Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gr 08-02 Behavioral factors influencing performance management systems ’ use

The purpose of this paper is to substantiate conclusions from De Waal’s (2002) case study research about the role of behavioral factors in the use of performance management systems. De Waal’s exploratory research is replicated in four organizations. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews and document research. Data of the additional case studies were combined with De Waal’s. Pattern matching was used to compare all case studies. De Waal’s initial research design was extended through the inclusion of a number of sensitivity analyses in the pattern matching exercise. The behavioral factors in the use of performance management systems De Waal deemed significant appear rather arbitrary, due to methodological choices made during the pattern matching and data analyses. Sensitivity analyses shows that behavioral factors can be ranked according to their relative importance. Although the addition of sensitivity analyses has shed some light on the relative importance of behavioral factors, there still remain unanswered questions with regard to the greater validity and reliability of De Waal’s original research design. Some assumptions made have to be studied in more detail to strenghten findings of the research.
TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA: A DOUBLE-BLIND PILOT STUDY

Received, June 29, 2005. Accepted, October 27, 2005. OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance (MR) angiography and gadolinium (Gad)-enhanced 3D spoiled gradientrecalled imaging in the visualization of neurovascular compression in patients with trigeminal neuralgia. METHODS: Forty-eight patients with unilateral trigeminal neuralgia underwent highresolution 3D TOF MR angiography. After administration of a contrast agent, a 3D spoiled gradient-recalled sequence (3D Gad) was run. Images were reviewed by a radiologist blinded to clinical details. All patients underwent microvascular decompression surgery. Microdissection of the trigeminal nerve and compressing vessels was videotaped during surgery and reviewed by surgeons uninvolved in patient care. Results from neuroradiological studies were then compared with findings on operative videotapes. RESULTS: MR angiography in combination with 3D Gad imaging identified surgically verified neurovascular contact in 42 of 46 (91%) symptomatic nerves. The offending vessel (artery, vein) was correctly identified in 31 of 41 cases (sensitivity, 76%; specificity, 75%). Neurovascular compression was observed in 71% of asymptomatic nerves with a trend toward greater compression severity on the symptomatic nerve (P 0.09). Agreement between the direction of neurovascular contact defined by 3D TOF MR angiography and 3D Gad and findings at surgery was good ( 0.78; 95% confidence interval, 0.61–0.94). CONCLUSION: Double-blind assessment of surgical and neuroradiological findings confirms that neurovascular compression can be visualized with good sensitivity in patients with trigeminal neuralgia by 3D TOF MR angiography in combination with Gad-enhanced 3D spoiled gradient-recalled sequences. Anatomic relationships defined by this method can be useful in predicting surgical findings.
World Scientific Publishing Company IMPROVING USER EXPERIENCE THROUGH RULE-BASED SERVICE

The web and converged services paradigm promises tremendous flexibility in the creation of rich composite services for enterprises and end users. The flexibility and richness offers the possibility of highly customized, individualized services for the end user and hence revenue generating services for service providers (e.g. ASPs, telecom network operators, ISPs). But how can end users (and enterprises) specify their preferences when a myriad of possibilities and potential circumstances need to be addressed? In this paper, we advocate a solution based on policy management where user preferences are specified through forms but translated into rules in a high-level policy language. This paper identifies the requirements for this kind of interpretation, and describes the Houdini system (developed at Bell Labs) which offers a rich rule-based language and a framework that supports intuitive, forms-based provisioning interfaces.
Assessment of Factors Affecting theImplementation of the Integrated DiseaseSurveillance and Response in Public Health CareFacilities - The Case of Rufunsa District, Zambia

