Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Variable Individual- and Population- Level Responses to Ocean Acidification

This research was financed through the EU 7th Framework Program project Arctic Tipping Points (contract number FP7-ENV-2009-226248; http://www.eu-atp.org; PER IEH), the Fram Centre Ocean Acidification Flagship (PER), and partly by a Linnaeus-grant from the Swedish Research Councils VR and Formas (JNH) of the Linnaeus Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology (http://www.cemeb.science.gu.se).
Brain regions related to fear extinction in obsessive-compulsive disorder and its relation to exposure therapy outcome: a morphometric study

Background The size of particular sub-regions within the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) has been associated with fear extinction in humans. Exposure therapy is a form of extinction learning widely used in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Here we investigated the relationship between morphometric measurements of different sub-regions of the vmPFC and exposure therapy outcome in OCD. Method A total of 74 OCD patients and 86 healthy controls underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Cortical thickness and volumetric measurements were obtained for the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC), the medial orbital frontal cortex and the subcallosal cortex. After MRI acquisition, patients were enrolled in an exposure therapy protocol, and we assessed the relationship between MRI-derived measurements and treatment outcome. Baseline between-group differences for such measurements were also assessed. Results Compared with healthy controls, OCD patients showed a thinner left rACC (p = 0.008). Also, left rACC thickness was inversely associated with exposure therapy outcome (r – 0.32, p = 0.008), and this region was significantly thinner in OCD patients who responded to exposure therapy than in those who did not (p = 0.006). Analyses based on regional volumetry did not yield any significant results. Conclusions OCD patients showed cortical thickness reductions in the left rACC, and these alterations were related to exposure therapy outcome. The precise characterization of neuroimaging predictors of treatment response derived from the study of the brain areas involved in fear extinction may optimize exposure therapy planning in OCD and other anxiety disorders.
The effect of semantic and emotional context on written recall for verbal language in high functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder

OBJECTIVE Several deficits have been proposed to account for cognitive impairment in autism including an inability to comprehend the perspectives of others (“theory of mind”), an inability to process emotional information, and difficulty drawing together diverse information in context (“central coherence”). Because context (central coherence) and emotion can influence memory, a study was designed to show if autism spectrum disorder was associated with impaired utilisation of context and emotion in recall; and if impairments in theory of mind processing would influence recall in autism spectrum disorder. METHODS Ten high functioning subjects with autism spectrum disorder and 13 age and IQ matched controls were tested using recall tests. In the first coherence memory test, subjects listened to a series of word lists that were in varying degrees of syntactic and semantic (coherent) order and were asked to recall the words. In the second coherence memory test, subjects listened to stories consisting of sentences that were, or were not, in logical (coherent) order. In the emotional memory test, the subjects listened to sentences that were highly emotional or non-emotional. In the theory of mind test, the subjects listened to stories requiring varying levels of understanding of the perspectives of others. RESULTS There were no significant differences between groups in recall of coherent versus incoherent word lists, nor was there a significant difference between groups in recall of coherent versus incoherent stories. However, the control subjects recalled more of the emotional than non-emotional sentences, whereas the autism spectrum disorder group did not show such a difference. No significant difference existed in recall of stories requiring varying levels of understanding of the perspectives of others among subjects with autism spectrum disorder, and subjects with autism spectrum disorder did not differ from control subjects in the influence of theory of mind content on story recall. CONCLUSION The study shows that memory in high functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder is facilitated by emotional content to a lesser degree than it is facilitated by coherence. Therefore, impairments in emotional processing cannot be considered as simply an effect of the “weak central coherence” theory in autism spectrum disorder. Whereas the reasons for this emotional deficit are unknown, evidence of abnormalities of the limbic structures in autism spectrum disorder may provide an anatomical explanation.
How does the market price pension accruals

We use a cross-sectional valuation model that distinguishes between the operating and financial activities of the firm to examine the repercussions of three main alternative measures of pension expense. The GAAP Method recognizes a smoothed net pension expense, the NETCOST Method includes the excess of interest cost over the actual return on pension plan assets, if and only if this number is positive, and the FV Method substitutes the fair value in place of the smoothed pension expense. Three alternative fair value estimates of pension expense are examined: the first includes the expected return on plan assets and fair value other costs; the second includes the actual return on plan assets and net fair value other costs; the third includes the expected and the unexpected return on plan assets, along with net fair value other costs. Results from OLS regressions are consistent with the GAAP Method being relevant while the market appears to value the unexpected return included in the FV Method. Additional analyses from jack-knife (out-of-sample) regressions confirm the OLS findings. Further, we show that the multiples assigned to the alternative measures of pension expense differ based on the funding status of pension plans. The results are robust to various sensitivity checks.
Linear Diversity Combining Techniques Employed in Car-to-X Communication Systems

