Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Diabetes mellitus tipo 2 en el Hospital II Essalud – Cañete : Aspectos demográficos y clínicos . Diabetes mellitus type 2 at the Hospital II Essalud – Cañete : Demographic and Clinical Aspects

Objective: To determine the sociodemographic characteristics of patients with type 2 Diabetes mellitus followed up in the General Medicine office and Diabetes Program at Hospital II EsSALUD-Cañete and its relationship with the glycemia. Material and Methods: A descriptive, case series study was conducted, including ninety four patients with type-2 Diabetes randomly chosen at the time of their outpatient office visit where an interview and planned physical examination took place during the months of June and July 2001. Results: The mean age was 64.56 + 11.61. Fifty three patients were women (56.4%). Illiteracy and primary level (51.3%) were the predominant levels of education achieved. On the other hand, 68.1% of the patients followed treatment with oral agents and 11.7% required the use of insulin. Conclusions: Patients with Type-2 Diabetes followed up at Hospital II EsSALUD-Cañete mostly present a low level of education. We found the best glycemic control with the higher level of eduction achieved. (Rev Med Hered 2004; 15: 19-23).
Why Auditors Increasingly Rely on Analytical Procedures: An Empirical Approach in Portugal

Purpose: The study aims to reflect on the reasons behind the increasing use of analytical procedures during evidence collection as a way of corroborating the claims made in financial statements. Theoretical framework: The study develops the problem arising from more complex financial information due to more complex transactions within market players, and develops all the theoretical approach to auditing and the analytical procedures ruled in ISA 520. Design/methodology/approach: A relevant sample was taken from the auditing market in Portugal, and thus principal component analysis was develop in order to conclude why auditors tend to rely increasingly in analytical procedures, as a source of evidence in auditing approaches. Findings: The conclusions of this empirical study point to the fact that, in general terms, the increasing use of analytical procedures stems from a risk-based approach to auditing together with reasons that have to do with time pressure and the need to carry out more efficient audits with fewer substantive detail tests as well as improvements in the interpretation of norms applicable to auditing work. Research, Practical & Social implications: Comprehensive conclusions identify the increasing usage and confidence on analytical procedures by auditors, pointing out objective reasons the justify that fact. Originality/value: There are several investigations about risk based approach in auditing, but no actual study was found that explores the reasons behind the increasing usage of such procedures, within the International Standards on Auditing (ISA’s). The study thus provides evidence about reliability and relevance of such procedures.
Chemical Technology: An Indian Journal

Introduction In order to decrease the damage caused by dye pollution to environment and human, the use of photocatalysts to convert organic compounds in contaminated water into nontoxic chemicals has been extensively investigated [1,2]. Photocatalysis has been emerged as a valid alternative to solve this problem [3]. Various photocatalysts, especially metal oxide such as TiO2, SnO2 and ZnO has attracted extensive attention for the degradation of non-biodegradable pollutants under UV irradiation [4-8]. ZnO is an interesting chemically and thermally stable n-type semiconductor with a large exciton binding energy of 60 meV and large band gap energy of 3.37 eV at room temperature. Comparing to other wide band-gap semiconductors, ZnO possesses higher quantum efficiency and higher exciton energy. Furthermore, it is one of the most propitious materials due to its applications in several areas, such as ultraviolet laser, high power light emitting diode, spintronic devices [9-11], solar cells [12,13], photodetectors [14], heterogeneous catalysis [15-17], piezo-electric transducers [18], cosmetic [19], and antibacterial treatment [20,21]. Abstract ZnO nanorods were prepared by a simple and low cost precipitation method as photocatalytic agent for decomposition of dyes under solar light exposure. The ZnO nanorods were used for the photodecolourization of water solution of representative organic azo dyes (methyl orange (MO), rhodamine B (RB) and crystal violet (CV) under sunlight. The ZnO nanorods showed excellent photodegradation efficiency, supporting the potential application as economical and a highly sunlight-active material to treat waste water containing azo dyes.
INVERSE RESPONSE COMPENSATION BY ESTIMATING PARAMETERS OF A PROCESS COMPRISING OF TWO FIRST ORDER SYSTEMS

An inverse response in a system occurs when the initial response of an output variable occurs in the opposite direction to that of the steady state value. The classical example of this behaviour can be seen in a boiler with two different first order systems. This paper helps to estimate the transfer function parameters of the process from its unit step response. Classical method for this estimation involves simultaneous solution of three non-linear equations containing exponential terms. Most of the available tools fail to achieve this solution. The paper proposes a novel iterative method to overcome this limitation.
Teaching and Helping College Students with Personal Problems during Tough Economic Times

