Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
articleExcessive TV viewing and cardiovascular disease risk factors in adolescents . The AVENA cross-sectional study

Background: Excessive television (TV) viewing might play an important role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The aim of this study was to examine the independent associations between TV viewing and CVD risk factors in adolescents. Methods: A sample of 425 adolescents, aged 13to 18.5-year-old, was included in this study. Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), glucose, total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, apolipoprotein (apo) A-1, apo B-100, and lipoprotein(a) levels were determined. A composite CVD risk score was computed based on age-, sex-, sexual maturationand race-standardized triglycerides, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and glucose. TV viewing was self-reported. Results: Two hundred and twenty-five adolescents (53%) who spent >3 hrs/day watching TV were considered as the "high TV viewing" group. Ninety-nine adolescents (23%) from the total sample were classified as overweight according to International ageand sex-specific BMI values. The high TV viewing group had significantly less favorable values of HDL-cholesterol, glucose, apo A1 and CVD score, independent of age, sex, sexual maturation, race and weight status. There was a significant interaction effect of TV viewing × weight status (P = 0.002) on WC, and the negative influence of TV viewing on WC persisted in the overweight group (P = 0.031) but was attenuated in non-overweight adolescents (P
Homelessness in America.

Directions: Read “ ‘I was Homeless’ ” (including the essay and the infographic) and watch the video “I Lived in a Truck. ” Refer to the article and the video to fill in the boxes below. In the first box, list challenges facing homeless people in America. In the second box, list the ways our society helps the homeless. In the third box, write your ideas about other things society could do. You don’t need to write in complete sentences. Name: ________________________________________________________ Date: ______________ NONFICTION: “‘I Was Homeless’” • SKILL: Synthesizing Information From Multiple Texts ® THE LANGUAGE ARTS MAGAZINE
The Aviation Sector Pricing Strategies and the Game of Expension

India’s scheduled airlines carried 67.73 million passengers in 2014 compared with 61.42 million passengers in 2013, and 58.81 million in 2012, according to the DGCA. Air traffic in India grew between 20 and 40 per cent for six years starting 2003, from the emergence of LCC/new carriers to a growing middle class ready to travel by air as well as growth in business and leisure travel. In the present scenario around 12 domestic airlines and above 60 international airlines are operating in India.
Analysis of the rotary kiln model

The rotary calcination kiln for a production of Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a very interesting dynamical system. The titanium dioxide is mostly available in a crystalline form known as anatase. The aim of the calcination process is to produce the titanium dioxide with the rutile content around 98% that has the right pigmentary properties in contrast to the anatase. The system of the rotary calcination kiln has several distributed variables (solid, water, gas, vapour, and temperatures of them). These variables have a complex dependence on each other. The paper analyzes where to put output variable sensors to and shows the based function of the model. Kalman Filter design based on the reduced model of the process is developed because a company, where the system works, would like to improve the control of the titanium dioxide production.
Déplacement de particules et d'objets biologiques sur des guides d'ondes

La manipulation optique d'objets en surface d'un guide d'onde represente une approche potentiellement interessante pour le developpement de microsystemes de tri de particules. Toutefois, la mise en oeuvre de ces dispositifs est actuellement freinee par des performances limitees en terme de propulsion mais aussi par une mauvaise maitrise des interactions mises en jeu sur des objets metalliques. Ces difficultes ont jusqu'alors interdit la manipulation d'objets biologiques sur ces composants. A travers une etude theorique, nous proposons une methode originale de calcul des forces optiques s'exercant sur un objet en surface d'un guide d'onde. Elle permet de mettre en evidence l'existence de forces de gradient repulsives, sur des billes metalliques, dans certaines conditions. L'elaboration d'un dispositif experimental dedie a la manipulation de particules nous a permis de valider ce modele et de mettre en evidence une forte dependance des vitesses des billes metalliques micrometriques avec la polarisation de la lumiere. Ces observations illustrent l'impact des forces de gradient sur le mouvement des particules. D'un point de vue plus applique, le modele theorique developpe nous a permis de concevoir des structures guidantes destinees a optimiser la propulsion des particules. Experimentalement, l'utilisation de guides en nitrure de silicium a effectivement conduit a ameliorer de facon consequente les performances des dispositifs existants. Celles-ci nous ont permis d'elargir le champ d'application de cette technique au domaine de la biologie et de mettre en oeuvre le deplacement et la concentration de cellules sur des guides d'onde, sans aucun marquage.
Reactions of beginning counselors to situations involving death and dying.

