Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploring Functional Affordances and Sensemaking in Human Resource Analytics

Interest and investment in Business Analytics (BA) have grown substantially the last decade and applying BA in the domain of Human Resource Management (HRM) has received much attention from practitioners. An increased understanding of what potential HR Analytics has and how this potential is recognized and used is of practical and academic importance. Using the lenses of Functional Affordances and Sensemaking from Information Systems (IS) literature, an explorative case survey is performed. Cases from conferences and publications are qualitatively analyzed. Twelve Functional Affordances of HR Analytics were identified along with exemplary Sensemaking Frames and Sensemaking Patterns. This explorative study provides insights into the Functional Affordances and Sensemaking mechanisms of HR Analytics on an organizational level. It contributes to prior IS research in terms of the potential use of HR Analytics and the Sensemaking mechanisms used to identify and develop these affordances.
Ein datenzentriertes Programmiermodell für verteilte virtuelle Welten

Virtuelle Welten sind inzwischen ein fester Bestandteil des gesellschaftlichen Lebens geworden. Allen bisherigen Ansatzen ist gemeinsam, dass sie auf nachrichtenorientierte Technik fur die Verteilung der Welt zuruckgreifen, die eng mit der verwendeten Netzwerkarchitektur gekoppelt ist. Das verwendete nachrichtenorientierte Programmiermodell reicht dabei bis in den Aufbau der fur die Inhalte einer virtuelle Welt verwendeten Algorithmen, wodurch Anderungen an der Netzarchitektur auch Anderungen an den Algorithmen nach sich ziehen. Auch die Umsetzung der fur die Welt wichtigen Konsistenzmodelle erfolgt in enger Kopplung mit den verwendeten Nachrichten und ist ebenfalls sowohl abhangig von der Netzarchitektur, als auch von der gewahlten Implementierung einer Verteilungskomponente. Um diesen Nachteilen zu begegnen, wurde im Rahmen der Dissertation ein neues, datenzentriertes Programmiermodell namens TGOS (Typed Grid Object Sharing) entworfen. Das TGOS-Modell integriert in neuer Weise die Konzepte speicherbasierter Verteilungssysteme (engl. distributed shared memory, kurz DSM) mit den Vorteilen der bisher verwendeten nachrichtenorientierten Technik. Neben einer strikten Abstraktion der Netzarchitektur werden auch allfallige Konsistenzmodelle innerhalb des Programmiermodells definiert und nur mit den im Programmiermodell definierten Operationen umgesetzt. Ebenso definiert das TGOS-Modell alle wesentlichen Mechanismen, welche fur die Verteilung einer virtuellen Welt unabdingbar sind, wie beispielsweise Persistenz und Freispeichersammlung oder Gruppenkommunikation und Lastverteilung. Das vorgestellte Programmiermodell wurde erfolgreich im Rahmen der prototypischen virtuellen Welt Wissenheim Worlds sowohl konzeptionell, als auch praktisch erprobt. Ferner zeigen die durchgefuhrten Messungen, dass die resultierende datenzentrierte Architektur effizient ist.
Rapacuronium: an alternative to succinylcholine for electroconvulsive therapy.

E lectroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a brief procedure that is increasing in popularity in the United States, with over 100,000 procedures performed annually (1). Although serious complications after ECT are rare, fracture-dislocations have been described when ECT treatments are performed without muscle relaxants (2). Succinylcholine is commonly used to reduce the intense muscle contractions associated with the induced seizure activity (3). A survey in California found that 98% of the hospitals responding routinely used succinylcholine as the muscle relaxant (4). However, this short-acting muscle relaxant produces myalgias and is a potent triggering drug for malignant hyperthermia (MH). This Case Report describes the anesthetic management of a patient at risk for MH who underwent a series of ECT procedures with rapacuronium, a recently Food and Drug Administration-approved nondepolarizing muscle relaxant.
Dual polarization multi-channel radar system calibration technique

