Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Green human resource management: A framework for sustainable organizational development in an emerging economy

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the status and challenges of green human resource management practices in India, an under-researched area. Further, it proposes a theoretical framework to fill the identified gaps and build a sustainable organization. Design/methodology/approach Multimethod approach was used. The research was conducted in two phases. Archival research was conducted in the first phase, and a case study technique was employed in the second phase. In the first phase, an extensive literature review was carried out to gather insights on prevalent green human resource activities and their link with sustainable organizational development. In the second phase, data were collected from the manufacturing organizations to analyze the status of the activities identified in the first phase. Findings This study highlights status of green human resource practices such as environmental training, green recruitment, performance appraisal, employee involvement and compensation. The findings suggest that there is further scope to utilize the full potential of GHRM practices for encouraging pro-environmental behavior in the organizations. Analyses of data also reveal that top-management support and mutual learning among departments are crucial to facilitate green behaviors among employees. Research limitations/implications This study provides a comprehensive literature review of green-human resource management practices. It suggests an interdisciplinary framework for building holistic sustainable organizations by integrating learnings from green human resource management, green supply-chain management, competitive advantage strategy and green corporate social responsibility. It highlights gaps in the system and provides insights to managers and policy makers on building holistic sustainable organizations. Originality/value This study fulfills the need to explore green human resource management in emerging economies like India. Studies like these are more important in developing countries, which have alarming environmental concerns and poorly implemented government regulations.
IL-10 Regulates Murine Lupus1

MRL/MpJ-Tnfrsf6lpr (MRL/MpJ-Faslpr; MRL-Faslpr) mice develop a spontaneous lupus syndrome closely resembling human systemic lupus erythematosus. To define the role of IL-10 in the regulation of murine lupus, IL-10 gene-deficient (IL-10−/−) MRL-Faslpr (MRL-Faslpr IL-10−/−) mice were generated and their disease phenotype was compared with littermates with one or two copies of an intact IL-10 locus (MRL-Faslpr IL-10+/− and MRL-Faslpr IL-10+/+ mice, respectively). MRL-Faslpr IL-10−/− mice developed severe lupus, with earlier appearance of skin lesions, increased lymphadenopathy, more severe glomerulonephritis, and higher mortality than their IL-10-intact littermate controls. The increased severity of lupus in MRL-Faslpr IL-10−/− mice was closely associated with enhanced IFN-γ production by both CD4+ and CD8+ cells and increased serum concentration of IgG2a anti-dsDNA autoantibodies. The protective effect of IL-10 in this lupus model was further supported by the observation that administration of rIL-10 reduced IgG2a anti-dsDNA autoantibody production in wild-type MRL-Faslpr animals. In summary, our results provide evidence that IL-10 can down-modulate murine lupus through inhibition of pathogenic Th1 cytokine responses. Modulation of the level of IL-10 may be of potential therapeutic benefit for human lupus.
TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR DESIGNING CONTROL SYSTEMS USING PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICES

The paper presents modern programmable logic devices and design methodologies with appropriate tools reference. It briefly shows enhancements introduced in the architecture of FPGA and its influence on circuit capabilities. The paper presents also the design process from idea to functional implementation. It discusses algorithmic and functional approaches to design. Abstraction level and transaction mechanisms are shown as a method of hiding details without compromising design functionality. Finally tools for different design approaches and design environment requirements are presented. Copyright © 2005 IFAC
Social hue:a bidirectional human activity-based system for improving social connectedness between the elderly and their caregivers

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Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of a Core Competencies Measure for Malaysian Youth Workers

Core competencies in youth work refer to demonstrated capacities of quality performance that allow youth development workers to be resources for the young people, organizations and communities with whom they work. While a number of practice frameworks based on core competencies have been developed, few validated assessment measures exist to help identify professional development needs for youth workers. This article describes the adaptation and psychometric validation of a core competency assessment tool for youth work practitioners in Malaysia. A quantitative study was undertaken to validate an adapted core competency measure with a sample of 300 Malaysian youth workers. Psychometric validation included both internal consistency and construct, convergent and discriminant validity tests. Confirmatory factor analysis yielded 12 core competency sub-scales. Adequate internal consistency was achieved for each subscale along with the full measure. The findings support the validity and reliability of the core competency measure. Recommendations for application and further research are discussed.
Development of Real Time Virtual Aquarium System

