Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Anatomy of Retail Internationalisation: Daimaru's Decision to Invest in Melbourne, Australia

The article addresses the need for empirical work on retailer internationalisation. It reviews the literature, explores the process of international development, and investigates the way in which decisions are made at this level. The article uses the ‘decision effectiveness’ concept to examine the internationalisation of Japanese department store groups between 1950 and 1995, and focuses on Daimaru's decision to invest in a new outlet in Melbourne. On the basis of interviews with company executives in Australia and Japan associated with the decision, the article concludes by emphasising how the perspective gained thereby may help in the understanding of the interrelatedness of the main components of internationalisation.
Successfully implementing and embedding guidelines to improve the nutrition and growth of preterm infants in neonatal intensive care: a prospective interventional study

Objectives We aimed to improve the nutritional care of preterm infants by developing a complex (multifaceted) intervention intended to translate current evidence into practice. We used the sociological framework of Normalization Process Theory (NPT), to guide implementation in order to embed the new practices into routine care. Design A prospective interventional study with a before and after methodology. Participants Infants <30 weeks gestation or <1500 g at birth. Setting Tertiary neonatal intensive care unit. Interventions The intervention was introduced in phases: phase A (control period, January–August 2011); phase B (partial implementation; improved parenteral and enteral nutrition solutions, nutrition team, education, August–December 2011); phase C (full implementation; guidelines, screening tool, ‘nurse champions’, January–December 2012); phase D (postimplementation; January–June 2013). Bimonthly audits and staff NPT questionnaires were used to measure guideline compliance and ‘normalisation’, respectively. NPT Scores were used to guide implementation in real time. Data on nutrient intakes and growth were collected continuously. Results There were 52, 36, 75 and 35 infants in phases A, B, C and D, respectively. Mean guideline compliance exceeded 75% throughout the intervention period, peaking at 85%. Guideline compliance and NPT scores both increased over time, (r=0.92 and 0.15, p<0.03 for both), with a significant linear association between the two (r=0.21, p<0.01). There were significant improvements in daily protein intake and weight gain between birth and discharge in phases B and Ccompared with phase A (p<0.01 for all), which were sustained into phase D. Conclusions NPT and audit results suggest that the intervention was rapidly incorporated into practice, with high guideline compliance and accompanying improvements in protein intake and weight gain. NPT appears to offer an effective way of implementing new practices such that they lead to sustained changes in care. Complex interventions based on current evidence can improve both practice and clinical outcomes.
Limits to Communities of Practice

The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the communities of practice approach to managing knowledge and its use among management academics and practitioners in recent years. In so doing, the aim is to identify the limits of the approach in the field of knowledge management. The paper begins with a brief description of the communities of practice approach. This is followed by a review of critiques of the approach evident in the management literature. A number of further challenges are then elaborated. The limits of communities of practice are subsequently discussed and brief conclusions drawn.
Deep Region Hashing for Generic Instance Search from Images

Instance Search (INS) is a fundamental problem for many applications, while it is more challenging comparing to traditional image search since the relevancy is defined at the instance level. Existing works have demonstrated the success of many complex ensemble systems that are typically conducted by firstly generating object proposals, and then extracting handcrafted and/or CNN features of each proposal for matching. However, object bounding box proposals and feature extraction are often conducted in two separated steps, thus the effectiveness of these methods collapses. Also, due to the large amount of generated proposals, matching speed becomes the bottleneck that limits its application to large-scale datasets. To tackle these issues, in this paper we propose an effective and efficient Deep Region Hashing (DRH) approach for large-scale INS using an image patch as the query. Specifically, DRH is an end-to-end deep neural network which consists of object proposal, feature extraction, and hash code generation. DRH shares full-image convolutional feature map with the region proposal network, thus enabling nearly cost-free region proposals. Also, each high-dimensional, real-valued region features are mapped onto a low-dimensional, compact binary codes for the efficient object region level matching on large-scale dataset. Experimental results on four datasets show that our DRH can achieve even better performance than the state-of-the-arts in terms of mAP, while the efficiency is improved by nearly 100 times.
Guanxi and Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analysis

