Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A novel signal acquisition method for GPS dual-frequency L1 C/A and L2C receivers

Together with the 30-year-old signal L1 C/A, the new signal L2C, offered by the modernized GPS program, assures a future for civil GPS dual-frequency receivers which propose a better performance than the current single-frequency ones. This paper introduces a novel combined acquisition method dedicated to the GPS dual-frequency L1 C/A and L2C receivers. The method exploits the capacity of both the signal channels as well as the advantages of differential signal processing. High detection sensitivity at a reasonable complexity is the main advantage of the proposed method with respect to others in literature.
Industrial Legacy Matters: Implications for the Development and Use of Indices of Regional Competitiveness

This article addresses the usefulness of indices of regional competitiveness in guiding economic development strategies for communities with different industrial legacies. Growth models for employment and per capita income are estimated for 151 metropolitan areas in the Southern United States. The explanatory variables for regional growth include measures of New Economy inputs (innovation, human capital, and entrepreneurial environment) and industry structure (composition, size, age, and diversity). The findings indicate that metro growth rates in per capita income are associated primarily with New Economy inputs whereas employment growth rates are related primarily to industry structure characteristics. In addition, interaction terms between the policy and structure variables indicate that policy inferences from indices of competitiveness should vary by city type. For example, increases in knowledge workers and entrepreneurial environment are more positively associated with income growth rates in the smaller, more specialized metropolitan areas. Economic history and industrial legacy matter in the application of competitiveness indices to inform economic development policy.
The rare coagulation disorders – review with guidelines for management from the United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors' Organisation

Summary. The rare coagulation disorders are heritable abnormalities of haemostasis that may present significant difficulties in diagnosis and management. This review summarizes the current literature for disorders of fibrinogen, and deficiencies of prothrombin, factor V, FV + VIII, FVII, FX, the combined vitamin K‐dependent factors, FXI and FXIII. Based on both collective clinical experience and the literature, guidelines for management of bleeding complications are suggested with specific advice for surgery, spontaneous bleeding, management of pregnancy and the neonate. We have chosen to include a section on Ehlers‐Danlos Syndrome because haematologists may be consulted about bleeding manifestations in such patients.
Intellectual capital and new public management: Reintroducing enterprise

The paper reports on public sector organisations'/institutions' work to develop knowledge management and intellectual capital statements. Building on experiences collected during 2001‐2002 where 26 public sector institutions in Denmark sought to develop intellectual capital statements, this paper discusses their experiences and in particular, it addresses the role of intellectual capital in relation to the development of the new public management philosophy. It is suggested that these public sector organisations use intellectual capital activity to promote themselves as “businesses” with their own strategies and modes of operations. Intellectual capital helps these firms differentiate themselves and develop their own strategic approach to their mode of functioning by showing how they function as enterprises.
Carbon accounting: Negotiating accuracy, consistency and certainty across organisational fields

Purpose - A fully functioning carbon accounting system must be based on measurement that is materially accurate, consistent over space and time, and incorporates data uncertainty. However, achieving these goals is difficult because current carbon accounting efforts are spread across three distinct organisational fields, each prioritising different goals. This paper aims to address these issues. Design/methodology/approach - The authors identified three fields drawn together by the science of how carbon emissions can be measured, the social practices of carbon accounting, and accountability within the global carbon governance system. The authors hosted a workshop, and invited representatives participating in each of the organisational fields to highlight the contentious conversations within their field. The authors facilitated an across-field exploration of whether and how to achieve accuracy, consistency and certainty in carbon accounting. Findings - It was found that there are tensions between accuracy, consistency and certainty in carbon accounting both within and across organisational fields. Framing the evolution of carbon accounting as negotiation between these goals across fields yields powerful implications for addressing current challenges in carbon accounting. Practical implications - The authors provide guidance to policymakers on how to recognise legitimate uncertainty in carbon management science, manage the cost-benefits of policy and reporting mechanisms, and ensure actual greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Originality/value - This paper exploits the unusual approach of integrating carbon accounting across levels of analysis, from the molecular level through processes, organisations, industries and nations. This approach should help scientific, corporate and policy decision-makers move towards a more fully functioning carbon accounting system.
Carnitine dynamics and their effects on hyperammonemia in cirrhotic Japanese patients

Supplementation with levocarnitine preparations has been reported to improve hepatic encephalopathy, but no detailed investigations have addressed the dynamics of carnitine or its supplementation indication in cirrhosis patients. We studied carnitine dynamics in cirrhotic patients by measuring serum and liver tissue carnitine levels and tested the effects of levocarnitine supplementation on concurrent hyperammonemia.
WAGE INEQUALITY IN TURKEY: DECOMPOSITION BY STATISTICAL REGIONS, 1980–2001

