Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Caught in a Communicative Catch‐22? Translating the Notion of CSR as Shared Value Creation in a Danish CSR Frontrunner

There is a growing interest in how the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as shared value creation is translated in Scandinavia. However, current research seems to disregard that the specific institutional context is ambiguous, enabling the organization, and its internal stakeholders to translate the institutional logics into contradictory meanings of CSR as shared value creation. Building on the institutional logics perspective and the metaphor of translation, and framed within a case study of a Danish CSR frontrunner, this paper explores how the notion of CSR as shared value creation is translated at both the organizational and individual level through discourse. The study shows that the organization and its internal stakeholders employ different strategies to reconcile the institutional logics of ethics and economy, suggesting that the translation processes are a complex communicative matter of continuously balancing the contradictory institutional logics to maintain legitimacy in the eyes of external stakeholders.
Electroconvulsive Therapy Induces Neurogenesis in Frontal Rat Brain Areas

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective therapy for several psychiatric disorders, including severe major depression, mania and certain forms of schizophrenia. It had been proposed that ECT acts by modulating local plasticity via the stimulation of neurogenesis. In fact, among antidepressant therapies, ECT is the most robust enhancer of neurogenesis in the hippocampus of rodents and non-human primates. The existence of ECT-triggered neurogenesis in other brain areas, particularly in those adjacent to the other main locus of neurogenesis, the subventricular zone (SVZ), had so far remained unknown. Here we show that ECT also strongly enhances neurogenesis in frontal brain areas, especially in the rostro-medial striatum, generating specific, small-size calretinin-positive interneurons. We provide here the first evidence that ECT stimulates neurogenesis in areas outside the hippocampus. Our data may open research possibilities that focus on the plastic changes induced by ECT in frontal limbic circuitry.
A cultural economy approach to workplace health promotion in Australian small and medium sized workplaces: a critical qualitative study

ABSTRACT Workplace health promotion (WHP) is advocated to progress the health and well-being of employees. However, research findings on its uptake and impacts are equivocal, particularly in smaller workplaces. This paper describes managers’ and workers’ responses to a WHP programme in the Australian Capital Territory. Informed by a cultural economy framework, in-depth interviews were conducted with 44 workers and managers from 10 small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Examining their availability and acceptability to workers and managers, we found a limited array of health promotion activities were adopted; a caring environment, provision of healthy foods, occasional health checks and health advice. Physical activity programmes during work hours were unlikely to be accepted by managers due to time costs, and workers were reluctant to spend their non-paid time on them. Casual workers were often excluded from WHP activities because their work times did not synchronize with other employees’ hours. This study illuminates how WHP is shaped by a complex of employment regulations that stress individual performance, associated limits on employer and worker time and resources, and organizational, cultural norms and practices regarding healthy work environments. We conclude that SMEs are implementing a limited array of behaviour change initiatives reflecting a particular view of health promotion. While organizational change may expand adoption of health practices during the workday, there are impediments to workers adopting wholesale changes in their health practices given a national culture of long hours, and intense job demands embedded in Australia’s neoliberal employment system.
Simple genetic models for autism spectrum disorder

To explore the interplay between new mutation, transmission, and gender bias in genetic disease requires formal quantitative modeling. Autism spectrum disorders offer an ideal case: they are genetic in origin, complex, and show a gender bias. The high reproductive costs of autism ensure that most strongly associated genetic mutations are short-lived, and indeed the disease exhibits both transmitted and de novo components. There is a large body of both epidemiologic and genomic data that greatly constrain the genetic mechanisms that may contribute to the disorder. We develop a computational framework that assumes classes of additive variants, each member of a class having equal effect. We restrict our initial exploration to single class models, each having three parameters. Only one model matches epidemiological data. It also independently matches the incidence of de novo mutation in simplex families, the gender bias in unaffected siblings in simplex populations, and rates of mutation in target genes. This model makes strong and as yet not fully tested predictions, namely that females are the primary carriers in cases of genetic transmission, and that the incidence of de novo mutation in target genes for families at high risk for autism are not especially elevated. In its simplicity, this model does not account for MZ twin concordance or the distorted gender bias of high functioning children with ASD, and does not accommodate all the known mechanisms contributing to ASD. We point to the next steps in applying the same computational framework to explore more complex models. Author summary For understanding complex genetic diseases one needs both data and molecular/genetic models. In the absence of any model, it is impossible to do more than summarize observations. A good model will be consistent with much or all of the existing data and puts the data in the context of known genetic principles. Ideally the model will make testable predictions. Where the good models fail often shows the directions that require more thought about mechanisms. In this paper we describe a new computational framework that we use to explore a complex genetic disorder with many gene targets, with both de novo and transmitted variants, and with gender bias. The disorder we consider is autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and our framework rules out some previous models that make unsustainable predictions. We identify a formal model that satisfies diverse epidemiologic and genomic observations. This model makes strong and untested predictions and thereby suggests new studies that would resolve outstanding aspects of autism genetics.
Performance of SOAP in Web Service environment compared to CORBA

