Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Public-Private Partnership (PPP): A win-win-win approach for effective public service. A case study of the award-winning indoor communications system of Hong Kong Police Force

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) has been popular in information infrastructure development since last decade mainly because of the fact that the information infrastructure has become more and more capital-intensive and it is not economic for one single company or the government agency to fund it. In most of the cases, the end users are normally the general public. One of the examples is the partnership between Telstra and Australian government on Australian Next Generation Network Initiative which aims to provide nation-wide broadband connectivity for Australian citizens. The case of this study is different – it is an agency under the government that seeks partnership with private sector and the end user is the agency itself, namely Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF). By configuring the enterprise network of Hong Kong Police Force with part of the indoor facilities of mobile operators, the Hong Kong Police Force is able to achieve full coverage of shopping malls and Hong Kong’s phenomenon tower buildings so as to provide emergency services. This has on the one hand saved the budget of government, while on the other hand provided extra income for operators despite the fact that all operators have joined the scheme for the intention to demonstrate their corporate social responsibility. Of course, the most significant beneficiary is the public. Currently, this award-winning scheme has been adopted elsewhere including Home Office in the U.K. that her Emergency Services Network (ESN) will be provided by mobile operator in 4G LTE technology. This study examined operational challenges facing indoor radio coverage to emergency services and argued explicitly that the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) would be an appropriate solution. The outcomes are positive and meaningful. It has significant implications for the future development of the public service. The success of the project has not only built an efficient and effective indoor communications system for Hong Kong Police Force, but also provided profound experience in formulating an effective public-private partnership model both technically and financially to ensure a quality public service.
CEO DUALITY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORTING: EVIDENCE FROM MALAYSIA

This study aims to examine the impact of CEO duality on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting by public listed companies in Malaysia. Content analysis was used to determine the extent of CSR reporting. A reporting level index consisting of 51 items was developed based on six themes: General, Community, Environment, Human Resource, Marketplace and Other. In order to determine the relationship between CEO duality and CSR reporting, an Ordinary Least Square regression was employed. The finding of the study is that, there is no significant association between CEO duality and CSR reporting. CEOs have little interest to promote CSR as it is not cost free and may lead to loss of individual wealth. The finding of this study implies that dual leadership structure reduces checks and balance and makes CEOs less accountable to all stakeholders. As for regulators, this study will provide valuable input to assist in their continuous efforts to improve corporate governance and social responsibility practices that may promote the interest of all stakeholders.
NON-LINEAR SEISMIC VELOCITY ESTIMATION FROM MULTIPLE WAVEFORM FUNCTIONALS AND FORMAL ASSESSMENT OF CONSTRAINTS

Our goal is to jointly model surface wave dispersion, receiver functions, and characteristics of the waveform that appear in a window around the direct S arrival. Optimization is done using a three part objective function given by Error  a 1 || d SPL obs  d SPL syn || p a 2 || d dispersion obs  d dispersion syn || p a 3 || d receiverfucntion obs  d receiverfucntion syn || p where a1, a2 and a3 are the relative weights of different data and p is the norm used to measure data misfit. The algorithm is very general in that the weights can change with iteration and p can take different values for the three different parts of the objective function. Note that the same model is used to compute synthetic waveforms, surface wave dispersion and receiver functions. Forward modeling is done using a reflectivity algorithm and optimization is carried out using an algorithm called Very Fast Simulated Annealing (VFSA). The code runs efficiently on multiple processors using Message Passing Interface routines. In the project's first year we coded the algorithm, validated the implementation, and performed synthetic tests to confirm the method's effectiveness and tractability and to demonstrate the usefulness of associated model assessment tools. In the past year we conducted a broad search for shear-coupled long period (SPL) waveforms among broadband seismic data available to us from the Middle East and discovered that this phase is quite rare in this region. To generate SPL a low-velocity zone is required beneath the Moho; SPL is therefore observed most commonly in shield regions. Further, sources of large-magnitude, deep-focus earthquakes concentrate at epicentral distances of ~70°, distances for which the SPL wavetrain is interrupted after one or two cycles by the arrival of strong SKS phases. Nevertheless, the Sp and SsPmP phases are occasionally prominent and modeling their characteristics, including amplitude and arrival times relative to the direct S phase, can also constrain structural models of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle.
Disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Performance: Evidence from India

