Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using a participatory approach to refining and prioritising recommendations for future extension delivery

Supporting dairy farmers to develop pasture management knowledge and skills through implementation of best practice recommendations has been a priority for research, development and extension in the Tasmanian dairy industry. Many farmers have not engaged with extension, and/or have not implemented recommended pasture management practices. The purpose of this study was to refine and prioritise recommendations for future extension and pasture management activities from a survey of 162 Tasmanian dairy farmers that identified current practices and extension engagement, and in-depth, qualitative interviews with 30 of these farmers that explored factors influencing adoption and engagement behaviours. Preliminary recommendations for developing future extension activities were drafted from these studies. A modified Delphi technique and survey invited these 30 farmers to prioritise the recommendations. Highest priority recommendations include: introducing different levels of pasture management training relative to experience; identifying and targeting farmers motivating values; and their requirement for ongoing, on-farm support to apply pasture management information and principles.
Switched adaptive control for a class of robot manipulators

A switched adaptive control scheme is proposed for robot manipulators to solve the problem caused by the load variation. The parameter jump caused by load changing is treated as the mode switching of the robot manipulator system. A switched controller, that switches synchronously with the system is designed. The update laws are designed in a way that the estimation value unchanged when its corresponding subsystem is inactive. Asymptotic state tracking under arbitrary switching is gained. An example of a two DOF robot arm is presented to validate the proposed method.
Equine herpesvirus 1 glycoprotein D: mapping of the transcript and a neutralization epitope

Studies with molecular and immunological techniques identified and mapped the transcript encoding glycoprotein D (gD) of equine herpesvirus 1 KyA, as well as two continuous gD antigenic determinants. Three mRNA species of 5.5, 3.8, and 1.7 kb overlap the gD open reading frame and are transcribed from the DNA strand encoding gD. Northern (RNA) blot hybridization with both DNA clones and riboprobes, as well as S1 nuclease analyses, showed the 3.8-kb mRNA to encode gD and to be synthesized as a late (beta-gamma) transcript. The 3.8-kb gD mRNA initiates within the US segment 91 and 34 nucleotides downstream of the CCAAT and TATA elements, respectively, and encodes a potential polypeptide of 392 amino acids. The termination site of this transcript maps within the terminal repeat at a site also used by the 5.5-kb mRNA and the IR6-encoded 1.2-kb mRNA, such that these three transcripts form a 3'-coterminal nested set. The extended size (2,250 nucleotides) of the 3' untranslated region of the gD transcript and its termination within the terminal repeat may result from the deletion of 3,859 bp, which eliminates two consensus polyadenylation signals downstream of the gD open reading frame of EHV-1 KyA. Use of antisera to synthetic peptides of 19 amino acids (residues 4 to 22) and 20 amino acids (residues 267 to 285) in Western immunoblot analyses revealed that gD is present in EHV-1 virions as a 55-kDa polypeptide. In addition, these antisera detected the 55-kDa protein as well as 58- and 47-kDa polypeptides in infected-cell extracts at late times of infection. Residues 4 to 22 make up a continuous neutralizing epitope of gD, since incubation of equine herpesvirus 1 with the anti-19-mer serum prior to infection results in reduced numbers of plaques and reduced levels of virus-encoded thymidine kinase. Complement is not required for neutralization mediated by the anti-19-mer serum.
Enterprise mobility and social media analytics as leverage for corporate knowledge management

Research has shown that Knowledge Management (KM), as a field of practice and study, gained momentum from the rise of the World Wide Web (Web) in the 1990s. With the extant growth of the Web into a full scale social space and the emergence of Social Media (SM) platforms like Twitter, the hierarchical boundaries within the organisation are broken down and a lateral flow of information is created. As socio-technical platforms, social media are regarded as social machines that are co-constituted by humans and technology to facilitate the social processes of knowledge sharing. These processes are enabled by the ordinary social interaction and communication flow that exists within a corporate organisation. In recent years, these social interactions have been phenomenally facilitated by the increased use of social media (SM) as well as the consumerisation and adoption of mobile devices within the workplace. Apart from the exponential increase in the amount of potentially insightful data being generated, this trend has created some tension between KM and SM in which SM is perceived as a new trend that threatens the sustainability of KM as a viable field of practice. There is a division between scholars who question the value of KM within the current socio-technical trends, given that KM has previously suffered an image problem in the past, and those who argue for these new socio-technical trends as an extension of knowledge management. To address this dilemma, this work presents EMSoD | A Framework for repositioning KM within the current socio-technical trends of Enterprise Mobility and Social (media) Data. The framework highlights the cyclical interaction between the process of tacit to explicit knowledge conversion, knowledge discovery from either - or a combination of - public social media data and data from corporate social media within a managed platform. At the core of this framework is KM value to organisations, for which a measurement mechanism is also devised in this thesis. Also presented in this thesis is a granular study of the impact of enterprise mobility on employee engagement as a function of their usage satisfaction from mobile devices and social applications.
Upper basilar artery aneurysms: oculomotor outcomes in 163 cases.