This paper presents performance evaluation results of different linear diversity combining techniques that have been applied to IEEE 802.11p based Car-to-X (C2X) communication systems. More precisely, we employed the Selection Combining (SC), the Equal Gain Combining (EGC) and the Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) algorithms to systems with multiple receiver antennas and compared the resulting performance to that of single-receive antenna systems. Concerning the great challenges of typical C2X propagation channels that go along with a strong time variance and long multipath delays, the use of multiple receive antennas in combination with adequate signal combining algorithms can clearly improve the reliability of the communication system even under poor Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) conditions. Based on physical (PHY) layer simulations, the achieved performance of different diversity combining techniques has been evaluated using stochastic models of double-selective fading channels.
A Model for Assisting Business Users along Analytical Processes

User-centric business intelligence aims at empowering analysts who interact with complex tools, by allowing them to perform accurate data manipulations and analysis without necessarily requiring IT expertise and knowledge of underlying data specifications. Recommender systems contribute to easing their tasks but most of them operate inside walled gardens and cannot assist properly the user throughout his BI workflow. In this paper we introduce a lightweight vocabulary intended to capture fragments of analytical workflows as multidimensional data transformations, within a Semantic Web framework. We utilize this model for calculating content-based recommendations.
A Virtual Chain Performance Model for Small Companies

Several business companies implement electronic processes to do business online and to exchange with their clients. These electronic businesses affect the ways that small firms exchange goods and services with suppliers and clients. Digital markets are multiplying every day and small companies need to implement a supply chain model to do cost-effective business with their partners. Using models from the literature, this study will highlight that a virtual value chain performance model integrated to open business systems is needed to provide effective services to business partners. In this paper, the author of this research will demonstrate that a virtual value chain performance model is needed to achieve operational effectiveness and efficiency for small businesses.
Predicting Lodging Manager Annual Salary Based on Metropolitan Statistical Area Attributes and Lodging Industry Performance: Exploring the Concept

Using multiple regression analysis, lodging managers’ annual mean salaries in 143 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) within the U.S. were analyzed to identify what relationships existed with variables related to general MSA characteristics, along with the lodging industry’s size and performance. By examining the relationship between these variables, the authors predict the long-term possibility of predicting lodging industry managers’ salaries. These predictions may have an impact on financial performance of an individual lodging property or organization. Through this paper, this concept was applied and explored within U.S. MSAs. These findings may have value for a variety of stakeholders, including human resources practitioners, the hospitality education community, and individuals considering lodging management careers.
Cost innovation in global supply chains. The case of Huawei Technologies

Cost innovation has been used to describe how firms offer a variety of customised and high-tech products at low prices. Insights into how this trade-off is overcome by supply chain design are lacking. This paper analyses the global supply chain strategies and practices of Huawei Technologies, and specifically how these contribute to cost innovation capability. The paper is based on interviews with managers at Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen, plus managers at two European supply chain centres. The case study shows that even though Huawei does not possess specifically unique supply chain solutions, there are some features that drive Huawei towards cost innovation in its supply chains. Some of them concern low-cost operations based on the location of main R&D, manufacturing and suppliers to China, in combination with a strong customer orientation, an integrated supply chain organisation and a balanced outsourcing strategy.
Field dependence and outer-directedness in the problem solving of retardates and normal children.

MASSARI, DAvm J., and MANSFIELD, RICHARD S. Field Dependence and Outer-Directedness in the Problem Solving of Retardates and Normal Children. CmLD DEVELOPMENT, 1973, 44, 346-350. Outer-directedness as measured by reliance on an external cue in a problem-solving task, was studied in relation to field dependence and MA. In Experiment I, institutionalized retardates of 2 MA levels, field dependents but not field independents, were differentially affected by the presence or absence of an external cue. Field dependents were found to be more outer-directed than field independents, but low-MA Ss were not more outer-directed than high-MA Ss. In Experiment II, the relationship between outer-directedness and field dependence was replicated in a nonretarded, noninstitutionalized population of black first graders. It was suggested that field dependents have more difficulty than field independents in giving up reliance on a formerly relevant cue.
Working capital management and performance of listed SMEs