Summary Water or any fluid similar to water in form among various fluids is highly utilized in animation production, and its application scope is quite broad. Therefore, the production of software generating fluid expression, which is easy to be intuitively used, may be quite important. Water, however, is more difficult for simulation than smoke or gas in generation of a fluid effect through an application of a fluid mechanics technique based on physics. In addition, an excessive numerical dispersion problem should be solved. This paper presented a method to develop a fluid mechanics-based fluid expression generator and control the flow of fluid. Also, a method to build a virtual aquarium environment system that can be controllable in real time was presented by expressing the movement of seaweeds using virtual fish and control points based on the spring-mass model in this paper.
Polar Polynomial Curve for Smooth, Collision-free Path Generation Between Two Arbitrary Configurations for Nonholonomic Robots

This paper studies a geometric-based method for smooth path generation for nonholonomic mobile robots, which are subject to dynamic and curvature constraints. It first studies polar polynomial curve and its properties for it to be used in curvature-smooth transition. In the design of such a path, it is examinable whether the robot constraints and curvature requirement are satisfied. Then, connection using such a curve is extended to the case that the robot is performing rotation at its start position. Next, a computationally efficient way is proposed for collision test of the curve in order to achieve realtime path planning. Finally, extensive simulation experiments are carried out to verify the proposed method.
Reverse Genetics for Functional Genomics of Phytopathogenic Fungi and Oomycetes

Sequencing of over 40 fungal and oomycete genomes has been completed. The next major challenge in modern fungal/oomycete biology is now to translate this plethora of genome sequence information into biological functions. Reverse genetics has emerged as a seminal tool for functional genomics investigations. Techniques utilized for reverse genetics like targeted gene disruption/replacement, gene silencing, insertional mutagenesis, and targeting induced local lesions in genomes will contribute greatly to the understanding of gene function of fungal and oomycete pathogens. This paper provides an overview on high-throughput reverse genetics approaches to decode fungal/oomycete genomes.
Fast barrier synchronization hardware

A special-purpose hardware scheme uniquely tailored to barrier synchronization is presented. It allows barrier synchronization to be performed within a single instruction cycle for moderately sized systems, and is scalable with logarithmic increase in synchronization time. It supports a large number of concurrent barriers, and can also be used to support a number of different barrier synchronization schemes. The hardware is relatively simple and inexpensive. Simulation results have shown that, under reasonable assumptions, it can decrease typical parallel-loop execution time significantly, especially for fine-grained and statically scheduled loops. <<ETX>>
TOWARD REALISTIC INTERSECTING D-BRANE MODELS

▪ Abstract We provide a pedagogical introduction to a recently studied class of phenomenologically interesting string models known as Intersecting D-Brane Models. The gauge fields of the Standard Model are localized on D-branes wrapping certain compact cycles on an underlying geometry, whose intersections can give rise to chiral fermions. We address the basic issues and also provide an overview of the recent activity in this field. This article is intended to serve non-experts with explanations of the fundamental aspects of string phenomenology and also to provide some orientation for both experts and non-experts in this active field.
Prebiotic and Probiotic Fortified Milk in Prevention of Morbidities among Children: Community-Based, Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial

Background Recent reviews suggest common infectious diseases continue to be a major cause of death among preschool children in developing countries. Identification of feasible strategies to combat this disease burden is an important public health need. We evaluated the efficacy of adding prebiotic oligosaccharide and probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis HN019 to milk, in preventing diarrhea, respiratory infections and severe illnesses, in children aged 1–4 years as part of a four group study design, running two studies simultaneously. Methods and Findings In a community based double-masked, randomized controlled trial, children 1–3 years of age, willing to participate, were randomly allocated to receive either control milk (Co; n = 312) or the same milk fortified with 2.4 g/day of prebiotic oligosaccharide and 1.9×107 colony forming unit (c.f.u)/day of probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis HN019 (PP; n = 312). Children were followed up for 1 year providing data for 1–4 years. Biweekly household surveillance was conducted to gather information on compliance and morbidity. Both study groups were comparable at baseline; compliance to intervention was similar. Overall, there was no effect of prebiotic and probiotic on diarrhea (6% reduction, 95% Confidence Interval [CI]: −1 to 12%; p = 0.08). Incidence of dysentery episodes was reduced by 21% (95% CI: 0 to 38%; p = 0.05). Incidence of pneumonia was reduced by 24% (95% CI: 0 to 42%; p = 0.05) and severe acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) by 35% (95% CI: 0 to 58%; p = 0.05). Compared to children in Co group, children in PP group had 16% (95% CI: 5 to 26%, p = 0.004) and 5% (95% CI: 0 to 10%; p = 0.05) reduction in days with severe illness and high fever respectively. Conclusions/Significance Milk can be a good medium for delivery of prebiotic and probiotic and resulted in significant reduction of dysentery, respiratory morbidity and febrile illness. Overall, impact of diarrhea was not significant. These findings need confirmation in other settings. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00255385
Modelling mobility in emergency scenario for MANET applications

