Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assimilation of enterprise resource planning (ERP): a multilevel model

198 words) ERP assimilation involves both strategic levels and individual level. Focusing on either micro or a macro stance yields an incomplete understanding of behaviour occurring at either level. The main objective of this research is to bridge across different levels of analysis in understanding ERP assimilation. First built upon the existing experiences with ERP software application and prior research, we conceptualize ERP assimilation to be multilevel, including three dimensions of ERP assimilation across different organizational levels, i.e., strategic level, activity level, and individual level. Drawing upon Institutional theory and empowerment theories, we integrate macro and micro approaches to develop a multilevel model explaining ERP assimilation. Top management championship and empowerment climate are proposed to be factors influencing ERP assimilation in corporate strategies and value-chain activities; while psychosocial empowerment is the main driving force for individual ERP assimilation and satisfaction with ERP. Empowerment climate serves as the mechanism translating the influence from organizational level to individual level and its effect on ERP assimilation at the individual level is mediated through psychological empowerment. Furthermore, empowerment climate is also argued to dampen the direct effect of top management championship on ERP assimilation in value-chain activities. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Equivalence between LINE and Matrix Factorization

LINE [1], as an efficient network embedding method, has shown its effectiveness in dealing with large-scale undirected, directed, and/or weighted networks. Particularly, it proposes to preserve both the local structure (represented by First-order Proximity) and global structure (represented by Second-order Proximity) of the network. In this study, we prove that LINE with these two proximities (LINE(1st) and LINE(2nd)) are actually factoring two different matrices separately. Specifically, LINE(1st) is factoring a matrix M (1), whose entries are the doubled Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) of vertex pairs in undirected networks, shifted by a constant. LINE(2nd) is factoring a matrix M (2), whose entries are the PMI of vertex and context pairs in directed networks, shifted by a constant. We hope this finding would provide a basis for further extensions and generalizations of LINE.
Static compaction techniques to control scan vector power dissipation

Excessive switching activity during scan testing can cause average power dissipation and peak power during test to be much higher than during normal operation. This can cause problems both with heat dissipation and with current spikes. Compacting scan vectors greatly increases the power dissipation for the vectors (generally the power becomes several times greater). The compacted scan vectors often can exceed the power constraints and hence cannot be used. It is shown here that by carefully selecting the order in which pairs of test cubes are merged during static compaction, both average power and peak power for the final test set can be greatly reduced. A static compaction procedure is presented that can be used to find a minimal set of scan vectors that satisfies constraints on both average power and peak power. The proposed approach is simple yet effective and can be easily implemented in the conventional test vector generation flow used in industry today.
Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements

We may not be able to make you love reading, but radical media rebellious communication and social movements will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.
Stress, Social Support, and Health of Urban Latinas

Stress, Social Support, and Health of Urban Latinas Na Ra Jang Latinas are one of the largest and fastest growing minority groups in the United States (U.S.) and are at risk for poor health outcomes due to stress. However, little is known about the buffering effects of social support on stress and health in Latinas. In this cross-sectional study, we applied a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach to examine stress, social support and health outcomes in urban Latinas who participated in a community survey. We conducted iterative development of conceptual and analytic models through exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and SEM. Four hypotheses were tested with SEM: 1) Higher levels of stress are associated with worse health outcomes; 2) Lower levels of social support are associated with worse health outcomes; 3) Being older or having lower levels of education is associated with worse health outcomes; and 4) Social support moderates the relationship between stress and health outcomes. The study sample comprised 2,035 Latinas who were predominantly immigrants from the Dominican Republic, had a mean age of 50; the majority reported low levels of chronic stress, lower than national average psychological distress scores, and rated their health as good or better. Levels of online social support were low – about 20%. The EFA rendered a three-factor solution with strong factor loadings: chronic stress, online social support, and health. The CFA models had adequate model fit indices. The hypotheses were not supported in the SEM. This is the first study to apply EFA and SEM approaches to develop and evaluate measurements of stress, social support, and health in a large sample of Latinas. Consequently, this research provides an important foundation for further examination of these constructs. This is an essential prerequisite to development of culturally appropriate social support interventions including those that are online for the rapidly growing U.S. Latina population.
A Million Decisions

Innovation often happens at the margin. For the past 5 years, in the academic equivalent of an ecotone, Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan has built and continues to refine offerings in its 4-year Bachelor of Science degree in Sustainable Business. Emerging out of the demands of a rapidly changing business world and the sustainable business movement, this degree program integrates and spans across disciplines. As the country's first undergraduate program of its kind, Aquinas' program-building effort for its signature Sustainable Business degree offers lessons and insights for those who might embark on a similar journey on the “sustainability frontier. ” Faculty creativity, administrative leadership, and external support all contribute to this innovative curriculum.
Robust Transmission of Images Based on JPEG2000 Using Edge Information

