Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fuzzy Profiles

Person-centered approaches to organizational scholarship can provide critical insights into how sets of related constructs uniquely combine to predict outcomes. Within micro topics, scholars have begun to embrace the use of latent profile analysis (LPA), identifying constellations of constructs related to organizational commitment, turnover intentions, emotional labor, recovery, and well-being, to name a few. Conversely, macro scholars have utilized fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine numerous phenomena, such as acquisitions and business strategies, as configurations of explanatory conditions associated with firm-level outcomes. What remains unclear, however, is the extent to which these two approaches deliver similar versus unique insights when applied to the same topic. In this paper, we offer an overview of the ways these two methods converge and diverge, and provide an empirical demonstration by applying both LPA and fsQCA to examine a multidimensional personality construct—core self-evaluations (CSE)—in relation to job satisfaction. In so doing, we offer guidance for scholars who are either choosing between these two methods, or are seeking to use the two methods in a complementary, theory-building manner.
INFLUENCE OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY IN KENYA

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of performance management on performance of telecommunication industry in KenyaMethodology: This study adopted both descriptive and correlational research designs. The study population was 300 senior management employees in all the four telecommunication firms in Kenya, which include, Safaricom, Airtel, Telkom and Equitel. The study used proportional sampling in selecting the managers from the four telecommunication firms. A sample size of 150 was arrived at using Fisher formula. Primary data was collected using structured questionnaires. Simple and multiple regression models were used to analyze the data using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS version 20). Descriptive and inferential analysis was used to analyze the data.Results: Correlation analysis showed that performance management and the performance of telecommunication industry are positively and significantly associated. Further, regression analysis indicated that performance management has a positive and significant effect on performance of telecommunication industry in Kenya. The hypothesis results indicated that there is a significant relationship between performance management and the performance of telecommunication industry in Kenya.Recommendations: Based on the findings, the study recommended the need for telecommunication firms to strengthen their performance management aspects. These are: enhance employee rating, setting standards for employees, fostering teamwork among personnel, encouraging communication between employees and management and effective planning in the organization. The strengthening of these aspects will result to improved performance in the telecommunication industry.
Clinical correlates of herpes simplex virus viremia among hospitalized adults.

BACKGROUND Quantification of herpes simplex virus (HSV) DNA in the peripheral blood is often used to evaluate patients suspected of having disseminated HSV infection. Few studies have examined the clinical correlates of HSV viremia among adults. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of blood samples sent to a molecular virology reference laboratory at a university hospital for quantification of HSV DNA from October 2001 through June 2006. Medical records of patients with detectable HSV DNA were reviewed to abstract relevant clinical characteristics. RESULTS HSV DNA was detected in 38 (4%) of 951 samples from 29 patients, 19 of whom (66%) were >16 years old. Detailed medical records were available for review from 13 (68%) of 19 adult patients. Of the 10 patients whose HSV infection was typed, 6 (60%) had HSV-2, 3 (30%) had HSV-1, and 1 (10%) had evidence of HSV-1 and HSV-2 coinfection. All patients with viremia were treated with antiviral medications. The most common clinical findings were hepatitis (62%), fever (54%), central nervous system alterations (46%), skin lesions (38%), abdominal pain (31%), and sepsis (31%). Respiratory failure (23%) was uncommon. Patients with HSV viremia were observed to have a high mortality rate (6 of 10 immunocompromised and 1 of 3 immunocompetent individuals). CONCLUSIONS HSV viremia may be associated with a variety of signs and symptoms of morbidity in immunocompetent and immunocompromised hospitalized adults and is associated with high rates of mortality, although causality can be determined only by additional studies.
Nonlinear Effects on Citizen Satisfaction and Different Levels of Governments in Japan

This study investigates the nonlinear effects of local governments’ performance of public services on citizen satisfaction in Japan. Citizen satisfaction data has been collected by many municipalities because it is regarded as a quantitative measure of citizen needs. Citizen satisfaction with services is generally assessed on a scale ranging from dissatisfaction to satisfaction, and there can be some variation between the effects of the quality of services in comparison with citizens’ expectations based on their understanding of what the government should provide. In line with Kano’s theory, we can say that with respect to the must-be quality of service, when the quality decreases in the low-quality condition, citizen dissatisfaction decreases at an accelerated pace. Regarding the attractive quality of service, citizen satisfaction rises significantly as the performance increases in the high-quality condition. On the basis of data gathered through an Internet survey in Japan, we explore the nonlinear effects of service performance on citizen satisfaction through a comparison of citizens’ expectations on different levels of governments. This study found that clarity of service in areas under the authority of a broad regional government has more impact in terms of increasing satisfaction and decreasing dissatisfaction and that its nonlinear effects are more significant than for municipal services.
Multifocal Pupillographic Perimetry With White and Colored Stimuli