In a post disaster situation, movement of rescue teams should be modelled effectively to ensure proper communication and co-ordination amongst different teams. For this it is necessary that movement is modelled effectively. In this paper we propose an emergency scenario movement modelling by managing the co-ordination task by a four way directional movement. The communication between the stages is considered to be provided by a MANET based network setup, since they are easy to deploy and do not require elaborate infrastructure. Mobility of MANET nodes between the stages has been modeled with random waypoint mobility model (RWM). Performance of the scenario is analyzed for three routing protocols viz. LAR [1], DYMO [2] and AODV [3]. Packet delivery ratio, end to end delay, normalized routing load and data packets forwarded is estimated for these protocols. From the results it is observed that for such situations, performance of geographic routing protocols is better than other reactive protocols.
Shorter communication The emotional reasoning heuristic in children

A previous study by Arntz, Rauner, and Van den Hout (1995; Behaviour Research and Therapy, 33 , 917–925) has shown that adult anxiety patients tend to infer danger not only on the basis of objective danger information, but also on the basis of anxiety response information. The current study examined whether this so-called emotional reasoning phenomenon also occurs in children. Normal primary school children (N = 101) first completed scales tapping anxiety disorders symptoms, anxiety sensitivity, and trait anxiety. Next, they were asked to rate danger levels of scripts in which objective danger versus objective safety and anxiety response versus no anxiety response were systematically varied. Evidence was found for a general emotional reasoning effect. That is, children’s danger ratings were not only a function of objective danger information, but also, in the case of objective safety scripts, by anxiety response information. This emotional reasoning effect was predicted by levels of anxiety sensitivity and trait anxiety. More specifically, high levels of anxiety sensitivity and trait anxiety were accompanied by a greater tendency to use anxiety-response information as an heuristic for assessing dangerousness of safety scripts. Implications of these findings are briefly discussed.  2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Semi-automatic selection of best corpus examples for Swedish: Initial algorithm evaluation

The study presented here describes the results of the initial evaluation of two sorting approaches to automatic ranking of corpus examples for Swedish. Representatives from two potential target user groups have been asked to rate top three hits per approach for sixty search items from the point of view of the needs of their professional target groups, namely second/foreign language (L2) teachers and lexicographers. This evaluation has shown, on the one hand, which of the two approaches to example rating (called in the text below algorithms #1 and #2) performs better in terms of finding better examples for each target user group; and on the other hand, which features evaluators associate with good examples. It has also facilitated statistic analysis of the “good” versus “bad” examples with reference to the measurable features, such as sentence length, word length, lexical frequency profiles, PoS constitution, dependency structure, etc. with a potential to find out new reliable classifiers.
Sem comunicação, há inclusão?Formação de educadores em Comunicação Alternativa para crianças com autismo

A oportunidade de frequentar a escola e compartilhar de vivencias proprias da infância e da adolescencia para aqueles que apresentam Transtornos do Espectro do Autismo e muito recente no Brasil e ainda constitui-se como um grande desafio para os educadores. Nos sujeitos com autismo, os deficits sociocomunicativos e comportamentais estao presentes desde a infância. Neste sentindo, no âmbito educacional, o espaco da creche constitui-se como um ambiente fundamental para o desenvolvimento dessas criancas. Diante deste contexto, o presente estudo teve como objetivo estruturar, implementar e avaliar um programa de formacao de professores e mediadores da educacao infantil em comunicacao alternativa, especificamente no uso do PECS-Adaptado, destinado a criancas com TEA, nao orais ou sem fala funcional, incluidas em uma creche publica e verificar os efeitos deste programa nos participantes em situacoes interativas. Participaram do estudo quatro professoras, duas mediadoras e tres criancas com idades entre tres e cinco anos, diagnosticadas com TEA, nao orais ou sem fala funcional. Para atender os objetivos propostos, o estudo envolveu um delineamento quase experimental do tipo A-B-C. Os resultados mostraram que atraves do modelo de consultoria Colaborativa Escolar a implementacao do Programa de Formacao para Profissionais da Educacao Infantil em Comunicacao Alternativa para Criancas com Autismo melhorou a interacao comunicativa entre os profissionais e as criancas e modificou de forma positiva a pratica dos educadores. Alem disso, o estudo revelou que para garantir a qualidade e a eficacia da inclusao destas criancas nas creches e necessario uma rede de apoio e, principalmente, formacao e acoes colaborativas continuas, com profissionais especializados, no ambiente educacional. %%%%The opportunity to attend school and share their own experiences of childhood and adolescence for those with Autism Spectrum Disorders is very recent in Brazil and still constitutes a major challenge for educators. For the individuals with autism, he social communication and behavioral deficits are present are established since infancy. Subsequently, from an educational standpoint, attending nursery becomes a critical component in the child development process, aimed to structure, implement and evaluate a teacher training program and mediators of early childhood education in alternative communication, specifically in the use of PECS-Adapted for children with ASD, non-oral or no functional speech included in a public nursery and see the effects of this program on the participants in interactive situations. The group of individuals participating in this study was formed by four teachers, two mediators, and three children with ages ranging from three to five years diagnosed with ASD, without non-oral or no functional speech. To meet the proposed objectives, the aforementioned study included a type A B C semi experimental delineation. The results indicated that thru the Collaborative Consulting Model used by implementation of the Training Program for…
Personalized IVR system in contact center

