Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ownership Structure, Industry sector and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices: The case of Swedish listed companies

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ii Acknowledgement -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------iii Table of Content -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------iv Chapter One Introduction 1.1 – Problem area and Research Questions -------------------------------------------------------1 1.2 – Motivation and Purpose of the Study --------------------------------------------------------3 1.3 Limitation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Chapter Two – Literature Review and Theoretical Framework 2.1 – Literature Review -------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 2.1.1 – The CSR concept -------------------------------------------------------------------5 2.1.2 – CSR concept and Financial Performance ----------------------------------------6 2.2 – CSR Reporting Framework and Application Level -----------------------------------------7 2.3 – CSR in Sweden -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------8 2.4 – Ownership Structure -----------------------------------------------------------------------------9 2.4. 1 – Government and Other Public Entities ------------------------------------------9 2.4. 2 – Non Governmental Organisations ------------------------------------------------10 2.4. 3 – Charitable Organisations/Foundations -------------------------------------------10 2.4. 4 – Ethical Investment Funds ----------------------------------------------------------11 2.4. 5 – Individuals and Families -----------------------------------------------------------11 2.5 – Industry Sector and Corporate Social Responsibility ----------------------------------------11 Chapter Three – Methodology 3.1 – Design and Method -------------------------------------------------------------------------------13 3.2 – Sampling -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------13 3.3 – Selection of proxies for measuring CSR performance ---------------------------------------15 3.3.1 – Economic Performance --------------------------------------------------------------15 3.3.2 – Environmental Performance --------------------------------------------------------15 3.3.3 – Social Performance ------------------------------------------------------------------15 3.4 – Data Collection ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------17 3.5 – Structure of Analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------17 3.6 – Reliability and Validity ------------------------------------------------------------------------17 3.6. 1 – Reliability ----------------------------------------------------------------------------18 3.6. 2 – Construct Validity -------------------------------------------------------------------18
New electrostatically-excited single crystal silicon resonator vibrating in a Thickness-Extensional mode

This paper presents a new patent-pending structure of BAW resonator built on standard silicon wafer and driven by electrostatic force. Thickness-Extensional (TE) modes are exploited, yielding a fundamental frequency near 10 MHz with a 400µm-thick Si wafer. The device is based on a one-port design featuring a 1µm gap submitted to a superimposition of a DC voltage bias and a lesser-amplitude AC excitation. In contrast with conventional bar and plate MEMS resonators relying on structural resonances, our resonators are designed to use an energy-trapping of the TE waves to optimize the Q factor. The structure essentially consists of a single (100) Silicon plate, p-doped and bonded onto a Corning glass substrate by standard anodic bonding. The thin gap required for the electrostatic excitation is machined in the glass layer by Reactive Ion Etching. Extensive electrical and mechanical characterisations were performed. They match rather well the behavior predicted by the theoretical analysis. A compensation of the large static capacitance is needed to give a better access to the motional parameters. Q factors near 9000 have been observed on the fundamental TE-mode, with a sufficient coupling for frequency source applications. The stabilization of a RF oscillator using the resonators is still under development.
Controlling the False Discovery Rate with Constraints: The Newman‐Keuls Test Revisited

The Newman‐Keuls (NK) procedure for testing all pairwise comparisons among a set of treatment means, introduced by Newman (1939) and in a slightly different form by Keuls (1952) was proposed as a reasonable way to alleviate the inflation of error rates when a large number of means are compared. It was proposed before the concepts of different types of multiple error rates were introduced by Tukey (1952a, b; 1953). Although it was popular in the 1950s and 1960s, once control of the familywise error rate (FWER) was accepted generally as an appropriate criterion in multiple testing, and it was realized that the NK procedure does not control the FWER at the nominal level at which it is performed, the procedure gradually fell out of favor.
Strategies on Women Entrepreneurship Survival: a Case Study of Women Entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe Between 2007-2009

Today's entrepreneurs require a comprehensive stock of knowledge and skills that are both related to their type of business and adaptable for change of their local and international environment . Rapid changes in the Southern African region in general and the country of Zimbabwe in particular, in the socio-economic structures are propelling entrepreneurs especially women towards the search for a competitive edge away from the “crowd”, in order to survive. The competitive edge strategies are essential for all visionary women entrepreneurs of the twenty-first century. This paper gives an insight on how various women entrepreneurs managed to adapt to the Zimbabwean unfamiliar business environment during 2007-2009. These women state the different challenges that they faced and the strategies they used to win over and be successful.
DNA repair of a single UV photoproduct in a designed nucleosome

