Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Enterprise resource planning adoption among Small Medium Enterprises (SME) in Malaysia

The topic on enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption among small medium enterprises (SMEs) have attracted the interest of many IS researchers.Through the use of ERP it can help organization manage business operations systematically.The adoption of ERP is known to be of interest among large organizations.Due to its great potential values, the adoption of ERP solution is progressively increasing within SMEs. Very limited studies have focused their attention towards understanding the determinants of ERP adoption among SMEs.This study fills in the gap by examining this topic using technological, organizational and environmental (TOE) framework. This is an establish theory used to examine IT adoption at organizational level.The main objective of this research in progress paper is to introduce a conceptualized research model that can be used to examine ERP adoption among SMEs. This paper also discusses about the methodology adopted; and describes its theoretical and practical contributions.
Differentiation of Highly Virulent Strains of Streptococcus suis Serotype 2 According to Glutamate Dehydrogenase Electrophoretic and Sequence Type

ABSTRACT The glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) enzymes of 19 Streptococcus suis serotype 2 strains, consisting of 18 swine isolates and 1 human clinical isolate from a geographically varied collection, were analyzed by activity staining on a nondenaturing gel. All seven (100%) of the highly virulent strains tested produced an electrophoretic type (ET) distinct from those of moderately virulent and nonvirulent strains. By PCR and nucleotide sequence determination, the gdh genes of the 19 strains and of 2 highly virulent strains involved in recent Chinese outbreaks yielded a 1,820-bp fragment containing an open reading frame of 1,344 nucleotides, which encodes a protein of 448 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of approximately 49 kDa. The nucleotide sequences contained base pair differences, but most were silent. Cluster analysis of the deduced amino acid sequences separated the isolates into three groups. Group I (ETI) consisted of the seven highly virulent isolates and the two Chinese outbreak strains, containing Ala299-to-Ser, Glu305-to-Lys, and Glu330-to-Lys amino acid substitutions compared with groups II and III (ETII). Groups II and III consisted of moderately virulent and nonvirulent strains, which are separated from each other by Tyr72-to-Asp and Thr296-to-Ala substitutions. Gene exchange studies resulted in the change of ETI to ETII and vice versa. A spectrophotometric activity assay for GDH did not show significant differences between the groups. These results suggest that the GDH ETs and sequence types may serve as useful markers in predicting the pathogenic behavior of strains of this serotype and that the molecular basis for the observed differences in the ETs was amino acid substitutions and not deletion, insertion, or processing uniqueness.
Research into Educational Management in Portugal: Themes, Focus and Methodologies *

Today, educational management is an expanding scientific field that has been attracting ever more social and political visibility, and it has been the object of a considerable amount of research. In the Portuguese context, over the past two decades there has been a sharp movement to create post-graduate courses, to increase individual and collective research and the number of scientific publications. The growing centrality assumed by the sociological approaches of educational organisations, associated with a vast collection of scientific research and publications, promoted a meta-analysis of a considerable amount of work produced in this area. For this analysis, we selected 80 dissertations all presented within the context of the pioneering Master’s course, and the oldest course in the country on educational management, the Master in «Education Sciences», specialising in «Educational Management», offered by the University of Minho. Of the main trends identified, the most important were: (i) synchronization between the political agenda, professional experience and research interests; (ii) use of a certain theoretical pluralism, mobilizing two or more models of organizational analysis; (iii) the use of a largely qualitative methodology, tending towards the case study method; (iv) mobilizing a meso-approach to school organization, seeking to coordinate micro and macro analytical levels. On a more substantive plane, this study has contributed to discussions on some dilemmas and agendas that, in our opinion, are involved in constructing the object of educational management.
How Various Forms of Data Affect Teacher Analysis of Student Performance

