Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ects of oral phosphorus supplementation on mineral metabolism of renal transplant recipients

supplementation was observed mainly in the subgroup with optimal allograft function (21% reduction with Background. Persistent hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is frequently observed in kidney transplant recipients. respect to baseline values), while the mean 2 concentrations in patients with suboptimal allograft Hypophosphataemia is a common biochemical consequence of HPT. Theoretically, oral phosphorus function scarcely changed (1.4% increase). Changes in 2 concentrations after phosphorus administration may induce negative effects on the control of HPT, though this point has never been supplementation, expressed as a percentage of the initial concentrations, correlated positively with the demonstrated in kidney-transplant recipients. This study was designed to evaluate the effects of oral percentage changes in PTH concentrations for the whole group, as well as for each subgroup. The best phosphorus supplementation on the mineral metabolism of successful kidney transplant recipients. determinants for the percentage and the absolute increase in PTH concentration after phosphorus Methods. Thirty-two kidney transplant recipients with serum creatinine <2 mg/dl and serum phosphate levels supplementation was the final serum phosphate concentration (F=4.84, r=0.37, P=0.035) and the <3.5 mg/dl were included in the study. After a washout period in which oral phosphorus supplementation increase in serum phosphate (F=7.69, r=0.45, P= 0.009) respectively. was discontinued, the following parameters were determined (F0 period): serum calcium, phosphate, alkaline Conclusions. Oral phosphorus supplementation led to a significant increase in the PTH concentration of phosphatase, uric acid, bicarbonate, PTH, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D) and 25-hydroxyvitamin kidney transplant recipients. The mean 1,25(OH)2D concentration decreased mainly in recipients with D3 (25OHD). Creatinine clearance, calcium, and phosphate excretion were determined from a 24-h optimal allograft function. The counterbalance effect of PTH on 1,25(OH)2D production may account for urine sample. The same determinations were repeated (F1 period) after all patients received 1.5 g of oral the relative preservation of 1,25(OH)2D levels in recipients with suboptimal allograft function. phosphorus for 15 days. For data analysis, patients were divided into two subgroups (optimal and sub
Creativity enhancement in problem solving: through software or process?

This paper reports the results of a controlled laboratory experiment in which the work of Elam and Mead (Elam, J. J., M. Mead. 1990. Can software influence creativity? Inform. Systems Res. 1(1) 1--23. ) was both replicated and extended to explore how knowledge and use of a creativity-enhancing process employed both manually and delivered via computer software affect the level of creativity in response to a problem-solving task. The results suggest the enhancement of creativity in response to open-ended problems is significantly affected by the process employed by the decision maker rather than the vehicle by which the process is delivered. Further, the results indicate that the capability of a decision support system (DSS) to provide directed guidance in the application of a process combined with user knowledge of the underlying process model improves creativity enhancement over use of either the DSS or the process alone.
Towards EU 2020: An Outlook of SECA Regulations Implementation in the BSR

Abstract The clean shipping concept emerged in a bid to make maritime transportation green and environmentally friendly. This mandate is being accomplished through improved conducts, actions and technology in the maritime industry. One of such measures was the creation of the Sulphur Emission Control Areas (SECA) in 2005 and 2012 to reduce the rate of sulphur emissions from shipping. Sustainable growth—an EU 2020 priority—is strategically linked to the SECA regulation in that it promotes resource efficiency, greener environment and a competitive economy. Thus, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and, as adopted by the European Parliament (EP), SECA regulation stipulated that from 2015 all ships in SECA are under the obligation to use low sulphur marine fuel that must not exceed 0.1% (IMO, 2011). This regulation has incited rigorous arguments on the economic disadvantage it would subject affected maritime stakeholders who are made to comply with stringent regulation their counterparts in non-SECA are not subjected to. Two years of 0.1% sulphur regulations have witnessed many changes in the maritime industry and most of the first responses were realised with vessels that ply along the Baltic Sea. This work presents an account of European maritime industry’s approaches towards SECA regulations and the stakeholders’ thoughts on the economic impact of SECA. This contribution brings a clearer picture to the status quo as well as highlighting a needed future focus.
Intermarket Trading Strategies

Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART I. 1 Intermarket Analysis. 2 Correlation. 3 Regression. 4 International Indices and Commodities. 5 The S&P 500. 6 European Indices. 7 Gold. 8 Intraday Correlations. 9 Intermarket Indicators. PART II. 10 Trading System Design. 11 A Comparison of Fourteen Technical Systems for Trading Gold. 12 Trading the S&P 500 ETF and the e-mini. 13 Trading DAX Futures. 14 A Comparison of a Neural Network and a Conventional System for Trading FTSE Futures. 15 The Use of Intermarket Systems in Trading Stocks. 16 A Relative Strength Asset Allocation Trading System. 17 Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis. 18 Conclusion. Appendix A MetaStock Code and Test Specifications. Appendix B Neural Network Systems. Appendix C Rectangles. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
Selling Places: The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities 1850-2000