In multimedia communication and data storage, compression of data is essential to speed up the transmission rate, minimize the use of channel bandwidth, and minimize storage space. The drawback of compression is that the compressed data are more vulnerable to channel noise during transmission. In this paper, error concealment methodology is proposed that has the ability of error detection and concealment, and thus guarantees reduction in channel bandwidth. The methodology requires transmission of edge information of the original image along with JPEG2000 compressed image. At the receiver, the edge information of received wavelet coefficients is computed and compared with the received edge information to determine corrupted coefficients. Three methods of concealment, each including a filter, are investigated to handle corrupted regions/coefficients. The simulation results conducted on five test images for different values of bit error rate are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach. The objective quality measure such as peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), root-mean-square error (rms) and subjective quality measure are used to evaluate processed images. Keywords--Error Concealment, JPEG 2000, Image Transmission
Legume genome evolution viewed through the Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus genomes

Genome sequencing of the model legumes, Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus, provides an opportunity for large-scale sequence-based comparison of two genomes in the same plant family. Here we report synteny comparisons between these species, including details about chromosome relationships, large-scale synteny blocks, microsynteny within blocks, and genome regions lacking clear correspondence. The Lotus and Medicago genomes share a minimum of 10 large-scale synteny blocks, each with substantial collinearity and frequently extending the length of whole chromosome arms. The proportion of genes syntenic and collinear within each synteny block is relatively homogeneous. Medicago–Lotus comparisons also indicate similar and largely homogeneous gene densities, although gene-containing regions in Mt occupy 20–30% more space than Lj counterparts, primarily because of larger numbers of Mt retrotransposons. Because the interpretation of genome comparisons is complicated by large-scale genome duplications, we describe synteny, synonymous substitutions and phylogenetic analyses to identify and date a probable whole-genome duplication event. There is no direct evidence for any recent large-scale genome duplication in either Medicago or Lotus but instead a duplication predating speciation. Phylogenetic comparisons place this duplication within the Rosid I clade, clearly after the split between legumes and Salicaceae (poplar).
Effects of tibolone and combined 17beta-estradiol and norethisterone acetate on serum C-reactive protein in healthy post-menopausal women: a randomized trial.

BACKGROUND Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) is an independent risk factor for the development of cardiovascular diseases in healthy post-menopausal women. Oral unopposed and progestin-combined 17beta-estradiol (E(2)) increase serum CRP in post-menopausal women. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of tibolone, a steroid with estrogenic, androgenic or progestogenic properties, with a combination of E(2) and norethisterone acetate (E(2) + NETA) on serum CRP levels in healthy post-menopausal women. METHODS A total of 139 post-menopausal women (mean age: 55 years, range 44-48) was randomly assigned to receive tibolone 1.25 mg/day (n = 52), tibolone 2.5 mg/day (n = 39) or E(2) 2 mg/day plus NETA 1 mg/day (n = 48) for 2 years. Serum CRP was measured at baseline and at 6, 12 and 24 months. RESULTS Both doses of tibolone and E(2) + NETA increased serum CRP by a similar extent as soon as 6 months with a sustained effect over the 24 month treatment period. For example, after 6 months of treatment, serum CRP increased by a median of +106% (P < 0.001), +89% (P < 0.05) and +139% (P < 0.001) for tibolone 1.25 mg/day, tibolone 2.5 mg/day and E(2) + NETA respectively. CONCLUSIONS Tibolone and E(2) + NETA significantly increase serum CRP levels in healthy post-menopausal women to a comparable extent. Relationships between induced elevated CRP levels with tibolone and E(2) + NETA and cardiovascular events require further studies.
A RELIABLE METHOD TO ANALYSE SOCIAL NETWORK SITES WITH INTERVIEWS

The paper determine the dimensions of social capital which has been described from Sander / Teh (Sander & Teh, 2014a). The dimensions can be used to measure and identify social capital in social network sites. The dimensions are formulated on a theoretical basis. The aim of the paper is to explore the use of social network sites by students and to identify parts of the social capital theory in social network sites under consideration of the framework. This paper use the results of 59 structured interviews with students analysed with a software to explore the behaviour of students in social network sites under consideration of the social capital theory. The second purpose for this paper is to use a method to analyse expert interviews as a qualitative method with a software. The software provides an objective perspective on the data as good as objective a method can be. This method can give critical feedback about an individual interpretation from a human researcher and new insights in the collected data. Further provides the method a reliable result for interviews as any replication provide the same result.
High myopia is not associated with the SNPs in the TGIF, lumican, TGFB1, and HGF genes.

