Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Transformational Leadership Style, Reward Systems, Management Accounting System Information andManagerial Performance: The Impact of Ownership Type in Vietnamese Enterprises

In a competitive business environment, managers’ need for broad scope management accounting system (MAS) information for decision making increases. This information is critical for facilitating managers to gain a better understanding of a competitive environment and to respond to uncertain situations. Such understanding, in turn, helps managers to make more effective decisions, thereby improving their performance. The extant literature suggests that several factors, such as organisational structure and external environment, may have an impact on managers’ use of broad scope MAS information (hereafter, the MAS information) and on their performance. However, the literature suggests that such an impact varies depending on contexts such as countries and cultures. In a transitional economy, as in Vietnam, studies investigating the impact of these factors on managers’ use of the MAS information and on their performance are rather scarce. Vietnam is in the process of transforming from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented one characterised by a competitive business environment, organisations with multiple ownership types and a mix of leadership styles and reward systems. The relevant literature argues that the impact of different ownership types, leadership styles and reward systems in the transitional economy of Vietnam may differ from that found in a western country’s developed economy. However, an extensive literature review suggests that research on the impact of leadership style, reward system, and ownership type on managers’ use of the MAS information and their performance in Vietnam has yet to be conducted. The current study addresses this shortcoming.
Patterns of prostate cancer treatment by clinical stage and age.

OBJECTIVES This study analyzed prostate cancer treatment rates by age and clinical stage and contrasted these with rates by most accurate stage. METHODS We determined surgery and radiation rates by most accurate and clinical stage by using 1996 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results data. RESULTS Treatment rates by clinical stage vs best stage differ significantly. For example, surgery rates for stages B, C, and D are 37%, 78%, and 13% by most accurate stage but 33%, 6%, and 1% by clinical stage. Treatment patterns by clinical stage vary substantially by age. CONCLUSIONS Treatment patterns should be described by clinical stage rather than most accurate stage, and they vary by age.
Radical! The Influence of Perceived Radicalness on Technology Acceptance

Technology acceptance has been a popular topic in the information systems research field for the past several years. A variety of determinants have been found to be significant in predicting the acceptance and adoption of information technologies. Although there have been extensive research on the technology acceptance model (TAM), the impacts of the perceived radicalness of IT have not been examined. We argue that the factors related to perceived radicalness of technology play an important role in the adoption of the technology and the behavior of its users. The potential contribution of this work is in extending the TAM model to account for possible differences in potential adopters’ behaviors when a radically new technology is introduced.
Actuator failure detection and isolation using generalized momenta

We present a method based on the use of generalized momenta for detecting and isolating actuator faults in robot manipulators. The FDI scheme does not need acceleration estimates or simulation of the nominal robot dynamics and covers a general class of input faults. Numerical results for a 2R robot undergoing also concurrent actuator faults are reported. This method is extended to robots with joint elasticity and to the inclusion of actuator dynamics.
Nonlinear wakefields and electron injection in cluster plasma

Laser and beam driven wakefields promise orders of magnitude increases in electric field gradients for particle accelerators for future applications. Key areas to explore include the emittance properties of the generated beams and overcoming the dephasing limit in the plasma. In this paper, the first in-depth study of the self-injection mechanism into wakefield structures from non-homogeneous cluster plasmas is provided using high-resolution two dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. The clusters which are typical structures caused by ejection of gases from a high-pressure gas jet have a diameter much smaller than the laser wavelength. Conclusive evidence is provided for the underlying mechanism that leads to particle trapping, comparing uniform and cluster plasma cases. The accelerated electron beam properties are found to be tunable by changing the cluster parameters. The mechanism explains enhanced beam charge paired with large transverse momentum and energy which has implications for the betatron x-ray flux. Finally, the impact of clusters on the high-power laser propagation behavior is discussed.
Understanding Indonesian green consumer behavior on cosmetic products : Theory of Planned Behavior model

 Abstract : This study aims to explain Green Purchase Behavior toward Green Cosmetic products using theoretical model developed from The Theory Planned Behavior. A web-based survey was conducted during January – March 2017. In total, 275 respondents were analyzed with SPSS. The results show that beliefs would positively affect the three predictors on TPB (attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control). Green Purchase Intention were simultaneously affected by Attitude, Subjective Norms as well as Perceived Behavioral Control. The results also indicate that both Green Purchase Intention and Perceived Behavioral Control demonstrated significant relationship toward Green Behavior. Additionally mediating effect of Green Purchase Intention was found between Perceived Behavioral Control toward Green
Detección de plagio translingüe utilizando el diccionario estadístico de BabelNet