Part 1 Foundations and Beginnings. Introduction. Selling the Frontier. Part 2 Selling the Resort. Health Resorts and Watering Places. The Nations Tonic. Part 3 Selling the Suburb. Mass Transit and Healthy Homes. Realm of Romance. Part 4 Selling the Industrial Town. Selling Places or Buying Industries? An Honest Plainly Told? Part 5 Selling the Post-Industrial City. Marketing Re-invented Cities. Come Celebrate our Dream. Conclusions. Bibliography. Index.
Immunoadsorption With Tryptophan Adsorbers for Successful Treatment of Late Steroid‐Refractory Recurrent Focal Glomerulosclerosis

Recurrent focal glomerulosclerosis (rFGS) of kidney trans-plant causes 8–27% of all graft losses in patients withunderlying FGS (1). Removal of a suspected circulatingcausative factor (2) has been shown to be effective in earlycases(3). Forremovalofthisfactor,plasmapheresis(PP)aswell as selective immunoadsorption (IA) have been used.We herein report the case of a 36-year-old male suffer-ing from rFGS 11.5 years after the ﬁrst kidney transplant.Transplant function remained constant [creatinine 0.73–0.9 mg/dL (65–80 lmol/L)] and no acute rejection was ob-served at any time. The patient was on maintenance im-munosuppression, including cyclosporine A (CsA) 170 mgbid (through 110–150 ng/mL) and prednisolone 7.5 mg od.The ﬁrst presenting symptoms of rFGS were rapid pro-teinuria [0.23 g/day (r) 7.4 g/day], fatigue, edema, hyper-tension, and weight gain but no creatinine rise. Transplantbiopsy revealed focal sclerotic damage and tip lesions. Ini-tial steroid pulses (100 mg/3 days, then taper), switch fromCsA to tacrolimus 2.5 mg bid (through 5–10 ng/mL), my-cophenolate mofetil 250 mg bid, and captopril 12.5 mg bidwere unsuccessful. We conducted IA with Tr adsorbers[Octonova
Fruit-related terms and images on food packages and advertisements affect children’s perceptions of foods’ fruit content

Abstract Objective To determine whether food label information and advertisements for foods containing no fruit cause children to have a false impression of the foods’ fruit content. Design In the food label condition, a trained researcher showed each child sixteen different food label photographs depicting front-of-food label packages that varied with regard to fruit content (i.e. real fruit v. sham fruit) and label elements. In the food advertisement condition, children viewed sixteen, 30 s television food advertisements with similar fruit content and label elements as in the food label condition. After viewing each food label and advertisement, children responded to the question ‘Did they use fruit to make this? ’ with responses of yes, no or don’t know. Setting Schools, day-care centres, after-school programmes and other community groups. Subjects Children aged 4–7 years. Results In the food label condition, χ 2 analysis of within fruit content variation differences indicated children (n 58; mean age 4·2 years) were significantly more accurate in identifying real fruit foods as the label’s informational load increased and were least accurate when neither a fruit name nor an image was on the label. Children (n 49; mean age 5·4 years) in the food advertisement condition were more likely to identify real fruit foods when advertisements had fruit images compared with when no image was included, while fruit images in advertisements for sham fruit foods significantly reduced accuracy of responses. Conclusions Findings suggest that labels and advertisements for sham fruit foods mislead children with regard to the food’s real fruit content.
How to Economize the Advertisement Cost of the Public Tenders? A Comprehensive Study on Public Procurement of Pakistan

Taxes are considered among one of the significant revenue source at government level. Govt. revenue is the collection through taxes. These collections are mainly distributed to Govt. consumption expenditures. Govt. pays special consideration while devising the public procurement rules and procedures. At present, public procurement has an immense importance because existing data on procurement profile suggest that public procurement expenditures accounts for almost 15% of GDP worldwide. Efficient public procurement with economical system is considered to be a scorching issue with respect to developing countries. In order to address these issues, the information of public procurements is preceded via tender publications in print or electronic media. The aim of this study rests on how to achieve efficiency and economy in tender advertisement cost? For this purpose, PPRA rules 2004 of Pakistan are compared with PPRA rules of SAARC countries. Then, determinants of effective advertisement cost are identified through questionnaire survey from suppliers. The results of the study clearly indicate that there exists a comparable difference in Pakistan PPRA rules regarding cost effectiveness. As far as determinants of effective advertisement cost are concerned, financial limit and advertisement size are proved to be most significant variables regarding cost efficiency in public tender advertisement. The implementation of this research study significantly impact on reduction of tender advertisement cost and assist to save million of precious public funds.
Compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, anxiety, depression and stress in registered nurses in Australia: study 1 results.

