Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Distributive and procedural justice as predictors of satisfaction with personal and organizational outcomes.

Distributive justice was found to be a more important predictor of two personal outcomes, pay satisfaction and job satisfaction, than procedural justice, whereas the reverse was true for two organizational outcomes-organizational commitment and subordinate's evaluation of supervisor. However, procedural and distributive justice also interacted in predicting organizational outcomes. We discuss limitations of this study and directions for future research.
A Comparison of the Optical Properties of Radio-loud and Radio-quiet Quasars

We have made radio observations of 87 optically selected quasars at 5 GHz with the VLA in order to measure the radio power for these objects and hence determine how the fraction of radio-loud quasars varies with redshift and optical luminosity. The sample has been selected from the recently completed Edinburgh Quasar Survey and covers a redshift range of 0.3≤z≤1.5 and an optical absolute magnitude range of -26.5≤MB≤-23.5 (h=1/2, q0=1/2). We have also matched other existing surveys with the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters and NRAO VLA Sky Survey radio catalogs and combined these data so that the optical luminosity-redshift plane is now far better sampled than before. We have fitted a model to the probability of a quasar being radio-loud as a function of absolute magnitude and redshift, and from this model we infer the radio-loud and radio-quiet optical luminosity functions. The radio-loud optical luminosity function is featureless and flatter than the radio-quiet one. It evolves at a marginally slower rate if quasars evolve by density evolution, but the difference in the rate of evolutions of the two different classes is much less than was previously thought. We show, using Monte Carlo simulations, that the observed difference in the shape of the optical luminosity functions can be partly accounted for by Doppler boosting of the optical continuum of the radio-loud quasars, and we explain how this can be tested in the future.
Architectural abstractions for space awareness

It is widely known that the recognition of a sound software architecture makes the success of a software system. Unfortunately, even if the domain model relies on sound ontological bases, its mapping into an architecture that effectively reifies the model is a difficult task. In order to fill the semantic gap, relevant domain concepts should directly turn into architectural abstractions. Space plays a crucial role in many application domains but, surprisingly, no related architectural abstractions have been defined yet. The paper proposes space-related architectural abstractions derived from the application of classical software engineering principles. Since similar principles supported the definition of space ontologies, the conjecture is that our space architectural abstractions are good candidates for a formalisation in ontological terms.
Abnormal nerve conduction features in fragile X premutation carriers.

BACKGROUND Distal neuropathy is part of the clinical phenotype in most males with the fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) caused by the 55 to 200 CGG repeat expansion. METHODS We performed nerve conduction studies in 16 male carriers with FXTAS, 11 non-FXTAS carriers, and 11 control subjects and assessed the outcomes with respect to the fragile X mental retardation 1 genotype (FMR1) (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man [OMIM] 309550; NT011681) and messenger RNA expression. RESULTS Men with FXTAS had slower tibial nerve conduction velocities and prolonged F-wave latencies compared with controls (z = 2.06, P = .04; and z = 2.73, P = .005) and unaffected premutation males (z = 1.98, P = .04; and z = 2.00, P = .04). Compound muscle action potential amplitudes were smaller in the FXTAS group relative to controls. Sural nerve action potential amplitudes were reduced in the FXTAS group compared with controls. After controlling for age, there was a significant relationship between the longer CGG repeat number and tibial nerve conduction velocity slowing (r = -0.42, P = .04) and between elevated messenger RNA levels and reduction of the tibial compound muscle action potential velocity (r = -0.52, P = .01) in the permutation group. CONCLUSIONS Male premutation carriers had significant conduction abnormalities of motor and sensory nerves that correlated with molecular measures, suggesting that the premutation FMR1 genotype is a causal factor. There was also evidence of nerve conduction abnormalities in non-FXTAS carriers compared with controls, which suggests that the neuropathy can occur without the full clinical presentation of FXTAS.
PENGARUH DUKUNGAN REKAN KERJA DAN DUKUNGAN KELUARGA TERHADAP KINERJA DENGAN JOB EMBEDDEDNESS SEBAGAI PEMEDIASI PADA ANGGOTA KEPOLISIAN SATLANTAS POLRESTA BANDA ACEH