PURPOSE Four single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the TGIF, lumican, TGFB1, and HGF genes have been declared to be associated with high myopia in Chinese living in southeast China, but none of them has been confirmed by additional studies. This study was conducted to verify the reported positive association results by analysis of subjects from the same region. METHODS DNA was prepared from venous leukocytes of 288 patients with high myopia and 208 control subjects. The four SNPs (rs2229336, rs3759223, rs1982073, and rs3735520) in the four genes were genotyped by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis. The allele and genotype frequencies of these SNPs from patients and control subjects were compared by chi(2) test. RESULTS Polymorphism at rs2229336 was not detected in all 496 subjects. There were no statistically significant differences between patients and control subjects for the other three SNPs: rs3759223, rs1982073, and rs3735520. CONCLUSIONS The study does not support the association of high myopia with alleles of rs2229336 in TGIF, rs3759223 in lumican, rs1982073 in TGFB1, and rs3735520 in HGF. These results provide a view contrary to those in previous reports. Reasonable criteria as well as replication should be the first priority for genetic association studies to avoid excessive expansion of false-positive results, especially for high myopia.
Latina mothers' beliefs and practices related to weight status, feeding, and the development of child overweight.

OBJECTIVE To examine maternal beliefs and practices related to weight status, child feeding, and child overweight in the Latino culture that may contribute to the rising rates of overweight among preschool Latino children in the United States. DESIGN AND SAMPLE This 2-phase qualitative study relies on data obtained in 6 focus groups with a total of 31 primarily Spanish-speaking, low-income mothers, followed by 20 individual, in-depth interviews with women participating in a health promotion educational program. MEASURES Child-feeding beliefs, practices, and weight status perceptions were elicited. RESULTS The findings indicated that most respondents reported personal struggles with weight gain, particularly during and after pregnancy, and were concerned that their children would become obese. Although subjects understood the health and social consequences related to overweight, many discussed the pressures of familial and cultural influences endorsing a "chubby child. " CONCLUSIONS Education and interventions that incorporate "culturally mediated" pathways to address mothers' feeding practices are essential for the prevention and control of childhood overweight among low-income Latinos. Nurses should be aware of the social and cultural influences on Latina mothers' beliefs and practices related to weight status and feeding practices and address these in their education approaches to prevent childhood overweight and obesity with this population group.
Functional Consequences of Genome Evolution in Listeria monocytogenes: the lmo0423 and lmo0422 Genes Encode σC and LstR, a Lineage II-Specific Heat Shock System

ABSTRACT Listeria monocytogenes strains belonging to phylogenetic lineage II (serotypes 1/2a, 1/2c, and 3a) carry a lineage-specific genome segment encoding a putative sigma subunit of RNA polymerase (lmo0423, herein referred to as sigC), a gene of unknown function (lmo0422) similar to the padR family of regulators, and a gene that is similar to the rodA-ftsW family of cell wall morphology genes (lmo0421). To understand the function of this set of genes, their expression patterns and the effects of null mutations in the lineage II L. monocytogenes strain 10403S were examined. The data are consistent with the three genes comprising an operon (the sigC operon) that is highly induced by temperature upshift. The operon is transcribed from three different promoters, the proximal of which (P1) depends upon sigC itself. Null mutations in sigC or lmo0422 increase the death rate at lethal temperatures and cause loss of thermal adaptive response, whereas the lmo0421 mutation causes only a loss of the adaptive response component. Only the sigC mutation affects transcription from the P1 promoter, whereas ectopic expression of lmo0422 from the PSPAC promoter complements the individual lmo0422 and sigC null mutations, showing that lmo0422 is the actual thermal resistance regulator or effector while sigC provides a mechanism for temperature-dependent transcription of lmo0422 from P1. Our genetic and phylogenetic analyses are consistent with lmo0422—renamed lstR (for lineage-specific thermal regulator)—and sigC comprising a system of thermal resistance that was ancestral to the genus Listeria and was subsequently lost during divergence of the lineage I L. monocytogenes population.
Founders: Maurice Beresford

Abstract Maurice Beresford died on 15 December 2005. To rank the founding fathers of landscape studies would be invidious but, as Chris Taylor says below, he was the last survivor of the Triumvirate, with Herbert Finberg and William Hoskins, who brought a landscape dimension to local history. His influence over fifty years was immense, partly because of his teaching role in a major provincial university, partly because of his gregarious and academically generous nature and long-term involvement with learned societies and the Wharram Percy project, but perhaps most of all through his publications. What made those exceptional was that, during a prolific writing career, he defined and published seminal works on several entirely different aspects of what we would today call the historic environment: deserted (or 'lost', as he first termed them) medieval villages; new towns of the Middle Ages; and urban suburbs, especially those of Leeds. These were landscapes he knew intimately, not just through historic maps, tax returns and judicial records, but from tramping over and through them, often after train and bus rides or a hitched lift – the lot of the non-driver in the austerity years of the late 1940s and 1950s. Both editors knew him well; he was stimulating, encouraging, polymathic, and completely sure of the significance of his life's work – he loved to be praised, and he deserved it. Rather than commission a single piece reviewing his academic work (the newspaper obituaries gave due prominence to other aspects of his life, notably his work as social philanthropist) we thought it better – given his influence and range of interests – instead to ask a number of friends and colleagues to say how Maurice Beresford had influenced their subject, and them personally.
Detection of the ASPSCR1–TFE3 gene fusion in paraffin‐embedded alveolar soft part sarcomas

