Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PET POSITIVE PLEURAL PLAQUES DECADES AFTER PLEURODESIS: MESOLTHELIOMA?

A 59-year-old patient was evaluated for abnormal chest CT and hypermetabolic pleural foci on FDG-PET scan. The scans were obtained as routine surveillance for resection of an in situ pancreatic tumor. The patient had a remote history of automobile manufacturing and the abnormalities were suggestive of asbestos exposure. Because hypermetabolic areas were concerning for pleural malignancy, a VATS lung biopsy was performed and revealed chronic talc-induced pleuritis. The patient had a history of pnemothoraces with bilateral talc pleurodesis at the age of 16. As cancer screening and surveillance increasingly relies on extensive imaging modalities, physicians should be aware of the chronic complications of talc pleurodesis and the possibility of false positive imaging tests.
Post-harvest fungal diseases of fruits and vegetables in Nagpur

Copyright: © Author(s), This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial No Derives License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. The survey of postharvest fungal diseases of some fruits and vegetables in the market of Nagpur was undertaken. Fruits and vegetables suffer every year due to number of pathogenic diseases. Postharvest diseases are caused by bacteria, yeast and fungi develops on fruits and vegetables between harvesting and consumption. Fungal diseases of 17 selectable fruits and vegetables were studied and their fungal pathogen were observed. Amongst these are Aspergillus, Alternaria sp. , Fusarium sp. , Mucor sp. , Penicillum sp. and Rhizopus sp found to be major disease causing organism. The present investigation revealed that fungal infection is mainly due to injury during storage and handling.
Examination of Emotional Intelligence and Transformational Leadership Profiles of Directors and Managers of Human Resources at Starwood Hotels and Resorts

The demand for excellent service in the hospitality industry is critical. This study evolved from the author’s twenty-five years’ experience within the hospitality industry where managing emotions is vital to quality customer service. This study addresses the existing literature gap of the relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership. A purposeful sample of 37 human resource directors and managers within Starwood Hotels and Resorts completed Schutte’s (2002) Assessing Emotional Intelligence Scale, Bass and Avolio’s (2004) Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and a demographic questionnaire. To explore the relationship of emotional intelligence and transformational leadership, the study focused on emotional intelligence and leadership competencies of transformational leadership—idealized influences, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration. These competencies correlate closely with successful culture transformation, and the study demonstrated strong correlation. Data analyses resulted in observing a statistically significant relationship between pairs of scores to pairs of measures of leadership behaviors . The results support the research of Leban & Zulauf, 2004; Mandell & Pherwani, 2003; Sosik & Mergerian, 1999). A confluence of the data analysis and literature review of the constructs—emotional intelligence and transformative learning—yielded a preliminary conceptual model, The Transformational Leadership Pathway. The proposed conceptual model, providing a basis for future research, captures the hierarchy of transformational behaviors that may provide an instructive method to bring about culture change within service organizations. Four important recommendations for practice and research are included. One research recommendation is to replicate the study as global cross-cultural research to create better understanding of emotional intelligence and transformational leadership. Three recommendations for practice include: (a) a proposed competency model as an antecedent to transformational leadership that advances a leaders’ competency in reading and interpreting
Leaf Litter Under Changing Climate: Will Increasing Levels of CO2 and O3 Affect Decomposition and Nutrient Cycling Processes?

In this manuscript we review existing information about CO2 and O3 effects on leaf litter as well as discuss the potential impacts of climate change on decomposition processes and tree nutrition. So far field studies show that the average response to elevated CO2 is increased litter production and increased litter C:N-ratios, the latter response being more prominent in deciduous than in coniferous trees. The few O3 studies indicate that O3 stress may decrease some nutrient concentrations, but O3 effects on carbon-based compounds are more ambiguous. In general, field incubation studies show only some small or inconsistent CO2- and O3-induced changes in litter mass loss rates. On the other hand, recent long-term studies indicate that there are some CO2 and O3 effects on microbial functioning in the soil (e.g. CO2 stimulates and O3 dampens it), although the onset of these microbial responses may take years. Nonetheless, at the moment there is no consistent evidence of CO2-induced and microbe-mediated progressive nitrogen limitation in temperate forests. Elevated O3 effects on nutrient cycling are far less studied, and also more information about long-term CO2 and O3 effects on decomposition and nutrient cycling in boreal forests is still needed. Furthermore, some results indicate that the combined effects cannot be predicted on the basis of single exposures and therefore, the effects of increasing CO2 and O3 on decomposition and nutrient cycling processes must be studied in combination.
Ethylene and fruit ripening