This paper analyzes wage inequality in the Turkish manufacturing sector annually from 1980 to 2001, and also provides some evidence for inequality in the postâ€ 2001 period. Using the betweenâ€ groups component of Theil's T statistic, the paper provides more information on wage inequality. It decomposes the evolution of inequality by statistical regions â€“ The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics â€“ (i.e. NUTSâ€ 1 and NUTSâ€ 2). The decompositions show that inequality has increased since the late 1980s in the private sector both between regions of NUTSâ€ 1 and NUTSâ€ 2.
The Adoption of High‐Involvement Work Practices

This paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding why high-involvement work practices are adopted more rapidly by some organizations than others. Drawing on evolutionary economics and innovation literature, we identify three key drivers: 1) the level of complementary human resource practices and technology; 2) performance achieved with previous practices; and 3) factors that alter the cost of introducing new practices. Empirical analyses of a unique longitudinal data set of 43 automobile assembly plants worldwide provide support for hypotheses about complementary HR practices (but not complementary technologies) and partial support for hypotheses about past performance and factors that alter adoption costs.
The surface‐exposed tyrosine residue Tyr83 of pea plastocyanin is involved in both binding and electron transfer reactions with cytochrome f.

Site‐directed mutants of the pea plastocyanin gene in which the codon for the surface‐exposed Tyr83 has been changed to codons for Phe83 and Leu83 have been expressed in transgenic tobacco plants. The mutant proteins have been purified to homogeneity and their conformations shown not to differ significantly from the wild‐type plastocyanin by 1H‐NMR and CD. Overall rate constants for electron transfer (k2) from cytochrome f to plastocyanin have been measured by stopped‐flow spectrophotometry and rate constants for binding (ka) and association constants (KA) have been measured from the enhanced Soret absorption of cytochrome f on binding plastocyanin. These measurements allow the calculation of the intrinsic rate of electron transfer in the binary complex. An 8‐fold decrease in the overall rate of electron transfer to the Phe83 mutant is due entirely to a decreased association constant for cytochrome f, whereas the 40‐fold decrease in the overall rate of electron transfer to the Leu83 mutant is due to weaker binding and a lower intrinsic rate of electron transfer. This indicates that Tyr83 is involved in binding to cytochrome f and forms part of the main route of electron transfer.
When Is Static Analysis a Sufficient Proxy for Dynamic Considerations? Reconsidering Antitrust and Innovation

This paper examines the claim that dynamic considerations play a particularly important role in certain industries (in particular, those characterized by high rates of product innovation) and, consequently, render antitrust analysis based on static concepts inappropriate or misleading. By expositing and applying the fully dynamic model of Segal and Whinston, I argue that, in many cases, static analyses are not misleading and that dynamic considerations (such as competition for the market) are not decisive in these analyses. I argue, however, that dynamic considerations can be important when the predominant mode of commercialization by innovative entrants is via cooperation rather than competition with incumbent firms; examples of cooperation include acquisition and licensing. Therefore, this means that static measures of competition are likely to be reinforced in certain circumstances by related dynamic considerations.
Delay Scheduling Based Replication Scheme for Hadoop Distributed File System

The data generated and processed by modern computing systems burgeon rapidly. MapReduce is an important programming model for large scale data intensive applications. Hadoop is a popular open source implementation of MapReduce and Google File System (GFS). The scalability and fault-tolerance feature of Hadoop makes it as a standard for BigData processing. Hadoop uses Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for storing data. Data reliability and fault- tolerance is achieved through replication in HDFS. In this paper, a new technique called Delay Scheduling Based Replication Algorithm (DSBRA) is proposed to identify and replicate (dereplicate) the popular (unpopular) files/blocks in HDFS based on the information collected from the scheduler. Experimental results show that, the proposed method achieves 13% and 7% improvements in response time and locality over existing algorithms respectively.
Economic and Statistical Measures of Forecast Accuracy

This paper argues in favour of a closer link between decision and forecast evaluation problems. Although the idea of using decision theory for forecast evaluation appears early in the dynamic stochastic programming literature, and has continued to be used in meteorological forecasts, it is hardly mentioned in standard academic textbooks on economic forecasting. Some of the main issues involved are illustrated in the context of a two-state, two-action decision problem as well as in a more general setting. Relationships between statistical and economic methods of forecast evaluation are discussed and useful links between Kuipers score, used as a measure of forecast accuracy in the meteorology literature, and the market timing tests used in finance, are established. An empirical application to the problem of stock market predictability is also provided, and the conditions under which such predictability could be exploited in the presence of transaction costs are discussed.
Parsing 3 D motion trajectory for gesture recognition q

