Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Resource Management Algorithm for Multicast Services in Multi-CCs Wireless System

Multicast services need to satisfy all mobile devices even under very bad channel conditions. However, the method for accommodating this will result in the throughput of the service being determined and limited by the channel state of the mobile device with the worst channel conditions. In this way, the capacity of mobile devices under a good channel state is determined based on the capacity of the mobile device under the worst channel state. To overcome the capacity limitation and achieve throughput maximization, we propose two different scenarios for resource management of a multiple carrier component (CC) wireless system. The first scenario manages resources with a two-step approach to support every mobile device and solve the throughput maximization feasibly for the primary CCs. A power control algorithm and admission control for minimizing the BS power is applied under the second scenario to mitigate interference.
Characterizing the Decision Process Leading to Enrollment in Doctoral Programs: Theory, Application, and Practice

ABSTRACT As a result of environmental changes, the administration at a private university's business school determined that there was a need to better understand the market for doctoral education. A behavioral approach was employed to study this market. A theoretical model of the decision process leading to enrollment in the school's doctoral business program was developed. This enrollment process model was utilized to guide the implementation of a survey that sampled the school's current students. Application of this model to questionnaire development procedures is also presented. Based on the information collected, the decision process leading to enrollment in the doctoral business program was characterized. In practice, this depiction provided insight to student behavior and the substance of the school's current market. The usefulness and applicability of the enrollment process model in achieving enrollment management objectives is also discussed.
Unraveling the cerebral dynamics of mental imagery

Evidence from functional brain imaging studies suggests that mental imagery processes, like other higher cognitive functions, simultaneously activate different neuronal networks involving multiple cortical areas. The question of whether these different areas are truly simultaneously active or whether they are temporally distinct and might reflect different steps of information processing cannot be answered by these imaging methods. We applied spatiotemporal analysis techniques to multichannel event‐related potential (ERP) recordings in order to elucidate the topography and chronology of brain processes involved in mental rotation. We measured 41‐electrode ERPs in 12 healthy subjects who had to evaluate whether rotated letters were in a normal or mirror‐reflected position. These figures were presented in the left, right, or central visual fields and were randomly rotated by 0°, 50°, 100°, or 150°. Behaviorally, we replicated the observation that reaction time increases with greater angles of rotation. Electrophysiologically, we identified a set of dominant electric potential distributions, each of them stable for a certain time period. Only one of these time segments (appearing between 400–600 msec) increased significantly in duration with greater angles of rotation mirroring reaction time. We suggest that the rotation of mental images is carried out during this time segment. A general linear inverse solution applied to this segment showed occipito‐parietal cerebral activity that was lateralized to the right hemisphere. Hum. Brain Mapping 5:410–421, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Salary Predictors and Equity Issues for Student Affairs Administrators at Public and Private Institutions: From Dean to Director of Security

Regression analyses indicated that age of respondent and gender were the most consistent predictors of salary within many of the high-level student affairs positions at both public and private institutions. Degree was determined to be a significant predictor of salary, but in a negative direction. Higher levels of education frequently translated into decreased mean salaries for various senior-level positions at both institutional types. Institutional classification was a modest predictor at both institutional types, while ethnicity, NASPA location, and years in the position were very infrequently found to be proficient predictors of salary at either public or private institutions.
Explaining international retailers' market entry mode strategy: internalization theory, agency theory and the importance of information asymmetry

Research on the internationalization of retailing has focused on descriptive and empirical studies centring on issues such as motivations for retail internationalization and individual company experiences of the internationalization process. One particular aspect of the retail internationalization process that has remained relatively underresearched, and consequently under theorized, is market entry mode strategy. Furthermore, with a few notable exceptions, potentially interesting research from the economics of international production and corporate finance literatures has been virtually ignored in the international retailing domain. This paper represents an initial step in rectifying these deficiencies by exploring some of the issues associated with the economics-based internalization and agency theories, in the context of international retailers' market entry mode strategy. By combining market transaction costs (associated with internalization theory), together with information and monitoring costs (ass.
The Microfoundations of Corporate Entrepreneurship as an Organizational Capability

The authors propose a conceptualization of corporate entrepreneurship as an organizational capability that allows firms to overcome internal constraints systematically so that they can reinvent themselves through novel business initiatives. The paper adopts the knowledge-based concept of absorptive capacity to identify the microfoundations of a firm's corporate entrepreneurship capability for opportunity recognition and exploitation. It advances a model that combines the individual-level role of entrepreneurial managers with firm-level efforts to strengthen entrepreneurial processes over time.
Research notes and communications co-ordinating mechanisms, consensus between marketing and manufacturing groups, and marketplace performance