This study aims to determine the effect of coworker and family support on performance with job embeddedness as a mediator. Empirical study was conducted on police personnel in Satlantas Polresta of Banda Aceh using questionnaires as research instruments, in which the sample in this study is 86 respondents. Nonprobability Sampling is used as sampling technique with Sensus Sampling method. The Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) method was used as a data analysis method using the IBM SPSS 20 software. The results of this study indicate that the coworker and family support have a positive and significant effect on performance, job embeddedness have a positif and significant effect on performance, and the coworker and family support have a positif and significant effect on job embeddedness. In addition to the results obtained that job embeddedness mediate the positive influence of coworker and family support on performance.
Real-World Clinical Effectiveness and Tolerability of Hydroxychloroquine 400 Mg in Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Subjects who are not Willing to Initiate Insulin Therapy (HYQ-Real-World Study).

OBJECTIVE The epidemic of T2DM is rising across the globe. Systemic inflammation plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis and complications of T2DM. Combination of two or more oral hypoglycemic agents (OHA) is widely prescribed in patients with T2DM, however many patients have poor glycemic control despite receiving combination therapy. The new antidiabetic drugs are relatively costly or many patients have anxiety over the use of injectable insulin. The objective of this observational study was to investigate the effectiveness and tolerability of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in T2DM patients uncontrolled on multiple OHA and despite high sugar level not willing to initiate insulin therapy in a real-world clinical setting. METHODS A prospective, investigator-initiated, observational, single-centred study was conducted where 250 patients (18-65 years) with T2DM for more than 5 years, with uncontrolled glycemia despite on a combination of multiple OHA, HbA1c between ≥7% and <10.5%, FPG >130 mg/dL or PPG >180 mg/dL and BMI between >25 and <39 kg/m2, were prescribed hydroxychloroquine sulphate 400 mg once daily for 48 weeks. Percentage of drugs used at the baseline were as follows: metformin 2000 mg (100%), glimepiride 4 mg (100%), pioglitazone 30 mg (100%), sitagliptin 100 mg (100%), canagliflozin 300 mg (52.4%), empagliflozin 25 mg (22.8%), dapagliflozin 10 mg (17.6%) and voglibose 0.3 mg (62%). Mean change in HbA1c, blood glucose and hs-CRP at baseline, week 12, 24 and 48 were assessed using the paired t-test. RESULTS After 48 weeks of add-on treatment with HCQ, almost all SGLT-2 inhibitors were withdrawn; metformin dose was reduced to 1000 mg, glimepiride reduced to 1 mg and sitagliptin reduced to 50 mg OD. Patients continued to have good glycemic control. HbA1c was reduced from 8.83% to 6.44%. Reduction in FPG was 40.78% (baseline 177.30 mg/dL) and PPG was reduced by 58.95% (baseline 329.86 mg/dL). Change in mean body weight was -4.66 Kg. The reduction in glycemic parameters and mean body weight was significant (p < 0.0001). Hs-CRP was significantly reduced from 2.70±1.98 mg/L to 0.71±0.30 mg/L 9 (p < 0.0001). More reduction in glycemic parameters and body weight was observed among the patients with higher hs-CRP (> 3 mg/L) as compared to patients with baseline hs- CRP ≤ 3 mg/L. Most common adverse events reported with the drug therapy were GI irritation (3.6%) and hypoglycemia (2%). None of the patients required medical assistance for hypoglycemia. CONCLUSION Add-on treatment of HCQ effectively improved glycemic control in T2DM patients uncontrolled on multiple antidiabetic drugs. By virtue of its antidiabetic and anti-inflammatory properties, it may emerge as a valuable therapeutic intervention for the patients with T2DM.
A Phase I study of continuous infusion doxorubicin and paclitaxel chemotherapy with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for relapsed epithelial ovarian cancer.

