Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
De-Intensi ﬁ cation Of Blood Glucose Lowering Medication In People Identi ﬁ ed As Being Over-Treated: A Mixed Methods Study

Aim: To evaluate if, one year after noti ﬁ cation of possible overtreatment, diabetes care providers de-intensi ﬁ ed glucose-lowering medications and to gain insight into the opinions and beliefs of both care providers and patients regarding de-intensi ﬁ cation. Methods: Mixed methods using routine care data from ﬁ ve health-care centres in the Netherlands. Patient characteristics and medication prescription of patients, previously identi ﬁ ed as possibly over-treated, were extracted from patients ’ medical records. Opinions of care providers were obtained through interviews. Patients received questionnaires about their diabetes treatment and were asked to participate in focus groups. Results: A total of 64 elderly patients with type 2 diabetes were previously identi ﬁ ed as possibly over-treated and included; 57.8% male, median age 75 years (IQR=72 – 82), median diabetes duration 12 years (IQR=8 – 18). De-intensi ﬁ cation was implemented in more than half (n=36) of them. Care providers preferred person-centred care above just setting general HbA1c target values, considering patient characteristics (such as comorbidity) and patient ’ s preference. Patients valued glucose levels as most important in determining their treatment. Both patients and care providers felt that de-intensi ﬁ cation should occur gradually. Conclusion: Treatment had been de-intensi ﬁ ed in more than half of the patients (56.3%). Insight in reasons for not de-intensifying elderly patients is important since treatment for them can be “ person-centred care ” . De-intensi ﬁ cation is an iterative and time-intensive process.
Long-Term Continuities in the Politics of Race

This study tests for long-term continuities in the politics of race. It uses a quasi-experimental method to examine the role of racial issues in presidential voting in the present era. It identifies two earlier historical eras in which it is generally agreed racial issues were a central point of partisan division in national politics: the immediately antebellum and civil rights periods. It uses presidential voting data to demonstrate continuity in the distribution of the vote across states between those two eras, and between both eras and the present. The pattern of the vote has been quite different in eras when race has not been a central national political issue. We argue that these data are consistent with the view that divisions over race continue to underlie partisan preferences to a significant degree in the present era.
Gestures and rituals: the archaeological evidence

This paper deals with the archaeological perspective of gestures and rituals. It is evidenced the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach that includes neurological studies and the contribution of archaeology to such approach. A few case studies from Mediterranean cultures and the Maya provide examples of current interpretations of the archaeological record and evidence the general features that have been identified. It is concluded that gestures and rituals were powerful vehicles of communication that have been intentionally used as niche languages. The meaningful use of gestures in particular contexts may have produced new forms of gestures, such as music and dance, which constrained the expressivity of the body to predetermined moments of total or partial loss of consciousness and agreed practices. The conscious use of gestures has also shifted away the possible messages from the body. In particular, rituals have been employed in various social strategies, and often had significant roles in the definition of social structures.
INDEPENDENT AUDITING INVOLVEMENT WITH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ISSUES

This research paper supports the notion that the independent auditing function tied to corporate board actions can influence accountability of corporate social responsibility strategy and implementation. These issues are instrumental in that stakeholders that includes shareholders, analysts, regulators, activists, labor unions, employees, community organizations, and the news media are requesting that firms be accountable not only for their own performance but for the performance of their entire supply chain, and for an ever-changing set of ethical issues. We present a Throughput Model that depicts independent auditors’ reporting to firms’ board of directors may improve its market valuation against the backdrop of an ever more complex global economy with continuing economic, social and environmental inequities.
Banking Panics, Information, and Rational Expectations Equilibrium