Motion trajectories have been widely used for gesture recognition. An effective representation of 3D motion trajectory is important for capturing and recognizing complex motion patterns. In this paper, we propose a view invariant hierarchical parsing method for free form 3D motion trajectory representation. The raw motion trajectory is first parsed into four types of trajectory primitives based on their 3D shapes. These primitives are further segmented into sub-primitives by the proposed shape descriptors. Based on the clustered sub-primitives, trajectory recognition is achieved by using Hidden Markov Model. The proposed parsing approach is view-invariant in 3D space and is robust to variations of scale, temporary speed and partial occlusion. It well represents long motion trajectories can also support online gesture recognition. The proposed approach is evaluated on multiple benchmark datasets. The competitive experimental results and comparisons with the state-of-the-art methods verify the effectiveness of our approach. 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Power systems stability enhancement using a wide-area signals based hierarchical controller

A two-level hierarchical structure is proposed to improve the stability of multimachine power systems. The solution consists of a local controller for each generator at the first level helped by a multivariable central one at the secondary level. The secondary-level controller uses remote signals from all generators to synthesize decoupling control signals that improve the local controllers' performances. The first-level controllers, on the other hand, use only local signals to dampen local oscillations. A systematic procedure for the design of the wide-area signals based central controller is given. It is based on a reformulation of the multimachine power system model into a suitable and closed form. Our control strategy leads to a robust wide-area controller having two major components: a model-based decoupling nonlinear control and an adaptation module. The nonlinear control parameters are updated so that the controller sensitivity to power systems operating point and structure variation is considerably reduced. The hierarchical structure is used on a large power system and simulation results reveal that the system stability is considerably improved: a power system, unstable under conventional controllers (AVR-PSS/GOVERNOR), is rendered stable when combining the central and local controllers' actions.
Evaluation of Two Slide Agglutination Tests and a Novel Immunochromatographic Assay for Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Mononucleosis

ABSTRACT The results of three tests used for the rapid diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis (IM) were compared with those of Epstein-Barr virus-specific serology. The sensitivities ranged from 15 to 33% in children under 13 years of age and from 59 to 81% in patients over 13 years. The specificities ranged from 86 to 100% in both age groups. These tests have a poor sensitivity for the diagnosis of IM, particularly in children.
OPEN HOUSE? FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE UK PARLIAMENT

Not all parliaments are subject to Freedom of Information (FOI), and no one has studied what difference it makes to the working of a parliament. This article evaluates the impact of FOI on the UK Parliament by reference to its main objectives. It finds that FOI has made Westminster slightly more open and accountable; but it has not increased public understanding, participation, or trust. Westminster was already very open and other initiatives have helped increase participation. Trust was badly damaged by the MPs' expenses scandal, triggered by FOI requests. The House of Commons' hesitant response to those requests revealed problems of corporate governance.
The Carry-Forward Provision and Management of Bank Reserves

The 1968 amendment to Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Code permits banks to carry forward one sequential reserve excess or deficiency into the next reserve accounting period. This was intended to reduce the weekly pressure on individual banks to adjust their reserve position. We find, instead, that the carry-forward provision gives individual banks an incentive to alternate weekly between reserve excesses and reserve deficiencies. Thus, the carry-forward provision tends to induce reserve position adjustments even in the absence of changes in the level of deposits. In addition, the carry-forward provision reduces the impact of interest-rate changes on the desired level of excess reserves. SINCE THE 1968 AMENDMENT to Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Code, reserve requirements have been based on the level of deposits two weeks earlier1 and banks have been permitted to carry forward into the next accounting period (one week) a reserve excess or deficiency of not more than two percent of their required reserves. A bank may not, however, carry forward two consecutive reserve excesses nor two consecutive reserve deficiencies. This paper examines the effect of the carry-forward provision on individual bank reserve positions. Following Orr and Mellon [7] we approach reserve position management by an individual bank as an inventory problem. Our analysis shows that the carryforward provision gives individual banks an incentive to alternate weekly between deficient and excess reserve positions. This oscillatory behavior is observed in the available data. Our analysis also suggests that the carry-forward provision reduces the impact of interest-rate changes on the desired level of excess reserves and, generally, increases the pressure on individual banks to alter their reserve positions. The carry-forward provision has already received some attention in the literature. Coats [3] suggests that the potential to carry over reserves alters the meaning of free reserves, while Gilbert [5] argues that the reserve-adjustment pressure is the same with or without the carry-forward provision. The effect of
Formal Bureaucracy and the Emergent Forms of the Informal Economy

