Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Intra-industry trade with emergent countries: what can we learn from spanish data?

In this paper, we study the nature of Spanish intra-industry trade and find that intra-industry trade with CEEC, Asian and Mediterranean countries has increased considerably since the middle of the Nineties. The second aim of the paper is to study if the comparative advantage argument also explains the vertical intra-industry trade between different income countries. According to OLS estimations, technological differences increase DVIIT while physical capital differences lead to its decrease. The results obtained applying the Heckman method support the idea that differences in physical capital reduce the probability of IIT to occur but the level of vertical and horizontal IIT is more accurately explained by the proximity of partners, similarity in development level and size of market than by the differences in physical capital endowments. The variables considered, mostly country-specific, do have the same impact on vertical and horizontal IIT with emergent countries.
Achromatic dual-zone phase mask stellar coronagraph

This paper presents a generalization of the Roddier & Roddier Phase Mask coronagraph for polychromatic obser- vations. It is shown that using a dual-zone phase mask, combined with complex apodization, both phase and size chromatism can be compensated simultaneously to produce high extinction of a point source over large bandwidths, for example the entire K band with a residual integrated starlight of 3.2 × 10 −4 and a star intensity level of 10 −6 at an angular separation of 3λ/D. Other advantages of the proposed technique include the compatibility with centrally obscured telescopes, absence of blind axes and no symmetrization of the images.
Chicano Drama: Performance, Society and Myth

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction 1. Mythos or mitos: the roots of a Chicano mythology 2. Mystery or miracle: bodiless heads and conversations with the dead 3. Redemption: looking for miracles in a Man's church 4. Rebelling against damnation: out of the closet, slowly Afterword Bibliography Index.
UNMET HEALTH NEEDS

one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ” Derived from the Greek words, skhizein (to split) and phren (mind), the term ‘schizophrenia’ was coined by Eugen Bleuler in 1908. It was first described by Benedict Morel in 1853 as a mental illness affecting teenagers and young adults. The term dementia praecox was used in 1891 by Arnold Pick that means ‘early dementia’. Later in 1893 Emil Kraepelin also d e s c r i b e d dementia praecox as a disease of the brain, a form of dementia that affected young adults.
Swift/BAT measurements of the cyclotron line energy decay in the accreting neutron star Hercules X-1: indication of an evolution of the magnetic field?

Context. The magnetic field is a crucial ingredient of neutron stars. It governs the physics of accretion and of the resulting high-energy emission in accreting pulsars. Studies of the cyclotron resonant scattering features (CRSFs) seen as absorption lines in the X-ray spectra of the pulsars permit direct measuremets of the field strength. Aims. From an analysis of a number of pointed observations with di erent instruments, the energy of CRSF, Ecyc, has recently been found to decay in Her X-1, which is one of the best-studied accreting pulsars. We present our analysis of a homogeneous and almost uninterrupted monitoring of the line energy with Swift/BAT. Methods. We analyzed the archival Swift/BAT observations of Her X-1 from 2005 to 2014. The data were used to measure the CRSF energy averaged over several months. Results. The analysis confirms the long-term decay of the line energy. The downward trend is highly significant and consistent with the trend measured with the pointed observations: dEcyc=dt 0:3 keV per year. Conclusions. The decay of Ecyc either indicates a local evolution of the magnetic field structure in the polar regions of the neutron star or a geometrical displacement of the line-forming region due to long-term changes in the structure of the X-ray emitting region. The shortness of the observed timescale of the decay, Ecyc= ˙ Ecyc 100 yr, suggests that trend reversals and/or jumps of the line energy might be observed in the future.
Towards a new definition of professionalism for college leaders: a Scottish perspective

In 1993, colleges in Scotland became independent corporate bodies, funded directly by central government. This article is a review of the evolution of college management practice within the context of the political reform of the public services and recent educational policy developments in Scotland. It is an analysis of a complex and continuous process of structural and political change that has revolutionised the role of college leaders. Public and political interest in moving towards ‘world class’ institutions has created a context for a new discourse of professionalism in the leadership and management of colleges. In this article we present a new and more comprehensive definition of professionalism, which offers a sharp contrast with the older public service ethic and with the simple rhetoric of managerialism. It is proposed that professionalism in further education management should, in future, be defined in terms of four inter-related dimensions. It is further suggested that the concept of professionality should be embraced, emphasising the ability to create a value base and an institutional culture which locates management, not above and in isolation from other staff, but as part of a network of professional expertise that has, at its core, a focus upon the complexity of the needs, values and expectations of lifelong learners.
M 8006 Montevecchi BNe