PurposeWe investigated issues that could impair the capacity of multifocal pupilliographic perimetry to detect visual field damage. Differential blue light absorbance causes between-subject variance so we compared stimuli with differing blue content. We also quantified declining response gain at higher stimulus intensities (saturation), which can reduce sensitivity to changes in the visual field. MethodsIndependent stimuli were delivered to 44 regions of both eyes whereas pupil responses were recorded under infrared illumination. Luminance-response functions were measured at 88 locations for white, yellow, and red stimuli at luminances ranging from 36 to 288 cd/m2. Response saturation was quantified by fitting power functions: Response=&agr;Luminancez, z<1 indicating declining response gain. Experiments were conducted on 2 groups containing 16 and 18 different normal subjects. The second experiment was designed to confirm the results of the first and to include red stimuli. ResultsResponse saturation occurred in all visual field regions: the mean exponents ranged from 0.57±0.01 to 0.74±0.02 (mean±SE), that is up to 30 SE away from an exponent of 1 (no saturation). The stimulus-response functions appeared to be determined by luminance rather than color. Signal to noise ratios and regional visual field sensitivities were similar for all stimulus colors. ConclusionsResponse saturation was a feature of all visual field locations. Stimuli with reduced blue light content produced the same signal to noise ratios as white stimuli. Given that these stimuli would not be affected by variable lens brunescence, they might be preferable for perimetry.
Impact of Poor Accounting Practices on Budget Implementation on Government Owned Industries. A Study of Enugu State

This work titled impact of poor accounting practices on budgetary implementation on Enugu State owned industries aimed at identifying the major causes of poor accounting and budgetary practices in government owned industries; determine the effects of these problems on implementation of budgets in government owned industries; and analyse the impact of these numerous problems to the growth and development of government industries in Enugu State. The study reviewed other existing literature. It applied content analysis techniques. The study discovered that there exist poor accounting practices in government owned industries in Enugu Sate and also appropriate budgetary implementation are hardly kept by these industries. It was found also that employment into these industries are defective hence poor accounting practices and impact of budgetary implementation are hardly met. The study recommend that appointment into board members should not be defective. Rather people who are called to serve should be appointed in-spite zone or local government to ensure success of government industries. In addition, employment into those industries not be zoned to ensure that experts are employed and they effectively discharge their duties diligently and proper things being done at the right time. Government Should introduce policy where wrong appointee should be re-visited or cancelled if possible to ensure that correct personnel is employed for effective performance. Study is recommending that national growth should be preferred by introducing measures that will motivate and increase individual representative willingness and performance through incentives and rewarding system. Implication of the findings. Due to the fact that required personnel often do not occupy the right position in government industries in Enugu State it creates loopholes especially in area of accounting and its budgets. It affects the performance of the entire industry.
Overview of radar waveform diversity

Radar waveform diversity has received considerable attention in recent years due to increasing spectral congestion and the burgeoning capabilities of digital waveform generation. The promise of waveform diversity is far greater utilization of available degrees of freedom to enhance sensing performance and to even facilitate new operating modes. This tutorial provides an overview of this very broad topic, from the basic principles upon which it is founded to the myriad different areas being explored in research for practical sensing applications.
Seasonal size variability in Culicoides variipennis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in southern California.

