Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigating Employee's Attitude Toward Organization, Organizational Climate and Employee's Engagement as Antecedents of Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has attracted so much attention of managers and scholars, but many aspects of this have not been studied yet. To fill this gap this study, we has applied three elements of employee's attitude toward organization; organizational climate and employee's engagement as significant antecedents of OCB in a proposed model. To test the hypotheses among 136 Mellat bank employees, the structural equation modeling (SEM) and AMOS graphic have been used. The results have mentioned that employee's attitude toward organization; organizational climate and employee's engagement are antecedents of OCB. The managers who seek good soldiers in their organization can improve citizenship behaviors by scattering positive attitudes; provide good climate and engaging employees. Keyword: Organizational citizenship behavior; employee's attitude; organizational climate; employee's engagement; SEM
Foreign Debt and Domestic Savings In Developing Countries

This paper approaches the question of potential causality between foreign debt and domestic savings in the context of developing countries. Literature provides evidence in as far as foreign debt and development is concerned, but little attention was given so far to internal potential for capital formation. We provide a theoretical framework and test its relevance using 1975-2004 data for two groups of countries: sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America with the Caribbean. With the use of instrumental variables we find negative impact of foreign debt on domestic savings especially in the long run. The results are not susceptible to the choice of countries or outliers. However, the relationship between foreign debt and savings seems to depend on debt accumulation gaining significance only after passing a country specific threshold.
Preparation Procedure of Liposome-Absorbed Substrate and Tip Shape Correction of Diameters of Liposome Measured by AFM

The procedure to measure liposome in aqueous solution has been examined using atomic force microscope (AFM). We concluded a chemical modified silicon wafer (substrate for AFM observation of liposome) with 3-aminopropyltrieth-oxysilane (APTES) which enabled us to scan anionic liposome softly in water because they were keeping structures as vesicles and stably adsorbed on the substrate by electrostatic force. From captured AFM topographic images, we counted the amount of liposome and analyzed the distribution of mean diameters, which were corrected by an approximated curve of the tip shape. We discussed the method of effective evaluation as practical analysis and its problems for robust analysis.
Somatic Embryogenesis from Scutellar Embryo of Oryza sativa L. var. MR219

Somatic embryogenesis is an efficient plant regeneration system and it is a potentially useful tool for genetic transformation. An experiment was carried out on somatic embryogenesis from scutellar embryo of rice var. MR219. High intensity of callus formation (100%) was initiated through culturing the scutellar embryo on modified MS medium, with the macro nutrients reduced to half-strength and supplemented with different 2,4-D concentrations (1, 2, 4 and 6 mgL -1 ). Meanwhile, the highest percentage of embryogenic callus formation (80%) was obtained on the modified MS medium containing 4 mgL -1 2, 4-D. The calli produced were yellowish and friable with nodular structures on the surface. Rounded cells with highly dense cytoplasm were also observed under an inverted microscope and their viability was confirmed based on the apple green fluorescence staining in the fluorescein diacetate (FDA) solution. High mean number of somatic embryos was also produced in this treatment, at 85 somatic embryos per explant. Upon transferring the somatic embryos onto the modified MS medium with 2 mgL -1 BAP and 0.05 mgL -1 NAA for germination, 82.5% of the somatic embryos were germinated into the seedlings.
Estimating Price Elasticities of Supply for Cotton: A Structural Time-Series Approach

The Kalman Filter is used to estimate a structural time-series model of cotton supply for 30 countries and 16 aggregated regions. Estimated short run supply elasticities with respect to the world price are presented for all 46 countries and regions. While they are broadly within the expected range in light of previous work, they indicate extensive cross-country and regional heterogeneity, as well as considerable parameter uncertainty in some cases. Finally, some proposals are made for incorporating both the core estimates and their sampling distributions into applied equilibrium models.
Development of a Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan for the City of Toronto

The City of Toronto has developed a Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan incorporating a new philosophy in wet weather flow management where rainwater is recognized as a resource. Wet weather flows are to be managed on a watershed basis, and a hierarchical approach to wet weather flow management is to be used, starting with at source, followed by conveyance and finally end-of-pipe control measures. The study area extended across the City of Toronto, encompassing six major watersheds and the waterfront. The Plan development followed the planning principles of Ontario’s Environmental Assessment Act and incorporated broad public and agency consultation. A series of 13 objectives were identified and grouped into four major categories: water quality, water quantity, natural areas and wildlife, and sewer system. An innovative approach was used which integrated hydrologic, hydraulic and water quality predictions from land-based, watershed and lake models, respectively, to assess the effectiveness of various strategies. The receiving water response indicated that source controls and conveyance controls were insufficient to achieve the receiving water objectives of the Plan. This was only possible through the implementation of a comprehensive set of measures consisting of: source controls, conveyance controls, end-of-pipe controls, basement flooding protection works, stream restoration works, shoreline management, enhanced municipal operations and an enhanced public education and community outreach program. Overall benefits expected through the Plan include: swimmable waterfront beaches, control of combined sewer overflows in compliance with provincial requirements, basement flooding protection, protection of the City’s infrastructure from stream erosion, restoration of degraded local streams and aquatic habitat, the reduction of algal growth along the waterfront, and improved stream water quality in area watercourses. The implementation cost of the Plan over the 25 years is estimated to be $1.047 billion with an additional $233 million in operational and maintenance costs.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND RISK FACTORS FOR EVALUATING THE BANKING INDUSTRY IN THE TAIWAN : AN APPLICATION OF A VALUE CHAIN

