Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Management of change for nurses: lessons from the discipline of organizational studies.

AIM This paper explores the literature on change management from the discipline of organizational studies to provide insights that nurse managers can use in their professional practice. BACKGROUND The paper will benefit nurse managers by extending the nursing discourse on change management to include wider theoretical and academic perspectives. KEY ISSUES Important aspects of change management explored are the roles of power and political behaviour, how much change can be planned and controlled, how to combine top-down and bottom-up approaches to change, the role of emotions in the change management process, a comparison of prescriptive and analytical approaches to understanding change, and the connection between theory and practice in managing change. CONCLUSION While nurses can draw much useful information from within the nursing discipline, they can also benefit by exploring other disciplinary areas. In the case of change management, there are many useful lessons nurses can carry over into their professional practice.
A comparison of renal blood flow results obtained in the intact animal by the nitrous oxide (derived Fick) method and by the para-amino-hippurate (direct Fick) method.

The nitrous oxide method as originally conceived was applied to the cerebral circulation and found to provide an accurate clinical means of determining cerebral blood flow (1). The use of an inert gas as a test substance which reaches a blood-tissue diffusion equilibrium made possible the application of a derived Fick equation and circumvented the need for direct measurement of the rate of gas uptake by the tissue. Because of this advantage, a technically modified version of the original method was recently advocated (2) as a new approach to the measurement of renal blood flow in the intact subject, human or animal, with a particular application to the anuric state, since other renal flow methods in clinical use then become totally inadequate. In that communication, a comparison of results obtained by the nitrous oxide method with those obtained by the simultaneous use of a bubble flow meter was made and the agreement found under the prevailing conditions was felt to be quite good; approximately + 15 per cent (95 per cent limits). Following that study an opportunity has arisen during the course of other experiments to test further this method in intact dogs under more varied conditions (excluding anuria) at the same time as para-amino-hippurate (PAH) Fick renal blood flow measurements were being made. Since the PAHFick method is recognized as the most accurate one clinically available for measuring renal blood flow, and since it too was previously found to show a good agreement with bubble flow meter measurements (3), an evalua-
An Empirical Comparison between Objective and Subjective Measures of the Product Innovation Domain of Corporate Entrepreneurship

Developing both subjective and objective measures of the concept of corporate entrepreneurship would be of interest to the field of entrepreneurship. This study (1) develops an objective measure of one domain of corporate entrepreneurship, product innovation, using archival data, and (2) uses a self-report questionnaire as a subjective measure for the same domain. Both the subjective and objective measures were statistically reliable and no significant differences between the two measures were found. Implications for both academic researchers and practicing managers are noted.
Flexible microelectrode arrays with integrated organic semiconductors

Biomedical microimplants offer the potential to restore body functions after paraplegia by means of functional electrical stimulation (FES). This paper describes the development of a flexible biomedical microimplant for FES use with integrated organic semiconductors. The microelectrodes array is based on flexible polyimide substrate, uses gold as metalization layers, pentacene as organic semiconductor and parylene C as encapsulant. A 3x3 microelectrode array has been fabricated and characterized. The device worked properly on the bench. Investigations on the electrical properties showed promising results.
Exploiting the Deep Structure of Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Quantum Computers

The deep structure of constraint satisfaction problems explains the association of hard search instances with a phase transition in problem solubility. This structure is also the basis of a quantum search algoritbm exhibiting the phase transition. In this paper, this algoritbm is modified to incorporate additional problem structure. This modification is an example of a general method for including heuristics in quantum search. The new algoritbm is evaluated empirically for random 3SAT, illustrating how quantum searches can benefit from using problem structure, on average.
Family Members & Family Business Activities: A Psychological Contract?

Family businesses seem to be flooding the market. Small, medium-sized, and large businesses appear to have some kind of connections to each other, which likely to form groups of businesses. There are chances that the structures of family may contribute to the successful mixture between family members and their family business activities. The initial perspective uses the entrepreneurial theory of the firm. The psychological contract of the well-known ownership theory is also explored to provide a foundation toward building a case surrounding the mixtures of family members and family business activities. Since psychological contracts imply only intangible bonds, this model is leaning toward unwritten or illusive agreements among family members. This includes emotion, feeling, or attitudes of certain family members toward the business activities, rather than relying on the written agreements among family members. This study gathers the necessary data from numerous smaller-scaled organizations in Bandung and Jakarta. It is expected that such studies reveal the complexities in mixing family members into the family business operations. It is also expected that family members, who do not have direct controls over the family business operations, have only psychological contracts in their mind. This psychological contract influences their behaviors toward family business management.
The impact of loan loss provisions on the firm valorisation: the case of the Tunisian banking sector