Guanxi, a social network tie drawing on connections in business relations, has been identified as a powerful strategic tool helping organizations maintain competitive advantages and achieve superior performance. However, prior empirical studies on die gM/m-performance link provide indefinite conclusions. The purpose of this study is to systematically review and quandfy the guanxi-performance link in a meta-analytic framework by decomposing guanxi into business ties (i.e., guanxi with business partners) and government ties (i.e., guanxi with government authorities) and organizational performance into economic performance and operational performance. Based on effect sizes from fifty-three studies encompassing 20,212 organizations, we estimate that the overall effect size of the guanxi-pertormance relationship is positive and significant, thus endorsing the argument that guanxi does enhance organizational performance. Specifically, our meta-analysis results demonstrate that both business and government ties lead to both economic and operational performance. However, business ties have a bigger impact on operational performance, whereas government ties exert larger effects on economic performance. Further meta-analytic regression results suggest that ownership (state-owned vs. non-state-owned) and location (Mainland vs. overseas China) explain some of the variations of the guanxi-performance link. Both business and government ties are more important to organizations in Mainland China than to those in overseas China. Government ties are more important to state-owned than to non-state-owned organizations. Lasdy, while business ties remain a valuable strategic tool in China, the importance of government ties is time-variant and has been declining with the development of the institutional environment in China.
EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS OF CONSUMPTION‐INVESTMENT PROBLEMS IN FINANCIAL MARKETS WITH REGIME SWITCHING

We consider a consumption and investment problem where the market presents different regimes. An investor taking decisions continuously in time selects a consumption–investment policy to maximize his expected total discounted utility of consumption. The market coefficients and the investor's utility of consumption are dependent on the regime of the financial market, which is modeled by an observable finite‐state continuous‐time Markov chain. We obtain explicit optimal consumption and investment policies for specific HARA utility functions. We show that the optimal policy depends on the regime. We also make an economic analysis of the solutions, and show that for every investor the optimal proportion to allocate in the risky asset is greater in a “bull market” than in a “bear market. ” This behavior is not affected by the investor's risk preferences. On the other hand, the optimal consumption to wealth ratio depends not only on the regime, but also on the investor's risk tolerance: high risk‐averse investors will consume relatively more in a “bull market” than in a “bear market,” and the opposite is true for low risk‐averse investors.
Transition from Juvenile to Adult Criminal Careers, The

Compared with the United States and Britain, Australia has conducted comparatively little research into juvenile re-offending and none (as far as can be determined) into the transition between juvenile and adult offending. The present bulletin presents the findings from a preliminary study into factors that affect the rate of juvenile offending and the proportion of juveniles whose criminal careers stretch into adulthood. Contrary to previously published research, we find a high proportion of juveniles making their first appearance in a Children's Court continue their offending into adulthood, particularly if their first court appearance occurred when they were young. The implications of this finding for juvenile justice policy are discussed.
The Employment and Wage Effects of Oil Price Changes: A Sectoral Analysis

In this paper, we use micro panel data to examine the effects of oil price changes on employment and real wages, at the aggregate and industry levels. We also measure differences in the employment and wage responses for workers differentiated on the basis of skill level. We find that oil price increases result in a substantial decline in real wages for all workers, but raise the relative wage of skilled workers. The use of panel data econometric techniques to control for unobserved heterogeneity is essential to uncover this result, which is completely hidden in OLS estimates. We find that changes in oil prices induce changes in employment shares and relative wages across industries. However, we find little evidence that oil price changes cause labor to consistently flow into those sectors with relative wage increases.
Advocating for Policy Change in Nonprofit Coalitions

As nonprofit organizations have become more essential to public service delivery, their representatives increasingly seek to influence the public policy process. In spite of this tendency toward advocacy, research often overlooks the nuanced perspective of nonprofit representatives who undertake such activity through coalitions. The analysis presented here offers an accounting of the struggles faced by nonprofit professionals as they pursue the myriad activities that constitute an advocate’s portfolio. The work is guided by a reconsideration of the dichotomies prevalent in nonprofit advocacy research and is presented through the eyes and words of nonprofit advocates. The research uses the context of a particular network of coalition organizations and service providers in the area of affordable housing. Drawn from a grounded theory approach, the findings offer emergent themes that deserve attention when designing new studies on nonprofit advocacy.
Creative industries in a rural region: Creative West: The creative sector in the Western Region of Ireland

ABSTRACT Much of the policy debate surrounding the creative sector focuses on urban areas; however, particular ‘place’ strengths that exist in rural areas can attract creative workers. Developing the creative sector in rural areas has the potential to generate sustainable high-quality enterprise and employment opportunities and contribute to rural diversification. This article examines the potential and challenges for the creative sector in rural regions through the case of the rural Western Region of Ireland and the activities of the Western Development Commission. The creative sector in the region accounts for approximately 3 per cent of employment and 1.3 per cent of Gross Value Added, is dominated by micro-enterprises and self-employed individuals and has low export activity. Quality of life, the natural environment and the region's creative legacy are critical factors in attracting creative people to this rural region. Challenges for businesses in the sector include the need to attract and retain current and future creative talent, as well as threats to the region's key ‘creative place’ strengths. Issues around the provision and quality of infrastructure, including broadband access and transport links, also exist. Development of policy and networking opportunities is important in supporting the sector's growth in rural regions.
Height and Per Capita Income