This paper reports the results of the effect of working capital management (WCM) on the performance of listed small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The study also examines whether the effect of WCM on performance differs between ‘small’ and ‘medium’ firms. The paper employs panel data regression analysis on a sample of 141 Alternative Investment Market listed SMEs for an eight-year period (2007–2014). The results show that for all SMEs, WCM components (inventory holding period, accounts receivable period, and accounts payable period) have concave relationships with performance. However, when the SMEs are split into ‘small’ and ‘medium’ firms, the results suggest that WCM is relatively more important to the performance of ‘small’ firms than ‘medium’ firms. Overall, the results imply that WCM components affect performance of the listed SMEs. The findings have important implication for policy-makers who prescribe financial assistance mechanisms for SMEs.
Customer Relationship Management Adoption: Using A Dynamic Capabilities Approach

Customer relationship management (CRM) adoption is both a relevant research topic in academia and a challenge for practitioners. We understand CRM as a complex concept that includes technology, strategy and philosophy. In this research, we propose an analysis of CRM organisational dynamic capabilities. The main goal is to apply a dynamic capabilities perspective to analyse how companies can improve their CRM initiatives. In order to achieve this purpose, a qualitative, interpretative, case-based research strategy was implemented. We conducted a case study in a Portuguese telecommunication enterprise for one year. The case study was based on semi-structured interviews and document analysis. We used qualitative techniques to analyse the collected data and ground our interpretation in a dynamic capabilities theoretical approach. We propose a theoretical framework related to CRM dynamic capability that is corroborated with empirical evidence. We believe that because organisations which adopt a CRM strategy are in a competitive environment, a dynamic model needs to be used to analyse and explain how they can improve their CRM strategy in order to achieve success.
Self-Management Pathways for diabetic patients: Early findings of the EMPOWER pilot studies

Diabetes is a serious world-wide medical challenge, which affected 382 million people in 2013. This paper describes, how the European Commission supported EMPOWER project fosters the self-management of diabetes patients. The Self-Management Pathways help patients in specifying planned activities based on medical recommendations and personal goals, as well as self-monitoring of Observations of Daily Living (ODLs). The whole process is supported by modern ICT services that motivate patients in changing their lifestyle and adhere to defined medication and activity plans. The system is being validated in Germany and Turkey. Early findings of the first validation phase are described.
A 0.7 V Single-Supply SRAM With 0.495  $\mu$m$^{2}$ Cell in 65 nm Technology Utilizing Self-Write-Back Sense Amplifier and Cascaded Bit Line Scheme

We proposed a novel SRAM architecture with a high-density cell in low-supply-voltage operation. A self-write-back sense amplifier realizes cell failure rate improvement by more than two orders of magnitude at 0.6 V. A cascaded bit line scheme saves additional process cost for hierarchical bit line layer. A test chip with 256 kb SRAM utilizing 0.495 mum2 cell in 65 nm CMOS technology demonstrated 0.7 V single-supply operation.
New Cellular Networks in Malawi: Correlates of Service Rollout and Network Performance

Cellular technologies have become increasingly important in the developing world; infrastructure for mobile networks has expanded dramatically over the past two decades giving access to remote areas without previous phone service. Despite this expansion, relatively little is known about the correlates of the rollout of cellular phone networks or the performance of these networks. Since the rollout of cellular networks has been largely spearheaded by an active private sector in telecommunications, how demand-side and cost-side factors affect the timing of rollout and quality of network service is of particular interest. In this paper we use new data to estimate the correlates of cellular phone access and network performance across rural areas of Malawi. We compile a dataset which combines administrative data of the entire cellular network of Malawi with geographic and Census data to describe the rollout and the performance of the cellular network measured by the dropped call rate. We find that both demand-side and cost-side factors are important in determining the timing of network access, while demand-side factors appear most relevant for the dropped call rate, one metric of network quality.
Koch's Triangle:

The term "Koch's triangle" is familiar to all clinical electrophysiologists of the modem era. A search of the MEDLINE database for the period January 1996 to July 1999 reveals 25 articles containing this term in the title or abstract. The triangle is one of a number of "anatomical triangles" thai are used to describe the . structure of various regions, other familiar examples including the femoral triangle and the suboccipital triangle. Koch's triangle was named for Walter Koch (1880-1962), a German pathologist, and is used as an aid to locate and describe the AV conduction system. Koch's triangle overlies the lower right atrium just above the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve. Todaro's tendon and the tricuspid annulus form two sides of the triangle, with the ihird side being marked by the orifice of the coronary sinus (Fig. 1). The AV node lies near the apex of this triangle. ' In this issue of the Journal. Dr. Thomas N. James reports the results of a study in which he found that Todaro's tendon was present in most infant hearts but was absent in approximately two thirds of adult hearts.2 James also reports that Koch did not describe the triangle that bears his name. More than half of his manuscript, however, is devoted to opposing the use of Koch's triangle, which James claims is "dangerously wrong. " James asks that we abandon the concept of Koch's triangle because of the inconstancy of Todaro's tendon and because Koch did not name the triangle. As an electrophysiologist who has found the triangle concept useful in both clinical and experimental work, 1 was surprised by Dr. James' comments. Does he have a case?
PHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF THE NYSTAGMUS PRODUCED BY ROTATIONS ABOUT AN EARTH‐HORIZONTAL AXIS *

