Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Understanding the impact of cloud-based services adoption on organizational flexibility: An exploratory study

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that drive the adoption of cloud-based services and further understand the impact of this adoption on the organizational flexibility. This study presents information technology executive’s perspective and discovers new constructs of organizational flexibility that can be achieved due to the adoption of cloud-based services, which is the main contribution of this paper. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses in-depth interview approach. Total 21 Indian cases were studied by interacting with respondents having similar profiles (i.e. CIOs, CTOs, technology heads, and systems managers). Based on the literature review a semi-structured questionnaire was prepared and administered through in-depth interviews. Findings – Analysis of data reveals that cloud-based services provide relative advantage in terms of scalability, accessibility, and on-demand deployment of services within no time. Easy to use interface, experience, and expertise of the c.
Efficacy of Monitoring and Evaluation Function in Achieving Project Success in Kenya: A Conceptual Framework

This paper sets out to review literature on the efficacy of monitoring and evaluation in achieving project success in Kenya. Several studies have been carried out with an aim of determining the critical success factors (CSFs) which contribute to project success. The analysis of these studies shows a particular pattern of events. Some CSFs appears consistently in a number of studies. One such factor is the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) function. The researcher used literature review approach to analyze the factors related to M&E influencing project success. All the factors identified were grouped into four main categories which are: Strength of M&E team, monitoring approach adopted, political influence and project lifecycle stage. The study further identified management support as a mediating factor between M&E and the Project Success. A good M&E without management support is likely not to succeed.
The evolutionary ecology of early weaning in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Public health recommendations promote prolonged breastfeeding of all children; however, parental investment (PI) theory predicts that breastfeeding will be allocated among a mothers' offspring to maximize her reproductive success. We evaluated PI in terms of risk for weaning before age two among 283 children in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Results demonstrate: (i) a Trivers–Willard effect—high socioeconomic status (SES) females and low SES males were more likely to be weaned early; (ii) later-born children were less likely to be weaned early; (iii) higher birthweight children were less likely to be weaned early, and (iv) no effect of cattle (a source of supplementary milk) ownership. These associations were largely independent and remained significant in models controlling for potential confounders; however, the inverse association between early weaning and birth order lost significance in the model containing birthweight. These patterns were observed despite public health recommendations encouraging breastfeeding for at least two years.
The central role of customer dialogue and trust in gaining bank loyalty: an extended SWICS model

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand the Swiss Index of Customer Satisfaction (SWICS) model by investigating the role of customer dialogue in the interrelationships among customer satisfaction, customer trust, perceived value and customer loyalty upon Vietnam banking industry. Design/methodology/approach The conceptual framework was developed from both an exploratory research with focus group method and the literature. A structural equation model linking customer dialogue to customer satisfaction, customer trust, perceived value and loyalty is tested using data from a sample of 389 Vietnamese individual bank customers. Findings The results indicate the key role of customer dialogue in bank marketing since it not only has an independent impact on customer loyalty but also mediates the effect of customer satisfaction on loyalty completely and the relationship between customer trust and loyalty partially. Besides, the central role of customer trust was also highlighted since it mediates totally the effect of perceived value on both of customer dialogue and customer loyalty while explaining partially the path from customer satisfaction and customer dialogue. Research limitations/implications First, regarding sample size, the authors have used suitable sampling methods with adequate sample representation. However, a larger sample size with more diverse age range and usage of various banking services may be more helpful and effective for the path analysis and managerial implication. Second, the authors have used only a limited set of measurement items due to the concerns of model parsimony and data collection efficiency. For example, perceived value can be measured upon more detailed dimensions, and yet the author focussed only on some selected measures based mainly on their relevance to the context studied. Practical implications The findings imply that building trust and engaging with customers better through communication are keys for Vietnamese commercial banks to gain more customer loyalty in such competitive conditions. Originality/value The study is noteworthy that it adds perceived value and customer trust in the SWICS model and investigates the interrelationships between all variables in a single model.
The Influence Of Green Marketing, Attribute Tourism Products, E-Wom The Visit Decision

The research was done in Probolinggo aimed at to investigate the influence among variables green marketing, attribute tourism products, and e-wom on the variables of decision visit tourism objects in Probolinggo. The model of the research uses quantitative with a descriptive model. A values that is green marketing, attribute tourism products, and e-wom as the independent variable and decisions visit as dependent variable. A population that is used all visitors tourism objects in Probolinggo on October 2018 with samples from 80 people. The determination use random sample of sampling. The result of the research show significance value of green marketing is 0,003, attribute tourism products is 0,000, and e-wom is 0,690. So that variable green marketing, attribute tourism products significant its impacts to decision visit, while e-wom influential insignificant of the decision visit
Effects of air pollution on plants.