En primer lugar agradecer a la Conselleria D'educacio, Formacio i Ocupacio de la Generalitat Valenciana por la financiacion por parte del programa Geronimo Forteza, sin el cual no hubiera sido posible llevar a cabo la investigacion del ´ primer autor que ha llevado a esta publicacion. Este trabajo se ha hecho dentro del ambito del VLC/CAMPUS Microcluster on Multimodal Interaction in Intelligent Systems y como parte del proyecto de la Comision Europea WIQ-EI IRSES (no. 269180). Por otro lado agradecer a Roberto Navigili por haber desarrollado BabelNet y ofrecer su ayuda para familiarizarnos con el API sistema. Finalmente a Alberto Barron Cedeno por desarrollar la version inicial del modelo CL-ASA.
The Method of Repeated Readings

Many disabled readers decode text in a word-by-word fashion and consequently have difficulty understanding what they read. This failure is often attributed to their inability to focus attention simultaneously on decoding and comprehending the message. However, this undesirable outcome can be avoided through the method of repeated readings. By having children reread a passage until fluency is achieved, their attention can be focused on comprehension, and improved understanding will result.
How Reliable Are Assessments of Clinical Teaching ? A Review of the Published Instruments

DESIGN: Searching 5 electronic databases revealed over 330 articles. Excluded were reviews, editorials, and qualitative studies. Twenty-one articles describing instruments designed for evaluating clinical faculty by learners were found. Three investigators studied these papers and tabulated characteristics of the learning environments and validation methods. Salient themes among the evaluation studies were determined.
More Experience with Data Flow Testing

Experience is provided about the cost and effectiveness of the Rapps-Weyuker data flow testing criteria. This experience is based on studies using a suite of well-known numerical programs, and supplements an earlier study (Weyuker 1990) using different types of programs. The conclusions drawn in the earlier study involving cost are confirmed in this study. New observations about tester variability and cost assessment, as well as fault detection, are also provided. >
The genetics of electrophoretic variation.

In the April issue of this journal (Genetics 91 : 695-722) there is a paper by V. FINNERTY and G. JOHNSON, “Post-translational modification as a potential explanation of high levels of enzyme polymorphism,” which reports that loci other than the structural gene locus for xanthine dehydrogenase may affect the electrophoretic mobility of the enzyme. Unforunately, in an attempt to establish a general significance for this finding, FINNERTY and JOHNSON suggest repeatedly in their paper that post-translational modification may explain a significant amount of the very high variation recently reported in natural populations of Drosophila for loci like xanthine dehydrogenase and esterase. This interpretation, however, is conclusively and definitively contradicted by the known facts. FINNERTY and JOHNSON report that segregation at the lxd locus on chromosome 2 and the mal locus on the X chromosome in Drosophila melanogasfer may affect the electrophoretic mobility of the protein coded by the structural gene for xanthine dehydrogenase on chromosome 3. This finding is reasonable, since these modifier loci have long been known to affect activity of xanthine dehydrogenase. There are t h e e features of the work of SINGH, LEWONTIN and FELTON (1976) and COYNE (1976) on xanthine dehydrogenase variation in D. pseudoobscura, of increasing generality, that completely rule out these modifier loci, or any other modifier loci, as the source of the immense variation so far observed in natural populations. (1) The mal and Zxd loci cannot be specifically involved. These loci are both on the X chromosome in D. pseudoobscura and D. persimilis, and in our work during the creation of the isogenic lines from wild populations, all wild X chromosomes were replaced by the X chromosomes from the marker stock. FINNERTY and JOHNSON have attempted to minimize this fact by suggesting that the chromosomal hoinologies are weak, perhaps under the impression that the evidence for homology rests on some general cytological grounds. But the homologies were established originally on comparative genetic grounds by DONALD (1936) and BEERS (1937), and the recent discovery of many enzyme loci has completely confirmed these homologies. (2) Irrespective of the location of mal and lxd, no genetic segregation on any chromosomes except chromosome 2, which contains the X d h structural gene, can be involved. All of the variation found by our group was between lines isogenic for chromosome 2, and none of it was within these lines. Since only chromosome 2 differs between lines, but is constant within lines, the variation is definitively on that chromosome. (3) Irrespective of any evidence about genetic segregation, the variation we have observed cannot be the result of any known mode of modification and cer-
A Study of the Structure of the Near-Coastal Zone Water Column Using Numerical Simulations

Abstract : Our long-term goal is to understand how flows in near-coastal zone (20m to 100m) respond to a variety of forcing mechanisms including tidal pressure gradients, surface waves, surface heating and cooling, surface wave-bottom current interaction, and tidally generated bottom boundary currents. Because the nature of this response varies throughout the water column and depends strongly on the non-linear coupling of stratification, turbulence and flow structure characterizing the structure of the water column in this environment is a very difficult field measurement task.
Integration of grid, cluster and cloud resources to semantically annotate a large‐sized repository of learning objects

