Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Autonomy, market orientation and performance in Indian retail banking

Purpose – This paper aims to find out whether superior autonomy at boundary spanning levels in service organizations results in better market orientation and performance and whether autonomy and decentralization, though conceptually different, have similar practical implications. Researchers developed a theoretical model and tested it in the post‐liberalized Indian retail banking context to address these concerns.Design/methodology/approach – Bank branches constituted the unit of analysis. Further to getting initial insights on market orientation in retail banking through interviews researchers conducted a survey among branch managers. A total of 305 branch managers were contacted of which 122 cooperated.Findings – Regression results suggest that superior personnel related and goal setting autonomy at boundary spanning levels have positive market orientation as well as performance implications. Marketing autonomy did not have significant impact on market orientation. Autonomy and decentralization though c.
RETAIL SINGLE-TRIP IN-STORE REPLENISHMENT

Ideally, we want to have a single-trip in-store replenishment. Namely, only a single trip is needed for a retail store worker to have to travel to fill the shelf after a product is received at the store. This can be achieved by having the lot size received smaller than the shelf space less the number of units left on the shelf at the shelf replenishment time. In this paper, we introduce the consideration of the in-store handling cost by the second trip in retail replenishment decision models, given the retail shelf space. We consider the case where products are ordered in multiple packs and there is a part of the distribution handling cost that is for each pack handled. From the concept developed in this paper, there are several future research opportunities to develop optimization models, which will help retail and vendor managers to better coordinate and make decisions with regard to the lot size produced, ordered, and delivered in the supply chain.
Swiss physicians' attitudes to assisted suicide: A qualitative and quantitative empirical study.

PRINCIPLES In Switzerland, assisted suicide is legal as long as it does not involve self-serving motives. Physician-assisted suicide is regulated by specific guidelines issued by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS). This article summarises the results of an empirical study of physicians' attitudes to assisted suicide in Switzerland, which was commissioned by the SAMS. The study (in German) is available online at: www.samw. ch. METHODS Twelve qualitative interviews and a written survey were conducted, involving a disproportional, stratified random sample of Swiss physicians (4,837 contacted, 1,318 respondents, response rate 27%). RESULTS Due to the response rate and the wide variation of respondents from one professional speciality to another, the findings and interpretations presented should be regarded as applying only to the group of physicians who are interested in or are particularly affected by the issue of assisted suicide. They cannot be generalised to the whole body of physicians in Switzerland. Of the respondents, 77% considered physician-assisted suicide to be justifiable in principle, while 22% were fundamentally opposed to it. Although 43% could imagine situations where they would personally be prepared to perform assisted suicide, it is clear from the study that this potential readiness does not mean that all respondents would automatically be prepared to perform it in practice as soon as the legal criteria are met. The vast majority of respondents emphasised that there should be no obligation to perform physician-assisted suicide. Opinions differed as to whether physician-assisted suicide should remain restricted to cases where the person concerned is approaching the end of life. While a large majority of respondents considered physician-assisted suicide also to be justifiable in principle in non-end-of-life situations, 74% supported the maintenance of the end-of-life criterion in the SAMS Guidelines as a necessary condition for physician-assisted suicide. Over 50% of the respondents had never been confronted with a request for assisted suicide by a patient. CONCLUSIONS The vast majority of physicians surveyed considered assisted suicide to be justifiable in principle; however, their support was strongly dependent on the specific situation. The study indicates that even physicians expressing a potential readiness to perform assisted suicide themselves would not do so automatically if all the criteria for assisted suicide were met. Assisted suicide thus appears to be an exceptional situation, which physicians would only become involved in on a voluntary basis. The authors recommend that the current SAMS Guidelines regulating physician-assisted suicide in Switzerland should be reviewed with regard to the end-of-life criterion as a necessary condition for physician-assisted suicide.
1 Pre-screening tools for diabetes and obesity-associated dyslipidaemia : comparing BMI , waist and waist hip ratio

249 words Text: 3849 words 2 figures 15 4 tables running head: Screening for undiagnosed diabetes and dyslipidaemia 20 *Correspondence to: Beverley Balkau INSERM U258-IFR69 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier 94807 Villejuif Cedex 25 France tel: 33 1 45 59 51 61 fax: 33 1 47 26 94 54 E-mail: balkau@vjf.inserm. fr 30 Guarantor: B Balkau Contributors: B Balkau was involved in the protocol and study design, analysis and writing of the article. D Saphino and L Mhamdi did the statistical analysis and critically reviewed the article. A Petrella, M Cailleau and D Arondel participated in the protocol design and reviewed 35 the manuscript. MA Charles participated in the study design, analysis and critical review of the article. H A L athor m anscript inerm -008602, version 1 HAL author manuscript Eur J Clin Nutr 03/2006; 60(3): 295-304
PENGARUH IMPLEMENTASI SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION, JUST IN TIME PURCHASING DAN JUST IN TIME MANUFACTURING TERHADAP LOGISTICS PERFORMANCE