As shown in an early field study in the 1970s, ozone-sensitive varieties of potatoes (left rows) show reduced growth and lower yields than ozone-tolerant varieties (right rows). While its effects are often overlooked, air pollution negatively impacts crops around the world, resulting in significant economic losses, with the greatest economic loss occurring in the United States. Satellites can give farmers, scientists and policy makers important knowledge of how air quality affects food security, enabling more informed decision-making to ensure access to food resources.
Numerical and experimental corroboration of an FDTD thin-slot model for slots near corners of shielding enclosures

Simple design maxims to restrict slot dimensions in enclosure designs below a half-wave length are not always adequate for minimizing electromagnetic interference (EMI). Complex interactions between cavity modes, sources, and slots can result in appreciable radiation through nonresonant length slots. The finite-difference time domain (FDTD) method can be employed to pursue these issues with adequate modeling of thin slots. Subcellular FDTD algorithms for modeling thin slots in conductors have previously been developed. One algorithm based on a quasistatic approximation has been shown to agree well with experimental results for thin slots in planes. This FDTD thin-slot algorithm is compared herein with two-dimensional (2-D) moment method results for thin slots near corners and plane wave excitation. FDTD simulations are also compared with measurements for slots near an edge of a cavity with an internal source.
The Business Case for Social Housing as Infrastructure

Compared to standard infrastructure assessments, establishing social housing outcomes are more complex and multifaceted. This research investigated various business case frameworks for funding social housing as infrastructure, including using cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and other alternatives, in order to develop stronger analytical methodologies. The ‘avoided cost’ approach estimates whole-of-government savings across portfolios, avoiding assigning financial value to the ‘intangible’ dimensions of housing that a CBA would typically calculate. The ‘housing adjusted life years’ (HALY) methodology sees social housing as a welfare/ public health intervention which improves life expectancy and quality of life.
Long non‐coding RNAs and prostate cancer

Long non‐coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are RNA transcripts larger than 200 nucleotides that do not code for proteins the aberrant expression of which has been documented in various types of cancer, including prostate cancer. Lack of appropriate sensitive and specific biomarkers for prostate cancer has led to overdiagnosis and overtreatment, making lncRNAs promising novel biomarkers as well as therapeutic targets for the disease. The present review attempts to summarize the current knowledge of lncRNA expression patterns and mechanisms in prostate cancer, which contribute to carcinogenesis. In particular, we focused on lncRNAs regulated by androgen receptor and expressed in castration‐resistant prostate cancer.
Integration, supply chain resilience, and service performance in third-party logistics providers

Purpose Supply chain resilience (SCR) is essential to the success of firms. However, very few studies have focused on the relationships between different types of integration, SCR and service performance from the perspective of third-party logistics providers (3PLs). The purpose of this paper is to develop and assesses a conceptual model for these relationships. Design/methodology/approach A total of 161 3PLs in Taiwan were surveyed and their responses were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM/PLS). Findings The responses of respondents demonstrated that, of the three types of integration (internal integration, customer integration and logistics collaborator integration) used by 3PLs, internal integration had the greatest effect on SCR. Customer integration was found to have three fully mediating effects on the relationships between internal integration and service performance, between logistics collaborator integration and SCR, and between logistics collaborator integration and service performance. Originality/value This study provides useful information on how different types of integration manifest in the SCR and service performance of 3PLs.
The Family behind the Family Firm: Evidence from CEO Transitions

Economists have long acknowledged that the structure of the family (number of offspring, marital status, etc.) plays a crucial role in important economic decisions (e.g., labor supply, demand patterns, portfolio choice, educational attainment). In this paper we investigate the link between family structure and corporate decisions of family firms. Even though there is considerable anecdotal evidence on this link, there is no systematic study. This paper fills this gap. To this end, we assembled a unique dataset with accounting information from 1995 to 2002 of the universe of privately held firms in Denmark. Our dataset includes the family trees of the owners as well as personal information about all family members. This information allows us to identify family firms among privately held firms. We find that, using a 50% definition of control, 89% of privately held firms are family firms. We focus on the decision whether to choose a family member or an outsider as the next CEO. We show that the larger the pool of potential heirs, the higher the probability of family transition. Also we document that this probability is significantly lower when all offspring are female. Finally, family conflicts (proxied by divorce or multiple marriages) reduce the probability of family transition. In a robustness check we show that there is a causal effect from family structure to corporate decisions. We do this by instrumentimg the number of children with sibling sex composition and by restricting the sample to one in which founders had their last child years before founding the firm. * The authors gratefully thank CEBR (www.cebr.dk) and the Danish Social Science Research Foundation for financial support under the research project GOCOW.
Convergence of vanishing capillarity approximations for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous fluxes