The following essay has three parts. The first is a story about fluctuations in the balance of the relationship between impersonal and personal principles of social organization. This draws heavily on Max Weberâ€™s interpretation of western history. The second part reviews the concept of an â€˜informal economy/sectorâ€™ from its origin in discussions of the Third World urban poor to its present status as a universal feature of economy. The third part asks how we might conceive of combining the formal/informal pair with a view to promoting development. In conclusion it is suggested how partnerships between bureaucracy and the people might be made more equal. [Research Paper No. 2005/11]
Analysis of adenovirus transforming proteins from early regions 1A and 1B with antisera to inducible fusion antigens produced in Escherichia coli

Plasmid vectors were constructed which expressed three adenovirus tumor antigens fused to a portion of the trpE protein of Escherichia coli. Insertion of adenovirus type 2 DNA from early region 1A (E1A) into such a plasmid led to a fusion protein which contained the C-terminal 266 amino acids of the 289-amino acid protein encoded by the viral 13S mRNA. Similarly, insertion of adenovirus type 5 DNA corresponding to the E1B 55- and 21-kilodalton proteins led to production of fusion proteins containing amino acid sequences from these proteins. After induction with indoleacrylic acid, fusion proteins accumulated stably in the E. coli cells. By using a simple extraction of insoluble protein, 1 to 10 mg of fusion protein per liter of culture was obtained. The fusion proteins were purified on preparative polyacrylamide gels and used to immunize rabbits. Specific antisera for the E1A 289- and closely related 243-amino acid proteins and the E1B 55- and 21-kilodalton proteins were obtained. These sera were used to immunoprecipitate the tumor antigens in cells infected with wild-type and various mutants of adenovirus or to analyze them by an immunoblotting procedure. Mutant E1A proteins in which the C-terminal 70 amino acids are deleted were phosphorylated to much lower extents than the wild-type E1A proteins. This indicates that the deleted region is important for the process of phosphorylation. The E1A proteins were extracted, sedimented in glycerol gradients, analyzed by immunoprecipitation, and found to sediment primarily as monomers.
Comparison of Spectral and Spatial Super-Channel Allocation Schemes for SDM Networks

We evaluate the advantages of using the extra dimension introduced by space-division multiplexing (SDM) for dynamic bandwidth-allocation purposes in a flexible optical network. In that respect, we aim to compare spectral and spatial super-channel (Sp-Ch) allocation policies in an SDM network based on bundles of SMFs (to eliminate coupling between spatial dimensions from the study) and to investigate the role of modulation format selection in the blocking probability performance with an emphasis on the spectral efficiency (SE)/reach tradeoff for different multiline-rate scenarios, created either by changing the number of sub-channels (Sb-Ch), or by employing different modulation formats. Our network-performance results show that DP-8QAM -in a multichannel (MC) single-modulation-format system assuming ITU-T 50-GHz WDM Sb-Ch spectrum occupation-offers the best compromise between SE and optical reach for both spectral and spatial Sp-Ch allocation policies. They also reveal that an MC multimodulation-format system improves the network performance, particularly for spectral Sp-Ch allocation with Sb-Ch spectrum occupation of 37.5 GHz on the 12.5-GHz grid. Additionally, as another important contribution of the paper, we investigate, for spatial Sp-Ch allocation, the performance of several SDM switching options: independent switching (InS), which offers highest flexibility, joint-switching (JoS), which routes all spatial modes as a single entity, and fractional-joint switching, which separates out the spatial modes into sub-sets of spatial modes which are routed independently. JoS is proved to offer a similar performance to that of InS for particular network load profiles, while allowing a significant reduction in the number of wavelength-selective switches.
Executive Dashboard as a Tool for Knowledge Discovery

Every enterprise provides business processes to ensure information is delivered to the senior leaders, either automatically by system or by manual process. When this delivery is done by system, information is usually provided through an executive dashboard. Using executive dashboard, senior leaders can view company's vital information that related to business goal and make a quick decision based on this information. An executive dashboard is the tool to provide such information, however it usually designed with no flexibility so when there is a change in the information report, they will need to call the developer to change it. This research is aimed to design and implement an executive dashboard that provides flexibility, which can be configured by anyone without programming background. This research also pro-poses a mechanism on how to create an executive dashboard that supports a knowledge discovery capability.