Web Services is a new concept that promises flexibility and interconnection between different systems. The communication in Web Services uses SOAP $Simple Object Access Protocol, which is based on XML. We have together with an industrial partner made experiments with SOAP in a Web Service environment to find out the response time using SOAP compared to CORBA. It turns out that a direct and naive use of SOAP would result in a response time degradation of a factor 400 compared to CORBA. We identified the major reasons for the poor performance of SOAP and evaluated some performance improvement techniques. After applying these the techniques, the performance of CORBA is 7 times better compared to SOAP.
Analytic and Electromagnetic Investigation of Millimeter Wave Membrane Supported CPWs Processed on High Resistivity Silicon

This paper investigates a series of membrane supported millimeter wave transmission lines up to 110 GHz. The structures were fabricated using high resistivity silicon micromachining (wet etching). Three approaches, based on full-wave electromagnetic simulations, analytic closed form equations and equivalent circuit were used in the investigation process. The results were validated by the experimental results for different test structures. The analytic equations were inserted in a Matlab routine and the effective permittivity and characteristic impedance were plotted for various geometries. These same geometries were then simulated electromagnetically in CST Microwave Studio. A comparison between the two approaches is made. The effective permittivity of a membrane supported coplanar waveguide (CPW) line was extracted from measurements and it is in very good agreement with the electromagnetically simulated data.
Reasoning about active network protocols

Active networks allow users to "program" the network infrastructure, by injecting information that describes or controls a distributed algorithm to be executed for the user by the network infrastructure. The nature of the services that can be implemented with such a facility is determined by the programming interface to the active network, i.e. the set of abstractions it exposes to users. The complexity of this interface may range from a few simple parameters to a completely general programming language. We present a model that supports reasoning independently about the correctness of both the underlying active network platform and the algorithms injected into it, in a manner that admits the full range of possible programming interfaces. The model is described without relying on any particular formalism. The interaction between the underlying platform and the user injected program is captured in a specialized form of program composition that allows properties of each to be preserved. The use of the model is illustrated via an example dealing with mobility. For the example, we use the UNITY formalism to be more precise about the programs and properties that are preserved.
A valuation criterion for normal bases in elementary abelian extensions

Let p be a prime number, and let K be a finite extension of the field ℚp of p‐adic numbers. Let N be a fully ramified, elementary abelian extension of K. Under a mild hypothesis on the extension N/K, we show that every element of N with valuation congruent mod [N:K] to the largest lower ramification number of N/K generates a normal basis for N over K.
The effect of imipenem and diffusible signaling factors on the secretion of outer membrane vesicles and associated Ax21 proteins in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are small nanoscale structures that are secreted by bacteria and that can carry nucleic acids, proteins, and small metabolites. They can mediate intracellular communication and play a role in virulence. In this study, we show that treatment with the β-lactam antibiotic imipenem leads to a dramatic increase in the secretion of outer membrane vesicles in the nosocomial pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Proteomic analysis of their protein content demonstrated that the OMVs contain the chromosomal encoded L1 metallo-β-lactamase and L2 serine-β-lactamase. Moreover, the secreted OMVs contain large amounts of two Ax21 homologs, i.e., outer membrane proteins known to be involved in virulence and biofilm formation. We show that OMV secretion and the levels of Ax21 in the OMVs are dependent on the quorum sensing diffusible signal system (DSF). More specific, we demonstrate that the S. maltophilia DSF cis-Δ2-11-methyl-dodecenoic acid and, to a lesser extent, the Burkholderia cenocepacia DSF cis-Δ2-dodecenoic acid, stimulate OMV secretion. By a targeted proteomic analysis, we confirmed that DSF-induced OMVs contain large amounts of the Ax21 homologs, but not the β-lactamases. This work illustrates that both quorum sensing and disturbance of the peptidoglycan biosynthesis provoke the release of OMVs and that OMV content is context dependent.
‘I was looking for something different and I found it’ : A constructivist grounded theory study with women who choose not to have children

2 Acknowledgements . 3 Chapter 1: Introduction, Context and Literature Review . 10 Introduction . 10 The mother question . 14 Aims, objectives and research questions . 15 The Context . 15 A negative public discourse . 17 Resistance . 20 Literature review . 21 The challenges of terminology . 22 Childlessness . 23 Research studies . 24 1. The reasons why women choose not to have children . 24 2. The consequences of choices . 29 Summary and thesis structure . 31 Thesis structure . 32 Chapter 2: Methodology, Design and Fieldwork . 34 Introduction . 34 Methodology . 34 Key sociological ideas . 34 The Chicago School of Sociology . 38 Grounded Theory . 39 Theory from data . 41 The Glaser and Strauss split . 42 Strauss and Corbin . 42 Kathy Charmaz – Constructivist grounded theory . 44 Biography . 44 Key ideas. 44 Linking the subjective with the social . 45 Knowledge co-construction . 46 Reflexivity . 48
The Biopsychosocial Model: Exploring Six Impossible Things