AIM To explore compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction with the potential contributing factors of anxiety, depression and stress. BACKGROUND To date, no studies have connected the quality of work-life with other contributing and co-existing factors such as depression, anxiety and stress. METHOD A self-report exploratory cross sectional survey of 132 nurses working in a tertiary hospital. RESULT The reflective assessment risk profile model provides an excellent framework for examining the relationships between the professional quality of work factors and contributing factors within the established risk profiles. The results show a definite pattern of risk progression for the six factors examined for each risk profile. Additionally, burnout and secondary traumatic stress were significantly related to higher anxiety and depression levels. Higher anxiety levels were correlated with nurses who were younger, worked full-time and without a postgraduate qualification. Twenty percent had elevated levels of compassion fatigue: 7.6% having a very distressed profile. At-risk nurses' stress and depression scores were significantly higher than nurses with higher compassion satisfaction scores. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGERS The employed nurse workforce would benefit from a psychosocial capacity building intervention that reduces a nurse's risk profile, thus enhancing retention.
Remarks on Abstracto

If an author wants to describe an algorithm, he has to choose a vehicle to express himself. The "traditional" way is to give a description in some natural language, such as English. This vehicle has some obvious drawbacks. The most striking one is that of the sloppyness of natural languages. Hill [|] gives a convincing (and hilarious) exposition of ambiguities in ordinary English, quoting many examples from actual texts for instructional or similar purposes. The problem is often not so much that of syntactical ambiguities ("You would not recognise little Johnny now. He has grown another foot.") as that of unintended possible interpretations ("How many times can you take 6 away from a million? [.] I can do this as many times as you like."). A precise and unambiguous description may require lengthy and repetitious phrases. The more precise the description, the more difficult it is to understand for many, if not most, people. Another drawback of natural languages is the inadequacy of referencing or grouping methods (the latter for lack of non-parenthetical parentheses). This tends to give rise to GOTO-like instructions. With the advent of modern computing automata, programming languages have been invented to communicate algorithms to these computers. Programming languages are almost by definition precise and unambiguous. Nevertheless, they do not provide an ideal vehicle for presenting algorithms to human beings. The reason for this is that programming languages require the specification of many details which are relevant for the computing equipment but not for the algorithm proper. The primitives of the programming language are on a much lower level than those of the algorithm itself. The evolution of hlgh-level programming languages is one in which the level of the available primitives increases towards the abstractions that human beings use when thinking about algorithms. Still, the gap is very, very large. Unfortunately, recent progress is not yet reflected in any major, generally known programming language. However, high-level programming languages have had a direct influence on the presentation of algorithms in the literature. Many an author now employs a kind of pidgin ALGOL to express himself. The pidgin characteristics are all present: (a) the language is primarily a contact language, used between persons who do not speak each other's language; although each "speaker" may have his own variant, there is mutual understandability; (b) there is a limited vocabulary, and the syntax is stripped down to the bare necessities, with elimination of the grammatical subtleties that can only be mastered by a regular user; (c) the language is not frozen but permits adaptation to various universes of discourse. The main advantages to the author (and his audience) are that there is no need for a preliminary and boring exposition of the algorithmic notation, that mathematical notions and notations may freely be employed, and that the resulting description is sufficiently precise to convey the algorithm
About the Transition to an Eco-Compatible Society: the Example of Urban Spread

The transition to an eco-compatible society will depend on the conclusions of many “logical duels”, to use the words of the French sociologist Tarde. Therefore, to make prospective is uneasy: the logical duels of the day after tomorrow will depend on the conclusions of the logical duels of tomorrow, which are unknown. However, in this framework one can state what this transition will not be: (1) BAU (Business As Usual) is impossible (2) to take into account the stake of the metabolism of cities, only, is not enough (3) an Ecological Cultural Revolution is improbable. It seems that two logical duels matter very much: demography (the answer to the question: “how many do we want to be? ”) and quality of life (the answer to the question: “do we want, or not, quality of life? ”). Therefore one can build two scenarios, ecological emergency (in case of high population growth) and quality of life. Concerning several stakes (energy, water, agriculture …) the choices which are made in each scenario are different. In each scenario there is struggle against urban spread but for different reasons: in the scenario “ecological emergency” countryside is a reservoir of indispensable resources, in the scenario “quality of life” countryside is a place to preserve (use for leisure, quality of landscapes …).
Innovation, specialization and growth in a model of structural change

