Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Strategic Human Resources Management: Human Resources or Human Capital

Knowing that many or majority of companies do have human resources management department, there are some companies that have human capital management. Even these departments may not have to many differences they are slightly diverse. Strategic human resource management usually is inner company’s department which is erected or created with aim of helping company to meet the needs of their employees while promoting company goals and objectives. In common, Strategic Human Resource Management deals with any aspects of a business that affects or directly deals with employees more precisely such as hiring, pay, benefits, training, and administration, and even the bitter act of firing, respectively. Strategic human capital management has almost the same operating function, but they are more focused on people to treat as real capital or asset. Retention of employees is main objective of SHCM (Strategic Human Capital Management). Objective of is to offer to the employee advanced trainings, education, and improve overall working conditions since current market changes require a strong built tram within the organization or company aiming to able to compete towards everyday stronger and stronger competitors worldwide. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013. v2n9p88
Antigenic Variation among Bordetella

The O chain polysaccharide (O PS) of Bordetella bronchiseptica and Bordetella parapertussis lipopolysaccharide is a homopolymer of 2,3-diacetamido-2,3-dideoxygalacturonic acid (GalNAc3NAcA) in which some of the sugars are present as uronamides. The terminal residue contains several unusual modifications. To date, two types of modification have been characterized, and a survey of numerous strains demonstrated that each contained one of these two modification types. Host antibody responses against the O PS are directed against the terminal residue modifications, and there is little cross-reactivity between the two types. This suggests that Bordetella O PS modifications represent a means of antigenic variation. Here we report the characterization of the O PS of B. bronchiseptica strain MO149. It consists of a novel two-sugar repeating unit and a novel terminal residue modification, with the structure Me-4-α-l-GalNAc3NAcA-(4-β-d-GlcNAc3NAcA-4-α-l-GalNAc3NAcA-)5–6-, which we propose be defined as the B. bronchiseptica O3 PS. We show that the O3 PS is very poorly immunogenic and that the MO149 strain contains a novel wbm (O PS biosynthesis) locus. Thus, there is greater diversity among Bordetella O PSs than previously recognized, which is likely to be a result of selection pressure from host immunity. We also determine experimentally, for the first time, the absolute configuration of the diacetimido-uronic acid sugars in Bordetella O PS.
Risk positioning of UK grocery multiple retailers

Gaining competitive advantage in retailing requires knowledge of the attributes consumers use to discriminate between stores and an understanding of why these attributes are important. Although a number of store-image studies (e.g., Kelly and Stephenson 1967; Lindquist 1974; Hallsworth 1987) have identified discriminant attributes, no study has related its findings to any buyer-behaviour theory and the links between store attributes and buyer behaviour remain largely speculative. In addition, evidence suggests that these attributes vary by store type (Tigert 1983) and over time (Davies 1992); thus existing studies are rarely useful to new situations, e.g. UK grocery retailers. The article explores the prima facie case for using perceived-risk theory in analysing store perceptions and sets out definitions of store risks in this context. We propose Kelly's repertory-grid methodology as the most useful method of assessing store image and attempt to relate store attributes to customers' patronage preferences .
Chinese Visible Human Project: Dataset Acquisition and Its Primary Applications

The research on digital visible human is of great significance and application value. The US Visible Human Project (VHP) created the first digital image data set of a complete human (one male and one female) in 1995. To promote a worldwide application-oriented VHR, more visible human data sets representative of different populations of the world are in demand. The Chinese Visible Human (CVH) male (created in Oct. 2002) and female (created in Feb. 2003) project achieved greater integrity of images, easier blood vessel identification, and were free of organic lesion. The most noteworthy technical advance of CVH Project was the construction of a low temperature laboratory, which contributed to the prevention of small structures (including teeth, concha nasalis, and articular cartilage) from falling off out of the milling surface. Thus, better integrity of images can be ensured. So far, we have achieved an acquisition of five CVH data sets and the corresponding volume visualization on PC. The 3D reconstruction of some organs or structures has been finished. The work of segmentation on a complete data set is still on-going
Identification and partial characterization of a myosin-like protein from cysticerci and adults of Taenia solium using a monoclonal antibody