Flow of two phases in a heterogeneous porous medium is modeled by a scalar conservation law with a discontinuous coefficient. As solutions of conservation laws with discontinuous coefficients depend explicitly on the underlying small scale effects, we consider a model where the relevant small scale effect is dynamic capillary pressure. We prove that the limit of vanishing dynamic capillary pressure exists and is a weak solution of the corresponding scalar conservation law with discontinuous coefficient. A robust numerical scheme for approximating the resulting limit solutions is introduced. Numerical experiments show that the scheme is able to approximate interesting solution features such as propagating non-classical shock waves as well as discontinuous standing waves efficiently.
Design of nematic liquid crystals to control microscale dynamics

ABSTRACT Dynamics of small particles, both living and inanimate, has fascinated scientists for centuries. Learning how to control it could open technological opportunities in the transformation of stored or environmental energy into systematic motion. This review presents an approach to command microscale dynamics by using liquid crystals as an environment and liquid crystal elastomers as substrates. The orientational order of liquid crystals and associated properties, such as elasticity, surface anchoring, and bulk anisotropy, enable new dynamic effects, ranging from the propagation of particle-like solitary waves to steady directional self-locomotion of active droplets. Liquid crystals could be photoaligned into patterns with varying molecular orientations. In the presence of an electric field, these patterns transport solid and fluid particles by nonlinear electrokinetics rooted in anisotropy of conductivity and permittivity. Patterned lyotropic liquid crystal environment commands the dynamics of swimming bacteria by mediating their hydrodynamic interactions, rectifying active flows, and producing collective polar modes of swimming. Patterned elastomer coatings demonstrate a pre-programmed topography that is effective in shaping the morphology of living tissues. The liquid-crystal guidance holds a major promise in achieving the goal of commanding microscale active flows.
DNA adducts in urothelial cells: Relationship with biomarkers of exposure to arylamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from tobacco smoke

Markers of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (urinary 1‐hydroxypyrene‐glucuronide) and aromatic amines (4‐aminobiphenyl‐hemoglobin adducts), as well as urinary mutagenicity, were measured in 47 healthy smokers and 50 non‐smokers. DNA adducts were determined by P32‐postlabeling in the exfoliated bladder cells of 39 healthy subjects. Both 1‐hydroxypyrene‐glucuronide (1‐OHPG) and 4‐aminobiphenyl adducts (4‐ABP‐Hb) were associated with smoking habits, but only 4‐ABP‐Hb adducts were associated with consumption of black, air‐cured tobacco. The levels of 2 DNA adducts (numbers 2 and 4) in urothelial cells were clearly associated with 4‐ABP‐Hb adducts, in all subjects and in smokers. Levels of one of these DNA adducts (number 2) were also associated with 1‐hydroxypyrene‐glucuronide in urines, but in smokers the association was not statistically significant. Overall, these observations constitute further evidence of a role of arylamines in tobacco‐induced bladder cancer. © 1996 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Identification and characterization of novel rare mutations in the planar cell polarity gene PRICKLE1 in human neural tube defects

The planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway controls the process of convergent extension (CE) during gastrulation and neural tube closure, and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neural tube defects (NTDs) in animal models and human cohorts. In this study, we analyzed the role of one core PCP gene PRICKLE1 in these malformations. We screened this gene in 810 unrelated NTD patients and identified seven rare missense heterozygous mutations that were absent in all controls analyzed and predicted to be functionally deleterious using bioinformatics. Functional validation of five PRICKLE1 variants in a zebrafish model demonstrated that one variant, p.Arg682Cys, antagonized the CE phenotype induced by the wild‐type zebrafish prickle1a (zpk1a) in a dominant fashion. Our study demonstrates that PRICKLE1 could act as a predisposing factor to human NTDs and further expands our knowledge of the role of PCP genes in the pathogenesis of these malformations. 32:1371–1375, 2011. ©2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Penerapan Metode Moving Average Dan Exponential Smoothing Pada Peramalan Produksi Industri Garment

