Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
BUSINESS VALUE OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEROPERABILITY – AN EMPIRICAL STUDY BASED ON BALANCED SCORECARD

It is widely believed that the establishment of interoperability of firm’s IS with the ones of other cooperating firms (e.g. customers, suppliers, business partners) can generate significant business value. However, this has been only to a very limited extent empirically investigated. This paper contributes to filling this research gap by presenting an empirical study of the effect of IS interoperability on the four business performance dimensions/ perspectives proposed by the Balanced Scorecard approach (financial, internal business processes, customers, learning and innovation). In particular, we examine the effects of adopting three different fundamental types of IS interoperability standards differing in the level of detail and applicability: XML, industry-specific standards and proprietary standards. Our study is based on a large dataset from 14065 European firms (from 25 countries and 10 sectors) collected through the e-Business Watch Survey of the European Commission. It is concluded that all these three examined types of IS interoperability standards increase considerably the positive impact of firm’s IS on the above four business performance perspectives/dimensions; however, their effects differ significantly. The adoption of industryspecific interoperability standards has the highest positive impact, while proprietary and XML standards have similar lower impacts. These conclusions provide valuable empirical evidence of the multidimensional business value generated by IS interoperability and its strong dependence on the type of IS interoperability standards adopted.
A Framework for Information Security Risk Management in IT Outsourcing

Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) is a common business practice to outsource delivery of Information Technology (IT) services to external suppliers. During past two decades, ITO has grown significantly and has also become an established field of research. With rapid innovations in IT, information security is an increasing concern as new risks emerge in ITO that have not been explored by earlier studies. This paper highlights the insufficiency of the knowledge in ITO and investigates the need for information security risk management (ISRM) in ITO. It aims at creating an ISRM framework for ITO, which will contribute to knowledge and will help businesses improve their ITO strategy and better manage information security risks in their ITO arrangements.
GLOBAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been on front line to encourage developing countries to identify medicinal plants that are safe and easily available to patients. Traditional medicine represents the first-treatment choice for the healthcare of approximately 80% of people living in developing countries. Also, its use in the United States has increased by 38% during within the last decade of the 20 century alone. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to explore the efficacy of a medicinal plant, Vernonia amygdalina Delile (VAD), as a new targeted therapy for the management of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), using HL-60 cells as a test model. To address our specific aim, HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells were treated with VAD. Live and dead cells were determined by acridine orange and propidium iodide (AO/PI) dye using the Cellometer Vision. The extent of DNA damage was evaluated by the comet assay. Cell apoptosis was evaluated by flow cytometry assessment. Data obtained from the AO/PI assay indicated that VAD significantly reduced the number of live cells in a dosedependent manner, showing a gradual increase in the loss of viability in VAD-treated cells. We observed a significant increase in DNA damage in VAD-treated cells compared to the control group. Flow cytometry data demonstrated that VAD induced apoptosis in treated cells compared to the control cells. These results suggest that induction of cell death, DNA damage, and cell apoptosis are involved in the therapeutic efficacy of VAD. Because VAD exerts anticancer activity in vitro, it would be interesting to perform clinical trials to confirm its effectiveness as an anticancer agent towards the treatment of APL patients.
New Methods for Microseismic Monitoring Operations: an Application to Natural and Induced Seismicity in the Hengill Geothermal Area, Iceland

The Hengill volcanic complex is located in SW Iceland on the boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates. It marks the triple junction between the oblique spreading-type Reykjanes Peninsula (RP), the Western Volcanic Zone (WVZ), and the transform-type South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ). The local geology is complex and composed of highly fractured volcanic rocks. Magmatic intrusions are the source for thermal anomalies which is expressed by numerous hot springs and fumaroles spread throughout the area. The Hengill geothermal system started to be exploited for electrical power and heat production since the late 1960s, and today the two largest operating geothermal power plants of Iceland are the Nesjavellir and the Hellisheidi. The region is seismically highly active and up more than 4000 micro-earthquakes are located yearly, where significant part of which are assumed to be induced by industry operation. In the neighbouring South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ) historic tectonic earthquakes have reached magnitude over 6 and in Hengill magnitude larger than 5. Hence, the problem of discrimination between natural and anthropogenic seismic events is important. We use a very dense broadband montitoring network deployed since November 2018 with support of the GEOTHERMICA project COSEISMIQ (www.geothermica.eu/projects/coseismiq/) for testing data intensive analysis techniques. Here, we focus on sophisticated full-waveform based methods for location of the seismicity in the Hengill Geothermal Area. Improved locations and first characterization indicates that it is possible to identify different types of microseismic clusters, which are associated to either the geothermal activity or the influence of the tectonic stressing from the SISZ.
THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE CALIFORNIA SPOTTED OWL