A polarization and channel calibration technique used in dual polarization eight channel mono-pulse radar system is introduced in this paper. System error model is proposed. The method is based on equipments test and microwave chamber test without any calibrators. Cross-polarization error and amplitude-phase imbalances between different transmitting and receiving channels as well as different antenna sub-arrays can be extracted by using this method.
AWARE:a mobile context instrumentation middleware to collaboratively understand human behavior

This thesis presents a mobile instrumentation middleware, AWARE, aimed at facilitating our understanding of human behavior. We demonstrate how to use AWARE to build context-aware applications, collect data, and study human behavior. Mobile phones are resource-constrained and several considerations need to be taken into account to create a research tool that ensures problem-free data collection. AWARE can mitigate researchers’ effort when building mobile data-logging tools and context-aware applications. By encapsulating implementation details of sensor data retrieval and exposing the sensed data as higher-level abstractions, researchers spend less time developing software and save more time for doing research and analyzing the collected data, both quantitative and qualitative. This thesis demonstrates AWARE’s use in a number of case studies. These vary in the research methods we have used: prototype-building; large-scale deployment; surveys; interviews; cognitive walkthroughs; heuristic evaluation; laboratory & field studies data logs; Day Reconstruction Method (DRM); and Experience Sampling Method (ESM). Together with these methods, we demonstrate how AWARE helps study human behavior in different research scenarios, such as: enabling human-smartphone awareness, understanding concerns on battery life, modeling the proximity of users to their smartphones, and capturing location sharing concerns. The thesis’ contributions are: the design, implementation and evaluation of a novel mobile instrumentation middleware to facilitate an understanding of human behavior.
Optimization Direct Compression's Co-Processed Excipient Microcrystalline Cellulose PH 102 and Povidone ® K 30

The objective of the present study was to develop filler-binder co-processed excipient (CPE) from MCC PH 102 and Povidone® K 30 combination. The mixture was varied and co-processed by spray drying technique. Optimum proportion was determined by testing the flow ability and compressibility expressed in Tapping Index (T.I) and hardness, respectively. The test result indicates that the flow ability was fluctuating in different CPE proportions, while compressibility improved with the increase in proportion of Povidone ® K 30. Optimum proportion was reached at 71 % MCC PH 102 and 29 % Povidone ® K 30, with the values of T.I and hardness of 16,22 ± 0,39 % and 7,61 ± 0,12 kg, respectively. Optimum CPE generates tablets of paracetamol model drug that meet the USP requirements of tablet dosage, which include hardness, friability, disintegration time, and dissolution.
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Induced Formation of Transcription Factor Complex ERSF Including NF-Y (CBF) and Activating Transcription Factors 6α and 6β That Activates the Mammalian Unfolded Protein Response

ABSTRACT The levels of molecular chaperones and folding enzymes in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are controlled by a transcriptional induction process termed the unfolded protein response (UPR). The mammalian UPR is mediated by the cis-acting ER stress response element (ERSE), the consensus sequence of which is CCAAT-N9-CCACG. We recently proposed that ER stress response factor (ERSF) binding to ERSE is a heterologous protein complex consisting of the constitutive component NF-Y (CBF) binding to CCAAT and an inducible component binding to CCACG and identified the basic leucine zipper-type transcription factors ATF6α and ATF6β as inducible components of ERSF. ATF6α and ATF6β produced by ER stress-induced proteolysis bind to CCACG only when CCAAT is bound to NF-Y, a heterotrimer consisting of NF-YA, NF-YB, and NF-YC. Interestingly, the NF-Y and ATF6 binding sites must be separated by a spacer of 9 bp. We describe here the basis for this strict requirement by demonstrating that both ATF6α and ATF6β physically interact with NF-Y trimer via direct binding to the NF-YC subunit. ATF6α and ATF6β bind to the ERSE as a homo- or heterodimer. Furthermore, we showed that ERSF including NF-Y and ATF6α and/or β and capable of binding to ERSE is indeed formed when the cellular UPR is activated. We concluded that ATF6 homo- or heterodimers recognize and bind directly to both the DNA and adjacent protein NF-Y and that this complex formation process is essential for transcriptional induction of ER chaperones.
Readability Consideration in Speech Synthesis Recording Script Selection

Designing text scripts that cover enough phonetic units and prosodic phenomena is very important when recording speech database for corpus based speech synthesis. When designing recording scripts for speech synthesis databases, a lot of effort is often placed on how to achieve maximal coverage of phonetic units in minimal speech recording. However, when we try to select sentences that have optimal coverage of the speech phenomena, some sentences with difficult words or incorrect grammar are often selected. It is difficult for speakers to read these sentences correctly and naturally at the same time. In order to address the problem in building speech database, we propose a selection process to create easy-to-read text scripts for recording in this paper. In this work, we will consider how to build a candidate set that is easy to read so that the speaker can utter it in the most natural way. We will calculate the statistics of the English text by analyzing the English Gigaword corpus, and filer out the sentences containing infrequent words and bigrams. The experiment shows that the selected scripts have good unit coverage of the language and good readability.
A SFCW radar for through wall imaging and motion detection

Through wall imaging and motion detection is an emerging area of research and development. A stepped frequency continuous wave real aperture radar named RA-TWI has been developed for performing imaging and detecting of static and dynamic targets through non-metallic building materials. A simple and effective method based on differential image formation has been proposed to mitigate the strong reflection of the front wall and detect the human behind the wall. Experimental results demonstrated that the RA-TWI radar can penetrate through common wall buildings and detect motions.
Transfer of conjugative plasmid pAMβ1 from Lactococcus lactis to mouse intestinal bacteria

Conjugal transfer of plasmid pAMβ1 from Lactococcus lactis to intestinal bacteria of BALB/c mice was studied. Plasmid transfer was observed to Enterococcus faecalis in vitro by a filter mating method with transfer frequencies of 2.3 × 10−3 and with lower frequencies to other species. In vivo, using gastric intubation with the pAMβ1‐bearing Lactococcus lactis as donor and Ent. faecalis as recipient, a few transconjugants were detected from faecal Ent. faecalis. However, when these mice were given erythromycin through drinking water, a large number of conjugated Ent. faecalis were detected in faeces. Plasmid transfer to Ent. faecalis occurred at high frequency, 1.2 × 10−3, in mice whose anus was artificially closed after gastric intubation with pAMβ1‐bearing Lactococcus lactis. These results demonstrate clearly that pAMβ1 transfer occurs between Gram‐positive bacteria in the gut of mice harbouring many species of bacteria.
Statistical Assessement on Cancer Risks of Ionizing Radiation and Smoking Based on Poisson Models

In many epidemiological and medical studies, a number of cancer mortalities in categorical classification may be considered as having Poisson distribution with person-years at risk depending upon time. The cancer mortalities have been evaluated by additive or multiplicative models with regard to background and excess risks based on several covariances such as sex, age at the time of bombings, time at exposure, or ionizing radiation, cigarette smoking habits, duration of smoking habits, etc. An interest herein is to examine an additive, synergistic, or antagonistic relationship between radiation exposures and cigarette smoking habits for cancer mortalities. The results revealed a highly significant antagonistic in uence for cancer mortalities from all non-hematologic findings, lung and respiratory system with negative interaction between radiation exposures and cigarette smoking amounts.
Translational Regulation of Chloroplast Genes

We have examined the effects of illumination, carbon source, and levels of chloroplast protein synthesis on trans-acting proteins that bind to the leaders of five representative chloroplast mRNAs. The accumulation of these five chloroplast mRNAs and the proteins they encode were measured in cells grown under identical conditions. Extracts from all cell types examined contain a minimum set of six chloroplast 5′-untranslated region (UTR)-binding proteins (81, 62, 56, 47, 38, and 15 kDa). Fractionation results suggest that multiple forms of the 81-, 62-, and 47-kDa proteins may exist. A 36-kDa protein was found in all cells except those deficient in chloroplast protein synthesis. Binding of the 81-, 47-, and 38-kDa proteins to the rps12 leader is effectively competed by the atpB or rbcL 5′-UTRs, indicating that the same proteins bind to all three leaders. In contrast, these three proteins do not bind to the nuclear-encoded α-1 tubulin leader, which bound novel proteins of 110, 70, and 43 kDa. Cis-acting sequences within the 5′-UTRs of two chloroplast mRNAs (rps7 and atpB) have been identified which are protected from digestion by RNase T1 by extracts enriched for the 81-, 47-, and 38-kDa proteins.
Identifying Significant Predictors of Student Evaluations of Faculty Through Hierarchical Regression Analysis

Abstract College teachers' ages and personalities, and students' course grades, gender, enrollment status, academic abilities, and ages were investigated as predictors of student evaluations of faculty. An evaluation form containing 7 items reflecting the personality trait of extraversion and 8 items reflecting teaching effectiveness was used to collect data from 351 undergraduates. Teachers' extraversion (.79) and teachers' ages (-.08) were correlated highest, and students' gender was correlated lowest (.08) with teaching effectiveness. Hierarchical regression revealed that teachers' extraversion was the only significant predictor of student evaluations (β = .76, p < .001) after controlling for enrollment status, course grades, and student ages.
Classification of Lattice-based Fully Homomorphic Encryption from Noisy Polly Cracker

Lattices have been used to construct many cryptographic primitives after Ajtai’s seminal paper in 1996. The goal of this paper is to design novel cryptographic primitives using lattices, which are still found to be no polynomial time attack by quantum computers. For achieving this, we survey the known lattice-based cryptography and lattice-based fully homomorphic encryption schemes as a first step. We focus on the hard problems in lattice and the relationship between known fully homomorphic encryption scheme and noisy polly cracker model.
High efficiency Si-heterojunction technology - it's ready for mass production

Recently it has been shown that silicon heterojunction (Si-HJT) cells can achieve efficiencies close to 25% using simple cell structures. However, most of these results have been achieved in a laboratory setting. This contributions will show how Meyer Burger heterojunction technology can achieve comparable results with mass production technology, with high throughput and reduced CoO when compared to other technologies.
Ellipsoid zone on optical coherence tomography: a review

Emergence of the high‐resolution optical coherence tomography has allowed better delineation of retinal layers, and many of the anatomical correlations of these layers have now been agreed upon. However, some anatomical correlates still remain contentious, such as the second hyper‐reflective band, which is now termed ellipsoid zone. Despite the lack of consensus of the actual origin of the ellipsoid zone, there has been much interest in evaluating its integrity and intensity in different disease processes. This review paper aims to provide an overview of the ellipsoid zone and its clinical and research applications.
A community-based exercise and education scheme for stroke survivors: a randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation

Objective: The evaluation of a community-based exercise and education scheme for stroke survivors. Design: A single blind parallel group randomized controlled trial. Setting: Leisure and community centres in the south-west of England. Subjects: Stroke survivors (median (IQR) time post stroke 10.3 (5.4—17.1) months). 243 participants were randomized to standard care (124) or the intervention (119). Intervention: Exercise and education schemes held twice weekly for eight weeks, facilitated by volunteers and qualified exercise instructors (supported by a physiotherapist), each with nine participants plus carers or family members. Method: Participants were assessed by a blinded independent assessor at two weeks before the start of the scheme, nine weeks and six months. One-year follow-up was by postal assessment. Main measures: Primary outcomes: Subjective Index of Physical and Social Outcome (SIPSO); Frenchay Activities Index; Rivermead Mobility Index. NHS, social care and personal costs. Secondary outcomes included WHOQoL-Bref. Analysis: Intention-to-treat basis, using non-parametric analysis to investigate change from baseline. Economic costs were compared in a cost-consequences analysis. Results: There were significant between-group changes in SIPSO physical at nine weeks (median (95% confidence interval (CI)), 1 (0, 2): P = 0.022) and at one year (0 (—1, 2): P = 0.024). (WHOQol-Bref psychological (6.2 (—0.1, 9.1): P = 0.011) at six months. Mean cost per patient was higher in the intervention group. The difference, excluding inpatient care, was £296 (95% CI: —£321 to £913). Conclusion: The community scheme for stroke survivors was a low-cost intervention successful in improving physical integration, maintained at one year, when compared with standard care.
Tiefe Charakterisierung

Zusammenfassung Mehrstufige Beschreibungshierarchien kommen in zunehmendem Maße in den verschiedensten Gebieten zum Einsatz. Ob in der Definition von Modellierungssprachenstandards, der Prozeßmodellierung oder in der Beschreibung von (Domänen-)Referenzmodellen mit dynamischer Typebene, immer werden Beschreibungshierarchien mit mindestens drei Ebenen genutzt. Die Beziehung der Beschreibungsebenen untereinander beruht typischerweise auf der Instanziierung, welche aber traditionell nur für zwei Ebenen ausgelegt ist. Dieser Beitrag thematisiert das Bedürfnis, Eigenschaften dennoch über mehr als eine Ebenengrenze hinweg festzulegen, und schlägt, nach der Erläuterung einiger konventioneller Lösungsmöglichkeiten, die Anwendung von “tiefer Instanziierung” vor, die als konservative Erweiterung der zweistufigen Instanziierung eine natürliche und prägnante Charakterisierung von Modellelementeigenschaften über mehrere Ebenengrenzen hinweg erlaubt.
Structural Elucidation of Chalcone Reductase and Implications for Deoxychalcone Biosynthesis*

4,2′,4′,6′-tetrahydroxychalcone (chalcone) and 4,2′,4′-trihydroxychalcone (deoxychalcone) serve as precursors of ecologically important flavonoids and isoflavonoids. Deoxychalcone formation depends on chalcone synthase and chalcone reductase; however, the identity of the chalcone reductase substrate out of the possible substrates formed during the multistep reaction catalyzed by chalcone synthase remains experimentally elusive. We report here the three-dimensional structure of alfalfa chalcone reductase bound to the NADP+ cofactor and propose the identity and binding mode of its substrate, namely the non-aromatized coumaryl-trione intermediate of the chalcone synthase-catalyzed cyclization of the fully extended coumaryl-tetraketide thioester intermediate. In the absence of a ternary complex, the quality of the refined NADP+-bound chalcone reductase structure serves as a template for computer-assisted docking to evaluate the likelihood of possible substrates. Interestingly, chalcone reductase adopts the three-dimensional structure of the aldo/keto reductase superfamily. The aldo/keto reductase fold is structurally distinct from all known ketoreductases of fatty acid biosynthesis, which instead belong to the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase superfamily. The results presented here provide structural support for convergent functional evolution of these two ketoreductases that share similar roles in the biosynthesis of fatty acids/polyketides. In addition, the chalcone reductase structure represents the first protein structure of a member of the aldo/ketoreductase 4 family. Therefore, the chalcone reductase structure serves as a template for the homology modeling of other aldo/keto-reductase 4 family members, including the reductase involved in morphine biosynthesis, namely codeinone reductase.
Periodic Solutions for a Class of Fuzzy BAM Neural Networks with Distributed Delays and Variable Coefficients

In this paper, we consider a class of fuzzy BAM neural networks with distributed delays and variable coefficients. By using Brouwer fixed point theorem and differential inequality, we obtain some sufficient conditions for the existence and global exponential stability of periodic solutions for a class of fuzzy BAM neural networks with distributed delays and variable coefficients. In addition, we also present an illustrative example to show the effectiveness of obtained results.
Do Others' Opinion Matter? Investigating the Impact of Gender Differences on Trustworthiness of e-WOM

The maturing of Web 2.0 infrastructure fosters the rapid generation and dissemination of electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM). The abundance of e-WOM allows online service providers to facilitate consumers' trust building. However, due to the often coexistence of two forms of e-WOM, namely numerical rating and opinionated review, consumers can perceive cognitive dissonance between the former and the latter. This cognitive dissonance can hinder the formation of consumers' trust and compel them to resolve the conflict. Guided by confirmation bias theory, we propose that, to maintain trusting beliefs when experiencing dissonance in e-WOM, male consumers value opinionated review over numerical rating and vice versa for their female counterparts. The results of our field survey on a custom developed website with 115 college students empirically validated our hypothesized relationships and also unveiled male's general bias towards opinionated review. Our findings can contribute to both research and practice.