Generalist and opportunistic marine predators use flexible foraging behaviour to exploit prey bases that change in diversity and spatial and temporal distributions. Behavioural flexibility is constrained by characteristics such as individual cognitive and physical capabilities, age, reproductive condition and central place foraging. To assess flexibility in the foraging tactics of a marine bird, we investigated the diets and foraging behaviour of the largest seabird predator in the North Atlantic Ocean. Northern gannets Sula bassana exploit a broad spectrum of pelagic prey that range in mass by more than 2 orders of magnitude. We investigated their foraging activity at their largest offshore colony in the western Atlantic Ocean during 1998 to 2002, when they preyed primarily on shoals of spawning and post-spawning capelin Mallotus villosus, a small forage fish (~15 g), and also on a much larger pelagic fish, post-smolt Atlantic salmon Salmo salar (~200 g). Inter-annual dietary variation is associated with gannet and prey fish distributions. Landings of capelin at the colony by gannets were correlated with returns of larger foraging flocks from inshore, whereas landings of Atlantic salmon were associated with smaller flocks returning from offshore. Maximum foraging trip distances ranged from 20 to 200 km and averaged 57 ± 12 (SE) km, consistent with distances to inshore capelin aggregations. When capelin abundance was low (in 2002), more gannets foraged offshore, preyed on large pelagic fishes (mostly Atlantic salmon) and exhibited the greatest dietary diversity. Though the outbound portions of foraging trips were more sinuous than inbound routes, individual gannets exhibited general fidelity to foraging sites. These large avian predators used flexible foraging tactics to adjust to changing prey conditions and generate longer-term strategies to take advantage of diverse trophic interactions over a range of ocean ecosystems.
Trust in the Justice System: Internet Survey after Introducing Mixed Tribunal System in Japan

People obey the law because they think it is legitimate, and trust is the key that makes the legal system work. The jury system promotes public trust in the justice system through lay people’s participation. In the current study, the authors investigated the relationships between citizens’ trust in the social system, general trust, feelings of legitimacy for the justice system, and other social variables. The survey was conducted in March 2013 through the Internet and 1,609 Japanese people responded. With these data, the authors tested relational models of the factors that determine citizens’ trust in the legal system, and relationships among these factors.
The Ruling of the General Court in Intel: Towards the End of an Effect-based Approach in European Competition Law?

This article analyses the judgment issued by the General Court of the European Union (‘GC’) in the Intel case, which had earlier been the subject of a decision adopted by the European Commission (‘EC’). The judgment raises a number of issues which cannot all be analysed here. In this paper, I concentrate on one question which, to me, appears important in the discussions surrounding the application of Article 102 TFEU— that is, what exactly is required for a practice to be considered illegal under that provision?
Transformation Model for Small and Medium Enterprises Product Development Process

The small and medium enterprises (SME) administrators are searching for best practices and knowledge that may help them with growth on the competitive world. In this sense, the product development process (PDP) systematization and organization are largely diffused. Reference models, for instance, are graphical PDP representations including activities, tools, concepts and best practices that are not easily incorporated in the enterprise routine, viewing PDP organization or improvement. Therefore, a transition model from the real practice to the proposed literature reference model is needed. The development teams, especially of small and medium companies, do not consider easy to understand and implement the reference models. This work considered the Method Engineering applied to the Organizational Engineering dominium to compose the Transformation Model for Pharmaceutical SME’s PDP. The model incorporated the literature intervention’s best practices. The method and the PDP dominium were discussed. The review of SME’s organizational structure characterized the intervention environment. Useful tools and practices for PDP and Intervention were identified from literature. The consideration of Change Management and Method Engineering theories led to the Preliminary Intervention Model elaboration. This model was evaluated by its application in a medium-sized pharmaceutical organization by action-research. The researcher’s observation supported the model improvement. This improvement generated the Intervention Model. The Intervention Model considers the small and medium enterprises characteristics and may guide the SME PDP improvement. The Model presents the processes, practices, principles and tools for the intervention process.
Educational value of managerial and productive support of a cooperative of small-scale livestock producers

The objective of this paper was to study the productive situation of a producers' cooperative of small animals. This paper is based on the experience of partaking in the management of a cooperative of small-scale livestock producers that created an opportunity for scientific learning for the students of zootechnics at the Alagoas State University-UNEAL. The results of this study revealed that through exposure to the production culture of every business unit in the cooperative, the students confronted a range of economic and administrative aspects, a valuable addition to the educational process for the students involved. They faced the challenge of giving concrete answers to the needs of the community under their management, both individuals and as a collective, in this way cooperating with small-scale livestock producers. Furthermore, the process of performing diagnostics during university extension courses in collaboration with the members of the cooperative led to an understanding of the real information technology needs of the producers and the knowledge of the real challenges of managing and planning. It is concluded that instating programmes of collaboration in the areas of management and planning between Universities and Cooperatives can significantly promote the goal of regional development. Key words: Cooperation, education, management, production diagnostics.
Light probe cloud generation for games