The Universia repository is composed of more than 15 million of educational resources. The lack of metadata describing these resources complicates their classification, search and recovery. To overcome this drawback, it was decided to semantically annotate the available educational resources using the ADEGA algorithm. For this objective, we selected the DBpedia, a cross‐domain linked data composed of more than 3.77 million ‘things’ with 400 million ‘facts’, in order to make sure that the wide range of Universia topics are covered by the ontology. However, this kind of process is extremely expensive from a computational point of view: more than 1600 years of CPU time was estimated to achieve it. In this paper, parallel programming techniques and distributed computing paradigms are combined in order to achieve this semantic annotation in a reasonable time. The cornerstone of this proposal is a resource management and execution framework able to integrate heterogeneous computing resources at our disposal (grid, cluster and cloud resources). As a result, the problem was solved in less than 180 days, demonstrating that it is perfectly feasible to exploit the advantages of these computing models in the field of linked data. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
GAHAI AGROPOLITAN PROJECT IN ERADICATING POVERTY: MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX

The planning and development of Agropolitan Project in Malaysia began in 2007 and was aimed at eradicating extreme poverty in Malaysia. This study aims to discuss the design and construction of Agropolitan Project in eradicating extreme poverty among its participants. This study uses the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) found in the 11th Malaysian Plan, which includes the dimension of education, health, living standards, and earning. In addition, this study utilizes a survey involving 45 participants of an agropolitan project from Gahai, Lipis,Pahang. The result shows that only 5 of the respondents fall into the multidimensional poverty category, which involves 11.9 percent of the household members. The result of this study shows that the planning and development of Gahai Agropolitan Project, Lipis has succeeded in eradicating extreme poverty among the project participants. Deprivation faced by the respondents based on the MPI analysis can help policy makers in the design and construction of future agropolitan projects.
Structural and functional changes mapped in the brains of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients with/without dysphagia: A pilot study

The purpose of this study was to explore cerebral structural and functional changes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients with or without dysphagia compared with healthy adults. In total, five ALS patients with dysphagia, five ALS patients without dysphagia and 10 healthy controls were evaluated using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) and event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while laryngeal swallow-related movements were recorded. The fMRI data were analysed using the general linear model to gain the differential statistical map (two-sample t-test) for each group. Maps of fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) were calculated within the masks that corresponded to the different statistical functional maps of intergroup comparisons. During the voluntary saliva swallowing, prominent activation of foci corresponded to the primary sensorimotor (SM) cortex in both ALS and controls, while decreased activation of the SM cortex was observed in ALS patients with dysphagia. DTI analysis revealed that FA was significantly reduced and MD was typically increased in the posterior limb of the internal capsule, thalamus, and anterior cingulate gyrus, as well as in the insula of ALS patients compared with controls. However, in ALS patients with dysphagia, FA and MD were more sensitive to these changes than ALS patients without dysphagia. This study highlights the potential of DTI and fMRI for monitoring structural degeneration and functional changes in patients with ALS. This study is the first to demonstrate that cerebral activation map changes correspond to distribution patterns of diffusion abnormalities. Combined non-invasive neuroimaging techniques may be useful tools to assess prognosis and study rehabilitation strategies for dysphagic ALS patients, especially for patients who are MRI-negative by conventional methods.
Prevalence of school bullying in Korean middle school students.

BACKGROUND School bullying is the most common type of school violence. Victimization by or perpetration of school bullying has frequently been associated with a broad spectrum of behavioral, emotional, and social problems. OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence and demographic characteristics of victims, perpetrators, and victim-perpetrators in a Korean middle school sample. METHODS We evaluated 1756 middle school students in this cross-sectional study. Students provided demographic information and completed the Korean-Peer Nomination Inventory. Descriptive statistics and the Pearson chi(2) test were used. RESULTS We found that 40% of all children participated in school bullying. By category, the prevalence of victims, perpetrators, and victim-perpetrators was 14%, 17%, and 9%, respectively. The most common subtypes of victimization were exclusion (23%), verbal abuse (22%), physical abuse (16%), and coercion (20%). Boys were more commonly involved in both school bullying and all 4 types of victimization. The prevalence of bullying was greater in students with either high or low socioeconomic status and in nonintact families. CONCLUSIONS School bullying is highly prevalent in Korean middle school students. Demographic characteristics can help identify students at greater risk for participation in school bullying.
Evaluation of a modification of the UPOINT clinical phenotype system for the chronic pelvic pain syndrome

