Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Behavioral, Normative, and Control Beliefs of Filipino Men Who Have Sex with Men on Repeat HIV Testing and Counseling

Introduction. The Philippines faces an increasing incidence of HIV. Timely and regular HIV testing can be a preventive method against HIV infection because early detection of the virus leads to early access to treatment. This can lead to viral suppression in which the virus becomes undetectable and untransmittable. Repeat HIV testing is recommended to men who have sex with men (MSM) and other individuals with previous or ongoing risk of acquiring HIV. Following the Reasoned Action Approach model, providing behavioral interventions in promoting retesting among MSM first needs the identification of their salient beliefs toward a repeat test. Method. A qualitative cross-sectional study was conducted. Thirty HIV non-reactive MSM from a community-based HIV testing and counseling center took part in the study. Participants were asked questions designed to elicit salient behavioral, normative, and control beliefs toward a repeat HIV test three to six months following the receipt of the non-reactive HIV screening test result. Results. The most salient belief on the positive consequence of a repeat test was having peace of mind with one’s status; while the most salient belief on the disadvantages was investing in time and travelling as well as experiencing pain from the needlestick. Close friends were the most cited normative referent. Accessibility of facilities and time were believed to be the most salient facilitator and barrier, respectively. Conclusion. HIV/AIDS counselors and administrators can become key persons in increasing regular HIV testing by bringing messages that address the unearthed salient beliefs of MSM toward repeat testing. The salient beliefs extracted from the participants can provide basis for behavioral interventions; however, a formal test through a quantitative study of a larger sample is warranted to identify beliefs that significantly affect attitudinal, normative, and control factors of retest intention.
Return to Play Guidelines After Cervical Spine Injuries in American Football Athletes

Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text We review clinical and case studies related to return to play (RTP) after cervical spine injuries in elite American football athletes and offer management guidelines. The decision for RTP requires an understanding of RTP time, risks of recurrence or re-injury, and individual characteristics, including position played and pathology on imaging. Study Design Literature-based review. Objective We sought to evaluate clinical and case studies related to return to play (RTP) after cervical spine injuries in elite American football athletes and to formulate guidelines to help health care practitioners manage these conditions. Summary of Background Data American football athletes are at unique risk of cervical spine injury and appropriate case-by-case management of cervical spine injuries is necessary for these athletes. Despite this need, no standardized guidelines exist for RTP after cervical spine injury. Methods Observational or case-based articles relating to RTP after cervical spine injury in American football athletes were curated from PubMed/EMBASE databases. Primary literature published before December 1, 2019 involving National Football League (NFL) or National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes met inclusion criteria. Results The data acquisition process yielded 28 studies addressing cervical spine injuries and RTP in American football athletes. Stingers/burners were the most common injury and placed athletes at higher risk of a more severe re-injury. Transient quadriplegia, cervical stenosis, cervical disc herniation (CDH), and cervical fractures have a more significant impact on the long-term health and career longevity of the American football athlete. As such, the literature offers some guidance for management of these athletes, including average time for RTP in patients treated nonoperatively, thresholds involving cervical stenosis, and postoperative recommendations after spinal decompression and/or fusion surgery. Conclusion Elite American football athletes are at high risk for cervical spine injury due to the nature of their sport. The decision to allow these athletes to return to play should involve an understanding of the average RTP time, the potential risks of recurrence or re-injury, and individual characteristics such as position played and pathology on imaging. Level of Evidence: 3
Priority Stakeholders’ Perception: Social Responsibility Indicators

This study aims to build a list of composite indicators by information that enable the assessment of philanthropic higher education organizations’ (PHEOs) social responsibility based on the interests of their stakeholders. A list of 88 social responsibility indicators was built based on a literature review and stakeholder interest to serve as a basis for the composite indicators. In order to identify and validate the indicators, field research was carried out. Stakeholders from Brazil and the United Kingdom scored them from one (not important) to five (very important) for each indicator identified in the literature review. With 540 valid answers, they suggested inclusions and exclusions according to their interests. Next, a correlation analysis was performed to identify and eliminate redundant indicators. The principal component analysis extracted the composite indicators. The results point to 11 principal components that are configured as composite indicators to evaluate the performance of PHEOs social responsibility considering the stakeholder’s interests, a factor that differentiates this research from the literature revision done. Some of the composite indicators are close to the social responsibility categories reviewed in the literature. However, others show more specific and in-depth interests, especially regarding the stakeholders themselves. These composite indicators help managers establish disclosure policies whenever they are focused on seeking legitimacy in the social context of PHEOs. It also contributes to the advancement of theoretical knowledge, presenting composite indicators, from the stakeholder’s perspective, for the disclosure of social responsibility of PHEOs.
An Unprecedented Hydrogen Bonded Crystal Structure Presentation of 1-(5-Chloro-2-Hydroxyphenyl)Ethanone - Complete Theoretical vs Experimental Results Survey using Reliable DFT & TD-DFT Computational Methods

