Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dwarf Galaxy Formation Induced by Galaxy Interactions

Growing evidence is being accumulated that some gas-rich dwarf galaxies are formed from material liberated by galaxy collisions and/or mergers. Also, gas-poor dwarf elliptical galaxies are often found in the central regions of clusters of galaxies. These observations suggest strongly that the formation of most dwarf galaxies is linked to galaxy interactions. Therefore, now seems like the right time to investigate the formation efficiency of such tidal dwarf galaxies. Adopting the galaxy interaction scenario proposed by Silk & Norman, we find that if only a few dwarf galaxies are formed in each galaxy collision, we are able to explain the observed morphology-density relations for both dwarf and giant galaxies in the field, groups of galaxies, and clusters of galaxies. It seems worthwhile noting that tidal dwarf formation may be coupled with the transformation from gas-rich disk galaxies to early-type galaxies such as S0 and elliptical galaxies.
Psychosocial work environment in school and students’ somatic health complaints: An analysis of buffering resources*

Aim: This study explores the association between the psychosocial work environment in school and students’ somatic health complaints. With its point of departure from the Demand–Control–Support (DCS) model, the aim was to examine how aspects of decision control and social support can moderate stress-related health implications of high psychological demands. Methods: Data come from two cross-sectional waves of the Swedish version of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC 2005/2006 and 2009/2010), which consists of a total of 9427 11-, 13- and 15-year-old students. A two-level random intercept model was applied, with school class as the level 2 unit. Results: Findings showed significant associations between school demands and somatic health complaints for all studied age groups, with a slight increase in strength with age. Decision control as well as social support from teachers, parents and peers consistently predicted a favorable association with health. An age pattern emerged in the analyses of stress-moderating resources. For 11 year olds parental support was the only resource that displayed a significant interaction with demands in relation to somatic health complaints, whereas for 13 year olds, decision control and support from teachers and parents all demonstrated moderating effects on student health. For 15 year olds, however, it was peer support that acted as a buffering resource in the studied relationship. Conclusions: The psychosocial work environment is an important predictor of students’ health complaints. Overall, social support was a better stress-moderating resource than decision control, but some “buffers” were more important at certain ages than others.
Ambush marketing: Corporate strategy and consumer reaction

Commercial sponsorship has grown significantly as a method of marketing communications; however, the practice of ambush marketing, whereby corporations, often direct competitors of official sponsors, seek low-cost association with major sporting events, is a related development, arguably to the detriment of both official sponsors and event owners. This article examines the phenomenon of ambush marketing and the main strategies employed by ambushing companies as well as seeking to explore consumer reaction to the practice of ambush marketing. Consumer reaction is examined under two broad headings: the effectiveness of ambush marketing and consumer attitudes to the practice of ambush marketing. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Immunohistochemical expression of erythropoietin and erythropoietin receptor in breast carcinoma

Erythropoietin (Epo), induced by hypoxia, controls the survival, proliferation, and differentiation of Epo receptor (EpoR)‐bearing erythroid progenitors and plays a role in the protection of neurons from hypoxic damage. Hypoxia in malignant disease is associated with invasion, metastasis, resistance to therapy, and selection for cells with diminished apoptotic potential. The authors recently demonstrated the basal and hypoxia‐stimulated expression of Epo and EpoR in human breast carcinoma cell lines and in breast carcinomas, suggesting a role for autocrine Epo signaling in the hypoxic adaptations of mammary neoplasms.
The Effect of Weekend Information to Monday’s Banking Index Return in Jakarta Stock Exchange

Capital gain from stock market does not always provide abnormal return to the investor. The level of abnormal return analysis can use Efficient Market Hypothesis to measure the efficiency of the stock market by using event study. The analysis also will use behavioral finance theory to elaborate more on how investors react to the weekend period news and arbitrage theory to know if there is an arbitrage profit that can be captured. The information on the weekend holidays should reflect in the Monday price if the market is efficient. The research will use banking index as the main study because banking index is sensitive to the news especially from financial crisis contagious. The weekend period news will be grouped into the regional and the internal Indonesia news. The results indicate that the banking index of Jakarta Stock Exchange supports the semi-strong efficient market hypothesis in the presence of Indonesia economic, fiscal policy and monetary policy news. The return of the banking index and Jakarta Composite Index on Monday may face overconfidence and anchoring and adjustment bias that can distort the price on Monday. The research shows that banking index under performs the Jakarta Composite Index. This shows that the existence of Monday Effect anomaly is rejected. The Jakarta Composite Index is affected by the availability of the news from Japan, world news and Indonesia economy news. News that may affect each index can be specified into the exposure of the industry.
MECHANISM OF VOLUME REPLACEMENT AND VASCULAR CONSTRICTION FOLLOWING HEMORRHAGE.