Abstract In this paper we investigate the process of creation and destruction of industries as it stems from productivity increasing innovations and from the induced changes of consumption patterns. In our model industries whose demand increases experience an expansion of the number of intermediate goods and hence of their research effort, while those whose demand declines undergo a cost-cutting restructuring with a corresponding reduction of the number of intermediates. We show that if aggregate consumption is concentrated on high (low) priority goods in the early (later) stages of the economy’s development and spread out more evenly in an intermediate stage, then the diversification of the economy over the development path is inversely U-shaped: a result that is consistent with the empirical evidence in Imbs and Wacziarg 2003 “Stages of Diversification. ” American Economic Review 93: 63–86.
The Relative Contributions of Location and Preferential Policies in China's Regional Development

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A platform to evaluate the fault sensitivity of superscalar processors

The aggressive shrinking of transistors, which led to the reductions in the operating voltage, has been providing enormous benefits in terms of computational power while keeping the energy consumption at an acceptable level. However, as feature size and voltage decrease, the susceptibility to soft errors tends to increase, and the importance of fault evaluations grows. Superscalar processors, which nowadays dominate the market, are a significant example of systems that take advantage of these technological improvements and are more susceptible to errors. Along with that, there exist several methods for fault injection, which is an efficient means to evaluate the resiliency of such processors. However, traditional fault injection methods, such as the hardware-based technique, impose that the processor must be physically implemented before the tests can be conducted, while not providing reasonable levels of controllability. On the other hand, techniques based on simulators implemented in Software offer high levels of controllability. However, while high-level SW simulators (which are fast) may lead to an incomplete, or even misguided, evaluation of the system’s resiliency since they don’t model the hardware internals (such as the pipeline registers), low-level SW simulators are extremely slow and are hardly available at RTL (Register-Transfer Level). Considering this scenario, we propose a platform that bridges the gap between the HW and SW approaches to evaluate faults in superscalar processors: it is fast, with high controllability, available in software, flexible, and, most importantly, it models the processor at RTL. The tool was implemented on top of the framework used to generate the Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine (BOOM) superscalar processor, which is a highly scalable and parameterizable processor. This property allowed us to experiment with three different architectures of the processor: single-, dual-, and quad-issue out-of-order cores, and, by analyzing how the resiliency to faults is influenced by the complexity of different processors, use them to validate our tool.
Fibroids, Menstruation, Childbirth, and Evolution: The Fascinating Story of Uterine Blood Vessels

No. 501, see http://www.sirweb. org, 2003. 1474. Spies JB, Cooper JM, Worthington-Kirsch R, Lipman JC, Mills BB, Benenati JF. Outcome of uterine embolization and hysterectomy for leiomyomas: results of a multicenter study. Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:22-31, 2004. 1475. Spies JB, Cornell C, Worthington-Kirsch R, Lipman JC, Benenati JF. Long-term outcome from uterine fi broid embolization with tris-acryl gelatin microspheres: results of a multicenter study. J Vasc Interv Radiol 18:203-207, 2007. 1476. Spies JB, Myers ER, Pron G, Goodwin S, Worthington-Kirsch R, Peterson E. The fi broid registry for outcomes data (FIBROID) for uterine artery embolization: Mid-term clinical outcomes [Abstract]. J Vasc Interv Radiol 16:S8-9, 2005. 1477. Spies JB, Myers ER, Worthington-Kirsch R, Mulgund J, Goodwin S, Mauro M. The FIBROID Registry: Symptom and Quality-of-Life Status 1 Year After Therapy. Obstet Gynecol 106:1309-1318, 2005. 1478. Spies JB, Roth AR, Jha RC, Gomez-Jorge J, Levy EB, Chang TC, Ascher SA. Leiomyomata treated with uterine artery embolization: factors associated with successful symptom and imaging outcome. Radiology 222:45-52, 2002. 1479. Spies JB, Scialli AR, Jha RC, Imaoka I, Ascher SM, Fraga VM, Barth KH. Initial results from uterine fi broid embolization for symptomatic leiomyomata. J Vasc Interv Radiol 10:1149-1157, 1999. 1480. Spies JB, Spector A, Roth AR, Baker CM, Mauro L, Murphy-Skrynarz K. Complications after uterine artery embolization for leiomyomas. Obstet Gynecol 100:873-880, 2002. 1481. Spies JB. Dr. Spies responds. J Vasc Interv Radiol