Late detection of disease out- break and other health related events of public health significance have been linked to poor implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR). As such strengthening the capacity of health workers involved in IDSR implementation is required. The main objective of this study was to assess the factors affecting the implementation of the IDSR in public health care facilities in Rufunsa District, Zambia. A cross-sectional facility based descriptive study design as well as observation was done in which 34 study subjects were conveniently sampled from the 9 health facilities in the district. Data collection was done using a pretested semi structured questionnaire and an institutional- tailored observational checklist. Analyses were done using SPSS version18. The study revealed that factors that affected the implementation of the IDSR were low knowledge levels among Health Workers about IDSR as only 36.3% of them received training in IDSR in the last 12 months at the time of this study. Other factors that created gaps in the implementation of IDSR were negative attitudes of the health workers as 9.0% of them were of the opinion that the IDSR system wasted much of their time, as its implementation interfered with their clinical work and about 51.5% were demoralised as they felt that support from the managers at the District, Province and Ministry of Health Headquarters was inadequate. Poor practices of health workers towards IDSR was also identified as a factor affecting IDSR Implementation. For instance, it was revealed that about 27.3% of the health workers either infrequently or never reported a disease which required mandatory reporting in the last 12 months as they stated that the process of reporting was cumbersome as the forms were too many and complicated. They further echoed that IDSR implementation lacked prompt feedback from the Managers at the District. Resource- wise, all facilities in the district lacked adequate resources for IDSR implementation. For example between 11.1 to 44.4% of the health facilities lacked one or more types of reporting forms. Other resources lacking were electricity, and good network connectivity since about 51.5% relied on mobile phones for sending reports which required prompt feedback. Therefore, to ensure effective IDSR implementation, adequate funding directed to the strengthening of IDSR activities should be deliberately put in the budget’s yellow book. Regular IDSR trainings are to be offered to health workers which should be followed by mentorship and supervision by the District and Provincial Health Offices as well as the Ministry of Health.
The Influence of Interfirm Trust on Monitoring and Performance in Uncertain Environments

An important question for manufacturers is the extent to which control over the suppliers should be maintained when the interaction occurs in an uncertain environment. It is proposed in this paper that the level of trust(high and low) affect the manufacturer’s level of monitoring and perceived supplier performance in uncertain environments. The empirical results from US manufacturers indicate the following: 1) When the trustworthiness of exchange partners is questionable, manufacturers tend to increase the level of monitoring over the supplier as they feel environmental uncertainty. On the other hand, those who place a high level of trust in a partner may need to rely on monitoring to a lesser extent regardless of environmental uncertainty. 2) Supplier performance, as perceived by manufacturers, is negatively associated with environmental uncertainty when a manufacturer’s trust in its supplier is low, but it has no relationship with environmental uncertainty when there is high trust.
Genetic relationship among different species of cot ton as revealed by SSR markers for fiber quality traits

The objective of present investigation was to utili ze and validate tetraploid species derived EST SSR markers linked to fiber quality traits to generate markers for mapping in diploid cotton species. Six lines of allotetraploid species viz, G. hirsutum (AD1) an d seven and eleven lines of its putative diploid ancestors viz, G. arboreum (A2) and G. herbaceum (A 1) respectively were used for comparative analysis. Of the total of 41 tetraploid-derived SSR primers, 85.36% gave amplification in both diploid species, indicating that flanking sequences around repeats a re conserved in the diploid and tetraploid species of cotton. Average number of bands amplified by each pwas 15.57. The average observed mean heterozygosity was 0.60. DNA sequence information o f 10 randomly selected SSR amplicons were used for phylogenetic analysis of Gossypium sps.which re vealed that two diploid species of Gossypium (i.e.; G.herbaceum & G.arboreum), shares a close genetic s imilarity with each other. Tetraploid-derived microsatellites may be useful in comparative geneti c mapping of both diploid Gossypium species, for evolutionary studies and marker assisted selection (MAS) for introgression of agriculturally important traits from exotic diploid and tetraploid germplasm sources. BLASTn analysis of randomly selected SSR sequence data showed significant similarity (70-97% ) between diploid G. arboreum and G.herbaceum species and (10-27%) between diploid and tetraploid s G. hirsutum species. BLASTx analysis of most of SSR markers revealed identity with hypothetical and uncharacterized plant protein.
On Sex Discrimination in Persian Proverbs

Proverbs are important part of a language and carrier of a culture. They reflect people's perspective and society systems. The discrimination and derogation against women in societies can be reflected in proverbs because they impact the social concepts greatly. By studying proverbs, the deep-rooted gender biased ideology in a society is observable. Persian is not a gender language, but studying 12,000 Persian proverbs through this research shows there are elements of oppression in some proverbs of this language which relate to women and violate the rights and dignity of them. 179 proverbs out of 12,000 ones include discrimination against both sexes. 84% of them include elements of semantic derogation against females and 16% include sex discrimination against males. Semantic derogation in Persian language shows women dominantly as: "evil and capricious", "The root of disasters" and "inferior and worthless" beings and men dominantly as "avaricious" absolutist and "cruel. "
GENETIC VARIABILITY AND DIVERSITY STUDIES IN THE PROGENIES DERIVED FROM IRRADIATION AND RECOMBINATION IN DESI COTTON

