Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Transfer Learning for Behavior Ranking

Intelligent recommendation has been well recognized as one of the major approaches to address the information overload problem in the big data era. A typical intelligent recommendation engine usually consists of three major components, that is, data as the main input, algorithms for preference learning, and system for user interaction and high-performance computation. We observe that the data (e.g., users’ behavior) are usually in different forms, such as examinations (e.g., browse and collection) and ratings, where the former are often much more abundant than the latter. Although the data are in different representations, they are both related to users’ true preferences and are also deemed complementary to each other for preference learning. However, very few ranking or recommendation algorithms have been developed to exploit such two types of user behavior. In this article, we focus on jointly modeling the examination behavior and rating behavior and develop a novel and efficient ranking-oriented recommendation algorithm accordingly. First, we formally define a new recommendation problem termed behavior ranking, which aims to build a ranking-oriented model by exploiting both the examination behavior and rating behavior. Second, we develop a simple and generic transfer to rank (ToR) algorithm for behavior ranking, which transfers knowledge of candidate items from a global preference learning task to a local preference learning task. Compared with the previous work on integrating heterogeneous user behavior, our ToR algorithm is the first ranking-oriented solution, which can effectively generate recommendations in a more direct manner than those regression-oriented methods. Extensive empirical studies show that our ToR algorithm performs significantly more accurately than the state-of-the-art methods in most cases. Furthermore, our ToR algorithm is very efficient in terms of the time complexity, which is similar to those for homogeneous user behavior alone.
Accounts of experiences of bulimia: a discourse analytic study.

OBJECTIVES To identify the variety of versions of bulimia constructed by participants, to suggest functions and consequences of these constructions, and to examine the sociocultural ideologies evident in participants' discourse. METHODS Ten women and one man were interviewed about their experiences of bulimia. Transcribed interviews were analyzed using a discourse analytic approach. RESULTS Five dominant ways of talking about bulimia were identified: Individuals were constructed as victims of bulimia, women were constructed as victims of social stereotypes, bulimia was constructed as a damaging action one performs on oneself, bulimia was constructed as a personality trait of individuals, and bulimia was marginalized as abnormal and disgusting. DISCUSSION Sociocultural ideologies evident in participants' accounts included the valuing of individual will-power and self-mastery and the construction of a mind-body dichotomy entailing the need to control the latter. The analysis emphasizes the importance of considering the sociocultural context within which psychological problems occur.
Multiple sclerosis: In situ evidence for antibody‐ and complement‐mediated demyelination

We describe a case of multiple sclerosis characterized by deposition of immunoglobulin and complement in the areas of active demyelination. This was particularly evident for the C9neo antigen, which is a marker for the activated lytic complement complex and was exclusively deposited in the areas of active myelin destruction. In addition, macrophages in the lesions contained degradation products that were immunoreactive for myelin antigens, immunoglobulins, and C9neo antigen. Destruction of myelin sheaths was associated with incomplete loss of oligodendrocytes in the active areas and reappearance of oligodendrocytes with remyelination in the inactive plaque center.
Effects of Above-Optimum Growth Temperature and Cell Morphology on Thermotolerance of Listeria monocytogenesCells Suspended in Bovine Milk

ABSTRACT The thermotolerances of two different cell forms of Listeria monocytogenes (serotype 4b) grown at 37 and 42.8°C in commercially pasteurized and laboratory-tyndallized whole milk (WM) were investigated. Test strains, after growth at 37 or 42.8°C, were suspended in WM at concentrations of approximately 1.5 × 108 to 3.0 × 108 cells/ml and were then heated at 56, 60, and 63°C for various exposure times. Survival was determined by enumeration on tryptone-soya-yeast extract agar andListeria selective agar, and D values (decimal reduction times) and Z values (numbers of degrees Celsius required to cause a 10-fold change in the D value) were calculated. Higher average recovery and higher D values (i.e., seen as a 2.5- to 3-fold increase in thermotolerance) were obtained when cells were grown at 42.8°C prior to heat treatment. A relationship was observed between thermotolerance and cell morphology of L. monocytogenes. AtypicalListeria cell types (consisting predominantly of long cell chains measuring up to 60 μm in length) associated with rough (R) culture variants were shown to be 1.2-fold more thermotolerant than the typical dispersed cell form associated with normal smooth (S) cultures (P ≤ 0.001). The thermal death-time (TDT) curves of R-cell forms contained a tail section in addition to the shoulder section characteristic of TDT curves of normal single to paired cells (i.e., S form). The factors shown to influence the thermoresistance of suspended Listeria cells (P ≤ 0.001) were as follows: growth and heating temperatures, type of plating medium, recovery method, and cell morphology. Regression analysis of nonlinear data can underestimate survival of L. monocytogenes; the end point recovery method was shown to be a better method for determining thermotolerance because it takes both shoulders and tails into consideration. Despite their enhanced heat resistance, atypical R-cell forms of L. monocytogenes were unable to survive the low-temperature, long-time pasteurization process when freely suspended and heated in WM.
Strategic Cost Management