The student population today may be facing increased need for support services, due to a wide variety of potential personal problems. Reasons for this include the increased number of students in college who have learning disabilities or other disabilities, the economic downturn of 2008 driving older students to pursue college degrees, and the number of veterans in school who are returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Faculty members and academic advisors may be approached by students who are experiencing personal problems, and may not know how to offer help. Suggestions for helping and teaching such students are offered; these include helping students to identify the nature of the problem and to find resources, as well as listening to and providing support for them while maintaining high standards of performance and academic integrity. Faculty members are cautioned against providing services for which they are not qualified, and to understand their own strengths and limitations in helping. The number of students enrolling in college, or attempting to enroll in college has been steadily increasing in past years. In October 2009, the number of high school graduates attending colleges or universities was 70.1%, an all-time high (U.S. Department of Labor, 2009). Much of this increase is due to the economic situation faced by many families today, especially after the economic downturn of 2008. As a result, many students may face significant personal problems that challenge their abilities to successfully negotiate a college degree program (Johnson, Zascavage & Gerber, 2008; Rubush, 2010). Numerous studies support the beneficial aspects of a mentoring relationship between students and faculty or other adult for both career and personal issues (e.g., Cokley, 2000; Hickson, 2002; Jacobi, 1991; Packard, Walsh & Seidenberg, 2004). While a number of factors have led to an increased probability of students needing some sort of assistance from faculty to handle personal problems in recent years (e.g., Johnson et al., 2008; Reiff, 1997; Rubush, 2010), many students fail to ask for help, even when they need it the most (Mier, Boone & Shropshire, 2009). The purpose of this article is to describe the factors that have led to the increased need for faculty intervention in student personal problems, discuss various types of problems faced by students, and provide strategies for faculty to help teach and assist students who may be experiencing such problems. Reasons Students Need Assistance from Instructors/Advisors Problems in adapting to college have always existed for new students, especially traditional-aged students, who experience freedoms and responsibilities beyond those of high school years. Having less supervision from parents and learning how to manage time more effectively, learning how to manage money, relationships, and more rigorous academics are among the many changes and challenges students face when attending college. These significant
Sustainable Tourism: Opportunities for Economic Development in Eleuthera

The Bahamas, composed of approximately 30 inhabited islands, is known primarily as a mass tourism destination. While mass tourism has many perceived economic benefits, questions arise about the sustainability of such large scale ventures. After examining the potential for sustainable, or eco-tourism in the ‘Out Islands’ of the Bahamas, The One Eleuthera Foundation proposed various ideas for the expansion and development of agritourism, heritage tourism, and the striking Lighthouse Point Beach. There are a variety of costs and benefits to further development on the island of Eleuthera, and ultimately, eco-tourism appears to be a viable solution for enhanced economic sustainability.
A modified QQ plot for large sample sizes 1

The Q-Q plot is a graphical tool for assessing the goodness-of-fit of observed data to a theoretical distribution in which every single observation in the data is represented by a symbol. In many occasions, due to either natural variations of the data or to a large sample size, the Q-Q plot could be interpreted as a sign of failure of the proposed model. One alternative is to consider a special set of characteristics of the data such as the sample quantiles that, jointly with its theoretical counterparts, allow the user to effectively compare both. We propose and illustrate a modified Q-Q plot that helps to visualise the differences between the observed quantiles and their corresponding theoretical values, and overcome some technical problems of the traditional Q-Q plot. Palabras clave: Q-Q Plot, statistical graphics, Goodness-of-Fit. Resumen El gráfico Q-Q es una herramienta para determinar si los datos observados se ajustan a una distribución de probabilidad teórica, en el que cada observación en los datos es representada por un śımbolo. En muchas ocasiones, debido a variaciones naturales en los datos o un gran tamaño de muestra, el gráfico Q-Q puede interpretarse como una falla en el modelo probabiĺıstico propuesto. Una alternativa es considerar un conjunto de caracteŕısticas de los datos tales como los cuantiles muestrales que, en conjunto con su equivalente teórico, permitan al usuario comparar ambos de manera efectiva. Proponemos e ilustramos un gráfico 1Vélez, J.I. , Correa, J.C. (2015), A modified Q-Q plot for large sample sizes. Comunicaciones en Estad́ıstica, 8(2), 163-172. aArcos-Burgos Group, Department of Genome Sciences, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Neurosciences Research Group, University of Antioquia, Medelĺın, Colombia; Research Group in Statistics, National University of Colombia at Medelĺın, Medelĺın Colombia bAssociate Professor, Department of Statistics, National University of Colombia at Medelĺın, Medel’in, Colombia; Research Group in Statistics, National University of Colombia at Medelĺın, Medelĺın, Colombia
Experimental Design of a Prescribed Burn Instrumentation

