Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Learning and trust in supply chain management: Disintermediation, ethics and cultural pressures in brief dynamic alliances

We know that firms in developed nations have practised supply chain management (SCM) for decades, but we ask here if they will be able to progress well under the modern regime of harder and faster e-just-in-time systems. The end-to-end supply chain is both a virtual and a physical reality linking the customer to many value-added manufacturers and assemblers with the intervention and support of logistics providers; and we must also be concerned with the reverse supply chain. For the purposes of this paper we assume the chains to be terminated mainly in Europe and the USA, but with origins having global outreach. We further assume SCM to be concerned not only with data and goods, but also in managing cultural and ethical issues. Essentially we shall discuss the challenges of knowledge management (KM) and organisational learning (OL) in SCM systems that embrace firms located in many countries, western as well as Asian, which, to promote KM and OL must have more (or less) permeable organisational boundaries and must learn to trust each other regardless of their ethic differences.
Online marketing of food products to children: the effects of national consumer policies in high‐income countries

Purpose – The marketing of food products to children through online media has grown rapidly in recent years, particularly in high‐income countries, where children spend considerable amounts of time on computers. Most food products marketed to children online are obesity‐causing, and childhood obesity has grown to epidemic proportions, with harmful effects on society. Marketers use creative methods to engage children online, entertaining them, offering rewards and promoting products through interactive activities. Online media is monitored much less than conventional media and little is known about online marketing of food to children. This study seeks to examine policies related to food marketing in three high‐income countries, France, Spain, and the USA, and their impact on the methods marketers use to engage children.Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a conceptual framework linking several aspects of the policies and the socio‐cultural environments in these countries with the design of the.
Discordant distribution of JAK2V617F mutation in siblings with familial myeloproliferative disorders.

The recent identification of a somatically acquired, gain-of-function mutation in Janus kinase-2, JAK2 V617F (Tefferi and Gilliland[1][1] and references therein) in varying proportions of patients with sporadic polycythemia vera (PV) (virtually 100%), idiopathic myelofibrosis (IMF) (50%), and
Prevalence of Open-angle Glaucoma, Glaucoma Suspect, and Ocular Hypertension in Thyroid-related Immune Orbitopathy

PurposeTo determine the prevalence of open-angle glaucoma (OAG), glaucoma suspects (GS), and ocular hypertension (OHT) in patients with thyroid-related immune orbitopathy (TRIO) and compare it with a control group. Patients and MethodsIn this cross-sectional analytic study, 233 eyes of 117 patients with TRIO (case group) and 240 eyes of 120 normal age and sex-matched individuals (control group) underwent complete ocular examinations. Grave orbitopathy (GO) was diagnosed by clinical examinations with the help of an endocrinologist and para clinic tests. Controls were selected among apparently healthy individuals with no history of previous orbitopathy or thyroid diseases. ResultsPrevalence of OAG and OHT was 2.5% and 8.5% in the case group, respectively. In contrast, OAG was detected in only 2 eyes (0.8%) of the control group and there were no instances of GS or OHT in the control group. Although the prevalence of OAG and GS were higher in cases than controls, this difference was not statistically significant. However, OHT was more common in cases (P<0.01). Ten eyes in the case group (4.3%) developed compressive optic neuropathy (CON); high intraocular pressure was detected in 5 of them (2.1%). All cases of OAG and GS in the case group were classified as stage 3 or higher of No symptoms or signs, Only signs no symptoms, Soft tissue, Proptosis, Extraocular muscle, Cornea, Sight loss. Active GO was only more prevalent in patients with OHT (P<0.001). ConclusionsThe prevalence of OHT was higher in cases with GO than age and sex-matched controls. Ophthalmologic examinations including intraocular pressure measurement (and if needed automated visual fields) should be regularly performed in patients with GO particularly in higher stages and those with active disease.
Exploring internal customer service quality

An often overlooked aspect of service delivery in business‐to‐business settings is the issue of service quality among internal organizational units. Yet, in practice many organizational departments are service providers primarily to customers within the organization. For example, management information systems, human resources, and purchasing departments all share an important function supporting other employees as they perform their jobs. Managers of those internal service functions are becoming more concerned with delivering high levels of service quality to their internal customers. This article explores the dimensionality of customer service quality as perceived by a set of internal customers of an organizational buying unit, and examines the potential for segmentation of internal customers. Managerial implications and recommendations are presented to aid organizations desiring to improve internal service quality.
Predictors of Response to Radioligand Therapy of Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer with 177Lu-PSMA-617