The host–parasite relationship in taeniosis due to Taenia solium is practically unknown. Monoclonal antibodies were prepared against whole extracts of adult T. solium parasites and evaluated with tapeworms recovered from experimentally infected hamsters and with cysticerci from naturally infected pigs. With one antibody, mAb 4B3, it was possible to identify, purify and partially characterize a T. solium myosin. Some findings indicate that it corresponds to conventional myosin or myosin type II such as: purification with KCl, high molecular weight, size, structure (dimeric protein with globular and long tail portions), reaction with commercial anti-myosin antibodies, distribution in muscle fibres of parasites and cross-reactivity with antibodies against paramyosin from T. solium cysticerci. The reaction of the mAb was only with taeniids and not with other parasites. Also myosin was detected in faeces of infected animals and in supernatants of parasite cultures. Its presence in biological fluids may be useful for diagnosis of infected hosts.
Further Studies of the Role of Cyclic b-Glucans in Symbiosis . An ndvC Mutant of Bradyrhizobium japonicum Synthesizes Cyclodecakis-( 1 3 3 )-b-Glucosyl 1

Soybean and Alfalfa Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Building 006, BARC-W, Beltsville, Maryland 20705 (A.A.B., A.M., D.L.K.); Department of Natural Resource Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (A.A.B.); Botanisches Institut der Universität, Menzinger Strasse 67, D-80638 Munich, Germany (A.M., J.E.); USDA-ARS, Eastern Regional Research Center, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania 19038 (P.E.P., A.H.); and Universität Bayreuth, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany (C.K., N.S.)
Moral Hazard and Banking Competition

We construct a model of bank’s financing under moral hazard. The bank as an intermediary borrows funds from the investors (depositors) to channel them to the entrepreneurs who run the projects of the firm. The firm’s project return is risky, which is the source of the moral hazard. Also the investors are uncertain about whether their investment results in a positive return under scrupulous behavior of bank, but bank promises the investors to monitor the project properly that is the second source of moral hazard. We ignore the incentive issues related to the deposit insurance, and focus on uninsured but monitored bank debt. We characterize the conditions under which the double moral hazard competition leads to an excessive level of risk and insufficient monitoring.
Relevance of Organizational Capabilities and Its Dynamics: What to Learn from Entrants’ Product Portfolios About the Determinants of Entry Timing

The resource-based view of the firm suggests that the timing of market entry by a firm depends on its resources and capabilities, but several important questions remain. First, in a high-velocity market where capabilities change quickly, how does entry timing depend on the capabilities at varying points in time? Second, how much flexibility does a firm have in altering its capabilities to achieve desirable entry timing? To answer these questions, this study sets out to develop a dynamic, refined version of the resource-based view that parameterizes a firm by its time-varying capability relevance with respect to a focal market, and makes predictions on entry timing and future growth of capability relevance. The study develops a novel approach that uses the entrants’ product portfolios to infer a potential entrant’s capability relevance. The results based on a panel of potential entrants show that the initial and current capability relevance each affect entry timing alone, revealing the persistent effect of the initial condition. However, given the knowledge of the current capability relevance, the initial relevance has no effect on entry timing, suggesting that the initial relevance affects entry timing through its influence on the current relevance. Firms that are in an initially unfavorable position can still achieve early entry, provided that they improve their capability relevance over time.
Application of Green Fluorescent Protein as a Marker for Selection of Transgenic Mouse Embryos before Implantation

In this study, we evaluated the application of green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, for efficient selection of possible transgenic and non-mosaic mouse embryos after microinjection. We injected 353 one-cell mouse zygotes with a DNA fragment carrying Gfp gene under the control of §-actin gene promoter. Eighty-seven per cent (307 embryos) of the injected embryos survived after microinjection. The surviving embryos were cultured for an additional day and then analysed for detection of GFP expression using a standard fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) filter set attached to a microscope. In this analysis, 34 % of the two-cell stage embryos (37 embryos out of 108) were found to be GFP positive. Of these GFP-positive embryos, 8 embryos out of 37 (21%) were found to be non-mosaic as GFP expression was detected in all the blastomeres. Our results show that the successful use of GFP as a vital marker for detection of mosaic embryos holds promise for potential application of this technology as a selection tool in the generation of transgenic animals.
BER Approximation for Extended V-BLAST Codes with Selection Combining

We present an extension of Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) codes that provides various encoding rate and investigate bit error rate (BER) performance for the extended V-BLAST codes when zero-forcing (ZF) and selection-combining (SC) techniques are employed at a receiver. In this paper, we make an effort to achieve time diversity in designing extended V-BLAST codes with a ZF receiver. Moreover, in spatially transmit-correlated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, BER equations of M-ary QAM and PSK constellations are derived by using a probability density function (PDF) approximation of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) based on the assumption of independent post-processing SNRs. Simulation and analytic results are compared for time-varying Rayleigh fading channels that are modelled using a first-order Markovian model.
The coordination of S-sulfhydration, S-nitrosylation, and phosphorylation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase by hydrogen sulfide

