Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DOUBLE BATCH INJECTION INTO LEP

LEP is now routinely filled from two elementary injector cycles, one positron and one electron. During each of these cycles, 8 bunches are accelerated in the PS accelerator, then the SPS and then injected into 4 bunches in LEP. Two SPS bunches being injected into the same LEP bucket. This mode of operation has become possible as a result of synchrotron injection. The time between successive injections into the same LEP bucket is presently 6 LEP turns. This value is optimum for the present synchrotron tune used at injection in LEP. The LEP injectors normally run with a 14.4 second cycle repetition, of which four 1.2 second elementary cycles were traditionally dedicated to LEP filling. However with the new scheme only two elementary cycles (each lasting 1.2 seconds) are needed for LEP. The time saved, amounting to one sixth of the total injector cycle time has become available for other users. During the last year these have included extra physics cycles in the PS and heavy ion and LHC machine development cycles in the SPS. No loss in performance has been observed with the accumulation rates in LEP. The scheme as put into place will be described in detail.
Relationship between Earnings Quality and Stock Returns in Tehran Stock Exchange

Current work aims at investigating effect of earnings quality on stock return. Five criteria were considered for earnings quality measurement. Then effect of the criteria on stock return was studied separately. Statistical population included 68 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. Regression, correlation coefficient and Kolmogorov – Smirnov methods were used for testing hypotheses. Findings indicated there is positive relationship between earnings quality and stock return and relationship between earnings quality measurement criteria with stock return was as follows (from strong to weak): 1. Third criterion (stability of reported earnings), 2. First criterion (relationship between operating cash flow to operating profit), 3. Second criterion (potential expected profit), 4. fourth criterion (total liabilities), 5. Fifth criterion (quality of working capital accruals).
Wireless Neutrality: A View from Korea

Network neutrality is one of the most hotly debated topics in the telecommunications industry, but little attention has been paid to its wireless dimension. With the smartphonesmartphone revolution and the surge in mobile data usage, however, wireless neutrality is quickly moving into the center of the debate. In this paper, I survey the issues surrounding wireless neutrality and evaluate them in the context of the Korean mobile market. Two separate policy recommendations are made as a result; for mobile contents, I suggest no discrimination rules with expiring exceptions for some authorized services; for mobile devices, I believe the current regulations for SIM unlocking implies a too strong form of neutrality, and a more cautious approach is in need to increase consumer welfare.
VIRUS REVIEWS AND RESEARCH 15 , Nr . 2 , 2010 65 ROTAVIRUS DISTRIBUTION IN OYSTERS CRASSOSTREA GIGAS TISSUE

1 Laboratório de Virologia Aplicada, Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, 2 Departamento de Ciências Fisiológicas, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, 3 Departamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, 4 Departamento de Ciências Morfológicas, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC, Campus Universitário Trindade, Caixa Postal 476, 88040-970 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Effects of Country-of-Manufacture and Brand Image on Korean Consumers' Purchase Intention

ABSTRACT In this study, a theoretical framework is developed to explain the differential effects of country-of-manufacture (COM) and brand image on the cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of Koreans' consumer decision making. Although effects are product specific, findings, overall, indicate that brand image has a stronger effect than COM on Koreans' perceptions of hybrid global products. Moving the production of an electronic product (TV) to a developing country, however, negatively affected Koreans' evaluation of product performance, prestige (brand and technical), and purchase attitudes. The findings have interesting marketing implications for hybrid global brands and contribute to building a theory of COM.
Real-Time Robust Principal Component Analysis for Video Surveillance

This Master’s Thesis elaborates the application of the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) algorithm introduced in [1] to real-time video processing. The PCA considered in this thesis essentially decomposes a given matrix into a sum of two matrices, one is sparse and the other has low-rank. Applying this decomposition to consecutive frames of a video stream caught by a statically mounted camera, the algorithm is able to separate the moving foreground (i.e., the sparse part) from a static and hence, low-rank background. As this algorithm is computationally expensive, a variety of changes have been applied in order to arrive at real-time processing on off-the-shelf CPU’s. Finally, we present a real-time software decomposing a video stream of 640 x 480 frames on a 4 core CPU in real-time.
Falling walls and lifting curtains: analysis of border effects in transition countries

Since McCallum's (1995) finding of surprisingly high border effects on trade between the US and Canada, there have been a number of studies on other parts of the world, and improvements made to the gravity model to measure this effect accurately. This paper suggests some other modifications to the model, and applies it to a region of the world that presents a distinctly interesting case. Changes in border effects of formerly socialist countries in Central and East Europe, and countries in the former Soviet Union are analyzed during 1976–2002 at country and sectoral levels, and also with respect to blocs of countries. A discussion on cross-country variations in border effects follows the computations.
Developing School Culture, Thinking Skills and Attitudes towards Junior High School Students