Estimations of genetic variability and genetic diversity are essential for improvement of desi cotton. Diploid cotton has wide adaptability under rainfed situation and also high degree of resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. The extent of variability gives information regarding the relative amount of variability present in different progenies, which helps in identification of good progenies for future generation. The genetic variability and diversity analysis have been worked out using five phenotypically diverse genotypes of diploid cotton (G. herbaceum (3) and G. arboreum (2)), with the objective to study the genetic variability and diversity for seed cotton yield and its components for seven quantitative characters in 202 progenies of desi cotton. High variability was noticed for seed cotton yield and number of bolls per plant. Heritability observed was high for all the seven traits under study. Similarly , the diversity analysis was carried out for the set of 202 progenies interestingly it was noticed that majority of progenies were grouped in cluster I, it was due to selection of progenies was made earlier based on seed cotton yield. Another interesting thing is that when the contribution of trait was analyzed, seed index was the major contributing trait towards the divergence.
verestimation of moderate carotid stenosis ssessed by both Doppler US and contrast enhanced DMR angiography in the CARMEDAS study urestimation des sténoses carotidiennes modérées évaluées par ’ association Doppler + ARM-3 D gadolinium dans l ’ étude

Department of Radiology, University Hospital Center, hôpital de la Cavale-Blanche, boulevard Tanguy-Prigent, 9609 Brest cedex, France EA3878, groupe d’étude de la thrombose de Bretagne occidentale (GETBO), hôpital de la Cavale-Blanche, université uropéenne de Bretagne, Brest, France UMR CNRS 5824, department of Radiology, Bichat University Hospital, Paris, France Health Systems Analysis Laboratory (Gate), University of Lyon, Ecully, France Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Center, Angers, France UMR CNRS 5220 — Inserm U630 Creatis, Lyon, France Vascular Medicine Department, University Hospital Center, Brest, France Vascular Surgery Department, University Hospital Center, Angers, France Bioclinica SAS (Theralys®), Lyon, France Angiology Department, University Hospital Center, Angers, France Vascular Surgery Department, University Hospital Center, Brest, France Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Center, Bordeaux, France Department of Radiology, Hospital Center, Niort, France Department of Neuroradiology, VisAGeS U746, University Hospital Center, Tours, France Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Center, Rennes, France
The relationship between system user’s tasks and business intelligence (BI) success in a public healthcare setting

In this study, the relationship between task characteristics and business intelligence (BI) success is empirically tested on a business intelligence system in an e-Government context in Denmark. The purpose of the study is to investigate which tasks contribute to BI success. A total of 1.351 end users replied to the questionnaire, and the response rate was 32%. In this study, task compatibility and task difficulty have a substantial relationship with user satisfaction. The relationship between task significance and use was also substantial, as well as the relationship between user satisfaction and individual impact. The model was a good fit, having a relatively high determination coefficient and predictive relevance. Therefore, the study determined that tasks are important factors contributing to BI success.
Humor as character strength and its relation to life satisfaction and happiness in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Abstract The goal of this study was to examine the importance of humor as character strength in individuals with Asperger's syndrome/High Functioning Autism (AS/HFA) and how it relates to life satisfaction and orientation to happiness. Thirty-three individuals with AS/HFA and 33 gender-, age- and education-matched typically developing (TD) participants filled out scales assessing character strengths (VIA-IS), life satisfaction (SWLS) and orientation to happiness (OTH). Profile analyses of the character strengths and character strengths factors revealed significant differences between the two groups. Humor was found to be the 8th highest out of 24 character strengths in TD, but was only at the 16th position in individuals with AS/HFA when the strengths are rank-ordered. In TD participants, humor is related to life of pleasure, life of engagement, life of meaning and life satisfaction. In individuals with AS/HFA, humor is only related to life of pleasure. This shows that 1) individuals with AS/HFA seem not to consider humor as one of their important strengths, which is in line with humor difficulties reported earlier and 2) humor does not seem to contribute to life satisfaction to the same degree as in TD controls.
Glueballs and deconfinement temperature in AdS/QCD