According to national authorities and international institutions, the prospects for growth of the Tunisian economy remain very encouraging. In order to maintain and further sustain this growth, the banking sector remains a major pillar. Taking into account the prominent role it has been playing in the mobilisation of savings, the financing of the economy and the preservation of the major internal and external balances for several years; it has benefitted from a particular attention. Our study addresses the issue of the evaluation of non-productive loans and their provisioning. With a sample of ten universal Tunisian banks which have been studied over a five year period, we concluded that there is no positive correlation between the provisions' discretionary component for bad debts and the banks' cash flow. This component is positively correlated with the market value of the banks. Insufficient provisions affect the market value of the banks and create problems which could affect the Tunisian economy.
Machine learning will transform radiology significantly within the next 5 years.

This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/mp.12204 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Received Date: 01-Mar-2017 Accepted Date: 02-Mar-2017 Article Type: Point Counterpoint
Interactive effects of marketing strategy formulation and implementation upon firm performance

Abstract This study employed an integrative approach to investigate the influence of external business environment, strategy formulation, viability of marketing strategy, and strategy implementation upon firm performance. The findings show that while technological change and market competition negatively influence the credibility of the strategy, market attractiveness has a positive influence upon the viability of strategy employed. Moreover, market competition has a positive influence upon the involvement of marketing managers in terms of strategy making and that the presence of an innovative culture is strongly required in executing a strategic marketing plan. In addition, the study shows that the involvement of marketing managers in strategy making, which is strongly supported by an innovative culture, generates their commitment to the strategy, which positively influences strategy viability.
Gastric electrical stimulation for gastroparesis improves nutritional parameters at short, intermediate, and long-term follow-up.

BACKGROUND Nutritional depletion, either macronutrient- or micronutrient-related, is common in patients with drug-refractory gastroparesis (GP) for which there is often no effective treatment. We studied a group of 12 patients (4 men, 8 women; mean age, 35.7 years) who had symptoms of GP and were a subset of the Gastric ElectroMechanical Stimulation trial of gastric electrical stimulation. Patients' symptoms were of long duration (7.3 years) and associated with diabetes mellitus (3 patients) or were idiopathic (9 patients) as etiology. METHODS The patients had permanent gastric electrical stimulation devices surgically implanted after a positive trial of temporary stimulation. Patients had baseline measures of gastrointestinal total symptom score (TSS), laboratory (albumin and related) measures, weight (kg), body mass index, and route of nutrition: oral feeding, enteral tubes, or hyperalimentation, repeated at 3, 6, and 12 months. Intermediate-term follow-up was done at 1 to 2 years, and long-term follow-up was done at 5 years and included gastrointestinal TSS, weekly vomiting frequency score, and nutrition and overall health-related quality-of-life measures. RESULTS Gastric electrical stimulation was associated with rapid improvement over the short-term in TSS (35.6 at baseline to 16.6 at month 12; p < .05), body weight, body mass index, and serum albumin over the short term with most parameters improving by 3 to 6 months. Intermediate (1 to 2 years) and long-term (5 year) data showed continued improvement in TSS, vomiting frequency (weekly vomiting frequency score 3.9 at baseline to 1.7 at 5 years; p < .01), quality-of-life measures, and maintenance of weight gain. CONCLUSIONS Gastric electrical stimulation implantation resulted in improvement of nutritional parameters throughout the first 12 months, as nausea and vomiting decreased and oral intake increased. This improvement in nutritional measures is maintained long-term and is associated with improvements in quality of life. Gastric electrical stimulation should be considered as a therapeutic option for any patients with refractory GP and nutritional compromise.
3D Self-Deployment Algorithm in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

The sensor deployment problem of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a key issue in the researches and the applications of WSNs. Fewer works focus on the 3D autonomous deployment. Aimed at the problem of sensor deployment in three-dimensional spaces, the 3D self-deployment (3DSD) algorithm in mobile sensor networks is proposed. A 3D virtual force model is utilized in the 3DSD method. A negotiation tactic is introduced to ensure network connectivity, and a density control strategy is used to balance the node distribution. The proposed algorithm can fulfill the nodes autonomous deployment in 3D space with obstacles. Simulation results indicate that the deployment process of 3DSD is relatively rapid and the nodes are well distributed. Furthermore, the coverage ratio of 3DSD approximates the theoretical maximum value.
Capital Market Operations and its Impacts on Local Investments in Nigeria