The purpose of this study is to examine the patterns of communication and use of social media in learning activities related to thinking patterns, attitudes and behavior patterns of students. The research method used is the mix method. The objects in this study were junior high school teachers and students of Cirebon City. Samples of students, teachers and some staff were chosen purposively. The research instruments used were observation sheets and interviews, attitude scale tests and thinking skills tests. Data analysis carried out in descriptive qualitative manner is about school culture, students' thinking skills and attitudes. The results of the study indicated that teachers have not used all the potential of students to develop school culture; teacher communication patterns in learning were still formal and structurally academic; daily learning orientation was still low compared to school orientation every day; teachers and students have not been able to utilize social media in integrating subject concepts to increase the potential of thinking, attitudes and behavior of the students as well as interpersonal relationships; the teacher viewed local potential as essential material in developing school culture, attitudes and behavior of the students; factors that influence school culture, thinking, attitudes, and behavior of students include health, feelings, communication patterns, background, environment, selfconfidence, religious beliefs, responsibility, honesty, awareness, desires, hopes, and spirituality. Keywords—school culture; thinking skills; student attitudes; communication patterns; social media
Criticality of Investments and Organisational Centralisation: Econometric Evidence from Drinking Water Services in France

The recent literature on the coherence between institutions and technology in network industries considers infrastructures as large technical systems. As such, in order to safeguard infrastructure performance, their technical integrity must be guaranteed. Core transactions, i.e. transactions involving highly specific and critical assets, therefore need to be aligned with suitable modes of organisation. Decentralisation of decision rights on critical assets can lead to high coordination costs. The results of an econometric test within the French drinking water sector support the idea that the existence of critical assets is linked to modes of organisation where decision rights on these assets are highly centralised. As a policy implication, local authorities should not only think in terms of public or private provision of water services, but also in terms of distribution of decision rights and possible coordination problems, especially in lease contracts, if their knowledge of the underground network is low.
Municipal Vulnerability to Climate Change and Climate Related Events in Mexico

A climate change vulnerability index in agriculture is presented at the municipal level in Mexico. Because the index is built with a multidimensional approach to vulnerability (exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity), it represents a tool for policy makers, academics and government alike to inform decisions about climate change resilience and regional variations within the country. The index entails baseline (2005) and prediction (2045) levels based on historic climate data and future-climate modeling. The results of the analysis suggest a wide variation in municipal vulnerability across the country at baseline and prediction points. The vulnerability index shows that highly vulnerable municipalities demonstrate higher climate extremes, which increases uncertainty for harvest periods, and for agricultural yields and outputs. The index shows at baseline that coastal areas host some of the most vulnerable municipalities to climate change in Mexico. However, it also shows that the Northwest and Central regions will likely experience the largest shifts in vulnerability between 2005 and 2045. Finally, vulnerability is found to vary according to specific variables: municipalities with higher vulnerability have more adverse socio-demographic conditions. With the vast municipal data available in Mexico, further sub-index estimations can lead to answers for specific policy and research questions.
Genetic diversity revealed utility of SSR markers in classifying parental lines and elite genotypes of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench)

Genetic diversity among 82 rainy and post-rainy sorghum genotypes from India was studied using a set of 35 SSR markers distributed across all the linkage groups. A total of 198 alleles were recorded with an average of 5.71 per primer pair. The polymorphism information content (PIC) values ranged from 0.02 (Xisep 0310) to 0.86 (sb5-206) with a mean of 0.49, indicating high discriminating ability of the SSR markers used. Jaccard’s similarity coefficients and cluster analysis revealed substantial diversity among the genotypes. Very high estimate of fixation index (FST = 0.35, P= 0.001) was obtained when genotypes were structured as rainy and post-rainy season adaptation, and a much higher estimate (FST = 0.40, P= 0.001) was obtained when the genotypes were classified as varieties, maintainers, restorers and germplasm lines. This indicates strong distinction based on usage groups. Pairwise FST values based on usage groups corresponded well with the Nei’s genetic distances. We were able to distinguish parental lines of hybrids based on their fertility groups, especially lines from rainy season sorghum, using SSR markers. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report in sorghum demonstrating the utility of SSR markers in classifying lines based on their fertility groups. Our results have significant implications in classifying parental lines into heterotic groups for their use in heterosis breeding. The divergent maintainer and restorer lines identified based on Jaccard’s similarity coefficients could serve as effective candidates for hybrid development.
Effect of Physical Activity Level on Emotional Status of Iranian Women