Aims: Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare soft tissue tumour with unique morphology and a recurrent, non‐reciprocal translocation der(17)t(X;17)(p11.2;q25) leading to the fusion of ASPSCR1 (also known as ASPL) to the transcription factor TFE3. Although diagnosis is straightforward in classical cases, tumours with atypical morphological features may be difficult to classify solely on the basis of conventional histopathology. The aim of this study was to analyse the chromosomal breakpoints in paraffin‐embedded tissue.
Globus Pallidus Interna Deep Brain Stimulation for Chorea-Acanthocytosis

Chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc) is a rare hereditary disorder characterized by involuntary choreiform movements and erythrocytic acanthocytosis. Pharmacotherapy for control of involuntary movements has generally been of limited benefit. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has recently been used for treatment of some refractory cases of ChAc. We report here on the effect of bilateral high-frequency DBS of globus pallidus interna in a patient with ChAc.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION (ELE) AS A MARK OF SOCIAL DISTINCTION IN TAIWAN: BUXIBANS, ELE TEACHERS DISCOURSE, AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION

The purpose of this study is to apply the lens of social reproduction theory to explore how English language educators view English language education (ELE) and to understand how the English language is used to create social distinctions between Taiwanese English language educators and others in Taiwanese society. Unlike other foreign languages, English enjoys a unique status and prestige in Taiwan because it is the preferred language for international communication. The belief in social mobility is the rationale for learning the English language. This study examines how the predominance of the English language creates internal conflicts and competition among groups. The role of ideology in language reveals how individuals make sense of the social order. From the outside, it seems that Taiwanese people benefit by learning English because it will lead to better jobs, but it is important to look within and among Taiwanese sub-groups and to acknowledge who truly has benefited from current English language policies. The approach taken in this study was to use qualitative methods. The data included two individual interviews with 15 elementary English teachers, one focus group discussion,
Pengaruh Mutasi Jabatan Dan Penghargaan Terhadap Motivasi Kerja Pegawai Pada Bagian Umum Sekretariat Daerah Kota Surakarta

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui : 1) pengaruh mutasi jabatan terhadap motivasi kerja pegawai, 2) pengaruh penghargaan terhadap motivasi kerja pegawai, 3) pengaruh mutasi jabatan dan penghargaan terhadap motivasi kerja pegawai. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh pegawai pada Bagian Umum Sekretariat daerah kota surakarta yang berjumlah 92 orang dengan sampel yang diambil sebanyak 92 orang yang diambil dengan teknik sample random sampling. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan metode angket dan dokumentasi. Berdasar hasil analisis data diperoleh persamaan regresi linier ganda sebagi berikut Y = 23,631 4- 0,492 X1 + 0,199X2, artinya dari hasil ini menunjukkan variabel mutasi jabatan (X1) dan variable penghargaan (X2) mempengaruhi peningkatkan motivasi kerja pegawai. Berdasarkan analisis dan pembahasan dapat disimpulkan bahwa: 1) mutasi jabatan berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap motivasi kerja pegawai. Berdasarkan uji t diperoleh thitung> ttabel, yaitu 6,854 > 1,99 dan nilai probabilitas signifikansi t tabel, yaitu 2,410 > 1,99 dan nilai probabilitas signifikansi ttabel yaitu 66,554 > 3,10, dan nilai probabilitas signifikansi < 0,05 yaitu 0,000. 4) variabel mutasi jabatan memberikan dan penghargaan secara bersama-sama memberikan sumbangan efektif sebesar 59,9%, sedangkan sisanya 40,1% dipengaruhi oleh variabel lain yangtidak diteliti.
In Spite of Women: "Esquire" Magazine and the Construction of the Male Consumer

A force de croire que seules les femmes peuvent etre des consommatrices, on en oublie l'identite masculine qui n'est pas faite que de production. Le magazine americain « Esquire », lance en 1933, l'avait bien compris et l'A. examine la strategie de ce magazine dans son effort de creation d'une audience masculine consommatrice. Ce magazine pour les hommes n'en etait pas moins au sujet des femmes et son etude, replacee dans le contexte des annees 1920-1930, permet de comprendre la place accordee a la feminite (celle des misogynes bien sur! ) et a ses consequences sur la culture mediatique de representer les femmes de certaines manieres