Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Correlating the 2012 Dutch House of Representatives Elections based on Twitter mentions of Parties and their Party Leader Ömer Şakar

Elections are an important event within a democratic country. Different organizations try to predict the outcome of the elections based on polls. In this research, an attempt has been made to correlate the outcome of the 2012 Dutch House of Representatives elections and Twitter messages from the nomination day until the election day (44 days). The tweets have been filtered to contain only politically relevant tweets. These tweets were assigned a polarity value by a sentiment analysis library. After the tweets have been normalized in order to better depict the voters and finally an estimation of the seat distribution is made for the six largest parties. The estimation was significantly off target due to the inaccuracy of the sentiment analysis library used. A more accurate sentiment analysis library will have to be used in order to conclude if there is a correlation or not.
Corporate social responsibilitycommunication:presentation through printadvertisements

Companies are faced with increasing expectations on the part of stakeholders to engage in social responsibility and are consequently expected to communicate their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts to a varied, influential, and alert audience. Despite this, CSR communication remains an emerging field, with research focusing on corporate social disclosure mainly through websites and corporate reports, while little is known about CSR advertisements. This thesis addresses this gap in the research and explains how companies publicise their CSR actions through print advertisements in order to disclose the CSR image they want to signal to their public(s).
Volatility Regime-Switching and Linkage among GCC Stock Markets

The GCC stock markets vary in terms of sensitivity to the magnitude of return volatility and the duration of volatility, regardless of the volatility regime and the return component. Among the GCC market, risk-averse investors and traders in the Oman and Saudi Arabia markets should particularly demand higher premiums for the extra volatility sensitivity during fad times than investors in the other markets. In terms of duration of volatility, investors and policy makers in the Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia should be aware of the longer duration of this volatility during the fad times. All GCC returns move in the same direction whether in terms of total return, fundamentals or fads under both volatility regimes. Correlations of the stock returns and their components with each other and with the oil price return are also weak, suggesting that country particularities in addition to the oil price return influence the stock component returns. JEL Classification: C22; F3; Q49
Impact of Retained Ownership, CEO-Chair Duality, and Foreign Equity Participation on Auditor Choice of IPO Firms: Evidence from an Emerging Market

In this paper we study the impact of corporate governance characteristics on IPO firms’ auditor choice in an emerging market setting. We use three corporate governance attributes – CEO-Chair duality, retained ownership, and foreign equity participation to test the impact of ownership structure on auditor choice of 129 Bangladeshi firms that went public during the period 1990 to 2005. Our findings from logistic regression suggest that CEO-Chair duality and the degree of foreign equity participation are significant determinants of auditor choice while proportion of board ownership is not. In addition, issuer size and whether the issuer is a green field operation also influence auditor choice while the length of a firm’s operating history does not seem to matter. Our findings support agency theory prediction that (at least one category of) principals (foreign shareholders in this case), are likely to trade-off higher monitoring costs (of hiring a higher quality auditor) with agency costs arising from asymmetric information, primarily borne by absentee owners. It also supports the signaling role managers of green field operations play by hiring higher quality auditors to mitigate the uncertainties associated with their offerings.
THD minimization of modular multilevel converter with unequal DC values

Different modulation techniques used to control multilevel converters can be classified based on the selected converter topology and optimization goals. Among all proposed modulation methods low switching frequency modulation techniques are very popular for multilevel converters yet non-real time low switching frequency methods cannot be applied to multilevel converters with unequal or varying DC values because these modulation techniques rely on look up tables and the size of look up tables will be huge in this case. This paper proposes a new modular multilevel converter (MMC) structure with unequal DC values. Some well-known low switching frequency modulation techniques and the commonly used PWM based methods are compared and using the new low switching frequency modulation technique called minimal total harmonic distortion (THD) modulation for MMC with unequal DC values is proposed. The PSCAD simulation results show that the new converter topology with unequal DC values has much lower THD compared to the typical MMC. Modulation algorithm is implemented in digital signal processor (DSP) and controller hardware in the loop (CHIL) implementation in RTDS verifies the real-time performance of the algorithm.
Transient recombinant protein expression in a human amniocyte cell line: The CAP‐T® cell system

The impact of transient gene expression approaches (TGE) on the rapid production of recombinant proteins is undisputed, despite that all efforts are currently relying on two host cell families only, namely HEK293 derivatives and CHO cell line(s). Yet, the increasing complexity of biological targets calls for more than two host cell types to meet the challenges of difficult‐to‐express proteins. For this reason, we evaluated the more recently established novel CAP‐T® cell line derived from human amniocytes for its performance and potential in transient gene expression. Upon careful analyses and adaptation of all process parameters we show here that indeed the CAP‐T® cells are extremely amenable to transient gene expression and recombinant protein production. Additionally, they possess inherent capabilities to express and secrete complex and difficult target molecules, thus adding an attractive alternative to the repertoire of existing host cell lines used in transient production processes. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2012;109: 2250–2261. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Repercussions of hypo and hyperthyroidism on the heart circadian clock

