Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Industrial policy from a systems-of-innovation perspective

This paper focuses on the systems-of-innovation (SI) approach and its policy implications. It introduces the topic by briefly reviewing the emergence, development, and diffusion of this approach and, then, spells out the constituents, activities, and boundaries of the SI approach. On this basis, the paper discusses the reasons for public policy intervention in the innovation process and the division of labour between private and public actors in carrying out SI activities. In this context, the paper argues that the notion of optimality is irrelevant in an innovation system context and it discusses the importance of uncertainty for innovation policy and the inevitable selectivity of such policy. A brief survey of the strengths and weaknesses of the SI approach rounds off the paper and points to avenues for future research.
Australian residents' attitudes toward pro-environmental behaviour and climate change impacts on the Great Barrier Reef

Climate change and associated environmental impacts are increasingly important issues. Effective communication with residents of coastal communities is critical to mitigate and adapt to changing conditions; however, this can be a challenging feat without an understanding of attitudes toward pro-environmental behaviour. Drawing on three dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this paper: (1) explores the Australian public's perceptions of climate change impacts on the Great Barrier Reef; (2) segments respondents into homogenous groups based on their environmental attitudes; and (3) profiles the emergent segments using managerially-relevant indicators. Study findings illustrate that respondents can be organised into five distinct segments according to their attitudes toward pro-environmental behaviour that could potentially stem climate change-related impacts. These segments perceive a variety of threats to the health of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem, underestimate the performance of behaviours that help to mitigate impacts and face a variety of internal and external constraints on behavioural engagement.
Recent Research in Asia Pacific: The Case of a Professionally Affliated Journal

ABSTRACT This review paper aims to unveil the recent research trends in the journal Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. A systematic review of 130 articles published in the journal from 2011 to the third issue of 2014 was conducted, followed by a content analysis of various aspects of the articles, including research foci, research contexts, research methods, number of authors, and contributions by institutions and countries. The findings indicate that marketing research predominates in the articles whilst tourism and attraction are the major research contexts. An increasing rigor in the research methods applied has been observed. Finally, implications for tourism researchers are discussed.
Effective Performance Behaviors in a Simulated Policy and Decision Making Environment

Management games and teaching simulations have obtained widespread adoption in business schools and management development programs. While a number of summary evaluations have demonstrated the efficacy of the management game as a learning environment, little is known about what behavior players exercise within the game situation. Using the critical incident technique, the author collected 1,453 behavior citations of effective and ineffective performance by 211 students playing one of two different management games. The reported behaviors fell into seven broad performance groupings covering the students' pregame preparation, their company's personality and operating characteristics, Board meeting atmosphere and interpersonal climate, the team's use of forecasting, analytical, and planning techniques, and their decision making mechanics. It was found that the management games rewarded rational policy and decision making practices and that chance played no consistent part in company success. As a teaching device, the management game appears to provide many of the elements needed for education in business policy and decision making.
Transanal endoscopic microsurgery is a safe and reliable technique even for complex rectal lesions

Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) is a minimally invasive technique for the excision of rectal lesions, with lower morbidity and mortality rates than open surgery. Following advances in laparoscopic colorectal surgery and endoscopic mucosal resection, this study evaluated the safety and efficacy of TEM in the treatment of complex rectal lesions.
CityVR: Gameful Software Visualization

Gamification of software engineering tasks improve developer engagement, but has been limited to mechanisms such as points and badges. We believe that a tool that provides developers an interface analogous to computer games can represent the gamification of software engineering tasks more effectively via software visualization. We introduce CityVR – an interactive software visualization tool that implements the city metaphor technique using virtual reality in an immersive 3D environment medium to boost developer engagement in software comprehension tasks. We evaluated our tool with a case study based on ArgoUML. We measured engagement in terms of feelings, interaction, and time perception. We report on how our design choices relate to developer engagement. We found that developers i) felt curious, immersed, in control, excited, and challenged, ii) spent considerable interaction time navigating and selecting elements, and iii) perceived that time passed faster than in reality, and therefore were willing to spend more time using the tool to solve software engineering tasks.https://youtu.be/R0C-HMAtgnk
Flexible Power Electronic Converters for Producing AC Superimposed DC (ACsDC) Voltages