Objective. To evaluate the recently presented six-domain UPOINT phenotype system for the chronic abacterial prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) and to correlate it with clinically relevant parameters such as ejaculatory pain, pain localization, erectile dysfunction, cold sensitivity and the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI). Material and methods. Fifty men with CPPS were classified in each of the six UPOINT domains. A CPPS focused history was obtained and the men were asked to complete the NIH-CPSI, the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-5) and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ). Results. The mean age was 46 years (range 26–71 years). The percentage positive for each domain was 26 (52%) for urinary, 18 (36%) for psychosocial, 19 (38%) for organ specific, 19 (38%) for infection, 18 (36%) for neurological/systemic and 16 (32%) for pelvic muscle tenderness. Mean NIH-CPSI was 23±7. The number of positive domains and the NIH-CPSI [correlation coefficient (r) = 0.478, p=0.002] and its quality of life section (r=0.432, p=0.003) were linked; there was, however, no correlation between the number of positive domains and IIEF-5, ejaculatory pain, painful micturition, cold sensitivity or pain localization (except for scrotal pain). The link between catastrophizing and NIH-CPSI was marked (r=0.61, p<0.001). Conclusions. The correlation between the UPOINT score and NIH-CPSI was verified. A weak or lacking correlation with the studied clinical parameters suggests that further development is required before UPOINT can be considered an optimal phenotyping instrument.
Revealing and utilizing receptor recognition mechanisms in a high‐throughput world

Recent genomic mapping promises to identify essentially all of the proteins that underpin normal and aberrant biology in humans. What genomics leaves undone is to determine how these proteins interact and integrate into molecular pathways in health and disease. Specific molecular interactions provide the fundamental mechanism for selectivity in virtually every aspect of biological structure and function. The convergence of structural and mutational studies makes it possible to define what parts of a protein are important for recognition. Still, knowing what is important does not necessarily foretell how binding epitopes actually function. We have applied the approach of epitope randomization on phage to explore how structural elements in such receptor recruitment systems as interleukin‐5 (IL‐5) and HIV‐1 function in receptor recognition. This work has led in the IL‐5 case to differentiation of recognition and activation epitopes, and this in turn has potential to help in the design of non‐activating mimetics that could stimulate development of therapeutic antagonists for allergic inflammations such as asthma. Whether it is possible to differentiate recognition and activation in designing inhibitors in cases such as HIV‐1 cell attachment and infection remains a tantalizing, but unsolved goal at present. Overall, these studies portray advances as well as limitations in the effort to decipher protein recognition mechanisms and utilize the wisdom gained for mechanism‐based antagonist design in an increasingly high throughput world stimulated by the advent of genomics and proteomics. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppl. 37: 126–135, 2001. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
The infection of laboratory hosts with cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni and the recovery of the adult worms

At present many laboratories throughout the world are studying the chemotherapy and immunology of Schistosoma mansoni in laboratory hosts. Many workers judge the success or failure of their attempts to cure or immunize these hosts from the ratio of the number of living adult worms recovered to the number of infecting cercariae. This ratio is affected, however, not only by the efficacy of any treatment, but also by the methods used to infect the animals and to recover the worms. If these methods result in widely varying worm recoveries amongst the animals in any experimental group, then small but significant effects of treatment might well be missed. Alternatively, such large experimental groups must be used that the work becomes tedious to perform and depends upon the availability of a great deal of technical assistance. This paper describes techniques which are rapid and do not require great skill in their performance. More important, in our hands they have given very consistent results. In this respect, particularly, we believe that these techniques have advantages over others which are currently practised. The techniques described here are those which were used in other investigations reported in this journal (Smithers & Terry, 1965a, b). The strain of S. mansoni used throughout this work was isolated in Puerto Rico and was obtained through the courtesy of Dr W. B. DeWitt of the National Institutes of Health. The parasite is maintained in an albino strain of Australorbis glabratus (Newton, 1955). Snails are exposed individually to ten miracidia overnight at 27 °C.
Super-resolution algorithm applied in thermal imaging of hydroelectric generators stator using hybrid sensing with DTS and FBG

This paper presents a super-resolution algorithm developed to improve a thermal imaging system based on distributed optical sensors (DTS). The super-resolution is achieved by additional information provided by localized FBG sensors. The combination of the two types of sensors is an alternative to compensate the limitations of DTS due to spatial resolution of 1 m. The algorithm is applied to a thermal imaging system for monitoring stator temperature of hydroelectric generators, and the main advantage is the possibility to identify hotspots with dimensions up 10 times smaller than DTS spatial resolution.