Observational data collected during experiments, such as the planned Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE), are critical for evaluating and transitioning coupled fire-atmosphere models like WRF-SFIRE and WRF-SFIRE-CHEM into operational use. Historical meteorological data, representing typical weather conditions for the anticipated burn locations and times, have been processed to initialize and run a set of simulations representing the planned experimental burns. Based on an analysis of these numerical simulations, this paper provides recommendations on the experimental setup such as size and duration of the burns, and optimal sensor placement. New techniques are developed to initialize coupled fire-atmosphere simulations with weather conditions typical of the planned burn locations and times. The variation and sensitivity analysis of the simulation design to model parameters performed by repeated Latin Hypercube Sampling is used to assess the locations of the sensors. The simulations provide the locations for the measurements that maximize the expected variation of the sensor outputs with varying the model parameters.
Synthesis, Characterization of Nano-β-Tricalcium Phosphate and the Inhibition on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells

It is difficult to synthesize nano-β-tricalcium phosphate (nano-β-TCP) owing to special crystal habit. The aim of this work was to synthesize nano-β-TCP using ethanol-water system and characterize it by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Malvern laser particle size analyzer, and transmission electron microscope (TEM). In addition, the inhibitory effect of nano-β-TCP on human hepatocellular carcinoma (HepG2) cells was also investigated using MTT assay, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) leakage test, and 4 -6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) staining. The results showed that negatively charged rod-like nano-β-TCP with about 55 nm in diameter and 120 nm in length was synthesized, and the average particle size of nano-β-TCP was 72.7 nm. The cell viability revealed that nano-β-TCP caused reduced cell viability of HepG2 cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. These findings presented here may provide valuable reference data to guide the design of nano-β-TCP-based anticancer drug carrier and therapeutic systems in the future.
Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Models for Heaving BuoyWave Energy Converters

Numerical models for heaving buoy wave energy converters are a fundamental tool for device design and optimization, power production assessment and model-based controller design. Ideally, models are required to be easy to implement, simple, accurate and computationally efficient. Unfortunately, such features are often conflicting and a compromise has to be reached to define an appropriate model structure. A very common choice is to assume a small amplitude of motion and linearize the model. Despite the attractiveness of computational convenience, linear models quickly become inaccurate when large motion occurs. In particular, the implementation of a control strategy, which aims to increase power absorption, enlarges the operational space of the device and significantly enhances the impact of nonlinearities on the model. There are different possibilities to approach the representation of nonlinearities in heaving point absorbers, each of them characterized by a different level of complexity, computational time requirements and accuracy. This paper compares six different methods: one of them fully-nonlinear (implemented in a computational fluid dynamics environment) and the others based on a linear model with the progressive inclusion of nonlinear restoring force, nonlinear Froude-Krylov force and viscous drag.
Power law spectra and intermittent fluctuations due to uncorrelated Lorentzian pulses

A stochastic model for intermittent fluctuations due to a super-position of uncorrelated Lorentzian pulses is presented. For a constant pulse duration, this is shown to result in an exponential power spectral density for the stationary process. A random distribution of pulse durations modifies the frequency spectrum, and several examples are shown to result in power law spectra. The distribution of pulse durations does not influence the characteristic function and thus neither the moments nor the probability density function of the random variable. It is demonstrated that the fluctuations are intrinsically intermittent through a large excess kurtosis moment in the limit of weak pulse overlap. These results allow for estimation of the basic properties of fluctuations from measurement data and describe the diversity of frequency spectra reported from measurements in magnetized plasmas.
Maize Oil Can Replace Fish Oil in The Diet of Grouper Postlarvae (Epinephelus Coioides) Without Adversely Affecting Growth or Fatty Acid Composition

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary lipid sources on growth, survival and body composition of 40 day post hatch larval grouper, Epinephelus coioides. Fish were fed fish meal and protein hydrolysate based diets for 32 days with either 100% maize oil or 100% fish oil in triplicate from 40-day after hatching to slaughter size (fish weight: 0.32 g to 11 g). Final body wet weight (FBW: 11.8Â±0.7 and 11.1Â±0.1, respectively), weight gain (WG: 3556Â±251 and 3360Â±189, respectively), specific growth rate (SGR: 11.2Â±0.2 and 11.1Â±0.2, respectively) and survival rate (80Â±5 and 79Â±4, respectively) were not significantly affected by dietary lipid sources (P>0.05). The effect of different oil sources on the composition of tissues was significant only for dorsal muscle lipid. In dorsal muscle, lipid content was significantly higher in fish oil group. The fatty acids composition of the muscle lipids well reflected the fatty acids composition of the experimental diets. The growth performance showed that a balance is required between growth-promoting essential fatty acids (EFA) qualities of dietary n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acid (n-3 HUFA) and their potentially growth-inhibiting (pro-oxidant) qualities. Results indicated when EFA of the diet are sufficient for the development of postlarvae, there is no difference whether use fish or maize oil in the formulated diets, 2.87% n-3 HUFA is sufficient for grouper postlarvae development and more n-3 HUFA are not necessarily beneficial to fish performance.
Chromosomal Translocation in Iraqi Patients with Non-Hodgkin ' s Lymphoma