ABSTRACT Myocardial gene expression and metabolism fluctuate over the course of the day in association with changes in energy supply and demand. Time-of-day-dependent oscillations in myocardial processes have been linked to the intrinsic cardiomyocyte circadian clock. Triiodothyronine (T3) is an important modulator of heart metabolism and function. Recently, our group has reported time-of-day-dependent rhythms in cardiac T3 sensitivity, as well as, T3-mediated acute alterations on core clock components. Hypo and hyperthyroidism are the second most prevalent endocrine disease worldwide. Considering the importance of the cardiomyocyte circadian clock and T3 to cardiac physiology, the aim of this study was to investigate the consequences of chronic hypo and hyperthyroidism on 24-h rhythms of circadian clock genes in the heart. Hypo and hyperthyroidism was induced in rats by thyroidectomy (Tx) and i.p. injections of supraphysiological dose of T3, respectively. Here we report alterations in mRNA levels of the major core clock components (Bmal1, Per2, Nr1d1, and Rora) for both experimental conditions (with the exception of Per2 during hyperthyroid condition). Oscillations in mRNA levels of key glucose and fatty-acid metabolism genes known to be clock controlled (Pdk4, Ucp3, Acot1, and Cd36) were equally affected by the experimental conditions, especially during the hypothyroid state. These findings suggest that chronic alterations in thyroid status significantly impacts 24-h rhythms in circadian clock and metabolic genes in the heart. Whether these perturbations contribute toward the pathogenesis of cardiac dysfunction associated with hypo and hyperthyroidism requires further elucidation.
Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity

The amount of data in our world has been exploding, and analyzing large data sets—so-called big data— will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus, according to research by MGI and McKinsey's Business Technology Office. Leaders in every sector will have to grapple with the implications of big data, not just a few data-oriented managers. The increasing volume and detail of information captured by enterprises, the rise of multimedia, social media, and the Internet of Things will fuel exponential growth in data for the foreseeable future.
Advertising on the Internet

From the Publisher: How today's most successful online advertisers and marketers maximize their online presence, and how you can too This updated and expanded Second Edition of the bestselling guide to online advertising is must reading for everyone who wants to take advantage of the most important new advertising medium since television. A complete primer on online advertising for businesses of all sizes, it gets you up to speed on the crucial issues, hot new trends, and most effective new technologies in Internet advertising. Loaded with examples of some of today's most successful online advertising and marketing initiatives, it gives you the inside track on: *Successful online ad models *Market research online *Direct marketing, including opt-in e-mail, promotions, and sweepstakes *Targeting and personalization *Internet advertising management tools *Traffic measurement and gauging the effectiveness of your ads *Buying and selling ads on your Web site *Advertising locally *Advertising to an international market *Legal aspects of Internet advertising *How to advertise for free, or almost free (contributed by Eric Ward, the father of grassroots advertising strategies)
Institutional Investorsâ€™ Investment Durations and Stock Return Anomalies: Momentum, Reversal, Accruals, Share Issuance and R&D Increases

This paper examines the effect of institutional investors? investment duration on the efficiency of stock prices. Using a new duration measure based on quarterly institutional investors? portfolio holdings, the presence of short-term institutional investors can help explain many of the best-known stock return anomalies, possibly because these investors are affected by behavioral biases like overconfidence. Specifically, we find that both momentum returns and subsequent returns reversal are much stronger for stocks with greater proportions of short-term institutional investors. The accruals and share issuance anomalies are also stronger for stocks held primarily by short-term institutional investors. Finally, short-term institutional investors do not seem to recognize the benefits of significant R&D increases, as they tend to under-react to these increases.
Financial surety : guidelines for the implementation of financial surety for mine closure