It has commonly been assumed by thanatologists that client problems centering on death and dying are particularly demanding and difficult for the mental health professional. The present study tested this assumption by asking 81 beginning counselors to rate their degree of comfort with 15 counseling scenarios, 5 of which involved death or loss (e.g., terminal illness, suicide, AIDS, grief) and 10 of which concerned other focal issues (e.g., rape, marital problems). As predicted, counselors rated situations involving death and dying as substantially more uncomfortable than other presenting problems. However, counselors' levels of experience and personal death threat were unrelated to their response to death situations, leaving the cause of their discomfort with such situations unexplained.
The most important changes in the international ECC and CPR guidelines 2000.

Many people involved with resuscitation have specific interests and enthusiasm. They will review the new guidelines to see how their favorite interventions fared. This essay lists a number of the new guidelines that merit special attention: support for family presence at resuscitations, pronouncing death at the scene rather than after futile transport efforts, honoring advance directives, comparable effectiveness of bag-mask ventilation versus tracheal intubation, revision of compression rates and compression-ventilation ratios, and devices to confirm tracheal intubation and prevent tube dislodgment. Even more important are the new principles and concepts that the International Guidelines 2000 endorse: international guideline science, international guideline development, evidence-based guidelines, training by objectives, expanded scope of ECC to first aid and periarrest conditions, avoidance of false-negative (type II) errors, video-mediated instruction, and a philosophy to 'do no harm. ' The number and magnitude of these new guidelines reflect the dynamic nature of resuscitation at the start of the 21st century. There is great optimism that these new and revised guidelines will help achieve our ultimate objective. This objective is to be ready when fate brings some lives to a premature end. If we are, we can restore more of these people to a high-quality life, ready for many more years of living.
Self-Employment: Personal Characteristics of the Self-Employed and Impact on Economic Growth

Self-employment is one of the key elements for the restructuring of the labor market and the economic recovery. This paper observes self- employed persons as part of the labor force with the aim to determine their similarity with entrepreneurs and employed persons, but also their specifics that make them a distinctive category. Self-employment is analyzed at the level of an individual based on its personal characteristics as well as a macroeconomic phenomenon. Self-employment is influenced by two groups of factors: "push" (self- employment as an escape from unemployment) and "pull" (self-employment, which resembles the entrepreneurship). The results indicate that self- employment is more common among older people, men, in agriculture and among people without the necessary qualifications for running a sustainable business. While the EU underlines self-employment as a driver of the economy and as solution for unemployment in the vulnerable groups of the labor market, the paper shows that self-employment decreases at the EU level. In most countries, the dynamics of self-employment is influenced by the "push" factors, especially during the recession, which greatly affects unemployment. It is concluded that self-employment, in most EU countries, is a result of the discrimination in the labor market and the inability to create new jobs, rather than being a voluntary decision based on a perceived business opportunity. The analysis has shown that self-employment does not have a positive impact on macroeconomic indicators. Furthermore, it has a weak role in the creation of jobs due to the low share of self-employed who act as employers.
Privacy Preserving Association Rules Mining In Horizontally Distributed Databases

This paper presents secure mining of association rules in horizontally distributed databases by proposing a protocol. This protocol is made up of the Fast Distributed Mining (FDM) algorithm which is consist of unsecured version of the Apriori algorithm. Our protocol made up of two novel secure multi-party algorithms — one that calculates the unions of private subsets that each of the interacting players hold, and another that tests the inclusion of an element held by one player in a subset held by another. The main merit of our protocol is to provide privacy with respect to the protocol. It is also useful in terms of simplicity and is also significantly more efficient in terms of communication rounds, communication cost and computational cost. Keywords— secure data mining, privacy preserving distributed computation, frequent patterns, association rules, Apriori and FDM algorithm, multi-party algorithm.
Recognizing your own motions on virtual avatars: is it me or not?

Most of the time point-light figures are used for motion-recognition, which present motions by only displaying the moving joints of the actor. In this study we were interested in whether self-recognition of motion changes with different representations. First, we captured participants' motions and remapped them on a point-light figure and a male and female virtual avatar. In the second part the same participants were asked to recognize their own motions on all three representations. We found that the recognition rate for own motions is high across all representations and different actions. The recognition rate was better on the point-light figure, despite being perceived as most difficult from the participants. The gender of the visual avatar did not matter in self-recognition.
Pharmacological Profile of 9,11-Dehydrocortexolone 17α-Butyrate (CB-03-04), a New Androgen Antagonist with Antigonadotropic Activity

Summary A series of new cortexolone-related derivatives has been synthesized and investigated for potential anti-androgenic activity. Among the steroids evaluated, 9,11-dehydrocortexolone 17a-butyrate (CB-03-04) was the most promising one. The compound displayed a strong local anti-androgenic activity in hamster’s flank organ test, and it was also found to be effective in the rat after subcutaneous injection. When compared to other well known androgen antagonists, the rank order of topical anti-androgenic activity in that test was: cyproterone acetate (CAS 427-51-0) ≥ CB-03-04 > finasteride (CAS 98319-26-7) > flutamide (CAS 13311-84-7). In addition, the steroid had selective antigonadotropic activity, when injected into parabiotic rats, and was about as active as progesterone. The activity of CB-03-04 was ascribed mainly to its ability to compete with the stimulating effects of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone and, concurrently, to inhibit the gonadotropins hypersecretion. This bimodal mechanism of action could be predictive for the clinical usefulness of the steroid in the treatment of prostate cancer and benign prostate hypertrophy.
Health care facilities and accessibility in Dariapara village and its adjoining areas in Rural Darrang district of Assam