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a crucial research domain over the last decade due to the imperative that when CSR activities are communicated in the form of a report, it helps in improving firm performance. Thus, the main purpose of the present study is to analyse CSR disclosure trend in India and to investigate the association between CSR and the performance of the firm from 2008–2009 to 2013–2014. Content analysis is employed using Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework as a base to calculate the disclosure score relating to CSR and its components, that is, human related (HR) information, society related (SO) information and product related (PR) information. Firm performance is measured by Market to Book Ratio (MBR). CSR disclosure score is found to be increasing over the study period and regarding the components of CSR, the disclosure score of SO is found to be the highest (nearly 89 per cent) followed by HR (nearly 84 per cent) and PR (nearly 83 per cent). These scores are further utilised to find the influence of CSR (including its components) on firm performance using random generalised least squares (GLS) model. The results of the regression model indicate positive and significant impact of CSR (including its components) on firm performance.
Nostalgia as a Resource for Psychological Health and Well‐Being

Historically, nostalgia has been viewed as a disease of the brain or the mind. However, in recent years, nostalgia has received a conceptual rehabilitation due to a revival of scholarly interest accompanied by the use of contemporary empirical methods. Drawing upon this recent work, we propose that nostalgia is an important resource for psychological health and well-being. We begin by detailing the characteristics of the nostalgic experience and then discuss a wide range of studies demonstrating that psychological threat triggers nostalgia, nostalgia enhances psychological health and well-being, and nostalgia promotes adaptive psychological functioning among individuals at risk for poor mental health. We also highlight the need for future research on nostalgia's relation to psychological health.
Albuterol multidose dry powder inhaler efficacy and safety versus placebo in children with asthma.

BACKGROUND A novel, inhalation-driven, multidose dry powder inhaler (MDPI) that does not require coordination of actuation with inhalation has been developed. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of albuterol MDPI versus placebo MDPI after chronic dosing in children with asthma. METHODS This phase III, double-blind, parallel-group study included children with asthma (ages, 4-11 years) with forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) of 50-95% of predicted. After a 14-day run-in period wherein the patients continued their current asthma therapy and received single-blind placebo MDPI, they were randomized to albuterol MDPI 90 μg per inhalation, two inhalations four times daily (total daily dose, 720 μg), or placebo for 3 weeks. Pulmonary function was assessed on days 1 and 22. Efficacy and safety were evaluated by measuring the baseline-adjusted percent-predicted FEV1 (PPFEV1) area under the time curve over 6 hours (AUC0-6) after the dose and adverse events, respectively. RESULTS The full analysis set included 184 patients. Patients treated with albuterol MDPI versus patients treated with placebo MDPI had significantly greater baseline-adjusted PPFEV1 AUC0-6 over 3 weeks (least squares mean difference, 25.0%•hour, which favored albuterol; p < 0.001). The benefit of albuterol (mean change in PPFEV1) was evident 5 minutes after dosing and lasted several hours; the maximal effect was noted 1 to 2 hours after dosing. Albuterol MDPI was well tolerated. CONCLUSIONS In children with persistent asthma, albuterol MDPI improved pulmonary function significantly better than placebo MDPI over 3 weeks of treatment. Clinical efficacy was evident within 5 minutes of dosing and maintained for >2 hours. Four times daily administration was well tolerated.
An architecture for flexible and autonomous network management systems

This paper presents the architecture of AuRA-NMS, an autonomous regional active network management system currently being developed in the UK through a partnership between several UK universities, two distribution network operators (DNO) and ABB. The AuRA-NMS architecture has two central facets: a number of software elements which provide the data gathering and novel decision-making functionality within AuRA-NMS; and the hardware platform, comprising: off-the-shelf substation computing and automation equipment; and an existing, possibly augmented, communication infrastructure, on which that software is deployed. In this paper the authors describe the design philosophy which determines where both software and hardware is located on a distribution network based on the utilities' existing communications infrastructure and their active network management needs. Case studies illustrating the architectural philosophy applied to two different networks operated by different DNOs with differing requirements are presented. The evaluation and testing of the current implementations of AuRA-NMS, based on this architecture, as well as the challenges still outstanding will also be discussed.
'America First!' What are the Job Losses for Belgium and Europe?