The purpose of this research was to know whether there were direct influence between the implementation supply chain integration, just in time purchasing and just in time manufacturing toward logistic performance on Supplier Companies (Transportation Cost, Material Handling Cost and Inventory Level)”. This research used 30 supplier company of PT. Toyota Manufacturing Indonesiapremisesaredetermined based on purposive sampling. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The result of this research concludes that the implementation of Supply Chain Integration and Just in Time Purchasing directly influence Logistics Performance, meanwhile, the implementation of Just in Time Manufacturing indirectly impact Logistics Performance
Contributing factor to business continuity management (BCM) failure - A case of Malaysia public sector

As Malaysia is focusing on building a knowledge-based economy and becoming more dependent on IT in the information age, the need to ensure business continuity in the event of crisis or disaster becomes more important than ever.All public organizations are urged to prepare their BCM to ensure that operations continue swiftly after the unintended event.However, recent studies showed that the frequency of service disruptions is quite alarming even though there is BCM in place. Thus, this study investigates the current practice of BCM and the contributing factors, namely organizations, people, process and technology to the failure of BCM implementation in Malaysia’s public service. The study was undertaken using questionnaires whereby 195 IT people participated in the study.The selected agencies are Frontline agencies and have implemented BCM.Findings showed that organization, people, process, and technology are significantly correlated with BCM failure in the Malaysian Public Sector.The empirical results reveal that process is the key factors contribute to the BCM failure followed humans, technology and organization policy, culture and structure.However, the current BCM approach is more toward technology oriented and only involves the IT department.BCM implementation should involve all levels of the organization and cover all related critical business process.The results of this study have two implications: first, is the discovery of the factor that contribute to the BCM failure and second, the results of this study prioritized the factor that contributes to the BCM failure.This is an important finding because; it enables public sector agencies, planned and implements improvements as needed and at the appropriate rate for each BCM failure factor.
The Geography and Co-Location of European Technology-Speci fic Co-Inventorship Networks

This paper contributes with empirical findings to European co-inventorship location and geographical coincidence of co-patenting networks. Based on EPO co-patenting information for the reference period 2000-2004, we analyze the spatial configuration of 44 technology-specific co-inventorship networks. European co-inventorship (co-patenting) activity is spatially linked to 1259 European NUTS3 units (EU25+CH+NO) and their NUTS1 regions by inventor location. We extract 7.135. 117 EPO co-patenting linkages from our own relational database that makes use of the OECD RegPAT (2009) Files. The matching between International Patent Classification (IPC) subclasses and 44 technology fields is based on the ISI-SPRU-OST-concordance. We confirm the hypothesis that the 44 co-inventorship networks differ in their overall size (nodes, linkages, self-loops) and that they are dominated by similar groupings of regions. The paper offers statistical evidence for the presence of highly localized European co-inventorship networks for all 44 technology fields, as the majority of linkages between NUTS3 units (counties and districts) are within the same NUTS1 regions. Accordingly, our findings helps to understand general presence of positive spatial autocorrelation in regional patent data. Our analysis explicitly accounts for different network centrality measures (betweenness, degree, eigenvector). Spearman rank correlation coefficients for all 44 technology fields confirm that most co-patenting networks co-locate in those regions that are central in several technology-specific co-patenting networks. These findings support the hypothesis that leading European regions are indeed multi-field network nodes and that most research collaboration is taking place in dense co-patenting networks.
Industrial benchmarking for competitive advantage

This paper deals with several different aspects of the concept of benchmarking in order to give the audience a basic understanding of what benchmarking is, how it is done, and what it can give in terms of improvement results. The main issues covered are definitions of benchmarking and explanations of the different types of benchmarking that exist and what implications these have, both in terms of improvement potential, difficulties, and suitability. Furthermore, ethical and legal aspects linked to benchmarking and the benchmarking wheel, a benchmarking process model explaining the phases and steps of the benchmarking study. A relatively large portion of the paper will be devoted to explaining how to carry out a benchmarking study and various pitfalls that might be encountered. The remainder of the paper will discuss the improvement results that companies that have used benchmarking actually have achieved. These range from phenomenal successes to downright failures, and the paper will explore conclusions derived from research on the topic.
How to Design a Triple Bottom Line Organization: A Start-Up Case Study