222 : صلختسملا ةاةبل تم ةةيبلتم ةاةلتوملا تيعةست يةس ية ر قةم ةةةييللتلا ةةفلكتلا ةمظنأ هيناعت ام ببسب ءاهتنلاا يعب فيلاكتلا ىلع ةبارتلل فيهت يتلا ةتصاعملا لامعلأا ةئيب ةبكايمل ةيليتاتتسلا ة ادلإا م ىلع زكتت يتلا تيعستلا ةايولت قع ثحبلا بل تة امم جتوملا جاتنإ قم جتةوملا ةاةيح ة مد ةحات ىةةلإ ةدأ ةيةيةة ةةةسساوم قةةم يناةةعة ةةةسيكلا نومةة ةةمعم مإ لإ م ةةةفلكتلا ءيةةان وةةبوم اةةه ابتعاب قةمم نومةسلا ةداةم قةم ةةفلتخملا ماينلأاةب ةةيراتعلا يةسلا اتةغإ ةةاية ببسب هتاعيبم ضافخنا لك اةستحا يس ةةييللتلا بيلاةلأا ىلع هدامتعلا كللم ةفلتخملا ءى اوملا تةملأا لأ جتةوملا ةيةحم ةةف يةحلا ضتةللم هةعريم ةع ةةظساحملام يةسلا يةس يمولام ءالبلا يس هت ير ىلع ًايبلة سكعنا يذلا يةحن هاةلتلاام ةةة ادلإام فيلاةكتلا ةبة احمل ةةةييللتلا بيلاةلأا قع يلختلا قم يبلا تيثأتلا كلل قم . ةيسساوتلا ةزيملا قيلحت يس ةيلعاس تثكأ ةايولت لامعتةا ملا ةمدق ةبارتلام طي ختلا يس ةمظوملا ة ادإ يعاسة يذلا يةاةلأا جهوملا ةباثمب فيلاكتلا ةبةاحم يعت ةئيبلا ةا ي ت اهضتفت يتلا ةاةيحتلا مامأم هنأ لاإ اهةيل ةحاتملا جاتنلإا مايع مايختةا ىلع اوملا ة ادلإ ةماه ةليةم كات نحبصأ ب كلل ىلع ًاتصار اه مد يعة مل ةتصاعملا قيسحتم ةسس خايملا زتبأ يحأ يليتاتتة كاب ةفلكتلا ة ادلإ ةجاحلا ةتهظم مةمظوملا ة انأم ةايلمع تيغم ةيلاملا سيةالملا لامعتةا قم اهوكمت يتلا ةانايبلاب ة ادلإا دايمإ ىلإ ىعسة يذلا ةثةيحلا الولا اتمتةلا ةاتيلتلا كلت ةهجايمم ةيلعافلام ةءافكلا قيلحت ضتلل ةيلاملا قلخم يلاملا ح قيلحتم ةسساوملا يس ءالبلل فيلاكتلا ة ادلإ ةيعايبإم ةيةيج ت ب تكفت ثيحب ةكتالل ةزيمتم ةمير ةايولتلا قم يةيعلا ميختست ةاكتالا نحبصأم لأةيليتاتتسلام ةيليلاتلا فايهلأا قيب مالسنلاا الملا : ثم لأةة ادلإام ةفلكتلا ةبةاحم لالم يس ةثةيحلا ةيليتاتتسلا ىلع فيلاكتلام مةيعجتملا ةن قيسحتلا فيلاكتم مةلماالا ةديللا ة ادإم مة انلأا ساةأ ىلع ة ادلإام مة انلأا ساةأ لأةسيهتسملا ةفلكتلام مديحملا نريلا يس جاتنلإا فيلاكتم ممزايتملا ءادلأا ةرا بم متمتسملا ةفلكتلا ة ادإ فايهأ قيلحتل فيهت يتلا ةثةيحلا ةايولتلا قم اهتيغم ةةا يلا ميلت لإ لأةيليتاتتسلا ( ةسيهتسملا ةفلكتلا ةيولت يلحتب Target Costing Technique ة ادإ ةايولت زتبا يعت يتلا ) ةاةلايلا اهوم ملاعلا لمد قم ضعب يسم مابايلا يس حالوب اهليب ت مت يتلا ةيليتاتتسلا ةفلكتلا ةيكةتملأا ةيحتملا ; انأ يس ينابايلا زيمتلا سكعة اذهم تةي تلام ثحبلا ة ((Development & Research) ميم تلام ((Design) . : تايوتحملا ةساردلا ةيجهنم : لولأا ثحبملا ةقباس تاسارد و ثحبملا ثحبلل ةيرظنلا ةيفلخلا : يناثلا ةيقيبطتلا ةساردلا : ثلاثلا ثحبملا تايصوتلا و تاجاتنتسلاا : عبارلا ثحبملا ةيجيتارتسلا ةفلكتلا ةرادلإ ةادأ ةفدهتسملا ةفلكتلا ةينقت ديدجلا ةفوكلا تنمس لمعم يف ةيقيبطت ةسارد ريتسجام ةلاسر نم لتسم ثحب
PENGARUH PERSEPSI REMUNERASI PEGAWAI, MOTIVASI KERJA DAN DISIPLIN KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA PEGAWAI DI KANTOR PELAYANAN PERBENDAHARAAN NEGARA (KPPN) PERCONTOHAN SERANG PROVINSI BANTEN