Physical activity is linked to many physical and mental conditions. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between physical activity level and emotional status in Iranian women. This cross sectional study was conducted on Iranian women volunteers. Women between the age of18 and 59 years were recruited in this study. Demographic data were collected via questionnaires while height, weight and BMI were measured by the researchers. Participant filled the self-administered short form of international physical activity questionnaire (IPAQ) and depression, anxiety and stress (DASS-21) questionnaire. A total of 430 Iranian women gave written consent to participate in this study. Mean (SD) for age of the subjects was 30.28 ± 11.07 years. Mean (SD) for BMI of the subjects was 23.75 ± 4.23 kg/m . Mild, moderate and vigorous physical activity was 2 reported by 32.4%, 27% and 31.9% of the population respectively. There was a significant relationship between low level of IPAQ and personal income (OR=0.63, (0.44, 0.91)), depression (OR=2.16, (1.12, 4.16)) and stress (OR=0.45, (0.23, 0.88)). The results showed that majority of Iranian women have sedentary life style and that depression was the only emotional factor related to physical activity level in this population.
Biophysical investigation of the DNA interaction of a new binuclear ruthenium complex

50 years since the structure of DNA was proposed, DNA-interactive agents are still an intense field of study. Transition metal complexes possess many features that make them interesting as DNA-interactive compounds, and many have been studied as cytotoxic agents and anticancer drugs. Ruthenium (II) chiral tris-chelate complexes with different DNA affinitive ligands have been studied for more than 20 years, recently, binuclear ruthenium complexes, in particular, increasingly become a major focus due to their sequence selective binding mode of threading intercalation. In this thesis, the DNA binding properties of a new binuclear ruthenium complex [-(bidppz acetylene)(phen)4Ru2] 4+ (PA) with an elongated bridge group compared with the parent binuclear ruthenium complex [-(bidppz)(phen)4Ru2] 4+ (P) has been studied. The binding mode and the kinetic selectivity were investigated. The binding modes of the two enantiomers of PA show huge differences. For -PA, threading intercalation is seems to be the main binding mode, but for -PA, the experiment reveals no threading intercalation with DNA. The threading kinetics of -PA is less affected by temperature compared with -P, and the rate of threading intercalation into ct-DNA is faster than for P. Also, the unthreading kinetics is slower for -PA than for P making ,-PA a stronger threading intercalator than P. On the other hand, the results for poly(dAdT)2 indicate that ,-PA will have a lower sequence selectivity compared to the parent ,-P . The finding that by altering the bridge group of binuclear ruthenium complexes, the enantiomer selectivity will vary, will be an interesting point for future study.
Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibition Promotes IFN-γ-Dependent Enhancement of Antitumor Responses1

In previous studies, we demonstrated an immune suppressive network in non-small cell lung cancer that is due to overexpression of tumor cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2). In this study, we assessed the vaccination response to tumor challenge following either pharmacological or genetic inhibition of COX-2 in a murine lung cancer model. Treatment of naive mice with the COX-2 inhibitor, SC-58236, skewed splenocytes toward a type 1 cytokine response, inducing IFN-γ, IL-12, and IFN-γ-inducible protein 10, whereas the type 2 cytokines IL-4, IL-5, and IL-10 remained unaltered. Fifty percent of mice receiving SC-58236 and an irradiated tumor cell vaccine completely rejected tumors upon challenge. Those mice that did form tumors following challenge demonstrated a reduced tumor growth. In contrast, all mice either vaccinated with irradiated tumor cells alone or receiving SC-58236 alone showed progressive tumor growth. Studies performed in CD4 and CD8 knockout mice revealed a requirement for the CD4 T lymphocyte subset for the complete rejection of tumors. To determine the role of host COX-2 expression on the vaccination responses, studies were performed in COX-2 gene knockout mice. Compared with control littermates, COX-2−/− mice showed a significant tumor growth reduction, whereas heterozygous COX-2−/+ mice had an intermediate tumor growth reduction following vaccination. In vivo depletion of IFN-γ abrogated the COX-2 inhibitor-mediated enhancement of the vaccination effect. These findings provide a strong rationale for additional evaluation of the capacity of COX-2 inhibitors to enhance vaccination responses against cancer.
Saving and economic growth: An empirical analysis for Euro area countries

