Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Stakeholder Approach and the Corporate Financial Performance

Stakeholder Approach and the Corporate Financial Performance The following paper aims to describe the analysis and utilization of stakeholder approach, which was used in the research of the Research Centre for Competitiveness of Czech Economy. The stakeholder model was employed in the research to explain the behavior of enterprises and to find factors of competitiveness. Here we can find assessment of stakeholders' importance and its relationship to corporate financial performance with some chosen interfering factors, which is preceding step before assessment all potential factors of competitiveness using multi dimensional analysis. Also the achieved results are related to chosen international and Czech studies. Předložený článek si klade za cíl popsat analýzu a využití stakeholderského přístupu, jenž byl aplikován při výkumu Centra pro výzkum konkurenční schopnosti české ekonomiky. Úlohou stakeholderského modelu zde bylo vysvětlit chování podniků a pomoci najít faktory jejich konkurenceschopnosti. V článku nalezneme hodnocení důležitosti stakeholderů podniky a vyhodnocení vztahů důležitosti jednotlivých stakeholderských skupin k finanční výkonnosti podniků, a to včetně zahrnutí některých moderujících veličin. Tím je učiněn krok předcházející evaluaci všech potenciálních faktorů konkurenceschopnosti za použití vícerozměrné analýzy. Článek také nabízí ke komparaci výsledků srovnatelné zahraniční i české studie.
THE SPITZER LOCAL VOLUME LEGACY: SURVEY DESCRIPTION AND INFRARED PHOTOMETRY

The survey description and the near-, mid-, and far-infrared flux properties are presented for the 258 galaxies in the Local Volume Legacy (LVL). LVL is a Spitzer Space Telescope legacy program that surveys the local universe out to 11 Mpc, built upon a foundation of ultraviolet, Hα, and Hubble Space Telescope imaging from 11HUGS (11 Mpc Hα and Ultraviolet Galaxy Survey) and ANGST (ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury). LVL covers an unbiased, representative, and statistically robust sample of nearby star-forming galaxies, exploiting the highest extragalactic spatial resolution achievable with Spitzer. As a result of its approximately volume-limited nature, LVL augments previous Spitzer observations of present-day galaxies with improved sampling of the low-luminosity galaxy population. The collection of LVL galaxies shows a large spread in mid-infrared colors, likely due to the conspicuous deficiency of 8 μm polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission from low-metallicity, low-luminosity galaxies. Conversely, the far-infrared emission tightly tracks the total infrared emission, with a dispersion in their flux ratio of only 0.1 dex. In terms of the relation between the infrared-to-ultraviolet ratio and the ultraviolet spectral slope, the LVL sample shows redder colors and/or lower infrared-to-ultraviolet ratios than starburst galaxies, suggesting that reprocessing by dust is less important in the lower mass systems that dominate the LVL sample. Comparisons with theoretical models suggest that the amplitude of deviations from the relation found for starburst galaxies correlates with the age of the stellar populations that dominate the ultraviolet/optical luminosities.
lohexol versus Metrizamide for Cervical Myelography : Double-Blind Trial 923

Cervical myelography was performed by lateral C1-C2 puncture in 60 patients. Thirty patients received iohexol (an investigational aqueous contrast agent) and 30 received metrizamide in order to provide a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial comparing these contrast media. The two media produced radiographs of equal quality. Contrastrelated morbidity was suffered by four patients (13%) in the iohexol group and by 11 patients (37%) in the metrizamide group. These features indicate that iohexol is superior to metrizamide as a contrast agent for cervical myelography.
Relativistic effects in galaxy clustering in a parametrized post-Friedmann universe

