Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Think talent – think male? A comparative case study analysis of gender inclusion in talent management practices in the German media industry

This paper contributes to our knowledge on talent management (TM) by conceptually and empirically investigating the peculiarities of TM and gender inclusion in talent development in the German context, as well as by analyzing whether TM is an inclusive HRM practice with respect to gender. Thus, we add an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of TM by linking it to important findings of gender and HRM studies with a specific focus on inclusion. A conceptualization of inclusive TM is suggested, and as a result of a comprehensive literature review, we identify five TM elements (talent definition, underlying career orientation, the content of talent development programs, the TM approach, and the talent selection process) which – depending on their design and characteristics – have an impact on the degree of gender bias and the discriminatory risk of TM. Respective propositions are suggested, and based on a qualitative comparative case study analysis, this paper provides empirical evidence from the German media industry, which shows important differences between cases in the identified TM elements and indicators concerning the gender inclusion of TM practices.
Automatic license plate detection based on edge density and color model

This paper proposes a novel method for license plate (LP) detection from images with complex background. First, it segments images with an adaptive binarization method to avoid the problem that nonuniform illumination creates, and some undesired image areas are removed by limiting the range of region properties of connected components (CCs). Secondly, CC analysis is used to construct nearest neighbor chain (NNC) for detection of candidate LP regions (LP-NNC). The average height and direction of each LP-NNC is estimated to deal with images acquired from different view or distances. Thirdly, length of NNC, edge density and color features are combined to verify all candidate LP regions, and the most possible region is selected as the true LP region. Experiment results on various types of LP images show that this proposed method has achieved desired detection result for complex scenes.
Back To The Map? Enterprise Agreements In Rural, Regional And Urban Australia

Abstract With regulatory changes to industrial relations over the past decade, enterprise agreements have become a significant mechanism for establishing wages and working conditions. The incidence and characteristics of employment (enterprise) agreements across space in rural, regional and urban Australia have never been comprehensively examined. This paper draws upon insights concerning enterprise bargaining, and the geography of industrial relations to understand enterprise agreements in previously unexplored ways. It examines patterns at the sub-State regional level and their policy, practical and scholarly significance. In doing so, it proposes a significant role for spatial concepts in industrial relations analysis and argues that a different geography of industrial relations is immanent in decentralised, workplace arrangements.
Knowledge absorption in an emerging economy – the role of foreign investments and trade flows in Russia

This paper studies the role of foreign investments and trade flows in knowledge absorption and innovativeness in Russia. Funding and human resources devoted to Research and Development (R&D) have been considerable in Russia, but so far, the innovation activity and R&D output has been modest. In order to achieve sustainable growth, Russia needs to change from a natural resource-based economy to a knowledge-oriented economy. Knowledge absorption from foreign investors in Russia is defined in a general level conceptually. Innovation indicators, such as domestic R&D expenditures and the level of higher education, are used to measure the overall absorptive capacity in Russia. It is assumed that Russia is, at the moment, more focused on imitating existing innovations than creating its own science-based innovations. The results of a statistical analysis indicate that the inflow of technology in the form of foreign investments and trade meet favourable technology/innovation absorption conditions in the Russian regions. Foreign investors are significant actors in the knowledge absorption framework.
On the Lagrangian and Cartesian Stiffness Matrices of Parallel Mechanisms with Elastic Joints

In this paper an analytical formulation is proposed of the Lagrangian and Cartesian stiffness matrices for parallel mechanisms with rigid bodies and elastic joints. The formulation is general, as it is based on the development of the principle of virtual work and on the definition of the stiffness matrices. A relationship is also obtained between the Lagrangian and Cartesian stiffness matrices. Each contribution to the stiffness matrices is explicitly expressed in order to gain insight into their physical meaning and mathematical nature. In the paper, three numerical examples are presented. Indeed, the stiffness matrices are calculated for three planar mechanisms. The computation method exploits the multiple closed-chain architecture in parallel architectures. For this reason, it can be performed without encountering practical difficulties.
Biodistribution and pharmacokinetics of transgenic pig-produced recombinant human factor IX (rhFIX) in rats.

