Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
[Patients--a useful resource when evaluating medical students' clinical practice?].

BACKGROUND Many medical students experience that they do not get satisfactory feedback during their general practice preceptorship. We wanted to explore whether an evaluation questionnaire answered by patients could be a useful tool for students and tutors. MATERIAL AND METHODS The Department of General Practice and Community Medicine at the University of Oslo invited medical students who attended general practice preceptorship during spring 2005 to participate. The questionnaire consisted of eight questions regarding the consultation. Both tutors and students also considered the benefits of the evaluation form in a subsequent questionnaire. The answers to both of the questionnaires were analysed statistically. Some students were organised into focus groups that discussed the use of patient questionnaires before and after the preceptorship period. RESULTS 648 patients answered questionnaires following 36 students' independent consultations. The patient, the observing tutor and the student assessed 63 of these consultations. The patients scored eight issues with mean values from 4.3 to 5.0, with 5.0 being the best possible result. The questionnaires from the observed consultations showed that the tutors' assessment did not differ from the patients' on five out of seven compared issues. The tutors gave higher scores on the subject of the student's use of complicated language, and lower on the subject of physical examination. The students' self-assessment was significantly lower in six out of seven issues. The reactions to the questionnaire from both tutors and students were mixed. The students expressed that the use of questionnaires might contribute to better feedback from the preceptors or to obtain more independent consultations. INTERPRETATION The students' consultations received a very high score from both patients and tutors, while the students themselves scored their own achievements lower. The evaluation questionnaires may be useful tools to improve feedback to students on their consultations in the preceptorship period.
Island-mainland nexus: the case of the coastal livelihood of Tingloy Island and the southwestern portion of Batangas, Philippines

This research explored the natural resources available to the island municipality of Tingloy, Batangas. It looks at fisheries as the economic resource of an island and how this activity is linked in with the larger economic context of the mainland. Tingloy is a rural settlement the livelihood of which is dependent on fishing and its spatio-economic links with the mainland through fisheries. Fishing is the subsistence economy of Tingloy, with the surplus exported to the mainland. However, a fishery product flow analyses showed that the fishermen of Tingloy are marginalized by the disproportionate distribution of the income in favour of middlemen and fish dealers. Support facilities (such as ports, cold storage, processing units, trading posts, etc.) to further improve the local economy of the island is limited and must be upgraded. Also, transport facilities and other infrastructures to assure the integration of the local-regional economic function of the island municipality must be carefully crafted. Interventions to further improve the local economic condition of the island and its integration with that of the mainland are directed towards improved institutional arrangements, stricter implementation of existing local ordinances, and regional development planning that would take a holistic view and consider the vast resource base of the local government units.
Workforce Development and Higher Education Partnerships

Workforce development and higher education can benefit from collaborative efforts that incorporate and apply teaching, learning, and research from a variety of environments. This chapter introduces the context of workforce development innovation and the impact on employees. Partnerships, in general, are defined and workforce development and higher education partnerships are examined that have influenced building collaborative relationships. Also included is a review of best practices and future trends related to workforce development and higher education partnerships.
TMC-89A and B, new proteasome inhibitors from streptomyces sp. TC 1087.

ubiquitin, and then degraded by a proteasome in an ATP dependent manner1^ The catalytic core of the proteasome is the 20S proteasome. New20S proteasome inhibitors would contribute to further understanding of the system2~4\ In the course of our screening program, wehave isolated several classes of 20S proteasome inhibitors including (i) the novel cyclic peptides, TMC-95s, and (ii) the new members of a',/3'-epoxyketone containing peptides, TMC-86s and
SWOT Analysis on Inclusive Education in Indonesia

Inclusive education occurs when the children with and without disabilities participate and learn together in the same classes. This study was a literature-based research which seeks relevant theories to the cases or problems found. The references obtained by way of literature-based research served as the basis of data retrieval. The SWOT Analysis of the implementation of inclusion in Indonesia is as follows. Inclusive education in Indonesia can enable children with special needs to learn more independently and to be directed with normal children (Strengths). Further, various children with disabilities require different guidance and assistance in terms of curriculum, lesson plans, media, and assessment (Weaknesses). The inclusive education programs in Indonesia are supported by the government so that the special law and regulations are issued for the implementation of inclusive education. It affects to the mental and psychological side of children with special needs that can build up well because they are incorporated with the normal children (Opportunities). Finally, the government and the schools of inclusive education providers should be able to improve the service, effectiveness, and efficiency of inclusive education
An innovative Charge Pump design and its properties optimization

Trend of maximum reduction of the power consumption of electronic devices is still at forefront of interest. For portable electronic appliances Charge Pumps are usually used. Indeed Charge Pumps have particularly small size, easy integrability and higher working frequency than conventional DC/DC converters. The integration of Charge Pumps directly into the system allows manufacturers to feed a complex system with many specific power requirements from a single source. But Charge Pump efficiency is reduced by many phenomena. Relatively strong effect has threshold voltage of used transistors or diodes. This paper is concentrated on optimizing of properties of proposed variant of Charge Pump. So output voltage, drawn current and resulted efficiency of proposed Charge Pump were optimized based on simulations executed by Mentor Graphics.
Unified Analysis for SIR-Based Power and Rate Control in Multipath Fading Channels

In this paper, we present a unified analysis on various signal-to-interference power ratio (SIR)-based power and rate control schemes in independent and nonidentical multipath fading channels. We study wireless direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems with RAKE reception and derive new expressions for a mobile user's average SIR, average transmission power, and average data rate in terms of the probability distribution of the SIR. The performance of SIR-based combined power/rate control, power control, rate control, truncated power control, and truncated rate control schemes in independent and nonidentical Rayleigh fading channels is presented and compared. By substituting appropriate SIR distributions, this general mathematical framework can be applied to other fading channels such as the Nakagami, Rician, and lognormal channels
The Impact of Organizational Culture and Leadership Style on Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of organizational culture and leadership style on job satisfaction and employee performance. This research is based on primary data, and the sample in this research is lecturer STIE Perbanas Surabaya which is engaged in education. The statistical method used in this research is Structural Equations Modeling - Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) with 36 samples. The dimensions used in leadership style are participative style, nurturant style, authoritarian style, bureaucratic style and task oriented. The dimensions used in organizational culture are integration approach, diffrentiation approach, and fragmentation approach. Dimensions used in job satisfaction are satisfaction with salary, promotion, colleagues, supervisor and job supervisor. And the dimensions used in employee performance are subject knowledge, assessment skills, student-lecturer relations, organizational skills, communication skills, subject relevance and utility (meaningfullness) of assignment. The results showed that organizational culture dimension had positive impact on employee performance, leadership style had positive impact on employee performance, job satisfaction had positive impact on employee performance, organizational culture had positive impact on job satisfaction, leadership style had positive impact on job satisfaction and leadership style had positive impact on organizational culture . So the research findings prove that organizational culture and leadership style is an important element that greatly affect employee performance and job satisfaction
Preeclamptic decidual microvascular endothelial cells express lower levels of matrix metalloproteinase-1 than normals.

In preeclampsia, invasion of intrauterine decidual blood vessels by placental cytotrophoblasts is significantly reduced. This study examined the secretion of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) by cultured human decidual endothelial cells from normal (NDEC) and preeclamptic (PEDEC) pregnancies. MMPs secreted into the culture medium were measured using zymography, Western blotting, and ELISA. Results were confirmed by Northern analysis. Phorbol myristate acetate, known to induce protease activity in other endothelial cell populations, stimulated MMP1, MMP9, and TIMP1 secretion in both NDEC and PEDEC. Neither tumor necrosis factor-alpha nor transforming growth factor-beta, both thought to have significant roles in the control of placentation, affected MMP secretion. MMP9 and TIMP1 levels were similar between the two cell types; however, MMP1 secretion was markedly different between the cell types. NDEC expressed higher levels of MMP1 under both basal (160 +/- 32 ng/10(6) cells) and stimulated (275 +/- 50) conditions compared to PEDEC (32 +/- 24 and 70 +/- 53, respectively). The lower MMP1 expression of decidual endothelial cells from preeclamptic women may inhibit endovascular invasion by cytotrophoblasts. These findings may, at least partly, explain the relative failure of trophoblasts to invade maternal decidual blood vessels in preeclamptic pregnancy.
Effect of fish oil on heart rate variability in survivors of myocardial infarction: a double blind randomised controlled trial

Marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids may protect against ischaemic heart disease.1 In the diet and reinfarction trial patients with an acute myocardial infarction advised to eat fish rich in n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids had a 29% reduction in two year all cause mortality compared with controls.2 The authors hypothesised that dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids might reduce malignant ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death, as reported in animals.3 We investigated a possible antiarrhythmic effect of dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in survivors of myocardial infarction. Patients were eligible for study if they had been discharged from the department of cardiology at Aalborg Hospital between November 1991 and August 1993 after a myocardial infarction and had a ventricular ejection fraction below 0.40. We excluded patients aged over 75, patients with pacemakers or permanent tachyarrhythmias, and those with serious non-cardiac disease. Eighty one patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria and 55 gave informed consent to a double blind placebo controlled trial. Patients were randomly …
The C-681G polymorphism of the PPAR-γ gene is associated with susceptibility to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is defined as excessive accumulation of fatty acid in the liver, a common disease in the world. The research of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) provides a new approach for managing NAFLD. SNPs may increase or decrease the functions of the target genes and their encoding proteins. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) plays a key role in modulating metabolism of hepatic triglycerides and consequently magnitude of NAFLD. In this study, we investigated the effect of three SNPs in the PPAR-γ gene i.e. rs10865710 (C-681G), rs7649970 (C-689T) and rs1801282 (C34G, also termed Pro12Ala) on susceptibility to NAFLD. The participants were selected from our epidemiological survey. Totally 169 participants were enrolled in NAFLD group, and 699 healthy subjects were included as controls. PCR-RFLP was applied to detect the SNPs. The G allele frequency of rs10865710 in NAFLD group (41.1%) was significantly higher than that (34.8%) in controls (p = 0.03). Differences in other two loci (rs7649970 and rs1801282) were not statistically significant between the two groups (p > 0.05). This result was confirmed by haplotype analysis. The GCC haplotype (a set of 3 adjacent SNPs in linkage disequilibrium, corresponding to the three alleles of above polymorphisms in order) was a risk factor for the susceptibility to NAFLD (p = 0.03). This study has revealed that the G allele of rs10865710 in the PPAR-γ gene is associated with the increased susceptibility to NAFLD. Our findings may provide novel diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets for NAFLD.
Concepts, theories, and approaches to management practices for sustainable businesses

This paper is the literature review of different concepts, ideas, approaches, research findings and management practices of different businesses and companies. The paper takes a triple bottom line approach, defining sustainability in business as a balanced progress towards green, social and economic performance, social justice and environmental quality. Intensively read all these articles and many carefully followed by creating a brief review of each of them. These articles contain the critical analysis of different sustainability tools and techniques used by different business managers to create environmental values in marketing, product development, community relations and other functions of the business. In-depth knowledge and a clear understanding of these articles are crucial to green sustainable business practice research. This research paper can draw sustainable business practitioners’ attention towards sustainable business investment practices in their future management roles.
When Reward Convenience Meets a Mobile App: Increasing Customer Participation in a Coalition Loyalty Program

Coalition loyalty programs (CLPs) have been gaining popularity in recent years. A CLP (e.g., Air Miles in Canada, the Middle East, and the Netherlands) is a third-party program that lets its customers accrue points by transacting at a variety of businesses and retailers, and customers can redeem rewards from the CLP when they have enough points. In this research, we propose that a CLP can stimulate existing customers’ participation by providing information convenience and reward convenience. By analyzing a unique data set, we find that the additions of a mobile app (information convenience) and a point-of-sales (POS) redemption structure (reward convenience) increase accruals and redemptions for those who adopt them, particularly for occasional customers. We also find that the two tactics are synergistic for customers who accrue but rarely redeem. As for active customers, information convenience and reward convenience encourage further redemptions, which reduce a CLP’s liability. Finally, we posit that customers follow the principle of least effort, as they tend to accrue the additional points by spending on convenient, high-penetration categories. From our findings, we recommend that a CLP should invest in increasing its convenience proposition, such as building a mobile app or allowing POS redemptions, to encourage customers’ continuing participation.
The impact of new information upon UK financial futures markets

Use policy: _________________________________________________________________________ This item is brought to you by Swansea University. Any person downloading material is agreeing to abide by the terms of the repository licence: copies of full text items may be used or reproduced in any format or medium, without prior permission for personal research or study, educational or non-commercial purposes only. The copyright for any work remains with the original author unless otherwise specified. The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holder. Permission for multiple reproductions should be obtained from the original author.
Propagación acotada en búsqueda heurística en tiempo real en entornos inicialmente desconocidos

Los problemas de busqueda en donde el agente tiene un tiempo limitado para calcular una solucion en un entorno inicialmente desconocido, no pueden ser abordados por mecanismo tradicionales de busqueda heuristica, Algunos problemas de este tipo son la planificacion de rutas en: robots autonomos, personajes de juegos en tiempo real para ordenador y paquetes de informacion en redes de sensores. Esta tesis esta dedicada a resolver este tipo de problemas, mediante algoritmos de busqueda heuristica en tiempo real. Presentamos varios mecanismos genericos que aplicados a algoritmos existentes, generan nuevos algoritmos. Los nuevos algoritmos que desarrollamos mejoran el rendimiento de las aproximaciones existentes. Estos se evaluan considerando varias medidas de desempeno, las mas importantes son: el coste de la solucion, el tiempo total de busqueda y el tiempo por episodio de planificacion. Las principales ideas que hemos desarrollado en la tesis son: Propagacion acotada de cambios heuristicos con iteracion de valores: Presentamos un mecanismo de aprendizaje de heuristicas basado en el metodo de iteracion de valores de programacion dinamica. Propagacion acotada de cambios heuristicos sobre un espacio local: Presentamos un mecanismo de aprendizaje de heuristicas que mejora el mecanismo basado en iteracion de valores. Combinacion entre anticipacion y propagacion acotada: Presentamos un mecanismo que permite combinar anticipacion con propagacion acotada sobre un espacio local. Esta combinacion mejora el coste de la solucion aumentando el tiempo de planificacion por paso. Anticipacion y movimientos del agente: Analizamos distintas estrategias de movimiento del agente. Cada estrategia tiene un rendimiento distinto, el uso de una u otra dependera de la medida de desempeno que mas importe al usuario. Aplicaciones: Implementamos nuestros algoritmos en mapas extraidos de juegos en tiempo real comerciales para ordenador. El desempeno d
A Service based Platform Design Method for Customized Products

In this paper, we propose a method for developing service based product platforms to generate economical and feasible design strategies for a product family and evaluate design feasibility within dynamic market environments. We will model design strategies for a product family as a market economy where product family platform configurations are generated through market segments based on services. A coalitional game is employed to evaluate which services provide more benefit when included in the platform based on the marginal profit contribution of each service. To demonstrate implementation of the proposed method, we use a case study involving a family of mobile products.
Modulation of social space by dopamine in Drosophila melanogaster, but no effect on the avoidance of the Drosophila stress odorant

Appropriate response to others is necessary for social interactions. Yet little is known about how neurotransmitters regulate attractive and repulsive social cues. Using genetic and pharmacological manipulations in Drosophila melanogaster, we show that dopamine is contributing the response to others in a social group, specifically, social spacing, but not the avoidance of odours released by stressed flies (dSO). Interestingly, this dopamine-mediated behaviour is prominent only in the day-time, and its effect varies depending on tissue, sex and type of manipulation. Furthermore, alteration of dopamine levels has no effect on dSO avoidance regardless of sex, which suggests that a different neurotransmitter regulates this response.
Your comments are important to me! The impacts of online customer reviews in shopping websites

The aim of this study is to examine the influence of Online Customer Reviews (OCRs) on consumers' purchase intentions, and to understand the role of attitude on information adoption within the computer-mediated communication platforms. For this purpose, a research model was developed based on the Information Adoption Model (IAM). The model was empirically tested and validated through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The data were collected from a sample of 384 university students. The results confirm that attitude plays an important role on information adoption; and the following are among the key factors which influence consumers' purchase intentions: eWOM quality, eWOM credibility, attitude towards eWOM, perceived eWOM usefulness, and eWOM adoption. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed as well as recommended for future studies.
Paragraph Vector for Data Selection in Statistical Machine Translation

In this paper, we investigate data selection methods used in domain adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation targeting an in-domain made up of non-standard data, such as transcriptions of spoken data. In data selection, the sentences from the general domain are scored according to their similarity to the in-domain. This research explores Paragraph Vectors as means of scoring sentences from the general domain. The experimental evaluation results show that our method improves the translation quality over the baselines, as well as over a state-of-the-art data selection method.
Microdispenser With Continuous Flow and Selectable Target Volume for Microfluidic High-Pressure Applications

This paper presents a reusable microdispenser intended for continuous flow dispensing of variable and controlled volumes of liquid against high back-pressures. The microdispenser consists of two active valves and a dispenser chamber, all actuated by the volume change associated with the solid-to-liquid phase transition of paraffin wax. It is fabricated using stainless steel sheets, a flexible printed circuit board, and a polyimide membrane. All are covered with Parylene C for insulation and fusion bonding at assembly. A finite element method (FEM) model of the paraffin actuator is used to predict the resulting flow characteristics. The results show dispensing of well-defined volumes of 350 and 540 nL, with a good repeatability between dispensing sequences, as well as reproducibility between devices. In addition, the flow characteristics show no back-pressure dependence of the dispensed flow in the interval 0.5-2.0 MPa. The FEM model can be used to predict the flow characteristics qualitatively.