It is now accepted practice that when a company relinquishes a mining title, whether for an exploration or mining site, it is responsible for carrying out the rehabilitation of that site prior to departure. To ensure this is the case, most jurisdictions now require some form of closure plan or rehabilitation program to be submitted to the regulatory authority prior to the start of any work on the site. It is an increasingly common requirement for the closure plan to contain details of the estimated cost of rehabilitation and for a financial surety to be established at the same time. This report aims to provide governments with the information they need to make their own informed decisions. It is based on a review of existing financial surety systems in a number of countries. Questionnaires were sent out to a total of fourteen regulatory authorities; of these, nine provided sufficient detail about their existing financial surety systems to be included as full case studies. These are presented in the section case studies along with a summary of the latest European Union (EU) waste directives. Except where otherwise stated, the financial surety applies to all stages of a mining project, regardless of size. The purpose of the financial surety is to ensure that there will be sufficient funds to pay for site rehabilitation and post closure monitoring and maintenance at any stage in the life of the project, including early or temporary closure. The main aim of site rehabilitation is to reduce the risk of pollution, restore the land and landscape for an appropriate use, improve the aesthetics of the area, and prevent any subsequent degradation. The extent and cost of final site rehabilitation can be reduced if the site is rehabilitated even as it is being mined, so that the rate of restoration is similar to the rate of exploration or exploitation. This ideal is not often achieved, however; the majority of rehabilitation usually takes place once work on the lease has ceased.
Prefrontal cortical projections to the striatum in macaque monkeys: Evidence for an organization related to prefrontal networks

The organization of projections from the prefrontal cortex (PFC) to the striatum in relation to previously defined “orbital” and “medial” networks within the PFC were studied in monkeys using anterograde and retrograde tracing techniques. The results indicate that the orbital and medial networks connect to different striatal regions. The ventromedial striatum (the medial caudate nucleus, accumbens nucleus, and ventral putamen) receives input predominantly from the medial PFC (mPFC) and orbital areas 12o, Iai, and 13a, which constitute the “medial” network. More specifically, caudal medial areas 32, 25, and 14r project to the medial edge of the caudate nucleus, accumbens nucleus, and ventromedial putamen, whereas rostral areas 10o, 10m, and 11m are restricted to the medial edge of the caudate. Projections from orbital areas 12o, 13a, and Iai extend more laterally into the lateral accumbens and the ventral putamen. Area 24 gives rise to a divided pattern of projections, including fibers to the ventromedial striatum, apparently from area 24b, and fibers to the dorsolateral striatum, apparently from area 24c. Other areas of orbital cortex (11l, 12m, 12l, 13m, 13l, Ial, and Iam) that constitute the “orbital” network project primarily to the central part of the rostral striatum. This region includes the central and lateral parts of the caudate nucleus, and the ventromedial putamen, on either side of the internal capsule. The results support the subdivision of the orbital and medial PFC into “medial” and “orbital” networks and suggest that the prefrontostriatal projections reflect the functional organization of the PFC rather than topographic location. J. Comp. Neurol. 425:447–470, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
An empirical study of management controls in product development

Product development is critical for many firms, because in many industries the development of products has become a primary source of competitive advantage. To manage this process many firms use management controls, but the effect of those controls on product development is not clear. Recent research in the product development field suggests that the role of management control is to reduce uncertainty rather than the traditionally-assumed focus of promoting goal congruence, and that organisation members use management controls in an interactive style rather than in the traditionally-assumed diagnostic style. The objective of this thesis is to provide empirical insight into management control practices in product development with particular reference to the interface between organisation members across different functions and hierarchal levels within the organisation. It examines both the role of management controls; either to promote goal congruence or to reduce uncertainty, and the style in which management controls are used; either interactively, diagnostically, to set boundaries, or influence beliefs during the activities that take place during the product development process for different types of product development project. To better understand how this takes place this thesis reports on the boundary objects (i.e. numbers, documents and models) that organisation members use during the product development activities to accomplish management control in practice. Empirical field material was collected during a nine-month intensive longitudinal field study, informed by practice theory (ethnomethodology), which was carried out
Building foreign brand personalities in Russia: the moderating effect of consumer ethnocentrism

Based on a survey of Western brands in Russia, three contributions are offered to the literature on international brand-building. First, the Aaker brand personality scale (Aaker 1997) was tested in a Russian context. Important similarities and differences between Western and Russian brand personality perceptions were identified. Second, the results show that brand personalities of Western brands also have an impact on brand attitudes among Russian consumers. Third, and most importantly, it is demonstrated that the effect of Western brand personalities is heavily moderated by consumer ethnocentrism. Specifically, only low-ethnocentric consumers are influenced by foreign brand personalities.
Asynchronous switching for low-power CLICHE netwok-on-chip

