Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A study of workplace behavior of knowledge workers with respect to gender, marital status and humor quotient

Design/Methodology/Approach: A self constructed questionnaire was used for the purpose of the survey. The questionnaire had items related to the perception of professionals regarding key factors in an organizational environment. The universe comprises IT organizations. The technique of multi stage sampling has been used, at the first stage area sampling has been adopted and the IT organizations in Delhi and NCR were chosen. At the second stage stratified sampling has been used in which the corporate professionals of each organization were further divided into three cadres namely top management, middle management, and low level of management this has been used to attain a representative sample of respondents. Out of 150 questionnaires sent to the respondents we received 114 completed questionnaires. Findings: It was found that both gender and marital status are key variables making a difference in the way people behave and conduct when they are at work. It was also found that personal life has a lot to do with professional performance. The priorities, discipline, commitments are handled differently with respect to gender and marital status. Another, significant variable that this study addresses is humor which is found to have correlations with recession and layoffs.
Comparing the Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, Biofeedback Electromyography and Functional Electrical Stimulation on Quadriceps Disinhibition after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Introduction: Patients with ACL reconstruction often return back to activity with diminished quadriceps activity and strength. (Patients suffering from ACL can be often rehabilitated with the help of ACL reconstruction, although quadriceps strength and muscle activity might be weak or limited after the surgery.)The present study aimed to compare the effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS), Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) and Biofeedback Electromyography (B-EMG) on improvement in quadriceps strength and mean value of VMO activation pattern (MVVA) among patients with reconstruction of ACL. Materials and Methods: The study was designed as a randomized control trial. 102 patients, who filled a demographic questionnaire relating to important factors mainly age, height, and weight before the intervention, (all sportsmen) were randomly divided into four groups known as, FES (n=21), TENS (n=21), B-EMG (n=22) and control (n=38). In this study, hand-held dynamometry and biofeedback electromyography were used to assess Quadriceps strength and MVVA respectively. All samples were evaluated at three different time intervals, including prior to the, after and 4 weeks after the treatment. Additionally, all four groups received Ice pack around the knee and Michle Duck exercise therapy protocol. The treatments provided totally lasted 3 to 5 weeks. The participants in 4 groups received TENS, FES and B-EMG as their main treatments 5 times a week for 45, 15 and 15 minutes successively. Results: The mean scores of MVVA and quadriceps strength after the intervention and after the follow-up increased significantly in all four groups. However the effect of FES on MVVA in comparison with TENS and control group was statistically meaningful in favor of FES group. (As instructed here the last sentence omitted) Conclusion: TENS, FES and B-EMG in combination with cryotherapy and exercise as well as cryotherapy with exercise can reduce VMO inhibition and improve quadriceps strength in patients who undergo ACL reconstruction. However FES in combination with cryotherapy and exercise can be the most effective one. Key words: ACL Reconstruction, Biofeedback, Functional Electrical Stimulation, Quadriceps Inhibition, TENS
Body Image Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Behaviors in Mothers during Lactation Period

The present study was conducted to examine the relationship of body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors among women during lactation period that is, maximum two years after last delivery. The basic aim of the study was to find out whether women in our culture experience body image dissatisfaction during lactating phase that leads towards engaging in disordered eating behaviors. Multidimensional Body Self Relations Questionnaire Scale (Cash, 2002), Disordered Eating Behavior Scale (Muazzam and Khalid, 2011), and a detailed demographic sheet were used for data collection from 100 mothers through convenience and snowball sampling. Results showed that appearance evaluation, overweight preoccupation, and appearance orientation (domains of body image) significantly predicted disordered eating behaviors. However, self-classified weight and body dissatisfaction domains had no predictive role in disordered eating. Results further indicated that pre-pregnancy weight concerns were positively correlated with weight concerns after delivery, while, lactating period had no role in disordered eating behavior. The present study suggested that the trends of body image dissatisfaction existed in mothers of our culture that led them in engaging towards disordered eating behaviors. Therefore, efforts would be needed by psychologists and nutrionists to plan healthy diet plans for mothers and reduce their concerns regarding body image as it might affect health of the child as well as those who is dependent on mother for feeding.
Improving the inter-hemispheric gradient of total column atmospheric CO 2 and CH 4 in simulations with the ECMWF semi-Lagrangian atmospheric global model

