Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of changes in perinatal care on bronchopulmonary dysplasia: an overview of the last two decades

Objective: To compare the clinical approach and outcomes of bron­chopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) patients in the last two decades (1996-2005 vs 2006-2015) in a neonatal intensive care unit. Methods: Out of 1,196 admissions of very low birth weight and/or less than 32 weeks of gestational age infants, 96 had BPD and were dichotomized into two groups according to the year of birth (1996-2005 and 2006-2015). Their clinical data were studied and conclusions were drawn about their morbidity and mortality. Results: There was a decrease in mortality (23.3% vs. 14.4%, p < 0.001) and in BPD prevalence (9.7% vs 6.1%, p = 0.023); in the delivery room, early nasal continuous positive airways pressure (nCPAP) was used in 41.2% vs 1.6%, p < 0.001 and tracheal intubation in 70.6% vs 96.8%, p < 0.001. We observed an increase on the duration of non-invasive ventilation (nCPAP, 22.5 vs 45.5 days, p < 0.001) and a decrease of invasive ventilation (39.5 vs 20 days, p = 0.013) from the first to the second period. Conclusions: Improvement in perinatal and neonatal intensive care practices, namely the use of non-invasive methods of mechanical ventilation implemented in the last years, probably contributed to the better evolution of preterm infants with BPD.
Travel Route and Hotel Recommendation

: In this era of world wide web, a huge amount of information is overloaded to users over the internet. It becomes a burdensome task for the users to get the significant results of their query. Although, to some extent, this problem is solved by the search engines, but again they don’t provide the personalization of data according to every user. The Recommender Systems are software tools and techniques providing suggestions for items for a user as solution to the overload and personalized information problem. Recommender systems are like information filtering systems that explores to predict the user preference by taking some information from user as their interests. This paper focuses on their application in tourism. It focuses on recommendation techniques for the whole travel route and hotel recommendation package.
Do Tax Havens Flourish?

Tax haven countries offer foreign investors low tax rates and other tax features designed to attract investment and thereby stimulate economic activity. Major tax havens have less than 1 percent of the world's population (outside the United States) and 2.3 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP), but they host 5.7 percent of the foreign employment and 8.4 percent of foreign property, plant, and equipment of American firms. Per capita real GDP in tax haven countries grew at an average annual rate of 3.3 percent between 1982 and 1999, which compares favorably to the world average of 1.4 percent. Tax haven governments appear to be adequately funded: their average 25 percent ratio of government to GDP exceeds the 20 percent ratio for the world as a whole, though the small populations and relative affluence of these countries would normally be associated with even larger governments. Whether the economic prosperity of tax haven countries comes at the expense of higher tax countries is unclear. Recent research suggests that tax haven activity stimulates investment in nearby high-tax countries.
Cryptanalysis of Kowada-Machado key exchange protocol

A non-interactive key exchange (NIKE) protocol allows N parties who know each other’s public key to agree on a symmetric shared key without requiring any interaction. A classic example of such protocol for N = 2 is the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Recently, some techniques were proposed to obtain a NIKE protocol for N parties, however, it is still considered an open problem since the security of these protocols must be confirmed. In a recent work, Kowada and Machado [1] proposed a protocol that solves the NIKE problem for N parties. However, this work found security problems in the proposed solution and implemented an efficient attack to their protocol demonstrating that their key-exchange scheme is insecure.
Introduction and Rationale Riparian and instream restoration/protection programs have received increasing attention as a measure to improve fish and wildlife habitat, stream bank stability and flood

Riparian protection and enhancement measures have been targeted primarily on lands used for a consumptive use. The costs of these measures are well documented. This study estimates the marginal implicit value of planting a treed riparian buffer on residential properties. Results show that non-consumptive users of riparian areas also value a stream bank with few trees.
The 'Hood Can Flourish, Too! Challenges and Successes of a Low-Cost Gratitude-Meditation Intervention among Urban Adolescents