AbstrakPermasalahan yang umum dihadapi oleh perusahaan adalah bagaimana meramalkan produksi barang di masa mendatang berdasarkan data yang telah direkam sebelumnya. perusahaan tersebut hanya memproduksi sesuai dengan pesanan, sehingga perusahaan hanya melakukan proses produksi sesuai jumlah yang diminta oleh para konsumen, jika terjadi kelebihan dalam produksi maka kelebihannya itu akan disimpan dalam stock, hal ini bertujuan untuk memenuhi permintaan konsumen yang sifatnya mendadak. Peramalan tersebut sangat berpengaruh pada keputusan manajemen untuk menentukan jumlah produksi barang yang harus disediakan oleh perusahaan, kondisi umum bisnis dan ekonomi, reaksi dan tindakan pesaing, tindakan pemerintah, kecenderungan pasar, siklus hidup produk, gaya dan mode, perubahan permintaan dan konsumen inovasi tekhnologi. Adapun tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengidentifikasi dan menganalisis hasil peramalan produksi garment dengan menggunakan metode peramalan Moving Average dan Exponential Smoothing. Untuk melakukan peramalan, semakin banyak data yang digunakan untuk peramalan maka semakin akurat pula hasil dari peramalan yang dilakukan. Hasil penelitian ini telah berhasil membuat sistem peramalan produksi garment. Sehingga lebih mudah dalam menentukan jumlah produksi garment pada periode tahun-tahun berikutnya. Kata kunci : Peramalan, Moving Average, Exponential Smoothing.
Who is at risk for long-term sickness absence? A prospective cohort study of Danish employees.

AIM The aim of this study was to identify who is at risk for long-term sickness absence according to occupation, gender, education, age, business sector, agency size and ownership. METHODS The study is based on a sample of 5357 employees aged 18-69, interviewed in 2000. The cohort was followed up in a national register from January 1st 2001 to June 30th 2003, to identify cases with sickness absences that exceeded 8 weeks. RESULTS During follow-up 486 persons (9.1%) experienced one or more periods of absence that exceeded 8 weeks. Higher risk of long-term sickness absence was associated with gender, age, educational level, and the municipal employment sector. Kindergarten teachers and people employed in day care, health care, janitorial work, food preparation, and unskilled workers were at greatest risk. Managers, computer professionals, technicians and designers, and professionals had lower risks. The health care and social service sectors were also in the high risk category, whereas the private administration sector had a lower risk. CONCLUSIONS The study identifies specific occupational target populations and documents the need to perform job-specific research and tailor interventions if the intended policy of decreasing long-term sickness absence within the Danish labour market is to be realized.
Transthoracic Versus Transhiatal Esophagectomy for the Treatment of Esophagogastric Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Objective:To study the differences in short and long-term outcomes of transthoracic and transhiatal esophagectomy for cancer. Background:Studies have compared transthoracic with transhiatal esophagectomy with varying results. Previous systematic reviews (1999, 2001) do not include the latest randomized controlled trials. Methods:Systematic review of English-language studies comparing transthoracic with transhiatal esophagectomy up to January 31, 2010. Meta-analysis was used to summate the study outcomes. Methodological and surgical quality of included studies was assessed. Results:Fifty-two studies, comprising 5905 patients (3389 transthoracic and 2516 transhiatal) were included in the analysis. No study met all minimum surgical quality standards. Transthoracic operations took longer and were associated with a significantly longer length of stay. There was no difference in blood loss. The transthoracic group had significantly more respiratory complications, wound infections, and early postoperative mortality, whereas anastomotic leak, anastomotic stricture, and recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy rate was significantly higher in the transhiatal group. Lymph node retrieval was reported in 4 studies and was significantly greater in the transthoracic group by on average 8 lymph nodes. Analysis of 5-year survival showed no significant difference between the groups and was subject to significant heterogeneity. Conclusions:This meta-analysis of studies comparing transthoracic with transhiatal esophagectomy for cancer demonstrates no difference in 5-year survival, however lymphadenectomy and reported surgical quality was suboptimal in both groups and the transthoracic group had significantly more advanced cancer. The finding of equivalent survival should therefore be viewed with caution.
Hydrogen peroxide bleaching of CMP pulp using magnesium hydroxide

Conventional bleaching of hardwood CMP pulp with magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2) show significant benefits over bleaching with sodium hydroxide (NaOH) under various conditions. Magnesium hydroxide bleaching generate higher optical properties, higher pulp yield and lower effluent COD at the same chemical charge, but the physical properties were found to be similar for both processes. The initial freeness of the bleached pulps and refining value to reach a target freeness (about 350 ml. CSF) were more for the Mg(OH)2-based process. The residual peroxide of filtrate from the Mg(OH)2-based process was very high as compared to conventional bleaching.