Eukaryotic DNA repair enzymes must interact with the architectural hierarchy of chromatin. The challenge of finding damaged DNA complexed with histone proteins in nucleosomes is complicated by the need to maintain local chromatin structures involved in regulating other DNA processing events. The heterogeneity of lesions induced by DNA-damaging agents has led us to design homogeneously damaged substrates to directly compare repair of naked DNA with that of nucleosomes. Here we report that nucleotide excision repair in Xenopus nuclear extracts can effectively repair a single UV radiation photoproduct located 5 bases from the dyad center of a positioned nucleosome, although the nucleosome is repaired at about half the rate at which the naked DNA fragment is. Extract repair within the nucleosome is >50-fold more rapid than either enzymatic photoreversal or endonuclease cleavage of the lesion in vitro. Furthermore, nucleosome formation occurs (after repair) only on damaged naked DNA (165-bp fragments) during a 1-h incubation in these extracts, even in the presence of a large excess of undamaged DNA. This is an example of selective nucleosome assembly by Xenopus nuclear extracts on a short linear DNA fragment containing a DNA lesion.
A single-chip CMOS transceiver for DCS-1800 wireless communications

This CMOS transceiver chip for the DCS-1800 wireless communication system is realized in a 0.25 /spl mu/m CMOS process. The realization of a CMOS transceiver that complies with the specifications of a high-quality digital-wireless system requires overall integration of architecture, building block and transistor-level design. A highly-integrated architecture minimizes the number of high-frequency external nodes, as these are difficult to drive with CMOS circuits. Up- and downconversion topologies allow at the same time mixing and a high-quality on-chip single-ended to differential conversion. Extra buffers between building blocks optimize overall circuit performance.
The role of communicative creativity in starting regional trade relationships with China: An action research practitioner case study

This Action Research project studies the role of information management and knowledge generation in establishing overseas political and trade activity to assist regional development in Australia. It is the work of a researcher whose background in information management ranges across more than 30 years working in the newspaper and regional economic development industries. le applies a hybrid term called "communicative creativity" distilled from Wieman"s (1963) Doctrine of Creative Interchange and Habermas's (1984) Theory of Communicative Action to the researcher's professional practice of facilitating the development of relationships with government and business in China. It tests the development of two entities the economic development organization and its method of facilitating opportunities in China against Nonaka and Takeuchi 's (1995) Five-Phase Model of the Organisational Knowledge Creation Process. The thesis describes how the researcher's previous career and life experience in China are used in the establishment of a model chat will assist his current career in regional economic development. It explains the reasons for choosing the Participatory Action Research method and uses the researcher's personal and professional voices in a multi-vocal , neopragmacic style blended with visual rich picture presentation involving graphics and photos to cell the story. The thesis with its style and voices is a soft systems rich picture in its own right. The research outcome is a knowledge management model for promoting, selling, organising and conducting a trade mission into China. Figure vii: China metropolitan scene This image represents the new China which the research activity targets and in which it occurs. DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) THESIS OF DAVID MAGUIRE RESEARCHER'S DECLARATION I certify chat chis thesis does not, to the best of my knowledge and belief: i) Incorporate without acknowledgement any material previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any institution of higher education; ii) Contain any material previously published or written by another person except where due reference is made in the text; or iii) Contain any defamatory material I decline permission for the Library at Edith Cowan University to make duplicate copies of my thesis as required. David W Maguire, November, 2005 DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (INFORMATION SYSTEMS ) THESIS OF DAVID MAGUIRE
Parthenogenetic development and protein patterns of newly matured bovine oocytes after chemical activation

Development of an effective activation protocol is of great importance for studying oocyte competence and embryo cloning. Experiments were designed to examine effects of intracellular calcium elevating agents such as calcium ionophore A23187 (CaA) and ethanol, or protein synthesis and phosphorylation inhibitors such as cycloheximide (CH) and 6‐dimethylaminopurine (6‐DMAP), or a sequential combination of these agents on both parthenogenetic development and protein patterns of newly matured bovine oocytes. Oocytes were matured for 24 hr in M‐199 supplemented with follicle‐stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), and estradiol at 39°C in humidified air. They were then activated by various treatments and cultured in KSOM. Protein patterns at 15 hr after treatment were determined on 8–15% gradient SDS‐PAGE and silver stained. Results demonstrated that none of the chemical agents—CaA, ethanol, 6‐DMAP, or cycloheximide—could effectively induce parthenogenetic development of young bovine oocytes. When compared with the single treatments, sequentially combined treatments of CaA with 6‐DMAP or with cycloheximide plus cytochalasin D (CD) significantly increased the rates of cleavage (78–82% versus 3–13%) and blastocyst development (31–40% versus 0%), which were comparable with those of IVF group (80% and 35%, respectively; P > 0.05). Supplementation with CD to the combined CaA and CH treatment improved rates of cleavage and blastocyst development versus without CD supplementation (31% versus 7%; P < 0.05). Fluorescent microscopy revealed that 95% (n = 40) of oocytes treated with CaA plus 6‐DMAP had one pronucleus (PN) and one polar body (PB), while 88% (n = 40) in the CaA plus cycloheximide–treated group had one PN and two PBs and 85% (n = 40) in CaA plus cycloheximide and CD group had two PNs and one PB. Treatment by CaA alone resulted in 73% of oocytes (n = 40) arrested at a metaphase stage with two PBs (named as metaphase III or MIII). Protein patterns were similar for chemically activated and in vitro–fertilized (IVF) oocytes in that the 138‐ and 133‐kDa proteins, whose functions are not yet known, were present in the metaphase‐stage (MII 24 hr, MII 40 hr, and MIII) oocytes but were absent in PN‐stage oocytes regardless of treatment. Therefore, these proteins seem to be metaphase‐associated proteins. Taken together, we conclude that optimal parthenogenetic development of newly matured bovine oocytes can be obtained by calcium ionophore treatment followed by incubation in either 6‐DMAP or cycloheximide plus cytochalasin D and that the reduction of the 138‐ and 133‐kDa proteins might be necessary for the full activation of bovine oocytes. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 49:298–307, 1998. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
ON TWITTER SENTIMENT ANALYSIS