A Phase I study of paclitaxel and doxorubicin administered as concurrent 96-h continuous i.v. infusion was performed to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), principal toxicities, and pharmacokinetics of this combination in women with relapsed epithelial ovarian cancer. The paclitaxel dose was fixed at 100 mg/m2 (25 mg/m2/day for 4 days). The dose of doxorubicin was escalated from 30 mg/m2 (7.5 mg/m2/day for 4 days) in increments of 10 mg/m2 until dose-limiting toxicity was observed. All patients received granulocyte colony-stimulating factor 5 microg/kg/day prophylactically. Apparent steady-state plasma levels of both drugs were determined in the final cohort of patients treated at the MTD. A total of 17 patients received 52 cycles of therapy. The median age was 58 years, and all patients had previously received one to five different regimens (median, 2) of chemotherapy, including both platinum and paclitaxel. The treatment was tolerated well, with grade 1-2 nausea being the most frequent side effect (73% of cycles). Anemia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, and mucositis became dose limiting at the fourth dose level, defining the MTD of doxorubicin in this regimen as 50 mg/m2. There were four partial responses and one complete response in 15 evaluable patients. Apparent steady-state plasma concentrations (mean +/- SD) of paclitaxel and doxorubicin in the three patients treated at the MTD were 33.9 +/- 12.5 nM and 15.7 +/- 1.3 nM, respectively. Paclitaxel and doxorubicin by continuous infusion is a well-tolerated and active chemotherapy regimen for recurrent ovarian cancer.
Fast Rates with Unbounded Losses

We present new excess risk bounds for randomized and deterministic estimators for general unbounded loss functions including log loss and squared loss. Our bounds are expressed in terms of the information complexity and hold under the recently introduced $v$-central condition, allowing for high-probability bounds, and its weakening, the $v$-pseudoprobability convexity condition, allowing for bounds in expectation even under heavy-tailed distributions. The parameter $v$ determines the achievable rate and is akin to the exponent in the Tsybakov margin condition and the Bernstein condition for bounded losses, which the $v$-conditions generalize; favorable $v$ in combination with small information complexity leads to $\tilde{O}(1/n)$ rates. While these fast rate conditions control the lower tail of the excess loss, the upper tail is controlled by a new type of witness-of-badness condition which allows us to connect the excess risk to a generalized R\'enyi divergence, generalizing previous results connecting Hellinger distance to KL divergence.
A Large-Scale Open-Source Acoustic Simulator for Speaker Recognition

The state-of-the-art speaker-recognition systems suffer from significant performance loss on degraded speech conditions and acoustic mismatch between enrolment and test phases. Past international evaluation campaigns, such as the NIST speaker recognition evaluation (SRE), have partly addressed these challenges in some evaluation conditions. This work aims at further assessing and compensating for the effect of a wide variety of speech-degradation processes on speaker-recognition performance. We present an open-source simulator generating degraded telephone, VoIP, and interview-speech recordings using a comprehensive list of narrow-band, wide-band, and audio codecs, together with a database of over 60 h of environmental noise recordings and over 100 impulse responses collected from publicly available data. We provide speaker-verification results obtained with an i-vector-based system using either a clean or degraded PLDA back-end on a NIST SRE subset of data corrupted by the proposed simulator. While error rates increase considerably under degraded speech conditions, large relative equal error rate (EER) reductions were observed when using a PLDA model trained with a large number of degraded sessions per speaker.
Polyphenol Oxidases in Crops: Biochemical, Physiological and Genetic Aspects