This paper shows that bank runs can be modeled as an equilibrium phenomenon. We demonstrate that some aspects of the intuitive "story" that bank runs start with fears of insolvency of banks can be rigorously modeled. If individuals observe long "lines" at the bank, they correctly infer that there is a possibility that the bank is about to fail and precipitate a bank run. However, bank runs occur even when no one has any adverse information. Extra market constraints such as suspension of convertibility can prevent bank runs and result in superior allocations. BANKING PANICS WERE A recurrent phenomenon in the United States until the 1930s. They have re-emerged as a source of public concern and much theoretical research recently. In this paper, we provide an information-theoretic rationale for bank runs. The traditional "story" is that contagion is an important aspect of bank runs. The idea seems to be that when the general public observes large withdrawals from the banking system, fears of insolvency grow resulting in even larger withdrawals of deposits. In our model, some individuals withdraw because they get information that future returns are likely to be low. Uninformed individuals observing this also have an incentive to liquidate their investments. In addition, some individuals need to withdraw deposits for other than informationally based reasons. Thus, if the random realization of such a group of individuals is unusually large, then the uninformed individuals will be misled and will precipitate a run on the bank. The technology is such that a large volume of withdrawals involves liquidation costs. Consequently, runs on the bank do impose social costs. A mechanism that may reduce these costs in our model is to suspend convertibility if withdrawals are high. However, those individuals who need to withdraw their assets for liquidity reasons are worse off ex post. Our model provides a rationalization for restrictions in demand deposits that were widespread prior to 1929. Friedman and Schwartz [7] suggest that restrictions of payments ensured
THE NATURAL RATE OF INTEREST IN A SMALLOPEN ECONOMY

The goal of this paper is to show that the natural rate of interest in a small open economy, with access to the world capital markets, is equal to the international real rate of interest. We show this property by using the infinitely-lived overlapping generations model and we use this model to analyze both fixed and flexible exchange rate regimes. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)
A Wideband Endfire Antenna Using SWG-HIS Hybrid Structure

A surface wave-based planar endfire antenna with wideband performance is presented. Surface waves are excited and supported to propagate in a required direction in a surface-wave guide (SWG)-high impedance surface (HIS) hybrid structure. Four surface-wave modes are excited, and thus the antenna resonates at 4.5 and 5.5 GHz. The proposed antenna supports a operation band from 4.08 to 5.72 GHz and the realized gains in a range of 5.75 ~ 7.05 dBi.
Process, voltage and temperature compensated oscillator for phase change memories

Non Volatile Memories (NVM’s) are an integral part of every System-on-Chip (SoC) for retaining the data when power goes off. Phase change memory (PCM) is type of NVM and exhibits significant advantages over existing NVM alternatives, such as fast read access time, high write endurance, higher retention time and fast modify cycles. In PCM, the current pulses are used to change the state of bit cells (set or reset) and duration of current pulse is decided by the on-chip oscillator. The large inaccuracy in oscillation frequency will result in unreliable modify operation and may cause failure in read-write operations. The commonly used high accuracy clock references are realized by crystal oscillators, as they are immune to process, voltage and temperature variations, but integrating them with on-chip circuits increases the overall cost and power of system. Hence, it is important to investigate the high accuracy on chip clock generation strategy for low cost and low power applications. In this dissertation, a 10MHz, 84μW, 73ppm/°C PVT compensated ring oscillator and 10 MHz, 69μW, 42ppm/°C PVT compensated latch based oscillator is presented in 110nm BCD9S Technology for PCM application. The presented PVT compensated oscillators consumes significant lesser power as well as area compared to traditional crystal counterparts. An on-chip voltage regulator is also designed to generate stable supply for oscillator and associated bias circuits to generate the frequency reference immune of large supply variations.
Impact of demand uncertainty in supply chain systems with mixture conditional value-at-risk criterion

Impacts of risk preference and demand uncertainty on the optimal order quantity and profit in supply chain system with mixture conditional value-at-risk constrain are studied by using stochastic dominance. It is proved that the optimal order quantity and profit of the retailer will decrease while risk preference coefficient increases under the wholesale price contract and revenue sharing contract. The wholesale price contract can coordinate the supply chain system only when the retailer is risk-taking. The supply chain system can also be coordinated by the revenue sharing contract for any risk preference of the retailer. Under the revenue sharing contract, stochastic larger demand leads to higher optimal profit of the retailer; more variable demand leads to less profit of the retailer when risk preference coefficient is larger than or equal to one.
Design Science to Improve Air Quality in High-Density Cities