Several applications such as power supplies for electric precipitators, ozone generation, partial discharge, etc., require ac superimposed dc (ACsDC) voltage supply. Most of such applications use intransigent systems for producing ACsDC voltages. In this paper, three different kinds of flexible power electronic converters are proposed for producing ACsDC voltages. These converters have two power conversion stages: input and output. In the input stage, two isolated dc voltages are obtained by using an isolated three-port dc–dc converter or two isolated two-port dc–dc converters. In the output stage, one of the input-stage dc voltages is used to generate an ac voltage and the obtained ac voltage is added to the remaining input-stage dc voltage to obtain an ACsDC voltage. Based on the converters used in the input stage, the proposed ACsDC converters are named as a dual active bridge (DAB) converter-based ACsDC converter (DAB-ACsDC), triple port active bridge (TAB) converter-based ACsDC converter (TAB-ACsDC), and dual transformer-based asymmetrical triple port active bridge (DT-ATAB) converter-based ACsDC converter (DTATAB-ACsDC). A detailed analysis of these ACsDC converters and their verifications using simulations and experimental studies are presented, which depict that the proposed converters can be used effectively for producing ACsDC voltages.
MR-CloudSim: Designing and implementing MapReduce computing model on CloudSim

Nowadays, we can hear the word “cloud” everywhere. Cloud web storage, cloud-based web applications, and cloud networks, they all indicate that cloud has become more important than it has ever been. Internet service providers (ISP) and internet contents providers (ICP) are providing more and more services with cloud computing, and also in mobile computing environments, a cloud service is drawing much attention from the community. The biggest advantage of cloud computing is clear. As far as the user is connected to the cloud, (s)he can have all the extra computing power and storage no matter what his device is. However, empirical validation of various research projects on a cloud system seems to be ineffective in both cost and time since it requires involving to a huge amount of computing facilities and resources. Even with its importance as commerce and inconvenience of researching, there are not many simulators that can provide a simulation environment for cloud computing and datacenters. Thus, we propose a simulation tool that supports the MapReduce model, the most widely used programming model for big data processing, implemented on CloudSim, an open source simulator for cloud computing and datacenters.
Open innovation in universities: What motivates researchers to engage in knowledge transfer exchanges?

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the main factors affecting researcher engagement in knowledge transfer exchanges (KTE) in an Open Innovation (OI) context, devoting special attention to specific factors such as personal and professional profile, institutional variables, social networks and recognition.Design/methodology/approach – An extensive literature review was conducted, focusing on current studies concerning the OI concept and research lines, OI and universities, KTE, and the factors affecting researcher engagement in university KTE. Based on this review a conceptual framework was proposed, including four main factors that affect KTE researcher engagement (personal and professional, institutional, social networks and recognition). The assumptions of this framework were explored in an empirical study involving 382 senior researchers, acting as leaders of different research groups, at Spanish universities. This was followed by univariate, bivariate and multivariate statistical ana.
Motivating your staff [positive staff motivation]

This paper underlines the importance of a well-motivated staff in ensuring a continuously maximized performance. While there is no single magic formula to staff motivation, recognizing that positive motivation does not just happen is essential, and creating it needs an investment of time. A good way to impart positive motivation is by recognizing achievement, which may come in the form of a free dinner or a merit-based salary increase and incentive payments. It is also a good idea to juggle a changing range of different influences large and small to create the overall desired effect. However, a manager's contribution to personal development is of prime importance and should remain constant.
Replication Stress Leads to Genome Instabilities in Arabidopsis DNA Polymerase δ Mutants[W]

Impeded DNA replication or a deficiency of its control may critically threaten the genetic information of cells, possibly resulting in genome alterations, such as gross chromosomal translocations, microsatellite instabilities, or increased rates of homologous recombination (HR). We examined an Arabidopsis thaliana line derived from a forward genetic screen, which exhibits an elevated frequency of somatic HR. These HR events originate from replication stress in endoreduplicating cells caused by reduced expression of the gene coding for the catalytic subunit of the DNA polymerase δ (POLδ1). The analysis of recombination types induced by diverse alleles of polδ1 and by replication inhibitors allows the conclusion that two not mutually exclusive mechanisms lead to the generation of recombinogenic breaks at replication forks. In plants with weak polδ1 alleles, we observe genome instabilities predominantly at sites with inverted repeats, suggesting the formation and processing of aberrant secondary DNA structures as a result of the accumulation of unreplicated DNA. Stalled and collapsed replication forks account for the more drastic enhancement of HR in plants with strong polδ1 mutant alleles. Our data suggest that efficient progression of DNA replication, foremost on the lagging strand, relies on the physiological level of the polymerase δ complex and that even a minor disturbance of the replication process critically threatens genomic integrity of Arabidopsis cells.
Pensions in the U.S. Economy