Special education teachers are routinely taught to collect and analyze student performance data. Data collection and analysis are assumed to be necessary for accurate analysis of three possible trends: (a) an upward trend (when performance improves), (b) a level trend (when performance remains the same), and (c) a downward trend (when performance worsens). Few studies have examined the accuracy of trend analysis when teachers simply observe consecutive training sessions, nor has there been sufficient comparison of the accuracy of trend analysis based on various forms of data (e.g., raw data vs. data in graphic form). The present study examined the effects of observation and various forms of data on teachers' ability to accurately analyze trends. A 2-factor experimental design was used with 4 groups of randomly assigned subjects. Subjects analyzed 15 samples of videotaped student performance. All subjects viewed the tapes with or without additional forms of data and made judgments regarding the trend of student performance following exposure to each sample. The data were analyzed using a two-way ANOVA. Both the main effect for form of data and the interaction between form of data and type of trend were statistically significant beyond the . 01 level. All subjects were able to accurately analyze upward trends in performance, but data were required to accurately analyze level and downward trends. These results are interpreted as support for the practice of training teachers to collect and analyze student performance data.
The acute toxicity study of pentachlorophenol to Daphnia magna in different aquatic quality conditions

Water quality criteria and standard are derived mainly from acute toxicity data of chemicals, and acute toxicity data of chemicals are generally obtained from laboratory experiment. The nature water and experiment dilution water are different. The suspended articulate, humic acid and other factors in nature waters can change the concentrations of chemicals. In this paper, acute toxicity differences of pentachlorophenol (PCP) to Daphnia magna were studied in four aquatic quality conditions. Meanwhile, the influences of suspended particulate and humic acid were analyzed. The results showed that the 24 h LC50s of PCP to Daphnia magna were 1861 µg/L, 1369 µg/L, 565.2 µg/L and 495.3 µg/L in four aquatic conditions including the nature water, the filered nature water, experiment dilution water with 10mgC/L of humic acid and experiment dilution water, respectively. It indicated that the humic acid and suspended particulates in water could decrease the toxicity of PCP to Daphnia magna. Water effect ratio of PCP was 3.8 calculated from the equation.
CMB anisotropies at second-order II: analytical approach

We provide an analytical approach to the second-order cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies generated by the non-linear dynamics taking place at last scattering. We study the acoustic oscillations of the photon–baryon fluid in the tight coupling limit and we extend at second order the Meszaros effect. We allow for a generic set of initial conditions due to primordial non-Gaussianity and we compute all of the additional contributions arising at recombination. Our results are useful to provide the full second-order radiation transfer function at all scales necessary for establishing the level of non-Gaussianity in the CMB.
Caring for Persons With Bariatric Health Care Issues: A Primer for the WOC Nurse

The prevalence of obesity has nearly doubled in the last 3 decades. Nurses practicing in all care settings are looking for creative strategies to achieve safe, effective care for this patient population. Understanding skin injury events and the resulting complications is essential in the development of protocols for care, educational approaches, and interventions providing the best outcomes of care. Areas of concern for the WOC nurse with regard to bariatric patients include bathing, toileting, skin fold management, odor and genital care.
Productionof recombinantgG-1 protein of herpes simplex virus type 1 ina prokaryotic system inorder to developa type-speci ¢ c enzyme-linked immunosorbent assaykit

type1ina prokaryotic system inorder to developa type-speci¢c enzyme-linked immunosorbent assaykit Keivan Zandi, Mohammad Hassan Roostaee, Majid Sadeghizadeh, Mohammad Javad Rasaee, Reza Hassan Sajedi & Hoorieh Soleimanjahi Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran; Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran; Department of Genetics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran; and Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran
Scanning electrochemical microscopy. Theory of the feedback mode

The steady-state current that flows between the scanning tlp (a disk ultramicroelectrode imbedded in an Insulating sheath) and a planar sample substrate in a scannlng electrochemical microscope (SECM) operating in the feedback mode is calculated by the finite element method with an exponentlaily expandlng grld, for both conductlve and Insulating samples. For conductlve substrates the tip current, representing, for example, the oxidatkn reactlon of R to 0, is enhanced by flow of R generated at the substrate to the tlp and is a functlon of tiphubstrate distance, d, but not the radius of the lnsuiatlng sheath. For insulating substrates, the tlp current Is decreased by blockage of the diffusion of R to the tip by the substrate and depends upon d and the Insulating sheath radius. The theoretical results are compared to experimental studies.
Could micro patterns be used as software stability indicator?