Asynchronous switching is proposed to achieve low power Network on Chip. Asynchronous switching reduces the power dissipation of the network if the activity factor of the data transfer between two ports αd is less than A αc + B αclk. Closed form expressions for power dissipation of CLICHE topology are provided for both synchronous and asynchronous switching. The area of the asynchronous switch is 50% greater than the area of the synchronous switch. However, the power dissipation of asynchronous switching could be decreased by up to 75.7%. Asynchronous switching becomes more efficient as technology advances and network density increases. A reduction in power dissipation reaches 82.3% for 256 IPs with the same chip size. Even with clock gating, asyn-choronous switching achieves significant power reduction of 77.7% for 75% clock activity factor.
Implications of Web 2.0 for Financial Institutions: Be a Driver, Not a Passenger

Web 2.0 heralds a new era of communication with a massive increase in information supply and where news, opinion and services flow directly from user to user. Financial institutions can take advantage if they stay abreast of this development. However, any Web 2.0 presence of a financial institution must be authentic and consistent with the institution’s brand and corporate culture. To leverage the potential, the need for an immaculate reputation and the right type of brand is becoming ever more important.
Revision of the New World genus Glyphidops Enderlein (Diptera: Neriidae) .

The genus Glyphidops Enderlein, 1922, the most widespread and speciose of the New World genera of Neriidae (Diptera), is revised herein. Glyphidops (Glyphidops) ruselatus, new species, G. (G.) steyskali, new species and G. (G.) coracinus, new species are described. Of the 16 previously described species, which were last treated by Aczél (1961), the following synonyms are proposed: Chaetomeristes peruanus Enderlein is treated as a junior synonym of G. (G.) bullatus (Enderlein); Nerius dispar Cresson, Oncopsia neutra Hennig and Oncopsia dubia Hennig are treated as junior synonyms of G. (O.) durus (Cresson) and Oncopsia seductrix Hennig, is treated as a junior synonym of G. (O.) flavifrons (Bigot). The species Telostylus vittatus Cresson, is removed from synonymy with G. (G.) filosus (Fabricius) and revalidated as senior synonym of G. ochreus Hennig. A new diagnosis for the genus and all species are provided, as is an identification key to species. New locality records are provided for Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador and Brazil.
Reproducibility of derived central arterial waveforms in patients with chronic renal failure.

Arterial stiffness potently predicts mortality in dialysis patients. Pulse-wave analysis permits the non-invasive assessment of indices of arterial stiffness and the central pressure waveform by applanation tonometry. The aim of this study was to assess the reproducibility of pulse-wave analysis in patients with chronic renal failure. A total of 188 subjects (23 healthy controls, along with 71 pre-dialysis, 67 dialysis and 27 transplant patients) took part. Duplicate measurements were recorded of brachial blood pressure using the semi-automated Omron 705 device and of the radial artery pressure waveform using applanation tonometry. The central pressure aortic waveform was then obtained by application of a transfer function incorporated into the SphygmoCor software. Central aortic mean blood pressure (MBP), indices of arterial stiffness [augmentation index (AIx) and time to reflection (TR)] and the subendocardial viability ratio (SEVR) were analysed for intra-observer, inter-observer and long-term reproducibility using Bland-Altman plots. The mean (+/-S.D.) intra-observer difference was 0+/-4% for AIx, 0+/-20 ms for TR, 0+/-3 mmHg for aortic MBP and 0+/-18% for the SEVR. Inter-observer mean differences were 0+/-3% for AIx, 1+/-7 ms for TR, 1+/-4 mmHg for aortic MBP and 1+/-9% for the SEVR. For the long-term study, the mean differences were -1+/-9% for AIx, -2+/-13 mmHg for aortic MBP, -2+/-12 ms for TR and 1+/-29% for the SEVR. Pulse-wave analysis showed excellent reproducibility in all the studies, and is therefore suitable for use in all patients with chronic renal failure. Further prospective and interventional studies are now required to assess whether AIx and TR are important prognostic indices of cardiovascular events, and therefore relevant surrogate indices of arterial stiffness in this susceptible population.
Iconicity of sequence: A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English

Abstract Recent work in functional and cognitive linguistics has argued and presented evidence that the positioning of adverbial clauses is motivated by competing pressures from syntactic parsing, discourse pragmatics, and semantics. Continuing this line of research, the current paper investigates the effect of the iconicity principle on the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses. The iconicity principle predicts that the linear ordering of main and subordinate clauses mirrors the sequential ordering of the events they describe. Drawing on corpus data from spoken and written English, the paper shows that, although temporal clauses exhibit a general tendency to follow the main clause, there is a clear correlation between clause order and iconicity: temporal clauses denoting a prior event precede the main clause more often than temporal clauses of posteriority. In addition to the iconicity principle, there are other factors such as length, complexity, and pragmatic import that may affect the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses. Using logistic regression analysis, the paper investigates the effects of the various factors on the linear structuring of complex sentences.