Radioligand therapy (RLT) with 177Lu-PSMA-617 (PSMA is prostate-specific membrane antigen) is a novel targeted therapy for metastatic prostate cancer. In this study, we evaluated the effect of different pretherapeutic parameters on the therapeutic response measured by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) 2 mo after RLT. Methods: RLT was performed in 40 hormone-refractory patients with distant metastases and progressive disease (mean age, 71.4 y). 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT was performed in all patients 1–2 wk before RLT. All patients were treated with a mean of 6 GBq. The SUVmax of tumor lesions was determined using region-of-interest analysis. Complete blood counts, renal and liver function assessments, previous therapies, pain medication, and SUVs were included in the analysis. PSA was assessed 2 mo after RLT. Results: In the univariate analysis, younger age, higher levels of γ-glutamyl transferase, lower pretherapeutic hemoglobin, a higher Gleason score, a higher number of platelets, higher C-reactive protein, regular need for pain medication, and higher lactate dehydrogenase had a negative impact on the therapeutic response; however, the multivariate analysis revealed that the most significant independent factors were the number of platelets and regular need for pain medication. The response was independent of the amount of PSMA uptake as well as previous therapies and other measured factors. Conclusion: A PSA decline of more than 50% was observed significantly more in patients without a regular need for analgesics.
Product-market strategy and the marketing capabilities of the firm: impact on market effectiveness and cash flow performance

We report on two studies (a single and a multi‐industry) that empirically investigate a nomological network of relationships between strategic business unit product‐market strategy (differentiation, cost‐focus, and product‐market scope), marketing capabilities (architectural and specialized capabilities, as well as their integration), and business unit performance (market effectiveness and subsequent one‐year objective cash flow), along with a series of controls. Addressing important lacunae in the resource‐based view our main research objective is to augment understanding of how critical firm‐level marketing capabilities enable the realization of strategy, thus, further advancing both the resource‐based view and more recent capabilities theorizing. Specifically, we test seven hypotheses and find strong evidence that both architectural and specialized marketing capabilities, and their integration, positively mediate the product‐market strategy and derived business unit performance relationship. In contrast to many extant studies, both survey and objectively measured data are combined, and because the secondary data collected contains both resource‐level (input) data and subsequent one‐year financial data, a higher level of confidence may be attributable to our findings. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Carcass Traits and the Quality of Meat from Cattle Finished on Diets Containing Barley

Research on barley as an animal feed started some decades ago but its utilization in animal production has been limited to countries that grow the crop extensively. Corn has been the most popular energy feed in cattle rations, but the high price of corn and the decreased supply of the grain in the international market have shifted the focus of the animal industry to other cereal crops like barley. Studies have indicated that growth performance of cattle fed barley-based diets has been generally comparable with that of those fed corn-based diets, while results for cattle fed whole-crop barley silage have been more variable. Beef from cattle fed barley-based diets has proved to be as tender and as acceptable for taste as that from animals fed other finishing diets when compared at similar growth rates and degree of finish. The barley crop contains good amounts of antioxidants like 2"-O-GIV isovitexin, so from the meat science point of view, a desirable influence of these components on meat quality traits such as meat color, oxidative stability and sensory characteristics might be expected. Furthermore, the effect of the distinctive fatty acid profile of beef fed from whole-crop barley silage on sensory traits is also an important subject to be elucidated. A lot of studies have been made over past decades on the effect of barley, and especially whole crop barley, on beef cattle production and meat quality, but these data have not been collectively documented in a review. The current review re-visits previous literature to underline the effects of barley in the diet on beef quality traits and to identify areas for further studies.
Short‐term risk of stroke after dizziness presentation

