Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
European Conference on Information Systems ( ECIS ) Summer 10-6-2011 VARIATIONS IN RISK EXPOSURE : A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF ENTERPRISESOFTWARE PROJECTS

Effective allocation of resources to risk mitigation still is a pivotal challenge to project managers. Thus, researchers and practitioners compile commonly important risks and present them as checklists, risk rankings, and other methods to help project managers in justifying allocating resources for mitigation. In this paper, we challenge the static nature of such compilations by exploring longitudinal variations in project managers’ risk exposure estimations. Our analysis of risk reports from 111 enterprise software projects shows that (1) risk exposure estimations vary along project phases and that (2) the estimations’ volatility differs across risks. This highlights the necessity of a dynamic lens for advancing the understanding of project risks. From a practical perspective, our findings substantiate the need for continuous risk assessments throughout projects.
Color X-ray photon counting image sensing

Present state of the art medical X-ray image sensors are “charge integration” based, which results in an overall noise that is composed of the quantum limited photon shot noise, electronic read noise and excess noise due to the non-reproducible charge packet sizes per absorbed X-ray. Ultimate sensitivity and signal to noise ratio is obtained when each incoming photon is counted, the so-called quantum limit. Another advantage of photon counting is that one can classify the incoming photons according to their energy, and in that way realize spectral sensitivity or “color X-ray” [5] without having a penalty in dose or multiple exposures.
EXPLORATION OF FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PATIENT ADHERENCE IN UPPER EXTREMITY REHABILITATION: A MIXED-METHODS EMBEDDED DESIGN

OF DISSERTATION EXPLORATION OF FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PATIENT ADHERENCE IN UPPER EXTREMITY REHABILITATION: A MIXED-METHODS EMBEDDED DESIGN Adherence is considered a prerequisite for the success of exercise programs for musculoskeletal disorders. The negative effects of non-adherence to exercise recommendations impact the cost of care, and also treatment effectiveness, treatment duration, the therapeutic relationship, waiting times, the efficiency of personnel and use of equipment. Adherence to therapeutic exercise intervention is a multifaceted problem. The World Health Organization (WHO) established the multidimensional adherence model (MAM). The MAM describes five interactive dimensions (socioeconomic, healthcare team and system, condition-related, therapy-related, and patient-related factors) that have an effect on patient adherence. The first purpose of this dissertation was to explore the MAM dimension of conditionrelated factors to determine the Quick Disabilities of the Arm Shoulder and Hand (QDASH) minimal clinical important difference (MCID) for three distal upper extremity conditions. The second purpose was to explore the MAM dimension of personal factors to learn from individuals who expressed incongruence between their QDASH and GROC scores; how they described their perceived change in therapy. The third purpose was to explore the MAM dimension of therapy-related factors to examine the effect of patienttherapist collaborative goal setting on patient adherence to treatment and QDASH outcomes. Results demonstrated in the first study that diagnosis specific MCID’s differed from the global MCID using multiple diagnoses. In the second study results demonstrated that
Brilaroxazine (RP5063) Clinical Experience in Schizophrenia: "A New Option to Address Unmet Needs"

Schizophrenia is a condition comprising of both treatment and comorbidity factors that both complicate its management and present multiple unmet needs. Brilaroxazine (RP5063), a dopamine (D)/serotonin (5-HT) modulator, possesses a broad in vitro pharmacology profile against D2/3/4 and 5-HT1A/2A/2B/6/7 receptors, nicotinic acetylcholine (α4β2) receptors, and the serotonin transporter. In Phase 1 and 2 clinical experience in healthy volunteers, patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, brilaroxazine was well tolerated, with the repeated 100 mg oral dose as the maximum tolerated dose. Investigators observed no cardiometabolic, cardiovascular, prolactin, or neurologic complications. Adherence in Phase 2 was good with discontinuation rates generally less than placebo. In a Phase 2 evaluation of patients with acute exacerbations in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders, brilaroxazine met its primary endpoint of significance versus placebo for Total Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS) Score at Day 28 as compared to baseline. In Phase 1 multi-dose pharmacodynamic evaluation, brilaroxazine displayed clinical activity in patients with stable disease and a PANSS greater than 50, as early as Day 10 of treatment. Pharmacokinetic analyses demonstrated brilaroxazine to have a substantial and relatively rapid oral absorption, linear (dose proportional) increases in maximum concentration (Cmax) and area under the curve (AUC), lack of excessive accumulation, and a relatively long terminal half-life of about 60 hours. Early clinical findings with brilaroxazine in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders indicate that this compound appears to be effective, well tolerated, and possess a straightforward once-daily dosing pharmacokinetic profile.
Properties and Application of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria are the soil bacteria inhabiting around or on the root surface that directly involved in promoting plant growth and development through production and secretion of various regulatory chemicals in the vicinity of rhizosphere. Properties of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria facilitate the plant growth directly by either assisting in nutrients acquisition or modulating plant hormone levels, or indirectly by decreasing the inhibitory effects of various pathogens on plant growth and development in the forms of the bio-control agents. Various studies have documented the increased health and productivity of different plant species by the application of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria as biofertilizers under both normal and stressed conditions. PGP rhizobacteria improve seed germination, root development, increase crop yield, restore natural soil fertility, decrease pollutant toxicity, provide protection against plant pathogens and environmental stress and also decrease the global dependence on hazardous agricultural inorganic chemicals which destabilize the agro-ecosystems. In future Bio-fertilizers or bio-protectants might replace inorganic chemical fertilizers and pesticides which is very expensive and environmental unfriendly synthetic substances. Accepted: 19 January 2017 Available Online: 25 January 2017
Task Focused Interaction and the Formation of Status Beliefs 2

