Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dependability in the Web Service Architecture

In comparison with the state of the art in the field of Web Services architectures and their composition, we propose to exploit the concept of CA Actions to enable to dependable composition of Web Services. CA Actions introduce a mechanism for structuring fault tolerant concurrent systems through the generalization of the concepts of atomic actions and transactions, and are adapted to the composition of autonomous services.
Impact of Employee Development on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment: Person–Organization Fit as Moderator

Researchers have begun to focus on emerging markets, particularly those in Asia, because of the phenomenal growth in the size of their business sectors and a remarkable increase in their share of global business. Businesses in the developing world are now grappling with people management issues that formerly were the preserve of businesses in the West. This study aims at exploring the role of employee development in job satisfaction and organizational commitment and in particular its moderation by person&#8211;organization fit. The context is the telecommunications sector in Pakistan. The results reported show a positive impact of employee development initiatives on employee job satisfaction and later the job satisfaction has significant impact on organizational commitment. The results also revealed, however, an unfavourable relationship between employee development and organizational commitment. The relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment was significantly moderated by person&#8211;organization fit.
A review of associative classification mining

Abstract Associative classification mining is a promising approach in data mining that utilizes the association rule discovery techniques to construct classification systems, also known as associative classifiers. In the last few years, a number of associative classification algorithms have been proposed, i.e. CPAR, CMAR, MCAR, MMAC and others. These algorithms employ several different rule discovery, rule ranking, rule pruning, rule prediction and rule evaluation methods. This paper focuses on surveying and comparing the state-of-the-art associative classification techniques with regards to the above criteria. Finally, future directions in associative classification, such as incremental learning and mining low-quality data sets, are also highlighted in this paper.
A comparison between power spectral density and network metrics: an EEG study

Power spectral density (PSD) and network analysis performed on functional correlation (FC) patterns represent two common approaches used to characterize Electroencephalographic (EEG) data. Despite the two approaches are widely used, their possible association may need more attention. To investigate this question, we performed a comparison between PSD and some widely used nodal network metrics (namely strength, clustering coefficient and betweenness centrality), using two different publicly available resting-state EEG datasets, both at scalp and source levels, employing four different FC methods (PLV, PLI, AEC and AECC). Here we show that the two approaches may provide similar information and that their correlation depends on the method used to estimate FC. In particular, our results show a strong correlation between PSD and nodal network metrics derived from FC methods (PLV and AEC) that do not limit the effects of volume conduction/signal leakage. The correlations are less relevant for more conservative FC methods (AECC). These findings suggest that the results derived from the two different approaches may be not independent and should not be treated as distinct analyses. We conclude that it may represent good practice to report the findings from the two approaches in conjunction to have a more comprehensive view of the results.
Student Perceptions of Online and Face-to-Face Learning

The rapid expansion of online learning in higher education in recent years has attracted a large number of students. In this paper, the researchers examined students’ perceptions of both online and face-to-face learning by conducting a qualitative study that surveyed 313 students from an Ontario community college. The objective was to explore students’ perspectives on the issues of learner preference, interactivity, workload, performance, and challenges. An analysis between the two groups, online and F2F, showed a difference in student perceptions and experiences.
Mass and 3-metrics of non-negative scalar curvature

Physicists believe, with some justification, that there should be a correspondence between familiar properties of Newtonian gravity and properties of solutions of the Einstein equations. The Positive Mass Theorem (PMT), first proved over twenty years ago \cite{SchoenYau79b,Witten81}, is a remarkable testament to this faith. However, fundamental mathematical questions concerning mass in general relativity remain, associated with the definition and properties of quasi-local mass. Central themes are the structure of metrics with non-negative scalar curvature, and the role played by minimal area 2-spheres (black holes).
Finding a Pareto-optimal Solution for Multi-region Models Subject to Capital Trade and Spillover Externalities

