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Cooperative ERP Life-cycle Knowledge Management

Strategic alliances between ERP software vendors, their implementation partners and clients, for knowledge sharing and integrated knowledge management across the ERP life-cycle, hold promise for leveraging scarce expertise and human resources, thereby streamlining implementation and promoting growth of the market. SAP's significant market presence offers a unique opportunity to encourage such a tripartite ERP knowledge management framework. This industry-academe collaborative study will account for existing knowledge management facilities, approaches and technology; explore alternative responsibility and role sharing scenarios; define a broad system architecture; and propose strategies to promote the framework across SAP, its clients and partners.
Judging a Commit by Its Cover: Correlating Commit Message Entropy with Build Status on Travis-CI

Developers summarize their changes to code in commit messages.When a message seems “unusual’', however, this puts doubt into the quality of the code contained in the commit. We trained n-gram language models and used cross-entropy as an indicator of commit message “unusualness” of over 120,000 commits from open source projects.Build statuses collected from Travis-CI were used as a proxy for code quality. We then compared the distributions of failed and successful commits with regards to the “unusualness'’ of their commit message. Our analysis yielded significant results when correlating cross-entropy with build status.
HEMISPHERIC LATERALIZATION FOR LANGUAGE EXAMINED WITH CHINESE CHARACTERS

The extent and nature of right cerebral hemisphere (RH) contributions to language processing remain a matter of debate. Exploiting unique features of Chinese characters, two studies investigated two questions regarding the RH’s potential contributions: (1) Does the RH contribute preferentially to visual-word-form analysis of radical configurations in Chinese characters, independently of low spatial frequencies? (2) Does the RH contribute preferentially to semantic processing by accessing meaning directly through Chinese orthography, bypassing phonology? Participants were 35 right-handed native Chinese adults with at least high-school education. Participants completed both studies which incorporated divided visual field presentation of stimuli. The first study employed a radical configuration matching task, with lateralized presentation of the second stimulus in each stimulus pair to be matched. Each pair was presented in a normal or a low spatial frequency condition. Results showed that the RH demonstrates some specialty in processing radical configurations, and that radical configuration and spatial frequency are processed as two independent entities. The frequency of exposure to different types of radical configurations was proposed as a modulator of the RH’s involvement. The second study incorporated a primed lexical decision task, with two types of primes: those conveying only semantic information and those conveying both semantic and phonological information. Target characters held weak semantic associations with both types of primes. Lateralized stimulus presentation was used for the primes. Results suggested that the RH accesses semantic information through orthography regardless of whether phonological information is embedded. The first study challenges the assumed relationship between the RH and radical configuration processing via the presumed connection to low spatial frequencies. The findings also lead to new questions, including whether exposure effects are potential modifiers of the RH’s involvement. The second study identifies a role for the RH in accessing semantics via orthography directly. This work leads to questions about the specific neural underpinnings of this route, and about whether level of Chinese script knowledge modulates this route’s accessibility. Taken together, the results of these studies and the future work they will spur will continue to advance our understanding of the RH’s critical role in language processing.
Nature of the antigenic complex recognized by T lymphocytes. I. Analysis with an in vitro primary response to soluble protein antigens

In order to analyze the genetic factors involved in the regulation of macrophage-T-cells interaction we have developed an in vitro primary response to soluble protein antigens in which nonimmune guinea pig T cells can be sensitized and subsequently challenged in tissue culture with antigen-pulsed macrophages. Antigen-specific T-cell activation, as measured by increased DNA synthesis, occurred when syngeneic antigen- pulsed macrophages were used for both initial sensitization and secondary challenge. No T-cell activation occurred when allogeneic antigen-pulsed macrophages were used for secondary challenge of cells primed when syngeneic macrophages. When allogeneic antigen-pulsed macrophages were used in both primary and secondary cultures it was difficult to assess antigen-specific stimulation due to the substantial mixed leukocyte reaction. However, when T cells from F1 animals were primed with parental antigen-pulsed macrophages they responded only to the parental macrophages used for initial sensitization but not to those of the other parent. These results are discussed with respect to T-cell recognition of a complex antigenic determinant which may include I-region gene products.
Evaluation of Ketorolac Tromethamine Microspheres by Chitosan/Gelatin B Complex Coacervation