Adult body size is an important consideration in assessing vector potential in blood-feeding Diptera. Nasci (1986), for example, demonstrated a significant positive relationship between body size and parity in Aedes uexans (Meigen) and Cul.ex salinarius Coquillett, and the trend was evident also for Ae. antlnnticus (Dyar and Knab) and Psorophora columbiae (Dyar and Knab). Within the Ceratopogonidae, adult female body size has been positively correlated with fecundity in field-collected Culicoides furens (Poey) (Linley et al. 1970), C. mell.eus (Coquillett) (Linley and Hinds 1976) and C. insignis Lutz (Kramer et al. 1985). Generally, the size of adult Culicoides is inversely related to habitat temperatures (Linley et al. 1970, Linley and Hinds 1976, Akey et al. 1978, Mullens and Rutz 1983, Kramer et al. 1985). Laboratory studies have shown that larger adult females of C. uariipennrs (Coquillett) are more fecund and survive better than smaller individuals (Akey et al. 1978). Wirth and Jones (1957) noted that C. uariipennis from cool regions of the U.S. were larger than those from warm regions and also observed that specimens from the same area were larger during cooler periods of the year. I am aware of only 2 field studies that examined seasonal size variability in detail in C. uariipennis. Zimmermanr and Linhares2 both indicated that larger females of this species were found in cooler periods of the adult flight season in southwestern Virginia and northern California, respectively. Linhares additionally demonstrated that larger C. uariipen' nls were more fecund. The purpose of the present study was to document seasonal changes in adult size of C. uariipennis in southern California. Adults of C. uariipennis were collected at 1-3 week intervals throughout the year (October 1982 to September 1983) using small COz-baited Fig. 1. Seasonal trend (October l982-September 1983) in average wing lengths of female Culicoides uariipennis collected near a dairy wastewater pond in Riverside County, CA. Temperatures (air) are mean values for a 10 day period immediately preceding each collection.
Market and Firm Reaction to Targeted Tax Benefits: Evidence From the Tax Reform Act of 1986

A growing body of work examines market and firm responses to specific tax benefits. We extend this literature by examining market and firm reactions to an economically significant targeted tax refund granted to a few large, but poorly performing, steel firms by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86). We find, relative to steel firms not receiving the refund, qualifying firms experience either a negative or insignificant market reaction around each of three key dates in the TRA86 legislative process. Using difference-in-differences analyses to test a variety of refund uses, we find that refund recipients use the proceeds to pay down debt rather than to increase capital assets, payouts to shareholders, acquisitions, or employment. Overall, we find targeted tax benefits granted to significant but struggling firms, while potentially politically appealing, appear to generate limited economic benefits to those targeted firms.
Reidentification of larval interneurons in the pupal stage of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta

The abdominal prolegs are the primary locomotory appendages of Manduca sexta larvae. After the prolegs are lost at pupation, some of the proleg motoneurons die while the survivors are respecified to carry out different functions in the adult moth. As a first step toward investigating the process of functional respecification at the synaptic level, we searched for larval interneurons that affected the activity of proleg motoneurons, and followed these interneurons into the pupal stage. Interneurons were judged to be individually identifiable based on their effects on proleg motoneuron activity and their anatomical features. Seven larval interneurons were identified and placed in five physiological classes based on their effects on proleg motoneurons: ipsilateral excitors, contralateral exciters, ipsilateral inhibitors, contralateral inhibitors, and bilateral inhibitor‐excitors. Four of the larval interneurons produced apparently monosynaptic postsynaptic potentials in proleg motoneuron. Of the five larval interneurons that were reidentified in the early pupal stage, two showed minor but consistent structural modifications from the larval stage. Interneurons that produced unitary postsynaptic potentials in larval motoneurons continued to do so in pupal motoneurons. These studies demonstrate that individually identified interneurons can be followed through the larval‐pupal transformation, during the initial stages of motoneuron respecification.
Influence of contact contour on breakdown behaviors in vacuum under uniform field

We experimentally investigated influence of contact contour on breakdown characteristics in vacuum under uniform field. Four vacuum interrupters are used and their contact contours are designed to obtain effective area Seff from 211 mm2 to 550 mm2. The contact parameters are contact diameter -42.76 mm, contact gap - 6 mm, contact thickness 16 mm and contact material -CuCr50. Basic impulse level (BIL) voltage (1.2times50 mus) voltage is applied. The experimental results show that 50% breakdown voltage U 50 decrease 11% from 248 kV to 221 kV when effective area increase from 211 mm2 to 550 mm2. O n the other hand, the effective area Seff has a significant influence on conditioning process. The larger the effective area, the slower the conditioning process.
Generation of retinal ganglion cells is modulated by caspase‐dependent programmed cell death

Programmed cell death occurs during both early and late neural development. The mechanisms for the regulation and execution of the early cell death as well as its developmental role are still not fully understood. In this work we have studied the early programmed cell death in the retinal neuroepithelium. Apoptotic cells were selectively located around the optic nerve head in the retinal neuroepithelium of 2‐ to 6‐day‐old chick embryos. TUNEL‐positive cells and cells which were immunostained for activated caspase‐3 showed overlapping distributions suggesting that caspase‐3 is involved in the early retinal cell death. Caspase‐3 involvement in early retinal cell death was also demonstrated by in vivo treatment with caspase inhibitors z‐DEVD‐fmk and Boc‐D‐fmk. After 6 h of treatment, the number of TUNEL‐positive cells was reduced by 50%. Sustained treatments (20 h) resulted in a slight widening in the central part of the neural retina but the retinal ganglion cell axons maintained their organization and navigation towards the optic fissure. The most prominent result after inhibition of cell death was an increase in the number of retinal ganglion cells which also produced an enlargement of the ganglion cell layer and an increased number of ganglion cell axons. In conclusion, our results show that caspase‐dependent programmed cell death occurs in the embryonic chick retina and that it plays a role to modulate the generation of retinal ganglion cells.
HR Policies and Maternal Labor Supply: The Example of Employer-Supported Childcare

