Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multiple myeloma and cardiovascular risk (a literature review)

Multiple myeloma is a plasma cell clonal malignancy that accounts for 10 % of hematological cancers. It predominantly affects elderly people; median age at diagnosis is 70 years. Consequently, many patients with MM have cardiovascular comorbidities or risk factors. MM can cause cardiac comorbidities such as cardiomyopathy and heart failure caused by cardiac amyloidosis and/or anemia. Heart dysfunction occuring after cytostatic drugs and monoclonal antibodies intake may act as a limiting factor in multiple myeloma treatment. Side effects of chemotherapy include hypotension, hypertension, arrhythmias, conduction disturbances, pericarditis, thromboembolic events, heart failure, death. Advances in pharmacotherapy for MM, such as the introduction of immunomodulators, proteasome inhibitors, and monoclonal antibodies, have dramatically improved life expectancy, but new agent classes are associated with adverse effects, including cardiovascular events. The risk of cardiotoxicity may be increased by some factors that include drug exposure, age, history of heart diseases, arterial hypertension, drug combination, previous radiotherapy or chemotherapy. However, with careful risk assessment, monitoring, and prophylactic therapy, many of these cardiovascular complications can be managed or treated successfully. It is important to detect cardiovascular toxicity before clinical signs of heart and vessel disturbance appear. The role of markers in elicitation of cardiovascular events risk group is still uncertain. Early definition of risk factors for prognosis of cardiovascular events appearing after polychemotherapy of multiple myeloma is an important and yet unsolved problem.
THE INFLUENCE OF PERCEIVED AUTHENTICITY TOWARDS PURCHASE INTENTION FROM THE RESTAURANT IMAGE AND POSITIVE EMOTION IN ZANGRAN DI CAFÉ IN SURABAYA

The growth of business in food & beverage makes the effort in this industry turn out to be more strictly competitive. Ice cream becomes one of the products which mayinterest new entrepreneurs in food & beverage. The newcomers put much effort tocreate the authenticity and difference from others in order to seize the attention of icecream lovers from the prior merchants. This research aims at investigating theinfluence of perceived authenticity towards people’s purchase intention from therestaurant image and positive emotion in Zangrandi Cafe on Yos Sudarso Street,Surabaya. The research took 150 customers as the samples who fulfilled therequirements such as not less than 17 years old, having tasted the ice cream inZangrandi Cafe on Yos Sudarso Street, Surabaya, having tried the ice cream inZangrandi Cafe on Yos Sudarso Street, Surabaya once in the last 3 months at least.The data gathering method used in this research is purposive sampling. Meanwhile,Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is employed as a data analyzing technique.The results show that (1) Perceived Authenticity positively and significantly bringsinfluence towards Restaurant Image, (2) Perceived Authenticity positively andsignificantly brings influence towards Positive Emotion, (3) Restaurant Imagepositively and significantly brings influence towards Positive Emotion, (4) RestaurantImage positively and significantly brings influence towards Purchase Intention, (5)Positive Emotion positively and significantly brings influence towards PurchaseIntention, (6) also Perceived Authenticity positively and significantly brings influencetowards Purchase Intention.
The prospect of using concurrent engineering for enhancing supply chain efficiency and reducing costs in the hospitality sector

The research aims to show the role of concurrent engineering in enhancing supply chain efficiency and reducing its costs. The Baghdad Tourism hotel suffers from many problems, including inappropriate pricing and poor quality of services that is rendered to customers. There are many tourist services provided efficiently by competitors in the hospitality sector to the customer. This factor has led customers to go to other rival companies, decreasing the revenues and leading to the loss of any competitive advantage. Supply chain costs rises lead to higher total tourism service costs. The research uses a statistical questionnaire on (60) respondents in the company leading to hypothesis testing by a statistical program (SPSS). Findings significantly showed that costs of supply chain activities can be reduced if services rendered are carried out concurrently by eliminating similar activities. Concurrent engineering is a tool which enhances supply chain capabilities by reducing the costs and increasing the revenues. The statistical analysis showed that the general average of research variables in which the calculated value of (T) amounted to (6.786) which is greater than the tabled value of (T) amounted to (1.671) with a degree of freedom (59) and a significant level (5%). This led the researchers to accept the research hypothesis. This study shows the concepts of concurrent engineering and supply chain can be integrated. Many of the previous studies refer to the study of concurrent engineering or supply chain separately, thus this is somewhat unique. The research presents important recommendations represented by the need to use the technique of concurrent engineering to reduce the supply chain costs such as purchasing, transportation, storage and quality costs. These recommendations may enhance the company's future performance.
Raman spectra of silica gel prepared from triethoxysilane and tetraethoxysilane by the sol-gel method