This exploratory study investigated the relationship among use of various co-ordinating mechanisms, degree of consensus between marketing and manufacturing groups, and marketplace performance reputation. Consensus between marketing and manufacturing groups on key competitive strengths, company goals, and implementation actions was measured in 15 firms in the carpet industry. Those firms which made more frequent use of planning techniques (formal forecasting procedures, management-by-objectives linked to performance appraisal, and a written strategic plan) experienced higher levels of interdepartmental consensus. Consensus between departments was strongly related to marketplace performance reputation.
Sequence variants in the bovine gonadotrophin releasing hormone receptor gene and their associations with fertility.

Seven sequence variants (SVs) have been identified in exon 1 and in the promoter region upstream of the bovine gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor gene, at nucleotides g. -331A>G, g. -108T>C, g. +206G>A, g. +260C>T, g. +341C>T, g. +383C>T and g. +410C>T relative to the translation start site. The SVs at nucleotides g. -108, g.260, g.341 and g.410 and those at g.206 and g.383 formed two groups with complete linkage disequilibrium within groups, but incomplete linkage disequilibrium between groups, and none of the SVs altered receptor amino acid sequence. The g. -108T>C allelic variants were associated with an approximately 0.4 day reduction in predicted transmitting ability for days to first service. None of the allelic variants affected the pattern of circulating LH following administration of GnRH. The g.260C>T alteration introduced a new transcription factor binding site in a region of DNA with relatively low nucleosome formation potential. The data suggest that selection for animals carrying the g. -108T>C group of alterations will improve fertility in the dairy cow.
The Impact Evaluation of Cluster Development Programs: Methods and Practices

Do cluster development programs work? Do they fundamentally encourage the essential inter-firm linkages and coordination? Do they lead to innovation and productivity, enterprise development, larger employment, and export growth, and if so, after how long? Do other firms benefit from these programs? This book offers insight into quantitative methods that help answer these questions. Cluster development is a form of modern industrial policy that is spreading across the world to help exploit the externalities emerging from geographical agglomeration and inter-firm coordination. Therefore, rigorous impact evaluations are necessary because they help policymakers understand better ways to design future programs and provide accountability for public resources. The chapters argue that enterprise clusters and the programs to support them are diverse and multidimensional processes that require a variety of instruments to be fully understood and assessed. The book as a whole gathers various methodological essays and quantitative tests of complementary tools and approaches, emphasizing their usefulness and effectiveness in coordination with one another. Most importantly, it asserts that policy evaluation is crucial, in particular when it comes to cluster development programs, to ensure the best use of public resources, the accountability of beneficiaries, and most of all to feed the necessary learning to improve the design and implementation of public policies for enterprise development.
Retail change in China: retrospect and prospects

The transformation of retailing in China is described, with reference to past developments (Retrospect) and emerging trends (Prospects). Retail practice is considered by looking at supply-side structural changes and changing patterns of consumer demand. Convergence towards international norms is evident, but so too are signs of distinctiveness and even divergence. Retail research agenda are considered in light of changes in practice, including calls for more systematic, analytical approaches to provide rigorous and informed views of developments in China, and more in-depth interpretative studies to capture contextual nuances. The article concludes with observations about the future of retailing within China and across China's wider sphere of influence.
Cambodian Child Migrant Workers in the Rong Kluea Market Area in Thailand

