Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Designing and rolling-out a global style in process innovation

This paper discusses a consultancy project for a large multinational-manufacturing client. Style is explored as a concept originatirg in ‘cultural’ rather than economic disciplines. Three interpretations of culture are explored which have differing, complementary implications for managing style in technology-related organizational learning. The overall intenlion is not to identity and install a global ‘best’ style or a universal model of IT-related organizational culture. Rather it is to develop heuristics, which highlight what may require attention and handling in a practical situation, within a dialopue-based and learning-oriented approach to global-local strategy in complex production systems.
Regret about surgical decisions among early‐stage breast cancer patients: Effects of the congruence between patients' preferred and actual decision‐making roles

Early‐stage breast cancer patients generally receive either a mastectomy or a lumpectomy, either by their own choice or that of their surgeon. Sometimes, there is regret about the decision afterward. To better understand regret about surgical decisions, this study examined 2 possibilities: The first is that women who take a dominant or collaborative role in decision making about the surgery express less regret afterward. The second is that congruence between preferred role and actual role predicts less regret. We also explored whether disease stage moderates the relationship between role congruence and decisional regret.
Sustainability in the Real Property Law Curriculum: Why and How.

Traditionally considered the preserve of environmental law, for the lawyer and the legal academic, sustainability does not immediately come to mind in considering the subjects of the core curriculum. Yet in light of the contemporary imperative to deal with serious ecological decline and its social and economic implications, a law degree that fails to engage with issues of sustainability will not equip students to grapple with these issues. Instead, graduates will emerge with a discipline knowledge rooted in the modes of thought of the past. This paper presents a way of understanding sustainability as a broader context for the study of law. Using the example of land law, it mounts an argument for adopting a sustainability education approach to curriculum design in law. Finally, it offers a case study of how land law might be taught within the broader context of sustainability.
SHAREHOLDERS WEALTH CREATION IN SELECT BSE 100 LISTED COMPANIES

Traditionally, a variety of measures are used to show how much value is created to the shareholders. However, not a single traditional performance measure explains to the fullest extent the variation in shareholder wealth. In the past decade, a sea of changes has been made in the performance and measurement criteria of corporate entities, from the conventional profit based measures like, Earnings per share(EPS), Return on Capital employed (ROCE), Return on Equity (ROE), Net operating profit tax (NOPAT) to the new value based performance like Market Value Added (MVA), Shareholder Value Added (SVA), Cash Flow Return on Investment (CFROI), Total Shareholders Return (TSR), and Economic Value Added (EVA) etc., Hence, the present part of analysis examines which measure has got a better predictive power relative to the wealth creation. For this purpose,10 year (2001–02 to 2010–11) average values of traditional accounting measures such as Return on Capital Employed (ROCE), Earnings Per Share (EPS), Profit After Tax (PAT) and Return on equity (ROE) EVA and Market Value Added (MVA) in selected BSE listed companies are analyzed with OLS regression model. The results concluded that regarding shareholder's wealth creation, the performance of all 32 companies average MVA was positive revealing that they have created wealth to their shareholders and the traditional measures display a greater ability to explain the market value, than EVA.
FORCE AND BIAS: TOWARDS A PREDICTIVE MODEL OF EFFECTIVE THIRD‐PARTY INTERVENTION

Throughout the 1990s multilateral interventions often deviated significantly from traditional peacekeeping in terms of mandate complexity, level of force, and the absence of consent and impartiality. This paper develops a formal model of biased intervention and specifies propositions regarding its effects on combatant behaviour. We find that the response to the intervener depends on the how the combatants divide their labour resources between production and fighting, the amount of resources the intervener transfers between the combatants, and the degree to which the intervener’s military efforts affect the effectiveness of the combatant’s military forces. NATO’s intervention in Kosovo is then used as a case study to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the model. Finally, we identify the theoretical and policy‐relevant implications of the model and outline directions for future research.
NETWORK CAPACITY-BUILDING IN HIGH-TECH SECTORS: OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF CLUSTER FACILITATION POLICY

Countries increasingly bring in facilitators for managing high-tech networks. Facilitators are broadly defined as experts who take on a central position in the network with the goal of connecting various stakeholder groups. They also receive public funding and pose as a communication link between stakeholders and government. However, the use of facilitators challenges government to identify their benefits. Based on three case studies and interviews in biotechnology networks, the article opens up the black box of facilitation. It addresses the evaluation challenges by establishing a conceptual framework based on collaborative and absorptive capacity-building theory to identify the elements relevant to facilitation. The analysis of Chicago (USA), Medicon Valley (Denmark/Sweden), and Singapore shows that facilitators not only create capacity-enhancing elements within networks, they also occur in varying forms, including a government- and stakeholder-funded model in European countries, an independent model in North America, and a government-financed model in Asia.
Exploring the Relationship between Psychopathy and Helping Behaviors in Naturalistic Settings: Preliminary Findings

