, partnerships, and distribution channels. A value mapping tool has been presented in the literature to assist in sustainable business model innovation. This study explores the use of value mapping for broader sustainable business thinking, by reflection on its use in workshop settings. A range of new applications is identified which is expected to be of interest to business practitioners, policy makers, and academic researchers.
Some Observations on the Subset Simulation Related to the Wind Turbine Mechanics

The subset simulation method is considered to be one of the most powerful methods among the variance reduction Monte Carlo techniques. Potential shortcomings of the method are the bias in its estimations and potential challenges in finding important directions in high dimensional nonlinear problems. The important directions in the ndimensional space of the problem are those toward which the failure region extends i.e. by moving in those directions the simulation will fall into the safe domain. It is clear that finding these important directions becomes increasingly difficult as the number of the basic random variables of the problem increases. Moreover when the failure domain of the problem is not a simply connected domain, e.g. failure islands, finding the correct direction, or island, becomes even more difficult. This case occurs frequently in time variant dynamic reliability analysis of nonlinear systems. It is interesting to determine applicability of the Subset Simulation (SS) techniques, as a powerful representative of Variance Reduction Monte Carlo (VRMC) methods, on the wind turbine systems specifically with an active controller. Hence in this paper we apply and discuss these methods on a benchmark wind turbine model and analyze the results in view of their applicability.
Calibration and validation of water vapour lidar measurements from Eureka, Nunavut, using radiosondes and the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer

Abstract. The Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change and Environment Canada DIAL lidar located at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in Eureka, Nunavut, has been upgraded to measure water vapour mixing ratio profiles. The lidar is capable of measuring water vapour in the dry Arctic atmosphere up to the tropopause region. Measurements were obtained in the February to March polar sunrise during 2007, 2008 and 2009 as part of the Canadian Arctic ACE (Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment) Validation Campaign. Before such measurements can be used to address important questions in understanding dynamics and chemistry, the lidar measurements must be calibrated against an independent determination of water vapour. Here, radiosonde measurements of relative humidity have been used to empirically calibrate the lidar measurements. It was found that the calibration varied significantly between each year's campaign. However, the calibration of the lidar during an individual polar sunrise campaign agrees on average with the local radiosonde measurements to better than 12%. To independently validate the calibration of the lidar derived from the radiosondes, comparisons are made between the calibrated lidar measurements and water vapour measurements from the ACE satellite-borne Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS). The comparisons between the lidar and satellite-borne spectrometer for both a campaign average and single overpasses show favourable agreement between the two instruments and help validate the lidar's calibration. The 39 nights of high-Arctic water vapour measurements obtained offer the most detailed high spatial-temporal resolution measurement set available for understanding this time of transition from the long polar night to polar day.
Shock breakouts from tidal disruption events

Tidal disruption events of stars by supermassive black holes have so far been discovered months to years after the fact. In this paper we explore the short, faint and hard burst of radiation is emitted at maximum compression, as a result of shock breakout. The detection of this burst can be used to capture tidal disruption events in real time. We verify that shock breakout from main sequence stars produces radiation in the X-ray range, but find that it is difficult to detect using all sky X-ray surveying telescopes. In the case of shock breakout from red giants, most of the radiation is emitted in the UV and visible range, which is significantly easier to detect. A similar burst of UV/optical radiation will also be emitted by stars puffed by tidal heating from a previous passage close to the central black hole. This radiation can be detected by surveys like ZTF and LSST. We calculate detection rates for different types of galactic nuclei. For the case of a very full loss cone we predict a detection rate of once per month with LSST, whereas for the case of a very empty loss cone we predict a rate of once per year with LSST. Evidence from a recent tidal disruption event, ASASSN-14li, seems to favour a very full loss cone, in which case LSST is expected to detect one such event every month.
The fundamental antecedents of a brand relationship:An exploration of the effect of consumers' personalities on the strength of brand relationships

The literature on emotional relationships with brands has been steadily growing for the past decade, however in most cases researchers focus on brand initiated actions in order to test their effects on the strength of those relationships with their customers. The purpose of this research is to explore brand relationships from a generally neglected perspective, that of the consumers with which brands are attempting to build strong emotional bonds. A series of individual difference variables were added to a model incorporating previously known antecedents to strong brand relationships in order to examine the added effect that these might have in encouraging or discouraging consumers to engage in deep emotional relationships with their favorite brands. Although some of the variables showed significant effects, the overall results showed that individual difference variables had very little explanatory power when used in conjunction with the previously established antecedents. Theoretical as well as managerial implications of these results are discussed as well as potential avenues for future research in related lines of questioning.
Autism Spectrum Disorders and The New Testament: Preliminary Reflections/Towards a Responsible Discussion

The dramatic increase in the diagnosed incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder conditions presents a challenge for those within Christian communities who are committed to “thinking biblically” about all matters of faith and life. The problem is not identified as such within the Bible, and those who wish to think about it biblically must engage in a more reflective interpretive process that asks how it might be considered in the light of relevant themes and values in the biblical writings. This article examines a set of values and images that are particularly significant for how ASD is considered by Christian communities.
A hypoplastic constitutive model for clays

This paper presents a new constitutive model for clays. The model is developed on the basis of generalized hypoplasticity principles, which are combined with traditional critical state soil mechanics. The positions of the isotropic normal compression line and the critical state line correspond to the Modified Cam clay model, the Matsuoka–Nakai failure surface is taken as the limit stress criterion and the non‐linear behaviour of soils with different overconsolidation ratios is governed by the generalized hypoplastic formulation.