This report is the first to estimate employment effects of looming American protectionism under US president Trump. We study the economic impact of a tightening of US trade policy on Belgium and on every EU member state, which we refer to as “America First” or “Trumpit” (like “Brexit”). Our estimates of EU job losses are based on the interconnectedness of an EU country with the US economy. We do this by taking into account the inter‐sectoral linkages between sectors within a country and between EU countries using sectoral input‐output data (World Input Output Database, WIOD). Thus, we consider EU jobs involved in direct EU exports to the US, as well as EU jobs corresponding to indirect exports from Europe to the US. Our study covers both exports of goods and services and accounts for services used as an input in goods. Our estimates are based on domestic value added rather than gross export values, since EU jobs are a function of domestic value added only. For Belgium, job losses of Trumpit range between 1200 and 5000 job losses, depending on the US tariff increase. Similarly, for the EU, job losses range between 50,000 and 240,000 jobs that will be lost depending on the US tariff scenario. For the EU, we find that the export value that will be lost ranges between 5% to 24 %, depending on the extent of the US import tariff increase. This corresponds to European GDP losses that range between 0.1 % to 0.4% of total EU GDP.
Cortical evoked potentials and clinical rating scales as measures of depressive illness

Synopsis Relationships between clinical ratings and cortical evoked potentials were examined before and during antidepressant drug treatment in 32 patients with major depressive disorder (DSM-III). Clinical rating scales included Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Beck Depression Inventory, Present State Examination (PSE) and Newcastle Scale. Evoked potentials included contingent negative variation (CNV), post-imperative negative variation (PINV) and auditory evoked potential (AEP) There were close correlations between all rating scales, and factor analysis produced only one component, suggesting that the common variance between them related to severity of depression. CNV magnitude before treatment correlated negatively with severity of depression regardless of diagnostic category. Depressed patients had a prominent PINV which persisted during antidepressant treatment. The amplitude of late components (N1P2) of the AEP was reduced strikingly in patients with a history of suicide attempts.
N2-Methylation of Guanosine at Position 10 in tRNA Is Catalyzed by a THUMP Domain-containing, S-Adenosylmethionine-dependent Methyltransferase, Conserved in Archaea and Eukaryota*[boxs]

In sequenced genomes, genes belonging to the cluster of orthologous group COG1041 are exclusively, and almost ubiquitously, found in Eukaryota and Archaea but never in Bacteria. The corresponding gene products exhibit a characteristic Rossmann fold, S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase domain in the C terminus and a predicted RNA-binding THUMP (thiouridine synthases, RNA methyltransferases, and pseudouridine synthases) domain in the N terminus. Recombinant PAB1283 protein from the archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi GE5, a member of COG1041, was purified and shown to behave as a monomeric 39-kDa entity. This protein (EC 2.1.1.32), now renamed PabTrm-G10, which is extremely thermostable, forms a 1:1 complex with tRNA and catalyzes the adenosylmethionine-dependent methylation of the exocyclic amino group (N2) of guanosine located at position 10. Depending on the experimental conditions used, as well as the tRNA substrate tested, the enzymatic reaction leads to the formation of either N2-monomethyl (m2G) or N2-dimethylguanosine (m22G). Interestingly, PabTrm-G10 exhibits different domain organization and different catalytic site architecture from another, earlier characterized, tRNA-dimethyltransferase from Pyrococcus furiosus (PfuTrm-G26, also known as PfuTrm1, a member of COG1867) that catalyzes an identical two-step dimethylation of guanosine but at position 26 in tRNAs and is also conserved among all sequenced Eukaryota and Archaea. The co-occurrence of these two guanosine dimethyltransferases in both Archaea and Eukaryota but not in Bacteria is a hallmark of distinct tRNAs maturation strategies between these domains of life.
The CoastColour dataset

The objective of the ESA DUE CoastColour project is to fully exploit the potential of the MERIS instrument for remote sensing of the coastal zone. The product requirements have been derived from a user consultation process. Users have provided in-situ data from many locations, which were used for algorithm development and validation. The MERIS data archive from 2005 onwards has been processed with the finally selected algorithms for 27 globally distributed coastal sites. The CoastColour dataset comprises an improved Level 1b product (L1P), a product that contains directional and normalised water leaving reflectances (L2R) and a product for water properties (L2W). The total data volume is 100TB. All data are online and available from the CoastColour Website. A near real time service was operated from October 2011 until end of the ENVISAT mission. Plans exist to continue the service with Sentinel data.
Feature based Structuring and Composing of SDLC Artifacts

— Product organizations often need to develop variants of the same basic product. All the product development life-cycle artifacts from requirements documents to testing artifacts have to be developed for each variant. Storing these artifacts as core assets and structuring them as units that can be composed to get the final artifacts can greatly reduce the cost and improve the quality of the resultant product. This paper proposes a structural alignment of core assets corresponding to the various phases of software development to features of the product family and aspect weaving as a core assets composition operator. Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is used for code and an aspect oriented extension to XML is used for other artifacts. These ideas are validated through a prototype toolset that captures the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process and allows the user to model the commonalities and variations as features, associate them to core assets and build the product automatically. This paper presents our approach and the details of the toolset along with a case study of a Library System.
Memory T-lymphocyte survival does not require T-cell receptor expression