Background: Adolescents living in the United States (U.S.) report mental challenges from depressive symptoms to suicidal ideations. The positive psychology (PP) paradigm is a preventative approach to mental health challenges. Increasing gratitude, well-studied among adolescents, is a PP intervention; yet, most U.S.-based studies were limited with respect study population diversity. Few studies included urban or multicultural youth. Objective: The current study provides a brief introduction to PP and contemplative studies, and how the paradigms were combined into one intervention. A gratitudemeditation intervention was conducted among a diverse cohort of adolescents. The feasibility, acceptability, preliminary outcomes, as well as the challenges and successes of conducting the intervention are described. Method: A four-week, gratitude-meditation study was manualized and tested in a middle school. The science of gratitude was merged with the secular practice of meditation to test a novel intervention among adolescents in an urban setting. The gratitude visualization exercises were extracted from The Jewels of Happiness—a collection of poetry and prose for developing positive qualities. The study feasibility and acceptability is quantified; the study challenges and successes are summarized. Conclusion: Despite challenges encountered in conducting the study, the study was feasible, accepted, and the intervention was completed successfully.
Probabilistic Decoding of RS Codes with Extended BKY Algorithm

We present a probabilistic decoder for Reed-Solomon codes by using extended Bleichenbacher-Kiayias-Yung Algorithm. It is proved that a Reed-Solomon code RS$(n;k)$ can be decoded up to error rate $\frac{r}{r+1}(1 - R')$ for $R' = \frac{(k-1)(r+1)+2}{2n}$ by using this decoder.
The role of world oil price and precious metals prices shock on the exchange rate in Norway

II! 1. INTRODUCTION' 1! 2. LITERATURE'REVIEW' 3! 3. THEORY'AND'HYPOTHESIS' 7! 3.1. THEORY' 7! 3.2. HYPOTHESIS' 9! 4. METHODOLOGY' 10! 4.1. ARDL'TEST'FOR'COINTEGRATION' 11! 4.2. GRANGER'CAUSALITY'TEST' 14! 4.3. GENERALIZED'IMPULSE'RESPONSE' 15! 5. DATA'DESCRIPTION' 16! 5.1. DATA' 16! 5.2. DATA'DESCRIPTION' 16! 5.3. CORRELATION'MATRIX' 17! 6. EMPIRICAL'RESULT' 18! 6.1. UNIT'ROOT'TEST'ANALYSIS' 18! 6.2. ARDL'BOUND'TEST'ANALYSIS' 18! 6.3. LAG'SELECTION' 18! 6.4. GRANGER'CAUSALITY'TEST' 19! 6.5. GENERALIZED'IMPULSE'RESPONSE' 20!
Construyendo aplicaciones móviles en la escuela: un enfoque para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la programación

Resumen: La formación en aspectos fundamentales del campo de las Ciencias de la Computación en el ámbito de educación secundaria en todas sus modalidades y orientaciones es considerada como pieza importante para el ejercicio crítico y activo de la ciudadanía. En Argentina, varias Universidades Nacionales, la Fundación Sadosky, los programas nacionales Conectar Igualdad y Program.ar y el Consejo Federal de Educación han articulado esfuerzos tendientes a mejorar la aproximación de las Ciencias de la Computación a la escuela secundaria. Varios reportes describen que, más allá ́ de los acuerdos construidos y esfuerzos desarrollados, la incorporación de forma sostenible y rigurosa de la enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Computación en la educación secundaria es aún un proceso en desarrollo en la mayoría de los países. En este trabajo se presenta un enfoque para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la programación basado en la construcción de aplicaciones móviles en la escuela. El principal recurso didáctico disciplinar integrado a la propuesta es el entorno de desarrollo de aplicaciones móviles MIT App Inventor que permite construir aplicaciones móviles utilizando un lenguaje de programación por bloques. Esta herramienta tiene un gran potencial para la enseñanza de conceptos fundamentales de la Programación Orientada a Objetos a estudiantes sin conocimientos previos y para avanzar en los procesos de democratización del desarrollo de aplicaciones móviles. Asimismo, se presenta una experiencia realizada con docentes y estudiantes de un grupo de escuelas secundarias.
Procalcitonin and malondialdehyde as markers of inflammation in hemodialysis patients