This study examines the Nigerian capital market Operations, and its impact on Local investments in Nigeria aswith The main theoretical model, growth results from innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In developing countries, catching up requires the cooperation of a foreign investor who is familiar with the frontier technology and a domestic entrepreneur who is familiar with local conditions, In such a country, domestic capital market matters for innovation, and therefore growth, because it enables the local entrepreneur to put equity into this cooperative venture (Philippe Aghion et al 2009)and to empirically analyze the impact of the capital market operations on local investment. In analyzing the impact, the time series of data cover the period of 1972 to 2011. Gross domestic Product is regressed on the Capital market variables (Market capitalization, Number of Dealings and All share indexes) to check the long run effect of capital market activities on the growth of the economy neoclassical growth model is use to explain the source of growth in the economy. The relevance of the capitalmarket in the encouragement of local investment and economic development were highlighted. The paper concludes with recommendation to stem up investors confidence and activities in the capital market so that it could contribute significantly to the growth of local investment in Nigeria.
Fas expression on T cells and sFas in relapsing‐remitting multiple sclerosis

Objectives – To investigate the proportions of peripheral blood CD4+/Fas+ and CD8+/Fas+ cells and serum sFas levels in relapsing‐remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients with relapses (active RRMS), those without relapses (stable RRMS), and controls over 1 year.
The Trade-Off and Pecking-Order Empirical Effects of Corporate Taxation on Financial Choices: A Unified Approach

The aim of this paper is to measure the relationship between fiscal variables and corporate debt choices. Data on Italian manufacturing companies are used because of the substantial variability of the tax legislation during the sample period, as well as the availability of detailed accounting information which allows for reliable inferences. The reference model is an empirical representation of the modified pecking order (MPO) approach, where both trade-off and pecking-order theories are nested. We find that both the trade-off relative price of debt and equity finance, and the pecking-order net-of-tax cash flow, are significant, robust ways by which corporate taxation affects financing decisions.
A scalable high-throughput pipeline architecture for DNA sequence alignment

A novel scalable architecture for DNA sequence alignment has been presented in this paper. A pipelined architecture with a dedicated backtrack processor have been designed for fast and sophisticated DNA sequence alignment. Additionally, instead of using CAM which consumes huge power, this architecture efficiently uses RAM to boost the speed of DNA sequence alignment in real time. This architecture incorporates a pipeline structure for matrix fill operation to achieve temporal parallelism in preparing substitution matrix for a number of sequences and a backtrack processor to obtain aligned sequences. Besides, this paper presents a comparative analysis on the processing time of this architecture using three numerous cases based on temporal and special parallelism, namely, dedicated, moderately-dedicated and shared logic components. The complete architecture has been simulated for 1000 database sequences considering both 16 and 32 nucleotides as DNA sequence size.
Bank Capital Structure and Financial Innovation: Antagonists or Two Sides of the Same Coin?

This article examines the challenges to banking capital regulation posed by ongoing financial innovation through regulatory capital arbitrage. On the one hand, such practice undermines the quality of regulatory capital, eroding prudential capital standards, but most importantly it creates a distortion in the regulatory capital ratio measures, which prevents investors and regulators from identifying the bank’s real underlying risks. Opportunities for regulatory capital arbitrage arise as a consequence of the inherent mismatch of accounting goals, corporate law and prudential regulation – all interacting with the notion of capital for banks. On the other hand, financial innovation is the result of banks’ risk-management policies. In order to reduce the cost of capital and compliance banks engage in derivatives, structured finance and hybrid instruments, altering the risk/return of their cash flow and the information released to the market for disclosure. In a way, regulation is the solution but also part of the problem. For this reason, new regulation strategies for banks need to be implemented. Systemic risk and balance-sheet risk need to be tackled respectively with macro- and micro-prudential regulation. This would involve an international harmonization of the accounting standards and individualised capital adequacy requirements for banks. The regulation has to be functional for the market under examination. The regulator should therefore consider the adoption of prudential filters to make static variables such as accounting rules, which are normally focused on evaluation, more dynamic to give banks some financial flexibility in their risk-management policies.
Efeitos do esteróide anabólico nandrolona sobre o músculo sóleo de ratos submetidos a treinamento físico através de natação: estudo histológico, histoquímico e morfométrico