ABSTRACT This study examined the helping behavior of participants with high (High-P; 15 males, 13 females) and low (Low-P; 14 males, 16 females) psychopathic traits without their awareness. In the first of three tests, we found Low-P participants offered more help to an apparently lost female confederate than High-P participants. In the second test, High-P compared to Low-P males offered more help to an “injured” female experimenter, the reverse was true for females. In the third test, High-P compared to Low-P females offered more help to a female confederate who had apparently dropped papers they were carrying; whereas the reverse was true for males. Our preliminary findings indicate that context, gender and psychopathic traits interact and impact helping behavior.
Paycheque Receipt and the Timing of Consumption

This paper examines the consumption response to monthly paycheck receipt. Since the amount and arrival date of paychecks are known in advance, the receipt of a paycheck does not coincide with the receipt of new information. Under the basic rational expectations Life-Cycle/Permanent Income Hypothesis, household consumption should not respond to paycheck arrival. Using data from the United Kingdom's Family Expenditure Survey, this paper finds that household consumption is excessively sensitive to paycheck receipt. The results cannot be explained by any underlying monthly expenditure fluctuations common to all households. The presence of liquidity constraints as measured by wealth can account for the excess sensitivity results although the availability of credit cards cannot.
Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocol (RPL) for Internet of Things

Recently, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardized a powerful and flexible routing protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL). RPL is a routing protocol for low power and lossy networks in the Internet of Things. It is an extensible distance vector protocol, which has been proposed for low power and lossy networks in the global realm of IPv6 networks, so it selects the routes from a source to a destination node based on certain metrics injected into the objective function (OF). There has been an investigation of the performance of RPL in the lighter density network. This study investigates the performance of RPL in medium density using of two objective function in various topologies (e.g. grid, random). The performance of RPL is studied using various metrics. For example, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), Power Consumption and Packet Reception Ratio (RX) using a fixed Packet Reception Ratio (RX) values.
CONSEQUENCES AND ANTECEDENTS OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY IN A CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXT

Continuous innovation is one of the key challenges businesses are currently facing, which makes organisational absorptive capacity (ACAP) — a firms ability to explore and exploit external knowledge — a highly relevant topic. This study addresses ACAPs consequences and antecedents in an international context by analysing data from 549 small and medium-sized companies in Austria, Brazil, Germany, India, Singapore, and the US First, we reveal that both potential and realised ACAP have an equally strong positive impact on firm performance around the world. Second, we assess that the relationship between organisational structure and potential ACAP is not moderated by national cultural values. Furthermore, we show that the role a formalised organisational structure plays with regard to realised ACAP is positively moderated by the national cultural characteristic of power distance and negatively by the national cultural trait of masculinity. In contrast, masculinity positively moderates the relationship between specialisation and realised ACAP. Overall, with our study, we advance research on the consequences as well as the antecedents of ACAP and provide managers with mechanisms to support corporate knowledge absorption and innovation generation throughout the world.
Tax Avoidance vs. Tax Aggressiveness: A Unifying Conceptual Framework

I develop a unifying conceptual framework of corporate tax planning. The framework accommodates constructs frequently studied in empirical tax accounting research, i.e. tax avoidance, tax aggressiveness, tax sheltering, and tax evasion, by relating them to the seminal notion of effective tax planning presented in Scholes and Wolfson [1992]. Most importantly, literature knows no universal approach to the constructs of tax avoidance and tax aggressiveness (Hanlon and Heitzman [2010]). In search of a useful reference point to delimit non-aggressive from aggressive tax avoidance, I put a particular focus on the more-likely-than-not probability of a tax transaction being legally sustainable upon potential audit (e.g. Lisowsky, Robinson, and Schmidt [2013]). I further provide an overview of commonly used and recently suggested empirical measures of the underlying constructs and discuss their context-sensitive strengths and weaknesses. Finally, I arrange the measures along the lines of the proposed conceptual framework in an attempt to provide guidance as to which proxy most adequately reflects which conceptual construct. Although a demanding task, the promotion of a sound theoretical understanding and careful empirical handling of the relevant tax constructs should enrich the discussion and foster consistent inferences.
School policy making through electronically supported discussion involving teachers and managers