648 Received 13 March 2014 Accepted 30 March 2014 Abstract Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) are hematologic malignancy with the highest prevalence worldwide. They are broadly classified as B-cell or T-cell lymphoma, depending on which type of lymphocyte becomes cancerous. Chromosomal translocations are the hallmark genetic aberration in NHL with specific translocations often selectively associated with particular NHL subtypes. An important example is the t(14;18) which leads to constitutive activation of the bcl2 oncogene by the enhancers of the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus.One of the main objectives of this study to determine the frequency of bcl2 t(14.18) chromosomal translocation in NHL Iraqi patients and also to determine the correlation of bcl2 translocation with subtypes of NHL. A 46 formalin fixed paraffin embedded blocks were examined included 32 blocks from NHL patients, in addition to 10 blocks from reactive follicular hyperplasia, and 4 tonsils as a control group. Genomic DNA was extractedand amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) by using oligonucleotide specific primers for major breakpoint region (MBR), and minor cluster region (MCR) of the bcl-2 gene on chromosome 18 and conserved JH sequence on chromosome 14. The present result illustrate significantly higher frequency of bcl2 t(14,18) at MBR in NHL and reactive follicular hyperplasia Iraqi patients.We concluded the bcl2t(14,18) chromosomal translocation is a hallmark in NHL Iraqi patients with no association with specific subtype.
EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF A SCALE-MODEL HORIZONTAL AXIS HYDROKINETIC TURBINE

This paper presents an experimental/numerical study of a scale-model Horizontal Axis Hydrokinetic Turbine (HAHT). The model turbine is based on the DOE Reference Model 1 (DOE RM1), with a modified geometry to reproduce performance at the flume scale Reynolds numbers. These modifications were necessary to overcome the strong Reynolds number effect on the NACA 6 airfoil family used on the design, and therefore on the device performance in experimental analysis. The performance and wake structure of a single turbine was analyzed with measurements conducted on a 45:1 scale physical model of the modified design of the DOE RM1 rotor. The details of the rotor flow field and wake evolution are analyzed from numerical solution of the RANS equations solved around a computational model of the scale-model turbine. A comparison between the experimental and numerical results is presented. These comparisons highlight the strengths as well as limitations of the experimental and numerical analysis for these types of HAHT characterizations. On a more general sense, these comparisons provide useful guidelines for developing a set of experimental flume scale data and to use it to validate numerical tools, and as pilot projects start to go in the water in the US, to perform a similar type of analysis and design validation of full scale devices.
Digital social interactions in the city: reflecting on location-based social networks

In this paper we discuss how digital interactions are increasingly interwoven with spaces and places in urban settings and how such interactions are mediated by and in turn shape the technologies that facilitate them. We will focus on the understanding of interactions using location based social media (particularly Foursquare) as a way to reflect on issues of technological support to human activities, and on the relationship between code, digital agency and the physical world.
Financial Leverage and its Effect on Corporate Performance of Firms in Nigeria (1999-2016)

The study examined financial leverage and its effect on corporate performance of firms in Nigeria, for the period (1999-2016). Secondary data were used and collected from the annual reports and accounts of various issues. The study used long-term-debt as dependent variable to measure financial leverage; whereas, return on asset and return on equity were used as the explanatory variable to measure corporate performance of firms in Nigeria. Hypotheses were formulated and tested using Ordinary Least Square (OLS) econometrics technique. The study revealed that return on asset had a positive significant effect on long-term debt of firms in Nigeria. Return on equity had a positive significant effect on long-term debt of firms in Nigeria. The coefficient of determination indicated that about 36% of the variations in long-term-debt can be explained by changes in corporate performance variables in Nigeria. The study also concluded that financial leverage has a significant influence on corporate performance of firms in Nigeria. The study recommended that there should be an effective management of long-term debts and other working capital component in firm’s balance sheet. Again, quoted firms in Nigeria should reduce the debt levels in their capital structures so as to enhance positive performance to the interest of shareholders. Furthermore, the government should create an enabling business environment so that business can thrive and this will increase firm’s performance in Nigeria. Keywords: Financial, leverage, effect, corporate performance, firms, Nigeria