The factors controlling memory T (Tm)-cell longevity are still poorly defined, and their identification is pivotal to the design of a vaccine conferring long-term protection against infection. Tm cells have the ability to survive in the absence of the T-cell receptor (TCR)–MHC interaction. This does not exclude a possible role for TCR-intrinsic ligand-independent constitutive signaling in Tm-cell homeostasis. Using a unique TCR tetracycline-inducible expression system, we show that the ablation of TCR expression, which abrogates any possible signaling via the TCR, did not influence the survival and self-renewal of antigen-specific CD8+ Tm cells even when they have to compete with endogenous T cells for survival factors. Moreover, CD8+ Tm-cell functionality was not altered even on prolonged maintenance in the absence of TCR-MHC interactions. Furthermore, our results show that a subset of CD4+ Tm cells can survive in the absence of TCR expression in nonlymphopenic hosts.
Corpus vs. Lexicon Supervision in Morphosyntactic Tagging: the Case of Slovene

In this paper we present a tagger developed for inflectionally rich languages for which both a training corpus and a lexicon are available. We do not constrain the tagger by the lexicon entries, allowing both for lexicon incompleteness and noisiness. By using the lexicon indirectly through features we allow for known and unknown words to be tagged in the same manner. We test our tagger on Slovene data, obtaining a 25% error reduction of the best previous results both on known and unknown words. Given that Slovene is, in comparison to some other Slavic languages, a well-resourced language, we perform experiments on the impact of token (corpus) vs. type (lexicon) supervision, obtaining useful insights in how to balance the effort of extending resources to yield better tagging results.
SpamChallenge 2007 : France Telecom R&D Submissions

In our article of Airweb 2006 workshop [4], we combined the approaches of html noise preprocessing (removing content), minhash fingerprinting and similarity clustering to spot dubious sets of web pages. For this challenge the idea is the same but we study more preprocessing and clustering strategies that we use to smooth the predictions of a classifier. We test two learning methodologies and sumbit two predictions.
PCR‐ and Restriction Endonuclease‐Based Detection of IDH1 Mutations

Hotspot mutations in codon 132 of the gene encoding isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) have emerged as the most frequent DNA alteration in astrocytomas, oligodendrogliomas and oligoastrocytomas. These mutations have been shown to be of significant diagnostic and prognostic value. So far, assessment of IDH1 mutation relied on DNA sequencing techniques.
Automated techniques for brain tumor segmentation and detection: A review study

Brain is the central organ of the human body which controls nervous system. In this paper, we give a brief insight of different techniques and contribution of different people for segmentation and detection of brain tumor. Different methodologies are proposed by different researchers. The MRI scan image considers as a high quality input for experiments as compared to other scans. In the future, we will develop a deep learning based automated brain tumor detection system and will compare with the existing state of the art techniques for better and more accurate results.
Re: "Comparison of 2 approaches for determining the natural history risk of brain arteriovenous malformation rupture".

We have with great interest read the article, ‘‘Comparison of 2 Approaches for Determining the Natural History Risk of Brain Arteriovenous Malformation Rupture,’’ by Kim et al. (1), published in the June 15, 2010, issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. We agree with the authors that it is conceptually attractive to use age at the first arteriovenous malformation hemorrhage to assess the natural course of disease, and we published a paper using this concept in 1997 (2). However, as with all evaluations of retrospective data, the study by Kim et al. must be observed for the risk of selection bias. The use of life table statistics in this case is flawed with the lack of information from all patients that died from the initial hemorrhage, before reaching the hospital, and also in cases where the arteriovenous malformation is not diagnosed. We therefore preferred an analytical approach, using the age distribution at first hemorrhage rather than life table statistics to elucidate the annual risk for hemorrhage from these lesions (2). This has the advantage of being insensitive to the relation between arteriovenous malformations that have or have not bled. It can also be used to calculate the age dependence, if such exists. However, assessment of the annual risk is accurate only if the assumption of arteriovenous malformation’s being a congenital condition is correct. If so, there is an unambiguous relation between the age distribution of the age at first hemorrhage and the risk for hemorrhage. If not, the calculated risk is lower than the true annual risk for hemorrhage. Furthermore, it implies that an insignificant number of patients develop an arteriovenous malformation after the peak of the age distribution, that is, later than 25 years of age in our material. The most important finding in our study was the strong relation between age and risk for arteriovenous malformation rupture, the risk increasing with increasing patient age. It would be very interesting to combine the patient materials and further analyze the important question of the natural course of brain arteriovenous malformations.