In high-density mega cities, air pollution has a higher impact on public health than cities of lower population density. Apart from higher pollution emissions due to human actives in densely populated street canyons, stagnated airflow due to closely packed tall buildings means lower dispersion potential. The coupled result leads to frequent reports of high air pollution indexes at street-side stations in Hong Kong. Therefore, high-density urban morphology design science is needed to lessen the ill effects of high density urban living. This study addresses the knowledge-gap between planning and design principles and air pollution dispersion potential in high density cities. The air ventilation assessment for projects in high-density Hong Kong is advanced to include air pollutant dispersion issues. The methods in this study are CFD simulation and parametric study. The SST κ- ω turbulence model is adopted after balancing the accuracy and computational cost in the validation study. Urban-scale parametric studies are conducted to clarify the effects of urban permeability and building geometries on air pollution dispersion. Given the finite land resources in high-density cities and the numerous planning and design restrictions for development projects, the effectiveness of mitigation strategies is evaluated to optimize the benefits. A real urban case study is finally conducted to demonstrate that the suggested design principles from the parametric study are feasible in the practical design of high-density urban areas.
Applications of neural network based methods on stock market prediction: survey

Financial forecasting is one of the domineering fields of research, where investor’s money is at stake due to the rise or fall of the stock prices which unpredictable and fluctuating. Basically as the demand for stock markets has been rising at an unprecedented rate so its prediction becomes all the more exciting and challenging. Prediction of the forthcoming stock prices mostly Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based models are taken into account. The other models such as Bio-inspired Computing, Fuzzy network model etc., considering statistical measures, technical indicators and fundamental indicators are also explored by the researchers in the field of financial application. Ann’s development has led the investors for hoping the best prediction because networks included great capability of machine learning such as classification and prediction. Most optimization techniques are being used for training the weights of prediction models. Currently, various models of ANN-based stock price prediction have been presented and successfully being carried to many fields of Financial Engineering. This survey aims to study the mostly used ANN and related representations on Stock Market Prediction and make a proportional analysis between them.
A Flexible Wideband Antenna Using Paper as Substrate

In this paper, a wideband flexible antenna using paper as substrate is proposed. The simulated antenna bandwidth covers 270–1000 MHz. Simulation shows that the proposed antenna has stable bandwidth with changing dielectric constant and thickness of the substrate. The antenna keeps table bandwidth when twisted around of cylindra. The simulated antenna bandwith is 270–1000 MHz.
Are Local Tax Rates Strategic Complements or Substitutes

The identification of strategic interactions among local governments is typically plagued by endogeneity problems. This paper proposes a quasi-experimental strategy to identify independent personal income tax setting by Swiss municipalities making use of the multi-tier federal system. State (cantonal) borders spatially bound the effects of canton-level fiscal reforms in areas that are otherwise highly integrated. Fiscal reforms at the canton level provide an exogenous source of variation in municipal tax rates, and are thus a valid instrument to identify strategic interactions among municipalities located at a cantonal border. In contrast to most of the existing empirical literature, I find that tax reaction functions have a negative slope and that taxes rates are strategic substitutes rather than strategic complements. This is compatible with a model of local tax setting in which governments primarily target expenditure rather than tax receipts. JEL codes: H24, H71, H77 Keywords: tax competition, fiscal federalism
Lineshape of the thermopower of quantum dots

Quantum dots are an important model system for thermoelectric phenomena, and may be used to enhance the thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency in functional materials, by tuning the Fermi energy relative to the dots’ transmission resonances. It is therefore important to obtain a detailed understanding of a quantum dot's thermopower as a function of the Fermi energy. However, so far it has proven difficult to take the effects of interactions into account in the interpretation of experimental data. In this paper, we present detailed measurements of the thermopower of quantum dots defined in heterostructure nanowires. We show that the thermopower lineshape is described well by a Landauer-type transport model that uses as its input experimental values of the dot conductance, which contains information about interaction effects.
An Emerging Regulatory Role for the Tumor Microenvironment in the DNA Damage Response to Double-Strand Breaks

Radiation, alkylating agents, and platinum-based chemotherapy treatments eliminate cancer cells through the induction of excessive DNA damage. The resultant DNA damage challenges the cancer cell's DNA repair capacity. Among the different types of DNA damage induced in cells, double-strand breaks (DSB) are the most lethal if left unrepaired. Unrepaired DSBs in tumor cells exacerbate existing gene deletions, chromosome losses and rearrangements, and aberrant features that characteristically enable tumor progression, metastasis, and drug resistance. Tumor microenvironmental factors like hypoxia, inflammation, cellular metabolism, and the immune system profoundly influence DSB repair mechanisms. Here, we put into context the role of the microenvironment in governing DSB repair mechanisms.
Low-Cost Dual-Polarized 60 GHz Patch Antenna Array in PCB Process

A 2 × 2 dual-polarized patch antenna array operating at 60 GHz is proposed. Based on the conventional low-cost standard PCB process, for the reliable antenna design a five- laminates stack-up structure is used to reduce the complexity of the manufacturing and cost. To improve the antenna bandwidth and gain performance, a stacked patch is adopted and two probe-fed structures are realized to support both horizontal and vertical polarizations. A 2 × 2 prototype is designed, fabricated, and measured for demonstration. For both polarizations, measurements show that their -10 dB impedance bandwidth can cover the entire 60 GHz band, and their isolation is lower than -22 dB. Moreover, their gain is higher than 10 dBi with a peak gain of about 11 dBi.
A Frequency-Reconfigurable Magnetic Monopole Antenna Based on Quarter-Mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide

A frequency-reconfigurable magnetic monopole antenna is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna is based on a single-layer quarter-mode substrate integrated waveguide (QMSIW). A narrow QMSIW is used to produce monopole-like radiation pattern and an ellipse-shape slot and two varactors are used to realize the reconfigurability. This antenna is designed and optimized by using full-wave simulation software and is continuously reconfigurable over a frequency range of 380 MHz which is from 2.33 GHz to 2.71 GHz. Also, the vertically-polarized monopole-like radiation pattern is kept within the frequency range.
Potential population growth of Melanaphis sacchari (Zethner) reared on sugarcane and sweet sorghum

The sugarcane aphid [Melanaphis sacchari (Zethner) (Hemiptera: Aphididae)]is a serious pest for sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum ) and sorghum (Sorghum spp.). It causes damage by sucking the plant’s sap and then transmitting Sugarcane yellow leaf virus (ScYLV). The aim of this work was to compare biological parameters, and trace the population growth of sugarcane aphid in its major hostplants: sweet sorghum and sugarcane. Newborn nymphs were reared on excised leaves in climatic chambers with controlled environmental conditions. The survival rate of offspring was recorded in order to obtain biological parameters derived from life tables. The parameters “reproductive period”, “postreproductive period”, “fecundity” and “longevity” were significantly different by contrast and clearly showed that sweet sorghum is more suitable for the population growth of sugarcane aphids than sugarcane.
A Defected Ground Structure for Circularly Polarized (CP) Microstrip Antenna Design

This paper presents a single-feed circularly polarized (CP) microstrip antenna achieved by defected ground structure. With the proposed DGS, a new resonant mode is added, which is orthogonal to the original resonant mode. These two modes will have the same magnitude and the 90° time-phase difference by adjusting the DGS dimensions, which contributes to achieve the CP radiation. Both the simulated and measured 10-dB impedance bandwidth of the CP microstrip antenna are 30 MHz, while the 3-dB axial-ratio bandwidth is 6 MHz. The CP gain across the 3-dB AR band ranges from 4.6 to 5.0 dBic.
Design of Modified Sierpinski Gasket Fractal Antenna for Tri-band Applications

