Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Justification Of Management Decisions On Assessing The State Of Economic Security Based On Financial Indicators

The aim of the study is a comprehensive assessment of the economic security of an enterprise foreign economic activity, taking into account the main financial indicators and financial results in order to make quality management decisions by enterprise management. An assessment based on criteria for maximizing marginal profit from foreign economic activity and minimizing the share of imports in the total revenue of an enterprise, which allows to quickly determine the level of economic security of foreign economic activity when considering these indicators in dynamics. This approach allows to reasonably make management decisions and form options for analyzing scenarios for achieving levels of economic security and a corresponding reaction of an enterprise management system to them. This technique was tested at industrial enterprises. Based on the analysis, a complex of scenarios for achieving levels of economic security of foreign economic activity and corresponding reaction options for an enterprise management system is proposed, which implementation allows an enterprise management to make rational management decisions and ensure a sufficient level of financial income. The presented methodology focuses on enterprises engaged in foreign economic operations, which is a certain limitation, however, from the perspective of the methodology and practical application of the proposed methodology for assessing the economic security level, the results are verifiable and can be used not only by Ukrainian enterprises, but also by other foreign enterprises-subjects of foreign economic activity. Based on this study, a methodology for assessing the level of economic security of an enterprise foreign economic activity is presented, which combines export and import components and takes into account the main financial results of enterprises. The main criteria of this technique is to maximize marginal profits from foreign economic activity and minimize the import dependence of the enterprise. This approach allows to quickly determine the level of economic security of an enterprise foreign economic activity and ensure the adoption of high-quality management decisions.
Prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Factors among Jordanians

Background and aims One of the most common causes of death worldwide is cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). This study evaluated the prevalence of CVDs risk factors (RFs) and their constellation electively among the Jordanian population and, assessing the most prevalent RF interplay with the rest of CVDs RFs as well as the impact of age and gender dimorphism on the frequencies of coexistence of multiple CVDs risk factors (RFs) among the Jordanian population. Methods and results In this observational multicenter study, a total of 1449 subjects were enrolled. The mean age (±SD) was 44.35 ± 14.46 years; 796 (54.9%) of them were females and 801 (55.28%) of the whole study pool had no family history of premature CVDs. Only 5.9% of the population did not have any of these RFs. The prevalence of CVDs MRFs within-affected subjects was as follows: there were 1081 (74.6%) subjects with overall dyslipidemia, 471 (32.51%) with obesity, 456 (31.47%) were smokers, and at the first diagnostic encounter 541 (37.47%) were with elevated blood pressure and, 310 (21.51%) were with elevated random blood sugar. The coexistence of ≥ two, ≥ three and, ≥ four RFs was observed in 75.7%, 44.4%, and 21.4% of the subjects, respectively. The constellation of multiple RFs was more frequent in men than that in women, where the presence of ≥ two RFs for men was at 86.18% vs. 67.09% for women. Similarly, the appearance of multiple RFs increases with age, starting from the existence of ≥ three, and four RFs respectively. Most notably the clustering of ≥ five RFs in the age group of 45–59 years showed the greatest frequency vs. any other age group. Conclusions CVDs risk factors (RFs) and clusters of them are extremely prevalent in the Jordanian population. Overall dyslipidemia is the most prevalent MRF and the most favors clustering with other CVDs RFs. Combined two RFs had the highest proportional frequency between all six RFs clusters. The constellation of at least two, three, and four CVDs RFs presented at almost three-fourth, half, and around one-fourth; respectively, Middle-aged males presented significantly higher rates of ≥ five RFs occurrences than females.
Body Mass Index and Clinical Outcomes in Egyptian Women with Breast Cancer: A Multi-institutional Study

Purpose: The aim of this work was to evaluate the association between body mass index (BMI) and clinical outcomes among Egyptian female breast cancer patients. Methods: We reviewed the file registry of 629 patients with operable breast cancer regarding age, sex, height, weight, menopausal status, family history of breast cancer, tumor features, TNM arrangement and treatment during the period from January 2006 to December 2012. In our studies, obesity was defined as a BMI of ≥30 kg/m2. The primary objective was to estimate the Original Research Article Shaaban et al.; JCTI, 10(3): 10-17, 2020; Article no.JCTI. 60250 11 effect of body mass index on the clinical outcomes of breast cancer patients including DFS and OAS. Results: A total of 629 patients with a mean age of 51.1 years. Stage III and Stage II presented 52% and 46.6% respectively. Overweight and obese patients represent 60.5% of all patient population. There was no association between tumor stage, grade or menopausal status and BMI. Patients with normal BMI showed a median survival of 95.3 months [CI: 54.6,136.06]. This was significantly higher than overweight and obese patients (p = 0.001). Nearly one-third of patients (29.1%) with normal BMI experienced disease relapse compared to 32.8% for overweight and obese patients, however, this was statistically not significant (0.097). Conclusion: According to the results of this retrospective study, increased BMI may be associated with less favorable prognosis of breast cancer patients.
Volume 12 Issue 3 0 9 / 2 0 1 4 tamarajournal . com Affirmation and Creation – How to lead ethically