Abstract. It is a widely established fact that standard semi-Lagrangian advection schemes are highly efficient numerical techniques for simulating the transport of atmospheric tracers. However, as they are not formally mass conserving, it is essential to use some method for restoring mass conservation in long time range forecasts. A common approach is to use global mass fixers. This is the case of the semi-Lagrangian advection scheme in the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) model used by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Mass fixers are algorithms with substantial differences in complexity and sophistication but in general of low computational cost. This paper shows the positive impact mass fixers have on the inter-hemispheric gradient of total atmospheric column-averaged CO2 and CH4, a crucial feature of their spatial distribution. Two algorithms are compared: the simple "proportional" and the more complex Bermejo–Conde schemes. The former is widely used by several Earth system climate models as well the CAMS global forecasts and analysis of atmospheric composition, while the latter has been recently implemented in IFS. Comparisons against total column observations demonstrate that the proportional mass fixer is shown to be suitable for the low-resolution simulations, but for the high-resolution simulations the Bermejo–Conde scheme clearly gives better results. These results have potential repercussions for climate Earth system models using proportional mass fixers as their resolution increases. It also emphasises the importance of benchmarking the tracer mass fixers with the inter-hemispheric gradient of long-lived greenhouse gases using observations.
The DAQ/HLT system of the ATLAS experiment

The DAQ/HLT system of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, Switzerland, is being commissioned for first collisions in 2009. Presently, the system is composed of an already very large farm of computers that accounts for about one-third of its final event processing capacity. Event selection is conducted in two steps after the hardware-based Level-1 Trigger: a Level-2 Trigger processes detector data based on regions of interest (RoI) and an Event Filter operates on the full event data assembled by the Event Building system. The detector read out is fully commissioned and can be operated at its full design capacity. This places the responsibility on the High-Level Triggers system to select only events of highest physics interest that will finally reach the offline reconstruction farms. This paper brings an overview of the current ATLAS DAQ/HLT implementation and performance based on studies originated from its operation with simulated, cosmic particles and first-beam data. Its built-in event processing parallelism is presented and discussed.
Chromosome Instability in Carcinomas

Los modelos actuales de carcinogenesis consideran la ocurrencia de mutaciones crecientes y mecanismos selectivos, favoreciendo la sobrevivencia y proliferacion celular aumentada. Mecanismos epigeneticos tambien participan en la oncogenesis, destacando la metilacion del DNA. La caracteristica de las celulas tumorales que permite el aumento de la ocurrencia de mutaciones es denominada inestabilidad genetica, donde son identificados dos mecanismos: inestabilidad de microsatelites, caracterizada por alteraciones nucleotidicas con errores en los sistemas de reparacion del DNA; inestabilidad cromosomica, en la cual las aberraciones suceden en grandes segmentos cromosomicos. Los carcinomas son caracterizados por alteraciones citogeneticas complejas y grandes mezclas genicas. Alteraciones telomericas, quiebres de DNA reparados inadecuadamente y deficiencia en los sistemas de chequeo del huso mitotico, son eventos capaces de generar inestabilidad cromosomica y aneuploidia que caracterizan estas neoplasias mas agresivas. El conocimiento de los mecanismos que provocan la inestabilidad cromosomica puede permitir la utilizacion clinica de informacion en el desarrollo de estrategias terapeuticas mas adecuadas, dirigidas a puntos especificos involucrados en procesos de malignizacion
Pairwise Comparison and Distance Measure of Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Sets

A hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS), allowing experts using several possible linguistic terms to assess a qualitative linguistic variable, is very useful to express people’s hesitancy in practical decision-making problems. Up to now, a little research has been done on the comparison and distance measure of HFLTSs. In this paper, we present a comparison method for HFLTSs based on pairwise comparisons of each linguistic term in the two HFLTSs. Then, a distance measure method based on the pairwise comparison matrix of HFLTSs is proposed, and we prove that this distance is equal to the distance of the average values of HFLTSs, which makes the distance measure much more simple. Finally, the pairwise comparison and distance measure methods are utilized to develop two multicriteria decision-making approaches under hesitant fuzzy linguistic environments. The results analysis shows that our methods in this paper are more reasonable.
The investigation of the manipulation with scores on amoral dimension of the HEDONICA inventory

Faking on Amoral dimension of the HEDONICA personality inventory was incited by the context simulation instructions: fake good (S2), fake bad (S3) and be honest (S1). Simultaneously, under instruction S1, the scores of respondents were measured on the Amoral facets of Self-concept scale (GSC), the Balanced social desirability scale (BIDR) and the cognitive tests of the fluid (IT2, ALF and RM) and the crystallized (AL4, vocabulary and GSN) intelligence, supposed (Morality), or known from the literature, as possible faking determinants. The score differences on Amoral dimension facets were calculated for S2 and for S3 situations using as a baseline the score in S1 situation. The score differences between S3 and S1 situations (abbreviated as FB) were found to be larger than the ones between S2 and S1 situations (abbreviated as FG). This result indicated that a) Amoral is susceptible to faking, and b) in S3, rather than in S2 situation, respondents displayed higher tendency of faking, or in other words, they incline to make worse rather than good presentation of themselves. The Projection facet of Amoral was most sensitive toward faking. These differences are found to be correlated with the Morality dimension of Self-concept scale and the fluid intelligence factor, but not with the dimensions of Social desirability scale in both situation for almost all faking scores on Amoral facets. Only Brutality was not related to the Morality, and Viciousness was not related to the Gf. This indicated that the dimension Morality of the Self-concept scale is far more correlated with the Amoral dimension of the HEDONICA personality scale than with the Social desirability scale. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. ON179018]
Recent Advances in the Modeling of Transmission Lines Loaded with Split Ring Resonators