As an aid to interpreting the results of height-by-age studies this paper investigates the relationship between average height and per capita income. The relationships among income, nutrition, medical care, and height at the individual level suggest that average height is nonlinearly related to per capita income and that the distribution of income is an important determinant of average height. Empirical analysis rests on 56 height studies and per capita income estimates for 20 developed or developing countries.
Transparency, accounting knowledge and perceived fairness in UK universities. Resource allocation: results from a survey of accounting and finance

Abstract This paper provides the first published ‘bottom up’, as opposed to ‘top down’ view of how universities allocate resources to academic subjects. It reports results from a survey of how university resource allocation is seen and understood by a particular academic subject group, Accounting and Finance, the one subject group which may be assumed to be professionally competent to deal with resourcing methods. It shows that there are significant differences amongst UK universities in the use of financial information for academic management and in the transparency to academic subject groups of university planning and resource allocation. Perhaps the most important findings are that it is only with a high degree of such transparency that resource allocations are likely to be perceived to be fair and that this perceived fairness may be related to formal features of accounting knowledge.
CYP701A8: A Rice ent-Kaurene Oxidase Paralog Diverted to More Specialized Diterpenoid Metabolism1[W][OA]

All higher plants contain an ent-kaurene oxidase (KO), as such a cytochrome P450 (CYP) 701 family member is required for gibberellin (GA) phytohormone biosynthesis. While gene expansion and functional diversification of GA-biosynthesis-derived diterpene synthases into more specialized metabolism has been demonstrated, no functionally divergent KO/CYP701 homologs have been previously identified. Rice (Oryza sativa) contains five CYP701A subfamily members in its genome, despite the fact that only one (OsKO2/CYP701A6) is required for GA biosynthesis. Here we demonstrate that one of the other rice CYP701A subfamily members, OsKOL4/CYP701A8, does not catalyze the prototypical conversion of the ent-kaurene C4α-methyl to a carboxylic acid, but instead carries out hydroxylation at the nearby C3α position in a number of related diterpenes. In particular, under conditions where OsKO2 catalyzes the expected conversion of ent-kaurene to ent-kaurenoic acid required for GA biosynthesis, OsKOL4 instead efficiently reacts with ent-sandaracopimaradiene and ent-cassadiene to produce the corresponding C3α-hydroxylated diterpenoids. These compounds are expected intermediates in biosynthesis of the oryzalexin and phytocassane families of rice antifungal phytoalexins, respectively, and can be detected in rice plants under the appropriate conditions. Thus, it appears that OsKOL4 plays a role in the more specialized diterpenoid metabolism of rice, and our results provide evidence for divergence of a KO/CYP701 family member from GA biosynthesis. This further expands the range of enzymes recruited from the ancestral GA primary pathway to the more complex and specialized labdane-related diterpenoid metabolic network found in rice.
Power quality indices and objectives. Ongoing activities in CIGRE WG 36-07

This paper gives an overview of the ongoing activities in CIGRE WG36-07: "Power quality indices and objectives". It introduces the considerations supporting the need for power quality indices and objectives in the present context of deregulation of the electricity industry. Experts generally agree on the need for standardized quality indices allowing to monitor and to report power quality in a common format. However, concerning quality objectives the need is more likely for different levels of quality that can match customers expectations and the price they are wilting to pay for electricity. Some practical limitations to voltage quality monitoring are also discussed. The status of the work within the working group is described for harmonics, flicker, unbalance and voltage dips.
The Utilization of Education and Skills: Evidence from Britain

This paper assesses how far the products of education are utilized in the British labour market, and how utilization has recently changed. We distinguish the concepts of "under-education", "over-education" and "qualification inflation". Using data from four surveys we find that over-education, while substantial, has been stable since the mid-1980s. Although observed over-education is partly associated with low ability compared with one's educational peers, both over-education and skill under-utilization are also associated with mismatch in the labour market, and both involve a loss of wages. We conclude that, in order to inform policy, education and skill utilization should be closely monitored. Copyright 2002 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd and The Victoria University of Manchester
Paying the price of excluding patients from a trauma registry.