OBJECT The purpose of this study was to identify factors predictive of postoperative oculomotor nerve palsy among patients who undergo surgery for distal basilar artery (BA) aneurysms. The data can be used to estimate preoperative risk in this population. The natural history of oculomotor nerve palsy in patients with good outcomes is also defined. METHODS The cases of 163 patients with distal BA aneurysms, who were treated surgically between 1996 and 2002, were retrospectively studied to identify factors contributing to oculomotor nerve palsy. After the data had been collected, stepwise logistic regression procedures were used to determine the predictive effects of each variable on the development of oculomotor nerve palsy and to create a scoring system. Factors that interfered with resolution of oculomotor dysfunction in patients with good outcomes were also studied. Postoperative oculomotor nerve palsy occurred in 86 patients (52.8%) with distal BA aneurysms. The following factors were associated with postoperative oculomotor dysfunction, as determined by a categorical data analysis: (1) younger patient age (p < 0.001); (2) poor admission Hunt and Hess grade (p < 0.001); (3) use of temporary arterial occlusion (p < 0.001); 4) poor Glasgow Outcome Scale score (p < 0.001); and (5) the presence of a BA apex aneurysm that projected posteriorly (p < 0.001). For patients with good outcomes, postoperative oculomotor nerve palsy resolved completely within 3 months in 31 patients (52%) and within 6 months in 47 patients (80%). The projection of the BA aneurysm was associated with incomplete oculomotor recovery at 6 months postoperatively (p = 0.019). CONCLUSIONS The results of this study can help identify patients with a high risk for the development of oculomotor nerve palsy. This may help neurosurgeons in preoperative planning and discussions.
SPICE²: A Spatial, Parallel Architecture for Accelerating the Spice Circuit Simulator

Spatial processing of sparse, irregular floating-point computation using a single FPGA enables up to an order of magnitude speedup (mean 2.8X speedup) over a conventional microprocessor for the SPICE circuit simulator. We deliver this speedup using a hybrid parallel architecture that spatially implements the heterogeneous forms of parallelism available in SPICE. We decompose SPICE into its three constituent phases: Model-Evaluation, Sparse Matrix-Solve, and Iteration Control and parallelize each phase independently. We exploit data-parallel device evaluations in the Model-Evaluation phase, sparse dataflow parallelism in the Sparse Matrix-Solve phase and compose the complete design in streaming fashion. We name our parallel architecture SPICE²: Spatial Processors Interconnected for Concurrent Execution for accelerating the SPICE circuit simulator. We program the parallel architecture with a high-level, domain-specific framework that identifies, exposes and exploits parallelism available in the SPICE circuit simulator. This design is optimized with an auto-tuner that can scale the design to use larger FPGA capacities without expert intervention and can even target other parallel architectures with the assistance of automated code-generation. This FPGA architecture is able to outperform conventional processors due to a combination of factors including high utilization of statically-scheduled resources, low-overhead dataflow scheduling of fine-grained tasks, and overlapped processing of the control algorithms. We demonstrate that we can independently accelerate Model-Evaluation by a mean factor of 6.5X(1.4--23X) across a range of non-linear device models and Matrix-Solve by 2.4X(0.6--13X) across various benchmark matrices while delivering a mean combined speedup of 2.8X(0.2--11X) for the two together when comparing a Xilinx Virtex-6 LX760 (40nm) with an Intel Core i7 965 (45nm). With our high-level framework, we can also accelerate Single-Precision Model-Evaluation on NVIDIA GPUs, ATI GPUs, IBM Cell, and Sun Niagara 2 architectures. We expect approaches based on exploiting spatial parallelism to become important as frequency scaling slows down and modern processing architectures turn to parallelism (\eg multi-core, GPUs) due to constraints of power consumption. This thesis shows how to express, exploit and optimize spatial parallelism for an important class of problems that are challenging to parallelize.
A utilitarian view: A content analysis of agenda-setting effects within popular news coverage of the mobile phone

The mobile phone has changed the human–mobile device relationship, which has given rise to a controversy regarding the neutrality of technological devices. This study seeks to understand how news media portray mobile phone devices using second-level agenda setting that extends the model to the public perception of mobile devices. Conducting a content analysis (N = 630) of two major U.S. newspapers covering the years 1991 to 2015, this study discovered that news articles primarily communicated mobile phones as neutral tools.
Multi-scale data fusion using Dempster-Shafer evidence theory