Intuition This paper proposes an alternative approach towards ethical leadership. Recent research tells us that socioeconomic and cultural differences affect moral intuition, making it difficult to locate a guiding organizational principle. Nevertheless, in this paper I attempt to open an alternative path towards an ethics that might serve as a guide for leaders – especially leaders who are leading a highly professionalized workforce. Using the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño and the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as points of reference, I develop an ethical form of leadership that is based on a continuous ‘poetic’ dialogue between creation and affirmation. The nature of this dialogue requires a leadership approach that plays both a courageous and imaginative role in liberating its workforce. Last, I develop a frame which provides the constituent principles of leading in the direction of an ethical organization.
Theoretical Aspects of Modern Qualitative Methods for Crisis Management

Scientists agree on necessity to predict and timely detect a company crisis that is an integral part of business nowadays. The early identification of a company financial failure due to rapidly changing social, economic and environmental conditions is a topic of growing importance. The sooner a potential financial failure can be identified, the more effective and efficient the anti-crisis measures could be implemented. If a company financial failure could be predicted accurately, it might be possible for the business to be restructured, thus avoiding the failure. This would benefit the owners, shareholders, employees, creditors, and others interested alike. The modern economic literature provides varied crisis diagnosis methods, mostly based on an analysis of key financial ratios. Less attention is paid to qualitative methods. Therefore, the present research aims to examine modern qualitative methods for company crisis diagnosis (prediction) in crisis management theory. The research used the theoretical findings of foreign scientists and Internet resources. The research employed the following methods: analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, the monographic method, document analysis and the graphic method. The paper provides definitions of main terms related to company failure prediction and a description of general qualitative models of company financial failure (bankruptcy) prediction.
Factors Affecting Whistleblowing Intention: Case Study on the Implementation of Village Funds

This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the individual's intention to do whistle blowing. This study uses a questionnaire to gather the information needed. The variables used in this study are Subjective Norms, Attitudes Towards Behavior, Perceptions About Behavioral Control, Locus of Control, and Reward as independent variables and Intentions as dependent variables. The total samples in this study were 112 samples and using random sampling techniques in data collection. Respondents in this study were the Village Consultative Body in 7 Sub-districts in South Lampung District. Data were analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS). The Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique was chosen because this tool is widely used to estimate the path model with a small sample size [1] then it is used for a very complex model (consisting of many latent variables and manifests) without problems [2]. The results of this study indicate that the subjective norm, attitudes toward behavior and the reward variable does not affect the individual's intention to do whistle blowing. Then, the behavioral control and locus of control variables indicate that the two variables affect the individual's intention to do whistleblowing.
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D Concentration in Children with Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

Background: Vitamin D plays a critical role in the human body. Its deficiency had been proposed to play a role in lower respiratory tract infections [LRTIs], which responsible for 18% of deaths in young children. Aim of the work: The purpose of this study was to assess vitamin D concentrations in children with lower respiratory tract infections. Patients and Methods:After obtaining approval of the ethics committee, a prospective case control study was conducted in pediatric department, Damietta Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University Hospital on children with lower respiratory tract infections and comparing 25-hydroxyvitamin D level between them and normal matched control from December 2018 to September 2019 include 140 children, Group A: 70 cases children had lower respiratory tract infections [LRTIs] either isolated pneumonia or associated with sepsis. Group B: matched with 70 healthy subjects. Results: There was significant reduction of vitamin D among study group children when compared to control group [13.68±5.50 s 40.64±4.76 ng/dl respectively]. There was no significant association between type of infection and vitamin D levels. However, all children with bronchitis had sufficient vitamin D levels. There were vitamin D-deficiency in 64.3% while No one was deficient vitamin D among control group. Conclusion: Children with acute lower respiratory tract infection had significant reduction in vitamin D levels. The reduction had no significant association with the type of infection.
Determination of the biodegradability of chitosan utilizing the most probable number technique