Diffusion of medical revolution, development of science and technology and invention of contemporary suave equipment’s and drugs helped healing different diseases. These facilities are however buffered around urban/city centre, accessibility and affordability to these facilities are deprived in the rural areas due to distance from the urban centres. An attempt has been made to analyse the spatial accessibility to health care facilities available in Dariapara Village and its adjoining areas. The sole primary health centre (PHC) in this area is Rangamati Mini PHC, which serve all the villagers of the locality. It comes underneath National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scheme launched in 2005 towards the development of rural health care scheme. Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) engaged in rural area established a link between community and health care centre. The findings indicates that although supplements of iron and folic acid tablets are provided and free check up are conducted for gravid women and government sponsored free polio and other vaccination yet one cannot solely depend upon the PHC in cases of acute emergency conditions. The victims have to rush to the Mangaldai Civil Hospital (9 km) and at times to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital (65 km), due to unavailability of doctors, nurse and staff associated with it. Moreover, a single PHC is not sufficient to provide health care facilities to the large population of Dariapara and its adjoining villages.
Massage induces an immediate, albeit short‐term, reduction in muscle stiffness

Using ultrasound shear wave elastography, the aims of this study were: (a) to evaluate the effect of massage on stiffness of the medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscle and (b) to determine whether this effect (if any) persists over a short period of rest. A 7‐min massage protocol was performed unilaterally on MG in 18 healthy volunteers. Measurements of muscle shear elastic modulus (stiffness) were performed bilaterally (control and massaged leg) in a moderately stretched position at three time points: before massage (baseline), directly after massage (follow‐up 1), and following 3 min of rest (follow‐up 2). Directly after massage, participants rated pain experienced during the massage. MG shear elastic modulus of the massaged leg decreased significantly at follow‐up 1 (−5.2 ± 8.8%, P = 0.019, d = −0.66). There was no difference between follow‐up 2 and baseline for the massaged leg (P = 0.83) indicating that muscle stiffness returned to baseline values. Shear elastic modulus was not different between time points in the control leg. There was no association between perceived pain during the massage and stiffness reduction (r = 0.035; P = 0.89). This is the first study to provide evidence that massage reduces muscle stiffness. However, this effect is short lived and returns to baseline values quickly after cessation of the massage.
La Equidad De Género En Los Agronegocios: Sector Comercio De Insumos Agropecuarios Y Servicios Veterinarios Del Cantón Machala

One of the most important global challenges is the eradication of gender inequality, an indicator that is constantly evaluated, and for which the countries of the world have developed public policies aimed at increasing the levels of equity in the population. The present investigation was carried out in the city of Machala, and for which it was proposed as an objective to establish the participation of women and men in agribusiness in the trade sector of agricultural inputs and veterinary services and their characteristics and as hypotheses that in the agribusiness in the sector of agricultural inputs and veterinary services, there is a great gender inequity, which is sought to scale; for its realization was taken the information of the national cadastre of agribusiness registered in Agrocalidad in the sector of agricultural inputs and veterinary services, which are a total of 75, of these, 35 were surveyed to determine the degree of equity and participation of the woman; the variables analyzed were the university academic degree of the local owners, the age and the reason to undertake. The data were analyzed using the chi-square test and using the statistical program SPSS 20. The results obtained demonstrate the low participation of women in this economic sector of the city of Machala.
Acute anterior dislocation of the shoulder

a severe telescoping force applied to the hand, forearm, or elbow which travels up the shaft of the humerus and is expended at the glenohumeral joints. The atraumatic dislocation may occur when only minimal force is applied, or it may occur spontaneously. As a rule, a congenital malformation of the bony elements of the glenohumeral joints is the underlying cause for the atraumatic dislocation. The abnormality may involve the glenoid or the head of the humerus, or both, or a congenital dysplasia of the connective tissue of the articulation may be the predisposing
Subcellular Distribution of UDP‐Galactose:Ceramide Galactosyltransferase in Rat Brain Oligodendroglia