In today’s business environment, where success for a start-up company is measured by early revenue and profit, it can be quite challenging to design a triple bottom line organization (people/planet/profit) from the very beginning. We present a case study of a U.S.-based start-up firm and discuss its early challenges, developmental processes, and current success as a triple bottom line firm. The company’s founder and CEO, with no initial product, distribution, or revenue strategy, sought to develop a company that could provide the marketplace with a valuable product while also staying true to a corporate vision of positively affecting less fortunate people. Our analysis of the case suggests that the founder’s vision, passion, transparent communication, and leveraging of partners’ resources were key elements in building the firm. We draw implications of our case study for the designers of future triple bottom line organizations.
18F-FDG PET/CT for Monitoring the Response of Lymphoma to Radioimmunotherapy

We retrospectively evaluated 18F-FDG PET/CT for monitoring the response of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to radioimmunotherapy. Methods: A total of 33 clinical patients received 131I-tositumomab (n = 23) or 90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan (n = 10) and underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT scans before radioimmunotherapy and at 12 wk after radioimmunotherapy. A third scan was performed on 13 patients at 24 wk after radioimmunotherapy, 12 of whom did not receive interval therapy. Tumor metabolic activity was assessed before and after radioimmunotherapy visually and quantitatively by lean maximum standardized uptake value (SUVlean max). Response was assessed by the International Workshop Criteria (IWC) and Revised IWC, which includes 18F-FDG PET (IWC-PET). Results: Mean SUVlean max decreased from baseline in 244 target lesions 12 wk after radioimmunotherapy (from 6.51 ± 4.05 to 3.94 ± 4.41; P < 0.01), regardless of response at 12 wk after radioimmunotherapy (P ≤ 0.02). After radioimmunotherapy, SUVlean max was lower for responders than for nonresponders (P ≤ 0.01). Median percentage change in SUVlean max of target lesions per patient was −51% (−95% to 97%). No significant difference in decline in SUVlean max between patients who received 131I-tositumomab and those who received 90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan was demonstrated (−31% ± 51% vs. −47% ± 46%; P = 0.38). Patients with greater than a 52% decline in SUVlean max tended toward longer survival (P = 0.09) than those with lesser declines. The 12-wk overall response rate to radioimmunotherapy based on IWC was 42% (14/33); complete response rate was 15% (5/33). Eleven of 12 patients with progression at 12 wk had new disease sites, and in 4 patients, new disease sites were the only sites of progression. Of 108 lesions evaluated at 12 and 24 wk after radioimmunotherapy, 49 resolved at 12 wk and remained resolved at 24 wk, 17 gradually declined in SUV over 24 wk, and 37 initially decreased at 12 wk but increased at 24 wk. PET showed disease progression at 24 wk in 10 of 13 patients; 7 patients had new lesions and 1 was reclassified from partial response to complete response. Conclusion: In non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 18F-FDG uptake in tumors typically drops significantly after radioimmunotherapy. A continued decline in tumor SUVlean max between 12 and 24 wk without additional therapy can occur, suggesting a need for delayed-response assessment. In patients who progress after radioimmunotherapy, new sites of disease commonly develop, rather than recurrence or progression at previous disease sites. Large declines in 18F-FDG uptake tend to be seen in those with the longest progression-free survival.
Strategi Pemasaran untuk Meningkatkan Penjualan Pupuk Organik (Studi Kasus pada Simantri 174 Gapoktan Dharma Pertiwi Kelurahan Lukluk, Kecamatan Mengwi, Kabupaten Badung)

Abstract Marketing Strategies to Increase Sales Organic Fertilizer (Case Study on 174 Simantri Gapoktan Dharma Pertiwi LuklukVillage, District Mengwi, Badung ) The marketing strategy is a form of plan that decompose in the field of marketing. To obtain optimal results, marketing strategies have a board scope in the field of marketing include the strategy in the face of competition, pricing strategy, product strategy, service strategy.This study aims to determine the general strategy alternative strategies for marketing organic fertilizer at 174 SimantriGapoktan Dharma Pertiwi. This study was conducted in July 2015 held at 174 SimantriGapoktan Dharma Pertiwi Lukluk Village, District Mengwi, Badung. The analytical method used in this research is the analysis of the corporate environment that consists of a matrix of IFAS (Internal Strategic Factors) and matrix analysis EFAS (External Strategic Factors), matrix IE (internal external), and SWOT matrix. Analysis of IE matrix based on the score matrix IFAS and matrix EFAS to obtain the position of the business of Simantri 174 Gapoktan Dharma Pertiwi in internal conditions are very strong and the response effort organic fertilizer is to external factors that it faces is high. Swot matrix analysis resulted in several alternative strategies, strategy ST three generate alternative strategies, WO strategy resulted in four alternative strategiesand strategies WT produce three alternative strategies. Keywords :marketing strategy, organic fertilizer, analytical method
Business Plan Development -- An Exercise in Functional Food Products