One of the important challenges in today's contact center solution is to provide the service to the customer in a cost effective manner without disregarding the customer This paper describes the implementation of Personalized IVR system in Contact Center. Personalized IVRs are used to provide self service to the customer so as reducing the burden from the customer care representatives also called as agents. The Personalized IVR we are talking about is a speech enabled IVR. To develop Personalized IVR system, Speech Application Software Development Toolkit (SASDK) has been used to provide an efficient speech interface, ASP.NET 2003 to supply the requested information to the Microsoft Speech Server (MSS) and interact with the database to process the request of the customer. To estimate its performance we have done the analysis of the speech recognition for the Personalized IVR system.
Color Management in Digital Pathology

In digital microscopes and whole slide imaging systems, images of slides are captured, transmitted, and reproduced on a computer display. In order to allow pathologists to interpret these images accurately and efficiently, it is important that colors from the slides are displayed in a consistent and reliable fashion. The final color of the image presented to the viewing pathologist depends on several steps through the imaging pathway, including sample illumination, magnification, image capture, compression, storage, and reproduction on the computer display. There are many possible system designs and, within a single system, different setup options which can affect the final image leading to significant variation in image appearances. This paper summarizes recent work by members of the International Color Consortium Medical Imaging Working Group to develop test materials and methods for the assessment of color calibration of digital microscope systems. This work includes sharing of ideas on device calibration and image processing and display. The paper further discusses the challenges encountered in the development of a suitable color target that includes a set of patches with spectra similar to those encountered when viewing pathology slides with stained tissue samples.
An improvement of Liao et al.'s authentication scheme using smart cards

In 2004, Das et al. proposed a dynamic identity based remote user authentication scheme. They claimed that their scheme is secure against different attacks. Unfortunately, many researchers demonstrated that Das et al. scheme is vulnerable to various attacks. Furthermore, this scheme does not achieve mutual authentication and thus can not resist malicious server attack. In 2005, Liao et al. improved Das et al.'s scheme and claimed that the improved scheme achieves mutual authentication, withstand password guessing attack and insider attack. In 2006, Yoon and Yoo demonstrated a reflection attack on Liao et al.'s scheme that breaks the mutual authentication. In this paper, we found that Liao et al.'s scheme is also vulnerable to malicious user attack, impersonation attack, stolen smart card attack and offline password guessing attack. Moreover, Liao et al.'s scheme does not maintain the user's anonymity and its password change phase is insecure. This paper presents a secure dynamic identity based authentication scheme using smart cards to resolve the aforementioned problems, while keeping the merits of different dynamic identity based authentication schemes.
A statistical performance prediction model for OpenCL kernels on NVIDIA GPUs

Understanding performance bottlenecks of applications in high performance computing can lead to dramatic improvements of applications performances. For example, a key problem in GPU programming is finding performance bottlenecks and solving them to reach the best possible performance. These bottlenecks in GPU architectures span a variety of factors such as memory access latency, branch divergence, utilization, and the amount of existing parallelism. In addition, a simple profiling cannot demonstrate the relations between these bottlenecks. In this paper, we propose a statistical performance model that not only helps us find bottlenecks but also shows the relations between them which is not possible by using a profiler. The OpenCL programming standard can be used in a variety of platforms (e.g., CPUs and GPUs); therefore, a program written in one platform can be imported to other platforms with minimal effort. As a result, we selected the OpenCL programming standard in order to design our performance model for NVIDIA GPUs. For this, we first measure the values of a GPU performance counters for the selected benchmarks. Then, using the achieved results and applying a regression model and the principle component analysis we develop a model to show how different GPU parameters account for applications performance bottlenecks. Our results show that the proposed model can predict applications behaviors with a 91% accuracy. Moreover, the proposed model is able to characterize unknown applications based on their performance similarities with an existing database of benchmark to predict their likely performance bottlenecks.