The main purpose of the paper is utilizing a new tool to measure the marginal benefits of information technology on productivity based upon identifying the two-stage best practice frontier. This study utilizes value-chain data envelopment analysis to investigate the effects of Information Technology and the trading activities of financial derivatives on the technical efficiency of a bank’s production process through a two-stage analytical study with a firm-level data set. We find the impact of indicators related to capital adequacy ratios, exchange rate volatility, interest rate volatility, and long-term loans in relation to capital and ownership structure. Technical efficient precedes a reduction in problem loans, concentration of the operating units and developing information technology and utilization of financial derivatives. This paper provides a theoretical rationale and conceptualizing risk factors with environmental uncertainty. The innovation variables are determinants of the bank efficiency on Basel III Accord.
Managerial Stock and Option Holdings and Financial Manipulation of IPO Firms

I examine whether managerial stock and options holdings influence the propensity of goingpublic firms to manipulate financial information, as measured by the incidence of shareholder class action lawsuits and discretionary accruals. Examining a sample of U.S. firms that went public during the years 1996-2006, I find some evidence that firms in which top managers receive large stock options grants prior to the IPO are more likely to face class action lawsuits and have higher issue-quarter discretionary accruals. In contrast, I find that share ownership of top executives is negatively related to the incidence of lawsuits. Overall, the evidence in this paper contributes to our understanding of the relation between stock and options holdings and incentives of managers to engage in costly manipulation of financial information during the IPO process.
Inverse and stability theorems for approximate representations of finite groups

The -norm gives a useful measure of quasirandomness for real- or complex-valued functions defined on finite (or, more generally, locally compact) groups. A simple Fourier-analytic argument yields an inverse theorem, which shows that a bounded function with a large -norm defined on a finite Abelian group must correlate significantly with a character. In this paper we generalize this statement to functions that are defined on arbitrary finite groups and that take values in . The conclusion now is that the function correlates with a representation — though with the twist that the dimension of the representation is shown to be within a constant of rather than being exactly equal to . There are easy examples that show that this weakening of the obvious conclusion is necessary. The proof is much less straightforward than it is in the case of scalar functions on Abelian groups. As an easy corollary, we prove a stability theorem for near representations. It states that if is a finite group and is a function that is close to a representation in the sense that has a small Hilbert-Schmidt norm (also known as the Frobenius norm) for every , then there must be a representation such that has small Hilbert-Schmidt norm for every . Again, the dimension of need not be exactly , but it must be close to . We also obtain stability theorems for other Schatten -norms. Bibliography: 14 titles.
Towards quantifying the contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet to global sea level change

At present, the mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) and its contribution to global sea level change are poorly known. Current methods to determine AIS mass balance as well as the inherent uncertainties are discussed. Special emphasis is placed on the increasingly important role of regional atmospheric climate models, which can reduce the uncertainties in surface accumulation, the correction for the firn layer depth and density in ice thickness calculations and moreover help in interpreting surface elevation changes in terms of accumulation and firn density variability. Some recent advances in these fields of research are presented.
CALLINECTES(DECAPODA: PORTUNIDAE) LARVAE IN THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC BIGHT, 1975-77 1

Distribution of Callinectes larvae in surface (neuston) and subsurface shelf waters in the Middle Atlantic Bight was determined from quarterly zooplankton collections taken during a 2-year study. Observations confirmed the presence in offshore waters of a large larval pool from which recruitment may take place. Larvae were predominantly late zoeae and megalope, with peak abundances in late summer collections reaching 16,000 per 100 m3 in neuston collections. During summer, crab larvae were distributed across the shelf with the majority at 10-80 km offshore. Abundances were sig­ nificantly greater in neuston than subsurface zooplankton collections and generally greater in neuston collections taken at night. Water temperature and distance from shore were factors most closely correlated with abundance of larvae in the neuston. Megalopae of Callinectes were present at outer shelfstations in winter and spring and together wi th megalopae of Portunus and other forms were of southern origin. Basedon experimentally determined temperature-salinity preferences reported in the literature for Callinectes larvae, metamorphosis may be delayed in cooler offshore waters, thus increasing chances of long-range transport. The community of organisms of the surface layer (the neuston 3 ) has received increasing attention in terms of sampling problems and possible ecologi­ cal significance. Zaitsev (1970) described the neus­ ton as consisting chiefly of early developmental stages of fishes and invertebrates. Berkowitz (1976) and Morris (1975), however, found oceanic neuston faunistically impoverished in comparison with zooplankton of the immediate subsurface. Few studies of the neuston of shelf and shallow waters exist; preliminary indications are that the zooplankton ofthe surface waters ofthe continen­ tal shelf are at least quantitatively enriched (Grant 4
The section of the Barranco del Gredero (Caravaca, SE Spain): a crucial section for the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact extinction hypothesis