Enzymatic browning is a colour reaction occurring in plants, including cereals, fruit and horticultural crops, due to oxidation during postharvest processing and storage. This has a negative impact on the colour, flavour, nutritional properties and shelf life of food products. Browning is usually caused by polyphenol oxidases (PPOs), following cell damage caused by senescence, wounding and the attack of pests and pathogens. Several studies indicated that PPOs play a role in plant immunity, and emerging evidence suggested that PPOs might also be involved in other physiological processes. Genomic investigations ultimately led to the isolation of PPO homologs in several crops, which will be possibly characterized at the functional level in the near future. Here, focusing on the botanic families of Poaceae and Solanaceae, we provide an overview on available scientific literature on PPOs, resulting in useful information on biochemical, physiological and genetic aspects.
Culturally Situated Design Tools: Ethnocomputing from Field Site to Classroom

Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas and practices situated in their cultural context. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts—Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and so forth—using these underlying mathematical principles. This article is a review of the anthropological issues raised in the CSDT project: negotiating the representations of cultural knowledge during the design process with community members, negotiating pedagogical features with math teachers and their students, and reflecting on the software development itself as a cultural construction. The move from ethnomathematics to ethnocomputing results in an expressive computational medium that affords new opportunities to explore the relationships between youth identity and culture, the cultural construction of mathematics and computing, and the formation of cultural and technological hybridity.
Achieving the sustainable development goals: surfacing the role for a gender analytic of migration

ABSTRACT This paper forms the introduction to the Special Issue: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the Gender, Migration and Development Nexus. This article takes a broad look at the changing dynamics of migration and development through the feminisation of globalised labour flows and the gendered experiences of categorisation by states and multilateral bodies, and the gender-specific vulnerabilities and outcomes of human mobility. We illustrate how a more nuanced approach to the SDGs that incorporates gender and migration is needed in order that policy and programming designed to achieve the 2030 Agenda is accurately informed and appropriately framed. In this paper and this Issue, we argue, that it is necessary to confront the SDGs with a deeper understanding of gender, migration and development in order to illuminate the interconnected globalised and transnational realities of gendered labour flows. With this aim in mind, we look to civil society participation and the role of the existing human rights architecture, as the key to ensuring that a deep, wholistic and ultimately universal application of the SDGs can be achieved addressing those populations whose rights to development have been undermined by dint of their migration or flight and applying a gender analysis to our understanding of migration and development.
Audience engagement in multimedia presentations

Engagement in training and educational presentations facilitates learning. This paper describes engagement and proposes that it is conceptually similar to the state of playfulness, a construct increasingly applied to studies of human-computer interactions. It then describes how multimedia technologies can influence listeners' engagement during presentations. Results from pilot and main studies suggest that students' engagement in multimedia presentations can be increased by developing presentations that provide more challenge, feedback, presenter control, and variety. The paper concludes by discussing implications for research and practice.
Polytypic programming in COQ

The aim of our work is to provide an infrastructure for formal proofs over Generic Haskell-style polytypic programs. For this goal to succeed, we must have a definition of polytypic programming which is both fully formal and as close as possible to the definition in Generic Haskell. In this paper we show a formalization in the proof assistant Coq of type and term specialization. Our definition of term specialization can be interpreted as a formal proof that the result of term specialization has the type computed by type specialization.
CloudAnalyst: A CloudSim-Based Visual Modeller for Analysing Cloud Computing Environments and Applications

Advances in Cloud computing opens up many new possibilities for Internet applications developers. Previously, a main concern of Internet applications developers was deployment and hosting of applications, because it required acquisition of a server with a fixed capacity able to handle the expected application peak demand and the installation and maintenance of the whole software infrastructure of the platform supporting the application. Furthermore, server was underutilized because peak traffic happens only at specific times. With the advent of the Cloud, deployment and hosting became cheaper and easier with the use of pay-peruse flexible elastic infrastructure services offered by Cloud providers. Because several Cloud providers are available, each one offering different pricing models and located in different geographic regions, a new concern of application developers is selecting providers and data center locations for applications. However, there is a lack of tools that enable developers to evaluate requirements of large-scale Cloud applications in terms of geographic distribution of both computing servers and user workloads. To fill this gap in tools for evaluation and modeling of Cloud environments and applications, we propose CloudAnalyst. It was developed to simulate large-scale Cloud applications with the purpose of studying the behavior of such applications under various deployment configurations. CloudAnalyst helps developers with insights in how to distribute applications among Cloud infrastructures and value added services such as optimization of applications performance and providers incoming with the use of Service Brokers.
Rare earth dopant (Nd, Gd, Dy, and Er) hybridization in lithium tetraborate