Abstract : This research maintain to analyze The Influence of Employee’s Remuneration Perception, Work Motivation and Work Discipline to The Employee Performance in The State Treasury Services Office (Kantor Pelayanan Perbendaharaan Negara/KPPN Percontohan) Serang, Banten Province Therefore, in order to strengthening all this variable factors to the employee’s performance, the organization need to more recognize and honouring the employee’s work achievements, career opportunies and also make tranparency and accountability between structural and fungsional employee’s system to reduce the distorsion and unfairness of this remuneration system. About discipline, the punishment had to attended for create the money follows function system in The State Treasury Services Office. Keywords: discipline, employee’s performance, motivation, remuneration
An Entrepreneurship Perspective on the Formation and Growth of Business Groups in the Small Business Sector

ii Preface and acknowledgments v List of figures xii List of tables xiv Acronyms and definitions used in the text xvii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Subject of the thesis 1 1.2 Background and justification for the research 2 1.3 Business groups in entrepreneurship research 5 1.4 Aims and objectives 7 1.5 Research design and methodology 8 1.6 Scope and context of the study 10 1.7 Structure of the thesis 13 Chapter 2 Business groups: Facts and interpretations 17 2.1 Concepts and definitions 18 2.1.1 Ownership and control 18 2.1.2 Groups, networks and clusters 21 2.2 The presence and relevance of business groups in industrialized countries 26 2.3 Economic and management theories about business groups 32 2.3. 1 The group as an efficient organizational form 34
Mood States and Milk Output in Lactating Mothers of Preterm and Term Infants

The purpose of this study is to compare psychological distress via both negative and positive mood states between 2 different groups of lactating mothers during the first 6 weeks postpartum with a large sample. Mood states were measured using the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List–Revised by a convenience sample of newly delivered mothers from 4 tertiary care units in Illinois. Preterm mothers' negative mood states of anxiety, depression, hostility, and dysphoria were significantly greater than those reported for term mothers. For the positive mood states of positive affect and PASS (positive affect + sensation seeking), preterm mothers had significantly lower scores than term mothers; there were no differences for the positive mood state, Sensation Seeking. Maternal perceived mood states had no apparent effect upon lactation as measured by milk volume produced. Further study is warranted to determine what factors influence milk output in mothers of preterm and term infants who are at risk for lactation failure.
Initial Growth Type and the Persistence of Corporate Capital Structure

Recent research has revealed a persistent cross-sectional pattern for leverage ratios. This paper argues that growth type captures important differences in market imperfections across firms. We show that growth type, largely revealed early on, parsimoniously explains the persistent dispersion in leverage. Using a two-way independent sort on firm market-to-book ratio and asset tangibility in early IPO years, we classify firms into three growth-types (low, mixed, and high growth). We find that low-growth-type firms have persistently high leverage and high-growth-type firms have persistently low leverage. The growth-types appear stable, and differ significantly and persistently in their new equity issues and changes in retained earnings. Interestingly, high-growth firms can maintain leverage persistence because huge decreases in retained earnings (instead of net debt issues as often suggested by the literature) neutralize heavy new equity issues. We further show that market timing is actually growth-type driven. In a horse race to determine long-run capital structure, our initial-growth-type-based variable completely overtakes the Baker and Wurgler (2002) market-timing factor. We conclude it is growth type, rather than market timing, that best explains leverage persistence.
Bank Soundness and Macroeconomic Policy