We explore the signatures of quintessence and modified gravity theories in the relativistic description of galaxy clustering within a parametrized post-Friedmann framework. For this purpose, we develop a calibration method to consistently account for horizon-scale effects in the linear parametrized post-Friedmann perturbations of minimally and nonminimally coupled scalar-tensor theories and test it against the full model-specific fluctuations. We further study the relativistic effects in galaxy clustering for the normal and self-accelerating branches of the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati braneworld model as well as for phenomenological modifications of gravity. We quantify the impact of modified gravity and dark energy models on galaxy clustering by computing the velocity-to-matter density ratio F , the velocity contribution R , and the potential contribution P and give an estimate of their detectability in future galaxy surveys. Our results show that, in general, the relativistic correction contains additional information on gravity and dark energy, which needs to be taken into account in consistent horizon-scale tests of departures from ΛCDM using the galaxy-density field.
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Gender inclusiveness in educational technology and learning experiences of girls and boys

The lise of technology (information and communication technology, ICT) in secondary education is an important aspect of the current curriculum and of teachers' pedagogy. Learning supported by computers is supposed to be motivating for students and is, therefore, assumed to have positive effects on learning experiences and results. However, the question remains whether these motivating effects are equal for all students. Although the gender gap in the use of ICT and knowledge about it has diminished, there are still indications that the use of technology in education affects girls and boys differently. The present empirical study focuses on the relationship between the inclusiveness of educational tools and the learning experiences of girls and boys. The results show that gender scripts are embedded in educational tools, which are reinforced in classroom practice and affect learner experiences. A greater inclusiveness of the tools appears to improve the participation of students, enhances positive attitudes toward learning and technology, and improves the learning effects as reported by girls and boys. Girls especially tend to benefit from the inclusiveness of educational took. (Keywords: social inclusiveness, gender,
Liver ( B-type ) Phosphofructokinase mRNA

Mouse liver mRNA enriched in sequences coding for liver phosphofructokinase by polysome immunoadsorption was used as a template for the synthesis of cDNA. The double-stranded cDNA was inserted into the expression vector X gtll and cloned. Preliminary identification of clones containing cDNA sequences for phosphofructokinase was made by screening the library with anti-rat liver phosphofructokinase serum and horseradish peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG as second antibody. Subsequently, by selecting antibodies specific to fusion proteins expressed by putative clones and by reacting with Western blots of mouse liver proteins several clones were positively identified as containing liver phosphofructokinase sequences. A cDNA clone corresponding to 2708 nucleotides of liver phosphofructokinase mRNA was further characterized and sequenced. The liver phosphofructokinase mRNA has an open reading frame of 2343 nucleotides followed by a 3’-untranslated region of 303 nucleotides. The G/C-rich (76%) portion of the 5’untranslated region precedes a characteristic translational start site of CCGCC(AUG). The mRNA coding sequence indicates that the liver phosphofructokinase subunit is composed of 780 amino acid residues and has a M. of 85,000. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of mouse liver phosphofructokinase with the known rabbit muscle phosphofructokinase shows 68% homology. The N-half of the liver phosphofructokinase has conserved substrate binding sites for ATP and fructose-6-P. The 25 C-terminal residues, which contain the ATP inhibitory site, are the least homologous (20%) but contain a putative phosphorylation site (Arg-Arg-X-X-Ser). The liver phosphofructokinase mRNA is under nutritional and hormonal regulation. The liver phosphofructokinase mRNA level increased 4-fold when previously starved mice were refed a high carbohydrate, fat-free diet. This increase in mRNA level was blocked by 50% by the administration of dibutyryl CAMP. The induction of liver phosphofructokinase mRNA by fasting/refeeding was also diminished in streptozotocin diabetic mice.
Author ' s personal copy Secure neighbor discovery through overhearing in static multihop wireless networks q

In wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks, neighbor discovery is one of the first steps performed by a node upon deployment and disrupting it adversely affects a number of routing, MAC, topology discovery and intrusion detection protocols. It is especially harmful when an adversary can convince nodes that it is a legitimate neighbor, which it can do easily and without the use of cryptographic primitives. In this paper, we develop a secure neighbor discovery protocol, SEDINE, for static multihop wireless networks. We prove that, in the absence of packet losses, without using any centralized trusted node or specialized hardware, SEDINE prevents any node, legitimate or malicious, from being incorrectly added to the neighbor list of another legitimate node that is not within its transmission range. We provide simulation results to demonstrate the efficacy of SEDINE, in the presence of packet losses. 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
13 What have we learned about emerging-market MNEs ?

