Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Theme 2 : Industrial relations around Europe : What future in Europe for collective voices and responses to the employment crisis ? Outsourcing in public sector organisations . Impacts on labour and employment relations in a comparative perspective

Over the past three decades, public sector organisations have been subject to a far-reaching restructuring towards outsourcing of tasks in a wide range of services. Under the pressure of increasing public debts, shifting consumer preferences and the demand for higher service quality, these organisations have differentiated the provision of services, adopting privatization policies and outsourcing to external providers. This process, leading to complex changes in the organisation of work and in the employment relations has been subject to growing scrutiny (Flecker et al. 2005, Marchington et al. 2005, Flecker 2009, Perraudin et al 2009). It has been assumed that the external restructuring of the companies, involving the dispersion of activities across organisational boundaries, has led to a degradation of working terms and conditions (Doellgast and Greer 2007, Flecker and Meil 2010), since it may trigger competition with a cheaper labour-supply, shifting work from highly unionized and better sheltered organisations to more vulnerable companies, subjects to market fluctuations, where trade union power is low or inexistent. The vertical disintegration presents substantial challenge to employment relation structure as well (Doellgast and Greer 2007), weakening the bargaining power of union while “the dependency relations between
GASTROINTESTINAL PARASITES OF CATTLE IN KEBBI STATE , NORTH-WEST NIGERIA

Cattle are considerably important for purposes such as meat, milk, pulling of plows and carts, and indicator of economic status in many parts of the world. Unfortunately, their health and productivity are often negatively influenced by numerous gastrointestinal (GI) parasites. In the present study, faecal samples of 171 randomlyselected cattle from Birnin-Kebbi and Jega, Kebbi State, North-west Nigeria were analysed using standard direct smear and floatation methods between May and July, 2016.67. 2% (115/171) of the examined cattle were infected with one or more GI parasites. The parasites identified include six nematode species among which Haemonchuscontortus had statistically highest (P < 0.001) prevalence (51.5%), followed in decreasing order by Trichostrongylus sp. (19.3%), Strongyloidespapillosus (11.1%), Oesophagostomum sp. (6.4%), Bunostomum phlebotomum (1.2%), and Trichuris ovis (1.2%). Only one protozoan, Eimeria sp. (9.4%) was recorded. Males (63.5%) and females (68.9%) had statistically similar prevalence (P > 0.05). Likewise, the parasitic infections were neither age nor breed biased in this study. Among infected cattle, the commonest double infection combination was Haemonchus + Trichostrongylus (23/45, 20.0%; P < 0.001). The recorded egg outputs were low in all infected cattle. This study has shown that there is high prevalence of GI parasites, suggestive of heavy pasture and environmental contamination with the eggs/oocysts of GI parasites in the study area. Therefore, it is desirable to effectively enforce, and possibly overhaul, all extant policies and regulations guiding the wholesome health of cattle towards sustainable optimum productivity in the study area.
EFFECTS OF HIGH PITCHING RATE AND NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTION ON YEAST FERMENTATION PERFORMANCE IN VERY HIGH GRAVITY BREWING

In this study, the 30 Bx wort with 30% maltose syrup adjunct was used for very high gravity brewing. Increase in pitching rate fro m 25×10 cells/mL to 125×10 6 cells/mL shortened the primary fermentation time and augmented the level o f ethanol and diacetyl in the green beer. The suitable pitching rate was 75×10 6 cells/mL. Under this condition, the fermentation t ime reduced 44.2% and the ethanol concentration in the green beer inc eased 13.7% in comparison with those in the culture with conventional pitching rate; the ethano l yield achieved maximum of 44.1%. Combination of high pitching rate and nutritional supplementation to 30Bx wort reduced the fermentation time 8.7% and maintained the similar ethanol content in the g reen beer and the similar ethanol yield in comparison with the high pitching rate culture.
Dynamic and autotelic capabilities in knowledge-intensive , low-tech ventures