Experiments in the anesthetized dog suggest that fluid moves into the vascular system following hemorrhage because of fall in capillary hydrostatic pressure subsequent to decrease in aortic and right atrial pressures and increase in precapillary resistance. Postcapillary resistance also rises but not sufficiently to prevent the fall in capillary pressure. The increase in precapillary resistance results from active constriction, passive constriction, and, very transiently, increase in blood viscosity. The active constriction of precapillary vessels is due to a baroreceptor-induced sympathico-adrenal discharge and to some nonadrenal, nonrenal circulating vasoconstrictor substance. The active vasoconstriction is not well maintained in forelimb, intestine, or kidney because of local regulation ("autoregulation") and baroreceptor-induced lessening of the sympathico-adrenal discharge subsequent to movement of tissue fluid into the vascular system. This waning constriction together with a rise in perfusion pressure permits partial recovery of flow. The increase in forelimb postcapillary resistance results mainly from passive constriction. Active constriction subsequent to the sympathico-adrenal discharge is seen only with large hemorrhage.
Alginate Oligosaccharide DP5 Exhibits Antitumor Effects in Osteosarcoma Patients following Surgery

Osteosarcoma is a malignant musculoskeletal tumor that has high-rate morbidity and mortality worldwide. Alginate oligosaccharide (AOS), a natural product, has antitumor activities and may have therapeutic effects in osteosarcoma, the molecular mechanisms of which remain unclear. AOS was prepared from alginate sodium using alginate lyase. The fractions of AOS were further isolated by size-exclusion chromatography and verified by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Osteosarcoma patients were enrolled in the study and assigned into two groups: AOS (AG, oral administration of 10-mg AOS daily) and control groups (CG, placebo). Preoperative and postoperative clinical data were investigated and analyzed. Four different degrees of polymerizations (DPs) were isolated and denominated as DP2, DP3, DP4, and DP5. Among these polymers, only DP5 showed antitumor functions on osteosarcoma cells. Before surgery and the outcome of primary end point after surgery, no significant differences were observed for clinical data and tumor size between the AG and CG groups (P > 0.05). After 2-year therapy, the mean tumor volume was 214.6 ± 145.7 c.c. in AG and 467.2 ± 225.3 c.c in CG (P < 0.01). The rate of local recurrence was 44.9 and 68.7% in AG and CG, respectively (P < 0.01). AOS treatment resulted in the increase in serum levels of SOD, GSH, HDL-C, and reduction in the levels of interleukin-1 (IL-1) beta and IL-6; the ratios of AST/ALT; and triglycerides, total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol LDL-C, and malondialdehyde (MDA) (P < 0.05). AOS reduces osteosarcoma progression, which is associated with improvement in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory capacities of patients, and may be used as a potential drug for osteosarcoma therapy.
Efficient software testing protocols

Testing software against failure rapidly, efficiently and comprehensively is of vital importance to software programmers and designers. Complete testing is far too slow and costly. Randomized testing can suffer from deficiencies of the pseudo-random number generator used. Testing all pairwise input interactions is a relatively new idea that resolves this problem. It is extraordinarily efficient; the number of test cases only grows as the log of the number of inputs. Recent evidence shows that the vast majority of all software failures are single or pairwise input interactions. A test protocol that covers all pairwise interactions of inputs is called a covering array. For applications, the central issue is to be able to produce small covering arrays with given parameters on demand. This paper presents a number of methods to generate efficient pairwise testing protocols. A software package using these methods to generate test protocols is also discussed.
DIVIDEND POLICY AS MEDIATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF MANAGEMENT OWNERSHIP AND INSTITUTIONAL OWNERSHIP ON COMPANYâ€™S FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

The purposes of this research are: (1) to examine if management ownership influences significantly positive on dividend policy (2) to examine if institutional ownership influences significantly positiveÂ onÂ dividendÂ policy,Â andÂ (3)Â toÂ examineÂ ifÂ dividendÂ policy influences significantly positive on companyâ€™s financial performance. This is an explanatory research since it aims to explain the influence among variables after testingÂ researchÂ hypothesesÂ basedÂ onÂ theÂ underlyingÂ theory. Â TheÂ dataÂ ofÂ thisÂ researchÂ are financial reports of go public manufacture companies which have been audited at Indonesian StockÂ ExchangeÂ (IDX)Â fromÂ 2003Â â€“Â 2012. Â ThisÂ isÂ aÂ censusÂ researchÂ thatÂ isÂ byÂ usingÂ all population, 36 manufacture companies. Since this is a census research by using pooling data technique for 10 years so there were 360 observation data. This research used path analysis technique to test hypotheses. The research finding shows that management ownership doesnâ€™t influence significantly positive on dividend policy, institutional ownership doesnâ€™t influence significantly positive on dividend policy, dividend policy doesnâ€™t influence significantly positive on companyâ€™s financial performance, Â Keywords : dividend policy, management ownership, institutional ownership, and companyâ€™s financial performance
Sphingosine 1-phosphate evokes calcium signals in C 2 C 12 myoblasts via Edg 3 and Edg 5 receptors