Microspheres (MS) of Ketorolac Tromethamine (KT) for oral delivery were prepared by complex coacervation (method-1) and simple coacervation (method-2) methods without the use of chemical cross–linking agent (glutaraldehyde) to avoid the toxic reactions and other undesirable effects of the chemical cross-linking agents. Alternatively, ionotropic gelation was employed by using sodium-tripolyphosphate (Na-TPP) as cross linking agent. Chitosan and gelatin B were used as polymer and copolymer respectively. All the prepared microspheres were subjected to various physico-chemical studies, such as drug-polymer compatibility by Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) and Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectroscopy (FTIR), surface morphology by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), frequency distribution, encapsulation efficiency, in-vitro drug release characteristics and release kinetics. The physical state of drug in the microspheres was determined by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray powder Diffractometry (XRD). TLC and FTIR studies indicated no drug-polymer incompatibility. All the MS showed release of drug by a fickian diffusion mechanism. DSC and XRD analysis indicated that the KT trapped in the microspheres existed in an amorphous or disordered-crystalline status in the polymer matrix. It is possible to design a controlled drug delivery system for the prolonged release of KT, improving therapy by possible reduction of time intervals between administrations.
Antecedents and Outcomes of Objective Versus Subjective Career Success: Competing Perspectives and Future Directions

This review examines competing perspectives relating to (a) the range and prevalence of different theoretical approaches to the study of career success and (b) the need for a theoretically differentiated understanding of the antecedents of objective career success (OCS) versus subjective career success (SCS). Furthermore, the review complements the assumption that OCS and SCS are only ultimate outcomes of careers, proposing instead that career success also acts as an antecedent to other career and life outcomes. Against the backdrop of an organizing resource management framework, we present and critically evaluate the results of a systematic analysis of the theoretical approaches used to empirically study the antecedents of OCS and SCS. Furthermore, we develop a taxonomy of outcomes of career success. Our review findings show a theoretical heterogeneity with some dominant theoretical approaches within research of antecedents of career success. Moreover, past research started to adopt different theoretical approaches when predicting OCS (e.g., approaches focusing on personal resources, such as human capital or [competitive] performance) versus SCS (e.g., approaches focusing on personal key resources, such as stable traits). Several types of career success outcomes were identified: withdrawal, career attitudes, health and well-being, reactions from the (work) environment, and self-concept. On the basis of these findings, we provide recommendations for how future research can make sense of the theoretical heterogeneity in career success research, how research on antecedents and outcomes can better account for the OCS/SCS distinction, and how future research can more rigorously integrate research on antecedents and outcomes of career success.
Evaluating business support measures: The Bayesian Network approach

Traditional methods to the evaluation of business support consider the firm as a ‘black box’ and the main interest is to see to what extent a policy has produced the intended effects. The causal mechanisms that explain how certain effects are generated are not discovered. In this article we show the applicability of Bayesian Network Analysis in combination with theory-based evaluation as a new mixed-method approach to reveal the mechanisms, both expected and unknown, which explain the changes in a firm’s behaviour and economic performance due to public support. By combining graphical map analysis with statistical analysis, Bayesian Network Analysis reveals the interdependences between different drivers of change in firms so as to either confirm, deny or better qualify the theory of change of the policy.
There's more to touch than meets the eye: The salience of object attributes for haptics with and without vision.

SUMMARY The availability and salience of object attributes under haptic exploration, with and without vision, were assessed by two tasks in which subjects sorted objects that varied factorially in size, shape, texture, and hardness. In the directed-discrimination task, subjeets were instructed to sort along a particular dimension. Although levels on all dimensions were easily discriminated, shape was relatively less so for haptic explorers without vision, as was hardness for those using vision and haptics. Size was least discriminable for both groups. In thefiee-sorting task, subjects were to sort objects by similarity. Three groups used haptic exploration only; these were differentiated by the experimenters' definition of object similarity: unbiased haptics (no particular definition of similarity), haptically biased hapties (similarity = objects feel similar), haptics plus visual imagery (similarity = objects' visual inmges are similar). A fourth group used vision as well as haptics, with instructions like those of the unbiased haptics group. Dimensional salience was measured by the extent to which levels on a dimension were differentiated in free sorting (more differentiation indicating higher salience). The unbiased haptics and haptically biased haptics groups were highly similar; both found the substance dimensions (hardness and texture) relatively salient. The haptics plus visual imagery group showed shape to be overwhelmingly salient, even more so when they were instructed to use two hands, but less so when they had just seen the objects. The haptics plus vision group showed salience to be more evenly distributed over the dimensions. Exploratory hand movements were videotaped and scored into four categories of exploratory procedure (I.,derman & Klatzky, 1987): lateral motion, pressure, contour following, and enclosure (related to texture, hardness, shape, and size, respectively). The distribution of exploratory procedures was found to be directly related to both the designated dimension in the directed-discrimination task, and the salient dimension in the free-sorting task. The results support our contention that the haptic and visual systems have distinct encoding pathways, with haptics oriented toward the encoding of substance rather than shape. This may reflect a direct influence of haptic exploratory procedures: The procedures that are executed under unbiased haptic encoding are those that are generally found to be rapid and accurate (high "ease of encoding"), and the execution of these procedures determines which object properties become salient.
An SiO Maser Search off the Galactic Plane