In this paper we present an algorithm that deals with trade interactions within a multi-region model. In contrast to traditional approaches this algorithm is able to handle spillover externalities. Technological spillovers are expected to foster the diffusion of new technologies, which helps to lower the cost of climate change mitigation. We focus on technological spillovers which are due to capital trade. The algorithm of finding a pareto-optimal solution in an intertemporal framework is embedded in a decomposed optimization process. The paper analyzes convergence and equilibrium properties of this algorithm. In the final part of the paper, we apply the algorithm to investigate possible impacts of technological spillovers. While benefits of technological spillovers are significant for the capital-importing region, benefits for the capital-exporting region depend on the type of regional disparities and the resulting specialization and terms-of-trade effects.
Inductances estimation in the d-q axis for an interior permanent-magnet synchronous machines with distributed windings

The inductances in d-q axis have an important influence on the behavior of permanent-magnet (PM) synchronous machines (PMSM). Their calculation is fundamental not only to evaluate the performance such as torque and field weakening capability but also to design the control system to maximize performance and power factor. This paper presents a study of inductance in the d-q axis for buried (i.e., interior) PM Synchronous Machines (IPMSM). This study is achieved using two-dimensional (2-D) finite-element method (FEM) and Park's transformation.
Reconstruction of the Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathway of Cronobacter sakazakii BAA894 in Escherichia coli

Cronobacter sakazakii could form yellow-pigmented colonies. However, the chemical structure and the biosynthetic pathway of the yellow pigments have not been identified. In this study, the yellow pigments of C. sakazakii BAA894 were purified and analyzed. The major components of the yellow pigments were confirmed as zeaxanthin-monoglycoside and zeaxanthin-diglycoside. A gene cluster containing seven genes responsible for the yellow pigmentation in C. sakazakii BAA894 was identified. The seven genes of C. sakazakii BAA894 or parts of them were reconstructed in a heterologous host Escherichia coli DH5α. The pigments formed in these E. coli strains were isolated and analyzed by thin layer chromatography, UV-visible spectroscopy, high performance liquid chromatography, and electron spray ionization-mass spectrometry. These redesigned E. coli strains could produce different carotenoids. E. coli strain expressing all the seven genes could produce zeaxanthin-monoglycoside and zeaxanthin-diglycoside; E. coli strains expressing parts of the seven genes could produce lycopene, β-carotene, cryptoxanthin or zeaxanthin. This study identified the gene cluster responsible for the yellow pigmentation in C. sakazakii BAA894.
Autocuidado del hombre con diabetes mellitus tipo 2: impacto del machismo

RESUMEN: Objetivo: Determinar si el machismo, apoyo familiar, la percepcion de salud y la autoeficacia influyen en las actividades de autocuidado del hombre con diabetes mellitus tipo 2. Metodologia: El diseno del estudio fue descriptivo correlacional, con una muestra de 126 participantes de 14 centros de atencion primaria. Resultados: El machismo se correlaciono de manera negativa con el apoyo familiar y la autoeficacia. Mientras que el autocuidado se explico el 30.5% de la varianza, las variables predictores fueron las conductas familiares, la autoeficacia, las sub-escalas del machismo; primacia del trabajo, ser independiente y violento. Conclusiones: El machismo puede influir de manera directa al autocuidado y de manera indirecta, por medio del apoyo familiar y la autoeficacia. Palabras clave: Diabetes mellitus tipo 2; machismo; apoyo familiar; autoeficacia; autocuidado. Abstract: Objective: To determine if machismo, family support, health perception and self-efficacy influence in the self-care activities of the man with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methodology: The design of the study was correlational descriptive, with a sample of 14 primary attention centers. Results: Machismo correlated negatively with family support and self-efficacy. While self-care was explained the 30.5% of the variance, the predictor variables were the family conducts, the self-efficacy, the sub-scales of machismo, work supremacy, being independent and violent. Conclusions: Machismo may influence directly to self-care and indirectly, through family support and self-efficacy Keywords: Diabetes mellitus type 2, machismo, family support, self-efficacy, self-care.
Cross-Cultural Aspects: Exploring Motor Competence Among 7- to 8-Year-Old Children From Greece, Italy, and Norway