In this paper, a novel design of Modified Sierpinski Gasket with hexagonal form is presented. The structure under study generates three frequency bands corresponding to the lower, middle, and upper bands including, 1.6-1.7 GHz (L-band), 1.71-1.88 GHz (DCS), 1.85-1.95 GHz (PCS/TD-SCDMA/LTE), 5.2/5.8 GHz (Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)) and 10 GHz (X-band applications). The realized gains of the antenna system, in these frequency bands, vary from 2.0 to 4.1 dBi. This antenna is suitable for multiband applications.
Looking Back 50 Years at the Biology of Mankind in Space: The Renal-Cardiovascular Fluid Shift Conundrum.

that we canmake using tissue engineering approaches. However, a broader view of renal function offers more room for immediate optimism. Beyond the Homer Smith view of transport function of the kidney, the kidney does a lot more. For example, there are endocrine functions (e.g., renin production, vitamin D hydroxylation, erythropoietin secretion, and klotho production), metabolic functions (e.g., arginine production and fructose clearance), and detoxification roles. These do not require a drainage pathway. These additional functions are likely to be more readily reconstituted with organoid implants than transport functions, and they may, therefore, deserve priority.
coustic whispering gallery mode coupling with Lamb waves in liquid eng

Acoustic whispering gallery modes (WGMs) in a micro-quartz tube immersed in liquid medium, excited by the evanescent wave of a Lamb wave device, are demonstrated. These excited WGMs exhibit characeceived in revised form 3 September 2012 ccepted 21 October 2012 vailable online 30 October 2012 eywords: hispering gallery mode amb wave teristics similar to those of optical WGMs, such as narrow periodic transmission dips and a high quality factor. These results show the possibility to build acoustic sensors, filter and acoustic resonators working in liquid with improved performance. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Outline of optical design and viewing geometry for divertor Thomson scattering on MAST upgrade

The super-X divertor on MAST Upgrade will be diagnosed by a Thomson scattering diagnostic. A preliminary design of the collection optics and calculations of the diagnostic's performance are discussed in this paper. As part of the design the location and size of the collection cell were optimized to minimize vignetting, especially in the region of interest close to the divertor strike point. The design process was complicated by the limited access available in the closed divertor geometry. In the study of the diagnostic's performance, the radial resolution, projection of the laser image onto the fiber bundle, and impact of depth of field with a multiple laser system were investigated. In this design there is a trade-off between the resolution of the system and the lifetime of the beam dump. For this reason the beam has its focal point at the start of the viewing region and diverges in width to approximately five millimeters near the divertor tile. The effect of this large variation in beam width is examined primarily at the two extremes by means of ray trace modeling. This model takes an object with dimensions of the beam width imaged onto the fiber bundle to investigate the effect of misalignment for a narrow or broad laser image. In a similar manner ray tracing was performed to determine the effects of depth of field for four and two laser systems. As the electron density of the system may be low, performance analysis considers firing multiple lasers simultaneously to improve photon statistics.
MIMO Antenna for Indoor Low-Band 5G Base Stations

A broadband high efficiency cavity-backed antenna with independent beams is presented. The design is milled in a metallic box and capacitively fed by 4 coaxial cables. Matching is accomplished with the use of an impedance transformer created by the extension of the coaxial inner conductor. This antenna is a compact, and low-cost solution which can be easily manufactured to be mounted as a 5G indoor base station antenna providing MIMO behaviour due to its four independent beams. The operating frequency band ranges from 3 GHz to 5 GHz (50%), covering the early deployment 5G low band. The results of the simulations show a total efficiency greater than 67%. By properly feeding the ports, the antenna can be configured to radiate with horizontal polarization, vertical polarization or circular polarization. The overall dimensions of the antenna are λc×λc×0. 25λc, where λc the wavelength at the central frequency (4 GHz).