1-(5-chloro-2-htdroxyphenyl)ethanone (Compound 1) is ortho-hydroxy aromatic ketone where crystal structure has been unambiguously confirmed by single crystal XRD at higher temperature (298 K). Compound 1 has been characterized by different physicochemical techniques like melting point, elemental analyses (carbon, hydrogen, chlorine & oxygen), IR, UV-Vis, mass spectroscopy. Reference Compound 1 crystallizes triclinic crystal system having space group P-1 with the values a = 7.494(4), b = 12.906(5), and c = 16.105(8) A; α = 90.21° (2), β = 90.16° (3), and γ=90.39° (2), V=1557.7(12) A and Z = 8. Finally crystal structure 1 was refined to R =0.1101. It is a unique crystal structure where crystal units are stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonding. Hydrogen bonded supramolecular network is further supported by π-π stacking interaction. The geometry of Compound 1 optimized in the singlet ground states by DFT computation (using B3LYP functional) and proper basis sets used 6-31G (d-p). Density functional theory of optimized crystal structure having Mulliken charge distribution confirmed that both carbon and oxygen utilized sp 2 hybridization. The molecular structure, selected bond parameters and IR, UV-Vis spectral data of Compound 1 are theoretically studied using DFT computational method. A supplementary TD-DFT calculations have been performed for optimized geometry of title Compound 1 to get deep insight into the different spectral electronic transitions.
Do the Determinants of Non-Performing Loans Have a Different Effect over Time? A Conditional Correlation Approach

Several studies have explored the linkage between non-performing loans and major macroeconomic indicators, using a wide variety of methodologies, sometimes with different results. This occurs, we argue, because these relationships are generally derived in terms of correlation coefficients evaluated in certain time spans, which represent a sort of average level of correlations. However, such correlations are necessarily time-varying, because the relationships between bank loan indicators and macroeconomic variables could be stronger during particular periods or in correspondence with important economic events. We propose an empirical exercise using dynamic conditional correlation models, with constant and time-varying parameters. Applying these models to quarterly delinquency rates and an array of macroeconomic variables for the US, for the period 1985–2019, we find that the correlation is often negligible in this period except during periods of economic crises, in particular the early 1990 crisis and the subprime mortgage crisis.
Super Transition Arrays: A Tool for Studying Spectral Properties of Hot Plasmas

For the theoretical study of X and extreme-UV spectra of ions in plasmas, quantum mechanics brings more detailed results than statistical physics. However, it is impossible to handle individually the billions of levels that must be taken into account in order to properly describe hot plasmas. Such levels can be gathered into electronic configurations or superconfigurations (groups of configurations) and the corresponding calculations rely on appropriate statistical methods, for local or non-local thermodynamic equilibrium plasmas. In this article we present the basic principles of the Super-Transition-Array approach as well as its practical implementation. During the last decades, calculations performed with the SCO code (Superconfiguration Code for Opacity) have been compared to opacity measurements. The code includes static screening of ions by plasma and is well suited for studying plasma density effects (for example pressure ionization) on opacity and equation of state. The recently developed SCO-RCG code (Superconfiguration Code for Opacity combined with Robert Cowan’s “G” subroutine) combines statistical methods from SCO and fine-structure (detailed-level-accounting) calculations using subroutine RCG from Cowan’s code. SCO-RCG enables us to obtain very detailed spectra and to significantly improve the interpretation of experimental spectra. The Super-Transition-Array formalism is still the cornerstone of several opacity codes, and new ideas are emerging, such as the Configurationally Resolved-Super-Transition-Array approach or the extension of the Partially Resolved-Transition-Array concept to the superconfiguration method.
MTHFR C677T Polymorphism in Turkish Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Objective: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine-reproductive-metabolic disorders of women at reproductive age, affecting 5-15% of the women worldwide. Although the pathogenesis of PCOS is not well defined, it is associated with an increased risk of premature coronary artery disease (CAD). Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is associated with hyperlipidemia and is an independent risk factor for CAD. The most common cause of HHcy is related to the deficiency of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR). This study aimed to investigate the relationship between different genotypes of MTHFR C677T and the risk of PCOS. Material and Methods: Two hundred twenty voluntary premenopausal women (110 healthy controls and 110 PCOS patients) were included in the study. All the volunteers underwent a physical examination along with biochemical hormonal evaluation and genetic analysis. Results: The genotyping analyses and genetic model of inheritance analyses revealed that the frequencies of CC, CT, and TT genotypes in the control and PCOS group to be 51.8%, 45.5%, and 2.7% and 51.8%, 48.2%, and 0%, respectively. The frequency of C and T alleles in the control and PCOS group was determined to be 74% (C: 0.74/155) and 26% (T: 0.26/53), and 75% (C: 0.75/167) and 25% (T: 0.25/53), respectively. The “T” additive, “T” dominant, and “C” recessive models it found that the CT vs. CC (OR:1.06 Cl:0.62-1.83), CC vs. TC+TT (OR: 0.99 Cl: 0.58-1.72), and TC+TT vs. CC (OR: 0.99 Cl: 0.58-1.70), respectively, did not show an increase in the PCOS risk. Conclusion: Our findings indicated that the different genotypes of MTHFR C677T were not associated with the risk of PCOS in Turkish women from Central Anatolia.
El arte de la Etnografía en tiempos turbulentos

espanolMuchos de nuestros metodos clasicos y de las convenciones de representacion han quedado desfasados con la situacion disfuncional social, politica, ambiental y economica de nuestros tiempos. Como podemos crear una representacion que vaya mas alla de la comunicacion academica en un mundo turbulento? Como podemos crear las «historias», lo que mantiene unida a la gente, para poder conectar con ella? Esta es la pregunta de partida en El arte de la Etnografia, una idea que comienza con el texto Eye and Mind, de Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Este ensayo sugiere que la obra de arte es una manera de alcanzar una forma ilustrada de aquello que Michael Jackson llamo «el arte de la vida». Nos llega a traves de la combinacion de varios aspectos. Por ejemplo, del espacio y el tiempo, que estan vivos en la memoria de las cosas, o el dialogo, que es una ventana a la personalidad de los personajes y les hace ser especiales. Vivimos tiempos turbulentos, pero tambien tiempos de adaptacion en nuestros modos de representacion, y esto supone una oportunidad de desarrollar el arte de la Etnografia. EnglishMany of our longstanding set of methods and denotative conventions of representation are no longer in harmony with the state of contemporary social, political, environmental and economic dysfunction. How can we create a representation that goes beyond the academic communication in a troubled world? How can we create “stories”, which work as the glue that holds people together, in order to connect with them? This is the basic question in the Art of Ethnography, an idea that begins with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s, in his essay Eye and Mind. This piece suggests that the work of art is a pathway to an embodied enlightenment that can enable us to practice what Michael Jackson has called “the art of life”. It is the result of several aspects. For example, space and place, which are alive with memory, or dialogue, which is a window into personality of the characters, since it defines the people we study and makes them particular. This is a moment of troubled times, but also a moment of adaptation to our modes of representation, and an opportunity to develop the Art of Ethnography.
Seasonal variation of atmospheric pollutants transport in central
Chile: dynamics and consequences

Abstract. Central Chile faces atmospheric pollution issues all year long, in relation with elevated concentrations of fine particulate matter during the cold months and tropospheric ozone during the warm season. In addition to public health issues, environmental problems regarding vegetation growth and water supply, as well as meteorological feedback are at stake. Sharp spatial gradients in regional emissions along with a complex geographical situation make for variable and heterogeneous dynamics in the localization and long-range transport of pollutants, with seasonal differences. Based on chemistry-transport modeling with WRF-CHIMERE, this work studies for one winter period and one summer period: (i) the contribution of emissions from the Santiago Metropolitan Area to air pollution in central Chile, (ii) the reciprocal contribution of regional pollutants transported into the Santiago basin. The underlying 3-dimensional advection patterns are investigated. We find that on average for the winter period 5 μg m−3 to 10 μg m−3 of fine particulate matter in Santiago come from regional transport, corresponding to 13 % to 15 % of average concentrations. In turn, emissions from the Metropolitan Area contribute to 5 % to 10 % of fine particulate matter pollution as far as 4° north and 4° south. Wintertime transport occurs mostly close to the surface. In summertime, exported precursors from Santiago, in combination with mountain-valley circulation dynamics, are found to account for most of ozone formation in the adjacent Andes cordillera and to create a persistent plume of ozone of more than 50 ppb, extending along 80 km horizontally and 1.5 km vertically, and located several hundred meters above ground, slightly north of Santiago. This work constitutes the first description of such an ozone bubble formation mechanism. Emissions of precursors from the capital city also affect daily maxima of surface ozone hundreds of kilometers away. In parallel, cutting emissions of precursors in the Santiago basin results in an increase of surface ozone mixing ratios in its western area.
PERNGARUH MODEL APOS BERBASIS ICT DAN MODEL M-APOS TERHADAP SELF EFFICACY MAHASISWA