Motor development is affected by maturation and growth but also influenced by the specific environmental and cultural context. Therefore, cross-cultural research can provide information about how different cultural contexts, lifestyles, and physical activity contexts can influence the process of developing motor competence. The purpose of this study was to evaluate aspects of motor competence among children from different cultural backgrounds. The sample of 463 children from 6 to 8 years consisting of 132 Greek children (52.3 % boys), 126 Italian children (53.9 % boys), and 205 Norwegian children (52.7) completed the Test of Motor Competence (TMC) including two fine motor tasks—Placing Bricks and Building Bricks—and two gross motor tasks—Heel to Toe Walking and Walking/Running in Slopes. The results indicate that the Norwegian children performed better in all tests; the differences were statistically significant in all four tasks compared with Italian children and in two tasks compared with the Greek children (Building Bricks and Heel to Toe Walking). Greek children performed significantly better than the Italians in two tasks: Placing Bricks and Heel to Toe Walking. Italian children were significantly faster than the Greek ones in one task: Walking/Running in Slopes. The differences in terms of levels of basic fine and gross motor skills between children from the different countries may be a consequence of both different physical activity contexts and cultural policies, attitudes, and habits toward movement.
THE PROCESS OF DECIDING TO LOSE WEIGHT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF YOUNG WOMEN

THE PROCESS OF DECIDING TO LOSE WEIGHT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF YOUNG WOMEN By Jacklyn M. Foth Obesity is a major problem in the United States. Since 1990, obesity prevalence has doubled in adults, and overweight prevalence has tripled in children and adolescents. The prevalence of both overweight and obesity continues to increase in men, children, and adolescents, and remains at a stable high in women (Ogden et al., 2006). While studies have investigated the experience of being overweight, and the reasons why women choose to lose weight, there is a paucity of studies on the process of decision making in weight loss in women. The purpose of this study therefore, was to explore how young women decide to lose weight. The Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change, by Prochaska and Velicer (1997), was used as the theoretical framework. The Transtheoretical Model describes the process of health behavior change through six stages: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination. A qualitative approach using a naturalistic method of inquiry was used to study the decision-making process. The target population was young women in the Weight Watchers (WW) program in the Midwest. The accessible population was young women in a WW program in Northeast (NE) Wisconsin. A convenience sample comprised of five women from various NE Wisconsin Weight Watchers support groups. Two questionnaires were used for data collection: A demographic questionnaire and an open ended question: Tell me how you decided to lose weight. Data were collected through open-ended interviews. Interviews were transcribed verbatim. Data were analyzed using Colaizzi‟s (1978) method. Analysis of data indicated three emergent themes: The Hull, The Sail, and The Anchor. The process of weight loss begins with the recognition of a unique element. A triad of success follows, including overall lifestyle change, prior weight loss, and discovery of personal change. The support mechanisms of family, maintaining both physical and mental health, seeing changing numbers on the scale, and setting specific weight goals to sustain weight loss are required. Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) play a major role in health promotion, and weight loss can often be the first step in reversing negative health consequences. With a better understanding of the decision making process, advanced practice nurses can help guide their patients toward health promoting activities such as weight loss. __ __ ___ THE PROCESS OF DECIDING TO LOSE WEIGHT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF YOUNG WOMEN by Jacklyn M. Foth A Clinical Paper Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Science in Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner at The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Oshkosh WI 54901-8621
You’re Fired! Gender Disparities in CEO Dismissal

CEO dismissals attract considerable attention, presumably because of the visibility, publicity, and intrigue that often surrounds the decision to fire the CEO. With the goal of advancing scholarly understanding of CEO dismissals, we examine whether CEO gender influences the likelihood of dismissal. We theorize and find that ceteris paribus, female CEOs are significantly more likely to be dismissed than male CEOs. Perhaps even more importantly, we find a CEO gender by firm performance interaction such that male CEOs are less likely to be dismissed when firm performance is high (compared to when it is low), whereas female CEOs have a similar level of dismissal likelihood regardless of firm performance. Notably, our results are robust to multiple analytical techniques and various econometric specifications, bringing greater credence to the validity of our findings. Implications and directions for future research are also discussed.
How important are skeletal muscle mechanics in setting limits on jumping performance?

