Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Clinical evaluation of balance in hemiparetic adults: a systematic review

Introducao A hemiparesia e um quadro comum apos acidente vascular encefalico e pode levar a alteracoes do equilibrio. A avaliacao do equilibrio com instrumentos padronizados pode identificar individuos com risco de queda e verificar resultados de intervencoes. Objetivos Identificar instrumentos com propriedades psicometricas adequadas e a aplicabilidade clinica para avaliacao do equilibrio do individuo com hemiparesia na pratica fisioterapica alem de verificar quais os instrumentos mais utilizados em estudos que avaliaram o efeito de exercicios terapeuticos para a melhora do equilibrio nessa populacao. Materiais e metodos Pesquisadores independentes realizaram busca nas bases de dados Medline, Lilacs, PEDro e Web of Science, selecionaram e analisaram estudos de confiabilidade e validade dos instrumentos e dos estudos de intervencao. Resultados e discussao A Escala de Equilibrio de Berg foi o instrumento mais utilizado nos estudos de intervencao. Foram identificados nove testes de tarefa unica (Timed up & GO, Functional Reach, Step Test, Four Square Step Test, Side Step Test, Suported Standing Balance, Standing arm raise, Static Tandem Standing e wheight shift) e seis instrumentos com multiplas tarefas (Escala de Avaliacao do Equilibrio de Berg, Brunel Balance Assessment, Escala de Fugl-Meyer/secao equilibrio, Mini Balance Evaluation Systems Test e Escala de Avaliacao Postural para pacientes apos Acidente vascular encefalico) com propriedades psicometricas adequadas e aplicabilidade para avaliacao do equilibrio na hemiparesia. Consideracoes finais Destacou-se a Escala de Equilibrio de Berg, por ter propriedades psicometricas amplamente estudadas e ter sido utilizada na maioria dos estudos de intervencao encontrados. Sao necessarios novos estudos para adaptacao dos instrumentos ainda nao validados no Brasil.
Factors Affecting ABB Implementation in PLCC

This paper aims to examine the role and significance of activity-based budgeting (ABB) in developing countries. It provides comparison with the traditional system, and evaluates the possibility of implementing ABB system in private Libyan commercial companies (PLCC). This paper attempts to highlight the factors affecting the implementation of ABB in PLCC. The findings suggest that PLCC still uses traditional system in budget preparation.
The Effect of Liquidity on Financial Performance: Evidence from Turkish Retail Industry

The aim of this study is to analyse the effect of liquidity on financial performance (in terms of profitability) by using a time-series data of Turkish retail industry (consisting of Borsa Istanbul (BIST) listed retail merchandising firms) in the period of 1998.Q1-2015.Q3. The stationarity of series and the co-integration relationship between them are tested by the unit root test of Carrioni-i-Silvestre et al. (2009) and the co-integration test of Maki (2012), respectively. Co-integration coefficients are estimated by Stock and Watson (1993) dynamic OLS method. Finally, causal relationships between the series are tested by Hacker and Hatemi (2012) bootstrap causality test. Results of Maki (2012) test show that the series are co-integrated in the long-run. While long-run parameters estimated posit a significantly positive relationship between financial performance and liquidity, causality test does not indicate any direction of causality between the series.
Dynamic Classification of Tasks in Condition of Unit and Small Batch Production

Received: 18 July 2010 Abstract Accepted: 20 August 2010 In the process of unit and small batch production a very important aspect is the amount of time from production setup to availability to the customer. In spite of applying modern management techniques, setup time still plays an important part in the production cycle time. In the examined companies the relationship between changeover time to processing time was significant. The above research inspired the author to prepare a method of setup time reduction through the appropriate arrangement of tasks in the operational production plan. The appropriate arrangement meant considering the similarity of parts from the point of view of carried out operation. The similarity of parts facilitates setup time reduction, which translate into smaller lot sizes, reduced in-process inventories, shorter lead time and higher throughput. The method was validated in conditions of the production practice for unit and small batch production. The presented method is one of the elements of a computer aided management system for small and medium enterprises (SME).
Determining the quality of life in the elderly with high frequency hearing loss before and after hearing aid fitting

Background and Aim: Hearing loss is a social damage affecting the most important aspect of social life i.e. communication. People with high frequency hearing loss do not accept hearing aid easily and resist its using. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of hearing aid in the quality of life of the elderly people with high frequency hearing loss. Methods: This study was performed on 22 elderly people over 60 years old with mild to moderate sensory neural high frequency hearing loss living in Hamadan City, Iran. Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE) questionnaire was completed before and three month after using hearing aid. Social, emotional, and total scores before and after intervention were compared, too. Results: Findings showed significant improvement of social, emotional and total scores before and three months after using hearing aid (p<0.001). Comparison of mean scores showed that prescribing hearing aid was effective in improving the quality of life in the elderly with high frequency hearing loss. Conclusion: Considering beneficial effects of hearing aid on improving the quality of life in elderly patients with high frequency hearing loss, applying appropriate hearing aid and if needed rehabilitation programs are recommended.
A task migration algorithm for power management on heterogeneous multicore