The study consists in analysing the long-run relationship between saving and the real economic growth for Euro area countries. By using annual data series and econometric techniques like Johansen co-integration procedure, Granger causality or panel data models, our findings suggest the existence of a unidirectional causality between the two macroeconomic variables; the sense of this connection is from real GDP growth rate to gross national saving rate, with a delay of, at least, four years.
Team Locus-of-Control Composition, Leadership Structure, Information Acquisition, and Financial Performance: A Business Simulation Study

We argue that team information acquisition mediates the effect of the relationship of team locus-of-control composition and leadership structure on team financial performance in a decision-making context. Hypotheses were tested on 44 teams participating in an elaborate and lengthy international management simulation. As predicted, teams with high average internal locus-of-control scores performed better without leaders and with low locus-of-control heterogeneity. The opposite was found for teams with high average external locus-of-control scores. Contrary to expectations, teams with high locus-of-control heterogeneity did not benefit more from having leaders than teams with low heterogeneity. Information acquisition mediated relationships between locus-of-control composition and performance.
Genetic Analysis of Bifunctional Genes from Rumen Bacterium

Deletion of domain B of the xynD gene was performed and the nucleotide sequence of this domain was compared with other enzyme sequences to reveal its function. Ruminococcus flavefaciens DNA fragment encodes xylanase and b-(1,3-1,4)-glucanase (xynD) activities with 3 domains (A, B, C). The amino-terminal domain (A) is related to family G xylanase while the carboxy-terminal domain (C) is related to family 16 b-(1,3-1,4)-glucanase. These 2 domains are connected by a region (B) of unknown function. Deletion of domain B leads to increased thermosensitivity of the enzyme and also in a 2-3-fold increase in b-(1,3-1,4)-glucanase activity. A survey of the available sequence databases revealed the presence of thermostabilizing domains in numerous other enzymes from various organisms. Although this domain has thermostabilizing properties, it has been proved that similar sequences of non-catalytic domains from other sources also showed xylan binding properties. Therefore, these domains are also called xylan binding domains (XBDs).
Money and Prices in Estonia

This paper examines the relationship between money and prices in Estonia in the period 1997Q1-2003Q3. The concept of a price (or real money) gap suggested by the P-star theory is applied to investigate whether information about the current money stock can be used to explain and/or predict GDP deflator inflation over the sample period. The results show that the money gap measure dominates the output gap as an explanatory variable for inflation in the short run. However, the money gap does not seem to be a proper indicator for predicting inflation over longer horizons, say, 12 months ahead. There are some signs that the output gap is becoming a better indicator of future inflation over time, but more data are needed to confirm this hypothesis.
Matching Business Processes in ebXML 28 th March 2003 Administrative data Title

The requested project is part of a research program on infrastructures for crossorganizational business processes and on business process specification techniques. The group has participated in the IST Crossflow project in which a transaction infrastructuree for cross-organizational business processes was developed [10]. We recently finished an NWO-funded Ph.D. project in which techniques were developed by which an analyst can specify business processes and desired properties of those processes, and a tool by which these properties can be checked [7].
Technical objects in French middle school: three-steps project

In this article we present a research carried out in order to understand how students (from 12 to 14 years old) relate to technical objects that are part of everyday life and mediated reality. The three-steps of the research with a mixed method are discussed: the exploratory research (57 students) in French classes; interview to 4 children; the extended research (124 students) with the final version of the questionnaire, composed of three parts: 1) the detection of technical characteristics of objects; 2) the ability to create relationships between objects; and 3) the direct use of technical objects and personal interest in sciences and technology. The results show the complexity of the relationship with technical objects and the need for an educational mediated intervention of design and technology education.
Stabilization of electric-arc furnace dust in concrete

Electric-arc furnace dust (EAFD) is a by-product of steel production and recycling. This fine-grained material contains high amounts of zinc and iron as well as significant amounts of potentially toxic elements such as lead, cadmium and chromium. Therefore, the treatment and stabilization of this industrial residue is necessary. Concrete is a well-known suitable environment for stabilization/solidification of materials which have leachable elements in need of fixation. The effect of the EAFD content on the mechanical and chemical performance of Portland cement concrete is investigated in this paper. The effect of the EAFD content on the setting time of cement slurry was also analyzed. The axial compressive strength of the concrete samples increases with the EAFD addition in the range of 10 to 20 wt. (%) EAFD; also the tensile strength increases with the EAFD addition. An increase in EAFD content significantly increases the setting time of the concrete. The acetic acid leaching and water solubilization tests indicate low mobility of the potentially toxic elements from the EAFD concrete composite. The results of the immersion tests show that the addition of EAFD to the concrete seems to reduce chloride penetration, which may help prevent pitting corrosion in reinforced concrete.