We put forward an alternative way to estimate the deconfinement temperature in bottom-up holographic models. The deconfinement in AdS/QCD is related to the Hawking-Page phase transition, in which the critical Hawking temperature is identified with the deconfinement one in the gauge theory. The numeric estimation of the latter is only possible when the parameters of a $5D$ dual model are previously determined from consistency with other physical aspects, standardly, providing a description of the QCD resonances. The traditional way to fix parameters in the simplest AdS/QCD models is to reproduce the mass of the $\rho$ meson or the slope of the approximate radial Regge trajectory of the $\rho$ excitations. Motivated by a general idea that the slope value originates in gluodynamics, we propose calculating the deconfinement temperature using the trajectory of scalar glueballs. We consider several holographic models and use the recent idea of isospectral potentials to make an additional check of the relevance of our approach. It is demonstrated that different models from an isospectral family (i.e. the models leading to identical predictions for spectrum of hadrons with fixed quantum numbers) result in different predictions for the deconfinement temperature. This difference is found to be quite small in the scalar glueball channel but very large in the vector meson channel. The observed stability in the former case clearly favours the choice of the glueball channel for thermodynamic predictions in AdS/QCD models. For a balanced approach, we argue that either assuming $f_0(1500)$ to have a dominating component of $0^{++}$ glueball or accepting the idea of the universality in the radial Regge trajectories of light non-strange vector mesons one can reproduce the results for the deconfinement temperature obtained before in the lattice simulations in the background of non-dynamical quarks.
Investigating student ability to follow and interact with reasoning chains

The effectiveness of scaffolded, research-based instruction in physics has been extensively documented in the literature. However, much less is known about the development of students’ reasoning skills in these research-based instructional environments. As part of a larger collaborative project, we have been designing and implementing tasks to assess the extent to which introductory physics students are able to logically follow and interact with hypothetical student reasoning chains in a variety of physics contexts. In this paper, we report preliminary results from a “Follow Reasoning” task in which students are asked to infer the conclusions that would be drawn from different lines of reasoning articulated by hypothetical students and provide justification for that inference.
Quantified H i morphology – VII. Star formation and tidal influence on local dwarf H I morphology.

Scale-invariant morphology parameters applied to atomic hydrogen maps (HI) of galaxies can be used to quantify the effects of tidal interaction or star-formation on the ISM. Here we apply these parameters, Concentration, Asymmetry, Smoothness, Gini, M20, and the GM parameter, to two public surveys of nearby dwarf galaxies, the VLA-ANGST and LITTLE-THINGS survey, to explore whether tidal interaction or the ongoing or past star-formation is a dominant force shaping the HI disk of these dwarfs. Previously, HI morphological criteria were identified for ongoing spiral-spiral interactions. When we apply these to the Irregular dwarf population, they either select almost all or none of the population. We find that only the Asymmetry-based criteria can be used to identify very isolated dwarfs (i.e., these have a low tidal indication). Otherwise, there is little or no relation between the level of tidal interaction and the HI morphology. We compare the HI morphology to three star-formation rates based on either Halpha, FUV or the resolved stellar population, probing different star-formation time-scales. The HI morphology parameters that trace the inequality of the distribution, the Gini, GM, and M20 parameters, correlate weakly with all these star-formation rates. This is in line with the picture that local physics dominates the ISM appearance and not tidal effects. Finally, we compare the SDSS measures of star-formation and stellar mass to the HI morphological parameters for all four HI surveys. In the two lower-resolution HI surveys (12"), there is no relation between star-formation measures and HI morphology. The morphology of the two high-resolution HI surveys (6"), the Asymmetry, Smoothness, Gini, M20, and GM, do show a link to the total star-formation, but a weak one.
Predation of Curatella americana seeds by Aratinga aurea parrots

Curatella americana is a common tree species widely distributed throughout the Pantanal, a swampy region in Mid-Western Brazil. Each tree produces a large number of fruits that are appreciated by many species of birds and mammals including Aratinga aurea parrots. However, there is limited information about the influence of seed ingestion by parrots on the germination process of this tree species. Thus, the objective of this research was to evaluate the germination of non-predated Curatella americana seeds (collected from the fruits) compared with predated seeds (that had passed through the digestive tract of parrots), collected in the ‘Pantanal do Negro’ area. The collected material was brought to the laboratory and the seeds were subjected to seven treatments: (1) intact seeds (Control); (2) seeds without arils (aqueous pulp); (3) digestive system – seeds that passed through an animal’s digestive system; (4) hydrochloric acid at 0.01 N (pH 2); (5) hydrochloric acid at 0.001 N (pH 3); (6) hydrochloric acid at 0.0001 N (pH 4) and (7) seeds with arils placed in hydrochloric acid (pH 3). Each group was evaluated daily for a period of 55 days. The compared variables were: the germination percentage, the germination speed index and the mean germination time. The highest germination rate (70%), germination speed (1.5) and germination time (23.5 days) were obtained for seeds without aril. The results obtained by the Control seeds were similar to those found for the seeds that had passed through the digestive system of birds or were exposed to acid, indicating that this seed type has specific mechanisms for germination.