In our view, the biopsychosocial model is a vision and an approach to practice rather than an empirically verifiable theory, a coherent philosophy, or a clinical method. In some cases, when that vision is confused with ideologic dogmatism, it can invite abandonment of the vision entirely or in selected situations. The authors suggest that habits of mind may be the missing link between a biopsychosocial intent and clinical reality. These habits of mind include attentiveness, peripheral vision, curiosity, and informed flexibility. These qualities are teachable and can be reinforced. Rather than aspiring to “being biopsychosocial”— some imagined, static state—commitment to an ongoing process of “becoming biopsychosocial” is more pragmatic and realistic.
An empirical investigation on the visualization of temporal uncertainties in software engineering project planning

The success of software projects depends on the ability of a human planner to understand the relationships of tasks and their temporal uncertainty and hence the visualization thereof. In this paper we report on an empirical study that compares the performance of two techniques to visualize task relationships and temporal uncertainties: traditional "best-practice" PERT charts and recently introduced PlanningLines. Main results of the study are: (a) while PERT charts are well suited for reading single attributes, PlanningLines better support users in judging temporal task uncertainty; (b) both experiment rounds shows consistent results regarding the strengths and limitations of the techniques. Overall, these results suggest that a combination of PERT charts and PlanningLines has the potential to significantly improve the planning support of project managers and software engineers.
Comparative efficacy of bepotastine besilate 1.5% ophthalmic solution versus olopatadine hydrochloride 0.2% ophthalmic solution evaluated by patient preference

Background: The aim of this study was to compare patient-perceived relief of ocular itch, nasal symptoms, and eye drop comfort when allergic conjunctivitis was treated with bepotastine besilate 1.5% versus olopatadine hydrochloride 0.2%. Methods: This randomized, observer-masked, single-center, crossover study included 30 patients with ocular itching associated with allergic conjunctivitis accompanied by nasal symptoms. Patients were treated with bepotastine besilate 1.5% twice daily (7 am and 4 pm) or olopatadine hydrochloride 0.2% once daily (7 am) for 14 days. Following a 7-day washout period during which only preservative-free artificial tears were used twice daily, patients were crossed over to the alternative treatment for 14 days. Parameters evaluated by twice-daily patient diaries included each treatment’s ability to relieve ocular itch, ability to relieve itchy/runny nose, ability to relieve ocular allergy symptoms, and eye drop comfort. At the conclusion of the study, patients were also asked to identify which agent provided better all-day relief of ocular itching, better all-day relief of itchy/runny nose, superior comfort, and for which treatment they would prefer a prescription. Results: According to the mean daily diary responses, bepotastine besilate 1.5% provided significantly better relief of evening ocular itch, relief of morning and evening itchy/runny nose, and relief of morning and evening ocular allergy symptoms. At study end, 63.3% and 66.7% of patients preferred bepotastine besilate 1.5% for all-day relief of ocular itching and all-day relief of itchy/runny nose, respectively. At study end, there was no significant difference in the number of patients preferring one treatment over the other for comfort. Overall, 66.7% of patients stated that they would prefer to treat their allergic conjunctivitis with bepotastine besilate 1.5% over olopatadine hydrochloride 0.2%. Conclusion: Based on their evaluation of therapeutic performance, patients preferred bepotastine besilate 1.5% over olopatadine hydrochloride 0.2% by two-to-one for the treatment of allergic conjunctivitis.
Only Low Frequency Event-Related EEG Activity Is Compromised in Multiple Sclerosis: Insights from an Independent Component Clustering Analysis

Cognitive impairment (CI), often examined with neuropsychological tests such as the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT), affects approximately 65% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The P3b event-related potential (ERP), evoked when an infrequent target stimulus is presented, indexes cognitive function and is typically compared across subjects' scalp electroencephalography (EEG) data. However, the clustering of independent components (ICs) is superior to scalp-based EEG methods because it can accommodate the spatiotemporal overlap inherent in scalp EEG data. Event-related spectral perturbations (ERSPs; event-related mean power spectral changes) and inter-trial coherence (ITCs; event-related consistency of spectral phase) reveal a more comprehensive overview of EEG activity. Ninety-five subjects (56 MS patients, 39 controls) completed visual and auditory two-stimulus P3b event-related potential tasks and the PASAT. MS patients were also divided into CI and non-CI groups (n = 18 in each) based on PASAT scores. Data were recorded from 128-scalp EEG channels and 4 IC clusters in the visual, and 5 IC clusters in the auditory, modality were identified. In general, MS patients had significantly reduced ERSP theta power versus controls, and a similar pattern was observed for CI vs. non-CI MS patients. The ITC measures were also significantly different in the theta band for some clusters. The finding that MS patients had reduced P3b task-related theta power in both modalities is a reflection of compromised connectivity, likely due to demyelination, that may have disrupted early processes essential to P3b generation, such as orientating and signal detection. However, for posterior sources, MS patients had a greater decrease in alpha power, normally associated with enhanced cognitive function, which may reflect a compensatory mechanism in response to the compromised early cognitive processing.
Ganglioside-enhanced neurite growth: evidence for a selective induction of high-molecular-weight MAP-2