Micro patterns can be a useful proxy for the quality of software. Classes matching certain categories of micro patterns were shown to be more fault prone than others, and those classes that do not correspond to any category of micro patterns were shown to be more likely to be faulty. In this paper we present a preliminary study of traditional software metrics and micro patterns in three versions of Eclipse (2.1, 3.0, 3.1) in order to understand if it is possible to relate the stability of a software system with micro patterns.
Genetically Targeted Calcium Sensors Enhance The Study Of Organelle Function In Living Cells

1. Understanding the regulation of calcium (Ca2+), the most common of the mineral ions within the human body, has always been of extreme interest to physiologists. While the importance of Ca2+ in contributing to physiological events through regulation of levels has been significantly established, seldom is consideration given to the intricacies of this ion and its mechanics in producing such diverse physiological responses in different regions of the cell.
The roles of values, behavior, and value-behavior fit in the relation of agency and communion to well-being.

Four studies examined whether agency and communion values, behaviors, or an interaction between values and behaviors (value-behavior fit) would predict well-being. In addition, Study 2 examined whether agency and communion goals, behaviors, or goal-behavior fit would predict well-being. In all four studies, participants completed online questionnaires containing measures of agency and communion values, behaviors, and well-being. In Studies 1 and 4, participants were recruited from the general population (respectively, N = 371, Mage = 37.49, and N = 133, Mage = 36.59). In Studies 2 and 3, participants were undergraduate students (respectively, N = 239, Mage = 20.8, and N = 242, Mage = 21.6). All four studies consistently found that agency and communion behaviors were significantly positively correlated with both subjective and psychological well-being. There was no strong indication that either values were directly associated with well-being. Neither was there any indication that well-being was predicted by value-behavior fit. The implications of these findings for theory and improving well-being are discussed.
Functional asymmetry of the regions juxtaposed to the membrane-binding sequence of polyomavirus middle T antigen

The functional importance of the two clusters of positively charged amino acids which flank the hydrophobic membrane-anchoring sequence of polyomavirus middle T (mT) protein has been investigated by using site-directed mutagenesis. A clear asymmetry was apparent. No effect on transformation was seen following multiple alterations or complete removal of the cluster at the carboxyl end of the protein. In contrast, a single substitution replacing the first arginine amino terminal to the hydrophobic stretch with glutamic acid, but not with lysine, histidine, or methionine, produced a partially transformation-defective mutant with a novel phenotype. This mutant failed to confer anchorage-independent growth on F111 established rat embryo fibroblasts but induced foci with altered morphology compared with wild-type mT. Biochemical studies on this mutant revealed that F111 clones expressing levels of mutant mT equivalent to those of wild-type controls showed a 65% reduction in pp60c-src activation and an 87% reduction in mT-associated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity. However, F111 clones expressing seven times more mutant mT than did wild-type controls showed equal or greater levels of kinase activities yet remained incompletely transformed. Possible mechanisms involving this transformation-sensitive region of mT are discussed.
Disaggregating the Resource Curse: Is the Curse More Difficult to Dispel in Oil States than in Mineral States?