The problem of foreign child workers migration to Thailand day will expand at present especially the Thai border with neighboring countries. The child workers force these were right. Child workers is the need of the employer. Migrant children and many victims of human trafficking. The whole country's social origin and destination. The area along the Thai many points became the area of migrant children. Lead to the question that causes any is driven. Or support workers to these children across the border into the labor market in the country.The objectives of this study were to investigate: 1) factors influencing Cambodian child migrant workers in the Rong Kluea Market area in Aranyaprathet District, Sa Kaeo Province; 2) occupations of Cambodian child migrant workers in the Rong Kluea Market area. The data of this qualitative research were collected through interviewing and observing life of 24 Cambodian child migrant workers in the Rong Kluea Market area. The field data were classified into categories, interpreted, decoded, synthesized and tested using triangulation.The results of the study revealed that there were three factors that made the Cambodian child workers in the Rong Kluea Market area migrate: 1) internal factors from the country of origin which were poverty and economic status of their family, family conditions, household debts, and a lack of education; 2) migration of the foreign child workers was migration from their place of origin in rural areas of Cambodia to new areas in Poipet, Ou Chrov District, Banteay Meanchey Province, and crossing the border to be workers in the Rong Kluea Market area in Thailand; and 3) factors in Thailand which was the Rong Kluea Market area, the trade area on the Thailand-Cambodia border that was a special economic source, employment source, and hope for higher income than the country of origin.The occupations of Cambodian child migrant workers in the Rong Kluea Market area were found to consist of 10 main categories: 1) holding umbrellas to provide shade for tourists, 2) collecting garbage items for sale, 3) taking people across the border through a shortcut, 4) cleaning frogs, 5) cutting off grasshoppers’ wings, 6) scraping fish flesh and scaling fishes, 7) pushing goods carts, 8) peddling goods and fruit, 9) shop as workers sistants, and 10) selling sex services. Child workers can choose freely the kind of work they want to do either do it on their own or to be employed and directly depend on an employer. Child workers, some victims of human trafficking. Employment and some illegal workers. The exploitation and exploit workers unfairly. Cambodian child migrant workers these became the new issue problem of the border area.
Slum tourism, city branding and social urbanism: the case of Medellin, Colombia

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the contribution of informal settlements to a tourism strategy and to city branding. It takes the case of Medellin, Colombia, which in recent years has developed several projects in their barrios using a policy called: “social urbanism”. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a case study, that of “social urbanism” in Medellin, and the relationship with what is called slum tourism and city branding. After a brief theoretical exploration about informal settlements in Latin America, slum tourism and city branding; the paper presents the urban and social transformation of Medellin's dangerous and stigmatized barrios with the “social urbanism” policy. Then the relationship between social urbanism, informal settlements and city branding is discussed.Findings – Medellin, perhaps without noticing or anticipating, has found a role for informal settlements in branding the city, and promoting tourism to those areas. With “social urbanism”, it is also hel.
Differentiation between Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium by Amplification of the 16S-23S Ribosomal DNA Spacer

ABSTRACT Differentiation between Mycobacterium tuberculosis andM. avium is helpful for the treatment of disseminated mycobacterial infection in AIDS patients. This can traditionally be done by time-consuming biochemical tests or with Accuprobe. Previously, PCR restriction enzyme analysis (PCR-REA) of the 16S-23S rRNA gene spacer was shown to be able to identify a limited number of strains ofMycobacterium. In this study the method was improved by using more specific primers and was tested with 50 clinical isolates ofM. tuberculosis and 65 clinical isolates of M. avium complex. Probes specific to the spacers ofM. tuberculosis and M. avium were also tested. Both M. tuberculosis and M. avium could be reliably identified either by PCR-REA or by PCR-hybridization, with the results completely agreeing with those obtained by biochemical tests and with the Accuprobe, respectively. The method may therefore be useful as an alternative in-house method for identification of the bacteria.
Strategic, organisational and managerial issues related to innovation, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in the hospital context: Remarks from the Italian experience

Abstract Technological innovation in the hospital context is always knowledge-related. It concerns the know-why, when based on theoretical foundations (competencies), and the know-how when related to practical skills. New medical devices, technologies and techniques originate from the new know-why and require new know-how to be exploited fully and effectively. Given the continuous and increasing development of innovations in the healthcare sector, modern hospitals face the complex task of mastering internally and externally-created innovation. The capacity to envision, stimulate, recognise, evaluate and manage both lines of innovation (know-why and know-how) is key to supporting large and leading hospitals (notably the teaching ones) in their quest to fulfil their mission and gain a sustainable competitive advantage. Such hospitals are required to position themselves as close as possible to the leading edge of innovation. In this light, the paper tackles the strategic, organisational and managerial issues of how to build a work environment focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship (the strategic issue); define and consolidate roles and responsibilities related to envisioning and managing innovation (the organisational issue); and strengthen the operating mechanisms (planning, budgeting and control, human resources management, information systems, etc) and focus on stimulating entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and innovation creation (the managerial issue).
Temporal association in asymmetric neural networks.