In recent years, Twitter Sentiment Analysis (TSA) has become a hot research topic. The target of this task is to analyse the sentiment polarity of the tweets. There are a lot of machine learning methods specifically developed to solve TSA problems, such as fully supervised method, distantly supervised method and combined method of these two. Considering the specialty of tweets that a limitation of 140 characters, emoticons have important effects on TSA. In this paper, we compare three emoticon pre-processing methods: emotion deletion (emoDel), emoticons 2-valued translation (emo2label) and emoticon explanation (emo2explanation). Then, we propose a method based on emoticon-weight lexicon, and conduct experiments based on Naive Bayes classifier, to validate the crucial role emoticons play on guiding emotion tendency in a tweet. Experiments on real data sets demonstrate that emoticons are vital to TSA.
Acute effects of fenthion on certain oxidative stress biomarkers in various tissues of frogs (Rana ridibunda)

This study was aimed mainly to assess the effects of fenthion on certain oxidative stress biomarkers in various tissues of frogs (Rana ridibunda). Biomarkers selected for stress monitoring were malondialdehyde (MDA) and antioxidant defense system (ADS) such as reduced glutathione (GSH) level, glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), glutathione-S-transferase (GST), and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities in the liver, kidney, heart, and brain of frogs exposed to 10 and 20 ppm dosages of fenthion for 24, 48, 72, and 96 h. The results demonstrate an increase in MDA levels in selected tissues following exposure to both concentrations of fenthion. The ADS, GSH-Px, GST, SOD activities and GSH levels also fluctuated after 24, 48, 72, and 96 h in all the treatment groups compared with controls. From the evidence obtained here, it is concluded that the exposure of frogs to fenthion induced an increase in MDA combined with fluctuated ADS. This may reflect the potential role of these parameters as useful biomarkers for oxidative stress in amphibian species.
Disease-Specific Therapeutic Targets in Breast Cancer Detection of Redundant Fusion Transcripts as Biomarkers or

Fusion genes and fusion gene products are widely employed as biomarkers and therapeutic targets in hematopoietic cancers, but their applications have yet to be appreciated in solid tumors. Here, we report the use of SnowShoes-FTD, a powerful new analytic pipeline that can identify fusion transcripts and assess their redundancy and tumor subtype-specific distribution in primary tumors. In a study of primary breast tumors, SnowShoes-FTD was used to analyze paired-end mRNA-Seq data from a panel of estrogen receptor (ER)þ, HER2þ, and triple-negative primary breast tumors, identifying tumor-specific fusion transcripts by comparison with mRNA-Seq data from nontransformed human mammary epithelial cell cultures plus the Illumina Body Map data from normal tissues. We found that every primary breast tumor that was analyzed expressed one or more fusion transcripts. Of the 131 tumor-specific fusion transcripts identified, 86 were "private" (restricted to a single tumor) and 45 were "redundant" (distributed among multiple tumors). Among the redundant fusion transcripts, 7 were unique to ERþ tumors and 8 were unique to triple-negative tumors. In contrast, none of the redundant fusion transcripts were unique to HER2þ tumors. Both private and redundant fusion transcripts were widely expressed in primary breast tumors, with many mapping to genomic loci implicated in breast carcinogenesis and/or risk. Our finding that some fusion transcripts are tumor subtype-specific suggests that these entities may be critical determinants in the etiology of breast cancer subtypes, useful as biomarkers for tumor stratification, or exploitable as cancer-specific therapeutic targets. Cancer Res; 72(8); 1921–8. 2012 AACR.
Points of Reference in the Validation Process