The hypothesis of the natural resource curse has captivated the economics profession, and since the mid-1990s has generated a large body of policymaking initiatives aimed at dispelling the curse. In this paper, we evaluate how the effect of resource abundance on economic growth has changed since these policies were first introduced by comparing the periods 1970–89 and 1996–2008. We disaggregate resources into oil, gas, coal, and nonfuel mineral resources, and find that disaggregation unmasks diverse effects of resources on concurrent economic and institutional outcomes, as well as on the ability of countries to transform their economic and institutional infrastructure. We consider resource dependence and institutional quality as two channels linking resource abundance to economic growth in the context of an instrumental variables (IV) model. In addition to exploring these channels, the IV framework enables us to test for the endogeneity of the measures of resource dependence and institutional quality in the growth regressions, paying particular attention to the weakness of the instruments.
Inactivation of deoxyadenosine methyltransferase (dam) attenuates Haemophilus influenzae virulence

Mutants in deoxyadenosine methyltransferase (dam) from many Gram‐negative pathogens suggest multiple roles for Dam methylase: directing post‐replicative DNA mismatch repair to the correct strand, guiding the temporal control of DNA replication and regulating the expression of multiple genes (including virulence factors) by differential promoter methylation. Dam methylase (HI0209) in strain Rd KW20 was inactivated in Haemophilus influenzae strains Rd KW20, Strain 12 and INT‐1; restriction with Dam methylation‐sensitive enzymes DpnI and DpnII confirmed the absence of Dam methylation, which was restored by complementation with a single copy of dam ectopically expressed in cis. Despite the lack of increased mutation frequency, the dam mutants had a 2‐aminopurine‐susceptible phenotype that could be suppressed by secondary mutations in mutS, suggesting a role for Dam in H. influenzae DNA mismatch repair. Invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMECs) and human respiratory epithelial cells (NCI‐H292) by the dam mutants was significantly attenuated in all strains, suggesting the absence of a Dam‐regulated event necessary for uptake or invasion of host cells. Intracellular replication was inhibited only in the Strain 12 dam mutant, whereas in the infant rat model of infection, the INT‐1 dam mutant was less virulent. Dam activity appears to be necessary for both in vitro and in vivo virulence in a strain‐dependent fashion and may function as a regulator of gene expression including virulence factors.
Immunological aspects of hibernation as leads in the prevention of acute organ injury

Winterslapers zijn in staat periodes van torpor met een zeer lage lichaamstemperatuur (~3-7°C) gevolgd door volledige opwarming te doorstaan zonder tekenen van orgaanschade. We hebben onderzocht welke factoren het immuunsysteem reguleren tijdens torpor en mogelijk bijdragen aan de bescherming van organen tegen ontstekingsschade. Allereerst zijn in dit onderzoek factoren geidentificeerd die geassocieerd zijn met acute nierschade en overlijden na hart-longmachine-behandeling, waaronder hypothermie en ontsteking. We beschrijven de mechanismen die ten grondslag liggen aan de volledig reversibele daling van het aantal leukocyten tijdens torpor, wat mogelijk een belangrijke rol speelt in het beperken van ontstekingen en orgaanschade tijdens winterslaap. Een extreme, maar reversibele daling van het aantal leukocyten ontstaat door adhesie aan de vaatwand en retentie in lymfeklieren. Hoewel het aantal lymfocyten normaliseert tijdens het opwarmen, is de functie van deze cellen niet hersteld, waardoor de dieren tijdens de winter geen antilichamen kunnen produceren tegen specifieke vaccins. In niet-winterslapers kan torpor met 5’-AMP worden geinduceerd, waarbij eveneens het aantal circulerende lymfocyten substantieel daalt. Daarnaast verhoogt 5’-AMP de resistentie tegen ischemie/reperfusie en hypothermie via AMPK en heeft het anti-inflammatoire effecten. De beschreven mechanismen hebben potentieel belangrijke implicaties in tal van andere aandoeningen waar ontregeling van het metabolisme (bijvoorbeeld door ischemie, reperfusie, temperatuur) of het immuunsysteem een rol spelen in de pathogenese. Gezien torpor recentelijk is waargenomen in primaten, de beschreven effecten op het immuunsysteem ook in niet-winterslapers plaats vinden en torpor tevens farmacologisch geinduceerd kan worden, is het niet ondenkbaar dat een dergelijke toestand ook (ten dele) in mensen geinduceerd kan worden.
Causal Factors of Corporate Crime in Taiwan: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings

Street crimes are a primary concern of most criminologists in Taiwan. In recent years, however, crimes committed by corporations have increased greatly in this country. Employing the empirical approach to collect data about causal factors of corporate crime, the research presented in this article is the first systematic empirical study concerning corporate crime in Taiwan. The research sample was selected from a corporation with a criminal record of pollution caused by the release of toxic chemicals into the environment and a corporation with no criminal record. Questionnaire survey and interviews of corporate employees and managers were conducted, and secondary data were collected from official agencies. This research indicated the causal factors of corporate crime as follows: the failure of government regulation, lack of corporate self-regulation, lack of public concern about corporate crime, corporate mechanistic structure, and the low self-control tendency of corporate managers.
Serum protein identification and quantification of the corona of 5, 15 and 80 nm gold nanoparticles

When nanoparticles (NP) enter the body they come into contact with body fluids containing proteins which can adsorb to their surface. These proteins may influence the NP interactions with the biological vicinity, eventually determining their biological fate inside the body. Adsorption of the most abundantly binding proteins was studied after an in vitro 24 hr incubation of monodisperse, negatively charged 5, 15 and 80 nm gold spheres (AuNP) in mouse serum by a two-step analysis: proteomic protein identification and quantitative protein biochemistry. The adsorbed proteins were separated from non-adsorbed proteins by centrifugation and gel electrophoresis and identified using a MALDI-TOF-MS-Proteomics-Analyzer. Quantitative analysis of proteins in gel bands by protein densitometry, required the focus on predominantly binding serum proteins. Numerous proteins adsorbed to the AuNP depending on their size, e.g. apolipoproteins or complement C3. The qualitative and quantitative amount of adsorbed proteins differed between 5, 15 and 80 nm AuNP. Band intensities of adsorbed proteins decreased with increasing AuNP sizes based not only on their mass but also on their surface area. Summarizing, the AuNP surface is covered with serum proteins containing transport and immune related proteins among others. Hence, protein binding depends on the size, surface area and curvature of the AuNP.
Clinicopathological analysis of acute vascular rejection cases after renal transplantation

Shimizu T, Ishida H, Shirakawa H, Omoto K, Tsunoyama K, Tokumoto T, Tanabe K. Clinicopathological analysis of acute vascular rejection cases after renal transplantation. Clin Transplant 2010: 24 (Suppl. 22): 22–26. © 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S.
Anomaly detection and important bands selection for hyperspectral images via sparse PCA

We propose a regularised version of the classical singular value decomposition for simultaneous outliers and associated important bands selection. The contributions are twofold: First, we exploit sequential optimisation techniques in L0 formulation to obtain sparse solution of classical principal component analysis. Second, we have develop new formulation for the anomaly detection problem where the simultaneous identification of important bands can be performed. Experiments in real and simulated data are included to validate the proposed method.
Sexual selection and the risk of extinction in mammals

Sexual selection is commonly envisaged as a force working in opposition to natural selection, because extravagant or exaggerated traits could apparently have never evolved via natural selection alone. There is good evidence that a selection load imposed by sexual selection may be eased experimentally by restricting the opportunity for it to operate. Sexual selection could therefore potentially play an important role in influencing the risk of extinction that a population faces, thereby contributing to the apparent selectivity of extinctions. Conversely, recent theory predicts that the likelihood of extinction may decrease when sexual selection is operating because it could accelerate the rate of adaptation in concert with natural selection. So far, comparative evidence (coming mostly from birds) has generally indicated support for the former scenario, but the question remains open. The aim of this study was therefore to examine whether the level of sexual selection (measured as residual testes mass and sexual size dimorphism) was related to the risk of extinction that mammals are currently experiencing. We found no evidence for a relationship between these factors, although our analyses may have been confounded by the possible dominating effect of contemporary anthropogenic factors.