We began this project with three research questions: What competitive advantages do EMNEs leverage as they internationalize, and how are those advantages shaped by the home-country context? How do EMNEs internationalize, and why? And, how is the rise of EMNEs affecting global industry dynamics? Underlying those questions was the theoretical question of whether existing IB frameworks are adequate to explain EMNE behavior, and if not, how they should be modified or extended. The studies in Part II show clearly that EMNEs are not a homogeneous group by any means. The countries from which they hail, the industries in which they operate, the competitive advantages they exploit, the markets they target, and the internationalization paths they follow vary quite widely. The evidence does not permit sweeping generalizations about EMNEs nor about how they are different from MNEs that came before, because the latter is also a heterogeneous group. Equally important, EMNEs have internationalized in a different international context than MNEs that came before, including even Japanese and Korean MNEs, and this makes inter-temporal comparisons even more difficult. Since the 1990s, the international policy environment and the technological environment have changed profoundly. Domestic and foreign markets were more open in this period than in earlier decades, following the collapse of Communism, the conclusion of the Uruguay Round trade deal, and the creation of the WTO. The deregulation and privatization of telecommunications in many countries, along with radical changes in computing technology and the rise of the Internet, dramatically altered the boundaries of the firm and the costs of doing business across borders. These developments fuelled the outsourcing and offshoring trends, resulting in the vertical disintegration of firms and the lowering of entry barriers for EMNEs (Evans and Wurster, 2000). At the same time, the digitization
SPITZER- AND HERSCHEL-BASED SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF 24 μm BRIGHT z ∼ 0.3–3.0 STARBURSTS AND OBSCURED QUASARS

In this paper, we characterize the infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of mid-IR-selected z ∼ 0.3–3.0 and LIR ∼ 1011–1013 L☉ galaxies, and study how their SEDs differ from those of local and high-z analogs. Infrared SEDs depend both on the power source (AGN or star formation) and the dust distribution. Therefore, differences in the SEDs of high-z and local galaxies provide clues as to differences in their physical conditions. Our mid-IR flux-limited sample of 191 sources is unique in size, and spectral coverage, including Spitzer mid-IR spectroscopy. Here, we add Herschel photometry at 250 μm, 350 μm, and 500 μm, which allows us, through fitting an empirical SED model, to obtain accurate total IR luminosities, as well as constrain the relative contributions of AGNs and starbursts to those luminosities. Our sample includes three broad categories of SEDs: ∼23% of the sources are AGNs (i.e., where the AGN contributes >50% of LIR), ∼30% are starbursts where an AGN contributes <20% of LIR, and the mid-IR spectra are starburst-like (i.e., strong polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon features); and the largest group (∼47%) are composites which show both significant AGN and starburst activity. The AGN-dominated sources divide into ones that show a strong silicate 9.7 μm absorption feature, implying highly obscured systems, and ones that do not. The high-τ9.7 sources are half of our z > 1.2 AGNs, but show SEDs that are extremely rare among local AGNs. The 30% of the sample that are starbursts, even the z ∼ 2, LIR ∼ 1013 L☉ ones, have lower far-IR to mid-IR continuum ratios than local Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs) or the z ∼ 2 sub-mm galaxies—effectively the SEDs of our z ∼ 2 starburst-dominated ULIRGs are much closer to those of local Luminous Infrared Galaxies than ULIRGs. This is consistent with our earlier finding that, unlike local ULIRGs, our high-z starbursts are typically only in the early stages of a merger. The SEDs of the composite sources are most similar to the local archetypal warm ULIRG, Mrk231, which supports the interpretation of their consisting of both AGN and starburst components. In summary, our results show that there is strong evolution in the SEDs between local and z ∼ 2 IR-luminous galaxies, as well as that there is a wide range of SEDs among high redshift IR-luminous sources. The publicly available SED templates we derive from our sample will be particularly useful for infrared population synthesis models, as well as in the interpretation of other mid-IR high-z galaxies, in particular those detected by the recent all sky Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Psychiatric aspects in endocrinolgical disorders : Identifying depressive and anxiety in endocrine patients attending outpatient department-A Study from General Hospital in Kashmir ( India )