The advantages of the increased chip integration for multicore technology exponentially improve the performance of the processor chip. However, with the increased number of cores, the power consumption of the system has become an increasingly important problem. Compared with homogeneous multicore, the main advantage of heterogeneous architecture on the power consumption is that it allows for the inclusion of processors whose design is specialized for particular types of jobs, and for jobs to be assigned to a processor best suited for that job. In most multicore platforms, cache resources is a scarce resource, different cores share on chip caches. Without effective management by the scheduler, such caches can cause thrashing that severely degrades system performance. An excellent task scheduling algorithm is an effective method to reduce Cache contention. The purpose of this paper is through the program feature classification reduce process cache contention, let the process which can better make use of the performance of processor execute upon high frequency cores, improving the processor performance reduce the execution time to achieve the purpose of reducing power consumption in a heterogeneous multicore system.
Pharmacognostic and Antimicrobial Screening of Leaf Extracts of Annona muricata

Results: The Chemomicroscopic evaluation revealed the presence of lignin, starch, and cellulose. Phytochemical analysis revealed the presence of alkaloids, tannins, saponins and carbohydrates. The extract showed varied inhibitory effects against the test-microorganisms Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Aspergillusniger and Candida albicans at concentrations 10-100 g/ml.
Evolution of SUMO’s Simulation Model

This text gives a short account on DLR’s open source micro-simulation tool SUMO. It does so mostly by reporting some of the applications cases that had been performed with the help of SUMO. These application cases show that SUMO is a very versatile, timely, and mature research tool which nevertheless is continuously developed further.
Common benthic algae and cyanobacteria in southern California tidal wetlands

Benthic algae and photosynthetic bacteria are important components of coastal wetlands, contributing to primary productivity, nutrient cycling, and other ecosystem functions. Despite their key roles in mudflat and salt marsh food webs, the extent and patterns of diversity of these organisms is poorly known. Sediments from intertidal marshes in San Diego County, California host a variety of cyanobacteria, diatoms, and multi-cellular algae. This flora describes approximately 40 taxa of common and notable cyanobacteria, microalgae and macroalgae observed in wetland sediments, principally from a small tidal marsh in Mission Bay. Cyanobacteria included coccoid and heterocyte and non-heterocyte bearing filamentous genera. A phylogenetically-diverse assemblage of pennate and centric diatoms, euglenoids, green algae, red algae, tribophytes and brown seaweeds was also observed. Most taxa are illustrated with photographs.
Perception, Processing and Storage of Subphonemic and Extralinguistic Features in Spoken Word Recognition - An Argument from Language Variation and Change

Perception, Processing and Storage of Subphonemic and Extralinguistic Features in Spoken Word Recognition - An Argument from Language Variation and Change Recent research on speech perception and word recognition has shown that fine-grained sub-phonemic as well as speaker- and episode-specific characteristics of a speech signal are integrally connected with segmental (phonemic) information; they are all most probably processed in a non-distinct manner, and stored in the lexical memory. This view contrasts with the traditional approach holding that we operate on abstract phonemic representations extracted from a particular acoustic signal, without the need to process and store the multitude of its individual features. In the paper, I want to show that this turn towards the "particulars" of a speech event was in fact quite predictable, and the so-called traditional view would most probably have never been formulated if studies on language variation and language change-in-progress had been taken into account when constructing models of speech perception. In part one, I discuss briefly the traditional view ("abstract representations only"), its theoretical background, and outline some problems, internal to the speech perception theory, that the traditional view encounters. Part two will demonstrate that what we know about the implementation of sound changes has long made it possible to answer, once and for all, the question of integrated processing and storage of extralinguistic, phonemic and subphonemic characteristics of the speech signal.
DIET ACCULTURATION AND ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS AMONG ORANG ASLI IN GOMBAK, SELANGOR, MALAYSIA