The present work aimed to evaluate the degradability of the chitosan polymer by soil microorganisms. This evaluation was accomplished using the Most Probable Number (MPN) method by plating in drops so that soil microorganisms capable of degrading the polymeric material could be quantified. Soil samples diluted in three specific culture media for each type of microorganism were plated – bacteria, fungi and actinobacteria – and they were maintained at 28°C for seven days to determine the growth rate of fungi and actinobacteria, and for 48 hours for the development of bacteria. Significant differences in the MPN of actinobacteria relative to the other groups analyzed were observed. Thus, the method used was effective for determining the degradability of the chitosan biopolymer when observing the development of microorganisms subjected to the replacement of the carbon source by the addition of 2% w v of the chitosan biopolymer to the culture medium. The formation of clear regions around the microbial colonies was a strong indicator of biodegradation.
OUTCOME OF ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION WITH ACTIVE DISEASE IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

Introduction : Despite multiple lines of chemotherapy, some patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) can not achieve remission. The prognosis of these patients is quite poor and they should be evaluated for clinical trials, otherwise myeloablative conditioning regimens followed by allogeneic stem cell transplantation (Allo-SCT) should be performed to over come the active disease which is resistant to conventional doses and as it is the only curative option. Method : In this study, we evaluated the outcome of AML patients who underwent Allo-SCT with active disease in our center retrospectively. Results : A total of 161 AML patients underwent Allo-SCT between December 2009 and November 2018 at our center. 130 of them underwent Allo-SCT in complete remission while 31 of 161 had to undergo Allo-SCT with active disease due to refractoriness to salvage therapies. The median overall survival (OS) was7.9±2.8 months. 6-month OS was 25% and 1-year OS was only 6%. Progression-free survival (PFS) was 3.53±1.1 months. The transplant-related mortality rate was12.8%. Conclusion : OS and PFS are short in patients who undergo Allo-SCT with active diseases on oveltreatment approaches and targeted therapies should be developed to overcome active disease that are refractory to conventional chemotherapies.
CHARACTERIZATION OF FIVE MARINE CYANOBACTERIAL SPECIES WITH RESPECT TO THEIR pH AND SALINITY REQUIREMENTS

Cyanobacteria a rich source for many useful natural products are used as feed and fertilizer. Optimum condition for their mass culture was evaluated. Here we characterize five marine cyanobacterial species isolated from different niches at Buleji, a rocky shore near Karachi and describe their pH and salinity requirements. Growth rates were determined at three pH values (6.5, 7.4 & 8.0) and four salinity values (5, 10, 20 & 40‰). According to both chlorophyll and protein estimations all cyanobacterial species appear to have preferred near neutral to alkaline pH. Although all cyanobactrial species were able to grow at all salinities, the best growth was observed at a particular salinity. Four out of five isolates of cyanobacteria were able to grow under nitrogenlimited conditions and therefore, may be considered as putative nitrogen fixing species.
Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of the Endemic Disjunct Species, Helenium virginicum (Asteraceae)

Abstract Helenium virginicum is a narrowly endemic federally protected species, disjunct between Virginia and Missouri. To study the magnitude and distribution of genetic diversity within this species, we determined ISSR fingerprints and cpDNA haplotypes of plants in nine Virginia and eight Missouri populations. We found high ISSR diversity at the species level, with higher diversity in Virginia than Missouri. Additionally, moderately low diversity at the population level and high population structure suggests low gene flow among populations. Mean divergence between Virginia and Missouri populations was greater than between populations in either region. Missouri populations were more structured than Virginia populations. We found six distinct cpDNA haplotypes distributed among H. virginicum populations, with one found in both regions, two only in Virginia, and three only in Missouri. High genetic divergence among populations and between regions, the demographic asynchrony of populations, and self-incompatibility of the species suggest that clusters of populations in Missouri and Virginia be protected. These data will assist federal and state agencies deciding whether to delist and how to manage this species.
Heteroscedastic Bayesian Optimisation for Stochastic Model Predictive Control

Model predictive control (MPC) has been successful in applications involving the control of complex physical systems. This class of controllers leverages the information provided by an approximate model of the system's dynamics to simulate the effect of control actions. MPC methods also present a few hyper-parameters which may require a relatively expensive tuning process by demanding interactions with the physical system. Therefore, we investigate fine-tuning MPC methods in the context of stochastic MPC, which presents extra challenges due to the randomness of the controller's actions. In these scenarios, performance outcomes present noise, which is not homogeneous across the domain of possible hyper-parameter settings, but which varies in an input-dependent way. To address these issues, we propose a Bayesian optimisation framework that accounts for heteroscedastic noise to tune hyper-parameters in control problems. Empirical results on benchmark continuous control tasks and a physical robot support the proposed framework's suitability relative to baselines, which do not take heteroscedasticity into account.
High energy neutrino and gamma-ray emission in the jets of the microquasar M33 X-7

