Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
BECOMING AN INNOVATIVE BANKER - A PARADIGM SHIFT FROM EMPLOYEE- MINDEDNESS TO ENTREPRENEUR- MINDEDNESS

Emerging macro-trends in global financial landscape have forced the bankers to deal with many irresistible challenges. In this article, as a prelude, the author has elaborated on those trends and challenges with reference to findings of Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC, 2014) on the outlook of the banking industry in the next 5-year period. It is also inferred that innovativeness will be an indispensable competency that the bankers have to develop individually and collectively, in order to face the future challenges successfully. Many scholars posit that innovativeness and entrepreneurship are two inherently linked concepts, thus people with entrepreneurial orientation are supposed to be the forerunners of innovative activities in any organisation. Hence the author has expounded few principles of entrepreneurship to illustrate how to foster innovativeness in banks. Although the bank employees are not at liberty to perform as entrepreneurs, there is no barrier for them to think as entrepreneurs. In order to identify such entrepreneur-minded employees in a bank, the author has selected the Five Factor Model (FFM) developed by behavioural scientists few years ago. According to this model, people who are rich in three out of five personality dimensions namely, openness to experience, conscientiousness and extroversion, along with little or no inclination towards the remaining two dimensions namely, agreeableness and neuroticism, are believed to be rich in entrepreneur-mindedness. The author further throws light on possible steps to inculcate entrepreneur-mindedness among all employees of a bank in order to make innovativeness a core value.
Managing Muslim Identity in Schools: understanding the challenge.

This is the author's final draft of the paper published as Race Equality Teaching, 2007, 25 (2), pp. 10-14. The final version is available from http://www.trentham-books.co.uk/acatalog/Race_Equality_Teaching. html This paper appears here with the permission of Trentham Books.
Phylogeny-independent detection of functional residues

MOTIVATION Current projects for the massive characterization of proteomes are generating protein sequences and structures with unknown function. The difficulty of experimentally determining functionally important sites calls for the development of computational methods. The first techniques, based on the search for fully conserved positions in multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), were followed by methods for locating family-dependent conserved positions. These rely on the functional classification implicit in the alignment for locating these positions related with functional specificity. The next obvious step, still scarcely explored, is to detect these positions using a functional classification different from the one implicit in the sequence relationships between the proteins. Here, we present two new methods for locating functional positions which can incorporate an arbitrary external functional classification which may or may not coincide with the one implicit in the MSA. The Xdet method is able to use a functional classification with an associated hierarchy or similarity between functions to locate positions related to that classification. The MCdet method uses multivariate statistical analysis to locate positions responsible for each one of the functions within a multifunctional family. RESULTS We applied the methods to different cases, illustrating scenarios where there is a disagreement between the functional and the phylogenetic relationships, and demonstrated their usefulness for the phylogeny-independent prediction of functional positions.
Activation of influenza viruses by proteases from host cells and bacteria in the human airway epithelium

Abstract Influenza is an acute infection of the respiratory tract, which affects each year millions of people. Influenza virus infection is initiated by the surface glycoprotein hemagglutinin (HA) through receptor binding and fusion of viral and endosomal membranes. HA is synthesized as a precursor protein and requires cleavage by host cell proteases to gain its fusion capacity. Although cleavage of HA is crucial for virus infectivity, little was known about relevant proteases in the human airways for a long time. Recent progress in the identification and characterization of HA‐activating host cell proteases has been considerable however and supports the idea of targeting HA cleavage as a novel approach for influenza treatment. Interestingly, certain bacteria have been demonstrated to support HA activation either by secreting proteases that cleave HA or due to activation of cellular proteases and thereby may contribute to virus spread and enhanced pathogenicity. In this review, we give an overview on activation of influenza viruses by proteases from host cells and bacteria with the main focus on recent progress on HA cleavage by proteases HAT and TMPRSS2 in the human airway epithelium. In addition, we outline investigations of HA‐activating proteases as potential drug targets for influenza treatment.
Evaluation of electromyographic activity and heart rate responses to isometric exercise. The role played by muscular mass and type.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between the electromyographic (EMG) activity and heart rate (HR) responses induced by isometric exercise performed by knee extension (KE) and flexion (KF) in men. Fifteen healthy male subjects, 21 +/- 1.3 years (mean +/- SD), were submitted to KE and KF isometric exercise tests at 100% of maximal voluntary contraction (MVC). The exercises were performed with one leg (right or left) and with two legs simultaneously, for 10 s in the sitting position with the hip and knee flexed at 90 degrees. EMG activity (root mean square values) and HR (beats/min) were recorded simultaneously both at rest and throughout the sustained contraction. The HR responses to isometric exercise in KE and KF were similar when performed with one and two legs. However, the HR increase was always significantly higher in KE than KF (P < 0.05), whereas the EMG activity was higher in KE than in KF (P < 0.05), regardless of the muscle mass (one or two legs) involved in the effort. The correlation coefficients between HR response and the EMG activity during KE (r = 0.33, P > 0.05) and KF (r = 0.15, P > 0.05) contractions were not significant. These results suggest that the predominant mechanism responsible for the larger increase in HR response to KE as compared to KF in our study could be dependent on qualitative and quantitative differences in the fiber type composition found in each muscle group. This mechanism seems to demand a higher activation of motor units with a corresponding increase in central command to the cardiovascular centers that modulate HR control.
Effects of cooperative and individualistic learning strategies on students’ map reading and interpretation