In the remote sensing domain, the combination of multi-scale satellite data appears as a new challenge. It should provide significant improvements in Earth monitoring by use of the complementary of the data presenting either high spatial resolution or high time repetitiveness. Here, we propose an algorithm based on the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory, which allows the modeling of the mixed feature of the low spatial resolution pixels, and the modeling of the class confusion when time information is not sufficient, by consideration of compound hypotheses such as unions of classes. It has been applied on SPOT/HRV image and NOAA/AVHRR series, and the results have clearly shown the improvement brought by the proposed data fusion.
Commercial Secret as an Object of Labour Relations: Foreign and International Experience

Due to the insufficient level of regulation of the institute of commercial secrets in Ukrainian legislation, the article attempts to study foreign and international experience in the context of this issue. In particular, labor laws of some countries, as well as a series of international agreements and directives were examined; their main statements, advantages and disadvantages were defined. Based on collected and analyzed data, the authors outlined directions of adapting Ukrainian legislation to the highest standards of the EU, as well as developed recommendations for amending the Labor Code of Ukraine, paying special attention to the obligations of the employee in preserving commercial secrets. The suggestion was made to adopt at the enterprise level a local normative act that would determine the list of information constituting a commercial secret and would reflect the procedure for its use, storage and distribution, as well as the responsibility of employees for its unauthorized distribution-the Commercial Secrets Regulation.
Application and Analysis of Force Control Strategies to Deburring and Grinding

This paper aims to give an insight into the development and evaluation of force controlled machining processes with a commercially available setup. We will focus on a deburring and a grinding scenario, representing the major applications in today’s robot machining. Whereas the deburring use-case implements a force dependent feed-rate control, the grinding use-case implements an orthogonal force (pressure) control. Both strategies will be evaluated and the influence of general machining and robot specific parameters will be discussed.
New enzymes, new pathways and an alternative view on starch biosynthesis in both photosynthetic and heterotrophic tissues of plants

Since the initial discovery showing that ADPglucose (ADPG) serves as the universal glucosyl donor in the reaction catalyzed by starch synthase, the mechanism of starch biosynthesis in both leaves and heterotrophic organs has generally been considered to be an unidirectional process wherein ADPG pyrophosphorylase (AGPase) exclusively catalyzes the synthesis of ADPG and acts as the major limiting step of the gluconeogenic process. There is however mounting evidence that ADPG linked to starch biosynthesis is produced de novo in the cytosol by means of sucrose synthase (SuSy). In this review we show and discuss the numerous pitfalls of the ‘classic’ view of starch biosynthesis. In addition, we describe many overlooked aspects of both ADPG and starch metabolism. With the overall data we propose an ‘alternative’ model of starch biosynthesis, applicable to both photosynthetic and heterotrophic tissues, according to which both sucrose and starch biosynthetic processes are tightly interconnected by means of an ADPG synthesizing SuSy activity. According to this new view, starch metabolism embodies catabolic and anabolic reactions taking place simultaneously in which AGPase plays a vital role in the scavenging of starch breakdown products.
Contracts between Legal Persons

Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, and then use this framework to organize the economics literature on contract. The review thus provides an overview of the literature for economists who are interested in exploring the economic implications of contract law. The title, Contracts between Legal Persons, limits the review to that part of contract law that is generic to any legal person. A legal person is any individual, firm or government agency with the right to enter into binding agreements. Our goal is to discuss the role of the law in enforcing these agreements under the hypothesis that the legal persons have well defined goals and objectives.
Determinants of carbon management accounting adoption in Ghanaian firms

Carbon management accounting (CMA) is one part of sustainability accounting designed to provide information for the management of carbon dioxide (CO2) releases. Adopting the contingency framework, this paper aims to examine the contextual antecedents that influence CMA adoption in Ghanaian firms. ,The paper tests seven contextual dimensions, namely, strategy, structure, size, environmental management system (EMS), decentralization, technology and perceived environmental uncertainty, on CMA adoption from a survey of 125 accountants. ,Consistent with prior literature, organizational strategy, structure, environmental management accounting (EMA), firm size, technology and perceived environmental uncertainty were found to be positively associated with CMA adoption and hence support contingency theory. However, a relationship between decentralization and EMA adoption was not supported by the sample data. Also, the existence of CMA systems was found to be low in the sample firms, although more than half of the respondents have EMS. ,The study is limited to Ghana hence possible generalization of the results is limited. Further exploration of contingency-based research in other emerging economies would provide valuable insights on CMA adoption and practices to contribute to the CMA literature. ,The findings suggest that although CMA adoption and practices is low in the sampled firms, both contextual and environmental factors play a vital role in the adoption of CMA in developing economies, as it pertains to the generic management accounting systems. Policies governing CMA practice should incorporate organizational contextual factors. ,The paper presents preliminary empirical evidence on the state of adoption and practice of CMA from an emerging economy perspective, an area which lacks empirical investigation both in the EMA and the carbon accounting domain. It draws considerable novelty on the basis that despite the growing interest in climate change-based research empirical works on CO2 emissions conducted exclusively from management accounting perspective, and in developing economies in particular, have been scant. The paper extends the contingency theory framework from conventional practices to the EMA field.
ORBITAL STABILIZATION OF UNDERACTUATED MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