Summary In this article, the research question is examined whether teachers’ involveme nt in school policy making can be stimulated through Computer-Supported Collaborative Working (CSCW). An explorative case study on the use of an electronically supported platform for discussion among teachers and between teachers and school managers to inc rease teachers’ participation in school policy will be described. Based on the research findings, recommendations will be formulated how to make teachers experience the added value of CSCW with respect to formulating new school policy. Introduction In The Netherlands, as well as in many other countries in Europe and outside, schools are expected to successfully handle a bundle of mandated large-scale educational innovations. In secondary agricultural education, the innovations are concentrated on the implementation of a compulsory core curriculum for students in their first three years (so-called basic education) and a programme aimed at better attuning the certificates and diplomas obtained by students to vocations available outside school (so-called qualification structure) (see also Jongmans, Sleegers, Biemans & De Jong, under review). Within this framework, schools are encouraged make their own policy. To be able to develop their own procedures, strategies and guidelines for educational and organisational change, schools should have policy-making capacity (see also Giesbers et al., 1987; Jongmans, Biemans & Beijaard, 1998). School policy-making capacity can be defined as “the extent to which schools can independently perform their tasks in policy making” (Sleegers et al., 1994, p.148). Research has revealed that schools differ with respect to their policy-making capacity. This appears to be highly determined by the extent to which teachers participate in decision-making processes: schools in which teachers are highly involved in educational (and administrative) policy making have more policy-making capacity that schools in which this is not so or only to a lower extent (Sleegers et al., 1994). Thus, increasing teacher participation in (major) decision-making processes is considered as a way to transform schools into more professional organisations and to improve and innovate education (cf. Jongmans, Biemans & Beijaard, 1998). Innovation processes in schools often appear to proceed with difficulty because teachers work in isolation (see also Jongmans, Sleegers, Biemans & De Jong, under review). There are more and more indications that collaboration between teachers and between teachers and school managers can support
FlowRank: ranking NetFlow records

This paper describes a new approach to identify relevant flow records in large scale flow dataset. We propose a method that leverages the well known page rank algorithm in order to extract the most relevant flows. We introduce a dependency relation that uses a simple and efficient causal relationship. The strength of this dependency is determined by time related information. We have tested our method on datasets coming from our campus network.
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF CAUSALITY BETWEEN INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CHINA, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA

This study examines the causal relationship between information and communications technology (ICT) development and economic growth in three of the Northeast Asian countries: China, Japan and South Korea. The Granger causality test is performed following the cointegration approach to reveal the directio n of causality between ICT development and economic growth. Test results indicate two things; 1) there is a long-run equilibrium relationship that runs from ICT development to economic growth in South Korea; and 2) a one-way directional causality of growth-led ICT development for China is evidenced. A discussion follows based on the empirical findings.
COPI buds 60-nm lipid droplets from reconstituted water–phospholipid–triacylglyceride interfaces, suggesting a tension clamp function

Intracellular trafficking between organelles is achieved by coat protein complexes, coat protomers, that bud vesicles from bilayer membranes. Lipid droplets are protected by a monolayer and thus seem unsuitable targets for coatomers. Unexpectedly, coat protein complex I (COPI) is required for lipid droplet targeting of some proteins, suggesting a possible direct interaction between COPI and lipid droplets. Here, we find that COPI coat components can bud 60-nm triacylglycerol nanodroplets from artificial lipid droplet (LD) interfaces. This budding decreases phospholipid packing of the monolayer decorating the mother LD. As a result, hydrophobic triacylglycerol molecules become more exposed to the aqueous environment, increasing LD surface tension. In vivo, this surface tension increase may prime lipid droplets for reactions with neighboring proteins or membranes. It provides a mechanism fundamentally different from transport vesicle formation by COPI, likely responsible for the diverse lipid droplet phenotypes associated with depletion of COPI subunits.
Hormonal responses to trauma