Few areas of business attract as much attention as new ventures, and few new aspects of new-venture creation as much attention as the business plan. Countless books and articles in the popular press discuss the topic. A growing number of annual business-plan contest are springing in developed and developing countries (Shalman, 1997). Currently, more research institutes in various countries also increasingly pay attention to the subject partly due to increasing pressures from its stakeholders to demonstrate its measurable performance to the public who has funded their activities through tax. Business achievements such as amount of revenues generated from customers or users, number of spin off companies, and the like are becoming important indicators of some research institutes. To achieve such objectives, activities need to be planned with business approach which is different to a research plan. For example, how a research institute make a decision whether or not a particular functional food product resulted from its research activities need to be scaled up. At this stage, consideration will have to go beyond technical competence; but more on business justification. A business plan can help to describe such business feasibility. This paper elaborate key elements of a business plan and its application in functional food-based products and provides simple guidance to prepare such business plan.
The Role and Importance of Governance for the Public Sector. Case Study for Romania

The development and modernization of public administration under restricted budgetary resources imposes a rigorous control on the spending of public funds. In this regard the modified law of internal public audit underlines the necessity for institutional governance in the public sector. The paper starts from these changes of the Romanian internal public audit law analyzing the relationship between audit and management, and the importance of governance in the public sector. The used method of research is based on the qualitative analysis of internal audit activities which are meant to add value to management processes in public entities. The originality of the paper consists in the qualitative study based on interpretative methods for understanding the effects of governance on management and audit. The conclusions of the study are presenting in the paper by a governance model for the public sector and can act as starting point for future research.
Understanding Commercial Real Estate Indices

This paper examines five indices in the commercial real estate (CRE) markets: the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) Index, the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) Property Index (NPI), the Transaction Based Index (TBI), Moody’s/Real Commercial Property Price Indices (CPPI), and CoStar Commercial Repeat-Sale Indices (CCRSI). We find much heterogeneity in the information content of these indices. NAREIT, NPI, and TBI may not be appropriate measures of current CRE market conditions in general, even though these indices, and especially the first two, are commonly used. We find substantial information differences between CPPI (an index driven by high-value CRE properties) and CCRSI (an index driven by low-value CRE properties) and the difference in information content is notable. This finding indicates that high- and low-value CRE markets are not closely linked. As most CRE indices are driven by high-value CRE markets, our findings suggest that most of t.
A Review on Clinical Data Mining

v Clinical data mining is a practice based research strategy by which practitioners and researchers retrieve, analyze and interpret available qualitative and quantitative information from available medical records. It is an active interdisciplinary area of research that is considered the consequent of applying artificial intelligence and data mining concepts to the field of medicine and health care. The aim of this work is to provide a review on the foundation principles of mining clinical dataset, and present the findings and results of past researches on utilizing data mining techniques to mine health care data and patient records. The scope of this article is to present a brief report on preceding investigations made in the sphere of mining clinical data, the techniques applied and the conclusions recounted. The most recent research findings that can further unveil the potential of data mining in the realm of health care and medicine are clearly presented in this review.
Beyond p < .05: What is the Effect Size?

High-quality outcomes research is characterized by a sample that is representative of the population with the health or developmental condition of interest, evidence that the intervention was provided as intended, and use of reliable and valid measures. In the randomized controlled trial (RCT) and cohort design, outcomes are compared between the group that received the intervention and the control or comparison group. Results are described using a measure of central tendency and variance (most often the mean and standard deviation). An inferential statistic such as a t-test or analysis of variance (ANOVA) is computed to determine if mean differences are statistically significant. By convention, if the alpha level (pvalue) is ≤ . 05 (5% or less chance that the means do not differ), the researcher concludes that the intervention was effective. The previous paragraph summarizes what is taught in physical therapy and occupational therapy education programs to prepare graduates to appraise clinical research. What is the point of this editorial? Translation of clinical research to practice is a challenging process. The therapist must not only interpret the results but also apply findings within the context of the individual child, family, and service delivery system. In discussing the intervention options, it is reasonable for a parent to ask “Will the intervention enable my child to achieve her goal? ” The parent’s question is not directed at the average response of the group but, rather, whether the intervention will be effective for her child. Therein lies the problem. Knowledge of whether results are statistically significant is not sufficient to inform decisions for an individual child. The finding that the mean outcome was greater in the group that received the intervention does not imply that every child who received the intervention had a better outcome than every child in the control or comparison group. If this were the case, the response to the parent’s question would be affirmative. In physical therapy and occupation therapy, however, inevitably there is overlap in outcomes between children who received the intervention and those who did not. The response to the parent’s question is not clear-cut. The effect size is useful in this situation.