STUDY AREAS . LASSEN STUDY AREA . ELDORADO STUDY AREA . SIERRA STUDY AREA . SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS STUDY AREA . SAN BERNARDINO STUDY AREA . METHODS . FIELD METHODS . Surveys . Estimation of reproductive effort . Capture, banding, sex and age identification, and resighting ofowls . Pre-analysis data screening . Meta-analysis workshop format . DATA ANALYSIS . Changes inanalytical methodology from previous Spotted Owl studies . Estimating adult survival . Estimating fecundity . Estimating rates of population change . Comparison f Sierra nd Sequoia and Kings Canyon ational parks tudy areas . RESULTS . ADULT SURVIVAL . FECUNDITY . RATES OF POPULATION CHANGE . Meta-analysis across tudy areas . COMPARISON OF SIERRA AND SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS STUDY AREAS . DISCUSSION . GENERAL INFERENCES . Apparent survival . Fecundity . Population trend . STUDY-AREA-SPECIFIC INFERENCES . Lassen study area . Eldorado study area . Sierra and Sequoia nd Kings Canyon ational parks study areas . San Bernardino study area . CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . LITERATURE CITED . APPENDICES . 1
Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring: Modeling and Data Mining

We use here the non-conventional means of study and modeling for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (24-hours test). Poincaré Plots, their fractal index, the analysis of principal components and time series, statistics tools are in use as one complex toolbox. Such an approach allows deeper insight into and recognizing of the information that is brought with these trials. It allows making more sure and reliable medic decisions. We found the fractal index of Poincaré Plots for heart rate, systolic, and diastolic blood pressures in the range (0.69-0.79) with an accuracy of about 10 %. That allows considering all series as the "pink" noise. The "negative" memory, or anti-persistency, is inherent in all these series. If the measured values had been up in the previous time, it is more likely that it will be down in the next time, and vice versa. Similar series are often termed as "mean value returning. All three series of monitoring admit the forecasts. Mean-time, we confirm the clear difference between day and night trials. The circadian rhythm is the reason for the series clustering.
Mental health effects of COVID-19 lockdowns: a Twitter-based analysis

We derive a mental health indicator measuring the frequency of words expressing anger, anxiety and sadness from a fixed population of Twitter users located in France. During the first COVID-19 lockdown, our indicator did not reveal a statistically significant mental health response, while the second lockdown triggered a sharp and persistent deterioration in all three emotions. In addition, DID and event study estimates show a more severe mental health deterioration among women and younger users during the second lockdown. Our results suggest that successive stay-at-home orders significantly worsen mental health across a large segment of the population.
Is Europe disintegrating?

This paper analyses macroeconomic developments in the Eurozone since its inception in 1999. In doing so, we document a process of divergence and polarization among those countries that joined the Eurozone during its first two years, which fits a typical ‘core – periphery’ pattern. We show how this polarization process first manifested in increasing current account imbalances, before it translated unto the level of general macroeconomic development after the crisis. Empirically, we demonstrate how this divergence is tied to a ‘structural polarization’ in terms of the sectoral composition of Eurozone countries: specifically, the emergence of export-driven growth in core countries and debt-driven growth in the Eurozone periphery can be traced back to differences in technological capabilities and firm performance. Pushing for convergence within Europe requires the implementation of three intertwined policy programs: macroprudential financial regulation, active industrial policies aiming at a technological catch-up process in periphery countries, and progressive re-distributional policies to sustain adequate levels of aggregate demand throughout the Eurozone.
The role of prosody in overt pronoun resolution in a null subject language and in a non-null subject language: A production study

In this study, we investigate how prosodic cues are used when an overt pronoun is associated with either a subject or an object antecedent in Italian and in Swedish. To address this question, 28 Italian speakers and 28 Swedish speakers completed a production task, by reading out loud globally-ambiguous sentences containing overt pronouns and a control interpretation task, where they selected either a subject or an object antecedent for each pronoun, contained in a globally-ambiguous sentence. We expected that the different preference patterns in antecedent assignment in the two languages would affect the speakers’ use of prosody. In Italian, overt pronouns are usually associated with object antecedents, whereas null pronouns are usually associated with subject antecedents (Position of Antecedent Strategy – “PAS” – Carminati 2002). On the other hand, Swedish overt pronouns leave a measure of ambiguity with respect to antecedent assignment. The results of the control interpretation task confirmed that the Italian speakers conformed to the PAS, but the results for the Swedish speakers unexpectedly indicated a preference for subject antecedents. For the production task, the Italian speakers produced longer inter-clausal pauses and pronouns with a higher degree of prominence with subject rather than object antecedents. In contrast, the Swedish speakers produced longer pauses and pronouns with a higher degree of prominence with object rather than subject antecedents. These results suggest that inter-clausal pause and prosodic prominence favoured the most unpredictable antecedent of overt pronouns (see Goad et al. 2018): the subject in Italian and the object in Swedish. (Less)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Reverse Remodeling After Coronary Revascularization in Ischemic Heart Disease