The physiological basis of the nystagmus produced by rotation about an earth-horizontal axis is investigated with particular emphasis on the unidirectional nystagmus attributed to a bias component. Eye movement recordings were made with dc electro-oculography in alert squirrel monkeys and afferent responses were recorded from semicircular canals and otolith receptors of anesthetized animals upon rotations in the pitch and yaw planes. The eye-movement recordings show the rotation responses in the squirrel monkey to resemble those of other species, including persistent horizontal and vertical nystagmuses during yaw and pitch rotations, respectively, a unidirectional nystagmus at low rotation speeds, and postrotatory responses of relatively small amplitude and duration. The vestibular nerve recordings do not show a directionally specific dc response that can account for the bias component, but instead exhibit sinusoidal responses of peak amplitudes 0-15 and 25-75 spikes/sec for the canals and otolith, respectively. Results thus indicate that the dc signal to the oculomotor centers responsible for the nystagmus is of central origin, most likely based on some transformation of the otolith signals.
Surgical treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil

From 1960 through 1968, we examined 117 patients with carcinoma of the tonsil. Of these 117 patients a choice of the primary treatment modality existed for 96 patients, and 68 percent had surgery as their initial treatment. The absolute five‐year survival for all patients undergoing surgical procedures designed to cure was 48 percent. Tonsillar cancers are neither anaplastic nor markedly radiosensitive. The incidence of local recurrence in seven published series in which the primary tonsillar cancer was treated with radiation averaged 49 percent. We believe that the local recurrence rate of 19 percent in our surgical series reflects our dependence on frozen tissue examination and suggests that surgery offers a good chance of eradicating operable tonsillar carcinoma.
The how and why of in vitro oncogenic transformation.

The techniques devised to study oncogenic transformation in vitro, involving established cell lines as well as fresh explants from hamster embryos, represent a powerful tool to study the mechanisms involved in radiation carcinogenesis. Large numbers of cells can be irradiated and transformation incidence scored over a wide range of doses down to as low as 0.01 Gy of X rays. When data with small confidence intervals are available for doses below 1 Gy, it becomes evident that the dose-response relationship has a complex shape and is not well represented by a linear relationship between transformation incidence and dose. Experiments with fractionated doses of X rays indicate that dividing the dose into two equal fractions separated by 5 hr results in a decrease of transformation incidence compared with a single exposure of the same total dose for doses above 1.5 Gy, but that at lower dose levels splitting the dose enhances transformation incidence. In a further series of experiments, it has been shown that t.
Designing a Ranking System for Product Search Engine Based on Mining UGC

With the spread of e-commerce platforms, it becomes extremely difficult for the consumer to choose the right product from a large number of identical products, and different sellers based only on his/her own experience, product pictures or product metadata. Customers reviews present a rich and valuable source of information for potential consumers and manufacturers which can be very helpful in the decision process, but reading all of the available reviews is a hard task and time-consuming. Thus, the automated mining of these reviews and extracting product features in order to generate a raking system present a valuable and useful tool for consumers to make a well-informed decision. In this paper, we propose a ranking system for product search engine based on mining customers reviews. The product features pairs are extracted using Stanford typed dependencies. The evaluation process of the proposed system has passed through two levels: first measuring of accuracy of product feature extraction and classification, and the second one is the determination of the efficiency of the search results and the usability of visual summarization. The results show a high level of accuracy in feature/opinion pairs extraction and high level of participant satisfaction with the ranking and the summarization.
A proposed approach for analyzing post-study therapy effect in survival analysis

ABSTRACT Clinical trials that explore long-term endpoints may confound the analysis when post-study therapy effects are considered. This article introduces a procedure to mediate the effects of confounding and allow inferences of first-line experimental treatments in the presence of post-study therapy. The procedure is evaluated by intensive simulation analyses and applied to an analysis of a clinical cancer trial.