Pensions in the U.S. Economy is the fourth in a series on pensions from the National Bureau of Economic Research. For both economists and policymakers, this volume makes a valuable contribution to current research on pensions and the economics of the elderly. The contributors report on retirement saving of individuals and the saving that results from corporate funding of pension plans, and they examine particular aspects of the plans themselves from the employee's point of view. Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise offer a careful analysis of who contributes to IRAs and why. Benjamin M. Friedman and Mark Warshawsky look at the reasons more retirement saving is not used to purchase annuities. Personal saving through pension contribution is discussed by B. Douglas Bernheim and John B. Shoven in the context of recent government and corporate pension funding changes. Michael J. Boskin and John B. Shoven analyze indicators of the economic well-being of the elderly, addressing the problem of why a large fraction of the elderly remain poor despite a general improvement in the economic status of the group as a whole. The relative merits of defined contribution versus defined benefit plans, with emphasis on the risk aspects of the two types of plans for the individual, are examined by Zvi Bodie, Alan J. Marcus, and Robert C. Merton. In the final paper, pension plans and worker turnover are the focus of the discussion by Edward P. Lazear and Robert L. Moore, who propose pension option value rather than the commonly used accrued pension wealth as a measure of pension value.
Energy Based Performance analysis of AODV Routing Protocol under TCP and UDP Environments

Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a combination of wireless nodes that share resources and information. One of the major issues in MANET is to minimize the energy consumption of wireless nodes. Higher energy consumption nodes minimize the network life while lower energy consumption nodes increase the network life. Various routing protocols have been proposed for energy saving. Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) is an energy efficient routing protocol. In this paper, the energy based performance of AODV routing protocol is evaluated under Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) by using different simulation scenarios. NS2 has been used for simulation purposes. An energy model is defined in which power for receiving and transmitting one packet, initial energy, sleep power, idle power, transition power and transition time values are kept constant for different simulation scenarios. The simulation results show that AODV routing protocol consumes less energy in TCP environment as compared to UDP environment.
Design and implementation of CPW low pass filter with good filter selectivity and sharpness factor

In this work, design, implementation, and performance analysis of a low-pass filter (LPF) using coplanar waveguide (CPW) has been carried out in order to obtain good filter selectivity and sharpness factor. Proposed CPW-LPF has been designed and fabricated using the stepped-impedance method. The detail parametric analysis of the filters has been analyzed in terms cut-off frequency, pass-band width, attenuation at resonant frequency, sharpness factor, filter selectivity etc. The fabricated CPW-LPF shows cut-off frequency of 2.5 GHz, with filter selectivity of 22.5 dB/GHz and good sharpness factor of 0.8. The measured performance of the proposed CPW-LPF shows good agreement with its simulated results.
A Case of Fibrous Dysplasia of the Temporal Bone: Evaluation of Treatment Performed 23 Years Ago

In June 1975, a 40-year-old man noticed deafness in his left ear. He had recognized the presence of a swollen left temporal bone since his childhood. In August 1975, he sought medical assistance at Tokyo Metropolitan Fuchu Hospital. An otolaryngologist diagnosed the condition as monostotic fibrous dysplasia of the left temporal bone. Radiologic examination showed left internal auditory canal stenosis. The degeneration of the cochlear and vestibular nerve and a facial palsy were thought to be induced by the stenosis of the internal auditory canal. In October 1975, decompression of the facial nerve was performed. The patient sought assistance at Tokyo Metropolitan Fuchu Hospital again in February 1999 for intermitted serous discharge from the left ear over the previous few years. A computerized tomography (CT) scan revealed wide areas of soft tissue density eroded into the left temporal bone and the sphenoid bone (Fig 1). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed cholesterol granuloma in the mesotympanum. The patient did not show facial palsy complication. A transtympanic T-tube was inserted in the left tympanic membrane after myringotomy in March 1999. After daily lavage of the mesotympanum through the tube for a month, discharge from the left ear was stopped. Although MRI did not reveal that the cholesterol granuloma decreased, the patient has not experienced discharge from the ear for 20 months.
Pharmacokinetics of continuous transarterial infusion of 5-fluorouracil in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