This is the report of the 66th of a series of workshops organised by the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM). The aims of this workshop were: a) to review the assessment of relevance in the validation process, and b) to develop an approach for the use of references in validation. The participants critically discussed the objectives, methods and limitations of the different approaches when using reference test methods, reference test substances and reference results in the context of the validation of toxicological test methods.
Generating App Product Lines in a Model-Driven Cross-Platform Development Approach

Within software product lines (SPL) similar software products are created based on common features. We applied this versatile approach to cross-platform app development by extending the domain-specific language (DSL) of an established model-driven development framework. The goal was to support the formulation of coherent building blocks of business use cases, referred to as workflow elements. While the former implementation already abstracted from technical details and provided the possibility to reuse low level features, it now enables to build business apps by combining coherent, self-contained workflow elements. Providing this support on the language level facilitates reusable component-based development. In this paper, we sketch the enhanced framework's background and discuss SPL implications for cross-platform app development. We explain in detail how language-level modularization is realized and discuss implications, limitations, and open questions.
Experimental validation of an online adaptive and learning obstacle avoiding support system for the electric wheelchairs

With the advance of an aging society, people who are physically handicapped have specific needs concerning mobility assistance in relation to their respective living conditions. Moreover, operating an electric wheelchair indoors in confined spaces requires considerable skill. This paper presents an obstacle avoidance support system for an electric wheelchair, using reinforcement learning. The obstacle avoidance is semi-automatically supported by the Minimum Vector Field Histogram (MVFH) method. The MVFH modifies the user manipulation and assists the obstacle avoidance. In the proposed scheme, the modification rate is adjusted by reinforcement learning according to the environment and the user condition. The newly proposed scheme is numerically evaluated on a simulation example. Furthermore, the proposed scheme was applied to an experimental electric wheelchair, and the effectiveness of the proposed technique was verified in a real operating environment.
Valuing Future Information Under Uncertainty Using Polynomial Chaos

This paper estimates the value of information for highly uncertain projects whose decisions have long-term impacts. We present a mathematically consistent framework using decision trees, Bayesian updating, and Monte Carlo simulation to value future information today, even when that future information is imperfect. One drawback of Monte Carlo methods in multivariate cases is the large number of samples required, which may result in prohibitive run times when considerable computer time is required to obtain each sample, as it is in our example. A polynomial chaos approach suitable for black-box functions is used to reduce these computations to manageable proportions. To our knowledge, this is the first exposition of polynomial chaos in the valuation literature. In our example it provides a speed-up of more than two orders of magnitude. We demonstrate the approach with an oilfield example involving a future decision on where to place a new injection well relative to a fault. The example considers the value to the asset holder of a measurement, to be made in the future, that reveals the degree of reservoir compartmentalization caused by this fault. In conditions of high demand for rigs and other scarce capital-intensive oilfield equipment, it may be appropriate for the asset holder to agree to a forward contract for this critical measurement to be taken at a future date at some specified price. The service provider would be contractually bound to provide this measurement at this pre-agreed price within a specified time window, regardless of the prevailing price and availability of rigs and equipment. Despite the presence of financial uncertainty on future oil price and private uncertainty on reservoir variables that are largely unresolved by the measurement, our methodology provides a computationally efficient valuation framework, possibly leading to novel ways of setting up contract terms.
Contact dermatitis from chamomile tea

Case Report A 50-year-old metalworker developed acute eczema on his forearms and hands which cleared with topical corticosteroids. The patient used a product in his workplace to clean metallic items, which gave him an irritant reaction on his forearms and hands, so for 2 months before presentation, he had been washing and applying compresses with German chamomile tea on his forearms and hands, and later with a tea made of German chamomile, Roman chamomile and mallow herbs. He had no personal or family history of atopy, but had psoriasis. He was patch tested, using Finn Chambers and Scanpor tape, with the Portuguese standard series, paints and plants series, his own contactants and the teas, with the following positive results:
ADVERTISING RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM BASED ON DYNAMIC DATA ANALYSIS ON TURKISH SPEAKING TWITTER USERS

Onur Sevli, Ecir Uğur Küçüksille Original scientific paper Online environments and especially social networks have become a great alternative to advertisement publishing. In order to accomplish effective advertising it is important that the contents coincide with the expectations of the target audience. Considering that expectations may change over time, it is required to identify the orientation of the users in real time and dynamically. In this study, the messages shared by Turkish Twitter users were analysed in real time and the instant expectations of the users have been identified. To perform this work, a web service was designed which analyses the user’s profile and presents the advertisements that suit best to expectations. A method called Heuristic Pruning Method (HPM) has been revealed in order to filter the most appropriate advertising content. The developed system has been tested on a voluntary participant group who actively uses Twitter, and the effectiveness of the system is demonstrated by the received feedback.