Status beliefs link social distinctions, such as gender and race, to assumptions about competence and social worth. Recent modeling work in status construction theory suggests that interactions in small, task focused groups can lead to the spontaneous emergence and diffusion of such beliefs in larger populations. This earlier work has focused on dyads as the smallest possible groups in which status beliefs might emerge from face-to-face interaction. In today's societies, however, many task focused interactions take place in groups larger than dyads. In this article, we therefore develop an agent-based computational model that enables us to study the emergence of status beliefs in groups larger than dyads. With this model, we address questions such as: Do basic principles of task focused interaction systematically favor the emergence of status beliefs in groups larger than dyads? Does the time-frame over which small groups interact affect the likelihood with which status beliefs emerge? How does group size affect the emergence of status beliefs? Computational experimentation with the new model suggests that behavioral principles known to spontaneously create hierarchical differentiation between individual group members also tend to align these hierarchies with categorical differences and thereby facilitate the emergence of status beliefs. This tendency is stronger in smaller groups, and in groups that interact either for a very short or very long time.
HISTOLOGICAL STUDY OF DIRECT SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN DATE PALM CULTURED IN VITRO

Somatic embryogenesis is a sexual reproduction in which a bipolar structure is derived from somatic (non-zygotic) cell without vascular connection in the original tissue. This process can by achieved in vitro through using the different types of auxin and cytokinins. In date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) some research workers were able to obtained by using different compination of auxins and cytockinins. In present study we try to induced the direct somtic embryogenesis on shoot tip explants derived from in vitro microshoots. Shoot tip explants were inoculated on medium containing Cytokinins thidiazuron (TDZ) alone or in combination with auxins. It was found that MS medium enriched with 10 and 15 mg/L TDZ only was more effective to induce direct somatic embryogenesis in compared with others containing auxins, Beta naphthoxyacetic acid (NoA) or 1napthaleen acetic acid (NAA) in combined with TDZ. While, the minimum response rate obtained when auxins NoA and NAA combined with TDZ. Transferred of somatic embryos to maturation and germination medium induced secondary embryogenesis and were developed after 4 weeks. Four weeks later somatic embryo start germination and developing to plantlet. In this medium direct organogenasis were also recognized. Histoligical examination of explants grown on medium containing 10 mg/L TDZ revealed that the somatic embryo originated from two area. First somatic embryo induced from the sub-epidermal area and second from the vascular cells. Histological analysis showed that the division pattern of the cambical cells during the somatic embryo formation tock place in one side that caused the sweeling of the explants. Subsequent cell division led to progress in somatic embryo developmental stages. The first distinct appearance of embryogenesis was marked by development of globular forms that were embedded in the explants tissue, but there were separated from the adjusent tissue by vaculated cells and became a single embryo. No vascular connection between a somatic embryos and surrounding tissue has been recognized. More development of these embryos caused raputureing of surrounding tissue and embryo emergence.
BURNING OF PASTURE IN AMAZONIA : SHORT-TERM CHANGES IN SOIL CARBON STOCKS

