Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Chapter 6 Risks for comorbidity in atopic children : an epidemiological study in general practice

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate both atopic and non-atopic comorbid symptoms and diseases in children with physician-diagnosed atopic disorders (atopic eczema, asthma and allergic rhinitis). Method: All children aged 0-18 years listed in a nationwide primary care database (NIVEL-PCD) with routinely collected health care data in 2014 were selected. Atopic children were matched on age and gender with non-atopic controls within the same general practice. A total of 404 ICPC codes were examined. Logistic regression analyses were performed to examine the associations between the presence of atopic disorders and (non-)atopic symptoms and diseases by calculating odds ratios (OR). Results: Having one of the atopic disorder significantly increased the risk of having other atopic-related symptoms, even if the child was not registered as having the related atopic disorder. Regarding non-atopic comorbidity, children with atopic eczema (n=15,530) were at significantly increased risk for (infectious) skin diseases (OR: 1.2-3.4). Airway symptoms or (infectious) diseases (OR: 2.1-10.3) were observed significantly more frequently in children with asthma (n=7,887). Children with allergic rhinitis (n=6,835) had a significantly distinctive risk of ear-nose-throat related symptoms and diseases (OR: 1.5-3.9). Neither age nor gender explained these increased risks. Conclusions: General practitioners are not always fully aware of relevant atopic and non-atopic comorbidity. In children known to have at least one atopic disorder, specific attention is required to avoid possible insufficient treatment and unnecessary loss of quality of life. 2 Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam
WIKI AS A CUSTOMER KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TOOL IN WEBSITES

The present research is conducted to show that organizations can use wiki to attract customers purchase intention inside the e-commerce context. Considering the relation between wiki and ecommerce for CRM, this research tries to explore the characteristics such as perceived risk, customer experience, knowledge sharing culture, trust and knowledge sharing in wiki tool impact on purchase intentions in the web site. By using multidimensional analysis, this study shows that choosing a suitable tool for hosting in the websites in order to gather essential knowledge from customers plays an important role in explaining certain customer online behavior. In particular, the researchers propose a model that explains wikis require a culture of collaboration and sharing in an online environment to achieve a winwin situation between customers and producers.
Heavy metal contents in Veronica species and soil from mountain areas in Serbia

This paper describes the relationships between the concentrations of selected trace elements in soil and their bioaccumulation in the aerial parts of three Veronica species (Plantaginaceae). Plant and soil samples were collected from three mountainous areas in Serbia, prepared by microwave-assisted acid digestion and analyzed by flame and flameless atomic absorption spectrometry. The total concentrations of Cu, Zn, Mn, Fe and Cr in the soil varied from 12.38 to 47.77, 62.78 to 138.00, 517.58 to 1675.78, 13574.22 to 35920.00 and 36.18 to 115.15 mg kg -1 , respectively, while those in the plants ranged from 6.04 to 12.8, 27.66 to 58.01, 25.38 to 89.25, 35.53 to 563.26 and 0.44 to 18.96 mg kg -1 , respectively. There were no significant differences in heavy metal concentra- tions between the tested Veronica species from the same location, indicating that their heavy metal uptake pattern was not species specific. In the case of Mn, despite its wide variation in the soil, the concentrations in the plant samples were uniform, which suggests the potential ability of the tested species to con- trol Mn uptake and/or its translocation to the upper plant parts. Additionally, the lowest concentrations of Cu were obtained in plant samples collected from soil with the highest Fe concentrations, indicating that Cu availability to plants might be reduced due to high Fe contents in soil solution.
A DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR MAINTAINABILITY OF AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

The present paper deals with the problem of the ergonomics of maintenance tasks in automotive industry pursuing the following aims: analysis of Human Modelling Software and their use in automotive task analysis; development of a design methodology (named EDIVE) for maintainability of the component parts of a car engine compartment in a virtual environment and, finally, the individuation of an optimal postural sequence to disassemble such components, taking into account human factors. In the paper the authors show how to integrate DMU tools and Digital Human Modelling software in order to individuate the optimal postural sequence of an operator that have to disassemble a component part of a car engine compartment.
T-RaMiSu: the Two-meter Radio Mini Survey - I. The Boötes Field

