Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
KIC 10080943: a binary star with two γ Doradus/δ Scuti hybrid pulsators. Analysis of the g modes

We use 4 yr of Kepler photometry to study the non-eclipsing spectroscopic binary KIC 10080943. We find both components to be γ Doradus/δ Scuti hybrids, which pulsate in both p and g modes. We present an analysis of the g modes, which is complicated by the fact that the two sets of l = 1 modes partially overlap in the frequency spectrum. Nevertheless, it is possible to disentangle them by identifying rotationally split doublets from one component and triplets from the other. The identification is helped by the presence of additive combina- tion frequencies in the spectrum that involve the doublets but not the triplets. The rotational splittings of the multiplets imply core rotation periods of about 11 and 7 d in the two stars. One of the stars also shows evidence of l = 2 modes.
Population Genetic Structure and Phylogeography of Camellia flavida (Theaceae) Based on Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequences

Camellia flavida is an endangered species of yellow camellia growing in limestone mountains in southwest China. The current classification of C. flavida into two varieties, var. flavida and var. patens, is controversial. We conducted a genetic analysis of C. flavida to determine its taxonomic structure. A total of 188 individual plants from 20 populations across the entire distribution range in southwest China were analyzed using two DNA fragments: a chloroplast DNA fragment from the small single copy region and a single-copy nuclear gene called phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL). Sequences from both chloroplast and nuclear DNA were highly diverse; with high levels of genetic differentiation and restricted gene flow. This result can be attributed to the high habitat heterogeneity in limestone karst, which isolates C. flavida populations from each other. Our nuclear DNA results demonstrate that there are three differentiated groups within C. flavida: var. flavida 1, var. flavida 2, and var. patens. These genetic groupings are consistent with the morphological characteristics of the plants. We suggest that the samples included in this study constitute three taxa and the var. flavida 2 group is the genuine C. flavida. The three groups should be recognized as three management units for conservation concerns.
Musculoskeletal disorders associated with obesity: a biomechanical perspective

Despite the multifactorial nature of musculoskeletal disease, obesity consistently emerges as a key and potentially modifiable risk factor in the onset and progression of musculoskeletal conditions of the hip, knee, ankle, foot and shoulder. To date, the majority of research has focused on the impact of obesity on bone and joint disorders, such as the risk of fracture and osteoarthritis. However, emerging evidence indicates that obesity may also have a profound effect on soft‐tissue structures, such as tendon, fascia and cartilage. Although the mechanism remains unclear, the functional and structural limitations imposed by the additional loading of the locomotor system in obesity have been almost universally accepted to produce aberrant mechanics during locomotor tasks, thereby unduly raising stress within connective‐tissue structures and the potential for musculoskeletal injury. While such mechanical theories abound, there is surprisingly little scientific evidence directly linking musculoskeletal injury to altered biomechanics in the obese. For the most part, even the biomechanical effects of obesity on the locomotor system remain unknown. Given the global increase in obesity and the rapid rise in musculoskeletal disorders, there is a need to determine the physical consequences of continued repetitive loading of major structures of the locomotor system in the obese and to establish how obesity may interact with other factors to potentially increase the risk of musculoskeletal disease.
Analysis of the Critical Success Factors of Integrated Financial Management Information Systems in Selected Kenyan Counties

This study sets out to analyze the critical success factors of integrated financial management systems in selected county governments in Kenya. The study focused on the following objectives: perceived benefits, top management commitment, change management, human capital development and technological infrastructural development as success factors for IFMIS implementation at county governments. A descriptive survey was adopted targeting 135 county employees who use IFMIS in selected counties. The research sample size consisted of 45 county employees in Kiambu, Bungoma, Machakos, Nairobi and Nakuru counties. The study involved finance departments of two counties with significant financial wastage and 3 counties with good financial records. The sampling technique used was snowballing sampling technique which involved 45 participants. Questionnaires were the main tool for data collection. A pilot study was conducted using 10 IFMIS employees in Mombasa County. It enabled the researcher to improve on reliability of the instrument used and familiarize researcher with data collection process. Data obtained was both quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative data was coded and keyed into an SPSS package for statistical analysis. The study revealed that change management, technological infrastructure, human capital development and top management commitment are all critical success factors in adoption of IFMIS in county governments. The study recommends that for IFMIS implementation to be very effective and efficient in enhancing transparency and accountability within the counties: change management should be handled better; the National treasury and Counties should organize regular skills advancement courses on IFMIS, encourage phased implementation and testing of the financial management software. A political class support is mandatory at county levels to ensure good financial management and hence reduced corruption.
Herpes simplex virus infections, Pathophysiology and Management