The purpose of this thesis is to explore and research posibilities of automating the process of virtual light probe placement in a 3D scene. At the moment, probes are placed manually by artists, thus it is consuming time which could be used for other purposes. The primary focus of this research is to find and analyze possible algorithms for placing probes in arbitrary scene and to find an approach to use those probes in a real time application. Two different placement algorithms were analyzed and a sufficiently efficient probe cloud structure was implemented. The results from both placement algorithms were similar in terms of location. Furthermore, a data structure for irregularly placed light probes was implemented. The structure empowered fast interpolation of the cloud to approximate lighting in an arbitrary position. The resulting cloud was tested in a real-time renderer with several scenes. The lighting contribution from the cloud was sufficiently correct and the performance impact (disregarding precalculation) was negligible.
The Role of Commonality between CEO and Divisional Managers in Internal Capital Markets

We study the role played by the informal links, or “connections,” between the chief executive officer (CEO) and the divisional managers of conglomerate organizations. Using data on a large sample of multisegment U.S. corporations from 1996 to 2004, we show that segments run by connected managers receive more investment and exhibit lower sensitivity to cash flow shortfalls (and exhibit higher sensitivity to other segments’ cash flow). At the firm level, having more connected managers presiding over segments with high Tobin’s Q improves resource allocation and increases firm value. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the mutual trust associated with connections reduces the need for wasteful reallocation of resources across divisions of conglomerate firms.
Do Women Represent Women? Rethinking the “Critical Mass” Debate

Women's representation by elected women is a major research arena for scholars of women and politics. Comparativists and U.S. politics scholars, as well as feminist theorists, have given extensive attention to the question of whether or not women's political presence in legislatures is necessary for advancing policies favorable to women. Recent research and theorizing have sought to identify the conditions under which women-friendly policy might be advanced and the explanatory links between women's parliamentary presence and public policy outcomes. A key potential explanatory model has been partially constructed on the concept of “critical mass”: a threshold number (or percentage) of women in a legislature necessary for transforming the legislative context from one in which women-friendly policy is unlikely to one in which the opportunities for women's policy success are increased. If, as Mansbridge asserts, women's descriptive representation improves women's substantive representation, do increasing numbers of women in legislatures result in more and better public policy for women? Is there a critical mass of elected women that, once achieved, accelerates their policymaking opportunities? If so, what mechanisms explain such a transformation? Should activist women target a specific critical mass as a political strategy for advancing favorable legislation? The following four critical essays address these questions, taking in their different ways a critical perspective on the concept of critical mass.
Improvement of insulin sensitivity by perindopril in spontaneously hypertensive and streptozotocin-diabetic rats

Objective: To study the effects of perindopril on insulin sensitivity and cardiovascular complications in Wistar and spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rats made diabetic with sterptozotocin (STZ). Methods: Streptozotocin (STZ, 45 mg/kg) was given as a single dose tail-vein injection and perindopril in the dose of 1 mg/kg, p.o. daily for six weeks. The serum samples were analyzed for glucose, insulin, cholesterol and triglycerides. Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) was done using 1.5 g/kg glucose and area under the curve for glucose (AUC g l u c o s e ) and area under the curve for insulin (AUC i n s u l i n ) were determined. Cardiac functions were recorded as per the method of Neely's working heart preparation. Results: SH rats showed hyperinsulinemia along with hypertension. Injection of STZ produced a decrease in insulin levels and hyperglycemia in both Wistar as well SH rats. Treatment with perindopril prevented STZ-induced hyperglycemia and decreased the elevated blood pressure in both Wistar diabetic and SH diabetic rats. The AUC g l u c o s e was found to be significantly higher in Wistar as well as SH diabetic rats whereas, the AUC i n s u l i n was significantly decreased. Treatment with perindopril caused a significant decrease in AUC g l u c o s e without any alteration in AUC i n s u l i n . Injection of STZ also produced hypercholesterolemia; hypertriglyceridemia and decrease in left ventricular developed pressure (LVDP). These changes were prevented by perindopril in both Wistar and SH rats. Conclusion: Perindopril produces an improvement in insulin sensitivity, prevents dyslipidaemiaa and cardiac dysfunctions associated with STZ-diabetes in Wistar and SH rats.
Citric acid as an e cient and trifunctional organo catalyst for one-pot synthesis of new indolenines by Fischer's method at re ux condition in ethanol