SUMMARY Jumping is an important locomotor behaviour used by many animals. The power required to perform a jump is supplied by skeletal muscle. The mechanical properties of skeletal muscle, including the power it can produce, are determined by its composition, which in turn reflects trade-offs between the differing tasks performed by the muscle. Recent studies suggest that muscles used for jumping are relatively fast compared with other limb muscles. As animals get bigger absolute jump performance tends to increase, but recent evidence suggests that adult jump performance may be relatively independent of body size. As body size increases the relative shortening velocity of muscle decreases, whereas normalised power output remains relatively constant. However, the relative shortening velocity of the fastest muscle fibre types appears to remain relatively constant over a large body size range of species. It appears likely that in many species during jumping, other factors are compensating for, or allowing for, uncoupling of jumping performance from size-related changes in the mechanical properties of muscle. In some species smaller absolute body size is compensated for by rapid development of locomotor morphology to attain high locomotor performance early in life. Smaller animal species also appear to rely more heavily on elastic storage mechanisms to amplify the power output available from skeletal muscle. Adaptations involving increased relative hindlimb length and relative mass of jumping muscles, and beneficial alteration of the origin and/or insertion of jumping muscles, have all been found to improve animal jump performance. However, further integrative studies are needed to provide conclusive evidence of which morphological and physiological adaptations are the most important in enhancing jump performance.
Intraretinal signaling by ganglion cell photoreceptors to dopaminergic amacrine neurons

Retinal dopaminergic amacrine neurons (DA neurons) play a central role in reconfiguring retinal function according to prevailing illumination conditions, yet the mechanisms by which light regulates their activity are poorly understood. We investigated the means by which sustained light responses are evoked in DA neurons. Sustained light responses were driven by cationic currents and persisted in vitro and in vivo in the presence of L-AP4, a blocker of retinal ON-bipolar cells. Several characteristics of these L-AP4-resistant light responses suggested that they were driven by melanopsin-expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), including long latencies, marked poststimulus persistence, and a peak spectral sensitivity of 478 nm. Furthermore, sustained DA neuron light responses, but not transient DA neuron responses, persisted in rod/cone degenerate retinas, in which ipRGCs account for virtually all remaining retinal phototransduction. Thus, ganglion-cell photoreceptors provide excitatory drive to DA neurons, most likely by way of the coramification of their dendrites and the processes of DA neurons in the inner plexiform layer. This unprecedented centrifugal outflow of ganglion-cell signals within the retina provides a novel basis for the restructuring of retinal circuits by light.
Clusters at Half Hubble Time: Galaxy Structure and Colors in Rx J0152.7−1357 and Ms 1054−03