Herpes is caused by Herpes simplex virus (HSV). HSV-1causes orofacial and genital infections.HSV-2 causes primarily genital infections. In the U.S.HSV-1 is more prevalent than HSV-2, and HSV-2 is predominant among American African, and women. Initial HSV infection is often subclinical. Viral replication occurs in ganglia, virus spreads to other mucosal surfaces through peripheral sensory nerves. Clinical manifestation include, skin and mucosal infection, orofacial herpes, genital herpes, herpetic whitlow, herpes encephalitis, neonatal herpes acquired at the time of delivery, although rare but serious condition and herpes keratitis damage the eyes. Diagnostic tests include, culture, antibodies detection, skin biopsy, and PCR for presence of viral DNA.Topical anesthetic treatment to relieve itching and pain. Antiviral drugs such as acyclovir,valaciclivir and famiciclovir are effective. Antiviral for herpes suppressive therapy is recommended during the last months of pregnancy. Recurrent outbreaks are common and vary between individuals; genetics play a role in the frequency of cold sore outbreaks. Development of a drug to block the microRNA whose job is it to suppress HSV-1 into latency, may prevent the outbreaks. Prevention with antiviral medication in conjunction with a condom.
NON-THERMAL PLASMAS AS GAS-PHASE ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESSES

Non-thermal plasmas are useful for generating reactive species (free radicals) in a gas stream. Because radical-attack reaction rate constants are very large for many chemical species, entrained pollutants are readily decomposed by radicals. Such plasmas can generate both oxidative and reductive radicals; therefore, they show promise for treating a wide variety of pollutants.
Impact of Leadership Intelligence on Competitive Benchmarking in Sample of Jordanian Pharmaceutical Companies

In knowledge and network based economy and unprecedented competition coming from unconventional environments, leadership Intelligence has increasingly, become a new source of value creation and an indicator of inimitable ability of effective leaders. This paper aims to explore the impact of leadership intelligence and its five dimensions (strategic vision of leadership, ability to work in deferent contexts, ability to influence stakeholders, ability to solve problems, and Ethical intelligence of leadership) on competitive benchmarking and its three selected criteria (corporate market share, profitability, and corporate product development) in Jordanian pharmaceutical industry. A research sample of 167 workers from three companies were taken randomly. A questionnaire was used to collect data from the sample. The main results of the study showed that emotional intelligence has a positive impact on competitive benchmarking. Key word s: intelligence, leadership intelligence, competitive benchmarking.
A study on how a project manager can deliver a quality product with reference to the requirements

Quality is a big concern and is becoming a challenge for the software organizations. About 60% of the projects are stalled for not fulfilling the quality norms. Customers or end users have some different expectation with them based on their perceptions and requirement and the product development is done with different perception. Hence this is building a gap between the end product and the end user. The reason for the failure is very simple. The key objective of this paper is to mainly focus on bridging the gap between the customer and end user needs to the final product. This can be achieved by concentrating on the requirements phase. And including the quality by testing the requirements are properly documented and are updated. A project manager is to mainly concentrate on bringing quality aspects right from the Requirement collection. A project manager is always the one who is aligned with all the phases of the software development life cycle. The methodology used is adapting agile type methodologies to check whether testing the requirements all the time thru the product design and development achieve the possible outcome like a quality product. A sample questionnaire is circulated to the software engineers, managers and a sample population and came to know that the procedure which we are adopting lead to deliver a successful quality product.
1.25 volt, low cost, embedded flash memory for low density applications

A low cost, embedded flash memory cell, with read control-gate voltage as low as 1.25 volts, has been developed. Single cell testers and 4 kbit arrays have been fabricated and characterized. Fabrication requires only a single masking step (thick gate oxide) above that used in high-performance core CMOS logic technologies. Applications include low-density non-volatile memory, control of redundancy in SRAM and DRAM memories, ID or security code registers, and other switch functions.
Organizational and Situational Influences on Adjudicative Decisions

Abstract : In April 2001, the General Accounting Office released the results of a large-scale study addressing the consistent use of guidelines and appropriateness of quality control in Department of Defense (DOD) Personnel Security Adjudication facilities. GAO's study reported both a lack of consistent application of established adjudicative guidelines as well as a need for stronger quality control within individual DOD central adjudication facilities (CAFs). In addition to consistency and quality concerns, DOD also is dealing with a large backlog of reinvestigations that have not been performed in addition to normal requests for new investigations and clearance decisions. This study is expected to contribute to the understanding of these problems by examining how two organizational factors (judgment intent and evaluation expectancy) and two situational factors (risk - as determined by level of clearance, and workload) influence the consistency, accuracy, timeliness, and quality of clearance decisions in DoD. Moreover, this research is expected to provide implications for the notions of reciprocity and the centralization of adjudications. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) results reveal that these factors have significant influences on various aspects of adjudicative decisions. Most notably, the expectation of evaluation was revealed to both help and hinder decision-making, depending on other contextual factors, and situational risk consistently led to better decisions. Additionally, high risk almost always led to more consistent, more accurate, more timely, and higher quality decisions. Implications are presented for addressing these factors and helping adjudicators make the best decisions under certain organizational and situational constraints. (47 refs.)
Objective assessment of dyskinesia in children with cerebral palsy.