We read with interest a paper published by Kerber et al on the risk of stroke after emergency department presentation of dizziness, vertigo, or imbalance. With a median follow-up of 347 days, the authors found that the risk of stroke was low (1.2%, 15 of 1,245), although the majority of the stroke events occurred within 2 days. The design of the study features multiple case capture methods and stroke events identified by merging prospective population-based surveillance studies. We would like to point out that there may be some blurring between cases excluded due to stroke as the cause of index presentation versus those that had a stroke event within 1 to 2 days after the initial dizziness presentation. When a patient initially presented with dizziness that was designated as “nonstroke,” it is highly possible that (1) neurological deficits in addition to dizziness were too subtle to be recognized; (2) it may be too early for stroke to show up on imaging; and (3) posterior circulation strokes can present as transient isolated brainstem symptoms and are even harder to appreciate on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Of note, all 6 cases of subsequent stroke events captured within 1 or 2 days in this study were proven by MRI. In contrast, among the 9 cases that occurred later, only 3 showed acute infarction on MRI, so the remaining cases must have been diagnosed by symptoms alone. This indicates that the stroke event may have already existed when the patient initially presented to the emergency department (ED) with dizziness, or some patients may have been missed or misclassified into the exclusion category because only MRI evidence of stroke could be confidently called stroke when the duration between the initial dizziness presentation and the stroke event was so short. This would also explain why vascular stratification was insufficient to identify these cases, although it has been shown to have a high sensitivity in distinguishing cerebrovascular causes of dizziness from other etiologies. In this article, the authors referred to 2 previous large population-based studies that concurred with the current study on a large proportion of the stroke risk occurring within a short period after initial presentation (Table). , Although Kim et al demonstrated that the incidence of stroke was highest in the first month, the peak was at 15 days. In the study by Lee et al, the incidence of subsequent stroke events in patients who presented to the ED with dizziness or vertigo was only slightly higher in the first 6 months than in the second 6 months (1 vs 0.8%). In a separate study of hospitalized patients with isolated vertigo, the incidence of stroke was 35%
Corporate Reputation: A Combination of Social Responsibility and Industry

We use the technique of panel data in a sample of 320 American listed companies from 2003 to 2007 to estimate a model of corporate reputation, measured by the Fortune index. We propose that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a key driver of corporate reputation given its potential to foster hard-to-duplicate competitive advantage. Our model embodies the multidimensional concept of CSR, presenting a five dimensional construct – employee relations, diversity issues, product issues, community relations, and environmental issues – and interact those with industrial effects. Our results indicate that the five dimensions of CSR have a significant impact on corporate reputation and this impact is moderated by the industry of the firm. The most salient dimensions were diversity of the work force – was positively relevant to eight of the nine industries; and product issues with a positive impact in five industries and negative in three. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF A CORONAL MASS EJECTION FROM AN ANEMONE ACTIVE REGION: RECONNECTION AND DEFLECTION OF THE 2005 AUGUST 22 ERUPTION

We present a numerical investigation of the coronal evolution of a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2005 August 22 using a three-dimensional thermodynamic magnetohydrodynamic model, the space weather modeling framework. The source region of the eruption was anemone active region (AR) 10798, which emerged inside a coronal hole. We validate our modeled corona by producing synthetic extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) images, which we compare to EIT images. We initiate the CME with an out-of-equilibrium flux rope with an orientation and chirality chosen in agreement with observations of an Hα filament. During the eruption, one footpoint of the flux rope reconnects with streamer magnetic field lines and with open field lines from the adjacent coronal hole. It yields an eruption which has a mix of closed and open twisted field lines due to interchange reconnection and only one footpoint line-tied to the source region. Even with the large-scale reconnection, we find no evidence of strong rotation of the CME as it propagates. We study the CME deflection and find that the effect of the Lorentz force is a deflection of the CME by about 3° R−1☉ toward the east during the first 30 minutes of the propagation. We also produce coronagraphic and EUV images of the CME, which we compare with real images, identifying a dimming region associated with the reconnection process. We discuss the implication of our results for the arrival at Earth of CMEs originating from the limb and for models to explain the presence of open field lines in magnetic clouds.
DNA Sequence Relationship of the Baboon Endogenous Virus Genome to the Genomes of Other Type C and Type D Retroviruses