Background: Psychiatric disorders like depression and anxiety is frequently associated with function of hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroidal axis. Psychiatric disorders frequently mimic the symptoms of endocrinological disorders. With this background, we studied the depression and anxiety in different endocrinogical disorders. Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the depression and anxiety in patients suffering from endocrinological disorders. Method: We conducted a cross-sectional study for a period of one and half year in patients attending the Department of Medicine, Government Medical College Hospital Srinagar. General description, demographic data were recorded using the semi structured interview scale. A total of 152 cases of different endocrinological disorders were taken up for the study for one year, while Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS) was used for purpose of screening anxiety and depressive disorders in patients suffering from different endocrinogical disorders. Descriptive statistics and unadjusted 3×2×2 test chi square was conducted to determine prevalence. Results: Out of total 152 subjects, 71 were males (46.72%)), and 81 were females (53.28%) and mean age of the patients was 35.85 ± 9.475. The mean HADS score for anxiety alone, depression alone and anxiety/depression patients were 13.42, 15.7 and 25.62 respectively. On the basis of HADS screening, 96(63.157%) patients had varying degree of psychiatric co morbidity. 27 had anxiety alone, 30 had depression alone where 39 patients had anxiety and depression both. Conclusion: The findings of our study suggest that depression and anxiety is highly prevalent in diabetic patients and is largely unrecognized in the primary care setting. Most of the clinicians do not suspect this important co morbidity of endocrinological disorders in the beginning resulting in delayed diagnosis.
inhibition of adipogenesis in 3 T 3L 1 cells 3 Molecular mechanism of 1 , 25-dihydroxyvitamin D

[PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] 2009; 296 (4): E820-E828. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab Xiao Jian Sun and Yan Chun Li Kari E. Wong, Frances L. Szeto, Wenshuo Zhang, Honggang Ye, Juan Kong, Zhongyi Zhang, proteins Involvement of the vitamin D receptor in energy metabolism: regulation of uncoupling [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , August 25, 2009; 120 (8): 687-698. Circulation Bernal-Mizrachi Proctor, Marvin Petty, Zhouji Chen, Kenneth B. Schechtman, Leon Bernal-Mizrachi and Carlos Jisu Oh, Sherry Weng, Shaili K. Felton, Sweety Bhandare, Amy Riek, Boyd Butler, Brandon M. Cholesterol Uptake in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Vitamin D Inhibits Foam Cell Formation and Suppresses Macrophage 2 1,25(OH) [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , December , 2010; 92 (6): 1446-1451. Am J Clin Nutr Arsenault, Michael D Hughes, Walter C Willett and Eduardo Villamor Diane Gilbert-Diamond, Ana Baylin, Mercedes Mora-Plazas, Constanza Marin, Joanne E prospective study Vitamin D deficiency and anthropometric indicators of adiposity in school-age children: a [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , January , 2011; 93 (1): 5-10. Am J Clin Nutr Maurizio Trevisan and Jo L Freudenheim Heather M Ochs-Balcom, Raj Chennamaneni, Amy E Millen, Peter G Shields, Catalin Marian, Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms are associated with adiposity phenotypes [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , September 30, 2011; 286 (39): 33804-33810. J. Biol. Chem. Matthew J. Brady and Yan Chun Li Kari E. Wong, Juan Kong, Wenshuo Zhang, Frances L. Szeto, Honggang Ye, Dilip K. Deb, Expenditure and Induces Obesity in Mice Targeted Expression of Human Vitamin D Receptor in Adipocytes Decreases Energy
A Contrastive Study of Interactions in Preschool and Special Education