Dynamic capabilities have been treated mainly as organisational, firm-specific capabilities in the context of large, established high-tech organizations. However, a small but increasing stream of research suggests the entrepreneurial team as a source of DCs indicating that these capabilities can exist already at the outset of the venture. The present paper explores the organizational and entrepreneurial dynamic capability perspective by a two-fold study: it examines the existence and significance of DCs in knowledge-intensive, low-tech firms providing answers to questions unaddressed by previous studies. It further introduces the Autotelic Capabilities Framework as a first endeavour to shed light on the unexplored strategic side of the start-up activity in low-tech knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship. The study revealed that possessing and further cultivating autotelic capabilities can be a major success factor in knowledge-intensive ventures. The dimensions of Autotelic Capabilities, bricolage, improvisational and transcendental capabilities located mainly in the entrepreneurial team, create novel business concepts and establish successful ventures in saturated competitive arenas. The conceptual framework advanced can add to the understanding of core issues of the emerging stage of low-tech ventures and the creation of initial competitive advantage. Regarding Dynamic Capabilities, the study proved that low-tech companies that invest and build their strategy on knowledge intensiveness and innovation, develop relatively strong DCs to gain competitive advantages, usually resulting in niche creation, adding value and surpassing fierce price competition. While the basic microfoundations of sensing, seizing and reconfiguring were detectable in all sampled companies, there were considerable differences due to sector, size and age.
paternal warmth : a randomized controlled trial

Background: Empathy improves our ability to communicate in social interactions and motivates prosocial behavior. The neuropeptides arginine vasopressin and oxytocin play key roles in socioemotional processes such as pair bonding and parental care, which suggests that they may be involved in empathic processing. Methods: We investigated how vasopressin and oxytocin affect empathic responding in a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, between-subjects study design. We also examined the moderating role of parental warmth, as reported in the early family environment, on empathic responding following vasopressin, oxytocin, or placebo administration. Results: Among participants who reported higher levels of paternal warmth (but not maternal warmth), vasopressin (vs. placebo and oxytocin) increased ratings of empathic concern after viewing distressing and uplifting videos. No main or interaction effects were found for individuals who received oxytocin. Conclusions: Vasopressin has a role in enhancing empathy among individuals who received higher levels of paternal warmth. Trial registration: NCT01680718
Serious leisure activities and well-being of senior citizens: Case of contract bridge

Mind sports such as chess, go and contract bridge are extremely suitable for elderly people who want to engage into a real competition, make social contacts and maintain sharp cognitive performances. Stebbins (1992) introduced a term “serious leisure” to describe active leisure engagement with commitment and dedication, as opposed to “passive leisure” such as watching TV. Major (2001) identified three major types of benefits of serious leisure activities: sense of accomplishment (i.e., self-confidence, power, and control), health and fitness (i.e., physical benefits and stress relief), and social affiliation. The aim of this study was to explore motivation of senior citizens to engage in contract bridge, and to analyse selfreported benefits of the game regarding Major’s classification. We conducted eight semi-structured interviews with senior bridge players (over 65) in Zagreb bridge clubs. Interviews were conducted in face-to-face manner, and they were all audio recorded. Sample consisted of both male and female players who played bridge regularly in clubs for over five years. All participants confirmed that bridge significantly improved quality of their lives. Bridge contributed to their well-being by advancing social affiliation (communicating with people of all ages, finding new friends, getting social support, recognition and status, and going out of home), enchasing sense of accomplishment (learning, solving problems, competing, advancing, and winning), and mental fitness (staying intellectually fit), confirming benefits proposed by Major (2001) serious leisure model. Additionally, retired participants argued that bridge helped them in the transition period, providing basis for time structure and remaining the stable and fulfilling part of their lives. Findings of this research strongly suggest that contract bridge has power to work as a protective mechanism in seniors, due to its social, cognitive, and competitive benefits.
Neural Grammatical Error Correction Systems with Unsupervised Pre-training on Synthetic Data

Considerable effort has been made to address the data sparsity problem in neural grammatical error correction. In this work, we propose a simple and surprisingly effective unsupervised synthetic error generation method based on confusion sets extracted from a spellchecker to increase the amount of training data. Synthetic data is used to pre-train a Transformer sequence-to-sequence model, which not only improves over a strong baseline trained on authentic error-annotated data, but also enables the development of a practical GEC system in a scenario where little genuine error-annotated data is available. The developed systems placed first in the BEA19 shared task, achieving 69.47 and 64.24 F0.5 in the restricted and low-resource tracks respectively, both on the W&I+LOCNESS test set. On the popular CoNLL 2014 test set, we report state-of-theart results of 64.16 M for the submitted system, and 61.30 M for the constrained system trained on the NUCLE and Lang-8 data.
Draft 1 1 Exercise-induced increases in cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium-ATPase 2 ( SERCA 2 ) 2 expression and activity is attenuated in AMPKα 2 kinase dead mice 3 4

