Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials Open Access the Molecular Epidemiology of Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia Bacteraemia in a Tertiary Referral Hospital in the United Arab Emirates 2000–2004

Background: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is recognised as an important cause of nosocomial infection, especially in immunocompromised patients, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. The treatment of S. maltophilia infection presents a therapeutic challenge. The precise modes of transmission of S. maltophilia in the hospital environment are not known and such knowledge is essential to target interventions to prevent spread. There are few published data on the patterns of nosocomial infection in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A recent study showed that S. maltophilia is an established cause of bloodstream infection in Tawam Hospital in the UAE. Little is known about its epidemiology in the hospital.
Variations in the management of pneumonia in pediatric emergency departments: compliance with the guidelines.

OBJECTIVE We sought to assess compliance with evidence-based guidelines for the management of pediatric pneumonia, including the variations in tests ordered and antimicrobials prescribed. Our primary hypothesis was that compliance with the treatment recommendations from the most current guidelines would be low for antimicrobial prescriptions. METHODS We conducted a chart review at the Children's Hospital in London, Ont. , to assess variation in the management of pediatric pneumonia. All patients aged 3 months to 18 years seen at the pediatric emergency department between Apr. 1, 2006, and Mar. 31, 2007, with a diagnosis of pneumonia were eligible for inclusion in the study. RESULTS Compliance with management guidelines was 59.7% (95% confidence interval [CI] 53%-66%, n = 211) in children 5-18 years old and 83.0% (95% CI 80%-86%, n = 605) in children 3 months to 5 years old. Significant variation existed in the choice of antimicrobial agent for children with pneumonia, with nonrecommended agents frequently prescribed. CONCLUSION Significant variation existed in the management of pediatric pneumonia, and adherence to guidelines was low for the group of patients aged 5-18 years. Future studies should attempt to provide guidance to distinguish between viral and bacterial etiology to allow judicious use of antimicrobials.
A multicentre, prospective, randomised controlled trial to evaluate hexaminolevulinate photodynamic therapy (Cevira(R)) as a novel treatment in patients with high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion: APRICITY Phase 3 study protocol

Introduction: High-risk human papilloma virus (HPV)-associated cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide. Current treatments of high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) of the cervix are based on invasive surgical interventions, compromising cervical competence and functionality. Objective: APRICITY is a multicentre, prospective, double-blind, randomised controlled Phase 3 study further evaluating the efficacy and safety of Cevira(R), an integrated drug- and light-delivery device for hexaminolevulinate photodynamic therapy, which shows promise as a novel, non-invasive therapy for women with HSIL. Methods and analysis: Patients with biopsy-confirmed HSIL histology are invited to participate in the study currently being conducted at 47 sites in China and 25 sites in Ukraine, Russia and European Union. The aim is to include at least 384 patients which will be randomised to either Cevira(R) or placebo group (2:1). All patients will be assessed 3 months after first treatment and a second treatment will be administered in patients who are HPV positive or have at least low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL). Primary endpoint is the proportion of the responders at 6 months after first treatment. Secondary efficacy endpoints and safety endpoints will be assessed at 6 months, and data for secondary performance endpoints for Cevira(R) device will be collected at 3 months and 6 months, in case second treatment was administered. All patients in the Cevira(R) group will be enrolled in an open, long-term extension study following patients for further 6 months to collect additional efficacy and safety data (study extension endpoints). Conclusion: Due to its non-invasiveness and convenient application, Cevira(R) may be a favourable alternative to surgical methods in treatment of patients with HSIL. Ethics and dissemination: The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Peking Union Medical College Hospital and Hannover Medical University, Germany. Findings will be disseminated through peer review publications and conference presentations. Trial registration number: clinicaltrials.gov NCT04484415 Keywords: clinical trials, cervical cancer, photodynamic therapy, human papilloma virus
Biological functions of decorin in cancer

Decorin is a member of the extracellular matrix small leucine-rich proteoglycans family that exists and functions in stromal and epithelial cells. Accumulating evidence suggests that decorin affects the biology of various types of cancer by directly or indirectly targeting the signaling molecules involved in cell growth, survival, metastasis, and angiogenesis. More recent studies show that decorin plays important roles during tumor development and progression and is a potential cancer therapeutic agent. In this article, we summarize recent studies of decorin in cancer and discuss decorin's therapeutic and prognostic value.
The conservation status and dynamics of a protected African lion Panthera leo population in Kafue National Park, Zambia