ABSTRACT Background: This study was carried out to determine the relationship between dietary acculturation and anthropometric measurements among Orang Asli adults in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 85 Orang Asli adults aged 18 to 59 years old living in Gombak settlement. The information on socio-demographic characteristics, general acculturation and dietary acculturation were collected via interview-administered questionnaire. Anthropometric measurements on weight, height, waist circumference and body fat percentage were carried out. Result: The mean general acculturation score was 61.7±9.7% and 67% respondents were bicultural. Other than that, based on the total dietary acculturation score, 47.1% practiced bicultural diet. In fact, around half of the respondents were overweight (30.6%) or obese (25.9%). Besides, significant linear relationships were discovered between Western dietary acculturation with waist circumference ( B =1.72, p<0.05) and body fat percentage ( B =1.21, p<0.05). Furthermore, Indian dietary acculturation was significantly related with increased BMI ( B =0.77, p<0.05), waist circumference ( B =2.07, p<0.05) and body fat percentage ( B =1.55, p<0.01). Conclusion: The majority of the respondents lived as bicultural and practiced bicultural diet. The acculturation of Western and Indian diets had been related to the increased risk overweight or obesity. Thus, more nutrition education and nutrition promotion programs pertaining to healthy food choices need to be organized in order to improve nutritional status among Orang Asli in Malaysia. Keywords: Orang Asli, Dietary acculturation, Anthropometric measurements
Autonomous self-pollination and insect visitation in a saprophytic orchid, Epipogium roseum (D. Don) Lindl.

Reproductive biology of saprophytic plants has been poorly studied. Epipogium roseum (D.Don) Lindl. is a small saprophytic orchid that is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia, Australia and Africa. The floral biology and insect visitation of E. roseum were studied in Xishuangbanna, south Yunnan Province, China. E. roseum possesses an obligate self-pollination system, in which the degenerative rostellum has lost its function as a physical barrier separating the stigma and stamens (pollinia), allowing contact between the stigmatic secretions and the pollinia during bud development. Flowers of E. roseum usually open and successfully attract insect visitors. The Asian honey bee (Apis cerana cerana) was the only visitor observed, and regularly visited flowers of E. roseum for nectar. However, these bees did not carry pollinia away after visiting the flowers due to the absence of a viscid disk in E. roseum; the results of experiments also indicated that the Asian honey bee does not contribute to fruit set in E. roseum. The visiting frequency of Asian honey bees to flowers of E. roseum varied both spatially and temporally. E. roseum does not undergo outcrossing mediated by insects and is adapted to obligate self-pollination. We suggest that this may have evolved because of the uncertainty of pollinator services associated with its saprophytic lifestyle. Our current studies do not support the hypothesis that obligate autogamy is favoured by myco-heterotrophic plants due to resource limitations.
Unilaterally constrained dynamical systems

Lucht- en ruimtevaartsystemen bestaan uit vele deelsystemen waarbij elk van die deelsystemen een specifieke functie vervult. Veelal worden lucht- en ruimtevaartsystemen ontworpen in internationale samenwerkingsverbanden. Er is een groeiende behoefte om al in een vroegtijdig stadium van het ontwikkelproces de interacties tussen de verschillende deelsystemen en de prestaties van het complete systeem te testen, te verifieren en te valideren. Steeds vaker worden voor dit doel simulaties uitgevoerd. In dit proefschrift richten we ons voornamelijk op de speciale klasse van systemen die kan worden beschreven door dynamische gelijkheden en statisch ongelijkheden. Dit soort representaties komt veelvuldig voor bij het modelleren van fysische systemen die in hun bewegingsvrijheid zijn beperkt. Een typisch voorbeeld van een dergelijk systeem is een robot-arm met objecten in zijn werkomgeving. Het is van belang om de interacties tussen, bijvoorbeeld, de robot-arm en de objecten in wiskundige modellen te vatten die geschikt zijn voor het uitvoeren van simulaties. Zie: Samenvatting.
CEO Duality Structure and Firm Performance in Pakistan

This article examines the impact of CEO duality on firm performance; which attracted much attention, especially in emerging economies, yet yielded several inconsistent empirical results. CEO duality exists when the offices of the CEO and Chairman are retained by the same person. This study examines the relationship between CEO duality and the performance of Pakistani public listed companies by using a sample of five years, from 2007 to 2011. This study tested the hypotheses with data obtained from the Karachi Stock Exchange 100 indexed firms, and employed the agency and stewardship theory perspectives. However, our empirical results do not show a significant relationship between CEO duality and firm performance, but CEO qualification and CEO affiliation are positively associated with firm performance. The results suggest that CEO duality is a less significant issue in corporate governance than suggested by many previous researchers and policy makers. The paper contributes to the literature on corporate governance and firm performance by introducing a framework in identifying and analyzing moderating variables that affect the relationship between CEO duality and firm performance.
Achieving pro-poor growth through investment in rural feeder roads: the role of impact evaluation

Impact evaluation was high on the agenda at the recent 3rd Global Review of Aid-for-Trade (AfT). Since the mid-2000s, interest in the analytically robust evaluation of the impact of projects, programmes and policies has increased amongst policymakers (Estache, 2010). With growing recognition of the links between high transport costs and poverty, this trend also encompasses an increasing interest in undertaking detailed evaluations of the impact of public investment in rural roads. This begs the question: how do we identify what kind of public spending, including AfT, is most effective in reducing poverty and generating equitable agricultural growth? How, for example, do partner countries and donors define the success of donor investment in rural feeder roads? These Aid-for-Trade (AfT) interventions – categorised as either labour-based or equipment-based rural transport infrastructure (RTI) – are engineered earth roads that connect rural areas to urban centres via the connection to secondary district roads (Howe, 1984). Despite the large amounts spent on rural roads, there is remarkably little formal evidence on their benefits to households or to enterprises. What has been lacking is a general methodology, using micro-data, to estimate these gains. It has been argued that RTI and provision of RTI services – including rural feeder roads – could be considered pre-requisites for growth and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Improving access to markets, for example, can lower agricultural input prices and increase production (MDG1). Improving RTI and services can help children get to school (MDG2). But what actual impact have these AfT interventions had to date? How could future research enhance this impact? And what are the policy implications? This Background Note provides suggestions on what state-of-the-art AfT impact evaluations could look like, and why they should be part of a project’s design from the outset in order to improve policy conducive to achieving the MDGs.
YIELD AND QUALITY OF FORAGE MAIZE AS INFLUENCED BY PLANT DENSITY AND NITROGEN RATE

The producers of silage maize need more information on agronomic managements such as plant density and nitrogen fertilization. Field studies were conducted in Bursa to evaluate dry matter yield and forage quality responses of silage maize to plant density and nitrogen rate. Five densities of 60 000, 100 000, 140 000, 180 000 and 220 000 plants ha -1 and five rates of 0, 100, 200, 300 and 400 kg N ha -1 were applied with split block design of three replications. As plant density increased, dry matter yield, stem percentage and ADF increased, but leaf number plant -1 , stem diameter and ear percentage decreased with the highest dry matter yields of 180 000 plants ha -1 and 220 000 plants ha -1 . However, there were no effects of plant densities on plant height, leaf percentage, crude protein and NDF. The dry matter yield, plant height, leaf number plant -1 , stem diameter, leaf percentage, ear percentage, crude protein content and NDF responded linearly to nitrogen rates with the highest dry matter yields at 300 and 400 kg N ha -1 , respectively. However, stem percentage decreased and ADF did not change as nitrogen rates increased. In conclusion, 180 000 plants ha -1 and 300 kg N ha -1 may be recommended for cultivation of silage maize under drip irrigation at Southern
Parasitoid wasps from three Jamaican localities: A pilot study

Parasitoid wasps are an extremely speciose, ecologically and economically crucial group of insects. Despite this, they have received disproportionally little attention from scientists, in particular in certain areas of the world. One such area is the Caribbean, where studies are scarce despite the importance of parasitoid wasps, and the uniqueness and diversity of the Caribbean islands. To verify whether an adequate diversity of parasitoid wasps at family level can be found to warrant future studies, this study carries out preliminary sampling in three localities in Jamaica. A total of 1522 individual parasitoid wasps, belonging to at least 16 different families collected during 16 events provide preliminary evidence there is in fact a high diversity of parasitoid wasps in Jamaica, and that future studies there, as in the rest of the Caribbean are definitely worthwhile.
Proposed Photonic Integrated Circuit For Photonic Networks

Optical technologies have great potential for the implementation of high-speed systems due to their potential for a decrease in size, weight and power consumption and an increase in speed, capacity, bandwidth and integration degree. In this paper a study for the Integrated Photonics properties versus Integrated Electronics had been presented, different types of photonic components are maintained, the fabrication technology is explained using the Encoder/Correlator on GaAs-Based Photonic Integrated Circuit for Photonic Networks, various limits and challenges are discussed, different suggestion are discussed for the future.
Normalization of qPCR array data: a novel method based on procrustes superimposition

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, endogenous non-coding RNAs that function as guide molecules to regulate transcription of their target messenger RNAs. Several methods including low-density qPCR arrays are being increasingly used to profile the expression of these molecules in a variety of different biological conditions. Reliable analysis of expression profiles demands removal of technical variations in data, which is achieved via applying normalization techniques. Most normalization techniques have been developed for mRNA microarrays and new and modified methods should be used or miRNA studies in general and RT-qPCR miRNA arrays in particular, because of low number of miRNAs. Here, we introduce a new method based on Procrustes superimposition of arrays to be normalized on a reference array. To assess the performance of our normalization method, we compared this method to the common miRNA normalization methods. Removal of technical variation was assessed by robust modeling of mean square error (MSE) in different subsets of real miRNA datasets before and after applying normalization. We show that our method outperforms the other normalization methods in concurrent reduction of technical variation and retention of biological variability.