We study the photometric and structural properties of spect ros opically confirmed members in the two massive X-ray–selected z≈0.83 galaxy clusters MS 1054–03 and RX J0152.7–1357 using thre e-band mosaic imaging with theHubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys. The samples include 105 and 140 members of RX J0152.7–1357 and MS 1054–03, respectively, with A CS F775W magnitude i775 < 24.0. We fit the 2-D galaxy light profiles to determine effective radii and Sé rsic indices; deviations from the smooth profiles are quantified by the ratio of the rms residuals to the mean of t he galaxy model. Galaxies are then classified according to a combination of this rms/mean ratio and the Sér sic index; the resulting classes correlate well with visually classified morphological types, but are less affec ted by orientation. We find the size–surface brightness relations in the two clusters to be very similar, supporting recent results on the evolution of this relationship with redshift. We examine in detail the color–magnitude rel ations in these clusters and systematic effects on the residuals with respect to these relations. The color-ma gnitude residuals correlate with the local density, as measured from both galaxy numbers and weak lensing. These correlations are strongest for the full galaxy samples (commensurate with the morphology–density relati on), but are also present at lower significance levels for the earlyand late-type samples individually. Weaker c orrelations are found with cluster radius, resulting from the more fundamental dependence on local density. We id entify a threshold surface mass density of Σ ≈ 0.1, in units of the critical density, above which there are rel atively few blue (star-forming) galaxies. In RX J0152.7–1357, there is an offset of 0 . 0 6±0.002 in the mean redshifts of the earlyand late-type galaxie s, which produces a trend in the color residuals with velocity a nd may result from an infalling foreground association of late-type galaxies. Comparison of the color–col or diagrams for these clusters to stellar population models implies that a range of star formation time-scales ar needed to reproduce the locus of galaxy colors. We also identify two galaxies, one in each cluster, whose col ors can only be explained by large amounts, AV ∼1 mag, of internal dust extinction. Converting to rest-frame bandpasses, we find elliptical galaxy color scatters of 0.03±0.01 mag in ( U−B) and 0.07±0.01 mag in ( U−V), indicating mean ages of ∼3.5 Gyr, similar to the estimates from the mean colors and corresponding to formati on z≈ 2.2. Thus, when the universe was half its present age, cluster ellipticals were half the age of the universe at that epoch; the same is coincidentally true of the median ages of ellipticals today. However, the most ma ssive local cluster ellipticals have ages &10 Gyr, consistent with our results for their likely progenitors at z& 0.8. Subject headings: galaxies: clusters: individual (MS 1054 −0321, RX J0152.7 −1357) — galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD — galaxies: evolution — cosmology: observat ions
A Holographic Dual of Bjorken Flow

We propose a consistent setup for a holographic dual of Bjorken flow of strongly coupled large-Nc N = 4 SYM-theory plasma. We employ Eddington-Finkelstein type coordinates for the dual geometry, and we propose a late-time expansion there. We construct the dual geometry order by order, and we show that the transport coefficients are determined by the regularity of the geometry. We also show that the dual geometry has an apparent horizon hence an event horizon, which covers the singularity at the origin. We prove that the dual geometry is regular at all orders under an appropriate choice of the transport coefficients. Our model is a concrete well-defined example of time-dependent AdS/CFT. Subject Index: 121, 231, 451
EncephalomyelitisExperimental Autoimmune Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein-Induced New Loci Regulating Rat Myelin

Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is an inﬂammatory disease in rats that closely mimics many clinical and histopathological aspects of multiple sclerosis. Non-MHC quantitative trait loci regulating myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-induced EAE have previously been identiﬁed in the EAE-permissive strain, DA, on rat chromosomes 4, 10, 15, and 18. To ﬁnd any additional gene loci in another well-known EAE-permissive strain and thereby to assess any genetic heterogeneity in the regulation of the disease, we have performed a genome-wide linkage analysis in a reciprocal (LEW.1AV1 (cid:1) PVG.1AV1) male/female F 2 population ( n (cid:2) 185). We examined reciprocal crosses, but no parent-of-origin effect was detected. The parental rat strains share the RT1 av1 MHC haplotype; thus, non-MHC genes control differences in EAE susceptibility. We identiﬁed Eae16 on chromosome 8 and Eae17 on chromosome 13, signiﬁcantly linked to EAE phenotypes. Two loci, on chromosomes 1 and 17, respectively showed suggestive linkage to clinical and histopathological EAE phenotypes. Eae16 and Eae17 differ from those found in previously studied strain combinations, thus demonstrating genetic heterogeneity of EAE. Furthermore, we detected a locus-speciﬁc parent-of-origin effect with suggestive linkage in Eae17 . Further genetic and functional dissection of these loci may disclose critical disease-regulating molecular mechanisms.