Neuroblastoma cells maintained in serum-free medium exhibit a significant induction of MAP-1a and Tau proteins, but not MAP-2; the time course of these inductions is highly correlated with an increase in microtubule mass which parallels neurite growth. Bovine brain gangliosides (BBG) enhance the neurite outgrowth response of these cells. We report here that one effect of gangliosides is the selective and dramatic induction of MAP-2 expression. Our results also indicate a strong parallelism between this induction and the increase in microtubule mass which accompanies the appearance of more numerous, longer, and highly branched neurites. These observations suggest that MAP-2 induction in neuroblastoma cells may lead to a further differentiation of neurites equivalent to that observed in mature brain neurons. Finally, our results indicate that gangliosides per se are not neuritogenic factors but rather substances capable of enhancing cell- derived influences which affect the neurite outgrowth response of neuroblastoma cells and the type of MAP that they express.
Learning When to Simplify Sentences for Natural Text Simpliﬁcation

This paper introduces a corpus-based approach for selecting sentences that require simpliﬁcation in the context of Brazilian Portuguese text sim-pliﬁcation system. Based on a parallel corpus of original and simpliﬁed text versions, we apply a binary classiﬁer to decide in which circumstances a sentence should or not be split – which is the most important syntactic simpliﬁcation operation – so that the resulting simpliﬁed text is natural and not over simpli-ﬁed. Our classiﬁer reaches 73.5% precision and 73.4% recall when selecting the sentences to be split or kept together.
Carceral feminisms: the abolitionist project and undoing dominant feminisms

Abstract In this article we explore the intersections between white liberal feminisms and the carceral state, particularly within nonprofit agencies. We find a strong collusion between ‘dominating feminisms’ and the carceral state, through funding structures and the belief that the legal system can provide protection to victimized women. We use evidence from our own research on rape crisis centers and gender-responsive programming for criminalized women, respectively, to investigate how some nonprofit agencies further threaten the safety, stability, and self-determination of women of color, queer women, transgendered clients, economically disadvantaged women, and disabled women. As a result, when white liberal feminists seek to intervene in the criminal legal system, we often see reform efforts that directly strengthen institutions that perpetuate economic exploitation, colonialist notions of progress, and white supremacy. We conclude our article with an exploration of some guiding principles within noncarceral antiviolence organizations that espouse a liberatory feminist framework.
Neural correlates of dream lucidity obtained from contrasting lucid versus non-lucid REM sleep: a combined EEG/fMRI case study.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate the neural correlates of lucid dreaming. DESIGN Parallel EEG/fMRI recordings of night sleep. SETTING Sleep laboratory and fMRI facilities. PARTICIPANTS Four experienced lucid dreamers. INTERVENTIONS N/A. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Out of 4 participants, one subject had 2 episodes of verified lucid REM sleep of sufficient length to be analyzed by fMRI. During lucid dreaming the bilateral precuneus, cuneus, parietal lobules, and prefrontal and occipito-temporal cortices activated strongly as compared with non-lucid REM sleep. CONCLUSIONS In line with recent EEG data, lucid dreaming was associated with a reactivation of areas which are normally deactivated during REM sleep. This pattern of activity can explain the recovery of reflective cognitive capabilities that are the hallmark of lucid dreaming.
The Spanish Banks strategy in Latin America

The expansion of Spanish banks in Latin America is one of the most important elements of bank internationalisation in recent years. At first glance, it is paradoxical that at a time of notable progress in the process of European integration, there is an intensification of Spanish investment flows to Latin America. Macroeconomic performance, deregulation, pure banking elements and cultural factors explain the decision of Spanish banks to establish themselves in the region. Given that only a few years have passed since the beginning of the expansion in Latin America, and the economic and financial turbulence experienced by the region in the last two years, it is a little early to properly evaluate the success of this expansion. However, preliminary evidence supports the idea that Latin American revenues have to some extent offset the decline in Spanish net interest income caused by the low interest rate environment in Europe. The presence of Spanish banks in Latin American will increase competition and improve risk management and financial stability.