This study investigated the role of teacher directiveness in educational dialogues as it relates to several types of dyads and child engagement. The effect of directive teacher behavior, such as the use of instructions and commands, on children’s engagement and learning is a controversial matter in the field of educational research. Two types of dyads were examined: typically developing children and their preschool teachers (PreschDyads) and children with Down syndrome and their special education teachers (SpecEdDyads). Fourteen Norwegian dyads participated in the study and were videotaped while solving a construction task. The results indicated higher levels of teacher directiveness in the SpecEdDyads. Children with Down syndrome showed lower levels of engagement with the task than the typically developing children did. However, closer examination of the results of the SpecEdDyads with the highest scores in teacher directiveness revealed that these children scored above their group average on engagement. The pattern differed in the PreschDyads, in which the least directive teachers interacted with the most engaged children. A qualitative analysis of dialogue excerpts suggested that in educational contexts in which a child struggles with goal-oriented engagement, emotionally supportive teacher directives may generate joint problem solving, thereby enabling children to successfully complete cognitively demanding tasks that they may not be able to complete independently. In the PreschDyads, the children appeared to be more self-motivated and less dependent on directive support. These findings extend our knowledge of the qualities and functions of teacher directiveness in educational dialogues by illuminating how the individually adapted use of directives may enhance child engagement and learning.
The Entropy of Deep Eutectic Solvent Formation

The standard entropies S298°E of deep eutectic solvents (DESs), which are liquid binary mixtures of a hydrogen bond acceptor component and a hydrogen bod donor one, are calculated from their molecular volumes, derived from their densities or crystal structures. These values are compared with those of the components—pro-rated according to the DES composition—to obtain the standard entropies of DES formation ΔfS. These quantities are positive, due to the increased number and kinds of hydrogen bonds present in the DESs relative to those in the components. The ΔfS values are also compared with the freezing point depressions of the DESs ΔfusT/K, but no general conclusions on their mutual relationship could be drawn.
Frequency-domain index of oxyhemoglobin saturation from pulse oximetry for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

This study proposes a frequency-domain index of oxyhemoglobin saturation. We evaluate its reliability and compare with those of previous frequency-domain indices for screening the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Patients diagnosed with OSAS by standard polysomnography were recruited Hospital Centre. Overall, 257 patients are used for training and 279 patients are used for validation. The presence of OSAS is defined as apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) > 5/h. Moderate and severe OSAS are defined as AHI > 15/h and AHI > 30/h, respectively. The proposed oxyhemoglobin index outperforms previously proposed frequency-domain indices. For predicting the severity of OSAS, the proposed index has a sensitivity/specificity of 74.3% / 96.1% for AHI > 15/h and 87.8% / 92.4% for AHI > 30/h. The results reveal that the proposed oxyhemoglobin index has a significantly smaller standard error of AHI than those of previous indices.
IPO Pricing and the Relative Importance of Investor Sentiment - Evidence from Germany

The underpricing phenomenon of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) has been widely studied across different stock markets around the world and has often been explained to be as a result of asymmetrically distributed information and ex-ante uncertainty. However, as Ritter and Welch (2002) argue to the contrary, these theories are unlikely to explain the persistent pattern of high initial returns during the first trading day as well as other features of the returns data. This paper add some further alternative explanations to the traditional theory while focusing on German IPOs during the 1997 to 2001 period and covering a sample of 410 firms. Using time series regressions the cyclical behaviour of the issue activity is examined and we report, using VAR analysis, that lagged underpricing and IPO volume influence the decision to go public. The cross-sectional regression analysis, using both censored and uncensored data, shows that the initial returns are mainly influenced by investor sentiment and demand, and less by ex-ante uncertainty, especially during the dot-com boom.