iii Dedication . v Declaration of free licence . vii Acknowledgements . ix Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 General Introduction . 3 Lion ecology . 5 Lion conservation status . 7 Thesis outline . 11 Chapter 2: General Methods . 13 Study area . 15 Collared lions . 17 Home range calculations . 18 Prey biomass . 19 Software used . 20 Chapter 3: On tracks: a spoor-based occupancy survey of lion distribution in Kafue National Park . 23 Summary . 25 Introduction . 27 Methods . 29 Study area . 29 Field data collection . 29 Model building, model selection and data analysis . 33 Results . 39 Discussion . 42 Chapter 4: To call or to track: how to count Kafue’s lions . 47 Summary . 49 Introduction . 51 Methods . 53 Study area . 53 Reference population . 53 Call-up surveys . 54 Track count surveys . 57 Comparison of survey methods . 58 Results . 59 Reference population . 59 Call-up surveys . 59 Track counts . 59 Comparison of survey methods . 60 Discussion . 61
The Mind’s Eye on Personal Profiles: A Cognitive Perspective on Profile Elements that Inform Initial Trustworthiness Assessments in Virtual Project Teams

Collaboration in virtual project teams heavily relies on interpersonal trust, for which perceived trustworthiness is an important determinant. This study provides insight in the information that trustors value to assess a trustee’s professional trustworthiness in the initial phase of a virtual project team. We expect trustors in virtual teams to value those particular information elements that provide them with relevant cues of trust warranting properties of a trustee. We identified a list of commonly highly valued information elements to inform trustworthiness assessments (n=226). We then analysed explanations for preferences with the help of a theory ‐ grounded coding scheme. Results show that respondents value those particular information elements that provide them with multiple cues to assess the trustworthiness of a trustee. This enables them to become aware of and assess the trustworthiness of another. Information elements that provide unique cues could not be identified. Insight in these information preferences can inform the design of artefacts, such as personal profile templates, to support acquaintanceships in the initial phase of a virtual project team.
Foreign direct investment spillovers and productivity of domestic firms in Kenya

During the recent years, it has been observed that countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. Countries have gone further than simply removing barriers to inward foreign investment and have taken a more pro active approach towards attracting FDI through the use of fiscal and financial incentives. This has been done owing to the notion that when foreign companies invest in a host country, productivity gains are assumed to accrue to domestic producers from spillovers generated by foreign affiliates. Despite this being hugely important to public policy choices, there is no conclusive evidence that domestic firms benefit from foreign firms. Empirical studies have shown that spillovers from foreign to domestic firms depend mainly on the country and host firms characteristics. Therefore, this study attempted to empirically examine if in Kenya, domestic firms have benefited from foreign firms using a panel data for the period 2009 to 2011. The study looked at the transmission mechanism, that is, both horizontal and vertical linkages. The study has gone beyond the existing studies in Kenya by capturing firm’s characteristics that determine the spillovers from foreign to domestic firms. To achieve these objectives primary data was collected from various firms in Kenya; this was from a sample of 204 firms from Nairobi, Nakuru, Mombasa and Kisumu cities. The data was captured using a structured questionnaire which was administered to various firms. A fact sheet was used to summarize the data collected before it was cleaned, coded and edited for completeness and accuracy. Thereafter analysis was done using Feasible Generalized Least Square method (FGLS). The study found that foreign firms influenced domestic firm’s productivity through both vertical and horizontal spillovers. Foreign firms were found to channel horizontal spillovers through competition effect, demonstration effect and labour turnover effects. On vertical spillovers small firms were found to benefit most from selling of goods and services to foreign firms. Skills, Gender and size of firms were some of the variables that were found to have a major influence on firms’ productivity in Kenya. Additionally, other variables like technological gap, research and development had an influence on firms’ productivity. The study also found that firms’ ownership characteristics were a major determinant of productivity whereby foreign firms were found to be more productive than domestic firms in the two sectors; manufacturing and agriculture but productivity in the service sector was the same. Finally skills, technological gap, size, research and development were major factors that determined horizontal and vertical spillovers from foreign to domestic firms, other factors like ethnicity and gender were insignificant.
Schenkerian Analysis: Exploring the Exposition Part of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.15 in D Major, Opus. 28, First Movement

: This paper uses Schenkerian music theory to analyze the Beethoven Piano Sonata No.15 in D Major, the first movement's exposition part, a crucial element in sonata form. The analysis employs the Schenkerian music theory, which is a method of musical analysis that focuses on the hierarchical structure of music and the relationships between its various components. It outlines the key features of the Schenkerian approach, such as the concept of Ursatz, which refers to the fundamental structure underlying a piece of music, and the prolongation technique, which involves expanding and elaborating a musical idea. Overall, the paper aims to demonstrate the applicability of the Schenkerian approach to the analysis of classical music and its potential to deepen our understanding of the structure and meaning of musical works.
Redes Y Análisis Organizacional: Roles, Posiciones Y Poder De Fragmentación De Las Relaciones Sociales Y Comerciales (Networks and Organizational Analysis: Roles, Positions and Power of Fragmentation of Social and Commercial Relationships)