In contrast, reverse remodeling (RR) refers to the regression of pathologic myocardial hypertrophy, chamber shape distortions, and LV dysfunction.20 Coronary revascularization has been shown to induce LV RR, especially in patients with a substantial amount of viable myocardium.21 Indeed, sequential CMR after surgical revascularization has indicated significant improvements in global LV systolic function and reduction of LV volume in a subset of patients with viable myocardium, indicative of myocardial RR. Until now, however, there have been no reports on the changes in infarcted and non-infarcted myocardium during the process of RR using CMR. nversion-recovery cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) after administration of extracellular contrast agents allows the direct visualization of the transmural extent of scars, owing to its high spatial resolution and the high contrast between infarcted and non-infarcted myocardium.1–4 Thus, by preoperatively assessing the transmural extent of enhanced necrotic myocardium on late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) CMR, the functional recovery of dysfunctional segments after surgical revascularization in patients with chronic ischemic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction can be predicted.5–10 CMR in these particular patients frequently shows LV chamber dilatation with significant thinning of infarcted regions. These imaging features are attributed to LV remodeling after acute myocardial infarction (MI), a well-known process involving the expansion of infarcted segments in the early phase, and time-dependent dilatation, distortion of ventricular shape, and volume-overload hypertrophy of non-infarcted segments in the late phase.11–17 LV remodeling has been associated with a worse I
Textbook Treatments of Relational Algebra

Relation comparisons: The treatment of operators such as “=” and “⊆” for comparing relations gets hardly any mention at all in the textbooks we have examined. They are useful in integrity constraint definitions and also in queries involving universal quantification, for example. As noted by Chris Date in reference [3], Codd’s original papers make no mention of these operators. We have found no discussion of relation comparison operators in any of the fifteen books we have examined, apart from a very brief mention in Codd’s book (entry number 15 in the list). They are covered in the sixth and subsequent editions of Chris Date’s book (entry number 1, which deals with the third edition).
Efficacy of holmium laser lithotripsy under electron flexible cystoscope versus extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy in treating patients with renal calculi

Objective: To investigate the efficacy of holmium laser lithotripsy under an electron flexible cystoscope compared to extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy in treating patients with renal calculi. Methods: Two hundred and seven patients with renal calculi were retrospectively analyzed. One hundred and fourteen patients, who were treated by holmium laser lithotripsy under an electron flexible cystoscope, were included in the holmium laser lithotripsy group. Ninety-three patients, who were treated by extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy, were included in the shockwave lithotripsy group. The clinical data, operation time, clinical efficacy, complications (the calculi dropped to the renal pelvis and hyperpyrexia), and the level of serum β2-MG were recorded and compared. Results: The operation time of the patients in the holmium laser lithotripsy group was significantly shorter than that of the patients in the shockwave lithotripsy group. The difference was statistically significant (P < 0.001). The number of the patients whose renal calculi was smashed in the holmium laser lithotripsy group was significantly higher than that in the shockwave lithotripsy group. The difference was statistically significant (P < 0.01). The number of the patients whose renal calculi was excreted in the holmium laser lithotripsy group was significantly higher than that in the shockwave lithotripsy group. The difference was statistically significant (P < 0.01). The complication of the patients in the holmium laser lithotripsy group was significantly less than that in the shockwave lithotripsy group. The difference was statistically significant (P < 0.01). The level of serum β2-MG at T1 was significantly higher than the level of serum β2-MG at T0 and T2. The difference was statistically significant (both P < 0.05). The difference between the level of serum β2-MG at T0 and T2 was not statistically significant between the two groups (P > 0.05). The level of serum β2-MG of the patients in the holmium laser lithotripsy group at T1 was significantly lower than that in the shockwave lithotripsy group. The difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The application of holmium laser lithotripsy under an electron flexible cystoscope for patients with renal calculi not only has a good control effect on complications and a high safety coefficient, but also has a better clinical effect than that of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy. It can obviously improve the calculi-free rate and is worthy of being popularized in clinic.
Effects of strength training with and without blood flow restriction on quality of life in elderly women