Baboon endogenous virus (BaEV) is a type C retrovirus present in multiple proviral copies in the DNA of baboons. Although interspecies antigenic determinants present on reverse transcriptase and gag proteins are shared among all mammalian type C viruses, no nucleic acid homology between BaEV and other type C viruses (except RD-114) has been found in conventional liquid hybridization experiments. In this study, we used restriction fragments of cloned BaEV DNA immobilized on nitrocellulose to test for relatedness with [32P]cDNA's of various type C and type D viruses. We detected the following distant relationships previously found only through immunological and protein sequencing techniques: (i) eight type C viral cDNA's (the endogenous virus of rhesus monkeys, feline leukemia virus, simian sarcoma virus, gibbon ape leukemia virus, Rauscher murine leukemia virus, BALB-2, NZB, and RD-114) and two type D viral cDNA's (Mason-Pfizer monkey virus and squirrel monkey retrovirus) were able to hybridize with cloned BaEV DNA; (ii) the eight type C probes hybridized to restriction fragments spanning most of the BaEV genome, but only RD-114 hybridized to fragments within the 1.9 kilobases at the 3′ end of the genome; (iii) the two type D probes hybridized primarily to fragments within the 1.9 kilobases at the 3′ terminus and weakly or not at all elsewhere; and (iv) [32P]cDNA's of several other oncornaviruses (mouse mammary tumor virus, equine infectious anemia virus, bovine leukemia virus, and reticuloendotheliosis virus) exhibited no homology with BaEV DNA. DNA sequence analysis has allowed us to orient the BaEV restriction map with the genetic map at both ends of the genome. Homologies between retroviral cDNA's and BaEV clone restriction fragments could thus be related to specific BaEV genes. Whereas type C cDNA's hybridized to fragments from gag, pol, and the pol-env junction, squirrel monkey retrovirus cDNA hybridized only to a fragment coding for the p15E portion of env. Mason-Pfizer monkey virus cDNA also hybridized within the p15E region, but exhibited homology to the 3′ half of gp70 as well. These results are discussed relative to previously reported antigenic relatedness of retroviral proteins. The data suggest that BaEV represents an important link in oncornavirus evolution.
Post-Earnings Price Adjustment Vary Across Market Sectors: The Role of Sentiment

This paper explores whether price relevant information contained in managerial commentary released concurrently with the earnings announcements are fully reflected in stock prices. Efficient Markets theory predicts that such information should be instantly and fully reflected in the price. We collect earnings announcement files from four news providers (Businesswire, PR Newswire, Marketwire and Globe Newswire). We analyse both quantitative and qualitative information contained in these. We use a natural language processing method to extract a numerical score of the sentiment (i.e. the positivity or negativity) of text-based stories. We interpret these scores as instantaneous buy/hold/sell signal for the stock to which the story relates. We find that the market fails to fully impound the information contained in the managerial commentary during the first 60 minutes of the release, however, the stock prices adjust to reflect this added information during the next trading session and beyond. We further document that different industry groups react differently to sentiment in managerial comment.
A Longitudinal Analysis of Mergers and Acquisitions Patterns of Radio Companies in the U.S.

This study examined the trends of M&As (mergers and acquisitions) in the radio industry from 1981 through 2002. In terms of method, the study investigated both MUS by radio firms and M&As targeting radio firms, and compared M&A frequency and M&A transaction values. The result showed that (1) although M&A activities have consistently increased, they have recently begun to decrease, (2) the loosening of ownership regulations prompted more M&A activities, and (3) the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 encouraged interindustry M&As by radio firms, while the flow of investments from other industries into the radio industry was not changed by the Act.
An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts

In this paper, we compare the characteristics of real world financial contracts to their counterparts in financial contracting theory. We do so by conducting a detailed study of actual contracts between venture capitalists (VCs) and entrepreneurs. We consider VCs to be the real world entities who most closely approximate the investors of theory. (1) The distinguishing characteristic of VC financings is that they allow VCs to separately allocate cash flow rights, voting rights, board rights, liquidation rights, and other control rights. We explicitly measure and report the allocation of these rights. (2) While convertible securities are used most frequently, VCs also implement a similar allocation of rights using combinations of multiple classes of common stock and straight preferred stock. (3) Cash flow rights, voting rights, control rights, and future financings are frequently contingent on observable measures of financial and non-financial performance. (4) If the company performs poorly, the VCs obtain full control. As company performance improves, the entrepreneur retains / obtains more control rights. If the company performs very well, the VCs retain their cash flow rights, but relinquish most of their control and liquidation rights. The entrepreneur’s cash flow rights also increase with firm performance. (5) It is common for VCs to include non-compete and vesting provisions aimed at mitigating the potential hold-up problem between the entrepreneur and the investor. We interpret our results in relation to existing financial contracting theories. The contracts we observe are most consistent with the theoretical work of Aghion and Bolton (1992) and Dewatripont and Tirole (1994). They also are consistent with screening theories.