The four dopants (Nd, Gd, Dy, and Er) substitutionally occupy the Li+ sites in lithium tetraborate (Li2B4O7: RE) glasses as determined by analysis of the extended X-ray absorption fine structure. The dopants are coordinated by 6-8 oxygen at a distance of 2.3 to 2.5 A, depending on the rare earth. The inverse relationship between the RE¬ O coordination distance and rare earth (RE) atomic number is consistent with the expected lanthanide atomic radial contraction with increased atomic number. Through analysis of the X-ray absorption near edge structure, the rare earth dopants adopt the RE3+ valence state. There are indications of strong rare earth 5d hybridization with the trigonal and tetrahedral formations of BO3 and BO4 based on the determination of the rare earth substitutional Li+ site occupancy from the X-ray absorption near edge structure data. The local oxygen disorder around the RE3+ luminescence centers evident in the structural determination of the various glasses, and the hybridization of the RE3+ dopants with the host may contribute to the asymmetry evident in the luminescence emission spectral lines. The luminescence emission spectra are indeed characteristic of the expected f-to-f transitions; however, there is an observed asymmetry in some emission lines.
Paradoxical Virtual Leadership: Reconsidering Virtuality Through a Paradox Lens

This conceptual article moves the conversation about virtual leadership forward by blending extant knowledge on virtuality and on leadership. Drawing on paradox theory, we show that virtuality is a paradox; therefore, virtual leadership’s core function is to deal with paradox. Our paradoxical virtual leadership model introduces three distinct leadership styles: synergistic, selective, and stagnant. Synergistic leaders view virtuality through a both–and cognitive framework, integrate divergent forces into synergistic solutions, and engage in varied, even opposing, behaviors to synergize virtuality’s paradoxical tensions and leverage the power of paradox. In contrast, selective leaders view virtuality through an either–or framework, and attempt to either manage virtuality’s challenges, or to capitalize on its opportunities, thus failing to balance paradoxical tensions. Finally, stagnant leaders adopt an avoidant framework, ignoring or avoiding virtuality’s paradoxes, and fail to lead effective virtual teams. The practical implications of this model—especially as they relate to how virtual leaders can synergize paradoxical tensions—are discussed.
EXPERIENCES ON THE INTEGRATION OF THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES IN A MEDITERRANEAN GREENHOUSE

Photovoltaic thin film modules are a suitable option for the integration of solar based energy generation systems in greenhouses, specifically in countries where, as Spain, the existence of favourable feed-in tariff for renewable energy sources serves to increase the yearly income of such a agricultural exploitations. This work describes the experience performed at the University of Almeria where a 1000 m 2 pilot installation has been built and monitored, allowing the analysis of key features of the system design (modules characteristics and structural integration), functionalities in terms of overall electricity injected into the grid as well as crop productivity in regard to a reference level. The installation consisted of dividing into two identical and contiguous greenhouse sections where one of the sections roof was equipped with a set of carefully designed thin film photovoltaic modules strips. Both sections were grown under similar conditions for a period of 6 months. Continuous monitoring of the power injected on the grid demonstrates the feasibility of such a systems when installed on a test greenhouse. In regard to greenhouse crop results, this work concludes the need for further research regarding the impact of optical properties changes to the roof related to the use of PV strips that reduce available photovoltaic active radiation (PAR light) for crops.