A neural network model which is capable of recalling time sequences and cycles of patterns is introduced. In this model, some of the synaptic connections, ${J}_{\mathrm{ij}}$, between pairs of neurons are asymmetric (${J}_{\mathrm{ij}}\ensuremath{\ne}{J}_{\mathrm{ji}}$) and have slow dynamic response. The effects of thermal noise on the generated sequences are discussed. Simulation results demonstrating the performance of the network are presented. The model may be also useful in understanding the generation of rhythmic patterns in biological motor systems.
Risk and Product Innovation: A Study of Brazilian Manufacturing Companies

The aim of the article is to study the relation between product innovation and its associated risk, particularly in the Brazilian manufacturing industry in the period of 1995-2005. A statistical model is developed based on the study realized by Bromiley (1991), seeking to identify whether factors such as performance of the firm, performance of the industry in which the firm operates, performance expectations and aspirations of the firm, besides its financial slack, are determinant factors of the risk taken hereby, specifically related to product innovation. In the study of data for Brazilian manufacturing firms, the estimated results do not support the model proposed.
E-Business : from Demand Networks to TechnoLogistics

“If you sell you have to deliver”. This phrase should be remembered by all that try to engage in the e-business revolution disregarding the back-office, the necessary logistics system. In this article we examine the forces that drive companies to work into tightly integrated networks, propose a taxonomy of the e-business solutions that this tight integration requires, and discuss their implicit supply chain strategies. This article constitutes a set of hypothesis currently being empirically tested at ISLI.
Multiplex PCRs for Identification of Escherichia coliVirulence Genes

ABSTRACT PCRs were developed to detect 11 Escherichia colivirulence genes. Primers amplified the respective genes without cross-reaction with other genes. Specificity was maintained in multiplex reactions; excellent amplification of target genes was possible with a minimum of four multiplex reactions. These reactions successfully identified genes in E. coli from the feces of four dogs.
Acoustic assessment of the austral sardine, Sprattus fuegensis, in the inner sea of the Chilean Patagonia

The austral sardine (Sprattus fuegensis) is the target fish resource of a small-scale fishery operating in the Patagonian waters of Chile (41°30'S-46°00'S). Purse seine boats composed the fleet and landings have fluctuated between 14,344 and 48,589 tons during the period between 2006 and 2014. The stock assessment of the austral sardine utilizes a Statistical Catch-at-Length model and this method requires independent estimates of abundance. In order to evaluate the abundance of the austral sardine in the inner sea of the Chilean Patagonia, an acoustic assessment was carried out in Autumn 2013. The study area covered the coastal zone of two administrative regions of Chile, the Los Lagos region in May 2013 and the Aysen region in June 2013. An EK-60 echo sounder permitted to obtain the acoustic data with transducer of 38 and 120 kHz from which echograms were examined to obtain NASC data. A total of 25 fishing set allowed to estimating the species composition and the length structure of the pelagic fish. In addition, fish confined in a jail allowed to estimating the target strength (TS) of the austral sardine. The fishing data and the NASC permitted to evaluate the acoustic biomass of the austral sardine, as well as the biomass of the anchovy (Engraulis ringens) and the common sardine (Strangomera bentincki). The biomass was estimated according to a stratified sampling design, the Gaussian Likelihood Geostatistics technique, and the fit to probability density models. The stratified design included six strata in the Los Lagos region and five strata in the Aysen region, as well as four depth strata (0-50, 50-100, 100-150 and 150-200 m). The stratified estimates of the austral sardine biomass were 118,173 tons (CV=11.6%) in the Los Lagos region and 101,630 tons (CV=9%) in the Aysen region. The estimates of biomass based on Gaussian geostatistics were 122,469 tons (CV=7.6%) in the Los Lagos region and 92,890 (70%) tons in the Aysen region. The best fitting of probability density functions to the acoustic density was log-normal, and allowed to estimate 100,145 tons of austral sardine in the Los Lagos region and 81,965 tons in the Aysen region. The biomass of anchovy was 50,079 tons in the Los Lagos region and 18,668 tons in the Aysen region. The biomass of common sardine was minimal with 5,327 tons in the Los Lagos region only. The estimate of the TS for the austral sardine was -67.59 dB and represented fish between 9 and 17 cm. The study area is spatially heterogeneous, and hydrographical features could determine behaviors of the austral sardine that have not yet described. Therefore, the estimates of biomass here obtained must be regarded as a relative abundance. The basis here obtained will be of importance for monitoring yearly changes in the abundance of the sardine austral.
International Trading Patterns and Investor Performance

This study re-examines the dual issue of international investor trading patterns and the performance that is subsequently generated. An information disadvantage amongst foreign investors could explain the home bias puzzle. Domestic investors follow contrarian patterns and foreign investors follow momentum patterns. Foreign investors are superior performers and informed in the two year sample but inferior performers and uninformed in the ten year sample. This is increasingly significant as the most internationally familiar stocks are excluded from the sample. Trader profit analysis, mimicking spectral decomposition, is used to highlight trading biases and is rejected for inferring informational endowments.