Elisabetta MEACCI*, Francesca CENCETTI*, Lucia FORMIGLI†, Roberta SQUECCO‡, Chiara DONATI*, Bruno TIRIBILLI§, Franco QUERCIOLI§, Sandra ZECCHI ORLANDINI†, Fabio FRANCINI‡ and Paola BRUNI* *Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Viale G. B. Morgagni 50, 50134 Florence, Italy, †Dipartimento di Anatomia, Istologia e Medicina Legale, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Viale G. B. Morgagni 85, 50134 Florence, Italy, ‡Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiologiche, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Viale G. B. Morgagni 63, 50134 Florence, Italy, and §Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Laboratorio di Biofotonica, Viale G. B. Morgagni 85, 50134 Florence, Italy
Investigations into the design of a spatial power combiner employing a planar transmitarray of stacked patch antennas

Investigations are performed into the design of a transmission type X-band spatial power combiner involving the tile configuration of microstrip patches coupled to input and output ports of individual amplifiers. In order to obtain an increased operational bandwidth of such a power combiner, stacked microstrip patch antennas are chosen in the present design. Various configurations of such antennas are manufactured and tested. Using these antennas, passive transmission-type unit cells are built and assessed in terms of return and insertion losses. The experimental results show that all of the developed unit cells exhibit high return loss over an increased bandwidth. However, only one shows small insertion losses. This configuration is used to build active unit cells of the power combiner.
Tolerating Repairing Points Using Wireless Sensor Networks For Structural Health Monitoring

Wireless Sensor Networks are becoming relevant technology for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) applications for easier deployment of sensors than the Wired Sensor Networks. SHM is the process of implementing the damage detection (health) and characterization strategy for engineering structures (bridges/dams). However, the constraints, e.g., communication distance, energy of WSNs must be considered before their deployment on structures. The faults in the Wireless sensor communication such as errors, unstable connectivity affect the performance of sensor while monitoring the health of the structure. In existing system, the sensor location is adjusted according to the engineering and computer science requirements, such adjustment leads to missing of some optimal location. In proposed system, Faulttolerant Structural Health Monitoring (FTSHM) introduced to make resilient WSN faults. FTSHM [17] checks for the fault during the sensor placement and guaranteed the WSN for SHM remains connected in the event of faults, thus prolonging the WSN lifetime under connectivity and data delivery constraints.
Chronic Urticaria Due to Allergy to Wheat Alpha-Amylase Inhibitor Proteins

Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is defined as the spontaneous appearance of wheals, angioedema, or both, for at least 6 weeks, due to known or unknown causes [1]. In some patients who present a CSU with daily or almost daily symptoms a type I allergy could be the underlying cause. We present one adult patient with chronic urticaria who was finally diagnosed as a non-occupational case of IgE-mediated wheat allergy manifested following exposure by 3 different routes: inhalation (rhinitis and bronchial asthma), dermal absorption (contact urticaria) and ingestion (systemic chronic urticaria). We were able to detect the culprit proteins by immunoblotting. Serum IgE binds mainly to alpha-amylase/trypsin inhibitors and, to a lesser extent, to other proteins associated with food allergy to grains (e.g. beta-glucanase, serpin, peroxidase). In our opinion, skin prick tests with a food standard battery could help in the etiological diagnosis of chronic urticaria. The identification of responsible allergens could be difficult because only a few complex in vitro techniques allow detecting the allergy to several proteins.
Les déterminants de l'adoption anticipée des normes comptables internationales : choix financier ou opportunisme ?

As of January 2005, rule CE 1606/2002 requires all traded companies of the European Union to use international accounting standards (IAS/IFRS). The motivation of this study is to further understand the choice of early adoption of the IAS/IFRS. Using a logistic model, the research identifies the determinants of early adoption on a sample of 106 German and Austrian firms. It also examines if the IAS/IFRS adoption is an opportunity to manipulate accounting numbers. The results indicate that size, capital intensiveness, ownership dispersion and the abnormal growth of total assets and ROE increase the likelihood of early adoption. Further analyses allow to infer that the motivation is linked to financing rather than financial statement manipulation.
A phase 2 study of carboplatin plus docetaxel in men with metastatic hormone‐refractory prostate cancer who are refractory to docetaxel

