Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Network learning effects of ISO 22000 standard implementation in a food SME : a case study

In the modern agrifood economies, the development of quality management standards is cruc ial, and food SMEs usually face difficulties in implementing them. In this context, the aim of the communication is two-f old. Firstly it is to craft an original analytical framework in line with the literature on innovation networks and related learning effects specifically devoted to the study of quality manage ment standards implementation. Secondly the objective of the communication is to apply this framework to a speci f c food SME case in order to test it and to identify the ke y network learning effects that occur during the implementati on of a quality management standard, namely the ISO 22000 standard. From this research, the practical output will be to propose tools to enhance food SMEs’ innovative capa city, through an improvement of their insertion in active formal and/or informal innovation networks. These specific tools will be especially targeted towards the strengthenig of learning processes and effects between the SME and the partners involved in the implementation.
Search deficits in neglect patients are dependent on size of the visual scene.

Patients with hemispatial neglect are impaired at moving their attention to a target on the conrralesional display side. In the present study, visual display area was varied independently of the number of items displayed within the area. Patients searched for the absence of a simple visual feature in displays that produce serial search performance in normals (R. Klein, 1988; A. Treisman & J. Souther, 1985; J. M. Wolfe & C. W. Pokorny, 1990). The contralesional delay was enhanced for stimulus arrays that were distributed over a larger display area, which suggests that neglect is more severe when attention has to be moved over a larger distance. The directional disengage deficit in neglect (M. I. Posner, J. A. Walker, F. A. Friedrich, & R. D. Rafal, 1984, 1987) therefore depends on the target's relative position within a display, the number of ipsilesional items competing for attention (M. Eglin, L. C. Robertson, & R. T. Knight, 1989), and the distance of the contralesional attention movements.
The Interplay of Beauty, Goodness, and Usability in Interactive Products

Two studies considered the interplay between user-perceived usability (i.e., pragmatic attributes), hedonic attributes (e.g., stimulation, identification), goodness (i.e., satisfaction), and beauty of 4 different MP3-player skins. As long as beauty and goodness stress the subjective valuation of a product, both were related to each other. However, the nature of goodness and beauty was found to differ. Goodness depended on both perceived usability and hedonic attributes. Especially after using the skins, perceived usability became a strong determinant of goodness. In contrast, beauty largely depended on identification; a hedonic attribute group, which captures the product's ability to communicate important personal values to relevant others. Perceived usability as well as goodness was affected by experience (i.e., actual usability, usability problems), whereas hedonic attributes and beauty remained stable over time. All in all, the nature of beauty is rather self-oriented than goal-oriented, whereas goodness relates to both.
COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PROFESSIONALISM OF FOURTHCOMING MEDICAL DOCTORS BETWEEN TWO PRIVATE MEDICAL COLLEGES IN SAVAR, BANGLADESH

ABSTRACT Objectives: Medical professionalism forms the basis of the relations between doctors and society. Researchers believe professionalism is extremely important in medicine to alleviate human errors. Professionalism is not inborn social characteristics. Intellects believe to safeguarding and upholding medical professionalism it is compulsory to include in medical curriculum. This study is aimed to compare the professionalism of future medical professionals between two private medical colleges in Bangladesh. Methods: The study was conducted at Gonoshashthaya Samajvittik Medical College (GSSVMC) and Enam Medical Colleges (EMC) in Bangladesh. It was a cross-sectional study carried out on 445 medical students of Year-III (127), Year-IV (205) and Year-V (113) MBBS students of session 2012-2013 selected conveniently from GSSVMC and EMC. Two hundred students were from GSSVMC and 245 were from EMC. Data was collected using a validated instrument which contained core professionalism characteristics measured by 5-points Likert scale giving a maximum score of 220 with few open-ended questions. Results: Response rate of this study was 76%; 48% respondents were male and 52% were female. Mean professionalism scores for Year-III, IV and V were 173, 175 and 189 and for male and female were 179 and 178 respectively. No significant differences observed between gender (p=0.679). Significant differences were observed between study-year (p<0.001) and also between total scores (p<0.001) 172 for GSSVMC and 183 for EMC. However, 43% students were not precise about professionalism. Conclusions: Educators should focus to increase awareness on core professionalism attributes.
Variance Reduction in Simulation of Multiclass Processing Networks

We use simulation to estimate the steady-state performance of a stable multiclass queueing network. Standard estimators have been seen to perform poorly when the network is heavily loaded. We introduce two new simulation estimators. The first provides substantial variance reductions in moderately-loaded networks at very little additional computational cost. The second estimator provides substantial variance reductions in heavy traffic, again for a small additional computational cost. Both methods employ the variance reduction method of control variates, and differ in terms of how the control variates are constructed.
Regional Amyloid Deposition in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Evaluated by [18F]AV-45 Positron Emission Tomography in Chinese Population