The clinical classification of children with cerebral palsy is limited by multiple factors. Distinguishing between spasticity and dyskinesia is critical, because the outcome after standard orthopaedic and neurosurgical interventions is less predictable in children with cerebral palsy who have a significant dyskinetic component. This study applied computer-based analysis of gait to assess objectively the presence of significant dyskinesia in children with cerebral palsy. Three-dimensional gait analysis was performed on 18 normal children, 17 children with principally spastic cerebral palsy, and 23 children with significantly dyskinetic cerebral palsy. Children were assigned to the spastic or dyskinetic groups prospectively, based on clinical analysis by an experienced physician and physical therapist. The children with dyskinesia were found to have a significantly wider, and more variable normalized dynamic base of support, a smaller step profile (step length divided by step width), and a greater and more variable maximal lateral acceleration than the spastic and normal groups (mixed model analysis of variance, p = 0.0001). A predictive model of dyskinesia, (developed by logistic regression analysis), using these gait parameters, exhibited excellent sensitivity, correctly classifying 20 (87%) of 23 children as dyskinetic. This study shows that children with dyskinetic cerebral palsy have distinct gait parameters and that objective assessment of dyskinesia in children with cerebral palsy is possible with computer-based analysis of gait.
Power-mode-controlled power-factor corrector for electronic ballast

Medium- to high-power electronic ballasts are designed with two power conversion stages. The power-factor corrector (PFC) stabilizes the voltage supplied to the second stage and forces the utility current to meet the required standard. The inverter section stabilizes the arc in the lamp, and keeps the lamp power under the specified values. This paper proposes that the PFC section is to provide the power stability of the system while the inverter section operates in open loop. Consequences of this solution are: the power variation in the lamp caused by its aging is prevented, the complex dynamic of the lamp has no influence in the design, some extra voltage is available to achieve the lamp ignition, warmup time is reduced, and dimming control is easily implemented by modifying either the power reference or the bias value in the PFC control circuit. The inverter section is a half-bridge LC/sub p/C/sub s/ resonant inverter designed to require minimum variation of the input voltage to supply constant power to the lamp. In this way the operation point suffers little changes and no overdimensioning of the PFC and inverter components is necessary to meet the power source condition.
Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy for Cancer -Short Up-to-Date

Surgery remains the main treatment for localized resectable esophageal cancer. Open esophagectomy is still the standard surgical approach for esophageal cancer but it has a lower patient satisfaction when compared with other treatment options. In the era of “key-hole” surgeries, minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) stands as a solution to improve the results after standard open esophagectomies. The aim of the present paper is to provide a short update regarding the minimally invasive esophagectomy, with special emphasis on its indications, results and current controversies.
Failure of Deferasirox, an Iron Chelator Agent, Combined with Antifungals in a Case of Severe Zygomycosis

Zygomycosis, an increasingly prevalent systemic fungal disease, mostly occurs in immunocompromised patients ([6][1], [8][2]). First-line therapeutic strategy includes surgery and lipid amphotericin B ([2][3], [8][2]). New iron chelators have recently been reported to be successful experimentally ([3
[Internet addiction among Shanghai adolescents: prevalence and epidemiological features].

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of internet use and internet addiction in adolescents of Shanghai. METHOD From September to October 2007, a total of 5135 adolescents from 16 middle schools of 6 districts of Shanghai took part in the epidemiological study by a cross-sectional survey and 5123 adolescents finally enrolled in the study. A questionnaire of "DRM Adolescent Internet Use 52 Scale" was administrated to investigate the prevalence of internet use and internet addiction in adolescents of Shanghai. On this scale of 5-point rating, the scale includes seven parts of contents as tolerance, abstinence reaction, planning ability, self-control ability, whenness, sociability and hazard. RESULTS The rate of internet use among the surveyed adolescents was 94.32% (4673/5123), among which the incidence rate of internet addiction was 8.78% (450/5123). Boys, senior middle-school students were more susceptible to internet addiction than girls and junior middle-school students (male scores 122.42+/-43.46, female scores 116.92+/-38.10, F=23.22, P=0.00; senior middle-school students 125.24+/-39.02, junior middle-school students 110.30+/-42.35, F=164.68, P=0.00). Students from vocational senior middle-school were most susceptible (junior middle-school students 110.30+/-42.35, ordinary senior middle-school students 122.83+/-40.99, key senior middle-school students 120.05+/-37.87, vocational senior middle-school students 133.37+/-36.84, F=34.44, P=0.00). The 2nd grade students of senior middle-school have the highest risk for internet-addiction. CONCLUSION The prevalence of internet use and internet addiction in adolescents of Shanghai should be comparatively high in China, which indicates that great attention should be paid to the prevention and control.
Job loss and effects on firms and workers