This paper reviews the recent advances in the modeling of transmission lines loaded with split ring resonators (SRRs). It is well known that these artificial lines can exhibit a negative effective permeability in a narrow band above the SRR fundamental resonance, providing stopband functionality. By introducing shunt inductive elements to the line, the stopband can be switched to a pass band with left-handed (LH) wave propagation. For the design of microwave circuits based on these artificial lines, accurate circuit models are necessary. The former circuit model of SRR-loaded lines was presented more than one decade ago and is valid under restrictive conditions. This paper presents the progress achieved in the modeling of these artificial lines during the last years. The analysis, restricted to coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission lines loaded only with SRRs (negative permeability transmission lines), includes the effects of SRR orientation, the coupling between adjacent resonators, and the coupling between the two SRRs constituting the unit cell. The proposed circuit models are validated through electromagnetic simulation and experimental data. It is also pointed out that the analysis can be easily extended to negative permittivity transmission lines based on complementary split ring resonators (CSRRs).
University of Groningen Identifying Subpopulations with Distinct Response to Treatment Using Plasma Biomarkers in Acute Heart Failure

Background Over the last 50 years, clinical trials of novel interventions for acute heart failure (AHF) have, with few exceptions, been neutral or shown harm. We hypothesize that this might be related to a differential response to pharmacological therapy. Methods We studied the magnitude of treatment effect of rolofylline across clinical characteristics and plasma biomarkers in 2033 AHF patients and derived a biomarkerbased responder sum score model. Treatment response was survival from all-cause mortality through day 180. Results In the overall study population, rolofylline had no effect on mortality (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.82–1.28, p = 0.808). We found no treatment interaction across clinical characteristics, but we found interactions between several biomarkers and rolofylline. The biomarker-based sum scoremodel included TNF-R1α, ST2, WAP four-disulfide core domain protein HE4 (WAP-4C), and total cholesterol, and the score ranged between 0 and 4. In patients with score 4 (those with increased TNF-R1α, ST2, WAP-4C, and low total cholesterol), treatment with rolofylline was beneficial (HR 0.61, 95% CI 0.40–0.92, p = 0.019). In patients with score 0, treatment with rolofylline was harmful (HR 5.52, 95% CI 1.68–18.13, p = 0.005; treatment by score interaction p < 0.001). Internal validation estimated similar hazard ratio estimates (0 points: HR 5.56, 95% CI 5.27–7–5.87; 1 point: HR 1.31, 95% CI 1.25–1.33; 2 points: HR 0.75, 95% CI 0.74–0.76; 3 points: HR 1.13, 95% CI 1.11–1.15; 4 points, HR 0.61, 95% CI 0.61– 0.62) compared to the original data. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10557-017-6726-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Adriaan A. Voors A.A. Voors@umcg.nl 1 Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 3 Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA, USA 4 University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy 5 Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA Cardiovasc Drugs Ther (2017) 31:281–293 DOI 10.1007/s10557-017-6726-1 6 Medical University, Clinical Military Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland 7 University of California at San Francisco and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA 8 Momentum Research, Durham, NC, USA 9 Imperial College, London, UK 10 Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 11 Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ, USA Conclusion Biomarkers are superior to clinical characteristics to study treatment heterogeneity in acute heart failure.
APGARCH MODELING OF CDS RETURNS

This paper considers the ability of the Generalized Asymmetric Power ARCH (APGARCH) model introduced by Ding, Granger and Engle (1993) to capture the stylized features of volatility in Credit Default Swap (CDS) returns for five countries (Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and Turkey). We analyze these countries’ daily CDS returns for the period January 27th, 2003 – November 4th, 2014. The results of this paper suggest that in the presence of asymmetric responses to innovations in the market, the APGARCH (1,1) Skewed Student-t model which accommodates both the skewness and the kurtosis of financial time series is preferred.
Factors Accounting for Differences of Fertility Desires and Intentions Among HIV-Infected and Uninfected Women of Reproductive Age at Six Hospitals in Two Regions of Kenya

Previous studies indicate that parenthood is a central life goal in most societies. Child bearing among HIV infected women poses danger of vertical HIV transmission. The study sought to investigate factors accounting for the differences in levels of fertility desires and intentions for HIV-infected and uninfected women of reproductive age from six hospitals in Nyanza and Central regions of Kenya. Intention connotes commitment to a course which usually leads to instrumental behaviors whereas desires are, however, wishes, which may be based more on emotions than on reality. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was used. Both HIV-infected and uninfected women desired and intended to have a median of three children. Women from Nyanza were 10.1 times more likely to desire more children than those from Central region (p<0.001). There was significant greater intention to have children among women aged 40-44 years or older with lower levels of education and living in rural areas. Cultural factors were found to influence fertility desires and intentions among women. To eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, reproductive health interventions should take into consideration the special needs of HIV-infected women to avoid unintended pregnancies, and eliminate the risk of vertical transmission. Additional tailored sexual and reproductive care and counselling support should be provided to HIV- infected women; couples and men to assist them make decisions on issues such as number, spacing and timing of pregnancy and use of contraceptives. Fertility and family planning education should be part of each clinic visit for both female and male HIV- infected clients. More effort should be put on educating male HIV infected clients since male partners have greater influence on fertility intentions in the family in Kenyan society.
Structure of intertidal and subtidal assemblages in Arctic vs temperate boulder shores

Several studies suggest that assemblages in intertidal zones that experience fre− quent physical extremes (e.g. wave−impacts) should be highly dependent on the regional in− put of propagules. Therefore with higher disturbance in the intertidal zone, higher depend− ence on the species pool from nearby assemblages (e.g. subtidal) should be observed. Here we examine adult community structure to investigate levels of similarity among marine as− semblages of Arctic intertidal zones compared with those in adjacent subtidal areas. Addi− tionally we compare Arctic results with similar data from a temperate area. We selected boulder fields as a model habitat and we predicted that subtidal and intertidal diversity would change differently under varying disturbance regimes. Multivariate analysis of data from Arctic and temperate North Atlantic indicates that in the Arctic, intertidal and subtidal assemblages were more similar to each other than were temperate intertidal and subtidal as− semblages. We suggest this is not because of species differences but that the temperate areas are less disturbed. The wave and ice battered, highly disturbed intertidal assemblages of the Arctic were composed of a subset of nearby subtidal assemblages with similar dominance structure. Intertidal specialist species were not found in the Arctic samples. In contrast, tem− perate intertidal boulder−field assemblages had a completely different dominance structure to the adjacent subtidal. Furthermore, temperate intertidal assemblages were composed of different (specialist) species often not found in the subtidal zone. We conclude that more disturbed environments, such as our Arctic study sites, are more dependent on outside sources of recruitment.
Competitiveness, Marketing Access, and Network Capability and Its Impacts on Marketing Performance

This study is to determine what factors influencingthe performance of SMEs. The population in this study is SMEs in the Central Java. Sample collection was conducted with a purposive sampling method. Criteriaused to take into accountis the SMEs that are already running at leastfortwo years. The sample in this study is intended as the representative of total population,67 (sixty seven). The data were processed and analyzed by computer program of SPSS 20 for Windows. Based on the results of regression analysis, it can be concluded that competitiveness has positive and significant impact on marketing performance marketing access has positive and significant impact on marketing performance. It means that the higher competitiveness and marketing access, the higher its performance. Competitiveness and marketing access have influence on SMEs performance through network capability.
Discussion Paper No . 511 AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF MORAL HAZARD DUE TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT

This paper examines how the unemployment benefit (UB) affects the intensity or search effort of the unemployed, which is measured by the working conditions of a new job resulting from search behavior, controlling for the endogeneity of the duration of unemployment. Estimation results show that the hiring probability of UB recipients is significantly lower than that of non-recipients, with the magnitude being approximately halved. Additionally, the working conditions of new jobs of UB recipients are significantly worse than those of non-recipients with regard to wages, occupation and firm size. This implies that there is very strong moral hazard in the UB system. JEL Classifications:J63, J64, J65
Estimating Standard Errors of Parameters Obtained by the EM-Algorithm

In this thesis, two different methods of standard error estimation when using the EM-algorithm will be compared. One of these methods is a long existing and commonly used method called Louis' method. The main idea of this method is to use the first and second derivatives of the complete-data log likelihood to obtain an estimate for the observed information matrix. The second method estimates the observed information matrix by taking the negative of the second derivative matrix of the incomplete-data log likelihood and has to my knowledge not been proposed in earlier research. A simulation experiment shows that the standard error estimates by the second method are generally closer to the simulated standard error estimates when the EM-algorithm is used to estimate parameters of a aussian mixture model with two components.