Background To compare the neocortical amyloid loads among cognitively normal (CN), amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), and Alzheimer's disease (AD) subjects with [18F]AV-45 positron emission tomography (PET). Materials and Methods [18F]AV-45 PET was performed in 11 CN, 13 aMCI, and 12 AD subjects to compare the cerebral cortex-to-whole cerebellum standard uptake value ratios (SUVRs) of global and individual volumes of interest (VOIs) cerebral cortex. The correlation between global cortical [18F]AV-45 SUVRs and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores was analyzed. Results The global cortical [18F]AV-45 SUVRs were significantly different among the CN (1.08±0.08), aMCI (1.27±0.06), and AD groups (1.34±0.13) (p = 0.0003) with amyloidosis positivity rates of 9%, 62%, and 92% in the three groups respectively. Compared to CN subjects, AD subjects had higher SUVRs in the global cortical, precuneus, frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, and posterior cingulate areas; while aMCI subjects had higher values in the global cortical, precuneus, frontal, occipital and posterior cingulate areas. There were negative correlations of MMSE scores with SUVRs in the global cortical, precuneus, frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, posterior cingulate and anterior cingulate areas on a combined subject pool of the three groups after age and education attainment adjustment. Conclusions Amyloid deposition occurs relatively early in precuneus, frontal and posterior cingulate in aMCI subjects. Higher [18F]AV-45 accumulation is present in parietal, occipital and temporal gyri in AD subjects compared to the aMCI group. Significant correlation between MMSE scores and [18F]AV-45 SUVRs can be observed among CN, aMCI and AD subjects.
Increased Expression of Phosphorylated FADD in Anaplastic Large Cell and Other T-Cell Lymphomas

FAS-associated protein with death domain (FADD) is a major adaptor protein involved in extrinsic apoptosis, embryogenesis, and lymphocyte homeostasis. Although abnormalities of the FADD/death receptor apoptotic pathways have been established in tumorigenesis, fewer studies have analyzed the expression and role of phosphorylated FADD (pFADD). Our identification of FADD as a lymphoma-associated autoantigen in T-cell lymphoma patients raises the possibility that pFADD, with its correlation with cell cycle, may possess role(s) in human T-cell lymphoma development. This immunohistochemical study investigated pFADD protein expression in a range of normal tissues and lymphomas, particularly T-cell lymphomas that require improved therapies. Whereas pFADD was expressed only in scattered normal T cells, it was detected at high levels in T-cell lymphomas (eg, 84% anaplastic large cell lymphoma and 65% peripheral T cell lymphomas, not otherwise specified). The increased expression of pFADD supports further study of its clinical relevance and role in lymphomagenesis, highlighting phosphorylation of FADD as a potential therapeutic target.
Smart girls traversing assemblages of gender and class in Australian secondary mathematics classrooms

ABSTRACT I examine experiences of former Australian schoolgirls in relation to mathematics during secondary school. This research scrutinises misunderstandings about success and impact on subject choice that can result in post-schooling trajectories that limit what girls can do in their lives beyond school. I examine ways affective relationality, as a sense of embodied belonging, may influence participation in subjects. I frame the discussion using the Baradian concept of intra-action, a co-production that engages an ethic of non-coincidence. For these participants, a reductive high-stakes testing environment and aspirations to become a master subject evoke a powerful not good enough assemblage. The responsibility to achieve enough success incites a soliciting of a particular self in affective regulation. The dread of not excelling in mathematics was often too much to endure thus participants chose to discontinue studying mathematics. They understood this as a sensible solution to prevent vulnerability, as not good enough.
Considering privacy and effectiveness of authorization policies for shared electronic health records

A central building block of data privacy is the individual right of information self-determination, once these information identify individual persons and can therefore be considered as sensitive. Following from that when dealing with shared electronic health records (SEHR), citizens, as the identified individuals of such health records, have to be enabled to decide what medical data can be used in which way by medical professionals. In this context individual preferences of privacy have to be reflected by authorization policies enforced to control access to personal health records. We see two potential challenges, when enabling patient-controlled access control policy authoring: First, an ordinary citizen is considered a non-security expert, thus not necessarily aware of implications of her/his actions of defining access control to protect personal health data. Second, permissions to access medical data are necessary to support the daily routines of medical personnel. The better the health-care information system supports these work procedures the more effective and useful it is. There should be a balance between access restrictions through privacy settings and required access permissions in order to allow the system to be effective. In this paper we present a case study in the context of SEHR in Austria. In this scenario we identify different types of authorization policies to support individuals' privacy. Patient privacy is an important factor in access decision making, but in order to ensure the privacy - effectiveness balance, citizen-authors of policies should be informed about implications of their privacy settings on the underlying information system. To ensure this balance, policies need to be analysed. In this paper we describe a policy analysis method based on generated rules to evaluate the consequences of citizens privacy settings. Analysis results can then be used to inform and support a citizen during the policy authoring process.
Tactile Information Processing for the Orientation Behaviour of Sand Scorpions