The latest advances in our understanding of the relationship between ethylene and fruit ripening are reviewed. Considerable progress has been made in the characterisation of genes encoding the key ethylene biosynthetic enzymes, ACC synthase (ACS) and ACC oxidase (ACO) and in the isolation of genes involved in the ethylene signal transduction pathway, particularly those encoding ethylene receptors (ETR). These have allowed the generation of transgenic fruit with reduced ethylene production and the identification of the Nr tomato ripening mutant as an ethylene receptor mutant. Through these tools, a clearer picture of the role of ethylene in fruit ripening is now emerging. In climacteric fruit, the transition to autocatalytic ethylene production appears to result from a series of events where developmentally regulated ACO and ACS gene expression initiates a rise in ethylene production, setting in motion the activation of autocatalytic ethylene production. Differential expression of ACS and ACO gene family members is probably involved in such a transition. Finally, we discuss evidence suggesting that the NR ethylene perception and transduction pathway is specific to a defined set of genes expressed in ripening climacteric fruit and that a distinct ETR pathway regulates other ethylene-regulated genes in both immature and ripening climacteric fruit as well as in non-climacteric fruit. The emerging picture is one where both ethylene-dependent and -independent pathways coexist in both climacteric and non-climacteric fruits. Further work is needed in order to dissect the molecular events involved in individual ripening processes and to understand the regulation of the expression of both ethylene-dependent and -independent genes.
Mimetic Processes within an Interorganizational Field: An Empirical Test

This paper is a revision of a paper entitled "An Approach to the Study of Structural Change" presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 30-September 3, 1986, New York, NY. We are grateful to Dawn lacobucci for her research assistance, and we thank Gloria DeWolfe for typing the manuscript. We also thank Marshall W. Meyer and three anonymous ASO referees for their helpful comments. Support for this research was provided by National Science Foundation grants #SES 80-08570 and #SES 83-19364 to the University of Minnesota and #SES 84-08626 to the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Support was also provided by the Program on Nonprofit Organizations, Yale University. The paper explores DiMaggio and Powell's thesis that under conditions of uncertainty organizational decision makers will mimic the behavior of other organizations in their environment. We add to their discussion by positing that managers are especially likely to mimic the behavior of organizations to which they have some type of network tie via boundary-spanning personnel. Data are presented on the charitable contributions of 75 business corporations to 198 nonprofit organizations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area in 1980 and 1984. Using logistic regression models, we found that a firm is likely to give more money to a nonprofit that was previously funded by companies whose CEOs and/or giving officers are known personally by the firm's boundary-spanning personnel. Firms are also likely to give greater contributions to a nonprofit that is viewed more favorably by the local philanthropic elite. We also found that a nonprofit is likely to receive more money from a corporation that previously gave money to nonprofits whose directors sitzon the nonprofit's board. We concluded that managers utilize the information gathered through extraorganizational, interpersonal networks to make decisions on how to relate to other organizations in their task environment and achieve organizational ends. '
Resonance restoration of terahertz metamaterials in thinner film

High demands on metamaterials with desired resonance frequency and high field enhancement led to an extensive investigation on the sub-wavelength gaps, especially in terms of structural parameters. The role of most parameters including gap width, length, period and dielectric environment are widely studied and well understood, while the effect of metal thickness on the gap performance still remains elusive. Here, we theoretically and experimentally investigate resonance frequencies and field enhancements of sub-wavelength gaps with different heights. Scope of this study encompasses thicknesses as small as 10 nm, accessing by far the thinnest terahertz nano-resonators reported in the literature. The thickness decrease leads to huge field enhancement and resonance blueshift in transmission spectra of the sub-10nm gaps, restoring the transmission from the initially gapplasmon dominated, red-shifted spectra. Such behavior is interpreted as a result of decreased effective refractive index of the gap, which is also supported by a modalexpansion analysis.
Relation between Social, Cultural and Religious Attitude with Happiness among Students

This study tried to investigate the Relation between Social, Cultural and Religious Attitude with Happiness among Students of Azad University of Ahwaz City in Iran, and the students in 2013 to 2014 Academic year and there were 180 students have selected randomly. Research tools were questionnaires on social and cultural and religious attitude and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire also were used. The research design was a Correlation Pearson. For data analysis, descriptive statistics such as the mean and standard deviation and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient were used. The results showed that there was a significant difference between cultural attitudes, social attitude of students, (p<0/453 and r = 212/26) (p < 0/453 and r =203/20) and there was a significant difference between cultural and social attitudes of boys and girls students in p < 0/0001. Also, there was a significant difference between boys and girls students based on religion attitude variable (p<0/765 and r=210/94) (p<0/765 and r=207/34) and Happiness (p<0/765 and r=214/63) (p<0/287 and r=201/79). Increasing happiness, social and cultural attitudes also increased and by increasing the religious attitudes of students, the happiness also will increase. The result also showed that there was no significant difference between religion attitude and Happiness of boys and girls students.
HIGH PERFORMANCE, HIGH-VOLUME FLY ASH CONCRETE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