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality among men in the U.S. To the authors' knowledge, there is no proven, effective, second‐line therapy for docetaxel‐refractory disease. Recent data suggest that platinum salts may be effective when combined with taxanes in metastatic hormone‐refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). The authors conducted a phase 2 trial of docetaxel plus carboplatin chemotherapy in this disease setting.
RotundRacGAP Functions with Ras during Spermatogenesis and Retinal Differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster

ABSTRACT Our analysis of rotund (rn) null mutations in Drosophila melanogaster revealed that deletion of the rn locus affects both spermatid and retinal differentiation. In the male reproductive system, the absence of RnRacGAP induced small testes, empty seminal vesicles, short testicular cysts, reduced amounts of interspermatid membrane, the absence of individualization complexes, and incomplete mitochondrial condensation. Flagellar growth continued within the short rn null cysts to produce large bulbous terminations of intertwined mature flagella. Organization of the retina was also severely perturbed as evidenced by grossly misshapen ommatidia containing reduced numbers of photoreceptor and pigment cells. These morphological phenotypes were rescued by genomic rnRacGAPtransgenes, demonstrating that RnRacGAP function is critical to spermatid and retinal differentiation. The testicular phenotypes were suppressed by heterozygous hypomorphic mutations in theDras1 and drk genes, indicating cross talk between RacGAP-regulated signaling and that of the Ras pathway. The observed genetic interactions are consistent with a model in which Rac signaling is activated by Ras and negatively regulated by RnRacGAP during spermatid differentiation. RnRacGAP and Ras cross talk also operated during retinal differentiation; however, while the heterozygous hypomorphicdrk mutation continued to act as a suppressor of the rn null mutation, the heterozygous hypomorphic Dras1 mutation induced novel retinal phenotypes.
Is it Worth to Invest in CSR? The Relationship between CSR and Store Image in Retailing

The paper focuses on examining interrelations between store image, CSR activities and CSR perception. Using structural equations modeling two models of shaping the perception of CSR were compared. The research concerning a retailing chain including 230 individual customers showed that it is a company image which is more important in the shaping of CSR perception than CSR activities undertaken by a company.
Capital Requirements, Capital Adequacy and Risk Management

The Basle Committee is seeking to amend the 1988 Accord by introducing a new capital adequacy framework for credit institutions. The proposals, put forward in a consultative paper issued in June 1999 (A New Adequacy Framework), have been submitted for comments to the international banking industry. This consultation has been closed by the end of last March. The proposed future regulatory regime is of paramount importance to all financial institutions as it lays the basis for a level playing field in which to operate.This document aims at contributing to the round of discussions, in order to try and find an optimal solution for all practitioners. After reviewing the main pitfalls of the current Accord, we examine the content of the Basle proposal, focusing attention on the first of the three pillars referred to in the Basle paper, i.e. the Minimum Capital Requirements.We call attention on the need to pursue an integrated approach, taking into account that regulatory issues will affect banking, financial and other institutions on a global scale. Credit risk is in fact just one of the component of the risks undertaken by financial institutions, albeit often the most relevant. The internal ratings-based approach which the Basle Committee is proposing to introduce as an alternative to a modified standard approach should be integrated with the identification of credit spreads applicable to the different categories of counterparts. These credit variables may be treated as analogous to market variables (typically interest rates) in order to quantify the overall market and credit exposure, both in the banking book and trading book. Following this approach it is possible to arrive at an integrated VAR for the calculation of the overall regulatory capital charges. More specifically, the Basle Committee should allow large and complex financial institutions to follow a more advanced approach, based on their own internal models, rather than only on internal ratings.
Do Multinationals Use Energy Relatively Efficiently in Malaysian Manufacturing? Additional Evidence for the Early 21st Century

This paper reexamines energy efficiency differentials between foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) and local plants in Malaysian manufacturing using data on medium-large plants from the industrial census for 2000 and sample surveys for 2001-2004. Both descriptive statistics and results of econometric estimation indicate that MNEs had a moderate tendency to use relatively little fuel, which was relatively dirty source of energy during this period in Malaysia. MNEs also had a weak tendency to have high electricity intensities as well as low total energy intensities. However, differences in energy intensities between MNEs and local plants were not very pervasive and varied depending on industry and estimation methodology. In short, these results reinforce previous ones, suggesting that both MNEs and local plants generally used energy with similar efficiency during this period in Malaysian manufacturing. The results also suggest that if the goal is to promote greater energy efficiency in Malaysia, there is no reason to discriminate among ownership groups.
Association Between Hearing Loss and Healthcare Expenditures in Older Adults

To the Editor: Hearing loss (HL), a chronic condition that affects nearly two-thirds of older adults in the United States,1 has been independently associated with cognitive decline,2greater number of hospitalizations,3depression,4 and poorer quality of life.5Whether hearing loss is also independently associated with higher medical care expenditures is unclear. We estimated the economic burden of HL in a nationally representative sample of adults aged 65 years or older.