The effect ofbuming on release and stock of soil carbon in a 7-year-old pasture in Brazilian Amazonia was studied over a series of short time periods. Measurements were made in the pasture before the bum (pre°:.bum) and at 7, 120 and 210 days after the bum (post-bum) through the rainy and dry seasons and in adjacent primary forest (control). The carbon stock 210 days post-bum (20.2 t C. ha-1) was significantly lower than the other values observed, with the exception of the stock 7 days post-bum (23.4 t C. ha-1) (P<O.O 1( 1),4,67, SNK test). Carbon stocks at the other sampling dates did not differ significantly from each other. A loss of 2.6 t C. ha-1 between the pre-bum (26.0 t C. ha-1) and the 7-day post-bum carbon stocks in the top 20 cm of forest-equivalent soil was not statistically significant, nor do the stocks at these two times differ significantly from that under primary forest (25.3 t C. ha-1). Carbon stored in the soil at 120 days post-bum (29.6 t C. ha-1) did not differ from the primary forest and pre-bum pasture. Seasonal oscillation of soil carbon stocks is apparent in the pasture soil, and, until the rainy season is past, this effect is capable of masking the effect of buming. The results suggest that the losses of carbon by buming and mineralization are greater than gains from humification of roots and plant remains, but the cumulative effect of these imbalances only becomes apparent after a certain time (in this case 210 days) has passed. Soil carbon in Amazonian pastures appears to be lost in small quantities over time under tropical management pratices.
Absolute ionic diffusion in MgO computer calculations

Computer calculations based upon lattice dynamics have enabled us to calculate self-diffusion coefficients (Dsd) in MgO, a significant component of the lower mantle. We have employed the supercell method to study the mechanisms governing the diffusion process thereby enabling us to calculate values for activation enthalpies and entropies for migration and formation. In the intrinsic regime we calculate [ 5.70 Magnesium: Dsd = 2.20 × 10 -5 exp I --U) [ 5.72 Oxygen: Dsd = 1.24 × 10 -5 . p [ ~ ) and in the extrinsic regime we calculate ( 1 . 9 8 5 ) Magnesium: Dsd = Nv2.84 × 10 -6 exp ~ Oxygen: Osd = Nvl.60 × 10 -6 exp( 2.003 1 k r ] where N v is the extrinsic defect concentration. We have also confirmed that for this system the diffusion path is not simple, but there is a predicted bifurcation of the saddle surface. Our results are comparable with previous embedded defect calculations, and suggest that current experimental data are unable to probe the intrinsic regime. * Corresponding author. 0031-9201/95/$09.50 © 1995 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved SSDI 0031-9201(94)02987-3 194 L. Vo~adlo et al. / Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interior,s 88 (19951 193-210
On the Impact of Time-varying Acoustic Channels on Routing Protocols for Underwater Networks

We evaluate and compare the performance of source routing and flooding as a function of the network density, when employed in a static underwater acoustic network with timevarying channel conditions. First, we present field observations, highlighting different patterns of channel variability. Then, by feeding time series of environmental conditions into a ray tracer, we derive time-varying realistic channel realizations as would be perceived by a non-coherent receiver. Moreover, we propose a simple analytical approach, which relates the distance between two relay nodes, the time-variability of the link, and the reactiveness of the considered source routing algorithm. We show that a critical hop distance can be identified, depending on the timing of the source routing protocol and on the statistics of the channel dynamics, after which source routing reacts too slowly with respect to the rate of variability of the channel quality. These results are corroborated by simulation runs, from which we derive the performance of source routing and flooding in different shallow water scenarios, highlighting which algorithm should be preferred.
Apoptosis Induction ( Caspase-3 ,9 ) and Human Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma VEGF Angiogenesis Inhibition using Flavonoid ’ s Ethyl Acetate Fraction of Papua Ant Hill ( Myrmecodia pendans ) SPC 1

Human tongue squamous cell carcinoma was casued by inability to control cell survival and to control cel motility. Apoptosis is a normal component process of multicellular organism’s development and health. Apoptosis is a programmed cell death as a response to various stimuli. Angiogenesis or neovascularisation is a basic developing sign in cell physiology and pathology. This research was to identify flavonoid’s ethyl acetate fraction from Anthill (Myrmecodia pendans) which has a potential as a anti-cancer to SP-C1 cell. This research was to analyze the Anthill flavonoid’s ethyle acetate as an anti cancer to apoptosis induction (caspase-3 and -9 analyses) to Supri’s Clone (SP-C1) tongue cancer cell and to analyze angiogenesis inhibition by VEGF protein expression. The data from this research was analyzed using Two Way ANOVA and t test (Tukey’s test) with confidence interval 95%. Caspase-3 and -9 colorimetric analyses showed increasing SP-C1 cell inhibition by time and concentration. ELISA analysis showed increasing proteolytic activity on caspase-9 compared with caspase-3. Increasing proteolytic activity with the increasing concentration from 5 μg/ml to 100 μg/ml could also be observed. VEGF angiogenesis inhibition showed increased flavonoid concentration was followed by increased VEGF expression. Otherwise, SP-C1 cell (control) did not show any VEGF expression. Anthill’s flavonoid ethyl acetate fraction (Myrmecodia pendans) had anti-tumor activity on several molecular targets from apoptosis and VEGF angiogenesis of tongue squamous cell carcinoma. Experimental article (J Int Dent Med Res 2018; 11(1): pp. 276-284)
IE 534 Final Project : Faster R-CNN