The silica gels derived from triethoxysilane and tetraethoxysilane were studied by Raman spectroscopy. The vibrational band at 492cm-1, ordinally labeled D1, was shifted to 506cm-1 with the introduction of Si-H groups into the silica network. This suggests that this band is ascribable to the symmetric stretch oxygen vibration of three oxygen atoms connected to a silicon atom with a terminal group, as proposed by Mulder and Damen for fluorine-doped silica (D0) [C. A. M. Mulder and A. A. J. M. Damen, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 93, 387-394 (1987)]. However, a simple harmonic oscillator model, which Mulder and Damen successfully ap plied for fluorine-doped silica, does not explain the observed vibrational frequency. Judging from the struc tural similarity between gels derived from triethoxymethylsilane composed of four-membered siloxane rings and triethoxysilane, we consider that four-membered siloxane rings are more plausible than three oxygen atoms connected to a silicon atom with a terminal Si-H as the origin of the Raman band at 506cm-1 of gels derived from triethoxysilane.
Study on Corporate Culture & Job Satisfaction of Airlines ' Flight Attendants 허명선

In this study, what effects corporate culture of airlines’ flight attendants has on job satisfaction was analyzed and the following results were derived. First, it showed that flight attendants of airlines feel job satisfaction with the ability of handling works by themselves before supervisors order something, with the faith of supervisors that subordinates will be able to work well, and with being able to talk about difficulties of the company open-minded. Second, flight attendants inairlines showed different levels of recognition about corporate culture based on age, married or not, position and how long they have worked in the company. Especially, it showed a big difference by their positions. Third, looking into the effect demographical characters have on job satisfaction, it indicated that the higher the positions were, the higher job satisfaction was, and especially, compared that job satisfaction of flight attendants having 4-7 years’ careers is low, that of the flight attendantsmore than 8 years is high.
Forage Quality of Salsola turcomanica (Litv) in Semi-arid Region of Gomishan, Golestan Province, Iran

The information about the forage quality of rangeland species is essential to supply a reasonable diet to livestock and determine thestocking rate and grazing time on rangelands. Salsola turcomanica is one of the important species of semi-arid rangelands in the Western part of Golestan province, Iran. The present study was conducted to provide information about the nutritive value of S.turcomanica at different growth stages in 2019. Plant samples (with three replications) were randomly collected in four growth stages (vegetative stage, early flowering, late flowering and seed maturity) from Gomishan rangelands during the summer and autumn 2019. Seven quality indices, including Acid Detergent Fiber (ADF), Crude Protein (CP), Dry Matter Digestibility (DMD), Metabolizable Energy (ME), Digestible Energy (DE), Total Digestible Nutrient (TDN) and Ash content (Ash) were analyzed. Data analysis was performed using One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) method and mean comparisons were done by Duncan test. The results demonstrated that there are significant differences among phenological stages for all the traits (p<0.05). The results demonstrated that the content of CP (from 25.66% to 8.33%), DMD (from 84.45% to 56.31%), ME (from 12.35 to 7.57 MJ/Kg), Ash (from 40.03% to 35.60 %), DE (from 36.17 to 24.12 Mcal/Kg) and TDN (from 82.55% to 53.41%) were decreased by the progress of growth stages. Regarding its growth seasons and high values of CP, ME and DMD in all phenological stages, it is suggested that this species can have aprominent place in the grazing livestock diet in semi-arid rangelands.
Effects of butylphthalide combined with Naofukang on cognitive function and the expression of serum neurotrophic factor in patients with vascular dementia

Objective: This study aimd to determine the effect of butylphthalide combined with Naofukang on cognitive function and serum neurotrophic factor level in patients with vascular dementia. Methods: A total of 172 patients with vascular dementia were randomly enrolled and equally divided into an observation group and a control group. Patients in the control group received Naofukang orally besides routine treatment, while the observation group was treated with Butylphthalide Soft Capsules in addition to Naofukang for 12 weeks. Simple Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Clinical Dementia Degree Scale (CDR) were used to assess cognitive function. Activity of Daily Life Scale (ADL) and Barthel Index were used to evaluate the self-care ability of patients. Adverse drug reactions were recorded while serum neurotrophic factor (BDNF) level was detected by ELISA. Results: The therapeutic effect of the observation group (86.05%) was significantly higher than that of the control group (70.93%) (P<0.05). MMSE and CDR scores showed no significant difference between two groups before treatment (P>0.05). After treatment, the MMSE score in observation group was significantly increased and the CDR score was statistically reduced compared to those in the control group (P<0.05). In addition, MMSE scores were significantly elevated and CDR scores were markedly decreased after treatment (P<0.05). Butylphthalide combined with Naofukang significantly improved the Barthel index score, whereas it markedly decreased the ADL score compared to single use of Naofukang (P<0.05). After treatment, serum BDNF level was significantly increased in both groups and it was further up regulated in the observation group compared to control group (P<0.05). Adverse reaction rates showed no significant difference between the two groups (P>0.05). Conclusion: Butylphthalide combined with Naofukang can improve cognitive function and patients’ self-care ability, which maybe implicated to the changes in BDNF levels.
Intelligent Libyan Banknote Recognition System

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: This article presents two robust and efficient systems, they are based on the convolutional neural networks and the generative adversarial networks. Each one is used as a classifier to recognize the Libyan banknotes in effective way. The second system is used to generate artificial Libyan banknotes. The proposed systems were applied on three datasets using the same settings to have actual comparison. The first one was created by traditional methods involved 310 scanned images of real Libyan banknotes. While the second was generated by the second system based on the generative adversarial networks producing 540 images of Libyan banknotes. Each Dataset is divided into two divisions, one for training and the other for test. In the third dataset, some images from other banknotes were added to the test division of the second dataset. The two systems begin with extracting robust features from Libyan banknotes, and then comes the deep learning stage to create an intelligent classification. In addition to, the second system aims to have an excellent recognition of Libyan banknotes and to reach the result that the trained system cannot distinguish between the real images and the generated images. This system shows an excellent classification of the test data that are not used for the training data. The second system was designed to detect fake banknotes and applied on the dataset 3 to detect counterfeiting. From the experimental results, the obtained average accuracies for the two systems to classify the Libyan banknotes are 88.24% and 100% in the first two datasets respectively and 99.26% accuracy for the strange banknotes in the third dataset. The designed systems are effective and less time consuming which makes them suitable for real-time applications.
Minimally invasive repair of acute Achilles tendon injury: description of technique and evaluation of outcomes

Objective: Describe a minimally invasive surgical technique for acute repair of Achilles tendon injuries, and evaluate outcomes. Methods: Nine subjects with primary Achilles tendon injury who underwent the minimally invasive repair technique between July and October 2018 were assessed. All subjects were followed up, and the SF-36 quality of life questionnaire was applied after the first postoperative year to evaluate treatment outcomes. Results: The participants had average scores greater than 90 points in the SF-36 questionnaire, with widespread treatment adherence. Only one subject had an infectious complication in the postoperative period. Conclusion: The technique described for acute Achilles tendon repair is simple, uses basic materials, is a low-cost method and, in this series, produced good clinical outcomes measured by the SF-36 Questionnaire. Level of Evidence IV; Therapeutic Study; Case Series.
Convertible bonds and bank risk-taking

We study how contingent capital that converts in equity ahead of default affects bank risk-shifting. Going concern conversion restores equity value in highly levered states, thus reducing heightened risk incentives. In contrast, conversion at default for traditional bail-inable debt has no effect on endogenous risk. The main beneficial effect comes from reduced leverage at conversion. In contrast to traditional convertible debt, equity dilution under going concern conversion has the opposite effect. The negative effect of dilution is tempered by any value transfer at conversion. We find that CoCo capital may be less risky than bail-inable debt when lower priority is compensated by lower endogenous risk, which is beneficial as a lower bond yield improves incentives. The risk reduction effect of CoCo debt depends critically on the informativeness of the trigger, but is always inferior to pure equity.
Nexus between Economic Growth, Investment, and Islamic Banking Development: The Case of Dual Banking System

Received: 29 September 2020 Accepted: 02 December 2020 Abstract. This research aims to study the impact that banking development attributed to Islamic banks is instigating on the economic growth and domestic investment in a dataset consisting of 20 countries having Islamic and conventional banks operating side by side over the period 1995 to 2014, using the "two-step system GMM" technique. Furthermore, it also inspects the difference in the impact that Islamic banking development is asserting on economic activity as compared to the impact attributed to conventional banking development using four measures of banking sector development namely, depth of financial intermediation, size of financial intermediation, credit to the private sector, and the ratio of assets of banks to the total banking assets. Our findings suggest that Islamic banks promote economic growth and domestic investment by increasing the depth and size of their intermediation, and by extending more credit to the private sector. Conventional banking development also stimulates economic growth and domestic investment by increasing its assets as a percentage of total banking assets. Islamic banking has a more meaningful impact on economic activity as its transactions are based on physical assets and linked to the real economy. Sharı̄‘ah promotes social justice and equity and prohibits them from undertaking harmful products and activities.
Assessment of synthesis methods of SiO2 produced from rice husk and its main physicochemical characteristics

Extraction of silica from rice husk is an emerging trend in the current research field. Large amount of rice husk (RH) are treated as waste and disposed of at the landfill site. These waste materials can also cause fire, which may lead to severe environmental pollutions. The airborne particles produced from dust may induce respiratory disease to human beings. The burning of rice husk results in the formation of rice husk ash (RHA) with major SiO2 content with 10 to 20% of carbon and organic components depending on the burning conditions, the furnace type, the rice variety, the climate and the geographical area. Moreover, the commonly used silica precursor like tetraethoxysilane is more expensive, and hence rice husk ash(RHA) and other waste sources having silica are used as an alternative. Acid leaching of the rice husk can carried out to remove soluble elemental impurities and hence it increases the purity of the silica content. The organic compounds in rice husk and other waste materials can be decomposed under burning conditions. In recent years, environmental demand and sustainable development have become increasingly important. It is important to study and utilize RH biowaste, and convert RHs into valued materials. This is the focus of this research. This paper article will be methods of synthesis SiO2 from rice husk and its physical-chemical characteristics
Impact of Work Overload and Fear of Negative Evaluation on Employees Performance: Analyzing the Role of Frustration at Work Place

The study focused on the most critical issues like work overload and the fear of negative evaluation, and here we measured the impact of work overload and the fear of negative evaluation in addition resultantly occur the role of frustration on employees' performance in Commercial Banks of Islamabad, Pakistan. An online and by hand floated questionnaires were distributed to the employees to obtain feedback. The target population for this study were Banks' managerial and administrative employees. Based on the convenience sampling design, 240 employees from 35 banks were approached. 199 completely filled questionnaires were received out of 240 employees. The collected data was analyzed using Smart Partial Least Squares (PLS) Path Modelling Method and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 for analysis and the reliability test, for all items of each scale and satisfactory results were obtained. Results show that work overloads negatively influence employee performance. Similarly, fear of negative evaluation also creates an adverse impact on performance.
A primer and discussion on DNA-based microbiome data and related bioinformatics analyses

The past decade has seen an eruption of interest in profiling microbiomes through DNA sequencing. The resulting investigations have revealed myriad insights and attracted an influx of researchers to the research area. Many newcomers are in need of primers on the fundamentals of microbiome sequencing data types and the methods used to analyze them. Accordingly, here we aim to provide a detailed, but accessible, introduction to these topics. We first present the background on marker-gene and shotgun metagenomics sequencing and then discuss unique characteristics of microbiome data in general. We highlight several important caveats resulting from these characteristics that should be appreciated when analyzing these data. We then introduce the many-faceted concept of microbial functions and several controversies in this area. One controversy in particular is regarding whether metagenome prediction methods (i.e. based on marker gene sequences) are sufficiently accurate to ensure reliable biological inferences. We next highlight several underappreciated developments regarding the integration of taxonomic and functional data types. This is a highly pertinent topic because although these data types are inherently connected, they are often analyzed independently and primarily only linked anecdotally in the literature. We close by providing our perspective on this topic in addition to the issue of reproducibility in microbiome research, which are both crucial data analysis challenges facing microbiome researchers.
Role of IgD in prevention and treatment of SARS CoV-2 infection “The Unknown Soldier"

COVID-19 presents varied clinical features, ranging from asymptomatic, mild, to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). People of any age can be infected by the novel coronavirus but some people are at more risk than others of becoming seriously ill with COVID-19. Older people, and people with pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, and heart disease) appear to be more vulnerable developing severe or even lethal illness. Children can be infected with SARS-CoV-2, and become ill with COVID-19. However, they appear to be less susceptible to infection than adults and their symptoms are generally milder. Immunoglobulin D (IgD) has remained an enigmatic antibody class since its discovery more than 50 years ago. The function of secreted IgD has been a longstanding puzzle in immunology. In this pandemic, it is the proper time to rediscover its role and find additional therapy to vaccine. In this article I will review IgD discovery, its role in immunity, its concentration in some groups and their susceptibility to infection with COVID 19.
A Compact 4-Port 2-Element MIMO Antenna for 5G Applications

: In this paper, a compact, low-profile four-port, two-element antenna for the 5G Internet of Things (IoT) and handheld applications is presented. A two-PIFA antenna system for diversity/MIMO applications is designed with a narrow inter-PIFA spacing of only 3 mm (less than 0.024 wavelength). The antenna structure contains two planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) elements having the same shapes. Each antenna element has two feeding plates placed at the right angle to each other to make them cross-polarized for the exploitation of polarization diversity, whereas spatial diversity is employed by positioning two antennas diagonally on opposite sides of the antenna structure. For reducing mutual coupling, the etching of rectangular slots on each side of the ground plane beneath the top plate of each element has been done to stop the flow of current between two ports of the same antenna element. The proposed antenna system can cover the frequency range around 2.7 to 3.6 GHz for S11 < −10 dB, thus covering expected future 5G band (3300– 3600 MHz). Maximum isolation achieved among ports is less than −25 dB, and envelope correlation coefficient is below 0.009 in bands of interest.