Current conventional methods of teaching Geography in Nigeria has not improved students’ performance in the subject. Hence, there is the need to expose students to other learning strategies that can improve their performance in map reading and interpretation. This study conceptualised relative effects of cooperative and individualistic learning strategies on secondary school students’ achievement in map reading and interpretation. The study employs pretest, posttest, control group, quasi-experimental research design. Subjects comprised 164 senior secondary II (SSII) geography students, made up of 109 boys and 55 girls, drawn from three secondary schools in Ilesa East and West Local Government Areas of Osun State, south-west, Nigeria. Three instruments were used to collect the requisite data – Numerical Ability Test (NAT), Map Reading and Interpretation Achievement Test (MARIAT) and Treatment Implementation Guides on Cooperative, Individualistic and the Conventional learning strategies. Three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Data collected were analysed using ANCOVA, Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) and Scheffe Post-hoc Analysis. Treatment had a significant main effect on students’ map reading and interpretation [F (2, 163) = 35.181, p 0.05]. It was concluded that the cooperative learning strategy was more effective in improving students’ achievement in map reading and intrpretation. Also, high numerical ability subjects performed better than those in the average and low numerical ability groups. Gender has no influence on students’ achievement in map work. It was recommended that geography teachers be given on-the-job training in the use of cooperative learning strategy in classes, and that remedial classes should be organised for students with poor mathematical background. Geography teachers are enjoined to encourage students, particularly the females to show more interest in the study of geography through pieces of advice and the stimulating ways they handle the subject amongst others. Keywords: Cognitive Theory, Gender, Learning Strategies, Map Reading, Numerical Ability
Take it Like a Man: Gender-Threatened Men’s Experience of Gender Role Discrepancy, Emotion Activation, and Pain Tolerance

Theory suggests that men respond to situations in which their gender status is threatened with emotions and behaviors meant to reaffirm manhood. However, the extent to which threats to masculine status impact gender role discrepancy (perceived failure to conform to socially prescribed masculine gender role norms) has yet to be demonstrated empirically. Nor has research established whether gender role discrepancy is itself predictive of engagement in gender-stereotyped behavior following threats to gender status. In the present study, we assessed the effect of threats to masculinity on gender role discrepancy and a unique gender-shaped phenomenon, pain tolerance. Two-hundred twelve undergraduate men were randomly assigned to receive feedback that was either threatening to masculine identity or nonthreatening. Over the course of the study, participants also completed measures of gender role discrepancy, emotion activation, and objectively measured pain tolerance. Results indicated that gender threat predicted increased self-perceived gender role discrepancy and elicited aggression, but not anxiety-related cognitions in men. Moreover, gender-threatened men evinced higher pain tolerance than their nonthreatened counterparts. Collectively, these findings provide compelling support for the theory that engagement in stereotyped masculine behavior may serve a socially expressive function intended to quell negative affect and realign men with the status of “manhood. ”
On Embedding Test Sets into Hardware Generated Sequences

In this paper a novel algorithm is presented for embedding test sets containing don’t care values into sequences generated by binary counters. Experiments carried out on randomly generated test sets reveal that the proposed scheme results in shorter test sequences compared to randomly filling the don’t care bits with ‘0’ and ‘1’ values. Furthermore, comparison with schemes that have been proposed in the open literature for embedding test sets into hardware-generated sequences reveal that the proposed schemes presents comparable results, while in many cases it performs better.
A survey of counselling needs of seminarians in Catholic major seminaries in Nigeria