BACKGROUND The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of different trauma registry exclusion criteria on the assessment of trauma populations and outcome. METHODS All patients admitted to a Canadian regional trauma center from April 1, 1993 to March 31, 2002 with a diagnosis of trauma (ICD-9 codes 800 to 959) were reviewed. TOTAL included everyone. REGISTRY included only patients meeting any of four criteria: death during hospital stay, transfer received from another hospital, admission to the intensive care unit, or hospital stay of 3 days or more. NOHIP excluded patients with isolated hip fracture. REG/NOHIP combined both. ISS12 and ISS15 excluded patients with ISS <12 and 15, respectively. RESULTS There were 6,839 trauma patients. The percentage of excluded patients by group was: REGISTRY, 21.2%; NOHIP, 14.7%; REG/NOHIP, 34.9%; ISS12, 75%; and ISS15, 80.3%. Median length of stay was 7 days. Exclusions represented a total number of hospitalization days varying from 1.9% to 65.5% of TOTAL. Mortality was 6.9% for TOTAL, 8.6% for REGISTRY (p < 0.001), 5.7% for NOHIP (p = 0.009), 7.5% for REG/NOHIP (p=NS), 16.1% for ISS12 (p < 0.001), and 20.4% for ISS15 (p < 0.001). In groups with exclusions, transfer to long-term care varied from 0.14% to 23.5% in the excluded patients. For rehabilitation, these percentages varied from 0.14% to 17.6%. CONCLUSIONS Registry exclusion criteria significantly alter the apparent severity of injury and resource utilization. The use of divergent exclusion criteria in the analysis of trauma registry data may be misleading.
The influence of feature selection methods on exercise classification with inertial measurement units

Inertial measurement unit (IMU) based systems are becoming increasingly popular in the classification of human movement. While research in the area has established the utility of various machine learning classification methods, there is a paucity of evidence investigating the effect of feature selection on classification efficacy. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate the influence of feature selection methodology on the classification accuracy of human movement data. The efficacy of four commonly used feature selection and classification methods were compared using four IMU human movement data sets. Optimisation of classification and features selection methodologies resulted in an overall improvement in F1 score of between 1–8% for all four data sets. The findings from this study illustrate the need for researchers to consider the effect classification and feature selection methodologies may have on system efficacy.
Teachers' Comfort Level, Confidence, and Attitude toward Technology at a Technology Course

This study examined the impact of a technology course on in-service teachers. Teachers' comfort level, beliefs, confidence, and attitude toward the use of technology were investigated. The impact of the course with different degrees of technology integration was also researched. The results indicate that the course increased students' comfort level, confidence, and attitude toward the use of technology. The findings also indicate that no significant difference was found on comfort level, confidence, and attitude between the two groups who had different degrees of emphasis on technology integration. (Author/MES) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY
Students’ Perceptions of Managerial Competencies: A Study of Undergraduate Tourism and Hospitality Students at the University of Botswana

Observations by Riggs and Hughey (2011) support the existence of a gap between the managerial competencies of tourism and hospitality students and competencies required in the industry. In response, the author examines self assessments of managerial competencies and roles among 84 students at the University of Botswana in this study. Findings reveal that students perceive they are strongly competent in interpersonal communication and least competent in oral presentations. Students perceive the mentor role as one of the dominant roles that they possess, while the coordinator role obtained the lowest score. The study strongly recommends that academics utilize teaching approaches that allow students autonomy in learning.
The genetic basis of long QT and short QT syndromes: A mutation update

Long QT and short QT syndromes (LQTS and SQTS) are cardiac repolarization abnormalities that are characterized by length perturbations of the QT interval as measured on electrocardiogram (ECG). Prolonged QT interval and a propensity for ventricular tachycardia of the torsades de pointes (TdP) type are characteristic of LQTS, while SQTS is characterized by shortened QT interval with tall peaked T‐waves and a propensity for atrial fibrillation. Both syndromes represent a high risk for syncope and sudden death. LQTS exists as a congenital genetic disease (cLQTS) with more than 700 mutations described in 12 genes (LQT1–12), but can also be acquired (aLQTS). The genetic forms of LQTS include Romano‐Ward syndrome (RWS), which is characterized by isolated LQTS and an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance, and syndromes with LQTS in association with other conditions. The latter includes Jervell and Lange‐Nielsen syndrome (JLNS), Andersen syndrome (AS), and Timothy syndrome (TS). The genetics are further complicated by the occurrence of double and triple heterozygotes in LQTS and a considerable number of nonpathogenic rare polymorphisms in the involved genes. SQTS is a very rare condition, caused by mutations in five genes (SQTS1–5). The present mutation update is a comprehensive description of all known LQTS‐ and SQTS‐associated mutations. Hum Mutat 30:1486–1511, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.