Spanish Abstract: En un estudio de caso, con la “Sociedad Cooperativa de Productores Agropecuarios y Lombricultores de San Pedro Tlapacoyan, Veracruz, Mexico”, se observo que uno de los problemas es la actitud y las relaciones inter organizacionales de los productores. A traves de indicadores de redes sociales, se analizaron los roles que juega cada actor, su posicion dentro de la red de relaciones y las relaciones con mayor poder de fragmentacion. Los resultados indican que la importancia de un actor esta mas en funcion de su posicion en la red que del numero de relaciones que presenta cada integrante del grupo de productores. Se encontro que cada actor juega diferentes roles en funcion de sus intereses individuales y que las relaciones sociales presentan mayor poder de fragmentacion sobre las relaciones comerciales.English Abstract: With the Cooperative Society of Agricultural Producers and Lombricultores of San Pedro Tlapacoyan, Veracruz, Mexico", we observe a problem is the attitude and inter organizational relationships of the producers. Through indicators of social nets, we observe the position of actor inside the net of relationships and the relationships plays with more power of fragmentation in the net. The results indicate the importance of an actor is more in function of its position in the net that of the number of relationships that each member of the group of producers presents. We found that each actor plays different roles in the function of his individual interests and that social relationships present bigger power of fragmentation on commercial relationships.
, A Distal and proximal associates of academic performance at secondary level: A mediation model of personality and self-efficacy

– The predictive map for personality-related measures has evolved into distal, proximal and immediate associates of academic performance. This study used distal (Five Factor Model) and proximal (Academic Self-efficacy, ASE) associates with GPA (a specific facet of academic performance) at two time points with secondary level students at sixth form college ( N = 106, average age 17 and evenly balanced by gender). Openness, Conscientiousness and ASE were associated with GPA at weak to moderate levels. In a path analysis with ASE as the mediator, the three constructs explained 17% variance on academic performance at time 1 and 42% at time 2 when a direct effect from GPA1 to GPA2 was introduced, with Openness and ASE remaining statistically significant when controlling for GPA1, and all three constructs provided significant indirect effects. Findings demonstrate the salient value of Openness and Conscientiousness, when configured with ASE as the mediator. Findings are applied to the approaches that facilitate learning pathways and support ability processes in achievement.
Parallel trace-driven cache simulation by time partitioning

The authors describe a technique for performing parallel simulation of a trace of address references for the purpose of evaluating different cache structures. One way to achieve fast parallel simulation is to simulate the individual independent sets of a cache concurrently on different computers, but this technique is not efficient in a statistical sense because of a high correlation of the activity between different sets. Only a small fraction of sets should actually be simulated. To put parallelism to effective use, a trace of the sets to be simulated can be partitioned into disjoint time intervals, and each interval can be simulated concurrently. Because the contents of the cache are unknown at the start of the time intervals, this parallel simulation does not produce the correct counts of cache hits and misses. However, after simulating the trace in parallel, a small amount of resimulation can produce the correct counts. The resimulation effort required is proportional to the size of the cache simulated and not to the length of the trace. <<ETX>>
Synoptic geology of Hungary

The geology of Hungary is best described as an orogenic collage, assembled in the Miocene, and subsequently covered by sediments. Inselbergs serve as outcrops, displaying what is below the Miocene to Quaternary cover. Since the ratio of geologists per km2 of hard rock is possibly the highest in Europe next to The Low Countries, regional geology is quite well known (Trunko, 1996). Correlation between outcrops is best served by thousands of deep boreholes and an extensive network of seismic profiles (results of sixty years of hydrocarbon exploration), making the Pannonian Basin one of the best known great basins of the world.
You Are How You Click: Clickstream Analysis for Sybil Detection

Fake identities and Sybil accounts are pervasive in today's online communities. They are responsible for a growing number of threats, including fake product reviews, malware and spam on social networks, and astroturf political campaigns. Unfortunately, studies show that existing tools such as CAPTCHAs and graph-based Sybil detectors have not proven to be effective defenses. In this paper, we describe our work on building a practical system for detecting fake identities using server-side clickstream models. We develop a detection approach that groups "similar" user clickstreams into behavioral clusters, by partitioning a similarity graph that captures distances between clickstream sequences. We validate our clickstream models using ground-truth traces of 16,000 real and Sybil users from Renren, a large Chinese social network with 220M users. We propose a practical detection system based on these models, and show that it provides very high detection accuracy on our clickstream traces. Finally, we worked with collaborators at Renren and LinkedIn to test our prototype on their server-side data. Following positive results, both companies have expressed strong interest in further experimentation and possible internal deployment.
28-nm FDSOI nMOSFET RF Figures of Merits and Parasitic Elements Extraction at Cryogenic Temperature Down to 77 K