BACKGROUND Recombinant human factor IX (rhFIX) is a 56 kDa glycoprotein with full biological activity providing a guarantee of freedom from blood-borne viral contamination in the therapy of hemophilia B, but no data are available on the distribution of transgenic pig-produced rhFIX post injection (p.i.). Therefore, an 131I-radiolabeled rhFIX was developed to evaluate the distribution of rhFIX in rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS rhFIX was labeled with the lodogen method. 131I-rhFIX (25 microCi/25 microg/200 microl/rat) was intravenously injected through the tail vein in normal Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats and the biodistribution was examined from 5 min to 72 h p.i. The pharmacokinetics were also evaluated from 5 min to 96 h p.i. RESULTS The radiolabeled efficiency and radiochemical purity of 131I-rhFIX was over 96% and 98%, respectively. The biodistribution study showed that the rhFIX chiefly accumulated in the liver. The distribution and elimination half-life (t(1/2alpha) and t(1/2beta)) of 131I-rhFIX were 0.82 and 9.34 h, respectively. The maximum concentration in the plasma (Cmax) and the area under the concentration versus time curve (AUC(INF)) of 131I-rhFIX in rats were 3.09% injected dose (ID)/g and 15.3 h x % ID/g. CONCLUSION The transgenic pig-produced rhFIX is mostly retained in the liver and the preclinical biodistribution and pharmacokinetic studies of 131I radiolabeled rhFIX are helpful for researching its biological effect in vivo.
The Theory of Optimal Law Enforcement

The economic literature on optimal law enforcement is very recent. Becker's seminal paper on crime and law enforcement dates from 1968 and most papers which are the focus of this survey have been published in the last ten years. The core result presented by Becker is the following: the probability and the severity of punishment deter crime. Therefore, the fine should be maximal since it is a costless transfer whereas the probability of detection and conviction is costly. Much of the recent work has attempted to show why Becker's result may not hold. Copyright 1997 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd
English as a Second Dialect Policy and Achievement of Aboriginal Students in British Columbia

Depuis les années 1980, le ministère de l’Éducation de la Colombie-Britannique investit pour soutenir le développement d’élèves parlant des dialectes plutôt que l’anglais standard. En pratique, les élèves qui profitent de ce soutien financier sont presque tous des Autochtones, et les fonds obtenus dans le cade du programme English as a Second Dialect (ESD, en français Enseignement de l’anglais dialecte second) sont devenus une importante source du financement consacré à des élèves autochtones dans plusieurs districts scolaires. Dans cet article, nous examinons l’utilisation que font les districts scolaires des fonds de l’ESD et quels sont les effets de ce financement sur la réussite scolaire. Nos résultats indiquent qu’il y a un effet positif assez important de l’ESD sur les résultats en lecture chez les élèves autochtones de septième année.
OpenCL-Based FPGA Accelerator for 3D FDTD with Periodic and Absorbing Boundary Conditions

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is a very poplar way of numerically solving partial differential equations. FDTD has a low operational intensity so that the performances in CPUs and GPUs are often restricted by the memory bandwidth. Recently, deeply pipelined FPGA accelerators have shown a lot of success by exploiting streaming data flows in FDTD computation. In spite of this success, many FPGA accelerators are not suitable for real-world applications that contain complex boundary conditions. Boundary conditions break the regularity of the data flow, so that the performances are significantly reduced. This paper proposes an FPGA accelerator that computes commonly used absorbing and periodic boundary conditions in many 3D FDTD applications. Accelerator is designed using a “C-like” programming language called OpenCL (open computing language). As a result, the proposed accelerator can be customized easily by changing the software code. According to the experimental results, we achieved over 3.3 times and 1.5 times higher processing speed compared to the CPUs and GPUs, respectively. Moreover, the proposed accelerator is more than 14 times faster compared to the recently proposed FPGA accelerators that are capable of handling complex boundary conditions.
Luck versus Skill

If a manager has an outstanding track record, how can we tell how much this past success is due to luck versus skill? The complex nature of active portfolio management makes this assessment very difficult. This article provides a conceptual framework for thinking about this issue. A meaningful track record should reflect a significant number of investment decisions. It is not sufficient to simply outperform over what might appear to be a significant time horizon.
CORNICHON sorting and regulation of GLR channels underlie pollen tube Ca2+ homeostasis