Abstract: Oligodendrocytes isolated from 18–19‐day‐old rat brain were homogenized in 0.32 M sucrose. The homogenate was centrifuged at 100,000 g for 50 min in a gradient containing 0.8, 1.05, and 1.3 M sucrose. Three discrete bands were obtained at the interfaces 0.32–0.8 (F1), 0.8–1.05 (F2), and 1.05–1.3 M (F3). The distribution of UDP‐galactose:ceramide galactosyltransferase (CgalT) activity in each fraction was measured using liposomes containing normal fatty acid‐containing ceramides (NFA‐CgalT activity) or 2‐hydroxy fatty acid‐containing ceramides (HFA‐CgalT activity). Although detection of both CgalT activities was possible in all fractions, HFA‐CgalT activity was enriched in F1 and F2 fractions, which also showed an enrichment of Golgi and endoplasmic reticulum markers, respectively. It is interesting that NFA‐CgalT activity was significantly enriched in the F2 fraction. These results suggest that hydroxylated and nonhydroxylated galactocerebrosides may be synthesized at different intracellular locations.
Polyphenols Nanoencapsulation for Therapeutic Applications

Natural polyphenols are valuable compounds present in plants, fruits, legumes, chocolate, tea, wine and marine organisms possessing scavenging properties towards radical oxygen species. These abilities make polyphenols interesting either for the treatment of various diseases like inflammation and cancer or for anti-ageing purposes in cosmetic formulations. Unfortunately, such compounds lack in long-term stability, are very sensitive to light, and often present a low water solubility and poor bioavailability. To overcome these limitations and enhance polyphenols therapeutic applications, nanotechnology-based delivery systems have been developed, and among all, nanoencapsulation represented a promising strategy. This review described a recent overview of physicochemical nanoencapsulated polyphenols focusing on the most representative molecules such as resveratrol, quercetin, epigallocatechin-3-gallate, and curcumin.
BACTERIAL PLASMIDS

Plasmids, extrachromosomal DNA, were identified in bacteria pertaining to family of Enterobacteriacae for the very first time. After that, they were discovered in almost every single observed strain. The structure of plasmids is made of circular double chain DNA molecules which are replicated autonomously in a host cell. Their length may vary from few up to several hundred kilobase (kb). Among the bacteria, plasmids are mostly transferred horizontally by conjugation process. Plasmid replication process can be divided into three stages: initiation, elongation, and termination. The process involves DNA helicase I, DNA gyrase, DNA polymerase III, endonuclease, and ligase. Plasmids contain genes essential for plasmid function and their preservation in a host cell (the beginning and the control of replication). Some of them possess genes which control plasmid stability. There is a common opinion that plasmids are unnecessary for a growth of bacterial population and their vital functions; thus, in many cases they can be taken up or kicked out with no lethal effects to a plasmid host cell. However, there are numerous biological functions of bacteria related to plasmids. Plasmids identification and classification are based upon their genetic features which are presented permanently in all of them, and these are: abilities to preserve themselves in a host cell and to control a replication process. In this way, plasmids classification among incompatibility groups is performed. The method of replicon typing, which is based on genotype and not on phenotype characteristics, has the same results as incompatibility grouping. Acta Medica Medianae 2007;46(4):61-65.
Benchmarking the Hotel Industry in Oman Through a Three-Stage DEA-Based Procedure

This study is concerned with benchmarking the hotel industry in the Sultanate of Oman besides identifying the environmental factors that influence the operational efficiency of hotels. The benchmarking analysis is carried out through data envelopment analysis (DEA), used essentially to evaluate the efficiency ratios of a selected sample of 58 hotels. Although less than 23% of the hotels are found efficient, the average efficiency score of 83% indicates a reasonable efficiency in resource management for most of the hotels. Regarding the contextual effects, hotel Size, Star rating and cultural attractions are found to have the most significant effect on hotel efficiency in Oman. The positive effect of cultural attractions can inform policy makers on the necessity to preserve and promote cultural heritage as an important key factor of attraction.
Pengaruh struktur kepemilikan terhadap volume perdagangan saham pada laporan keuangan tahunan Perusahaan LQ-45

This study aims to determine (1) the influence of institutional ownership, foreign ownership partially on the volume of stock trading in the LQ-45 company's annual financial statements, (2) the effect of institutional ownership, simultaneous foreign ownership of stock trading volume on LQ company's annual financial statements -45. The method of data collection uses purposive sampling in LQ-45 companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for 2016. Until 2017. The research data was obtained from www.idx. co.id. From 51 companies obtained a sample of 27 companies or 54 years of company data This study uses multiple linear regression. The results of the study show that institutional ownership influences the volume of trading in the company's shares. Institutional ownership in general can act as a party that monitors the company. A high level of institutional ownership will lead to greater oversight efforts by institutional investors so that it can hinder manager's opportunistic behavior. Foreign ownership affects the volume of trading in company shares. The percentage of shares owned by high international investors has an impact on effective monitoring efforts. This will increase the value and performance of the company because it can control the opportunistic behavior of managers that make managers reduce debt levels optimally.