S-Sulfhydration increases the activity of endothelial nitric oxide synthase, an enzyme important in vasodilation. Regulating the Production of NO Blood vessels relax and blood flow increases when the enzyme eNOS produces nitric oxide (NO) in the endothelial cells that line blood vessels. The activity of eNOS is affected by modifications to specific sites in the enzyme, such as S-sulfhydration, a process that is triggered by the gas hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Altaany et al. found that S-sulfhydration of eNOS affected other modifications to the enzyme, increasing eNOS activity. Endothelial cells from mice that could not produce H2S produced less NO than those from normal mice. Enhancing the S-sulfhydration of eNOS may be an effective strategy to increase blood flow in patients. The gasotransmitter hydrogen sulfide (H2S), which is generated by cystathionine γ-lyase (CSE), signals by modifying proteins through S-sulfhydration and potentially other mechanisms. A target protein for H2S is endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), an enzyme that generates nitric oxide (NO), which causes vasodilation. We investigated whether H2S-induced S-sulfhydration affected the S-nitrosylation and phosphorylation of eNOS and the functional effects of changes in these posttranslational modifications on eNOS activity. In vitro, different NO donors induced the S-nitrosylation of eNOS without affecting its S-sulfhydration, whereas the H2S donor sodium hydrosulfide (NaHS) decreased the S-nitrosylation of eNOS. Cys443 was the primary S-sulfhydration site in eNOS and was one site that could be S-nitrosylated. Phosphorylation increases eNOS activity. Although exposure of eNOS-expressing HEK-293 cells to NaHS or vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) triggered the phosphorylation of wild-type and C443G-eNOS, VEGF did not affect the S-sulfhydration of eNOS and a mutant of eNOS that could not be phosphorylated was still S-sulfhydrated. eNOS can be present in cells in monomeric or dimeric form, but only eNOS dimers produce NO. In wild-type mice, eNOS proteins were predominantly dimerized, whereas eNOS from CSE-knockout (KO) mice, S-nitrosylated eNOS, and heterologously expressed C443G-eNOS was mostly monomeric. Accordingly, basal production of NO was lower in CSE-KO endothelial cells than in wild-type endothelial cells. Our data suggest that H2S increases eNOS activity by inducing the S-sulfhydration of eNOS, promoting its phosphorylation, inhibiting its S-nitrosylation, and increasing eNOS dimerization, whereas NO decreases eNOS activity by promoting the formation of eNOS monomers.
A low-overhead method of embedded software profiling

With the continuous development of embedded technology, embedded applications are becoming increasingly popular in daily lives, and respectively embedded software is in great demand. As a result, how to profile embedded software to guarantee its quality becomes a focus of attention. This paper focuses on this issue. It analyzes current methods of embedded software profiling and their defects, and then proposes a low-overhead and more accurate method. It also performs some strict experiments to prove that it is effective and much better than current methods.
CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION OF LEXICAL TONE BY TONAL AND NON-TONAL LANGUAGE SPEAKERS

Categorical perception occurs when a physical continuum is perceived discontinuously. In speech, a vast body of research has shown that consonants are perceived categorically whereas vowels are perceived continuously. The other major phonetic unit of speech, lexical tone, has been relatively neglected in categorical perception studies. Here tonal language (Thai), and non-tonal language (Australian English) listeners are tested for their categorical perception of three artificial tone continua (mid-rise, mid-fall, rise-fall) in four different contexts, speech, filtered speech, music, and sine waves. Thai listeners were found to perceive speech continua significantly more categorically than Australian English listeners, but for the non-speech continua perception was equivalent for the two language groups. The results indicate that the categorical perception of tone is to some extent learned.
Influence of MAI in a CDMA VLP system

In this paper, we study a Visible Light Positioning (VLP) system using Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). In order to facilitate implementation, the LEDs are transmitting data in a non-synchronized way to the receiver requiring no backbone network. The positioning algorithm uses the received optical power calculated from the auto- correlation peak value. Because of the asynchronous system Multiple Access Interference (MAI), random interference with the auto- correlation peak, will occur and cause position errors. Practical results show that a CDMA VLP system can have position errors smaller then 40 cm and not be influenced by synchronization problems due to MAI. The positioning error and synchronization aren't only determined by the MAI but also the receiver Field Of View (FOV) is an important parameter. Depending on the CDMA code, the LEDs still have 97% of the illumination functionality compared when there is no communication.
Recent Increase in Nybelinia surmenicola Prevalence and Intensity in Pacific Hake (Merluccius productus) Off the United States West Coast