Banking sector problems have plagued over 130 of the IMF's member countries since 1980. Developing and industrial market economies alike have been affected, as have all the economies in transition. This volume discusses the linkages between macroeconomic policy and bank soundness. It takes a global view of the causes and consequences of banking sector problems and discusses how the banking system can be strengthened, nationally and internationally.
Internet Intervention for Community Elders

The aim of this report is to describe the process and feasibility of having elders respond to standardized questionnaires in an Internet intervention program for caregivers of persons with dementia. Twenty-one persons with dementia (mean 75 years), and their spouse caregivers (mean age of 65 years) used the intervention program and responded to the questionnaires. Results indicated that with adequate support, elderly caregiver participants were able to provide responses to standardized questionnaires comparable to scores found in other caregiver studies using traditional methods. Suggestions are provided for further testing.
A two‐level cooperative game‐based approach for joint relay selection and distributed resource allocation in MIMO‐OFDM‐based cooperative cognitive radio networks

We consider the downlink of a multi‐input multi‐output orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing‐based cooperative cognitive radio network in which the secondary users (SUs) with extra resources work as relay to help the SUs with less available resources to improve their utility in terms of the throughput and fairness by forming a coalition graph. We model the problem of joint relay selection and power allocation in multi‐input multi‐output orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing‐based cooperative cognitive radio network as a two‐level cooperative game problem, and the objectives of this work are twofold. Firstly, we assign each weak SU to one of the relays (rich SUs) through solving a problem achieved by a non‐transferable utility coalition graph game, and this comprises the first level of the game. Secondly, we jointly allocate available channels to the SUs such that no subchannel is allocated to more than one SU and simultaneously optimise the transmit covariance matrices of nodes based on the Nash bargaining solution, which is the second level of the game. We further model the network as a multi‐cell scenario with small serving areas. After relaxing the problem and convexifying the relaxed version, we develop an optimal distributed algorithm, using dual decomposition. Afterwards, we propose a dynamic distributed resource allocation algorithm for this purpose. Simulations confirm the convergence of our distributed algorithms to the globally optimal solution of the two‐level game. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Análisis descriptivo cuantitativo del jamón tipo "serrano" elaborado a partir de cerdo pelón mexicano

The objective of this study was to describe the sensory attributes of cured hams from Hairless Mexican Pigs (HMP) and to compare them to those from commercial hams. HMP are highly depreciated on the market due to the excess of fat, which is the quality we are exploiting to obtain high priced cured products. Hams and shoulders from HMP were cured for nine months and then evaluate sensorially for a five member trained panel. Commercial hams were obtained to represent the market types, tree of first class and one of second class. An affective test was carried out to report the consumer response to the products. Trained sensory panel detected the differences between products from the shoulders and from the hams. They also found that samples from HMP had a more intense red color, less fungi aroma, less salty flavor and higher greasy texture than those from commercial hams. All of these attributes indicate a higher quality product when referring to hams « serrano » type. Results from the consumer panel indicated that commercial hams were better accepted than HMP hams, even though samples from HMP had an acceptance of 65. 1 %. This could be due to the fact that the Mexican market only provides of very lean ham, reason which makes the fatty ham from HMP less desirable.
High-power/low-threshold type-II interband cascade mid-IR laser-design and modeling

We present an optimized design and detailed numerical simulations for a mid-IR type-II interband InGaSb QW cascade laser (T2ICL) with InAs-In/sub 0.3/Ga/sub 0.7/Sb active quantum wells. It is shown that a 15-period T2ICL operating at 300 K and emitting at 3.15 /spl mu/m should achieve a much higher differential quantum efficiency (maximum of 0.9 W/A per facet at 300 K) than conventional mid-IR bipolar injection lasers, and a threshold current density much lower than for the intersubband quantum cascade laser.
Crepuscular Rhythms of EEG Sleep-Wake in a Hystricomorph Rodent, Octodon degus