ObjectivesTo review the hormonal changes that have been reported after trauma, to define their etiologies, and to describe their consequences. Data SourcesLiterature review using MEDLINE and original data. Data SynthesisHormonal responses to trauma are bidirectional. Functional derangements include increases in adrenocorticotropin hormone and cortisol, growth hormone, and prolactin levels. In contrast, gonadotropin and gonadal steroid, and thyroid hormone concentrations decrease. The response is immediate but not necessarily sustained for those hormones that respond with increased secretion, whereas the effect may not become apparent for several hours, may be maximal after 1 to 4 days, and may persist for the duration of illness for those hormones that decrease. The reduction in hormone concentrations generally reflect diminished secretion, with the exception of the thyroid hormones where altered metabolic pathways and enhanced metabolic clearance play a major role. ConclusionsThe changes in circulating levels do not appear to be injury specific, but tend to reflect the severity of the traumatic insult, and there are some data for cortisol and thyroxine that show their concentrations may be of predictive value. In head-injured patients, structural as well as functional pituitary changes may be present. Patients may show varying degrees of pituitary insufficiency. However, the presence of hyperprolactinemia strongly suggests involvement of the hypothalamus. With the exception of bonafide hypopituitarism, the relevance of the hormonal changes after trauma awaits clarification.
A behavioural intervention to reduce persistence of bacterial vaginosis among women who report sex with women: results of a randomised trial

Objectives Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is common in lesbians, and treatment fails in up to 28%. Risks include sexual behaviours that transmit vaginal fluid. The authors measured efficacy of a behavioural intervention to reduce sexual transfer of vaginal fluid between female sex partners in reducing BV persistence. Methods Women aged 16–35 years with BV who reported sex with women (prior year) were eligible. Participants were randomised to intervention (motivational interviewing designed to reduce sharing of vaginal fluid on hands or sex toys post-treatment, by provision of condoms, gloves and water-based lubricant) or control (general STI education) arms. All were treated with vaginal metronidazole and underwent computer-assisted self-interview to ascertain sexual behaviours, with test-of-cure at 30 days. Results Of 129 women with BV, 108 (84%) were eligible; 89 (69%) agreed to enrol. 43 were randomised to control and 46 to intervention; 81 (91%) returned for test-of-cure. BV persisted in 12 (27.9%) of 43 women in intervention and 8 (21.1%) of 38 women in control arms (p1/40.6). Digital-vaginal sex was common post-treatment (50% intervention and 68% control); women randomised to the intervention were less likely to report receptive digital-vaginal sex without gloves than control (31% vs 61%; p1/40.01), without reported lower frequency of other sexual practices. Shared vaginal use of sex toys was infrequent. Conclusions Although the intervention effected a significant increase in glove use during digital-vaginal sex post-BV treatment, this was not associated with reduction in BV persistence. Shared use of vaginal sex toys was infrequent, suggesting that other mechanisms promote BV in lesbians.
Oral submucous fibrosis: a case-control study in Chennai, South India.

BACKGROUND Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a pre-cancerous condition caused by the use of areca nut in various forms. There are very few published reports on areca nut use and OSF from Chennai, South India. METHODS A hospital-based case-control study on habits and OSF was performed in Chennai over a 3-year period. A total of 185 consecutive patients with OSF were matched with age- and sex-matched controls. History was recorded in a pre-determined format by qualified dental surgeons. RESULTS The male to female ratio of OSF cases was 9.9 : 1. All areca nut products were associated with OSF, with the risk being greatest for pan masala. The duration of the habit was more significant than the frequency of the chewing habit. CONCLUSION The present study confirms the strong association between areca nut use and OSF and the increasing use of pan masala.
Clinical Indicators of Impaired Gas Exchange in Cardiac Postoperative Patients.

PURPOSE To analyze the accuracy of the defining characteristics of impaired gas exchange (IGE). METHODS Cross-sectional study carried out in 93 cardiac postoperative adult patients. The 19 NANDA-I defining characteristics related to IGE were evaluated. FINDINGS Ten defining characteristics were found in the sample. The best accuracy values, including specificity, diagnostic odds ratio, and likelihood ratios, inter alia, were found to decreased carbon dioxide, abnormal arterial blood gases, abnormal arterial pH, and abnormal breathing. CONCLUSION Some clinical indicators predict the presence/absence of IGE more accurately than others. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE Knowledge of the accuracy of defining characteristics allows an early identification of particular nursing diagnoses, which can prevent complications.
Optimization photovoltaic pumping system based BLDC using fuzzy logic MPPT control

In this paper, we present an approach for modeling, control and optimization of a photovoltaic pumping system which contains a pv generator, DC-DC boost converter, MPPT controller, DC-AC inverter and a BLDC motor. We use an intelligent control method for searching the maximum power point (MPP). This method uses a fuzzy logic controller applied to a drive a DC-DC converter to an optimal operating point using PV panel's measured variables. The PWM signals are generated by the interaction of the motor speed closed-loop system and the current hysteresis. The motor reference current is compared with the motor speed feedback signal. The considered model has been implemented in Matlab/simulink environment. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed method to increase the performance of the water pumping system.