Complete List of Authors: Morissette, Marc; Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre; Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba Susser, Shanel; Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre; Health, Leisure, and Human Performance Research Institute, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba; Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Manitoba Stammers, Andrew; Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre; Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba Moffatt, Teri; Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre; Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba Wigle, Jeffrey; Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre; Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba Wigle, Theodore; Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre; Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba; Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Manitoba Netticadan, Thomas; Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Manitoba; Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine, St. Boniface Albrechtsen Research Centre; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Premecz, Sheena; Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre Jassal, Davinder; St. Boniface General Hospital, University of Manitoba, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences; Section of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba; Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine, St. Boniface Albrechtsen Research Centre O'Hara, Kimberley; Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre; Health, Leisure and Human
Overconfidence , trading volume and the disposition effect : Evidence from the Shenzhen Stock Market of China

Author E-mail: zaiane_salma@yahoo.com Tel. :+21628728633 It has been a challenge for financial economists to explain some stylized facts observed on securities markets, among them, high levels of trading volume. The most prominent explanation of excess volume is overconfidence. High market returns make investors overconfident and as a consequence, these investors trade more subsequently. Otherwise, excess volume can also be explained by disposition effect describing the tendency to sell stocks that have appreciated in price, but not those that have depreciated in price.The aim of our paper is to study the impact of the phenomenon of overconfidence and the disposition effect on the trading volume and their role in the formation of the excess volume on the Chinese stock market. We find a strong evidence of the overconfidence hypothesis. Besides, we show no evidence of the disposition effect on individual securities.
First Clinical Experience of Orally Active Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitor Combined With Simplified FOLFOX 6 as First-Line Treatment for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

1 Medical Care Unit, Pathology Department, and Biostatistics Department, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy. 2 Department of Medical Oncology, General Hospital ‘‘Umberto I, Lancisi, Salesi,’’ Ancona, Italy. 3 Department of Oncology, ‘‘Poliambulanza’’ Hospital, Brescia, Italy. 4 National Health System Agency 7, Siena, Italy. BACKGROUND. Gefitinib, an orally active inhibitor of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase, combined with chemotherapy, has shown efficacy as second-line treatment for advanced colorectal cancer (CRC). Gefitinib combined with FOLFOX6 (oxaliplatin plus folinic acid and 5-fluorouracil) was tested as a first-line therapy. METHODS. Patients with metastatic EGFR-positive CRC received gefitinib at a dose of 250 mg/day combined with simplified FOLFOX6. Gefitinib was continued as maintenance treatment in nonprogressing patients. Responses were assessed by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria and adverse events were assessed with the National Cancer Institute Common Toxicity Criteria (NCI-CTC) scale. RESULTS. A total of 56 patients were recruited. There were 26 men and 30 women, with a median age of 57.5 years. The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status was as follows: 0 in 39 patients, 1 in 12 patients, and 2 in 5 patients. Thirty-nine patients (69.6%) had stage IV disease at diagnosis, 92.9% had liver involvement, and 46.4% had 2 metastatic sites. All patients were evaluated for safety, and 53 were evaluated for response: 40 patients (71.4%; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 57.8%–82.6%) had complete or partial responses, and 11 patients (19.6%) had stable disease. Median time to progression was 7 months (range, 2.1–33.0 months; 95% CI, 6.2–9.0 months). Radical surgery or thermoablation of metastatic sites was performed in 14 patients (25%). NCI-CTC grade 3–4 events occurred in 36 patients (64.3%): diarrhea in 9 patients (16.1%), and hematologic toxicity in 13 patients (23.2%). Four patients (7.1%) were withdrawn for drug-related adverse events. CONCLUSIONS. The regimen has shown promising efficacy with manageable toxicity as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced CRC. Cancer 2007;110:752–8. 2007 American Cancer Society.
Learning the Dyck Language with Attention-based Seq2Seq Models

The generalized Dyck language has been used to analyze the ability of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) to learn context-free grammars (CFGs). Recent studies draw conflicting conclusions on their performance, especially regarding the generalizability of the models with respect to the depth of recursion. In this paper, we revisit several common models and experimental settings, discuss the potential problems of the tasks and analyses. Furthermore, we explore the use of attention mechanisms within the seq2seq framework to learn the Dyck language, which could compensate for the limited encoding ability of RNNs. Our findings reveal that attention mechanisms still cannot truly generalize over the recursion depth, although they perform much better than other models on the closing bracket tagging task. Moreover, this also suggests that this commonly used task is not sufficient to test a model’s understanding of CFGs.
Detailed and applied anatomy for improved rectal cancer treatment