We searched for the SiO J = 1 -0, v = 1 and 2 maser lines at similar to 43 GHz in 277 2MASS/MSX/IRAS sources off the Galactic plane (vertical bar b vertical bar greater than or similar to 3 degrees), which resulted in 119 (112 new) detections. Among the new detections, two are very faint objects with MSX 12 mu m flux densities below 2 Jy. These are likely to be O-rich AGB-stars associated with dwarf-galaxy tidal tails. The sample also includes medium bright MSX objects at moderately high galactic latitudes (3 degrees < vertical bar b vertical bar < 5 degrees) and in the TRAS gap at higher latitudes. A signature of a warp of the inner Galactic disk is found for a disk subsample. This warp appears relatively strongly in the area of 0 degrees < l < 45 degrees and 3 degrees < vertical bar b vertical bar < 5 degrees. We also found a group of stars that does not follow to the Galactic rotation. This feature appears in the Galactic disk at l similar to 27 degrees, and extends more than 15 degrees in the galactic latitude, like a stream of tidal debris from a dwarf galaxy.
Compassion, Acceptance and Narrative Identity in the Self-Regulation of Learning Among University Students with Learning Disabilities

COMPASSION, ACCEPTANCE AND NARRATIVE IDENTITY IN THE SELFREGULATION OF LEARNING AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES David Willoughby Advisor University of Guelph, 2017 Dr. Mary Ann Evans University students with learning disabilities (LDs) represent a growing fraction of the total student population within North America. While past research has focused on cognitive aspects of living with an LD, social-emotional factors associated with the condition have received less attention. Social-emotional factors may play an important role in students’ ability to regulate their learning and effectively cope with LDs. This study investigates the relations between selfcompassion, self-acceptance of an LD, narrative identity, self-regulated learning, and selfreported GPA in university students with LDs. Participants were 78 university students who selfreported as possessing an LD. All participants completed an online questionnaire and 20 completed an interview which was subsequently coded for themes of disability acceptance, agency, and meaning-making. Correlational analyses revealed significant associations between self-acceptance of an LD, self-compassion, self-regulated learning and GPA. No significant correlations between life story themes and self-regulated learning were found. However, themes of disability acceptance were significantly related to self-compassion and agency themes.
Drug resistance in cancer – searching for mechanisms, markers and therapeutic agents

Treatment resistance, whether inherent or acquired, is a major problem reducing the activity of conventional and newer, molecularly targeted, cancer drugs. A more complex picture of the causes and contributions of specific forms of resistance is now emerging through application of pharmacological, proteomic and gene expression technologies and we have entered an exciting time where new molecular research tools are being applied not only to characterise the causes of such resistance, but to identify rational new treatments and treatment combinations that are being rapidly translated to clinical evaluations with increasing success. This review outlines many of the contributing causes of resistance to established cytotoxics and to the new breed of molecularly targeted agents, both monoclonal antibodies and small molecules, and the research methods being used to wage war on resistant cancer.
Axiomatization of a Preference for Most Probable Winner

In binary choice between discrete outcome lotteries, an individual may prefer lottery L1 to lottery L2 when the probability that L1 delivers a better outcome than L2 is higher than the probability that L2 delivers a better outcome than L1. Such a preference can be rationalized by three standard axioms (solvability, convexity and symmetry) and one less standard axiom (a fanning-in). A preference for the most probable winner can be represented by a skew-symmetric bilinear utility function. Such a utility function has the structure of a regret theory when lottery outcomes are perceived as ordinal and the assumption of regret aversion is replaced with a preference for a win. The empirical evidence supporting the proposed system of axioms is discussed.
In situ measurement-based partitioning behavior of perfluoroalkyl acids in the atmosphere

Environmental fate of ionizable organic pollutants such as perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are of increasing interest but has not been well understood because of uncertain values for parameters related with atmospheric interphase partitioning behavior. In the present study, not only the values for air-water partition coefficient (KAW) and dissociation constant (pKa) of PFAAs were induced by adjusting to in situ measurements of air-water distribution coefficient between vapor phase and rainwater but also gas-particle partition coefficients were also estimated using three-phase partitioning model of ionizable organic pollutants, in situ measurements of PFAAs in aerosol and air vapor phase, and obtained parameter values. The pKa values of PFAAs we obtained were close to the minimum values suggested in literature except for perfluorooctane sulfonic acids, and COSMOtherm-modeled KAW values were assessed to more appropriate among suggested values. When applying parameter values we obtained, it was predicted that air particle-associated fate and transport of PFAAs could be negligible and PFAAs could distribute ubiquitously along the transection from urban to rural region by pH-dependent phase transfer in air. Our study is expected to have some implications in prediction of the environmental redistribution of other ionizable organic compounds
COMPETENCIAS PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN: EL TRABAJO FIN DE MÁSTER Y SU POTENCIALIDAD FORMATIVA