1 Nigar Sekercioglu1, Huriye Balci2, Meltem Pekpak1 1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Istanbul, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, 2Central Research Laboratory, University of Istanbul, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey PROCALCITONIN AND MALONDIALDEHYDE IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS PROCALCITONIN AND MALONDIALDEHYDE AS MARKERS OF INFLAMMATION IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS
Identifying Seismic Interference Noise Based on Local Dip Filtering

The aim of this work was to compare various dip estimation methods and apply the best of them to identify the dip of seismic interference noise (SI) in the shot domain. Four dip estimation methods were considered: correlation based method, structure tensor estimation, linear and nonlinear plane wave destruction methods. Both synthetic and real data were used for the tests. The methods were compared with respect to their accuracy, sensitivity to noise, runtime and the number of different parameters the user needs to set. The nonlinear plane wave destruction method was chosen as the one which best meets the requirements. This method was then applied to estimate the dip of SI noise in one seismic line. The noise was then succesfully removed by the τ − p common−p SI attenuation method. Dip based signal and noise separation was also tested, however, it removed too much of the signal.
Prying into the intimate details of animal lives: use of a daily diary on animals

The advantages of transmission telemetry or logging systems for studying free-living animals are multiple and have driven designs for many and varied devices, each with its own particular usage sector. However, lack of fundamental data on species with conservation issues shows that there is an urgent need for a single generic system to document the major elements of animal biology. Such a tag could provide a broad picture of wild animal biology and specifically allow previously unidentified factors that might be important in an animal’s conservation to be determined. This work describes the major features and operating mode of a single device, the ‘daily diary’, an animal equivalent of the aeroplane ‘black box flight recorder’ which is designed to be used on a wide variety of species and which has already been tested on animals including albatrosses, badgers, cheetahs, cormorants, domestic dogs, horses, penguins, sharks, sunfish and turtles. The unit is designed to record animal (1) movement (2) behaviour (3) energy expenditure and (4) the physical characteristics of the animal’s environment by logging 14 parameters at infra-second frequencies.
Reproduction and immature development of Hyssopus pallidus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an ectoparasitoid of the codling moth

Hyssopus pallidus (Askew) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) is a gregarious ectoparasitoid of late larvae of the codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). In the present work reproduction and the development and morphology of the immature stages were studied. Five larval instars were differentiated by the shape and size of the mandibles. The larvae are hymenopteriform with a weakly sclerotized head and 13 segments. The first instar has four pairs of spiracles, while the other four instars have nine pairs. Under laboratory conditions of 22-24°C and 60-80% RH the egg stage lasted 1.5 days, the larval instars 6.3 days, and the pupal stage 7.9 days in females and 7.2 days in males. The duration of each of the five larval instars (L1-L5) is approximately 1, 0.5, 0.75, 0.75 and 3.5 days, respectively. Male and female development time does not differ significantly in the egg and larval stages, but differences are highly significant in the pupal stage. Male and female pupae can be differentiated by their sexual rudiments. Copulation takes place immediately upon emergence of the females between siblings, adult males appearing before the females. Females in culture with access to an energy source can survive for more than 60 days. They are synovigenic: they emerge with no mature eggs in their ovaries and take the first two days after emergence to mature the full set of around 24-30 eggs. They continue paralyzing hosts, ovipositing and maturing eggs for as long as they live. After an oviposition a female needs two to three days to mature a new full set of eggs. Age and feeding influence egg load. Oosorption is significant in starved females, but also occurs in older fed females with no host contact.
Inspection of artificially built mechanical failures through innovative condition monitoring techniques