Arachnids including sand scorpions and spiders use their tactile sense organs, called basitarsal compound slit sensilla (BCSS), to detect their prey. The sense organs consisting of mechanoreceptors are located at or near joints in the cuticle, and they can sense a vibrational signal caused by prey movement. The nocturnal sand scorpion Paruroctonus mesaensis has a distinguished capability of finding their prey only with these tactile senses. The sand scorpions show their orientation behaviour of positioning themselves directly towards their prey and then run into the prey when there is a vibration disturbance caused by the prey. According to the biological researches (Brownell & Farley, 1979, Brownell, 1984), it is presumed that the sand scorpions respond to Rayleigh waves, surface waves of sand, to detect the direction of a vibration source and possibly longitudinal vibrations to estimate the distance. Especially, the time delay between arrival of a vibration signal at the BCSS sense organs is an important cue to determine the direction of their prey (Brownell & Farley, 1979). The central nervous system should process stimulus-locked neuron firings of the sense organs on their eight legs to induce the orientation behaviour. How the nervous system is organized to handle the orientation behaviour is still an open question. Only a few studies explain this behaviour mechanism. Stuerzl et al. (2000) introduced a neuronal mechanism to support the orientation behaviour of scorpions, and it is based on the difference of the arrival time of stimulus signals produced at sense organs on their legs. They argued that the brain of sand scorpions receives sensor signals from mechanoreceptors on their eight legs and processes an inhibition mechanism among a set of command neurons projected from the sense organs on each leg. This inhibitory interaction leads to more accumulated firings of the command neurons near the prey source and less firings at the opposite sides. The accumulated neuron firings thus form a tuning curve for a specific resource direction. Then the distribution of neuron firings can vote to determine the resource direction. In fact, arachnids have sensory projections to the central nervous system for each leg (Babu & Barth, 1989, Anton & Barth, 1993). Previously Brownell and Farley (1979) suggested that eight command neurons (or eight clusters of neurons in the brain) accumulate neuron firings from mechanoreceptors on the eight legs of scorpions, respectively and also interact each other with triad inhibitions. According to the triad inhibition hypothesis, early arrival of vibration stimulus to mechanoreceptors on a leg excites the corresponding command O pe n A cc es s D at ab as e w w w . in te ch w eb . o rg
Morpholino Gene Knockdown in Adult Fundulus heteroclitus: Role of SGK1 in Seawater Acclimation

The Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) is an environmental sentinel organism used extensively for studies on environmental toxicants and salt (NaCl) homeostasis. Previous research in our laboratory has shown that rapid acclimation of killifish to seawater is mediated by trafficking of CFTR chloride channels from intracellular vesicles to the plasma membrane in the opercular membrane within the first hour in seawater, which enhances chloride secretion into seawater, thereby contributing to salt homeostasis. Acute transition to seawater is also marked by an increase in both mRNA and protein levels of serum glucocorticoid kinase 1 (SGK1) within 15 minutes of transfer. Although the rise in SGK1 in gill and its functional analog, the opercular membrane, after seawater transfer precedes the increase in membrane CFTR, a direct role of SGK1 in elevating membrane CFTR has not been established in vivo. To test the hypothesis that SGK1 mediates the increase in plasma membrane CFTR we designed two functionally different vivo-morpholinos to knock down SGK1 in gill, and developed and validated a vivo-morpholino knock down technique for adult killifish. Injection (intraperitoneal, IP) of the splice blocking SGK1 vivo-morpholino reduced SGK1 mRNA in the gill after transition from fresh to seawater by 66%. The IP injection of the translational blocking and splice blocking vivo-morpholinos reduced gill SGK1 protein abundance in fish transferred from fresh to seawater by 64% and 53%, respectively. Moreover, knock down of SGK1 completely eliminated the seawater induced rise in plasma membrane CFTR, demonstrating that the increase in SGK1 protein is required for the trafficking of CFTR from intracellular vesicles in mitochondrion rich cells to the plasma membrane in the gill during acclimation to seawater. This is the first report of the use of vivo-morpholinos in adult killifish and demonstrates that vivo-morpholinos are a valuable genetic tool for this environmentally relevant model organism.
FARGO: A fast eulerian transport algorithm for differentially rotating disks