Balken 38K in der Höhe anpassen The author asks how far the extension of employer-supported childcare serves as a driver for higher maternal labor supply. She addresses this question by categorizing employer-supported childcare as an efficiency wage introduced by the employer to increase the working volume of mothers. Applying various impact evaluation techniques in an econometric analysis, the author concludes that the availability of employer-supported childcare has a positive impact on the length and working volume of mothers who return back to work after giving birth. Furthermore, the usage of employer-supported childcare by mothers with pre-school age children influences the amount of agreed and actual working hours positively.
Identification of therapeutic targets of breast cancer

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease. We aimed to identify more therapeutic targets with diagnostic and prognostic values in breast cancer treatment. Microarray data GSE6883 including 18 tumor samples and 6 normal control were downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus based on two different platforms. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified using limma package in R language, followed by clustering analysis with Pearson correlation by hcluste package. Gene Ontology functional enrichment analysis was performed using Gene Set Enrichment Analysis and pathway enrichment analysis was carried out by database for annotation, visualization, and integrated discovery online tool. Protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was constructed using STRING database and sub-network was mined from PPI network by MCODE algorithm. A total of 1132 DEGs were screened from breast cancer samples compared with normal control. Up-regulated genes were mainly enriched in cell cycle pathway and down-regulated genes were significantly involved in organ development-related functions and glutathione metabolism pathway. In PPI network, TOP2A, MKI67, PCNA and PRC1 were with higher degree. Sub-network with highest score included PCNA and KLHL21 were mainly enriched in regulation of cell cycle. The five genes TOP2A, MKI67, PCNA, PRC1 and KLHL21 play important role in breast cancer progression through regulating tumor cell cycle and might be therapeutic targets in treatment of breast cancer.
Chapter 11 Predictive Coding in Sensory Cortex

In recent years, predictive coding has become an increasingly influential model of how the brain processes sensory information. Predictive coding theories state that the brain is constantly trying to predict the inputs it receives, and each region in the cortical sensory hierarchy represents both these predictions and the mismatch between predictions and input (prediction error). In this chapter, we review the extant empirical evidence for this theory, as well as discuss recent theoretical advances. We find that predictive coding provides a good explanation for many phenomena observed in perception, and generates testable hypotheses. Furthermore, we suggest possible avenues for further empirical testing and for broadening the perspective of the role predictive coding may play in cognition.
Combination of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Ablation and Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibition Prevents Heart Failure After Pressure Overload in Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-3 Knock-Out Mice

Cytokine and extracellular matrix (ECM) homeostasis are distinct systems that are each dysregulated in heart failure. Here we show that tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-3 is a critical regulator of both systems in a mouse model of left ventricular (LV) dilation and dysfunction. Timp-3−/− mice develop precipitous LV dilation and dysfunction reminiscent of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), culminating in early onset of heart failure by 6 weeks, compared with wild-type aortic-banding (AB). Timp-3 deficiency resulted in increased TNFα converting enzyme (TACE) activity within 6 hours after AB leading to enhanced tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) processing. In addition, TNFα production increased in timp-3−/−-AB myocardium. A significant elevation in gelatinase and collagenase activities was observed 1 week after AB, with localized ECM degradation in timp-3−/−-AB myocardium. Timp-3−/−/tnfα−/− mice were generated and subjected to AB for comparative analyses with timp-3−/−-AB mice. This revealed the critical role of TNFα in the early phase of LV remodeling, de novo expression of Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP)-8 in the absence of TNFα, and highlighted the importance of interstitial collagenases (MMP-2, MMP-13, and MT1-MMP) for cardiac ECM degradation. Ablation of TNFα, or limiting MMP activity with a synthetic MMP inhibitor (PD166793), each partially attenuated LV dilation and cardiac dysfunction in timp-3−/−-AB mice. Notably, combining TNFα ablation with MMP inhibition completely rescued heart disease in timp-3−/−-AB mice. This study provides a basis for anti-TNFα and MMP inhibitor combination therapy in heart disease.