The objective of this study was to analyze the histological, histochemical and morphometrical alterations of the fibers from the soleum muscle of rats submitted to a swimming program, associated or not to the administration of the anabolic steroid decanoate of nandrolone. 22 male Wistar rats were used, 12 of which received a muscle injection of steroid (5 mg/kg) and 10 received mineral oil (5 mg/kg), twice a week. The animals were submitted to 42 sessions of swimming during nine weeks (from Monday to Friday), with gradual load increase through the swimming time. After sacrifice, the left soleum muscle was removed, immersed in n-hexane and conditioned in liquid nitrogen. Third middle cuts of this muscle were made in microtome cryostat (-20oC), and stained through HE technique and through NADH-TR histochemic method. The animals submitted to physical training and steroid (TA) or mineral oil (TO) presented muscle fibers with bigger diameter when compared to the ones from the control group (NTA and NTO). There was not significant difference between NTA and NTO and between TA and TO groups fiber diameters measures. In the TA and NTA groups, severe process of phagocytes, rounding and hyalinization of muscle fibers was observed. On the other hand, in the TA, TO and NTA groups, loss of the oxidative enzymatic activity was seen. The results suggest that swimming produces muscle hypertrophy similarly, not only in the group that received steroid, but also in the one that received mineral oil. However, the group that received steroid presented clear signs of greater muscle degeneration.
PERFORMANCE ANAL YSIS OF REACTIVE ROUTING PROTOCOLS IN CHAIN MOBILITY MODELS

Mobility models are the foundation of the simulation study of various protocols in Mobile Adhoc Networks. The comparative Performance of Dynamic Source Routing and Adhoc On-Demand Distance Vector routing protocols using the two Chain Mobility Models against Performance parameters like Throughput, Packet Delivery Fraction, End to End Delay is presented in this paper. The study is oriented towards deployment of sparse ad-hoc networks by suitably selecting the number of nodes. With the help of NS-2 simulator performance of Reactive Routing Protocols in Chain mobility models is analysed and hence comparative study is put farward. Keyword : Adhoc networks, Mobility Models, Mobility Models, Performance parameters, NS2
Visualizing the Self: Exploring the Potential Benefits and Drawbacks for New Product Evaluation

This study examines the role of visual processing in new product evaluation. The primary goal of this research was to provide insights into the role of visualization content (self-related versus others-related images) in product evaluation as it differentially relates to two separate types of products incremental products and really new products. This study’s results show that for incremental products, visualizing with self-related images (versus others-related images) led to higher evaluations. In this context, it seems that familiarity with the product category from which an incremental product extension is generated enables individuals to produce images easily where they can see themselves using the new product. In some sense, self-related visualization might be thought of as a form of surrogate experience with the new product. The ability to self-reference during evaluation provides positive benefits to the evaluation outcome. Contrasting this result, this study’s findings showed that for really new product introductions the previously identified benefits of self-visualization were not realized. Confirming this study’s prediction, the advantage of self-visualization over others-related visualization was lost. This is attributed to consumer difficulty in visualizing the full application of a really new product to their current consumption behavior. Of further interest, this study’s results also showed that in the case of really new products others-related visualization facilitated higher evaluations than self-visualization. The mediating role of visualization-based evaluation difficulty provides further explanation for these findings. Self-related images are shown to be difficult to imagine in a really new product context, whereas imagining others utilizing the really new product is shown to be significantly easier. Perhaps individuals can see the benefits and better understand the novel applications of a really new product when visually simulating someone else using it but have more trouble imagining the applicability of the innovation in their own life. These findings are integrated into a discussion of the managerial implications and the potential avenues for future research in the area.
Streamlining Cloud Management Automation by Unifying the Invocation of Scripts and Services Based on TOSCA

Today, there is a huge variety of script-centric approaches, APIs, and tools available to implement automated provisioning, deployment, and management of applications in the Cloud. The automation of all these aspects is key for reducing costs. However, most of these approaches are script-centric and provide proprietary solutions employing different invocation mechanisms, interfaces, and state models. Moreover, most Cloud providers offer proprietary APIs to be used for provisioning and management purposes. Consequently, it is hard to create deployment and management plans that integrate multiple of these approaches. The goal of our work is to come up with an approach for unifying the invocation of scripts and services without handling each proprietary interface separately. A prototype realizes the presented approach in a standards-based manner using the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA).