Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Plasma and Urine Malondialdehyde Levels of Infants with Acute Bronchopneumonia in the Assessment of Oxidative Response

Objective: Acute lower respiratory tract infections are seen as a major public health problem in many developing countries. This study was carried out in order to evaluate plasma and urine malonyldialdehyde (MDA) levels which represents the lipid peroxidation and hence of oxidative stress in infants diagnosed with acute bronchopneumonia which is a cause of high mortality and morbidity in children.Material and methods: This case-control study was carried out at the department of Paediatrics, Ministry of Health Bakirkoy Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital in 2005. The patient group comprised of 25 patients who were admitted to the hospital with the diagnosis of acute bronchopneumonia. The control group consisted of 10 healthy children of the same age range who had no pathological findings on physical examination. MDA values of urine and plasma samples were compared between both groups as an oxidative stress indicator.Results: The mean serum MDA value of the patient group was 3.91 ± 1.55 micromol/L and that of the control group was measured as 1.03 ± 0.1micromol/L. The difference was significantly higher (p 0.05). Conclusion: The urine MDA values on the first day of follow-up and the plasma MDA values may be used as a parameter in the diagnosis and following-up treatment of oxidative stress in the infants with acute bronchopneumonia.
A case-control study on the temperament and Psychological mood of patients with chronic Hepatitis B

Introduction:To evaluate the personality and temperament traits in patients with chronic hepatitis B in comparison to healthy subjects and to determine whether there is a relation between personality trait and level of anxiety or depression.Material and Methods:This was a case-control study in which 67 patients who had been under follow-up with diagnosis of chronic hepatitis B and 103 aged-matched healthy subjects were included. Study participants were asked to complete three self-report questionnaires— Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) to define personality traits, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) to evaluate presence and severity of depression and anxiety.Results:Total and sub-scale scores of five out of seven dimensions of TCI—reward dependence, persistence, self-directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcence—were significantly higher in Group 1 than Group 2. Total BDI and BAI scores were significantly higher in Group 1 than Group 2 . Significantly more patients had a BDI score of 17 or over in Group 1 than Group 2. There was no significant correlation between total scores of TCI dimensions and total BAI or BDI scores except weak correlations between harm avoidance or self-directedness and total BAI or BDI scores.Conclusions:In terms of personality trait, patients with chronic hepatitis B exhibit higher reward dependence, persistence, self-directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence from healthy population. The personality traits of patients should be considered during the management of hepatitis B in order to optimize treatment outcome and to prevent development of new mental health problems during the course of the disease.
Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility. An Exploratory Study of Strategy Integration and CSR Officers’ Duty

In recent years Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) gained relevance in business strategy, asking to address social and environmental issues in business. To manage these issues the firms are rethinking their strategy, intro-ducing specific CSR actions and programs, and they are modifying their structure, establishing new positions called “CSR officers”. In this study, we explored the relations above integration of social and environmental is-sues into the firms' strategy, the degree of CSR officers’ duty and the amount of implemented social and envi-ronmental activities. Data of a survey aimed to 100 CSR officers operating in Italian listed firms was used. We analyze data on implementation of 39 typical CSR actions in each firm. Data proves that recognize a high duty to CSR officer is as important as the integration of CSR into the firm’s strategy to implement a large amount of CSR actions into the firm.
The Use of Object-Oriented Approach for Arabic Documents Recognition

Summary This paper presents a system for Arabic character recognition which is implemented using Object Oriented Programming (OOP). The system starts by scanning the document which will be processed to resolve the skewing problem, and then the document will be segmented into lines where each is segmented into words. Each word is segmented into characters or primitives also some characters will be fragmented during this process. The features of the fragments characters will be obtained and a neural network module will be used for the recognition. A finite state automata recognizer is used for recognizing the fragments of each character.
Stabilising railway embankments with geosynthetic grids and drains and a class A prediction of track behaviour

The ballast layer is intended to provide a free draining base and sufficient bearing capacity to maintain a proper track alignment. Due to the growth in commuter and industrial traffic, the railway industry needs to fulfil the demands for faster, heavier, and longer trains. However, these high traffic loads often result in a large plastic deformations and degradation of ballast, which in turn, leads to a significant loss of track stability and high maintenance costs. The deformation and degradation of ballast are influenced by factors such as the amplitude and frequency of loading, the number of load cycles, track confining pressure, gradation of aggregates, and the angularity and fracture strength of individual particles. The use of geocomposite (biaxial geogrid-nonwoven geotextile) for enhancing the performance of rail tracks was described, with the aim of reducing track settlement, increasing track resiliency, and decreasing ballast degradation. The effects of impact loads on ballast degradation and its mitigation due to the installation of resilient mats (shock mats) beneath rail tracks were studied using large-scale drop hammer equipment. It has been shown that for tracks built on soft formations, prefabricated vertical drains significantly decrease the build-up of excess pore-water pressure during cyclic loading. A preliminary finite element analysis was used to examine the performance of vertical drains, and a Class A prediction was obtained in terms of settlements, excess pore pressures, and lateral displacements under rail tracks.
The Legacy of Muhammad Hamidullah in Islamic Economics

Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah is famous for his French translation of the Qur'an, and well-known for discovery, editing and bringing in light a number of rare and invaluable hadith manuscripts. He is also rightly acknowledged for his ground-breaking research works on international Islamic law, biography of the Prophet (peace be upon him), Islamic politics and archival heritage of Islam. A less known but significant aspect of his contribution is his pioneering works on Islamic Economics. Spread over more than fifty years he wrote scores of papers in English, Urdu, Arabic, French and Turkish. In fact it was he who coined the term "Islamic Economics" by which this discipline is known worldwide today. Many firsts in this subject belong to him. For instance: the first and the earliest record of the interest-free financial institution in the modern period, advocacy of mutuality as the basis for Islamic insurance, mutuality based Islamic finance, proposal for establishment of international interest-free monetary fund, federation of currencies for Muslim countries, etc. He also focused on topics such as nature of Islamic economic system, critiques of capitalism and communism, insurance, zakah and public finance, money and banking, partnership and equity finance, production and distribution, labor relations, et cetera. The present paper aims at introducing this aspect of his contribution and his legacy in Islamic economics.
PALABRAS QUE HIEREN: UNA MIRADA DESDE LA PEDAGOGÍA AL USO VIOLENTO DEL LENGUAJE VERBAL EN EL AULA

El presente articulo** surge de una investigacion desde la linea Lenguaje y Pedagogia; es un estudio cualitativo desarrollado con los estudiantes del grado noveno de una institucion educativa publica, de Floridablanca (Santander). Tuvo como escenario el aula de clase y busco generar estrategias pedagogicas que disminuyeran el uso violento del lenguaje verbal en el aula. Parte de los siguientes interrogantes: ? Por que los estudiantes interactuan violentamente? Que medidas toman los docentes al respecto? Como se ve afectada la dinamica de ensenanza y aprendizaje? Se diseno una propuesta que propendio por el desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa y la puesta en practica de las normas sociales para la interaccion efectiva en una conversacion, tales como: escuchar al otro, dialogar, respetar los turnos de intervencion y seguir las maximas griceanas del principio cooperativo de comunicacion. Se realizaron talleres formativos basados en estrategias como el estudio de casos, el juego de roles y la descripcion de situaciones reales. Y se pudo precisar que los apodos e insultos son las manifestaciones mas recurrentes del uso violento del lenguaje en el aula
ON THE ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTION OF IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS WITH LONG-RUN RESTRICTIONS

This paper adopts a two-step technique to estimate structural vector error correction models and provides the asymptotic distribution of the impulse response functions of such a system. The method combines two popular tools in econometrics, namely, vector autoregressive cointegration analysis in the first step and structural vector autoregression analysis in the second. The proposed structural model structure is very general in the sense that all just-identifying or overidentifying schemes that can be expressed as linear restrictions on either the contemporaneous or long-run impact of the structural shocks are allowed for. The long-run restrictions complicate the derivation of the asymptotic distribution of the structural parameter estimates as these restrictions are a function of the reduced form parameters. Consequently, the asymptotic distribution involves an extra partial derivative.Useful comments by Peter Boswijk, Günter Coenen, Neil Ericsson, Sören Johansen, Klaus Neusser, Franz Palm, Paolo Paruolo, Peter van Els, Anders Warne, and ESEM 1998 participants are gratefully acknowledged. The paper also significantly benefited from suggestions by the co-editor Pentti Saikkonen and two anonymous referees.
Online data mining services for dynamic spatial databases II: air quality location based services and sonification

In addition, two other families of web services are made available to support the discovery of temporal relations: vectorial and raster map? services and a sonification service. The map services were implemented in DM Plus, a client application presented in part I. The sonification service is described in this paper and illustrated through an application study that implements an air quality index with sonification for mobile phones.
Processability of pure Zn and pure Fe by SLM for biodegradable metallic implant manufacturing

This paper aims to investigate the processability by selective laser melting (SLM) of materials of potential interest for innovative biodegradable implants, pure Fe and pure Zn. The processability of these materials is evaluated with a more established counterpart in permanent implants, stainless steel. In particular, the processing conditions were studied to reduce porosity due to incomplete fusion of the powder. ,In the first phase of the experiments, SLM of AISI 316L was studied through design of experiments method. The study was used to identify the significant parameters in the experimental range and estimate the fluence ranges for pure Fe and pure Zn using the lumped heat capacity model. In the second phase, SLM of pure Fe and pure Zn were studied using estimated fluence ranges. In the final phase, best conditions were characterized for mechanical properties. ,The results showed that complete melting of AISI 316L and pure Fe could be readily achieved, whereas laser melting generated a foam-like porous structure in Zn samples. The mechanical properties of laser melt implant materials were compared to as-cast and rolled counterparts. Laser melted AISI 316L showed superior mechanical performance compared to as-cast and rolled material, whereas Fe showed mechanical performance similar to rolled mild steel. Despite 12 per cent apparent porosity, laser melted Zn exhibited superior mechanical properties compared to as-cast and wrought material because of reduced grain size. ,The paper provides key processing knowledge on the SLM processability of new biodegradable metals, namely, pure Fe, which has been studied sparingly, and pure Zn, on which no previous work is available. The results prefigure the production of new biodegradable metallic implants with superior mechanical properties compared to their polymeric counterparts and with improved degradation rates compared to magnesium alloys, the reference material for biodegradable metals.
Omecamtiv Mecarbil : a Novel Cardiac Myosin Activator for the Treatment of Heart Failure

Introduction Current available inotropic agents increase cardiac contractility, but are associated with myocardial ischemia, arrhythmias, and mortality. A novel selective cardiac myosin activator, omecamtiv mecarbil (CK1827452/ AMG-423) is a small molecule that activates the sarcomere proteins directly, resulting in prolonged systolic ejection time and increased cardiac contractility. areas This paper will discuss the chemistry, pharmacokinetics, clinical efficacy and safety of omecamtiv mecarbil. Omecamtiv mecarbil represents a novel therapeutic approach to directly improve cardiac function and is therefore proposed as a potential new treatment of patients with systolic heart failure. We review results of previous studies investigating the effect of omecamtiv mecarbil in heart failure animal models, healthy volunteers, and patients with acute and chronic systolic heart failure. expert Results of phase I and phase II studies demonstrate that omecamtiv mecarbil is safe and well tolerated, both as an intravenous and oral formulation. In healthy volunteers and chronic systolic heart failure patients, administration of omecamtiv mecarbil resulted in a concentration-dependent increase of left ventricular ejection time, ejection fraction, fractional shortening, and stroke volume. The first results of a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase IIb dose-finding study with the oral formulation of omecamtiv mecarbil demonstrated beneficial effects on cardiac function and N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide levels. This study will provide essential dosing information for the requisite phase III trials which will investigate whether the beneficial effects of omecamtiv mecarbil translate into improved clinical outcomes.
Research on weighted naive Bayesian classifier in discriminative tracking

Aiming at the question that each positive sample in trained sample set has the same weight when training the naive Bayesian classifier in discriminative tracking algorithm, an algorithm is proposed to put different weight on different positive sample according to the distances between the positive samples and the object, the distance is smaller, the similarity between them is bigger, the weight on this positive sample should be bigger, otherwise, the weight on this sample should be smaller. Taking the distribution of positive samples into consideration, and using the distance between the positive sample and the object to measure the weight of this positive sample, and put different weights on different positive samples. The results of experiments show that this change can prompt the performance of the classifier, and further improve the robustness of the tracking algorithm. Keywordsdiscriminative tracking; naive bayesian classifier; Gaussian function; object tracking; traind sample
Does motivational factor influence organizational commitment and effectiveness? A review of literature

To survive into this Century, Leaders of organizations must offer a greater sense of meaning and purpose for their employees. In today’s highly competitive environment, this paper will help managements to get the best from their employees and will increase more commitment effectiveness and can also reflect their inner values and provide opportunities for development. Empower the employees to bring about a transformational change in their personal and professional lives in the organization. It will enable the Leaders to become Masters of Change and be active role models in organizations. Generally, this would create a competitive advantage for the organization by having a competent workforce and sound workplace. The methodology adopted was the review of literature based on past researches, on the motivational factors, organizational commitment and organizational effectiveness. This study is expected to help organizations and also academics towards having an insight on how to successfully run a business in an organization whether public or private. It’s now known as proven by research that motivated employees are satisfied and will increase their inputs to the highest level, and they will also contribute to the overall success of the organization.
Manipulation under k-approval scoring rules

A rapid set microsurfacing system which comprises 36% water, 2% of the quaternized or unquaternized emulsifier, 1.5% acid (HCl), 56.5% asphalt residue, and 4% latex polymer [1.5% water and 2.5% rubber]. The quaternized or unquaternized emulsifier comprising an amidoamine and imidazoline mixture prepared from the combination of a tall oil fatty acid rosin mixture with a rosin content between 8 to 40 percent and a polyamine of either ethylenediamine, diethylenediamine, diethylenetriamine, triethylenetetramine, tetraethylene pentamine, or aminoethylethanolamine. The break control agent used can be a hydrophilic, alkylated vinylpyrrolidone polymer (commercially available as Ganex TM P-904 Polymer); polypropylene glycol; polysiloxane compounds such as trimethylsiloxy terminated polydimethylsiloxanes, silanol terminated polymethylsiloxane, T-structure polydimethylsiloxanes with styrene, vinyl chloride, ethylene, propylene or butadiene; the saponified or unsaponified microsurfacing emulsion or a combinations of these chemicals.
Hisar Urban Geographical Observational Cohort Study [HUGOCS] - Aims and Objectives, Methodology, Future Plans

Introduction: The importance of physical activity, fitness on CVD risk factors are well established in western cohorts. However, there are no geographical cohorts available in India. Aims and objectives: It has formed to identify role of physical activity, fitness, yoga practice and other sedentary behaviors on the development of some CVD risk factors (i.e) hypertension, diabetes and obesity in urban Indian population. The secondary objective is improved physical activity, fitness behavior, yoga practice and reduced sedentary behavior on the prognosis of above said risk factors once it developed. Methodology: 1804 subjects (female 54.6%; response rate 71.9%) were selected through multi-stage random sampling technique in 6 different locations of urban Hisar city during summer 2016. Main eligibility criteria was age should be at least 30 years at the time of recruitment. Therapist assisted standard questionnaire was administered to collect baseline subjective data.Most of the outcome variables, muscular strength were measured objectively. Yoga practice; physical activity/sitting time through GPAQ are being measured now. Future plan: Aerobic fitness through Rockport 1 mile walk test will be measured within 2 years. Subjectively measured physical activity, ADL and sedentary behaviors will be validated through pedometers.Usage of mobile phone, physiotherapists to modify the behavior of subjects and its effect on development and prognosis of CVD risk factors will be studied future.
PROPOSING A MODEL FOR STUDYING THE EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE ON INNOVATION IN BANKING INDUSTRY OF IRAN

El objetivo de este estudio es proponer un modelo para estudiar el efecto del aprendizaje organizacional y el desempeno organizacional sobre la innovacion en la industria bancaria de Iran. El metodo utilizado en la investigacion es descriptivo de supervivencia y se realiza mediante la investigacion de campo. La poblacion estadistica son todos los gerentes, jefes, subdirectores, expertos y personal de los bancos privados de Teheran. Segun la tabla de Morgan, 126 personas han sido seleccionadas como muestra y al final se han obtenido 126 cuestionarios. Los cuestionarios se analizaron mediante muestreo estratificado aleatorio. La herramienta de investigacion fue el cuestionario academico. 30 personas de expertos, el supervisor y el asesor han verificado y confirmado la validez de los cuestionarios con contenido facetado y su estabilidad fue del 93%, contado por el alfa de Chronbache que muestra un buen nivel de estabilidad. La estadistica descriptiva (frecuencia, desviacion estandar y media) y la estadistica inferencial (prueba de bartlett, analisis de factor de confirmacion, modelado de ecuaciones estructurales) se utilizan aprovechando el software de Amos. Los resultados de la investigacion muestran que existe una relacion positiva entre todos los factores del aprendizaje organizacional, la innovacion y el desempeno organizacional en la industria bancaria de Iran.
A Novel Mechanism utilized for Rate and Energy Control in OFDMA based Base Stations

In this paper, we proposed a technique for adjustment of data transmission to enable energy efficient transmission i.e. by utilizing necessary energy for transmission. In our model we are considering downlink transmission of base station with OFDMA based component carrier considering both real time and non-real time user. We employ a computationally efficient schemes according to the fluctuating traffic loads to address the problem of energy minimization at base station transceivers, subject to constrains of minimum data rate for all users. Simulation results demonstrated that the QoS and Fairness Index among the user are much better than the existing schemes with less energy consumptions.
CHARACTERIZATION Chlorophytas MICROALGAE WITH POTENTIAL IN THE PRODUCTION OF LIPIDS FOR BIOFUELS CARACTERIZACIÓN DE MICROALGAS Chlorophytas CON POTENCIAL EN LA PRODUCCIÓN DE LÍPIDOS PARA BIOCOMBUSTIBLES

This work is part of a megaproject that seeks to isolate microalgae of the Chlorophyta division native to Norte de Santander and identify their potential applications such as lipid production to be used as biofuel. Here we present the isolation of 11 microalgae strains from the Chlorophyta division found in two different wastewater environments. The collected strains were cultivated in selective media and purified through serial dilutions, depletion culture, and application of penicillin and gentamicin. Biomass production was evaluated and two strains were selected: CHL1 (Chlorella sp.) and DES1 (Desmodesmus sp.). The strains were cultivated on wastewater and PCG media (control), and their biomass concentration and lipid content were measured. Both strains reached similar biomass concentrations compared to their respective controls (CHL1 PCG 1.5 mg/L ± 0.035 mg/L, CHL1 AR 1.68 mg/L ± 0.036, DES1 PCG 1.66 mg/L ± 0.007, DES1 AR 2 mg/L ± 0.03) and their lipid content was slightly higher compared to their controls. The results show that the isolated and evaluated strains may have potential to be lipid producers, since their environmental and nutritional conditions have not been modified yet and adaptation may improve the production yield of lipids.