In this study, the factors influence on root causes of failure initiation are examined with the original test implementation and condition monitoring techniques are emphasized. In working toward this goal, the laboratory test setups and tests which have been created by international research bodies are examined and in order to practise a new research work, a unique test setup system and a test plan is built. In this target of the root cause failure detection, vibration data at radial direction and electrical consumption data are collected through the analysis by comparing two different condition monitoring techniques. In this research, fault detection in modeling fault conditions and vibration, electrical consumption measurement have been let us examination in depth. During the tests, data are collected simultaneously in vibration by four-channel Data Acquisition Card (DAC) and electrical consumption by Motor Condition Monitoring (MCM) system which are integrated with an computer system. Respect to the study results; vibration analysis in detection of defects has been judged to be more successful in comparison with electric consumption analysis under the test conditions in perspective of condition based predictive maintenanceIn the study, it is mentioned that detection of failure initiations at sensitive levels and importance of consequent results.
Effect of long-term , year-long grazing heavy rates of stocking on diet selection dynamics at moderate and and forage intake

A 2-year experiment was conducted to determine the effect of 27 years of continuous grazing at moderate (7 ha/cow/yr) (MC) and heavy (5 ha/cow&) (HC) rates of stocking on seasonal diet selection and forage intake dynamics. Nine trials were conducted to determine differences between treatments in botanical composition and quality of diets and forage intake. Proportion of Texas wintergrass (St&a hcothricu Trin. and Rupr.) in diets was greater (P<.OS) in the MC than HC treatment whereas amounts of warmseason shortand midgrasses were less. Differences between treatments in botanical composition of diets were related to differences in seasonal availability and live:dead tissue ratios of forages. However, such differences did not generally affect diet quality. Supplementation of HC cattle with 20% CP breeder cube either replaced forage organic matter intake (January 1986) or substituted for insufficient forage availability (February 1987). Supplementation never stimulated forage intake. Forage organic matter intake was restricted at forage standing crops below 700 kg/ha. able and bimodally distributed with peak rainfall occurring in May (9.2 cm) and September (10.6 cm) (Fig. 1). Average annual precipitation (19601987) is 68 cm. Average maximum daily temperatures range from a high of 36O C in July to a low of 1 lo C in January.
Robust Likelihood Methods Based on the Skew‐t and Related Distributions

The robustness problem is tackled by adopting a parametric class of distributions flexible enough to match the behaviour of the observed data. In a variety of practical cases, one reasonable option is to consider distributions which include parameters to regulate their skewness and kurtosis. As a specific representative of this approach, the skew‐t distribution is explored in more detail and reasons are given to adopt this option as a sensible general‐purpose compromise between robustness and simplicity, both of treatment and of interpretation of the outcome. Some theoretical arguments, outcomes of a few simulation experiments and various wide‐ranging examples with real data are provided in support of the claim.
Running head: LIFE EVENTS AND COMT IN BIPOLAR DISORDER

Title: Stressful life events and Catechol-O-methyl-transferase (COMT) gene in bipolar disorder Running head: Life events and COMT in bipolar disorder Georgina M. Hosang a*, Helen L. Fisherb Sarah Cohen-Woodsc, Peter McGuffinb & Anne E. Farmerb Authors’ affiliations: a Psychology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW, UK. b MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK. c School of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
Phenylphenalenones from Musa cv. 'Thepanom' (BBB)

Chemical constituents of Musa cv. 'Thepanom' (BBB) or "praying hands" banana (Musaceae) were investigated by means of chromatographic techniques. A new natural product of the phenylphenalenone type, 3- hydroxy-4-phenyl-1H,3 H-benzo( de )isochromen-1-one, and two known natural products, methoxyanigorufone and isoanigorufone, were isolated and identified by NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Additionally, by HPLC analysis, three condensed dimeric phenylphenalenones, namely anigorootin, 4 �-hydroxyanigorootin, 4 �,4 �- dihydroxyanigorootin, were identified.
Factor Structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Fourth Edition Among Referred Students