We present an ecient and simple modica- tion of the standard transport algorithm used in explicit eulerian xed polar grid codes, aimed at getting rid of the average azimuthal velocity when applying the Courant condition. This results in a much larger timestep than the usual procedure, and it is particularly well-suited to the description of a Keplerian disk where one is traditionally limited by the very demanding Courant condition on the fast orbital motion at the inner boundary. In this modi- ed algorithm, the timestep is limited by the perturbed velocity and by the shear arising from the dierential ro- tation. FARGO stands for \Fast Advection in Rotating Gaseous Objects". The speed-up resulting from the use of the FARGO algorithm is problem dependent. In the exam- ple presented here, which shows the evolution of a Jupiter sized protoplanet embedded in a minimum mass proto- planetary nebula, the FARGO algorithm is about an order of magnitude faster than a traditional transport scheme, with a much smaller numerical diusivity.
Redefining sportspersonship : a compliant and principled model

Despite the accepted importance of sportspersonship, behaviour contrary to good sportspersonship is regularly observed in sport (Shields, Bredemeier, LaVoi, and Power, 2005). It is surprising therefore, that since the development of a multidimensional definition of sportspersonship in in mid-1990s (Vallerand, Deshaies, Cuerrier, Briere, and Pelletier, 1996; Vallerand, Briere, Blanchard, & Provencher, 1997), research into the subject has stalled somewhat. The purpose of this thesis was to reignite this avenue of research by exploring an existing model, and developing and presenting a superseding model. After a critical analysis of the existing measures of sportspersonship, the compliant and principled sportspersonship scale was developed and validated in a host of studies. Exploratory factor analysis presented an initial model of sportspersonship. This was examined using confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modelling. A five-factor, 24item measure of sportspersonship was presented consisting of (a) compliance towards rules, (b) compliance towards officials, (c) legitimacy of injurious acts, (d) approach towards opponent, and (e) principled game perspective. Studies in the thesis positively relate sportspersonship with moral behaviour, task goal orientation, empathy, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. It is negatively associated with antisocial behaviour and Machiavellianism. These studies support the construct validity of the scale and provide greater theoretical understanding of sportspersonship. Criterion validity is supported through two experimental studies that found that sportspersonship positively predicted prosocial and negatively predicted cheating. Finally, recommendations for enhancing sportspersonship are offered. Overall, the thesis redefines sportspersonship, presents a new multidimensional measure of sportspersonship and evidence of its validity, explores the relationship of sportspersonship to other psychological concepts, and provides a template for assessing and developing measurement scales. Redefining Sportspersonship viii
Vocational and Academic Education and Political Engagement: The Importance of the Educational Institutional Structure

It is hardly disputed that educational institutions carry responsibility for the education of democratic citizens through the enhancement of civic and political engagement. Despite the wealth of studies on civic and citizenship education, scholars have not yet examined the relevance of national educational institutional factors. This study examines to what extent elements of national educational systems, in particular early tracking and a vocational orientation, are related to political engagement of young adult citizens. Using pooled European Social Survey data collected between 2002 and 2012 from 24 European countries, and examining electoral participation, political interest, and political activism, it is shown that people educated in vocational programs had lower levels of political engagement than people educated in general/academic education. Moreover, these differences were greater in strongly tracked educational systems relative to comprehensive/untracked systems. These results suggest that educational institutions that differentiate students early and rigidly may form a threat to democratic equality.
Resonator modes in a two-dimensional quasi-stadium laser diode with concave end mirrors

We investigated the resonator modes of a two-dimensional quasi-stadium laser diode with concave end mirrors by using an extended Fox-Li mode calculation method. The resonator modes were found to have a significant wavelength dependence due to beam interference in the laser cavity. A scar mode was observed in which optical beams are localized on unstable periodic orbits at a wavelength at which the diffraction loss has a local minimum. These results are similar to those obtained for a quasi-stadium laser with convex end mirrors, but we found that using a concave mirror does not produce intensely focused spots in the laser cavity, making it suitable for high-power operation.
Augmented state space acoustic decoding for modeling local variability in speech

This paper presents a decoding method for automatic speech recognition (ASR) that reduces the impact of local spectral and temporal variabilities on ASR performance. The procedure involves augmenting the standard Viterbi search for an optimum state sequence with a locally constrained search for optimum degrees of spectral warping or temporal warping applied to individual analysis frames. It is argued in the paper that this represents an efficient and effective method for compensating for local variability in speech which may have potential application to a broader array of speech transformations. The techniques are presented in the context of existing methods for frequency warping based speaker normalization and existing methods for computation of dynamic features for ASR. The modified decoding algorithms were evaluated in both clean and noisy task domains using subsets of the Aurora 2 and Aurora 3 Speech Corpora under clean and noisy conditions. It was found that, under clean conditions on the Spanish Language Subset of the Speech-DatCar database, the modified decoding method applied with local frequency transformations reduced word error rate (WER) by 24 percent. This was a factor of two greater reduction in WER than was obtained on the same task using the more well known frequency warping based vocal tract length normalization (VTLN) procedure.