Multiple, diverse, and complex Calcium currents characterize the developing pollen tube in the small mustard plant Arabidopsis and correlate with growth at the tip of the pollen tube. This system constitutes a practical model for screening for Ca2+-signaling mechanisms in plants. Wudick et al. analyzed multiple variants of glutamate receptor–like (GLR) channels and discovered that some work alone and others work in pairs or trios. Subcellular localization of GLRs is a complex response to CORNICHON sorting proteins, which leave some GLRs at the plasma membrane and ferry others to internal calcium reservoirs. The calcium current at the tip of the growing pollen tube apparently integrates multiple intracellular currents. Science, this issue p. 533 Intracellular cargo targeting and channel subfunctionalization refine calcium currents in plant development. Compared to animals, evolution of plant calcium (Ca2+) physiology has led to a loss of proteins for influx and small ligand–operated control of cytosolic Ca2+, leaving many Ca2+ mechanisms unaccounted for. Here, we show a mechanism for sorting and activation of glutamate receptor–like channels (GLRs) by CORNICHON HOMOLOG (CNIH) proteins. Single mutants of pollen-expressed Arabidopsis thaliana GLRs (AtGLRs) showed growth and Ca2+ flux phenotypes expected for plasma membrane Ca2+ channels. However, higher-order mutants of AtGLR3.3 revealed phenotypes contradicting this assumption. These discrepancies could be explained by subcellular AtGLR localization, and we explored the implication of AtCNIHs in this sorting. We found that AtGLRs interact with AtCNIH pairs, yielding specific intracellular localizations. AtCNIHs further trigger AtGLR activity in mammalian cells without any ligand. These results reveal a regulatory mechanism underlying Ca2+ homeostasis by sorting and activation of AtGLRs by AtCNIHs.
Idea density for predicting Alzheimer’s disease from transcribed speech

Idea Density (ID) measures the rate at which ideas or elementary predications are expressed in an utterance or in a text. Lower ID is found to be associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (Snowdon et al., 1996; Engelman et al., 2010). ID has been used in two different versions: propositional idea density (PID) counts the expressed ideas and can be applied to any text while semantic idea density (SID) counts pre-defined information content units and is naturally more applicable to normative domains, such as picture description tasks. In this paper, we develop DEPID, a novel dependency-based method for computing PID, and its version DEPID-R that enables to exclude repeating ideas—a feature characteristic to AD speech. We conduct the first comparison of automatically extracted PID and SID in the diagnostic classification task on two different AD datasets covering both closed-topic and free-recall domains. While SID performs better on the normative dataset, adding PID leads to a small but significant improvement (+1.7 F-score). On the free-topic dataset, PID performs better than SID as expected (77.6 vs 72.3 in F-score) but adding the features derived from the word embedding clustering underlying the automatic SID increases the results considerably, leading to an F-score of 84.8.
Institutional Strategies for Developing Enterprise Education: A Review of Some Concepts and Models

In this paper the authors identify criteria for assessing the viability of institutional strategies for enterprise education and develop models that describe methods of organising enterprise education. They identify and explain a number of key criteria including: educational impact; financial sustainability; academic credibility; human capital; structural embeddedness; context and infrastructure; alignment with institutional strategy and policy; community engagement; and, alignment with policy context and funding. The paper then considers a number of models. These models are separated into two clusters: single department-led models and campus wide models. The evaluative criteria are applied to each model to explore the impact of particular strategies and the criteria are used to assess the long-term viability of each model. The paper concludes by making judgements about each criteria and their usefulness for helping understand long-term sustainability of enterprise education. It shows that different models may be valuable in different Higher Education contexts and illustrates the temporal nature of the relationships between the models. The paper is principally a conceptual paper which can be developed further by the application of the evaluative criteria empirically. The models developed can be tested and analysed further through reference to observations of practice. The paper makes a valuable contribution to knowledge in this subject area by describing and analysing the various models of organisation that could be used to support enterprise education in HEIs.
Implementation and evaluation of pre- and post-regulation control with class-e2 wireless power transfer system

This paper presents a closed loop control design for the class-E2 WPT system with the pre- and post-regulation. In the proposed WPT system, the output voltage is regulated by changing the switch-on duty ratio of the post regulator, whose information is transmitted to the primary side by wireless communication. At the transmitter side, the input current is minimized by changing the switch-on duty ratio of the pre regulator for tracking maximum power-delivery efficiency under the condition that the necessary power is transferred to the receiver side. The experimental results showed that the designed control system is effective for the voltage regulation with keeping high power-delivery efficiency in the class-E2 WPT system. Experimental results showed that the proposed control scheme achieves the higher efficiency than only the pre- or post-regulation control, which shows effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
Effective Leadership as a Human Resource Capacity in Joint Venture Management

The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire Form 5X (MLQ5X) is used to study leadership across two large sample groups from the People's Republic of China and Australia. Understanding leadership across cultures is a significant dimension of the human resource capacity of effective international businesses. Both transformational and transactional attributes feature as influencing factors in Extra Effort, Effectiveness and Satisfaction across both cultural sample groups. While the transactional dimension of Contingent Reward is deemed significant, it is not as significant as transformational attributes aligned with critical thinking, empowerment, challenging workplaces in increasing positive outcomes associated with effective leadership behaviour.
RGBD Camera Based Material Recognition via Surface Roughness Estimation