ABSTRACT This study investigated the counselling needs (academic, social, emotional, personal career and financial needs) of seminarians in Nigeria Catholic Major Seminaries. The study adopted a descriptive (survey research) design. Simple random sampling procedure was used to obtain a sample of 547 respondents from three major seminaries across the country. The modified Student Needs Assessment Survey was used to gather data for this study. The modified version is titled Catholic Seminarian Needs Assessment Questionnaire. The study revealed that seminarians expressed need for counselling on their academic, career and financial life. It was equally revealed that most of the seminarians (59.9%) seek the assistance of the spiritual directors and other priests in the seminaries in place of the counsellor(s). Based on the findings, it was recommended that seminars, workshops and symposia should be organized periodically for the seminarians in the seminaries to address how to maximally manage time, and avoid distraction when studying in order to obtain the maximum academic proficiency and enhance their social and personal issues. More importantly, the seminary administration should employ the services of trained counsellor(s) and establish counselling units in the major seminaries to address the seminarians’ counselling needs in Nigeria since there is none at the moment.
Get a Job: Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime

nized to create their own economic opportunities in the face of social exclusion. As the author concludes, ‘‘an analysis of social capital, therefore, becomes critical to understanding the longevity and dominance of the Outfit in the Chicago Heights context’’ (p. 93). The author ends the book with a discussion of how marginalized Hispanic and black populations dominate in Chicago Heights today and how their gang activity is both similar to and different from the Italian experience of 100 years earlier—and why consideration of their social capital processes is crucial to understanding their involvement in organized crime. In sum, the book is an interesting inquiry into the relationship between Italians and crime in Chicago Heights and an examination of why it was ‘‘historically contingent’’ (p. 126). One wonders what the history of organized crime in America might have been without Prohibition or if several largerthan-life personalities like Al Capone and Frank Laporte had not existed. Would there simply have been other illicit markets to exploit and others to lead organized crime, or would the history of organized crime have been quite different?
Hearing Impairment Affects Dementia Incidence. An Analysis Based on Longitudinal Health Claims Data in Germany

Recent research has revealed an association between hearing impairment and dementia. The objective of this study is to determine the effect of hearing impairment on dementia incidence in a longitudinal study, and whether ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialist care, care level, institutionalization, or depression mediates or moderates this pathway. The present study used a longitudinal sample of 154,783 persons aged 65 and older from claims data of the largest German health insurer; containing 14,602 incident dementia diagnoses between 2006 and 2010. Dementia and hearing impairment diagnoses were defined according to International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, codes. We used a Kaplan Meier estimator and performed Cox proportional hazard models to explore the effect of hearing impairment on dementia incidence, controlling for ENT specialist care, care level, institutionalization, and depression. Gender, age, and comorbidities were controlled for as potential confounders. Patients with bilateral (HR = 1.43, p<0.001) and side-unspecified (HR = 1.20, p<0.001) hearing impairment had higher risks of dementia incidence than patients without hearing impairment. We found no significant effect for unilateral hearing impairment and other diseases of the ear. The effect of hearing impairment was only partly mediated through ENT specialist utilization. Significant interaction between hearing impairment and specialist care, care level, and institutionalization, respectively, indicated moderating effects. We discuss possible explanations for these effects. This study underlines the importance of the association between hearing impairment and dementia. Preserving hearing ability may maintain social participation and may reduce the burden associated with dementia. The particular impact of hearing aid use should be the subject of further investigations, as it offers potential intervention on the pathway to dementia.
Two Large H I Shells in the Outer Galaxy near l = 279°

As part of a survey of H I λ21 cm emission in the southern Milky Way, we have detected two large shells in the interstellar neutral hydrogen near l = 279°. The center velocities are +36 and +59 km s-1, which puts the shells at kinematic distances of 7 and 10 kpc. The larger shell is about 610 pc in diameter and very empty, with density contrast of at least 15 between the middle and the shell walls. It has expansion velocity of about 20 km s-1 and swept-up mass of several million solar masses. The energy indicated by the expansion may be as high as 2.4 × 1053 ergs. We estimate its age to be 15 to 20 million years. The smaller shell has diameter of about 400 pc, expansion velocity about 10 km s-1, and swept-up mass of about 106 M⊙. Morphologically both regions appear to be shells, with high-density regions mostly surrounding the voids, although the first appears to have channels of low density that connect with the halo above and below the H I layer. They lie on the edge of the Carina arm, which suggests that they may be expanding horizontally into the interarm region, as well as vertically out of the disk. If this interpretation is correct, this is the first detection of an H I chimney which has blown out of both sides of the disk.
Stabilization of random Boolean networks

This paper considers the stabilization of random Boolean networks. We first give a survey on the semi-tensor product approach to Boolean (control) networks, which is a new technique developed by us. Particularly, the stability and stabilization of Boolean (control) networks are reviewed. Then, under the same framework, the topological structure of the random Boolean networks is investigated and revealed. Using it the stabilization of random Boolean networks is considered. A sufficient condition is provided. A stabilizer design method is proposed.
Improving Computer Based Speech Therapy Using a Fuzzy Expert System

In this paper we present our work about Computer Based Speech Therapy systems optimization. We focus especially on using a fuzzy expert system in order to determine specific parameters of personalized therapy, i.e. the number, length and content of training sessions. The efficiency of this new approach was tested during an experiment performed with our CBST, named LOGOMON.
Co-citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents

A new form of document coupling called co-citation is defined as the frequency with which two documents are cited together. The co-citation frequency of two scientific papers can be determined by comparing lists of citing documents in the Science Citation Index and counting identical entries. Networks of co-cited papers can be generated for specific scientific specialties, and an example is drawn from the literature of particle physics. Co-citation patterns are found to differ significantly from bibliographic coupling patterns, but to agree generally with patterns of direct citation. Clusters of co-cited papers provide a new way to study the specialty structure of science. They may provide a new approach to indexing and to the creation of SDI profiles.
Sensation Seeking, Overconfidence, and Trading Activity

This study analyzes the role that two psychological attributes—sensation seeking and overconfidence—play in the tendency of investors to trade stocks. Equity trading data from Finland are combined with data from investor tax filings, driving records, and mandatory psychological profiles. We use these data, obtained from a large population, to construct measures of overconfidence and sensation seeking tendencies. Controlling for a host of variables, including wealth, income, age, number of stocks owned, marital status, and occupation, we find that overconfident investors and those investors most prone to sensation seeking trade more frequently.
Utilizing URLs Position to Estimate Intrinsic Query-URL Relevance

Query-URL relevance (QUR) is an important criterion to measure the quality of commercial search engines. However, the traditional way to collect high-quality QURs is time-consuming and labor-intensive since it is primarily based on human judges. To address these issues, numerous models have been studied to automatically infer the QURs. Unlike the prior studies in this literature, we first empirically analyze the correlation between multiple annotators' judgments on QURs and URL position in ranking lists. By doing so, we reveal and justify the potential impacts of URL position on inferring intrinsic QURs. Inspired by this finding, a position-sensitive model (PSM) is proposed to infer QURs more accurately. In contrast with most existing approaches that attempt to construct the direct relationship between QURs and the features characterizing query-URL pairs, PSM assumes that the QUR is connected with the features through URL position. We conducted the experiments in real search engine Baidu.com, and compared the experimental results to those of the typical methods used in similar tasks, reporting significant gains over click-through rate and the normalized discounted cumulative gains (NDCGs).
Incident acute pseudogout and prior bisphosphonate use: Matched case–control study in the UK-Clinical Practice Research Datalink

Abstract Oral bisphosphonates are the most commonly used drugs to treat postmenopausal osteoporosis. Acute pseudogout is anecdotally reported to occur following bisphosphonate initiation but empirical data are lacking. We investigated whether treatment with oral bisphosphonates is a risk factor for incident acute pseudogout. A matched case–control study was undertaken using data from the UK-Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Adults who consulted for incident acute pseudogout between 1987 and 2012 were each matched for gender, age at pseudogout diagnosis, and general practice to up to 4 control subjects without pseudogout. The exposure of interest was a prescription for an oral bisphosphonate issued within the 60-day period prior to the date of incident acute pseudogout. Associations between incident acute pseudogout and prior bisphosphonate prescription were examined using conditional logistic regression, adjusting for hyperparathyroidism, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, hemochromatosis, hypophosphatasia, and prescriptions for diuretics and oral corticosteroids. Two thousand eleven acute pseudogout cases were compared with 8013 matched controls without acute pseudogout (mean age [standard deviation] 72 years [14]; 52% male). One hundred twenty-three cases (6.1%) had received an oral bisphosphonate prescription in the 60-day exposure period compared with 305 controls (3.8%) (adjusted incidence rate ratio [IRR] 1.33; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.05–1.69). This association was stronger in females (adjusted IRR 1.49; 95% CI 1.15–1.94) and was nonsignificant in males (0.83; 0.48–1.44). Incident acute pseudogout was associated with prescription of an oral bisphosphonate in the preceding 60 days. Prescribers should be aware of acute pseudogout as a possible side effect of bisphosphonate treatment. Further research is needed to explore the risks conferred by different bisphosphonates and the mechanism underlying this association.
Manajemen Pendidikan Inklusif (Konsep, Kebijakan, dan Implementasinya)

Pendidikan inklusif merupakan filosofi sekaligus strategi inovatif dalam memperluas akses dan peningkatan mutu pendidikan bagi semua tanpa diskriminasi, sehingga banyak mendapat sambutan dan apresiasi dari masyarakat luas. Dalam tataran operasional, sekalipun implementasinya semakin meluas, namun masih banyak dihadapkan kepada berbgai isu dan kendala, bahkan kesalahan praktek. Konsekuensinya, dalam perjalanan menuju pendidikan inklusi ( toward inclusive education ), pendidikan inklusif harus dikelola dengan baik, sehingga kebijakan dan implementasinya sesuai dengan konsep-konsep yang mendasarinya. Kata kunci: Inklusif, konsep, kebijakan, implementasi, isu, kendala