Numerous studies concerning hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) have been conducted by adopting regimens containing 5-fluorouracil (FU), with a favourable efficacy compared with conventional transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation (TACE) treatment; however, the detailed mechanism of HAIC remains unclear. The present study aimed to evaluate peripheral concentration time curves of 5-FU administered through the hepatic artery, which may additionally explain the mechanism of action of HAIC. A total of 10 eligible patients underwent transcatheter arterial embolization and a 2-day HAIC treatment regimen using a folinic acid, fluorouracil and oxaliplatin regimen. Peripheral venous blood sampling was performed in each patient prior to infusion, and at 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 5, 10, 15, 22 and 23 h following the start of infusion. The blood sample at 0 h was analysed for dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) levels by high performance liquid chromatography, and the rest of the samples were analysed for 5-FU by optimised liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The lower limit of quantification of optimised LC-MS for 5-FU was 5 ng/ml. The steady-state plasma concentration of 5-FU administered through the hepatic artery was achieved after 15 h. This concentration largely varied, ranging from 8.64–152.00 ng/ml. Optimised LC-MS may detect low concentrations of 5-FU. The steady-state concentration of 5-FU administered through the hepatic artery was achieved after 15 h. DPD levels were analysed through determining the ratio of plasma uracil (U) and dihydrouracil (UH2) by HPLC, and the results indicated a mild DPD deficiency in the patients with HCC. These results may provide a basis for the explanation of the clinical efficacy of HAIC, and to additionally optimise its efficacy.
Measuring Energy Expenditure After Stroke: Validation of a Portable Device

Background and Purpose— Current means of assessing physical activity and energy expenditure have restrictions in stroke, limiting our understanding of its role in therapeutic management. This study validates a portable multisensor array for measuring free-living total energy expenditure compared with a gold standard method (doubly labeled water) in individuals with stroke. Methods— Daily energy expenditure was measured in 9 participants with stroke (73±8 years) over a 10-day period with 2 techniques: a portable multisensor array and doubly labeled water. Results— Bland-Altman analysis revealed a mean difference of 94 kcal/day (3.8%) in total energy expenditure measures given by the multisensor array in comparison to doubly labeled water with lower and upper limits of agreement of −276 to 463.8 kcal/day (2473±468 versus 2380±551, P=0.167). There was strong agreement between the multisensor array and labeled water methods of capturing total daily energy expenditure (r=0.850, P=0.004). Conclusions— The multisensor array is a portable and accurate method of capturing daily energy expenditure and may assist in understanding how stroke influences free-living energy expenditure and aid in clinical management.
Neuroprotective effects of chronic lithium on focal cerebral ischemia in rats

WE have recently shown that long-term, but not acute, treatment with lithium robustly protects cultured CNS neurons against excitotoxicity mediated by NMDA receptors. Since NMDA receptor over-excitation has been strongly implicated in the ischemic brain injury, we examined the effects of chronic lithium treatment on neurological deficit and brain infarct induced by occlusion of the left middle cerebral artery in rats. Subcutaneous injection of LiCl for 16 days significantly improved neurological deficits, including abnormal posture and hemiplegia, measured 24 h after artery occlusion. Importantly, the size of ischemic infarct was reduced by 56% after lithium pretreatment. These results raise the possibility that lithium may be useful for reducing focal ischemia-induced brain damage and neurological abnormalities.
Using consistent corporate strategies to maximise value addition by the parent organisation of diversified company

Corporate strategies should facilitate the coordination of organisational action, since a key function of strategy is to provide coherence to organisational action. However, so far there have been no theoretical guidelines on decisions regarding the combination of the desired corporate advantages. The concept of the complementarity provides a theoretical starting point. In relation to organisational strategies, one also speaks of (internal) consistence. Consistency is ensured if conflicts, especially conflicts between the aspired advantages are avoided. This paper develops a concept to assess the consistency of corporate strategies and formulates the research hypothesis that Return On Equity (ROE) increases with an increase in consistency. The research hypothesis can be significantly confirmed by an empirical investigation of the corporate strategies of the 35 largest German diversified firms.
Mixed basis quantum key distribution with linear optics

Two-qubit quantum codes have been suggested to obtain better efficiency and higher loss tolerance in quantum key distribution. Here, we propose a two-qubit quantum key distribution protocol based on a mixed basis consisting of two Bell states and two states from the computational basis. All states can be generated from a single entangled photon pair resource by using local operations on only one auxiliary photon. Compared to other schemes it is also possible to deterministically discriminate all states using linear optics. Additionally, our protocol can be implemented with today's technology. When discussing the security of our protocol we find a much improved resistance against certain attacks as compared to the standard BB84 protocol.
Debt, Deficits, and Finite Horizons

Many issues in macroeconomics, such as the level of the steady state interest rate, or the dynamic effects of government deficit finance, depend crucially on the horizon of economic agents. This paper develops a simple analytical model in which such issues can be examined and in which the horizon of agents is a parameter which can be chosen arbitrarily.The first three sections of the paper characterize the dynamics and steady state of the economy in the absence of a government. The focus is on the effects of the horizon index on the economy. The paper clarifies in particular the separate roles of finite horizons and declining labor income through life in the determination of steady state interest rates.The next three sections study the effects and the role of fiscal policy.The focus is on the effects of deficit finance both in closed and open economies. The paper clarifies the respective roles of government spending, deficits and debt in the determination of interest rates.