Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Accelerating the Innovation Process: A Systematic Review and Realist Synthesis of the Research Literature

There is continued interest among academics, practitioners and policy‐makers in methods to achieve accelerated innovation. Academic studies of this complex phenomenon have succeeded in reaching a high degree of consensus on the antecedents of innovation speed. The aim in this review is to elucidate further the mechanisms underlying management interventions to promote speed. The review adopts a theory‐led, realist synthesis of innovation speed research – the first example of this methodology in management studies. The authors develop a new time‐based framework for categorizing the innovation‐speed literature. The framework has a CIMO logic, and is built by invoking the organizational studies literature on time. The authors contextualize the innovation‐speed literature in relation to the three generic temporal challenges faced by all organizations: reducing temporal uncertainty; resolving temporal conflicts over activities; and allocating resources amid conditions of temporal scarcity. They problematize extant explanations of innovation speed as not taking account of different temporal orientations (temporal dichotomies) within innovation work, and thereby neglecting a potential barrier to achieving accelerated innovation outcomes. They further draw on the literature on time in organizations to suggest new avenues of research, and methodological approaches new to the study of innovation speed. The principal contribution of this review is to offer a new conceptual perspective on the complex empirical research examining how innovation projects may be accelerated from original idea to launch.
Research on the Relationship between Market Orientation and Performance Based on Multiple-Group SEM ——Comparison of manufacturing and service industries

By using multiple-group SEM, this paper discusses the relationship between market orientation and performance. Comparison analysis of this relationship was carried on among manufacturing and service industries. The results show that market orientation and its three dimensions have significant positive effects on performance without distinguishing industry categories. When industry categories are distinguished, the influence of market orientation on performance is different in manufacturing and service industries. That is to say the influence of customer orientation on performance is significant in both industries. While the influence of competitor orientation on performance is significant only in enterprises of service industry and the influence of interfunctional coordination on performance is significant only in enterprises of manufacturing industry.
East-West European Farm Investment Behaviour: The Role of Financial Constraints and Public Support

The paper investigates farm investment behaviour among East (Hungarian and Slovenian) and West (French) European Union farms using individual accountancy panel data for the 2003- 2008 period. Despite differences in farm structures, except the presence of capital market imperfections for East farms, farms’ investment behaviour does not differentiate substantially. Farm gross investment is positively associated with real sales growth and cash flow, suggesting the absence of soft budget constraint. In addition, it is positively associated with public investment subsidies which can mitigate capital market imperfections in the short-term. On a long-term the farm’s ability to successfully compete in the output market by selling and gaining sufficient cash flow for investment is crucial.
Toward a comparative institutional approach

This chapter argues that a comparative approach to analyzing the relationship between technology and political institutions has the potential to offer renewed understanding of the development of the Internet in election campaigning. Taking the different characteristics of political parties and the norms and rules of the electoral environment in the United States and the United Kingdom as an illustration, it suggests that the relationship between technology and political institutions is dialectical. Technologies can reshape institutions, but institutions will mediate eventual outcomes. The chapter outlines five key variables: degree of systemic institutional pluralism; organization of membership; candidate recruitment and selection; campaign finance; and the “old” campaign communication environment. This approach has the potential to generate a theoretical framework for explaining differences in the impact of the Internet on election campaigning across liberal democracies.
Peer Feedback Content Quality: The added value of structuring peer assessment

The present studies examined the added value of structuring the peer assessment (PA) process for the peer feedback (PFB) content quality in a wiki-based computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment in higher education, by firstly investigating a varying structuring degree in the peer feedback template (study 1) and secondly, by further structuring the role of both the assessor and assessee in the PFB process (study 2). Results of the first study revealed that structuring the PA process could be advantageous for the peer feedback content quality, while the results for study 2 are underway. The main aim of this poster presentation is to illustrate the impact of instructional interventions in which we further specify the role of the assessor and/or assessee, in order to enhance the content quality of peer feedback messages.
Utilizing Wikis and a LINE Messaging App in Flipped Classrooms

The aim of this research is to identify students’ perception of the utilization of wikis, LINE, and flipped teaching strategies in a Research Methodology course at a university in Taiwan. Q-methodology, a combination of qualitative and quantitative research, was employed for this study, and sixteen participants were asked to rank-order 30 statements related to the integration of wikis and LINE in a flipped classroom. Correlation, a centroid factor analysis, and judgmental rotation were used to identify the significant factors. The two factors that represented groups of participants with a similar perception were extracted and the results were as follows; (1) learners could be divided into those with a strong positive feeling about group-based activities and self-paced learning (Collaborative Achiever) and those who had a positive reaction to collaboration, but expressed concern about tension caused by competition (Collaborative Competitor), and (2) all the participants agreed that they were highly engaged and motivated when using Wikispaces and LINE in the flipped classroom based on the advantages of a timely and easy-to-use IT environment, self-regulated learning, virtual community companion, collaborative work, and the building and sharing of knowledge. The theoretical and practical implications of the results were discussed.
Analysis and Design of Quad-Band Four-Section Transmission Line Impedance Transformer

− The design of four-section transmission line matching transformer, operating at four arbitrary frequencies, is presented. Standard transmission line theory is used to obtain a closed form expression that is solved using particle swarm optimization technique to find the required transformer parameters (lengths, and characteristic impedances). Different examples are presented which validate the design approach. To further validate the analysis and design approach, a microstrip line four-section quad-band transmission line transformer is designed, analyzed, fabricated and measured.
Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations and Contexts

In Indigenous Methodologies Margaret Kovach invites the reader to join her in a thoughtful and critical exploration of the place of Indigenous inquiry within contemporary academic contexts. Orienting the reader to praxis and social justice in the opening chapter, she outlines the need for research that honours Indigenous knowledge systems and their tribal epistemological basis. Kovach describes how the very notion of research poses questions, many of which have not yet been pursued — in particular, how the ideology of knowledge production within Eurocentric academic contexts ascribes positional authority to Western research paradigms, thereby marginalizing the Indigenous approach to inquiry. Claiming a place for Indigenous methodologies, she asserts, requires us to grapple with the politics of knowledge production and the rightful place of tribal epistemologies within the academy. In chapter 2 Kovach provides a critical and thoughtful scrutiny of the field of qualitative research, indicating the connections, intersections, and disconnections among tribal epistemologies and those underpinning qualitative research in the “seventh moment. ” She skilfully navigates the tensions and the possibilities for locating Indigenous methodologies both inside and outside of qualitative research paradigms, resisting the need to categorize within dominant academic discourse. While Kovach distinguishes Indigenous and qualitative methodologies at the level of epistemology in this chapter, she demonstrates a sophisticated handling of the challenges arising from positioning Indigenous methodologies through a politics of difference. She carefully examines intersecting and unique concepts, process and practices of Indigenous methodologies, and qualitative approaches by teasing out their epistemological similarities and differences. In fact, Kovach delivers on distinguishing and relating both research traditions and their relational, pragmatic, and process/content orientation. The reader glimpses the “both/and” intersections in Indigenous and qualitative inquiry while also seeing how and why tribal CJNR 2012, Vol. 44 No 2, 163–166
Energy consumption patterns for domestic buildings in hot climates using Saudi Arabia as case study field: multiple case study analyses

The paper presents the evaluations and debates surrounding residential energy consumption in Saudi Arabia, a country distinguished by its fiercely hot weather and geographical position in a global area prominent for heightened energy consumption and carbon emissions. The cases chosen for the research comprise several residences situated in various climatic situations across Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the case study concerns multiple domestic buildings in the scorching, arid climate of Riyadh, multiple domestic buildings in the hot but humid weather of Jeddah City, and multiple domestic buildings in the hot, dry mountainous area of Al Baha City. The main objective of the evaluation is to identify the average energy consumption in the residential sector in Saudi Arabia, based on (a) monthly electricity bills for each residence, (b) occupant behaviour as determined by interviews for every chosen residence, and (c) analysis and discussion of energy consumption through modelling and simulation for every selected dwelling, using the IES-VE software tool. Energy consumption for the residential division is thus explored and debated, with an emphasis on architectural design, building materials used and occupants’ conduct. Subject to established failures, several solutions were proposed with the objective of reducing energy consumption; they encompass shading techniques, renewable energy techniques, and efficient glazing. The proposed solutions were assessed by remodelling every residence using IES-VE and the outcome was a decrease in energy utilisation, varying but reaching 37%, subject to local weather circumstances. The regional, financial and environmental benefits of the energy saving that would result from these measures being implemented for existing dwellings across Saudi Arabia were then presented.
Back to the Future: Generating Moment Implications for Continuous-Time Markov Processes

Continuous-time Markov processes can be characterized conveniently by their infinitesimal generators. For such processes there exist forward and reverse-time generators. We show how to use these generators to construct moment conditions implied by stationary Markov processes. Generalized method of moments estimators and tests can be constructed using these moment conditions. The resulting econometric methods are designed to be applied to discrete-time data obtained by sampling continuous-time Markov processes.
An Effect of Online and Offline Social Capital on Japanese Immigrants' Acculturation to American Culture

Online (through social interactive media) and offline (face-to-face) social capital have a synergetic effect on immigrants’ acculturation process. This cross-sectional survey study examined the relationship between social capital and acculturation to American culture among a sample of 380 Japanese immigrants who lived in Texas. The study revealed that Japanese immigrants with more online and offline contacts tended to be better acculturated to American culture. The findings have practical implications for social work practice in terms of the use of immigrants’ social capital, both online and offline, to enable them to better integrate in the country of immigration.
Principal Directon Divising Partitioning Initialisation of K-Means Clustering Allows to Identify the Most Salient Genes in Discriminating Among Leukemias

This paper attempts to cluster leukemia patients described by gene expression data, and to discover the most discriminating genes that are responsible for the clustering. A combined approach of Principal Direction Divisive Partitioning and bisect K-means algorithms is applied to the clustering of the investigated leukemia dataset. Both unsupervised and supervised methods are considered in order to get optimal result. The combination of PDDP and bisect K-means successfully clusters leukemia patients, and efficiently discovers salient genes able to the discriminate the clusters. The combined approach works well on the automatic clustering of leukemia patients depending merely on the gene expression information, and it has great potential on solving similar problems, like classifying pancreatic tumors. The salient identified genes may thus enhance relevant information for discriminating among leukemias.
Solvent effect on the spectral properties of dipolar laser dyes: Evaluation of ground and excited state dipole moments

The effect of solvents on absorption and fluorescence spectra and dipole moments of two medium sized dipolar laser dyes 2-(2,7-dichloro-6-hydroxy-3-oxo-3 H -xanthen-9-yl) benzoic acid (Fluorescein 27) (F27) and N -[6-diethylamino)-9-(2,4-disulfophenyl)-3 H -xanthen-3-ylidene]- N -ethylhydroxid (Sulfarhodamine B) (SRB) have been studied comprehensively in polar protic and polar aprotic solvents at room temperature (298 K). The bathochromic shift observed in absorption and fluorescence spectra of F27 and SRB with increasing solvent polarity signifies that the transition involved are π→π*. Solvatochromic correlations were used to obtain the ground and excited state dipole moments. The observed excited state dipole moments are found to be larger than their ground state counterparts in all the solvents studied. The ground and excited state dipole moments of these probes have also been computed from ab initio calculations and compared with those determined experimentally. Further, the experimentally obtained changes in dipole moment (Δ μ ) were compared with those using normalized polarity terms from Reichardt equation.
Influence of Soil Surface Sodium Ion and Soil pH on Dispersion of Cohesive Soil

The grey relational analysis method based on grey system theory is used, to make theoretical analysis of the chemical factors influencing the cohesive soil dispersion, and the pinhole test and pieces test are adopted to make further experimental analysis of the influence factors of sodium ions, pH and so on. Grey correlation analysis showed that the correlation between pH and sodium ion concentration is relatively high in the chemical properties. At the same time, through the further study on the chemical factors of cohesive soil, we can find that to acquire dispersive soil, it is necessary to have higher pH and higher Sodium ions concentration.
A Narrative of Contested Views of Development in Thai Society: Voices of Villagers in Rural Northeastern Thailand

This paper is a report of an ethnographic field research reflecting contested views of development on how to become modern in Thai society. It demonstrates how villagers in two rural Thai-Lao communities in the Northeast of Thailand utilized discourses of development after having been subjected to development programs and policies of the Thai state beginning in the 1960s. It also argues that development concepts and practices have become a political and cultural space where constant negotiation, integration, cooperation, contestation, and resistance are taking place. While the Thai state is responsible for initiating the concept of development, village discourses about the concept cannot be interpreted as reflecting unquestioned hegemony of a ruling elite. Development, thus, has become a political and cultural location that entails not only cooperation of villagers with state agencies, but also contestation of the authority of some of these agencies. The actual experiences of villagers with official development initiatives and their own pursuit of development have led to tensions not only between villagers and representatives of the state, but also within village society. In pursuit of interests that are differentiated by class, gender, and age, some villagers have also sought allies within and outside their villages. The contestation over development meanings and practices in these two villages reflects, thus, a more widespread debate in Thai society about what it means to be modern.
Taxiing Route Scheduling between Taxiway and Runway in Hub Airport

To guarantee the operation safety of airport, improve the efficiency of surface operation, and enhance the fairness of taxiing route scheduling, an optimizing model is established for the airport surface taxiing route scheduling. Reducing the total aircraft taxiing route length and reducing the waiting delay time are the goals of the model by controlling the initial taxiing time of aircraft and choosing the right taxiing route. The model can guarantee the continuous taxiing for all aircraft without conflicts. The runway scheduling is taken into consideration in the model to optimize the surface operation. The improved genetic algorithm is designed for simulation and validation. The simulation results show that compared with the ant colony optimization method, the improved genetic algorithm reduces the total extra taxiing distance by 47.8% and the total waiting delay time decreases by 21.5%. The optimization model and improved genetic algorithm are feasible. The optimization of taxiing route method can provide decision support for hub airports.
Simulating the microstructural evolution of a Selective Laser Melted AA-2024

A two-dimensional Cellular Automata (CA) – Finite Element (FE) (CA-FE) coupled model has been developed in order to predict the microstructure formed during melting of a powdered AA- 2024 feedstock using the Additive Manufacturing (AM) process Selective Laser Melting (SLM). The presented CA model is coupled with a detailed thermal FE model computing heat flow characteristics of the SLM process. The developed model takes into account the powder-to-liquidto-solid transformation, tracks the interaction between several melt pools within a melted track, and several tracks within various layers. It was found that the simulated microstructures bared a close resemblance with fabricated AA-2024 SLM samples. With these observed capabilities of the model, the porosity within a SLM produced part can be predicted, and used to optimise the fabrication parameters of a sample.
An Examination of Rating Corporate Bonds Through the Cycle

Changing credit rating migration intensities over the business cycle has been the subject of numerous studies (for example, Nickell et al. (2000) and Bangia et al. (2002)). Standard & Poor’s, however, asserts that credit ratings are based on through the cycle measures; meaning that changes in the default risk should affect an issuer’s credit rating only if these changes are persistent. Short-term fluctuations in default risk, such as a recession or uncharacteristic asset write-offs, should not affect the credit rating. Through an adaptation of a runs test and smoothed intensity estimates, we are able to demonstrate that the baseline downgrade intensity of Evans (2007) is not constant, and thus reject the policy of rating through the cycle. The rejection of rating through the cycle has asset management ramifications. A consequence of non-constant baseline downgrade intensities is that there are systemic risks of credit re-evaluations that cannot be neutralised by large diversified debt portfolios. Where there is a strong relationship between debt value and credit rating, the sustenance of portfolios because of finite debt maturity means that industryor economy-wide fluctuations in migrations intensities can result in large realised losses. Furthermore, systemic downgrade risks have implications for a bank’s compliance with the Basel II Accord, where quality restrictions for capital provisions are in place.
A spatio-temporal analysis of the impact of congestion on traffic safety on major roads in the UK

A spatio-temporal analysis has been conducted aiming to explore the relationship between traffic congestion and road accidents based on the data on the M25 motorway and its surrounding major roads in England during the period 2003–2007. It was hypothesised that increased traffic congestion may be beneficial to road safety as the number of fatal/killed and serious injury (KSI) accidents would be less due to the low average speed when congestion is present. If this is confirmed, then it poses a potential dilemma for transport policy makers. A series of classical count outcome models (random-effects negative binomial models) and spatial models using a full Bayesian hierarchical approach have been developed in this study in order to examine whether congestion has any effect on the frequency of accidents. The results suggest that increased traffic congestion is associated with more KSI accidents and traffic congestion has little impact on slight injury accidents. This may be due to the higher speed variance among vehicles within and between lanes and erratic driving behaviour in the presence of congestion. In addition, traffic speeds even within congested situations are likely to be relatively high on major roads compared to other parts of the road network. Certain strategies are then proposed to optimise traffic flow which would be beneficial to both congestion and accident reduction.
Eczema Disease Detection and Recognition in Cloud Computing

ED (eczema disease) is the most common form of skin inflammation in humans. Most of the skin disease is curable at initial stages with the advancement of technology. So, an early detection of skin disease can save the patient's life and prevent the progression of the disease. It is proposed to have a study on the diagnosis of ED using BpNN (backpropagation neural network) in cloud computing approach due to that BpNN is currently widespread research area in medicine and plays an important role in a decision support system. In this paper, an attempt has been made to make use of BpNN in the medical field along cloud computing to detect ED.