Faster R-CNN is proposed to shorten the time spent on region proposal step during test time. Previous region proposal method such as Selective Search (SS), is an order slower than state-of-the-art object detection network (Fast R-CNN). Hence the authors of Faster R-CNN came with the idea that region proposal step can be combined with Fast R-CNN, so that it can take advantage of GPUs as well as sharing computations. Faster R-CNN is composed of two modules. The first one is Region Proposal Network (RPN), which share convolutional layers with the second module, Fast R-CNN. The RPN first generates a set of bounding boxes with one or different size scales and ratios on each pixel. Since there will be many boxes with a relatively large overlap area, we will use Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) technique to reduce the number of candidate boxes. Then, bounding boxes with Intersection-overUnion (IoU) score (with ground-truth box) higher than 0.7 are selected as foreground, and that lower than 0.3 as background. To optimize the RPN during the training, both classification loss and bounding box regression loss will be calculated. Classification Loss is the entropy loss on whether it’s foreground or background. For Bounding Box Regression Loss, the difference between the regression of foreground box and that of ground truth box is plugged into L1 function, and then sum all terms together[1]. For the second module (or detection network), Fast R-CNN, there is a ”head” part which processes the original image using several convolutional layers and max pooling layers to produce a feature map. The ”tail” part takes object proposals (from RPN) to the region of interest (RoI) pooling layer and extracts a fixed-length feature vector from the feature map. Then, the feature vector is put into a sequence of fully connected layers which will branch into two output layers. One will produce softmax probability to estimate over 20 object classes and a “background” class. Another will output four real-valued numbers for each of the 20 object classes. Note that a set of 4 values will be used to calculate refined bounding box positions for a certain class [2]. The author introduced three training methods. The first one is 4-Step Alternating Training : initialize the convolutional layers in RPN network by a pre-trained model and train the RPN network; initialize the Fast R-CNN convolutional layers with the pre-trained model; use the proposals generated from the trained RPN to train the Fast R-CNN; use the trained RPN to train the layers above the shared convolutional layers of Fast R-CNN. The second one is Approximate joint training, which is the one we use to train out model, and it will be introduced later. The third one is Non-approximate joint training. It involves the derivative w.r. t. the proposal boxes’ coordinates that is ignored in the second method.
Organochlorine pollutants in grey seal ( Halichoerus grypus ) pups and their impact on plasma thyroid hormone and vitamin A concentrations

Phocid seals have lipid rich milk, which is known to serve as a transfer medium through which persistent organic pollutants(POPs) move from mother to offspring during lactation. However, knowledge on this generational transfer of different POPs and the partitioning of these compounds in maternal and offspring tissues over the course of the lactation are limited. In this study we examined the qualitative and quantitative partitioning of a range of chlorinated POPs in maternal blubber, blood and milk as well as in pup blubber, collected early in the lactation period and late in the lactation period. In the lactating female, the high-chlorinated and hydrophobic compounds were passed less efficiently into the milk than the low-chlorinated compounds and more water-soluble compounds. Significantly, lower maternal blood concentrations than in maternal blubber biopsies suggest a stratification of POP concentrations in the blubber column of lactating female and lower concentrations in the metabolic active inner layers. Over the course of lactation, there was a significant increase in maternal blood and milk concentrations of POPs as opposed to no change in maternal blubber biopsy concentrations. This was most apparent for the hydrophobic and high-chlorinated compounds. The most likely explanation for this is that the metabolic active inner blubber layer, from which the milk lipids are derived from, is in steady state with the circulatory system, while the outer layers are more static and only slowly respond to changes in concentrations elsewhere in the body. The concentrations of the high-chlorinated and hydrophobic compounds were substantially lower in pup blubber than in maternal blubber. This probably relates the combined effect of these compounds stratification in maternal blubber and their slow transfer into the milk. The present study shows that the more hydrophobic and high-chlorinated compounds come to steady state less quickly in the different tissues than the more water-soluble and low-chlorinated compounds in the lactating female and her offspring. This has implications for which matrices to choose when sampling for assessing the toxicological risk of POPs in seals. 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.