Real world objects can be characterized effectively by their shape, color and material types. Material recognition of an arbitrary object at a distance is an important task for the improvement of object recognition, scene understanding, realistic rendering and various virtual and augmented reality applications. Researchers have tried to recognize material types based on color features, however material type of an object is not completely correlated with its visual appearance. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective surface roughness estimation method using single time-offlight (ToF) camera. A set of features extracted from the estimated roughness together with conventional color features are used for material type recognition. Experimental results on our material data set with 122 subjects show promising material type recognition results.
Components of the Diet Associated with Child Adiposity: A Cross-Sectional Study

Objective: This study sought to determine which components of youths' diets were related to adiposity while controlling for potential often-neglected confounders such as moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and dietary reporting error. Secondary goals of this study were to determine the extent to which MVPA confounded the associations between diet and adiposity and whether associations between diet and adiposity would differ depending on reporting error. Methods: An ethnically diverse urban sample of 342 children aged 9–10 years and 323 adolescents aged 17–18 years were recruited for this cross-sectional study. Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) were measured in the school; dietary assessment included three 24-hour recalls via telephone in the evenings, and MVPA assessment included 5 days of accelerometry. Over (n = 68), under (n = 250), or plausible (n = 347) dietary intake reporters were identified with the Huang calculation method. Linear regression assessed the relationship between adiposity indicators (BMI z-score and WC) and components of the diet (energy intake, food groups, macronutrients) after controlling for reporting error, demographic variables, and MVPA. Results: When dietary reporting error and potential confounders such as MVPA and demographic variables were controlled, energy intake (EI), vegetables, refined grains, total fat, total protein, and total carbohydrate were positively related to BMI z-score and WC and artificially sweetened beverages to WC. MVPA was a significant confounder. For BMI z-score, but not WC, relationships and strength of these relationships differed depending on dietary reporting error group (plausible, underreporter, overreporter). Conclusions: Among plausible reporters, as expected, EI, refined grains, and all macronutrients were positively related to adiposity; however, artificially sweetened beverages and vegetables, which are low-energy-dense foods, were also positively related to adiposity. Reporting error interfered with associations between diet and BMI z-score but not WC, suggesting WC is a more robust measure of adiposity in relation to diet.
Determinants of Agricultural Export Earnings in Nigeria, 1980-2011

The study focuses on the determinants of agricultural export earnings in Nigeria for the period 1980-2011. The explanatory variables were identified to include world income, exchange rate, degree of openness and rainfall (a proxy for weather). The study tested for stationarity, co-integration and employed VAR model and found that current agricultural export earnings in Nigeria are positively and significantly responsive to its lag 1, World income (lag 1 and 2), openness (lag 2) and exchange rate (lag 1). On the other hand, the impact of agricultural export earnings (lag 2), openness (lag 1), exchange rate (lag 2) and annual rainfall (lag 1 and 2) is negative. The results of variance decomposition and impulse response function reveal that world income and exchange rate is key variables that explain changes in agricultural export earnings. The paper recommended that there is need for value addition to agricultural products being exported and that conservation and rehabilitation programmes for agricultural products should be organized in areas where degradative processes are about to set in and farmers encouraged through appropriate pricing mechanisms.
The Role of Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins

Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are fundamental cell regulators with an evolutionary conserved role synchronising tissue growth, development and function according to metabolic conditions. Although structurally very similar to insulin, the IGFs act in a very different way as cell regulators. Whereas insulin is stored in a specific gland and released when needed, the IGFs are stored outside of cells with soluble binding proteins. A very complex system of six IGF binding proteins, each of which exists in various modified states and interacts with other proteins, provides a sophisticated system for conferring specificity to provide a finely tuned system for local regulation at the tissue level.
Arbitrage Illustrated by Options Models

Most empirical studies on arbitrage opportunities tend to focus on arbitrage resulting from two 'securities', normally option value in relation to its underlying assets. However, in this empirical study it is illustrated that by writing 'different' option values the 'amount' of arbitrage increase than in case alluded earlier on in this abstract. More importantly, there are emerging multiple flexibilities in each case which gives rise to hedging opportunities without incurring any extra cost if any. Lastly, despite that the empirical study on multiple arbitrage opportunities, overall results exemplify that sequential exchange opportunities are beneficial as they afford one opportunity to earn riskless profits while hedging without incurring extra costs.