The Fischer indole synthesis is a chemical reaction which produces the aromatic heterocyclic indole from a substituted or unsubstituted phenylhydrazines and aldehydes or various ketones under acidic conditions. This reaction was discovered in 1883 by Fischer and Jourdan [1]. Today antimigraine drugs of the triptan class are often synthesized by this method [2]. The choice of acid catalyst is very important. Bronsted acids such as HCl, H2SO4, polyphosphoric acid and ptoluenesulfonic acid have been used successfully. Lewis acids such as boron tri uoride, zinc chloride, iron chloride, and aluminium chloride would also be regarded as useful catalysts [2,3]. The mechanism of Fischer indole synthetic reaction has been suggested by Robinson [46]. Miller and Neal Schinske [7] have examined the e ects of acid catalysts and temperature in the un-
The relevance of antral follicle count (AFC) as a marker of ovarian reserve in normal and infertile women in a tertiary care centre in Central India

Background: The objective of the present study was to establish the role of AFC as a marker of ovarian reserve in fertility-proven and in sub-fertile Indian women, and to establish the baseline cut-off AFC values for Indian women.Methods: This is an Observational Case-Control type of study. Test subjects (n=30, age range 20-35 years) were selected randomly from all the women coming to our Out-Patient Department with Primary Infertility. Healthy female volunteers (n=30, age range 20-35years) were recruited from the local population. Statistics: Student t test was applied to compare the mean Antral Follicle count between the case and control group. Pearson correlation test was applied to assess the correlation between age and AFC for case and control group.Results: The results of the study show that there is a significant difference between the number of antral follicles between fertile and infertile women (p < 0.001). The baseline cut-off for successful pregnancy was established as an AFC of 12. There exists negative correlation (r = -0.249) between age and AFC case group indicating as the age increases AFC decreases.Conclusions: The findings from this study help in strengthening the idea that AFC serves as a marker for ovarian reserve. Our observation indicates that the number of antral follicles is lower in the subfertile patients as compared to the fertile group (in all age groups), in view of the significantly lower median AFC in women of the former group (P < 0.001).
Breeding density and success, and diet composition of Little Owls Athene noctua in steppe-like habitats in Portugal

Tome,R. &Korpimaki,E. :SectionofEcology,DepartmentofBiology,UniversityofTur -ku, FIN 20014 Turku, Finland. ricardo.tome@strix.pt (corresponding author), ekorpi@utu.fiCatry, P.: Unidade de Investigacao em Eco-Etologia, Instituto Superior de PsicologiaAplicada, Rua Jardim do Tabaco 34, 1149-041 Lisboa, Portugal. paulo.catry@gmail.comBloise, C. : Rua Barbosa do Bocage, n° 31, Lourel, 2710-353 Sintra, Portugal.carolinabloise@yahoo.comReceived 6 February 2007, revised 6 March 2008, accepted 6 March 2008
Compensatory growth in Microcystis aeruginosa after moderate high-temperature exposure

This study aimed to investigate the mechanisms involved in Microcystis aeruginosa ( M. aeruginosa ) compensatory growth after moderate high-temperature stress. In the experiment, M. aeruginosa were cultured for 3, 6, and 12 d at 35°C before being transferred to normal conditions (25°C), and then cultured for 30 days for recovery. The algae that were cultured constantly at 25°C were set as control. The results showed that the growth of M. aeruginosa was inhibited significantly by the moderate high-temperature stress. During the recovery phase, the M. aeruginosa cultured at 35°C for 3, 6, and 12 days exhibited under-compensation, over-compensation, and equal-compensation, respectively. To cope with moderate high-temperature stress, M. aeruginosa implement various mechanisms, including increasing antioxidant enzyme activities and chlorophyll a content; adjusting compatible solutes (soluble protein and sugar). The M. aeruginosa cultured at 35°C for 6 days has higher antioxidant enzyme activities, relatively low malondialdehyde content, and higher soluble sugar content during the recovery phase; therefore, M. aeruginosa cultured at 35°C for 6 days exhibited over-compensation growth. Grey correlation analysis revealed that the increase of chlorophyll a, soluble sugar, and superoxide dismutase activity play key roles in the compensatory growth of M. aeruginosa .
The Effects of Pre-task, On-line, and both Pre-task and On-line Planning on Fluency, Complexity, and Accuracy – The Case of Iranian EFL Learners’ Written Production

Previous studies on the effect of planning on language production have revealed that planning does have a positive effect on language performance in terms of fluency, complexity, and accuracy. The present study was an attempt to investigate the effects of pre-task, on-line, and both pre-task and on-line planning on fluency, accuracy, and complexity of Iranian EFL learners’ written production. Forty five Iranian learners of English performed a narrative task based on a series of six pictures. The narratives, then, were coded to measure the fluency, accuracy, and complexity of the participants' production. The results of one-way ANOVA revealed that on-line planning (OLP) and pre-task plus on-line planning (PTP+OLP) had no effect on the fluency, complexity, and accuracy of the Iranian EFL learners’ written narratives. However, pre-task planning (PTP) had a significant effect on one variable of fluency (i.e. syllables per minute) but it had no effect on the complexity and accuracy of the written narratives. Findings have pedagogical implications for language teachers and syllabus designers in EFL context.