This paper presents a brief review of the theory and construction practice with concrete mixtures that contain more than 50% fly ash by mass of the cementitious material. The mechanisms by which the incorporation of high volume of the ash in concrete reduces the water demand, improves the workability, minimizes cracking due to thermal and drying shrinkage, and enhances durability to reinforcement corrosion, sulfate attack, and alkalile-silica expansion are discussed. This technology can play a huge role in meeting the large demand for infrastructure in a sustainable manner for countries like China and India.
FORCES AND INFLUENCES BEHIND THE DEVELOPMENT OF UPLAND CASH CROPPING IN NORTH-EAST THAILAND

systems. This paper traces the spread of cash cropping in the North-Eastern region of Thailand since the end of the Second World War and attempts to identify the forces that have driven the development. The impact of infrastructural improvements upon the desire and the ability of farmers to engage in cash cropping is examined, and the government role in this process is assessed. In addition, changes in the cropping pattern are looked at in relation to varying relative prices for the crops in question. Finally, the role of the private sector in the commercialization of agriculture is examined. It is argued that the spread of cash cropping would have been far less rapid and pervasive in the absence of the private sector. WHEN SIR JOHN BOWRING visited Thailand in 1855 he found a kingdom which had studiously shunned contact with the West, deliberately avoiding both commercial and diplomatic relations (Bowring, 1969). The economy ofthe nation and the well-being of its inhabitants was founded upon the cultivation of rice, almost entirely for subsistence consumption or local barter. In the vicinity of the capital, Bangkok (Fig. 1). there had evolved a limited commercial sector supplying the court and population of that city, and the kingdom had been intermittently exporting rice from at least the beginning of the seventeenth century (Ingram, 1971). However, Siam had few trading links, and even villages close to Bangkok were enclosed and self-sufficient communities surrounded by a 'wilderness' of forest and swamp (Sharp
Four Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization

This dissertation comprises four essays in Empirical Industrial Organization. The unifying element of the four papers is the use of modern empirical methods in policy evaluation as well as behavioral economics. Three of the four essays are pure industry case studies of the automobile as well as the energy sector and one analyzes the behavior of students in a trust game. Following the introduction in chapter one, chapter two and three are concerned with the policy evaluation of car scrappage schemes in a worldwide context as well as an in-depth analysis of the German “Abwrackpramie”. Chapter two reveals that, compared to a simulated counterfactual, a positive overall effect of the Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Programs for selected countries are found using panel econometric techniques. Chapter three tries to shed more light on the winners and losers of the German car scrappage scheme, implemented in 2009, in terms of car market segments. Results of a time-series analysis suggest that the policy has been successful in creating additional demand for the small as well as the upper small car market segment and that the pull-forward effects are small in the first two years after the politically induced treatment. The contribution in chapter four tries to disentangle the influence factors of the diffusion of photovoltaic installations in Germany, using a fixed effects panel dataset from 2010 to 2012. Results suggest that the diffusion of photovoltaic installations hinges to a large extent on the electricity retail price, and not only on the governmentally set feed-in tariffs. This can also be interpreted as the self-consumption influence on photovoltaic investment and has not been shown in the literature until now. The last chapter, chapter five, analyses a trust game experiment. We are interested in the isolation of three personal characteristics on the experimental outcome: study progress, study major and gender. While economists are both significantly less trusting and less trustworthy than law students, this difference is largely due to differences between female law and economics students. While female law students are already different in nature (during the first term of study) from female economists, the gap between them also widens more drastically over the course of their study compared to their male counterparts. This finding is rather critical as the detailed composition of students is typically neglected in most experiments.
Crop loss in rubber due to abnormal leaf fall: an analysis on the economic feasibility of plant protection measures in India