Sleep-wake circadian rhythms are well documented for nocturnal rodents, but little is known about sleep regulation in diurnal or crepuscular rodent species. This study examined the circadian sleep-wake rhythms in Octodon degus by means of electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis. Recordings were made from animals housed with or without running wheels in the cages. In a 24-h light-dark (LD) cycle (LD 12:12), sleep and wake patterns were highly fragmented under both conditions except for crepuscular timed episodes of waking. Without running wheels, sleep bout lengths averaged 3.7 ± 0.1 min, and total sleep time was 37.6 ± 3.7% per 24 h. Although the percentage of total wakefulness was similar during the light phase (63.4 ± 2.4%) and dark phase (61.5 ± 2.8%), measures of locomotor activity (LMA) and body temperature were generally greater during the day than during the night. Without running wheels, EEG slow wave activity (SWA) in nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep exhibited a circadian waveform that was elevated only during the light phase. SWA peaked at Zeitgeber Time 7 (ZT 7) (several hours after the dominant waking episode at ZT 23), then declined across the later half of the light phase and into the dark phase. Voluntary wheel running did not alter daily total sleep time, the duration of average sleep bouts, or maximum sleep bouts, but it increased the episode of waking, LMA, and body temperature at ZTs 11-12. Under these conditions, NREM sleep and SWA exhibited crepuscular patterns, with elevated SWA during the day and night. Although Octodon degus exhibited no strong preference for sleep during the light or dark phase, these data suggest that in this species homeostatic sleep responses (indicated by SWA) are gated by the dominant crepuscular episode(s) of waking and can be influenced by wheel running.
Particles, Pollutions and Prices

We investigate whether a sentiment effect arising from poor air quality impacts stock prices. We find little evidence suggesting that local air quality directly affects stock prices. However, we show that the local air quality index (which is increasing in air pollution) relative to that of Beijing negatively affects stock prices. We apply a discontinuity design that focuses on observations with relative air quality index falling in the narrow band around zero and find a consistent result. Additional analysis uncovers a small subsequent reversal in returns in response to the relative air quality. Further, we find that the relative air quality is also negatively associated with trading volume. Finally, we show that the negative association between air quality index and stock prices is not affected by economic fundamentals. In sum, our findings suggest that poor air quality negatively affects stock prices and investor trading behavior.
Customer Satisfaction with Domestic Water Supply in India – A Study in Hubli city

Severe water crisis prevailed in twin Cities of Hubli-Dharwad in South India for a long time. During the last ten years, there has been considerable improvement in the water service. While most parts of the city is having intermittent supply system, a pilot 24/7 water service was implemented in a Demonstration Zone through the World Bank assistance, and State Government of Karnataka. The 24x7 project covers about 12 % of the total population of the city. The objective of this paper is to study the customer satisfaction in both intermittent and 24/7 water service areas in Hubli city. Stratified sampling method was adopted for four groups namely, low, medium, high income and backward classes namely the Scheduled Cast/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) groups. The results of the study revealed that most customers in 24/7 demo zone were highly satisfied with water quality, continuity, quantity, and pressure; whereas there was slight dissatisfaction (12%) with regard to redressal of customer complaints. In contrast, there was considerable dissatisfaction with water quality, continuity and pressure in intermittent supply areas. There was universal opinion from both 24/7 demo zone and intermittent service areas supporting 24/7 water service scale up project in the city. Keywords: Intermittent Water Service, 24/7 Water Service, Customer Satisfaction
Muscle contraction increases interstitial nitric oxide as predicted by a new model of local blood flow regulation

The metabolic theory of blood flow regulation suggests that, when tissue cells experience a reduction of oxygen supply, they produce metabolic vasodilators, which increase the lumen of arterioles and hence local blood flow. A century of intensive research has not found a single metabolic vasodilator to account for observed flow changes, therefore current thought is that there are many vasodilators. We have proposed an alternative hypothesis based on the interaction of two well‐known molecular mechanisms for generation and removal of the intercellular signalling radicals nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide. The proposed mechanism of regulation predicts a sharp increase in NO concentration in the intercellular space at the onset of muscle contraction. Experiments with the NO‐sensitive fluorescent indicator DAF‐FM, loaded into the intercellular space, confirmed the rapid response of the NO‐related signal at the beginning of contractions and rapid washout of the indicator after their termination.
Manufacturing for Export in the Developing World : Problems and Possibilities

In recent years, much has been made of the success of developing countries, particularly in East Asia, which have achieved economic growth by manufacturing goods which are then exported to developed economies. Case studies of five countries uncover serious potential difficulties in maintaining the pace of manufacturing for export in the developing countries, and shows that there is no simple relationship between import liberalization and manufacturing for export.