La seccion del Barranco del Gredero es una de las secciones del limite Cretacico/Terciario (K/T) mas completas, expandidas y bien expuestas en el mundo. Por tanto, la seccion del Gredero ha jugado un papel clave en el desarrollo y la comprobacion de la hipotesis de extincion por impacto, y tiene asociados a su nombre un numero considerable de ‘primeros descubrimientos’: el primer lecho con ejecta intacto, con microkrystitas con seudomorfos en sanidina de clinopiroxeno y espinelas ricas en Cr, con abundante hollin, con proporciones de 53Cr/52Cr como los condritos carbonaceos en el nivel de ejecta, con la Zona P0 de los foraminiferos planctonicos en la arcilla del limite, y con el registro de la radiacion adaptativa de los foraminiferos planctonicos. Tambien aumentan la importancia de la seccion del Gredero, el analisis de isotopos estables y de elementos traza, la magneto- y cicloestratigrafia, asi como la historia de la bioturbacion. El desarrollo reciente urbano y de carreteras ha puesto en peligro los excelentes afloramientos, de hecho los 100 m inferiores del Maastrichtiense superior no son ya accesibles. El estatus de monumento geologico de la Region de Murcia garantizaria que la seccion permaneciera accesible a los investigadores en el futuro.
Quantitative method to estimate species habitat use from light-based geolocation data

The development of biologging techniques has been instrumental in studying the behaviour of wild animals and interpreting it with respect to the bio-physical features of their habi- tat. Light-based geolocation currently appears to be the only technique suitable for the study of far- ranging small species, particularly marine species, over long periods, but it provides locations with low precision. In this study, we sought to improve the exploitation of these data. Specifically, the goals were to (1) correct rather than reject estimates, especially during equinox periods, (2) perform repro- ducible time-saving routine analyses, and (3) determine the spatial likelihood of the estimations to adapt inferences on habitat use by the population. We therefore applied an existing data-processing method based on spatial template fitting, using Markov Chain Monte Carlo and state-space model- ling (Kalman filter) improved by a facultative sea surface temperature-matching procedure and a land mask. The main functions used for geolocation are grouped under the R package 'TripEstima- tion', freely available online. We focused on a typical example of animal movement that at present can only be ethically obtained from light-based geolocation. The method made it possible to estimate realistic positions during equinox periods and to routinely process the 12 available datasets. We thus obtained the most probable location for each sunrise/sunset as well as the posterior distribution around each estimated location, allowing an intuitive habitat use investigation at a scale of 100 km. This paper describes the method used and provides the complete and comprehensively annotated commands required for its use.
Dose-Tapering Of TNF Inhibitors in Daily Rheumatology Practice Enables the Maintenance of Clinical Efficacy While Improving Cost-Effectiveness

Background The fact that biologics consume a growing portion of health care budget has resulted in an increased attention towards therapy optimization. One of the potential ways to optimize treatment is the down-titration of the administered drug dose. Objective To assess whether the clinical activity remains stable after dose tapering of TNF inhibitors in patients with low disease activity and to evaluate the potential benefit of this strategy on the treatment costs. Method A cohort of 77 patients with low disease activity treated with TNF inhibitors (TNFi) was monitored. The patients were studied over two time periods: in the 1st period with the drug standard dose, and in the 2nd period with a reduced dose. Clinical efficacy was monitored by DAS28 in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and by BASDAI in spondyloarthritis (SpA). Serum drug and anti-drug antibody levels were measured by ELISA. The amount of drug dispensed per patient in both periods was compared. Results In the 2nd period, although patients received a lower amount of TNF inhibitor, no differences in clinical activity were observed (DAS28 in RA patients: 2.37 ± 0.50 in the 2nd P vs 2.28 ± 0.47 in the 1st P, p=0.20; BASDAI in SpA patients: 1.90 ± 0.93 in the 2nd P vs 1.88 ± 0.95 in the 1st P, p=0.910) and circulating serum trough drug levels were lower (Infliximab: 3.2 ± 2.5 μg/ml in the 1st P vs 1.8 ± 1.5 μg/ml in the 2nd P, p<0.0001; Adalimumab: 5.5 ± 2.8 μg/ml in the 1st P vs 3.1 ± 2.1 μg/ml in the 2nd P, p<0.0001; Etanercept: 1.8 ± 1.1 μg/ml in the 1st P vs 1.3 ± 0.8 μg/ml in the 2nd P p<0.05). The amount of administered drug per patient was reduced in an average of 20% per year. Conclusion Dose tapering can be successfully performed in patients with low disease activity, resulting in remarkable savings in the amount of drug used and in the associated costs.
Statistica Sinica Preprint No : SS-2017-0153 Title Tensor Generalized Estimating Equations for Longitudinal Imaging Analysis