The paper attempts to assess the extent of crop loss in rubber plantations in India, measured in terms of loss in latex and timber output and thereby to examine the comparative economics of plant protection measures against Phytophtora spp. induced abnormal leaf fall (ALF). The specific objectives were: a) to examine the extent of loss in latex and timber output in unsprayed plots vis-a-vis sprayed plots across prominent rubber clones; b) estimate the value of loss in latex and timber output across clones between sprayed and unsprayed plots; c) examine the comparative economics of plant protection measures in terms of the incremental costs and the incremental returns from sprayed plots across clones; and d) reflect upon the policy imperatives with respect to region-specific Research and Development (R&D) interventions on plant protection measures in India. The study brings out significant clonal differences in loss of latex and timber output in the absence of prophylactic spraying against ALF. The observed clonal differences with respect to feasibility of plant disease control measures indicate the need for region and clone-specific recommendations for plant protection measures in India instead of the currently followed unilateral prescription with due allowance to the costs and potential benefit accrued from the control measures. The study also highlight the need for evolving interventions and agro-management/ plant protection measures for minimising the incidence of tree casualty in rubber plantation, as it amounts to loss of potential income from latex and timber from rubber plantations in India, dominated by the smallholder sector.
One-class Damage Detector Using Fully-Convolutional Data Description for Prognostics

It is important for infrastructure managers to maintain a high standard to ensure user satisfaction during a lifecycle of infrastructures. Surveillance cameras and visual inspections have enabled progress toward automating the detection of anomalous features and assessing the occurrence of the deterioration. Frequently, collecting damage data constraints time consuming and repeated inspections. One-class damage detection approach has a merit that only the normal images enables us to optimize the parameters. Simultaneously, the visual explanation using the heat map enable us to understand the localized anomalous feature. We propose a civil-purpose application to automate one-class damage detection using the fully-convolutional data description (FCDD). We also visualize the explanation of the damage feature using the up-sampling-based activation map with the Gaussian up-sampling from the receptive field of the fully convolutional network (FCN). We demonstrate it in experimental studies: concrete damage and steel corrosion and mention its usefulness and future works.
Coordination, Division of Labor, and Open Content Communities: Template Messages in Wiki-Based Collections

In this paper we investigate how in commons based peer production a large community of contributors coordinates its efforts towards the production of high quality open content. We carry out our empirical analysis at the level of articles and focus on the dynamics surrounding their production. That is, we focus on the continuous process of revision and update due to the spontaneous and largely uncoordinated sequence of contributions by a multiplicity of individuals. We argue that this loosely regulated process, according to which any user can make changes to any entry, while allowing highly creative contributions, has to come into terms with potential issues with respect to the quality and consistency of the output. In this respect, we focus on emergent, bottom up organizational practice arising within the Wikipedia community, namely the use of template messages, which seems to act as an effective and parsimonious coordination device in emphasizing quality concerns (in terms of accuracy, consistency, completeness, fragmentation, and so on) or in highlighting the existence of other particular issues which are to be addressed. We focus on the template "NPOV" which signals breaches on the fundamental policy of neutrality of Wikipedia articles and we show how and to what extent imposing such template on a page affects the production process and changes the nature and division of labor among participants. We find that intensity of editing increases immediately after the "NPOV" template appears. Moreover, articles that are treated most successfully, in the sense that "NPOV" disappears again relatively soon, are those articles which receive the attention of a limited group of editors. In this dimension at least the distribution of tasks in Wikipedia looks quite similar to what is know about the distribution in the FLOSS development process.
Comparison of single and repeated dosing of anti-in�ammatory human umbilical cord mesenchymal stromal cells in a mouse model of polymicrobial sepsis

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) ameliorate pre-clinical sepsis and sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI) but clinical trials of single-dose MSCs have not indicated robust e�cacy. This study investigated immunomodulatory effects of a novel MSC product (CD362-selected human umbilical cord-derived MSCs [hUC-MSCs]) in mouse endotoxemia and polymicrobial sepsis models. of biochemical in�ammatory mediators and the AKI biomarker multi-color �ow cytometry of peritoneal macrophages (LPS) and immune cell subpopulations (CLP) and histology/immunohistochemistry of (CLP).
Concentration of nutritional important minerals in Croatian goat and cow milk and some dairy products made of these.

The concentration of the minerals (Ca, Mg and P) and trace elements (Zn, Fe) were determined in goat and cow’s dairy products. The aim of this work was to determine the concentrations of mentioned minerals and trace elements in fermented dairy products made of goat milk, as well as in East Croatia traditional White Slice goat cheese. Obtained results show that goat milk and dairy products from goat milk had higher concentration of Mg and Fe than these of cow milk. Goat milk and dairy products from goat milk also had higher concentration of P, whereas the concentration of Ca was equally in goat and cow milk. However, significantly lower concentrations of Zn in goat milk and goat milk products were determined. Levels of analyzed major and trace minerals were higher in fermented dairy products and cheeses than in liquid milk. The levels of major and trace minerals in White Slice cheese were greater than those in fermented milk products. High content of phosphorus in White Slice goat cheese than in White Slice cow cheese was determined