Penelitian bertujuan untuk menelaah perbedaan self efficacy antara mahasiswa yang diberi perlakuan model pembelajaran APOS berbasis ICT dengan mahasiswa yang diberi perlakuan model pembelajaran M-APOS. Populasi penelitian adalah mahasiswa Universitas Pamulang. Metode penelitian yaitu quasi experiment dengan desain penelitian berbentuk berbentuk nonequivalent group posttest-only design. Data yang dianalisis yaitu skor kuisioner self efficacy dengan teknik analisis menggunakan uji-t. Instrument yang digunakan berupa kuisioner self efficacy. Pengujian prasyarat analisis data terdiri dari uji normalitas dengan uji liliefors dan uji homogenitas dengan levene-test. Teknik pengambilan sampel peneliti menggunakan multistage sampling. Hasil pengujian prasyarat analisis data menunjukkan bahwa kelas eksperimen 1 dan eksperimen 2 memiliki data berdistribusi normal dan homogen. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa self efficacy mahasiswa yang diberi model Pembelajaran APOS lebih tinggi daripada mahasiswa yang diberi model pembelajaran M-APOS.
From model to low noise amplifier monolithic microwave integrated circuit: 0.03–2.6 GHz plastic quad‐flat no‐leads packaged Gallium‐Nitride low noise amplifier monolithic microwave integrated circuit

This paper describes an air cavity quad‐flat no‐leads (QFN) over‐molded plastic packaged cascode broadband GaN LNA Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) with resistive feedback fabricated with 0.25 μm GaN HEMT technology. The single stage QFN packaged GaN LNA MMIC achieves a bandwidth of 0.03–2.6 GHz with a typical gain of 11.5 dB and less than 1.5 dB noise figure. The low noise amplifier (LNA) design is based on a model of a concept transistor, the cascode transistor used in the design, that has not been fabricated previously. The concept transistor is fabricated for the first time along with the GaN LNA MMIC. The fabricated GaN LNA MMIC is housed in a 12‐lead 3 × 3 mm2 air cavity QFN over‐molded plastic package and mounted on an application board. The measurements taken with the application board represent a good convergence with the design that is based on a concept transistor model. The measurement results and 50 Ω internal matching on both ports without the need for additional matching components make this LNA attractive for many applications.
‘Welcome on board’: resource dependency and agency theoretic evidence from the South African life insurance market

Purpose This paper examines the role of corporate governance on the financial performance of life insurers in South Africa. Specifically, the paper tests two competing hypotheses on the role of boards as effective monitors of opportunistic behaviour of executives, as prescribed by the agency theory or as an effective resource, as advocated by the resource dependency view. Design/methodology/approach The paper estimates both static and dynamic panel data of 68 insurers from 2007 to 2014 using random effects, panel corrected standard error ordinary least squares and generalized method of moment’s estimation techniques. Board size, audit committee size, board independence and audit committee independence are used as the governance indicators while profitability is measured as returns on assets and equity. Findings The findings support both the resource dependency and agency theoretic views of boards. Specifically, the results indicate that large board and audit committees improve financial performance which supports the view of boards as effective resources for insurers. In addition, the role of non-executive directors in addressing agency conflict is reflected in the positive effect of board independence on financial performance. However, the long-run causal positive effect is only reported for audit committee size on return on assets. In addition, the paper also finds evidence of profitability persistence in the life insurance market. Finally, reinsurance usage, insurer size and market concentration were found to have a negative effect on financial performance. Practical implications The findings re-enforce the important role of boards in their oversight responsibilities and as effective resources in the operations of highly specialized insurance businesses. Originality/value As far as the authors are concerned, this empirical analysis documents the first evidence of the linkages between governance mechanisms and financial performance of an insurance market in Africa.
EFFECT OF PROGESTRONE IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

ABSTRACT Background: Traumatic brain injury is a major public health concern, resulting in substantial mortality and long-term disability. So, it was important to search for novel therapeutic modalities that play an important role in reducing cerebral edema and had neuro- protective effect. A number of studies showed the feasibility, safety, and effectiveness of early parenteral administration of progesterone in acute severe traumatic brain injury patients compared with standard care. Objective: The study aimed to assess the effect of the progesterone on the neurologic outcome in non-operable patients with acute severe traumatic brain injury. Patients and Methods: This study was conducted on 50 patients presented with severe traumatic brain injury with GCS less than or equal to 8 after resuscitation and stabilization including both sexes. They were categorized into two groups according to applying the progesterone protocol. Patients were subjected to informed consent from next of kin, history taking, clinical neurological examination, routine laboratory and radiological investigations as needed and progesterone administration to patients in group 2which was given intramuscularly in dose of 1 mg/kg every12h for 7 consecutive days. Results: Early parenteral administration of progesterone was associated with significant decrease in the mortality rate at day 28, significant improvement in Glasgow outcome scale of the patients by the end of day 28, significant improvement in level of consciousness of the patients (GCS), SOFA score, and CT brain Marshall scoring. Conclusion: Progesterone administration in acute severe traumatic brain injury patients was associated with significant decrease in 28th day mortality, period of ICU stay, and mechanical ventilation days. Also, it was feasible and safe without noted complications.