Factor analysis was applied to the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) scores of 432 Pennsylvania students referred for evaluation for special education services to determine the factor structure of the WISC-IV with this population. A first-order, four-factor oblique solution that mirrored that found in the WISC-IV normative sample was supported. When transformed to an orthogonalized higher order model, the general factor accounted for the greatest amount of common (75.7%) and total (46.7%) variance. In contrast, the largest contribution by a first-order factor (Verbal Comprehension) was 6.5% of total variance. It was recommended that interpretation of the WISC-IV not discount the strong general factor.
ANALYSIS OF A WELL DEVELOPED COLD VORTEX OVER THE SOUTH-WESTERN PART OF JAPAN

We have analysed an example of extraordinary strong upper cold vortex. Such a strong cold vortex occurs when the westerly wave over East Asia develops extremely and the cut-off cold vortex thus formed comes down to reach the south coast of Japan. In such a case heavy snow falls in front of the upper cold vortex, but it is dry in the vortex. On the other hand, when a cold vortex moves over the Japan Sea without extreme development, heavy snow falls mainly in the cold vortex. The difference of these two types of upper cold vortices is explained in this paper.
Efficient solar collection beyond the etendue limit.

Photovoltaics (PV) are a versatile and compact route to harness solar power. One critical challenge with current PV is persevering the optimal panel orientation angle with respect to the sun for efficient energy conversion. We experimentally demonstrate a bespoke array of multi-element telecentric optical lenses that allow for a greatly increased open circuit voltage (Voc) at solar incidence angle of between +/-80 degrees compared to a standard panel. Our prototype lens-let shows a 132% increase in Voc over a full day, at optical incidence angles of +/-80 degrees. This many element array provides increased field of view without breaking the conservation of etendue. Our prototype indicates that this lens-let array could potentially be mass produced and be readily installed onto any PV system.
The establishment of formal research groups in higher education institutions

This article explores the significance for academic staff members of research groups established and formalised as part of research strategies at university faculties. It also explores the levels of participation and stresses the importance of such group-related activities with regard to the level of participation, perceived impact on research quality and researcher training. The study is based on data from a survey and in-depth interviews with academic staff at Norwegian universities as well as document reviews. It provides evidence that formalised research groups can have a positive effect on the quality of individual research as well as researcher training. The study reveals significant differences between fields of science with regard to the importance of such groups for research activities and quality. Nevertheless, it finds that they contribute to more institution-based research, and also in subjects and qualifications where the research has primarily been conducted on an individual basis, such as in the humanities. These groups cannot simply be understood as a legitimating device for scientific communities due to changing funding and steering criteria; rather they manifest themselves as modes of academic work serving as a supplement to, rather than substitute for, other forms of cooperation.
Assessing the Impact of Political Economy Factors on Rules of Origin Under NAFTA

Rules of origin are legitimate policy instruments to prevent trade deflection in a preferential trade agreement short of a customs union. Trade deflection takes place when a product imported into the preferential trade agreement through the member with the lowest external tariff is transhipped to a higher-tariff member, while yielding a benefit for the re-exporter. Yet, when captured by special interest groups, rules of origin can restrict trade beyond what is needed to prevent trade deflection. By how much do political economy factors account for the stringency of rules of origin? This study quantifies the impact of both determinants - those considered"justifiable"because they prevent trade deflection and those deemed to arise from"political economy"forces - on the restrictiveness of rules of origin under the North American Free Trade Agreement, approximated by a restrictiveness index. The main finding is that political economy forces, especially from the United States, raised significantly the restrictiveness of the rules of origin. Indeed, in industries where political-economy forces were strong prior to the North American Free Trade Agreement, as when the U.S. Most Favored Nation tariff was high or the revealed comparative advantage of Mexico (the United States) was strong (weak), more stringent rules of origin were introduced. Thus, stricter rules of origin are associated with higher production costs reducing the potential benefits of enhanced market access that is initially pursued by this type of agreement.