abstract: A larval marine cestode was found in 82.0% of 834 Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) stomachs collected from 341 trawl stations along the United States west coast during the summers of 2008 and 2009. Morphology and DNA sequencing was used to identify the cestode as Nybelinia surmenicola. In an examination of 131 Pacific hake stomachs collected from the same region in 1999, N. surmenicola prevalence was 35.1%. The results from a general linear model suggested that their prevalence is influenced by year and latitude, Pacific hake size, and sex. Mean intensity of N. surmenicola in 2008–2009 was 20.22 (±1.13 SE) and was positively related to Pacific hake length and the latitude of collection. Year-1 Pacific hake (<27 cm length) had significantly lower prevalence and intensity of N. surmenicola compared to older and larger fish. Pacific hake collected south of Point Conception, California (32.5 to 35°N) had lower prevalence and intensity of N. surmenicola compared to those collected in northern latitudes (35.1 to 48.4°N). Higher N. surmenicola prevalence in Pacific hake in recent years suggests food-web fluctuations in the northern California current ecosystem caused by changes in ocean transport of zooplankton or pelagic fish distributions and warrants future monitoring as a metric for ecosystem change.
Recursive Total Variation Filtering Based 3D Fusion

3D reconstruction from mobile image sensors is crucial for many offline-inspection and online robotic application. While several techniques are known today to deliver high accuracy 3D models from images via offline-processing, 3D reconstruction in real-time remains a major goal still to achieve. This work focuses on incremental 3D modeling from error prone depth image data, since standard 3D fusion techniques are tailored on accurate depth data from active sensors such as the Kinect. Imprecise depth data is usually provided by stereo camera sensors or simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques. This work proposes an incremental extension of the total variation (TV) filtering technique, which is shown to reduce the errors of the reconstructed 3D model by up to 77% compared to state of the art techniques.
Numerical modeling of the ion temperature influence on the plasmasphere 3 D structure formation

The formation of three-dimensional structure of the "plasmasphere – ionosphere" system under the influence of ionization / recombination, charge exchange reactions and field-aligned (along the geomagnetic field lines) diffusion of ions O and H has been investigated by the numerical simulation method using the global upper atmosphere model (UAM). A few large-scale structural features: 3 night-time ionospheric electron density maxima – sub-auroral, mid-latitudinal and near-equatorial, and corresponding peaks of n(O) in the outer plasmasphere and n(H) in the mid-latitudinal plasmasphere have been obtained. The geometry of the geomagnetic field and the spatial non-homogeneity of the ion temperature give a determinative contribution to the formation of these features. Аннотация. Методом численного моделирования с использованием глобальной модели верхней атмосферы Земли (UAM) исследовано формирование трехмерной структуры системы "плазмосфераионосфера" под влиянием процессов ионизации/рекомбинации, зарядообмена и продольной диффузии ионов O и H. Показано формирование нескольких крупномасштабных структурных особенностей: три ночных ионосферных максимума электронной концентрации – приавроральный, среднеширотный и приэкваториальный, и соответствующие им максимумы концентрации ионов O во внешней плазмосфере и концентрации ионов H в среднеширотной плазмосфере. Существенный вклад в формирование этих особенностей вносит геометрия магнитного поля и пространственная неоднородность ионной температуры. Ключевые слова: ионосфера, плазмосфера, амбиполярная диффузия, геометрия магнитного поля, ионная температура
Marketing relationships in Brazil: trends in value strategies and capabilities

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of value strategies among international and national firms in Brazil by exploring the trends in value strategies for use in future marketing relationships and the capabilities necessary to implement those value strategies.Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a Delphi technique to elicit the opinions and perceptions from a group of B2B marketing experts. An iterative data collection with 30 senior executives of national and foreign, mid‐ and large size firms in Brazil was used to explore the strategies firms use, the types of key capabilities, and the capabilities that drive performance.Findings – The findings show that both national and international firms in Brazil expect to continue to use commodity strategies as their primary relational form, but move toward the higher value added strategies. Higher value added strategies are expected to account for 42 per cent of the respondent firms' relationships in the coming years. Firms rated “meth.
Use of Knowledge Graph in Rescoring the N-Best List in Automatic Speech Recognition

With the evolution of neural network based methods, automatic speech recognition (ASR) field has been advanced to a level where building an application with speech interface is a reality. In spite of these advances, building a real-time speech recogniser faces several problems such as low recognition accuracy, domain constraint, and out-of-vocabulary words. The low recognition accuracy problem is addressed by improving the acoustic model, language model, decoder and by rescoring the N-best list at the output of the decoder. We are considering the N-best list rescoring approach to improve the recognition accuracy. Most of the methods in the literature use the grammatical, lexical, syntactic and semantic connection between the words in a recognised sentence as a feature to rescore. In this paper, we have tried to see the semantic relatedness between the words in a sentence to rescore the N-best list. Semantic relatedness is computed using TransE~\cite{bordes2013translating}, a method for low dimensional embedding of a triple in a knowledge graph. The novelty of the paper is the application of semantic web to automatic speech recognition.