Job loss is painful. There are thousands of individual stories of workers who lose their jobs each year from all parts of the world. A great deal of work across the social sciences examines the causes and consequences of job loss. This chapter addresses a small part of that work and specifically focuses on the effects of job loss on workers (including the effects on subsequent wages and on health) and on the effects of job loss on companies (including short- and longer-run corporate performance). Other questions are also considered, such as whether firms are less committed to workers and workers less committed to firms than they were in the recent past. A variety of data sources are accessed for research on job loss, and consideration is given to the alternatives to job loss and the various public policies adopted in the United States and throughout the world. To begin, it should be noted that this chapter will not focus on other important issues related to job loss. It will not examine, in significant detail, the effects of international trade or tariffs. The chapter is also not about labor turnover that is initiated by the worker. Voluntary quits and separations are not discussed, nor are firings for cause or strictly for performance. The chapter examines instances where companies layoff employees (temporarily or permanently, although the focus is on the latter). It examines changes in the displacement of workers over time, reasons for the changes, and the effects on workers and companies. There is also a focus on policies, consideration being given as to whether there can be improvements to what is known and done about job loss, and a discussion of how other countries handle reductions in the demand for labor.
Automated analysis of software artefacts - a use case in e-assessment

Automated grading and feedback generation for programming and modeling exercises has become a usual means of supporting teachers and students at universities and schools. Tools used in this context engage general software engineering techniques for the analysis of software artefacts. Experiences with the current state-of-the-art show good results, but also a gap between the potential power of such techniques and the actual power used in current e-assessment systems. This thesis contributes to closing this gap by developing and testing approaches that are more universal than the currently used approaches and provide novel means of feedback generation. It can be shown that these approaches can be used effectively and efficiently for the mass validation of exercises, and that they result in a high feedback quality according to students' perception.
Relocation and expansion planning for dairy producers

Relocating or expanding a dairy facility requires a tremendous amount of time and planning. Owners or managers of dairies will go through a number of steps including: 1) developing a business plan; 2) choosing a design process; 3) developing specifications; 4) selecting location/site; 5) obtaining permits/legal; 6) obtaining bids; 7) selecting contractors; 8) buying cattle; 9) purchasing feeds; 10) financing; 11) managing construction; 12) hiring and training employees; 13) developing management protocols for the dairy; and 14) managing information flow. The dairy can be divided into these components: 1) milking parlor; 2) cow housing; 3) special needs facility (e.g., hospital, closeups); 4) replacement heifer housing; 5) manure management system; and 6) feed center. This article will focus on milking parlors, cow housing, grouping strategies, and site selection.
The therapeutic potential of stem cells in heart disease

Abstract. Coronary heart disease and chronic heart failure are common and have an increasing frequency. Although interventional and conventional drug therapy may delay ventricular remodelling, there is no basic therapeutic regime available for preventing or even reversing this process. Chronic coronary artery disease and heart failure impairs quality of life and are associated with subsequent worsening of the cardiac pump function. Numerous studies within the past few years have been demonstrated, that the intracoronary stem cell therapy has to be considered as a safe therapeutic procedure in heart disease, when destroyed and/or compromised heart muscle must be regenerated. This kind of cell therapy with autologous bone marrow cells is completely justified ethically, except for the small numbers of patients with direct or indirect bone marrow disease (e.g. myeloma, leukaemic infiltration) in whom there would be lesions of mononuclear cells. Several preclinical as well as clinical trials have shown that transplantation of autologous bone marrow cells or precursor cells improved cardiac function after myocardial infarction and in chronic coronary heart disease. The age of infarction seems to be irrelevant to regenerative potency of stem cells, since stem cells therapy in old infarctions (many years old) is almost equally effective in comparison to previous infarcts. Further indications are non‐ischemic cardiomyopathy (dilative cardiomyopathy) and heart failure due to hypertensive heart disease.