Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
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Institutions meant to reallocate risks that cannot be fully diversi ed on nancial markets, such as labor income uctuations, may also a¤ect how aggregate consumption responds to country-speci c income shocks. The paper empirically assesses this possibility by extending a standard cross-country consumption insurance test to account for the interaction between macroeconomic shocks and labor and credit market institutions. In a panel of 15 OECD countries observed over the 1971-2003 period, institutional heterogeneity is a signi cant determinant of cross-country di¤erences in consumption responsiveness to income changes. The estimates are remarkably robust to the inclusion of unobservable country-level heterogeneity and time-varying institutional indicators. JEL codes: E21, E25, F32, J08 This paper is part of my PhD dissertation at Università di Torino. It is the rst version of my job market paper; please, do not quote without permission. I thank Giuseppe Bertola, my supervisor, for his steady support, Roberto Golinelli, Luca Nunziata, Alessandro Sembenelli, participants at the EEA Annual Congress in Budapest, and workshop participants at Universitat de Girona and Università di Torino, for their helpful comments. Any errors are mine. Financial support from Fondazione CRT (Progetto Al eri) is gratefully acknowledged.
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The results showed that most of the students found very useful dissections, multimedia sources and 3D virtual models. 3D virtual models, dissections and physical models were indicated as the most important tools that should be available for learning Anatomy; instead, medical imaging received a low score. Students focused the study on morphology and relations between organs much more than anatomical variations. Lastly, students who followed the new design course of anatomy showed a significant better performance when compared to students of the previous academic years, in particular on the anatomy of neck, thoracic and abdominopelvic cavity, and neuroanatomy.
Conceituação da hipertensão arterial e sua importância epidemiológica

O coração é uma bomba que gera uma força, impelindo sangue através de toda a circulação arterial e venosa, até o átrio direito. Esta força nós chamamos de pressão ou tensão e, com ela, o sangue atravessa os capilares com uma pressão média de 30 mmHg, ideal para as trocas entre o conteúdo sanguíneo e o tecido intersticial, colocando à disposição das membranas celulares todas as substâncias necessárias ao seu equilíbrio metabólico. É a pressão arterial, assim, uma força que impele o sangue, com o objetivo primordial de conduzir os nutrientes para as células, transportar certas substâncias, como os hormônios, de um órgão para outro e levar os resíduos metabólicos eliminados pelas células e que devem ser expelidos pelos pulmões, rins e intestinos.
Small States Presidency Competences; the case of Slovenian EU Council ‘Presidency’ in 2008

The objective of the article is to find out whether Slovenia as a presiding EU state in the first half of 2008 and her diplomatic elite and experts were „equipped‟ with adequate competences for materialization of its soft sources of influence, which small countries posses according to small countries theory. The analysis is based on the survey conducted among over 600 civil servants involved in Slovenia‟s 2008 EU Council Presidency. The survey demonstrated that respondents did not find „hard‟ knowledge as a limiting factor but attributed greater importance to „soft‟ knowledge skills. According to – admittedly subjective assessment of Slovenian civil servants – Slovenia‟s public administration does not profit from its smallness, which should enable greater efficiency, as it is pieled with problems on intraand interministerial co-ordination, hierarchic culture, which primarily influences the (lack of) flow of information and low level of informal contacts between the civil servants.
CONSTRUCTING NON-TRIVIAL PGL 2-TORSORS AND PICARD-VESSIOT EXTENSIONS

We give an explict description of the twisted Lie algebra of PGL2-equivariant derivations on the coordinate ring of an irreducible non-trivial PGL2-torsor. We use it to produce an example of a Picard-Vessiot extension with group PGL2 which is the function field of such a torsor.
Parkinson disease

Gait disorders and axial symptoms are the main therapeutic challenges in advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD). Gait disorders in PD are characterized by spatial and temporal dysfunction. Gait hypokinesia appears ﬁrst and is responsible for the decrease in velocity. High responsiveness to levodopa is well established. It is demonstrated that the ability to modulate walking cadence remainsintactinPD,andcouldcorrespondtoacompensatorymechanism.More advancedstagesarecharacterizedbyabnormaltemporalparameters,whichareunresponsivetolevodopa.Afterafewyearsofevolution,paradoxicalepisodic phenomenamayoccur:festinationandFreezingofGait(FOG). Bothareinca-pacitatingforPDpatients,becauseoftheirresultantlossofindependenceand theirpoorresponsetolevodopatherapy.KinematicstudiesofFOGrevealadecreaseinvelocity,stridelengthandanexponentialincreaseincadence,prior toaFOGepisode.Newapproaches(functionalMRI,wavelets . ) should offer new prospects. Posture is also affected in Parkinson’s disease. Generally, postural dysfunction induces clinical impairment at the latest stages of the disease. Posture may be affected in its orientation component (stooped posture, campto-cormia, Pisa syndrome) or in its balance component (loss of postural reﬂexes).
An Overview of the Causes of Suicide and Preventive Strategies in Kenyan Universities

Students attending college undergo a significant transition in their lifetime. This is due to the fact that most of them are away from home for the first time in their life without parental guidance. Further, there are a lot of demands in terms of academics, adaptation to the college environment, school fees as well as relationship demands. In college, opportunities to experiment in drugs and alcohol as well as irresponsible sexual behaviors present themselves. This compounds problems with students’ moods thus increasing the risk of suicide. In Kenya suicide or attempted hitherto is a criminal offence. Despite such measures by the government, the rise in suicide cases especially among the youth is a cause for concern. The knowledge concerning suicide is thus very limited and there is need look into the causes and possible solutions. This paper reviews the causes of suicide in Kenyan universities. Specifically, the paper discusses suicide and how it has increased among students in Kenyan Universities. Further, the main body discusses the causes of suicide before a detailed look into the possible preventive strategies. Secondary sources of information done by scholars and researchers were utilized in the review on the topic of suicide and preventive measures in Kenyan universities. Conclusively, the paper highlights the factors leading to suicide which were identified as depression, academic pressure, trauma, alcohol and substance abuse, financial hardships, loneliness conflict and illness. Further, these factors have been noted to contribute to the psychological wellbeing of youth and eventually lead to suicidal tendencies. The paper therefore recommends that universities should develop suicide based suicide prevention programmes, student counseling and student health care services as preventive measures. Additionally, the incorporation of guidance and counselling into the chaplaincy of the university is critical in addressing how suicide rates can be reduced among the youth in these institutions.
Chitosan oligomers and related nanoparticles as environmentally friendly wood preservatives

The efficacy of chitosan oligomers and related nanoparticles as environmentally friendly wood protection agents was evaluated in this study. Commercially sourced low-molecular weight chitosan was depolymerized using sodium nitrite. Evaluation of depolymerized chitosan to the nano level by thin layer chromatography confirmed acceptable results for obtaining a degree of polymerization of four. Then, oligomers were modified to form quaternized chitosan oligomers. Both quaternized and non-quaternized oligomers were mixed with tripolyphosphate (TPP) to form nano-chitosan-TPP particles via an ionic gelation method. Southern pine wood samples were treated with different chitosan-based solutions and suspensions under a vacuum impregnation process. The mass and volume of the treated samples were calculated before and after treatments to evaluate bulking. The mass loss after leaching of the treated wood samples was calculated. The mass and volume gain results indicated that quaternized nano-chitosan-TPP treated samples had more mass and volume gain after treatment in comparison with non-quaternized nano-chitosan-TPP-treated and control samples. The mass loss results revealed that mass loss increased in quaternized nano-chitosan-TPP particles. Although quaternized nano-chitosan particles were positively charged, they could not fix to the cell walls and became leached out. Therefore, these nanoparticles can likely be used as wood preservatives in non-leaching applications.
The connection between social and public sector innova- tion in the Basque Country: a theoretical framework

The present paper offers a reflection framework that relates social and public sector innovation for the co-creation of public policies, thorough new theoretical and methodological approaches, which connect them in different networks of shared governance in the Basque Country. This intermediate space of socio-political interaction involves diverse actors/agents– researchers, policymakers, social entrepreneurs, civil servants and social organizations, etc.– by facilitating new spaces of action for social innovation from a systemic and structural perspective. This paper explores this relation through the Basque public program Etorkizuna Eraikiz. This process is framed inside the Strategic Management Plan for 2015-2019 for the province of Gipuzkoa, which is based on a new Open and Collaborative Governance Model developed by the Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Country. The initiative looks to institutionalize new channels of communication through a long-term collaborative governance approach to scale and look for new social solutions that can influence public policies.
Mixed forms of organization: benefiting from the capabilities of governance structures

Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) promotes the alignment of structure of governance and transactions’ characteristics. This alignment is associated with higher performances. Indeed, the traditional TCE considers that actors may choose between several pure forms of governance to economize both on their production and transaction costs. These structures encompass market, hierarchy, network and bazaar, and they display respective strengths and weaknesses in terms of incentives and control. However, as underlined by numerous authors, the reality of governance structures shows that actors opt generally for mixed forms to govern their transactions. Thus, the aim of this paper is to address this puzzling reality and to search theoretically for rationales explaining the preferences towards mixed forms. Several explanations are reviewed. The traditional one in TCE consists in considering that mixed forms enables to remain efficient. Indeed, by taking characteristics from different forms, the mixed forms allow actors to counterbalance some weaknesses by the strengths of other structures in terms of incentives and control intensity. In this paper, we contend a different view of the rationale for mixed forms, adopting a strategic choice approach and arguing that governance structures depend eventually on contingent factors such as the characteristics of the transactions but also on the preferences of actors. Introducing preferences enable to propose a strategizing view in which actors try to reach strategic goals by introducing selected characteristics of other structures giving birth to the mixed forms. The contributions of this paper concern both economics of governance and strategy. Firstly, we try to introduce strategic goals and value creation in the economics of governance without relaxing the assumption of search for efficiency. In a nutshell, we try to reconcile strategizing and economizing logics but distinguish them clearly as the second is contingent when the first is not. By this, we reintroduce the intentionality of actors in a theoretical field where only calculus prevail. Secondly, by abandoning the ideal typical line of reasoning promoted by Williamson and embodied in pure forms, we find more fruitful to think about organizational forms as mixes of pure forms and we provide illustrations for each of these cases we find in the literature. Thirdly, we consider that the governance structures equip the actors to reach their goals and constitute the matrix for the capabilities of the firm. We conceived of this article as a first step to propose a strategic theory of the firm, namely “the capabilities of governance structure”. A refreshing consequence of our framework is that making strategy consists finally in choosing between several strategic goals and implementing the most efficient governance structures to attain these goals.
The Yttrium Oxide-Titanium Dioxide System

When examining Table 1, one can see that besides the mentioned improvement of ' temperature factors' and standard deviations, in a few cases rather large changes appeared in the positional parameters when the influence of the secondary extinction errors was depressed. See for example the oxygen parameters z3, x4 and Ys. Thus the secondary extinction evidently may cause errors even in the positional parameters of the atoms in a crystal structure although it most strongly affects the vibrational parameters and scale factors. This example also shows that standard deviations cannot be trusted when large systematic errors are not corrected in the data. The rows 2 and 3 in Table 1 are in excellent agreement, which indicates that the secondary extinction corrections are correctly applied. The result thus speaks in favour of the Zachariasen formula. Further information concerning the refinement and the detailed structure will be given elsewhere (Asbrink, 1966). General conclusions
Étude Rétrospective Des Atteintes Rénales Toxiques Medicamenteuses Au Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Yaoundé (2009-2014)

Background: Renal drug toxicity are affections that attacking the renal parenchyma as a result of the consumption of drug substance. In Cameroon, anarchic consumption of medicinal drug subsequent of a growth in unauthorised sales drug increase the risk of developing these pathologies. Objective: This study aims at describing and laying the epidemiological profile of drug-induced toxic renal diseases in Yaounde University Teaching Hospital over the last 6 years (2009 – 2014). Materials and methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was carried out from the 1st of July to the 30th of November 2015, at the polyvalent reanimation service and the haemodialysis unit of the Yaounde University Teaching Hospital. With the aid of a questionnaire, the files of patients consulted and hospitalised in these services over a period of 6 years (1st January 2009 to 31st December 2014) were examined. Included in this study, patients suffering from renal drug toxicity. The data input, treatment and analysis were carried out with the help of Epi Info 7 and SPSS 22 software. Results: Forty-four (44) cases renal drug diseases representing 18.3% of the 240 files examined were noted. The average age of the patients was 48±18 years and varied between 11 and 87 years. The male sex constituted the majority of the suffers cases with a sex ratio of 2.67 (M/F). Acute renal infections with frequency of 65.9%, were most dominant of drug affections. Traditions concoctions (50%), gentamycin (11.4%) and paracetamol (9.1%) were the most incriminating drug in the occurrence of these renal drug affecting. The evolution was noted by a 43% complete recovery against a 14% death. Conclusion: Renal drug toxicities represent a non-negligible proportion of the renal affection ailments in the specialised centres like Yaounde University Teaching Hospital. The elaboration and putting into action a sensitization plan for populations on the proves necessary, as this would help improve pharmacovigilance and also reduce the consumption of illicit drugs to a greater extent responsible for renal problems.
Implementation of Extended Uniform Circular Local Binary Pattern Algorithm for Matching Sketches with Digital Face Images

— This paper presents an efficient algorithm for matching sketches with digital face images. The proposed system Enhanced Uniform Circular Local Binary Pattern (EUCLBP) is used to extract the minute information present in local facial region. To determine the exceptionality of criminal, development in biometric technology have provide law enforcement agency various tools but, several crimes take place where no information of criminal is present, but instead an eyewitness description of the crime is presented. In these situation, a forensic artist is commonly made to work with the eyewitness in order to draw a sketch that describe the facial look of the criminal according to the spoken description
Curative Cancer Chemotherapy1

Cancer chemotherapy provides variably effective treatment for the majority of forms of human cancer and curative treatment for some 12 categories of cancer. Curative treatment is defined as the proportion of patients who survive beyond the time after which the risk of treatment failure approaches zero, i.e., the disease-free survival plateau. This progress has resulted from a closely integrated scientific effort, including drug development, pharmacology, preclinical modeling, experimental design with respect to clinical trials, quantitative criteria for response, and a series of clinical trials (initially in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia) in which the importance of complete remission, of dose and schedule, of sequencing chemotherapeutic agents, of pharmacological sanctuaries, and particularly of combination chemotherapy was studied. The principles derived from these studies, particularly those relating to combination chemotherapy, resulted in curative treatment for disseminated Hodgkin's dis ease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, pediatrie solid tumors, testicular cancer, and limited small cell lung cancer. Many patients with certain stages of solid tumors, such as breast cancer and osteogenic sarcoma, are at high risk of having disseminated micro scopic disease. Experimental studies indicate that treatment which is only partially effective against macroscopic disease is much more effective against microscopic tumors. Therefore chemotherapy is administered immediately following control of the primary tumor in patients at high risk of having disseminated microscopic disease, a treatment known as adjuvant chemo therapy. This program has been highly successful in increasing the cure rate in patients with pediatrie solid tumors and in prolonging disease-free survival in patients with premenopausal breast cancer. Given dissemination of the technology, it is esti mated that 15,000-30,000 patients per year are potentially curable in the United States. Curability of cancer by chemother apy generally is inversely related to age, i.e., the above tumors are most common in children and young adults. There are new and promising treatment strategies, such as neoadjuvant chem otherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation. The rev olution in molecular and cellular biology is providing an increase in targets, rationale, and opportunity for more effective and novel chemotherapeutic approaches.
How many water molecules can be detected by protein crystallography?

# 1999 International Union of Crystallography Printed in Denmark ± all rights reserved The number of water molecules which are expected to be experimentally located by protein crystallography was determined by multiple regression analysis on a test set of 873 known protein crystal structures determined at room temperature and on another set of 33 structures determined at low temperature. The dependence of the number of water molecules included in the protein models as a function of a number of signi®cant regressors, such as resolution, fraction of crystal volume occupied by the solvent, number of residues in the asymmetric unit, fraction of apolar protein surface or secondary structure, has been studied. The number of water molecules included in crystallographic models depends primarily on the resolution at which the structure has been solved, while the temperature of the data collection has only marginal in ̄uence. On average, at 2.0 AÊ resolution one water molecule per residue is included in the model, while at 1.0 AÊ resolution about 1.6±1.7 are crystallographically located. At 2.0 AÊ resolution the well known rule-of-thumb of `one water per protein residue' is con®rmed, though the number of water molecules experimentally observed is strongly dependent on resolution. The results presented are useful in assessing the quality of a protein crystal structure, in selecting structural results to be compared and in evaluating the expected improvement on the solvent structure when increasing the crystallographic resolution. Received 1 July 1998 Accepted 17 September 1998
SRAS : étude rétrospective de la cohorte allemande ayant séjourné à l'hôtel 'M', Hong-Kong

Hong Kong a joue un role central dans la diffusion internationale du Syndrome Respiratoire Aigu Severe (SRAS) : un medecin ayant sejourne la nuit du 21-22 fevrier 2003 a l'hotel 'M' a ete identifie comme etant le cas index de quatre cas groupes de SRAS, nationaux et internationaux. Parallelement a l'etude collaborative internationale menee par l'OMS et les Etats-Unis, une etude retrospective sur la cohorte de ressortissants allemands ayant sejourne a l'hotel 'M' a ete realisee. Les criteres d'inclusion couvraient la periode du 21 fevrier au 3 mars 2003 afin de permettre la detection des cas dus a une possible contamination environnementale. Vingt-et-un Allemands ayant sejourne a l'hotel 'M' au cours de cette periode ont ainsi ete inclus, dont un cas de SRAS confirme microbiologiquement. L'histoire de ce cas suggere qu'une forte proximite avec le cas index a pu jouer un role dans la transmission. D'apres les resultats des investigations environnementales menees dans l'hotel, la contamination environnementale devrait etre consideree comme une source possible d'infection.
Constellation Design for Media-Based Modulation Using Block Codes and Squaring Construction

Efficient constellation design is important for improving performance in communication systems. The problem of multidimensional constellation design has been studied extensively in the literature in the context of multidimensional coded modulation and space-time coded MIMO systems. Such constellations are formally called as lattice codes, where a finite set of points from a certain high dimensional lattice is chosen based on some criteria. In this paper, we consider the problem of constellation/signal set design for media-based modulation (MBM), a recent MIMO channel modulation scheme with promising theoretical and practical benefits. Constellation design for MBM is fundamentally different from those for multidimensional coded modulation and conventional MIMO systems mainly because of the inherent sparse structure of the MBM signal vectors. Specifically, we need a structured sparse lattice code with good distance properties. In this work, we show that using an $(N,K)$ non-binary block code in conjunction with the lattice based multilevel squaring construction, it is possible to systematically construct a signal set for MBM with certain guaranteed minimum distance. The MBM signal set obtained using the proposed construction is shown to achieve significantly improved bit error performance compared to conventional MBM signal set. In particular, the proposed signal set is found to achieve higher diversity slopes in the low-to-moderate SNR regime.