Rectal anatomy is one of the most challenging concepts of visceral anatomy, even though currently there are more than 23,000 papers indexed in PubMed regarding this topic. Nonetheless, even though there is a plethora of information meant to assist clinicians to achieve a better practice, there is no universal understanding of its complexity. This in turn increases the morbidity rates due to iatrogenic causes, as mistakes that could be avoided are repeated. For this reason, this review attempts to gather current knowledge regarding the detailed anatomy of the rectum and to organize and present it in a manner that focuses on its clinical implications, not only for the colorectal surgeon, but most importantly for all colorectal cancer-related specialties.
Antacids may increase the appearance of white opaque substance in Helicobacter pylori -eradicated gastric epithelial neoplasia

Abstract Background and study aims White opaque substance (WOS) in gastric epithelial neoplasia is helpful for qualitative diagnosis of neoplasia. We hypothesized that WOS of neoplasia is strongly influenced by acid recovery after Helicobacter pylori eradication, similar to that of gastric intestinal metaplasia. The aim of this study was to investigate whether antacids increase the appearance of the WOS in H. pylori-eradicated neoplasia. Patients and methods A total of 38 gastric epithelial neoplasias (12 adenomas and 26 adenocarcinomas) detected after H. pylori eradication were retrospectively evaluated. Presence or absence of WOS was evaluated by magnifying endoscopy with narrow band imaging before and after antacid administration. The pH of collected gastric juice was also measured. Study endpoints were (1) prevalence of WOS in the neoplasia before and after antacid administration, and the histological difference (adenoma and adenocarcinoma); and (2) relationship between the prevalence of WOS and gastric juice pH. Results WOS prevalence increased from 0 % (0/38) to 44.8% (17/38) after antacid administration. WOS prevalence in adenomas was more significantly increased compared to that in adenocarcinomas (83.3 % vs 26.9 %, P = 0.0077). Prevalence of WOS in gastric neoplasias was only observed at neutral levels of gastric juice pH, and WOS was not observed at strong acidic levels. Conclusions Antacid administration may increase the appearance of WOS in gastric epithelial neoplasia (especially adenomas) detected after H. pylori eradication with acid recovery.
A prospective trial of CONfocal endomicroscopy in CYSTic lesions of the pancreas: CONCYST-01

Abstract Background and study aims Pancreatic cystic lesions (PCL) are common. While some harbor malignant potential, accurate preoperative diagnosis remains challenging. Needle-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (nCLE) via a 19G FNA needle enables real-time imaging of the cyst wall. This study evaluated the safety and utility of nCLE in patients with an indeterminate PCL undergoing EUS-FNA. Patients and methods The CONCYST study prospectively recruited patients with indeterminate PCL attending three hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) referral centers in the UK, with indeterminate PCL, who required EUS-FNA between July 2014 and October 2016. Following the procedure, all patients were followed up in telephone clinic for at least 12 months. Ethical approval for the study was granted by the National Research Ethics Service (14/LO/0040). Results Sixty-seven patient were recruited, 11 excluded and 56 included in the final analysis: 35 male, 21 female; median age 68 (range 28 – 80). Recognizable confocal images were obtained in 48 of 56 cases. Median nCLE scanning time was 5 minutes and did not exceed 10 minutes in any case. EUS-nCLE findings correlated with final diagnosis (based on imaging, cytology and multidisciplinary team review) in 43/56 (77 %) of cases, compared with 37/56 (66 %) for cytology alone (P = 0.12). One patient experienced mild pruritus following the procedure and another developed an infected pseudocyst, which resolved with antibiotics. Conclusions EUS-nCLE under conscious sedation in the day case setting is safe and provides additional information to standard EUS-FNA for diagnosing indeterminate PCL.
Determination of factors affecting the quality of life in children with asthma

Objectives: This study has been conducted in order to determine the factors affecting the quality of life in children with asthma. Methods: The study sample consisted of 103 children (aged 7-16). Data has been collected using socio-demographic questionnaire and Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ) through face to face interviews. Results: Seventy-eight point six percent of the children’s daily activities were affected due to asthma. Evaluating the sub-groups mean scores of the life quality of the children; the highest mean score was in the symptoms group. The activity limitation sub-group mean score was significantly decreased with the increase of the number of people living in the house and other siblings having asthma too. The symptom sub-groups mean scores of the children that are exposed to smoke and psychological factors and which state that their daily activities are being affected was lower. The emotional function sub-groups mean score of the children that are exposed to psychological factors was significantly decreased. The scale total mean score of the children with sensitivity to cockroach and psychological factor stimulant was lower ( p < 0.05). Conclusions: It's been suggested that the stimulants which trigger the symptoms, asthma disease, accurate and effective medication treatment and self-care should be taught to the child and the family; home care continuity should be ensured and arranging the environment to reduce the child's connection with the allergens that could trigger the asthma attack is necessary.