This paper presents detailed RF characterization of 28-nm FDSOI nMOSFETs at cryogenic temperatures down to 77 K. Two main RF figures of merit (FoM), i.e., current gain cutoff frequency (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{T}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) and maximum oscillation frequency (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{\max }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>), as well as elements of small-signal equivalent circuit are extracted from the measured S-parameters. Increases of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{\textit T}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{\max }$ </tex-math></inline-formula> by about 85 GHz and about 30 GHz, respectively, are demonstrated at 77 K. The observed behavior of RF FoMs versus temperature is discussed in terms of small-signal equivalent circuit elements, both intrinsic and extrinsic (parasitics). This paper suggests 28-nm FDSOI as a good candidate for future cryogenic applications.
CAPRI long-term climate change scenario analysis: The AgMIP approach

The current paper investigates the long-term global effects of crops productivity changes under different climate scenarios and the impact of biofuels expansion using the Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact (CAPRI) model. These analyses are conducted in the framework of the AgMIP project (Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project). The results indicate that globally there will be both winners and losers, with some regions benefitting from agricultural production adjustment as a result of climate change whilst most regions suffering losses in production and consumption. Biofuel expansion leads to land relocation away from crop agricultural commodity production to new energy crops which is reflected in lower production levels of agricultural commodities and higher agricultural prices.
and self-reported

Several authors have argued that dehumanization may be the psychological process that underlies people’s willingness to torture outgroup members. In the current research, we directly examined this question among Christian participants, with Muslims as the target outgroup. Across two studies, we found that to the extent that Christians dehumanized Muslims, they were more likely to self-report the willingness to torture Muslim prisoners of war. We also found that perceiving Muslims as a threat moderated the relationship between dehumanization and the self-reported proclivity to torture. These findings support the propositions made by previous authors on the role of dehumanization in torture, war and genocide.
Sensitivities of Modeled Tropical Cyclones to Surface Friction and the Coriolis Parameter

In this investigation the sensitivities of a 2-D tropical cyclone (TC) model to surface frictional coefficient and the Coriolis parameter are studied and their implication is discussed. The model used is an axisymmetric version of the latest version of the Goddard cloud ensemble model. The model has stretched vertical grids with 33 levels varying from 30 m near the bottom to 1140 m near the top. The vertical domain is about 21 km. The horizontal domain covers a radius of 962 km (770 grids) with a grid size of 1.25 km. The time step is 10 seconds. An open lateral boundary condition is used. The sea surface temperature is specified at 29C. Unless specified otherwise, the Coriolis parameter is set at its value at 15 deg N. The Newtonian cooling is used with a time scale of 12 hours. The reference vertical temperature profile used in the Newtonian cooling is that of Jordan. The Newtonian cooling models not only the effect of radiative processes but also the effect of processes with scale larger than that of TC. Our experiments showed that if the Newtonian cooling is replaced by a radiation package, the simulated TC is much weaker. The initial condition has a temperature uniform in the radial direction and its vertical profile is that of Jordan. The initial winds are a weak Rankin vortex in the tangential winds superimposed on a resting atmosphere. The initial sea level pressure is set at 1015 hPa everywhere. Since there is no surface pressure perturbation, the initial condition is not in gradient balance. This initial condition is enough to lead to cyclogenesis, but the initial stage (say, the first 24 hrs) is not considered to resemble anything observed. The control experiment reaches quasi-equilibration after about 10 days with an eye wall extending from 15 to 25 km radius, reasonable comparing with the observations. The maximum surface wind of more than 70 m/s is located at about 18 km radius. The minimum sea level pressure on day 10 is about 886 hPa. Thus the overall simulation is considered successful and the model is considered adequate for our investigation.
Cache Coherence

Directory-based cache coherence is a popular mechanism for chip multiprocessors and multicores. The directory protocol, however, requires multicast for invalidation messages and the collection of acknowledgement messages, which can be expensive in terms of latency and network traffic. Furthermore, the size of the directory increases with the number of cores. We present Library Cache Coherence (LCC), which requires neither broadcast/multicast for invalidations nor waiting for invalidation acknowledgements. A library is a set of timestamps that are used to auto-invalidate shared cache lines, and delay writes on the lines until all shared copies expire. The size of library is independent of the number of cores. By removing the complex invalidation process of directorybased cache coherence protocols, LCC generates fewer network messages. At the same time, LCC also allows reads on a cache block to take place while a write to the block is being delayed, without breaking sequential consistency. As a result, LCC has 1.85X less average memory latency than a MESI directory-based protocol on our set of benchmarks, even with a simple timestamp choosing algorithm; moreover, our experimental results on LCC with an ideal timestamp scheme (though not implementable) show the potential of further improvement for LCC with more sophisticated timestamp schemes.