Objectives: To analyze the effects of RT with and without previews BFR wrist exercise on quality of life index, functional capacity test and maximum strength gains in elderly women. Method: 33 elderly women volunteers performed twice a week 14 week of whole-body RT at 70% 1RM. However before of the RT session 16 volunteers performed three set of 15 reps of wrist flexion at 40% 1RM with BFR(LL-BFR), and the other 17 volunteers performed this exercise at 70% 1RM without BFR (HL control group). BFR was applied only on wrist joint flexion RT. Preand post-intervention quality of life was assessed by the validated questionnaire, WHOQOL-BREF. Functional capacity and maximal strength were respectively evaluated through the sit/stand test in 30 seconds and the 1 RM test. Results: Quality of life improved significantly from preto post-test in both training programs (F= 67.21; p <0.05). The physical domain (F = 57.32), Social Domain (F = 71.59), Psychological domain (F = 29.80) and environmental domain (F= 3.62). There was no statistically significant difference between the groups in relation to these domains. 1RM wrist flexion and functional capacity increase in both groups, however BFR group has greater increase in theses variable when compared to control group. Conclusion: It was concluded that the exercise of wrist flexion (at 40% 1RM) with BFR performed immediately before a traditional RT session (70% 1RM) were able to produce greater gains in maximal dynamic force and lower limb functional strength than RT alone.
Interactive visualization on small screens

In this paper, problems related to interaction with small screens and visualization of data in such displays is discussed. Two-step zooming and summary thumbnails are introduced for visualizing large data to user. In the case of interacting with the device, two feedback-based methods with sound and vibration have been shown. A pseudo-transparent display that enables the user to interact from the behind of the screen is discussed as well. Last but not least a user-defined gesture study has been reviewed in details.
IDEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF POWER IN MEDIA CONVERGENCE ( Critical Discourse Analysis of Norman Fairclough in News Campaign 2014 Presidential Election in Kompas Group , Media Group , and MNC Group )

Indonesia presidential election campaign, June 5-July 5 2014 was the most crucial period of the practice of journalism and media organizations in Indonesia. Almost all the media outlets involved in supporting the contesting candidates, Joko WidodoJusuf Kalla and Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa. Reports of three media groups (Kompas Group, Media Group, and MNC Group) during the 2014 presidential election campaign is the focus of this study. This paper is the first stage of research results (text) of three planned phases. Three phases of the study based on the method used, critical discourse analysis of Norman Fairclough, consisting of a micro level (text), meso (discourse practice) and macro (socio-cultural). Based on the results of research on Kompas, Media Indonesia, and Koran Sindo newspaper headlines show several discourses. First, the issue of human rights violations conducted by Prabowo. The second, presidential debate. Third, the military's involvement in the campaign through Babinsa. Fourth, money politics campaign. Fifth, Obor Rakyat tabloid which attacked Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla. Sixth, alignments of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Seventh, Slank music concert to support Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla. The conclusion are first, there is no independent media group in 2014 presidential campaign. Second, all media organizations under a media group are directed to publish same reports about favored candidate pairs. Third, the three media groups have common ideology, which is market-based ideology (capitalism) and power relations.
microRNA-146a relieves smoking relative chronic obstructive pulmonary disease through targeting ATG12

Tobacco smoke is a primary risk factor of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) through exacerbating local inflammation and oxidative stress response and impairing autophagy in the lung. MicroRNA-146a (miR-146a) has been identified to be lowly expressed in lung fibroblasts of smokers with COPD, resulting in chronic inflammation. Moreover, bioinformatics analysis shows that human autophagy related 12 gene (ATG12) is a predicted target of miR-146a. Therefore, the present study was performed to investigate the effect of miR-146a on the progression of COPD-induced by smoking, and explore whether ATG12 takes part in this process. The results show that miR-146a expression was decreased in the blood samples of COPD patients, which was positively associated with the value of FEV1/FVC%. Cigarette smoke extract (CSE) decreased the expression of miR-146a, while increased cleaved (C)-Caspase 3/9 expression and decreased cell viability, as well as promoted the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and malondialdehyde (MDA) in a concentration-dependent manner in lung epithelial BEAS-2B cells. In contrast, these effects were weakened when miR-146a was upregulated. miR-146a negatively regulated ATG12 expression in BEAS-2B cells via binding to the 3’UTR of ATG12 mRNA. ATG12 promoted cell viability and repressed cell apoptosis and oxidative stress mediated by miR-146a in BEAS-2B cells. Furthermore, miR-146a overexpression mitigated lung injury and reduced the production of ROS and MDA in smoking-induced COPD mice through down-regulating ATG12. Together, this study demonstrates that miR-146a is beneficial for the recovery of lung injury in smoking induced COPD through inhibiting the oxidative stress via ATG12 downregulation.
Matching BFO, DOLCE, GFO and SUMO: an Evaluation of OAEI 2018 Matching Systems

Foundational ontologies play an important role in the construction and integration of domain ontologies, providing a well-founded reference model that can be shared across domains. Different foundational ontologies have been developed, under different philosophical perspectives. Interoperability across domain ontologies relying on different foundational ontologies depends hence on the ability of interchanging foundational ontologies. The ﬁrst step toward this task is to ﬁnd correspondences between them. This paper extends previous work in the analysis of automatic matching system in the task of matching foundational ontologies. We discuss the weaknesses of existing proposals and highlight the challenges to be addressed in the the ﬁeld.