This paper studies the problem of periodic stabilization of nonlinear underactuated mechanical systems. In opposition to the problem of stabilization of underactuated systems (i.e. acrobots, pendubots, etc.) to a fixed equilibrium, the problem of orbital stabilization of underactuated systems consists in finding control that leads to a stable periodic orbits. The problem is relevant to a class of mechanical systems aimed at operating under periodic motion (orbits), i.e. walking mechanisms (Grizzle et al., 2001), like the one shown in Fig.1.
THE EFFECT OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ON EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES AND TRAFFIC CONGESTION

This dissertation comprises two papers that examine the effect of urban transportation systems on employment outcomes and traffic congestion. The first paper evaluates the labor market effects of subway systems on low-skilled workers. A model of labor supply predicts that this should improve search and employment outcomes. The empirical findings confirm that improved subway access increases low-skilled labor force participation. Related effects for light rail and bus service are much smaller. For low-skilled men without a car, a 10 percent expansion in subway, rail, and bus service increases labor force participation by 3.0, 0.3, and 0.3 percentage points, respectively. Improved subway service increases hourly wage, but has no significant effect on work hours and commuting time. These findings confirm that subway access increases travel speed and has potential to expand the geographic scope of workers’ labor market. The second paper investigates the effects of subway expansions on passenger miles traveled (PMT) in subways and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on roads in the US. Drawing on a panel dataset that tracks city-level expansions of subway and road systems, estimates indicate that the fundamental law of subway congestion holds as the PMT increases one for one with the length of the subway systems. Subway systems have substitution and growth effects on road traffic. A 10 percent expansion of a subway system reduces contemporaneous traffic on ring interstate highways and non-highway arterial roads by 0.7 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively. With a three-year lag, a 10 percent increase in subway capacity increases VMT on ring highways by 0.4 percent and increase VMT on radial highways by 1.7 percent. Together, these estimates suggest that subway expansions do not reduce congestion on radial highways but do relieve congestion on roads that are close substitutes to subways (ring highways and non-highway
24.1 A miniaturized 64-channel 225μW wireless electrocorticographic neural sensor

Substantial improvements in neural-implant longevity are needed to transition brain-machine interface (BMI) systems from research labs to clinical practice. While action potential (AP) recording through penetrating electrode arrays offers the highest spatial resolution, it comes at the price of tissue scarring, resulting in signal degradation over the course of several months [1]. Electrocorticography (ECoG) is an electrophysiological technique where electrical potentials are recorded from the surface of the cerebral cortex, reducing cortical scarring. However, today's clinical ECoG implants are large, have low spatial resolution (0.4 to 1cm) and offer only wired operation.
No association between CALHM1 and risk for Alzheimer dementia in a Belgian population

A non‐synonymous polymorphism, rs2986017 (p.P86L), in the newly characterized calcium homeostasis modulator 1 (CALHM1) gene located in the Alzheimer dementia (AD) linkage region on 10q24.33, was reported to increase risk of AD, and affect calcium homeostasis and amyloid β accumulation. We aimed to investigate the association between this functional polymorphism and AD in an independent study population. We genotyped rs2986017 in 362 Belgian AD patients and 519 ethnically matched control individuals. We found no evidence of association between rs2986017 and risk of disease, nor did we find an effect on onset age. Despite its functional properties, our study suggests the polymorphism does not contribute significantly to AD risk in the Belgian population. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
A Two-Sided Market Approach to Value Chain Dynamics in Telecom Services: A Study Lens for Mobile Platform Innovation and Pricing Strategies

This research in progress paper originating from ongoing PhD research deploys a study lens consisting of two concepts: two-sided markets and coordination costs. It enables us to analyze technology innovation and value chain dynamics in the telecom industry. When studying the technology components of platforms from coordination cost perspective, we can capture aspects of technology innovation inside the two-sided markets concept. This approach seems promising for further research into how platforms combine existing services into new bundles or products. We can also extend the analysis to how technological platform innovation affects pricing strategies, and value chain dynamics in the telecom industry. Two mobile service cases from own interviews and archival research are used to illustrate the utility of the study lens.