The paper presented here is an expression of the Teaching Innovation project titled "Strategic learning in postgraduate education: development of metacognitive competence for scientific research and its training in Master's Thesis". This project has been carried out by a large number of teachers of a Psychoeducational Research Master. One of the most interesting contributions of Bologna Plan has been the incorporation of the competence concept into the dynamics of the teaching and learning activity of Higher Education. The competences that must be demanded in postgraduate studies differ in terms of quality and specificity from other Higher Education competences. Specifically, when we should teach to university students to be able to face scientific tasks, it is necessary to pay attention to the high-level cognitive skills that are present in these tasks, such as the choosing of problems to investigate, the synthesis of relevant knowledge to the investigation of a specific problem, the ability to formulate questions and research objectives, or the capacity to formulate assumptions and hypotheses that guide the scientific work. All this capabilities must be acquired by training, while practicing the research activity; in the case of master's studies, it materializes in the so-called Master's Thesis. The project presented here has had the purpose of testing the acquisition of this type of competences in the transition from the teaching activity of the subjects’ model, to the work model that is carried out through the advice and supervision of the TFM. The results of the project confirm that, effectively, the elaboration of a TFM stimulates autonomous thinking, and raises the intellectual competence in general and, in particular, the competencies that are necessary for the beginning of the research activity (doctoral thesis) proposes the Bergen Declaration.
Loss of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Function Partially Protects against Peripheral and Cardiac Glucose Metabolic Derangements During a Long-Term High-Fat Diet

Diabetes is a chronic inflammatory disease that carries a high risk of cardiovascular disease. However, the pathophysiological link between these disorders is not well known. We hypothesize that TLR4 signaling mediates high fat diet (HFD)-induced peripheral and cardiac glucose metabolic derangements. Mice with a loss-of-function mutation in TLR4 (C3H/HeJ) and age-matched control (C57BL/6) mice were fed either a high-fat diet or normal diet for 16 weeks. Glucose tolerance and plasma insulin were measured. Protein expression of glucose transporters (GLUT), AKT (phosphorylated and total), and proinflammatory cytokines (IL-6, TNF-α and SOCS-3) were quantified in the heart using Western Blotting. Both groups fed a long-term HFD had increased body weight, blood glucose and insulin levels, as well as impaired glucose tolerance compared to mice fed a normal diet. TLR4-mutant mice were partially protected against long-term HFD-induced insulin resistance. In control mice, feeding a HFD decreased cardiac crude membrane GLUT4 protein content, which was partially rescued in TLR4-mutant mice. TLR4-mutant mice fed a HFD also had increased expression of GLUT8, a novel isoform, compared to mice fed a normal diet. GLUT8 content was positively correlated with SOCS-3 and IL-6 expression in the heart. No significant differences in cytokine expression were observed between groups, suggesting a lack of inflammation in the heart following a HFD. Loss of TLR4 function partially restored a healthy metabolic phenotype, suggesting that TLR4 signaling is a key mechanism in HFD-induced peripheral and cardiac insulin resistance. Our data further suggest that TLR4 exerts its detrimental metabolic effects in the myocardium through a cytokine-independent pathway.
Nursing Practice Environments and Job Outcomes in Ambulatory Oncology Settings

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate job satisfaction and intent to stay for ambulatory oncology nurses. BACKGROUND: An oncology provider shortage suggests that retention is a high priority, and factors associated with job outcomes are unknown in this setting. METHOD: Data were derived from a cross-sectional survey completed by 402 oncology nurses employed in ambulatory settings. Logistic regression models estimated the likelihood of job satisfaction or intent to stay for at least 1 year. RESULTS: Most nurses (80.9%) were satisfied and 87.4% indicated their intent to stay. Significant variables for job satisfaction were university/hospital ownership, staffing and resource adequacy, nurse manager ability and leadership, and workloads. Variables significant for intent to stay were staffing and resource adequacy, participation in practice affairs, and years of experience. CONCLUSIONS: Favorable practice environments are key to effective nurse retention. Staffing, leadership, and resource allocation influence retention in ambulatory settings.