W. L. Williams, H. T. Intema, and H. J. A. Rottgering, 'T-RaMiSu: the Two-meter Radio Mini Survey: I. The Bootes Field', Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 549, A55, (2013). The version of record is available at DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220235. Published by EDP Sciences. © ESO 2012.
Australian retirees' preferences between consumption, government pension, bequest and housing

This paper model the financial preferences of Australian retirees with a life-cycle utility model, incorporating Australia’s age pension means testing, bequest motive and housing decision. The model has a semi-analytical solution and its parameters are calibrated to the ABS data of household expenditure survey and survey of income and housing. The calibrated model reasonably explains the financial behavior of surveyed households. JEL classification: D14, G11, G23.
EFFECT OF NON-BINDING BUDGETARY ANNOUNCEMENT, REPUTATION, ETHICS AND SELF - ESTEEM IN BUDGETARY SLACK

This study aims to reexamine the influence nonbinding budgetary announcement (NBA), reputation, ethics and self -esteem of the budgetary slack. The results of this study can be used by the company in controlling slack in the budget and can be generalized so that it can be used in science, especially the science of accounting for the occurrence of slack in a company. This study used an experimental method which each variable carried by several stages which have been designed by the researchers. To know nonbinding budgetary announcement made by the six stages. As for knowing the reputation, ethics, and self -esteem experiment is divided into seven stages. Participants of this study were students of the Graduate School of Economics and Business, University of Hasanuddin Makassar many as 46 people. The results of this study indicate the first hypothesis, nonbinding budgetary announcement adversely affect the budgetary slack. The second hypothesis the reputation of influence on budgetary slack; third hypothesis, ethical influence on budgetary slack and the fourth hypothesis, self-esteem negatively affect budgetary slack. This means that the entire research hypothesis is accepted.
Clinico-pathological findings of the 2011 outbreak of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in Tandahimba district, southern Tanzania

Although PPR outbreaks were reported in Northern Tanzania since 2008, there has been no description of the clinical or pathological manifestation of the disease, an important criterion in guiding veterinarians and farmers on proper recognition and diagnosis of the disease. A study was therefore conducted to investigate and describe clinical signs and pathological lesions associated with 2011 Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) outbreak in goats and sheep in Tandahimba district located in Southern Tanzania. The investigation involved taking history and conducting clinical examination of PPR suspected cases (25 goats and 3 sheep) in the study district which had neither a history of vaccination against PPR nor previous illness due to PPR. This work was complemented by collection of pathological samples and specimens for laboratory examination. A detailed post-mortem was performed on three sacrificed animals followed by collection of specimens including lungs, liver, spleen and lymph nodes for histopathological examination. Clinical samples from 30 animals which included swabs from ocular, nasal and mouth lesions were also collected for confirmation of PPR through detection of PPR ribonucleic acid using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Clinical examinations of the cases showed signs suggestive of PPR including severe depression, high fever (41C), anorexia, muco-pulurent nasal discharge, erosive and necrotic stomatitis, mild diarrhoea and skin nodules. Post mortem examination showed evidence of pneumonia including lung congestion and consolidation, increased thickness of inter-alveolar walls, moderate infiltration of inflammatory cells in bronchiolar subepithelial and perivascular layers. Overall 56.7% of the samples (n=30) tested were positive for PPR by RTPCR. This study has confirmed and described the presence of PPR in southern Tanzania. A more detailed study including other districts is recommended to provide more information regarding the magnitude and factors associated with PPR in Southern Tanzania.
A Pragmatic Approach to Teaching Model Based Systems Engineering: The PRZ-1

: Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is transforming how systems engineering is practiced. System modeling with SysML (the Systems Modeling Language) drives rigor and crispness into the formulation of system behavior, structure, and parametrics. The author has introduced MBSE into the Systems Architecture and Systems Engineering courses that are part of the MS Product Development (MPD) program at the University of Detroit Mercy. This presentation will discuss lessons learned over the course of several years, culminating in the capstone project from the Spring 2016 Systems Engineering course. In that course, students were required to model a polar exploration submarine, starting from a handful of system elements provided by the instructor. Over the course of the exercise, the students matured the model, increasing its detail and complexity through organic growth. The final outcome was a respectable fraction of the size of large, professionally executed efforts (such as the 30 Meter Telescope model still under development). The significant advantages in clarity, consistency, and overall integrity of a model-driven systems engineering effort will be highlighted; an emphasis will be placed on derived work products (tables, matrices, and derived properties) and their ability to provide relevant content to stakeholders.
NEIGHBOURHOOD DETECTION WITH ANALYTICAL TOOLS Identifying neighbourhoods from geospatial and transportation data though graph evaluation and learning algorithms

The increasing population size of cities makes the urban fabric ever more complex and more disintegrated into smaller areas, called neighbourhoods. This project applies methods from geoscience and software engineering to the process of identification of those neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods, by nature, are defined by connectivity, centrality and similarity. Transport and geospatial datasets are used to detect the characteristics of places. An unsupervised learning algorithm is then applied to sort places according to their characteristics and detect areas with similar make up: the neighbourhood. The attributes can be static like land use or space syntax attributes as well as dynamic like transportation patterns over the course of a day. An unsupervised learning algorithm called Self Organizing Map is applied to project this high dimensional space constituting of places and their attributes to a two dimensional space where proximity is similarity and patterns can be detected – the neighbourhoods. To summarize, the proposed approach yields interesting insights into the structure of the urban fabric generated by human movement, interactions and the built environment. The approach represents a quantitative approach to urban analysis. It reveals that the city is not a polychotomy of neighbourhoods but that neighbourhoods overlap and don’t have a sharp edge.
Effect of chlorine dioxide (Dutrion®) on growth performance, gut histomorphology and pathogenic microbial count of meat type birds.

Received: Revised: Accepted: June 23, 2014 August 01, 2014 January 08, 2015 The potential benefits of a water acidifying agent chlorine dioxide (Dutrion) were investigated on the production performance, ileal intestinal microflora and gut histomorphology at day-28. One hundred and sixty, day-old, Cobb-500 male broiler birds were randomly assigned to four treatments i.e. DW-0, DW-0.3, DW-0.4 and DW-0.5 that were replicated (n=4) with 10 birds/replicate. Birds in all groups were reared on floor pens in an open sided house and had ad libitum access to feed and water. DW-0 served as control and to DW-0.3, DW-0.4 and DW-0.5 was given 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5 ppm of chlorine dioxide in drinking water, respectively. Lower ileum tissue and digesta samples were collected and performance variables were noted. Chlorine dioxide significantly (P 0.05) was seen in relative liver and gizzard weight (%) among different treatments. It can be concluded from present findings that addition of chlorine dioxide (Dutrion) can serve as an effective tool to improve broiler performance by reducing the load of harmful pathogens and improving gut health of birds. ©2015 PVJ. All rights reserved
The Impact of Lean Practices on Value to Customer

Lean practices have been the focus of considerable research. Lean is associated with low cost production, consistent quality and the elimination of non-value added activities. This research evaluates the impact of six (6) lean practices, internally and externally focused, on product satisfaction in a variety of manufacturing settings. In keeping with Shah and Ward (2003), these internal and external lean practices are ‘bundled’ to evaluate the synergistic effects of the implementation of complimentary facets of lean techniques on product satisfaction. Product satisfaction is measured using the ‘value to customer’ scales developed by Tu et al. (2001). In this work, Tu et al. (2001) assess the degree to which customers are satisfi ed with an organization’s products. In addition to the overall model, the effects of fi rm size (sales dollars), inventory strategy (MTO, MTS) and process type (high volume vs. low volume) are investigated. Our fi ndings indicate that both internal and external lean practices are associated with increased product satisfaction, and that these relationships do not vary by contextual variables considered.
Klimawandel und Perspektiven der Landwirtschaft in der Metropolregion Hamburg

Die veranderten Klimabedingungen konnen der Landwirtschaft Chancen bieten, bergen aber auch Risiken. Dabei ist es zum einen stark regional bedingt, ob positive oder negative Auswirkungen uberwiegen. Zum anderen hangt es von den Anpassungskapazitaten der Landwirte an die neuen Bedingungen ab. Zusatzlich sind fur die Perspektiven der Landwirtschaft soziookonomische und politische Einflussfaktoren entscheidend. Deshalb werden Trends hinsichtlich des globalen Bevolkerungswachstums, der weltweiten und regionalen Entwicklung sowie des technischen Fortschritts aufgezeigt, die die Nachfrage- und Angebotsseite der landwirtschaftlichen Markte beeinflussen. Es folgt eine Vorstellung der politischen Rahmenbedingungen im Agrar-, Handels und Klimabereich, mit denen die Landwirtschaft konfrontiert ist. Abschliesend werden einige Schlussfolgerungen zu den Perspektiven der Landwirtschaft in der Metropolregion Hamburg gezogen.
The technology of superfluid helium

The technical properties of helium II ("superfluid" helium) are presented from the user point of view. Its applications to the cooling of superconducting devices, particularly in accelerators, are discussed in terms of heat transfer capability and limitations in conductive and convective modes. Large-capacity refrigeration techniques below 2 K are reviewed, as concerns thermodynamic cycles as well as process machinery. Examples drawn from existing or planned projects illustrate the presentation.
The 2006 International Arab Conference on Information Technology ( ACIT ' 2006 ) Mapping Between ISO 9126 on Software Product Quality Metrics and ISO 12207 on Software Life Cycle Processes

Nowadays, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is working on the next generation of the software product quality standards which will be referred to as Software Product Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE – ISO 25000 series). However, this series of standards will replace the current version of ISO 9126 International Standard which consists of inventories of proposed metrics to measure the quality of the internal, external, and in-use software product. For each of these metrics there is a cross-reference on where they could be applied (measured) during the ISO 12207 Software Life Cycle Processes and activities (SLCP). This paper provides a mapping between those two standards to highlights the weaknesses of these cross-references and proposes a number of suggestions to address them.
The Greek Debt Restructuring: An Autopsy

The Greek debt restructuring of 2012 stands out in the history of sovereign defaults. It achieved very large debt relief – over 50 per cent of 2012 GDP – with minimal financial disruption, using a combination of new legal techniques, exceptionally large cash incentives, and official sector pressure on key creditors. But it did so at a cost. The timing and design of the restructuring left money on the table from the perspective of Greece, created a large risk for European taxpayers, and set precedents – particularly in its very generous treatment of holdout creditors – that are likely to make future debt restructurings in Europe more difficult.
A CASE STUDY ON HABIT, MOTIVATION, AND PERCEPTION OF URBAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARD COMPUTER GAME

It has been widely accepted that people learn from playing computer games. The popularity of computer games has attracted a number of research initiatives on how computer games may be used for educational purposes. While there are a number of computer games widely available, computer games that incorporate education principles into its design are relatively rare. Therefore, developing computer games for educational settings is very challenging. Aside from complying with criteria which makes a computer game ‘good’, educational computer games should be educational and enjoyable. In designing an educational computer game, it is important to know key behavioral aspects of game players as a targeted group. This information is valuable in order to develop suitable preproduction concepts for computer games. This paper presents preliminary finding on habit, motivation, and perception of urban high school students toward computer game. Students were selected for this purpose from two high schools in Jakarta and Bandung. The survey results are valuable not only as far as developing a preproduction concept of educational computer game for urban teens is concerned, but also to provide some insight for parents and educators: playing computer game has no impact to relationship with their family, relationship with their peers, teen’s school report, and daily activities
Geodynamics of the Wadati-Benioff zone earthquakes: The 2004 Sumatra earthquake and other great earthquakes

The displacement of the Earth’s instantaneous rotation pole – observed at ASI of Matera, Italy – the seismic data (USGS) in the two days following the main shock, the high frequency P-wave radiation, the geomorphologic data, and the satellite data of uplift/subsidence of the coasts (IGG) converge toward a new interpretation of the Great Sumatran earthquake (TU=26 December 2004 - 00h 58m, Lat=3.3°N, Lon=95.8°E, H=10 km, M=9.3) based on the second conjugate – nearly vertical – CMT fault plane solution. In a non-double-couple treatment that considers non-negligible non-elastic contributions to the earthquake phenomena, only a nearly vertical fault can explain both high values of seismic moment and the ≈3.0 mas (≈10 cm) polhody displacement toward an azimuth exactly opposite to the epicentre azimuth. Case-histories of great earthquakes are then reviewed to highlight the overall analogies. The similarity of the vertical displacements shown by these earthquakes (Chile 1960, Alaska 1964, …) leads to a common interpretation necessitating resort to a prevailing uprising of lithospheric material. This interpretation is supported by the inspection of the irregularities of the hypocentre distribution along the Wadati-Benioff zones. Moreover, in the case of great South American earthquakes, a volcanic eruptions-earthquakes correlation is clearly recognisable. A thorough revision of the pure elastic rebound model of great earthquakes occurrence and a complete overcoming of the large scale subduction concept is then needed.
Real-Time Building Information Modeling (BIM) Synchronization Using Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Cloud Computing System

The online observation of a construction site and processes bears significant advantage to all business sector. BIM is the combination of a 3D model of the project and a project-planning program which improves the project planning model by up to 6D (Adding Time, Cost and Material Information dimensions to the model). RFID technology is an appropriate information synchronization tool between the real and virtual world of BIM. Also, the use of cloud storage and computing system, would bring about outstanding data access capabilities to the constructors as well as other project participants. The accurate prediction power that BIM brings to construction management and real-time status update, while utilizing the RFID technology, would greatly influence the efficiency of automated project management and post construction life-cycle maintenance. Meanwhile, cloud system will facilitate broad data transaction capabilities with the project. Hence, these integrations would enhance construction management by improving the data communication speed, real-time construction site control process and Human Resource Management as well. This paper introduces and evaluates a framework, which integrates Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for real-time, mobile construction-site monitoring through a virtual model (BIM) and cloud data sharing as well as for processing activities. A case study has been carried out in the construction site of a new dormitory in Eastern Mediterranean University to examine different feasibilities and limitations of the framework.
UNITED CEMENT COMPANY’S CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

This study seeks to examine Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Community Development (CD) - A case study of the United Cement Company (UNICEM) in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State-Nigeria. To achieve the objectives of this study, three (3) Null hypotheses were formulated on the bases of the three identified independent variables namely- provision of Educational facilities, provision of Health Services and provision of Water. The Dependent variable was Community Development. Some related literature was reviewed. The survey research design was adopted for the study. To generate data for the study, a 15- item questionnaire was structured, validated and administered to 150 respondents randomly selected from communities in the study area using simple random sampling technique. The generated data were analysed using the contingency Chi-square(X2) statistical technique. The analyses revealed that, the provision of Educational facilities, Health services and water by the company significantly influences the development of the host community. Based on the result, it was recommended that, the company should endeavour to provide Educational facilities, Health care services and portable water to the community to enhance the socio-economic wellbeing of the people. The host community should enjoy these resources from the company operating in their environment.