Longitudinal neuroimaging studies are rapidly emerging, where brain images are collected on multiple subjects at multiple time points. Analysis of such data is scientifically important, but also challenging. Brain image is in the form of multidimensional array, or tensor, which possesses both ultrahigh dimensionality and complex structure. Longitudinally repeated images and the induced temporal correlations add another layer of complexity. Despite some recent efforts, there exist very few solutions for longitudinal imaging analysis. In response to the increasing demand of analyzing longitudinal imaging data, we propose tensor generalized estimating equations (GEE) in this article. The GEE approach accounts for intra-subject correlation, whereas an imposed low rank structure on the coefficient tensor effectively reduces the dimensionality. We propose a scalable estimation algorithm, establish the asymptotic properties, and investigate sparsity regularization for the purpose of region selection. We demonstrate the proposed method through simulations and analysis of a real dataset from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.
Retrospective Comparison of Minilaparotomy ('moving window method') and Laparoscopic-assisted Approaches for Colon Cancer Resection

Title Retrospective Comparison of Minilaparotomy ('moving window method') and Laparoscopic-assisted Approaches for Colon Cancer Resection Author(s) Nakagoe, Tohru; Sawai, Terumitsu; Tsuji, Takashi; Jibuki, Masaaki; Nanashima, Atsushi; Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki; Yasutake, Toru; Ayabe, Hiroyoshi; Ishikawa, Hiroshi Citation Acta medica Nagasakiensia. 2001, 46(3-4), p.25-32 Issue Date 2001-12-19 URL http://hdl.handle. net/10069/16190 Right NAOSITE: Nagasaki University's Academic Output SITE
Regularity of the Extremal Solutions in a Gelfand System Problem

Abstract We examine the elliptic system given by where λ, γ are positive parameters and where Ω is a smooth bounded domain in ℝN. Let U denote the parameter region (λ, γ) of strictly positive parameters where (P)λ,γ has a smooth solution and let Υ denote the boundary of U. We show that the extremal solution (u∗, v∗) associated with (λ∗, γ∗) ∈ Υ is smooth provided that 3 ≤ N ≤ 9 and
Floating-point based control of the production cell using an FPGA with Handel-C

The current design flow for embedded control applications within the control engineering group is based on models from which code can be generated for different hardware platforms. Tools that are used in this flow are 20-sim, 20-sim4C and gCSP. These tools support code generation for CPU based systems; an alternative to the CPU architecture is an FPGA architecture. In a previous project, the Production Cell system was ported from a CPU architecture toward an FPGA architecture with the use of the hardware description language Handel-C. The Production Cell consists of 6 parallel controlled motors which pass around metal blocks. The motors need to synchronize in order to operate correctly. The ported FPGA architecture is based on integer loop controllers due to FPGA-resource restrictions at that time. The ported system had a major drawback, the loop controllers had to be redesigned for the integer data type in stead of leaving it in floating-point resolution. This costed quite a lot of design effort. This project describes the design and realization of the Production Cell systemusing alternative loop controllers for an FPGA architecture. The goal is to find a loop controller which fits in the design flow with minimum FPGA-resource usage and design effort. The discussed alternative loop controllers are floating-point, fixed-point, hard-core and softcore with a floating-point unit. The floating-point loop controller is the best one to use, taking in mind the requirements of the loop controller. To minimize the FPGA-resource usage the floating-point loop controller is implemented by controlling the 6 motors in the Production Cell sequentially using one controller. With this sequential control, the existing Production Cell software framework needs to be redesigned due to the fact that it was based on parallel control. The new Production Cell framework includes an improved safety layer, which can detect deadlock and system errors. This is possible because all sensor and motor information is available in a global safety layer. The outcome of this project showed that it is possible to control the Production Cell with a loop controller that fits in the current design flow while gaining more precision without using too much FPGA-resources. During the investigation on alternative loop controllers the soft-core and hard-core alternatives showed to be promising, but could not be investigated, because the FPGA that needs to be used for these alternatives was not operational. Therefore, it is recommended that these alternatives need further investigation as soon as this FPGA is operational