In this work, after testing the reliability of our algorithms through numerical simulations on the well-studied SS 433 Galactic microquasar, we focus on neutrino and $\gamma$-ray emissions from the extragalactic M33 X-7 system. This is a recently discovered X-ray binary system located in the neighbouring galaxy Messier 33 which has not yet been modelled in detail. The neutrino and $\gamma$-ray energy spectra, produced from the magnetized astrophysical jet of M33 X-7, in the context of our method are assumed to originate from the decay (and scattering) processes taking place among the secondary particles produced assuming that, first, hot (relativistic) protons of the jet scatter on thermal ones (p-p interaction mechanism).
FSD50K: An Open Dataset of Human-Labeled Sound Events

Most existing datasets for sound event recognition (SER) are relatively small and/or domain-specific, with the exception of AudioSet, based on over 2 M tracks from YouTube videos and encompassing over 500 sound classes. However, AudioSet is not an open dataset as its official release consists of pre-computed audio features. Downloading the original audio tracks can be problematic due to YouTube videos gradually disappearing and usage rights issues. To provide an alternative benchmark dataset and thus foster SER research, we introduce FSD50K, an open dataset containing over 51 k audio clips totalling over 100 h of audio manually labeled using 200 classes drawn from the AudioSet Ontology. The audio clips are licensed under Creative Commons licenses, making the dataset freely distributable (including waveforms). We provide a detailed description of the FSD50K creation process, tailored to the particularities of Freesound data, including challenges encountered and solutions adopted. We include a comprehensive dataset characterization along with discussion of limitations and key factors to allow its audio-informed usage. Finally, we conduct sound event classification experiments to provide baseline systems as well as insight on the main factors to consider when splitting Freesound audio data for SER. Our goal is to develop a dataset to be widely adopted by the community as a new open benchmark for SER research.
A new high-precision strong lensing model of the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1−2403

We present a new high-precision parametric strong lensing model of the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403, at z=0.396, which takes advantage of the MUSE Deep Lensed Field (MDLF, Vanzella et al. 2020b), with 17.1h integration in the North-East region of the cluster, and Hubble Frontier Fields data. We spectroscopically identify 182 multiple images from 48 background sources at 0.9<z<6.2, and 171 cluster member galaxies. Several multiple images are associated to individual clumps in multiply lensed resolved sources. By defining a new metric, which is sensitive to the gradients of the deflection field, we show that we can accurately reproduce the positions of these star-forming knots despite their vicinity to the model critical lines. The high signal-to-noise spectra of the MDLF enables the measurement of the internal velocity dispersion of 64 cluster galaxies, down to m(F160W)=22. This allows us to independently estimate the contribution of the subhalo mass component of the lens model from the measured Faber-Jackson scaling relation. Our best reference model, which represents a significant step forward compared to our previous analyses, is selected from a comparative study of different mass parametrizations. The r.m.s. displacement between the observed and model-predicted image positions is only 0.40", 33% smaller than in all previous models. The mass model appears to be particularly well constrained in the MDLF region. We characterize the robustness of the magnification map at varying distances from the model critical lines and the total projected mass profile of the cluster.
Helicity in the large-scale Galactic magnetic field

We search for observational signatures of magnetic helicity in data from all-sky radio polarization surveys of the Milky Way Galaxy. Such a detection would help confirm the dynamo origin of the field and may provide new observational constraints for its shape. We compare our observational results to simulated observations for both a simple helical field, and for a more complex field that comes from a solution to the dynamo equation. Our simulated observations show that the large-scale helicity of a magnetic field is reflected in the large-scale structure of the fractional polarization derived from the observed synchrotron radiation and Faraday depth of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission. Comparing the models with the observations provides evidence for the presence of a quadrupolar magnetic field with a vertical component that is pointing away from the observer in both hemispheres of the Milky Way Galaxy. Since there is no reason to believe that the Galactic magnetic field is unusual when compared to other galaxies, this result provides further support for the dynamo origin of large-scale magnetic fields in galaxies.
Spurious lung perfusion ventilation defect on planar ventilation-perfusion scan detected by SPECT imaging

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a preventable cause of morbidity and mortality which needs prompt recognition. Ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) scan is a well-established diagnostic test for evaluation of suspected PE. We report a 32-year-old woman with history of rheumatologic disease and acute dyspnea, who was referred for V/Q scintigraphy. The planar images revealed multiple mismatched defects throughout both lungs. SPECT images showed that only one of the defects was real, the others were caused by patient’s elevated right arm. Our case showed a V/Q pitfall with emphasis on importance of SPECT imaging in V/Q scintigraphy.